Month: July 2012

  • Strangebeautiful Super Chroma Collection

    Strangebeautiful Super Chroma Collection

    Somewhat complicatedly, this collection is inspired by Professor Albert H Musnell who created a ‘rational way to describe colour’ using decimal notation instead of names. He based it on three dimensions; Chroma (colour purity), Hue (value) and Brightness (to correspond to saturation of the perceived colour). See, I said it was complicated. I can’t even…

  • D & G Summer Passion Pleasures Duo Collection

    D & G Summer Passion Pleasures Duo Collection

    The D & G Summer Pleasures Collection is bang on for a quick pre-holiday beauty buy. I’ve pretty well given up on the UK summer – so it’s even more reason to wear some bright colours so that we’re shining and glowy even if the sun isn’t. The super splash above is of Intense Lacquer…

  • Estee Lauder Fiery Hot Pure Color Nail Lacquer Swatch

    Estee Lauder Fiery Hot Pure Color Nail Lacquer Swatch

    I’m in love with this shade from the Estee Lauder Pure Color Nail collection launching this month. It’s called Fiery Hot and is at its best in bright sunlight (see photo) where it twinkles and sparkles like a firework. It’s a really unusual shade being a bit bronze and a bit brown with golden-pink shimmer…

  • The V Steam

    The V Steam

    Wahanda has shared with us today the secrets of V Steaming – yes, it is what you think it might be – a steaming session for your vajayjay. Known as Chai-Yok, the steaming involves stripping from the waist down over an open-seated stool with a boiling pot of mugwort tea strategically placed beneath.  It’s used…

  • Paul & Joe Limited Edition Lipsticks September Launch

    Paul & Joe Limited Edition Lipsticks September Launch

    Image courtesy of www.diarydirectory.com I’m not very good at change, but though these new lipsticks from Paul & Joe are completely adorable as usual, they’ve changed the way you buy them. Instead of getting a complete lipstick, you can now buy the bullet, £12.50, and the paper casing, £5, separately, allowing you to choose both…

  • Clarins Odyssey Face Palette and Clarins Eye Quartet Mineral Palette Limited Editions

    Clarins Odyssey Face Palette and Clarins Eye Quartet Mineral Palette Limited Editions

    I know it’s too early. I don’t care. Because, how gorgeous is this Limited Edition Odyssey Palette from Clarins? Actually, the Clarins Christmas offerings go on counter sooner than you’d think, at the beginning of October and they’re just so beautiful! This is proper, collector’s make-up right at the top of its game. The Odyssey…

  • This Works Perfect Skin Super Moisture

    This Works Perfect Skin Super Moisture

    I can’t really rave enough about this understated moisturiser. It’s a cross between a moisturiser and a serum, full of Vitamin A, hyaluronic acid, Shea butter, Blackcurrent seed and Evening Primrose Oil. Evening Primrose is kind of the forgotten ingredient nowadays when once it was in absolutely everything. I have no idea why it has…

  • Sarah Chapman Skinesis Intense Hydrating Booster

    Sarah Chapman Skinesis Intense Hydrating Booster

    I’ve reluctantly weaned myself off BioEffect for a little while so I can start testing other skin care ranges but am finding some absolute wonders so not really complaining! First up is the Sarah Chapman Skinesis Intense Hydrating Booster – my goodness, this is good stuff! Of course, it is packed with hyaluronic which my…

  • I Coloniali Seductive Elixir

    I Coloniali Seductive Elixir

    I expect that I Coloniali will shudder with horror that I’m mentioning them in the same sentence as Impluse or Lynx but body sprays are generally a category of their own with no authentic relation to fragrance at all. But, I like the idea of a body spray – a quick swoosh of something rather…

  • Bobbi Brown Bed Perfumed Oil

    Bobbi Brown Bed Perfumed Oil

    I think Bobbi Brown Bed Perfumed Oil is about as hippy as Bobbi Brown goes. It’s a wonderfully relaxed oil with notes of neroli, orange flower and jasmine that warms down to a sensual, familiar smell that is very comforting and instantly feels like it is enhancing your own skin scent. If you could shuffle…

  • Speed Review: Melvita, Body Shop and Model In A Bottle

    Speed Review: Melvita, Body Shop and Model In A Bottle

    I’m so far behind on reviews that I’m doing a job-lot for this post – some fabulous finds that I’m using and loving. Melvita Fresh Moisturising Body Milk (Rose) I adore rose fragrance and this light moisturiser is what I call ‘baby rose’; not overpowering and fulsome but sweet, light and prettily rosy. There is…

  • The London Olympics

    I get lots of questions in my timeline on Twitter about what London is like just now – I live close to Greenwich Park where many events are taking place so my daily life is kind of upside down really. Parking restrictions, a Rapier missile, road closures, things that keep popping up on the heath…

  • Burberry Fall Collection

    Burberry Fall Collection

    The thing about Burberry make-up is that it is all very pared back and it is totally in keeping with the fashion arm of Burberry that plays with muted shades in a skinny-girl-less-is-more kind of way. Personally, I’m starting to like it more and more for that very reason; the nuances and plays on neutrals…

  • Kevyn Aucoin Loose Shimmer Powders Swatched

    Kevyn Aucoin Loose Shimmer Powders Swatched

    I’ve been having a proper swatch-fest recently and was intrigued by the roller-ball applicator on the Kevyn Aucoin Loose Shimmer powders. While I loved the Aucoin lip gloss, this one is a no-no from me. The colours are gorgeous, but the roller-ball applicator is clumsy and slighly to big for the lid, so it means…

  • Laura Mercier Cinema Noir Tightline Cake Eyeliners

    Laura Mercier Cinema Noir Tightline Cake Eyeliners

    The fall collection for Laura Mercier is very matte and moody; intially I wasn’t completely convinced about it – until I swatched the two tightliners, in Deep Teal and Ground Espresso, £18.50.  If you haven’t tightlined before, it’s a revelation in deep, smoked eyes. Basically, you wet a flat brush, make a firm paste on…