Beauty
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Empties #1
I am quite excited to be writing this as empties posts are one of my favourites, due to the fact it can take me ages to finish a product as I am really bad for jumping from product to product, and also because you get a mini review on a varied selection of products in each empties post. I wanted to make sure I had a few products to show before doing this post, but because of that I probably won’t be doing too many empties products throughout the year. In this empties post I have 8 products to show you. (Although actually 9, as I went through two bottles…
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Vera Wang Princess Perfume Review – 100ml edp
My plan was to do a fragrance post on a lovely warm, slightly spicy scent for the cooler months, something more seasonally appropriate, but in all honesty I have been loving this perfume recently so wanted to share it with you all. I had known about the Princess by Vera Wang perfume for quite a while, and thought the bottle was really pretty, but had never been overly intrigued to have a smell of it to see what I thought. It was only after reading some other blog reviews and reading the notes that are in it that I decided to give it a test on my skin and low…
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Smashbox Wonder Vision Mega Palette
Not too long ago I did a review on the Smashbox Wonder Vision Lip Gloss Set and raved about the quality and price of it. Well today I will be showing you another product from their holiday collection this year, their Wonder Vision Mega Palette. I love the packaging on this palette, including the box. You can definitely see from the box how the inspiration for this holiday collection came from a kaleidoscope. This palette retails at £49, which may sound a lot of money (because it is), but you get 4 blushes, and 30 eyeshadow colours in it! So for value it is amazing. I just so happened to…
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Starting Off: Makeup Tools
I can’t believe this is the last post for this 10 week Starting Off project. Hopefully at least someone has gotten some tips and help from these posts, as that was the whole point in this 10 week series. There is a new series starting on the 12th November so keep an eye out, as that one will run right up until the 24th December. So onto this weeks topic – makeup tools. I won’t be doing an in depth post on every type of brush/tool out there, as that would be a ridiculously long post, plus I have talked about most brushes already in a lot of the other…
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Have a look inside my Birchbox! October 2013
I wasn’t planning on doing a Birchbox post every month, but you all seem to really enjoy these posts, and this box was by far one of my favourites since I joined up (at the very very start). When you see some of the products in this box you may not be as “OMG WOW” as I was, but I will explain as I go along… So the box (I do wish they would pretty it up a bit) is the same as last months box. Not massively exciting I know, but I suppose at the end of the day that’s not the important part. Now onto the contents of…
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Starting Off: Lips
This is the second to last week of this Starting Off series, and I will be sad to see it end! But I do hope it has helped some of you, even just little tips and tricks here and there 🙂 This week is all about lips! There are so many different ways you can get colour onto your lips now, not just from lipsticks and lipglosses, but also lip pencils, lip crayons, tinted lip balms, lip stains etc etc… I won’t be talking too much about all these types of lip colour products, just a short run down on the differences but then I will go more onto application.…
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Biotherm Oceane eau de toilette
This is a fragrance post/review, but with a bit of a twist! It’s Oceane by Biotherm, and it is an eau de toilette spray, but this fragrance is also good for you as it also helps to moisturise the skin which is always an added bonus, especially this time of the year when the weather here in the UK gets a lot colder and your skin starts to dry out more. On the box it says “Take a deep breath and rediscover the sensation of walking by the sea…Dive into the aquatic freshness of this marine inspired fragrance with its fresh and floral notes”. Does that not just sound amazing?…
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Smashbox Wonder Vision Lip Gloss Set
So this year for Christmas time Smashbox have brought out their Wonder Vision collection. This collection is inspired by the effect seen in a kaleidoscope, full of fun and colour. This inspiraion is definitely seen more within the eyeshadow palettes, but you still get a beautiful array of colours within this lip gloss set. I had no intention of buying this lipgloss set….. until I saw it. My willpower was literally next to zero when I saw how beautiful these colours were, and what great value the set was! Holiday collections are always fun as you can get some amazing deals, in really fun limited edition packaging. This set was only…
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Soap and Glory Archery Box
This post will be all about the Archery Box by Soap and Glory. It’s a double ended pen/pencil for filling in and shaping your eyebrows, which is does, quite well. On one side of this double ended product we have a pen like item, which is more of a tint for the brows, and on the other there is a pencil to help shape them. At first glance, this sounds like a really great product, and I do like it, but…. maybe not as much as I would have hoped to. I have pale skin and dark hair, so as much as I do want my brows to be quite…
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Rimmel Apocalips
When these first came out I remember swatching them in the store and not being hugely impressed, so I left them and never bought any. Then a couple of weeks later I was reading through various blogs and came across a few reviews saying they really liked them, so I decided to give them a shot! I picked up two colours and in all honesty now, I can see why people like them so much. The two colours I got were Nova (the pinkier shade) and Aurora (the slightly more red shade). When first swatched on your hand they can feel a little thick and sticky and not very nice…