December 21, 2011
I decided to forget my usual “6 Out / 3 In” method for a while and splurge on a little beauty product spree for my birthday this year. I had never ordered from
Cherry Culture before, but they were offering a pretty decent discount and the siren call of Milani’s Luminoso blush was one I could no longer ignore. So I purchased: NYX Doll Eye Mascara in Extreme Black, NYX Felt Tip Liner in Jet Black, Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso, NYX Rouge Cream Blush in Rose Petal, NYX Powder Blush in Angel, NYX Matte Blotting Paper & NYX HD Studio Grinding Blush in Georgia Peach & English Rose. All in all a pretty decent birthday present, if I do say so myself.
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October 29, 2011
The Urban Decay Naked Palette is a thing of myth and legend. It is a much marvelled thing of beauty that every girl and her sister were chomping at the bit to get earlier this year. I managed to snag one for myself via Sephora online (who now seem to have them constantly in stock, if you’re interested) and I’ve been using it off and on since it’s triumphant arrival at my door. The colour I’ve been using most within the palette would definitely have to be ‘Sin’.
Sin is a gorgeous, satin champagne coloured shadow that I like to wear as an all-over-lid shade. I think it’s probably the most wearable shade in the entire palette alongside Virgin. Urban Decay eyeshadows are mostly creamy and silky to apply, and Sin is one of the silkier shades in the Naked palette. The wear of this shadow is amazing, and layered over the Urban Decay Primer Potion it manages to last on my lids throughout the entire work day with no fading or creasing to be seen. You can buy the Urban Decay Sin Eyeshadow singularly for $17 USD from
Sephora, or the
Naked Palette for $48 USD. (note: Sephora do not ship directly to Australia so a parcel forwarding service is required)
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October 21, 2011
The Benefit Creasless Cream Shadow/Liner in the shade RSVP has been one of my most reached for products lately. I fell in love with the idea of a simple wash of champagne colour over the lid as part of a basic summer makeup look, and this does just the trick. The Creaseless Cream Shadow/Liners can be work as either an eyeshadow or a liner (as the name would suggest), but I tend to only wear them as all over lid colours. RSVP is a really gorgeous champagne gold shade, and exactly what I’ve been looking for in an eyeshadow.
The wear of these shadow/liners is pretty good considering I have oily eyelids, but of course it helps to wear them over a primer (I use Urban Decay Primer Potion). I apply it to my lids with my fingertips and then blend it out with an eyeshadow blending brush (Tip: If you are going to buy one of these babies, be sure to store them upside down to help retain their shelf life) The Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow/Liner retails for $34 AUD and is available for purchase online from
Adore Beauty.
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October 17, 2011
I am
one of those people who has never been confident wearing bronzer. There is something about the harsh contrast of ghost white skin and a brown toned bronzer that can just look… well, revolting. Short of bronzing my whole face (and then my white neck looks a little bit strange), it seems to be impossible to properly blend the brown shades into my skintone and keep things looking natural. In short, I have never been able to make the bronzer work for me. And then the
Face of Australia Pressed Powder in Bronze rolled into town.
I am yet to attempt to wear this in the day time, but at night time it works a treat. (Please note that I did apply this to my face with a very light hand – anything too heavy would have looked far too obvious on my skin. Also note that I have the pale grey pallor of a 3 day old corpse, so no doubt it would look different on those with a healthier skin tone than I.) The Face of Australia Pressed Powder in Bronze contains light shimmer that looks wonderful under lights and makes adding extra highlight to the cheeks unnecessary. The Face of Australia Pressed Powder in Bronze retails for $11.95 AUD and is available for purchase from
these stockists. (note: I was sent this product for consideration for review)
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October 12, 2011
The more I think about orange lipstick the more horrible of an idea it seems, but lets just imagine for a moment that wearing orange lipstick is totally rad and roll with it for the entirety of this post. I first saw the Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Siren gracing the gorgeous face of
Jen at My Funny Valentine and as I’d mentioned in a previous post, I decided that the colour might not be the best for me. It would appear that I’ve since changed my mind because I purchased this lipstick during a Target shopping spree during a recent lunch break. So apparently orange lips will now be a go-to-look for me this summer. Okay.
The colour is surprisingly wearable and makes for a fun alternative to a red lip for night time. I have already posted a review of the
Super Lustrous Lipstick in the shade Coral Berry – and the formulation of this shade is the same, and just as good. The wear isn’t too bad, but it doesn’t last more than a few hours at a time so re-application will be required throughout the day or night depending on when you’re wearing it. The Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Siren retails for $21.95 AUD and can be purchased from pharmacies and department stores Australia wide.
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October 3, 2011
I first spotted this blush on a lunchtime jaunt to the MAC counter with a co-worker, and immediately fell in love with it’s bubblegum pink prettiness. I wasn’t completely sold right away though, and took a little bit of time before deciding to purchase the blush online. I am very happy now that I have it in my collection, and although I haven’t worn it as much as some of my other products I do really love the shade and the blush in general.
It is a very lightweight blush and it takes quite a bit of building up before any colour shows, so I don’t think this blush would be too well suited to those with skintones much darker than mine. The colour does look lovely on fair skin though, and shows as a very light, bubblegum pink. At first I found the blush hard to work with because the formulation is super lightweight, I had a hard time figuring out how to apply it (note: I usually either use my beauty blender or stippling blush when applying cream blush) but in the end I worked out that applying with fingertips is the most effective way. The MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy retails for $40 AUD (and is in fact out of stock on
MAC Australia at the moment) but I purchased mine online from MAC USA for $19.50 (plus shipping) via a parcel forwarding service.
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September 26, 2011
I needed a new peach-toned lip gloss so I hot-footed it over to the Bloom website to have a browse, because I was also interested in buying one of their sheer colour creams (which never eventuated btw but that is a whole different rant altogether). After checking out the colour range of the Bloom glosses I decided that Wanderlust was the one for me. And right I was because this gloss is beautiful, and exactly what I was after.
The gloss is richly pigmented but is sheer enough that I can wear it comfortably for day time despite my weird phobia of wearing brightly coloured lip products to the office. The gloss is quite thick and ‘tacky’ feeling on application, but I don’t really mind that as I know it just means that the product will last a lot longer on the lips. I really really love this gloss and will definitely check out more colours from the range in the future. The Bloom Lipgloss in Wanderlust retails for $25 AUD and can be purchased online from
Adore Beauty.
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