March 18, 2013
I love the regular
Fresh Sugar lip treatment, so when I received an email from Sephora announcing that Fresh had released a new shade in their tinted line I was all over it. Petal is described as being a ‘sheer petal pink’ which sounded to me like it would work perfectly on my lips and it really does. This is one of those ‘your lips but better’ products that I feel like I’m always searching for. The coverage is sheer but can be built up to a medium sort of colour if I want to wear it that way, though I rarely wear too much colour on my lips unless I’m going out at night. The smell is the same lemon fresh scent as the other products in the range and I’m yet to get sick of it. If you’re planning on a special order from Sephora any time soon I would recommend popping one of these in your shopping cart. The Fresh Sugar Lip Treatment SPF 15 in Petal retails for $22.50 USD and is available for purchase from
Sephora.
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February 14, 2013
SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND. Sorry, I had to get that out the way. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m something of a fickle customer when it comes to lip products. I rarely stick to one product and I go through phases of loving lipstick / hating lipstick, loving lip gloss / hating lip gloss and so on. Sometimes when I’m feeling rebellious I’ll layer the two, and recently I’ve been wearing Maybelline’s Colour Sensational The Shine Lip Colour in Mango Diamonds under the
Lanolips Sunshine Lip Ointment. They work wonderfully together but Mango Diamonds also manages to stand strong on it’s own as one of my favourite lip products. It’s a gorgeous peachy-coral shade with a hint of shimmer to it (more glitter than pearl). Normally this is something I’d avoid but thankfully in this case it’s not too sparkly. The wear isn’t long lasting, but as it’s not the kind of colour that bleeds or fades in patches on the lips so it’s fine to reapply when I
can be bothered need to. The
Maybelline Colour Sensational The Shine Lip Colour in Mango Diamonds retails for $16.95 AUD and is available for purchase from Priceline. (note: this product was sent for consideration for review)
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February 5, 2013
01) Sigma F80 Flat Kabuki Brush – This is a great product for buffing liquid foundation into your skin. I generally use a Beauty Blender sponge to apply regular foundation but I always use this brush when I apply my Lancome BB Cream (which I wear on the weekends) and I find that it helps to give a really even coverage.
02) Sigma F60 Foundation Brush – This is designed to be a foundation brush, but I use it to apply cream blush to the apples of my cheeks.
03) Sigma E40 Tapered Blending Brush – I think technically this brush is designed to be used to apply eyeshadow, I use it to blend my concealer. I have more than one of this particular brush, and I use the other one for blending eyeshadow and it works wonderfully for that too.
04) Sigma E55 Eye Shading Brush – This is my favourite eyeshadow brush. As I don’t wear a lot of eyeshadow (I tend to stick to one shade all over the lid) this works well to pat a decent amount of product onto my lid without too much effort.
05) Sigma E60 Large Shader Brush – I use this to apply cream eye shadow but it also works well as a basic brush to use with powder eye shadows.
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December 27, 2012
Red lipstick is a special occasion makeup item for me. The circumstances have to be right for me to wear any sort of ‘high-maintenance’ makeup product, because I’m a naturally clumsy person. I can only wear red lipstick if I know I’m not going to be eating anything or drinking too heavily. MAC’s Ruby Woo is something of a foolproof red. It has a drier formula than any other red lipstick I’ve worn in the past, which makes it a lot harder to smudge across your face after one too many glasses of wine. It’s also a perfect blue-toned shade of red that I feel would suit nearly any skin tone. You can see me wearing the lipstick in my FOTN post
here. MAC Ruby Woo retails for $36 AUD and can be purchased from
MAC Cosmetics.
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December 8, 2012
I wore red lipstick last night for the first time in a long time, so I thought it might be nice to include a little FOTN post on what I was wearing. On my face is the Maybelline Age Rewind Concealer in Light, Givenchy Photo Perfexion Liquid Foundation in Perfect Ivory, Face Of Australia Loose Powder in Outback Translucent, MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Porcelain Pink, MAC Paint Pot in Bare Study, MAC Eyeshadow in Orb, Stila Eyeshadow in Kitten, Stila Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner (with the Maybelline Master Precise Liquid Liner used to neaten the edges), Lancome Hypnose Mascara, CK Brow Pencil in Brunette, Benefit D’Finer D”Liner Lip Pencil, Inglot Soft Touch Lipliner in #58 and MAC Lipstick in Ruby Woo.
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November 1, 2012
NARS Pure Matte Lipstick in Carthage – This is probably my all time favourite lipstick, and I dug it out of my collection to wear when I went clubbing with friends earlier in the month. It’s a hot pink (blue toned) shade with amazing lasting power and is ideal for a night out on the town.
Maybelline Eye Studio Gel Liner in Eggplant – I have green eyes so if the purple option of any kind of eye liner is available I usually try and pick it up. This was sent to me by Maybelline in a care package a little while ago and I’ve just started using it frequently and am in love with it (just a quiet little FYI: I find the formula of the Maybelline gel eyeliners to be much better than the Bobbi Brown ones). I plan on posting a full review soon.
The Body Shop Born Lippy in Raspberry – I don’t tend to wear a lot of makeup on the weekend so when I want an easy lip product that I can grab on the go, I reach for this. I seemed to use this a lot more than usual during October, which I think might be due to the fact that I finished up my MAC Tinted Lip Conditioner.
Revlon Lip Butter in Sweet Tart – I really love this product although I rarely use it due to the large amount of lip products I have in my collection (and the fact that I’m focusing on using up two particular products at the moment because of my Project 100 Pan). It gives a nice little pop of colour to the lips when I’m having an otherwise lazy makeup day.
MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Porcelain Pink – This is my favourite cheek colour to wear if I’m going to be wearing a bright lip shade because it gives a very slight flush to the cheeks but also adds a bit of a bronze glow to the skin.
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