Make Up Beauty Tips

Hey ladies, I'm back... I hope you all had a great Xmas and new year. I just thought I would do a quick post on a little discovery I made on Christmas eve.

As we all know Superdrug had 3 for 2 on cosmetics over Christmas. Now I'm not one to spend money when I don't have too *cough cough lies!* but I do like to think that technically I am saving if theres an offer on. So I picked up a couple of bits then I started searching the shelves for a 3rd item,oh the stress nothing would do! until .....

*Insert Angel music*

I saw this beauty sitting on the shelf just dieing to be swatched. At first I thought nothing of it, and after I swatched it I put it back. But then I heard that little voice inside of me (you girls know the voice I mean) the one that says," if you don't buy me now your going to get home and regret it, and you know when you bring yourself back to this shop, I ain't gonna be here!!"

Don't fear ladies, as you can see from the pictures above I clearly listened to the voice. If your ever in superdrug or boots and you see Rimmel Summer Angel pick it up!! I'm not usually a fan of pink lipstick at all, but this is so pretty, it gives lips a subtle hint of colour, enough for people to say "ooh whats that" and it isn't at all drying. It is now my everyday go to lippie.

I love Maybelline colour sensations. It was one of these lipsticks that made me realise I could wear lipstick. Recently they added some new shades to the range as well as expanding it with the newly advertised colour sensation pearl.


As well as smelling sweet and yummy,I find these lippies to be very nourishing. Swatches below are in the same order as above.

Hey girlie's, sorry for the brief departure. I had an issue with a new laptop I bought, after three days it had a melt down. Its all good now though I picked up a new one so I'm finally set up and good to go. I have literally been blogging through my phone for the past 6 months, so its good to be back at a laptop and hitting real keys rather than a mobile phone screen. Also in that time I reached 900 followers, so a big thank you to everyone that stuck with me and the people that joined me.

So onto the post. I was recently tweeting about the Umberto Giannini 'Backcomb in a bottle'. I had been trying to get my hands on it for ages with each trip to my local Boots being a major fail. As I tweeted my upset, another lovely lady '@MandyKhaira' tweeted me saying she couldn't get hold of it either.

A little time passed,like 30 mins lol and she tweeted me again saying she finally found it on a 3 for 2 in boots and picked it up. She said one was for her friend one was for her and I could have the spare one. I offered her money but she declined saying it was a gift from her beauty addict heart. I thought that was so sweet, so after ensuring she wasn't a sweaty old man that just wanted my address, I emailed her my details and look what came yesterday.......

The first thing I did was tweet her a big 'thank you' because not only did she send me this, she threw in something else too (that I will get onto in a moment.)
Clearly being me,I wasn't just going to open this and let it sit there, so I sprayed it.......

It took the section of hair I sprayed it on up north, it wasn't sticky or crunchy but I definitely think there is a knack to using this so expect a review soon.

She also threw in a favourite of hers and I think its now a favourite of mine.

Its the Lancome colour fever lippie in '204 Beige Everyday'. Its such a natural pretty sheer lipstick. I'm actually wearing it in the top picture. I think it gives my lips that extra something something.

If your reading this, thanks again Mandy

And for the rest of you what do you think about the backcomb in a bottle? are you loving it or hating it?

Are you loving my new lovely lippie?

'Tis the season to stock up on a good lip balm!
I'm picky about my balms. Since I apply lip balm every night before I get in bed, I want them to have fantastic ingredients in them. They can't be sticky. They must multi-task in not only hydrating my lips but must bring a little something extra as well for my dollar.  I have to be able to sleep in it (so comfort without goop). Above all, if it yields a greasy feel to my lips, forget it.


#1  Korres Lip Butter

Without a doubt, my absolute favorite in the category.  I've four pots of the fabulous balm on my dresser; that's how much I love it.  Korres Lip Butter offers their good-for-you balms with a tad bit of tint for wearing during the day alone or even in combination with another lipcolor of your choice (blended with a lip liner for instance). I enjoy their butters without a heavy tint even more as I'm able to wear them at night to drench my lips in healthy ingredients and hydration. They've a very subtle nutty flavor to them.  In order of fave, my picks are Jasmine, Guava, Quince and Plum.  This ultimate lip treatment has an intensely hydrating formula in shea butter. Shea Butter both nourishes and provides anti-inflammatory benefits. Rice Wax seals in moisture and smoothes.

Retails for $10 a jar and available at SkinBotanica, beauty.com, ASOS (yes, they are in the USA now, hallelujah!)  and other retailers.




#2 FusionBeauty LipFusion Balm Conditioning Stick

This balm stick FAST became a fave. Not only does it hydrate lips tremendsouly (claims say increase in water content of lips by 6000% in four weeks), but it actually plumps lips with that famous LipFusion technology as well.  This balm is not at all greasy so you won't feel slick-lipped in this pampering product and the ingredients assist in protecting lips along with the hydrating and plumping. A huge plus factor - it's made with nourishing oils and creamy butters that provide the perfect level of comfort along with SPF 15! The tinted varieties provide just a very slight subtle blush of color to lips and won't interfere with another lip product if you choose to wear one (like a line liner or pencil for instance).  On application, you feel a slight tingle and can instantly enjoy the moisturization the ingredients bring to lips.  There's also a light mint flavor to the stick.  The balm comes in a convenient "retractable bullet" format for on-the-go application. The casing actually "locks" with a slight turn of the cap to prevent it from coming off in your handbag, etc. Doses of AmpliFat and marine collagen filling spheres help to increase lip fullness, immediately and over time. I'm enjoying both the Butterscotch and Berry balms now having almost completely gone through the Bitten as my first trial of the product. 

LipFusion Balm Conditioning Sticks retail for $22 a stick (yes, a bit pricey for a balm but you're paying for the technology here) and they last a long, long time (months in my case on one stick). They are available at beauty.com, Nordstrom and Ulta.



#3  Tokyo Milk Lip Balms

This balm is a tad bit greasier in feel than the two above, however still merits a place on the fave list for its deliciousness, charm, the chic little embossed jar, and last but not least, its fantastic ingredients.  My sister gave me my little jar of Tokyo Milk balm on returning from a weekend foray of shopping.  Her selection? The Bon Bon Cherry Bomb!  My daughter (age 16) considers this one her personal fave of my collection of balms for its taste and feel on the lips and as such sneaks into my purse and/or room to savor a bit for herself here and there (read: daily! ha).  The cherry variety contains sunflower seed oil, beeswax (ok, so not thrilled about this, but ok), vitamin E, aloe vera, shea butter, crushed bing cherries and sweet spun sugar.  It's so yummy you'll want to apply layer upon layer, but don't as that increases the "slick" factor. (Unless, of course, you like or need that much - chapped lips beware.)  Honey Blossom and Opera Mint will be my next tried of this decadent balm.

Other varieties include: Let Them Eat Cake, Honey Blossom, Iced Green Tea, Rosewater, Petit Four, Opera Mint, Sweet Cream and Candied Violet. They retail for about $10 a jar and are available at  b-glowing (my love), ASOS, Beautyhabit and other fab and trendy retailers.

LipFusion Balm Conditioning Stick in Butterscotch

So I shared with you not long ago that LipFusion was geared up to launch all kinds of brand new products, and they are now rolling out one after the other.  One I'm particularly stoked about is this product - LipFusion Balm Conditioning Stick with SPF 15.  Here's why.

The nourishing balm contains all the lip plumping technology and benefits of LipFusion's already famous plumping gloss, plus a lip conditioning formula and SPF 15. Love it!  What's more, these soothing sticks have a fresh minty scent/flavor and provide a sheer, feminine blush of color or opt for the clear, colorless stick.  The clear stick yields all kinds of choices as it can be worn alone for a natural lip but ultra-conditioned and plumped, or it can be worn layered over any lipstick for numerous color options.

These are made with nourishing oils and creamy butters that provide the perfect level of comforting hydration, along with UVA/UVB protection in an SPF 15. Fantastic! It works to soothe cracked or chapped lips without being sticky or tacky, and comes in a convenient retractable lipstick bullet for on-the-go application. The casing "locks" with a twist on, twist off top so the tube won't separate from its top and get product all over the contents of your bag.


Here's the extra goodness of these SPF 15 balms. Each contains doses of AmpliFat™ and marine collagen filling spheres, which help to increase lip fullness, immediately and over time.  They're formulated without parabens, an extra plus, and are clinically proven to increase water content of the skin by 6000% in four weeks. It is dermatologist tested and not tested on animals.


Now, as with LipFusion's other products, you're gonna pay a pretty penny for this balm (why do they charge so much for their lip products? Come on, LF, you know $38 for a gloss - even a plumping treatment gloss - is just too much).  Retailing for $22 a tube (or $18 at event price on HSN), they do pack a powerful punch in quality and lip benefit.  Visit Sephora or HSN for more information or to purchase.

New from Korres, Raspberry Antioxidant Liquid Lipstick has a cooling, water-based formula that contains natural raspberry and pomegranate extracts to protect against free-radical damage and smooth lip lines for softer, more youthful-looking lips. It glides on with the creamy texture of a lip gloss and has the long-lasting, vibrant finish of a lipstick.

Everything I've tried from Korres I've been extremely pleased with.  My favorite lip balm, in fact, is their Lip Butter (have it in Quince, Jasmine and Pomegranate) for its buttery soft texture, soothing properties, rich hydration, and the fact that I can wear it to bed without getting it all over my pillow or have hair sticking to my lips.  It's the best balm I have by a longshot!

This new lip product promises to  be just as satisfying and I'm liking that it contains the fantastic for you ingredient of pomegranate.  Both the raspberry and pomegranate extracts provide antioxidant, line-smoothing benefits. These extracts are rich in antioxidant polyphenols that protect against free-radical damage and aging. The formula is also rich in certified organic acai palm pulp oil, which moisturizes and soothes lips creating a long-lasting, creamy texture. It comes available in five delicious shades. I really can't wait to try this new product.

As an eco-friendly and good-for-you brand, Korres creates the liquid lipstick without parabens, sulfates, synthetic fragrances and other yucky stuff. Raspberry Antioxidant Liquid Lipstick is exclusive to Sephora as this time and retails for $22. 

Lancome Juicy Tubes is turning 10 this year and to celebrate, Lancôme invited Teen Vogue to create their very own shade of the iconic gloss. After a visit to their labs, Beauty Director Eva Chen concocted a vibrant raspberry shade that’s one of Lancôme’s most pigmented Juicy Tubes yet. The limited edition shade is called So Teen Vogue and it’s featured in the July issue.


Lancôme’s video makeup artist Michelle Phan is applying the shade, above, and now your readers can try it out, too. Here’s how it works:

1. Visit the Juicy Tubes page on lancome.com.
2. Pick out any Juicy Tubes for purchase.
3. Enter the code TEENVOGUE at checkout.
4. Voilá! Juicy Tubes in So Teen Vogue is now in your cart.

You’re getting two Juicy Tubes for the price of one. Sweet deal indeed.

So we always want to check out the new collection when it comes from Three Custom Color Specialists. We do.  Because it's always going to be beautiful, with fantastic color selection, high quality, and created by true artists who know what we're going to like - from teen girls, moms with small children, high exec corporate types, beauty editors, beauty bloggers, makeup artists - we're all going to be happy with a 3CCS product.


But if you don't want to take my word for it or care to know more about their new collection, here ya' go. Released this summer, Three Custom Color Specialists debuted their new lipstick formulation that brings together color, coverage, hydration, and nourishment. This creamy, moisturizing formula features rich coverage with a high volume of stain pigments for bold, saturated color. The new lipstick formula is fortified with Vitamin E, Grapeseed Oil, Jojoba Oil, Shea Butter, and Avocado Oil – ingredients with proven moisturizing properties moisturizing properties that help improve elasticity and softness. And the lippies are said to provide color-lasting results to boot. Gone are the days when applying long-wearing lipsticks meant suffering from dry, cracked lips!

To introduce this new formula, Three Custom Color Specialists created five new lipstick shades inspired by favorite summer destinations. These vibrant, of-the-moment shades each have a touch of shimmer for dimension, and the collection flatters a range of skin tones, from cool to warm and fair to dark:




BORA BORA ($21.50) - Cool, vivid fuchsia with a subtle blue opalescence *As Seen in Marie Claire Magazine*

SANTORINI ($21.50) - Rich raspberry with silver shimmer

COPACABANA ($21.50) - Bold coral with gold shimmer

MAJORCA ($21.50) - Warm paprika with a soft bronze shimmer

ST. TROPEZ ($21.50) - Sandy peach-beige with champagne shimmer

Yep, no doubt about it, when Dick Page puts his creative genius into something, it's gonna be a winner! Literally.  And this isn't the first time Page has created a lippie ... each gorgeous in its own right.


This time, it's Shiseido's Perfect Rouge Glowing Matte in RS798 (Damson), a shade he created exclusively for Macy's.  The votes are in - 15 international Marie Claire beauty editors named Glowing Matte as one of their April must-have beauty products.  The lipstick has a velvety, matte texture that envelops lips in a natural, semi-transparent color; is very moisturizing as well.


Perfect Rouge Glowing Matte is a matte lipstick unlike any before that provides exquisite smoothness while maintaining the gentle luster of bare lips.  Intense moisture and a soft luminosity allow color to glide on with a luxurious feel.  Its lightweight formula feels like you're not wearing anything at all yet provides a chic finish that lasts long past what we've come to expect in a sheer, silky lipstick. Other shades besides the one Page created for Macy's are: RD722 Whisper, BR323 Wink, PK224 Sugar Babe and RD325 Coral Glow.


Shiseido Perfect Rouge Glowing Matte in RS798 retails for $25 and is available exclusively at Macy's. The other Perfect Rouge Glowing Matte shades are available at Shiseido beauty counters and online at us.shiseido.com.

Want luscious lips? Enter for a chance to score a Dior Addict Lip Glow--a hint of color is all you need to get gorgeous! Glamour will be giving fifty of us (think positively) the lip sheen, worth $28 each. Promotion began June 4, 2010, and ends July 6, 2010, at 11:59 P.M. EST, when all entries must be received.

On the heels of the release of the wildly popular Sugar Rose Tinted Lip Treatment comes Sugar Plum by Fresh.  Be still my heart. Here is another shade I can definitely get juiced about!

Fresh Sugar Plum Tinted Lip Treatment SPF 15 offers sheer coverage or buildable color and is the perfect partner to the best-selling Sugar Lip Treatment SPF 15. It's formulated with sugar, a natural humectant that prevents moisture loss, and a superior blend of nourishing oils and protective waxes to soften and smooth dry lips. Antioxidant-rich vitamins also work to defend against wrinkle-causing free radicals. It also provides essential year-round protection from damaging UV rays with SPF 15.


Here's the story behind Sugar Plum.  Be warned, it will have you licking your lips and ripe for plummy, juicy fruit.

"On a recent summer vacation, we spent time on a farm in France where there was a magnificent plum orchard that stretched to the horizon—plum trees as far as the eye could see. At first light, the sun would stream through the orchard, warming the irresistible, juicy plums. Ripe for the picking, I tasted one and was surprised at how the deep, dark skin of the plum gave way to a translucent burgundy pulp. Inspired by this unveiling, I created Sugar Plum Lip Treatment SPF 15, a dark bullet that delivers a mysteriously sheer and utterly sensuous tint."

Both the original and the rose tinted version have won Allure Best of Beauty Awards. Their plummy sibling is sure to set heart's on fire as well.  Fresh Sugar Plum Tinted Lip Treatment is available currently only at Sephora.  All the Fresh Sugar LipTreatments (tinted or original) retail for $22.50 each.

Oh, you're not going to believe this one, Stila Girls.  A Stila palette of colors for $10, are you kidding?  

Stila Girl Travel Palettes! Follow the five Stila girls as they travel across the world and get five complete looks (launching each month June through December). Now, these aren't huge, they're more like the size of an index card, but each contains plenty of product for many looks of fun. As a green-eyed girl, I truly adore the colors in this one - those purples, mauves, plummy shimmers. All destined to make a green eye pop!

The first of the series is Road to Radiance Across the USA inspired by Kylie's road trip across the US!

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  Snow Bunny (shimmery pink-champagne)
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  Southern Belle (mauve)
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  Valley Girl (pink)
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  City Chick (alloy)

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  Hibiscus

Each palette is ONLY $10, a $65 VALUE! Collect all five (check back next month for the new palette!) Absolutely gorgeous.  I've already ordered mine. Click here to learn more about the travel palettes and Kylie's trip!

For more information or to purchase this fab little limited edition palette, visit Stila online today! There is one downer, shipping is $7.95. Whew ... come on, Stila, you gotta fix that!

I literally wanted them since the day I saw preview swatches on a few other blogs.Finally they are mine. I will do some swatches with coral reef,but these ones were already uploaded to my computer and im feeling quite tired today,so im going to play the lazy card.