I was incredibly lucky to be given this beautiful blush as a birthday gift. It’s hard for Dior to get it wrong when it comes to blushes and this one definitely did not disappoint. When I first took this out of the box, slipped the heavy silver compact out of the lush velvet case and [...]
Bloggie Wednesday: 35 Things Beauty Blogging Taught Me About Beauty
How many beauty bloggers are there in the world, you reckon? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Over a million? I’m afraid I don’t know the figures, but I’ll venture a guess that there are far more than we can count. When we blog about beauty, we write about the beauty products we’ve tried, [...]
Set and Ready To Go With Mecca Cosmetica’s Jet Set Travel Collection
Today’s post isn’t so much a review per se but something I recently purchased that I’d like to show you. In other words, drown you with lots of photos because my goodness, this one’s a beauty. It’s the Mecca Cosmetica Jet Set Travel Collection. Now I’ve been lusting after the Anya Hindmarch Inflight Bag for [...]
L’Oreal Infallible 24H Matte Foundation: Is There Such A Thing As Too Matte?
Last year, I did a review on the L’Oreal Infallible 24H foundation and despite reading mixed reviews about this, I for one really liked it. All those 24-hour hold claims aside, I thought it was a pretty spot-on almost-full coverage foundation. Its finish is quite matte on my skin and it didn’t exacerbate my fine [...]
What Do You Do With Gifted Perfumes You Don’t Like?
Come each season of gift-giving (e.g Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, etc), we’re inundated with advertised suggestions on perfumes to buy for your loved ones. As a beauty blogger, I get press releases on suggestions for gift guides on what fragrances to buy for the people in your life. I don’t know about [...]