2011 August | Cosmetic Candy - The Purrrfect Beauty Blog

I bow to Shiseido: MAQuillage Lighting White Powdery UV Foundation Review

August 11, 2011 by Row

Tweet I have a serious foundation problem. There I said it. I can’t stop hauling foundations; cream, stick, powder, gel… It was MAQUillage’s extremely pretty packaging that made me pay attention to their newest foundation release (and they are always releasing new base products for the different seasons) – Lighting White Powdery UV Foundation. Don’t expect the names of a lot of Japanese beauty products to make perfect sense – sometimes they just don’t. I don’t even like powder foundation! {Read More}

Filed Under: Asian Beauty Products, Make Up, Review Tagged With: Foundation, Japanese Beauty, Maquillage, Review, Shiseido, whitening

Vivienne Westwood doesn’t like Kate Middleton’s Felt Tip-esque Eyeliner, What do you think?

August 11, 2011 by Row

Tweet When Kate Middleton because the Duchess of Cambridge, it was widely reported that the Bride did her own make up for the day, after taking some make up lessons. I am actually all for this – unless someone stupendous ends up doing my bridal make up, I’d much rather do it myself rather than pay for an average job. There was one thing people picked up on when it came to Kate Middleton’s bridal make up – her dark {Read More}

Filed Under: Chit Chat Tagged With: Bitches, Kate Middleton, News, Royal Love

2 Part Giveaway! Win a Schwarzkopf Professional OSiS Product of Choice & Odeon Cinema Tickets!

August 11, 2011 by Row

Tweet Thursday is a great day, it’s the gateway to the weekend, and I have a cool competition for you to enter. Two people will win cinema tickets for Odeon (1st prize – 6 tickets, 2nd prize – 4 tickets) for a film of your choice! Take the kids! In order to win this, you need to recreate a ‘rockstar’ hair style of your choice using a Schwarzkopf Professional OSiS Product. How will you get one of those? Well 12 people {Read More}

Filed Under: Giveaways Tagged With: Giveaways, Hair Styling, OSiS, Schwarzkopf

Online Shopping Dilemma: Is it ‘NEW’ or not?! Shopping with Vooboodoo

August 10, 2011 by Row

Tweet So before I start ranting again, I thought I’d ask you dear readers, what you think about a problem I’m having with an item I purchased recently. I purchased a facial toner/lotion, the Japanese liquid type from someone I have bought from before – Vooboodoo on eBay, the same person who runs Facial-shop.com. They tend to sell sample and tester products – they’re new but they may come marked as ‘tester’ or ‘sample’ but the listings usually say. Now {Read More}

Filed Under: Chit Chat, Discuss Tagged With: Reader Help, shopping

Wordless Wednesday: Yellow Chocolates

August 10, 2011 by Row

Tweet Thanks Emma. Chocolates from here. Crap. Does that make it non-wordless? I guess I’m no good at being wordless.

Filed Under: Chit Chat Tagged With: Chocolates, Food, Gifts, Just For Fun, Wordless Wednesday

Shampoos that fade hair dye! Head & Shoulders VS. Avalon Organics Clarifying Lemon Shampoo!

August 9, 2011 by Row

Tweet Recently I dyed my hair and it was way too dark – urgh. I have been here before. I wanted to help it along and fade the dark dye so I asked on Twitter which shampoos would work best for fading. Two were overwhelmingly recommended: 1. Vosene 2. Head & Shoulders Shampoo Original Formula I used Head & Shoulders and yes it totally, totally does work. Within 2 washes I could see the difference – the black had started {Read More}

Filed Under: Haircare Tagged With: Avalon Organics, Hair Dye, Head & Shoulders, shampoo

My 5 Favourite Work Friendly Eyeshadow Palettes

August 8, 2011 by Row

Tweet There was a time when I’d go to work with blue and green purple sparkly eyeshadow – what can I say, it can be dark in the mornings and it wasn’t until I checked myself out in the lift I realised how much I looked like a CRAZY PERSON. The fact is I am very time short in the mornings and I do like a bit of eyeshadow, so I have decided to keep the brights tucked away during {Read More}

Filed Under: Make Up, Review Tagged With: Becca, Dior, Eyeshadows, Kate, Palettes

Are you a Sweaty Betty? Try Kobayashi Riff Underarm Sweat Sheets

August 8, 2011 by Row

Tweet Will you believe me if I say I’m not that sweaty? No? Ok ok, fine I sweat. I have this strange thing where the colder I am, the more I sweat. Or maybe it’s the chills! Recently in the UK it’s been a bit hot, but not nice hot, a really hot sweaty, humid hot. Urgh. Out of curiosity I purchased these Underarm Seat Pads by Riff: Oh don’t look at me like that. Don’t you love how Japanese {Read More}