Swatch Gallery

Another one from Besame today. The enchanting lipstick range is full of gorgeous, pigmented colours, but its nice to have some of the nudes too. This is Champagne: Its sort of a nude beige with shimmer: You can buy the range at Cult Beauty.

I’m going through my relatively small nail polish collection and photographing my favourite shades. This week is Glitters! What’s not to love about this Nail Polish? It looks silly? I don’t care! I think it’s uber cute! Barry M’s Once Upon A Time has little party glitters – long strips that look like bacteria multiplying [...]

…or something. I mean sofa adverts are the scourge of the earth anyway but this CSL one is takes it to a whole new level. It’s trying to give you a narrative, a storyline, a la Nescafe Gold Blend and demonstrate the passing of time a la John Lewis except, John Lewis’s advert used effective [...]

I didn’t haul massively for Christmas – I am more of a giver, ahem, but here are some of the things I got… Creme De La Mer Eye Concentrate I’ve wanted this for ages, simply because I want the stick applicator! The Foundation: The Loose Powder: Now – taking it out the box, I realised [...]

So last week my mama called to say I had a mysterious package in a black envelope at home. Black envelopes = Illamasqua…but I hadn’t ordered anything. Turns out to be a lovely surprise as Illamasqua sent me one of their new Powdered Metals (released officially on the 13th July). When I heard powdered metals [...]