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Healthy Mix

Bourjois New Healthy Mix Foundation: Revamped, Repackaged and Reviewed!

Bourjois have given their Healthy Mix range a bit of an overhaul. The Healthy Mix Serum is unchanged, the powder has a new look and there’s a new Healthy Mix blush, but most importantly,...

Beauty News & Links, Blushers & Bronzers, Foundation, On a Budget, Reviews, , , ,
Read More |March 6 2013 | 39 Comments
eye primer

Eye primer guide: four qualities that make a primer perfect

Eye shadow primer is a can’t-live-without-it product for me. Well, I could live without it, obviously, but my eye makeup wouldn’t look half as good. Let’s call it the Spanx of my...

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Read More |February 6 2013 | 39 Comments
Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation

Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation – The Goldilocks of Budget Bases!

Searching for a foundation that’s not too dewy but not too matte, and don’t fancy splashing the cash? Then Rimmel’s latest foundation offering could be exactly what you’re...

Foundation, On a Budget, Reviews, , ,
Read More |December 20 2012 | 23 Comments
Max Factor Facefinity light ivory

Max Factor Facefinity All Day Flawless 3 in 1 Foundation SPF 20: Review, Pictures

You know, I’m really rather taken with Max Factor’s new foundation offering. And that’s despite having weaned myself off more matte finishes in favour of something a bit dewier (lately Origins...

Foundation, Reviews, ,
Read More |December 14 2012 | 14 Comments
1superpale

Six great foundations for very fair skin: Bobbi Brown, Dainty Doll, YSL, Shiseido, Elizabeth Arden

It’s cold.   Getting skin oh-so golden and perfect can be firmly confined to the bottom of the beauty list, whilst we get our paler foundations out to concentrate on our pale and interesting...

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Read More |December 2 2012 | 39 Comments
Giorgio Armani Maestro Fusion Make Up

Giorgio Armani Maestro Fusion Make Up Complexion Perfector

  Oh boy, this is a good ‘un. Not content with offering some truly amazeballs foundations that have pretty much achieved cult status, the Armani Beauty peeps have been busy inventing a brand...

Beauty News & Links, Foundation, Reviews, , ,
Read More |August 21 2012 | 29 Comments
opi base and top coat

OPI Start To Finish Base & Top Coat Review: Grand

I don’t usually go in for 2-in-1 base and top coats, but I’ve been using OPI Start To Finish instead of my usual CND Stickey/Seche Vite combo for a lot of my simpler manicures lately and...

Nails, Reviews, , , ,
Read More |November 16 2011 | 10 Comments
liz earle

Liz Earle Colour Sheer Skin Tint Review: Pictures & Swatches

Lets get something out of the way straight off the mark with Liz Earle’s mid-September-launching Sheer Skin Tint, €23.75: no, this isn’t a tinted moisturiser and yes, it is...

Foundation, Reviews, , , , ,
Read More |August 24 2011 | 19 Comments
chanel base coat

Confession Booth: I may have been wrong about nail polish undercoats

We’ve talked a time or two on the blog about our beauty sins – those well-preached beauty commandments (such as “thou shalt not sleep in thy makeup”) that we break on a regular...

Nails, Reviews, , ,
Read More |August 6 2010 | 14 Comments
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Loving it: Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer SPF20

It may not be a new product, but I’ve recently become very enamoured of Laura Mercier’s Tinted Moisturizer SPF20, €48. Tinted moisturizers generally tend to be recommended for summer...

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Read More |January 27 2010 | 28 Comments

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