April 2013 – Page 2 – All Dolled Up

April 18, 2013

WIN! A 12 MONTH RUBYBOX SUBSCRIPTION {CLOSED}

Our friends at rubybox are giving away a year’s free monthly subscription to their brilliant beauty sample service worth R1 119! Camilla and I are both long-time subscribers and it’s a fantastic way to trial new products, especially from unfamiliar brands. You can also shop their online boutique which stocks all sorts of great products, including those from Stila, Essie, Bourjois and Tweezerman. You can find out more about how it works here. Click below to enter – good luck!

April 18, 2013

Living Proof Prime Style Extender

Hair primer? Whatever next? When I first read about hair primers I promptly dismissed them as a load of rubbish. That was, however, until I started reading rave reviews on all of my favourite beauty blogs – it was then that my ears pricked up and I decided to investigate. I asked Julia to bring back some Living Proof Prime Style Extender from London so that I could see if hair primers are all they’re cracked up to be. What is it? It’s a style extending hair primer. It promises to extend hair styles for twice as long, thereby enabling…

April 17, 2013

Review: Stila Kitten Eyeshadow

Before Stila arrived in South Africa, the only thing I knew about the brand was their famous eyeshadow in the shade called Kitten which is beloved the world over. It’s one of those shimmery champagne shades that works well on its own or as a base for building a more complex eyeshadow look, and suits a broad range of skin tones. It was the first item I bought from the range (and also bought one for Camilla for Christmas) and here are my thoughts:

April 16, 2013

Style36 Beauty Bonanza

Gals, it’s time to get shopping! Style36 are having a blowout beauty sale with up to 40% off for the next 3 days ONLY! Shop now » This is not sponsored post.

April 16, 2013

Thirty Tips for Thirty Years

So, I recently survived my 30th birthday (which wasn’t nearly as traumatic as I expected it to be) and I started thinking about all the beauty advice I’ve been given/read about/learnt first hand over the past three decades. With that in mind I decided to put together a piece outlining the 30 best tidbits in celebration of 30 years of beauty love! This is a long post, so maybe go make yourself a cup of tea and get settled in.

April 15, 2013

Save R20 on Maybelline Eye Products

From today until 15 May 2013, Maybelline is offering R20 off all eye products. Here’s my pick of the best items to get your hands on: 1. I’ve always been a huge fan of Maybelline mascaras and I’m particularly keen to try the new Volum’ Express The Rocket formulation. 2. A good eyebrow pencil is a make-up kit essential as far as I’m concerned and I’ve heard only good things about the Master Shape Brow Pencil. 3. The Maybelline Color Tattoo 24hr cream gel shadows are known for their smooth application and incredible, crease-free staying power. 4. If you’ve always wanted to…

April 12, 2013

Lipgloss Love: Chanel Glossimer in Wild Rose

As you will no doubt have realised by now, over at All Dolled Up we’re more into lipsticks than glosses. However, there are times when a girl just needs a bit of gloss…enter Chanel Glossimer in Wild Rose. It’s a beautiful pinky colour with subtle flecks of shimmer, it’s the quintessential “my lips but better” shade. It looks quite pigmented in the bottle, but is far softer on the lips – very elegant and sophisticated. The texture is lovely – not sticky or tacky (my worst – Juicy Tube, I’m looking at you). It glides onto the lip easily and…

April 11, 2013

My Skincare Routine: Natalie

Today we’ll be continuing our series documenting the skincare routines of other people (see the previous post here), in order to give you some ideas for how to deal with any skin concerns you might have that are similar. Natalie is a professional make-up artist who also works in social media, and has a fab lifestyle blog called Tails of a Mermaid. She is very knowledgeable about beauty and make-up, and has written a brilliant tutorial on the correct way to clean your make-up brushes. Here’s how she looks after her skin (which always looks amazing by the way): “I…

April 10, 2013

Gadget Lust: BaByliss Pro Perfect Curl

Beauty guru Sali Hughes says that this product has changed her life – a glowing endorsement if ever there was one! As a result, this nifty gadget has taken the top spot on my must-have list. It works by sucking the hair into a ceramic curl chamber where it is softly held and heated from all directions. The hair is not put under any tension and it takes just seconds to form a perfect curl. It has an audio beep indicator to remind you exactly when to release the hair so you won’t be left with frazzled locks. Now all…

April 9, 2013

Make-up Storage Heaven at Pax3D

As my obsession grows and I accumulate more and more beauty products, I find my bathroom shelves overflowing with bottles and tubes. With only so much space available, I am forced to move my make-up collection to my bedroom, leaving some extra space for my ever-expanding skincare stash and haircare hoard. I decided to pop into Pax 3D in search of some storage units, and in particular a lipstick holder like this one that I had seen on another beauty blog. It didn’t for one minute occur to me that they might actually have one so you can imagine my…

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