2013 – Page 10 – All Dolled Up

July 2, 2013

June Favourites: Camilla

Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage Concealer My love for Laura Mercier, and her world-famous Secret Camouflage Concealer in particular, has been well-documented. I have yet to find a concealer that does as good a job as this one does – it covers anything and everything and has the most incredible staying power, even without a setting powder (no mean feat). The unique two-toned camouflage system allows you to customize the colour to perfectly match your skin tone, thereby ensuring that you have an exact colour match all year round. Sadly not available in SA yet (my boyfriend brought this back for me…

July 1, 2013

Brand I Wish Was in SA: Bumble and bumble

I’ve always been drawn to the packaging and branding of Bumble and bumble‘s products – quirky, humorous and fun, it epitomises everything that beauty should be. So I was thrilled to find the products in Boots when I visited the UK earlier this year, and particularly excited to try their famous and best-selling Surf Spray in an attempt to inject some texture into my super-soft, super-straight hair. It’s quite pricey but wow does it work! I was also given generous samples of the Thickening Hair Spray (also great at adding some oomph to your strands) and Bb. Texture Hair (Un)dressing Creme which…

June 28, 2013

Bedtime Beauty: My Current Routine

MAC Cleanse-Off Oil, Emma Hardie Cleansing Balm and Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate

As you’ll know by now, Camilla and I are participating in the 28-day Change Your Skin challenge with Kiehl’s by trialling their Midnight Recovery Concentrate for a month. It has forced me to be much more disciplined about my routine so that the results of the challenge aren’t skewed by all the different products I use, something that’s very difficult for a product junkie like me. I usually work in a three day cycle with my nighttime skincare, alternating moisturiser (at the moment I’m using Mama Mio Mighty Moisture), Alpha-H Liquid Gold and a beauty oil. Obviously I’ve now cut…

June 27, 2013

Estée Lauder 7 Day Free Foundation Trial

Did you know that you can visit any Estée Lauder counter and they will give you a free foundation sample that will last you for up to seven days? I only found that out this week (tut tut)! I have been wanting to try Double Wear Light Stay-In-Place Makeup for ages, but I can’t stand my foundation being applied in store, under those harsh fluorescent lights, with the massive pressure to buy straight away. Dreadful. Fast forward to payday, and I was happily dropping cash left, right and center in Red Square when I spotted the Free 7 Day Foundation Trial…be…

June 26, 2013

Favourite Five: Winter Nail Polish

1. Essie Nail Polish in Sole Mate – R99 The perfect deep, rich plum colour for cold, drizzly days. 2. Revlon Brilliant Strength Nail Enamel in Beguile – R89 An intriguing, blackened blue-purple duochrome in a hard-wearing formula. 3. Inglot Nail Enamel in 965 – R99 Unusual, high gloss, blue-toned gunmetal shade with no nasty chemicals. 4. Nails Inc Nail Polish in Porchester Square – R110 A sophisticated, muted, mushroom colour – this bestseller is the perfect winter nude. 5. Ciaté Crème Nail Polish in Main Stage – R99 A bold but chic purple-pink creme for those unready to take…

June 25, 2013

Flu Beauty: A Helping Hand

I am battling the flu at the moment and it is awful – pounding head, runny nose, high temperature…I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I can’t afford to take time off work at the moment, so I’ve had to ramp up my beauty routine to make sure that I don’t arrive at the office looking like death. Here’s my pick of the best products to help you look better than you feel…

June 24, 2013

Charlotte Tilbury’s Make-up House of Rock ‘n’ Kohl

London department store, Selfridges & Co., is arguably the world’s finest beauty destination, so it seems only appropriate that they should play host to a one-of-a-kind beauty event in partnership with Charlotte Tilbury, one of the world’s best make-up artists. Conceived as an early promotional event for Charlotte’s much-anticipated make-up line which is launching in Selfridges later this year, the beauty festival ran for the past five days, drawing hundreds of beauty lovers to the iconic Oxford Street location. The event centred around a custom-built concept store where visitors could get a ‘Tilbury Transformation’ makeover with members of Charlotte’s personal…

June 21, 2013

The Friday Lust List

Elizabeth Hurley says that lust does wonders for the skin, so with that in mind, let’s have a look at what I’m lusting after this week…

June 20, 2013

Hero Product: Environ Derma-Lac Lotion

WARNING: This is a very unglamorous post. Let’s be frank, winter is not kind to us girls – particularly if, like me, you have to wear stockings and high heels to work…ingrown hairs and dry heels for days! But don’t despair – help is at hand, and you have my mother to thank for this one. I was back home a few weeks ago and was happily ensconced in my Vogue when a rogue foot was suddenly thrust into my face. “Feel my feet – just FEEL how soft they are!” she said. So I did. And they were! When…

June 19, 2013

Lisa Eldridge’s Foundation Course

Make-up artist extraordinaire and one of our biggest girl crushes, Lisa Eldridge, recently created a series of videos to help women with the common challenge of selecting the right foundation. The videos cover basic information about choosing and shopping for foundation, advice on picking the right shade for your skin tone, product recommendations and application techniques. Having fallen victim to the curse of the artificial department store lighting and buying the wrong shade of an expensive foundation myself, I can’t tell you how invaluable these videos are. Here is one of the videos but you can click here to see them…

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