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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 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 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…

June 18, 2013

WINNER: Mama Mio Try Me Trio

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June 18, 2013

Kiehl’s Change Your Skin Challenge: Week 1

Last week I started using Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate on my face every night, as part of the 28-day Change Your Skin Challenge. Kiehl’s kindly gave both Camilla and me a full-size bottle of the overnight anti-ageing elixir (which, if used every night would last us three months at least) to test and report back on. I already used KMRC as part of my night-time beauty routine but alternating it in a three-day cycle with Alpha-H Liquid Gold and a regular moisturiser. I had a suspicion that it was causing me to break out so I was somewhat hesitant to…

June 14, 2013

Oh, Honey! Sweet Beauty Treats

Honey is having a real moment as a star ingredient in skincare and beauty products. It has long been acknowledged as having healing superpowers thanks to its natural anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties, making it perfect for treating skin conditions like acne and eczema. As well as being a powerful antioxidant, it’s also extremely nourishing and moisturising, plumping up skin and improving elasticity. Ok, I’m sold! Here’s my pick of the yummiest honey-based beauty products around (full listing after the jump):

June 12, 2013

UK Beauty Haul: Skincare

A couple of you asked to see a haul of all the goodies I bought in London when I was there in April, so here it is. Unfortunately for my bank balance, I bought so much stuff that I need to split it up into two videos (sorry I’m not sorry) so here is the first one which is all about skincare. Some of these products can be bought in SA (marked with a *) and where applicable I’ve supplied links to websites that will ship here, many of them for free. Let me know in the comments if you…

June 12, 2013

The Spa Shop

It’s no secret that Camilla and I like to shop. Like, a LOT. We’re also huge fans of online shopping and you should be too – it’s efficient, convenient, offers more variety and is often cheaper than fighting with the hoards in the mall. So we’re always pleased to hear about new online beauty stores, especially when they’re local. The Spa Shop sells spa-quality products (think Dr Hauschka, RapidLash and SpaRitual) for both men and women along with complimentary skin and beauty advice, lots of special offers, free samples, product reviews and free delivery for orders over R1000. You can…

June 10, 2013

Royal Baby Shower with Mama Mio plus a GIVEAWAY

Mama Mio at Langaro Lifestyle Centre | All Dolled Up

Saturday dawned wet and miserable, but nothing could dampen our spirits as we were off to a Royal Baby Shower! Mama Mio hosted us at the brand new Langaro Lifestyle Centre in Camps Bay for a morning of games and pampering in honour of (our friend) Princess Kate’s impending motherhood. We were treated to manis and pedis from Langaro’s team of expert primpers and taken on a tour of their facilities which include a hair salon, nail studio, fitness centre, beautiful treatment rooms and a luxury boutique. I plan to go back and try out one of their massages very…

June 7, 2013

Link Love #3

It’s an all-local edition of Link Love today! Enjoy xx {I’ve Tried That} ♥ LUSH American Cream Conditioner A product review on one of my favourite conditioners by Chicara from Lipgloss Kisses Factory Fun Dearheart Beauty introduces us to an amazing new local online shop called Beauty Factory (which looks fantastic!) All Hail Kiehl’s Dimi from StyleScoop gets her hands on some treats from Kiehl’s and reviews some of their bestsellers Best Eye Palette on the Market Right Now Eloise Dreyer shares our love for the beautiful “In the Light” eyeshadow palette from Stila Contouring Made Easy Have you seen…

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