So I recently got back from a little trip to London and Skopelos and, as usual, I had to make a few essential beauty purchases… I was a lot more disciplined than usual though and only ended up getting a few things, many of which have been on my shopping list for a while. Here’s the lowdown:
Which mascaras, eyebrow products, concealers and eyeliners Jules would buy again, and which are bound for the bin.
Coverderm Complete Care CC Cream for Face The first thing to note about this CC cream is that it doesn’t provide much in the way of coverage, and that’s because it’s more of a treatment product than anything else. Here is what it claims to do: Contains 12 super-powered active ingredients that evens and brightens skin tone, nourishes, moisturises and soothes the skin. It protects against UVA & UVB rays and treats wrinkles, blemishes and irritation and controls sebum, tightens pores and treats facial redness. Oil free, lightweight, suitable for all skin types, and available in 4 natural shades, including…
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the official Urban Decay launch party in Johannesburg, and I also got a sneak preview of the Sandton City store ahead of it’s 9 June 2016 opening. If you follow us on social media, you will have seen a few pictures of the store itself, it’s any makeup lover’s heaven: rows upon rows of the stuff that our dreams are made of… Don’t those images make your soul happy? Ours too! As you can see, the product line is very comprehensive, they even have all 100 VICE lipsticks and 50 lip liners!…
If your YouTube appetite is as voracious as mine is, then you’ll be familiar with that feeling of disappointment when you’ve ploughed through your ‘Watch Later’ backlog, and you’ve officially run out of videos to watch. But never fear, because I have made some new discoveries over the past few months, and they’re guaranteed to bolster your subscription feed: Allana Davison If you love Estée Lalonde (formerly Essie Button), then I have a feeling you’ll love her fellow Candian Allana, too. Allana lives in Calgary with her boyfriend, Chad (total cutie, btw), and posts regular tutorials, favourites videos and vlogs.…
The hype surrounding the launch of Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish 003 was impossible to ignore. I got so sucked into the online frenzy that I ended up spending over R1,600 to get my hands on it. Madness. Utter madness. I ordered the ‘Nude’ version for myself, and the ‘Golden’ version for a friend, and getting it here was challenging to say the least. I placed a Sephora order using an American bank card (they don’t accept Paypal or SA bank cards), and used my Aramex Global Shopper US postbox as the delivery address. However, the transaction got declined because Sephora don’t…
If you follow us on social media, you will have seen that I recently treated myself to some goodies from Tom Ford. They have recently relocated from the V&A Waterfront Edgars concession stand into a brand new standalone store, which is packed to the brim with all sorts of treats. If you ever visited the concession stand, you will remember that they only stocked fragrances, lipsticks and nail polishes. The new store stocks pretty much everything, from what I can see, including my beloved Cream Color for Eyes in ‘Spice’ (R695 – worth every penny). The first time Jules and…
Every now and then we put together a little highlights package from our Instagram account so you can see what we’ve been testing recently. Not everything we see or try out makes it onto the blog (read our content policy here) so it’s a great way to stay up to date with the products we’re using and what we think of them.
This post is basically taking the place of a monthly favourites post because not only have I loved using these products this month, but they’re all products that I owned already but hadn’t been in rotation for a while. I’ve been enjoying quite a natural, tonal look – bronzy skin and brown eyeshadow, with a natural, flushed cheek and matching pink lips. Here are the makeup items I’ve been using to achieve it:
So, there we were on Sunday after a delightful brunch together, innocently browsing a nearby Dischem for essentials, when this happened: Essence 2 in 1 Eyeshadow & Liner I’m a huge fan of the one-and-done smoky eye and cream eyeshadows are the best way to do that. MAC “Groundwork” and Maybelline “On and On Bronze” get a lot of use this way in my collection and when I saw these new waterproof eyeshadow pencils from Essence, I thought they might work well for the same thing. The shade I picked up is called “She’s Got the Mauve” and looks a…