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Instagram Rewind

Beauty Fix | All Dolled Up

We don’t always get the chance to put together an in-depth blog post on a particular product or experience, so our Instagram account is a great way to find out what we’ve been up to. Here are the highlights from the past few weeks: Skin saviours: My long-haul flight essentials comprise Nuxe Rêve de Miel lip balm for obvious reasons, and a combination of my favourite dehydration heroes. Hydraluron to avoid having my skin sucked dry by the recirculated air layered under a thick layer of Origins Drink Up Intensive Overnight Mask really does the trick! I also usually pack a mini rosewater…

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Bite Beauty Lip Lab

Bite Beauty Lip Lab | All Dolled Up

Hello lovelies! I’m happy to say that I’m back from the States (haul coming soon, I promise) and although I’m much poorer and am sporting an extra chin, I had an absolutely amazing time. One of the highlights was definitely a visit to the Bite Beauty Lip Lab in NYC where I got to create my very own lipstick! Bite Beauty is an incredible natural lip care brand that produces all their products from food-grade ingredients, meaning they don’t contain any nasty chemicals and are literally good enough to eat. Their Lip Lab in SoHo is a fantastic little concept…

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ELLE X MAC Viva Glam

ELLE x MAC Viva Glam

A few weeks ago I was invited to spend a few hours in the ELLE Beauty Closet with MAC Viva Glam; an invitation I wasn’t about to turn down! The format was a style challenge, and I was asked to put together two looks (day and night) to complement the new MAC Viva Glam Miley Cyrus Lipstick and matching Tinted Lipglass. As someone who dresses for comfort rather than style, this was a little intimidating, but I stuck to what I know and pulled some of my old favourites out of the cupboard. These included my everyday ripped denim jeans,…

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May Favourites: Jules

L'Oréal StudioLine #TXT Supersizing Spray | All Dolled Up

This post should really be called “my most used travel products” as they were all on heavy rotation while I was away for most of last month. I completely overpacked (as usual) and even though this meant I had plenty of skincare and make-up options, I still used the same small set of products almost every day. Here are the highlights: Benefit Porefessional Face Primer The dinky little miniature of this world-famous primer came in really handy in the sweltering heat of New York. My make-up was literally melting off my face but a layer of this underneath my base…

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Spree 3-for-2 Beauty Sale // What I Bought

Spree is currently running an incredible beauty special on their site: buy any three beauty products and get the cheapest one for free. If you’ve never shopped online with Spree before, then I suggest you hop to it – they stock some of my all-time favourite brands, such as Stila, Bourjois and Max Factor, and their delivery is blisteringly fast so you get your goodies quick sticks! I love online shopping for many reasons but mainly because: a) I feel like I’m not really spending money because there’s no receipt to stuff into my purse (danger), and b) opening those beautifully packaged boxes makes…

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May Favourites: Camilla

NYX Butter Gloss in ‘Angel Food Cake’ and ‘Tiramisu’ I am so thrilled that these are finally available at Clicks! If the ‘gloss’ part deters you, please don’t let it – this is not a traditional, sticky gloss. No, no. This is the perfect hybrid lip product: the subtle sheen of a gloss, the consistency of a cream, the hydration of a balm and the pigmentation of a traditional lipstick. They wear exceptionally well, and you can reapply all day without any gross build-up or worrying about the product sitting in dry patches or flakes. It’s kind of perfecting in the…

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Upcoming Launches from Bourjois and Max Factor

Last week I attended the Cosmetiques de France press day to learn about all the upcoming launches from Max Factor, Bourjois, Bioderma and Noreva. There are going to be a lot of exciting new products hitting the shelves over the next couple of months, and I even though some aren’t going to be available for a while, I wanted to tell you about them anyway. I have decided to split the launches into two posts (Max Factor and Bourjois first, Bioderma and Noreva second) and I’m (rather selfishly) only going to tell you about the launches that I found most exciting. Bourjois Rouge…

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