Posts Tagged‘Make-up’

Review: Estée Lauder Double Wear All Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup

Estée Lauder Double Wear All Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup

When I first read about the new Estée Lauder Double Wear All Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup (‘BB’) I was pretty excited: a hybrid foundation combining great coverage and a dewy/glowy finish…that’s basically the Holy Grail as far as I am concerned. I anticipated the  BB to have the same coverage and longevity of Double Wear Light (‘DWL’), with the glowy finish of, say, the Dior Diorskin Nude BB Creme. Nope. Although it undoubtedly has more luminosity than DWL, it is by no means gives the skin a glow. Well, certainly not mine anyway (but I should caveat this by…

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America Haul Part One: The Make-Up

I’m back, beauties! And whilst I thought I’d done a lot of shopping, when I unpacked everything to blog about it, it turns out I didn’t do nearly as much as I thought I did. Which begs the question…where did all my money go?! I have split my America haul into two parts: make-up first, and everything else second, and what I thought I would do is give you a rundown of everything I bought, together with a brief “first impressions”-type review on all of them. Let’s get started, shall we?

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Eye Candy: TWO Magazine

Two Magazine | All Dolled Up

The Pixiwoo sisters are very busy girls. Apart from maintaining their addictive YouTube channel (which has 1.2 MILLION subscribers), they are also both working mums who manage to squeeze in running a make-up artist training course, writing a blog, flying all over the world to promote Real Techniques brushes and publishing an incredible online make-up magazine. It’s called TWO Magazine and it is packed full of delicious make-up, incredible photoshoots, interviews with the pros and exclusive videos. It is published monthly and I can honestly say it’s the one email I look forward to receiving in my inbox! Here are…

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Lisa Eldridge’s Foundation Course

Lisa Eldridge

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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