Showing posts with label 50s girls reloaded. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 50s girls reloaded. Show all posts

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Favourites for July

Skipped last month because the passion just wasn't there, but I've more than made up for it with my love for these products during July! These kept me content and looking awake this month.
Samantha Chapman, you are a deadset legend! The stippling brush is the one I've used most from this haul, rather than using it as a finishing brush I've used it to apply all of my Bourjois liquid foundations and I've been loving the airbrushed finish! Speaking of Bourjois foundations, 123 Perfect is the latest offering and with each foundation I fall more in love with the brand! I'll devote a whole post to this soon.
Kiehls Midnight Recovery Eye Cream* smells like the best sort of lavender, is hydrating without being greasy and the packaging is uber pretty. I feel like I've done a good deed when I treat my eyes to this! The Environ AVST cleansing lotion* is so gentle but gets my face so darn clean, and it washes off quick as lightening as well. Massive bottle as well, big love from me.
This Prestige Brow Mascara was on sale at Priceline for something ridiculous like a dollar, and I think it may hold my brows in shape better than my Ardell brow gel. Guerlain's Champs Elysees is a staple perfume for me, I've gone through countless bottles of it and can see myself wearing it until my dying day. It makes me feel like an adult, I wear it to read good books and have brunch with friends and all those lovely things.
I don't normally reach for bronzer but I bit the bullet recently and bought this, as I'd had my eye on it for months. The Body Shop Honeycomb bronzer is matte and pretty, and I think it gives me a healthy look without being dark and scary.
One colour eye looks were rife this month, I've been working earlier mornings more often and it's all I can manage when I'm half asleep.MAC's Hazy Day was a Estee Lauder staff store purchase that I adore, or if I want something lighter I reach for MAC Jaunty. A massive favourite this month was my essence duo from the 50's Girls Reloaded collection in Come on Board Captain, particularly the golden beige shade which is so soft and pigmented.

While rounding up my favourites for the month I totally forgot to check the handbag, which contained my Uriage Thermal Water* spray, my L'Oreal Blue Reef polish* and Chanel's Rouge Coco Shine in Boy. Consider them added!


These are my standouts for last month- what are yours?

*Marked products were provided for review, which is not why they are in my favourites- they are here because they rock! Honesty, always.

Friday, August 3, 2012

essence 50's girls reloaded // photos, swatches, FOTD

I'm never able to pass up on an essence collection, and when I stumbled upon the 50's Girls Reloaded collection in Priceline I couldn't resist picking up a few pieces.The liners were super cheap so even though I didn't need them I let them come along home with me. I chose the old gold shade Love Me Tender and the darkest blue I'm A Marine Girl02 I'm Sailing lipstick is a bright peachy shade (yet to try it out!) and the shadow duo stole my heart, I'm utterly in love.
03 Come on Board Captain contains a golden beige shade with a deep navy shade alongside it. Both colours are buttery and pigmented, comparable to my Inglot shadows. Considering that this duo was around the $6 mark, that is mighty impressive!
I created a nice work-appropriate look with the shadows and liners, normally I wear brighter makeup to work but slept in so this is what I came up with!
I've worn my Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in Boy almost every day in July, and for this look I topped it with my essence gloss in the newly released (but permanent) shade Deep Rose. It tones down the mauve colour of Boy but doesn't overpower it either.
A very sheer wash of the beige essence shade with the navy shade in the crease, blended right out. The shadows are really soft and easy to blend, I've been wearing the taupe all over the lid quite a bit this month but this photo doesn't do the colour justice. My lashes are also quite lackluster in this look, the Maybelline Lash Stiletto Voluptuous mascara flakes on me like crazy and doesn't create a nice definition for my lashes either.
Products Used
Face of Australia Face Base primer
Bourjois Healthymix Serum foundation in 52
Face of Australia Loose Translucent Powder*
Nars Orgasm blush
MAC Painterly paint pot
essence Come on Board Captain shadow duo
Urban Decay Virgin shadow to highlight
essence I'm a Marine Girl liner on lashline
essence Love Me Tender liner on lower lashline
Maybelline Lash Stiletto Voluptuous mascara
Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in Boy
essence Stay with Me gloss in Deep Rose

essence can be purchased from Priceline and Target stores nationally.

Have you bought anything from the 50's Girls Reloaded collection?
How often do you use navy shades?

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