Ramblings of a rampant beauty editor…
Clicks’ Beauty Fair is in full swing and there are so many specials on you’re going to want to toss half their store into your shopping basket. To celebrate, they sent me a not-so-little box of treats and I thought I’d give you a peek inside. I’ve used that NYX Super Skinny Marker liner (R130,45) […]
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Ready to jump in? Gucci’s always done florals well and they’ve done it again with Bloom EDP (R1 330 for 50ml and R1 710 for 100ml), a lush bouquet of white flowers created to celebrate feminine diversity while transporting you to a magical garden. As for the pretty vintage-looking powder pink bottle, it was designed […]
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Revlon’s launched a new collection of primers and optical-diffusing products called Youth FX and many of the products are serious gems save for the Fill + Blur Primer for face and neck (R199) which didn’t hit home for me. (I found it very thick and I struggled to spread it around.) The Fill + Blur […]
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Morgan Taylor’s summer collection – Selfie – has just dropped and it’s a fun, Instagram-ready mix of super bright attention-grabbing shades plus two pretty pastels for R125 a pop. I was given three of the brighter shades and am enjoying the hot pink – Woke Up This Way. You need two coats for full coverage […]
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You want more fragrance reviews? I’ve got them! The queen of celebrity fragrances, Ms Britney Spears, has just launched her ten millionth scent, Britney Spears VIP Private Show EDP (R565 for 50ml and R665 for 100ml). I thought it would be more closely related to the original Private Show, which is all about sugar and […]
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Some of my best childhood memories involve playing ‘dinosaurs’ in the garden (I was always the pterodactyl!) and they’re brought back to me when I smell frangipani. To me, that is the scent of summer – along with fresh-cut grass, braai smoke and Creme Soda flavoured ‘lekker licks’. (‘Memba those?!) Anyway, Filorga have just launched a […]
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Ready for a whack of new fragrance reviews? Arden have launched a new version of an old favourite of mine – Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Mimosa EDT (R425 for 100ml). It’s the refreshing Green Tea you know and love but benefits from a citrus spike and lots of, you guessed it, mimosa. The notes: Green tea, […]
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It felt like just the other day that Jimmy Choo launched its first fragrance, a sexy-smelling mix of tropical flowers with an indulgent dollop of toffee. Since then, they’ve created several more but the original has remained my favourite, along with Blossom, an easy-going floral sweetened up with juicy red berries. Well, that was until […]
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Nivea sent me some of their Perfect & Radiant newbies the other day and the two items that hit home were the wipes and micellar water. First up, the Perfect & Radiant 3-in-1 cleansing wipes (R62,95, Clicks) are pillowy soft, smell lovely and clean (like their ‘Soft’ creme) and make use of micellar water so, […]
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So Revlon do this thing where, when they drop off a press pack, they want their promo girl to take a photo of you holding it to ensure that it got to you. I have no clue why they do this, but hey. Still, there couldn’t have been a worse time for their latest delivery. […]
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Ah, peel-off masks! I used to love these guys in high school. My besties and I would buy them in cheap ass single dose sachets, slap them on to an Alanis Morrissette soundtrack and then have fun picking off the bits while debating super important stuff like ‘who’s hotter – Pacey or Jordan Catalano’. (For […]
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You’ve probably heard of mesotherapy, right? For those who haven’t, it’s a cosmetic procedure that involves injecting a cocktail of active ingredients into the transdermal layer of your skin, using multiple teeny tiny needle pricks. The results you can expect depend on the ingredients you use. As an example, hyaluronic acid will hydrate and plump, […]
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Lipgloss is my Life 