Travelling || Beauty || Fashion || Food
For beauty brands, Christmas start as soon summer is over and advent calendars start to be promoted from September. This year every beauty brand has adhered to advent calendars. They are amazing either to try new products or to give them as a gift. From so many advent calendars, I chose the one from Look Fantastic. Was my first ever advent calendar worth the money? Keep reading to find out the answer.
After being away from London for about 4 months, the moment I stepped into the drugstore I saw so many skincare brands that I couldn’t resist to buy some. I decided to try some skincare made by Boots and Superdrug, the biggest drugstores in UK, to see if it’s worth it to invest in drugstore skincare. Besides that, I finally got to try the popular brand The Inkey List and I invested in a full size Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. To complete the shopping haul, I added a SPF from Nip+Fab. Was this a good skincare shopping haul? Keep reading to find out.
The high-end cosmetics website, Beauty Pie, is a great option to buy high quality beauty products at a very low price. I subscribed to Beauty Pie in 2018 and there have been products since then that have become part of my skincare routine. If you never heard of this amazing discount membership beauty club, it’s time to find out more and start saving on your monthly beauty bill. I show you 9 skincare Beauty Pie items that I cannot live without since I subscribed it, that are the best to get started with, in case you are new to Beauty Pie.
Bronzer or contour, are they the same when it comes to sculpt the face? One can warm up and define the face, the other has the power to highlight, uplift and shape. As much as you might be used to apply only bronzer and not a contour powder, in this article I will show you how important it is to use a contour powder and the best drugstore contour palette that will make this job easy and affordable.
The quest for the perfect foundation continues. Upon trying several foundations throughout the year, I still haven’t found the “holy grail” in foundation. Does the new foundation by Lady Gaga ticks all the boxes? Apparently Triclone Skin Tech Foundation by Haus Labs is here to satisfy the most demanding makeup lovers. It looks too good to be true, a foundation that comes in 51 shades and includes skincare ingredients formulated to improve skin texture. I had to prove it for myself! Keep reading to discover if I have found or not the “holy grail”.
Makeup tricks and tips are always in trend in TikTok. One of the trends, I had to see it for myself. It looked too good to be true. Could a dewy foundation become matte by mixing it with water and powder? Let’s try it, to see if it’s just a hype trend or actually it’s a worthwhile trend.
Finding the right makeup whilst undergoing a chemotherapy treatment can be tiring. Cancer patients that want to use makeup, often face the hard task to discover makeup products that are safe for the skin. I asked for help to my dear friend Reija, blogger of cyclingforcancer.com, who underwent chemotherapy a few years ago, to understand the struggles of a cancer patient when looking for makeup. After 3 days of extensive research, I found 43 products that are completely safe and help reduce redness, dry skin and hair loss, which are the main problems when passing through cancer treatments. I also added some videos and tips of how to apply makeup, especially in regards to false lashes and drawing eyebrows.
Enigmatic, exotic or sensual, are some of the adjectives that could describe the fragrances I became addicted to in 2022. There are five perfumes that have been like a tattoo on my skin, that I could not live without this year. Hermes and Giorgio Armani, are some of the designer houses that seduced me with their fragrances. Because, Christmas is getting closer and soon it will be time to start buying some Christmas gifts, I thought of suggesting five perfumes as a gift, which are the five perfumes I became addicted to.
One of the makeup brands, I have been addicted to is Gelina Cosmetics. The British brand has launched liquid eyeshadows addressed to all makeup lovers that crave for multi chrome eyeshadows. I wrote before, here in the blog, about their eyeshadows palettes, Twin Soul and Northern Lights. Will the new liquid eyeshadows be as good as the eyeshadow palettes? Let’s find out.
With so many products in the market, what products are safe to make your skin look young, glowy and fresh? A full face of makeup when you are over 35 years old, can be something easy if you use the right products. Skin should look hydrated, lips with just some gloss and eyes enhanced with a good mascara. Keep reading to get to know the thirteen products I consider essential for an anti-aging makeup.