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Clinique Chubby Stick Baby Tint

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Clinique Baby Tint

One more major surprise from Clinique and I’ll need a large brandy! Meet Clinique Chubby Stick Baby Tint Moisturizing Lip Colour Balms! I’m obsessed already – they’re the sheerest of tinted balms that does that warming-to-the-lip colour change thing so each one will be a little different on everyone.

Clinique Baby Tint

When I first applied, I couldn’t quite see the point – they’re so sheer as to be initially colourless. However, five minutes in and I had a lovely peachy tint to my lips so they really do work very well and my instant thought was that these are going to be great holiday tints when you want minimal make-up but need a little something. Shades from pink and along: Coming Up Rosy, Budding Blossom, Flowering Freesia and Poppin Poppy.

Clinique Baby Tint Swatch

The swatch shows that the Clinique Chubby Stick Baby Tint is very, very sheer to begin with, but they soon warm up to a more saturated, but still sheer, colour.

Clinique is picking up so many Asian influences at the moment.. first with the Clinique Even Better Essence, and now with Baby Tints – and in homage:

Clinique Baby Tint

Clinique, you are officially Kawaii!

The Clinique Chubby Stick Baby Tint Moisturizing Lip Colour Balms launch on 1st August for £17 each.

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September Empties

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A quick whizz through my empties – no, not the wine and beer bottles in my recycling box (chance’d be a fine thing), but the finished-off beauty products that I managed to collect this month. All of the products and links are listed below the video screen, just in case you can’t think of anything worse than spending eight minutes with a lovely cuppa, listening to the sound of my voice. Enjoy – and please do subscribe if you’d like to get my videos sent to you by email…

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Sturdy-meets-Sexy: LK Bennett’s Leona Boots

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LK Bennett Leona Pull Up Leather Boot

I’ve been busy shooting fashion features and videos, so do excuse the sudden torrent of style posts! I will attempt to balance them with plenty of beauty, because I know how you get withdrawal symptoms… These boots are too good not to talk about, though, and I have an inkling that they will sell very well and so I’m getting in there (relatively) early. The “Leona” boots are from the new season collection at LK Bennett; sturdy, beautifully-made and surprisingly comfortable. I did the “Ruth Crilly Heel Test”© in them and managed to survive the following: three brisk strolls totalling approximately 1 mile, a section of rubbled, pot-holed track and about twenty seconds of one of those ridiculous run-walks that you do when you’re about to miss the bus. Overall: GOOD. Considering that they look reasonably high and sexy, you could easily tackle day-to-day tasks in these – you’re not going to be clinging to the escalator handrail or keeling over on the tube.

LK Bennett Leona Pull Up Leather Boot

I first spotted these boots because they looked very similar to a Chloe pair that I saw a year or so ago. I tried the Chloe ones on and then took them off and deliberated; by the time I returned to buy them, they had gone. LK Bennett’s Leona boots are nearly half the price, they are easier to walk in and they have the same strappy/buckled styling that I loved so much on the Chloe versions. They are just on the cusp of comfortable-meets-sexy; enough height to make you feel all stompy and powerful, but enough chunkiness in the heel to keep you stable when you’re striding about town. You can find the Leonas at LK Bennett here.

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i-Glow Sirocco: The One Stop Shimmer Shop

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i-Glow Sirocco review new cid cosmetics

The Sirocco highlighting powder from New CID Cosmetics is the perfect blend of radiance and warmth; a fine dusting of this in the right places and you have a soft, summery glow. Go in with a heavier hand and you can quickly build up the sort of illumination that so often graces Instagram – a look I like to call Robot Face – with full-scale gilding of the cheekbones and snail-trail arcs of metallic shine beneath brows that have been drawn on using a ruler.

Whatever floats your boat; New CID’s i-Glow Shimmer Powder in Sirocco will manage either look with ease, it’s a One Stop Shimmer Shop. I did try the i-Glow in a video last year – you can see it here – but now that summer is just around the corner, I’ve brought it out properly and am enjoying giving my skin a glamorous lift.

Here I am with a light dusting of Sirocco on cheeks – excuse the frown-brow, folded eyelids and catalogue pose:

ruth crilly model nude makeup

You could almost mistake i-Glow for a very fair, shimmery bronzer, but it is far too illuminating to use on cheeks in that way. Instead, it makes a brilliant “partner” product for bronzing – it gives a warm glow rather than a frosty highlight and melds seamlessly into a dusty tan or contoured cheek. Not quite right for pretty looks with blusher or very fair skin, but marvellous for just about everything else.

I used a Real Techniques duo fiber brush (the middle size in this set) to apply the powder lightly to the tops of my cheekbones and bridge of nose, but a normal powder brush will work well too – just take care to “whisk” the bristles lightly over your skin rather than push the product on by the truckload.

You can find i-Glow in Sirocco for £24 at Amazon here.

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Stylish Non-Kitten Gifts

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cool gifts for teens

I’m sorry, I fell down spectacularly with teen gifts this year. Perhaps because I did a “kids and babies” one and that took up most of my brain space. So here are a few bits and bobs that I thought might be appealing to the girl who likes cool, graphic stuff rather than pretty pastels and cupcakes and kittens. (Nothing wrong with kittens, I hasten to add: love them myself. Just not everyone does. The obsession with cupcakes I do not get, however.)

This post should come with a warning: I do seem to have gone for style over budget with a few of these items! So I’ve broadened the horizons and made this a post for everyone who requires non-kitten non-pastel gift ideas. Problem solved. There’s something for every budget…

Starting with the smallest budget: currently on offer at Superdrug, a can of the very finest non-white-dusty dry shampoo that money can buy. If I may say so myself. (It has my name on it, in case you’re new to A Model Recommends!) A styling essential, especially if you suffer from lank hair or flat roots. Colab London is currently £2.32 here.

nuuna nothing to see here

The “Nothing to See Here” notepad is from Nuuna here – it’s a bit posh with its soft leather binding and black-edged pages, but I’ve included it because a) it looked great in my flatlay and b) everything from Nuuna is gorgeous and differently priced, so you can have a browse and see what fits your budget. This is special, stylish stationery at non-Bond-street prices and I love it.

Little pot of sporty-coloured snag-free hair ties: £5.50 from Hershesons here – XMAS20 gets you 20% off.

The candle is from Bella Freud and is part of a set of four (featured earlier in the week here): I joked that I don’t condone splitting luxury candle sets, but these are very cool and the scents are lovely and fresh and non-stuffy. You can also get full-sized versions, which I would imagine are slightly better value for money. I would stop and work it out, price per gram, but I am typing like some kind of dervish in an attempt to get this finished before Masterchef starts. Bella Freud at Cult Beauty Continue reading →