Yesterday I brought you “September Empties”: today, September Favourites. Never say that I lack imagination. Tomorrow is October (I think?) so maybe there’ll be a change of theme. Ha!
Some corkers in this video, though, including the brilliant new mascara discovery from Diego Della Palma. It’s honestly one of the best mascaras I’ve used in ages – and it’s not bank-breakingly expensive, either. Very refreshing. There’s also a little preview demo of my new Luxe Shine hair fragrance spray from Colab. As always, products and links are below the video – you know the drill. Grab a cup of tea, etc etc…
Just as a bit of fun; I filmed an “Ask Me Anything” video. You ask, I answer. (Within reason, of course! Ha!) I’ll be doing another one soon, so click through and leave your questions on Youtube, or you can pop them in the comments section below if that’s easier. I’ll read through them all and try and answer as many as I can. I also want to do a silly “yes or no” kind of video, or one of those idiotic quizzes where you have to choose between two things; “dog or cat” or “bath or shower”, that kind of affair. Makes a change from serious beauty talk, though there are plenty of those videos coming up too…
(In this video I’m wearing Clarins Tinted Moisturiser and that AMAZING Guerlain bronzer!)
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Charlotte Tilbury Lip Love & Lip Magic
There’s plenty of Charlotte Tilbury newness ahead for spring but the major launch is Charlotte Tilbury Lip Love & Lip Magic – two lip products for silky, smooth lips.
Lip Love is a gentle scrub to slough away dry skin using sugar crystals suspended in jojoba seed oil, olive oil, shea butter, cocoa seed butter and beeswax. I’ve just used it and it tastes a little sweet as you’d expect and leaves a nourishing film over the lips – and yes, my lips do feel and look softer.
Lip Magic owes its ‘magic’ to propolis but it’s also got a whack of hyaluronic acid, argan, vitamin E, shea and hydrating oils meaning that it feels very comfortable although thinner than traditional balms. If you find thick balms irritating, then this is for you!
The combined effect of Charlotte Tilbury Lip Love & Lip Magic is the perfect base for matte lipsticks which rely on a smooth lip for maximum impact.
However, they’re rather pricy with Lip Love coming in at £20 and Lip Magic at £25 for very tiny pots (approx 5ml) so I suspect that for most of us these are going to be treats rather than staples.
Charlotte Tilbury Lip Love & Lip Magic both launch in February 2015.
While I’m on the subject of Charlotte Tilbury, I’ve got a giveaway of CT The Supermodel Video Box on Instagram so do join me HERE – the giveaway ends tomorrow (Thursday 18th December) so I can get it posted in time for Christmas.
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I’ve been using these extra-special cleansers on rotation, recently, as a bit of a winter kick-start for my skin but also as a proper “time out” sort of treat. They’re not cleansers in the traditional sense, you see – you wouldn’t use them to remove your makeup and then just rinse them down the plughole. (The Aromatherapy Associates balm is probably the closest to a “normal” cleanser, and even then, it’s so beautiful you wouldn’t want to waste vast amounts of it removing your layers of foundation and primer and so on.)
No, these are more treatment oil than cleanser – or cleansers with added benefits. Beautiful oil blends that really lift the senses and help to bring a bit of peace and calm to the evening. (Or morning, if you like, but I prefer to take my time with them and so the nighttime skincare routine is my best bet!) You can cup your palms over your face, breathe them in and really turn your cleanse into something a bit more special. Here are the four I’ve been using most often:
The 9 Oil Cleansing Tonic from MV Organic Skincare is a gorgeous blend of top quality oils and essential oils that, when pressed into the skin after cleansing, really seems to help with any areas of congestion or imbalance. It’s expensive, but it’s basically a quality face oil and not a cleanser – you don’t even rinse it off, just massage it into the skin and then use a warm flannel compress over the top. It’s amazing. More details on Cult Beauty.
Same deal with the De Mamiel Pure Calm Cleansing Dew; I don’t like to use a tonne of it to do a big cleanse and then see it all swirl away down the plughole. I cleanse with a balm or whatever first and then press a small amount of this decadent oil onto my face, massaging it for a minute or so and then quickly rinsing off or pressing a warm flannel onto my skin to remove. You can find it online – again, pricey (it’s £50) but I think of it as a facial oil rather than a whack-a-load-on cleansing oil.
The Inner Strength Cleansing Balm from Aromatherapy Associates is a little different in that it can be used in copious amounts to remove makeup, even eye makeup, but I honestly wouldn’t want to waste it on that. The essential oil blend that makes up Inner Strength is just amazing – very mood-changing – and I like to use the balm quite sparingly. It melts into a very massage-friendly oil and then rinses away quite clean, so I cleanse first, spread this on and then spend a few minutes breathing in the scent before removing. If the face oil/cleanser hybrids above don’t sound like your cup of tea but you want something spirit-transforming in your cleansing routine then this is an excellent place to start. You can find it at LookFantastic – it’s £40.
Lastly, the Tulasara Radiant Oleation Oil from Aveda. Admittedly, I haven’t used this the way they suggest, with light skin brushing beforehand, but I use it as a sort of pre-cleanse oil and love the effects and the smell. It breaks up makeup a little before cleansing, so that’s a bonus, but actually it’s quite nice to use if you are makeup free and doing more of a “cleansing off the day’s dirt” job. (Quite often my type of cleanse, if I’m at home and haven’t bothered to put a face on.) It’s £38 online (bit of a luxe selection for this post!) but if you’re into the idea of a pre-cleanse oil and don’t have a lot of dough, the one from Superfacialist is great. You can find my post about it .
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Starting off the new week with a skincare video; here’s a roundup of the beauty products I’ve been slathering on my face in an attempt to beat the dreaded “winter dryness”. I think my horrifically dry and tight skin has been more down to being ill rather than the weather, because until very recently it hasn’t been too cold at all, but the symptoms have been much the same. A stretched, flaky forehead, general dehydration and sensitive, red skin around my nose and on my chin.
Read about more products for dry skin…
There’s a good mix of different brands and budgets here – completely by fluke, I should say! – and quite a few of the products shown are actually on sale at the moment. The Zelens Intensive Recovery Repair Balm has about twenty quid off, which helps a lot considering the high price point, the Darphin cream (reviewed last week here) is still reduced and the Olay serum is a third of its usual price. All of the product links are below the video pane, so – as always – if you can’t bear the sound of my voice and don’t want to see a cute baby scoop about eighty-thousand pounds worth of face cream out of a pot with her chubster hands then please feel free to scroll on down.
Right you are, let’s get on with the show, shall we? I must get around to reviewing a lot of these dry skin products separately, so make sure you give me a nudge in the comments if there’s something you specifically want to hear more about. Enjoy…
NB: I’m not recommending the micellar as a cleanser for dry skin, it’s just something I’ve been using as I’ve been ill!
