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Flamboyante
Actually, there are two shades of lipstick in the Chanel Plumes Precieuses de Chanel collection – Flamboyante above, and another shade, Volage, which is more of a peachy nude colour and nowhere near as show-stopping as Flamboyante.
Flamboyante
You can see from the swatch that it’s a real smack of red – I can’t detect any blue tones in this shade at all. The Rouge Velvet Allure is more of a matte texture than I like, but it’s a very smooth application that feels quite nourishing on the lip. However, if you’re after Flamboyante, I’d definitely ask for a swatch in store – I’ve a feeling it might do that yellow-tooth thing.
Or Blanc
The final item I have to show you is Stylo Yeux in Or Blanc (limited edition) – a white-gold eye liner.
Or Blanc
By taking the warmth and heat out of the gold and blending it with white, it’s a gorgeous match for Flamboyante. I’m thinking if you like that stark eye look, Or Blanc is perfect for achieving it.
Flamboyante will cost £26 (lim ed) and Or Blanc will cost £19.
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Oh, the Space NK Goody Bag: always sent to tempt us. This time, a slightly lower-than-usual spend threshold and perhaps a slightly lower value, though I am yet to tot up the contents. Hold on while I grab my calculatrice… I can tell you for a start that the minimum spend is £100, and inside the goody bag there’s a FULL SIZE Cleansing Oil from NUDE, worth £28. (Read about it on the site here.) Then there’s a deluxe sample of Sunday Riley’s Good Genes – equivalent value £28 (30ml costs £85 and it’s a 10ml tube) – as well as a gorgeous little box of Aromatherapy Associate Bath Oils (approx £17.50), some Eyeko eye patches (aarrrr, me hearties!), a miniature Becca primer and a little Algenist Eye Balm worth about £22.
If the sample of the Revive Even Skin Tone Cream seems a little tight, at 5ml, bear in mind that the full-size pot (50ml) is more expensive than a house. Kind of. At £175, it makes the sample pot, which holds barely enough to cover a gnat’s arse, worth a whopping £17.50. There are also some exfoliating pads from Radical Skincare – I can’t find these on Space NK so perhaps they are new, but you get fifteen of them so a good old stock to have a try with. And there’s a snazzy little makeup bag thrown in, too, bringing my total guesstimate goody bag value up to around £140.
Anyway, the value of the bag is definitely more than the required spend, so if you were in the market for a skincare/bodycare/makeup/candle stock-up then today is the day! My current Space NK favourites are – just in case you are searching for inspiration – By Terry’s Ombre Blackstar eyeshadow pencil, any By Terry foundation (they are all lush), Living Proof Shampoo and Conditioner, the mammoth-sized Emma Hardie Cleansing Balm and Aurelia’s Miracle Cleanser. Phew.
No code needed for this, it will automatically be added to your basket when you exceed £100 in value. Once the bags run out, you’ll know, because it won’t add one to your order! This offer is for today only, and is exclusive to online shoppers. As always, open worldwide but excluding the US.
Space NK
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Strike Two: my second illness of the season. First I had Mastitis, then yesterday I picked up a funny little tummy bug. It seems to have gone now, but it was terribly intense while it lasted! (I reckon it was the sausages I ate on Friday night, personally, but Mr AMR says it can’t be because he had the same. What he doesn’t realise is that he literally has a stomach lining made of steel and nothing , absolutely nothing, can upset it.)
Strike Three: the third Cormoran Strike book from Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil. I had the hardback on pre-order, so keen was I to read it, but then realised that I needed the Kindle version, because if I turn on the light to read during the middle-of-the-night feed then the baby wakes up properly and all hell breaks loose! I really enjoyed the first two Galbraith novels (we all now know it’s JK Rowling, but there are no wizards and spells here – more grisly deaths and swearing ex-army detectives) and can’t wait to get cracking with this one. I’ve just finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (so-so, a bit moral for my current mood!) so will download the Kindle version this evening. Mr AMR can read the hardback at the same time. The race is on… You can buy Career of Evil here – the hardback is currently £9.
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Most excellent purchase of the winter so far: my leopard fingerless gloves from Mango at ASOS. They are more like an extra piece of clothing that an accessory; more a sleeve or an arm-warmer than a mere glove! I have never owned a pair of fingerless gloves before; all of the styles I tried on previously made me look like a bank robber and I couldn’t quite see the point of wearing gloves that didn’t keep my fingers warm. Kind of like wearing toe-less socks – or crotchless knickers, for that matter, though I suspect I’m missing the point with those, somewhere along the line. Anyway, a few wears in (of the gloves, not the knickers!) and I’m a total convert: the leopard pattern stops these from looking too utilitarian and I actually like that my fingers poke through. The bare-flesh/wool ratio is just perfect. (Though ask me again when the proper cold weather sets in. I might well be back in full-coverage handwear.)
The images above are taken from my Autumn Lookbook Video – if you missed that on Youtube then you can watch it by clicking here. The fingerless gloves are from ASOS, as mentioned, the gorgeous double-wrap snood is from Pure Collection and the snakeskin sweatshirt is M&S. I’ve gone in for a bit of a blue-and-grey theme here, but the leopard print goes with just about anything. The gloves are a purse-pleasing £9 here.
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Here it is: my verdict on the Victoria Beckham makeup collaboration with Estée Lauder. What I like, what I don’t – what I’d spend cash on and, importantly, how I’d wear it all. There’s a video at the bottom of the page, which is possibly the key element of this feature – I demonstrate the bronzer, eyeshadow (or “eye metallic”) and kajal as well as both lipsticks from the range. If you’re in any doubt as to whether you’d get on with the shades you’ve seen in images online then watch the video and pay close attention!
So, the collection. Let’s start with the packaging. Sleek and sexy with reassuringly heavy compacts and lots of fluting going on. There’s more fluting than a school orchestra. More fluting than a medieval banquet. You get the picture. The Morning Dew moisturiser-primer (here), which has a hint of shimmer to brighten and perkify* the skin, has a completely fluted bottle in gold and black. The lipsticks have ribbed cases (sorry, I couldn’t bring myself to type the f-word again) and the liquid eyeliners have lids to match.
It’s all very sexy. Understated, luxurious and sleek. I think that the whole look and feel of the collection has been pitched perfectly – though it’s definitely priced to reflect this vibe! The Java bronzer compact (with its absolutely gorgeous leather covering, find it here) comes in at £48 – the Morning Dew is a whopping £68.
But nothing disappoints – if you’re buying into this luxe collection then you can be safe in the knowledge that the quality is top-notch. Nothing is completely mind-blowing, in terms of ingenuity or innovation, but everything is wearable and flattering and high-perfomance. It’s a clever, capsule-wardrobe sort of collection that makes you think “I’d wear all of that”.
And because you can see yourself wearing every single item, it all becomes massively appealing, regardless of the price. You probably don’t need anything, because you’ll already have a good bronzer and a vivid orange-red lipstick and the perfect black smudgy eye pencil, but by Jove do you want it!
Oh – I said there were no disappointments. I lied. The Eye Foil, which is a sort of clumsy-foam-applicator liquid eye thing, completely failed to amuse me. Perhaps I applied it in the wrong way, but whether I tried it as an eyeliner or sort of sheer, glittery eyeshadow, it was wishy-washy and not that appealing. Apologies if I’ve missed the secret trick, but this one was not for me. I much preferred the traditional eye kajal (here) and the eyeshadow, pictured above and below…
As I said before, there’s nothing showstopping or magically new about an eyeshadow, but the shades are beautiful and easy to wear and add an instant spot of glamour if you’re looking for a bit of grown-up glitz. And that ribbed leather casing! Be still my beating heart…
Here’s the video – notebooks at the ready, because I pick my number one “what to buy” right at the end. You can find the collection (except the highlighter) at Selfridges.com here.
