L’Oreal Color Riche Lipstick

Crazy Fuchsia 370 

L’Oreal Color Riche tested in Crazy Fuchsia 370 is a lush shade of highly glossy dark pink lipstick for light brunettes from the Made For Me range, a feature of its difference from other lipsticks. The casing is glamorous in silver gold. Enriched with moisturizing Vitamin E and nourishing omega 3 oils, L’Oreal Color Riche is a favourite high shine lipstick, enhanced with light-reflecting waxes. Another cosmetics success from the world’s largest cosmetics company. Other shades are available to enhance your own natural colouring. £8.19. Available from Boots stores nationwide.

Dunhill Custom Eau de Toilette For Men

Dunhill Custom Eau de Toilette For Men

Dunhill Custom as described by Dunhill, the designer menswear, leather goods and accessories company, is “a perfectly tailored fragrance” for men. Designed for the individual, and accompanying the Dunhill fashion line, Dunhill Custom is a fragrance in a square glass flacon that has weight and a cap that can be customized using the Dunhill Monogram service available at www.dunhill.com. Containing English Pippin Apple, Cedarwood and Spicy Black Pepper, Dunhill Custom is “a head-turning scent”, and “a scent that really suited me”, as tried by Mr Peter Andrews. With over one hundred years experience, Dunhill Custom by Dunhill is a covetable product. Eau de Toilette 50ml £42.00. Eau de Toilette 100ml £54.00. Launched exclusively at Harrods.

Japonesque Pro Brow/Lash Comb

Precision crafted with a wooden handle designed for a weighty in-hand feel, the JAPONESQUE Pro Brow/Lash Comb with natural bristles creates a fuller, groomed looking eyebrow in tune with current trends created by beauty professionals backstage at the international runway shows who are known to favour JAPONESQUE beauty tools. Less inclined to pluck your eyebrows as a result of using this brow/lash comb, you will find the eyebrow’s natural shape is enhanced, while the lash comb expertly separates lashes after the application of mascara. For professionally shaped, separated and defined eyebrows and eye lashes, find the JAPONESQUE Pro Brow/Lash Comb online at www.japonesque.com $12. JAPONESQUE beauty tool tutorials are available to view online.

Max Factor Miracle Touch Creamy Blush

14 Soft Pink

The advantage of cream blusher over powder blusher is its finish. Applied to bare skin or over a foundation, its cream texture beautifies the complexion. Max Factor Miracle Touch Creamy Blush in 14 Soft Pink, a warm pink, is not much bigger than a 10p coin. It appears small at first but containing an expert amount of colour, it’s the best cream blusher I’ve ever used particularly for Summer days when the skin is more naturally radiant. Preferably blend with a blusher brush to perfect coverage and to complement your own colouring choose also from 03 Soft Copper, 07 Soft Candy, 09 Soft Murano. £6.99. A rosy tone that lasts all day. Available from Boots or order online at www.maxfactor.co.uk

Max Factor Miracle Touch Creamy Blush Update 19 February 2013  

After I posted this review in September 2012, the product was used

extensively a month later in October 2012 during the Spring/Summer 2013

runway shows to create a number of looks that are current. Makeup Artist

and Max Factor Global Creative Design Director Pat McGrath used the 

Max Factor Creamy Blush in Soft Copper and in Soft Pink at the Stella 

McCartney and Givenchy shows and at Versace, Bottega Veneta, 

Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino. "I haven't seen this much blush since 

the nineties", she says, "and it's good to see it back!". 

JAPONESQUE Retractable Lip Brush

The JAPONESQUE Retractable Lip Brush is a technically advanced lip brush designed with a precision tip so accurate it completely erases the need for lip liner. Its synthetic fibre tip tapers to a point so fine it's the ultimate in precision, mistake-free lipstick application and as you fill in lines and small crevices, it lends a fuller look to the lips.

As a retractable lip brush, it reduces to travel size and fits in your handbag. In the lightweight pen format, it glides open and closes with a satisfying click as it retracts to completely cover the lip brush inside. A superior product, consider this my new makeup bag staple. Order online at www.japonesque.com $14. JAPONESQUE beauty tool tutorials are available to view online.

Dr Organic Organic Rose Otto Night Cream

Dr Organic Organic Rose Otto Night Cream

Like the Dr Organic Manuka Honey Rescue Cream reviewed previously, Dr Organic Organic Rose Otto Night Cream is free from petrochemicals and artificial preservatives including parabens and sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) that strip the skin causing long-term damage. Using only organic and natural ingredients in its products, and the latest scientific methods of extraction, this ecologically-conscious beauty range fulfils the aims of its products I think. 

The Dr Organic Organic Rose Otto Night Cream anti-ages instantly. Working specifically when applied overnight, I found it brightened the appearance of the skin to reveal a natural, moisturized glow. Penetrating  the subcutaneous layers of the epidermis, lowering trans dermal dehydration, and stimulating new fibroblasts - cells that synthesize collagen, the skin’s vital proteins - the health of my skin was revived during sleep. 

One of the most expensive and newly applied essential beauty oils, the Oil of Rosa Damascena contained in the Rose Otto Night Cream is renowned for its rejuvenating properties. It improves the skin's texture making it appear smoother, softer, younger. The rose oil combines with biologically active ingredients including Menyanthes Trifoliata, an aquatic plant clinically tested for its anti-aging properties. As a successful overnight cream, the Rose Otto Night Cream leaves the skin hydrated and nourished. One of my favourite recently found skincare ranges, Dr Organic is stocked exclusively at Holland and Barrett stores in the UK. £9.79 for 50ml. Available also to buy online. www.drorganic.co.uk

Dr Organic Organic Manuka Honey Rescue Cream

Dr Organic Organic Manuka Honey Rescue Cream

Free from petrochemicals, additives and artificial preservatives that strip the skin of valuable moisture causing long-term damage, Dr Organic Organic Manuka Honey Rescue Cream is a rich cream which rescues the skin in emergency conditions. Containing manuka, the healing honey of New Zealand and the Maori people, it is a hypoallergenic (tested against allergies), moisturising, nourishing, rejuvenating and soothing cream which can be used on dry skin, sun exposed skin, sensitive skin, irritated skin and allergic skin. It is, I found, particularly effective as an under eye moisturiser, an eye cream.

As a rescue cream, it repairs, restores and hydrates dry, cracked and damaged skin, enhancing natural cell regeneration and improving skin tone. Additionally, it contains Sweet Almond Oil, Beeswax, Zinc Oxide, Liquorice Root and the essential skin nutrient Vitamin E. Dr Organic Organic Manuka Honey Rescue Cream is a treasure of a product. 50ml for the incredibly reasonable price of £8.69. The Dr Organic range is stocked exclusively at Holland and Barrett stores in the UK. Available also to buy online. See the Dr Organic range at www.drorganic.co.uk

Boots No7 Poppy King Lipstick

  

Number Three Glamour
No7 Poppy King

Boots own brand No7 Poppy King Lipstick is a collaboration with Australian lipstick entrepreneur Poppy King. Producing an exclusive range of lipsticks intended to change women’s views of lip colour forever, this line involves the expertise of a woman whose other inventions include the invisible lip liner. 

Each shade in the No7 Poppy King Lipstick range is given a name and an idea by the designer - History, Power, Glamour, Seduction, Intrigue, Confidence, Allure. The colour I tested was Number Three Glamour, a dark pink in a highly covetable small, signed silver tube in a beautiful green polka dot and red box. Apply No7 Poppy King Lipstick straight from the tube, blot to set and then apply another coat. Build colour by dabbing on using feather strokes. These sheer, highly moisturizing colours are trans-seasonal, transferring from Winter to Summer easily unlike most.

Available from Boots nationwide. £12 for a 4g tube. View the range of colours at  www.boots.com