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Thursday, 10 July 2014

Max Factor Wild Shadow Pencil 2-in-1 Gel Shadow and Liner - super soft, light and highly blendable

Max Factor Wild Shadow Pencil
10 Fierce Lime 
Max Factor Wild Shadow Pencil
05 Caramel Rage 

The Max Factor Wild Shadow Pencil is a new 2-in-1 combined Gel Eye Shadow and Eye Liner. The Max Factor gel formula, an alternative to powder, is super soft, light and highly blendable. It allows a fluid application of the eight highly pigmented eye shadow/liner colours. The pencil is for precision along the lower lash line and the inside waterline of the eye also. It should be sharpened for extra, buildable colour and definition. Caramel Rage, Fierce Lime, Vicious Moss, Untamed Pink, Savage Silver, Bold Sapphire, Brazen Gold and Blue Ice Fury. The range of eight colours is an array, each one an unusual take on grey, green, brown and number 40 Brazen Gold is a superb, golden corn yellow. You will find the number of each colour just under the pencil cap in small print. These superb colours are metallic and very current, providing a seasonal Summer finish. 

Colour number 10 Fierce Lime is a light, I think, apple green. 15 Vicious Moss is a light silver grey with a hint of khaki. 25 Savage Silver is a much darker smoky grey, an ideal colour for night time - it’s dramatic. Number 05 Caramel Rage is a classic, neutral brown, and an excellent, wearable daytime shade. Each colour blends beautifully and smoothly across the lower lash line and the eyelids. The Max Factor Wild Shadow Pencil is not available in black. Extend the stayability of this light colour gel formula by using a shadow primer on the eyelids but I found this optional. This pencil is as excellent an eye shadow as it is an eye liner although it is not waterproof. It is opthalmologically tested for safe use or allergies around the delicate eye area. Colour eye shadow and liner in one, the Max Factor Wild Shadow Pencil 2-in-1 Gel Shadow and Liner in eight unique shades - £5.99 (9G). Available online or at Boots and most high street stockists. The Max Factor Wild Shadow Pencil 2-in-1 Gel Shadow and Liner - another evolution in the technology of beauty.


Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Bio-Oil - an expert product


Bio-Oil £8.95 60ml

With its vital skin building ingredients, Bio-Oil is a multi-tasking, in my opinion, wonder product. It is described as specialist skincare for scars, stretch marks, uneven skin tone - also known as ‘pigmentation’ (often an after-effect on the skin of beauty treatments), aging skin and dehydrated skin on the face and the body – an agenda set by other oil-based skincare products. A lovely pink fluid, Bio-Oil is a most pleasant beauty product. The scent is of the nourishing natural plant oils it contains - calming lavender at first and then invigorating and mildly antiseptic rosemary, skin cell renewing calendula (or marigold) and chamomile which cares for sensitive skin. This oil is supplemented with Vitamin A for elasticity, tone and skin texture, and moisturizing Vitamin E, two key skincare vitamins. Bio-Oil is non-greasy. It doesn’t accidentally stain your clothing. It contains a breakthrough ingredient Purcellin Oil which reduces the thickness of the oil and ensures more efficient absorption to the second layer of the skin where Bio-Oil performs its various amazing functions in skincare. For it’s entire agenda, see the human body visual accompanying this post below.

Stretch marks are not a result of the skin expanding when we gain weight. Stretch marks happen when the skin surface reduces again. Bio-Oil treats stretch marks and also the sagging skin stretch marks can leave behind. It rehabilitates the skin with its skin building ingredients and it reduces the possibility of stretch marks again. I applied Bio-Oil to vague stretch marks on my upper right thigh and the moisture it provided made them instantly disappear. Proving an incredible efficacy after just two weeks, read details of a Bio-Oil stretch mark study here. It is suggested you use Bio-Oil for a minimum of three months. As a treatment for dehydrated skin on the face, I found Bio-Oil instantly smoothed and adequately moisturized. It is suggested you use your regular daily moisturiser with Bio-Oil for optimum glow. I now gently apply Bio-Oil as often as possible to my throat and neck, especially at night as a rejuvenating treatment. You will find this area needs specialist care. It ages more rapidly because of repeated head movements and all year round exposure to the sun, the most aging factor of all, although Bio-Oil does not contain a Sun Protection Factor. As an overall body moisturiser, it is intensive. I moisturise my stomach in particular and my arms and shoulders especially. And the Bio-Oil effect? In one word, it’s excellent.

Bio-Oil is tested for allergies, it’s preservative-free, suitable for sensitive skin, and is not tested on animals. 60ml £8.95. 125ml £14.95. 200ml £19.95. Available from Boots, Superdrug, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons, Savers, and independent pharmacies nationwide. Find more information on Facebook where product users testify to the efficacy of Bio-Oil and its many uses - https://www.facebook.com/biooiluk Bio-Oil is an expert product.


Bio-Oil - a guide


Saturday, 14 June 2014

Makeup by Aaron de Mey/Model Lindsey Wixson

Model Lindsey Wixson Makeup by Aaron de Mey
In the following paragraph, Aaron de Mey describes changing and advancing the technology of makeup through beauty - DC
“It’s about me creating references and a lot of research. It’s about me inspiring the scientists and the laboratories. It’s about me inspiring the whole creativity. My definition of a makeup artist is bringing a sensitivity and a strong sensibility of beauty and femininity, really embracing the woman’s face and me not layering over a mass. It’s about me indulging a woman and taking something from her and being inspired by her…so that’s my job. It’s about creating beautiful textures and very new technologies within makeup and a general overall aesthetic” - Aaron de Mey, Makeup Artist - biography

Thursday, 22 May 2014

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Lacoste L!VE - an excellent scent for men

Lacoste Live Eau de Toilette £45 100ml

Presented in a blue flacon or bottle, it’s a glass cube with red graphics on white, and a white plastic cap – the newest fragrance from Lacoste, Lacoste L!VE for men. A most modern cube in shape, memorable, “an unexpected object”, Lacoste says, and the bold, primary colours outline their latest concept. Lacoste wanted a dynamic scent which generates energy in an urban setting with primary colours sparking creativity. The top note in Lacoste L!VE, the scent you first smell, is of lime, something fruity and balanced given depth by green leaves, aquatic notes, Guaiac wood and dark liquorice.

A male friend tested this fragrance and described it first as sporty and then as refreshing, a description which is closer to Lacoste’s original sports profile than the newer concepts behind this scent suggest. To me it smells fresh. The bold red, white and blue Lacoste L!VE colours mimic the look of sports clothing too - Rene Lacoste was the 1920’s French Grand Slam tennis star who first designed the tennis or polo shirt.

You may have seen the Lacoste L!VE TV advert featuring two young men, one a renowned graffiti artist Zoer, creating a life size 3D Lacoste L!VE environment. Launched in April 2014 at the Lacoste Desert Pool Party in California, other artists were invited to interpret the blue cube flacon on site and online. The hashtags #newfragrance and #newperspective will be used during a Lacoste social media digital campaign from July 2014 to mid-September 2014, inviting the public to share their photos on Instagram. See the signature Lacoste crocodile - such a classic French brand.

Lacoste L!VE Eau de Toilette 100ml £45/69 Euros. Lacoste L!VE Eau de Toilette 40ml £29/41 Euros. There is a Lacoste L!VE deodrant spray, deodrant stick and shower gel for men available from Lacoste boutiques in the UK and abroad. 


Thursday, 1 May 2014

Japonesque Pro Performance Lip Lacquer - a polished, glossy lip colour in eight fantastic shades

Japonesque Pro Performance Lip Lacquer
Japonesque Pro Performance Lip Lacquer
Shade 04

First, you notice the extra thick application so apply this formula sparingly, the Japonesque Pro Performance Lip Lacquer, a product I selected from the brand new Japonesque makeup line. This new makeup line complements an already existing, highly established range of professional, backstage makeup tools – Japonesque backstage makeup brushes are legendary. For a high shine, ‘lacquered’ finish, five out of five for coverage and it’s volumising  – a thick, non-sticky, polished, glossy lip colour in eight fantastic shades, including an ultra vibrant warm red (Shade 07) and a Japonesque peach (Shade 01). The Shade 04 I tested is a dark rose pink with a very natural, almost nude rose effect when worn. The wand applicator in a rectangular casing with pink marbled plastic in the design, enables accuracy and precision with its firm, exact, tapered brush, so professional a brush you know it’s Japonesque. The enriched formula hydrates and softens lips. It’s a long lasting colour. Layer this lip lacquer to increase lip volume. Available in all eight excellent Japonesque shades from Ulta.com 5ml $20 or £15 at selected John Lewis stores (Oxford Street, Kingston, Cardiff) and from JohnLewis.com 


Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Kenzo Spring/Summer 2014 White Liner by Aaron de Mey


Kenzo
Spring/Summer 2014
Makeup Artist Aaron de Mey
Hair by Anthony Turner for L'Oreal Professionel

“The makeup was crisp, gleaming, and sharp like the white-tipped crest of a wave. We went with white eyeliner - MAC Pure White Acrylic Paint - instead of punk’s usual black - and used an angled synthetic brush to draw a thin line. I applied the colour starting at the center of the lid and drew the line to the very outer corner of the eye, restarting it again at the inner-eye corner, and tracing the lash line to meet the center point."  
          Aaron de Mey, Makeup Artist.   
Aaron de Mey interview about the look he created for the Kenzo Spring/Summer 2014 runway show.

Monday, 31 March 2014

i-D magazine Spring 2014 Front Cover Model - Daria Werbowy


i-D magazine Spring 2014
The Creative Issue
Cover Star Model Daria Werbowy
Photography by Karim Sadli
Styling Alastair McKimm
Coat by Calvin Klein
Hair Jimmy Paul at Susan Price NYC
Makeup Hannah Murray for Topshop Beauty

"Her body isn't plausible and her face doesn't fit the mould. She isn't a model...she's a supermodel".
          Read the interview -
http://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/read/interviews/2121/come-as-you-are?utm_source=idfb
Not only does i-D fashion and beauty make everything look different, it dictates and alters the entire industry and has done since the early to mid-Nineties. Come as you are - nearly natural - DC



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