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This is a collaboration between me and Shino. Shino is a dear friend of mine, a fashionista and a lovely young man. He’s a fashion blogger and he have an amaaazing blog that covers runways and stuffs related to fashion. Today, we’re collaborating an inspired look based on the Proenza Shoulder Spring 2010 rtw. Check his part out right HERE or at shinosjournal.com/

For makeup, the look is very fresh, very dewy and youthful. Face is clean and skin is showing through, not much going on, very subtle and neutral. Some have stronger eyes than others, some have just a wash of colours on the eyes, some have stronger brows, others have bleached brows, some have no lipstick, some have nude others have a little bit of gloss

I’m doing an inspired look, not trying to copy the look exactly.

The look is pretty dewy, so those of you who’re interested, you can mix MAC Strobe cream with your foundation. I don’t know where I put my strobe cream..lol..prolly in my makeup kit.

Descriptions under each photo

Products used:

Foundation – MAC Mineralized cream foundation

Eyeshadow Primer – MAC Bare Study Paint pot

Eyeshadows – MAC Ricepaper, MAC Bronze

Highlighter – MAC Mineralized skinfinish duo

Blush – Benefit Dallas

Mascara- Dior Iconic

Eyebrows – Anastasia brow wiz

Other products: MAC Fix Spray

Filed under: Makeup Trends, makeup tutorials, Runway inspired Look, Spring Tagged: bronze, proenza runway look 2010, proenza spring 2010, spring makeup

Hey there,

Thought i’d do a random post on a new brand – Space.NK are teaming up with ‘Lime Crime‘, a fun and unique U.S. makeup brand! ’So Bright, It’s Illegal!’ is their tagline, and i couldn’t agree more. One look at the homepage of the website, and i knew i was in for a crazy ride.

At the moment, all that’s for sale on the online store are lipsticks and glitter pigments but, you can see a fuller range of products if you pop into Space.NK in April, which is when they’re being launched. I’ll do a mini post when it’s officially launched as soon as i know

Now, the website raves about how highly pigmented their products are, and in the ‘makeup tips’ section, they say most of the reason why some eyeshadows don’t look good on and why they crease is because they’re low quality, as opposed to their high quality pigments/eyeshadows which is completely true!

From what i can see on the ‘Lime Crime‘ site, the eyeshadows are called ‘magic dust‘ and with each colour comes a enchanted/fairy themed name and story to go with it.

For example, a gorgeous coppery-orangey magic dust called ‘cleopatra‘ has this story to go with it:

Eighteen year old Cleopatra is banished from Egypt. To sneak back into her castle, she devises a brilliant plan. She is rolled inside a golden rug – a supposed gift for visiting Caesar – and smuggled inside by her faithful servant. Once in Caesar’s quarters, servant unrolls the rug to reveal the stunning Cleopatra. Caesar is impressed; not only is Cleopatra bold and cunning, but also undeniably beautiful – much more so than the rug she arrived in. By morning, Caesar pronounces Cleopatra the Queen of Egypt, and the couple begins their scandalous affair which will change history forever.

The one i’ve set my eyes on is ‘fairy wings’ magic dust. The story goes something like this…

Fiona was ashamed of them. She hid them under her shirt, tucked them behind a bra, and even tried to bind them against her body. If anyone else had them, they weren’t this big. Such were her thoughts when she heard plaintive cries of a kitten and horrified gasps coming from a crowd. The house was engulfed in flames with the kitten perched on a pipe on the third floor, as the helpless owners stood beneath. As the neighborhood looked on, Fiona unfurled her wings for the first time. As she descended with the rescued kitten in her arms, she knew there was no shame in being a fairy.

The ‘magic dusts’ retail at $12, so i’m guessing they’ll be around £8-£9 here. And the lipstick – don’t get me started on them! They retail at $16, so i think they’ll be around £11-£12. Ranging from bright blue to lilac to pastel pink to striking red, there isn’t a crazy colour you can’t find here! My favourite so far is ‘Centrifuchsia’ (pictured to the right) with this lil’ story:

She sighed and scribbled more notes in her lab book. Calina was absolutely determined to find the answers hidden in these samples. Modern scientific advancements had accomplished many glorious things– bioluminescent lanterns lit the town in an array of gorgeous hues, hologram clothing and jewelry provided anyone and everyone with the most glamourous means of self-expression, and unicorns danced gleefully through meadows and city parks. Yes, with a fragment of DNA recovered from a sample preserved in a glittering glacier, scientists had reintroduced unicorns to the world! But now they were suffering from a mysterious genetic anomaly. She fired up the shiny Centrifuchsia 3000 (even the lab equipment was aesthetically pleasing these days) and got back to work….

Overall, i’m fascinated by this wonderfully unique brand, and i’ll definitely by buying and trying it at Space.NK this April!

Until then, check out their website at : http://www.limecrimemakeup.com/

And you can also check out the Space.NK website at : http://www.spacenk.co.uk/

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Tamara

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Hey there,

Okay, so after Tamara became obsessed with the Shu Uemura eyelash curler, I decided to go out and buy one myself (click on the space nk link  in the box on the left->).

I thought that i should do a review of the curlers too – a second opinion can’t hurt…

Oh my lord – it is hard to describe the true amazingness of these eyelash curlers. My eyelashes practically reach my eyebrows and thats without mascara. Today i had 7 compliments about the length of my eyelashes and all i had on them was 1 layer of collection 2000 mascara. The curl also holds for hours – I curled my lashes at 7am and was still getting compliments at 5pm.

I really do swear that these curlers are miracle workers, but with any eyelash curler people ALWAYS end up with an obvious line where the curling happened and this extremelly annoyed me so I made it my task to find away of not getting this crimp mark.

Now I know that it’s less obvious you’ve used a curler (and you get longer lashes) the closer to your eyelid but your lashes to change shape so the line will be obvious somewhere.

When you curl your eyelashes instead of just holding them still, (shu umera ones need 5ish) you should open and close the curlers repeatedly for about double the time. Okay, so it may take just a few seconds longer but the results really are visible. Your lashes will look more natural yet still sky-high at the same time.  This technique is used by the best makeup artists too, and is one of my favourite tips.

Here’s a link where you can buy them online at Space.NK : Shu Uemura Curlers

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Charlotte

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When a smaller, indie company treats us poorly, we tend to avoid doing business with that company, even after just one bad experience. Why is it that when a large company doesn’t value our business, we keep running back?

I have had bad experience after bad experience with Sephora over the years, mostly amounting to complete lack of customer service at my local store (there’s nothing like being completely ignored by all employees on the floor when the store is virtually empty), but it was so easy to walk in and browse when I was already at the mall. Only recently did I start having a more positive experience after I explained, in detail, how poor the customer service is at my local store via the standard online after-purchase survey. I thought things were turning around, and I was feeling better about shopping there.

At my last visit, I came across some eyeliner pencils I hadn’t seen before, the Sephora Nano pencils. They’re smaller, like the mini Urban Decay 24/7s that come in sets, come in quite a few colors (greens and blues, yay!), and are a relatively small investment at $5 each. They seemed just perfect for someone like me, someone who loves playing with color but doesn’t get to wear makeup often and probably won’t ever use up a full-size green eyeliner pencil.

One problem: there were no ingredient listings on the pencils.

Or the display.

Or sephora.com when a couple employees went looking for me.

With my petroleum allergy it is extremely important I confirm I’m not painting mineral oil around my eyes before I find out the hard way – via burning hives and blistering. So I thought I’d contact their customer service via the website contact form. The page states they will respond “within 24-48 hours,” so I figured, why not? And on March 1st, I fired off an email.

Two days came and went. Two weeks came and went.

I searched my inbox, my spam folders, everywhere. I was still getting Beauty Insider emails though, so maybe it was something else. I wondered if I had typed the wrong email address.

On March 20th, I visited the contact page, intent on sending another email. My email address auto-filled from Firefox thanks to my previous visit to the contact page, and it came up correct, to my concern; that meant that my first email had been ignored. I sent another message.

Then I waited. A week. And received nothing. Again.

I sent this message on March 26th around 9:10pm (GMT-5), with a different email provider for my contact information:

I am requesting a copy of the ingredients lists for the Sephora Nano Eyeliner Pencils. I have requested the ingredients previously, but I unsure if they were filtered out by my spam filter as I have not received a response. Thank you.

Unfortunately, listening to someone prattle off a number of chemicals over the phone eliminates the possibility of using Sephora’s 1-877 number, and calling said number to ask someone to email me seems redundant.

Also unfortunate: it’s March 31st and I still haven’t received any response.

Filed under: Miscellaneous Tagged: Review, Sephora