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Wooly Wednesday: Colourwork
As this neverending winter of our discontent shows no signs of letting up, my makeup review backlog is growing exponentially, the piled-up products to be swatched/photographed forming a prodigious...
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Chicca Enticing Lip Stain and Flush Blush: Review, Swatch, Comparison
Chicca [pronounced 'kicka'] is a Kanebo-owned Japanese high end brand founded by makeup artist Yasuo Yoshikawa [latest work]. I have come to think of it as RMK's big sis, aimed at slightly older,...
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Foolproof Face
Easter-induced sugar hangover and British Summer Time kicking in over the one day was a bit much for me to handle, so for this April Fool's Monday I reached for some of my current favourite foolproof...
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Kiko Long-Lasting Eyeshadow Sticks Swatches
A foolproof follow-up: swatches of my full collection (so far) of the delicious Kiko Long-Lasting Eyeshadow Sticks [original review].The black tubes are all from the core range, while the silver/white...
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Spring Magazines: FUDGE, SPUR, So-En
My favourite fashion seasons are the transitional ones of spring and autumn and March-May and September-November are the months for which I amass the largest piles of magazines. Today I finally had the...
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Shiseido Perfect Rouge RS347 Ballet and RD142 Sublime
Shiseido's Perfect Rouge formula was a thing of great and underrated beauty, let down by slightly awkward undertones which made most shades unwearable for me -- Dragon made it into last year's...
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Shiseido Night and Day
When playing with new acquisitions from a brand e.g. my new Shiseido Perfect Rouges [review/swatch] I often like to pair them with items I already own from that brand, while I get an early idea of what...
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Undereye Concealers -- Swatches and Reviewlets
Major base-geekery ahead. Seriously, there are nested footnotes.Quick recap of the story so far:I didn't so much have dark circles as an amorphous lowering zone of doom around my eye area (size varying...
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Les Merveilleuses Ladurée Cream Cheek Base 102
Older readers will know that my favourite blush colour is red, and in general I operate under the unspoken assumption that brighter is always better. The fevered macaque-butted clown-harlot aesthetic,...
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Friday Frivolity: Polish Stash
I was so inspired by cilucia's latest stash post, I'm going to steal the whole thing, including her first paragraph. ;) Real Life has been kicking my arse, and shows no signs of letting up, but I will...
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CLIO Reviewathon Part I
This post was originally going to start with the word "recently". Unfortunately my lackadaisicalness as a blogger means that I now have to begin "several moons ago...."So several moons ago, the lovely...
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CLIO Reviewathon Part II: Looks
See Part I for the reviews proper, swatches and comparisons of my Peach and Lily Clio haul.Apologies for the delay in getting this post together -- my laptop and I were caught in a tropical...
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Addiction x Jean-Michel Basquiat Soda Lunch
Every season there seems to be one particular collection that just nails the zeitgeist and pulls me back in to this makeup hobby. Since its 2009 launch, Kosé Addiction has consistently remained one of...
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Chanel Illusion D'Ombre Convoitise (and others)
Way back in Easter, I received a glorious surprise parcel from a European makeup fairy, and it included (along with far, far more treats than I deserve) the then-new-and-European-exclusive shade of...
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Mascara Colours: RMK Separate Curl Mascara N EX-01 Red
Even without the stimulus of a Chanel's L'Été Papillion collection, coloured mascaras are something I always flutter towards (and, er...with) come summer. Last year, a pair of YSL Singulier Nuit...
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Madame Flirte
A first-impressions look at Guerlain Rouge G Madame Flirte, one of three limited edition lipsticks in their autumn 2013 Violette de Madame collection.Packaging is the usual space tampon holder of doom,...
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Further Flirtations (Previews and a Poll)
Hello! I should be back to a more regular posting schedule now -- thanks for your patience and forbearance and other such biblical ences, and especially a big thank you to all those who emailed me...
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BLOGSALE
Here!Also, caaaaake.Being my very favourite lemon cake, crumbly-dense with syrup but still fluffy, lightly spiked with thyme, courtesy of Nigel Slater. Recipe [edited to add actual recipe, derp]Also...
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Jelly Season: Chicca Flush Blush 01 and 09
Let's kick off the Jellython with Chicca (pronounce 'kicka', remember, as mentioned in my original review, which includes details of finish, texture and what I've found to be the best application...
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Next Season... Autumnal Anticipations from Biteki Sept 2013
My spring/summer review pile is giving me major stink-eye (yes, it's so large and has been piled up so long it has now attained sentience), but la la la let's look forward to the next season's pretties...
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