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Magazine Monday: Maquia October 2013
I tend to cycle between the 'big three' Japanese beauty magazines: Biteki, usually my favourite, has been leaving me rather cold of late, and I feel like my usual second choice Voce has been seriously...
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THREE 4D Eye Palette Stash Swatch
After years of dropped hints and broken promises, finally I haz swatched my collection (currently five and counting) of THREE's 4D Eye Palettes. This will function as the master post which I'll update...
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The Beauty Spotlight Team: Weekend Links
After being overwhelmed by the size of her makeup stash, Helen from Lola's Secret Beauty Blog decided to launch a new blog series called Project Make-A-Dent to force her to use up more of her makeup....
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Shiseido Eye Colour Bar
Shiseido's Eye Colour Bar is a nine-pan limited edition palette released for Holiday. And ridiculous as it feels to me to be reviewing holiday collections already, I am as usual many steps behind those...
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Suqqu Bright Up Lipstick Swatches and 02 Hanabeni Closeup
"Bright Up"is Suqqu's new pigmented lipstick line, launched for Summer 2013 to replace my beloved "Creamy Glow" formula (previous drivel here and here). The sheer line is still called "Creamy Glow...
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The Beauty Spotlight Team: Prime Beauty's Top Products for Big Hair!
Prime Beauty's is wrapping up our "My Top" series with 8 hair styling products to pump up the volume in your hair. See what she chose to get BIG hair!
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State of the Stash: The Season in Review
To bookend my Autumnal Anticipations post, here's a rough accounting of my makeup ins and outs -- acquisitions and evictions -- of the season. Also because my makeup 'empties' pile keeps growing, with...
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After Magazine Monday
What comes after Magazine Monday? Testing Tuesday! The techniques I'm testing here come from a Magazine Monday post from several weeks ago, on Maquia's October 2013 issue, so perhaps tenuous or...
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By Terry 9 Royal Navy Crayon Khol Terrybly
As I've writtenbefore about the drugstore-dupeability of By Terry's lovely but seriously overpriced Ombre Blackstars, you would be fully justified in asking what the hell I was thinking buying a new...
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Beauty Spotlight Team Weekend Links
Lisamarie from Beauty Crazed and Stila want to help you colour outside the lines for the holiday by winning a Stila Colour Outside the Lines Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner set - contest is open...
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Technique-Testing Tuesday: 45º Diagonal Makeup
Do two posts constitute a series? If so, here's another Testing Tuesday, featuring another look from Maquia magazine, this time from the September 2013 issue, very kindly scanned and shared by the...
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Diego Dalla Palma AW 2013 Scissor Sister Collection Review, Swatches
***This post features samples sent for review; as always my opinions are entirely my own and stated in full.***Diego Dalla Palma is an Italian brand founded in the 1970s, and often called the MAC of...
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Beauty Spotlight Team: Beauty Crazed...for Blue!
Once Lisamarie from Beauty Crazed starts writing (bad) poetry, you know it's time to put an end to our favourites lists - so please tolerate this last one from her and at least know that you have our...
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Dancing With Diego
A look-dump post featuring the items from Diego Dalla Palma's AW 2013 collection reviewed and swatched here.Look 1. Wear all teh things!Smooth Eyeshadow 165 Storm Violet as a one-shade smokey eye --...
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Angling For More? 45º In Brief
Worry not, this will be far less testing (of your patience) than the last diagonal epic ;)Another small panel from the September Maquia's 45º angled makeup feature caught my eye, as it provides a...
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Very Berry
This post was to go up as a (wordless) Wednesday swatch round-up, but my schedule is so crazy at the moment I'm writing it at 4am on a Saturday :D I've always thought bubble tea had negligible caffeine...
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The Beauty Spotlight Team Weekend Links
If you love vampy lips, and you love twist-up lip crayons- then say hi to the new kid in town! Lola's Secret Beauty Blog is smitten with Surratt Automatique Lip Crayon in Mahogany- it's a stunning...
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Suqqu EX-19 Touryokuzora Christmas Set B
For Holiday, Suqqu again released two limited edition quads in coffrets, the details of which you can find on Rouge Deluxe. As I dislike Suqqu skincare, find their mascaras either mediocre or...
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Suqqu EX-19 Touryokuzora Look 2
For swatches/details of the Suqqu quad, click here.Happy Tentative Tuesday! In which you can see how my frivolous brain works in coalescing some recent influences: 1. Again, that Maquia 45º tute from...
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Guerlain Reflex Rouge Automatique from Crazy Paris Holiday Collection
I am crazy about Guerlain lip products -- the very first post on this blog, back in 2011, includes my purchase of Rouge G in Girly. Rouge Automatiques have numbered among my favourite lip formulas ever...
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