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The Beauty Spotlight Team Plays Twenty Questions!
Exciting stuff, it's the beginning of a new fortnightly series for the Beauty Spotlight Team -- Twenty Questions!First we'll be popping over to Pammy's for various answers to questions both bloggy and...
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Suqqu EX-19 Touryokuzora Look 3
This one is due the kindness of readers, specifically AngerinDoll, who replied to my earlier post/plea with fantastic ideas for combinations with the copper-peach and bronze-taupe in this quad -- the...
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Shu Uemura Glitter Topcoats
Another entry in my 'enduring loves' series, I purchased most of these Shu Uemura shadows upon release back in June 2012 (which also features a pristine photo), and they've become absolute beauty...
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The Beauty Spotlight Team: Weekend Links
Even though Givenchy has a smaller holiday collection compared with other luxury brands, Mostly Sunny is head over heels with the three pieces she has! Come take a look at Ondulations d'Or, Rose...
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Sunday Sundries Nov 2013
It's been a bit of a frantic deadline pile-uppy week in my unbeautiful life, followed by an extremely lazy self-indulgent weekend, hence the lack of drivel. I'll be ready to embark next week on a...
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Back to Basics: Skincare Update 2013
Have you heard that old chestnut about faces changing a great deal between the ages of 28 and 30? It's something people who haven't seen me for about a year have been trotting out with fairly hilarious...
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ThanksNguyenving
So... work scuppering best laid blog plans blahblahblah as per blah. Instead of more promised Back to Basics posts (let's move them to next week? >.<), I have for you some highly unnecessary spam...
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The Beauty Spotlight Team: Getting to Know... Perilously Pale
This week, it's Christa's turn!I've 'known' Christa for years, long before either of us had a blog -- she was a fellow pale makeupalley regular and passionate beauty geek, who really knew her stuff...
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Back to Basics: Brows
Much like concealers, brow products are a pretty uninspiring category of makeup, to me at least -- the corrective, compensatory aspects of makeup have never particularly appealed, and endlessly...
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Suqqu, Simply
Owing to my recent focus on the back to basics stuff of skincare, base, brows and lashes (posts on base and lashes yet to come), and trying to take my time to apply those more mindfully than is my...
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Have you ever wondered if the Tom Ford Silvered Topaz Eye Color Quad is similar to his She Wolf Ombre Eye Color Trio? Well, Lola's Secret Beauty Blog is having a showdown between them!Carrie from...
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Back to Basics: Lashes
This post is not about mascaras -- I've written reviews on those before and no doubt more will be forthcoming, such is my fondness for sampling new formulas and such my apparently freakish ability...
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Ellis Faas Hot Lips L404 Fluo Pink
I adore the concept and aesthetic behind Ellis Faas' makeup line and have previously swatched the full ranges of eyeshadow and lip/cheek colours. If only to remind myself that even literal silver...
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Twenty Questions
It's my turn in the hotseat for The Beauty Spotlight Team's game of twenty questions, which will hopefully allow you to get to know us all a bit better, aside from our minutest preferences in eyeshadow...
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Face Stockholm Crème Blush: New York and Rhinebeck
Face Stockholm is a brand I remember fondly from my teens, when they had a few shops strewn around London; I used to pop into the Covent Garden branch for a bit of colour therapy on my way back from...
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Suqqu EX-19 Touryokuzora + Purples
Still plumming the depths (gedditgeddit?) of this holiday palette (originally reviewed/swatched here, further looks here, here and here) with the additions of some purple tones -- as suggested by...
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The Beauty Spotlight Team: Weekend Links
Ever on the quest for the perfect eye cream, Helen from Lola's Secret Beauty Blog has tried a staggering number, but has finally found the holy grail of holy grail eye creams in Radical Skincare Eye...
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Magazine Monday: VoCE (Chinese) January 2014
*mumble* it's still Monday somewhere, right? Oh, right, in my addled I'm-not-coming-down-with-the-flu-on-my-holidays-dammit brain.Let's get on with the scans! This issue of Chinese VoCE corresponds...
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The Beauty Spotlight Team: 20 Questions with Polish Insomniac
It's Jessika's week for 20 Questions from The Beauty Spotlight Team! Will she crack under the pressure? Is there a real person under all that glitter (and hair)? It's time to find out!
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Foundation Matches
It's been a full two years since my last post on this subject, which is absolute eons in base makeup terms according to my Japanese mags (in Japan, base makeup is reformulated and refreshed every...
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