Liner Love

Meet my new friend; the Max Factor lip pencil. It's smooth, deep, long lasting.... all the best properties one could look for in a friend, and a lip liner as it happens!

I've been using the Cognac shade over the weekend and I love it. It's like a silkier and less orange MAC Spice liner. The texture is so smooth and deeply pigmented that it is almost like a lipstick, so fill in your entire lip with it, add a tiny amount of gloss or balm for added moisture and you're good to go.

I'm sure we'll be friends for some time...

Long Weekend

Hello my dears, forgive me for the lack of posting so far this week. We had a bank holiday weekend therefore no work on Monday and I extended my long weekend by an extra day yesterday! I had a great few days with a dear friends birthday party on Saturday night followed by long forest walks and winter-y roast dinners.

Hope you had a good one too...

*the winner of the Friday Freebie is Joy*

The Friday Freebie

This is Tempting Teal by Revlon. It's one of their fabulous matte shadows that have the unusual and welcome feature of being easy to blend. For years, people have shied away from matte shadows as they tend to stick and grab onto the skin, not these little beauts...

I use all their dark smoky tones in my kit and love how they glide on to the skin.

You know what to do....comment below.

Happy Weekend Darlings!

EmersonMade

Some of you may remember that I posted about the marvellous EmersonMade from the US some months ago. They have expanded their products from mainly accessories into a full on clothing line, and guess what? I'm loving it!

I think it's their take on the classics that I like so much; me being a bit of a classic French girl wannabe...

This is their Eggplant shift dress, I love how they have accessorised with the tan belt and clutch...

This navy jacket with heavy gold buttons is really rocking my world today...

...as is this shot. I've developed quite the style crush on EmersonMade!

Waiting for Lanvin

I'm so excited and can hardly bear it. Lanvin and H&M are the most eagerly awaited fashion collaboration of the year. If not the decade. With so much secrecy around the collection and the clothes themselves edited from the promotional video with Alber Elbaz, there was a collective squeek of giddiness from bloggers and fashion eds alike when this shot was leaked.

It looks so exciting and Lanvin-esque. Perfect black, great silhouettes and lot's of leg.

It hits here on November 23rd.

Only 32 more sleeps!

A Posh Powder

This is my current powder craze. It's the Phyto Poudre compact by Sisley. Now, firstly I must warn you - it's not cheap. In fact it's very expensive for a powder. Secondly however, it is gorgeous.

It contains lot's of luxe ingredients that other powders don't such as camellia oil and extracts of mallow and linden. It also has silicone for that easy glide on feel. My skin looks really smooth and perfected after I use it and it has a slight, slight sheen too which I love as totally matte powders are cakey, awful and dull-making in my opinion (are you listening MAC studio fix fans?!)

I'm also a sucker for the packaging, which I'm not normally but I feel very on-trend this season when I whip it out!

I don't advocate spending this much money on powder in general; there are fantastic powders out there at a more accessible price point such as those by L'Oreal or MAC so go where your budget allows....

But it is nice to have something luxurious from time to time isn't it!

Due to it's enormous price (€75!) it's one for the Santa list methinks...

Treasure Trove

I went to explore the new INGLOT store in the Dundrum centre yesterday and was lost in makeup for quite some time. I have used some of this Polish brands products before and indeed nominated their freedom system palette for the Prudence Beauty Awards this year too. But previously I hadn't really spent any time at a counter to get the true vibe of the brand.

It's a lot to take in at once; there is a kaleidescope of wonderful colours in a great range of textures. It's the expanse of colour that takes you over initially, I didn't spend half enough time playing with the base products as I was so taken in by the dizzying array of shades.

The lipsticks come in varying textures; matte, sheer, shimmer, gel and in every shade you can imagine. I loved 264 - nude, 165 - slightly frosted natural tone, 136 - gorgeous shimmery russet, 401 - cool matte coral ( v Cheryl Cole!)

Their lip paints come in little pots exactly like the NARS ones. Shades 51 and 52 are basic naturals that should be in everyones makeup collection.

I was very interested in the cream blushers. I am extremely critical in this category as I think most brands cant get enough pigment to make a difference or enough creaminess to give a glow yet not end up in an oily mess. INGLOT get it right; the blushers are very similar to my desert island product - the Convertible Colours by Stila - and I am delighted to find a stand in for them.

The eyeshadows are superb, the textures divine. I took away three shades that I know will be used to death in my kit! They are shades 402, 402 and 435. All three have a slight sheen but not too much and they are in the mushroom-y brown family that I'm loving this season with a brick red lip.

There is so much to talk about in this brand but I think the very best element is their prices! The most expensive product is €25! Now, that's what I call beautiful!

If I were you, I'd be sharpening your elbows and storming the counter this Saturday! I for one will be a regular there and you'll see more of it here that's for sure...