Weekend Beauty - Products you can buy now

Lancome Teint Visionnaire Foundation Skin Perfecting Makeup Duo

This is a clever 2-in-1 product which features a perfecting foundation enriched with skin loving ingredients  to visibly improve the condition of skin. At the top of the bottle, a little lid flips back to reveal a high coverage corrector. This is a fairly rich, creamy corrector designed for use on dark spots, under the eyes and on any redness or blemishes.

Available now for £36.00


Smashbox Jet Set Waterproof Eyeliner

This is a gel-based, waterproof eyeliner. The clever thing about this eyeliner is that it stays 'blendable' for 60 seconds before drying. It is available in 6 different colours for £16.00 each.


Clinique Chubby Stick Shadow Tint for Eyes

If you love the chubby stick lip product, you'll love this too. Best used over a primer, these have a lovely creamy texture and come in 10 different colours for £16.00 each.


Maybelline Rocket Volum' Express Mascara

Maybelline are among the best when it comes to mascaras in my opinion. This mascara offers clump free volume thanks to the new brush design. Promising up to 8x more volume and an even coating on each lash, this is a steal at £5.99.


Enjoy!


Liz

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Diane von Furstenberg Autumn/Winter 2013 New York Fashion Week

I am a big fan of Diane von Furstenberg, not only because she creates beautiful, womanly clothing but because she has always been about empowering women. Her clothes have all the glamour of the seventies but with a clean, modern twist.

Some of my favourite outfits from the show...

Diane von Furstenberg Autumn/Winter 2013 at New York Fashion Week

The make-up for this show is my favourite from NYFW so far. James Kaliardos, who created the look for Diane described it as "Life is the party...how you get up in the morning, and feel great" which I think is the perfect description for this look. The pink lipstick is so vibrant and fun, and seems to suit every model regardless of hair or skin tone.

The whole look was created using MAC products. The lips were created by using MAC Chromographic Pencil in 'Magenta' all over the lip to give them that bold, matte colour - this isn't available in the UK but MAC's standard Lip Pencil also comes in Magenta. Face and Body foundation was applied lightly to the face, using a slightly different shade on the temple and cheekbones for that warm and 'real' skin appearance.

MAC products

For the eyes, MAC's eyeshadow in Omega was applied very lightly to the brow, and a highlighter was applied along the cheekbones to give skin radiance.

I really love this look. The clean and perfectly highlighted skin complimented the power lip perfectly, and the simplicity of the look allowed the lip to stand out without making the whole thing look too 'done'.

I hope you like this look too! I'll be featuring a few other Fashion Week looks on my blog so if there are any that you love and want to know how to recreate, leave me a comment!

Liz
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Dior Skin Forever Foundation Review

This foundation is by no means a 'new' product but I wanted to feature a review as I have been using it for a while now and think it is a really great foundation.

The best thing is about this foundation is how diverse it is. It is a fluid foundation which is really light when you first apply it, but gives great coverage and is easy to build up for more coverage or a full-face base. With a foundation brush, it blends in seamlessly and doesn't 'sit' on the skin like a lot of foundations do.

It has pretty good staying power even without a primer but does work well with a primer if you are worried about it slipping during the day or have oily skin.

It is SPF 25 which means you don't need to worry about applying sunscreen when you are wearing this and Dior say it is 'bursting with made-to-measure perfecting skin care ingredients'. I'm not sure how they can call it 'made-to-measure' since every bottle is the same except for the shade, but I will say that it has never broken me out or had any negative effect on my skin.

It's quite pricey at £31 per bottle, but one bottle seems to last a really long time and I wear foundation every day. You only need a little bit for flawless coverage and the pump action bottle means you can just pump out as much or as little as you need straight onto your foundation brush.

This is probably my favourite foundation at the moment, and has been for a year or so now despite trialling loads of newer ones so I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a new holy grail base.

Liz
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