Archive

Listed are the posts for June 2009.

Quick Tip

Here’s a few tips to keep your nails looking great! Look After Your Polish – Store your nail varnish in the fridge to help maintain its consistency. When painting, dip the brush into the polish once for each nail. When you dip it repeatedly air is forced into the varnish, which thickens it. Wipe the [...]


Facing Fashion

I am in love with this website, called fashionface.tv, and I can’t believe I didn’t come across it sooner. The site is run by sister team Nicola and Samantha and features a huge range of tutorials, from applying the right base to copying celebrity looks. My favourite section is ‘Rewind’, full of vintage style makeup [...]


Easy Squeezy

Isn’t it annoying when you get to the bottom of a toothpaste tub, lip-gloss or other beauty product in a tube, and you just can’t get the last remaining smidgen of product from the bottom. A new tube has been developed which uses airless technology. This means that you always get 100% of the product [...]


Wedding Belle

Most girls sends half their life fantasising about looking beautiful on their wedding day. It is important that you make the right choices in makeup for that incredibly special day. Make special consideration and plan carefully. You want to look glamorous and beautiful for this special day while, at the same time, you want to [...]


Cosmetic Candy Loves Neo Strata

The lovely Rowena at Cosmetic Candy recently tried out out Neo Strata Bionic Cream and she loves it for her occasionaly dry skin. In her review she states “this is a really really good cream. Its one of those that just work. My pores appeared smaller and my skin felt hydrated. Most creams will make [...]


Bronze Medal

I love Lisa Eldridge, the gorgeous make-up artist is probably best known for her work on Ten Years Younger. In this clip she gives her tips for using bronzer.


Starry Eyed

A Belgian father has gone to the police after his daughter wrongly had 56 stars tattooed on her face. The girl, Kimberley Vlaminck, 18, claimed that she asked for three stars to be tattooed near her left eye as a present from her father, Diego, who was upholding a family tradition of tattoos. She claims [...]


Eat This…

…Nettle Tea! The common Stinging Nettle, Latin name Urtica Dioica, may be most widely known for causing painful and itchy rashes on country walks, but it has a much better use. It has traditional medicinal properties which have been valued for centuries and it also has a pleasant taste. Nettles contain a number of important [...]


Crash and Burn

This stateside invention is surely an accident waiting to happen. It’s a hair straightener, called the TS2 Nomad Mobile Flat Iron, which plugs directly into the cigarette lighter of your car. Cue idiots trying to iron their hair while cruising the motorway. At worst, you’re going to run someone over or crash and kill yourself, [...]


Quick Tip – Hayfever

If you are a hayfever sufferer it’s always a good idea to keep some medication nearby. However, life isn’t always that planned out. We can’t always get to the pharmacy. So, if you find yourself sniffing and sneezing and need some instant relief then try this little trick. Apply vaseline to the entrance of nostrils. [...]


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