Vintage Cosmetic Advertisements

I love viewing vintage advertisements; below I have put together a collection of classic vintage cosmetic advertisements – these would look beautiful framed and displayed in a bathroom or makeup room.

Source:

http://www.thesymmetricswan.com/2011/05/classic-beauty.html

Source: Yahoo Images

Source:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lvsutton/2920916309/

Source:

http://happygolovely.tumblr.com/post/1294892656/another-advertisement-for-old-south-toiletries

Source: Yahoo Images



Source:

http://bettysvintagemusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-refill-vintage-compact.html



NOTD - Ombre

Image source: The Beauty Department

Featured a while back at The Beauty Department, the ombre trend (the graduation of similar colours, light to dark) has been seen through fashion, hair and now nails.

To rid the “Winter Blues” I thought I would add a pop of colour onto my nails in the trend that is ombre.

I used a variety of pretty pink polishes to create this cute, colourful and fun look.

Nail Polishes

L-R: Nicole by O.P.I in Berry Sweet, Rokk96 in Candy Floss, Nail It! In Fruit Tingle, Nail It! (name unknown), O.P.I in Tutti Frutti Tonga.

Pretty Palettes

I love the convenience of a palette and these pretty palettes are next on my shopping wish list…

Catwalk I-Kit JK by Jemma Kid

Featuring an eye primer, two highlighters, five beautiful neutral shadows and a wet or dry eye liner or shadow.

$39.95(AUD) from Kit Cosmetics

Romance Set by NP Set

Create that “in love” glow with this complete makeup set containing 18 colourful eye shadows, 4 blushes and 4 lip glosses.

$39(AUD) from NP Set Cosmetics

Nars Blush Bronzer Trio

All of NARS must haves in one little palette: Orgasm blush, Albatross highlighter and Laguna Bronzer.

$55(USD) from Kiss and Makeup

Benefit Brow Zings

Create the perfect frame for your face with this palette. Contains a gel and powder to allow you to perfectly sculpt your brows.

$55(AUD) from Adore Beauty

Love Her Look – Blake Lively

This Gossip Girl hottie knows how to rock the natural beauty look. Blake uses oranges, nudes and lots of black voluminous mascara to accentuate her gorgeous good looks and glowy complexion.

 

All images sources from Google Images.

Napoleon Perdis Haul

I have always been a big fan on Aussie Make-up god, Napoleon Perdis and I hear he is doing great things in the US at the moment through tweets of people who loved the NP booth at LA IMATS.

Napoleon offers a great range of runway worthy makeup products that is fab quality but also falls within the mid to high price range – so when I discovered 20% off Napoleon Perdis products at Terry White Chemist on two occasions, I couldn’t help but grab a few bargains.

Mosaic Bronzing Powder

Love this matte bronzer - swirl your brush in the combinations of beiges and browns to create your perfect summer (or winter) sun kissed glow. Less is best, start off with a little, then slowly build to your desired glow.

NP Set Lip Gloss Compact in Vanuatu

Peachy, glossy and wearable what more could you want? Maybe tube packaging? As a free gift with purchase, I can’t be too picky, can I?

Auto Pilot Pre-foundation Skin Primer

As the great Napoleon Perdis said “Not to prime is a crime”. Love this primer as it makes my skin silky ready for a smooth make-up application.

Colour Disc in Irid Taupe

Love this as a crease colour or to lightly line my lower and upper lashes.

Colour Disc in Grape

Beautiful colour huh? Just not sure how I will wear it yet… any ideas?

Eye Patrol in Private Desert

Love my pinky gold base colours; this one has slight gold glitter that adds an added sparkle.

Swatches

L-R: Private Desert, Irid Taupe, Grape

June Favourites

It’s that time of the month again where I dig through all my favourite beauty products used within the month of June.

I apologise that I am a week or two late with this post (or with any or my other posts) I have been a little off lately but I’m hoping to get back into the swing of blogging soon xx.

Napoleon Perdis Mosaic Bronzing Powder

An oldie but a goodie, this matte bronzer has made it’s way into my everyday makeup routine as I use it to lightly dust all over for a sun kissed glow – great for the face and neck.

Inglot Freedom System Quad Palette

With the Inglot Freedom System you can create your own palettes from a vast collection of colourful face products. I chose these colours as they are my perfect everyday lid, crease, highlight and liner colours and are richly pigmented and smooth and buttery to apply, for more information on my selected colours see my post I HEART Inglot.

Benefit Stay Don’t Stray 360 Eye Primer

Works a treat on the lids as an eye primer but this month I have been loving Stay Don’t Stray as a primer for my under eyes and on troublesome areas to ensure my concealer applies smoothly and covers those nasty imperfections all day.

Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin

Applies as a gorgeous pinky gold, this little magic primer potion intensifies eye shadow colour and ensures shadow stays put all day (or night) with no creases.  

NP Set Lip Gloss Compact in Vanuatu

A beautiful glossy peach, perfect to top off any everyday natural makeup look.

MAC Lustre Drops in Pink Rebel

I’m only new to the illuminator craze but I’m now totally hooked. I love pink rebel as gives a nice pinky gold glow when applied to highlight areas (cheek bones, brow bone and bridge of nose).

Sally Hansen Mega Shine Top Coat

My O.P.I Top Coat was on its way out and I have read great things about Mega Shine and have not been disappointment. Mega Shine speeds up drying time and allows polish to last chip free for days while giving a beautiful clear shine and it’s a cheaper alternative to O.P.I. – Love it.  

O.P.I in Russian Navy

Really loving dark nail polishes in these cooler months and this colour is a deep navy with shimmers of purple and goes so well with my winter wardrobe.

St. Ives Apricot Scrub in Invigorating

I have been using this scrub since forever and I love it as it’s a quite gritty scrub, great for both face and body and provides a noticeable smooth result.

Clinique Colour Surge Eye Shadow Duo in Beach Plum

This month I have been slowly introducing colour into my everyday eye looks. I particularly love these two colour combinations – the sandy gold really makes the plum pop.

(Top of the palette is Blushing Blush Powder in Smouldering Plum)

Lanolips Lemonaid Lip Aide

My saviour against winter chapped lips! Lanolips Lemonaid Lip Aide provides an instant moisturising effect and smells of lemon tarts – delish!

FOTD: Parisian Skies

Hi everyone! I threw together this face pretty fast for the 4th of July since Baby Peaches let me have 20 minutes to play with my face. I'd just ordered Parisian Skies from MAC's Bloggers' Obsessions collection so I figured why not check it out. It's the perfect night blue sky color without looking too blue.


Face
Lancome Dual Finish Foundation Powder Matte Buff II
YSL Touche Eclat #2
MAC Pink Cult blush
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Petticoat

Eyes- All MAC unless noted
Urban Decay Virgin (highlight and inner corner)
Vanilla(all over)
Parisian Skies(lid)
Wedge(crease)
Powerpoint Eye Pencil Engraved
Urban Decay Primer Potion
Lingering brow pencil
Fairydrops Scandal Queen Mascara

Lips
Marquise d' lipstick




We ended up celebrating the 4th over at the inlaws house with a BBQ and fireworks. They have an amazing view of like 4-5 displays throughout the county. The Duke of Puke slept through the entire thing.

What did you end up doing for the 4th? Or was it just another Monday for you since you don't live in the states?

MAC Semi Precious Haul, Swatches and Comparisons

I'm sure you thought I'd fallen off the Earth by now. Nope, just had a baby and I've been a little preoccupied with the Prince of Poopie. So preoccupied that makeup has been the last thing on my mind, shocker! I'll post soon about his royal cuteness.

I did venture out of the house with the Duke of Barfington to check out MAC's Semi Precious collection when it launched. I ended up hauling Mineralize Skinfinishes in Semi Precious Crystal Pink and Rose Quartz and the 234 split fibre eye blending brush. I wasn't too keen on the mineralize eyeshadows or the skincare this time around. The $20 price tag per eyeshadow just made them not worth it since they had a bit of fallout.

Top: 234 Split Fibre Eye Blending Brush, Bottom left to right: Semi Precious Rose Quartz, Semi Precious Crystal Pink

Semi Precious Rose Quartz

Semi Precious Crystal Pink

I compared Semi Precious Crystal Pink to the Mineralize Skinfinish By Candlelight. The outer circle is very close in color but way more glittery. When blended together it looks like a slightly darker more glittery By Candlelight.
Left to right: Crystal Pink center, Crystal Pink outer ring, By Candlelight, Crystal Pink mixed.


I also compared Semi Precious Rose Quartz to Stereo Rose and Petticoat. I found Rose Quartz to be much pinker than Stereo Rose. It's much more of a match to Petticoat but still ever so slightly pinker and tons of glitter again.
Left to right: Stereo Rose, Rose Quartz outer circle, Petticoat, Rose Quartz mixed.


I'm liking the new 234 dual fibre blending brush. It's supposed to be for packing on the color with the goat hair and blending out with the synthetic fibers. It performed nicely at packing on the color, about what I expect with a MAC brush. However, it performed awesomely with blending. I think this might be my new go to brush over the 239 just because it's an all in one brush.





Did you end up hauling anything from this collection?

PS does anyone know how to fix my right sidebar? I remember Blogger acting all jacked up months ago when I posted and somehow it moved everything on me...

Disclosure: I bought everything pictured.

Perfect Layering Scent: B&BW's Japanese Cherry Blossom

I never wanted to buy the Bath & Body Works scent Japanese Cherry Blossom because I thought it just smelled like a generic perfumey smell. But I think that was because my nose thought everything in the store smelled the same after like 5 minutes in there. Lol Does that happen to anyone else? Anyways, the other day I saw a bottle of it that someone had put in the bathroom at work and I realized that it smells amazing!

I always heard that the key to making B&BW fragrance mists' scents last longer is to layer them. I always thought that if I tried to do that it would end horribly in some crazy mixture. Lol But now I have discovered that Japanese Cherry Blossom is the perfect layering scent!

It is also lovely on its own! I kinda really want to get the eau de toilette now!

Anyways, if you layer your B&BW fragrance mists, leave me some ideas because I would love to try them!

MAC's Travel Sized Products- Can't go Back2MAC

Hey hey hey!
So I just got off the phone with MAC's customer service because I called to ask if the new Sized-To-Go products were able to go Back2MAC. Unfortunately they are not able to go Back2MAC. If you don't know what that program is, basically if you turn back 6 empty MAC containers or makeup wipe bags, then you get a free lipstick and at some stores a free eyeshadow.

Here is the link to see what products can go Back2MAC.
http://www.maccosmetics.com/giving_back/btm_return_packaging.tmpl

Here are some helpful things that I learned today about Back2MAC.
1. They accept eyelash cases if you have outside and inside plastic parts.
2. Makeup wipes are also able to go Back2MAC.
3. Holiday collection mini items cannot go Back2MAC.

I think this program is a great way to build up on your collection and recycle at the same time!

Aussie Moist 3 Minute Miracle!!!!

I don't think I've ever posted a review on my blog before, but this product is soooo freaking awesome that I just had to!  Aussie Moist 3 minute miracle is nuffin but the truf!...LOL!  Yea please excuse my ebonics...lol.  But all jokes aside this is the best moisture deep conditioner I have ever tried.  I really liked the Aussie Moist shampoo and conditioner and after some research I decided to try the deep conditioner and boy am I glad I did.  The directions say to leave it in for 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but I leave mine in for 30 minutes with a plastic cap on and when I remove my cap my hair feels like straight butta!  It feels like the conditioner moisturizes each strand to it's very core.  I love it!  I've got my mom and sister hooked as well.  Oh and the best part its less than $3 at my local Walmart...now you can't beat that with a stick!  After you rinse, dry and style your hair it leaves it soft and smelling like a coconut smoothie!  It has little different packaging than I'm used to, but it's convenient.  You squirt the conditioner out a hole at the bottom and the container fits in your hand perfectly to be able to squeeze it.  So there is no pumps or caps to deal with just squeeze into your hand and apply.  I give the product a 4.5 out 5.  If your hair is dry and in desperate need of moisture RUNNN stop reading and go get this now!...LOL!

Hair Regimen and Products

Let me start by saying this is what's working for my hair, your hair may not respond the way my hair does to this regimen.  I also would like to tell you my hair type which is 3c/4a I think...don't hold me to it...lol!  I also have relaxed hair, now after being natural for almost two years.  However, my relaxer basically tex-laxed my hair meaning I still have my curl pattern it just a bit looser and less poofy.

Regimen

·         Shampoo: Sunday

·         Co-wash: Wednesday

·         Deep Condition: Sunday (Protein) and Wednesday (Moisture)

·         Pre-poo: Before Shampoo and Co-wash

·         Moisturizer: Sunday (Moisture) and Wednesday (Protein)

·         Seal: after every moisturizer

·         Monday: Moisture (Morning and Night)

·         Tuesday: Protein (Morning) and Moisture (Night)

·         Thursday: Moisture ( Morning and Night)

·         Friday: Moisture (Morning) Protein (Night)

·         Saturday: Moisture (Morning and Night)

·         Fourth Sunday clarify

·         Heavy protein treatment one week before relaxer

·         Stretch Relaxers 10 weeks or longer

·         One heat pass per month

·         Low manipulation hair styles

·         Protective Hair Styles (ends are in)

·         Cover hair at night with silk or satin scarf  or bonnet

·         Detangle from bottom up while wet with a big tooth comb while deep conditioning

·         Search and destroy method for split ends

·         Dusting or trim with every perm, whichever is needed

·         Air dry after shampooing and co-washing

·         Drink plenty of water

I know this looks like a lot but I gave as much detail as I could in short bullets, but most of all listen to your hair!  Tweak your regimen as many times as you need.  Your hair tells you what its likes by staying on your head…lol!  When you do something it doesn’t like it will shed and break.  It’s up to you to find what your hair likes. 

Hair Products

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Shampoos: Aussie Moist, Proclaim Intense  Moisturizing, L’Oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Hydrate, L’Oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Recontruct, Ion Clarifying Shampoo,

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Conditioners: Aussie Moist, Proclaim Intense Moisturizing, L’Oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Hydrate, GVP Conditioning Balm, L’Oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Reconstruct

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Deep Conditioner: Organic Root Stimulator Replenish Pak (protein), Olive Oil added to conditioners (moisture), Aussie Moist 3 Minute Miracle

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  Leave In Conditioner: Herbal Essences Long term Relationship (moisture), Elasta QP leave in H2 (moisture), Infusium 23 Moisture (moisture) , Infusium 23 Repair and Renew (Protein), Aussie Catch the Wave Mousse and Leave in Conditioner (moisture), Hask Placenta (heavy protein)

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  Oils: Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, One n Only Argon Oil, Keracare Essential Oil, Shea Moisture Organic Raw Shea Butter Elixer

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Moisturizers: Orangic Root Stimulator Incredibly Rich Oil Moisturizing Hair Lotion (moisture), Elasta QP Olive Oil and Mango Butter Moisture (protein), Profective Mega growth Lotion (protein), African Pride Olive Oil Miracle Moisturizer Lotion (moisture)

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Misc: Olive Oil Eco Styler Gel, Just For Me Hair Milk with Soy and Honey Straighten Mist Heat Protectant, Special Effects Flat Iron Heat Protectant, Organix Coconut Milk Split End Mender, Mane n Tail Detangler

I use a rotation of products so my hair doesn’t get “immuned” to what the product is suppose to do for my hair. I also plan to add grape seed oil and castor oil to my regimen.

New Kat Von D Palettes in Sinner and Saint!!!!

I know I haven’t posted in a few months, but I have moved to the sticks….literally…LOL! What area in this day in time does not have high speed internet access….Let’s try where I live…LOL!  So I’ve been making posts in Microsoft Word trying to get them to upload when I go out of town....without any success…booo!!!  Any way as you already know I loooovvvee Kat Von D's palettes and have all that she's made so far....these will be no exception so here are the new palettes.  They appear to be a bit smaller and have a hard casing now aaaannnnnd they also come with eyeliner instead of those awful brushes that I just toss.  Saint is a neutral palette and Sinner appears to be more of a smoky palette.

This set contains: 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Heavens (pearlized vanilla) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Enjoy the Silence (pearlized butter-cream) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in  <3 (soft pink with sparkle) 

- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Downtown (pearlized champagne) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Sunny (pearlized gold) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Pray For me (pearlized taupe) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Bookworm (pearlized brown) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Caravaggio (dark matte brown) 
- 0.028 oz Mini Puro Amor Black Autograph Pencil Eyeliner 

This set contains: 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Disco Dust (pearlized soft pink) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Linzy-Jane (iridescent purple) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Ace of Spades (burgundy w/ purple sparkle) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Violator (smoky purple w/ purple sparkle) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Holy Bible (pearlized silver) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Glock (pearlized gun metal) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Dorian Gray (pearlized charcoal gray) 
- 0.05 oz eye shadow in Lucifer (matte black) 
- 0.028 oz Mini Puro Amor Black Autograph Pencil Eyeliner 

I am getting these soon as they come out and will have swatches soon after!!!  I also only see one repeat which is Lucifer.