October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and in celebration of the fact, Liz Hurley has been doing a series of PA's to publicise the cause as well as raising awareness by turning building's pink (she uses lights, not the power of a vulcan mind meld or anything sinister like that!).
Check out this latests vid from fellow blogger/you tuber Mill Moll Mac, AKA blogger Beauty Blogging Blonde, who attended one of the recent BCA events in Scotland (her blog and you tube channel are WELL worth checking out!);
Another of these events is happening tomorrow (Tuesday 19th October) in London, so if you can get to Harrods, it's well worth popping along to see Liz - According to MillMollMac, she's a stunner in real life, but even more importantly, you'll be able to find out more about the breast cancer campaign.
Lauder have supported the breast cancer campaign for some time now, and you can purchase items in "the pink ribbon collection" nationally. Two lip sets are available this year - each retail at £25 and £7.50 is donated from this to the charity to further breast cancer research.
The London event starts at 1pm, and Liz will be taking part in a "spectacular 3D Global Landmark Illumination ceremony" later in the evening. If you are very lucky, you might even meet Colin and Justin too and get some design tips.
If you do happen to see them, can you beg them to do one of those home makeovers for me? I'm on the verge of giving up on this shack!
Monday, 18 October 2010
Paint it Pink
Friday, 16 July 2010
FOTD... And Newly Dyed Hair!
I used Bourjois healthy mix foundation, Chanel Bronze Universal (or Soleil Tan De Chanel as its know nowadays... *tut*), and Inglot liquid blush in shade 87 on the face, with The Body Shop Bronzer in Warm Glow over the top of the cheeks. Highlight was MAC msf in Perfect Topping...
I also did a quick dye job on my hair today as well - I used a L'oreal Herbashine which I picked up in Boots recently for around a fiver. I have chucked the box away but it was a medium mahogony brown shade and had a picture of Bar Rafielli on the box (I have no idea who she is). The Herbashines are one of those new generation ten minute jobs - non permanent, so you get a shiny refreshed look without damage. Not dramatic but it looks a lot better than it did this morning!
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Estee Lauder Spring 2010 - Michael Kors Very Hollywood Colour Collection
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
EOTD - Daytime smoky featuring Body Shop and Estee Lauder
I haven't done one of these posts for aaaggggeeeesss, and I really miss doing them and seeing what people think (or otherwise) of my efforts...
So, I decided to dig out a shadow I haven't actually tried yet, from The Body Shop - the mineral eye trio in Moonlight Lustre, and tried to create a bit of a daytime suitable smoky... (nice little blemish there , on the left side hey?)
To create the look, I used an Estee Lauder Doublewear Cream shadow in Precious Jade (shade 03), as a base, applied to the lid and blended out to a fine layer. I really love using these as bases - they are stand up eyeshadows on their own, and really do stay in place on me. The paler and shades are obviously more versatile, but it never hurts to have a coloured base (or 20) in your arsenal (least thats what I tell myself)....
I then applied the green shade from the body shop trio over the lid, and blended. The lilac shade was applied to the inner corner, and used the slate blue shade as a crease colour, and blended this out with a clean MAC217. In terms of pigmentation, the colours in this shadow did not blow me away, I had to build it up quite a lot - the slate blue wasn't too bad, but the lilac in particular was not great, and I needed to wet my brush to get a decent result - has anyone else found this with these shadows? The result was pretty enough though...
I then tightlined and waterlined with an Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on pencil in the shade "Stash", a dark brown shade.
I finished off by applying a couple of coats of Estee Lauder Sumptuous Colour Mascara in Amber (LE). I wasn't too sure about these mascaras at first - having seen Pixiwoo's video using the blue version, I was expecting major colour payoff, however in reality, the ones I have come off a lot more subtle that the blue one. On reflection though, this is probably a good thing - the result is subtle, but very nice, and the amber works very well with blue eyes.
I really like the brush and formulation of this mascara, and found it gave good lenthening results, and buildable volume without clumping. I applied two coats here, but I felt fairly confident I could have continued applying and got thicker and more dramatic lashes. Even though the coloured versions are LE (and I'm not even sure they are still available), I'd consider buying up this mascara in regular shades in the future...
I used my Clarins eyebrow palette to tidy the brows as best I could (yes, they do need plucking/threading, but I'm trying to grow out the patchy bits at the moment...) I also used the Maybelline mineral concealer as an undereye concealer. I like this product, it was one of the surprisingly good products from the Maybelline goody bags we were given at the recent bloggers event.
The Clarins Palette is a daily staple for me, and again this was given in a goody bag from the Clarins event - the powders are very well pigmented, and I can either use the dark or medium shades, depending on the result I'm after. The pink powder is supposed to be a highlighting powder, but on my skin tone, I find this just disappears - the one bit of the palette that I can happily do without. I use this most days, and I've barely dented it, so I'm happy it will last a long time.
One thing I wish I had done was line the upper lashline with a brown liquid or gel liner, as I think this would have really finished the look off, but you live and learn.
I'm really liking the few bits of Estee Lauder I have at the moment - do you know of any must haves from the range?
MizzWorthy xxx
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair.
So, this product has stood the test of time and has been around for thirty years apparently - it has recently been relaunched with the addition of chronolux technology, which we'll come to later (pens and pads at the ready for that - Its gonna get "sciency"!)
I was recently sent a little sample bottle of this - similar to the sizes you sometimes get free with magazines etc. This was meant to last a week, however I can safely say that a little of this goes a long way - I've been using this at night for about a month now and I'd barely used a quarter of the bottle, so despite its hefty price tag (£36 for 30ml or £49 for 50ml), I'd expect a bottle to last a long time! The product was sent with no press info for once - a good sign in my book, when companies dont try to dictate the content of blog posts lol... I also enjoy doing a bit of research myself from time to time!
The Science Bit...
The theory is that environmental assaults (pollution, stress, smoke, sunlight and even stress) cause DNA damage, which in turn causes ageing. Now we all know that skin does much of its repairing and renewing at night while we sleep - the old adage of "beauty sleep" is definitely true!
Apparently though, our skin cells contains clock genes - if these are "in sync", then this night time repair occurs optimally. However, the problem is that environmental assaults mean that the clock genes are frequently knocked out of sync, so aging occurs.The Advanced night repair contains "chronolux" technology, which sets to work on clock genes, synchronising them, and therefore making the skins natural defenses against ageing more effective.
So does it actually work?
I've seen reviews on you tube making claims that this serum heals blemishes overnight, and other such miracles. While it didn't do that for me, I can say it did seem to speed up the process significantly - After a blemish I often get a red area on the skin which can take a few weeks to disappear completely. I noticed while using this serum that such marks were reduced within about a week to ten days. My skin also feels very smooth and soft in the morning, and I definitely look quite "well rested"
The serum is also easily absorbed too, and easy to use - I'd say I apply 3-5 drops at night (thats a rough estimate - the proper sized product comes with a dropper, which my sample does not have...) prior to my night cream (Clarins Multi Active).
As for long term anti-ageing results, I think this would only be possible to really assess over the course of a few months, so I'm not really prepared to say yay or nay to this. So far though I've been impressed enough to say I'm likely to pick up a bottle when my little sample runs out. This also comes in an eye cream, which I'm interested in trying when my current eye cream runs out too...
Have any of you tried this or any other products from the range? I'm feeling that I've neglected to look at the Estee Lauder skincare products for a long time - for example, the Daywear range sounds right up my alley - SPF 30 and antioxidants? Fab!
MizzWorthy xxx
