What to Wear This Valentine's Day, with New Look!

The chance of a date for me would be a fine thing, but hopefully this information will help some of the luckier amongst us who do have plans this Valentine's weekend. x


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Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope that you all have a great day... whether you're single, in a relationship or something in the middle-ish. This made me laugh, and is kinda perfect for me today - haha. x

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Sponsored Post: Kissable Lips With Nivea Hydro Care!

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought that now would be a perfect time to talk about kissing; or more importantly men I would LIKE to kiss (if I was single, or Mr Beauty Scoop would let me... and of course if the men listed actually agreed to it)!

I’d like to point out straight away that as soon as I try to think of men that make me go ‘PHWOAAAR’, my brain goes blank... it literally fails to function; so this isn’t a full and comprehensive list of all the men I’d like to kiss (hussy I am), merely the ones I could remember – and rather shamefully most of these were remembered only by going through my Sky TV planner!

So ladies (and gentlemen?) let’s get going... oh and warning, there may be some gratuitous male nudity in this post!

A new entry on my ‘radar’ (so to speak) is Jessie Pavelka, I ‘discovered’ him only a few weeks ago when I started watching a programme called Diet Tribe, in which he’s the personal trainer. He’s a bit bulkier and has more tattoos than the kind of man I’d usually fancy, but he has gorgeous eyes and a lurrrvely smile, so I can easily get over the other stuff... he can train me, anyday *ahem*! This photo doesn’t do him as much justice as he deserves, he’s 100% better when animated – well who isn’t!

Next up we have Matt Lanter, he plays the gorgeous Liam Hunt in 90210... he’s very American and quite clean cut but again, I’m drawn to his eyes and mouth. Just look at them - lush!

Ian Somerhalder is up next; he plays the brooding vampire, Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries and is a complete delight to look at. Again I love love lurrve his eyes and lips (quelle surprise) – but who wouldn’t?! Bite me!

I love Glee, and I also think that Finn (Cory Monteith) is rather delightful so yes, I think know I’d quite like to kiss him... I do also think that Puck (Mark Sailing) is rather tasty; but I’m not one to be greedy so I’ll stick with just the one Glee cast member for this exercise. I’ve included 2 pictures here; purely because on the second one I was rather perplexed about the length of his index finger... surely that’s been photoshopped?!

Next is Grey’s Anatomy’s McDreamy himself, Patrick Dempsey... hubba hubba, wish my doctor looked like that - or maybe not, depending on what ailment I was having him check out haha!

Adam Garcia is definitely on my list, he’s one of the reasons I love watching Got to Dance so much; he’s got gorgeous eyes and a cute little bum dimple on his chin... lovely. Also, just look at that body, damn that towel being there!!

Olly Murs is such a cheeky chappy, and very easy on the eye – how could I resist? ;-)

Last (but definitely by no means least) is Jason Merrells who is currently playing Declan in Emmerdale. He’s a bit of alright, don’t you think?!

So anyway... in order to get my lips ready for all this kissing, I’m going to need to make sure my lips are soft, smooth and ready for action; and to achieve this I will use my Nivea Hydro Care Lip Salve (RRP £1.75).

The balm moisturises and hydrates lips which you’d expect with a balm, but it also locks in moisture (rather than locking it out) which keeps lips hydrated for much longer as water is prevented from evaporating out of them, which is what can leave them dry and chapped.


www.nivea.co.uk

Illamasqua 'Throb' Valentine's Collection

With Valentine’s day just around the corner (less than 1 month away; which also means my 30th birthday is almost here too – eek) I thought it only right that I should start showing you what new goodies all the best beauty companies have to offer.

I’ll start with Illamasqua’s offerings, a mini collection very aptly named ‘THROB’! It’s a sexy and seductive selection or products that look perfect for Valentine’s day (especially Valentine’s night) and it’s set for release on January 17th in the UK and online; international release dates are yet to be released.

For the lips:

"Made up of blood reds to awaken your mouth's erotic sensuality ..."

Intense Lipgloss in 'Succubus' - a high-shine, colour-rich intense lipgloss in seductive red.

Lipstick in 'Sangers' - a colour-intense lipstick, with a highly pigmented blood red tone.

For the nails:

"And naughty but nice shades for the nails ..."

Nail Varnish in 'Load' - a rich, cream coating for the nails

Nail Varnish in 'Scorn' - a midnight matt finish, said to be a deep statement of obsession.

Nail Varnish in 'Throb' - a powerful red nail polish, the colour of blood spilled by desperate, rejected lovers.

Products used in top picture:

Cream Foundation 100
Rich Liquid Foundation 115
Powder Foundation 105
Powder Blusher in ‘Disobey’
Powder Blusher in ‘Intrigue’
Pure Pigment in ‘Furore’
Powder Eye Shadow in ‘Heroine’ [on cheeks and eyes
Powder Eye Shadow in ‘Sex’
Cream Pigment in ‘Emerge’   ** NEW for SS11 collection! **
Eye Liner Cake in ‘Mislead’
Sealing Gel [for eyebrows]
PI in ‘Abyss’

http://www.illamasqua.com/collections/throb/

Clinique & House of Fraser 'Kiss It Better' In Feb For Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity!

Pucker up this Valentine’s Day with a Clinique lipstick or gloss from House of Fraser, and not only will you look fabulous, you’ll also be giving money to a very worthy cause; as for the fourth year running Clinique will be partnering Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity for their KISS IT BETTER appeal. This appeal will raise money to fund much needed research into the causes and treatment of childhood cancer.

Clinique have created a special LE Smoothie Kisses Lip Gloss Set (£22.50 shown above), a bright pink bag containing 4 Vitamin C Lip Smoothie Glosses, in Pink Me Up, Goodness Grapecious, Nude-tricious and Mango-thon. Each kit that is sold (exclusively at House of Fraser) during the month of February will give the appeal £4 (£2 from Clinique and £2 from House of Fraser) which I think is fantastic – I do love that beauty companies do charity so well!

“Vitamin C Lip Smoothie Antioxidant Lip Colour is Clinique’s first lip product to incorporate this one-of-a-kind ingredient into its formula. And, together with Vitamin C and Pomegranate – Açaí Berry helps protect against oxidative stress, which causes premature ageing. With continued use, this powerful potion can help reduce the appearance of lip lines caused by ageing, while delivering gorgeous colour.”

If the Lip Smoothie’s aren’t your thing but you would still like to do your bit for charity then you still have an opportunity to do so, as for every lipstick or lip gloss (RRP £13.00 - 15.00) that is sold, a £2 donation will also be made to the appeal (£1 Clinique, £1 House of Fraser).

“Donation during February 2011 at Clinique counters exclusively at House of Fraser nationwide (excluding Ireland) and houseoffraser.co.uk.
Also available at Clinique.co.uk”