Wordless Wednesday - Kim Kardashian & The Wonder of Wearing Heels to Enhance Your Figure!!

These pictures of Kim at an airport, recently really show what a difference a pair of heels can do to your figure. Now I love heels, but don't wear them very often as they're quite ouchy on my feet but this has made me wonder if the ouchy might actually be worth suffering, even if I'll never look as good as she does, heels or not - ha!

What do you think girlies, would you prefer painful feet or a less flattering figure?

Celeb Sunday - Geri Halliwell!

I think Geri Halliwell is looking so very fresh faced here and I am loving the hair colour too - it looks like she's got extensions in that could, in my opinion, do with either being made to look a bit more natural with either a bit more chopping, or even just a few more curls put in to give it a bit more interest and stop the ends looking like they're just there, doing nothing for her.

Yep, she's probably having little tweaks done here and there, fillers, botox etc but frankly I have no problem with that as I think she looks fabulous... and who doesn't want to look as good as possible for as long as possible?

Whaddya think girlies? x

QVC Today's Special Value - Elemis Tri Enzyme Essentials Collection!

Elemis Tri Enzyme Essentials Collection is Today’s Special Value, you can get it for just £44.80, instead of £54.43, almost £10 saved!!

The kit contains:

1. Tri Enzyme Resurfacing Facial Wash (200ml)
2. Tri Enzyme Resurfacing Gel Mask (50ml)
3. Tri Enzyme Resurfacing Night Cream (30ml)

I do love Elemis, I think their products are generally spot on and worth spending the extra on. This TSV gives you the chance to try this range out without having to spend mega bucks doing so!

Let me break this down the Facial Wash is usually £27.60, the Gel Mask £46 and the Night Cream is usually £81.60 for 50ml which would equate to £48.96 for the 30ml of product you're getting here (although I can see a few online places selling the 30ml at the 50ml price, naughty!). So, if you tot it all up, you're actually getting £122.56 worth of products for that price; even at the normal QVC price, you're saving over 50% on the usual retail price of each product which I think is rather spiffing! Interested? I am!

QVC Today's Special Value Link

Chanel Fall 2011 Illusion D'Ombres, 86, ÉBLOUI - Swatched!

Ébloui is the final Illusion D’Ombre eyeshadow in the fall 2011 collection from Chanel; it’s out today, by the way and, along with the rest of the Illusion D'Ombre shades, is a permanent addition to the Chanel range!

It’s a beautiful rusty brown hue and has the most delicate sparkles running through it that catch the light fantastically – see how the different colour sparkles come through on the photographs on my eye.

You’ll not be surprised to know, with it being a darker shade that this is one of the more pigmented shades in the collection and it’s actually really easy to work with too, probably due to the (rather good) formulation.

This shade lasted quite a while, but not quite as long as the black which was incredibly long lasting, even when a fair amount of the sparkle had all but gone, there was still the black hue in place which is good enough for me and didn’t look worn out either. I got a solid 8 hours of strong wear, with a slight deterioration afterwards; again it didn’t look bad at this point either.

What do you think of the colour? Is it something you’d pick?

 Left is lightly applied and right is heavily applied.

QVC Today's Special Value - Mally’s Ultimate Performance Perfect Skin Kit!

Mally’s Ultimate Performance Perfect Skin Kit is Today’s Special Value on QVC, available for just £37.98, instead of £45.50.

The kit contains:

1. Finishing Powder & mini Kabuki – 17.9g – this smooths the skin to create a poreless, luxurious appearance. The product sets the foundation and wears all day to provide an invisibly silky look. One colourless shade will suit all women.
2. Primer 28.3g - this best selling primer is an ultra light, non-greasy formula designed to help extend the life of your make up. The primer is infused with silicone to help diffuse the look of fine lines and wrinkles.
3. Ultimate Performance Foundation and sponge 10g - a brand new cream to powder compact foundation that offers high coverage in 5 shades (fair, light, medium, rich and tan). This will be the UK premier of this foundation. 

I love that this set comes with the tools you need to achieve the desired effect! Who doesn't want great skin? 

QVC Today's Special Value Link!

Chanel Fall 2011 Illusion D'Ombres, 82, ÉMERVEILLÉ - Swatched!

Émerveillé is a beautiful peachy toned shadow that has an almost metallic quality about it, yet sparkles delicately in the light. It’s not as pigmented as the darker shades in the range, but that’s to be expected really.

Application needed a touch more effort, which I guess is down to the pigmentation too, but it’s not a deal breaker as it does still last quite well; again it’s not quite as long lasting as the darker hues but it did me ok for an evening out with no issues.

What I have found with the lighter toned Illusion D’Ombres is that they could also be great when used to highlight the skin too (see below)... more so with the Fantasme as I think you’d have to check how Émerveillé looked with your own skin tone.

It’s out tomorrow girls. Will you be buying it? x


PR Sample - Views are my own!

Chanel Fall 2011 Illusion D'Ombres, 85, MIRIFIQUE - Swatched!

Mirifique is another of the Chanel Illusion D’Ombre eyeshadows that will be released tomorrow!! This is an amazing, and very sparkly black gel shadow (same formula as the others I have swatched) that is massively pigmented – and that isn’t exaggerating at all.

The swatches on my hand show a very light swipe of the product on the left that hasn’t been blended at all, to show you how black and pigmented it really is. The swatch on the right is what was left on the brush and I have blended it out a bit, just to show you that you don’t have to wear it blacker than black if you don’t want to. I mentioned in previous posts that you can use these as eyeliners and I have to say, this one is perfect for the job!

Bottom right hand photo: this was done at an angle to show you how black the shadow is without the sparkle being as present.

The shadow lasts brilliantly on the eye, just like the others in the range and a little goes a long way because of how incredibly pigmented it is; so even though the product is a little bit pricey, it probably will end up being very good value for the amount of wear you could get out of it.

Very quickly swiped over my eye, excuse the shoddy application - it actually didn't look that bad in 'reality' though!

I think this is one of my favourites in the range, what do you think?

P.S: I am a little delayed with posting all of these up due to recent circumstances, but I will get the rest of the range up asap so excuse if I slightly rush through the reviews as I have given my thoughts a bit more in depth on the formula in the other posts, although if there’s anything that changes in the upcoming colours (ie not as pigmented, or don’t last as long etc), then that will be in there. x

PR Sample - Views are my own!

Chanel Fall 2011 Le Vernis Nail Colour - GRAPHITE (529)!

Meet Chloe, my new model!

Another of the very soon to be released Chanel Fall 2011 collection is Graphite, a beautifully metallic grey-silver nail polish that stays true to the name it was given, even down to the finish of the polish – see the picture below.

I really love the colour of this; it’s one of those shades that you can wear with anything without it being boring. It’s anything BUT boring, actually as I find the colour can pick up different hues from the surrounding areas to being out very slight changes in its tone. It doesn’t actually CHANGE colour, but if you’re near something brown/orange or even yellow you tend to notice the polish has more of a gold tinge to it. If you’re next to something white, or blue even I think it shows up more like a true silver-grey etc.

To look at the finish, at a first glance it just looks very metallic and shiny, very minx-like; but when you look closer you can see that it’s actually almost a very fine glittery effect where you can see the different tones running through it. It’s a gorgeous polish, and one that I find myself looking at almost constantly, moving my fingers to make the light reflect off it even more – is that weird? I seem to do it with a lot of pretty nail polishes.

Application was great; it applied with ease and took 3 coats to avoid any patchiness. It also dried quickly, meaning that the application process was over and done with just as quickly which is fabulous for me as I love nail polish but hate applying it.

I got a small chip after 3 days of wear; however it was near the cuticle and could potentially be my application as the rest has stayed as perfect as the day I put it on. The chip was easily disguised too, because of the finish of the polish I was able to fill it in and then just go over the whole nail after, without it looking like I had done a repair.

When I first saw this polish, the first thing that popped into my head as a potential dupe was OPI ‘Lucerrne-tainly Look Marvelous’ but after comparing the 2 polishes I can 100% say that it is NOT a dupe. The OPI is darker for a start and leans towards a more blue-toned grey whereas I think Graphite has more of a green-y gold tinge to it in comparison, to my eye anyway!

The finishes are different too, at first glance you think they may be the same but the Chanel is almost certainly more sparkly and seems to be more multifaceted too.

 OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous!

Chanel Graphite

Graphite will be available on Friday August 19th 2011.