Lex Gillies
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The past few months have been a bit strange. I’ve been quite unadventurous with my make up and I failed spectacularly at reading anything that wasn’t Twitter or beauty blogs. I didn’t even do a monthly favourites…
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I recorded my next #RosaceaReview and this time it’s another high street offering: Maybelline Dream Velvet foundation.
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I don’t know about you but I am so ready for Spring. Lighter evenings, leaving scarves at home for the first time in (what feels like) forever and, more excitingly, COLOUR. I don’t tend to…
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The next instalment of #RosaceaReview is now live and this time it’s a review of a high-end base product: the Diorskin Forever foundation. And I think it might be love…
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I finally worked up the courage to do my first Get Ready With Me Video… and for some reason it’s blurry. Urgh *shakes fist at technology*. But hopefully you enjoy it anyway, click below to…
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A few weeks ago I was invited to try out a Cellcosmet facial at Courtenay Day Spa*. I’d never heard of Cellcosmet before so if you’re just as out of the loop as me, here’s…
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I have been really impressed by Seventeen recently. Their mono eyeshadows are beautiful, their nail varnishes are great quality and now these: Seventeen eyeshadow and lip palettes. I have a LOT of photos to show…
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Last week I attended the Beginners Photography Course at the London Institute of Photography*. I’ve been blogging for 5 years and my photography has vastly improved in that time (I stopped using my phone camera…
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Is there anything more annoying (in the beauty world at least) than falling in love with something and then it getting discontinued? The essie Retro Revival collection* is here to try to rectify that. Essie…
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A few weeks ago I was invited to an evening with REN, as part of the 30 Plus Bloggers collective, to find out all about the new REN Instant Brightening Beauty Shot Eye Lift. We…
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Make Up Revolution seems to evoke two very different reactions: you have the fan-girls and -boys who worship everything they do and constantly post ridiculously massive hauls that only cost them about £20… and then…
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Welcome to the Skincare Shake Up February ’16 edition! This month has a mixture of new products and old favourites. Full details after the jump…
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February has been a bit of a strange month. I’ve not really bought many new products so I’ve been rediscovering some old favourites so this favourites instalment is a bit of a mixture. I hope…
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It’s Endometriosis Awareness Week which gives me an excuse to write the blog post I’ve been planning for ages but was a bit nervous to write. Warning: if you’re particularly squeamish or react like a 14 year…
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I recently went to Amsterdam for the weekend and it was amazing (a full blog on that coming soon!). Want to see the skincare and make up products that I chose to take with me?…
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Vichy Dermablend Foundation Whenever I mention to people that I like my foundation to be high coverage, there is one name that always pops up: Vichy Dermablend* foundation. I have been keen to try this…
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Skincare Shake Up January Welcome to Skincare Shake Up January – a series I started last month (if you’d like to read the skincare I was using previously to this have a nosey HERE).
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Yesterday I woke up and did what I always do: I checked twitter. Commuter woes, politics, bad puns, cat photos… the usual. Then I saw that someone had retweeted this utter load of piffle into…
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Another month has rattled past with alarming speed. We are now a month into 2016. I don’t even know what to say about this. So let’s just get going into the January 2016 monthly beauty…
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Want a sneaky peek into the new GOSH SS16 Collection? I have all the new additions here… GOSH SS16 Collection I was super excited to be invited to the pre-launch viewing of the GOSH SS16…
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