November 14 Monthly Beauty Favourites
*Insert obligatory ‘Oh my god I can’t believe it’s December where is my life GOING’ comment*. So it’s time for my November beauty (and other) favourites…
*Insert obligatory ‘Oh my god I can’t believe it’s December where is my life GOING’ comment*. So it’s time for my November beauty (and other) favourites…
At the Birchbox event I went to a few weeks ago I met a blogger called Emily and fangirled a bit when I found out that she was one of the creators of The Lacquer Lab. I am always on the look out for independent, UK based nail polish brands and this one had been on my radar for a while. I was lucky enough to be sent their new limited edition festive trio to review and I will apologise now for the photo heavy post: these polishes deserve a lot of pictures!
So here is the trio, L-R: Fred & Ginger, I Want A Pony, and Snow Globe. Don’t you just feel Christmassy looking at them?
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to a Birchbox bloggers event with KMS California, at their amazing training academy.
I arrived after work, drank lots of champagne and chatted to other bloggers which was lovely. We then had a talk from one of the stylist trainers from the academy. She spoke about their inspiration for their salon products and took us through how they were developed, where they had taken ideas from and current trends. Each section was based on a particular hair look: sleek and straight, full of volume or waves, each of which has a range of hair products to help you prep the hair and style it perfectly. We were then taken into the salon and asked to choose which look we wanted to go for – I went for waves/curls and LOVED the results:
When the lovely folks at Glo & Ray asked me to pick some items to review, I had to take my time: I’d not heard of the brand before but the range is quite wide and has a good mix of exciting looking products. I was on the website for ages before I could whittle my choices down but in the end I chose a lipstick (of course), a blusher/bronzer and an eyeliner.
I thought it was about time for me to go through my nail varnish collection and try to whittle it down. I have so many polishes that I never use (or have never used!) because they just get lost in the pile. So I’m sorting through them, picking out my favourites, throwing some away and putting some up for sale. It is going to be traumatic so I would appreciate your support at this difficult time.
On a more positive note, I rediscovered some forgotten favourites – hooray!
Lex