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£20 Essentials with Essence? DIY Beauty Advent Calendar
Finally a beautiful and creative beauty advent calendar for £20! Are Essence Cosmetics good quality? Is this calendar suitable for a mature audience as well? What is the DIY factor?
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Amazing Makeup Range! Glossybox Advent Calendar 2020
The Glossybox Beauty Advent Calendar 2020 is a very loved and long awaited one. Read why I think it has one of the best offers in makeup. But is this enough to make it a strong choice?
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30 Products?! Look Fantastic Advent Calendar 2020
This calendar is worth £460 which is eye watering considering you can pay so much less to purchase it. But are the products well balanced? Do we get enough diversity in it?
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Double the price? Macmillan Beauty Advent Calendar 2020
A favourite of many, this one has brought the joy of beauty advent calendars at a very affordable price for years. With a mixture of brands sold in Boots, with makeup, skincare, body and hair care, it was a fantastic choice for anyone keen to experience a beauty advent calendar without spending a lot. In addition, a percentage of this calendar is donated to charity. This year, however, things look a tiny bit different…
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Worth the Hype? FENTY SKIN: Harmful Ingredients?
Rihanna recently launched her skincare range, Fenty Skin. Very popular and spoken about everywhere, the range is marketed as suitable for all, environmentally friendly, approachable and packed with benefits. Are the products worth it? What is the quality of the ingredients? What is skin sensitizing in them? This article will objectively look at the properties of the products and analyse all the ingredients.
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Worth the Hype? Maybelline Fit Me Matte & Poreless Foundation
The Maybelline Fit Me Matte and Poreless foundation has been extremely popular and seems to be recommended a lot online. Described as matte and perfect for oily skin, the Maybelline website claims this foundation blurs pores and that it looks natural on the skin. I have put this foundation to the test for a very long time, a time when I suffered from severe acne and very oily skin. Did it pass the test? Is this the ‘perfect’ foundation for problematic, oily skin? What is different in the ingredients between the USA and Europe version? Does it really blur pores?
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Roaccutane: Month Five. The effects of winter
The fifth month into the treatment did not start brilliantly, as my face was inflamed, looking blotchy and very red. I had a huge pimple on my cheek, next to my mouth, that grew bigger and bigger under the skin. It hurt, and lasted for almost a week. It left a beautiful red scar behind it, which was very visible. It seemed like I will always lose the battle against acne… You kill one and five more appear.
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Review: Face Paint, The Story of Makeup by Lisa Eldridge
As a former English student, it is not very often that I feel affectionate towards a book. Countless novels, poetry volumes, they all become dissected by a trained critical eye, and it seems that the more you read, the more difficult it becomes to be impressed. Lisa Eldridge’s Face Paint was one of the books that once I completed my reading, and absorbed the last page in, got a hug. I stood there, on the same sofa chair I sat in for every reading session, and hugged the book for a while...
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Makeup that lasts on very oily, acne prone skin + Tips!
Almost all ‘’matte’’ foundations would melt on my face in under two hours. Despite blotting the excess oil and using powders and everything you wish for, most foundations would not last on my very oily skin, but they would also emphasize the dry areas. The only one that didn’t move for many, many hours and did not bring attention to my dry areas was the ...
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Amazing Free resources about Beauty and Fashion
I compiled a list of amazing things to do while at home, which are not only entertaining but can also be educational and help us find out details about an array of topics. Ranging from online courses to fun, short videos, these resources are all FREE and accessible online.
