Blushing Cheaply

Today is one of those days I have nothing particularly interesting to tell, or to show on my blog.

Anyway, I still want to post one of my purchases that I forgot to post about.

It is the Rose Belle blush palette from British Brand POPbeauty.

Palettes are not really rare in the beauty field. Well, they are popular because they are
a. Handy for travelling purposes.
b. Often very cute and decorated in a lovely fashion
c. A perfect opportunity to try various mini-sized colours (lip, eye and cheek) in a dinky packaging

Well, often palettes are focussed on either eye or lip, or have both eye/lip/cheek products inside (and mascaras, for example with the Givenchy cases). Only a blush only based palette is not very oftenly seen.

The POP rose palette is indeed suitable for an English rose complexion (pale to light) but I think a slightly MAC 30/35 can benefit from the darker colours on the right side of the palette.

Indeed, the left side is for the Pale-and-Interesting under us...Also, they make fantastic highlighters for the light to medium (and perhaps darker) skintones as well.

A bit of bronzing based colours on the right side...Except for the upper right colour (that is a bit too terracotta for me) they are fantastic for summer bronzing purposes.

Everything lovely. The downside is that the pigmentation is not as good as some other bronzers. But that makes the application more foolproof for the enthousiastic bronzer-applyers among us. It just takes more time to layer to make it show up (or less to keep it subtle).

So, the summer is almost officially there (sorry for all Aussies and other Southern hemisphere readers, as you will have the official winter time approaching). Are you going to celebrate summer in style or will you just see what the summer of 2010 is going to offer you?

Early Spring-Birdy giveaway

Although spring has not sprung in its full form, I think it is time to give a spring-y giveaway.

I will be giving away a couple of new and untouched products, and two of them have been tested twice, but are still in fantastic condition. My prices are from a variety of brands and range from hairstyling to facial care to eyeshadow.

So, what can you win when you are lucky?


1. Shu Uemura Tasai Cream:
I was not sure if I should list a product I gave a negative review for (post over here). I still do, as, also mentioned in my review, I think this product can still be HG material and the 'best-thing-ever' for other people's hair and hairstyle. And honestly, I am one of the few who gave it heads down, so it might be a true gem for the happy winner. Also, I find it too expensive to toss it away like that ($30), so that will be up for the happy winner.

2. MAC mineralize eyeshadow in Two To Glow
(from their Electro Flash collection, swatches here)
Brand new and never used. I am sure I would only use it once or twice, because the colours are not really me. However, the colours are absolutely stunning on brown eyes to lighter eyes.

3. VOV Daily Fresh Volcanic Ash mask.
Bloggers and readers of beauty blogs that post lots about Asian (Korean) products probably know the hype. This is a fabulous version of the VOV Daily Fresh collection, and I am only listing one of these (because I am too greedy to give away more ;D)

4. Pop Nailpolish in Manderin
Brand New. This colour is too bright for me, period. I think it will rock on a person who likes the bold look.

5. Mandom Beauty Sheet Mask: Barrier Repair Mask
The VOV mask is for cleansing the skin, and this sheet can be applied afterwards for moisture and repair.

6. Lakme Eyeshadow in Moondust.
I know, I had been raving about this quad over here. I still want to give it away, as I absolutely do not reach for this quad. (Used twice)

7. Lavshuca Dual Eyes in GN-1
Absolutely brand new. Really gorgeous.

The rules:

I will be keeping the same old rules as I did in my last giveaway, only to keep things simple. You are welcome to join even when you are not following my blog, just leave your email in the post OR contact me when I have listed you as a winner.

1. Make a comment or say something small. I should be able to contact you, or you should read closely to see if you are the winner after the drawing, so you can contact me. I do not want followers just for the giveaway, so you can join even if you do not follow my blog. I just want to contact the right winner when the winner has been drawn.

2. Contest ends on Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 3 PM European standard time, GMT +1)

3. You are only able to make one comment, so no cheaters who would like to double (or triple) their chances.

4. Winner will be announced in a new post after random selection by random.org

5. Please contact me with 2 days to claim your prize or another winner will be selected! Prizes will be shipped by airmail WORLDWIDE within 3 business days after winner contacts me!

Good Luck and have fun joining the giveaway.