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Red Alert! Things That Are; Not Just Lippy
Because I like red. Loads. It’s been ages since the World Famous Super Model Thumbnail™ has made an appearance on this page. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Right Red Fred {RRP€8.95} is warm...
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How to Youthify Ageing Hair: Pantene Pro-V Youth Protect 7
I write this with one eye closed, because: denial. I mean, okay, hair thins as we age, etc, etc, but yeah, I’d prefer to go lalalalalalala in my head. My head, which even as we speak is sprouting locks...
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Tried & Tested @ The Herald: Night Creams
Some days I wake up and all I can think about is going back to bed. Especially at this time of year, especially on a day like today, when it looks like it doesn’t know what it’s going to do, and you...
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More Crazy Face: Origins Clear Improvement™ Active Charcoal Mask To Clear Pores
I am allll about minimising my pores these days, and I’ve been gasping to try Origins Clear Improvement™ Active Charcoal Mask for ages. It’s been sitting there on my sink for said ages, patiently...
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I Used It All Up: Dove Purely Pampering Body Cream with Shea Butter and Warm...
On the very day that I Used All of the above Up, I went to get me brows did, as ever in HD style at Carter Beauty, Blackrock. The lovely and talented Katie and I were nattering about product, as ya do,...
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Ask Andrew! Mr Dunne From Mane Salon Answers Some Knotty Questions
Andrew Dunne is the Irish Colour Ambassador for Wella, and one of the hand-picked colour specialists who represent Wella and P&G on the global stage. Winner of The International Trend Vision Colour...
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Tried & Tested @ The Herald: Primers
I used to resist primers because: how much stuff did I actually need to put on my face, and also, sheer laziness. Then I started actually using them instead of giving out about them, and I am such a...
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OMChristmas 2013: Wow! Hatbox from LUSH
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! This happens every year: the press releases start rolling in, in September, and I get all, Oh, Christmas is miles away…; and then the launches start, and I think, Hmmm, time is flying!;...
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Have You Ever Used Up a Lippy? Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter
I don’t think I ever have, even before I began to enjoy the beauty-journo perquisites. I am close to using this all up! In the case of Revlon’s ColorBurst Lip Butter, it is not merely down to...
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OMChristmas 2013: Guaranteed Irish Gifting
We are a small island, but we make a whole lotta stuff. It’s not all jam and rashers either — although! I can thoroughly vouch for the deliciousness of the brown bread that comes from Fitzpatrick’s...
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NeoStrata Nail Conditioning Solution: Exit 9, Represent!
A very Jesse Pinkmanesque expostulation greeted a recent discovery. So here I was, at the computer, doing my usual multi-tasking, much of which actually involves procrastination, and I decided that...
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Tried & Tested @ The Herald: Foundation
This week, I worked with several different brand’s foundations. How’d they do? Here’s the link! *** Speaking of which, I recently revisited BeneFit’s Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow Brightening Foundation. I...
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OMChristmas 2013: Gift Sets That Are Fab {And Mainly Come in Tins}
…and are not lame, which I used to think gift sets were — back when dinosaurs walked the earth. As the human race has evolved, so has the ways in which brands present their ‘best of’ in attractive...
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And Another Thing! Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter
OBSESSED with this lipstick. In addition to its other virtues, it smells really nice, too! Like: delicious. And as a matter of interest, I had two or three other samples of these — no, five, because I...
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Tried & Tested @The Herald: Cleansing Balms
My new favourite thing! As I say here, I have always hated, if not completely loathed, the fuss of using a cleanser. These go on your face and stay there, working away as you massage them round,...
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OMChristmas 2013: Gifts That Give
I played a game yesterday, unbeknowst to the charity muggers who were also involved. Instead of crossing to the other side of the road to avoid them, I tried to see how close I get to them and avoid...
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OMChristmas: Dudes
I guess guys must think we think they smell bad, given that’s the majority of what we give them at Christmas … nah, just joking. Nothing like a fragranced male to keep the yuletide bright! Herewith are...
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Lucky Thirteen of 2013: Once Again Proving that I Can’t Count
#FirstWorldProblems, indeed. Do all the Chrismassy gift guidey stuff, and then do the year-end wrap-up gig, and there’ll be loads of time — wait. Dammit. Okay! There are in fact only twelves days left...
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Lucky Thirteen of 2013: Best IUIAU
But worst acronym ever. Not only the best I Used It All Up, but also the first! I still think of this powder, STILA Set & Illuminate Baked Powder Trio, with great fondness. Read all about how good...
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Lucky Thirteen of 2013: Nicest Surprise in the Post
I’d never come across SkinCeuticals before, and when their Mineral Radiance UV Defense came over the transom — which is an outdated phrase that I will always love — I was very pleasantly surprised. I...
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