Sunday, December 9, 2012

PRINNIE STEVENS COLLABORATES WITH HELLO DARLING TO LAUNCH HER OWN NAIL LINE

PRINNIE STEVENS COLLABORATES WITH HELLO DARLING TO LAUNCH HER OWN NAIL LINE

Even after the first season of The Voice Australia has finished, pop singing sensation Prinnie Steven is putting her personal stamp on Australian style, in a collaboration with Australian beauty brand Hello Darling to launch her own limited edition nail  lacquer and art decal kit. The kit will include three gorgeous shades, Prinnie’n’Pink, Hello Yellow and Kava, a high-gloss top coat and an exclusive set of Art Class decals featuring crowns, diamonds and Hello Darling’s signature bow decals. 
Pop princess Prinnie Stevens said: “I am so excited to be working with Hello Darling. I have never found the bright nail colors that I wanted so I was thrilled to get the opportunity to create them! I feel that encapsulates the brightness and fun of Aussie summertime.” 


Hello Darling, co-founder Heather Snodgrass-Brine said: “We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Prinnie on this  nail kit. From the get-go, we all just clicked as a team and bonded over color combinations and decal designs. We can honestly say it's been a match made in nail polish heaven!” Girls all across Australia can all have a taste of singing pop sensation Prinnie Stevens’ style, when her nail line Prinnie went on sale on Monday, 5 November. 
"We appreciate that while her star is rising she's also a fashionista in her own right, Prinnie is a hard working Australian mum who isn't afraid to put in the hard yards for what she wants. That's something that is very much aligned with our company values, and resonated with both Kim and I as businesswomen," she said. 


Hello Darling nail lacquers are 5-free of chemicals, use absolutely NO toulene, formaldehyde/formaldehyde resin, DBP or camphor and are animal testing & cruelty free. All Hello Darling products are manufactured in Australia, and available in selected retail outlets across  Australia for $19.95. 
Hello Darling is a beauty brand making the world beautiful, one nail at a time. Founded in Sydney by Heather Snodgrass-Brine and Kim McKay who both had something in common, a serious nail polish addiction. After over a year in development, Hello Darling launched in December 2011 and has fast become a cult favorite of both international fashionistas and manicurists alike. Their seasonal collections for both Australian and International markets are not just inspired by the latest trends, but also culture, nature, art, jewellery,  music…wherever beauty can be found and translated into color, shape and texture. 

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Chantecaille Les Pétales Lumière de Rose

Chantecaille Les Pétales Lumière de Rose

Chantecaille gives a soft luminizing powder for the holiday season,  one that has a glow to totally illuminate your skin and so versatile for areas around the face, part highlighter and part eye shadow, the softly shimmery shade gives eyes, cheekbones, and brow bones a radiant finish. Inspired by the marvelously soft color and texture of crushed rose petals, Les Pétales’ kaleidoscope of colorful powders blend seamlessly onto the skin, offering a subtle veil of radiance. Swipe across eyelids, brow bones, cheek bones, and temples for an all-over glow, or use in just one region to highlight your favorite feature.

The soft texture blends into skin and lasts all day.  A gold compact, with an etched rose top, slips easily into your makeup bag. The rose champagne shade is designed to flatter all skin tones. While light-reflecting particles create a subtle gleam, triglycerides soften skin. The creamy consistency stays put and blends seamlessly with your tinted moisturizer, foundation, or bare skin and easy to use .


Chantecaille has created this limited-edition highlighting powder that will brighten up your powder room use ii to contour and highlight the frame of the face or eyes, use in addition to the Cheek Shades for an added glowing finish, and Chantecaille Les Pétales Lumière de Rose has flexible polymers that help provide a lasting comfortable wear product.

Friday, December 7, 2012

Dior Cheri Bow Collection – Spring 2013

Dior Cheri Bow Collection â€" Spring 2013

Dressed with the bow that Christian Dior adored â€" a throwback to games of love and chance, feminine avatar of the bow tie and an homage to the ribbons worn by the Duchesse de Fontanges, the Chérie Bow collection unfurls…pretty as pink. The couturier found pink to be “the softest of colours”, the colour “of happiness and femininity”. He continually reinvented its hues, from tender ballerina to hot and shocking. Pink received its first couture initials: CD. With Chérie Bow, pink flirts with smoky black and anthracite grey…Pink, black, grey… The palette glows, the harmonies contrast against the skin. Dior spiced up its spring 2013 makeup collection using stylish bows as inspiration and the result is sweetness overload! Check out the pink-grey tone Cherie Bow collection.

The detail that has been adored by the Christian Dior label, the bow, inspired Dior's creative makeup director Tyen to create an ultra-feminine makeup collection that packs the elegance, naturalness and refinement exuded by this particular ever present detail in the world of fashion.


Dior's spring 2013 makeup collection titled 'Chérie Bow' has sweetness overload written all over as the bow accents are introduced not only through the design of the packages, but also through color. Pink and grey accents that ooze naturalness and that still pack that glamour and couture feel that make Dior makeup a definite must for beauty addicts make the spring 2013 makeup collection a delight to watch.

I dare you to age Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème

I dare you to age Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème

It has been about a year now since Sodashi  launched their very successful Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Crème, which has received excellent reviews from Sodashi users. Now the windows to the soul are treated with the new Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye Crème.  Not given as a throw away line, but regular use will  dramatically boost skin cell renewal to tone, firm and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles if that is your goal.


Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye Crème

This is Sodashi’s most powerful de‐ageing formula to transform and reawaken the delicate skin surrounding the eyes. A unique alchemy of pure plant ingredients blended with rose quartz crystal water, it dramatically restores the skin’s luminosity and natural resilience after just a few weeks, to deliver exceptional results to visibly smooth fine lines and wrinkles.


Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye CrèmeThe Sodashi ingredient list includes Centella Oil that will increase collagen production and enhance micro-circulation, Rose Oil to soothe the skin and repair broken capillaries, these capillaries can be so prevalent in the under eye area, giving those dreaded dark shadows. Finally Rosewood Oil, a powerful cell stimulant, to boost skin’s elasticity. As with  Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Crème, the eye treatment comes with two petite rose quartz crystals, which are used to massage the eye area using a series of movements ( PDF file attached below) founded in Ayurvedic healing.Sodashi founder Megan LarsonThe Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Facial Treatment is perfect way to experience the Samadaraâ„¢ Crèmes  the treatments are available at many of the Four Seasons Spas around the world. Within this protocol the spa therapists uses the powerful anti-ageing product Samadaraâ„¢ Crème and a thermal mask that heats to body temperature allowing the product to infuse into the skin. This facial treatment involves a series of signature Sodashi facial massages with Rose Quartz Crystals to de-stress the skin; it visibly turns back the hands of time and leaves the skin looking radiant. 

Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème is Sodashi’s most powerful de‐ageing formula to transform and reawaken the delicate skin surrounding the eyes.The Samadara™ Eye Technique is a sequence of timeless anti-ageing movements founded in Ayurvedic healing. The technique pivots around the Samadara™ Point, a powerful healing point located beside the temple. Directions: Apply Samadara™ Eye Crème to the skin surrounding the eyes. Using the petite Rose Quartz Crystals, massage the Crème into the skin following the Samadara™ Eye Technique below:

Samadara eye techniques brochure

I dare you to age Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème

I dare you to age Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème

It has been about a year now since Sodashi  launched their very successful Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Crème, which has received excellent reviews from Sodashi users. Now the windows to the soul are treated with the new Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye Crème.  Not given as a throw away line, but regular use will  dramatically boost skin cell renewal to tone, firm and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles if that is your goal.


Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye Crème

This is Sodashi’s most powerful de‐ageing formula to transform and reawaken the delicate skin surrounding the eyes. A unique alchemy of pure plant ingredients blended with rose quartz crystal water, it dramatically restores the skin’s luminosity and natural resilience after just a few weeks, to deliver exceptional results to visibly smooth fine lines and wrinkles.


Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye CrèmeThe Sodashi ingredient list includes Centella Oil that will increase collagen production and enhance micro-circulation, Rose Oil to soothe the skin and repair broken capillaries, these capillaries can be so prevalent in the under eye area, giving those dreaded dark shadows. Finally Rosewood Oil, a powerful cell stimulant, to boost skin’s elasticity. As with  Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Crème, the eye treatment comes with two petite rose quartz crystals, which are used to massage the eye area using a series of movements ( PDF file attached below) founded in Ayurvedic healing.Sodashi founder Megan LarsonThe Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Facial Treatment is perfect way to experience the Samadaraâ„¢ Crèmes  the treatments are available at many of the Four Seasons Spas around the world. Within this protocol the spa therapists uses the powerful anti-ageing product Samadaraâ„¢ Crème and a thermal mask that heats to body temperature allowing the product to infuse into the skin. This facial treatment involves a series of signature Sodashi facial massages with Rose Quartz Crystals to de-stress the skin; it visibly turns back the hands of time and leaves the skin looking radiant. 

Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème is Sodashi’s most powerful de‐ageing formula to transform and reawaken the delicate skin surrounding the eyes.The Samadara™ Eye Technique is a sequence of timeless anti-ageing movements founded in Ayurvedic healing. The technique pivots around the Samadara™ Point, a powerful healing point located beside the temple. Directions: Apply Samadara™ Eye Crème to the skin surrounding the eyes. Using the petite Rose Quartz Crystals, massage the Crème into the skin following the Samadara™ Eye Technique below:

Samadara eye techniques brochure

Thursday, December 6, 2012

I dare you to age Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème

I dare you to age Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème

It has been about a year now since Sodashi  launched their very successful Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Crème, which has received excellent reviews from Sodashi users. Now the windows to the soul are treated with the new Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye Crème.  Not given as a throw away line, but regular use will  dramatically boost skin cell renewal to tone, firm and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles if that is your goal.


Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye Crème

This is Sodashi’s most powerful de‐ageing formula to transform and reawaken the delicate skin surrounding the eyes. A unique alchemy of pure plant ingredients blended with rose quartz crystal water, it dramatically restores the skin’s luminosity and natural resilience after just a few weeks, to deliver exceptional results to visibly smooth fine lines and wrinkles.


Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Eye CrèmeThe Sodashi ingredient list includes Centella Oil that will increase collagen production and enhance micro-circulation, Rose Oil to soothe the skin and repair broken capillaries, these capillaries can be so prevalent in the under eye area, giving those dreaded dark shadows. Finally Rosewood Oil, a powerful cell stimulant, to boost skin’s elasticity. As with  Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Crème, the eye treatment comes with two petite rose quartz crystals, which are used to massage the eye area using a series of movements ( PDF file attached below) founded in Ayurvedic healing.Sodashi founder Megan LarsonThe Samadaraâ„¢ Ultimate Age-Defying Facial Treatment is perfect way to experience the Samadaraâ„¢ Crèmes  the treatments are available at many of the Four Seasons Spas around the world. Within this protocol the spa therapists uses the powerful anti-ageing product Samadaraâ„¢ Crème and a thermal mask that heats to body temperature allowing the product to infuse into the skin. This facial treatment involves a series of signature Sodashi facial massages with Rose Quartz Crystals to de-stress the skin; it visibly turns back the hands of time and leaves the skin looking radiant. 

Samadara™ Ultimate Age‐Defying Eye Crème is Sodashi’s most powerful de‐ageing formula to transform and reawaken the delicate skin surrounding the eyes.The Samadara™ Eye Technique is a sequence of timeless anti-ageing movements founded in Ayurvedic healing. The technique pivots around the Samadara™ Point, a powerful healing point located beside the temple. Directions: Apply Samadara™ Eye Crème to the skin surrounding the eyes. Using the petite Rose Quartz Crystals, massage the Crème into the skin following the Samadara™ Eye Technique below:

Samadara eye techniques brochure

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

SHOW OFF MASCARA from Beauty Addicts

SHOW OFF MASCARA from Beauty Addicts

There is an old adage ' a bad workman always blames his tools." so whether it is a lip brush, eyeshadow applicator, make up sponge we all have to understand, how was this product made and  how do I get the best out of it. I was told once that most ( not all)  electrical equipment is broken by the user's rough handling of the equipment itself. Saying that lets look at mascara, it is important to understand the difference in a brush, our actual eyelash length, the correct use and application of a mascara, to get the results we want those results could be lenght, depth or volume.

I always like to see the team of Beauty Addicts at any trade show, and recently they were attending Cosmoprof Asia 2012 in Hong Kong one of their products SHOW OFF MASCARA  I had not seen so I was keen to review, they really do have  brush to look at.

Here are a few points I like about SHOW OFF MASCARA so if you are good workman with your tools consider some of these points. This is a mascara that doesn't test on animals. Not only is it humanitarian, but common knowledge is that animal-tested products doesn't make them fool-proof. So why waste your time?  Get the right type of mascara. Mascaras have signs on the side indicating whether they will give your lashes volume and/or length and/or color and/or definition. If you want volume and really understand volume this is for you , the brush is a clear indicator.

So that your lashes are ready to take on the amount of product SHOW OFF MASCARA can give you, consider curling your lashes.  Gradually, gently curl little sections from root to tip. while you are GENTLY holding down your lashes, squeeze one or two times GENTLY before moving on.This looks natural.



Start the brush at the base of your lashes and slowly wiggle the brush back and forth while you slowly sweep them up. Use more than one layer. Also, applying one or two coats is not a bad idea and don't be worry if you need three or four.  Swipe your brush from the inner corner of your eye to the outer lashes to make your lashes more full. Don't stab at your SHOW OFF MASCARA when you replace the wand into the tube, lift the wand gently from the tube, its not a tire and does not need pumping up. SHOW OFF MASCARA will have plenty of product on the brush when you lift it from the tube, look down into the mirror when you apply so that you do not get the 'lash smudge" on your upper lid. Always give your self time, with volume mascaras you are dealing with a different brush that holds more product on the brush.



A mascara needs to be replaced every 3 - 6 months but if you think about your makeup tool you, how clean are your lashes before you apply a fresh coat, taking time to apply the product to get volume but not over the top, you will get the volume you want,and that should  always be the right amount. Don't go crazy with volume mascaras applying coat after coat if your lashes are long already then go easy, if short lashes give your self a few coats.

So is  SHOW OFF MASCARA a creamy volume product?  yes it is and you can get the most out of it by understanding your beauty tools, and using them as they were designed to be used and become a Beauty Addict!