Archive for the ‘Make-up’ Category

17 Limited Edition Vintage Eye Palettes

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

17 have recently released two limited edition ‘Vintage Love’ Eye Palette’s both of which pay homage to Spring/Summer catwalk looks from designers such as Preen and Donna Karen. The Pretty Pastels Palette is a combination of light pastel shades including a soft mint green, a subtle ice cream pink and a light dove grey, all read more »

The Sandstorm collection by Topshop

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Earlier this month Topshop released the follow up to their very grungesque ‘Heavy Duty’ collection with ‘Sandstorm’, a fusion of sugar pinks, aqua blues and light summery metallics. The collection features 13 key pieces ranging from eyeshadow mousse through to nail polish duos, all in on trend seasonal colours which have trickled down from the read more »

No7 Beautifully Matte Foundation – £13.50

Friday, February 4th, 2011

No7 have literally been firing out new product releases left right and centre for the past few months. First of all it was their Exceptional Definition Mascara, then the new and improved Instance Radiance Foundation followed by the Exquisite Curl Mascara and now we have the new Limited Edition Spring Colour Collection and the product read more »

Rimmel – The Max Bold Curves (£6.69)

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Rimmel’s most recent mascara offering comes in the form their new Max Bold Curves formula which promises 40x volume and 70 per cent lift all thanks to their new mess free clump free formula and the new bold lift brush which features perfect fit technology (apparently this means the bristles are flexible and lift each read more »

Could it be magic?

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Benefit’s Magic Ink liner is a liquid formula which is perfect for eyeliner junkies who want to achieve the perfect cat eyed effect. Though I’m usually a fan of slightly thicker sturdier brushes, the super thin brush that comes with Magic Ink gives you the option of deciding whether you want a thin sleek line read more »

Online Beauty Bargains

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days you will have seen on the news the hoards of people who have braved the post Christmas sales, with some fearless shoppers even queuing overnight so they were first in line for the opening of both the Harrods and Selfridges sales. If like read more »

Does YSL Touche Eclat have a dupe?

Friday, November 26th, 2010

The title of this post may appear laughable to some. After all, the world famous Touche Eclat by Yves Saint Laurent (£24) has been the make-up bag holy grail to women for years. It’s been coined the ‘Eight Hours of Sleep magic wand’ by make-up artists and beauty lovers alike, banishing tired looking eyes and read more »

For eyes that ‘smolder’

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Here at beauty Resource HQ we are currently lusting after the new eye palettes from Bobbi Brown. ‘Smoldering’ (£34) is our palette of choice for the festive party season, full of versatile colours which allow you to step away from your old faithful neutral or smoky eye looks and create something a little different. The read more »

MACs Venomous Villains Collection

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Bad has never looked so good… MACs limited edition collections have been so frequent, lacklustre and troublesome to pick up of late that we had actually began to loose interest in all the gimmicks and have instead been focussing our attention on the very underrated main line. Well it would seem MAC read our minds read more »

e.l.f’s Autumn offerings

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Lipstick lover’s are in for a treat this autumn because our favourite low cost, high quality brand e.l.f (eyes lips face) have just pre-launched their new lippie range (limited stock available). If you are yet to cross paths with e.l.f they aptly describe themselves as a ‘revolutionary new beauty company’ who launched back in 2004 read more »