In the mood for Spring – annie’s beauty… 2016 Very Pink Beauty Edit

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!!!FAIR WARNING!!!

!!!THIS POST IS HEAVILY PINK!!!

Despite the dreary weather, I’m so inspired by the optimistic pinks of spring lately… I wear pink makeup, my pink trench coat and I love the pink sakura flowers in bloom ( Japan is a miracle of nature at this time of the year! )… So I had to write a pink-inspired post, with all the lovely makeup products I’m loving and definitely recommend to all of you to use right now!

Let’s start our pink adventure with:

• DIOR Diorskin Star Foundation, shade 010 Ivory. Although I’m not the biggest fan of pink undertones foundation as I think it accentuates rosiness in my face in a not so flattering way, this foundation is the exception! It has the perfect amount of pink in it,  not to make me look as if I’m burning on the inside… Love the luminous, fresh and healthy finish and of course, the compliments I always get while wearing it!
• pink cheeks: responsible for that is my absolutely favourite blush of all time, the HOURGLASS Ambient Lighting Blush in shade Ethereal Glow. It pairs with my pale skin to perfection, enhancing its qualities.
• pink eyes: until I’ll have my hands on the most beautiful BY TERRY Ombre Blackstar in Bubble Gum, launched with their Spring 2016 Collection, I will have to settle for my second favourites, the BURBERRY Sheer Eyeshadow Tea Rose No.11 and BURBERRY Tea Rose No.200 Eye Colour Wet&Dry Silk Shadow ( the new formula ), with a dash of the TOM FORD Cream Color For Eyes in 03 Sphinx for the most incredible mother-of-pearl effect ( review coming soon! ).
• pink lips: that’s the tough one as the choice is limitless… I managed to narrow my bright pink lipstick choices in my previous post, so please click the link to check that one as well! I really appreciate it!
• pink perfume: I go for lighter perfumes now. I’m not the floral type-sweet type of girl, since I’m not the “most girly girl” either! So I do like a bit of a floral scent, but a deep, earthy, aromatic one… A floral with a twist! My latest obsession being the MAISON FRANCIS KURKDJIAN Amyris Pour Femme, the most sensual and feminine perfume for spring! Take note! I said “feminine” not “girly”!

Enough pink already!!!

Now it’s time to share your favourite spring colours and items! Let’s properly welcome spring here, on annie’s beauty…! 

See you soon, Beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

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5 Bright Lipsticks for Spring feat. TOM FORD, NARS, CHARLOTTE TILBURY, CHANEL, BURBERRY

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We’re hardly seeing signs of spring these days in Romania, with the cold and dreary weather we’re having outside, but I just happen to have the cure for that! No, I can’t bring you warm and bright weather, but I still can brighten your sight with some of the most beautiful lipsticks in my collection.

Cheers for bright lipstick, cheers for spring and warm weather that’s excellent for wearing them! Let’s just hope we’ll have that soon as well!

My picks will contain some old favourites as well as a new one I only wore a couple of times and I love already and an honourable mention, which is not pictured here by mistake, but it’s definitely an amazing choice!

1. the BURBERRY Lip Glow in Mallow Pink No.19 – you must’ve seen me talking about this one every single spring ( and summer) since I started blogging, because it’s simply one of my favourites. It’s bright, it’s pink, it’s glossy, fresh and young, and I will probably wear it this year as well… although *whispers* I might definitely need to throw it away and get me a new one! *wink*
2. CHARLOTTE TILBURRY K.I.S.S.I.N.G. Fallen From The Lipstick Tree in Coachella Coral it’s a bright and happy peachy pink colour, that will put a colour instantly on your face. I’ve been in doubt wether to choose Coachella Coral or to go for the MATTE Revolution Lost Cherry… I settled for Coachella Coral, but for the sake of Lost Cherry which I absolutely adore, I will call it my honourable mention.
3. NARS Audacious Lipstick MICHIYO. My girl Michiyo is the boldest and brightest of them all! A statement lip, that’s what I can say when wearing it! A cooll toned fuchsia pink, in the most amazing creamy-matte formulation you’ll ever have the chance to try. Definitely recommend it!
4. the TOM FORD Patent Finish Lip Color 07 Erotic has the whole sensuality and grace of the Tom Ford brand concentrated in this little product here. Extremely glossy, so soft on the lips, not tacky at all, gives your lips the most “erotic” colour, I’m sure you’ll find it so hard to resist to! ( The review on this one will be up soon, so keep your eyes away from Erotic and point them at annie’s beauty…! Haha! )
5. and the last choice it had to be a red of course… But not any red! Away from all those winter/festive and deep/autumn reds, now I need a bright red with some not exaggerated orange undertones in it to cheer me up, especially on a gloomy day!… And like the perfect gentleman the CHANEL Rouge Coco 440 Arthur took its name after, here you have it to save the day. Merci Monsieur!

And we’re up to 5 already!

What do you think of my picks? Did they cheer you up a little? Please cheer me up as well, and share your favourites in the Comments below!

Have a bright and happy day/week, Beautiful! Stay positive no matter what and…

See you soon!

xx, Annie

 

 

 

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Breaking news! CHARLOTTE TILBURY – New excinting launches coming soon!!!

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Miss Charlotte sure does know how to make a girl happy!

After the announcement of the new Hot Lips line of lipsticks launching at the beginning of this summer ( see all the new shades and all the details you need, here ) and the #lipstick confidence campaign a while back, Charlotte Tilbury has a couple more new and exciting brand new products launching soon as well!

This is the new The 5-Minute Face On-The-Go – the “instant look in a palette”. This is a very compact palette, made out of Charlotte Tilbury‘s most selled/essential products… And I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that if you haven’t tried her Filmstar Bronze & Glow ( one of my favourite bronzing and highlighting products; my review here ), you can find it here along with three gorgeous eyeshadows and a Swish & Pop Blusher ( read the review on my Charlotte Tilbury blushes, here )…

Definitely a lot to try and definitely enough for some natural or smoky makeup looks, good to achieve that “weekend face” effortlessly.

The 5-Minute Face On-The-Go will be available starting next week, 11th of April and it retails for the price of 49£ / 69€.

For those of you that are a bit too impatient, it’s already available on preorder here, until midnight tonight!

You’re welcome!

Another new product coming out soon is the Legendary Brow, a brow definer with the tiniest brush and a special formulation, meant to give your eyebrow the most natural definition without that “Instagram brows” fake effect we’re seeing everywhere lately. If you don’t know what I mean, please check this post here! You’ll definitely have a good laugh!

This tiny brush, and the packaging itself, was designed to pick up the right amount of product and deposit it on the tiniest hairs you “had no idea they were there”! And who doesn’t want effortlessly natural, full and awesome eyebrows without looking like a clown?!

And the last Charlotte Tilbury product and the one I’m personally the most excited about, is The Legendary Lashes Mascara. I’m obsessed with mascara and if I choose not to wear makeup one day, I definitely apply at least a tiny coat of that and some lip balm and I’m ready to face the world!

The Legendary Lashes it has special waxes in it that will instantly give you the aspect of individually applied false lashes, but in the most natural way! It coats the lashes, it builds up the volume around them, forcing them to lift up and stay like that all day.

… At least that’s what it promises! And I have never used a Charlotte Tilbury product that didn’t honoured its promises this far! Anyway, I’m all after that “open-eye/bright awake” look, especially in certain mornings when sleep is not enough!

This mascara will be available from the 6th of May 2016 on.

These are for now the new exciting launches Charlotte Tilbury worked on for the longest time and is now ready to delight us with!

What do you think? Which one caught your attention?

As always, thanks for reading!

See you soon, Beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

 

 

 

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FOTD October 2015 – Happy Halloween kids!

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Happy Halloween my children from your Dracula’s Wife for the day!

We’re not traditionally celebrating Halloween here in Romania; it’s one of the holidays imported from other parts of the world, as one always does! Any excuse to throw a party is more than welcome, right!?

Anyway, it’s my second Halloween as a beauty blogger so I thought I’d create this vampire inspired look! What else to expect from a descendant of the Prince of Darkness?!

Well, it looks classier and more approachable than my original “husband”‘s appearance – if you ask me! But I hope you like it as well!

PRODUCTS USED*:

FACE:

• DIOR Diorskin Star Foundation, shade 010
• NARS Creamy Concealer, shade Light2 Vanilla
• HOURGLASS Ambient Lighting Powder Palette shades Dim Light to give my face some dimension and Incandescent Light for highlighting purposes
• HOURGLASS Ambient Lighting Blush in Mood Exposure

BROWS:

• BURBERRY Effortless Eyebrow Definer shade Sepia No.2

EYES:

• TOM FORD Cream and Powder Eye Color 03 Golden Peach as a base
• MAC Coppering Eyeshadow
• MAC Wedge as a transition colour
• CHARLOTTE TILBURY Colour Chameleon in Bronzed Garnet and BURBERRY Effortless Kohl in shade Stone No.2 to line my waterline
• TOM FORD Eye Defining Pen 01 Deeper
• CHANEL Le Volume de Chanel Mascara Waterproof 10 Black

LIPS:

• ESTÉE LAUDER Pure Color Envy Matte Lipstick 130 Desirous

TOOLS:

• Beauty Blender
• NARS Yachio brush
• Hakuhodo J142 blending brush
• Tom Ford #11 Eyeshadow brush and #Smokey Eye brush
• Shu Uemura S Lash Curler

That would be all for now! But before you leave, please let me know what will your Halloween costume be like this year? What about your makeup?

See you soon, Beautiful!

Happy Halloween! 

xx, Annie

 

 

*All the products used for this FOTD have reviews here, on annie’s beauty… Enjoy them lovelies! 

 

 

 

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Switching to Autumn colours… The 2015 Edit

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– image courtesy of fragrantica.com

In terms of beauty, Autumn for me means only two things: colours and scents!

I will have to leave behind last Summer’s glowing skin, the bold, orange-reds and neon-pinks and replace them with earthy-toned blushers, copper, brown and purple eyeshadows and lips to vary from deep reds to vampy plums!

A true delight for the eyes nonetheless!

Here is the colour scheme that will guide me through this season, completed by an Edit of products that will definitely stand out to me… And of course you will be seeing them a lot in my upcoming posts!

Earthy Browns:

• GIVENCHY Le Rouge Brun Createur, a new CHANEL Coco Shine from Les Autumnales 2015 Collection, BITE Beauty High Pigment Pencil Sand, DIOR Vintage and Grège – for the lips, BURBERRY Earthy for the cheeks and an array of brown eyeshadows from BURBERRY, BY TERRY, CHANEL, CHARLOTTE TILBURY and NARS ( check them out with all the swatches here ). 

Burnt Oranges and Coppers:

• MAC Eyeshadow in Coppering and as blushers BURBERRY Tangerine and HOURGLASS’ Dim Infusion, plus a certain CHANEL blush from the same Les Automnales 2015 Collection

Deep Reds and Wines:

• will be my lips with TOM FORD Crimson Noir, CHARLOTTE TILBURY Walk of Shame, BURBERRY Oxblood, CHARLOTTE TILBURY So Marylin and NARS and again, a CHANEL Rouge Coco Shine from the same Les Automnales Collection 
• the eyes will look glamorous with the CHARLOTTE TILBURY The Dolce Vita reddish-browns

Plums and Taupes:

• the BURBERRY Sheer Eyeshadows ( the old formula ), BY TERRY Ombre Blackstar and Chanel will be my first choices ( see the actual products with swatches here ), plus a gorgeous NARS Duo Eyeshadow in Mélusine that’s been waiting to be properly used for quite some time now
• lips TOM FORD Alasdhair and Pussycat, some NARS Audacious Lipsticks that are yet to arrive and of course, the ESTÈE LAUDER Insolent Plum. Cheeks: the reduced to pieces HOURGLASS Mood Exposure.

As for Scents, the fresh, zesty, Summer florals will have to step aside for now and make room for those deeper, smokier, sensual and sultry notes of oud, amber, incense, figs, blackcurrants – the accords of which will combine deliciously into a whole that will compliment perfectly the smell of the falling leaves, in the misty Autumn mornings.

For that I will recur to my beloved Maison Francis Kurkgjian Oud ( the perfume I’ve been waiting to explore my whole life ), my trusty Escentric Molecules 01 – the one I usually layer with other perfumes in my collection because I simply adore the gorgeous smokiness and depth it adds to the most average scent and my most recent discovery, which I’m clearly obsessed with – the Terry de Gunzburg Haute Parfumerie, Parti Pris. ( Yes, By Terry does perfume as well as makeup and skincare! )

DIPTYQUE will take over my Home Scents this year with Baies ( of course! ) and the new acquisition the 34 BLVD Saint Germain ( their iconic scent ), but my favourites from BYREDO aren’t too far behind… Bibliothèque and this year’s exclusivist release 1996 will also play their part!

 

Final recap: gorgeous colours and cozy atmosphere will be the coordinates of my Autumn 2015!

 

What will your Autumn look like?

Thank you for reading and as always…

See you soon, Beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

Birthday Presents… CHARLOTTE TILBURY

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Lately, I kept bombarding your Instagram feeds with a lot of Charlotte Tilbury makeup! And there’s a reason for all that! Besides the fact that Charlotte Tilbury‘s makeup is beyond amazing, what I kept from you as my little secret is that as a part of my birthday presents I had the chance to get some more of these goodies!

It’s my first time ordering directly from her official website and I have to admit that the whole experience was delightful. Order received and processed on the same day, shipped the following day, arrived “in the middle of nowhere” in 5 days as stated, with tracking order service and all…

Plus my order came in this beautiful packaging, so carefully wrapped up that I felt it was a shame to ruin it… So I had to Instagram it first obviously, then dig in for the goodies!

The first two items I remember ordering were these two gorgeous eyeshadow palettes. I already owned two The Sophisticate – my first ever Charlotte Tilbury purchase and The Dolce Vita, which was basically the only thing I wore on my lids throughout the holidays. So I got The Vintage Vamp which was on my mind since I got The Dolce Vita ( I intent to do a comparison post featuring the two, already here ), and The Uptown Girl – another one on my wishlist for the longest time.

The quality of Charlotte Tilbury eyeshadows is beyond amazing: buttery smooth and soft, they blend effortlessly on the lids with minor fall-outs, especially from those serious glitters out there.

Then, I’ve never tried the K.I.S.S.I.N.G Fallen From The Lip Stick Tree Lipsticks therefore I had to get me some. Obviously I had to have the nudes first. I am truly impressed with the formula of these, and above all I’ve never used to like “the Kylie Jenner lip” on me… Clearly I hadn’t found THE COLOUR to give me that!… Until now! Here you have pictured the limited edition Confession and the permanent Stoned Rose.

And of course, I had to have a few more shades of the MATTE Revolution Lipstick range. I already own and reviewed Sexy Sienna and it is, by far, the best matte lipstick formula I’ve came across. In this picture you have, top to bottom Lost Cherry, Amazing Grace and Walk of Shame. 

Now I’m waiting for some very, very, very hyped matte lipsticks to arrive in the mail, and I can’t wait to see how those compare to these Charlotte Tilbury little gems!

As you might have seen in my previous Charlotte Tilbury haul, when I placed that order I somehow deleted the Lip Cheat Re-Shape & Re-Size Lip Liner in Pillow Talk from my cart. Clearly I didn’t made that mistake twice! Haha! Gorgeous product! One of the few that really lives up to the hype around it, in my opinion!

By the time I’m writing this post I’ve already tried most of the products here and as an overall impression let me just tell you this: Charlotte Tilbury makeup is one of the best birthday presents a beauty lover can ever receive!

Hope you enjoyed this part of my birthday haul, Beautiful!

See you soon!

xx, Annie

 

 

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My 2014 Favourite… Brands

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To realise that I’m writing the last post I will publish on 2014 is literally overwhelming and equally exciting! My initial plan was to write the usual round up of my Annual Favourite Products post but since I wasn’t able to decide on a decent amount ( hence the flow of pictures in this post! ), it was somehow mandatory to go for a 2014 Favourite Brands instead!

As many of you might know, if you followed me for a while, I am the ultimate makeup snob with obvious tendencies of hoarding, and the brands I’m the most attracted to are mostly high end and luxury, for the most frivolous of reasons… Lovely packaging, limited edition items, scent and lastly the quality of such products which rarely fails me!

So, I also guess it won’t come as a surprise the fact that I will open my post talking about Dior.

Dior has been THE brand of the year for me! If not for other reasons, only for the fact that I repeatedly splurged on some products which instantly became favourites! I love theirnewly reformulated nail polishes, their Christmas limited edition items are like a fairy tale… not to mention the new makeup bits they released this year – the “infamous” Star foundation, the Dior Addict Fluid Sticks, the new reforulated eye shadows…

Those were the reasons I decided to share my Dior favourites with you in this Dior Christmas Giveaway! Have you entered yet?

Oh! And one of the main reasons I love Dior this much it’s also a person, Peter Philips – the Creative and Image Director of Dior Makeup! The man is a makeup genius, his ideas are so innovative and compliment so well, Raf Simons’ creations! I have a few posts about his amazing work here, here and here if you’re interested in the work of this invincible duo!

My next favourite brand had to be, of course, Tom Ford. I love their crazy expensive makeup brushes ( review here and here ) and I use them every single day; almost religiously! I also love the quality of their makeup and their entire perfume range! So to make me choose, would be definitely the hardest thing ever! Here you have some of my favourite Tom Ford lipsticks, I already wrote some reviews on ( links here, here and here ).

And thanks to my lovely friend and blogger Serene, who kindly let me know that Selfridges has a huuuuge Sale going on I finished my year in glory, obviously with another Tom Ford splurge! HAD to!

Now let’s have a little talk about Burberry, shall we?! I love this brand; from the makeup bits, the gorgeous iconic trenches ( Santa was beyond generous this Christmas, if you know what I’m saying!? ), and the softest cashmere scarves everything about this brand screams luxury!

Here you have a few of my beauty favourites: a stack of eyeshadows ( which doubled its amount from the time I took this picture! Uuuupps! ) and two my most used blushes this year: Tangerine and Cameo. I also love their lipsticks formula ( check some reviews here and here )… In fact, as a sneaky preview, I’m going to tell you that I will open my next blogging year precisely with a review on a gorgeous gorgeous lipstick from Burberry, which has become an obsession in a matter of minutes… So make sure you check that out!

My best 2014 makeup discovery was without a doubt Charlotte Tilbury! I got my first product at the beginning of this year and I was hooked ever since! Her eye makeup palettes are easily comparable with my favourite Tom Ford eyeshadows, her blushes give your cheeks the most beautiful flush of colour and a subtle healthy glow, and the formula of her lipsticks, especially the matte ones, is like nothing I have tried before…

You will definitely see more Charlotte Tilbury product reviews in the upcoming months!

Another favourite brand this year was By Terry. I’m loving her makeup makeup products, and our “love story” went on for years now!

But what I love the most this year were the Ombré Blackstars and the Tea to Tan, an innovative bronzer so easy to work with. It kind of made me forget about my favourite Guerlain Terracotta bronzers for a while!

Hourglass oh, Hourglass! I’ve been wanting to try their products for such a long time but it was impossible fro me to reach them because of their shipping policy! Then I discovered the SpaceNK website, and the doors to Heaven opened for me! Here you have probably my most handsome makeup items in my entire collection and that Mood Exposure in the Ambient Lighting Blush Palette is my most used blush in the past months… Also the highlighting shade in the Ambient Lighting Powder Palette, Incandescent Light is my most used highlighter ever!

Maison Francis Kurkdjian was my favourite House of Perfume this year. I loved everything from them from home scents like their scented candles and incense paper to Amyris, my favourite perfume of the year! It’s the most luxurious treat you can offer yourself and to your loved ones! Besides that, my search for a perfume to represent me and my personality ended once I put on Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s Oud! I am happy to admit that I now have a signature scent which is so intimate, particular and different from everything around me!

As for my favourite skincare brand the one I enjoyed the most was Omorovicza, an amazing Hungarian brand with solutions for every skin issues! 

Here is the most amazing lip balm I have tried lately! 

I hope you enjoyed reading about my favourites and I would love to read about yours!

Since this is my last post on 2014, and the beginning of 2015 is a only couple of hours far, I would love to thank you once more for your constant support throughout my first blogging months, for your beautiful friendship, for the lovely conversations and the inspiration I get from you everyday!

Cheers to a new amazing year together, Beautiful!

Lots of xx,

Annie

 

 

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MERRY CHRISTMAS and welcome to annie’s beauty… DIOR GIVEAWAY!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS beautiful!

The last week of 2014 has officially started which also means that there’s only one week until my birthday! Yes, I was born on the 31st of December pretty close to the fireworks!

Looking back, 2014 has been THE year for annie’s beauty…! Well, I’ve been around for 10 months only but I somehow managed to make a good couple of wonderful friends who share the same love for “anything beautiful” as myself, and to whom I can’t wait to write every single day!

That’s why I love and I am thankful for ma belle and très chère ( insert a nasal French accent here ) Jackie – with you I have the best conversations ever, you can check our comments if there’s any doubt about that!; you’ll see that they’re getting longer and longer, to my personal satisfaction.

Serene, thank you lovely for your friendship and for always challenging me out of my comfort zone!

The beautiful Lena whose excellent taste in fashion can’t wait to see with every outfit she puts together in her posts.

There is also Katie, Divya and V. Thank you so much my beautiful ladies for your constant support and friendship!

And last but definitely not least the lovely talker blogger one of my first subscribers/friends here on WordPress… Lots of kisses and hugs my lovely!

And also two of my favourite men… OM who taught me everything I know about blogging so thanks a bunch Jason, and the most talented photographer Paul who always manages to be the first one to hit the Like button whenever I upload a post.

Also a huge THANK YOU to everyone who always supports annie’s beauty… by leaving me the best comments which brighten my day no matter how good or bad that is. I wish I could thank each and every one of you separately but I’m afraid this post would be waaaaaayyy toooo loooong!

 

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So for all of you my beautiful I decided to make this special week even more festive by  giving you something in return, for once!…

Since the brand I loved the most this year ( and by that I mainly intend more than a few splurges ) was Dior my gift to you consists of some of my most loved and most used Dior items throughout the year. Some are 2014 launches some are old favourites I’d love to share with you in this Christmas/Birthday/Festive Dior giveaway…

First of all here is YOUR PRIZE:

– one Dior Healthy Glow Awakening Blush in #001 Petal

– two of the Dior Addict Fluid Sticks, one in #239 Frisson and one in #754 Pandore ( my personal favourite )

– one mascara, the Dior Diorshow New Look in #090 New Look Black

– one eyeliner Dior Addict IT-Line in the Limited Edition #879 IT-PINK

And to spice up a bit the atmosphere I’m also throwing in 3 perfume samples from another brand I discovered this year and I absolutely love, Rancé. We have Élise, Laetitia and Hélène.

Then you have MY GIVEAWAY RULES:

– the giveaway starts the moment this post will be up, which is 25 December 2014 midnight EET and it will end on the 8 January 2015, EET.

– you can enter this giveaway if you’re a subscriber of annie’s beauty… blog ( if not you can subscribe by clicking the Follow button or via email ) and write me a comment about what you like the most on my blog. Also by following annie0ne on Instagram and by re-posting the giveaway official image and tag it with the #anniesbeautydiorchristmasgiveaway. Or if you follow me on Bloglovin but make sure you like this post. Or if you like my Facebook page, like and share the official giveaway photo with the official tag. Or if you follow my Twitter account and also re-post the same giveaway image under the same hashtag, #anniesbeautydiorchristmasgiveaway.

– strictly ONE ( 1 ) entry per person will count

– NO business accounts, NO private profiles, NO fake accounts or giveaway accounts, PLEASE! Such entries will be immediately disqualified. This is only for personal, active accounts!

– giveaway opened internationally

– strictly ONE ( 1 ) Winner will be picked using random.org and announced no later than 15 January 2015 .

– MY decision will be final. MY giveaway, MY rules!

Good luck, beautiful! Have a wonderful Christmas and the Happiest New Year ever!

God bless you all!

xx, Annie

BURBERRY – Colours Made in England for Autumn 2014: The Complete Eye Palette in #12 Nude Blush

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“You stack your jewellery, I stack my Burberry!”, remember this one?! Haha! It’s Burberry review time again and the absolute star of the post is the Complete Eye Palette in #12 Nude Blush.

#12 Nude Blush is one of the two eye shadow palettes Burberry released with the A/W 2014 Collection, called The Bloomsbury Girls. It’s the one closer to the warm nudes I prefere, since the other palette #20 Slate Blue is a cooler-toned blue and grey combination, gorgeous but way out of my comfort zone.

It’s like no other eye shadow palette I have ever seen or owned in my collection. Is the perfect balance of warm and cool shades and finishes ( mattes and satins, with one soft shimmery shade ) which makes it very versatile.

The formulation of each shadow has been customised to give a targeted texture for a specific use: luminising base highlighter ( Shade #1 ), two medium colours to add shape ( Shades #2 and #3 ), and an intense liner ( Shade #4 ).

Shade #1 is a light to mid toned beige, with natural pink-toned undertones with a light satin finish. In some lights it appears more matte than satin, which makes it an amazing highlighting colour.

Shade #2 is a light to medium, a warm bronze copper which does not look orange on the skin, with the ever so subtle shimmers. Amazing all over the lid light colour, with a rather warm, luminous finish than frosty. I often use just this one colour and a deeper one to define my crease and I’m good to go!

Shade #3 is a mid-toned, dusty mauve with a matte finish. It’s somewhere in between Burberry #10 Antique Rose and #11 Tea Rose. It also reminds me of MAC’s Haux eye shadow.

Shade #4 is a dark brownish, deep eggplant colour with a satin finish and gorgeous pink-purple-brown shimmer, not exaggerated at all.

The formula of these eye shadows is made with skin protecting, glide-on ingredients, blended with satin smooth silicones and enriching conditioners. The result being a silky-soft formula easy to apply, which remain vibrant throughout the day.

Since this is my first ever Burberry eye shadow review, let me tell you some things about the packaging too. The Burberry Complete Eye Palette compact gives away the feeling of a very sleek and high quality packaing in its gunmetal finish, with the Burberry iconic check print embossed on the lid, and the Burberry logo written on one side. The magnetic closure is very secure and the closing click is so satisfying! Underneath the lid there is a large, handy mirror. Also, the pouch folds open to reveal in a secret pocket three little applicators, which are actually pretty good ( especially the little blending brush and the angled brush ).

Bottom line, I absolutely love Burberry eye shadows: quality, packaging… Everything as a whole!

Have you ever tried Burberry eye shadows? What do you think about them?

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie 

Loving Nudes #2 TOM FORD Lip Colors #07 Pink Dusk and #13 Blush Nude – All kind of gorgeous nudes…

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#07 Pink Dusk, #13 Blush Nude, #loving nudes, makeup, nude lipstick, review, swatches, Tom Ford, Tom Ford Lip Colours

Episode #2 of Loving Nudes coming your way!

This time we’re talking about one of the most luxurious brands in my entire makeup collection: Tom Ford. Need I say more?! Sorry, I have to!

Tom Ford lipsticks have one of the most comfortable formulas on your lips. They wear amazingly in all seasons, wether is cold or hot… The pigmentation is unbelievable and the application so easy that it isn’t a problem to retouch your lipstick in your car waiting for the green light… like the Lady you are, of course!

Plus, just have a look at that amazingly luxurious packaging! That beautiful mahogany and gold TF iconic packaging which gives you confidence only by looking at it!…

Can you tell I love Tom Ford, can’t you?!

As you may already discovered from reading my posts, the first colours I pick from a new ( to me ) lipstick brand are the nudes then the reds. I think a nude lipstick is the most difficult one to make it work, to make it last, to make you feel good wearing it… And if a good nude does the job… Then that is a win!

My two nudes picks from Tom Ford are from the Lip Color range and they are the #07 Pink Dusk and a glorious #13 Blush Nude. Two different types of nudes but equally amazing!

In the picture above you can see #07 Pink Dusk. In my opinion Pink dusk is a toned-down pink with a tinge of nude/beige to it. Very subtle on my lips, it does not wash me out like most nudes do. It is not quite the stereotypical pink-ish nude you would expect but more of a pale pink.

While Pink Dusk is the pink lipstick with nude/beige undertones, #13 Blush Nude is the opposite. Closer to what I can describe as a proper nude, what makes this lipstick wearable is the amount of warm, pink undertones in it. It is not that kind of ” in-your-face-nude “, and there are less chances to wash you out.

• first swatch is #13 Blush Nude and the second is #07 Pink Dusk

• first lip swatch is #07 Pink Dusk and the second is #13 Blush Nude

Look how different these two nudes swatch on my arm and on my lips! Pay attention especially to Blush Nude! It’s definitely more nude on my lips than on my arm! And let me tell you that my lips are really pigmented! Good thing these lipsticks are so opaque that their colour is not altered!

Please don’t leave before letting me know what are the best nudes for you!

I’m sorry if this post is a bit chatty and less “informative/professional” but, after all, today was a great day for me! And I hope you had a great one too!

See you soon, Beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

 

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