Seasonal Favourites Spring 2015

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#narsissist, Charlotte Tilbury KISSING Fallen From The Lipstick Tree lipstick, Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Pink Venus, Dolce and Gabbana Rosebud, First Aid Beauty Face Cleanser, First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream, Hakuhodo Eye Brush, Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate, NARS, NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation, NARS Audacious Lipsticks, Rancé Rose de Rose, seasonal favourites, Spring 2015

We’re almost mid summer already and it’s just about the right moment to bring you my most loved/modt used items, this past season. So here you have my Spring 2015 Favourites!

– NARS Michyio – NARS Greta– NARS Juliette – Charlotte Tilbury Coachella Coral– Charlotte Tilbury Velvet Underground – Charlotte Tilbury So Marilyn

My most loved makeup products were my lipsticks, this season as well! No surprise there, right!

The ones that had the most impact on me were the NARS Audacious Lipsticks which I adore and I wore almost every day for the past couple of months! My favourites were Juliette, Natalie and Michyio!

[ Well, I loved them this much that I had a marathon week of posts featuring a NARS Audacious Lipstick, every day of the week! Start reading about that here, with Monday of course! ]

When I wasn’t wearing any of these, the one I had on my lips was the Charlotte Tilbury K.I.S.S.I.N.G. Lipstick in Coachella Coral, a lovely Spring colour, amazing all by itself or over another Charlotte Tilbury favourite of mine – the Lip-Cheat Lip Liner in Pink Venus!

My base of choice was another one from NARS! The new and gorgeous All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation, a surprising discovery that has become a staple in my makeup routine in the shortest time!

Another makeup item and one I came back to this Spring as well was the Dolce and Gabbana blush in #33 Rosebud! This is such a lovely natural flush of colour, excellent for a natural, fresh look!

To take care of my skin I really enjoyed the First Aid Beauty Face Cleanser and the combination of the Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate as a serum and the First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream.

My perfume of choice was Rancé’s Rose de Rose, a “mature” rose scented perfume.

My makeup tools I enjoyed the most were, another no surprise, my Hakuhodo Eye Brushes especially my J5523 and J142.

This is it for this post lovelies! Make sure you check my other Seasonal Favourites here and here!

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie

DIOR Vernis #244 Majesty, from the Spring 2015 Collection Kingdom of Colours

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dior, Dior Vernis #244 Majesty, nail polish, Pastelise Kingdom of Colours Spring 2015 Collection, Spring 2015

I haven’t done a post on a nail polish in a while! Simply because when it comes to wearing nail polish in the colder months I’m not too creative choosing colours.

I mainly go for dark, deep reds and plums ( you can see my Autumn picks here ) and golden glitters for the Winter Holidays ( see this year’s gorgeous picks here and here ), and going on with the same themes until the weather shows me it’s finally Spring… Then I take out my lovely pastels and nudes to celabrate that! ( see some of my favourite picks here, here and here ).

The Dior Kingdom of Colours Spring 2015 Collection came out with three nail polish shades: #244 Majesty, #294 Lady and #660 Glory and a graphic Top Coat Eclosion called #001 Blossom.

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My pick was #244 Majesty. It was the one that appealed to me the most because I thought it was the most particular of all the colours, the happiest and the most Spring-appropriate.

Lady is a pretty neutral shade, but I already have Incognito which is very, very similar to that ( see the review here for comparison )! I wasn’t looking for a red shade even if Glory has a lot of pink in it! As for the Top Coat, for as pretty and fun as it is I was sure that I wouldn’t reach for it too much, since I’m not too dramatic/creative ( again! ) *to be red lazy!*, when it comes to doing my nails! Plus I’m working in an environment where bright, “elaborate” nails aren’t too appreciated!

Back to Majesty now! It is a beautiful luminous peachy-pink shade with an amazing glossy finish, as all the new reformulated Dior nail polishes are.

I will have to warn you though that this is a shade that will not go opaque in just one coat. So to achieve that opaque effect on the nails I do need a good three to four coats! But I also love the semi-transparency only two coats give to the nails, as I believe it makes them look very fresh and clean! 

The new Dior Vernis formula is thicker, glossier and fast-drying.

Enriched with techno-polymers, they transform each coat of polish into a film as smooth and as shiny as glass and creates a seamless bond between the nail and the polish. The added organic silicon strengthens the nail surface for extremely long staying power. On me, Dior nail polishes last for a full week witout major chipping, just the usual washing off on the tips of the nails. Pretty good, right?! 

Also, the new formula is toluene, formaldehyde, phthalates and camphor FREE.

Mani ready, we only need Spring around here!

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie

Looking for the Scent of Spring… Rancé Rose de Rose Perfume

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Beautik Haute Parfumerie, perfume, Rancé, Rancé Rose de Rose, rose, Spring 2015, vanilla

I bet you’ve all heard about transitional makeup, transitional skincare… but never had the idea of thinking about a transitional perfume! I for sure, didn’t payed too much attention to the matter… until this year when we had the longest winter ever! Snow mid-April?! Seriously?!

So, I couldn’t wear my heavy winter perfumes because in my mind we should’ve had Spring weather! I couldn’t wear light floral perfumes either because, again, in my mind it was too cold for that… Until I’ve rediscovered this lovely scent by Rancé – Rose de Rose.

It is the perfect mixture of warm and floral notes, so I think it embodies the best of both worlds!

Rose de Rose is a Floral-Oriental perfume, elegant and convincing at the same time!

It opens with gorgeous Bulgarian, Grasse and Turkish rose notes – that if you ask me, I can still sense even after it dries down and lets the sensual wooden notes combined with the most delicious, soft and creamy vanilla, rule over your olfactory senses. But before getting to that, the scented picture is completed by the most precious and pure scents of a Spring garden: jasmin from Grasse, Malaca ylang-ylang, tuberose.

The waves of scents are subtle yet strong, powerful and enticing, and they come together in one perfect perfume to create sublime olfactory sensations, vibrant yet fragile and sensual energies, that will carry you away to an unforgettable warm place, where you’ll find yourself surrounded by flowers and spices.

The 100 ml matte glass bottle is the proof of absolute elegance, the main asset of royalty. Adorned with the perfect jewels that make a gorgeous crown star, this perfume is part of a series of three perfumes Jeanne Sandra Rancé named Rance 1795 Les Étoiles Collection. Precious as diamonds the collection was created for passionate and elegant women who prefer the aristocratic style.

See you soon, beautiful!

x, Annie

 

 

 

 

 

INTERESTING FACTS:

–  the Rancé family has a tradition of over 200 years and 10+ generations of perfumiers

– the founder, François Rancé dedicated two of his perfumes to Napoleon Bonaperte and to the love of his life, Josephine. It was the early 1800…

– later on, François‘ son, created a perfume dedicated to Napoleon’s only son, François Charles, King of Rome and named it after him

– the street in Grasse, France where the laboratories of the company functioned, was named Rue Rancé

– Jeanne Sandra Rancé is the name of the current perfumeur of the House of Rancé, heire of the Rancé empire