August Favourites

 

August has flown by but I cannot complain as I’m really excited for what September has in store. So to put an end to a cold winter and to kick off spring with style, I thought I would do a August Beauty Favourites post, enjoy. Xx

August launched my love (or obsession) with lip products and these four have been my top picks for the month.

Back row L-R:

NYX Round Lipstick in Fig – A gorgeous deep pink colour, my “beach to bar” lipstick while I was on holidays.

Bloom Sheer Colour Lipstick in Coral – A fab sheer coral that looks beautiful for day time and smells of lollies J I have been wearing this to work and getting many complements.

SLA Rich Bio Lipstick in 11 – Day or night, anything goes with this dusty pink rose colour. SLA’s Bio range is made from all natural ingredients and this lipstick applies nicely and is long lasting.

Front:

Mirenesse Velvet Lip Lift Moisture Shine in Anemone – One of the samples I received in my first Lust Have It box. Officially a lip plumper, my favourite thing about this gloss is the colour; it’s a nice wearable nude pink. True to its name it applies like velvet and has a nice shine. Once on, I do notice that my lips look slightly plump without the annoying tingling or sting.

L-R: NYX Fig, Bloom Coral, SLA 11 and Mirenesse Anemone

Bloom Sheer Colour Cream in Natural

I love cream blushes thanks to Bloom. The Sheer Colour Cream is such a nice wearable colour for both day and night and to apply I use my Sigma Duo Fibre F50 and lightly pat onto cheeks to build the desired look.

NARS Laguna Bronzer and Orgasm Blush

I’ve heard and read the rave reviews time and time again so I finally caved and purchased the infamous bronzer and blush and of course – I love them.

Any NARS lover can understand my devastation when I dropped my Orgasm Blush and it cracked!! In desperation, I jumped onto YouTube and conducted make-up surgery with the “alcohol pressing method” and although (thank goodness) it applies the same… it will never look the same again L.

Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant

Also received in my Lust Have It box (look out for my September box review), I used this product once and I loved how smooth and soft my skin felt instantly after use. The product is a unique rice-based enzyme powder, that when mixed with water creates an exfoliating paste that is gentle enough to use daily but gritty enough to leave your skin smooth and soft. I will be definitely purchasing the full size when I finish my sample.

So what were your beauty favourites for August?

A Saturday with SLA

Last weekend I attended a bloggers event “A Saturday with SLA” at the boutique SLA Makeup Studio in the gorgeous inner Sydney suburb of Balmain.

SLA is a range of professional, natural and organic makeup created by the French make-up artist Serge Louis Alvarez which is produced, manufactured and distributed from the South of France – Ooh La La.  

The SLA Makeup Studio in Sydney is an Australian first, opening in 2009. Its home to an amazing array of SLA products which are available in a large variety of shades and colours and are richly pigmented as most of SLA’s products are of 55-60% pure pigmentation (anything over 60% is permanent) and claim to have great staying power.

After negotiating the city traffic I arrived at the event just in time for the makeup demonstration of the new Sunlight Collection set to be released for Spring/Summer 2011. I fell in love with this collection which screams summer with its mixture of blues, greens and a gorgeous vibrant orange which was demonstrated on fellow blogger Amy from The Makeup Case and made her blue eyes pop! Not a colour I would normally reach for but thanks to SLA I’m loving orange for summer.

I also loved the lip gloss duo palettes which can be worn separately or together to emphasize and create a fuller lip by outlining the lips in the darker shade and filling in with the lighter shade.

Sunlight Collection

The gorgeous shadows of the Sunlight Collection

Amy from The Makeup Case and her look using the Sunlight Collection

SLA have an amazing selection of professional and organic eye shadows that can be purchased in a pre packaged palettes or on their on. For the adventurous beauty, SLA also stock a funky range of chunky glitter pigments and shadows to create a glamorous stage look and I was also drawn toward the beautiful mother of pearl shimmering pigments which are made from crushed mother of pearl – very beautiful.

As I’m going through a lipstick obsession, I couldn’t leave the studio without purchasing a lipstick of my very own. I purchased number 11 from the Rich Bio Lipstick range which is created from all natural ingredients and is dusty pink rose colour - so far so good.

Swatch: Rich Bio Lipstick #11

To end the day, the lovely girls from SLA provided us bloggers a gift bag which included a bronze Pulpy Gloss lip gloss (also from the Bio Organic range), a SLA French manicure kit and two pairs Lummiere Eyelashes – so a huge thank you to Hannah and Nicole from SLA :)

For stockist information visit the Serge Louis Alvarez Website.