New in from Dior | Diorskin Star Foundation & Concealer, Rouge Dior Baume #660 Coquette

Last week I shared with you my experience with the new foundation launches in this post, and I sneakily mentioned my last purchase, the Diorskin Star Foundation, alongside the concealer from the same line and the specially designed sponge. I also picked up one of the new Rouge Dior Baumes, in the shade 660 Coquette. Let’s have a closer look!

Diorskin Star Foundation

As I already mentioned, this foundation is perfect.

I like to apply it with fingers as usual, as with a small pump it covers the skin quickly and evenly, but works well with the designed sponge and my Sephora #56 Brush too.

It covers like medium-full foundation whilst managing to look natural, and controls oil keeping a gorgeous glow.

What is outstanding is the lasting power: it literally lasts all day, from early morning to late at night and it looks amazing from application to removal. I’ve only met a few other products like this, but none of them had that gorgeous natural glow to it. My Benefit Big Easy has been outstanding this summer, but that luminosity surely wasn’t there.

The shade range is not the most estensive but it has some good options, and the shade 020 is perfect for my light but golden skintone and is a really flattering shade.

I have been choosing this one over all the others I own almost on a daily basis, it’s love!

Diorskin Star Concealer

I picked this up because I heard some good things about it, but without too many expectations as I’d been hooked on my Make Up Forever Full Coverage one. Well, I should have had more faith in Dior!

It covers beautifully but is so smooth and moisturizing that is really perfect for the under eye area. It works well on other areas of the face too though, making it a good all rounder.

The biggest problem I have with under eye concealer is the creasing, and I’m happy to repost this does last well! Another winner.

Dior Backstage Blender

This beautiful black sponge looked so intriguing that I couldn’t leave it there, and for less than €15 it wasn’t too expensive either.

Applies this foundation beautifully, but for me is not a must have: I find I have to use two pumps instead of one and it’s a little bit more time consuming, but this foundation is so gorgeous that even a little bit more product looks beautiful!

It’s good for perfecting the coverage in some areas and I love it to blend in the concealer a little bit better on the redness on my cheek, so it’s good to have when I need a more perfected look.

If you love to apply foundation with sponges like this I would really recommend it!

Rouge Dior Baume in 660, Coquette

This is exactly the kind of lip product that I love. Sheer, hydrating, soft… But with a good color pay off.

It’s a gorgeous deep reddish rose, with no shimmer in sight and it’s really comforting like a balm. I’ve been wearing it almost daily, and I love reapplying it when I start to feel the moisturizing feel a bit less.

It’s a perfect lip product with amazing texture, a gorgeous color and the beautiful Dior packaging. The gorgeous logo on the top wear off after a couple of wears unfortunately, but it’s always the case!

I couldn’t be happier with my purchase, as I love it more than my Rouge Dior Addicts and other sheer lipsticks in my collection!

Dior hasn’t failed to impress me with its latest launches, they always make some amazing products!

Have you tried any of these? Let me know your thoughts!

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Cult Beauty Haul & First Impressions

A few weeks ago I was reading A Girl And A Beauty Blog, and when I saw Siobhan mentioning Alpha-H Liquid Gold I instantly felt the urge to finally take the plunge and order it. I very rarely order things online but since I had a couple of other things in my mind I headed straight to Cult Beauty to make my first order.

Here’s what I got!

Alpha-H Discovery Collection (here)

This Cult Beauty exclusive set contains the Balancing Cleanser (30 ml), Liquid Gold (50 ml), Daily Essential Moisturizer SPF 50+ (30 ml) and Absolute Eye Complex (7.5 ml).

I find the size of the products perfect as you get to really use the product for a long time without investing in the full size, and let me tell you, this products are all worth doing so!

The Balancing Cleanser has an amazing texture and is really gentle on the skin: I’ve been using it in the morning and I’ve been loving it!

The Liquid Gold is even better than I expected it to be: having tried a couple of Glycolic Acid products I though I was going to know how this was going to perform, but I was wrong. It doesn’t tingle at all on my skin, and the morning after the skin is… Perfect. I have no other word to describe it, it’s almost like an application on the Glamglow Supermud Mask every other night! I’ve been following it with a sample of the Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate, and they’ve been a power couple (I need the full size of the Kiehl’s!).

The Daily Essential Moisturizer SPF 50+ might actually be my favourite product of the set. It’s a really high SPF… That dries mat, without having a runny consistency (like the Benefit one I reviewed here). I’ve been so pleasantly surprised by it that I think I’ve found my new daily moisturizer with SPF, it’s just so good!

The Absolute Eye Complex is a runny transparent serum, that’s quite hydrating and sits well under makeup. It’s so hard to say if an eye cream works in just a few days or even weeks, but this has been fine and I’m happily using it in the morning, keeping my Kiehl’s Creamy Eye Treatment (I talked about it in my last monthly favourites!) for the night time for now.

Oskia Renaissance Cleansing Gel (here)

I’ve been wanting this cleanser for ages, and I’m so glad I finally got it! It comes out like a pink/orange thick gel that goes on the skin like a balm and emulsifies with water. It’s amazing! Leaves the skin super soft and clean and it even works well with the Clarisonic. It has got the most gorgeous smell (I’d say it’s the geraniol and citronellol in the formula) and I really look forward to my evening cleanse since I added this to my routine. I really can see why it’s so well loved!

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Soft Brown (here)

I’ve never liked a single eyebrow pencil before this one. I’m being honest here, and again, I see the hype yet another time. I have quite full brows that only need to be evened out and I need to fill a gap in my left one without emphasizing it, and this product is perfect. The shade is spot on, and I’m so pleasantly surprised by this product that I still can’t believe it. I actually do my brows right after my foundation, concealer and powder as I really look forward to using this in the morning!

Dr. Bronner Castile Almond Liquid Soap (here)

Well, the only thing I can tell you about this product is that it smells amazing. I am a big lover of almond scented things and this one has the most gorgeous smell. I haven’t used it yet, so I can’t really say more, but I’ve read good things about it and I hope I’m going to love it too!

Tell me, do you love ordering things online? What have you ordered recently, from Cult Beauty or from another website? I look forward to your recommendations!

Italian version coming

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What I Bought - Barcelona

While I was in Barcelona (read my post about it here!) I knew I wanted to do a bit of shopping, and I knew I wanted to check Bobbi Brown and Bourjois since I usually can’t see them in person.

As soon as I went to Plaça de Catalunya I headed to the huge Sephora that can be found in the shopping centre El Triangle. It really is huge and beautiful, with a huge Make Up Forever corner. After a quick look around I spotted Bourjois, so I headed there and immediately began swatching the Rouge Edition Velvet liquid lipsticks. I was undecided between at least four shades, but in the end I went for 05 Olé flamingo!. It swatched beautifully and was also gorgeous sheered out, so it won over the others. If I end up loving the formula I can always order a couple of other shades online!

Then I immediately went to the other shopping center, El Corte Ingles, which has a lot of wonderful beauty counters. Again, after a quick look around I immediately went to Bobbi Brown. There were a lot of gorgeous things but in my head I knew it was a foundation what I really wanted to try. I settled on the Skin Foundation Stick but since it wasn’t available in my shade I went for the Long-Wear Even Finish Foundation, which was the other one I wanted to try. Being a huge foundation lover I’m so excited to try this!

In a pharmacy I then spotted Korres. It was once available in my city but the selection of products was limited, and the thing I really wanted to try was their Lip Butters. So obviously I went for the Pomegranate Lip Butter, since it was the most appealing to me color wise. Finally I got my hands of one of these!

The other beauty buys were all done at the airport. I got a Travalo to carry around Roger&Gallet Gingembre which I love but have a really big bottle of. It was pretty cheap too, and the sleek silver look of it was too good not to get. Then, when my boyfriend spotted the travel exclusive Coca-Cola minis by OPI we immediately knew they were coming home with us. The colours are all gorgeous and the Coca-Cola Red is simply stunning! The last thing I had in mind to check was The Body Shop. I wanted to get a Body Sorbet but it was to big for my carry-on luggage to buy in a shop, so I bought it at the airport and when for the gorgeous Mango one. The texture of this is really amazing, I love it!

It’s always good to buy things on holiday, they get a little bit more special for that reason!

Have you bought something on holiday this summer? Are you interested in hearing my thoughts on something in particular?

Durante il mio soggiorno a Barcellona (potete leggere il mio racconto qui!) sapevo di voler fare un po’ di shopping, e sapevo di voler assolutamente dare un’occhiata a Bobbi Brown e Bourjois visto che non li posso vedere di persona di solito.

Appena arrivata a Plaça de Catalunya mi sono diretta all’enorme Sephora che si trova al centro commerciale El Triangle. È davvero grande e bellissimo, con un enorme settore Make Up Forever. Dopo una veloce occhiata in giro ho visto Bourjois, quindi mi sono diretta lì e ho immediatamente iniziato a provare i rossetti liquidi Rouge Edition Velvet. Ero indecisa tra almeno quattro tonalità, ma alla fine ho scelto la 05 Olé Flamingo. Sulla mano era bellissimo ed era anche stupendo sfumato, quindi ha vinto sugli altri. Se la formula mi piacerà posso sempre ordinare qualche altra tonalità online!

Mi sono quindi subito diretta all’altro centro commerciale, El Corte Ingles, che ha un sacco di magnifici counter. Di nuovo, dopo una veloce occhiata in giro mi sono diretta immediatamente verso Bobbi Brown. C’erano un sacco di prodotti meravigliosi ma sapevo già di voler provare un fondotinta. Mi sono decisa per i Skin Foundation Stick ma visto che non era disponibile nella mia tonalità ho deciso per il Long-Wear Even Finish Foundation, che era l’altro che volevo provare. Essendo una grande amante dei fondotinta sono davvero impaziente di provarlo!

Ho quindi intravisto Korres in una farmacia. Un po’ di tempo fa avevo accesso a questa marca ma la selezione di prodotti era limitata, e la cosa che ero davvero interessata a provare erano i loro Lip Butters. Quindi ho ovviamente scelto il Lip Butter in Pomegranate, visto che era quello che mi attirava di più per il colore. Finalmente provo uno di questi famosi Lip Butters!

Gli altri acquisti sono stati fatti all’aeroporto. Ho preso un Travalo per portare con me Gingembre di Roger&Gallet che adoro ma indosso poco perché ho una bottiglia davvero grande. Era anche abbastanza conveniente, e il colore argentato era troppo bello per lasciarmelo scappare! Quindi, quando il mio fidanzato ha intravisto l’esclusiva aeroporto della collezione Coca-Cola OPI abbiamo subito saputo che sarebbe tornata a casa con noi. I colori sono tutti stupendi e il Coca-Cola Red è semplicemente meraviglioso! L’ultima cosa che avevo in mente di guardare era The Body Shop. Volevo prendere un Body Sorbet ma era troppo grande per il mio bagaglio a mano per comprarlo in un negozio, quindi l’ho preso all’aeroporto e ho scelto il favoloso Mango. La texture è davvero favolosa!

È sempre bello comprare qualcosa in vacanza, diventa tutto un po’ più speciale!

Avete comprato qualcosa in vacanza ultimamente? Siete interessati a sapere la mia opinione su qualcuno di questi prodotti in particolare?

New in from MAC

The other day I went to MAC to buy a couple of things. Here's what I got!

First I needed to purchase another one of my favourite powder, the Blot Powder. I use the shade medium in the winter, medium dark in the summer and the dark one to sculpt my face, so this time I picked up the medium dark one. It's the perfect powder for me: it's light and weightless, totally invisible and keeps my makeup in place all day. It's not at all drying but controls shine well, making me comfortable to face long days without the need to touch up. If I'm not mistaken this is my fourth one!

The second thing I had my eyes on was the new Pro Longwear SPF20 Compact Foundation. I love the regular Pro Longwear foundation, which I've had numerous samples of, and I'm interested to see if this one it's as good or even better, because a compact foundation may always come handy, especially for traveling.

Last but not least I had six empty products for the Back To Mac program, so I had a look at the lipsticks and came home with Speed Dial, a cremesheen finish. It's less bright than what you see in the photo, but it's a bit brighter than the majority of my lipstick so I thought it was worth picking up.

I'll let you know what I think of the new foundation and maybe show you a photo with the lipstick too ;-)

L'altro giorno sono andata da MAC per comprare un paio di cose. Ecco cosa ho preso!

Per prima cosa avevo bisogno di comprare un'altra confezione della mia cipria preferita, la Blot Powder. Uso la tonalità medium in inverno, la medium dark in estate e la dark per scolpire il viso, quindi questa volta ho preso la medium dark. Per me è la cipria perfetta: è leggerissima, totalmente invisibile e fa tenere il trucco tutto il giorno. Non secca la pelle per nulla ma controlla bene la lucidità, rendendomi tranquilla nell'affrontare lunghe giornate senza il bisogno di ritocchi. Se non mi sbaglio è la quarta volta che la ricompro!

La seconda cosa che avevo in mente di comprare era il nuovo fondotinta Pro Longwear compatto. Mi piace molto il fondotinta Pro Longwear fluido, di cui ho avuto un buon numero di campioni nel tempo, e voglio scoprire se questo è altrettanto buono o anche migliore, visto che un fondotinta compatto può fare sempre comodo, specialmente per viaggiare.

Infine avevo sei prodotti vuoti per il Back To Mac, così ho dato un'occhiata ai rossetti e sono tornata a casa con Speed Dial, dal finish cremesheen. È un po' meno forte di quello che vedete nella foto, ed è più vivace della maggior parte dei miei rossetti per cui ho pensato valesse la pena sceglierlo.

Vi farò sapere cosa ne penso del nuovo fondotinta e magari vi mostrerò anche una foto in cui indosso il rossetto ;-)

Products are bought with my own money unless otherwise stated with a *. All opinions are my own.

Tutti i prodotti sono stati comprati da me, in caso contrario sono contrassegnati con un *. Tutte le opinioni sono personali.