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The Perils of Online Shopping... |
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
Okay… don't get me wrong. I'm a massive advocate of shopping online. I've made some pretty large purchases in the electronic environment - a pedigree cat, designer handbags, and most recently I made an offer on a house, sight unseen, from the UK - having seen it online.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 When I lived in the UK, I was part of a trial programme for new beauty products. I filled in a survey, paid my 20 quid a quarter (with a guarantee of receiving at least 80 pounds worth of loot in each batch) and then, like clockwork, received my tube of full-sized products to try out. So here's what I want to know… it's been proven time and time again that us beauty junkies like to try before we buy. So without a similiar Australian program, where are the best places to try before we buy?
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The Conclusion: Stockings That Give You Skinner Legs |
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
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Wondering what happened with the caffine tights that were supposed to make your legs skinnier just by wearing them? Well I wore them for (most of) the timeframe and today here are my conclusions as to whether or not they work.
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Bargain Alert - Sephora Sun Safety Kit |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Now granted, here in Australia we are heading into winter, but here is an interesting stat for you: In Australia we have one of the highest incidences of skin cancer in the world with around 280,000 forms of skin cancer diagosed per year. Scared? You should be, and you should be excited about the Sephora Sun Safety Kit for the bargain price of $25USD.
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Giveaway: Sunsilk Fashion Designers Range |
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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Now, unless you've been living under a rock for the last 12 months, you'll know that Sunsilk has been collaborating with some of our top Australian designers to produce a gorgeous range of limited edition collections, with the latest collection featuring Collette Dinnigan, Alice McCall and Peter Morrissey. Well, we have three sets of each range to giveaway to 9 lucky readers!
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Cult Beauty Review: Nars Orgasm Blush |
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
Continuing on my quest to personally get around to sampling and reviewing all these 'cult classic' beauty buys I've been hearing about for years, I've finally purchased Nars blush in Orgasm. I've heard a lot about this product. It's supposed to be THE perfect blush - suiting all complexions, matching all other makeup and generally being the perfect halfway point between peach and pink with the tiniest bit of shimmer to make you glow.
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
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Apologies for the post hiatus, but I'm currently in the
process of moving countries again and it's not pretty.
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
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I don't know why, but I always rather dismissed brown mascara as something old, dowdy or a bit hippyish women wore.
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
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I've found it... the holy grail... the one reasonable use for Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. You may recall I posted a little while ago about how Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream is the world's most useless cult beauty product . Luckily, I've found a good use for it.
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Stockings That Give You Skinnier Legs |
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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Okay folks. I have here what may just be the best
'beauty' product ever. The subject of this post says it all. Wear the stockings,
get skinnier legs. I wouldn't have believed it myself unless I'd tried it, but
I've been wearing them a week now and the results say it all.
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Cult Beauty Product Review - Guerlain Meteorites |
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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I
remember the fuss Meteorites caused, three counters over when I worked on the
shop floor. Guerlain could NEVER keep them in stock - it was ridiculous. Every
time they'd get them in, the consultants would spend the day calling all the
people who'd been to ask about them in the last however many months, and without
fail they'd all show up in parade fashion over the course of the following
Saturday to pick up their prized meteorites like they were the rarest of
diamonds.
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Cult Product Reviews - Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream |
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
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Elizabeth
Arden Eight Hour Cream is possibly the original cult product. You know how you
read magazines and they'll claim such-and-such was the 'first' supermodel? Well
I'm gonna claim Eight Hour Cream started the cult trend.
Word on the
street is that Eight Hour Cream was first developed during the second world war
as a treatment for burns. The highly, highly moisturising nature of the stuff
made it a good product to market to the masses in an era when the motto for
'creams' was something along the lines of 'the heavier the better'.
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Budget Brand o' The Month - Rimmel |
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
Regular readers will
recall that late last year I waxed lyrically about the wonders of Maybelline . Great price, great product, and actually does what it says on the
packet. Joy! My new love however, is Rimmel. Some time ago when I first started
posting on NSO I mentioned how much I like Rimmel's double-ended eyeliner... but you'll be pleased to know I can now happily inform you there's
much more to like about Rimmel than just their eyeliner.
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Cult Product Reviews - Clarins' Beauty Flash Balm |
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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It occured to me recently that there's a bunch of
products out there that I've been meaning to try for years because of their cult
status, but I've never gotten around to it - either because I'm waiting to use
up what I already have in that category, or I'm have a cheapskate moment when I
go to buy said product and end up going for a cheaper alternative.
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Rediscovering Old Favourites |
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
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I know all products have a shelf life... the general
rule of thumb for those that don't have a use-by date is to have them finished
off or thrown out within three years of leaving the factory. But three years is
a pretty long time, right? And I honestly don't understand how powder-based
products like eyeshadow and a powder blush can really go 'off' and it's these
ones that I'm guilty of holding on to.
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Beauty Bar 
How much would you be prepared to pay for the best facial of your life? $100? $150? More? What if I told you I knew where you could get it at effectively no financial cost?
