Saturday, 11 March 2023

Lookfantastic Beauty Egg 2023

If Beauty Easter Egg's are something you love, then this weekend, I have a few to share on my blog. Starting with the Lookfantastic Beauty Egg for 2023.
Lookfantastic Beauty Egg 2023
Said to be worth over £200, this years Beauty Easter Egg from Lookfantastic is on sale right now, here for just £60!
Say hello to your new beauty, haircare and skincare favourites with our 'better than chocolate' Beauty Egg from LOOKFANTASTIC 'The Box'. Crack open the bespoke tin and discover 9 products (7 FULL-SIZE) from brands such as Color Wow, Sol de Janeiro, Elemis and Sweed Beauty that are sure to give you a Spring in your step! 

What's in the box?

  • Color Wow Speed Dry 150ml (Full Size) - worth £21.50
  • Sol De Janeiro Bum Bum Cream 75ml (Full Size) - ;£20.00
  • MZ Skin Hydra Lift Gold Mask (Full Size) - worth £20.00
  • Elemis Superfood Glow Priming Moisturiser 60ml (Full Size) – worth £44.00
  • Sweed Mascara 8ml (Full Size) - worth £22.00
  • Dr Jart Ceramidin Cream 10ml - worth £6.40
  • Nudestix Mini Magnetic Luminous Eye Colour in shade ‘Dew Wap’ 2.5g - worth £21.41
  • Iconic LDN Triple Precision Brow Definer (Full Size) - worth £22.00
  • Grande Cosmetics Lip Plump (Full Size) - worth £24.00
A great offering from Lookfantastic and one, which for the past 6 years has sold out.  So if you want to get your hands on it, the 2023 Beauty Egg is worth over £200 and is on sale for just £60 here.


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Friday, 10 March 2023

Cellcosmet Skincare

One of the joys of blogging is being introduced to brands you might ordinarily never come across and from them you meet some absolutely amazing brands that you cannot help but love. A few months ago, I was sent two products from the Cellcosmet Skincare range, a brand which hails all the way from Switzerland.
Cellcosmet Skincare
Described as being the gold standard in Swiss cosmetics, Cellcosmet offers skincare products for every type of skin and recognises that the skin's needs change over time.
we believe it is vital to couple our cellular technology with botanical-origin ingredients expertise for skincare that ensures incomparable results.
From a range of 32 products in this range, you will find everything from cleansers and tonics, to masks, serums and even skin tints.  I was kindly sent the Precious Mask and the Cellular Eye Contour Cream.
Cellcosmet Skincare
Precious Mask grabbed my attention with its name and it is described as being more than a simple beauty mask: it is a moment of personal pampering and matchless pleasure.

The mask itself was not how I expected at all, again one of the things I love about discovering new brands and products is the element of surprise.  With its rich, reddish-brown cream, this mask offers your complexion a fine, even texture and healthy glow and it is said with regular use, it will also help to redefine* facial lines and smooths skin texture, giving you instant radiance.
Cellcosmet Skincare
Cellcosmet Skincare
Perfect for combination skin, this cream-gel mask is designed to be used once or twice a week as part of your pampering time-out. It is, as you might expect, packed full of amazing ingredients:
  • Kombucha a long-life mushroom to refine skin texture.
  • Edelweiss extract for anti-aging & protective power
  • A blend of white pink green & red clays for their purifying mattifying detoxifying & oxygenating properties
Plus you will also find Orange Blossom Petals which help to detoxify, Witch Hazel Water which is an astringent and a blend of Antioxidant E + C + F Vitamin Complex.

My skin hates clay as an ingredient, so I always have to be incredibly careful, so with a patch test done and my skin behaving, I gave the mask a try. Now I really, really wanted this mask not to work with my skin, it costs £175, so is an absolute luxury and it is just delightful, which really pains me to say.

As the mask is applied to the skin, it feels soft, smooth, it is soothing it feels like silk and is not harsh, it isn't stripping and it didn't leave my skin feeling angry.  The advice is to apply a thick layer and leave it on the skin for up to 10 minutes, however, if you feel your skin needs a more intensive treatment, the advice is to use it apply it three times a week for a month.  After using this mask, my skin was not only soft and smooth but there is a definite glow afterwards and in short, I absolutely loved it.

Having loved the Mask, I had no doubt I would also love the Cellular Eye Contour Cream too, which with a price tag of £260 made it the most expensive product I have ever used and wow!
Cellcosmet Skincare
Cellcosmet Skincare
For me, an eye cream is an absolute must-have product within my routine and because I have a bit of insomnia and dehydration under my eyes, this product ticks all those boxes.

With a formula that has been designed especially for the eye area, it is enriched with a whole host of ingredients such as:
  • CytoPep™ Cellular Extracts (CI 3) which helps to revitalise the skin, improve elasticity and help retain moisture.
  • Postbiotics Complex helps the skin to retain moisture as well as to firm
  • OleoComplex which is derived from almond and olive oil, flax-seed oil and borage oil and together they restore suppleness, softness, improve elasticity and protect the skin from external aggressors.
  • HydraProtect Film Complex which forms a protective, breathable film like a second skin and its job is to moisturise, soothe and protect the skin from external aggressors.
The cream, which is silky smooth is perfect for using on the delicate skin under the eye and whilst it does moisturise and soothe, for me the difference in both the puffiness and dark circles was the major change and whilst it took a few uses to see it for myself, the fact others had noticed was major.

This cream can be used both morning and evening and should be applied using a light finger tapping motion, rather than rubbing.

Both of these products, along with others from the range can be found in Harrods and it is exceptionally pricey and is right up there on the high end of luxury but I just want to try absolutely everything from this brand!




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Thursday, 9 March 2023

Top 10 dupes for your favourite high-end beauty brands

I love a good dupe product, one which really makes you question the price of a high-end brand and whether you are being overcharged. Not all dupes are dupes of course, just because something looks similar doesn’t mean it is the same, as the saying goes, even salt looks like sugar.
Top 10 makeup dupes for your favourite high-end beauty brands
Over the past 12 months there has been an explosion of dupes and not just from Revolution and Aldi Lacura, if you are on or watch anything on Tiktok it is awash with dupes and as seen on the infographic below, it showcases some of the best viral beauty dupes for 2023 but not all.
Top 10 dupes for your favourite high-end beauty brands
As you can see, those are just 8 dupes from brands you might now have expected to see, like Elf, L’Oreal and even Fenty Beauty, but for me, there are some that should have made that list. In recent weeks, I shared the Aldi Lacura Eyeshadow Primer which to all intents and purposes is inspired by Urban Decay and their Eyeshadow Potion, very much a HG product for many. Again, Aldi have also got their own Hot Cloth Cleanser which is similar to that of Liz Earle, but it isn’t just Aldi. Primark also has an incredible line up of ‘dupes’, most recently, people raved about the PS Skin Tiger Grass Colour Correcting Treatment, which is most definitely inspired by the cult classic from Dr Jart+ and even more recent was the PS Flawless Glow Radiant Primer Foundation which many claimed was a potential dupe for Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter, £36.

So, if I was to create my very own Top 10 makeup dupes for your favourite high-end beauty brands, this is what you would find on that list:
  • Aldi Lacura Vitabase Moisturising Primer - potential dupe for Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base
  • E.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter - potential dupe for Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter
  • Rimmel Magnif'eyes 12 Pan Shade Palette Spice - potential dupe for Urban Decay Naked Heat Palette
  • L’Oreal Paris True Match Lumi Healthy Luminous Makeup - potential dupe for Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation
  • Aldi Lacura Microblade Effect Pen - potential dupe for Benefit Cosmetics Brow Microfilling Brow Pen
  • Elf 16hr Camo Concealer - potential dupe for Tarte Shape Tape
  • Revolution Pro Miracle Cream - potential dupe for Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream
  • Aldi Lacura Vanilla Golden Bath Nectar - potential dupe for Laura Mercier Honey Bath
  • Revolution Pro Miracle Balm - potential dupe for Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream
  • Essence Stay 8h Waterproof Lip Liner - potential dupe for Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Lip Liner
That least doesn’t even cover hair care or fragrances, which again both Aldi and Revolution have hair care dupes of Olaplex and Living Proof in their line-ups, and the same for fragrances.

I would love to know if you have a favourite dupe of a high-end branded product!



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