Showing posts with label Lancôme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lancôme. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 March 2012

Marilyn...

Marilyn...


This week I have been burying my head in loads of books about Marilyn Monroe. This is for my fashion muse essay at uni. She is such a fascinating person to read about, she really was a beautiful woman.
The amount of photographs in these books is insane, they show Marilyn in so many different lights from cheeky and fun to serious and even worried. 
The inspiration for this outfit is taken from the most iconic photograph of Marilyn, from the film: 'The seven year itch'.
The outfit is very simple, as you don't need much to recreate such an iconic scene. The dress is from Topshop; the shimmer skater dress which is £48. The shoes are from ASOS.com called Peter Jensen Simple White Heeled Sandals and they are a lot more expensive, however this is quite a bit trend coming in for summer so they hopefully will be in New Look amongst other high street shops very soon.
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Friday, 9 March 2012

Lancôme Hypnôse Mascara

I love this mascara! 

A while back I bought a eye liner and eye shadow set from Lancôme, at the same time I was able to get a gift set, with a lot of their items in it; face wash, mascara, make up remover, youth activating concentrate; Génifique, lip gloss, night cream among other bits and pieces for £23ish. I couldn't resist. 

Within this kit there was of course their best selling mascara; Hypnôse, it was in a tiny tube so it didn't last me very long, so today I thought I would treat myself. Seeing as where I work had 10% off and then I get my discount on top I really had to buy it.


It is marketed as Custom-Wear Volume Mascara, as you can build up the intensity of your lashes, without them becoming clumpy. Instead, you can go from 'subtle to sexy!


The brush is great, I love that it isn't huge, as it will actually pick up all those little lashes, and coat each one evenly. When I was building my lashes up, I put on two coats and it had already made a huge difference, even giving them a bit of curl, which I always enhance using my eyelash curlers. My lashes are the difficult kind that are naturally straight. 

This is one of the best mascara's I have used, as a lot of them are too thin and leave a lot of mess on my eye lid! Which is a pain when you just want to put on a quick coat before you go out. 
Overall I love this mascara, even more now that I have the full sized version and it will hopefully last me a lot longer! 

There are other kinds of Lancôme mascara's some of which give you huge definition; such as 'Doll Eyes' which will give you amazingly curled lashes and you don't need many coats. Maybe that's the next one I should try! 

Lancôme have a great range of products, from face creams to eye liners, they really do have everything you would need. It is expensive, the mascara coming in at £21 but it really is worth the money. I will always be a Lancôme girl, even if I don't have any money I will still lust over their products.
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