Autumn Makeup Look With Bourjois Cosmetics

Autumn Makeup Look With Bourjois Cosmetics

Makeup Cosmetopia Digest   Monday, September 12, 2016

Bourjois has always been my favourite drugstore makeup brand. The quality of their foundations, eyeliners, blushes, bronzers, lipsticks and mascaras is as good as department store brands. The only thing I don't love about Bourjois is their eyeshadows - the pigmentation isn't awesome, and they don't have the kind of large palettes I prefer anyway.
Feelunique has 3-for-2 on Bourjois right now, and they ship worldwide, so I've just been Bourjois-hauling!
With all the Bourjois love going on, I decided to do a Fall makeup look with six Bourjois makeup products - and other brands as well. Warning: This isn't my usual look; I'm wearing dark lipstick!

Scroll down for an Autumn makeup look with six products from Bourjois Cosmetics.

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A Beautiful World Spring/Summer 2016 Sampler Box

A Beautiful World Spring/Summer 2016 Sampler Box

Unboxing Cosmetopia Digest   Friday, June 24, 2016

Eco-friendly luxury beauty retailer A Beautiful World comes out with two beauty boxes each year - one for Spring/Summer and one for Autumn/Winter. The products chosen - from the brands ABW carries - are organic, eco-friendly, preservative-free and cruelty-free. The boxes are always sold out in an hour or two of the launch. This year, I managed to snag one before they sold out.

Scroll down for the contents of the Spring/Summer 2016 Sampler Box from A Beautiful World.

A Beautiful World Spring-Summer 2014 box unboxing

A Beautiful World Spring-Summer 2014 box unboxing

Unboxing Cosmetopia Digest   Sunday, May 18, 2014

If the Autumn/Winter beauty box from A Beautiful World sold out in six hours and the Christmas 2013 box, reviewed here, sold out in four hours, the Spring/Summer 2014 beauty box sold out in a little over one hour after it was released! It was thanks to my friend Lorna that I got mine.
A Beautiful World is a UK-based half-yearly beauty box that ships worldwide. Products are always natural and cruelty-free, and the boxes are in high demand. The Spring/Summer 2014 box cost £20 in the UK including shipping, and £32 worldwide including tracked shipping, though I had a £4 discount code to use.

Here is my review and unboxing of the Spring/Summer 2014 beauty box from A Beautiful World.

MuLondon White Chocolate Elbow, Knee and Heel Cream review

MuLondon White Chocolate Elbow, Knee and Heel Cream review

Skin care Cosmetopia Digest   Saturday, February 22, 2014

Who doesn't love digging into a tub of creamy white chocolate? I prefer the white version over brown chocolate any day. I used to eat a tub of the Nestle Milkybar Little Pot Smooth and Creamy White Chocolate Dessert every single day - more if I was stressed - while at university (the lady at Sainsbury's checkout would stare at the number of tubs in my basket), and didn't grow fat. In fairness, I did ju-jitsu. And a set of four tubs came to just £1.00.
Now that we have established my love for white chocolate, you can guess how thrilled I was to receive a white chocolate-based elbow, knee and heel cream from MuLondon in my Christmas edition of the A Beautiful World beauty box from the UK (see unboxing here). This cream looked exactly like the Nestle dessert, and it was all I could do not to dig a finger in and taste it.

Here is my review of the MuLondon White Chocolate Elbow, Knee and Heel Cream.

Yarok Feed Your Youth Hair and Scalp Serum review and anti-dandruff usage

Yarok Feed Your Youth Hair and Scalp Serum review and anti-dandruff usage

Yarok Cosmetopia Digest   Thursday, February 06, 2014

As the weather changes, my scalp becomes flakier, except during the rains, when it is perfectly fine. So I opt for anti-dandruff treatments which dry my already-frizzy hair further. This vicious cycle goes on for a while every year. Worse, any overnight scalp treatment or oil gives me a stiff neck the following day. And I tend to scratch away at the flakes till my scalp bleeds. The only thing to suit me is Lush Snake Oil and they've stopped stocking it, for some reason.
I received the Yarok Feed Your Youth Hair and Scalp Serum in my Christmas Edition A Beautiful World Box (reviewed here), a seasonal beauty box from the UK that features natural products. Yarok is a New York-based, salon-exclusive hair care range. The full-sized bottle first took me aback, because it said, "Feed Your Youth" and "anti-ageing treatment". The idea of an anti-ageing product for the hair and scalp seemed a bit funny to me. What was it supposed to do, give me fuzzy baby locks on a softer scalp? I hit the ABW website and read up on the product and gave it a try. Now that I've used up more than three-fourths of the contents of the bottle, I can share my experience.

Here's the review of the Yarok Feed Your Youth Hair and Scalp Serum and how I use it.

A Beautiful World Christmas Box review, unboxing, photos: International beauty box

A Beautiful World Christmas Box review, unboxing, photos: International beauty box

Subscription box Cosmetopia Digest   Saturday, November 09, 2013

Quite a few bloggers in the UK and elsewhere had raved over the Autumn-Winter 2013 edition of A Beautiful World Box - it sold out in six hours and was only £20. A Beautiful World sells luxury organic and natural beauty products online and releases limited edition boxes for A/W and Spring containing their exclusive products which you can't find elsewhere. And yes, these beauty boxes ship worldwide.
Having missed the A/W box, I was thrilled to know that they were coming out with a limited edition "Best Of A Beautiful World" box for Christmas, containing bestsellers from their website.
I bought my box as soon as it went on sale. It was sold out in about eight hours! I also got free shipping and a 10% Christmas discount. My box arrived just seven days later by registered post - the tracking says it has only entered the country! The smells of cardamom, orange, sandalwood and other oils hit my nostrils as soon as I opened the external brown box. Everything inside is so fabulous for a nice bit of pampering over the holidays that it feels like my Christmas came early.

The contents of A Beautiful World Christmas '13 box: