Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Friday, September 7, 2007

Eyes, eyes baby

While on the Tradera shopping spree for the underwear below, I also found my finger trigger-happy, ouside of my control, getting some totally unnecessary but a so sweet for the soul makeup and scent items.


2 Dior Eyeshadows, and a Gucci Envy Perfume in bag size. Never opened, pure perfume (not Eau de Parfum). After it arrived (yesterday) I also noticed that the bottle itself is delicious, and comes delivered with a small suede bag to not scratch the shiny surface while it lodges in my handbag.
Glorious =)
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Monday, May 28, 2007

Power shopping


Today I left work for my lunch break and had only one plan in mind - to exchange the battery on my watch which died during the weekend. It's a gorgeous thing. Actually a male mdel (see pic) but I'm woman enough to carry it off. The infamous MrX gave it to me, for Xmas, when we were still a couple.

Anyway, back to the shopping. On my way from NK where I got the battery changed, I unfortunately passed by several shops. One of them a large H&M, where I very rarely set my foot (being a brand-nerd and all). Still, when I stuck my nose in there were several items screaming my name - and I left the shop with a heavy bag and not THAT much of a lighter wallet. Got to love H&M's pricing!

It's all a matter of mix&match to me. Just like your entire home can, or should, not be furnished at IKEA, but a few pieces are just fine - H&M clothing can be worn as long as you're not going "full outfit".

In my bag I now have 2 dresses. 1 white daytime dress, long enough to be worn to work, one black lace evening dress, short enough to be considered a long top. Pictures will follow*. Also from H&M - 2 blouses that I didn't even try on - very womanly and body shaped and with hooks instead of buttons. A blessing if you, like me, are a woman with curves.

Is that not annoying, the way all shirts with buttons seem to either open up an ugly hole between the two buttons covering the bust - or hang like a tent hiding the waist. Ugh!

Walking to the deli where I was going to pick up the sallad that keeps my waist nice and thin I passed by a cosmetics shop, and of course had to stop by. I left the shop with a bottle of Trind Nail Repair - a product I only discovered recently but that has made all the difference to my hands. No longer do I have to go to the beauty parlor and spend zillions on adding acrylic to my poor nails to make them grow past my fingertips, Trind keeps them strong and un-flaky in their natural form. Almost magical, this thing!

Finally, I was ready for my food. But no... Only 100 meters yet to go and my eyes are drawn to a pair of jeans in a window that are JUST what I have been looking for, for ages. Italian, of course. And yes, they had them in my size - and yes, they fit beautifully. So I got them, of course**.

Now my AmEx is smoking and my arms are weary from hauling bags, but all in all I think I got a good load of shopping in on 45 minutes :)

{Disclaimer: This blog is not and have never been sponsored. I am not getting any return for recommending products, I recommend them only because they are good.}
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Nuts and bolts:
* I was unable to find any good pictures of the clothes on the web, so I'll use my new camera and share later :)
** See comment above.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Yeah yeah, catching up

Hmm , let's see.

Since I last wrote I've bought:
Assorted books, including the "Atkins for life" book that I pictured below. Also an almanac and the last book of the Valhalla series, "Saga of Valhalla" by Johanne Hildebrand. I don't know if it's been translated, but it's an EXCELLENT series.

I bought 2 plane tickets, one to Stockholm for last weekend and one to Iceland for this summer.

Some gorgeous make-up from Noeba. Some for me and some not for me.
A wonderful double-bubble as a birthday gift for a very special lady, and a single bubble of sparkling gold along with a golden eyeliner for yours truly (that would be ME!)

A gorgeous flowery series from I*Me*My consisting of a necklace, a pair of earrings and a nice big ring. Very nice, very "Pilgrimmy".

I'm sure there's been more, but as catching up goes, this will have to do. Yesterday I had a field-day at my local favourite second hand shop - but I'll cover that in a separate post.
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Monday, March 5, 2007

Heathrow Airport

This is a DANGEROUS place! Even Terminal 3, that I flew from yesterday, has a vast array of absolute must-have's. so I walked out of there with assorted goodies. Let's dive straight into it, shall we?

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The Thierry Mugler "Angel" perfume is a classic, once discovered for me by my then-husband. I haven't used it for years, since I associated it with him - but I was scent-shopping and the Lancome Attraction that I was actually after had been pulled from stock. So instead I got me a bottle of Angel, along with a Deodorant Spray.

My thought's on Angel: A wonderful, WONDERFUL scent. Very rich and full, yet elegant. Definitely too heavy for the younger crew - be 25 or so before you give this a shot. There's a slightly lighter version, labeled "Angel Innocent", if you want a more subtle scent or, indeed, are under 25 :)

A small, 10 ml, but refillable bottle - with 2 x 10 ml refills included. £37.90. Bargain or rip-off?
£18.95 for the deo-spray feels a bit like overkill, now when I think about it =)


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A dear friend of mine has a birthday coming up. I had seen this previously on the net and thought what a great gift it would be for him - but it wasn't until I was standing at the airport and they had it in stock that it was decided.

My thoughts on the champagne travel case: He's an ex-boyfriend but still-friend to me, and I thought this kit could be a great aid to his dating, don't you think? I think it's really stylish, and will keep the bottle safe in his boat.


Veuve Clicquot Travel Case - including a bottle of champagne and 2 glasses, £47 - definitely not a bargain :S

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This was on a bargain-shelf but turned out to not be marked down after all, which didn't prevent me from buying it anyway *lol*. I fell for the Too Faced line a while back, after ordering various make-up from an online store. I bought an eye-shadow from them and was (and still am) AMAZED at how full of pigments and nice it is. So, I ended up ordering a whole line of products from their home page and am very happy with almost all of them.

So, when saw this I thought I'd give the whole idea of lip-plumpers one, final go. It never seems to work for me, no matter how many happy testimonials a products have.

My thoughts on Too Faced Lip Injection: I'll let you know when I tried it, but I have SOME hopes since many of their other products are great.


At £18,50 for the set it's cheap compared to retail, but value for money will depend on effect.

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I never saw myself doing this, being such a brandiac, but I bought a scent from Victoria's Secret. From the "Mood" series. It smells delicious! A little bit like the Angel perfume, but with more... sexyness.

Obviously, a new scent is always something of a lottery, since I don't know what it will smell like after some time on my skin, but I have high hopes for this one.

My thoughts on Victoria's Secret Mood: Lovely, and relatively cheap. I love the old-fashioned pump.


AT £22,90 for 75 ml it was worth taking a chance, at least I thought so.

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The final item(s) of my airport shopping was scented candles, also from Victoria's Secret, with the same smell as the perfume. It really IS a very sexy smell, and I think it may do wonders on my bedside table. If I ever have anyone to bring there, that is :S

Scented candles has been big for quite some time, as a sensuous part of seduction, but the closest I've come to it are cinnamon scented heat candles (you know, the small, round type) from IKEA. Hardly the sophisticated tool of seduction.

My thoughts on the scented candles: I hope I get the chance to use them beftore they run out of smell, but it does tickle my senses. And they smell LOVELY!


This one was a bargain think, with a 2 for 1 offer and a price of £13,90

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And this concludes my Heathrow Shopping experience. Thank god I was only in T3. The huge shopping of T2 would have melted my credit card =)
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Natural Beauty

Ok, I admit, I'm not wholly a natural beauty. Some parts of me get help, as needed.
Like my nails.

Every 4-5 weeks I go to Nagelpalatset in Gothenburg and shell out SEK 500 for a lady with funny hair and an even funnier smell to put a layer of acrylic on my nails. Like today:

They're normally much longer than this, I had her take down 5 mm of length since I noticed this weekend that really long nails and skiing is hnot the best combination (hands don't fit in gloves, it's hard to open the ski-boots, etc)

Anyway. Nagelpalatset. They charge SEK 875 for a new set with french manicure, 775 for a new set of natural nails and 450-550 for every re-visit (SEK 50 extra if you break a nail and need it lengthened). If you can stand the funny smell and the even funnier people, it's the best place you can go. They've won several prices and make strong, beautiful, natural-looking nails.

Aren't they beautiful?
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