Forks and Brushes

After reading Jen From Head to Toe's MLBB (My Lips But Better) Lipsticks post ( here ), I am inspired to share my own MLBB. I hope this post will be particular useful to my UK readers, as Jen is in America, so not all products she recommends are available in the UK. Jen's Recommendation: NYX Black Label Lipstick in Bling - discontinued Urban Decay Revolution Lipstick in Fiend Benefit Hydra-Smooth Lip Color in Nice 'n Teasy Maybelline Color Whisper Lipstick in Rose of Attraction - not available in UK Too Faced La Creme Lipstick in Spice Spice Baby I am adding two to the list: Loreal Colour Riche Collection Privee in Rosewood Beige by Julianne Moore MAC Lustre in Patisserie

When I first started wearing makeup, pink lips & pink blush would be my default colour. Pink is pretty & girly, I thought it was a foolproof colour on everyone. But it is not until when I started looking at drugstore or at any make up counters that I realised there are 50 (and more) shades of pink in this world! I was confused as to how would I know which shades suit me & which shades I should avoid? It made me wonder - what if there is a blush or a lipstick that could cleverly adapt & transform their colour  to suit my skin tone ? I think I have prayed so much that someone must have heard it.

I am not familiar with Zoeva. It is not a brand that get mentioned a lot in the UK beauty blogging world, so I looked up their website. Zoeva Cosmetics is a German brand, founded in 2008 by owner Zoe Bolkou. The brand was started out with a collection of 10 makeup brushes, and one year later they were already shipping to most of the European countries. Their first makeup range was started in 2010.

The recent exciting news in the makeup world has to be the launch of Charlotte Tilbury's make up range. You can click here to see me visiting her pre-launch pop up store in Selfridges, and click here to see what I bought at the pop up store. The official launch of the complete range was at 9am on Monday 2nd Sep. Products were launched in her counter at Selfridges, and also the online store on her website.  In order to be the first 100 online customers to get a free sample of Magic Cream, I was by iPhone, staring at the clock since 8.30am on Monday morning I was through at the opening time and my order number was 100000099! By Thursday my parcel arrived!!! Here were my order:

Today was just like any Sunday afternoon when my sister Cynthy ( @beautyorbread ) & I went shopping on Oxford Street. We went round Carnaby Street in order to avoid the usual kids & parents crowds outside Hamleys, so glad we did! Otherwise we wouldn't be able to discover the opening of the brand new Benefit Boutique on Carnaby Street!

Last night I went to the Charity Fashion Show " Catwalk4Change " organised by Model's of Diversity at The Waterlily in East London.