Beauty Review:: Max Factor Colour Elixir Gloss

I am someone who loves my gloss. Like really, really loves my gloss. 

I carry those puppies around everywhere I go. You never know when your lips need another slick of lip gloss. 

For me, the Max Factor Colour Elixir Gloss is the perfect pop of subtle colour, combined with a beautiful gloss - that's not sticky. 

Way back in 1930 Max Factor created lip gloss for Hollywood stars to make their lips super-glossy and sultry. These new colours are next level delivering high-pigmentation - perfect for Summer. 

Super smooth application, the gloss itself feels light on, but provides maximum gloss. And the palette is bang on - perfect for everyday use. 

Max Factor Colour Elixir Gloss $19.95

Disclosure:: This product was sent to me for review and editorial consideration. I considered it. Tried it. And loved it. I thought you might like it too! This is not a sponsored post. 

Pinks

Today I went with one of my favourite friends, Emilie,  to Bread & Circus. If you haven't already been there, the styling, palette and interiors are enough to make it a treat - let alone the food. Amazing. 

Em and I talked about the pinks. From the cups through to the plates, to the tiles, the menus. Everything is pink. It might sound like Barbie vomited everywhere, but you are so, so wrong. So wrong. It's just perfectly perfect. 

It got me thinking why this pink interior resonates so much. 

Pink represents compassion, nurturing and love. It also makes me think of my childhood, when colour was so pivotal, and I couldn't get enough of this candy shade. 

Which makes me think about how I can work this into my wardrobe. Next post - best of the pinks. I'm going to go internet shopping and share my finds. 


Are you loving pink?

Day 4:: Frocktober - Crystal Flowers

It's day 4 of Frocktober my friends and it's still a little chilly in Sydney, and I've layered up. Underneath this frock lies a web of warmth: a woollen singlet and tights. I am such a glamour queen.

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Today is all about colour (and warmth, let's  be honest). And I really, really love this dress, it's so easy to wear, and such a great print. So many accessories and shoes work back with it - it's a good work frock.


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Dress: Sussan

Shoes:Habbot

Necklace: Colette (that cheapo jewellery store)

Tights: Um. I can't remember this much detail people!

Favourite Find:: OneWhiteSunday Necklace

Who doesn't love a pastel? I am the first to say that I am a bit crazy for pastels - see last week's Favourite Find.

Just like a scarf, a necklace (for me) can change an outfit. I hang mine in the hallway, and on my way past in the morning, I choose one and pop it on. Each day I choose something different. I am so crazy like that. 

I was pretty excited to find this little beauty from OneWhiteSunday today. The prettiest palette with a graduation of shapes, like Fruit Loops meets caveman - and for the win! 

There are lots of other beauties - I love this too - looks like cubist fairy floss. 

OneWhiteSunday Pastel Stone necklace $42


**Favourite Find is my new *thing* where I share something I fancy each week from an Australian retailer. They're not paid spots, it's truly things I find that I dig and want to share. And they all lived happily ever after. 

Pantone Queen

If you follow me on Instagram, know me, or work with me and see me squirrelling away Pantone samples, or patting the Pantone book, you'll know I love Pantone colour charts.

Which is why I was so full of glee when I discovered a couple of months ago that Pantone had created this limited-edition numbered colour guide to celebrate some of the Queen's most splendid colour choices and to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

One could say the Queen is absolutely dedicated to her pastels. And I love her for it!

You can read more here over at The Inspiration Room.

More Coloured Jeans?

For the last few months I have devoted myself to coloured and print jeans. I am hooked. Like an unhealthy obsession. I am feverish for denim in all its guises.

Which is why it's incredibly good news that Jeanswest are introducing Colourful Curves as of mid-July for a sweet $69.99. Hello coloured jeans, hello!

What makes them even sweeter? They're engineered to fit girls with small waists while hugging the curves of your hips and thighs in all the right spots to create the perfect fit.

Popping Colour

I'm back into embracing colour and having fun with it. I've packed away my Winter woolies and barely have any black in my wardrobe for Summer. And I like it! This Kate Spade clip is so fun and colourific.

There's something about a riot of colour that can instantly lift your mood.

What are you enjoying wearing lately? Colour? Or mono? Just when I thought my wardrobe was done and dusted - I can't go past the new Gorman collection - aye aye aye, I love that pumped up colour!

Pink. It Does Not Stink.

Despite what you might think, pink does not stink.

Sure Tiny takes it to the extreme and layers pink with pink with pink. And accessorises with more pink. Tiny and Barbara Cartland? They could be tight.

Tiny loves her pink plate (with that too-sweet apple that she so rudely rejected tonight). She loves Shirley Hughes' 'Dogger', and that's my Swatch. It makes dull days bearable.

I like pink. Yes. Yes I do.

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I wrote about nail polish/varnish and the chemicals it contains. Such as formaldehyde (remember that stuff from science class where the baby pig was suspended in liquid to preserve it? Or just think of Damien Hirst). Well I think wrote about it. I definitely read lots about it, but I can't find any such post.

But here I am again, banging on about nail varnish. And this one's a goodie, so listen up.

butter London is a 3 free company - no formaldehyde; no toluene; no DBP (and never have). I saw them just before Christmas and I have promised myself a date with a bottle of this goodness!

I'm a little infatuated with a few of their colours including:

Primrose Hill Picnic
Rosie Lee
And I definitely need the Horse Power Nail Fertiliser.

I've not yet tried them for myself, but man oh man, those colours look delicious and being 3 free gets my manicured thumbs up.

Butter up babies!

EDIT:: The bad news is...one of my UK friends read a review in the Sunday Times no less, of this lacquer saying it was not that great (though the colours still sing to me!) as it lasts for just a wee second. Sorry folks - though I did warn you I'd not tried it yet!

History Never Repeats?

Yeah you tell yourself that buddy. Because apparently you don't know Tiny. Or apparently Tiny hasn't heard your song.

Here today we find ourselves back at this place. We were just here a few months ago (but I can't for the life of me find the post).

Beads everywhere. Not once. Not twice. But three times. I call it trust. Others might call (me) just plain stoopid. Whatever it is, it's a big colourful mess.

More Colours

Apparently some small people residing in our house decided that sprinkling confetti around the living room was a great idea. Given we don't have any Oompa Loompas currently in residence, I think I've got a pretty good idea who it may have been.

The Radioactive Child

I'm like some kind of baking zombie at the moment. I don't remember ever making quite so many cakes in such a short period of time. I'm pretending to loathe it, but really, it makes me happy making sweeties. So much icing sugar. So much...colour!

Today I'm whipping up a batch of little cupcakes for all the darlings (and would be thugs and fairies) at the Doctor's pre-school so they can woo him with a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday.

What to do with the leftover icing? I can't just eat it. Or can I?

PS - When should one expect the other mothers at pre-school to make some eye contact with me and say hi? I thought second term they might be able to. Apparently not.

Kiddie Craft:: Spring-time Butterflies

I know you already know how to make these. I'm safely assuming this because everyone at some stage in their childhood has made these deliciously easy, and utterly satisfying butterflies. Yesterday we spent the good part of an hour squishing them out to discover new breeds of the pretties.

All you need:

- paint (non-toxic)

- spoons so the little one can dollop on big fat, shiny globs of paint

- lotsa lotsa paper

- fingers for squishing out the butterflies

I trust you don't need instructions. Wing it. Pun absolutely and definitely intended. If you do need instructions, email me. I'll craft some up for you. Boom! Boom! Pun really ridiculously intended again. Sorry. Tough crowd tonight.

Egg Yolk Sunshine Scrambled Egg Lemon Buttercup Yellow

Whichever way you look at it, yellow just can't help but be cheerful.

I woke this morning and knew I needed to do something with yellow. Something glossy. Something bold.

Yellow is:

- happy, flirty days

- a hand printed skirt

- sunlight flooding in dusty windows

- a bunch of hastily picked jonquils, marigolds and daffodils

- the smell of butter melting

- fresh popped popcorn

- an over-sized vintage mixing bowl

- Van Gogh

- a little bit old-fashioned, but completely modern