Ariane Poole Cosmetics Website Relaunch

*Ariane Poole Cosmetics have relaunched their website at http://arianepoole.co.uk . Ariane Poole is an international make up artist with over 25 years experience. Ariane has worked with many celebs, models and royalty! Her philosophy on make up is that 'you should notice the woman not the make-up' - I love this. These cosmetics have been created to be quick and easy to use and fashionable. The Concealer Palette has been voted best product by She magazine and Ariane Poole Cosmetics were the first to launch a liquid mineral tint foundation in 2004.

There are many exciting things happening with Ariane Poole Cosmetics at the moment such as they are rebranding and repackaging products, Crystal Taupe is coming back and they are launching Christmas packages which at the moment, a free make up bag comes with the Christmas packages over £50.00.

I had a visit on the website which is very easy to use and navigate. There is a page which talks about the brand and also Ariane's Story. I love that her story is on the website as I love reading people's stories to how they have made it where they are today. There is an ask Ariane coming soon and you can book classes too. All the products look great and there are some really nice gorgeous colours. By visiting the website it's made me want to buy and try everything!

Take a look at Ariane Poole Cosmetics and at the moment there is free shipping! Yay!  Also one more thing is that shortly they will be  announcing a Free entry Selfie promotion with a £250 worth of Ariane Poole* makeup. All the lucky winner will have to do is share their promotion link on Facebook and upload a Selfie (later this week).

Enjoy!

Emma

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I Love Vintage Make Up - Yardley Bee Makeup Base

Above are the vintage makeup items I own, it will grow!
From left to right is Bourjois Evening in Paris - Mary Quant Crayons - Yardley Bee Makeup Base.

Now I thought each item deserved its very own blog post so first of I am starting with the Yardley Bee!

Now I don't know much on Yardley so I did do some research.

I love the packaging of this even thought the lid is plastic, the bee is so cute! I tried to find when this was made, which was a really hard task and I still am not sure but I think its from the 1960's. If you know please tell me :)

On the bottom it tells you where to apply it and the finish it gives. This is in shade medium.

Time for the history part now!

Yardley Bee or Yardley London was established in 1770! That makes me feel young ;) lol! It is a major producer of soap and perfumes and hold two Royal Warrants. British model Twiggy also became a face for Yardely in the 1960's and Yardely became a symbol of the 'Swinging London'

1940s poster

So that is item 1 of my collection, here is a link if you would like to read more about Yardley Bee with some amazing posters! http://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/companies/yardley.php

Emma

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I would like to thank wikipedia for educating me more on Yardely.

BH Cosmetics 120 Palette 2nd Edition

I bought the BH Cosmetics palette quite a while back now. I bought it because I saw the amazing eye looks Katie Alves creates using them http://katiealves.deviantart.com/ .  I love the colours BH does and I chose the 2nd edition as it contains bright and neutral shades.

The ingredients are Talc, Mica, Mineral Oil, Kaolin, Titanium Dioxide, Magnesium Stearate, Isopropyl Palmitate, Lanolin, Methylparaben, Propylparaben and BHT.

I cant say I have used this too much but I think thats due to the fact I only really wear neutral eyeshadow specifically Revlon Colourstay Addictive Intoxiquant. However I did use this for a Make up portfolio I had to create for ' my favourite theatre production' and they liked my photos!

The colours do come out bright especially if you layer them and they also blend really well and have good staying power. Even the red in the photo is eyeshadow.  The variety of colours is amazing too as well as the price!

All in all I think the palette is really good and I should really use it more!

Emma
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P.s I hope my eyes don't scare you too much :)