Ajana All Natural Cinnamon Soy Wax Candle

This candle is the definition of Christmas and the Silly Season. Scented with the delicious smell of Cinnamon, this amazing candle makes you think of Christmas with every sniff. I know that Christmas was a few days ago, but I love Christmas and I love to try and keep it going.

Ajana is an all natural Australian company, and the candles are pure Soy Wax (no nasties here). Their candles are pure luxury, and the perfect thing to spoil yourself with during the Silly Season!

Check them out at www.ajana.com.au

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Review: MAC Russian Red

Oh MAC Russian Red, you were my dream for so long, and you became a reality at Christmas. Today I have some swatches for you, because I only really have first impressions. My major first impression though is that I love this lipstick. When applied correctly it lasted me through Christmas lunch (and then I took it off to play with my Chanel Lipstick).

MAC Russian Red is a gorgeous vampy red, which is very close to a true red on me. The matte finish means that it lasts longer than MAC Red, although personally I do like the colour of MAC Red a tiny bit better. It applies so softly and smoothly though, it doesn't feel supremely waxy like some matte formulas. This one is a definite winner, no wonder it is always on the "Top Red Lipstick" lists!

My Christmas Face. That expains the crazy bright smile haha.

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I finally own something from CHANEL!!

Chanel Chintz: a gorgeous soft coral pink, which is the most perfect nude. Light without washing out very pale skin tones. Chintz is flattering, soft in texture, handbag worthy, and makes any smile perk up with the packaging. I love it. The packaging is so luxurious, just holding it makes me feel like an important business woman. I can see myself wearing this lipstick an awful lot - it is absolutely wonderful! I will have to use it in a FOTD soon!

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Holiday FOTD: Face of Australia Lip Quench in Lychee Crush

This one is for the lovely Rosemary Slade of Lashes and Lattes, who inspired me to buy Lychee Crush yesterday and wanted a picture. I am technically on holidays at the moment, and I am supposed to be away from the blog (poor boyfriend, never stood a chance) hence the very simple FOTD. Quite literally, I used 5 products:

1. Invisible Zinc Silk Shield Foundation in Light
2. MAC Bronzer in Golden
3. MAC blush in Pinch o' Peach
4.. Maybelline Colossal in Black
5. Face of Australia Lip Quench in Lychee Crush.

I have blogged about my love for FOA before, their products are such hits for such low price points. The Lip Quench Lippies are absolutely fantastic, they are SPF 30+, insanely moisturizing - they contain Jojoba Oil, Vitamin E and Shea Butter - and relatively long lasting (considering the amount of moisturizing goodness that is in them). The colours in the new collection are absolutely out of this world as well, Malibu Barbie and Pink Champagne are also worth a look! I picked Forbidden Fruit up when I picked up Lychee Crush, because I absolutely love the raspberry colour, and I figured it would be a perfect music festival lip - bright colour with SPF. In fact, all of these colours are perfect summer colours, definitely worth a trip to your local Big W or Kmart!

Find all of the colours on the Face of Australia Website (Stockists are very helpfully listed).

I will have to do a FOTD with Forbidden Fruit soon, so you can all see how lovely it looks!



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How to make red lipstick last longer (tutorial)

I know I said that I was on holidays, but I decided that this post was necessary, due to it being Christmas and the Silly Season and you all going to parties and New Years Eve do's and getting kissed at midnight. One of the nicest New Years looks is red lipstick, but after a few drinks, nibblies, and New Years Eve kisses it can come off, and you can end up looking like me, yesterday, at Christmas...

In fact, I felt like such an idiot that I decided that I had better do this post so that no one else ends up looking like me! Red lipstick smears kinda suck. Just a little. In my defence I had just tried MAC Russian Red (which I got for Christmas, YAY) and hadn't followed these steps, which I usually do when applying lippie. *Slaps forehead*.

To make your red lipstick last takes a little time, but the end result is so worth it that it makes up for the time that it takes. 

1. Prep that pretty face of yours and do all the rest of your makeup - foundation, bronzer, blush, etc. Including eyes if you are going all out for the silly season.

2. Find a red or nude lipliner, and outline the edge of your lips. Then, fill in your lips, so that your entire lip is now shaded red/nude. This is a crucial step into making your lipstick last longer, because lip pencil is so thick and waxy it will stay put even after all of the rest of the lipstick is completely gone. I know that some say to apply a waxy lip balm first, but in my experience I have found that actually helps my lipstick to come off quicker.

3. Using a lip brush, fill in your lips with your chosen lipstick. A lip brush helps you to press the lipstick into your lips, ultimately making it last longer. It also helps you to get a perfect line, and lovely Silly Season lips.

4. Blot with a tissue - you will get lovely pout shapes on the tissue. I am not exactly sure why this helps it to last longer, but it does.

5. Grab your lip brush and fill in your lips again, the double coat of lipstick makes all the difference!

There you have it. Red lips that should last all night, to go with those gorgeous filled in eyebrows that you shall be sporting! 

PS. So sorry about the state of my skin, I have been using my Clarisonic and my skin is purging like crazy. Even though I was warned numerous times not to do it over Christmas by my darling beauty blogging community because they said skin purges. Le Idiot!

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UPDATED: Merry Christmas!!

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year -  see you on the flip side everyone! I am taking a short break (holidays are wonderful, necessary things) but I will be back on the Third of January, most likely with holiday pictures. Please follow me on twitter and facebook (see sidebar), and instagram (tegania11) because I am likely to be posting pictures during the week. I am also going to miss you all like crazy, so I would appreciate some social media contact!!

Merry Christmas everyone, I love you all!!

PS. Face of The Day (which is how I plan to wear my makeup for Christmas):

MAC Pro Long Wear Foundation in NC15
MAC Pinch o Peach Blush
MAC Bronzer in Golden

Rimmel Professional Eye Liner

Maybelline Colossal Mascara

MAC lipstick in MAC Red.

Merry Christmas Everyone!! 

UPDATE: It appears that I cannot stay away from my computer, over Christmas I had a thousand things wizzing around in my head which I had to get down. So, I wrote them down, and I have scheduled some posts for during the week, as my boyfriend is attempting a "blog free holiday". Good luck to him, but let's see how he goes! I hope you enjoy reading my posts, I can't wait to read what you have all been up to when I am allowed near a computer again! 
I will still have my phone however, so twitter, facebook and instagram ahoy!

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My Christmas Pedicure

I gave myself a little present today, in the form of a Christmas Pedicure. I would have done a manicure except a) I am hopeless at it and b) I am super hopeless at it, so pedicure it was!

The colour? OPI Nail Lacquer in Big Apple Red*. This colour is such a beautiful, bright red, which takes only one coat to show you all it's opaque shiny glory. It also applies like a dream; no clumps, all smooth lines. OPI is also the big three free - Formaldehyde, Toulene and DBP - and considering the amount of alcohol I plan to ingest come Christmas that is probably a good thing.

I think the last little baby is the colour I will be wearing come New Years Eve. It is an OPI mini, I am guessing it is Atomic Orange (the mini's at Price Attack don't have labels on the bottom to let you know). I love the mini bottles, so damn cute!

What polish will you be wearing this Christmas/New Years?

*This OPI polish was in my goody bag from ABBW. I am not obligated to write about it, I am writing because I love it!

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Hoarder! Yes, I said it, I am a hoarder!

Sparkly, shiny, pretty, smells good - basically, I am a magpie. Who hoards. Who continuously buys more and more products even when she has many, because she likes them. I am not afraid to admit that I appear shallow and vapid, I am not afraid to admit that I don't really care that I appear shallow and vapid. I love beauty products, and I will probably hoard them until the day I die.

I go through stages of things, and my current favourite product to buy up huge quantities of is lipsticks. I noticed just how bad it was when I emptied my hand bag the other day and found SIX lipsticks in my bag (not including lip balms, my gosh who knows how many of those are in there), which all had a firm place, and I desperately needed to keep in my bag!

Counting my lipsticks, I have 6 neutrals, 3 corals, 8 reds, and 12 pinks, and have 5 more in the mail/asked for as Christmas Presents (Chanel Chintz, Ciccone Oceanus and Coluptas purchased by me currently in the mail, Chanel Mademoiselle and MAC Russian Red asked for as Christmas Presents).  

My name is Tegan and I am a lipstick obsessive. Oh oh, please send me to lipstick rehab now!

The babies that live in my handbag...

The rest of the culprits!

Christmas is only 4 sleeps away now!! 3 whole days to go!!!

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A Perfect Christmas Red

Christmas is fast approaching and I am getting more and more excited every day. I have finally decided which lipstick I am going to wear (first world decisions, I know) and the winner is MAC Red.

Oh MAC Red, you are the newbie in my collection, but you make me so happy. You were the very first MAC lipstick that I purchased myself (the other that I own I got from "Back to MAC"), you were purchased as retail therapy for my pet budgie dying, you are my most recent lipstick purchase; therefore still having the novelty factor, as well as being an insanely amazing lipstick!

MAC Red is a lovely silky smooth lipstick, which applies like a dream. Soft, brightly pigmented, a lovely cherry/blue based red, which is quite long lasting (3 hours without food) and doesn't dry your lips out... MAC Red, you are my idea of heaven in a lipstick. Plus the packaging, you can't go past the sleek black bullet cases.

I think I shall have to tell Tim that he has been replaced by a lipstick, poor love!

Merry Christmas - only 4 more days to go!

I love my santa wreath -  isn't he adorable???

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Endota Spa will be looking after your New Years Resolutions this year

If you are anything like me, looking good for the year ahead is important. So is going back to work looking half alive and like you had a wonderful restful holiday, instead of one spent causing mischief and being a little bit too merry.

If you are the latter, Endota Spa has you covered in the months of January and February.

January: with any organic spray tan treatment, recieve 20% off organic gradual self tan. 
                with every one hour dermologica skin treatment, recieve a free dermologica exfoliation duo

In February: a one hour organic facial and 30 min massage is only $110 dollars. I think I am going to definitely need one of these towards the end of february when I am finishing up my HM prac!!

Gotta love Endota for looking after you after the merriness that is Christmas!!

Images courtesy of PR - thank you kindly.

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FOTD: Jacob's Well

Happy Friday Everyone!! This weeks FOTD comes from a couple of weeks ago, but it is what I hope to be doing tomorrow (road triping to the coast) so I thought it might be a little appropriate. My boyfriends mother lives in Jacobs Well (a little fishing town between Brisbane and the Gold Coast). A few weeks ago we went for a visit on a sunday afternoon, but we got a little caught visiting the water front at dusk. It was so beautiful, although it doesn't show too well in the photos!

I love my Mimco T Bar Sandles

FOTD:
Clinique Superbalanced Foundation in Alabaster
MAC Pinch o' Peach Blush
Maybelline Colossal Mascara
Korres Mango Butter Lipstick in Peach

and that's it! It was a lazy sunday after work, after all!!

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend, full of fun the weekend before Christmas!!

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Review: Sukin Purely Ageless Botanical Hydration Booster

I am sure a fair few of us are on the hunt for hydration, and this little bottle of oily goodness is designed to give you just that. Myself, I had a facial and a peel last week (more on that later), and while there my beauty therapist commented on the state of my skin. At my previous facials she has been horrified about how dry and tight my skin was, whereas this time she said that I still had some trans dermal dryness, however it was better than before. Success! I am attributing this step in the right direction to my current use of Sukin Botanical Hydration Booster, as I have been using this for almost a month and really enjoying the results. Plus, huge amounts of rosehip oil get pumped into my skin daily, and this is definitely helping as well. Anyway, back on topic.

Sukin Purely Ageless Botanical Hydration Booster is a skin oil, which is designed to be used as a serum. I have been using it as my night time moisturizer, over the top of my Clinique Even Better Clinical Skin Tone Corrector. I have been using rosehip oil as my moisturizer all year, so I am used to the feel of the oil on my skin. Sukin soaks in very rapidly if you are worried about oil however - give it ten minutes on my skin and it has completely soaked in!

The wonder ingredients in this oil which aid hydration include Jojoba Seed Oil which is an oil very close in structure to the natural structure of our skin, which hydrates the skin like no tomorrow. It also contains sweet almond oil, Argan Oil and Vitamin E to knock some hydration into your skin. Immortelle and Vitamin A helps to aid collagen production, whilst ylang ylang helps to balance the skin. All in all, this product is definitely a "hydration booster" (hahaha I am so lame).

My beauty therapist warned me that Jojoba may be too heavy for my pimple prone skin, but I have been finding it alright so far in terms of breakouts. Hurrah! I have also been recommended to start using Vitamin A serum to help control my skin however, so let's see how it all reacts together.

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