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Japonesque – The perfect concealer brush

Hello Lovelies,

I am a bit of a bugger when it comes to using things for their intended purposes. I like to find new and inventive ways to use things, just to be a bit different and get the very best results. I like to use a thin angled foundation brush to apply setting powder under my eyes and along my brow bones rather than to apply foundation!

With that in mind, I’d like to tell you all about my new find, the perfect concealer brush from Japonesque!

The brush itself is marketed as an eye shadow crease brush, from the shorter handled travel line.

You can see from the shape of the brush that it is bulleted and not like most other concealer brushes…. That is what I love.

This brush can handle just about any kind of concealer you throw at it, liquid, gel, stick forms, the lot. I find the finer point perfect for really dabbing on small amounts of cover on to small areas and then conversely the angled sides give great application to larger areas.

I find the pointed tip of the brush also gives great reach and application to areas such as around the nostrils and in the inner corner of my eyes. It’s the perfect multi fit shape.

The brush is so versatile I always then run the tip in to my MAC MSFN to then set the concealer.

The brush quality itself is also really good. The ferrule is nice and strong and well glued, the bristles are tightly packed and feel lovely against the skin with no shedding. The handle, with it being classed as a short handled travel brush, is nice and thick yet compact. It is perfectly usable on a daily basis, none of that pathetically small useless tiny brush size here!

You can buy the Japonesque travel range in Boots and John Lewis. This brush is £12.75 in Boots and on offer, if you buy 1, you get the 2nd brush half price – brilliant!!

Have you tried Japonesque brushes? Do you use things for a purpose it wasn’t intended for? How do you apply concealer?

Katie Beauty

New! Cherry Batiste Dry Shampoo

Hello Lovelies

Well lookie here, look what I found hiding away in my local Boots. Cherry Batiste!

I tweeted about it on Tuesday night with glee at finding something so cute in the can and cherry flavoured (looove cherry prints and smells) and it turns out a lot of you lovelies had never heard of it, seen it or knew it was coming!

I thought that was a bit odd as the furore surrounding Batiste Wild was quite widespread. Wonder if my Boots have done a woopsie and stocked it out too soon? Who knows.

The can is a beautiful ditzy cherry print and the smell… well it isn’t as cherry-ish as I would have liked, I can’t really detect much of a cherry smell to it but it is sweet and fruity and that’s good enough for me!

As I’ve mentioned before, being a bit of an ‘alt girl’ and rockabilly fan, anything with a cherry print on gets the thumbs up with me so this can will take pride of place in my bathroom along with her new partner in crime… Batiste Wild.

Will you be trying Cherry Batiste? What is your favourite scent?

Katie Beauty

FashionistA fashion secret gel eyeliner

I love my Maybelline Gel eyeliner but after a little panic in which it vanished (the suitcase stole it!) I finally opened my FashionistA. I’d been saving it until I’d ran out of Maybelline but it’s day had come.

I love the packaging. It admittedly does look a little cheap and chatty, BUT, it is cheap and cheerful so I don’t mind. It almost has the look of nail varnish doesn’t it?!

The lid is absolutely genius. The top pulls off and snaps back in on itself to create a mini, portable eyeliner brush! It’s great for keeping in your travel bag or handbag for quick touch ups without having to lug around brushes. I do choose to use my own liner brushes with the gel liner but I have used the built in brush which works well. It’s also handy for ladies without a mammoth brush collection. Good thinking to include one that you aren’t likely to lose.

I love the jet black gel inside the pot. I have often said I find the maybelline one a little too gel-y and it needs to be set quickly with black shadow to stop it transferring to my brow bone. The FashionistA liner is a little more solid and substantial which means I get a little longer to line before worrying about transfer and it doesn’t need setting as much which is a bonus in my book!

For such a bargain price, I can’t fault this liner and now that I have found my Maybelline Liner… I have continued to use this one.

Being honest, I generally only wear eyeliner when I am either doing a heavy black smokey eye or wearing false lashes and in the instance of lashes, this gives a strong inky black line to help hide the band of the lashes. Perfect!

FashionistA is available solely from Superdrug.

Have you tried anything from the FashionistA range? What gel eyeliner do you love?

Katie Beauty

Philip Kingsley Giveaway!

Hello Lovelies,

I have a fab giveaway for you all today! A veritable stash of Philip Kingsley goodies!

I’d call this a Philip Kingsley start pack full of his most fabulous products with a value over £25

Philip Kingsley Moisture Extreme Shampoo

Philip Kingsley Moisture Extreme Conditioner

Philip Kingsley Scalp Mask

Philip Kingsley Elasticizer Extreme x3

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is comment below and make sure you have done the following :

> Become a Google Friend Connect follower of my blog.

> For an additional entry, Tweet this:

Want to WIN some Philip Kingsley goodies? Check out the giveaway here http://www.ladyfromatramp.co.uk/2012/01/philip-kingsley-giveaway.html to enter! #bbloggers #LadyPKgiveaway RT

> For another additional entry, link from your blog to mine with a post all about my competition.

Remember to leave your name, blog name, twitter name and a link to the post in your comment below.

Good luck everyone!!!

The Fine Print

* This giveaway is only open to Google Friend Connect public followers- New & Old (I do check!). I will remove any accounts created solely for entering competitions promoted via ‘freebie’ websites.
* ONE entry comment per person please, any more will NOT be counted so make sure you leave all your details in the first comment (name, twitter + blog if you have opted for more chances)

* Not open internationally
* One winner will be selected at random from all valid entries using Random.org
* The giveaway closes on Monday 6th February at Midnight (GMT), so that gives you plenty of time! Any entries made after this time will not count
* Winner will be announced on this blog and contacted after dead line.
* The winner has 7 working days to claim their prize or another winner will be chosen at random. Winner must be happy to confidentially give me their address for posting the prize out.

* This is NOT a sponsored give away. I’m just nice.

Katie Beauty

Boots Skin Clear Ultra Treatment Cream

Hello Lovelies,

This is a Holy Grail product for me.

It takes a lot for me to say that but I never leave the house without a tube of this. There’s one in each of my cars, handbag, desk at work, desk at home, make up bag, bathroom, bedside table.. You get the picture!

Whilst I don’t suffer with your typical spots, I suffer a lot of reaction flare ups. When my facial skin comes in to contact with something it doesn’t like such as perfumes, products etc it goes mental and breaks out in to nasty red itchy lumps.

I suffered with this for a long time untreated and then I started to try anything I could think of and nothing worked. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon this, and it’s non ultra predecessor that I had success in calming down my flare ups.

Using this creamy gel as a spot treatment (geddit?!) you can target the product on to the affect areas for a hit of calming. In about an hour it has reduced the redness, taken the itch out of the area and started to work it’s magic on healing it up.

Being a hypersensitive skinned lady this really has been a godsend and has joined the ranks of my arsenal. It does work super well on ‘normal’ spots as well.

It’s best applied under make up but you can lightly dab it on over the top, if you use a bit too much it does go a bit cakey with any powder but a little works wonders.

For less then £5 ( £4.07 for 25ml, currently on 3 for 2) I won’t be without this gem and it’s quite often on special offer too so stock up!

Have you tried this before? What spot fighting treatments do you recommend?