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It's Like Your Own Celebrity Make Up Artist

Recently working with Alex Chung, Kelly Brook and Rosamund Pike, Rimmel are giving you the chance to have your beauty questions by Liz Pugh.

"We’re giving you a great opportunity to ask our make-up artist to the stars, Liz Pugh, your questions. Liz spends her days styling the hottest celebrity faces for catwalk shows and glossy campaigns, but she always has time for her Rimmel girls! You can ask Liz any makeup question you like. Want to know how to interpret catwalk trends for real life? Learn top industry beauty secrets? Or how to freshen up your beauty routine? Then fill in the form below before 29/04/2008 and submit your question. Liz will answer as many questions as she can, so keep an eye on the hints and tips section of this site to see if yours is published."

Click here to go to the Rimmel site and ask you question.

Tools of the Trade

One of the most important part of applying makeup can be the brushes you use.

"Behind its forms and colors, there are thoughts of the creator."

"Coming from the fusion of professional functionality and artistic design, each shu uemura makeup brush is hand-laid in place for shape and optimal makeup results. Honored as "the best makeup brush line" by InStyle Magazine, shu uemura has a brush for every makeup purpose. shu uemura brushes are classified into three central categories based on hair quality and desired finish: Synthetic, Natural and Kolinsky."

Click here to read more about the great range of shu uemura brushes.

Oh My God What Is That? Total Beauty!

Total Beauty have a great article featured on their site at the moment which highlights some common skin conditions and how we can treat it. Some of the conditions include windburn, hives, swollen red eyes and athlete's foot.

"Our two-minute guide to what you shouldn't pick at, as well as pro regimens on improving true skin emergencies, with advice from derms Dr. Kenneth Beer, Dr. Jeanine B. Downie and Dr. Kathryn Frew."

Click here to read more.

Celebrate Your Daily Obsession

The Daily Obsession is celebrating its 2nd birthday and thought that would be a great excuse to give its readers a present!

"Two winners will win identical packages worth over$3,200 filled with products from brands like Lancome, Jennifer Behr, ShuUemura, Warren-Tricomi, Julianna Rae, Jurlique, Envirosax, MD Skincare -just to name a few. The giveaway starts on Apr. 7 and will end on Apr. 13."

Head over there and leave a comment now to enter!

Stewart + Brown's Bag + Bundle

"Bundle up some fun with these buttoning bags. Each style is printed with original artwork inspired by Karen’s trip to the seaside villages of Portugal. They’re constructed with durability in mind and made from a surplus cotton and hemp blend. Surplus fabrics are perfectly sustainable since they reuse scrap fabrics left over from larger production runs and since they’re lined with an organic cotton, these bags give you even more bang for your buck."

24 Hours To Beautiful Skin @ Beauty News LA

Beauty News LA has posted a great post about "Compare how your skin looks during the week filled with grueling deadlines to how it looks on vacation. Chances are your complexion reflects late nights and stressful days. We enlisted Erica Mather and Jena la Flamme of Jena Wellness, a nutrition and holistic health group, to create a daily health plan that sends your skin on vacation every day".

Makes sense. Click here to check out the post. Everyone should try the tips discussed in this post.

Look As Stunning As Hayden Panettiere

I love Hayden Panettiere so when I came across a post at Beauty Blabber I had to share it. The post is about her gorgeous bronzed look she had at a recent event and how you can achieve it.

Click here to read the post.

Kerastase Offers Expert Tips For Fine Hair

Kerastase has offered some expert tips from award winning stylist, Emilee Cagwin for those with fine hair lacking volume. These are:

• After applying Mousse Volumactive to the roots and Spray Volumactive to the ends, pre-dry hair and lift up on roots with your hands.
  
• Starting off at the bottom of the head, use a round metal brush to smooth out the hair while still adding lift. After the entire head is done, apply a little more Spray Volumactive to the outer layer and put in some velcro rollers.


• Most of my clients are on the run so they don't have time to sit under the dryer from wet to dry so I will put them in rollers where they need the most volume, which is usually in the crown and have them sit under the dryer for 5 minutes.


• Final step is to take out the rollers and add the finishing spray Double Force.

For more tips click here to visit the Kerastase site.

Origins - It's Sounds Good Enough to Eat!

Origins have a couple of special offers available at the moment and the first is an online exclusive only and applies to orders placed by 30 March 08 so you need to hurry for this one.

With your order, enter code 0308811** at the checkout and you will recieve a free sample of Modern Friction 'Nature's Gentle Dermabrasion'.

Another offer they have available is that you can receive a fre one week sample of Dr Andrew Weil for Origins Plantidote Mega-Mushroom Treatment Lotion. This one is available to orders of $25 or more placed by 30 March 08.

Now, I'm not sure if you can use these two offers together or whether you can ony have one or the other. Hurry, so you don't miss out on these two great offers. I love getting freebies!!

Wet Seal Expands It's Waistline

Wet Seal is a great store for buying those cheap items of clothing good for one season. They sell cool funky tops and tees as well as cool pants and jeans (as well as heaps more stuff!!). I was happy to hear that Wet Seal have now expanded it's sizing to include sizes extra small through to extra large.

Fantastic news for everyone!!

Benefit The Fast & The Flawless

I love Benefit cosmetics and I came across this pack which is exclusive to Sephora. The Fast and the Flawless :

"Benefit's The Fast & the Flawless is filled with our fastest fake-its and a step-by-step lesson on how to look flawless…fast! The lesson includes how to fake foundation, how to "fake awake," how to fake long lashes, and how to fake a flush on the lips and cheeks. As a bonus, the set includes a limited-edition mouse pad that reflects the enticing art on the bag."

This limited edition pack contains Some Kind-a Gorgeous, Eye Bright, Gent Bent Lash, Benetint deluxe sample, mouse pad and make up lesson.

A great addition to any make up kit.

Online Shopping - One For Our Australian Friends

This one is for all our Australian readers - I have come across this fabulous blog called Shop The Planet. Shop The Planet is "a shopping directory of international stores that ship to Australia. You can shop the streets of LA, New York and Paris from home, knowing that every store on this blog will ship their products to Australia".

How awesome is that! So far some of the stores featured so far include Couture Candy, Shoebuy, Spa Look, Benefit Cosmetics and Singer 22.

It's a great site that saves you all that time wasted searching through online stores trying to find out if they ship internationally. I would like to feature the very first post of Shop The Planet here as it explains why this site was started:

"Hello and welcome to Shop The Planet. So, what is Shop The Planet? It is a site which contains details of international online stores who ship to Australia. Why Shop the Planet? Well, I started this site because I was starting to find that no matter where I went shopping, all shops were selling the same stuff! I was sick of it. I hate going somewhere and seeing 5 other girls wearing the same thing I am. I wanted to find something different that noone else had. I browsed online but still couldn't even find many online stores with much variety.

In August 2007 I took my first trip to LA. I loved everything about LA, particuarly the shopping. There is so much to choose from, I could always find something to fit and has something for any budget. When I got back home I decided to see if any of the shops I visited in LA, had online stores and whether they shipped to Australia. I was surprised to find some of them did!

That started the search for me to find all international stores who would ship to Australia. I though 'it would be so much easier if I could find a directory that just gave me a list of stores who ship internationally'. After realising that there aren't any the decision was made to create one myself to share with all Australians."

So, Aussie's, what are you waiting for - get shopping!!

Click here to visit Shop The Planet.

Puckered's Favourite Reads of the Week

I would like to share with you all, some of the best reads from my favourite blogs this week.

A Mom in Red Heels goes behind the scenes at Smashbox Studios with Davis Factor.

Beauty News LA Goes Green.

Beauty Snob's pop quiz to win SENSAI Cellular Performance Throat and Bust Lifting Effect.

Cinnamon Kitten reviews Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion.

Make Up Bag goes backstage at Fashion Week.

Savvy Skin gives the low-down on fake make-up and skin care products on Ebay.

The Daily Obsession talks about the new Bobby Brown Limited Edition Bridal Kit.

Jenna Jameson Is Puckered

Jenna Jameson puckers up for us all while arriving at the premiere of 'Sleepwalking' on March 6, 2008, Hollywood, California.

LiftActiv Pro Up For Grabs

Vichy Laboratories have unveiled a new anti-wrinkle system called the LiftActiv Pro Range. They say it: “recharges your skins fiber support system and correct the appearance of wrinkles”.

After doing years of study they believe that wrinkles can be reduced by 23% after 4 weeks of using their products.

So, they are giving away 15 packs of LiftActiv Pro Product Routine valued at $139. You don’t have to make a purchase so just head over there and enter their sweepstakes and you may be lucky enough to win one!

Go there now.

G By Guess Spring Break Tee Event

Well, this must be my lucky day!! As I mentioned in my previous post I’m a huge fan of t-shirts. I’m very much a jeans a tee kinda girl. I’m now doubly excited because not only did Wet Seal notify me of their cute tees on special, G by Guess are having a Spring Break Tee Event!

They are knocking 25% off their tees (for guys as well as girls). Here are a few of the cutest I saw on their site.

Click here to visit their site and check them out for yourself.

I’m in Tee Heaven!!!

Wet Seal Gets Graphic

I love casual tee’s that you can just wear with jeans, just lazing around the house or out to see a movie. I’m a big fan of t-shirts so was excited to see that Wet Seal have a whole bunch of graphic t-shirts. They have rock/punk style, bright fluro colours or cute girly tees with diamantes.

They start from around $10.50 and some are even on special for less than that. They also offer free shipping if you spend enough.

Go get graphic now!

Make Up Junkie Birthday Giveaway

One of my favourite beauty blogs, Make Up Junkie, is celebrating a birthday and she wants to share it with everyone. If you go the Make Up Junkie site and subscribe, let them know what makes you a make up junkie you can win some great prizes. Up for grabs are:

"3 full size lip glosses from one of my favourite brands Three Custom Color!......2 $25 gift certificates to one of my fave bath and body lines bobe (beyond ordinary bath essentials)!"

Click here to go there now to be in the running to win these cool prizes.

Photo from Make up Junkie

Pucker Up, it's Smashboxs' Custom Shades

Well, this was an interesting little product I wanted to write about today. This product featured on Sephora caught my attention because it gives you your own shade of pink!

This is Smashbox O-Gloss, the intuitive lip gloss, which is meant to :

"Get a shiny pink pout all your own! This intuitive silky gloss reacts with your personal skin chemistry to transform from clear into your own custom shade of pink."

This sounds so perfect! Just to think - lip gloss that picks the perfect shade for your lips itself....