Benefit is a cult brand for a good reason-they deliver consistently high quality products (love Thrrob, Dallas, Pore Professional) in the prettiest packaging. One of my friends loves their boxes so much she keeps her products in them, so her makeup box is bulging with cardboard! I was excited to hear about the newest product in their line up, a stylish looking highlighter. It's called Girl Meets Pearl and is a golden pink liquid that would be great for adding some shimmery colour to the cheeks, eyes and collarbone. What's most exciting about it however (well for me anyways) is that it's scented. Yes, scented!
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With one week to go before I was due to bare my limbs on the beaches of Miami I was on a major diet and exercise regime, but my legs were still woefully pasty. I'm very against sunbeds so decided a fake tan was the way to go, and booked in for a spray tan session at the Beauty Lounge. The salon was delightful, with glorious forties embellishments and a combination of eclectic features such as cowhide rugs nestling next to Art Deco chairs and a overflowing magazine rack. I was seated for around 5 minutes, before I was brought upstairs to the Fake Bake booth.
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Ann Summers is well known for creating delicious looking babydolls, sexy dress up outfits and adult fun toys, and they're now extending their huge product line into the world of cosmetics. Bronzing and tanning, to be exact, which makes a certain sense if you look at their range of costumes and lingerie. Ann Summers has taken the scariness out of dressing up and adult fun, but there's no hiding the fact that their costumes tend to be pretty revealing. Women naturally feel sexier and slimmer with a tan, so the inclusion of products that cater to this will only lead to more confidence when strutting around in any of these creations.
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Now autumn's well and truly here and the nights are closing in, sunlight is in short supply and for those who prefer their pale skins a little bronzer, the bottle really is the only safe way to achieve a tan.
The Malibu range is one I'll always associate with holidays in warm and sunny places, so just looking at these bottles takes me back to bright and balmy days. They're all brand new from the suncare specialist, and have been created to help you tan gradually over the darker months so you can emerge bronzed and beautiful in the spring. There are three gradual tanning lotions including one for the face, but for those who can't wait the days and weeks it takes a tan to develop, there's also Moonlight Shimmer, and instant bronzer to add a sunkist glow to exposed body parts.
The best thing about this range (besides those oh-so nostalgic bottles) is how affordable they are: everything in it is beween £2.99 and £3.99. Check it out here.
When I say I don't tan easily, I really mean it. Forget interesting: I'm just pale. In fact, I'm so pasty that my veins are visible even in photographs and going out in direct sunlight for even an hour is a recipe for sunstroke.
This was great news back in my Goth days, when I never had to spend money on white foundation, but now I'm looking to cultivate a less anemic complexion, it's a choice between fake it or bake it, and I know which option my skin will thank me for. So earlier in the summer, en route to a festival where I planned to kick back and strip down, I slapped on some Xen Tan Deep Bronze Luxe which promised me an instant tan.
Read on to see how I got on
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Sarah Fisher writes...
With weather as unpredictable as ours this summer, the only truly safe and reliable way to get a golden glow is out of a bottle. And thanks to tanning geniuses St Tropez, there's no shortage of heavenly pampering products to help you achieve the perfect bronzed look for your face and body. This month, they release another string to their golden bow - a cosmetics range to complement sunkissed skin tones.
Read more about the new collection under the jump
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We're big fans of Xen-Tan here at Shiny having had great streak free results with their lotions, and are pleased to announce they'll now be available in a vanilla flavour! Yes really, though the formulations remains basically the same, they have added three new products with the 'Deep Bronze Luxe ' moniker. The products have the ingredient Lexorez which slows down the release of DHA for a smoother tan, and they've upped the level of DHA to keep you browner for longer.
To be honest, I'm most excited about the scent- wouldn't you be? Get it here.
More tan times here.
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