Cosmetic Cupcake

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you've had/are having a wonderful day surrounded by loved ones and filled with lots of good food, drink and presents!

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Gloss Cosmetics is one of those stores that every beauty loving girl dreams of and I'm no exception. They stock a number of Australian and international brands and I've frequented their stores for a number of years now. I'd always make excuses to go to Hurstville or Parramatta Westfield so the boy would drive me get my beauty fix! I've lost count of the number of times he's complained about waiting outside while I browse. Of course the only thing I have eyes for whenever I go to Gloss is the nail polish! They stock one of my fave Aussie brands BYS and also brands such as Chi Chi, Revlon and Model Co.




I was so excited to learn that they were opening their new flagship store in Parramatta and it's bigger than ever! It's nearly 4-5 times bigger than the original Parramatta shop which is still open if you're wondering. I was invited to check out the new store and I went along with Anita and Ange yesterday to join the opening festivities.


To celebrate the launch of the new store, they treated everyone to fairy floss and flew up awesome nail artists I Scream Nails from Melbourne to do free manicures with a choice of 10 cute nail designs.

That's me on the left getting my nails done and Anita on the right!
They had a special Gloss manicam set up where you could walk your fingers down a special miniature red carpet to show off your just done nail art. It was hilarious and SO cute! I would love one of these at home! You can check out the manicam in action here.


Getting my nails did! I went with a tribal accent and a leopard accent and it was rather strange having my nails down for me and just sitting back and relaxing.


My nails on the red carpet!


If you couldn't make it down to the opening you can still get your nail art fix at the Parramatta store. You can get a nail art mani for $25 or it's FREE if you spend $50 instore!


Of course I couldn't resist buying SOMETHING (it's a bit hard to walk out of Gloss empty handed!) so I picked up some nail polish remover pads that smell soooooo delicious. Ange and Anita bought them in different flavours and I had to get one too.


Have you been to Gloss Cosmetics stores before? Thank you Gloss for having me at the opening!

Thanks for looking as always ladies!

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang.

In less than 5 months I’m getting married and my fiancé and I are very excited as you can imagine! The organising has been fun and relatively stress-free (except for the odd freak out by me) but there’s still lots to do. One of those things is deciding how to do my makeup of course! The photos and video that will be captured on the day is so important to me because that’s what I’ll have to remember the day by so I want my skin to be glowing and in the best condition on my big day.


This is very achievable since I’ve been using the automated dispensing delivery system of the Clearasil PerfectaWash for the last few months! If I’m feeling confident with my skin I know that will show through in the photos and give me so much more confidence on the day. There’s nothing worse than having cameras follow you around if you’re self conscious.


I want a really natural look but I want to play up my eyes with a slightly darker neutral smokey eye. I love a neutral eye and it’s what I feel most comfortable. I won’t be doing my own makeup on the day but that hasn’t stopped me from trying different looks myself!


For this look I used a light base of Make Up For Ever Face and Body foundation in 20 and used a light dusting of powder. For the eyes I lined my eyes using Make Up For Ever Aqua eyes in black and used Urban Decay Sin and Busted from the Naked Palettes to create a smokey eye.


I curled my lashes and applied 2 coats of Dolly Wink mascara. For the rest of the face I kept it natural by using Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in dollface and Dior Addict lipstick in Model.


I have one last Clearasil PerfectaWash Dispenser & Refill to give away today! If you didn't win last time here's one last chance to get your hands on one. All you have to do is answer the following question:

Have you tried the new Clearasil PerfectaWash, what were your thoughts?
Leave me a comment with your answer below for your chance to win! Easy! The competition is open to Australian residents only and ends at 5pm AEST on December 18th 2012. The winner will be chosen by Nuffnang. See Terms & Conditions here.

GOOD LUCK!!

Hi ladies I have for you my first Christmas manicure of the year! Well not exactly the first as I've done a few plain Xmas skittles but I didn't bother taking photos of them because they were't super exciting. I haven't done a santa suit mani before so thought I'd give it a go! Not the neatest job because I haven't done any nail art in ages so I'm rusty but oh well! I threw in some trusty glitter so you get distracted LOL.


What I used:

Thumb: I used 2 coats of China Glaze Poinsettia and 2 coats of China Glaze Ring in the Red. Excuse the broken nail! =(

Index finger: I used 2 coats of China Glaze Poinsettia and 2 coats of Lynnderella Happy Holo Daze! which is a perfect Xmas glitter. Oh I wish Santa would bring me more Lynnderella's for Christmas!!


Middle finger: I used 2 coats of China Glaze Poinsettia and 2 coats of Lush Lacquer Santa Baby. Unfortunately I couldn't get any of the black hex glitters out of the bottle doh.

Ring finger: I used 2 coats of China Glaze Poinsettia as my red base. For the white trim on Santa's suit I used Orly White Tips and for the black buckle I used Kiss nail art striper in black. I used China Glaze Midnight Kiss for the belt buckle.

Pinky: I used 2 coats of China Glaze Ruby Pumps. Ruby Pumps is still one of my absolute favourite reds of all time! Such gorgeous glittery goodness x)



I hope you're all getting into the festive spirit! Thanks for looking as always =)