*Still Beauty

This is a new series of posts I will publish every week, with the title "Outfit of the week", which really is very self explanatory. This week goes to Cara Delenvigne, in Saint Laurent at the Brit Awards. I love everything about this look. This very dark red really suits Cara and I love her makeup as well, a bit more bronzy, a...

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Being original, being cool are one of the most sought after things is this over-shared and over-visualized social media world. You look at street style heroines and their seemingly effortless style, they way they wear those jeans and the way their hair is parted, it all looks perfect. And we want to be perfect, this is why we buy and follow trends and...

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I recently chnged my skincare routine out of a case. I spent the night at my boyfriend's place for a couple of night in a row and as I wasn't wearing makeup at all and I skipped my night clean up. I was feeling a little lazy and I thought that the wipes would have been too harsh as there was nothing to...

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Highlighters are the perfect finishing touch to any make up, in fact they can be your only make up. I have beeen using regularly 2 different highlighters, the Artdeco anti aging concealer (don't be misguided by the name, it's a good highlighter, on the pattern of the Touche Eclat) and the Benefit Cosmetics Watt's Up. I also recently added to my make up...

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I recently was involved with my university's charity fashion show, this is why I haven't been posting for a while.This post is basically about a designer that really hit my immagination when I saw her creations backstage at the fashion show. Rachel Mcmillan is a 23 years old Glasvegian that won a Scottish Fashion Award just six months after openig her fashion label....

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Working or studying means numerous hours in front of a computer. So why not make the most of it and incorporate some simple beauty steps in it? This is the ultimate guide to what should always be on your desk with you. Water. The first and untimate beauty need, a good hydrated skin and body comes from the inside. Hand cream. Putting on...

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France has probably some of the best beauty lines in the world, and some of the more cheap ones are actually amazing too. So here are some products that you should buy if you happen to be in Paris, without spending gazillions on a cream. If you can't fly all the way to France for them amazon and other online stores will do...

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We all have watched infinite numbers of tutorials for the perfect smokey eye or for the polished and sexy red lip in order to look at our best on a night out, but it is also crucial to be able to maintain the look even after drinks and hours of sweaty, drunk dancing. We all know our judgement on how much make up...

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Organic skincare is something we hear a lot about recently. Myself, I wrote an article about how to use what would become food waste in our daily care ( you can read it here). Maybe it is just a trend following the general fitness and healthy food promotion, maybe it is actually the direction that the market has taken. Surely the word "organic" itself...

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Hair is a big part of our appearence and it is normal that we want it to be as beautiful as it can be. Our locks can become a signature, a style that distinguishes us from the others. Just think about Edie Campbell's change of hairstyle from long blonde to short black and how it greatly affected her career; or Kate Moss's blonde...

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When you change your cream or your skin routine you want to assess the new product the most unbiasedly possible. The best way to do so and enhance the results of the new beauty program is by preparing your skin for the changement. Usually when we change cream or beauty routine it is because we are not fully satisfied with what we have,...

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 Etro  H&M  Prada  Zara This is probably one of my favourite trends for the SS15, printed trousers. I am not going to lie, if you asked me if I would have ever liked this kind of trousers one year ago I would have said it was impossible. But this impossible suddenly changed. I think that my trip to Portugal last summer contribuited to...

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Image by Saskia Keultjes We know air pollution is bad for our lungs, but what is all around us so much that we inhale it, it is surely going to get deposited on our skin, and that's so good either. It increases inflammation and irritation (breaking out, hello?) and also aging. If left on the skin it will leave it more vulnerable to...

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An excerpt from How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits Au naturel It is almost impossible to resolve the great mystery of what is natural. Because, in fact, nothing is natural. Parisiennes will have you believe that they are born with perfect skin and delightfully messy hair. That from the cradle onward they exude a scent worthy of...

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Selfies are part of our almost daily routine, be it Fecebook, Snapchat, Twitter or showing off your new sunnies, selfies allow us to capture a precise moment of our life, so how can we upgrade the selfie game? Bring a friend along. Sometimes taking selfies, or too many selfies can be perceived as narcissistic, but if we bring a friend along the picture...

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I started using micellar water last year as a general cleanser. I read about it as I was endlessly reading on how to acquire that perfect french skin glow. It emerged after the parisian women chose this over tab water to wash their face, as Paris is famous for it's bad water. It is designed to be swept away without rinsing off and...

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SkinBetter is a new app related to the beauty industry. I first read about it in Cosmopolitan among other apps, and decided to give it a go. I was surprised it was free, as usually apps that promise good performances have to be paid for, which is something I have no intention to do, ever. After downloading it I had to sign up...

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We probably all read about all those diy masks, creams or serums, made from starch only with products in your fridge. I don't know what can be found in people's fridges but in mine I can't find at least all at once, fresh cinnamon, honey, apple cider vinegar, papaya, eggs that I don't want to eat and strawberries. So in my case going...

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What better way to start a post about mascara if not quoting the legendary Andriana Lima? The quest for a good mascara is always a long one, especially if your eyelashes are short, especially if they're not black, basically it is a long quest if you are me. Mascara is that one product that doesn't need to be expensive to be effective. Many...

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How many times do we touch our face? Studies show it happens 3.6 times per hour. This is probably the starting point for a better skin, because we can plump it with vitamins, creams, serums and whatever more, but nothing will solve all the damage that we do to our skin with  just our hands. All our moms probably screamed at us when...

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It is quite common that you buy your foundation full of hope on the results . You see the ad picture, beautiful, glowy and natural looking. You go to Boots, try a bit of the tester on your hand to see if the colour matches and instantly in love you buy the foundation. After a week or so of use you see that...

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This is probably one of the questions that more often we ask ourselves and are not able to answer. We are taught by our moms, or websites the obliged steps of cleansing, toning and moisturizing are to be taken sice we are teenagers, but then, all of a sudden the eye cream comes out and we're not really sure at what age we...

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Asian beauties and their skincare routine are lately taking over the internet. Their perfect porcelaine skins seem not to suffer any kind of age dacay, always luminous and young. And while we are here left wondering the miracle behing those pictures asian beauty brands and skincare routines are more and more successful. But should we believe the hype? Surely the meticulosity that asian...

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This post is born again from personal experience. As a student it is quite easy that you have sleepovers, be it at your boyfriend's, be it at your casual boyfriend's or at your friends or some kind of field trip you will experience sleeping somewhere that is not your home. If your plan is not being too hangovered the next day and skipping...

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I always found difficult finding a face cream, let's not say an entire morning routine, that would feel good on my skin. I went through creams that were too oily to ones that felt heavy. I think nowadays most companies focus on anti-aging creams rather than ones for young skin, and being 20 myself I am quite reticent in putting too many products...

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I always found drugstore products not quite satisfying as I would like them to be, and as I realize that they were a complete delusion I feel guilty for the 10£ or so that I spent on them. Don't get me worng, there are some amazing drugstore products that I love (such as my great foundation Radiant glow, by Rimmel) but I always...

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Hi! This blog is mainly about beauty. I am a university student with a healthy obsession for beauty products at the constant quest of getting the perfect skin, that needs no tons of make up to glow and look healthy. Over the time I noticed that most beauty blogs talk about this amazing products that promise to make your skin model worthwhile, and...

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