Under the sun: Daring Dragon and a little giveaway

Once upon a time, I met a lovely girl Emma who used to comment frequently on my blog. I soon found out that Emma also had a blog. Her cruelty-free nail polish blog 'Imagination in Colour' has now become one of my favourite reads. I love the way Emma writes. She thinks she's rambling on too much but I think her reviews are just right and very comprehensive. She's also on the ball, would also know about nail polishes releases before anybody else (I believe Emma was amongst the first ones to post about the Barry M magnetic polishes) and already own Gosh Galaxy even before I knew about it :) To top it all off, she's just acquired a fancy camera, so the quality of her photos is even better! She's ace and I love her to pieces.



Emma is doing a little survey at the moment on her blog and for one minute of you time, she would like to enter you in a small giveaway: The majestic but now discontinued Gosh Dragon nail polish. So if you would like to enter her giveaway (ends 15 September) please click here or any of the pictures below.





This is also the opportunity for me to play again with Gosh Dragon (reviewed here) and start the first episode of my 'under the sun' series. (Click here to see what it's all about.)

   

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FashionistA: A look at the brand and a closer inspection at their Supermodel Kohl Eyeliners

If it wasn't through Twitter and the beauty blogging world, I would have never heard of Makeup brand 'Fashionista' spelt 'FashionistA', with a capital A at the end, just to be awkward different. Like Look Beauty which was born last year (around October 2011 I believe?) FashionistA suffers from a crucial lack of representation in the high street shops and they have yet to open a webstore.


If it was up to FashionistA, they would be in every Superdrug nationwide but sadly this isn't possible. I have a few suggestions on what stand they could get rid of but I don't think some cosmetics brands will be happy with that. ;)




It was by pure chance yesterday that I discovered that there was finally had a stand of FashionistA Makeup in the Superdrug in Preston. I was not ready for what I was going to see:

A huge stand, slick black and red packaging, and all that at very affordable price which is music to my ears. Probably what FashionistA is most renowned for is their customisable palette system. You choose your shadows (49 to choose from!!) or blushes and you simply click them in a blank palette. Each individual shadow or blush cost £4. How cool is that! A picture is worth millions of words and expletives, so this is what I mean:







You will have to excuse my enthusiasm if this is old news for you. For me, this company just appeared in a Superdrug not too far from my small neck of the woods and it feels it's brand new to me.


They hadn't receive testers for everything yet (I know already that I *will* own a customised palette at some point and pray to god that there are some matte eyeshadows in 49) but I have some swatches for the khol eyeliners if you want to see. The liners are at £4 each, they are lovely and butter soft, and as their name entails, they are named after supermodels. My pictures don't show them justice and Claudia (Schiffer, I presume) is a beautiful sparkly black.










My favourite supermodel khol eyeliner? The gorgeous Heidi grey. I need to be careful on what I spend my money at the moment and already indulged on a small shopping spree yesterday but I will definitely travel again to that Superdrug and 'Heidi' will grace my lower lashline.

I leave you with a little montage I've made with pictures from the internet of their range of gel eyeliners. There are 13 shades in total, I didn't have room on the montage to feature the blackest black, it's not very easy to appreciate the nuances of grey and brown from these 'stock' pictures but hopefully these will give you an idea.






Conclusion: I am so happy this brand is stocked by a Superdrug near me. I hope there is one near you too, ‘cause there are plenty of things to play with and lots of happy affordable makeup moments to be had :)



Do you own any FashionistA makeup? What are the must haves from the brand?

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