Easter Treats

Wether you are pretty orthodox or atheist, Easter is always the perfect time to spend a beautiful day with your closest people, eating way too much chocolate, and treating yourself a bit more. And so it was my Easter Sunday this year, with a lovely sun in the sky, my family visiting our place and bringing chocolate to celebrate. And after filling up that belly of mine, I actually treated myself to some beauty stuff, because, well, you know me...

Holiday to me is pampering time, so I had a lovely and relaxing shower with a good old homemade coffee scrub (sharing this later next week) and a face mask time immediately after. I went for two of my most loved face masks, the Antipodes Aura Manuka Honey Mask (£21,50) on the dry areas of my face, and the Soap and Glory No Cloggs Allowed Mask (£11,50) all over my chin, forehead and nose where I'm getting very spotty recently. Those two make the world of good for my skin and I always feel regenerated right after, with a fresh new skin replacing my usual dull one. And of course I went for the L'Oreal EverRiche Absolute Oil Precieux (£7,99) all over my hair, as this lovely product not only is amazing in giving a subtle shine and making your hair so soft, but it also smells heavenly with that jasmine aroma.

Throw on my favorite lace blouse, an oldie but a goodie which actually looks pretty similar to this Oasis top, and went for my minimal makeup routine for lazy days including only foundation, concealer (and I'm so happy I can now wear the NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer again as my skin is a bit less pale) and eyeliner, I decided to go for my new favorite shimmery pink lip shade, the Maria Galland Color Pencil in 200 Pamplemousse Rosé*, which not only has the cutest name, but is also lovely as an everyday basic since it's the most flattering color on me with a tun of gorgeous golden shimmers in it, and you know how I feel about shimmers recently.

I actually decided to treat myself to some Cult Beauty products and placed a little order there as they are having one of their free worldwide shipping on every order until Tuesday. I'm not revealing what I purchased yet but I've just written a Mini Cult Beauty Wishlist, so you can definitely guess, and if not, I'm sure I'm going to talk about them super soon. But for the rest I just had a good time with my family and ate my chocolate eggs, and now I'm super excited for tonight's episode of Game of Thrones, my new addiction!

What about your Easter Sunday?

Monthly Favorites: March 2014.

March was the month when my life had a huge change, so many things have happened and it really is flown by this time, but beauty-wise I feel very satisfied with things and products I discovered. It's time to go back and pick my monthly favorites again, and this time I feel like they are seriously super foregone as I talked about these products all the time. But this is how favorites work, right?

Marzo è stato il mese in cui la mia vita ha visto i più grandi cambiamenti, sono successe moltissime cose e il mese è seriamente volato questa volta, ma per quanto riguarda il mondo della bellezza sono molto soddisfatta dei prodotti che ho potuto scoprire. E' tempo di tornare indietro e scegliere tutti i miei preferiti del mese, che questa volta sono veramente scontati visto che ne ho parlato tutto il mese. Ma è così che funziona, no?

I went a bit blush crazy

I've never been a bronzing or contouring powder girl, but being that pale girl as I am and as my cheeks never naturally blush, I'm always craving a bit of color on those face of mine and blush have always been my bestfriends since I firstly dip one's toes into makeup back in my teenager days. I remember my dad picking up my first blush ever with me, and it was a not that flattering terracotta shade with a tun of golden shimmers running through it that I would never wear nowadays but at those times was perfect to suit my not that picky necessities. But now things have changed, I became a little bit obsessed and have built up quite a collection... these are a few of my favorites!

Non sono mai stata una ragazza da bronzer o contouring, ma essendo molto pallida e visto che non arrissisco praticamente mai, bramo da sempre un po' di colore sul viso e i blush sono sempre stati i miei migliori amici già quando iniziai a truccarmi per le prime volte. Mi ricordo mio papà scegliere il mio primo blush con me, ed era una tonalità di terracotta non troppo adatta a me con un marea di shimmer dorati che oggigiorno non indosserei mai, ma che a quei tempi era perfetto per le mie esigenze non troppo pretenziose. Ma ora le cose sono cambiate, sono diventata una fan dei blush e ho costruito una piccola collezione... e questi sono alcuni dei miei preferiti!

London Beauty Haul Part 2

Last week I blogged about some of my most recent beauty purchases in the London Beauty Haul Part 1 all dedicated to makeup and haircare products, now it's time for the second part of the haul which regards skincare and bodycare products, and as you can see from the pictures above, I got a bit too excited when in London and purchased a lot of things I didn't plan to buy.

La scorsa settimana ho scritto dei miei acquisti più recenti nel post London Beauty Haul Part 1 tutto dedicato ai prodotti di makeup e per capelli, ora è tempo della seconda parte del haul che riguarderà prodotti di skincare e per il corpo, e come potete vedere dalle fotografie qui sopra, mi sono un po' lasciata trascinare dall'entusiasmo a Londra e ho comprato un bel po' di cose non in programma.

The Lazy Weekend Face.

Let's just say I'm the lazier of lazy people, and my laziness is visible also in my makeup routine. On the other hand this weekend I wasn't up to anything too fancy, just a nice afternoon with ice cream and a pizza for dinner, so I went for an easy look that saw the eyeliner return in all it's glory and my loyalty towards my new favorite pink lipstick. I'm probably the most boring person when it comes to makeup, however I'm testing out some new gems I've just recently picked up and I wanted to show you my thoughts. Plus one of my new year's resolutions was to post more makeup looks on here, so here we are.

Diciamo che sono la persona più pigra tra le persone pigre, e la mia pigrezza è visibile anche nei miei makeup. D'altro canto questo weekend non avevo programmi impegnativi, solo un pomeriggio tranquillo con gelato e una pizza per cena, quindi ho optato per un look semplicissimo che ha visto il ritorno dell'eyeliner in tutta la sua gloria e la mia lealtà verso il mio nuovo rossetto rosa preferito. Probabilmente sono una persona noiosa quando si tratta di makeup, però sto testando delle new entry che ho acquistato di recente e volevo condividere i miei pensieri. In più uno dei miei buoni propositi per l'anno nuovo era quello di postare più look qui su questo blog, quindi eccoci qui!

London Beauty Haul Part 1

Last week I wrote down a really long beauty wishlist containing products I really wanted to get while I was in London. I said I knew it wouldn't have been possible to buy everything, now that I'm back we can see together which ones I brought home with me for real. I actually part with a few of the items from my wishlist whether because I couldn't find them in stock, or because I decided I didn't need them to get some other gems and give them a whirl instead. I thought I'd split this haul in two parts since things can get a bit long here, so stay tuned for part two!

La scorsa settimana ho scritto una lunghissima beauty wishlist che conteneva prodotti che avrei voluto comprare mentre ero a Londra. Dicevo di sapere che non sarebbe stato possibile acquistare tutto, ora che sono tornata possiamo vedere insieme cosa effettivamente ho portato a casa con me. In realtà ho rinunciato ad alcuni dei prodotti della wishlist o perchè non erano in stock o perchè ho deciso di non averne bisogno, per far spazio ad altri e provare qualcosa di nuovo. Ho pensato di dividere questo haul in due parti dato che la faccenda potrebbe farsi lunga qui, quindi aspettatevi la seconda parte a breve!

London Beauty Wishlist.

First things first, for the ones of you who don't already know, I'm italian and I obv live in Italy, and unfortunately here we don't have access to a lot of brands that are sold in the UK or in the USA. Secondly by the time this post will go online, I'll be on a plane to London and I'll be there five days, and of course I need to do some beauty shopping after years and years of growing my wishlist while reading UK based bloggers praising about beauty brands I can only dream about. I passed these past two months writing down what I always wanted to try out, and let me tell you this, my wishlist was GINORMOUS. I managed to drain it a bit considering which products I can still buy online and which are more difficult to get that way, and finally I came out with this not that short list of items I really want to come home with me. We'll see if it'll be possible (unfortunately, even if I saved some money for this trip, I have a very limited budget, plus I only have a hand luggage with all the restrictions that come with it) and, if not, which products I'm going to leave there. But for now, please let me dream.

Dunque, nel momento in cui questo post andrà online sarò su un aereo direzione Londra e sarò lì per cinque giorni, e chiaramente, essendo italiana e vivendo in Italia dove certi beauty brand ce li sogniamo, non mancherà dello shopping di makeup e prodotti di bellezza in generale per colmare quei vuoti dovuti alle blogger inglesi e alle loro contagiose parole. Ho passato questi due mesi a scrivere una lista di prodotti che ho sempre voluto provare e che vorrei acquistare, e lasciatemelo dire, era ENORME. Ho cercato di snellirla il più possibile considerando quali prodotti posso sempre comprare online e quali no, e infine ne è uscita una lista non troppo corta di prodotti che vorrei far tornare a casa con me. Vedremo se sarà possibile (sfortunatamente, sebbene abbia risparmiato per questo viaggio, ho un budget molto limitato, e in più viaggio con un bagaglio a mano con tutte le restrizioni sui liquidi che ne conseguono), o altrimenti, quali prodotti dovrò lasciar lì. Ma per il momento lasciatemi sognare.