Hey ladies, we’ve given you stacks and stacks of awesome prizes, and a bunch of dud product giveaways. How about you pay your old aunties Jo and Amy back by posting a review comment of what you got from us? Obviously complaning about the teeth of a gift horse is not encouraged, but we wanna know about YOUR experiences. You’re in this relationship too, y’know!
Archive for November, 2008
Cos you ain’t no holla back girl?
November 28th, 2008South Pacific Styles
November 27th, 2008I’m having a party and you’re invited. See?
This gives us a good chance to talk about what one would wear to such a shindig. My suggestions:
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A mermaid outfit: Remember that Halloween episode of Beverly Hills 90210 when Kelly goes as a sexy witch, and nearly gets raped, and Brenda’s like “I told you that outfit was a little much?” So awesome! It was totally her fault! But anyway, the comic relief in that particular episode came from Donna, as it so often did – I really think now she’s totally underrated – who wore a mermaid outfit with a skirt so tight she couldn’t sit or hardly walk in it. I’ve searched for pictures but I can’t find any. My interpretation of a mermaid though would be a long shiny green skirt, and as I’m not the sort to walk around in a bikini, a tshirt with green triangles matching the skirt sewn over the boobs. It’d be totally awesome, like modesty prom dresses!
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Traditional faux hula: There is a shop of awesomeness in Newtown called something like Rainbow Country, and in its narrow very crammed aisles, you can find EVERYTHING, including rafia or plastic shredded hula skirts and leis. Just don’t bring your lighter to the party, okay?
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Blue Hawaii: The $1-2-3 Shop in Newtown Mall by New World has Elvis wigs for under $5. Think about it. And since the movie also starred Angela Lansbury, a Miss Marple outfit wouldn’t be out of place.
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A Dusky Maiden/Velvet Painting: I love the look of these paintings (and this poetry collective includes my former flatmate the lovely Lani), and if you want to know more about the paintings, check out this documentary on the awesome NZonScreen site.
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Pirates: Everyone loves dressing up like pirates, right?
What are your suggestions, and are you coming to my party?
EL 8 hour cream packaging
November 27th, 2008
I spied this limited edition retro packaging of Eliz Arden’s 8 hour cream at a department store today. There’s also a matching lip balm. Love it! Would make nice xmas gifts too.
You smell delicious and other good lines
November 24th, 2008
The lovely Lou from Delicious has sent us some more goodies to try. Remember how we were in the pink and we wondered what it would be like to get the blues? Well, we’ve got the aquas now, and so can you.
Two out of two people in a blind smell test have said that the aqua hand balm would be for boys and the pink would be for girls, but Amy reckons it would be nice as a bodywash for girls too – and the site agrees, calling Aqua Delicious “fresh, clean and unisex”. One person described the scent as similar to that of Davidoff Cool Water, while someone else said it was a little generic-Lynxy. I say that it smells manly, but you can decide for yourself because that’s right – we’ve got another giveaway! We have the awesome-feeling hand-balm, some fragrance mist and the body exfoliator, and if you want it, you’ve gotta work for it.
In keeping with the manly theme, gentlemen and ladies, we want you to chat us up. Leave us your best pick-up line in the comments before next Monday, and we’ll choose a winner based on whatever we like the most on that day (so personalised compliments could be a go).
Prize will be sent to NZ addressees only, unless you want to stump up for packaging or send us reciprocal products.
Shoot from the lip
November 19th, 2008Baileys Irish Cream is launching a new ad campaign, “Listen to your lips”, and they got renowned fashion photographer Rankin to create the print advertising images. The idea was to create iconic and contemporary images of individual lip looks.
PPP was lucky enough to get access to some of behind-the-scenes pics from the photo shoot (thanks Jayne!). Just look at the all the make-up artist’s lip colours!
All of the images taken during the day of the shoot were hung up on the wall below. Hundreds of lip shots were taken, but only 24 made the final cut.
I like the bottom left pic best. It looks sun-lit, gentle and natural, and not all bright-white teethy.
Mad Men-inspired hair
November 9th, 2008Jo went to a ‘Mad Men‘ election party last night and I was privileged to do her hair and make-up. She wanted a Joan Holloway look, so I searched youtube for how to do foxy ’60s.
There wasn’t a lot on youtube, and as usual the best advice is on pursey.
So I went with an up front pouf (here’s my vid on how-to) and chignon at the back (here’s my vid on how-to). Hope you liked it Jo!
And I found these interesting videos on an official Mad Men site about the hair and make-up on the show.
Spring scarves
November 8th, 2008I love scarves. They add colour and cool to any outfit, and hide chocolate ice cream stains on your blouse. And a good dowsing in your favourite perfume adds to its charms, especially for those whose skin is sensitive to perfume.
And they can be cheap as. Recently, I bought a pretty tasseled little scarf from the Ezibuy store. It was about $15. I’m still deciding on THE best way to wear it.
You can’t really go wrong with scarves, but here’s some tips on how to wear. (hat-tip to pursebuzz.com)
Winners and boobies courtesy of Torrid
November 7th, 2008
Oh yeah, and clearence is currently 50% at Torrid, but with the NZ$ at .59 of the US$, I’d be very very careful if I were you.
Oh and also, if you’re a New Zealander, please vote tomorrow. And please vote for a party that you think will do good things for women. The Hand Mirror has done an excellent job of asking candidates questions about issues that concern women, and they make for some important reading before you make your decision.
Review: Eliz Arden 8 Hour Cream
November 4th, 2008
Everyone’s raving about Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream Skin Protectant – on the net, in books, mags, friends. It’s a classic skin care product, around since the 1930s, that I’m just cottoning on to. And I managed to get a pretty good deal when I decided to buy. A lot of EA beauty counters have a gift pack on sale at the mo which includes an 8 hour lip balm, hand cream and make-up bag with the 8 hour cream.
The ‘Cream’ is not really a cream at all. It is like Vaseline, which isn’t surprising as the only active ingredient in the 8 Hours is petroleum jelly. Hence it does not soak into skin and has a greasy feel.
It does have a number of great uses though. It protects skin from drying, like any barrier cream. It can be used to sooth chapped lips. You can slick your brows with it. Apply after waxing or shaving to help heal. And use its shine to highlight cheek bones or eyelids.
But don’t try it as a face moisturiser – I was shiny, like really shiny, all over my face for 10 hours when I tried it. And it’s no good as a hand cream either as it’s greasy.
It has been great relief to my legs (which get itchy after waxing or shaving). And is great on any dry patches.
My only irk (besides the smell) is that the ingredients are quite basic (other main ingredients are lanolin, mineral oil, castor oil, and so on) and may not justify the high price. I wonder if Vaseline or baby creams like Amolin work just the same. (Vicky, I think ’baby cream’ was a tip from you for dry lips).
I do love the lip balm and hand cream it came with though.
