Beauty Diaries

If you’re a celebrity, then being exposed is the last thing you would want. If you’re a makeup junkie like me, let’s just say full exposure is exactly what you need. I’m talking about the Smashbox Full Exposure palette that completely knocked my socks off. I was so excited when I...

Yes, it’s hit Mzansi’s shores and I was quite surprised that it got to South Africa so fast. You know, it usually takes like 7 months to get newly launched products here. When I read about it, I jumped like Jack in the Box, got on the phone to Red Square...

Yoh! The Smashbox Full Exposure Pallete is hot!  A thing of beauty . . . In South Africa, larger palettes in this price range are rare. Yes, you can get UD Naked palletes, Lorac, The Balm, Two Faced and other eye shadow palettes, online and on Instagram from private sellers. Rarely...

The Smashbox Step-by-Step contour kit was for me and most of you beauties one of the most anticipated make up products of the year!   While taking some time out (beauties all we need that) and doing some make up shopping, I spotted this at Red Square in Sandton at the...

  Top 5 Beauty Products It’s a New Year 2015 new me, here are a few of Top Beauty products which are old and new which I just can’t live without. Tried, tested and must-have beauty bag essentials. So to start off my Top 5 1. Smashbox – Photo finish Primer...

Yikes, how many of you have had use a blunt eyeliner pencil because you misplaced your sharpener or worse still your sharpener was blunt. It’s happened to me and using blunt eyeliner will give you smokey eyes you didn’t want in the first place. Enter the retractable eyeliner pencil, no sharpening needed...

The Smashbox Pore Minimizing Photo Finish Primer   The only orange peel I like is the candied variety, the ones I use when baking a lemon and orange muffins or my Christmas cake. While I love how it tastes, I hate the way orange peels look and that’s what my pores...

I am lusting over every product Smashbox has, but the one item I would do anything to own is the Brow Tech To Go!  I absolutely need this product because I have extremely thin eyebrows, and there is no ways I could get them shaped because there is barely anything to...

  With famous YouTube makeup gurus' such as Shaaanxo, Nikkie Tutorials, Makeup Geek and more, this amazing long-wear, lip lacquer certainly meets the hype! While browsing my local Woolworths store this past week, I decided to try out this Smashbox product for myself and this colour definitely grabbed my attention! Needles...

  Another month and another Smashbox lust have item.. This is my third lust have item from Smashbox and yeah Smashbox honestly has such a lot of amazing products I would die to try out. There Be Legendary Lipsticks caught my eye!! I am not much of a lipstick weary but...

She walks into a room filled with the most amazing things she has ever seen, but her eyes lock on one thing, the thing she has dreamed of all her life... Smashbox Studio Skin! The ultimate lust-have! A life changing moment as she finds her perfect match! (2.2) (with a little...

      Its hard to simply look at cosmetics and simply walk away! To try , test play with them is an invitation to trouble! In my case i justified it by saying that its my birthday next month and i deserve a little something! More like playing with fire...

Just because i want a foundation that has a better coverage, I will support a company harming animals for my advantage.   I am sickened at the thought that i have encourage and carried on supporting these companies. I dont understand how this is still happening? Why have we not moved...

If I could only choose one Smashbox product to lust over it would definitely be their high quality Photo Finish Light Foundation Primer.  For starters, when swatching this product, it applied so smoothly and left a silky mattifying finish, which would be perfect for my oily skin. I love that the...

 Smashbox Photo finish lid primer   So I've always wanted to try and get a lid primer so my eye shadow could stay intact.   The Smashbox photo finish lid primer comes in 1 Shade: Warm beige  One of my smashbox faves!     If you have normal to dry skin,...

Because Smashbox is so amazing I thought I would try my hand at another entry for the Smashbox competition in the hope that I would win..   Another amazing product has got to be the Smashbox full exposure palette!   The eye shadow are great they range from nudes to glittery...

Are you looking for a great foundations?? are you tired of those cakes watery foundation ?? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then Smashbox liquid halo HD foundation is the 1for you! im becoming so in love with Smashbox, and all the revolutionary changes that they have...

  I still consider myself fairly new in the world of make-up... I may be 27 but I am still discovering and navigating the world of beauty enhancers :) Concealers , foundations , eye shadows, liners, pencils - ohmigosh, who would have thought they could be so different and offer you...

I'm obsessed with cosmetics, I'm a veritable beauty addict. I use products from the drugstore and high end companies. Smashbox is a favorite with me, I've used their products and their quality always stands out. My lust have, for months now has been the browtech to go. I have the browtech...

I wrote a post at the beginning of the competition about my Smashbox lust have items which can be viewed here     I still so badly want to try out the Smashbox Primer, they are so expensive and there is no way I will be able to afford to buy...