Lip and Nail Candy

I haven't tried these little beauty treats yet, but I'm somewhat of a magpie and they are winking gaudily in my direction.

I'm not entirely sure how New Zealand will react to me busting out stripy lip glitter and leopard print nails down at the Viaduct, but i'm damn well going to find out.

Nail Wraps and Temporary Lip Tattoos - you are top of the lust list. Buy them at www.asos.com 

I heart my Tangle Teezer

I love rooting for the underdog and I especially love it when those puffed up Dragons' Den nitwits are proved wrong.

Such is the case for the wonderful Tangle Teezer invented by hairdresser Shaun Pulfrey. He was told on the BBC show that his Tangle Teezer  - designed to smooth knotted hair  -  'was not a business'.

Shattered...

Forget Mr i-phone, the real genius of this world is the person who invented the OPI Black Shatter nail polish from the new Katy Perry range.

I know I’m a little behind on the hype about this, but I’m in NZ people, give me a break, it’s not even out here until 8th April! 

And when it does hit the shelves, I bet my bottom dollar that it is going to cause pandemonium amongst all the girls and gays...

No pain no gain...

I am an absolute self confessed blow-dry fan (blow wave they call it in NZ). It's the one thing I just can't do myself no matter how hard I try and I just love how the curls come out so big, bouncy and stay in for days.

I haven't found anyone in NZ who can do one as good as they can back in the UK and I’ve been on a constant quest to find my blow wave hero since I got here...and thank the hair gods, I think I’ve finally found her.

CSI Lipgloss...

Why do we wear lip gloss? To make us look pretty. Why do we want plumping lip gloss? So that men think we have juicy Angelina lips. What could happen if we look too pretty and too juicy? An evil man could spike our drink and then we could be…well…screwed.

The clever people at British brand 2 Love my Lips have put two and two together and come up with some sort of anti-sex-pest-plumping-lip-gloss device. Yes you read that correctly.

When in Paris...

I spent my first few days wandering the streets of Paris looking like a bit of a scruff really; a tired, bare faced, un groomed, un-fashionable scruff. By the time day three arrived, I’d seen enough effortlessly beauty-full Parisian girls to make me want to go live my whole life in the ugly tree.

Then I found Sephora; Heavenly heavenly, heavenly Sephora.

2 gadgets that don’t do it for me…

I hate to diss but I feel it is my duty as a beauty blogger to separate the good from the ugly and let y’all know when a product is a load of old codswallop. Which these two well and truly are…

Put these on your don’t buy ever list…