Happy Easter and Happy Internet! xx

Image: Fafi Lapin http://fifi-lapin.blogspot.com.au/

Easter for most people is four days of just hanging out at home watching movies, clearing out your wardrobe, baking those cookies you saw on pinterest, face masks in the bath and lots of uninterrupted Internet browsing.

Here are a couple of my favourite sites to inspire/procrastinate/spend money and generally stalk.

Fafi Lapin - What Shall I Wear Today?

Illustrations of a bunny wearing runway looks.....CUTE ALERT. 

Daily Mail

I totally read the news! If you want to track Kimye's bump on the daily and need to keep abreast with Harry Style's latest babe then Daily Mail is the news site for you.

Capture the Castle

Hannah-Rose is a Sydney girl after my own heart, she loves K-Jacques, baking and Maison Balzac Candles. Documenting snippets of her life with sweet and witty comments paired with very pretty pictures.

My Empirical Life

Tanja has an absolute dream wardrobe, everything she wears makes me want to save all my hard earned pennies up and blow them on a pair of silver leather Ellery hot pants or pair of Marni earings. Tanja is also a lovely and dear person, her posts are genuine and addictive....BTW she is as beautiful in the flesh and couldn't be sweeter.

ASOS

My saved items list is generally around 30 items or so, that is the best thing about ASOS you can satisfy that shopping craving and buy a couple of things and save anything you are unsure of. Also the beauty section usually has UK products and brands which are hard to find in stores locally like Barry M and Eyeko. Here are a few things from my saved items:

Hope your easter is filled with endless Hot Cross Buns, Cadbury Cream Eggs and lots of internet.

Let me know what's in your ASOS saved items.....so I don't feel like such an online hoarder. 

xxx Nella

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New Hair, Don't Care!

Two hair Posts in one week......Who am I becoming?

So I have gone from blonde to blonde, it's still a change. Super bored of high maintenance lemon bright white blonde hair I decided to switch it up, being THAT blonde took a lot of time, money and effort.
Explaining this to Jaye last week he totally understood, even though we both knew I would regret it in a week when season 3 of Game of Thrones starts and Khalessi is all on with the dragons being a mega babe. Anyway now my hair is a much more natural and manageable honeycomb blonde, with lighter creamier Blondie balayage to soften the colour around my face.
I am over the moon crazy about my new hair, it feels like a change but I still feel like me. The team at Edwards and Co are all super friendly and welcoming - Shout outs to little Liam the Salon Assistant who turns 18 tomorrow! 

xx Nella

Jaye Edwards @ Edwards and Co
Level 1/255 Riley St Surry Hills
9212 7516
http://edwardsandcoblog.com/

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Sebastian Trilliance Shampoo & Conditioner

My hair is a work in progress at the moment, it is having its own extreme makeover of sorts - everything is going on colour, length the whole shabang!

So I thought with my hair overhaul I might switch up my routine and try a new shampoo and conditioner combo from Sebastian's Trilliance line. Taking my hair back to a more natural colour (ashy-strawberry-dark-blonde) it was lacking shine and softness from all the bleaching and toning. Within the first week of using the shampoo and conditioner my hair was looking and feeling AMAZING! 

Sebastian Trilliance Shampoo: Very refining and removes any product build up, which for me is lots of dry shampoo and also hair oils which stick to the hair attracting dirt. This is all I want from a shampoo, to really clean my hair and not leave any residue which will way it down. 

Sebastian Trilliance Conditoner: I have never used a conditioner which actually makes your hair shine like this...like ever. Applying it in the shower I generally leave it in for 3-5mins while I shave my legs or do other shower things, then rinse out by combing out any excess product with wide tooth comb. 

If I let my hair naturally air dry it doesn't frizz up, feeling weightless and falling into shape and not looking too out of control. After blow drying is when you can really see how shiny and soft your hair is from the Shampoo and Conditioner, glistening Twilight style in the sun. 

Sebastian Trilliance Shampoo $34.00 & Sebastian Trilliance Conditioner $36.00 available from selected salons for more info www.sebastianprofessional.com

xxx Nella

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Autumn Edit : EVO, Becca, Bare Minerals, The Balm & 1000Hour Eyebrow tint

WANT! NEED! LUST! GIMME!

EVO Mane Perscription Protein Treatment $25.95

After a long summer of sun and salt water swims my hair isn't feeling its finest at the moment, it needs a little TLC and some intense masks! This treatment from EVO is an 'intense protein re-constructor, the more it is used the stronger your hair gets' - HELL YES! Also I am growing out my 'LOB'  - Long Bob and it is at a stubborn length which it is refusing to grow past, hopefully this treatment will give my hair a good kick in its butt to hurry the fudge up!

Evo is available from www.evohair.com

Becca Resurfacing Primer $55.00

Have you ever seen those poor little penguins that have been affected by an oil spill? Well thats my face by about 11am at the moment...Oil slick city. Pores are in overdrive, I am hoping the REALLY dewy look will catch on sometimes soon. But alas my only hope I feel maybe a this primer which contains 'oil absorbing polymers' - Cool story Becca. After the disapointing Becca mascara fail of 2013, this primer better blow my socks off. I'm going to go and rub the tester in David Jones half way up my arm tomorrow just to make sure I want to part with 55beans for this pricey primer.

Becca is available from www.beccacosmetics.com

Bare Minerals Ready Eyeshadow Quad in The Next Big Thing $39.44 

Wowzers this Quad looks so pretty, it the colours are perfect for blue or green eyes. Spying it on Temptalia a little while ago I fell hard! This is her description of the 4 shades : The Rising Star (sunlit gold),Smash Hit (vibrant peach), Hoopla (glowing copper), and Ensemble (smoked-out plum). WANT! NEED! GOT TO HAVE! Bare Minerals is one of those brands which prices vary from stockist to stockist it is $39.44 at the moment on Feel Unique at the moment with 15% off but sometime ASOS has a 20% off coupon and sometimes Kit Cosmetics is about the same, so it is worth shopping around a bit.

Bare Minerals is available from www.feelunique.com and www.asos.com 

The Balm Mary Lou Manizer Luminizer $24.00

Highlighters are a big deal in the beauty world at the moment, like BIG! Its totally trending. The problem I have with highlighters is that they do not have any longevity, when layered over a blush or a bronzer they take the colour pigment of the blush/bronzer off as they wear off. I have swatched the Mary Lou Manizer a couple of times and it has by far got the best lasting power, so I think she will be brightening up my face very soon.

The Balm is available from www.feelunique.com

1000Hour Eyebrow and Eyelash Tint $15.20

You know how I just told you highlighters are a big deal? Well Eyebrows are an even BIGGER deal! The biggest deal like ever.....probably since the Blue Lagoon came out and you spied Brooke Sheilds bushy brows. Now there is Cara Delvingne giving us all brow-envy, how dare she! My brows are naturally blonde and non-exsistant, no need to pluck or wax. Sad. Anyway I have started dying my eyebrows and my friend Alyssa's eyebrows and anyone else who will let me near there eyebrows with this little pack, it is very easy to master and lasts about 2 weeks before needing a touch up. I feel I have gone from zero to almost hero in the brow department for the moment that is.

1000Hour Eyebrow and Eyelash Tint is available from www.priceline.com.au

What is on your WANT! NEED! LUST! GIMME! Autumn List? Let me know....

xxx Nella

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