Just like Honey......

My bedside table never looked so cute!

My favourite memories of being a teenager are always linked to perfumes, like when I was 14 and  every girl in my whole grade discovered Tommy Girl - the corridors and P.E change rooms were drenched in it's distinctive sticky sweet smell. Like when I saved all my money from my first job to buy a bottle of Gucci Rush, I was crazy for that plastic packaging! Like when my first boyfriend bought me a bottle Ralph Lauren Romance and gave it to me at the bus stop. 

Smelling a fragrance can unlock so many memories, when I first smelt Honey the new fragrance from Marc Jacobs I was flooded with everything sweet and good from my teenage glory days:

Spice Girls, watching Video hits and eating ice cream for breakfast, crop tops and hipster jeans, glitter eye shadow, Lancome Juicy Tubes, Romeo and Juliet at the movies, 5ive, my best friend Leigh Munday and I cutting out Hanson collages, pashing boys at the park and being home by 5.30pm, Alex Mac, Pocket money, Buffy, knowing my ICQ number off by heart, Nokia 5110's, Pizza Pockets, decorating my school diary in so many stickers there was no space to write home work, my beloved Clinque 3 step skincare routine and watching Now and Then on repeat during school holidays!

Honey is sweet and girly, it is what the coolest girl in school smells like, it is what you want to wear on your first date to the movies, it is my new favourite smell.

Honey by Marc Jacobs 30ml $75.00 50ml $120.00 100ml $160.00

Available from www.myer.com.au

xxx Nella

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EVE LOM : Kiss Mix Créme Pour Les Lévres

Eve Lom's Kiss Mix $30.00 available from www.meccacosmetica.com.au

This is one of those products that when taken out of your bag in front of friends gets some kind of intrigue...'Kiss Mix?' 'What's that?' 'Who have you been making out with?' etc...

It is a very cute and delicate pot of the most minty fresh lip balm you will ever try, it tingles on the lips and has a very slight peppermint smell. The tingle makes me feel like it is doing something, maybe it's the Zinc Oxide which acts as a natural sunscreen protecting lips from UV rays.

My favourite thing about Kiss Mix is the beautiful iridescent shimmer which gives your lips a very pretty sheen, especially on your cupids bow. I have been applying it under lipsticks to sheer them down  to a glossy tint or wearing it on its own day to day.
Posh lip balms are becoming a very popular staple in my makeup bag at the moment with By Terry's Baume de Rose and Dior's Créme de Rose on my shopping wish list when my beloved Kiss Mix runs out.

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It's my Birthday and I'll Beyonce if I want to.....

See over there to the right of the screen there is a little down bar called ARCHIVES, I was looking through some older posts last night and realised.....It was Beauté Gazette's first BIRTHDAY in June. 

Starting Beauté Gazette was an idea I had while I was on a holiday in Japan with my friend Holly Hipwell. She had a cool blog (www.theflowerdrum.blogspot.com) , I'm sure you know it and if you don't then go and read it now! 

Anyway my beauty obsession was at a feverish high pitch level of excitement (it still is!) and I just wanted to write about all my favourite products and make funny GIFs and pretty collages......Now a year on and I am still inspired by so many different things, people and experiences. 

So in celebration let's all just have a Beyonce moment!

xxx Nella

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Grown Alchemist : Vanilla & Orange Hand Cream + Hydra-Mist Desert Lime & Amino-Peptides

Grown Alchemist Vanilla & Orange Hand Cream $24.99 & Hydra-Mist + Desert Lime & Amino-Peptides $29.95

www.grownalchemist.com

Grown Alchemist is a brand which I am only new to and they certainly tick the first impressions box with their packaging - so shoot me I am a sucker for minimalist-organicy hipster packaging!

The Vanilla & Orange Peel Hand Cream travels with me everywhere in my handbag at the moment, the consistency not too thick and not too greasy perfect for on the go hand moisturising. The scent is clean and fresh not too overpowering or lingering, it is everything you could want in a hand cream.

Peptides are a massive beauty 'buzz-word' at the moment (I am planning a post later in the week explaining everything you need to know about them!) with companies listing peptides on just about anything and everything. Grown Alchemist's Hydra-Mist+ list of ingredients reads like a hydration super cocktail for your skin containing Hydraluric Acid, Antioxidants, Vitamin C and that 'buzzy' Protein Peptide. I have been spraying my face with the Hydra-Mist+ after cleansing morning and night before applying moisturiser or night serum, and have noticed a dramatic difference in how hydrated my skin looks and feels especially since we are in the depths of winter which usually leaves me with dry patches. 

As a brand which is marketed at an organic and natural savvy customer the pricing of Grown products  is extremely reasonable compared to similar brands on the market with nothing over the $69.95 price point. Grown Alchemist is a brand which I will definitely continue to explore with their Cleansers and Masks next on my list to try.

Grown Alchemist is available on www.grownalchemist.com

& also available from www.priceline.com.au

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