Category Archives: Beauty News

Finding your way through the maze of beauty products out there can be just a little bit bewildering, and while Dollface is always here to help you, of course, because everyone’s so different, and needs such different things from their products, it can still be hard to know what’s going to work best for you.

Well, The Body Shop are trying to make things that little bit easier on us all, with their new website diagnostic tool, which helps you identify which products in their Wellbeing range are most suited to your lifestyle and needs.

This is super-easy to use: just click the "let’s get started" button, answer one simple question about your lifestyle, and the products you need will appear on-screen. According to this, I need the "Deep Sleep" range. Yup, sounds like me…

Visit the website here to find out which products will be best for you.

I love Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream, and I love all things retro, so I may have given a little "squee!" of excitement when I read about this over at Kiss and Makeup. The classic care cream has been given an equally classic makeover as part of the brands ‘Celebration of a Decade’ collection, and will be available in this adorable little retro style pot. I still have plenty of Eight Hour Cream left, in the regular old tube, but I’m such a sucker for this kind of packaging that I probably won’t be able to resist it when it becomes available on November 10th. It’ll be produced in this pot for a limited time only, so hey, I can’t NOT buy it now, can I?

I’m currently sunning myself in Florida (and probably shopping up a storm in Sephora), but I couldn’t miss Dollface’s first birthday now, could I?

Yes, our little beauty blog is one year old today, so thank you to all the readers who have helped keep the site going with your questions and comments. Have a drink for Dollface tonight, and here’s to the next beautiful year!

Have you ever looked into your makeup box and thought, "I wish someone would make a…"? Ever spent hours trawling beauty counters for the perfect product, which turns out to exist only in your head? Well, here’s the competition for you…

Smashbox and Sephora have teamed up to find the next Beauty Guru. To enter their competition, they want you to create a video, commercial or blog showcasing your big beauty idea (and yourself, of course) and submit it online. If you’re chosen as the winner, you’ll get:

• $5,000 of Smashbox cosmetics
• An all-expenses-paid trip for two to Los Angeles on August 3, 2008 for a 1 week apprenticeship at Smashbox Cosmetics to design the official Smashbox Fashion Week Makeup Palette
• An all-expenses-paid 3-day trip for two to Los Angeles to attend Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in March 2009 for the debut of their Smashbox palette.
• The Smashbox Fashion Week Makeup Palette designed by the winner will be produced by Smashbox, sold exclusively at Sephora and featured in the Sephora catalog.

Worth it for the makeup alone! There’s more information at the Smashbox website, so take a look and remember Dollface, should you decide to enter!

Dainty Doll, the cosmetics line for the pale complexioned created by Nicola Roberts of Girls Aloud, is currently one of the most searched for products here at Hey, Dollface, so those of you who are desperate to get your hands on the line might be interested to know that, as well as being available direct from Jelly Pong Pong, who make it, Dainty Doll is now available at ASOS.

You’ll find foundation (pictured), lipgloss, blush, concealer and eye shadow from the line at the site, with prices starting from £6 for the gloss and going up to £12 for the foundation. If you buy anything, be sure and let me know what you think of it!

The strength of my waterproof mascara was sorely tested when Pout shut up shop late last year, but if you were a fan, fear not – the last of the range is still available at Beauty Counter Direct, and at some great savings, too.

The ever-popular and much missed Flush Blush, for instance, is now available for just £5.99, Glitter Pots eye shadow is £3.99 and the Pout Illuminator is £5.99.

Lots of other great bargains to be had here, so if you’re still weeping over the demise of Pout, dry your eyes and dust off the credit card…

[via Kiss and Makeup]

For me, Dita Von Teese was the ultimate Viva Glam girl, but if this image of Fergie, the new Viva Glam spokesperson, is anything to go by, it looks like the Black Eyed Peas singer is doing a pretty good job for MAC, too. It’s a very different look from Dita’s polished perfection, of course, but a change is as good as a rest, they say, and I guess MAC wanted to take things in a totally different direction this time.

In conjunction with her stint as spokeswoman, Fergie has also re-mixed Glamorous to promote the safe sex message of the campaign – and also to promote MAC’s limited edition lipglass, of course, sales of which will go to benefit the M.A.C AIDS Fund.

What do you think of Fergie’s look for Viva Glam?

MAC Viva Glam Lipglass, $14

We talked about the possibility of Nicola Roberts of Girls Aloud launching a cosmetics line for redheads back in November, but now it’s actually happened, and very lovely it all looks, too!

It’s called Dainty Doll, and it’s been created in conjunction with Jelly Pong Pong, who will be selling the makeup via their website when it launches on April 18th. Being a redhead myself, I clearly have a particular interest in this line, but I think most of the pieces will be suitable for anyone with pale skin, regardless of hair colour.

The collection includes foundations and concealers  (always the trickiest things to find in the right colour when you’re very pale skinned), eye shadows and lipgloss, and prices don’t seem to be available yet. Definitely one I’ll be keeping a heavily mascara-d eye on!

No, your eyes do not deceive you: that is, indeed, an iced lolly you’re looking at. "What is it doing on a beauty blog, I hear you ask?" Well, this is no ordinary iced lolly, This is Lickety Sip – an iced lolly which contains antioxidants, soothing rose petal extract, vitamin c and selenium – all of which will give your skin the same kind of benefits as good old water, but will taste nice into the bargain.

The lollies are based on the original skin drink, Sip, and come in a range of flavours including blackcurrant, mango and lemon, and will be available this May (just in time for summer) from Harvey Nichols and EAT. Now, if only they’d come up with an ice cream version…