Category Archives: Beauty
We love presents and today one of our favorite Dubai PR girls sent us some Nivea goodies. We've been using Nivea body products since we were tots but until today we've never tried the Nivea make-up range. We have to admit that sometimes we can be beauty product snobs but after we've tried, worn and lip-kissed napkin tested, we have to say, we're in love.
We received Nivea's newest Black Mystic Mascara and 4 shades of their Extreme Resist Glossies. Both the mascara and glosses had a 2 step process. The mascara was a no brainer for us, step 1 involved volumizing our lashes and in step 2 we layered them with the mystic black pearl to get our lashes to really stand out. We really liked that the mascara separated our lashes while keeping them thick without looking heavy.
We were a little intimidated by the strong color of the lip glosses, we barely venture from nude to very nude but when life gives you colors in the form of lipsticks, we say pucker up - and so we did. We couldn't believe how much we loved the Nivea glosses. Our lips get super dry in Dubai, we are constantly using lip balm and are always in two minds to use lipstick or lip gloss. The Nivea glosses fixed all of our concerns, first we evenly and lightly coated our lips with color (a little will go a long way). We were surprised by how smooth it went on and no sign of dry lips. We waited about a minute for the gloss to set and then we layered the step 2 pearly gloss over our lips, which resulted in "is it lip gloss or is it lipstick?" wonderfulness. It had the staying power of lipstick with cool a lipgloss look (without being sticky).
Nivea Extreme Resist Glossies are here to stay - literally (we had to use an oil based make up remover to get the color off). We're so surprised how much we loved the colors. Our fav was defnitely cherry pink!
Thanks to our PR angel for sending us Nivea goodies, we loved the brand before and now we're obsessed!
Images Anna Miriam
Our favorite make up artist, Dubai based Huda Kattan of HudaBeauty.com is featured in Gulf News today. If you don't know her name already or haven't been to her site then we suggest you go directly after reading this post. HudaBeauty.com has the freshest make-up tutorials. Like Lady Gaga's look? Want Kim Kardashian smokey eyes or silky hair like Megan Fox? There is a video tutorial for all of these and more at HudaBeauty.com. We also love following @hudabeauty on the twitterverse, tips and tweets to a healthier, more beautiful you.
Congrats on the feature 'bb, we're excited to see more of your talented work in magazines, tv and internet!
www.hudabeauty.com
Image from HudaBeauty
Alf mabrook to Afiifa Moin for winning the Maybelline "Born to Be" abaya design competition.
Afifa won 10,000 USD, Maybelline products for a year and internship at DAS Collection.
We're looking forward to seeing what's next from the budding designer!
Enjoy your prize, you've earned it!
How pretty is Huda Kattan! Kteer helwa, mashallah! Huda is a Hollywood trained makeup artist and beauty consultant based in Dubai.
We've been obsessing over her site, www.hudabeauty.com. Huda blogs on beauty products, fashion looks and personally uploads make up tutorial videos. Her vids include celebrity looks such as Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Beyonce and answers your make up questions via video tutorials. Her videos are super easy to understand as she guides you step by step on how to get the look.
We definitely love the Huda beauty look and we think you will too.
Now time for us to go play with some make up!
Check out:
www.hudabeauty.com
tweet @hudabeauty
Bloomingdales Dubai (Dubai Mall) had a little party to celebrate "Let's Face It" - what I believe is a cosmetics line. Whatever it is, they got a DJ and a very talented graffiti artist, Lee Wicks, to do some live art.
I think the graffiti is beautiful and the vibrant colors of the illustration really make me want to try on some make up.
