Estee Lauder Modern Muse Chic Fragrance Review

Blogmas day 19

Hey Sweeties,

As you know I recently participated in a promotion with Elle and Estee Lauder as part of the new fragrance, Modern Muse Chic which celebrates the modern, independent woman. You’ll remember that the main element of the day was to appear in a video that would eventually be live on Elle.Com and I can finally share this with you –please click on the link below!

http://www.elleuk.com/promotion/estee-lauder-modern-muses-elle-insiders-share-inspirational-advice

I have seen & been in contact with a couple of the other Elle Insiders since shooting the video and we have all been really keen to see the end result and see how much -if at all- our little individual segments will appear. Personally, I am absolutely delighted with the video and I think everyone involved got involved and I think the final edit is brilliant. Can you spot me?

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Modern Muse

Now all that is left for me to do is to let you know what I think about the new fragrance, Modern Muse Chic.

Modern Muse Chic

If I am honest, Estee Lauder aren’t particularly a go to brand for young people or at least I don’t think they were pre the signing of Kendall Jenner which happened to be announced to the world on the day of filming the video. The one product I am very keen to get my hands on though is their Bronze Goddess bronzing powder; the packagaing is just beautiful and the product is fantastic but at a pricey £32 I am going to have to be patient for a while and hope I can either afford myself an extravagent reward (for maybe a new job) or be hopefull someone will gift it to me.

Fragrances are one of those things that can be either very right or very wrong and interestingly won’t be the same on everyone so opinion really is personal here. Fortunately for you guys though, I love it!

If I am wearing a fragrance, I don’t want it to be overpowering but I equally don’t want it to be too subtle either and Modern Muse Chic has that great balance I am after.

I also love the bottle; it’s elegant and well… chic! I also like that the lid looks like a bow but with the black studded appearance and texture it gives the whole product an edge which I think is great.

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Modern Muse me Until tomorrow x

Elle Insider Event with Estee Lauder: Modern Muse

Estee Lauder Modern Muse

Hey Sweeties,

Originally thinking I would have to keep this a secret until later in December; I can in fact share my latest visit to Elle Magazine HQ with you guys now –yippee!

So, earlier this month I was emailed by Elle asking me (an Elle Insider) if I wanted to join Team Elle in the Fashion Cupboard to celebrate Estée Lauder’s new fragrance, Modern Muse Chic. They wanted a selection of Insider’s to go up to HQ and share their stories about who inspires them. Of course I jumped at this opportunity!

So, bright and early (9am to be precise) last Saturday I was in London barefaced and ready for a morning of filming! Once our attendance had been confirmed a week or two before, we were asked to arrive with an answer prepared for this question:

“What is the most inspirational advice I have ever been given by another woman?”

To be honest, this wasn’t as easy to answer as you would think. I read a lot of things that inspire me but inspiration advice I have been told directly? Not so much. However, my mind did cast back to my teen self during my A-Levels which was a miserable time for me and as you can imagine it was difficult for my Mum to see me so regularly stressed out and upset that naturally she wanted to rid me of what was getting me so down. I remember her telling me that I didn’t have to keep with the course, that it was ok to quit and that I had already made her really proud. Of course I didn’t quit but what I took from that moment was that it is important to not do something for the sake of others and for you and you alone. You should be at the heart of all decisions. This for me has been quite inspirational and something I have drawn upon regularly.

Unfortunately, when it came to filming, our prepared paragraphs actually had to be crammed into a mere sentence or two so what that will get edited into I don’t know. Essentially the message I hope to come from my input will be to keep things simple and not overload yourself. But we’ll see, I’ll share the video with you guys once I have been sent it but it’ll also be available to view on Elle.com!

Estee Lauder makeover

One of the perks of the day was being able to get my hair and makeup professionally done!

Modern Muse Chic
Overall the day was really fun and interesting and a BIG thank you goes to Elle and Estee Lauder for allowing people like me to get involved!

Until next time x

PS.

This is my third experience with Elle magazine this year, you can read about my Benefit opportunity here and seeing Lorraine Candy in conversation with Ruby Tandoh here.

Elle Insider: Luxury Mystery Eyeliner Review

Hey Sweeties,

Today is a bit of a first and quite the unique opportunity… I am reviewing a totally new, totally not available to buy beauty product which for this beauty newbie, is quite exciting!

As you know, I am no expert in the beauty department but I know what I like and what I don’t and my journey for me right now is about gaining more of an education about products and refining my own collection of make-up and improving my daily application. I have been a subscriber to Elle Magazine since I think about 2007 and as part of being a subscriber I get access to various discounts, competitions and opportunities like the one today where a selection of us get to exclusively try something no one else has!

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So, what’s the mystery totally new product I have been trying? Well Sweeties, it quite literally is a mystery as part of the appeal is that the brand has yet to be revealed! The focus isn’t for us (Elle subscribers) to guess but more so to determine the quality, durability and ease of application. If we knew the brand it would affect how we received the product, probably quite significantly. What I can tell you is that it’s eyeliner… a luxury new eyeliner.

“This is no regular eyeliner. It’s been in development for over five years, and it’s the first ever lash hugging gel liner pen with a patented AccuFlex tip, specifically designed to make applying gel liner easier”.

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To access the liner, you twist off the cap (or Tournez Le Bouchon –is that a clue perhaps, could the brand be French?) to reveal the special tip, and then you twist the end a couple of clicks to reveal the gel.

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My initial reaction is positive, I like the feel of the pen in the hand and the brainbox behind the AccuFlex tip clearly understands the demand on applying a smooth, clean line. As you can see from my hand, the gel is a thick black; exactly what I like and just running the pen across my skin left a good finish. On my eye lid, I achieved the same –starting in the middle, I comfortably and confidently drew a clean line above my lashes and ending in a flick (or wing) before I went back over and into the corners. It is so refreshing to finally find an eyeliner that applies easily, swiftly and effectively. Regular readers will know that within my beauty favourites I use two eyeliners –Maybelline Eyeliner Matic and Collection Fast Stroke eyeliner. Recently I have opted for a fresher look in my daily make-up so I have almost completely abandoned my staple eyeliner- matic which I would use on my lower water line on a religious basis. However, I have wanted eyeliner on my top lid and to be honest, I just find liquid liner so frustrating and time consuming, applying without it colouring my crease with black dots and lines is a nightmare. So this new mystery eyeliner really has got me excited!

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As I mentioned earlier, I am no beauty expert so to even stand a chance of accurately identifying the brand is slim however from the packaging (although I assume this will change once released into stores) and feel of the product, I will take a punt that it might be Bourjois, Benefit or, considering the word ‘luxury’ and the notion of it possibly being French, maybe YSL is worth a gander? The product is definitely of good quality but I desperately hope it’s affordable. To get so many Elle subscribers dizzy in delight at this new product, for it to then be really high end would not only be quite mean, it would actually be quite pointless. Surely the objective of getting us to try the eyeliner out is to captivate us into spreading the word upon release and queuing out the door to purchase it?

Some lasting notes… A small concern of mine is that there is no way of identifying when you’re going to run out of gel, eventually you are going to click the end and nothing will come out and no woman likes to be caught out. It is also a bitch to get off! The eyeliner has fantastic durability and lasts all day but it’s a struggle to remove, even getting it off the back of my hand took scrubbing! But on the whole and in the context of the rest of the review, are they deal breakers? Of course not! As soon as this product is revealed to us all and available to buy… providing it is affordable, I am first in the queue!

Until next time x

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