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Pump up the volume – it’s our mascara picks

January 10th, 2011
Pump up the Volume – some of our favourite Mascaras
Don’t really know how this happened exactly but somewhere along the way L’Onglex seemed to fall in love with volumising mascaras. Why exactly this was, how this developed, and when exactly we started making eyes at lash thickening products we can’t tell you. As is always the case for those with an addiction to the slap, one is never satisfied and we knew we wouldn’t be happy til we’d tried everything we could get our greedy hands on.
Having really thought about it, the desire to lash up probably came as a result of our eyes exploding when we tried out those glue on lash thingies at a salon who shall remain nameless. Obviously, being the sort we are, the thought of having luridly long, outrageously luscious lashes was too good not to be true. But once the things were glued on and we’d had to suffer the ignominy of having to crawl back to a salon indifferent to our plight and beg for the things to be unglued from our peepers we became a little more discerning about we stick on our eyes.
Anyhows, before we bore you to sleep with our sob stories we can at least reveal the fruits of our labour. No, we haven’t tried everything out there but we can say hand on heart that we’ve been through enough to now know a good un’ from a bad un’. Here, for your consideration, are a selection of the best volumising mascaras that we’ve managed to find over the last year – read it, and don’t weep !
Lesson 1 – Chanel Inimitable Intense is best for length….
Those of you with a desire for some length, some volume and a certain elegance of application will love this one. As the the uniquely designed mascara wand features bristles which align really well each sweep tends to go on really smoothly. Ok, it’s not the fattest lash you’ll ever flutter but it doesn’t cake or crack and the formula is really thin which helps with building the stuff in layers. As a mascara for daywear this is light enough for lengthening by day and can be beefed up for something a bit less subtle for evening wear. Although they probably won’t thank us for saying this, €28 isn’t particularly purse friendly but as it’s pretty adaptable Inimitable Intense makes our list.
Lesson 2 –  Rimmel’s The Max Volume Flash is best value….
A keratin enriched formula, a larger than life wand and soup-thick lashes in less than two sweeps … it can only be Rimmel Max Volume ! At about €8 a pop this is about the best we’ve worn in this price range. In fact, it was one of the best we wore full stop. Having been on the L’Onglex make-up table for some time a rather nice effect of using this was that over time we found our formerly flimsy fluttering went from bad to better. As the formula for Max Volume contains added collagen our lashes fattened up with prolonged use – can’t say fairer than that !
Lesson 3 – Model Co Fiber Lash is more than a gimmick …
As mentioned in other posts on these pages L’Onglex’s biggest beauty gripe has to be our panda eyes. After this comes the fact that even at best our lashes could only be described as .. well .. ‘barely there’. Being in need of a little substance to go with a raging case of lash envy when we first laid eyes on Model Co Fiber Lash we ended up doing a bit of a double take.
Simply, this is a two part mascara which comes blacker than black and is applied and then layered over with hundreds of teeny tiny lash filaments which add density and volume to the liquid. The end result is bulky, sultry and a complete fake. On the downside it’s €35 but if you really struggle to get something noticeable in the lash department you may as well bit the bullet rather than go through three or four of something else. Despite the fact that it sounds quite complex application isn’t to difficult once you’ve got the hang of it.
Lesson 4 – Maybeline’s The Falsies is anything but ….
Whoever devised the formula for The Falsies deserves to be bestowed some kind of beauty sainthood. No matter how many coats you apply it just builds and the fact is unless your really working the whole starry eyed goth look you probably only need one-and-a-half. Yes, if your lashes are are really short it’s probably not the best but on the hand if there long enough so that you can get them round the spoon shaped brush we think this is perfect. As soon as we’d worked out that you have to let the first coat dry a little to keep things neat we were quickly of the opinion that this is the best mascara we’ve ever had.

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Don’t really know how this happened exactly but somewhere along the way L’Onglex seemed to fall in love with volumising mascaras.

Why exactly this was, how this developed, and when exactly we started making eyes at lash thickening products we can’t tell you. As is always the case for those with an addiction to the slap, one is never satisfied and we knew we wouldn’t be happy til we’d tried everything we could get our greedy hands on.

Having really thought about it, the desire to lash up probably came as a result of our eyes exploding when we tried out those glue on lash thingies at a salon who shall remain nameless.

Obviously, being the sort we are, the thought of having luridly long, outrageously luscious lashes was too good not to be true. But once the things were glued on and we’d had to suffer the ignominy of having to crawl back to a salon indifferent to our plight and beg for the things to be unglued from our peepers we became a little more discerning about what we would be sticking on our eyes in future.

So, before we bore you with our sob stories we can at the very least reveal the fruits of our labour. No, we haven’t tried everything that’s out there but we can say hand on heart that we’ve been through enough to now know a good un’ from a bad un’.

Here, for your consideration, are a selection of the best volumising mascaras that we’ve managed to find over the last year – read it, and don’t weep !

Lesson 1 – Chanel Inimitable Intense is best for length….

Those of you with a desire for some length, some volume and a certain elegance of application will love this one. Ok, it’s not the fattest lash you’ll ever flutter but it doesn’t cake or crack and the formula is really thin which helps with building the stuff in layers.

As a mascara for daywear this is light enough for lengthening and can be beefed up for something a bit less subtle should you need it. Although they probably won’t thank us for saying this, €28 isn’t particularly purse friendly but as it’s pretty adaptable Inimitable Intense makes our list.

Lesson 2 –  Rimmel’s The Max Volume Flash is best value….

A keratin enriched formula, a larger than life wand and soup-thick lashes in less than two sweeps … it can only be Rimmel Max Volume ! At about €8 a pop this is about the best we’ve worn in this price range. In fact, it was one of the best we wore full stop.

Having been on the L’Onglex make-up table for ages we also found that a rather nice effect of using this was that over time we found our formerly flimsy fluttering went from a state of ‘bad’ to a state of …. ‘much better’. Later we discovered that as the formula for Max Volume contains added collagen our lashes fattened up with prolonged use and you can’t say fairer than that !

Lesson 3 – Model Co Fiber Lash is more than a gimmick …

As mentioned in other posts on these pages L’Onglex’s biggest beauty gripe has to be our panda eyes. After this comes the fact that even at best our lashes could only be described as .. well .. ‘barely there’.

Being in need of a little substance to cure our raging case of lash envy when we first laid eyes on Model Co Fiber Lash we ended up doing a bit of a double take – would it work … how does it work ?

Simply, this is a two part mascara which comes blacker than black and is applied and then layered over with hundreds of teeny tiny lash filaments which add density and volume to the liquid on the lash.

The end result is bulky, sultry and a completely gorgeous fake. On the downside, it costs €35, but if you really struggle to get something noticeable in the lash department you may as well bite the bullet on the cost rather than go through three or four of something less effective. Despite the fact that the whole getting-it-on business sounds quite complex, application isn’t too difficult once you’ve got the hang of it.

Lesson 4 – Maybeline’s The Falsies is anything but ….

Whoever devised the formula for The Falsies deserves to be bestowed some kind of beauty sainthood. No matter how many coats you apply it just builds and the fact is unless you’re really working the whole starry eyed goth look you probably only need a sweep and a half.

Ok – if your lashes are really short it’s probably not the best but if your lashes are long enough to get them around the spoon shaped brush we think this is perfect. As soon as we’d worked out that you have to let the first coat dry a little to keep things neat we were quickly of the opinion that this is the best volumising mascara we’ve ever had ….. we think !

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Things we loved this week: Hocus Focus Illuminator

December 23rd, 2010
Things we loved this week: Hocus Pocus Illuminator
As L’Onglex is getting all Christmasy at the moment there are probably a hundred things that we are currently going gaga for. Whilst the glittery stuff usually manages to grab all the headlines at this time of year it would have been easy to do something with a bit of sparkle, wish you all a merry Christmas and cheerfully take our leave.
That was until we started looking for something to add to the routine that would give our complexion a bit of a lift without the need for bronze or glitter and do you think we could find anything ? No.
Having trawled and trawled and searched and searched we were getting quite hot under the collar until someone in these parts suggested an illuminator. In fact, the suggestion was Hocus Pocus by Soap and Glory.
So, if you haven’t come across this we think you might want to. As you can wear it under foundation for a base or over your foundation to work as a highlighter it’s a pretty good addition to the winter routine and although there are pearls in the mixture it does diffuse the light so that the highlighting seems quite natural with lighter skin tones – result !

hocus_focus_soap_and_glory

As L’Onglex is getting all Christmasy at the moment there are probably a hundred things that we are currently going gaga for.

Whilst the glittery stuff usually manages to grab all the headlines at this time of year it would have been easy to do something with a bit of sparkle, wish you all a merry Christmas and cheerfully take our leave.

That  was what we were going to do until early this week we started looking for something to add to the routine that would give our complexion a bit of a lift without the need for bronze or glitter. Do you think we could find anything ? No.

Having trawled and trawled and searched and searched we were all getting quite hot under the collar until someone in these parts suggested using an illuminator. Quite why we didn’t think of this ourselves is a moot point and in actual fact the suggestion was quite specific – Hocus Focus by Soap and Glory.

So, if you haven’t come across this we think you might want to. As you can wear it under foundation for a base or over your foundation to work as a highlighter it’s a pretty good addition to the winter routine and although there are pearls in the mixture it does diffuse the light so that the end result seems quite natural, especially if you’ve got a lighter skin tone – all we have do to now is ask Santa if it’s not too late to get a bottle thrown into our Christmas stocking !

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Things we loved this week: Topshop eye palettes

November 23rd, 2010
With the Christmas party season just around the corner we at L’Onglex have been on the hunt for some beauty bargains to bring a little festive cheer to our make-up bags ! Keen to stay away from the usual glitter eyeliners and sparkly powders ( I think L’Onglex is getting a bit old for that now ) we’ve been on the look out for some eyeshadow brights that are, how can we put this, enough without being too much !
As so often happens with matters of make-up just when L’Onglex is searching for something someone very kindly sends us a little something to try out. That something in particular just so happens to be Topshop’s Petrol Eye Shadow Palette which as well as being lightly textured just so happens to blend quite nicely.
Having not looked too much into the collection at Top-Shop L’Onglex is quite impressed. At €18 for five shadows it’s not exactly cheap but at the same time it’s far from being in the really expensive bracket. As this is quite highly pigmented you don’t have to layer loads to get a reasonably bright finish. Handbag friendly, easy on the pocket and not bad on price … what more could a girl ask for ?

topshop

With the Christmas party season just around the corner we at L’Onglex have been on the hunt for some beauty bargains to bring a little festive cheer to our make-up bags.

Keen to stay away from the usual glitter eyeliners and sparkly powders ( I think L’Onglex is getting a bit old for that now ) we’ve been on the look out for some eyeshadow brights that are, how can we put this …. enough without being too much !

As so often happens with matters of make-up just when L’Onglex is searching someone very kindly sends us a little something to try out. This particular something just so happens to be Topshop’s Petrol Eye Shadow Palette which as well as being lightly textured also blends quite nicely.

Having not looked too much into the collection at Top-Shop since we announced with a big fanfare that Topshop were bringing out a make-up range ( and then forgot all about it ) L’Onglex is quite impressed. At €18 for five shadows it’s not exactly cheap but at the same time it’s far from being in the really expensive bracket and as this is quite highly pigmented you don’t have to layer loads to get a reasonably bright finish.

Handbag friendly, easy on the pocket and not bad on price … what more could a girl ask for ?

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Things we loved this week – LUSH lip balms

November 13th, 2010
We at L’Onglex have been suffering of late…. if we haven’t managed to find ourselves caught up in torrential downpours we’ve been shivering in the bitter cold and those extremities of ours we can still actually feel have been telling us we need to do something about the pinch.
Having bemoaned the state of our lips for the best part of two weeks we finally took our by now very numb bums over to LUSH, jumped on the Christmas shopping bandwagon and picked up three pots of lip balm. The logic behind buying everything in the store went something like “I know we don’t need three but since they’re so yummy anything we don’t use can be given away as stocking fillers to those we love.” All was well….. or so we thought.
Being now the proud owner of Egg Snog ( natural cocoa, shea and murumuru butters ), Snow Fairy ( Coconut Oil, She Butter and Japan Wax ) and Maple Taffy ( Maple Syrup, Illipe Butter and Coconut Oil ) our dilemma is that we now find ourselves not really wanting to give any of them away to anyone, because they are ours and nobody deserves them as much as we do.
At a massive push we’d might just consider giving the Maple Taffy and the Snow Fairy away but the Egg Snog stays. What this lack of generosity says about L’Onglex I cannot really say but as our lips are now super moist and we have slowly become addicted to the moisture retaining lemony goodness we have the strange feeling that our friend count is about to fall come January.

best_winter_lip_balms

We at L’Onglex have been suffering of late…. if we haven’t managed to find ourselves caught up in torrential downpours we’ve been shivering in the bitter cold and those extremities of ours we can still actually feel have been telling us we need to do something about the pinch.

Having bemoaned the state of our lips for the best part of two weeks we finally took our by now very numb bums over to LUSH, jumped on the Christmas shopping bandwagon and picked up three pots of lip balm. The logic behind buying everything in the store went something like “I know we don’t need three but since they’re so yummy anything we don’t use can be given away as stocking fillers to those we love.” All was well….. or so we thought.

Being now the proud owner of Egg Snog ( natural cocoa, shea and murumuru butters ), Snow Fairy ( Coconut Oil, She Butter and Japan Wax ) and Maple Taffy ( Maple Syrup, Illipe Butter and Coconut Oil ) our dilemma is that we now find ourselves not wanting to give any of them away to anyone because they are ours and we are special and nobody deserves them as much as we do.

At a massive push we might just consider giving away the Maple Taffy and the Snow Fairy but the Egg Snog is definitely a keeper amongst keepers. What this absolute lack of generosity says about L’Onglex I cannot really say but as our lips are now super smooth and we have slowly become addicted to the moisture retaining lemony goodness we have the strange feeling that our friend count is about to fall come January.

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We heart new MAC

November 9th, 2010
Question- What happens when you add a load of MAC make-up to the fantastically curvaceous imaginings of one of the the worlds most celebrated design talents ?
Answer – The pictures above !
Yes folks, the above images are the creative fusion between MAC cosmetics and dutch design guru Marcel Wanders and now that we’ve at least managed to get our hands on the new Genisa lippy we can say without any hesitation just how gorgeous the new range is.
Looking a little like an experiment to see what would happen when you let a load of modern architects wearing black clothes and frameless specs hang out with extremely vain model types the new range is everything we thought it would be with a touch of the Devil Wears Prada thrown in for good measure.
Featuring some rather futuristic geodesic powder compacts and a nice line in curvy brushes and lipstick applicators we think the finished articles will cause something of a stampede once they hit counters on December.
So far we’ve only managed to get our hands on a preview of the Genisa lipstick but as this is the most perfectly velvety red you can imagine we figure we’ll be raiding the piggy bank to get hold of the full range.
Quite why we’ve gone so ga-ga for this we cannot quite say but as most of what the veritable Mr Wenders designs ends up as collectors items we very much like the idea that we can justify spending a fortune on these in the hope that they become collectors items. We know this is unlikely, but we have to have some reason for spending €55 on the make-up brush below !

marcel_wenders_for_MAC

Question- What happens when you add a load of MAC make-up to the fantastically curvaceous imaginings of one of the the worlds most celebrated design talents ?

Answer – The pictures above !

Yes folks, the above images are the creative fusion between MAC cosmetics and dutch design guru Marcel Wanders and now that we’ve at least managed to get our hands on the new Genisa lippy we can say without any hesitation just how gorgeous the new range is.

Looking a little like an experiment to see what would happen when you let a load of modern architects wearing black clothes and frameless specs hang out with extremely vain model types the new range is everything we thought it would be with a touch of the Devil Wears Prada thrown in for good measure.

Featuring some rather futuristic geodesic powder compacts and a nice line in curvy brushes and lipstick applicators we think the finished articles will cause something of a stampede once they hit counters on December.

So far we’ve only managed to get our hands on a preview of the Genisa lipstick but as this is the most perfectly velvety red you can imagine we figure we’ll be raiding the piggy bank to get hold of the full range.

Quite why we’ve gone so ga-ga for this we cannot say but as most of what the veritable Mr Wanders puts his hand to ends up being extremely collectable we very much like the idea that we can justify spending a fortune on make-up in the unlikely hope our grandchildren will one day end up on the Antiques Roadshow.

Naturally, we understand that this is unlikely but as we have to have some reason for spending €55 on the divinely designed make-up brush below I’m sure you’ll forgive us our daydreams !

marcel_wenders_MAC

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Things we loved this week – Dr Nick Lowe’s Instant Face Lift

November 4th, 2010

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Things we loved this week – Dr Nick Lowes Face Serum
Seeing as we’re the squeamish sort here at L’Onglex HQ anything that promises to keep our complexions looking young and beautiful that doesn’t involve physical discomfort, the breaking of skin or the for that matter the breaking of our bank balance has to be worth a mention.
Enter the latest instant skin pick me up to set tongues wagging which goes by the name of ‘The Secret is out Instant face lift’ and is by none other than the people at Doctor Nick Lowe. Promising to plump, tighten and tone with two handy pumps the serum was created by the UK’s leading dermatologists and is pretty much for use everywhere although to be fair at €36.99 you’ll want to keep it to the face and let the body go to pot.
Having feasted our eyes on the stuff and at long last got some L’Onglex has been quite impressed with the results of our very unscientific and quite haphazard testing. When it comes to the science bit we’re not quite sure of the goodies inside but as soon as we realised it was made by a Doctor we simply stopped caring and instead began a trip down memory lane with thoughts of George Clooney in the glory days of ER.
On the plus it leaves skin quite tight and tingly and although we’re not quite clear of fine lines just yet we will at the very least keep it as a booster for skin that’s suffering from the excesses of the night before. With the Christmas party season just around the bend we think we’ll be keeping this one quite close.

Seeing as we’re the squeamish sort here at L’Onglex HQ anything that promises to keep our complexions looking young and beautiful that doesn’t involve physical discomfort, the breaking of skin or the for that matter the breaking of our bank balance has to be worth a mention.

Enter the latest instant skin pick me up to set tongues wagging which goes by the name of ‘The Secret is out Instant face lift’ and is by none other than the people at Doctor Nick Lowe. Promising to plump, tighten and tone with two handy pumps the serum was created by the UK’s leading dermatologists and is pretty much for use everywhere although to be fair at €36.99 you’ll want to keep it to the face and let the body go to pot.

Having feasted our eyes on the stuff and at long last got some L’Onglex has been quite impressed with the results of our very unscientific and quite haphazard testing. When it comes to the science bit we’re not quite sure of the goodies inside but as soon as we realised it was made by a Doctor we simply stopped caring and instead began a trip down memory lane with thoughts of George Clooney in the glory days of ER.

On the plus it leaves skin quite tight and tingly and although we’re not quite clear of fine lines just yet we will at the very least keep it as a booster for skin that’s suffering from the excesses of the night before. With the Christmas party season just around the bend we think we’ll be keeping this one quite close.

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The benefits of … er … benefit

October 18th, 2010
Perfect for the more indecisive among you the latest powder release from Benefit makes it possible to ditch the awkward decisions about what to buy and just head straight for the good stuff.
Teaming three of their best selling face powders into one handy compact Powder Time Lover is perfect if you like your compact to mix it up a little. With a quick dab you can rouge it up with a blush of Coralista, give cheeks a healthy autumn glow with Dallas and brighten dull skin with the Dandelion face highlighter.
Fast becoming our favourite thing ‘in the world ever’ the pallet is totally adaptable for all skin tones and although the free brush isn’t quite all we could have hoped for we’ve been making the most of the last opportunity to have a touch of summer glow by highlighting with Dandelion.
At €37.50 it might be on the expensive side if your beauty bag budget is a more bacon and spuds than champagne and caviar but seeing as you get three powders in one we don’t really  begrudge the price tag too much !

benefit_powder_time_lover

Perfect for the more indecisive among you the latest powder release from Benefit makes it possible to ditch the awkward decisions about what to buy and just head straight for the good stuff.

Teaming three of their best selling face powders into one handy compact Powder Time Lover is perfect if you like your compact to mix it up a little. With a quick dab you can rouge it up with a blush of Coralista, give cheeks a healthy autumn glow with Dallas and brighten dull skin with the Dandelion face highlighter.

Fast becoming our favourite thing ‘in the world ever’ the pallet is totally adaptable for all skin tones and although the free brush isn’t quite all we could have hoped for we’ve been making the most of the last opportunity to have a touch of summer glow by highlighting with Dandelion.

At €37.50 it might be on the expensive side if your beauty bag budget is a more bacon and spuds than champagne and caviar but seeing as you get three powders in one we don’t really  begrudge the price tag too much !

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OPI’s Shimmery Chic

October 15th, 2010
It’s been a while since we got our pinkies out for you here on the L’Onglex blog so when we had our talons tidied last week we thought it would be the perfect time to show off our perfectly polished pinkies.
Given the current financial woes L’Onglex has found that our trips to the salon for manicures have become few and far between. Having not really treated my poor paws for ages all was going perfectly well until the bit where it’s time to choose what to get.
I mean, in the old days when everyone in Ireland was a millionaire choosing the final coats on a manicure didn’t seem to matter very much. I mean, you could always just get something else next week if things didn’t go to plan.
Things being the way they are and knowing that it will probably be ages before we get done again the final coat became like a life or death type conundrum. Where would L’Onglex be going ? Should we get a coat that’s best for day or evening ? Should we just get something really plain so as not to draw attention to the fact we spent our pay cheque on a mani etc ?
In the end L’Onglex said ’sod it’ and whilst we intend to embrace the current trend for chipped nails sometime in the near future we went with the brown and gold hues of OPI’s Shimmery Chic and we are very glad we did.
Subtle enough for the office and sparkly enough for after work drinks we think this is the perfect shade for 9-5 – more swatches coming soon !

OPI_gold_colour

It’s been a while since we got our pinkies out for you here on the L’Onglex blog so when we had our talons tidied last week we thought it would be the perfect time to show off our perfectly polished pinkies.

Given the current financial woes L’Onglex has found that our trips to the salon for manicures have become few and far between. Having not really treated my poor paws for ages all was going perfectly well until the bit where it’s time to choose what to get.

I mean, in the old days when everyone in Ireland was a millionaire choosing the final coats on a manicure didn’t seem to matter very much. I mean, you could always just get something else next week if things didn’t go to plan.

OPI_gold_shadesThings being the way they are and knowing that it will probably be ages before we get done again the final coat became like a life or death type conundrum. Where would L’Onglex be going ? Should we get a coat that’s best for day or evening ? Should we just get something really plain so as not to draw attention to the fact we spent our pay cheque on a mani etc ?

In the end L’Onglex said ’sod it’ and whilst we intend to embrace the current trend for chipped nails sometime in the near future we went with the brown and gold hues of OPI’s Shimmery Chic and we are very glad we did.

Subtle enough for the office and sparkly enough for after work drinks we think this is the perfect shade for 9-5 – more swatches coming soon !

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So this was what hair was like in the eighties !

October 13th, 2010
If you are a gal of a certain age you will no doubt remember the Timotei adverts. First spotted during the nineties the brand was once the epitome of natural hair styling and it’s success was in no small part down to it’s now famous advertising.
Indeed, if you were around at the time those iconic adverts of a blonde with waist length hair rinsing her locks in the clear waters of a Swedish lake whilst being watched from a distance by a mysterious white shirted suitor became the benchmark for how beauty campaigns in the eighties were measured.
Having fallen out of favour with the buying public in the nineties we assumed the Timotei brand had died a slow death until news reached the L’Onglex beauty desk this very morning that a  new campaign based on the original adverts has been commissioned to revive their flagging shampoo fortunes.
Whether the stalker in the white shirt will be part of the new campaign is not yet known but since were all for retro adverts we thought we’d at the very least put you up a link of the old campaigns in all their natural glory !
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Image courtesy of the Advertising Archives.

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If you are a gal of a certain age you will no doubt remember the Timotei adverts. First spotted during the early 80’s the brand was once the epitome of natural hair care and it’s success was in no small part down to it’s now famous advertising.

Indeed, if you were around at the time those iconic adverts of a blonde with waist length hair rinsing her locks in the clear waters of a Swedish lake whilst being watched from a distance by a mysterious white shirted suitor became the benchmark for how beauty campaigns in the eighties were measured.

Having fallen out of favour with the buying public in the nineties we assumed the Timotei brand had died a slow death until news reached the L’Onglex beauty desk this very morning that a  new campaign based on the original adverts has been commissioned to revive their flagging shampoo fortunes.

Whether the stalker in the white shirt will be part of the new campaign is not yet known but since were all for retro adverts we thought we’d at the very least put you up a link of the old campaigns in all their natural glory !

Click here to watch the video

Image courtesy of the Advertising Archives.

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Favourite finds for a fiver … Jergens natural hand cream

October 5th, 2010
Every now and again L’Onglex will come across the odd bit and bob that sort of makes us go ‘ooohhh thats nice’ and even more so if the very nice thing in question also happens to be a very nice thing that’s also very purse friendly.
So it is then that we tip our proverbial beauty hat to Jergens hand cream. Having come by this a few days ago we are somewhat impressed by the fact that this not only soothes and moisturises with a mix of jojoba and seed oils but also comes in at a very purse friendly €4.99.
Obviously we don’t want to bore you to death with a debate on the merits of everything in the tub but essentially it’s 96% natural ingredients which we think is actually quite good for less than a fiver …. I mean … what can you get for less than a fiver which is actually any good, or works, or smells nice, or doesn’t bring your skin out in a blotchy rash …. answers on a postcard please. This we like !

Jergens_hand_cream

Every now and again L’Onglex will come across the odd bit and bob that sort of makes us go ‘ooohhh thats nice’ and even more so if the very nice thing in question also happens to be a very nice thing that’s also very purse friendly.

So it is then that we tip our proverbial beauty hat to Jergens hand cream. Having come by this a few days ago we are somewhat impressed by the fact that this not only soothes and moisturises with a mix of jojoba and seed oils but also comes in at a more than reasonable €4.99.

Obviously we don’t want to bore you to death with a debate on the merits of everything in the tub but essentially the ingredients are 96% natural which we think is actually quite good for less than a fiver.

In fact, we think that’s very good for less than a fiver …. I mean … what can you get for less than a fiver which is actually any good, or works, or smells nice, or doesn’t bring your skin out in a nasty blotchy rash …. answers on a postcard please.

This we like !

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