Skyfall Charity Screening

A special charity screening of the new James Bond film, SKYFALL™ will take place in the Savoy Cinema, Dublin on October 24^th, in aid of two Irish charities, LARCC Cancer Support Centre and the Cinema Benevolent Fund for Ireland. 

Tickets for this special screening are €50 and include a goody bag and a post film Heineken drinks reception in Lillie’s Bordello.

Skyfall will be released in Ireland and internationally from 26^th October 2012, meaning as well as doing your bit for charity and having a great night out, you're also getting to see the new Bond movie 2 days before anyone else.

To buy tickets (which would make a fantastic gift for any Bond fan or movie buff by the way), please phone 01 6761062 or email Tickets@Presence.ie. 

If altruism or the promise of a night on the tiles haven't convinced you, check out the trailer below: 

Excited much?

Launch of The Loop.ie

Great news for airport shoppers and very bad news for purses and wallets is the launch of The Loop.ie, Irish airport shopping's new online store. 

Gone are the days of red-eye flights meaning missing out on beauty goodies or sneaky discount purchases and no longer will haring through security, late for your plane mean mournful glances at the shops full of goods. 

Designed so that you can shop from the leisure of your home between 24 & 48 hours before your departure flight, The Loop.ie offers over 4,000 products with a double the difference price promise, meaning they won't be beaten by high street prices. 

I managed to pop along to the launch last night and while having a chat with one of the lovely gents realised that, as brilliant an idea as this is, it will mean great things for passengers flying from Cork and Shannon too. Not best known for their selection of brands in the smaller airports, the introduction of theloop.ie means that all brands are now just a click away for everyone. Good news, right?

Customers ordering their shopping in advance will also have the option of Shop & Collect once they pick up their goods before their outbound flight (any time from 4am!), meaning you can jet off on hols and once you come through Arrivals again you will receive a reminder text to pick up your purchases. How about that for a little help to deal with the post hollier blues?

The coming weeks will see MAC join with the lengthy list of brands already available, it will be the worlds only airport online MAC retailer (quite the beauty coups). I'm only hoping against hope it happens before my upcoming flight to London. No more rushing through MAC buying ALL the things in a hurry. I can tell theloop.ie and I are going to be friends. 

What do you think? Do you reckon this site is as dangerous good an idea as I do?

Optimus Prime - 3 of My Favourite Shadow Primers

The oilier lidded lovelies amongst us or those wanting to give their eye make up a little insurance will be no strangers to the wonders of eye shadow primers. I have normal skin and thankfully that applies to my peeper lids too but, on occasion, mostly evening occasion when I've done some extra work on my eyes, I like to use a primer to keep everything in place until kebab time. 

Because I don't use primers as a norm, I haven't had need to go out and buy either the Smashbox Lid Primer or the Urban Decay Primer Potion but both have been very welcome accompaniments to other gift sets I've received so it's been sample sizes I've been loving. Mac Painterly, I waxed lyrical about before. If it didn't last for millennia, I'd probably have bought another by now. 

I've put together some pics of each with some swatches of MAC Club for comparison. You can see how intense the shadow is made using each as a base. 

Smashbox Photofinish Lid Primer - €22

As an accompaniment to Smashbox's world famous PhotoFinish Primer, this Lid Primer works a charm. It promises to reduce fine lines on the lids using soft focus pearls it provides the perfect canvas for eye shadows. It contains Phytomoist, a plant-based hyaluronic acid for ultimate moisture, which means its formulation is creamy and soft with no caking or drying. 

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion - €20

Probably the best known shadow primer of the lot, Urban Decay has a dedicated following from make up Artists to beauty junkies. The wettest of the three primers here, this potion applies moist but dries almost instantly to a soft, sheer base. Promising to do away with fallout and creasing of shadows, I love to use UDPP when I'm wearing a coloured eyeliner as it adds to the 'pop'. 

MAC Painterly Paint Pot - €21

My favourite of the lot and probably one of my HG products, MAC Painterly Paint Pot is a velvety soft cream that applies beautifully. Almost undetectable on my skin, I've been known to use this bad boy as a snakey concealer when caught out. Even though it's not drying in the slightest, shadow sticks to it like no other primer I've used - I'm talking waking up at 6am after a night on the tiles and still having my smokey eye shadow in place. J'adore. 

For all the staying power of each of these primers, there's still no issue with cleansing come the end of the day (or morning). Having used many alternatives, including Maybelline Color Tatoos and regular concealer, I continue to come back to these three when I want the job done right. 

Are you a shadow primer fan? Do you use these ones or others?

New to Arnott's - The Shoe Garden, a Manna from Heaven for Irish Shoe Lovers (Pic Heavy)

I come bearing seriously good news for the shoe lovers of Ireland, Arnott's, one of Ireland's oldest and most loved department stores has proven it's cutting edge metal once more with the introduction of the country's first Shoe Garden. 

With 100,000 ft chock full of 50,000 pairs of lust have shoes from 47 brands, there's something in here to make everyone swoon. I had the delight to pop along last night and take a peek at what's going on so I took a couple of snaps to share the love and hopefully whet your appetite. Those on spending bans, look away immediately!

Nine West mixing print with red leather and black suede. I'm in love. 

Fitflops new AW 2012 offerings are sure to keep your tootsies toastie this winter, or the much sought after Ballet Due. It took all my self control not to snap up the Cherry ones. 

Beautiful and wearable flats from Stuart Weitzman. A girl with a penchant for flat soled comfort can dream, can't she?

From the maker of the iconic Lita, Jeffrey Campbell had some surriously scurry shoes on show. There's no way I could teeter in these wonders but I just couldn't stop looking at them. That's the point, right?

Only the tip of the ballerina iceberg when it comes to Arnott's Shoe Garden. You'll literally be spoiled for choice. 

Some of the boots and one stunning Kurt Geiger shoe that made it straight onto my lust list. 

And finally, the one that will divide opinion like no other - Spuggs!  (ehm, sparkle Uggs that is)

If the unmistakeable scent of melting visa plastic last night was anything to go by the Shoe Garden is going to be an enormous hit. I love the quirky lay out and the original concept. The Arnott's display windows alone are worth a trip down Henry Street. 

Have you been in to see it yet? I'd love to know if you can escape without a purchase. 

Human + Kind Family Remedy Cream - A Natural Saviour

I've been eeking out the last of my most recent tube of all round wonder Cicaplast Baume B5 so when Human + Kind's Family Remedy Cream dropped on the mat of Casa Cherry last week I was delighted. You only need to put 'Natural' in the search bar over there --> to see my fondness for natural products so I knew this tube and I were going to get along. 

Having never tried anything from the Human + Kind brand before but read oodles about them online, this Family Remedy seems to be the perfect introduction for us. With 96.2% natural and 3.8% naturally derived ingredients it promises to cater for every skin ailment and issue. 

Human + Kind Family Remedy Cream - €22.95

Being the nose bag that I am, I had to take a look at the all natural ingredients used to make a Family Cream such as this, listed on the pack we have Organic coconut oil, shea butter, centella, calendula, avocado oil, rosehip seed oil, white lily, chickweed, birch extract, tea tree leaf oil, horsetail extract, marshmallow, olive leaf extract, broccoli extract and aloe vera. But even more heartening, you'll find full details of all ingredients online. All of the background information is transparent and clear, just how I like my natural products. 

So is it any use? In a word 'Absofeckinlutely'. I've used this cream several times over the past week. 

• On a burn on my wrist from the iron (I'm such a martyr)
• A nasty graze on the youngest's forearm (Usual Evil Kenevil antics)
• A raised blemish on the eldest's neck (Teenage woes)
• On my ankles that were rubbed raw from new shoes (I love 'em anyway)

Each and every time Family Cream (aptly named btw) has worked a treat. It has the scent of tea tree and feels more like a cooling balm than a cream but it does exactly what it says on the green & purple tube. 

You'll find many more uses for Family Cream (& Stockists info) on the Human + Kind site but for Casa Cherry's uses, it's a great all rounder.