Coming Soon: City Rush from Avon

Milla Jovovich, SuperScwhing, is the beautiful star behind this seasons fragrance from Avon, City Rush. It promises to be powerful, confident and stylish like the lady herself and is winging its way to a catalogue near you next month. 

With top notes of bergamot, plum and ivy green, floral middle notes of  black dahlia, rose and vanilla and it's base notes using creamy woods, musk and patchouli flower, City Rush will appeal to a wide range of women but also to different age groups. 

My take on it? I'm impressed. It's a soft floral, creamy scent rounded out by its musk notes and stops short of being sweet. The more I wear it, the more it reminds me of Gucci Envy, which is a very good thing.

While I have to be honest and say that City Rush isn't great when it comes to longevity of wear (realistically, it's less than twenty quid so wouldn't be), you're looking at about three hours of scent. The bottle is compact and resilient enough to be popped into your bag for a spritz or two through the day, so it's not a huge issue.  

Priced at €19.95 and available both online and from your local Avon representative, City Rush will hit catalogues in October. 

Introducing The Dr Hauschka's Pure Care Cover Sticks Addition for Medium to Dark Skin

Listen up medium to dark skinned lovelies, Dr Hauschka have just extended their Pure Care Cover Stick range with you specifically in mind. Their new addition, 03 Sand, joins 01 Natural and 02 Beige to provide not only first class coverage for problem areas but also to help heal the skin and return your visages to their natural balance.

Pure Care Cover Sticks in L-R 01, 03 & 02

Ingredients such as tea tree and manuka oil, kidney vetch and calendula all work to calm the skin and restore it to its former glory. Because of the healing properties of the Pure Care Cover Sticks, it’s recommended that they’re used at the first sign of a blemish. Place your chosen shade onto the affected area and blend gently to build up cover before applying your foundation. Finishing your look with a translucent powder, such as Dr Hauschka’s Illuminating Powder will set your make up in place and prevent slippage throughout the day.

Pure Cover Stick 01 Natural for light skin tones

Pure Cover Stick 02 Beige for light to medium skintones

New Addition: Pure Cover Stick 03 Sand for medium to dark skin tones

Because, thankfully, I’m blemish free at the mo, I decided on a little ‘speriment: here’s hoping you’ll never have an outbreak brighter than red ink on your poor kisser but just look at the coverage achieved with one stroke of my perfect match 02. It blends to a matte soft finish, with this and your foundation in place blemishes should be near invisible. Good, right?

Bright red ink is all but covered in one simple stroke

Like the Lipstick Novums from the Decorative range, Pure Care Cover Sticks are blended with natural waxes so they’re pleasantly scented (With the lippies it’s lavender (a joy to use) and this time it’s a slight woody aroma) they almost melt into the skin and prevent dryness associated with healing blemishes.

I’ve said before that I love the ethos behind the Dr Hauschka brand; their natural approach to everyday skin care problems is hugely refreshing in a world of chemical solutions. The fact that this product not only gives you flawless coverage but works to treat your skin and gently heal problem areas makes it a winner in my book.

Priced at €16.95 the Pure Care Cover Sticks are part of the Dr Haushcka Skin Care Range that is stocked in selected Health Stores, Pharmacies, Avoca & Harvey Nics, though if none of the above suit you, there’s a full list of stockists on www.drhauschkaireland.ie.

Chanel's New Lust Have Scent - Coco Noir

Prepare yourselves, ladies, on the 17th of August Chanel are set to launch their newest scent, CoCo Noir at selected Chanel Counters. They say: 

'Coco Noir is a distinctive CHANEL olfactory signature of desire and modesty, mystery and brilliance, in which baroque audacity and classic demeanour mingle and blend. By its complexity and elegance, Coco Noir celebrates the change in notion of femininity.'

I say, it's been a long time since I've fallen so instantly in love with a scent as I have with Coco Noir. It's unmistakeably Chanel but it's a darker, edgier more sensuous version. Notes of Mademoiselle are detectable but Noir brings Chanel fragrance to a whole new level in my book. Housed in a heavy weight black glass bottle with inimitable gold Chanel design, this is going to make one beautiful addition to any bedside table or dresser. 

The EDP will set you back €92 for the 50ml and €132 for 100ml but truly, with this fragrance smelling is believing. 

Are you a Chanel fragrance fan? Have you a favourite? 

I should give special mention to 

the beautiful Emma from Fluff & Fripperies

who introduced me to this scent on the journey home

this week. So stunning it almost caused a crash!