This week, I’m doing a brand focus on L’Oreal to celebrate the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (formerly known as L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival). This brand focus is not sponsored content.

L’Oreal Paris is really amping up the winged liner look big time this year. There are plenty of winged-liner looks that are gracing the runway and I thought I’d try to recreate one of them. Now I’m no makeup expert so it’s just my interpretation of the look with the products that were used. I don’t have all of the products mentioned in the look book so I substituted with other L’Oreal products instead.

The look I recreated came from the one made for Runway 5 (by Cosmopolitan). As you can see, that model had one heck of a winged liner. Think Sharpie pen all over the lid and extending that to where the brow ends. The Super Liner Blockbuster really is like a Sharpie and makes drawing that much eyeliner on much, much quicker.

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This week, I’m doing a brand focus on L’Oreal to celebrate the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (formerly known as L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival). This brand focus is not sponsored content.

I’ve heard a great deal about the Butterfly Mascara on YouTube-land before I even had a chance to try it out. Its name is different in the US and the UK, I believe, but it’s somewhere along the lines of Butterfly Mascara and the wand is exactly the same so yep, the False Lash Butterfly Mascara in Australia? Same thing.

It’s a bit of a mouthful, isn’t it, calling it the False Lash Butterfly Mascara? For this review, I’ll just call it the Butterfly mascara.

Right, where was I before I rambled on again? Ah yes. The Butterfly mascara was highly raved on YouTube-land and the beauty blogosphere. A number of beauty bloggers have given it their Holy Grail stamp of approval. So … how did it do for me? Does this knock my beloved Australis Voluptulash off the Holy Grail pedestal?

Read on to find out!

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For day 1 of VAMFF, I headed backstage for the David Jones Opening Night to see how the hair and makeup was done.

Opening night’s hair screams 4S – straight, shine, sleek and sophistication. That’s what L’Oreal Professional hair directors, Caterina Di Biase and Brad Ngata were going for. It’s youthful, it’s easy to wear especially come winter (hair covering the neck, sleek and straight to the front, keeping the neck warm? Who needs a scarf? Wait, forget I said that last bit) and best of all, it’s easy to recreate.

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