Spring showed up - Beauty Products Review

It's all about the flowers by greenvogueglam

Finally woke up to a sunny, wonderful, Italian morning. 

Apparently spring has decided to show up.

I sun saluted, had breakfast, went for a run and had a shower.

I've always been secretly obsessed with body products in general and soap in particular.

I'm always on the look for new scented, magical, potentially organic and handmade soaps.

I have a friend of mine here in Italy that makes them for herself and occasionally drops me some (thanks Georgia), but I generally buy them.

The two soaps above, the Florida quartet and the Alighiero Campostrini fan are two finds from the Cosmoprof (never-ending) experience. 

These are both Italian brands with a similar take on producing soap. That is handmade, olive oil enhanced, naturally scented, awesomely packaged type of soap. I've been using both (the Strawberry one from Florida and the Rose&Neroli one from Alighieri Campostrini) for a about a week now and I have to say I love them!!! They don't over-dry, they leave a light scent on my skin (that usually gets killed by my creams and lotions but hey, that's life)

I'm also thinking of using their packaging for some sort of collage but I will have to come back with that later.

Their prices are really good (around 5$/6€) and they can be found on 

• Florinda: amazon.co.uk; beslist.nl; eshop.erboristeriebiancospino.it and Italian erboristerie for all you living in the land of La Dolce Vita
• Alighiero Campostrini : amazon.com (Yay USA!); minnewyork.com (Yay USA part 2!); it.italianbox.com and Italian erboristerie and some selected drug stores.

Try them and let me know. 

Another thing I wanted to tell you about is this body foam that I bought from Greenland Bodycare (yes, I know, the name made me stop and awww).

It isn't a butter or a lotion or whatever other concoction we girls love to spend our money on. 

This is a foam. Imagine a can of whipped cream. Squeeze it. You get a airy, fluffy mass of delicious whip cream.

Look at this.

This is the body foam I bought.

It's Papaya&Lemon, smells fantastic (and lasts forever), has a shimmery glittery something to it that I adore (damn you Cavalli for not producing shimmery glittery body creams anymore), is generously sized (200 ml and you don't need to use a lot of it), doesn't make me feel sticky or buttery but still gives me velvety skin.

I paid 14 €....buuuuuut I've just noticed it's not yet on sale on their ships-worldwide website.

It's a new product and will probably be available sometime soon so I definitely recommend it for the summer since it's so non-sticky, scented and overall awesome.

If you find it online before I do drop me a line so that I can post it up here.

I also bought their hand cream and gave it to my mom and she says it's really nice too. It's the one in the picture at the top.

By the way, I've just become completely Polyvore obsessed. It feels like college all over again with hours and hours of collage making on Polyvore. 

Warning: I will be badgering you with these for at least a few weeks until I go into regression. 

Kiss and Peace

Polyvorey Miss Sinister

Have you met Flickable?

Following the rainiest possible day, and yes, I live in sunny Italy apparently, I'm getting ready to go visit my mom and get my shopping freak on. Hot pink and paisley are a must for such a non-spring day and while I was at it...
I got in the mood to try my favourite Cosmoprof item.
Ladies and...well, just ladies, I give you the lollipop-shaped Flickable lipgloss.

It looks like a lollipop which is totally adorable in my eyes, it tastes like bubble gum, the pink, sweet, when-you-were-a-teenager one that I happen to still completely adore and it's not sticky! (there you go Kevin, I said it)
As soon as I got to Cosmoprof on Sunday, literally within 5 minutes that I had begun taking pics of the place, I stumble upon this delightful lollipop stand with a perky, cheery, adorable man called Kevin David and I just give out the loudest "Awwww" in the world, which in turn made just about everybody around burst into uncontrollable laughter. Damn my secret weakness for all things shaped like dessert!

We start talking, me asking the usual questions (Is it green? Is it gluten free? Is it organic, How much does it cost?), all the while I was secretly thinking this was the most fun little beauty concoction I had seen in a while. Don't get me wrong, the Pupa palettes still get me every time I pass by them in a beauty store, but this is something new.

Kevin was a sweetheart and gifted me this pretty little thing, the "Do Ya Pink I'm Sexy" lipgloss.
Ah yeah, that's the other thing, all of them have a catchy, American culture-inspired name that gets me every time I take it out of my purse.
Along with mine, maybe you feel you're "Better Off Red" or maybe "Citrus How We Do It", or maybe you enjoy some Toffee Talk. And I know each of you girls has had to Fight For Your White To Party at some point, so now you have a lipgloss to match that.

I have been putting mine on for a few days now and I have to tell you, I love it. It's long lasting, not sticky and doesn't make my lips feel dry after it has worn off (like so many do). I will stick to using it for the next weeks and let you know more but so far "the dough is still puffing", like my grandma' used to say. (I will explain all of these weird grandma' references at some point)

It's 18$, which yours truly thinks isn't that much for such a nice product. (don't forget you'll whip it out in a bathroom full of girls and you'll instantly be the centre of attention and/or envy)
- mental post-it - must try that asap.
It ships worldwide which got me even more excited (Xmas gifts!). I went ahead and tried to order it to my Italian in-the-middle-of-nowhere address and it just adds a mere 6.55$ for the shipping (it might take a little longer than forever to get here, but I've got my "Do Ya Pink I'm Sexy" to keep me company).

All in all, a nice little find I will undoubtedly re-buy.

Now I'm off to get my above-mentioned shopping freak on.
Total look of the day:

Paisley pants Zara

Hot pink cashmere sweater Teodori

Bare feet me

Kiss and Peace
Flickable Miss Sinister

Cosmoprof Bologna - the day after

I am exhausted, yet totally excited to show you what I got and what I bought at Cosmoprof Bologna!

For this of you who have no idea what that is, have a look here.

First of all I want to thank all the wonderful, excited, exciting people I met yesterday! You rock! 

I had an amazing time running around from stand to stand, meeting amazing people, getting cream up to my elbows, sniffing and testing, photographing and laughing. I don't know if it was just me, but I thought everybody was super-friendly despite having been there since Friday and having seen and spoken to thousand of people.

Well, after about 8 hours of walking around, snapping as many pics as I could (never enough I assure you) this is what I got or I bought:

This is all stuff I really wanted and I will be testing in the following weeks.

I've bought an awesome body foam from Greenland Bodycare that I can't wait to try,  had my hand peeled and buttered by Premier Dead Sea (thanks Eli, it was sheer magic), got a lesson on micro-particles technology from Invex Remedies (and a whole lot of stuff to test out - I actually just started taking their dietary supplement Silor+B - I'll let you know how it goes), got more soap than I could carry from Florinda, and Alighiero Campostrini and two wonderful people that make Savon D'Alep.

I also literally fell in love with a sweet natured man called Danilo from Kroll Cosmetics who comes from Venice and is very proud of that (I'm going to go visit asap).

I reminisced about my very short trip to Naples with Kost Make-up, an Italian Naples based brand of low cost make-up products with excellent Italian review (I'm going to try them this week and let you know). There are some more that I haven't yet said anything about but I will come back with a second post about Cosmoprof this week. 

I was practically in tears by the end of the day because of all the stuff I was carrying around and abruptly decided that next year I'm bringing a suitcase just like all the smart people that brought one this year. 

I will be slowly reviewing all of these things and many more I haven't yet mentioned.

I'm taking pictures of everything and coming back!

Kiss and Peace

Tired Miss Sinister

On my way to Cosmoprof Bologna

Good morning!

I'm off to Cosmoprof Bologna with my nail artist friend.

Did my yoga, had my OJ and cup of matcha, fireballed with Pitbull (go-to song for early morning start-your-engines) and am now ridding shotgun all giddy!

Can't wait to post this evening!

Kiss and Peace

Giddy Miss Sinister