California Apparel News Interviews Nick Verreos: Dish from Project Runway Season 6 Castings

Lovely Orchid: Nick Verreos at Downtown LA's Urth Cafe (photo courtesy of Alison Nieder)

Just in time for the new Lifetime Network's season premiere of Project Runway Season 6, here's the fun little interview I did for the California Apparel News' ApparelNews.Net "Trade Talk" blog:

The sixth season of “Project Runway” has not even aired yet (it’s scheduled to bow on its new home on Lifetime in August), and I’m already thinking about season 7.

That’s because I recently caught up with “Project Runway” alum—and recent ApparelNews.net guest blogger—Nick Verreos...............

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Lumiere Skin & Beauty Bar

I have been lucky enough to be sent a package from the very lovely and helpful Sarah at Lumiere Skin & Beauty Bar www.lumierecosmetics.com, who specialise in Mineral make-up. I never expected to get so many samples, I think they have been very generous! The photo below is of the Foundation, Finishing Powders , Blushes and Bronzer in the small containers. As you can see they also sent me a Kabuki brush and 3 mini lipglosses. As soon as I touched the Kabuki Brush, I fell in love with how soft it is! I kept running it over my hand.ha ha. It's probably the softest Kabuki I have ever had. I can't wait to use it tomorrow!

I have swatched the liglosses below and as you can see they are lovely neutral colours - just how I like my lip products to be. I will try them out properly tomorrow so I can report back on their longevity and texture on the lips.

They also sent me 6 Eye pigments and these are the items that I am most impressed by (sorry about the small text on the pic, just ask if you can't see the name of a shade). The colours I got are really pigmented and very finely milled. I applied them to my hand with a damp brush and as you can see, the colours are so lovely. Peacock, an amazing multi faceted turquoise blue or Hypnotic, a deep metallic bronze, are my favourite shades...beautiful!

I will be reviewing these items in more detail over the next couple of weeks when I get a free minute to play with them a bit. I just wanted to share with you all what I was sent. Have you tired any products from Lumiere? What did you think of them?

Miss World contest reminder

Hello my lovelies,

Just a quick reminder that I have decided to extend the deadline for my Miss World Contest to Wednesday 5th August. I have done this as I will be on holiday in Ireland all next week and so I won't have much access to a computer. I would prefer to keep you guys updated on the growing list of prizes for the winner as I collect them so in order to do that I have pushed the dealine back a bit. I haven't had any entries in yet so I'm hoping someone does one soon or I'll have to keep all the goodies for myself!

The prize is the following so far:

1) Elemis Exotic Island Flower Body Balm 125ml
2) Elemis Japanese Camellia Oil (use on nails, hair, scalp and skin) 100ml
3) Liz Earle Orange Flower Botanical Body Wash 100ml
4) Liz Earle Energising Body Scrub 50ml
5) Liz Earle Instant Boost Tonic Spritzer 30ml
6) Liz Earle Sun Shade Botanical Self Tan Spray 30ml
7) O.P.I Nail Laquer in Hopelessly in Love

8) Barry M Natural Dazzle Bronzer

9) Sleek Safari eyeshadow palette

10) Sleek Wonderlast lipgloss

11) 3 x Barry M Dazzledusts

So hurry up ladies and put in an entry and you could win all those gorgeous products! Don't be shy or scared to enter...we're all here to have fun. There will also be a lovely prize for the each of the runners up.

Looking forward to seeing all the glitter and glam!

Leg De-fuzzing

This is a subject that us girls like to keep under wraps from the outside world. We would prefer that guys thought we were born with no body hair and our effortlessly smooth legs required no work whatsoever.

Unfortunately the reality is that us girls have a constant battle trying to make sure our legs are skirt ready at all times! The reason I'm writing this post is because I have been pondering the options and I want to get a quick poll on how you deal with this problem...do you use a razor? Waxing? An Epilator? Hair Removal Cream?


I want to look into all areas of this because for years now, I have just shaved my legs but no matter what razor I use, I always end up either cutting my knees/ankles up or I get a bumpy rash on the inside of my calf after shaving my legs. This is really annoying...sometimes shaving works fine but on other days it can go seriously wrong, I end up with blood running down my knees, looking like an extra from a teen slasher movie! (ok, maybe not that bad).



I remember buying hair removal cream when I was about 16 and trying to use it on my legs...I can honestly say that it didn't remove all of the hair from my legs AND it wreaked to high heaven...like burnt hair...urgh! That put me off the stuff for a long time but I'm assuming there must have been some progress made with these products in the last 10 years (god, has it been THAT long since I was 16???...). I've seen creams advertised that exfoliate AND remove hair so I would be interested to know if this works? Does anyone use these kind of products? If so, which ones are your favourite?



I have some friends who use Epilators but I gotta say that it sounds too painful for my liking. Apparently the more you do it, the less it hurts and I do like the idea that it lasts alot longer than shaving. I hate having to shave my legs every three days, it's just a pain in the neck really and I don't think it's very good for my skin. I really don't like the idea of waxing simply because a) it hurts...alot! and b) you have to grow your hair long enough to be waxed...that just ain't gonna happen people. I am meticulous about these things and it would drive me mad.



I dream of permanent laser hair removal and then I would never have to worry about it again...but since I'm not loaded and can't afford the very hefty price of those treatments, I will just have to once again, look to my beauty blogger lovelies to offer some ideas :)