Author archives: Lana Hoang

HOT or NOT | Sleek “Storm” Eyeshadow Pale...

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. In the name of „Beauty on a Budget“, I shopped my stash and I rediscovered this piece. Sleek’s eye shadow palette in “Storm” was purchased whilst I was in London doing my internship. I can’t believe I forgot about this product. ........................................................................................... Outer Appearance | Sleek “Storm” Palette For a drugstore product...

Beauty on a Budget | Where are my Estée Laud...

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Hey Beauties!  It’s a brand new day, the perfect day actually to talk about bargains, bargains, bargains. Yes, that’s right. It’s Beauty on a Budget Day again here on Readthetrieb. Today’s post is aimed mainly towards all of you gals (or guys) that love a nice little luxury goodie without having...

Tip Tuesday | Skincare for Dummies - 5 Basic ...

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. I really hope you had an amazing start into the new week. Did you, by any chance, get to see my latest Manicure Monday? I still have to pause a second and admire the feather that looks so complicated but was in fact pretty simple. However, that should not...

Friday ChitChat | Chantelle Brown-Young - The...

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  Hello fellow beauty lovers. Following the 21st instalment of America’s Next Topmodel a lot of people were proven that being different does not necessarily mean being ugly. Chantelle Brown-Young aka. Winnie Harlow was one of the contestants at ANTM, even the audience’s darling. Her secret weapon: her obvious skin disease. Most people lookt at her and...

HOT or NOT | CLIO - LIPNICURE Lipstick that d...

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. On my little vacation in Asia I did not say no to the local beauty goodies from South Korea and Co. I’ve been hearing mixed remarks about CLIO but I have never seen it in real life before. After browsing through the LIPNICURE shades however, I was convinced by...

Beauty on a Budget | Rossmann Rival de Loop B...

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Hey Beauties  I’ve been out for a bit and I have found some great bargains for you guys offered at the drugstore chain Rossmann. The whole counter for decorative cosmetics is 20% off and the best make up remover for waterproof makeup concerning price-performance-ratio on the market only costs 0.99€, amazing, don’t you think? Yours...

Tip Tuesday | Skincare for dummies- Which Cle...

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. Welcome back to Tip Tuesday, ladies and gents. Last week I created a little overview over the different skin types for you and today we’ll be making our first steps into the basics of skincare. It’s known that we pick up dirt everywhere we go. It doesn’t matter how large...

Friday ChitChat | Donna Simpson's life goal: ...

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. Our planet is incredibly big when you consider all the weird stories it hosts. You’d think there will be hardly anything that can seriously shock you. But when I researched the topic “Feederism” I have to admit that I was momentarily surprised about the fact that there...

HOT or NOT | dm Lieblinge SeptemberBox

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. I know, I know I just did a blog post about the beauty box by dm  from August. But I received an e-mail saying that the next box is already waiting for me in-store. So I went there, picked it up and got totally blown away! I actually planned...

Beauty on a Budget | New Code for PIEPER, Sav...

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Another BOAB-Day on Readthetrieb.com There’s a brand new code to get 10€ off your whole purchase at Parfümerie Pieper. The goods have to have a value of 50€ and more and the whole thing ends on September, 30th. The code for you: PiGoogle14. Have fun bargaining, guys! Yours truly, Lana Hoang Image Source: http://www.parfuemerie-pieper.de/cms/mein-pieper.html

Tip Tuesday | New Weekly Series: Skincare for...

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. Welcome back. Have you ever wondered why the skincare products you bought sometimes just don’t work out for you? The reason behind this is simple: We all have different skin types. There are five different skin types all together: dry, normal, oily, sensitive and combination skin. The type of your skin...

Friday ChitChat | Crazy Beauty Ideals: Force ...

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Photo by Joost de Raeymaeker Image Source: http://www.marieclaire.com/ Hello fellow beauty lovers. What do you guys think of when you hear the term „Fat Camp“? Well, I for one associate this term with a summer camp, in which adolescents get help to lose some weight. In Mauritania, a little state in the Western part...

HOT or NOT | dm "Lieblinge" Beauty Box August

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. Guys, I haven’t had a single minute yet to tell you the great news. Back in July I received an e-mail telling me that I have won 1 of the 5000 3-months-subscriptions to a beauty box by dm . I have been applying for it over and over...

Beauty on a Budget | Glamglow Sample Set at D...

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Hey Beauties. Douglas has been a busy bee in the last few months. SO many new brands have joined the rising star in the beauty industries. The inner child in me wants to hur, every time a new addition was made. Urban Decay x Douglas has been THE hype of the past month. But...

Manicure Monday | #FlowerPower

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You’ll need   1x white polish 1x pink polish 1x light pink polish 1x mint polish 1x golden polish 1x dotting tool or the end of a brush or a toothpick   Step 1 Start off with a crisp white polish. I used, as per usual, blanc by Essie. Step 2 Take your dotting tool and start creating little blossoms. I used...

Friday ChitChat | Cooking Oil Injections - Wh...

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Hang before the injections   | Hello fellow beauty lovers. Hang Mioku is a former Korean model and her story is terrifying and incredibly sad. At a young age of 28 the once beautiful Asian girl had her first cosmetic surgery. Little by little she was lulled into the world of “flawless beauty” like so...

HOT or NOT | bareMinerals Matte SPF15 Foundat...

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. Foundations, they form the perfect canvas for our makeup and are, besides a good skincare, the key to a flawless finish. bareMinerals has always been a brand that was there. But it never represented something special for me to explore. But then, one day my skin started...

Beauty on a Budget | 10% off everything at Pi...

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Hey Beauties. Today is another BOAB-Day for us gals. The Code JnQGoogle10Aug allows you to shop the whole product range at Pieper with a 10% discount. And because their prices are much less expensive than the prices at Douglas & Co, it’s an even greater deal. Have fun with a whole new shopping experience. And don’t forget to tune...

Tip Tuesday | The importance of eye cream

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. Welcome back to your favorite online magazine.:) Beauty addicts usually make use of eye creams during the  morning as well as your night regimen. Even I was once a strong believer in eye creams but for all the wrong reasons. I only knew that people used it because,...

Friday ChitChat | Bizarre Beauty Treatments: ...

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. A new beauty trend was born when Kim Kardashian was seen undergoing a bloody facial in a new episode of “Kim and Kourtney Take Miami”. This so called “Vampire facial” or Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) skin rejuvenation treatment involves drawing blood from your arm, which afterwards is spun to remove...

HOT or NOT | Bioderma Hydrabio Sérum

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Hello fellow beauty lovers. Whenever you hear the brand Bioderma you immediately think of their miracle worker Bioderma Sensibio H20 Micellaire Water. It did revolutionize the beauty world. But this little brand has so much more to offer. Right before my last trip to Paris I watched a couple of videos...

Beauty on a Budget | Dupe alert Catrice vs. M...

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Hey Beauties! You may remember the Article  in which I described how I almost lost a finger trying to get my hands on „Pleasure Bomb“, a lipstick from the winter collection of the RiRi x MAC  collection. I’ve been lucky given the fact that Cologne has a MAC Pro store in town, I bet...

Tip Tuesday | How-To: Fix smudged polish

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 Hello fellow beauty lovers. Welcome back to another Tip Tuesday on Readthetrieb.com! As you may or may not know, I do weekly Manicures for Manicure Monday  for you guys and I happen to be incredibly clumsy. I make a lot of mistakes, one of which being smudging my freshly painted manicure. Because, as...