Showing posts with label Novo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novo. Show all posts

24 December 2011

Your daily dose of pretty: Colour Block Bag by Novo

It's a good thing I didn't go into the Novo store at St Lukes when I was Christmas shopping two nights ago. If I had spotted this bag the kids would be getting a couple less presents each!

Colour blocking is everywhere at the moment. In fact the term is getting a bit overused if you ask me - I saw a plain blue scarf advertised as "colour blocked" the other day. I mean seriously? A blue scarf isn't color blocked, it's Just A Blue Scarf! Anyway, I digress. Orange and pink is one of my favourite clashing colourways, and it works really well in this cute wee across body bag, AU$49.95 online from Novo Australia, or a list of Novo stores can be found here.

17 April 2010

Your daily dose of pretty: Ellamay shoes from Novo

Lace on shoes is a funny one - personally I think it often looks a little tacky. These shoes, however, do not look in the slightest bit tacky, and as an example of how to do lace on shoes well I think I should buy them immediately. Don't you?


C'mon guys, as far as flimsy excuses for buying myself shoes go, that was a pretty good one wasn't it? Wasn't it? Guys?

The Ellamay peeptoe is AU$89.95 from Novo Shoes, who have stores in Australia and New Zealand, and whose website only ships within Australia, so you non-Antipodean types might have to keep looking for some good lace-on-shoes examples.

16 January 2010

Your daily dose of pretty: Uralla shoe by Nina for Novo

Sooooo, I was in the mall today, browsing the sale section at Novo Shoes, when I saw these babies (which weren't on sale):



Aren't they pretty? In real life those ruffles have a lovely soft look to them which is just irresistable.

The Uralla by Nina for Novo are AU$107.95 or NZ$116.90, and I'm afraid are only available in Novo stores in New Zealand and Australia - all you overseas pretties will have to do without. Which I did too, actually - I didn't buy them. Restraint? I totally has it.

Well ... not totally ... I did buy a pair of shoes, but they were only NZ$15.00 so it's ok!

04 October 2009

Your daily dose of pretty: in which I lose the power of speech

Pretty. Sooooo pretty. Pretty colours. Pretty.



If the prettifulness of these shoes hadn't caused me to completely lose the power of speech I would tell you that I love the combination of pink and blue, the contrast of the suede with the patent, and the unusual detailing of the straps. Oh and I'd also mention that they're the Gemma shoe, NZ$99.90 from Novo.

Pretty. So pretty. Want pretty.

Like (shopaholic) mother, like (shopaholic) daughter

14 Year Old Daughter and I went on a shopping spree the other day with her boyfriend in tow. Poor boy. He did quite well, except for the lingerie department. At that stage he threw his arms over his head and wailed. Seriously. He did get lots of sympathy and blokey pats on the back from other men in the same situation. Never let it be said that men lack empathy.

Anyway, we bought lots of stuff. Lots.

14 Year Old Daughter bought these for herself:


From left a BYS lip gloss, a mwah! eyeliner pencil, mwah! glittery liquid eyeliner and mwah! roll on eyeshadow. She has the most gorgeous grey/blue eyes and these greens and blues look stunning on her.



I stopped in to the M.A.C. store and picked up some Prep & Prime and a bottle of Beyond Jealous nail polish from the Jin Soon collection. There's a few colours in the collection I've been coveting, but M.A.C. polishes aren't cheap and Beyond Jealous was top of my list. I also signed myself up for a M.A.C. technique class on November 18th, which I'm looking forward to enormously. They cost NZ$120, but NZ$100 of that can be redeemed for product on the evening. I gather they teach the smoky eye, which is a look I've never quite been able to master.

Remember that thing I do where I decide I don't like a particular look and promptly find an example of said look that I do like? Ok, let's add a couple of things to my list of looks I don't like shall we?: I'm not really big on the wedge heels that are being seen on shoes this season, and cork heels don't appeal to me at all. Alrighty? Also, look at these gorgeous shoes I bought:



How adorable are they? NZ$35.00 on a Novo clearance table. And yes, they have wedges and cork. But they carry it off, so there!

Farmers Department Store are celebrating their 100th anniversary, so there are plenty of discounts storewide, including 25% off womenswear. I picked up this cute tee, the motorcycle on the front reminds me of my ex-husband's Honda CB-650 Custom. We spent many happy hours riding around Wellington on that bike! I even had the most awesome leather jacket with fringing. I rocked as a bikie chick.



14 Year Old Daughter managed to persuade me to buy her a couple of cute tees and a gorgeous military style jacket.




How gorgeous is she in that jacket?

The beauty department had 10% off:



I was remarkably restrained, there was so much more I wanted to buy! Left to right is the Australis Rush Hour palette in Down to Earth, Chi Chi nail polish in Merman, Orly Nail Rescue Kit (Orly should totally pay commission to Michelle from All Lacquered Up - since she blogged about this product I think every nail polish blogger I follow has bought some!), L'Oreal Resist & Shine Titanium shade 710, and Australis Rush Hour palette in Pinks on the Go.

I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of makeup palettes, too often there'll be a couple of colours in the palette that work for me, and the rest sit there unused. However here's a photo of the colours in the Australis palettes:


All colours that I find wearable, and I venture to say that most people would. That's Down to Earth on the left and Pinks on the Go on the right. I gather all the colours are drawn from their current range, I know I already have a couple of those lip gloss colours in the full sizes. For NZ$14.90 each these are an incredibly good deal. Plus they were 10% off, so what's not to love really?

Much to my delight I found a Color Club stand in Life Pharmacy. Color Club is hard to find here in New Zealand, in fact so far I've only seen them in Life Pharmacy and they have a very limited range. However I did buy this gorgeous colour:



That's Blue Light. Pretty.

And one more small haul - before I went to Melbourne I got a discount code for pop beauty, and the parcel arrived a few days after my return. Look at these puppies:



That's Ocean and Turquoise. I also got one of these clever eyeliner pencils in Black Onyx:



The picture's nabbed from the pop site, because my pencil's all the way upstairs, and it's such a long way to get it and bring it downstairs and photograph it and ... *sigh* Anyway it's a very clever pencil, held one way it draws a standard thin line, and turned 90 degrees it draws a thicker line perfect for cats eyes.

And, pop threw in a sample size of their eyelid primer - great service pop!