Daisy Beauty Expo 2016

The program for the day. Here you could find a map so that you could find all of the brands represented at Daisy Beauty Expo 2016 and times for the seminars.

A list of old the brands you could meet and talk to.

I started of with a seminar with L’Oréal, Maybelline and Garnier Respons where they presented new products that they're releasing this year. L’Oréal are releasing new nail polish. Cute bottles right?

Maybelline is coming out with a new eyeshadow palette, the blushed nudes, that looks beautiful.

Respons that's now owned by Garnier has been around since 1989. You might be familiar with the classic nectar shampoo. Now they are giving us skincare products too and next year we will also be able to buy shower gels from the brand. Above you can see the Mythical olive series.

At Maybelline I got a sneak peek of the blushed nude palette and their new mascara

At GHD you could get your hair styled and look at their hair tools and styling products. Here's the GHD advanced split end hair therapy.

Akademikliniken is a Swedish clinic that also have their own skincare range. The skincare products feels fantastic.

At Björn Axén you could look at their hair care ans styling products and also get your hair styled.

Björn Axén published this Big book about braids a while back so they styled a lot of braids during the day. I missed doing this unfortunately.

Skincare from Eucerin that's releasing a redness relief skincare line.

At Dior you could get your makeup done and of course check out the spring look Glowing Garden. I love the nail polishes, no surprise there right?, and the eyeshadow palettes.

Dior vernis Pivoine 650 has a beautiful shimmer that's not really noticeable in this photo.

Of course you could also smell Dior's perfumes. I love the new Dior Poison Girl (on the right).

Dior Savages which Johnny Depp is the face for.

I checked out the products from Elemis and also got a face scan. I had nice skin and would age fine. All the advice she could give me was to protect my skin against the cold. That's good news. I was afraid the scan would show that I had terrible skin.

At Max Factor you could look at some new products, like a new mascara, and also a line of glasses and sunglasses in collaboration with them. Their where actually some really nice frames.

Oliva Earth by CCS Lip care & Scrub. I like the other products in this line so I'm looking forward to trying this.

Oliva Earth by CCS Nail & Cuticle oil, another new product in this skincare line.

Oliva Earth By CCS lip scrub. I really like their suger scrub for the body so I'm looking forward to trying the lip scrub too.

OPI presented the spring summer 2016 fashion collection New Orleans.

Mette Cosmetique with Kalahari, Nimue, pH Formula and Art Deco had a lovely room.

Spring makeup from ArtDeco. I got to make my own eyeshadow palette.

Produts from Nimue, pH Formula, Kahlahari and beautiful flowers. A little spring feeling inside. Outside it was snowing though.

L’Oréal had beautiful table setting with makeup, feathers, pearls, candles and sweet treats.

L’Oréal is hopping on board the cushion foundation train.

In Gariner Respons room their where a more rustic feeling with wood, olive plants, books and green walls.

At Garnier Respons I also got a lovely hand massage with their products. It was a well needed rest.

Apoteket is coming out with a new anti-aging skincare line from Apoliva. I love the luxurious design and that they have a pump on the cream jar so you don't need to dip your fingers or a spatula in to the jar to get the creams out.

Ciaté pop blush are just the cutest little thing.

Some of the products from Ciaté's collaboration with Olivia Palermo.

The last activity for me yesterday was a very informative seminar with Apoteket about skincare ingredients, our skin and which ingredients that has effect on the skin. 

 Igår bjöd Daisy Beauty in till Daisy Beauty Expo 2016 på Tändstickspalatset, Lundqvist & Lindqvist. Förra årets Daisy Beauty Expo var en riktig succé och så även detta års. 

På plats på Tändstickspalatset var 95 bloggare och journalister och 35 utställare. Förutom den fantastiska möjligheten att gå runt och prata med massor av skönhetsmärken på en och samma plats bjöds det även på möjligheten att lyssna på intressanta seminarier. Jag gick på två seminarie igår. På morgonen lyssnade jag på L’Oréal, Maybelline och Garnier Respons som berättade om sina nyheter och sminktrender. Sedan hade jag anmält mig till ett seminarie med Björn Axén för att få lite hårinspiration men lyckades tyvärr glömma bort tiden när jag promenerade runt och talade med utställarna. Eftermiddagen avslutades med ett intressant seminarium av Apoteket. 

Hos utställarna fanns det massor att titta på och så klart även att göra. Kände man för att få en ansiktsbehandling, en hudanalys, håret stylat eller naglarna fixade så var det inget problem. Jag passade på att få en härlig handmassage hos Garnier Respons och att få naglarna lackade med det nya akyl nagellacket för hemmabruk som härdas med LED-lampa, Lackryl. Lackryllackningen ska hålla i 1-3 veckor. Jag tog även chansen att röra ihop min egen handkräm hos CCS och bygga min egen ögonskuggepalett med fyra skuggor från Art Deco. Hos Elemis gjorde jag en hudanalys och bättrade på läppstiftet med Ciaté Liquid Velvet Matte Lip Slick. 

Dior visade upp sin vårlook Glowing Garden som ser helt fantastisk ut och OPI visade upp sin modekollektion för våren och sommaren, OPI New Orleans. CCS har lite nya produkter i sin Oliva Earth serie som jag verkligen gillar så det ska bli roligt att testa de nya produkterna i serien.
L’Oréal kommer ut med en cushion foundation. Jag tycker cushion foundations är himla smidigt så jag tycker det är kul att fler märken kommer ut med sådana. Lancôme, Pürminerals och IsaDora har redan kommit ut med cushion foundations på den svenska marknaden. 

Det blev verkligen många intryck igår. Intressanta seminarier och massor med utställare att prata med. Dagen avslutades med after work och sedan när jag kom hem var jag helt slut. Ja nu har ni fått en kort genomgång av hur min dag såg ut igår. Att gå igenom allt skulle ta en evighet så ni får nöja er med detta. Har i alla fall fått med mig massor med spännande arbetsprover hem så jag kommer i alla fall att ha massor att blogga om framöver. 

 Tack till Kicki, Sam, Krizz och alla företag representerade för en helt fantastisk dag!

För fler bilder och mer info om Daisy Beauty Expo 2016 kan ni gå in här där ni hittar en lista över alla deltagare med länkar till deras bloggar samt spana in hashtagen #dbexpo16 på twitter och instagram.

Yesterday Daisy Beauty magazine arranged Daisy Beauty Expo 2016 at Tändstickspalatset, Lundqvist & Lindqvist, here in Stockholm. Last years Daisy Beauty Expo was a real success and so was this years. 

Yesterday you could find 95 bloggers and beauty editors, and 35 beauty companies at Tändstickspalatset. Except the great opportunity to talk to all these beauty companies at the same place we also had the possibility to listen to interesting seminars. I went on two seminars. I started the day off by listening to L’Oréal, Maybelline and Garnier Respons talking about makeup trends and new products. I had also planned to go to a seminar with Björn Axén to get some hair inspo but unfortunately I lost track of time talking to the beauty brands. I attended the last seminar of the day though where Apoteket talked about skincare ingredients and our skin.

At the beauty companies there where a lot to see and of course also a lot to do. If you felt like getting a facial treatment, a skin analysis, get your hair styled or your nails done then that was no problem. I got a lovely hand massage at Garnier Respons and my nails done with a new acrylic nail polish for home use that you harden with a LED-lampa, Lackryl. Lackryl is suppose to hold for about 1-3 weeks. I also jumped at the chance to mix my own hand cream at CCS and build my own eyeshadow palette with four shadows from Art Deco. At Elemis I had a skin analysis and I touched up my lipstick with Ciaté Liquid Velvet Matte Lip Slick. 

Dior showed us their spring look Glowing Garden that look amazing and OPI showed their spring summer fashion collection, OPI New Orleans. CCS had some new products in their Oliva Earth line that I really like so I'm looking forward to trying these new products to see if I like them as much.
L’Oréal releases a cushion foundation. I think cushion foundations are great, they are fast and easy to use which I like so I think it's great that more companies are releasing their own cushion foundations. Lancôme, Pürminerals and IsaDora has already released cushion foundations on the Swedish market during 2015.

It was a very fun and interesting day yesterday with interesting seminars a lot of beauty companies to talk to. We ended the day with after work together with the representatives from the beauty companies. I was so tired when I got home after all that information and trying to do as much as possible in that time. Well that's a short resume of my day yesterday. It would take me forever to try to tell you everything so you will have to settle with this. I did get a ton of PR-sample though so I will have a lot to write about here on the blog for a long time. 

 Thank you to Kicki, Sam, Krizz and all the beauty companies for making yesterday a fantastic day!

Lansering av Kardashian Beauty på Åhléns

I torsdags var det lansering av Kardashian Beauty (sminket) som började säljas på Åhléns i fredags. Kardashian beauty såldes dock i Sverige redan innan det på webshopparna eleven.se (delar av sortimentet) och brallis.se. Produkterna säljs även på t.ex. lookfantastic och feelunique som skickar till Sverige. I och med att produkterna nu mera säljs på Åhléns blir det i dock möjligt att titta närmare på produkterna innan man köper.

Produkterna från Kardashian beauty skulle jag säga riktar sig till en lite yngre publik. Priserna är bra. Förpackningarna känns lite plastiga. Det kan nog finnas en del guldkorn i kollektionen. Kardashian beauty double up eyeshadow (ögonskuggspennor med en färg i varje ände) såg väldigt fina och pigmenterade ut. Läppstiftspennorna skulle också kunna vara intressanta. Det finns ingen foundation i produktserien, men dock puder. Hoppades ni på ett contouringkit (vilket man kanske skulle kunna tro skulle finnas i Kardashian Beauty:s sortiment) så kommer ni inte att hitta något sådant. Det finns dock bronzing puder och highlighters i sortimentet.

Nagellacken från Kardashian beauty som jag redan testat förra sommaren (ni hittar inlägget här) antar jag dock kanske inte kommer att säljas på Åhléns för de fanns inte med i pressmaterialet jag fick med mig hem i torsdags. Hårprodukterna vet jag har annan distributör i Sverige och är lite svårare att hitta i butik.

Vad jag tycker om Kardashian Beauty Produkterna ska ni få veta när jag hunnit testa dem. 

This Thursday I visited the launch of Kardashian Beauty (the make up line) which Åhléns started selling this Friday. The Kardashian beauty products have been possible to purchase from the web shops eleven.se (part of the Kardashian beauty makeup line) and brallis.se. The products are also sold by lookfantastic and feelunique web shops that deliver to Sweden. But since Åhléns has started to sell the products in their shops it is now possible to take a closer look at the products before the purchase.

My opinion is that the products from Kardashian beauty targets a younger group of consumers. The prices are nice. The packages feels a bit plastic. It is possible that is a couple of gold nuggets hidden in the product line. Kardashian beauty double up eyeshadow ( an eyeshadow pen with different colors in both ends) looked really nice and pigmented. The lipstick pens could also be interesting. There isn't any foundation in the product line but it does have some powders. If you were looking forward to a contouring kit (which you might expect from the Kardashian Beauty product line) you will be disappointed. Bronzing powder and highlighters are a part of the production line though.

I suppose that the nail polish from Kardashian beauty which I tested last summer (you can find the post here) may not be sold by Åhléns because they were not mentioned in the press release I received this Thursday. I know that the hair products have a different distributor here in Sweden than the makeup products and that they are a little bit more difficult to find in a store here.

I will let you know what I think of the Kardashian Beauty products once I've tried them.

Acadermia 2015

I helgen gick Acadermia av stapel på Stockholms mässan i Älvsjö. I år gick mässan samtidigt som Allt för hälsa och Fitness festivalen som en del av Fit for life WKND. Jag passade på att besöka Acadermia igår för en chans att prata med utställare och möta branschfolk (inte inom den bransch jag jobbar utan folk inom skönhetsbranschen). 

Daisy Beauty tog hand om press och bloggare i sitt fina Press Coffice som bjöd på en trevlig möjlighet att vila fötterna och få sig en kaffe, lite vatten, kokosvatten eller ett glas bubbel, möta nya och gamla bekanta och självklart kunde man även bläddra i senaste numret av Daisy Beauty. 

På Acadermia ligger mycket fokus på skönhetsbehandlingar och fillers och sådant men i år var det fint uppblandat med andra utställare och i år väldigt mycket naturlig skönhet vilket känns trevligt. Var kanske inte jättemycket nytt men jag hittade en del märken som jag inte var bekant med sedan tidigare vilket alltid är roligt. 

 Jag hade släpat med mig min man till Acadermia igår så han fick hjälpa till att agera fotograf och hjälpa mig att bära alla påsar som skulle med hem. 

Förutom utställare bjöd Acadermia även på en hel del seminarie och annat spännande. Gårdagen var verkligen intressant och givande. Jag var helt slut idag så dagen har mest ägnats åt att försöka smälta alla intryck från igår. 

Det blev mycket bilder tagna igår så förbered er för en bildbomb här nedan.




Acadermia took place this weekend at Stockholms mässan located in Älvsjö just outside of Stockholm. This year the fair occurred at the same time and place as "Allt för hälsa" and "Fitness festivalen" as a part of Fit for life WKND. I visited Acadermia yesterday to chat with the brands present and meet people from the beauty industry.

Daisy Beauty took care of the press and the bloggers in their nice Press Coffice and offered a nice opportunity to rest your feet and get a cup of coffee, some water, coconut water or a glass of sparkling wine, meet up with new and old friends and of course: you could read the latest volume of the Daisy Beauty magazine.

Usually Acadermia puts a lot of focus on beauty treatments, fillers and so on but this year there was a nice mix with other kind of exhibitioners. It really felt nice that quite a lot of natural beauty were present. There were at least a few new brands that I haven't seen before and that is always nice.

I brought my husband as company to Acadermia yesterday he could help me by taking some photos and carry home all the bags.

Apart from the exibitioners at Acedermia there were also quite a lot of seminars and other exiting events. Yesterday was really an interesting day. Today I am really tired and the day has mostly been used to digest all the information from yesterday. 

Prepare yourself for a the photo cavalcade to come.

 

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There where a lot of companies exhibiting at Acadermia this weekend. My first stop for the day was Gilda. Where you could look at and buy their products or get one of their treatments right there.

Next I stopped by Color Wow and talked to Giles Robinson, Global Director of Training & Education for Color Wow and Senior John Frieda Salon hair Stylist. He demonstrated their Color Wow root cover up for me on some other Academia visitors. According to him my roots didn't need any cover up so I guess I'd have to thank my hair stylist for doing such a wonderful job with my bleach cause it's at least 7-8 months since I colored my hair.

This is what the Color Wow root cover up look like. It looks a bit like an eyeshadow but it sticks to the hair so you can touch it and it still stays on the hair. It also suppose to hold through rain. You just apply it to the hair with the little brush and then it washes of when you wash your hair. Smart and easy root cover up for between visits and the hair salon.

I also stopped by M Picaut and talked to the lovely owner of the brand Mette Picaut. Mette is just the sweetest person and it's lovely to talk to someone that's that engaged and really burning for what they do. I love their new Hydra Miracle serum that they released earlier this fall. A review will soon be up on the blog. Yesterday I got their Calming Cocoon Cream with me. It's a barrier cream that feels very rich and lovely and I'm looking forward to trying it now when the air is starting to get cold and dry.

This was a hair product line that I haven't seen before. I love the sleek and luxury design and Gold smells just lovely. I kind a want all of these products just because of the lemon-melon scent that's just amazing! The hair oil felt very light so I think it would work even on fine hair like mine.

This is the Gold hair treatment that according to the man working in their booth also is great as shave cream. Haven't tried myself so I can't vouch for that.

I checked out Kardashian Beauty's hair line that comes in black and gold packing. I tried the hair oil on my hand and it felt a bit heavy so I'm not sure it would work that well on my hair. The Gold hair oil was much lighter.

Another brand that was new to me. Miss w. This is a French Natural brand and I'm curious about their Micellar water.

Miss W also had some nail polishes in cute small bottles.

Nail polish heaven! Nubar had so many shades to choose from.

Some nail design swatches at Nubar.

Nubar also had plenty of glitters for nail art to choose from. I didn't buy any glitter or nail polish but I did buy two swatching wheels.

puroBIO was another brand that was new to me. It's an Italian organic brand that had lot of lovely makeup. I really like that they had lots of colors to choose from. Not long ago I felt that most organic makeup that was being sold in Sweden only come in earthy natural shades.

Did some swatching with the puroBIO products. I got some products with me to try and I have to say I'm looking forward to trying them. Felt very lovely to swatch.

I also visited Rapsodine. This is their original line that I haven't tried before but I really like the Rapsodine Eco Raps products that I have tried before.

At Minus 417 I checked out this Recovery Mud Mask. The products from Minus 417 contains minerals from the Dead sea and this mud mask contains so much minerals that you don't wash it off. You remove it with a magnet. I got to try and it was cool to see. I know I've seen a mask like this before but I can't remember where....

C/O Gerd is a Swedish brand from Jokkmokk which is really far up in the north of Sweden. I know about this brand but I haven't had time to try it before and when I came buy the owner was buzy with other visitors so I never got a chance to talk to her.

They are starting to get a quite wide range of products.

Here you can see their hair care range

The product contains Swedish ingredients like blueberries and cloudberries.

Another Swedish brand. Rosenserien. They also had a range of products for men. My hubby liked the scent of their deodorant. Lucky for him I did get that deodorant with me to try so at least I got one thing for hubby home with me too.

Dermosil is a Finish brand that's big in Finland but not that well known here in Sweden. Looking forward to try out their products.            

I also stopped by Annearie Börlind Natural beauty.

The brands most famous product might be the Beauty Pearls. Serums with shimmering pearls based on alga and hyaluronic acid. It contains a combination of alga extract from amongst other a green pearl like alga that's also called botanical caviar. The pearl like alga is seen on the packing and the product brochures. The Beauty Pearls serums is available in Sensitive, Moisture and Regeneration. 

I've tried Maria Åkerberg Skincare before but not their makeup that's showed here.

Makeup from Maria Åkerberg beautifully displayed.

I've already picked up three different beauty advent calendars for this year so I'm guessing that's enough. If I hadn't I wouldn't have said no to this calendar from Babor containing their beauty ampules.

More products from Babor beautiful displayed in a Christmas three shaped display.

Fontant Contarini Cosmetics is a Italian brand that's new to me. It's only available in beauty salons in Sweden and it sounded like they didn't have a list of salons carrying the brand at the moment. They had a lot of lovely nail polishes.

At Cuccio the display made me long for some coctails

I'm quite sure it wouldn't be a good idea to drink these though

But they where lovely to look at

I haven't tried anything from Cuccio before but I do have some nail polishes that I'm planning to try out soon

More Cuccio

Cuccio Venice Beach

Cuccio Sweet as sugar!

Cuccio Royale. These where definitely my favorit Cuccio collection.

Cuccio Nudetrals for the once that prefer neutrals.

CaféCuccio

Cuccio #best night ever. Ok I really like this sparkly collection too.

Cuccio Neons

Cuccio Pastels

Me and my messy hair do is looking at Cuccio Nail polishes

Beautiful makeup from Palina.

Filorga was also represented at Acadermia. There you could buy these little travel kits that's perfect for travel or just for trying out a new brand. Since it's a bit expensive it can be nice to try out smaller sizes of the products first to see if you like them before buying full size products.

Of course I stopped by CND Nordic. I love CND Vinylux. You could get your nails done there but I didn't. I was wearing CND Vinylux in Glacial Mist from their Aurora collection though. I will of course show you proper swatches of this beauty.

The Press Coffice runned by Daisy Beauty.

Here I and other press and blogger could rest out feet and have a glass of Champagne with the wonderful people from Daisy Beauty that really was making sure we had everything we needed.

A makeup mirror in the Press Coffice. My hubby took this photo. He was saying that I should have one of these. Yes, I have the best husband. Getting dragged around while I'm looking at beauty products probably wouldn't be his first choice on the list of what to do on a Saturday.;-)

They had a Fantasy Nail contest and here they are working on the hand models

Another model getting her nails done

The models had makeup matching their fantasy nails in the making

These photos where taken when they had just gotten started on the nails

LED light nails. Well I'm not sure it's LED but at least it's some kind of light and I think it looks like LED light.

These where one of the more normal looking fantasy nails the other once where much more crazy

Knitting nails. How cool are these?

More fantasy nails

Flower nails. Might be a bit unpractical to where these to the office.

One of the models getting prepared

Judging time. Kicki Norman from Daisy Beauty judging the knitted nails that come to be the winner.

I think the booth that had the longest line yesterday was Jamela

Everyone wanted to look at their golden facial masks. You could try their gold eye masks if you wanted so many where running around with gold masks under their eyes. I didn't try them at Acadermia yesterday but don't worry you'll get see them here on the blog cause I got both the golden facial mask and the golden eye masks with me to try at home.

It was a good thing I had hubby with me to help me carry all of my bags home. And since many of you use to ask me to show you what I get at these thing.... well the next photo are for you.

Here are the products I got to take home with me.