Nails of the day 28/09/11

I purchased a nail polish from the China Glaze Metro collection. I don’t really think that it is a fabulous collection, nothing THAT special, but still very nice autumnal colours. My first choice was Westside Warrior, which is a very beautiful creamy olive green. I also liked Midtown Magic ( a really dark, almost black purple with golden and bronze glitter) and Concrete Catwalk (dark, a bit bluish grey).

And here is Westside Warrior, just to survive the urban jungle.

Excuse the shadow…

I used China Glaze First&Last as base and top coat.

And that’s it for today, stay tuned for more deliciousness tomorrow (I hope I have enough time).

With love,

Janne.

First e.l.f Haul

So I received my first e.l.f haul before September and without further ado I present to you the products.

e.l.f Studio Blush in Berry

I use this basically every day. It’s quite long-lasting and has some shimmer in it, which I don’t really like.

e.l.f Natural Radiance Blusher in Coy

I don’t really like it because it is so sheer that it’s basically a pink shimmer. Might work for some, but I like my blush to have more pigmentation.

e.l.f Natural Radiance Blusher in Glow

Same thing with this one, except this is an orange shimmer.

e.l.f Studio Cream Eyeliner in Black

I’m not in love with this one either, the colour starts to bleed a bit for me and is definitely not waterproof or long-lasting. Brush can be worked with, but is not very precise.

e.l.f Eye Brights eye shadow quad in Luxe

The colours are swatched upon a primer and are pretty good, the lightest shade is the most problematic in terms of pigmentation. The shadow is just so tightly pressed and solid, I had a lot of problem getting any colour on my finger, basically I just scraped the product from the palette. And the design of the palette is just ridiculous, I mean tiny triangles????? Stupid.

e.l.f nail polish in Desert Haze and Light Red

So I should really warn those people, who have not ordered e.l.f nail polishes online. The pictures shown on the homepage are NOTHING like in real life. Light Red seemed like a white based reddish coral from their online shop and as you can see, it’s nothing like the product I was expecting. So definitely google swatches, there are loads of swatches from every colour they offer.

Now for the actual product- they wear quite well, I love Desert Haze on my toes and it would be great to do newspaper manicure with it. And Light Red is just a red, as if I didn’t had one like that before so I was really disappointed in their homepage swatches.

e.l.f Studio Flat Top Powder Brush

Now the brush is quite decent, synthetic bristles, very dense and at least mine hasn’t shed a hair.

And I made a look using the quad, I didn’t incorporate the red one because I think it would have been ‘too much’. I have another way for using the red one and I’m sure I will show it to you some day.

And people, who don’t know it, the brown spot on my nose is a mole not a black booger.

Hope you liked it.

With love,

Janne.

Review: Maybelline The Colossal Volum' Express Cat Eyes mascara

I have been using this mascara for about three weeks now and I decided that it’s time to be useful.

                                                  leopard print, wowowowo

Let’s get one thing straight. This is now officially one of my favourite mascaras.. despite the fact that they don’t make it in waterproof (why oh why?). And that says a lot.
It’s a beautiful black mascara, the formula is quite wet (not too much) therefore it’s quite easy to apply. The wand is curved and soft so it doesn’t poke your eyes. And not too big. It lengthens, holds the curl, adds volume. Purrrrfect.

Now as you can see, the end of the brush is a bit smaller so you can easily catch outer corner lashes with that and create the “cat eyes” look.
The brush is similar to The Falsies, but smaller. I usually start with the other side of the wand (not the rounded one) to catch the roots and give a nice base to start building the length with the rounded side.

At first, I was a bit sceptical since I didn’t like The Falsies at all, because it made my lashes glumpy and the wand made everything so messy which annoyed me like hell. But I have now realised that Cat Eyes is SO much better.

                    two coats, no curling                                                   one coat, no curling

Now the only downside is that.. IT FLAKES. I mean like, WHY would you do something like this to me? Why?! A great mascara and I have to constantly check if I’m not starting to resemble to a panda. arghhh

                after about six hours

All in all, it’s a great mascara and I just have to suck it up and ignore the flaking.

Also I really-really want to start blogging again and this time properly. Oh, Andra, do not give promises you cannot keep. But we’ll see.

With all the best,
Andra

Guess who’s back, back again…

It’s meeee! And I have a new super-trooper camera called Fujifilm Finepix F500EXR. Loaded with 16 Mpx and a mega high quality video, I am ready to return to blogging.

So I have a LOT to catch up and there are is a lot of wonderful-thunderful-out-of-this-world-amazingness happening in my life right now so I have plenty to blog about so keep us in mind. I thought about making a blogsale or something like that a while ago, so I’m starting to arrange that as well and just be ready for it.

So the above picture is pretty much how the videos are going to look like concerning lighting and placement and stuff.

Yaaaaaay!

Yours truly,

Janne.

Review: theBalm timeBalm anti-wrinkle concealer

 

Firstly, I purchased this product because Karen from Makeup and Beauty Blog had raved about this. I mean, I have pretty darn vicious dark circles under my eyes and when I saw it being her Holy Grail concealer I was sold.

But alas! the concealer failed to stay put. So after having fiddled with it for weeks I discovered how to make it last by a lucky accident.

Click read more to read the full review and some blabbering.