Recent Purchases

I thought I'd finally share with you ladies some of my recent purchases, including my Black Friday purchases. Nothing too exciting, mostly items for work, but I love sharing what I've been buying and deals that are out there.

Old Navy Chambray Shirt
I saw this shirt a month or so ago and didn't buy it and kicked myself in the butt ever since! I saw it Black Friday, but they were all out of my size, then when I looked in the men's section to find something for Matthew I found a Medium tucked into the middle or a rack. I literally jumped for joy! 

Old Navy Glitter Belt (unable to find online)
Here is another find I saw and didn't buy, luckily I got it for $7.99!
 

Ny and Co Plaid Ankle Pants

I just wore these last week with a hot pink crew neck sweater and forgot to take a pic for you guys! I'll have to just wear it again so I can share.

NY and Co Skinny Slacks 
I'm seriously so in love with both of my new pants, they're so comfortable and fit great.

Bath and Body Works Lipgloss in Vanilla Mint

MAC Lipglass in Florabundance

Another perfect nude color, but with a warmed pink tint. My new fave MAC Lipglass.

What have you been buying? Besides Christmas gifts! I have such a hard time not buying for myself around the holidays. All the sparkly clothing, the gift sets, I had to pry my hands off the MAC holiday sets.

Recreation: MAC Pink Freeze

I had a look at MAC's facecharts... I wanted to recreate a look from there.

My version:

This is the original:

If you click on the face chart picture, it takes you to the website where I search for these..

I used:

2 Inglot shadows (both greens)

NYX jumbo eyeshadow pencil Milk 

matte white eyeshadow by Grimas

glittery white eyeshadow by Lumene Natural Code

GDE MIngles

MAC Blacktrack fluidline

Estee Lauder lengthening, smudge-proof mascara

Max Factor Masterpiece mascara

First I applied NYX eyeshadow pencil, Milk. I took the lighter green Inglot shadow with Sigma's E35, a tapered blending brush and applied the green to the crease and a little on the brow bone. I took a matte white by Grimas and applied that all over my lid.

I took some darker green with the same E35 and applied that on top of the lighter green, but just to the crease.

I took a glittery white shadow by Lumene natural code from the punk palette and applied that with an E25 by Sigma. I used the E25 for the matte white as well.

I took a flat eyeshadow brush and took GDE MIngles, a matte blue and applied that a little on my crease and lower, but so that it doesn't cover the white on the lid completely. 

I used MAC's Blacktrack fluidline to line my eyes. I took some matte black by Grimas and applied that on my lower lashline. Apparently the eyeliner brush (Sigma's E05) slipped a little because there's a very thin line that shouldn't be there. :D

I put Estee Lauder's lengthening, smudge-proof mascara. Then I added Max Factor's Masterpiece.

How does it look?! Would you like to see more of these?

PS. there's a poll on the right in case you haven't seen it yet.


Also, this is my 200th post!!!Okay it wasn't. I have some drafts, and the total is 200... :D Bummer

My favorite, most flattering look.

I feel like this is my favorite look. In real life, this looks really flatterin on me, my eyes are it. Really nice looking, this is very easy to over-do and make it look horrible. But with the right shades this makes eyes look wonderful. I have darkish green eyes, with a little blue (and yellow). Contacts enhance the blue-ness a little, without contacts my eyes are more green-yellow.

I used GDE's Infectious on the lid. I softened the inner corner with NYX's beige from the trio Rock'n'Roll. I also used that to blend in the crease. I used MAC's Satin taupe in the crease and outer corner. Also under my lower lash line I put Infectious and Satin Taupe. 

Same picture without the text of products used. 

MAC's Satin taupe is probably my best MAC purchase. Probably the best, most versatile eyeshadow that I own. I use it in the crease just with MAC's Bare Study paint pot on the lid. Wonderful and simple.

Also, can I just say I love my eyebrows? I love, love, love them. Fine, they need a little cleaning up, but the shape in general is just awesome. :D

Greens

I did this look in the beginning of February, but only now posting it. I hadn't uploaded the pictures from my camera onto my computer for a long time.

It definitely needs black eyeliner. Definitely.

I used NYX's eyeshadow primer first. Then Make Up Store's Leaf. I applied that on the whole lid.

I placed Artdeco's Eye Designer in 52 Green Jewel which I forgot to add in the picture, to the crease, outer corner and upper lash line.

To add depth I added MAC's Plumage to the outer corner and a little up the crease.

Do you like it? 

PS. Found a new fantastic black eye liner! More on that later...

MAC Paint Pots and stuff

Hey everyone! How's it going? Good? Hope so!

This look came out of nowhere!

I put MAC's Bare Study Paint pot on the whole lid and nearly up to my brow. Then I put Delft like the picture below shows... I put paint pots 98% of the time with my fingers, I feel like blending them is easier then. Paint Pots 'dry' on your skin quite fast so if you want to get the blending done you need to work fast. Otherwise you'll have to blend it dry, and it gets patchy, like in the picture by the arrow. Click picture to get a better look.

This picture has only Bare Study and Delft. I put Delft in layers. (Actually I think these paint pots look quite good on their own... eyeshadows might not be absolutely necessary...)

I put some frosty beige eyeshadow to where I had put Bare Study.

The mossy green frost eyeshadow to where Delft was placed.

I put some MAC Plumage to the outer corner. And the lower lash line.

I used the Coastal Scents IB113 Taklon Liner brush with the black Makeup Store gel eye liner. Added Grimas matte black shadow on the gel liner. And some black mascara...

I need to do a "how I do my eyeliner"-post because after looking at numerous youtube videos and reading blogposts about it, I consider myself a weirdo cause I don't use the same technique that the majority of them seem to use.

Well..? :D

New MAC eyeshadows

On my recent trip to England I only had time to buy two new eyeshadows. MAC Satin Taupe and Plumage.

Here is a very basic look with the two. Plumage is a little teal colored matte shadow. Satin Taupe is what it sounds like. :P It's a frost finish.

Some random yellows from the 88 warm palette to the inner corner.

Satin Taupe to the lid.
Plumage to the crease and lower lash line.

How black & purple appear green & purple.

A look.

MAC Delft paint pot on the lid. Grimas matte black, about 5mm up from the lash line, kind of a liner. Shimmery black gray by NYX (trio eyeshadow palette Rock & Roll) about 5mm above the matte black.

Shaded Orchid by Glamour Doll to the crease, outer corner and lower lashline.

MUS black gel eyeliner. Black mascara. Shimmery golden beige as a highlight.

PS. Really, NO green shadows used at all. Delft paint pot by Mac brings the green.

Hope you like it! I'm lovin' it.

MAC face charts in real life - 1st recreation

See, a while ago I stumbled upon a makeup blog, where I found a link to MAC face charts.

Well, what do you know, I decided to pick one face chart and recreate that look as well as possible to my blog. I only have two MAC products, one being a paint pot (Delft) and one an eyeshadow (Cranberry) so I had to use other products.

I used an intense blue by Glamour Doll Eyes called MIngles. I have other blues but they weren't intense enough.

On the lid and as a highlight I used a shimmery warm golden beige.

And then some black mascara on the upper and lower lashes.

( MAC face chart picture )

This looks is the 36th look on the first page, if I counted correctly.

Soonish I'll be writing a blogpost about something that I found from Fashioned in Finland's blog recently. More on that later. I'm testing it out right this second. Well, I started last night, but I'll be testing it for a couple days still cause I want to see if it really is as good as it seems right now.

Well? Should I do these more often?

Tutorial - Woody green

Hey everyone!

I bought a couple things yesterday and I'm using one of them in todays look/tutorial.

I'll do a separate haul post later when I get the stuff I ordered yesterday and today, from the US, which will probably be sometime closer to New years, definately not before Christmas, if I get either one before Christmas I will be so surprised. :D Though I doubt it.

This is what I did..

I put some MAC Delft paint pot on my lid first. Quite lightly. Then I used GOSH Eye liner in Woody Green on upper and lower lash line.

I took a moss green eye shadow and patted it on my lid on top of Delft.

I took another, a tiny bit lighter green eye shadow which has a tint of brown in it and used it in my crease.

I took some lemonlike yellow and placed that on the inner corner and connected it with the golden beige highlight color. Those two I used to blend in the green.

And actually here I lined my lower lash line with the same GOSH eye liner. I used a peach eye liner on my waterline.

Black mascara. Hmph. This mascara I haven't even had for that long and it's already making my lashes look like that, especially the lower lashes. :( Not good. Well, I have a lash comb, but still...


I don't know why, but I've really been liking green lately.. I have always liked reds, blues, and yellows a whole lot more than green. I didn't own a single green shirt before this past summer!

Disclaimer: All products bought by me. I have no affiliation with the companies mentioned.

Have you noticed reaching for a color you didn't really like that much before?

One dream came true.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I got one eye shadow yesterday from a brand that I didn't own before. I was soo excited cause my friend texted me on Friday and asked me if I wanted her to bring me something from the store she was in (she was abroad). Of course I said yes, because I cannot get this brand from my home town and I hardly ever go to the cities where they sell this brand. This brand is MAC, Makeup Art Cosmetics.

I know I usually don't name the products I use so that you can come up with your own look with what you have. This time I will tell you, well only one eye shadow I will name, that being the MAC Cranberry I just got yesterday from my friend. :D

I used this color on the whole lid after using some eye shadow primer:

Outer half got some of this eye shadow:

Then to the middle half I put a little of this eye shadow to blend the line of the two eye shadows mentioned above:

And MAC Cranberry to the outer corner, little on the outer part of the lid, and to the crease:

As a highlight and blending the crease to the highlight I used this. It actually should look a little more yellow...

And the final look. Hope you like it!

As you probably can see, I used the very first lid color on the inner third on the lower lid and the Cranberry on the outer 2/3 of the lower lid.

What do you think? Any brands that you are dying to get to use?