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Wet n wild palettes!

I bought two today. They are the palette's with 8 shadows in each.

Comfort Zone and Petal Pusher. After swatching them, I already have a favorite.

I'll show you the swatches of Comfort Zone, which is my favorite of the two.  I'll show the swatches of Petal Pusher in another post. I used the shadows today. I had an exam in the morning (Probability and statistics, blaah), so I only had foundation, eyeliner, eyebrow pencil and mascara. I did the makeup looks on top of those. The looks are also in this post.


First the column on the right. The eyeshadows have some text on them saying where each shadow would go. I did the looks strictly based on those. The definer color (on the left in the swatch picture) is similar to my GDE DinoSpotz, and one color by Inglot that I don't have, but I saw swatches of it here.


The shadows go definer, crease, eyelid and browbone. They are in that order in the swatch picture. 

Then the left column. Again in the same order, definer color on the left, browbone color on the right.


You can click on the pictures to see them in their original size. 

Then the looks. 

Left column look I did on my left eye. I apologize for the pictures (and my eyebrows). I am right handed, and horrible at taking pictures of my left eye... The look I did on my right eye is waaaaaay better. That's the second look in this post.




Here is the look made with the shadows in the right column. 













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Galna Dagar Haul

I went shopping at Galna Dagar, which is a sale in a department store chain here, and the sale runs from Wednesday to Sunday. It still continues for two days, but I went there during the first two days and I'm not going anymore. It's way too packed with people. Galna Dagar is the Swedish name for the sale, it means Crazy Days. As I live in a country where there are two official languages, the sales have two names, one in both languages. 

I bought several things. I'll show them to you. I can do individual posts, reviews of them if you'd like. I haven't tested these yet that much as I got them two days/one day ago.


Bonacure hair therapy oil miracle by Schwartzkopf. Used it once so far.

A set by Estee Lauder. It has an eyemakeup remover (30 ml), a mascara (Double Wear, zero smudge lengthening mascara) and an eyecream (Advanced Night Repair Eye, silly name).


I have used the mascara twice. The packaging of that is horribly 90's, I feel. It's something that a 50-year old woman would have kept in their drawer since the 90's. The eye cream smells like some alcohol. It's very odd. I can't figure out exactly what it smells like. The eye makeup remover works wonderfully!

I'm not a big perfume person. Until now I only had one full size perfume, and I rarely used it. I now found one that I really, really like. It is I love love by Moschino. I love the fresh, clean citrus scent it has. That type of scents are definitely me. 



I also got the Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream starter kit. .It has a 30 ml hand lotion, 15 ml kin treatment (The 8 hour cream), and 15 ml daily moisturizer with SPF 15.



The skin treatment works wonderfully on dry patches. 

On the second day I went there again and then bought the item I really wanted to get. Sensai's refillable liquid eyeliner in black.


I swatched it on my hand, but that didn't turn out well in a picture. So I took a picture of my makeup that I have on right now. I used this eyeliner. You can get the most thinnest line with this! It's amazingly thin if you want a thin line. And it's really precise too, right on the lash line. 


Urban Decay's Naked -palette. Virgin, Sin, Naked, and Smog.

Then I bought Aussie's 3 Minute Miracle hair treatment. I used it today. I still have the scent in my hair. That never happens. Normal shampoo/hair conditioner scents do not stay in my hair at all. This does. And so did the Sunsilk hair mask that I used last week. Now my hair is ridiculously silky and smooth... I might have to start using hair masks more often. ;)


Like I said, I have used this only once. In the shower. Of course. But I didn't expect this to happen...



My hair looks like this now. It is dry, and annoyingly some hair has broken, so that there are those little hairs sticking up all the way. You can click on the pictures if you want to see what I mean. I don't really know how to explain it.


I rarely use heat on my hair. I probably use a blow drier once a month, if even that often, and then I do use a heat protectant. I do not straighten my hair.. I mean what's the point if my hair is already that straight and I have only combed through it to take pictures? Maybe straightening could help the too-short hair that are clearly visible in the picture on the right. I don't own a straightener, but I have been interested in one. I just don't know if I'd actually use it. What do you think?



Have you tried any of these products?

A little haulin'

Items I got are:

China Glaze First Mate that I also have on my nails.




China Glaze Papaya Punch




Garnier Skin Naturals Caffeine Anti-dark Circles, 2-in-1 Tinted Eye Roll-On in 02 Fair. The other shade options was Very Fair. 


I considered about getting the one for very fair skin, as I am ridiculously pale normally. My foundations are a little darker though, they match my body, not the skin on my face so I thought I'd take the Fair one. I'm sure there isn't much of a difference between the two anyways... 

Then I got Seche Vite top coat, as I dropped my previous bottle on the floor...


Then I bought a brush cleaner from Kicks. I'm satisfied with this brush cleaner. I like that it has a spraythingy. Make Up Store doesn't have that. And they only had one bottle in Kicks so I couldn't buy that. 
 


I have ordered some stuff from UK and USA and they've already shipped the items for me so I'll write more about those some other time..

Stay tuned! 


Maybelline Haul

I have always loved Maybelline's Volum' Express mascara. It's been perfect. Lately I have been trying out other mascaras. 

And I will continue that. 

Maybelline mascaras cost about 12-14 euros (17-20 USD), which is about the minimum price for a mascara. Yes, it really is.. At work, today we had a sale, a mascara was 10 euros. And since I work there, I got 15% off from the sale price. I paid 8.50€ (12 USD) for each mascara. And I'm gonna try them all. 


I had tried One By One already, I'm using it currently. I bought the two on the left. Falsies Volum' Express in Black Drama, and then the Colossal in Cat Eyes. I don't know what the special names are for...

I might have to buy more tomorrow.. basic Volum Express maybe.



Do you like these? What is your favorite mascara of all time?

Rhodes Haul

I didn't shop much while in Rhodes. I just didn't feel like it. I wanted to spend time with my boyfriend, and not have him wait while I shop for makeup.

We did stop at Sephora once we saw it on the second last day. 

They did have a sale. This nice sales person explained it to me, mostly by showing and signing, her English wasn't very good, but she did make a sale and bought the products she pointed at. :) I love it when you don't know each other's language and still can communicate and get your point across. :D


What I got was... Basically pay for 2, get an extra one. And then I bought a perfume as well.  I had had Vanilla Creme Brulee, but it was sold out now. That one is fabulous. No wonder it was sold out!


Scented Spray in blacberry red currant.

Lemon Meringue body lotion - Heavenly smell!!! Sooo delicious.


Blacberry Red Currant body wash. Very, very nice.


Strawberry rasberry body scrub. Probably the most authentic smell!

What I don't like about the lotion and wash is that they're very, very watery. The product slips through your fingers and out from the bottle even if you don't squeeze it at all, but just have the lid open and have the bottle downwards. The product is way, way too runny in both lotion and wash. 

Nail polish haul and review. Fruity smelling polishes.

I bought a few nailpolishes a while ago...

I got Rimmel London's new fruity smelling nailpolishes. I only found two of the four polishes - Apricot Punch and Cranberry Zest.



The nailpolish smells like nailpolish when it's wet, but when it's dry it's a very fruity scent. It's quite strong actually. On the first day it gave me a little headache, but the next day it was better, smelled less strongly. 

The two colors I have smell different, but not by much. I put one color in one hand and the other in my other hand, except I switched the polishes around for my ring fingers.

I don't like Apricot Punch, the peach one. It doesn't look good for my skin tone. I'm too pale. Cranberry Zest is way better. and it smells nice, though they smell very similar.

Under the color polishes I put this, which is also a new addition to my nailpolish collection. Until now, I've just put a layer of topcoat under a color polish, but now I purchased an actual base coat polish. It's "double duty", it is a base coat and strengthens and protects nails supposedly.


I bought a top coat to go with it. Also by Rimmel London. It's an ultra shine top coat. So far, I haven't thought of it to be more shiny than any other top coat... I've used this a lot after I bought it, but not on top of the fruit smelling nail polishes at all.


On another trip I bought two Models Own polishes, but I can't find the better, the gorgeous blue one. I think I must have forgotten it at my boyfriend's place, cause I had it there with me. 

Anyways, this green, Jade Stone, is gorgeous, but looks horrible on me! :(




Have you tried these? What do you think of them?

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.