Urban Decay look

I saw Lipglossiping upload pictures and swatches of the new Naked Palette 2 today, and whether you need to buy it if you have the original. Urban Decay posted pics of the palette's brush yesterday on their twitter.And I saw someone on Twitter showing these palettes side by side... I saw many blogs do Naked Palette looks today, and I wanted to use the palette too, since I havent used it in a while. 

Here you can see what eyeshadows I used.

I used Dark horse on the lower lash line. Below the same picture without the markings.

And some more pictures... The pictures do not look that good.. Horrible weather at the moment. Pictures aren't true to color.

Ooooh I can't wait for Sunday!!!

UD Naked-palette - look 3

Look 3

MAC Painterly Paint pot on the lid.

UD Naked palette's Naked on the inner half.

Smog on the outer half.

Darkhorse in the outer corner and crease.

Hustle on the lower lashline.

MAC Blacktrack fluidline and Maybelline's Falsies mascara. IsaDora's eyebrow pencil in light brown.

Urban Decay Naked palette

I GOT IT!!!

I had been eyeing this for a long time. I know I know I'm really late with this palette...

But I got it now!

I did a couple looks already. I put numberes in the picture above. The names of the shadows aren't very clear, so I put the number after the name when I show you the looks.

Look 1: 

Sin (2) on the inner half of the lid. Buck (5) on the outer half.

Sidecar (4) on the middle of the lid. Virgin (1) as a highlight. 

And Hustle (10) on the lower lashline.

MAC Blacktrack fluidline as liner. Maybelline's Falsies as mascara.

Look 2:

Halfbaked (6) on the lid.  Toasted (9) on the outer half.

Hustle (10)  in the crease. Virgin (1) as a highlight.

MAC Blacktrack fluidline and Maybelline Falsies mascara.

The palette came with a brush and a mini UDPP. The mini UDPP is great, I'm still using the regular size one, so I'll open that after that. The brush is a fail. Maybe it would work with concealer???

Which look is your favorite? Do you have this palette? What do you think about it? Did you order this palette when it came out with the eyeliner instead of a brush? Or did you get the brush version? What do you think of the brush?

Yes :D A lot of questions... :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.

GOSH Eyeliner pencils

I don't have many Gosh products. The only things I have are Eyeliner pencils. And my, oh my, they are great! Their staying power is probably a little too much even. :D

And when I say they're too good I really mean it. I have a face wash that I wash my face with everyday. I never had to use a makeup remover to remove my makeup. But I have no choice but to do that with the Gosh pencils. Sometimes you really do need an eyeliner pencil that really sticks.

The eyeliner in these pictures is Pretty Petrol. It says Velvet Touch Eye Liner - Waterproof

Today's eye of the day is nothing too special. A light lid with a medium shimmery brown crease. Blue eyeliner as a special effect. I was in a little bit of a hurry this morning and I only had two exams today and no classes. My quick makeup is always something like this, a neutral eye basically. The eyeliner color just changes. ;)

What's your view on Gosh products?

Holiday look

I didn't leave the house today but I still felt like doing some kind of a makeup look. Aaand I believe I will be wearing this for Christmas and also on New Years Eve. No fake lashes on Christmas though. ;) Here I have them on. I think this is the second time I'm wearing them. It really is difficult at first to get them right on your eyes, the inner corner is laughing a little.. I planned on starting to fix it, but then the whole makeup would've gotten messed up probably, so I just took the pictures... Maybe I'll practice a little before New Years Eve still.. ;)

Really this is a very basic look. I used a medium gray on the entire lid and a medium beige-brownish eye shadow in the crease. All eye shadows are matte, and before I do this look next time I will use a brush that I have just washed before or a brush that I have used for a matte color before.. I don't want any shimmer on this look, like there is now. As a highlight I had a plain light, matte cream color eye shadow.

I used a black liquid eye liner and it is a strong wing shape. I hate taking pictures of my left eye, because it is so much easier to take pictures of my right eye and I feel that the eye makeup always looks way better on my right eye... But I couldn't get a picture of the winged eye liner on my right eye to look as winged as they were.

I used a black eye shadow to set the eye liner and I lined the lower lash line with the same black eye shadow lightly. I put some black mascara on both upper and lower lashes before I put on the fake eye lashes.

Because I did not use strong colors on my eyes I made my lips very colorful. The perfect red lips. I think. You need to find the perfect color lip stick to make your teeth look whiter, I can't use anything orange, coral or baby pink. They don't work with my skintone and also make my teeth seem really yellow. Besides, thinking about using some coral/orange/baby pink lipstick I cringe.. I can't picture myself wearing those colors. Bluish neutrals and bluish pinks/reds are good.

I lined my lips with a red lip liner. If I use a lipstick that is more neutral, I don't always use lip liner and the times that I do use it, I don't fill in the lips with the lip liner, I just make the lines. But with darker lipsticks and lip liners I don't start by making the outlines, I put the lip liner pencil between my lips and start coloring them, and once I get closer to the end of the lips I'm more careful and watch closely where I draw lines..

With darker, reddish lip sticks I pretty much never apply lip stick straight from the lip stick. I use a lip stick brush. I can apply it better, it's more specific, and I don't get too much product on my lips. I find that lip stick stays better when I have used lip liner on my whole lip instead of just creating the outline, and because there isn't that much product, but enough to show the color, the lip stick actually stays better in place.

I also put some red lip gloss lightly on my lips. Wanted some shine, because the red lip stick I have is a very matte lip stick.

What do you think about this? Also, do you prefer the box-like pictures or the randomly cut pictures?

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?

Pictures from the last two days

I had not been able to use my own computer until today and the computer I used for the last few days refused to work together with my camera. Therefore, uploading has been impossible. It sort of still is, since I can't access the internet with my computer. I had to move the pictures to my computer from my camera, then I had to move them with a USB stick to this computer and then cut them apart.

These two looks were what I had one yesterday and the day before. They're quite neutral looks, one a brown shade and the other a more purple one.

I just used a medium brown with a dark brown in the crease and lower lash line. Basic black eye liner and black mascara.

Quick tip! Using an eye shadow base is a very good idea! However, using too much of the eye shadow base is like not using any. It creases if there is too much of it! As you can see in the picture above, I used too much. I bought this eye shadow base a few days ago and I was probably using it for the second or third time.. I now know to use less... :D

In this look I had a gray-brown eye shadow on the lid. Purple and pink in the crease. Again, black eye liner and black mascara.


Stay tuned for Something blue... and a little smoky. :D

Eye of the tiger.. err.. I mean, eye of the day..

Hello everyone!

I walked through one of the buildings on campus around noon and it was packed! This is my fourth year there and I have never, ever seen it that full of people before! I have no idea what was going on. It cannot be just that the restaurant had great food there. They have great food there very often, but today the lines were just unimaginable. Good that it is not the only restaurant we have... I would have starved otherwise.

Today was and still is not a very special day. Actually I was in a little bit of a hurry this morning. That said, today's makeup was nothing too special or lively in color. Basically I had gold, purple and burgundy in a lovely mix. I lined my eyes with a black eye pencil, which I used to line both waterlines as well.

I'm still searching for the perfect mascara. So far the best is Maybelline's Volum' Express in black. It has been my top1 mascara for years now. It makes my lashes look thicker and longer. The mascara I have on today (Lumene Natural Code Volume-Maximizing Mascara) is quite a good second mascara. It does make my lashes look a little thicker, but not as much as the Maybelline one.

What I love about this mascara is that it really separates my lashes. Also I have not managed to get clumps of mascara on my lashes and that's always a positive sign. I'm willing to overlook that with the Maybelline mascara, because it really makes my lashes look thicker, but then I have to use a lash comb to get the clumps out.

I guess what I look for in the perfect mascara is the ability to lengthen, thicken and separate my lashes. I guess I could say I quite like the theatrical look created by false lashes. I, however, am not willing to use false lashes daily, or even every other day.

What is your favorite mascara of all time? Favorite mascara color?

Somewhat neutral, but not.

Hey everyone, I hope you all had a great Halloween!

It is Monday and the beginning of a new week. I had classes today so I decided to do a rather simple look, somewhat neutral but not quite.


I used mostly matte eye shadows. They were semilight grey, medium brown and dark purple, it was more blueish than reddish purple. As a highlight I used a shimmery white. I put the light grey on the whole lid. Medium brown to the outer corner and the whole crease. I intensified the crease and the very, very outmost corner by the dark purple. Remember to blend it all together! I know you can't really see the purple in the picture below, and that is because I did not put much of it and the lighting plays a role here too.. :)


I used a dark grey liquid liner on the top lid and a purple eye liner pencil for my top and lower waterline. I added some dark purple eye shadow to my lower lashline. I hadn't used a pencil liner on my top waterline before so it was quite strange at first. I don't think I got it perfectly, but it was alright. Or what do you think?

How has your Monday been so far?

Hair success and celebration

Until last Saturday I only had had hair dryers. Then I went and bought a hair curler. For long I had been looking at different flat irons and curling irons but I was not sure which one I should get. My first plan was to get a hair curler that opens up as a flat iron when wanted. I could not find one which would not cost too much money and still be of good quality.

I started having second thoughts when I really thought about my hair and how easily it curls or does not curl. My hair is naturally completely straight. If I have had my hair up in a bun for several hours then my hair gets slightly, and only slightly wavy. Honestly, I don't need a flat iron. It would be a waste of money for me to get something that I will never use.

After this realization I started looking at curling irons. To my surprise, or not, I picked one that matches my toaster. It is made by the same brand and dark red just happens to be my favorite color. Plus it was somewhat cheap.

My hair is not thick and after reading the instructions I decided that the lowest temperature would be good for my hair. The two lowest temperatures are for thin and dyed hair. I have not dyed my hair in ages (since 2005), but it is quite thin.

I started curling my hair and all the curls would immediately disappear after I separated my hair from the curling iron. I decided to try the iron some other time and with a higher temperature.

Today was my brother's graduation and I decided to doll up a little, which means that I would actually do something with my hair. I increased the temperature to the middle temperature, (because it has 5 temperatures) which is for normal hair. Still nothing. Well, that's not exactly true. I got the curls. But I had decided to put hair spray on my curled hair after I had curled all of my hair. That was a mistake. Once I was done curling all of my hair all the curls had disappeared, again. So I went to my brother's graduation with straight hair.

Then after the graduation party I came home and decided to try to curl my hair the second time during the same day. I could not give up this easily, but I was utterly frustrated with my hair to begin with and had started to think about a good price that I could ask when I sell this curling iron.

This time I kept the same temperature but right after I had done one curl I sprayed it with hair spray and now I succeeded! I was so excited! I finally got curls in my hair. And now 1.5h later when I am writing this, my hair is still curly!

The curled hair!

I did not try to make it all clean curls or anything. The curls in that picture are not perfect. I only wanted to get my hair curly, without worrying how neat it looks. I will learn that later. My goal for today was to just get my hair to curl!

Because it was my brother's graduation party today, I wanted to do a reasonably clean makeup. That means no crazy colors!

First I put on a primer that I got yesterday. I had not used that primer before and I can say I will buy it again.

Then I put some pearly lemonlike yellow on the lid. Then I used a burgundy color in the outer corner and in the crease.

I love my black cake eye liner. It is the kind you mix with water. After the eyeliner I put black mascara on my top and bottom lashes. I lined my lower lash line with a dark brown eyeshadow, about 2/3 from the outer corner towards the inner corner.

This is one of my everyday makeup looks and because of the burgundy, my green eyes really pop out and the green is enhanced.