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torsdag den 24. januar 2013

Beauty Blender!


So I have heard a lot of hype about the Beauty Blender so I decided to buy it and try it out for myself and I have to say that I really like it. It is so easy to use and if you make a mistake with your blush then you just gently stipple with the Beauty blender over your cheek and it blends in so naturally. 

What I do when I use it is I make sure that it is really soaked and then I squeezes it dry and gently wrap a towel around it making sure I got all of the water out of it so it's only damped, and then I lay it on my make up table as I apply my primer and my eye make up and then I apply my foundation, so when I use the Beauty Blender then its not soaking wet, which it shouldn't be, but it is damped. It is so easy to use you just either pump some foundation on your hand and then stipple it onto your skin or you pump it directly on the beauty blender and stipple it in.

I love the fact that it is damped so it doesn't soak up all of your foundation. I use it every morning because it doesn't make any marks on your face and it just makes a flawless look, which I love. 

I would say if you don't want to spend a lot of money on a foundation brush, then the Beauty Blender is a good choice, because it can also be used to blend out your concealer so its like two in one. 

It is also a lot easier to clean then one of my Sigma brushes so you don't have to spend so much time on cleaning it either which is a big plus and I didn't buy the cleanser that "belongs" to the beauty blender, I just use baby shampoo which works really good. 

I know it might be a lot of money on a sponge, but if you see it on a sale then buy it because it is worth it. I sadly can't compare it to other sponges, but I do plan on trying out some others, and see if I can find a cheaper option to this sponge. 


I hope this helped :) 

torsdag den 17. januar 2013

Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in Place Eyshadow Base

I love making different kind of looks with the make up that I have, and I know that sometimes might looks might be over done, for school, but honestly I don't care because I love playing around with and I want to use the lovely products that I am surrounded with and with the products that I have spend my precious money one buying. 

When you do use eyeshadows and wear them not only at night when you are going out, but also during the day then you want something to make it last longer, and I have been testing out a new primer or at least its new for me. I haven't heard so much about this primer so I thought why not talk about it myself. 

 The primer I am talking about is the Double Wear Stay-in Place Eyeshadow Base From Estée Lauder. This Eyeshadow base is a part of the double wear collection as you can hear on the name. Before I'll tell you what I think about it, I would like to state what Estée Lauder says about the product, they claim that: 

"Keeps your eye color in place with 15-hour staying power and keeps it smooth and crease-free." 

The product is Dermatologist-tested, ophthalmologist-tested and Fragrance free, which I really like. This eyeshadow base cost $16 on their online store. 

When I started using this product then I didn't really knew how to make it work, because it did crease on me, which I of course didn't expect. Then I started to change the things I was doing before I applied it, like not putting any foundation on my eyelids, and things like that, but it still didn't work, BUT then I discovered my mistake...I put way too much on of this product. You only need a really thin layer and when I started using a thin layer then it made my eyeshadow last a lot longer than it did before. 

I have to say that I love the eyeshadow sticks from Gosh which I have used as my eyeshadow base for years, and I also like the Urban Decay primer potion. I can't say that this eyeshadow base is the most amazing one that I have ever tried, but it does make your eyeshadow last, and it is easy to work with as well. 

It will work for all skin types, and it will last you a long time. I will continue to use this primer, but I'm not sure that I will return to it, because there are so many more primers I want to try out there and I love my Color tattoo as eyeshadow bases as well. 

If you need an eyeshadow base in a flesh tone then I would by this one, because it is good, not amazing and wow, but just normally good, and I use it everyday so I do really like it. 



I hope you all have a good day :) 


  

mandag den 5. november 2012

Lady Gaga Perfume: Fame!


The thing was that the Lady Gaga perfume hadn't come out in Denmark when I went to Germany, so I wanted to smell it and as soon as I saw the bottle I ran over and got a sample, but I couldn't really smell it in the store, because it was one mix of perfume, so I bought some other things and then I took the sample with me and then I went around in the mall and smelled this sample and I just fell in love with this perfume. I didn't expect it to smell the way that it does, but I'm using it everyday right now and my mom loves the smell as well. 

I'm already a Lady Gaga fan, but even if I wasn't I would still love this perfume. I love how it smells and how Lady Gaga is showing herself in this product. I got the one with 50 ml (1.7 OZ.) But I know for sure that I will repurchase this perfume, I just love it!

Since I'm not very good at explaining scents then I'll tell you what is written on the back of the box for the perfume.

"Tears of Belladonna, Crushed heart of tiger Orchidea, With a black veil of Incense 
Pulverized Apricot and The combinative essences of Saffron and Honey Drops" 

As I said earlier then I love how Lady Gaga shows herself in this product and below the explaining  of the perfume was a good way to describe the product.

"First of its kind, this perfume is an innovation in the fluid technology its black like the soul of fame, but invisible once airborne. "






This is the box that the perfume came in, which I also really liked since it goes so well with the product that is inside. 
The picture above is the perfume bottle as you can see and I really like also because it is so different from the other perfumes that I have since they are more girly where this perfume almost makes a statement, which is so Lady Gaga! 


If this product doesn't scream Lady Gaga then I don't know what does, if you haven't smelled it yet then go smell it, I'm sure you're going to get a surprise when you smell this product.

I hope you all have a good day :)

torsdag den 30. august 2012

Summer Blush ELF & NARS

E.L.F's Blush In Glow
Peach/ Gold 
Blush is something most of us use so we don't look like zombies when we have created the perfect base with our foundation. Blush is one of the things that you can get in all kind of shapes, forms, consistency and colors. I have a lot of different kind of blushes and I have to say that there a lot more out there that I wish I had just because they look so pretty. 

The other day I  had just put my foundation and was looking through my blushes to see which one I would like to wear. I have had this love hate relationship with the famous Orgasm from NARS, it's like some times I love the finish it gives on my cheek and other times I think it just looks like I blowed glitter all over my cheeks. So I was looking at my NARS blush when I saw that my E.L.F blush in Glow was right next to it. So I decided to take the E.LF one and I just fell in love with it right there when it hit my cheeks. It gave the most beautiful glow on my cheeks. I started using this blush everyday and it gave the same beautiful glow everyday, and then I started to think about my NARS blush that was right next to this one dollar blush. 

I think that they have some kind of similarities, but if you watch Emily Noels dupe blush video then she won't agree and it isn't completely a match, but I do think that they come to have a very look a like finish when you both apply them, just the thing that I like Glow every time I apply it, whereas I'm not always crazy about orgasm. 
NARS Orgams
Peachy/Gold/Pinkish

Orgasm is a really beautiful blush sometimes I just think that there is way too much glitter in it, and it makes me look like a disco ball, which I don't like. Glow is really beautiful when you are a bit tan which means that it perfect for summer. I haven't done a review for neither of these blushes, but I'm sure of that when I have used up Glow from ELF then I will buy it again, where as when it comes to the NARS Orgasm then I'm not sure. Not only is it a lot of money for a blush (that last for a long time, but its still just a blush), but I don't like everytime I apply it. Sometimes I kind of wish I didn't apply it because all that comes of is just glitter. 

But thing is that sometimes you really shouldn't listen to the hype around products, and then on the other hand you should, because when I apply the NARS blush and it looks good then I love, because it also have this amazing glow when it doesn't only look like you applied glitter. All in all then I have to say that the ELF one for me at least gives the best glow, but if you a make upholic, but you don't have a lot of money to spend right now, then look into the ELF blushes because they are really good, and then if you get a bit more money later on and just really want to try the NARS Orgasm then do it, because when it looks good, then it looks damn good. 


Expensive doesn't always mean that it is the best product, that I think is awesome, have a good day :) 

onsdag den 18. juli 2012

Burberry Sheer Eye Shadow

So lately there has been popping a lot Burberry make up, up in the different kind of reviews and youtube videos, which kind of reminded me that I have this little palette from Burberry that I have hidden away and totally forgotten about. I thought that now might be a good time to stop hiding it and make a small review about it. 



 The palette as contains four different colors and it's called Sheer eye Shadow Pearl Grey No. 03. 
These colors are sheer when you apply them, but they are also build able which is lovely because you can use them to create a lot of different looks, some stronger than others. I know that Emilynoel83 has just made a video about metallic neutral shadows and this little palette would have fitted in perfect, because it does have a metallic finish which is really beautiful. 


The shadows are really easy to work with and they have a beautiful soft texture which is just lovely to touch and work with. As you can see in the picture above then it have a sprong applicator with and it also has a nice mirror with it as well.


Then we finally come to the important part of the review the colors it selves. I took a close up of the shadows so you really could see them and their metallic finish.


I'm sorry they aren't as pretty as they used to be, but you can still see the pattern in some of them.


If we start at the left corner with the beautiful creamy pearly white highlighter, it is a really nice highlighter it will pop beautifully in the corner of your eye.


The color next to the creamy white is a pretty rosa color with a golden glitter, except there isn't any  junks of glitter in them so its more a golden metallic finish in it, which is really pretty.


Below the  rosa golden pink is a brown/golden kind of color, which is also very beautiful. 


At last we have this dark brown/copper color which is really pretty on the eyes, you just have to control it so it won't look like you have been crying your eyes out for days, because it has the ability to do the same thing as if you wear to much pink eye shadow and you look like you have been crying for days, so just keep that in mind.


I have created a look with this palette and on one eye I have only a neutral primer under and on the other I have a NYX Jumbo eye pencil in oyster under the eye shadow to make it pop more and I don't know if you can see it but on my right eye is the eye where I'm wearing the NYX jumbo pencil under in Oyster which is a lavender color and on my left eye I'm wearing the neutral primer from Estee Lauder. 






On my right eye the pink pops a bit more than it does on my left eye. You also get to see the metallic finish that these eye shadows has. They look beautiful on the eyes, but then again I would like to bring up emilynoel83 who has a video about metallic neutrals and to find a cheaper alternative then check out her videos because she is amazing.


I have to say that the golden/brown and the cooper/  dark brown reminds too much of each other when you apply them, which is kind of sad, because both of them are so pretty, but when you start to apply them then they blend into each and it feels like you are only wearing of them even though you are wearing both of them. I always think that it is the golden color that disappears, and I haven't found a way to make them work without them looking like the same color. 




I have taken some swatches, but I don't know how good they are, but here you can kind of see that the two dark colors look a lot a like, which they shouldn't, because they don't in the palette and why would you pay for the two same colors.


I don't know if this is something that you just got to have, because it isn't that special then I think that burberry has a lot of other products that are worth trying out, than this one. You can find a lot of colors that looks like these, which is just as good, so I wouldn't waste my money on this one, I would wait until I found something else that had a more WOW effect than this one does. It's good quality, but it's nothing special that you can't find somewhere else.


I wish all of you a good day :)