My MUA Haul and Swatches!

Hello everyone,

Last week we celebrated Karneval at work. Everyone came dressed up and I showed up as Katy Perry. I only had to buy the wig and the shirt as I already owned the Petticoat and the little cake fascinator. The picture was taken by John at about 7 in the morning right before I left for work :-)

The very same day I received my MUA delivery! I took full advantage of the 50% off they had and got a lot of eye stuff and a little bit of nail polish and lip stuff to try. Let me tell you: Next time I gonna order some more lip stuff. As it was only 2 British Pound per Palette (after discount) I got every palette that matches my eyes :-) There are maybe 2 palettes that I do not own now and 1 that just came out (Undress me too - that is the name of the palette, not an order I am giving you at the moment;-) Here is what I got in total...

Row 1: Palettes: Glitter Ball, Glamour Days, Poptastic, Heaven and Earth, Glamour Days

Row 2: Extreme Metallics: ALL of them :-)

Row 3: U & I, I WANT YOU, I <3 amaretto="" bright="" coral="" crush="" div="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Row 4: Eyeliner Shade 1-6

Row 5: Lipstick Shade 7, Love Hearts Hot Lips Lip Balm, Shade 13

Time for Swatches!

Row 1 - The Palettes:

Glitterball Palette

Glamour Days Palette

Poptastic Palette

Heaven and Earth Palette

Glamour Nights Palette

Row 2 - Extreme Metallics Quads:

Glammed up

Smokin

Starstruck

Celebrity

Show Stopper

Row 3 - Nail Polish:

Here I need your patience because I can´t just go swatch them on my arm ;-) So this is why I only show you Amaretto Crush as of now. The colour is amazin. I just needed two layers to get his result, but the brush is too hard for my taste. It was not very easy to apply is easily because the bristles were so thick they were scratching off colour. Apart from this is was perfect. More photos of the other colors will follow.

I have a crush on "Amaretto Crush"

Row 4 - Eyeliners

Shade 1 - 6

Row 5 - Lip Products

Lipstick Shade 7, Shade 13 & Hot Lips

Everything applied without primers and stuff. 

What do I think of it? Well, I love the Palettes (the matte colours could be stronger, but I am not a Matte person anyway, so I don´t cryabout it), I LOVE the Extreme Metallics even more because they are even more intense, the nail polish color is great but theire brushes could be improved (too hard and thick bristles so they scratch the first layer off a bit when you apply the second one), The eyeliners are mostly good (I often need two layers, but once it´s dry it stays and stays! No worries about touching your eyes by accident), the lip stuff is devine. I love the smell (somewhat cocoa/vanilla/cocnut-ty. Not very extreme, but subtle. I do not like the smell most lipsticks from other brands have which is why I just orderd those 3 products to try. I will order more MUA lip products now that I know they do´t have this lipstick smell that I can´t stand.)

Now I roll back to my sofa because the irony is... I took the week off and now I am sick. And now that I start to recover it is John who really got it hard. So I take care of his flu now and try hard to stay well.....

It´s all a fake dear. Eyeliner and lip transfers

 Hello everyone,

no shooting this weekend so I played with some make up novelties instead :-)

On the right you see a lip transfer, on the left eye sticker transfers. So what are those and what do they do?

Do you know those faux tattoos that little kids stick on? They are printed on paper, you stick it to your skin, wet them a little, pull off the paper and BAZINGA you have a fake tattoo. This is the same system and I played with it.

The eyeliner transfer worked way better on one eye that the other. Overall it is not quicker than to just apply eyeliner. You first need to cut the eyeliner out (I chose the one at the bottom, so you get an idea). There was a visible gasp between lashes and eyeliner but that could be cause Iam all thumbs.

I fixed the eyeliner gasp and the uneven eyeliner wing with some liquid eye liner. So I can spare you the illusion it is less effort to stick it on. It is not. And by the time I was done the eyeliner on the left eye CRACKED. Darn. Meanwhile I applied the lip transfer as well. You have to cut it to fit your lips. I have tiny lips. Kind people say it´s bee stung lips or doll lips. Not so kind people say "Damn are your lips thin". Went on ok, not perfect. But with some practice it could work better. However your lips feel like they are very dry and I didn´t dare putting gloss on top because I was scared it would kill the transfer. So now let´s go and see whether it lasts...

I went to the super market, did my sports program on the Xbox and than I took a shower. 

After doing my sports program. 

After I took my shower

After sports program

After shower

Conclusion: No, this won´t solve all your eyeliner problems. Your eyelinerwings won´t be more symetric than usual, you probably have to do fix up with liquid eyeliner, it might crack, but it LASTS. If you intend to face a Tsunami your eyeliner will stay and stay and stay (apart from the crack). Same goes for your lips. That one did not crack at all though. Apart from your lips feeling dry you can drink with it, kiss, smile and it stays on forever. The only real problem........ How do I get it OFF completely now???

Eyeliner Love

Hi everyone,

we all LOVE eyeliner. At least I guess my blog readers do and if not you may get to like it after this post :-D

Ever since egyptian women started to apply khol around their eyes women have been working hard to perfect their eyeliner-skills. Sometimes it is a daily struggle, just to keep the wings shaped symetrical and to get the line in the same thickness and a few milimeters can totally change the look. Sometimes we feel naked without it. Sometimes OTHERS consider us naked without it (Last year I had a shooting and did not put on eyeliner. I thouht it would be nice to have a photo without it for a change. The photographer looked at me and said "please put on the eyeliner. You are not yourself without it."). However after applying eyeliner for 6 years in a row I started to get bored with it - and started to dig for creative eyeliner ideas! Here I share them with you!

Dita - Undoubtly the queen of eyeliner!

New Look and excessive use of eyeliner. Dior is a fab clothing and make up inspiration every year!

Rules about eyeliner? There ARE no rules! And there´s never something as too much eyeliner as long as it goes well with the rest of the make up!

DARE TO PLAY WITH IT!