Decades of Glamour

Hi everyone!

A few weeks ago I said I´d get back to you about the Too Faced Decades of Glamour box and now I do ;-)

I really like it for my daily make up actually. The blushes are really nice and the shimmer powder has not too much shimmer and yet gives you a nice glow. You´d have too use tons of it for shootings though and there is a tad too much glitter in the pink blush so you have to be carefull if you want to use those for a photoshooting make up. The eye-shadows are really nice, not all are pigmented enough for a photo-use but good for daily wear. I don´t wear lip-gloss a lot (on the weekends I love to wear my red lipsticks and on work-days my lip plumper) but I rather like the ones in the box. And as I actually hardly ever use lipgloss they will last for the next 10 years ;-) I consider to buy one of the boxes for my Mom as she allways complainsthat I have so much nice make up stuff and she hardly any. Might makes a nice birthday present.

Today I´ll go to a ex-work-mates BBQ. I worked together with her two years ago and every year we meet up again for a little grilling in the garden. :-)I hope the weather stays nice!

Besides that I prepare for a shooting tommorow were we will be house-wifes. So I got o pack a lot of my retro-items :-) I don´t know what to do with my hair and make up yet, but as it won´t be untill 3pm tommorow I´m sure I have time to come up with something :-) I´ll take along my camera and see if we film a bit :-)

let´s make up

During my vacation I bought some new products (I allways look through cosmetics in other countries to discover cool new stuff) and almost immediately met an "old friend". Pop Beauty. As it was in the sale I got me the Golden Sparkle Sauce and the dust deluxe in baby blue.



The Dust Deluxe I love and it was a shame they didn´t have any more colours left in the sale. It´s like 22 Dollars online, but I got it for 4 Euros ;-)

The Golden sparkle sauce is supposed to keep your eye make up in place.

Negativ: If I use it as a base the eye make up will start to flake during the day. Also my eyes start to stick. What do I mean by it? Imagine you put a stick of glue on your eye-lids. You get the idea... Not a pleasant feeling. 
If at least if would give an amazing and lasting result that would be fab, however during the day I fond that my eye-shadow didn´t crease but flake!!! when I use it as a base and my usual eyeliner started to get all over my eyes for a not so fabulous Panda-look.

Positive: When I mix the sparkle sauce with my eye-shadow it really gives a lasting colour and a lasting fab eye-liner that I can apply with my brushes - your eye-shadow becomes hard as stone though and gets almost impossible to use without the sauce from than - which is a very very negative side effect.

I´ll experiment some more to see wether I get better result with other techniques.

After my so-so experiences with Pop Beauty a local brand caught my attention: viva la diva. http://www.vivaladiva.se 

I got a concealer stick, the tropical temptation eye-shadow palette which looks not so smooth in the box ( I was in doubt wether to get it, however once you apply it it is a dream so I have no regrets), a turqouise eye shadow with golden shimmer (that isn´t obvious unless you try it on your skin) and another palette in a lace design with a variation of colours. I LOVE IT ALL.

And I start to regret I didn´t get more of it as it wasn´t that expensive (the palettes about 8 - 13 Euros, the single shadow 5 Euros and the concealer stick about 5 Euros, too). I might mail them and ask them about shipping to Germany. I don´t have much hope though. (In one of my videos you´ll spot me wearing blue eyeline - that is one of the colours from Viva La Diva combined with Golden Sparkle Sauce). I think the Viva la Diva stuff is actually something I can use for shootings without problems.

I have a real greed for make up right now. Why I do not know, probably cause I suscribed to natneagles video tuturials on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/natneagle) or so, so I had another kit waiting home just when I got back. The Too Faced Decade of Glamour kit. I love how it looks like a Barbie-wardrobe and as I have fallen in love with the Too Faced lip plumper anyway and there is one included I decided to give it a try. I will write a review once I have tried more of the various stuff coming with it to tell you if it is a bargain or not.

Too faced

So I finally decided to try "Too Faced". To be exact their "plastic fantastic" set (wrinkle filler, lip plumper and mascara).

While I couldn´t really try the wrinkle filler and the mascara yet (ok, I put off half of my make up to try, but off course it probably works better when you do it in the morning with a fresh-cleaned face and all so that try doesn´t count really) but the lip-plumper really worked out. It smells like Red Bull, too which I like. When I was a child my Mom had a boyfriend from Austria that smuggled Red Bull to Germany whenever he came back from there. I think Red Bull wasn´t legal in Germany back than or something (hey, I was like 10 so 'I don´t remember exactly), but I was allways allowed to drink one of the tins.)

My pout really improved in my oppinion, though it felt weird in the beginning. I´ll look out for more stuff to try on ebay or so. I´m curious to really really try the wrinkle filler and mascara tommorow and see if it is effective. At the moment I use Benefits "Olalalift" for the eyes, but I try to find something that works harder on those lines and eye-rings. I really look horrid when I get up at 4:15 in the morning - believe me. I use some cheapo eye-pads in the evening with Aloe Vera that I quiet like, but come on - it can get even better han that ;-)

At the moment I wait for my train-ticket for Thursday. I really start getting nervous as it is only 2 more days!!! Already sended a mail to the customer support asking them to check wether they sended it out already.

2,5 more weeks to go until I have vacation! 4 more weeks to go till IAm in Sweden!