Manhattan New York Royalz Limited Edition Swatches

Hello everyone,

is it obvious that Iam sick and have to stay in bed today? :-) Besides the new Alverde Eye Shadows I snapped the Professional Smokey Eyes Kit in Gorgeous Night Blue by Manhattan New York Royalz Limited Edition and swatched it. Still no Make up pics - those will follow in the coming days.

ist es offensichtlich das ich krank bin und jetzt im Bett bleiben muss? :-) Ausser den neues Alverde Ldschatten habe ich mir heute auch das Professional Smokey Eyes Kit in Gorgeous Night Blue aus der Manhattan New York Royalz Limited Edition gekrallt und geswatched, Noch keine Make up Bilder, die kommen in den nächsten Tagen...

Kit...

With light (no base)

Mit Licht (ohne Base)

Without Light (no base)

Ohne Licht (keine Base)

The white one doesn´t thrill me, but maybe it will look more visible with an eye base, the other colours look fantastic. The matte turqouise really pops, the dark blue is a little greyish with a little shine and the grey... well, is a shiny grey :-) Can´t wait to try!

Der weisse haut mich nicht vom Hocker, aber vielleicht sieht er mit einer Eye Base nach mehr aus, das matte Türkis knallt richtig rein, das Blau geht ein bisschen ins graue und schimmert ein wenig und das Grau ist... Grau und schimmert schön :-) Kann es kaum erwarten die Farben zu testen!

Yummy weekend

Hi everyone,

not much going on this weekend. I had to work this Saturday and afterwards met s

ome of my lady workmates to watch a movie However I have yummy photos for you...

Cakes from McDonalds. They look so yummy! Unfortunately they were a bit too sweet for my taste.

I got a new delivery of Ponyhuetchen.com products! "Queen of hearts" bathing pralines, "Kissy Suzuki" showerbutter (I had it before. It is delicious! Smells wonderfull and it is indeed buttery and fab. A total favourite.) and the milk soap "Spicy Plum" Soap with plum, walnut oil, cacao, plum and cinnemon. I hear there will be some special products for X-Mas, so I guess another order is due soon!

A X-Mas special that I already have is the "Sugar Plum Fairy" Body scrub by Lush. I already tried it and it is fantastic! It makes a very smooth skin and smells delicious. I´m just afraid that I will use it up very quick!

I think I have a total tendency toward things that smell like plum for winter :-) What a joy it will be to use it all and brighten my mood in those cold and dark days!

Beauty, Fräuleinwunder and finally vacatio

I´m very glad to announce that there´ll be a little review that I wrote in the next edition of Fräuleinwunder Magazine. Last year I went to the publishing party (I wrote about it in my blog) and absolutely loved both the party and the magazine. It has grown a lot since and is available in many scene-stores world-wide. It ALLWAYS has tons of interesting content targeted on us Retro Girls. Honestly I haven´t come across another magazine that so wonderfully covers my girlie needs and where I don´t skip any page.


Nathalie aka Sweetness, one of it´s founders, orginally asked me to write something on how to hula hoop. However this is a hard thing to do in words. As I was just on and about to look for something sporty to do THAT IS ACTUALLY FUN for a lazy pin up girl like me I wrote something comparing the different retro ways of exercising. Namely Burlesque Cardio, Hula hooping and Rope Jumping. To which conclusions I came? Buy the next edition of the magazine and read it ;-) I´ll make sure to let you know when it´s released and give you a list of where to get it in a store near you!


Beauty News:
John hates make up. He really does. All boyfriends hate make up. At least they allways kept telling me "Why don´t you leave that stuff alone?" Why? Cause I feel prettier when my skin looks purrrrrfectly even ;-) Unbeknownst to him I have started to use up the tiny bit of "Some kinda georgous" in my justine case kit by Benefit. At first I wasn´t too sure as it is a rather sheer "foundation faker" but I´m very happy with the result and john HAS NOT complained about my make up in the past two weeks. Another cool thing about it is that it looks natural. My problem is that my skin is pale but with an olive-ish tone while about all pale foundations have rosy undertones which mostly doesn´t work out for me. That one does.

Too Faced Plastic Fantastic Kit on the long run test: I wrote some weeks earlier that I got the plastic fantastic kit by Too Faced. As I told before I totally love the lip plumper (cause it works fab and smells like Red Bull) but how do the other products work now that I have tried them a while? I find that the wrinkle filler mixed up with a dab of the cream I use for my eyes and a tiny bit of concealer looks really fab. I like it better than Benefits Olalift which didn´t really give very much result. The mascara however is ok, but not ground-breaking. I use it with a cheap mascara base from the drugstore and the result is ok. However no false eye-lash effect and I got to put up several layers of it. It´s not bad, but not the best one I ever had either. So if you find the kit for a not too high price buy it. Plus the packaging is so beautifully disturbing. When I first stumbled over it in a Swedish Mall I was like "What the??? Is that really a kit for botox injections???" till I took a closer look ;-) It´s one of the few packagings that I have actually kept though I took out the products.

I have ordered two new things which is for one thing a palette of 28 Blushes (a model can never have too many ones of that and neither can a non-model cause it is too much fun to play with new stuff and colours. As it is all in one place you don´t have to search for all of them all the time) and the eye-shadow kit for blue eyes by Candy Pop (or was it Pop Candy??? No matter how, there was Candy and Pop involved!). I hope that one works cause strictly speaking my eyes are rather blue-grey. And in some photos even greenish-blue (which could be a good excuse to buy the set for green yes if I like the one for blue ones;-)

I have 3 weeks of vacation now!!! 3 weeks of sleeping as long as I can. 3 weeks of having more time to work creative and doing fun things! I hope it will all work out nicely :-)

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!