Winter Candy

Hey everyone,

did you have a snowy weekend as well? (This question is not for the brazilian gals - I know you are enjoying the sunshine :P!!) We were supposed to have a big snowstorm here but it's been all peaceful and quiet with only about 7 cm of snow. Anyway, with all the recent snowfalls I decided to do something wintery. I'm not very convinced by the outcome, but no risk, no fun - right?? The white line and the glitter in the crease are just not right, but at least it's good to know to avoid that in the future... Oh, and please ignore the hot mess a.k.a. my hair!!

Yes, I do wear some of my looks out!

Product List
Face: MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC15, MAC Studio Finish NC15, Pure Luxe You Glow Girl, MAC Pink Flurry
Eyes: MAC Bare Canvas, MAC White, MAC Platinum, hot pink from Zoeva 88 mattes palette, Maybelline Expression kohls in white and black, Manhattan JT in dark blue, Red Cherry Lashes #99, CG Lash Blast Luxe in Black Platinum, essence Moonlight glitters in silver and pink
Lips: Lime Crime Airborne Unicorn, essence Moonlight glitter in pink

Galactic

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Another look done with the Vivid Cosmetics palette: this time I used Stone on the inner lid, Galactic on the outer lid and in the crease, and highlighted the middle of the lid with a bit of Ice. Then I did an upward gradation using Cosmic, Radiate and Starburst. I also added some silver glitter from the NYX Glitterati palette under the inner tearduct:









Product List
MAC Bare Canvas, Vivid Cosmetics Eyeshadow Palette, Manhattan JT in dark blue, Red Cherry lashes #WSP, Maybelline Expression kohl in white, CG Lash Blast

*Note: This palette has been sent to me free of charge.*

New Year's Look

Happy New Year to all of you! I hope everyone had a great night yesterday and got safely into 2010! Here are a few of my New Year's resolutions:

• Lose weight! (around 10 kilos)
• Travel (London trip in march and USA trip in may are already booked, further plans: maybe Ireland in april, a weekend in Paris and Madrid and possibly Indonesia in november!
• Clean out my wardrobe to make room for new stuff
• Write more posts on my Phantom blog
  
• Get a hamster
• Tidy up my place more often
• Devote more time to studying
• Invite friends whom I haven't seen in a while
• Buy less make up and use the stuff I already have instead
  

It's snowing again outside and I'm having a pretty lazy day at home - time to dig out the brushes again :) I haven't felt inspired to do much make up in the last week and have been busy doing other stuff - but then I came across some long-lost Pure Luxe shadows in my old room and decided to give them a try! It's Ecstasy on the lid with Super Liners smoldering and Pin-up in the crease, plus a matte orange colour from the Zoeva palette above the crease.

The eyeliner is actually dark blue - I wanted to buy a black one but grabbed the wrong one in the store :/ I also added some holographic rhinestones to the pattern in the outer corner and a tiny bit of MAC Reflects Antique Gold in the inner corner.








Product List
MAC Bare Canvas, Pure Luxe Ecstasy, Pure Luxe Smoldering, Pure Luxe Pinup, Zoeva 88 Mattes palette, MAC Reflects Antique Gold, Manhattan JT in dark blue, essence rhinestones, wet 'n' wild lashes, Maybelline Expression kohl in white, CG Lash Blast

Christmas 2009

So I had a really bad make up day today and screwed up not one, but two looks I had intended to do for the blog! I wasn't really inspired and so I decided to better wait until I come up with something worth painting. In the meantime, I would like to share some pics from Christmas with you :)

On the weekend before Christmas, we had an insane amount of snow here (well - at least for us, as it only snows about once every winter!) - so much that we had to wait until the next day to catch a train back to Cologne. Here's the view from our back and front windows:





Unprecedented amounts of snow!


Ice flowers forming on our window panes at about -10°C!



Most of the snow had already melted again before Christmas Eve, but some remained and we actually had a white christmas - the last time I've seen this must have been more than 20 years ago!

Holiday magic - our living room just after Santa Claus left all the presents :)



I got the cutest teapot from my parents!


And here's what I got for Christmas:

• "tea for one" teapot
• cute pink mitts
• "Love Actually" on blu-ray
• "Maskerade" by Terry Pratchett
• Price & Kensington tea pot & mugs in pink with white polka dots
• Angel of Music shirt
• fluffy mint-coloured bath mat
  
• hairbrush
• perfume "Daisy" by Marc Jacobs
• MAC Studio Fix Fluid
• Bloch cardigan in black for ballet training
• plush octopus
• "Pirate Latitudes" by Michael Crichton
• and a shitload of warm socks for my cold feet!

This is the most whimsical hairbrush I have ever seen ♥!

"Phantom of the Opera - Angel of Music" t-shirt

My husband was given a "Bikini Bottom" Monopoly:



Yes, our Christmas tree decoration involves manatees.

1001 ways to use an octopus.

Vivid Holiday Look 2009

Hey everyone,

sorry for not posting in some time! Last weekend I did Christmas shopping and preparations, and the weekend before was filled with 3 ballet performances which kept me quite busy :) But now Christmas is here I hope things will slow down a little for me. I am on holidays until Jan 4 and I brought quite a few bags of make up with me to my parents' house where I am spending the holidays - so expect a few more looks to come :)

This is the holiday look I created for Vivid Cosmetics, a Canadian make-up brand with which I am collaborating. Leah sent me one of their palettes to create looks with it, so all colours used are from their Eye Shadow Palette. I just added a little NYX glitter from the Glitter Cream palette to glam it up:








Product List:
MAC Bare Canvas, Vivid Cosmetics Spectrolite, Pitchgreen, Sulfur and Ice, NYX glitter, CG Lash Blast, Maybelline Expression kohl in white, essence Glamour lashes
*Note: This palette has been sent to me free of charge.*

Happy Holidays to all of you ♥!!

Surreal Mermaid

You all probably know I have a weakness for all kinds of aquatic colours - seafoam, turquoise, mint, you name it. And the most beautiful in my opinion is Surreal by MAC,that gorgeous seafoam shade with a subtle gold shimmer. Besides, I've been wanting to try the "fishnet" technique for some time, so I took this wonderful opportunity :)

I started with the fish scales pattern by applying MAC Surreal and Meadowland on top of stretched fishnet tights so the scale patters reflects subtly on my skin. The I applied Surrwal to my lids as well as Plumage in the crease and Platinum to highlight the inner lid. The lashes I found at Claire's, they're very long and very feathery! On the lower lid, I'm wearing p2 Lengthening lashes cut into singles. I also glued on some iridescent rhinestone drops to create a kind of "fishtail" in the outer corner:










Product List
MAC Bare Canvas, MAC Surreal, MAC Meadowland, MAC Plumage, MAC Platinum, MAC Vanilla, Manhattan JT, Maybelline Expression kohl in white, Claire's lashes, p2 lashes, CG Lash Blast, essence rhinestones