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I'm on fire with makeup looks lately, so don't resent me if you'll have to see many makeup looks on my blog in next few days and weeks.
Our favourite characters from Despicable Me got their own movie this year, and I was so eager to see it that I dragged my darling, who is not a fan of animated movies, to the cinema. I enjoyed the movie, and already back then I got the idea to create a makeup look, inspired by Minions. Yellow and blue, those are the colours of little creatures Minions. I actually had a bit crazier look in mind, but it didn't really come out as I imagined, so I did something simpler, but pretty anyway.

To get a straighter line I taped a tapefrom outer corner of my eye till my brow. I started with priming my lid with eyeshadow base to prevent creasing, as usual (photo 1), and then I applied a white jumbo pencil all over the lid (photo 2). I set it with white eyeshadow. Always, even when I use a white pencil to increase the intensity of coloured eyeshadows, I use an eyeshadow primer underneath. I noticed that the jumbo pencil never creases in this case. Then I applied a yellow eyeshadow on the lid, but I didn’t go all the way to inner corner (photo 3). Next I applied a brown shade in crease and blended it up on brow bone. I suggest starting with a light touch of colour and then layering it, because it's easier to blend it together with yellow that way and also to achieve soft edges. In inner corner I added a bit of white eyeshadow (photo 4). When the tape was still on my skin I outlined the flick, then removed the tape and finished the application of eyeliner (photo 5). On lower lash line and on water line I applied a blue eye pencil(photo 6) and then prolonged the line following the flick (photo 7). I softened the line with a blue eyeshadow. I also prolonged the eyeliner in inner corner and made a short flick there (photo 8). For the end I curled my lashes and applied mascara (photo 9).

For 31 day nail art challenge a made a manicure, inspired by Minions and it was a perfect match to my makeup. Also, I can't believe, how amazing my skin looks on these photos, like it would be photoshopped (but it's not).

Products I used:
*Face
- Vichy Teint Ideal 15
- Oriflame The One Illuskin foundation Porcelain
- Bourjois Silk Finish Porcelain
- Maybelline Instant Anti-Age Rewind Fair
- Catrice Liquid Camouflage concealer Porcellain
- Catrice Prime and Fine contour palette Ashy Radiance
- Catrice Coral Me Maybe
- Catrice Highlighting Powder Stardust

*Eyes
- NYX High Definition eyeshadow primer
- NYX Milk
- Lady Queen 20 Colour Professional palette
- Essence Nauti Girl Cool Breeze
- Essence Liquid eyeliner High Shine
- Misslyn eyepencil Cornflower
- Oriflame The One Stylo Black
- Essence Lash Mania mascara
- Essence How to Make Brows Wow (Love Brunettes)

*Lips
- Aura lipliner 36
- Bourjois Nude-ist

What do you think about this look? Thank you for reading!

The 31 day nail art challenge is finally over. I have to admit I was already tired of it, because the last section "inspired by" wasn't really inspirational to me this year.

Day 21: Inspired by colour
- Essence Love is in the Air
- Bourjois Only Bluuuue

Day 22: Inspired by a song

- Essie Sand Tropez

- Essence Love is in the Air

- Essence Styled for Red Carpet

- Essie Sole Mate

- Essence Black is Back

Day 23: Inspired by a movie

- Essence Fall for You

- tempera painting

- Essie Sand Tropez

- Bourjois Turquoise Block

- Essence Love is in the Air

- Essence Cherry Cherry Girl

- Essence Only Bluuuue

- Essence Indian Summer

- Essence Amazed by You

Day 24: Inspired by a book

- Oriflame Sundance

- China Glaze Mahogany Magic

- Essence Love is in the Air

Day 25: Inspired by fashion

- Essence Black Out

- Essence Indian Summer

- Essence Makes Me Weak

- Essence Like Leo's Pilot Jacket

- S-he Stylezone 314

Day 26: Inspired by a pattern

- Essie Sand Tropez

- Bourjois Only Bluuuue

- Essence Black is Back

- Essence Indian Summer

Day 27: Inspired by artwork

- Essie Sand Tropez

- Oriflame Sundance

- Essence Cherry Cherry Girl

- Essence Black is Back

- Essence Love is in the Air

- Barry M Blood Orange

- Essence Indigo To Go

- Essence Make Me Weak

Day 28: Inspired by a flag

- Essence Crew First

- Misslyn True White

- Bourjois Only Bluuuue

- Barry M Orange Blood

- Essence Styled for Red Carpet

Day 20: Inspired by supernatural

- Essene Crew First

- Essie Sole Mate

- black tempera painting

Day 30: Inspired by a tutorial

Lucy's Stash inspired

- Models Own Copacabana

- Essence Amazed by You

Day 31: Honor nails you like

Chalkboard inspired

- Essence Black is Back

- Oriflame Sundance

- Essence Cherry Cherry Girl

- Essence Love is in the Air

- Essie Sole Mate

And for the end a group photo of all manicures I did. It's really hard to decided which manicures I like the best, because this year I'm proud on many of them and if I'd start telling you which ones are my favourites there would probably be more than a half of them on the list. But you can of course share with me, which ones you like the best. They are in the order as I was doing them.

Thank you for reading!

Because I'm a huge fan of matte lip products I was eager to try Nani Longlasting lipgloss, when Lady Queen contacted me and asked me, if I want to do a review for them. The colour selection is huge, and it took me quite a while to choose a shade. I decided for a shade 15, because it looked like a nice reddish nude shade on their swatches, but boy was I surprised when I received the lipgloss aka lip cream. Shade 15 is a bright, almost neon pink shade, so I warn you that if you’re going to buy their products, check swatches on internet before, because swatches on their site are not accurate (more accurate swatches here).

Lip cream comes in a plastic tube that’s in the colour of the shade and has a black lid. It has a doe foot applicator, which is easy to work with. Although it’s says on the packaging that this is a lipgloss, it’s actually a lip cream. Its formula reminds me a lot on Makeup Revolution Salvation Velvet Lip Lacquers, with the difference that it doesn’t feel as heavy on lips, although I can still feel it on my lips when I’m wearing it. The formula is creamy. Lip cream applies very streaky and uneven, so two coats are necessary to achieve better application. I usually apply a thin first coat, trying to be careful around the edges, because once this lip cream dries it won’t move from the place, and then I go over with a bit thicker second coat. The application still isn’t as smooth as for example by Essence lip creams, but it looks okay enough.

During application it looks glossy on lips, but after few minutes it dries and becomes completely matte. While it’s drying it feels tight on the lips, but once it becomes matte this feeling disappears. I expected that it’ll dry my lips because of the finish and formula, but it actually doesn’t feel drying at all, although isn’t nourishing/moisturizing either.

As you can expect from a lip cream, it’s very longlasting. Once it sets on the lips it won’t move. The thing that bothers me the most by this products is the stickiness. Once it dries in matte finish it becomes sticky when you press your lips together. The stickiness won’t be noticeable when you eat or drink. It’s actually quite drink and food proof, although it will transfer a bit on a glass or service, but on lips it’ll still look untouched. The other thing I noticed is that it doesn’t fade away evenly. It actually starts disappearing from certain parts of the lips. I’m not sure if it’s because of the food I eat or because of the drinking (water, don’t get me wrong). But it doesn’t crumble as Makeup Revolution products. It’s actually hard for me to say how long it lasts. If I ignore the fact that it fades away faster on certain, it actually lasts on lips for quite a big amount of time. I also have to mention that it doesn't have any strange scent or taste.

As I mentioned before, it’s a bright, almost neon pink shade. As someone who is a fan of fun and bright makeup looks I combined it with colourful look, but I have to say this is more of a summer appropriate shade. I also find it more appropriate for the summer because of the formula, which can emphasize dry parts on the lips and during colder months I have big problems with dry lips.

You can get Nani lip creams in Lady Queen store. If you’re going to shop there use my code WGGT15 for 15 % discount. The selection is huge, they offer 38 shades. The price is $6,97 (5,71 €). This product has its positive and negative sides, and I can't say I'm really impressed, there are better matte product (Bourjois), but I have a feeling that it’ll come handy in the future, especially by more bright and fun looks you can see a lot on my blog. But I would not recommend it to someone who has dry lips, because I’m not sure that the formula would suit you.

How do you like this shade? Would you wear it? If you like this post, I would appreciate if you would share it. Thank you for reading!

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Sicer je Matej Špehar rekel: »Bodite prve.«, ampak včasih preprosto ne utegneš. Veliko blogerk je že pisalo o 1. lepotni blogerski konferenci, ki se je odvijala v petek, 2. oktobra 2015, v Hotelu Union v Ljubljani, veliko jih verjetno še bo, sama pa sem se odločila, da bom tudi dodala svojo objavo kot kapljico v morje preostalih zapisov.

Sama ne bom na veliko povzemala urnika konference, ker je o njem pisalo, in verjetno še bo, veliko blogerk, vsem, ki so kakorkoli prispevali k uspešni izvedbi, se bom zahvalila pozneje, linkala bom tudi vse objave, ki poročajo o konferenci. Sama bi rada z vami delila nekaj spoznanj, ki sem jih odnesla z lepotne konference oz. so mi ostala najbolj v spominu. Jih bo pa seveda povedala na svoj način oz. kako sem jih razumela, upam, da kje ne usekam mimo. J

Nekaj spoznanj s prve lepotne konference:

Za dobre fotografije je najpomembnejša svetloba. Najboljše je fotografirati ob oknu v prostoru, kjer je veliko svetlobe, vendar morate slikati v senci, ne na direktni sončni svetlobi.
Lepotna tržnica je zagotovo najboljši način za spoznavanje novih izdelkov in za klepet z uvozniki.
Več časa kot pisanju objave moramo nameniti promoviranju le-te. Navsezadnje si vsaka želi, da to, kar je napisala, doseže čim večje število ljudi.
Sharing is caring. Na koncu objave prosite bralce, naj delijo vašo objavo, če jim je bila všeč. Zelo lepa gesta je, če to naredijo tudi blogerke ena za drugo. ;)
Vsaka objava šteje, zato premisli, preden klikneš objavi. Pazi tudi na jezik oz. slovnico. Tako bralci kot uvozniki imajo radi objave, ki so slovnično čim bolj pravilne. Navsezadnje, nihče si ne želi brati skrpucala (na tem mestu se sama opravičujem za svojo slabo angleščino).
Bralca najhitreje pritegneta zanimiv naslov in prva fotografija. Nekaj, na čemer bom sama morala še veliko delati, saj so moji naslovi zelo dolgočasni.
Za promocijo bloga so odlični tudi »guest posti« na drugih, popularnejših blogih.
Google analitika je tista, ki je pomembna in ki pri večini uvoznikov šteje, torej si čim prej namestite Google analitiko in pozabite na Blogerjevo, ki šteje tudi vsak vaš ogled.
Za vsako sodelovanje, prejet izdelek, PR material se zahvali. Nasvet, ki ga bom sama v prihodnosti zagotovo zelo upoštevala (priznam, da se za prejet PR material nisem nikoli zahvaljevala).
Blogerke so zakon punce! Ne morem vam povedati, kakšno sproščeno in veselo vzdušje je vladalo ves dan na konferenci. Hvala vsem za druženje in klepet.

Niki Veger, ki je organizirala konferenco in vanjo res vložila ogromno časa in trudila, bi poleg zahvale rada izrekla tudi pohvalo. Organizacija konference je bila res na vrhuncu, blogerke smo se počutile zelo dobrodošle in domače, vse je potekalo točno po urniku, predavanja so bila zanimiva, lepotna tržnica je bila vrhunec, hrana je bila odlična in lokacija (Hotel Union) naravnost popolna za tak dogodek. Hvala, da si žrtvovala mesece in mesece za pripravo tako izvrstnega dogodka. Zahvala gre tudi Petru Polesu, ki je povezoval dogodek in skrbel za smeh. Hvala predavateljem Ajdi Sitar in Domnu Blenkošu (fotografska delavnica), Mateju Špeharju (Promocija bloga v socialnih omrežjih), Juretu Dolerju (Optimizacija bloga – kako iz vsakega zapisa potegniti največ), Gejbi(Google analitika) za vse koristne informacije, ki so jih delili z nami. Hvala Kozmetiki Afrodita, ki nam je predstavila novosti, ki jih bodo lansirali na tržišče in jih bomo imele tudi blogerke priložnost preizkusiti. Afrodita je ustvarila izdelke za intimno nego, česar se sama zelo veselim, saj njihovim izdelkom zelo zaupam, poleg tega pa se vsaka ženska zaveda, kako pomembna je nega intimnih predelov.

Gejba v akciji. :)

Peter Poles, moja malenkost, Maja iz Telovadit začnem vedno na isti dan. Jutri., Monika iz Sugarlove bloga, Aida iz Lippie Hippie in Gejba iz Parokeets. (foto: fotozabava.si)

Zelo zanimiva je bila tudi okrogla miza, na kateri se je debatiralo o sodelovanju z uvozniki in mislim, da je bilo povedanega ogromno zanimivega tako s strani uvoznikov kot tudi s strani blogerk. Seveda smo blogerke podelile tudi prve blogerske nagrade. Ob tem gredo čestitkeDominur d. o. o., ki je pri nas zastopnik za znamki Essence in Catrice, Vichy-u, Alpstories, L'Occitanu in Kozmetiki Afrodita. Velik hvala pa tudi Ani Verdnik, ki je ustanovila Facebook skupino Slovenian Bloggers, kjer je združila in povezala vse lepotne blogerke, kar je posledično pripeljalo do petkovega dogodka.

Največji hvala pa gre vsem uvoznikom, ki so sponzorirali prvo blogersko konferenco in prispevali vsa darilca, ki smo jih na koncu blogerke komaj prinesle do prevoza: Kozmetika Afrodita, Lassana, L'Occitane, Avon, Zlatarna Celje, AlpStories, Clarisonic, Curaprox, Youngblood, Le Couvent des Minimes, Melvita, Oriflame, Philips, Vichy, Aussie, Catrice, CD Köerperpflege, Click2Chic, Essence, Eucerin, Golden Rose, Alessandro, La Roche-Posay, Nivea & Labello, Ličila.si, Paul Mitchell, SMILE Concept Store, pijača Nula, pijača Restart, AdriaMedia/Cosmopolitan, Cakepops, Grand Hotel Union.

Gejba je posnela dva videa, tako da si morate najprej pogledati oba videa, da dobite občutek o vzdušju (video 1) in podrobnejši vpogled v izdelke, ki smo jih prejele (video 2).

Ne pozabite preveriti objav ostalih blogerk:

- Sparkle with Laughter

- Cherry Colors

- Sugarlove blog

- Failed Beautification

- Sarah's Blog

- Etiketa Magazin

- Beauty of a Lemon

- Lunx.x

- Telovadit začnem vedno na isti dan. Jutri.

- La Dolce Vita

- Ajda's and Tjaša's Beauty Corner

- UniqaPoly

- Low Maintenance Beauty
- Beautyfullblog
- Angel Beauty
- Jessie Fairytale (video)

Hvala za pozornost in če vam je bila ta objava všeč, ko lahko delite s svojimi prijatelji in spremljevalci na socialnih omrežjih!

Since I made my first Snow Queen look in January, I wanted to create a new, better one. This year’s Halloween season really inspired me, and although you probably won’t see very crazy face painting creations on my blog, I’m really happy where my way of creating “creative, non-everyday makeup” is going. At the moment there are 7 more looks I want to do for Halloween. I plan to do tutorials for most of them, I just hope nothing will come in way and I’ll manage to realize all my ideas.

Back to my Snow Queen look. As always, I started with the application of foundation and filling in my eyebrows. No matter what kind of look I do, these are always first two steps. Then I go on eyes.

Photo 1: I took a pointer brush and with a dark blue matte shade I draw a line in my crease. This way I outlined where I wanted for my eyeshadow to end. In outer part I connected the line with my eye.

Photo 2: I deepened the line in crease and also made a longer flick in outer part. I filled the flick with dark matte blue eyeshadow. If you make any mistake (for example to higher line), just use a thin or angled brush and apply a bit of concealer on the place you want to fix it.

Photo 3: All over the lid and in inner corner I applied a white creamy eyeshadow, which was my base for a blue eyeshadow.

Photo 4 and 5: On the lid, over the white base, I applied a bright blue eyeshadow, and in inner corner I applied a white matte eyeshadow.

Photo 6: Under my eyes I applied a dark blue matte eyeshadow. On my waterline I used a white jumbo pencil.

Photo 7: Above the crease, where the blue eyeshadow ended, I first applied a white creamy eyeshadow as a base and then I went over it with a white powder eyeshadow. I felt like I need to highlight this area, because without it this look was missing something.

Photo 8: In the end I made a thin line with eyeliner and then applied false lashes. I also used the mascara. By my looks false lashes are always the last step, because no matter what I do, they never stick nicely in inner corner. At the beginning I manage to stick them okay enough to take few photos, but with time they can unglue and that’s the reason I always apply them in the end.

Let’s see what I did on my face. I already mentioned that I always first apply foundation and then I do my eyebrows.

When I did most of the work on eyes, I applied a white creamy eyeshadow from Flash palette on areas where I wanted to highlight my face. I blended it in with a makeup sponge. Then I set everything with a setting powder. I contoured my face with a light blue eyeshadow (I actually mixed white and blue eyeshadow from Flash palette, because I wanted a colour that would match my eyebrows, but they didn’t really blend even, probably because I applied setting powder underneath). I didn’t use any blush, but I highlighted my cheeks, high point of my cheeks and my nose with champagne shimmery highlighter. Then I thought I could also contour ~~the highest point~~ (this doesn’t sound okay) the upper part of my nose, so I applied a bright blue eyeshadow with a blending brush from my brows till the point, where the dark blue eyeshadow on eyes has ended. The final step when everything was done was blue studs. I bought few blue and green studs in Müller. They aren’t the cheapest, but they can be used multiple times. They already have glue on them, but after the first usage the glue doesn’t hold anymore, so then I usually use lash glue to glue them on.

Considering the lips, I started with a bright blue shade (I mixed blue and white eyeshadow from Flash palette). In inner part of the lips I applied a white eyeshadow. Then I outlined my lips with blue shade, because I wanted to make it look darker and I wanted to achieve a gradient look from dark blue to lighter blue and white. I took my time to blend it nicely together with white shade. In the end I used pearly white eyeshadow and applied it in inner part of my lips.

P.S. If you're going to wear blue on your lips for Halloween, don't smile too much, because it'll make your teeth look yellow. ;)

There are few details that I’m noticing now on photos and I would fix them if I’d do this look again (for example, I blended white highlighting shade really high, but not on the crown of my head, so it looks strange now), but overall I’m pretty satisfied with it. Now my plan is to do an Ice Queen looks with less blue and more white. Will see how this will go.

Products I used:
*Face
- Catrice Even Skin Tone Even Vanilla foundation
- Makeup Revolution The One Shade 1 foundation
- Catrice Liquid Camouflage Concealer Porcellain
- Oriflame The Illuskin powder Light
- Imagic Professional Cosmetics pallete 12 Flash Color Case
- Sleek Face Form Fair (highlighter)
- studs from Müller

*Eyes
- Imagic Professional Cosmetics pallete 12 Flash Color Case
- NYX Milk jumbo pencil
- Sleek Ultra Mattes V2 palette
- Sleek Curacao palette
- Lady Queen 20 Colour Professional Palette
- Oriflame The One Stylo Black
- Essence Lash Mania mascara
- Lady Queen False Lashes

*Lips
- Imagic Professional Cosmetics palette 12 Flash Color Case
- Sleek Curacao palette (Martini)

What do you think about my second Halloween look? If you liked it I would appreciate if you would share this post. Thank you for reading!

False lashes and I … well, we are still not best friends. On good days I can apply false lashes like a pro and on bad days like a total newbie. I never wear them on a daily basis. I have no idea how some women are patient enough to apply them every day and how they make them last a whole day without them coming off. I always have a huge problem gluing them in inner corner, because they never want to stick properly (except on good days). Beside that I’m wearing glasses and I don’t imagine wearing false eyelashes every day.

When I was deciding what I want to test from Lady Queen I chose fake eyelashes Y-79, because it said “natural soft handmade etc.” false lashes and I did expect natural, not too long lashes, but o boy was I surprised when I got them. These are actually quite long, dense eyelashes and they look dramatic on eyes, but I don’t mind that, because as you know I often do bolder looks and these are perfect lashes to be used then. The band is soft, so they adjust to the eye when I’m applying them. They were too long, so I cut them on outer side to adjust the length. On Lady Queen site it’s written that these are handmade from a cotton stalk (and that’s probably what they meant with natural). These are shorter in inner part and longer in outer. In the box there comes 10 pair of eyelashes, but if they are carefully applied, one pair can be used more than once.

Four makeup looks where I used Lady Queen Y-79 eyelashes (yay, you have a special preview on the last photo what's coming on my blog next in Halloween series :D).

These do not come with lash glue, so I use Fingrs lash glue to glue them on. Maybe is the reason I’m not skilled enough to apply false eyelashes perfectly, but I can never apply these properly. I always have problems in inner corner, where they don’t want to stick on. And no, the lash glue is not the problem, because Fingrs glue holds everything (read: lashes and studs) I glue on my face very good. I even have problems removing everything when I use it. But these eyelashes just don’t want to stay on place in inner corner. I noticed one other interesting thing. I can always place them okay on my left eye, while on my right eye I always have a problem placing them close to my natural lashes and it usually takes me two attempts before I apply them. These eyelashes are light, but since they are so dramatic I always feel them on my eyes, especially in inner corner where they don’t feel very comfortable.

10 pair of false eyelashes cost 4,91 € ($5,99). They come in a white cardborad box and they are tied on with golden stickers and it’s actually quite hard to take them out. These are not the best eyelashes I’ve tried, but I think they are affordable and although I don’t wear false eyelashes on a daily basis, these will come very handy with my creative makeup looks. I can make them work for those few minutes of photoshooting. If you’re going to shop at Lady Queen, use my code WGGT15 for 15% discount.

Have you tried Lady Queen false eyelashes? What do you think about these? Thank you for reading!

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The other days I found a photo of a girl wearing cards on her face, while I was searching an inspiration for Halloween makeup, and I knew immediately I have to recreate this look, because it was so interesting. Of course I added my touch to it, but I’m so happy I did it. Red eyeshadow, people, red eyeshadow! I can’t tell you how much I adore red eyeshadow. I know I might sound crazy, but I really really adore red on my eyes.

Photo 1: I started with priming my eye with eyeshadow primer and then I used a pointed brush to outline the crease with red eyeshadow. I know, I know, I’m doing cut crease again, but I think cut crease suits this look very well.

Photo 2: I took a fluffy brush and blended the red eyeshadow up on my brow bone.

Photo 3:Then I took a pointed brush and applied black eyeshadow in crease, and carefully blended it with red.

Photo 4: All over the lid I applied matte vanilla eyeshadow.

Photo 5: I decided to do red eyeliner. I used creamy eyeshadow from Flash palette I bought on eBay. This eyeshadow is really easy to work with, the only problem I had with it is fast smudging. After few looks I did with this palette I discovered that I have to set these eyeshadows with powder eyeshadows to prevent smudging (I discovered that quickly, right? :S).

Photo 6:Under my eyes I first applied black eyeshadow very close to my lashes and then I used red eyeshadow to blend it out.

Photo 7: As a highlighter under my eyebrow I used matte white eyeshadow, because I didn’t want to achieve too much focus there. On waterline I used black pencil.

Photo 8:For the end I applied mascara and false lashes, which were a must for this look. As you can see I also blended the red on brow bone a bit more, because I saw I have too sharp line and I wanted it softer.

Then I went on my face. I already applied foundation and filled my eyebrows before, but next step after the eyes were done was to draw cards. I made four cards above the right eye. I used angled brush and black creamy eyeshadow from Flash palette to draw rectangles, one near the other. Then I used white creamy eyeshadow to fill the empty space of cards. Because on some places I went over the line, I used black eyeshadow again to fix the mistakes and on some places I made lines a bit thicker. Then I draw four Q’s, one in each card. First I was planning to do four hearts, but in the end I decided to do all four symbols of Poker cards. On my cheeks I didn’t want to complicate, so I contoured my cheeks with Catrice Prime and Fine palette and then I used coral blush from Catrice (Coral Me Maybe). I decided to skip highlighter. On left side, under the eye I drawtwo hearts.

For the lips I first used dark red matte lipliner. I really like this Look by Bipa lipliner, but I felt like this look needs something more, so I first usedBourjois gloss and then I applied Essence golden glittery pigment over it. Because I used gloss, glitter stuck better on lips.

Products I used:
*Face
- Vichy Teint Ideal 15
- Oriflame The One Illuskin foundation Porcelain
- Bourjois Silk Edition Porcelain
- Catrice Liquid Camouflage concealer Porcellain
- Catrice Prime and Fine Ashy Radiance
- Catrice Coral Me Maybe
- Imagic Professional Cosmetics pallete 12 Flash Color Case (for cards)

*Eyes
- NYX High Definiton eyeshadow primer
- Miyo 13
- Sleek Cucarao palette (black)
- Catrice Velvet Matt eyeshadow Vanillaty Fair
- Imagic Professional Cosmetics pallete 12 Flash Color Case
- Essence I Love Extreme waterproof mascara
- Toyoko longlasting eyeliner 508
- Essence How to Make Brows Wow (for eyebrows)
- Lady Queen false lashes

*Lips
- Look by Bipa Orchid
- Bourjois Carton Rouge
- Essence A Piece of Forever

What do you think about this look? If you liked I'd I would appreciate if you would share it. Thank you for reading!

First of all, I want to apologise that there aren’t many reviews on my blog lately, but currently I have a huge inspiration for makeup, or to be precise, for Halloween makeup. Which means, October will be more Halloween-ish, but I promise there will be a whole bunch of reviews and other interesting posts in November (and some in October as well).

Anyway, today I have another collaboration post for you. I had a huge wish to do Halloween collaboration with someone and I was so happy when amazing and talented Lana from Lana Spital Makeup agreed to do a collaboration post with me. This is our second collaboration, check out our first here. Lana has a Youtube channel where she shares tutorials and beauty tricks with you, so definitely follow her there. Recently she opened a new online store Lux Style, where you can find many interesting products for your kitchen, computers, phones and jewelry, so don’t forget to check her store as well. We decided to do La Bella Muerte aka Sugar skull makeup.

I started with drawing two big black circles around my eyes. I painted my face white, leaving only the space in black circles empty. Then I used black pencil and I draw six flower leaves, creating a flower around my eyes. I painted flower leaves with red, orange and yellow eyeshadow, creating a gradient effect. After I applied all the colours in each flower leaf, I took black eyeliner and I outlined the flower. Then I took black cream eyeshadow and filled with it the empty space around the flowers in circle. Then I took red eyeshadows and I draw small circles around the eyes. After that I contoured my temples, forehead and hollows of my cheeks with red eyeshadow. I also draw a nose of my skull. Then I took black pencil again and sketched everything I wanted to do on my face to finish my sugar skull – mouth, spider web, some random spirals and lines. I outlined everything with eyeliner. On my chin I added a flower, which I first draw with pencil, filled with red creamy eyeshadow and then outlined with black eyeshadow. On my cheeks I added two red spirals. And that was it. I tried sugar skull makeup three times before I was finally satisfied with it. Why? Because in first two tries I always had a feeling that something is still missing. Sugar skull makeup is actually a makeup that can end up really interesting if you let your imagination on the loose.

Products I used:

- Imagic Professional Cosmetics pallete 12 Flash Color Case
- NYX High Definition eyeshadow base
- Miyo 13
- Sleek Curacao
- Oriflame The One Stylo Black eyeliner
- Essence Lash Princess mascara
- Toyoko longlasting eyeliner 508

In the end I played a bit with black and purple wig. I think no one would recognize me if I would wear this makeup for Halloween, haha. :)

Check out the tutorial Lana did for our collaboration. I hope you like this post. If you do you can share it with your friends and followers. Thank you for reading!

Most of the people get excited when they see a new lipstick or a blush or something else, while I get excited when I see a gorgeous palette containing colourful eyeshadows. When I found this palette with 20 eyeshadows on Lady Queen’s site I immediately felt in love with colours, and when they agreed I can test it I was over the moon. Yes, a month when I was waiting on this palette was very long. But you can imagine my happiness when I finally got the package in my hands. I think I never took photos of a palette for my blog so fast, because I was so eager to try it. Gosh, I really wish that this palette would have a special name, because the name that’s written on their page is a mess. In this post we’re simply going to call it a palette, because I’m not so good with naming things, unfortunately.

First thing that surprised me is the size of this palette. It’s huge, people. It measures 23 x 15 x 4 cm, so you can imagine it’s not small. It contains 20 eyeshadowsand individual pans are huge as well. The whole palette weights almost 400 g. The palette comes in a black matte plastic packaging that seems very sturdy to me. Eyeshadows are divided into two parts, each part containing 10 eyeshadows, and both parts can be taken out of the palette. The system reminds me a lot on Z palettes, with the difference that these eyeshadows are not individually placed in the palette, but 10 eyeshadows together on one “plate”. What I like about this palette is that it doesn’t come with one of those (for me) unnecessary double sponge applicators, while I do miss a mirror, which would enable easier usage of this palette. Because of its largeness I don’t think this is a travel friendly palette, because it takes a lot of space, and also its colour range isn’t appropriate for every day.

The palette is a mixture of matte and shimmery eyeshadows and the quality differs from shade to shade. Shimmery eyeshadows are mostly good pigmented, while some mattes have surprisingly amazing quality and others poorly. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed, because I expected better pigmentation by most of the shades. The texture of most eyeshadows is nicely soft, although it can’t be compared for example with Sleek eyeshadows, which are silkier and softer. All eyeshadows from Lady Queen palette dust a lot and fall out is present. What actually surprised me is the acting of these eyeshadows on eyes. With a good primer these can look very intense on eyes, plus they can last a whole day without creasing and fading away. I do recommend tapping method while applying these on the lids, because they are very bleandable and can quickly end up looking very light.

Upper row:

White shade – this eyeshadow is such a disappointment. It’s a matte eyeshadow, but with such poor colour payoff that is a waste of space in this palette, actually, because it’s not very useful. On the lid I can only use it if I use white base underneath, and is also not very noticeable as highlighter under my eyebrows.
Pink shade – a matte eyeshadow with an okay pigmentation.
Lime green shade – this is a shimmery eyeshadow with nice pigmentation.
Baby blue shade – I actually though that this is a matte eyeshadow, but I noticed that it has tiny shimmer in it. The pigmentation is good.
Olive green shade– this one contains tiny golden shimmer, but the pigmention is poor. Too bad, because I like this shade a lot.

Lower row:

Silver grey shade – this is a metallic eyeshadow with amazing pigmentation, one of the best eyeshadows in this palette.

Hot pink shade – this is a matte eyeshadow with nice pigmentation. Although both pink eyeshadows have good quality considering this palette as a totality, I think two pink eyeshadows are completely unnecessary, because when they are blended on eyes they look very similar.
Grass green shade – this is such a unique shade, I don’t think I have anything similar in my collection yet. It has matte finish and luckily the pigmentation is nice as well.
Turquoise shade – this is a turquoise shade that actually has stronger blue undertone than green one. It’s such a pretty shade, but the pigmentation is unfortunately very poor.

Brown shade – this is a shimmery eyeshadow. Its texture is far from being silky, but it’s nicely pigmented and the shade is also pretty, so it’s very useful eyeshadow.

Upper row:

Silver shade – unlike golden shade this one is a total winner. It’s a metallic shade with such a nice pigmentation, very similar to greyish silver shade.
Golden shade – this is another disappointment in this palette. In the palette is looks like a gorgeous metallic golden shade, its colour payoff also isn’t bad, but it applies so uneven.
Yellow shade – I’m in love with this eyeshadow. The story with this shade is the same as with matte brown. After I removed the first layer, this shade got better colour payoff, but it must be tapped on the lids, because it’s too bleandable and with blending it loses the intensity.
Purple shade – this is a matte shade with tiny glitter, but unfortunately it has a poor pigmentation.
Brown shade – this shade has a matte finish and its pigmentation is very nicely. I was doing swatches when this palette was still new and by the first layer it seemed like this shade is going to have bad pigmentation, but after I removed the top layer, the pigmentation become better, especially once this eyeshadow is applied on eyes. Then it has really nice colour payoff. It’s perfect to be used for a quick natural look all over the lid or in crease as a transition colour.

Lower row:

Taupe shade – metallic shade with good pigmentation.
Orange shade – another matte shade with nice pigmentation.
Yellow shade – this matte yellow shade has a bit orange undertone and nice pigmentation.
Darker purple shade – for me this is a total star of this palette. Although it doesn’t have very silky formula and it dusts big time, this matte purple shade has the best pigmentation in this palette. Plus, it’s such a pretty purple shade.
Black shade– the palette as this one definitely needs to have a black and a white eyeshadow. While white is a total miss, black eyeshadow is much better and although this is not the best pigmented black I tried, its colour payoff is good and it can be build up to achieve higher intensity.

I started with eyeshadow primer which I set with white eyeshadow. Then I took matte brown shade and applied it in my crease as my transition colour. On second third of the lid I applied yellow eyeshadow and on last third orange eyeshadow. In crease I applied purple shade from lower row and then I took pink eyeshadow to blend it on brow bone. In inner corner and on first third of the lid I applied brighter yellow shade and on lower lash line grass green shade. I ended the look with eyeliner, nude pencil on waterline and mascara.

And here are two others look, for which I used Lady Queen palette.

This palette is available on Lady Queen site for 13,92€ ($16,99). Overall, this is not a bad palette. For the quantity you get is also not expensive. I use it quite a lot when I’m doing colourful or creative makeup looks. Someone who’s just getting into the game with more colourful eyeshadows or is not really comfortable wearing them, but it wants to try them would probably like it, however my first recommendation would still be a Sleek, which has also inexpensive palettes and a huge selection of better quality eyeshadows.

If you're going to shop at Lady Queen you can use my code WGGT15 for 15 % discount.

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Two times a year Essence surprises us with a bunch of new products and among them are also polishes. This fall they released few new shades in now regular nail polish collection The Gel, and also few new collections. One of them is I Love Trends The Darks, which offers 6 new dark shades. In the store three of them caught my attention, and in this post I’m going to talk about them, together with three new shades from The Gel collection.

I already talked about The Gel nail polish collection before on my blog (read about it here and here), and my regular followers already know I’m completely in love with it. The formula is amazing, it’s creamy and opaque, the application is a dream and the shade selection isn’t that bad. It’s true, most of the shades aren’t really unique, but I bet any of you can find a shade you’re going to completely fall in love with. For me the huge positive property of this collection is the cream finish, which most of the polishes have, because is my favourite. Today I’m going to talk about shades My Love Diary, Amazed by You and Miss Captain. These contains 8 ml and cost 1,69 €.

The Darks is a new part of I Love Trends collection that contains 6 polishes of different finishes. Their mutual property is, as the name suggest, that all shade are very dark and because of that appropriate for fall in winter season. You can choose among green, black, purple, blue, red and grey shades. My personal favourites were Indigo to Go, Well Plum and Happy New Green. They come in a round shaped bottle that contains 8 ml. These have smaller flat brush which is easy to work with, but I have to admit I prefer wider brush of The Gel collection. The price of these polishes is around 2 € (I don’t remember exactly and I can’t find the bill).

My Love Diary is a dusty rosy red shade. I have no idea if I’m describing the colour alright, but it’s a very interesting shade. I used two coats for these swatches.

Miss Captainis a dusty blue shade. Many would probably say that they don’t think this shade is really fall appropriate, but because this blue has a bit greyish undertone this makes is a totally fall colour to me. Teal or similar blue shades from Essence can stain the nails, but this one doesn’t. I used two coats.

Amazed by You is such a gorgeous plum purple shade. I actually didn’t check if I already have similar shades to it and I probably do, but it doesn’t matter, because I’m completely in love with it. I used two coats.

Indigo to Go is a blue shade with blue and purple shimmer. In the bottle it actually looks like it’s a duochrome shade, but on nails this effect isn’t visible, unfortunately. It has a really nice, not too thick or runny formula that applies on nails easily. I used two coats for these swatches. The removal is also not a problem.

Well Plum us a very dark plum purple shade. It’s not a dupe for Amazed by You, because it’s much darker. It’s really a gorgeous creamy shade that’s opaque in two coats.

Happy New Green is a highlight of this collection for me (at least among these three shades I own). It’s a regular shimmery darker green shade, but it dries matte. I haven’t checked any swatches before I bought it and boy, was I surprised when I first applied it and it dried matte. But pleasantly surprised, because I really like its non-glossy finish. It could be opaque in one thicker coat, but I used two. I don’t have a photo with glossy finish, because today, while swatching these polishes, I decided to keep this one as my manicure and I like its finish way too much to apply a glossy top coat over it.

All of these polishes have really nice formulas, because none caused me any problem with application. The duration time depends a lot from different circumstances and as you know, on my weak nails polishes don't really last for ages.

Have you tried nay of these new polishes? How do you like them? If you like this post you can share it with your friends and followers on social media. Thank you for reading!

Poison Ivy with her gorgeous red hair was the character I wanted to do for this Halloween, but finding a red wig was not so easy. Finally I found it in Spar, but the makeup was not a piece of cake either. I was doing it twice, because the first time I wasn’t satisfied with photos. The camera makes makeup colours less intensive as they are in reality, that’s a first, and after I put the wig on my head the green colour just vanished somewhere. It looked so intense until I didn’t put the wig on, but once it was on this vivid red overwhelmed the whole look. But nonetheless, I was satisfied with photos I took the second time, so here is my Poison Ivy look for Halloween.

I couldn’t wear brown eyebrows, when I had the red wig, right? I didn’t like any red in my collection enough to fill my brows with it, so in the end I decided to mix red and orange. That way I achieved this gorgeous orangey red shade. I taped the tape on my outer part of the eye, because my first intention was to get the sharp line there, but later during the process I changed my mind. I primed my eye with eyeshadow primer and applied light brown in crease as a transition colour. On inner third of the lid I applied bright green shade, on second third a darker green and on last third a teal green shade. As you can see my application wasn’t very neat, because later I took blending brush and blend everything out on brow bone. When the tape was still on I took black eyeshadow and lined my eye with it. I felt like black eyeshadow will look better with this look as eyeliner. After that I removed the tape. Under my eyes I mixed the dark green and teal green shades. I pulled the line towars the eyebrow, till the end of the eyeliner flick. On my tightline and waterline I applied black eye pencil and I highlighted inner corner and brow bone with pearly white shade. For the end I applied mascara and false lashes.

Poison Ivy wears some kind of leaves on her eyebrows. I didn’t want to do exactly the same thing, so I rather contoured my forehead with green in a shape of triangle, and then I pulled the green down from my crown of the head to hollows of cheeks. I also applied green on my neck. Because the green I used was very light I used darker green shade to darken the look. I also applied glittery eyeliner in triangles on my forehead on both sides. For the blush I used orange shade, because it was the best match for this look (and because I didn’t want the red). On lips I used Mac Lady Danger, because it was a perfect combination match for the wig. Then I draw a design with few poison ivy leaves on right side and with one of left side and the look was done.

Overall I'm really satisfied with the look, but as I said before I have a feeling that the vivid red wig "eats" the green and makes it less intense. I bought the wig in Spar. It's actually a wig with horns for the devil look, but I used pile of green leaves as a crown and hidden them. On photos they wouldn't be visible anyway. But otherwise this wig can be perfect to achieve Poison Ivy look from the movie. As you know, she has horns. You can just wrap the hair around the horns, secure them and achieve Poison Ivy horns.

Products I used:
*Face
- Vichy Teint Ideal 15
- Oriflame The One Illuskin foundation Porcelain
- Bourjois Silk Edition Porcelain
- Catrice Liquid Camouflage concealer Porcellain
- Catrice Prime and Fine Ashy Radiance
- Essence East Side Story blus
- Imagic Professional Cosmetics palette 12 Flash Color Case
- Sleek Ultra Mattes V2 palette
- She Stylezone glittery eyeliner

*Eyes
- NYX High Definiton eyeshadow primer
- Miyo 13
- Sleek Cucarao palette
- Sleek Ultra Mattes V2 palette
- Essence I Love Extreme waterproof mascara
- Toyoko longlasting eyeliner 508
- Lady Queen false lashes
*Lips
- Mac Lady Danger

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October is a pink month. Everybody who knows me knows that I’m not a fan of pink colour, except when it comes to lips and cheeks. Makeup is the only sphere where I give pink colour a chance. While I was preparing a special post for tomorrow, for which few of Slovenian ladies got together and created posts for October as a breast cancer awareness months, I got the idea to share with you few of my favourite pink makeup products. I only chose makeup products, because I’m trying to avoid pink anywhere else, although I do have few other products in pink (shower gels, makeup brushes etc.).

Pink Eyes

I have a feeling that pink on eyes is not something that would be a regular practise in a beauty world. People really avoid pink in eye makeup, except if it’s a rosy shimmery shade that isn’t in your face shade. Well, although I don’t wear pink on eyes very often I really do like to incorporate it in my colourful makeup looks. Colourful and bold makeup look for summer or purple smokey eyes are definitely two looks that won’t go away without pink in it. And I actually own quite few palettes with pink eyeshadows. For this post I chose four palettes that are often in usage. Beauty UK Day and Night is a palette that is my first choice when I want to create something pink. It has one pastel pink shade and one reddish pink that look very nice on eyes. For bolder summer look pink eyeshadow is a must. Sleek Acid contains very nice neon pink shade that unfortunately isn’t the best pigmented, but a good white base can make it pop out. For everyday usage the perfect “pink palette” is Deborah Milano Smokey Eye Nude Rose. All shades in this palette are more on a neutral side, so I think those who don’t like bolder looks would love it, too. The most recent addition to my palette collection is Lady Queen’s palettewith 20 eyeshadows that unfortunately doesn’t have any interesting name, but it contains two matte pink eyeshadows that are the most in usage by me lately when I’m doing a makeup that contains pink.

Rosy Cheeks

My natural cheek colour is something between red and pink, and that’s the reason I really like to use pink blushes on my cheeks. The finish depends from the look I’m doing, but I like matte and shimmery blushes the same. Two of my all time favourite pink blushes are Catrice Defining blushes Think Pink and Pinkerbell. First one has coraly undertone, while second one is a bright pink shade. When it comes to shimmery pink shadesEssence Ring Around the Rosyis the one that completely stole my heart. During the summer it was one of my most used blushes because it gives a special glow to the cheeks. I also decided to include Makeup Revolution palette All About Cream, which contains 8 blushes, and three of them are pink. For lovers of creamy blushes this is a perfect palette, because blushes are nicely pigmented and easy to blend, while duration time also isn’t that bad.

Pink Lips

If I would ask my fellow bloggers and readers a question: “If I could wear only one colour on my lips till the end of my life, what do you think which colour that would be?” I bet they would say pink. And you can bet they would be right. I mean, I love all colours on my lips, but pink is “the special one”. In this post I could mention a whole list of pink lip products, but I decided to reduce my choices on four products. One of my all time favourite pinks is definitelyLook by Bipa lipliner in Bonbon. Its creamy formula goes on lips smoothly, and although it’s matte it doesn’t dry the lips and doesn’t emphasize dry parts. I’m completely in love with this shade. Second matte favourite is Bourjois Pink Pong. It has a very pleasant and non-drying formula, and with lipliner underneath it can lasts for hours without disappearing. I also really love the formula of Maybellinelipsticks. Vivid Rose is a creamy lipstick with amazing colour payoff and it feels very light on lips and it also lasts for some time. The last pink I’m going to mention is Freedom Candy Sweet, which is a nice creamy bright pink shade. The pigmentation isn’t the best, but it can be built up.

If you would go through my nail polish stash you would find many pink nail polishes. I kept one or two for occasions as Pink October, but otherwise it takes a lot for pink polish to convince me. But I do like two pink polishes. One of them is Essie Fiji, a pastel pink shade, and second is Models Own Cerise, a fuchsia pink shade with chrome finish. Both of them are special and that’s why I like them.

If you are interested in detailed reviews of certain products, click on the name of the products. I reviewed most of the products I mentioned today and those I haven't yet will get their reviews soon.

Stay tuned for tomorrow, because I prepared pink makeup and nail art for you. :)

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October is a breast cancer awareness month and a group of Slovenian bloggers decided to do collaboration posts for this occasion. I, of course, had to join since from last year our family has been struggling with this disease, but luckily it’s getting better and I’m preparing a chatty post about this theme once this week. I hope I will post it because I’m still not satisfied with everything I wrote. So more about cancer and how I’ve been experiencing it during past year, next time. But I’m sure many Slovenian bloggers wrote more about cancer and how to fight it in their posts, so definitely check them out (links to their posts are in the end of my post).

As a blogger who’s loving makeup I decided to prepare a tutorial for a simple pink and purple makeup look, and I also made (not so) matching manicure, because from the end of 31 day nail art challenge I haven’t been doing much nail art.

I taped a tape in outer part of my eye, because I wanted a sharp line there, and I started with priming my lids with eyeshadow base. Then I applied brighter matte pink eyeshadow on inner third of my lid and a bit darker pink shade on the rest of the lid. In crease I first applied purple eyeshadow and blended it on brow bone. Then I took black eyeshadow, which I applied in crease and blended it out with light purple shade. In the middle of the lid I used shimmery pink shade. I removed the tape. On my lower lash line I used matte pink eyeshadow. I highlighted inner corner with matte white eyeshadow. Then I pulled the line with pink eyeshadow from outer corner of my eye till my brow, parallel with the line on upper part of my eye. I filled the gap between both lines with white eyeshadow. On waterline and between lower lashes I applied black kajal pencil and then used purple eyeshadow to smudge it between lashes. Then I applied eyeliner, highlighter under my brow, mascara and false lashes.

Exaggerating with pink was a huge possibility here, because I decided to use pink on cheeks and lips as well, but I applied blush really gently and it’s almost invisible on photos. I have a feeling that this bright pink lip cream concludes the look really nicely. I first applied darker shade of pink, but that just wasn’t what I wanted, so I rather used a bright pink shade. In the end this came out bolder that I planned, but I do like it. Although I’m not really sure I would wear so many pink on regular basis.

Product I used:

*Face

- Vichy Teint Ideal 15

- Oriflame The One Illuskin foundation Porcelain

- Bourjois Silk Edition Porcelain

- Catrice Liquid Camouflage concealer Porcellain

- Catrice Prime and Fine Ashy Radiance

- Sigma For Cute! powder blush

*Eyes

- NYX High Definiton eyeshadow primer
- NYX Milk
- Lady Queen
- Sleek Storm palette
- Lady Queen 20 Colour Professional palette
- Sleek Ultra Mattes V2 palette
- Essence I Love Extreme waterproof mascara
- Oriflame The One Stylo Black eyeliner
- Toyoko longlasting eyeliner 508
- Lady Queen false lashes
- Essence How to Make Brows Wow (Love Brunettes)

*Lips

- Nani longlasting lipgloss 15

Pink nails are not something I would do often, but pink inspired nail art must be done in October. I was using Essence Wild White Ways and Models Own Gumballs, combining different techniques - freehand design, dotting and striping tape. Although I'm not a fan of pink I really like this manicure.

Don't forget to check what other girls did for their pink inspired post.

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Hi, beauties! Today I have another Halloween makeup look for you. While I'm crossing the looks I already made off the list I'm getting new and new ideas, so it's possible there will be more creative makeup looks posted in November, because I won't manage to post everything until Halloween. This time I have for you a look I call Spider Queen. It probably could be called something else, but that is as far as my creativity with naming looks goes. I don't remember anymore by whom I saw the look that inspired me to do spider webs on my face, but I know I was very impressed. I found spiders in Tedi and bought them immediately. Although I do wish that they would be smaller, because they were really heavy and during photo shooting I had a feeling they will fall down from my face. At the beginning I wanted to use red eyeshadow, but I already used red shade two times before for my Halloween looks (Queen of Hearts and Sugar Skull), so instead I decided for purple and I'm so happy I changed my mind, because I really love this purple look.

This time I didn't do a tutorial for this look. I actually didn't do any new technique, because I used most of those I already showed tutorials for by previous look. And also, tutorials for these looks take so much time. I usually take photos for these posts a whole forenoon, but this week I had some other things to do and I really didn’t have time to spend a whole morning taking photos.

I started with my regular foundation application and I filled my eyebrows with black eyeshadow. I had two reasons to use black for eyebrows. First is that I planned to use a lot of black for this look anyway and black eyebrows would be a better match, and the second is that I own a black wig with purple flocks of hair, which I wanted to use, but unfortunately I didn't really like the complete look with it.

For my eyes I didn't do anything complicated. I applied purple matte eyeshadow over the whole lid, black in crease, blended it out with purple on brow bone and I also used purple under my eyes. For highlighting the area under my brow and inner corner I used shimmery beige eyeshadow. Thick eyeliner and false lashes were a must for this look.

On my left side I applied eyeshadow on lower lash line normally; while on right I applied it lower on my dark circles. Here I used the same technique as for FallFairy look (harsh line on upper part of the eye, for which you can use tape, and harsh line on lower part of the eye). Then I draw a spider web in empty place between upper and lower eyeshadow. I started dragging lines from outer corner of my eye against the highest point of my cheeks. Every time I draw a web I used a clean brush and blended semicircles a bit to get more blended look of the webs. It looks so much prettier.

I took purple and I contoured the hollows of my cheeks on both sides and my forehead. I also applied purple on my neck. Then I draw another web on my left side. This one was bigger; I drew it on more than a half of my cheeks, because I glued a spider on it later. I draw another web on my neck, where I glued another spider. The third one I glued on the right side of my forehead, but I decided to skip the net there.

With the lip colour I actually had a problem, because I don't own any purple that would be similar to the purple on my eyes. So instead I used berry purple, which I applied all over the lips. Then I took black cream eyeshadow and outlined my lips with it. In the end I blended both shades together, applied a bit more lipstick, so that the black wouldn’t overwhelmed the look and that was it.

Products I used:
*Face
- Vichy Teint Ideal 15
- Oriflame The One Illuskin foundation Porcelain
- Bourjois Silk Edition Porcelain
- Catrice Liquid Camouflage concealer Porcellain
- Lady Queen 20 Colour Professional palette

*Eyes
- NYX High Definiton eyeshadow primer
- Lady Queen
- Sleek Ultra Mattes V2 palette
- Lady Queen 20 Colour Professional palette
- Sleek Storm palette
- Essence I Love Extreme waterproof mascara
- Toyoko longlasting eyeliner 508
- Lady Queen false lashes

*Lips
- Catrice Plum&Base
- Catrice Lovely Lilac
- Imagic Professional Cosmetics palette 12 Flash Color Case

I should have known that the wig for 5 € from Tedi won't be anything special. The problem with it is that it doesn't look nicely in front, because the hair is covering the half of my face and that way the half of my makeup. Because makeup, the star, is less outstanding when the wig is on, I prefer it without the wig. But I like that the wig is black and it matches the brows and the whole look better than my brown hair. I should definitely get another, completely black wig for this look.

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Ni samo koža tista, ki si zasluži našo pozornost in nego, zaslužijo si jo tudi lasje. Oriflame je izdal novo linijo Eleo, ki vsebuje šampon, balzam, olje in masko za lase. Ime kolekcije izvira iz grške besede za olje. V izdelkih se prepletata olji argana in vrtnic z repincem in vitaminom F, ki obnovijo lase, zgladijo povrhnjico in ustvarijo naraven ščit, ki varuje pred poškodbami. Linija Eleo je primerna za vse tipe las. Več o posameznih izdelkih si lahko prebere tukaj.

Oriflame Eleo šampon

V temno rjavi tubi z zlatim napisom se nahaja 200 ml šampona, ki se ob stiku z vodo lepo speni in že manjša količina je dovolj za pranje dolgih las. Šampon ima dokaj močan sladek vonj v tubi, ki pa je meni osebno po nanosu manj izrazit, ampak mi je kljub vsemu prijetno všečen. Vem, da si večina punc šamponira lase dvakrat, vendar sama prisegam na enkratno šamponiranje – prvič iz navade in drugič, ker dejansko ne opažam nobene razlike na laseh, če si jih operem dvakrat s šamponom in si zato raje prihranim čas. Opažam, da pri tem šamponu drugo šamponiranje niti ni potrebno, saj šampon moje lase očisti zelo dobro že po prvem. Druga stvar, ki jo opažam pri uporabi tega šampona, je, da se moji lasje ne mastijo tako zelo hitro. Sicer sem šla skozi dolg proces, da so moji lasje dosegli raven, na kateri so danes, saj so se mi včasih, sploh v času študija v Ljubljani, zmastili v roku enega dneva in sem jih potem morala prati vsak dan, če nisem hotela grozno izgledati. Če se mi torej danes lasje zmastijo po enem dnevu, lahko rečem, da ne gre za dober šampon. Oriflameov šampon mojim lasem odgovarja, če je res primeren za vse tipe las, pa ne morem povedati, saj bi ga za to morali preizkusiti tudi osebi z mastnimi in suhimi lasmi. Cena šampona je6,99 €, trenutno pa ga lahko kupite po znižani ceni 3,99 €.

Oriflame Eleo balzam

Bela tuba z rjavim napisom prinaša 150 ml kremastega, ne pregostega balzama, ki lase nahrani in naredi mehke. Večinoma sem ga uporabljala z Oriflameovim šamponom in za moje lase sta dobra kombinacija. Nanesla sem ga na konice las, pustila nekaj minut in potem sprala. Balzam ima prijeten, kremasto sladek vonj, ki pa ni tako izrazit kot pri šamponu. Vendar pa lasje po pranju res lepo intenzivno dišijo še kakšen dan. Nisem pa prepričana, kako bi balzam odgovarjal zahtevnim, zelo suhim konicam, saj imam občutek, da bi bil premalo hranilen za njih. Cena je 6,99 €, vendar je trenutno na voljo za 3,99 €.

Oriflame Eleo zaščitno olje

Včasih sem imela tako zelo suhe konice, da je bilo skorajda že neverjetno. Verjetno je bilo to povezano tudi s tem, da sem imela zelo razcepljene konice, a v zadnjem času se je stanje zelo popravilo in trenutno sem zelo zadovoljna s stanjem svojih las, saj tako lepih nisem imela še nikoli prej. Čeprav sem prejela testerje olja, pa moram priznati, da so me iz Eleo linije ravno ti najbolj prepričali. Ugotavljam, da mi olje, ki ni izrecno namenjeno uporabi na laseh, ne odgovarja, ker je premastno za moje lase. Oriflame zaščitno olje pa sploh ni mastno, je prijetnega vonja in lepo nahrani konice las. Sama sem navajena uporabljati olja na mokrih laseh in tole se na njih obnese odlično. Moje konice so, ko se posušijo, nahranjene, sijoče in mehke na dotik. Tudi vonj je zelo prijeten, precej podoben vonju šampona, vendar ne tako zelo izrazit. Poleg zaščitnega olja so pri Oriflameu ustvarili tudi gladilno olje. Zaščitno je popolno za barvane lase, medtem ko bodo nad gladilnim navdušena dekleta, ki imajo skodrane in neubogljive lase. Posamezna steklenička vsebuje 50 ml in cena olja je 13,90 €, medtem ko je zaščitno trenutno znižano na 8,49 €, gladilno pa na 11,90 €.

Še ena fotka las naslednji dan po pranju z Eleo izdelki.

Ste že preizkusile Oriflame Eleo izdelke za lase? So vas prepričali? Če vam je bila objava všeč, bom hvaležna za vsako deljenje na socialnih omrežjih. Hvala za pozornost!

*PR izdelki

In my Snow Queen post I mentioned that I want to do a whiter version of that makeup, so called Ice Queen look. Of course the white colour wasn’t supposed to be the only one used, because that would look strange. I decided to combine it with a bit of silver and plum. I have to admit this look didn’t come out as I wanted and I wasn’t 100% satisfied with it, but if I judge by response on Instagram and Facebook, you really like it. So I decided to dedicate it its own post.

I started with a very light foundation, because Ice Queen should have fair, almost white complexion. I Mixed Oriflame Porcelain foundation, which is very light shade, with Makeup Revolution white foundation. I had no idea what to do with eyebrows, because I didn’t want white brows, but silver ones didn’t work as I wanted. So in the end I filled them with Love Brunettes eyeshadow that I usually use, and then I applied silver eyeshadow over them. Until I didn’t spray the snow on my hair they didn’t really matched the look, but after application of snow everything looked great. I contoured my forehead and hollows of my cheaks with plumy eyeshadow, but after I blended it it looked more like a pinkish-red shade. On forehead I applied a bit of silver eyeshadow over the plumy one, but I made sure that it was really nicely blended in it. On cheeks I used rosy shimmery blush, because the silver didn’t work there. As a highlighter on the top of the cheeks I used Essence white pigment that contains a bit of glitter. Because I felt like something is missing I added some white glitter there, too. Because that wasn’t enough I applied the glitter on my temples as well. The glitter I used was from Essence nail art line, but I think they were discontinued in spring. But don’t worry; if you’re searching any stuff for creating, Tedi is a right place for you. Almost everything I use for my Halloween looks (wigs, spiders, crown, leaves glitter, leaves band ...) I got in Tedi.

On eyes I didn’t complicate. I applied matte white eyeshadow all over my lid, but of course I used NYX Milk pencil as a base before to intensify the white. In outer corner I gently applied purple shade from Makeup Revolution Big Love palette, which I blended gently into the crease. I’m saying gently, because I didn’t want for the purple to be very intensive, but very very light, almost unnoticeable. I applied the same plum eyeshadow to contour the place above the inner corner (I have no idea how this area on our face is called, sorry). On outer third of the lid I applied silver eyeshadow and on inner two thirds of the lid white Essence pigment with glitter. Then I wanted to apply silver false eyelashes to make the look even crazier, but I couldn’t and couldn’t glue them on my eyes. Crazy! Instead of that I rather applied black eyeliner and then black false eyelashes. Under my eyes I applied purple eyeshadow from MR palette and on waterline white eye pencil. On lips I mixed few shades to get gentle pink look, and in the end I added white glittery pigment to make them more shiny and outstanding. Above my brows I glued few white studs I ordered on eBay (they were very cheap, around 1 € I think).

Then the fun part has begun. In Tedi I bought spray that creates snow on windows and other surfaces. I was a bit afraid to use it on hair, but I decided to take a risk, because this look wouldn’t be perfect without white hair. I sprayed it all over my hair and on my neck. I really like the touch this snow gave to this look, although I think I could skip it on the neck, but oh well, what was done, was done.

Products I used:
*Face
- Oriflame Illuskin Foundation The One Porcelain
- Makeup Revolution The One white foundation Shade 1
- MeMeMe Flawless concealer Beige
- Sleek Vintage Romance A Wow in Venice (for contouring)
- Lady Queen 20 eyeshadow palette (silver for highlighting forehead)
- Essence Ring Around the Rosy
- Essence Effect Nails I'm so Dreamy
- white studs from eBay

*Eyes
- Catrice Prime and Fine eyeshadow base
- Essence pigment Fairy Dust
- Sleek Ultra Mattes V2 Darks palette (Pillow Talk)
- Makeup Revolution Big Love palette (Absorbed)
- Lady Queen 20 eyeshadow palette (silver)
- Sleek Vintage Romance palette (A Wow in Venice)
- Essence I Love Extreme waterproof mascara
- Oriflame Stylo Black eyeliner
- Lady Queen false eyelashes

*Lips
- Aura 36 lipliner
- Essence pigment Fairy Dust
- Isadora Tropical Pink
- Essence Mission Flower

What do you think about my Ice Queen look? If you like it I would appreciate if you would share it on your social media. Thank you for reading!

Greek mythology is something I always loved, especially the costumes and makeup in movies and TV shows. Greek’s history was always one of my favourite periods of history, except when I had to study it for the exam. Then it was all about numbers and bare information. I could not let go this year’s Halloween to pass by without me doing a makeup look inspired by Greek goddess. Instead of Greek I named my look Golden Goddess. And by Golden Goddess it’s all about golden colour.

On eyes I mixed so many shades that I don’t remember anymore exactly, what I used where. I used few golden shades and few browns and that way I achieved a brown smokey look. On brows I first used my regular Love Brunettes shade from Essence How to Make Brows Wow palette and then I used a bit of golden eyeshadowover it. To finish the eyes I made cat eyeliner with a flick in outer and inner corner and I applied black pencil on my waterline. Following the line of cat eyeliner I applied a golden glittery eyeliner as well. On lower lashes I applied mascara and on upper lid I used false lashes. Then I draw few lines on outer part of lower lash line with golden glittery eyeliner.

By the complexion of the golden goddesses is of course everything about bronzed look. I actually wanted a bit more shimmery look on my cheeks, but I have no shimmery bronzer, so I mixed matte bronzer with golden highlighter and I contoured my face with it. I applied the same mixture on cheeks and then I added a bit of Freedom Makeup bronzer Purr that looks pinkish on me over it to give my face more fresh look. Then I highlighted my cheeks with golden highlighter.

When makeup was done the fun part has begun. Some time ago I bought golden leaves foilin Moja drogerija and I knew this foil is a must for this look. First I applied it on inner part of my dark circles – from inner corner of my eyes down towards my cheeks. Then I applied it on highest point of my cheeks on both sides and in the end on my neck on left and right side. On my lips I used golden shadefrom Flash palette and then I tapped golden eyeshadow from Sleek Sunset palette. In the end I applied golden necklace on my forehead and the look was done. The day before I did this look I braided my hair in french braid, so I could have more curly hair.

Products I used:
*Face
- Vichy Teint Ideal 15
- Oriflame The One Illuskin Foundation Porcelain
- Catrice Luquid Camouflage concealer Porcellain
- MeMeMe Correct&Perfect Nude
- Bourjois Silk Edition Porcelain
- Essence Metal Glam Gold Digger highlighter
- Makeup Revolution Ultra Contour palette
- Freedom Pro Glow Purr
- nail foil from Moja drogerija

*Eyes
- NYX High Definition eyeshadow base
- Sleek Sunset palette (golden eyeshadow)
- Beauty UK 3 palette (golden eyeshadow)
- Sleek Storm palette
- Essence pigment A Piece of Forever
- Oriflame The One Stylo eyeliner Black
- Toyoko longlasting eyeliner 508
- Essence I Love Extreme waterproof mascara
- Sleek Glitter eyeliner Hollywood
- Lady Queen false eyelashes
- Essence How to Make Brows Wow (Love Brunettes, Lift Me Up)

*Lips
- Imagic Professional Cosmetics palette 12 Flash Color Case
- Sleek Sunset palette (golden eyeshadow)

This is definitely one of my favourite looks I ever done. I really love how golden shades look on me. I wish I could wear something like that every day. I hope you like it, too. If you do, I would appreciate if you would share it further. Thank you for reading!

Halloween is on Saturday, but most parties here in Slovenia will be happening today. Because I made few more looks that didn't get their own posts I decided to include them all together in one post and tell you something about each one. Maybe you'll get any idea for Halloween makeup. If you want to check my other Halloween makeup looks, just click here. I had two more scarier looks planned for this week, but something came up and I didn't had much time to create them. Well, I'll keep them in mind for the next week. :)

Sexy Clown

I've been seeing these kind of clown looks all over the Instagram and Facebook, and since it was stuck in my head I had to try it. This look actually isn't as hard to do, and if you will be clown for Halloween you will be unrecognizable. I started with my eyes. First I used black eyeshadow to outline where the eyeshadow will end, and then I applied yellow all over the lid. With black eyeshadow I made a flick first and then I blended it into the yellow shade. On lower lash line I applied red eyeshadow, which I blended down towards the cheeks. Then I took creamy black eyeshadow and I draw three lines where I applied red before. Above my eyebrows I draw two triangles. On the point of all lines and both triangles I glued white studs. Then I draw a black nose and clown's mouth. On my neck I draw red and white lines. I had to use red wig, because it seemed like it will be a perfect match for this look and it really was. The eyeshadows that I was using for this look were from Flash palette that I got on eBay and from Sleek Curacao palette.

Capitol Citizen

I had no idea how to call this look, but then I remember I could probably get away with it in The Capitol. I started playing with colours on eyes without knowing exactly what I'm going to do and this came out. I wanted to achieve harsh lines between different colours on eyes at the beginning, and that's the reason the blush is applied the way it is, but in the end I had to blend colours together, because it seemed better that way. I used some yellow, pink, red, orange and blue. I wanted to achieve as crazy look as I could. On eyebrows I made a blue-black gradient to match the look better. In the end I applied black false lashes with blue feathers I bought in Tedi. Here I was using eyeshadows from Sleek palettes Curacao and Ultra Mattes V2, while on cheeks I applied Sleek blush Pomegranate and Essence highlighter Gold Digger. First I made a bit crazier lips, but they didn't really match this look as I wanted, so I just applied pink matte lip liner on them.

Mask Galaxy Makeup

Mask makeup looks are the easiest to do, if you ask me. All you have to do is use your imagination. This mask was planned to be a purple gradient mask, but when I applied and blended all eyeshadows together it reminded me a lot on galaxy, so I added few dots and stars. I filled my brows with black, because brown wouldn't really match the purple nicely, and I also applied eyeliner on upper lid, while I outlined my lower lash line with black. False lashes were a nice addition to this look. Before I started to apply eyeshadow on my face, I outlined the mask with black cream eyeshadow from Flash palette. In the end I draw semicircles with the same black all around the mask and filled them in with pink. For this mask I was using Flash palette, Lady Queen palette with 20 eyeshadows and Sleek palette Ultra Mattes V2 Darks.

Mad Hatter

Who doesn't love Johnny Depp? When Tjaša (I think it was her) suggested me to do one of the characters from Tim Burton's movies, I didn't chose any girl character but a Mad Hatter that was played by Johnny Depp in movie Alice in Wonderland. This makeup was really fun to do, with the exception that I used face painting from Spar that didn't apply nicely and it looked really chalky when it dried. Mad Hatter has blue eyeshadow on one and purple on other eyelid, so I did that. He actually has very bushy orange eyebrows, but because I didn't have anything do to brows I used orange eyeshadow, which I mixed with a bit of red, and I draw bushy eyebrows. His nose is contoured with red, and his temples and hollows of cheeks as well. I also applied a bit of orange blush on cheeks, because I noticed in the movie that he's wearing it. On lips I applied pink lipstick. I made the hat myself from a cardboard. I painted it with black tempera painting. I really like this look, although I did have a problem with blending eyeshadow over this white base, because it wasn't smoothy as I would want.

Pop Art Zombie

Pop art zombie is another makeup that is really popular and I was seeing it all over Instagram. Because it seemed to me like this makeup is quite a challenge, I had to do it. I was mostly using eyeshadows from Flash palette, which are not as hard to work with, but their problem is that they don't dry once they are applied on skin. They stay as creamy as in palette, so the design can be quickly smudged. I'm quite satisfied with this look for the first try. The only thing I would change is that I would blend the eyeshadow on lids. I made it intentionally so harsh looking, but on photos it doesn't look as nice as it looked in my head.

Are you going on a Halloween party today? What kind of scary makeup will you wear? Thank you for reading!

This year I haven't done any Halloween nail art yet, because I was so occupied with makeup, but then Tara from The Beauty of Nail Polish asked me to do a collaboration post for Halloween with her and I couldn't say no to her, since we are true blogging soulmates. We decided to do something on a ghost theme. In October I haven't done much nail art, which is noticeable, because my manicure is far from perfect, but since I had a busy week I didn't want to complicate. I chose purple base, because I'm completely in love with Alessandro Purple Passion nail polish from Glam Rock collection, which is on my nails this whole week already.

The polishes I used for this nail art are: Alessandro Purple Passion, Catrice Lovely Lilac, Essence Black is Back, Essence Wild White Ways and Essence Love is in the Air. I didn't want to do only ghosts on my nails, so I did a scary house and a graveyard with ghosts. Everything I did is painted free-hand.

What do you think about this manicure? Also, don't forget to check out Tara's work, she will definitely impress you with her amazing manicure. Thank you for reading!

I admit I was really excited when Makeup Revolution brand was announced to the world. It was a new inexpensive brand with a big selection of products, but when Freedom Makeup brand started to appeal on social media, it went pass me ... nor unnoticed, but it didn’t seemed so interesting to me. Main reason is because it looks completely the same as Makeup Revolution. Okay, I understand, it’s a sister brand of Makeup Revolution, but creating another brand with almost exact packaging, similar price and the same types of products is just not the most understandable thing. For example, just look at Catrice and Essence. They are sister brands that look completely different and although they offer similar types of products (blushes, foundations etc.) they never copy one another, not the packaging and not the exact shades (we can leave limited edition collections our, okay).

Some time ago Ličila.si surprised us bloggers with few products from this brand. I got palette Jelwels&Riches, bronzer Pro Glow Purr and lipstick Candy Sweet. For the beginning I’m going to review bronzer Purr, for which I actually can’t decided if I like it or not. I mean, I’m not saying it’s a bad product, because for the price the quality is good, but I’m not really sure if this is my type of product. If you want to know more, read further.

The packaging is nothing special, it’s just a simple plastic round packaging with a transparent lid that contains 4 g. What’s cute is the leopard print design of the bronzer itself. This bronzer contains three shades: light brown, dark brown and pink. Although the description on Ličila.si says that you can use each shade on its own, don’t let them fool you. Individual shades are just too small to be used on their own, so you have to mix them. And here we come to the fact that surprised me, although I can’t say very pleasantly. I checked the swatches of this bronzer on many blogs when I got it and on all of them it looked completely brown. And then I swatched it and what I got? When I mixed all shades together I got a brown shade with a strong pink undertone. Something I didn’t expect and I though there must be a mistake. Or I’ve been watching swatches of a wrong bronzer or I didn’t swatch it right. No, it was the same bronzer and yes, I did swatch it right. I don’t know how those girls manage to pull it completely brown, because on my swatches and on my face it looks more pinkish, although the undertone is more noticeable in person than on photos (I suggest you to compare my swatches with the swatches on Ličila.si to see the difference).

This is their middle bronzer. They have darker and lighter as well. Maybe this one works well on darker skin tones, but it looks quite pink on me. And that’s the reason I mostly use it instead of a blush on cheeks (at least when I was testing it for the review) or in a combination with a blush. I started testing it when I was more tanned than I am today, but the pink was still very visible. And here you can see my reason why I can’t decide if I like it or not. I’m not sure pink bronzers are really my thing. Because otherwise this is a great product. It has a silky texture, the colour payoff is great (also of individual shades), and it doesn’t dust too much. I usually start applying it gently and then I build it, because you can quickly apply it too much. It also contains tiny glitter, which isn’t overwhelming on the face, but it gives a nice glow to the cheeks. This bronzer is supposed to be a dupe for Too Faced Pink Leopard, but that one seems more shimmery than Purr.

Although this bronzer has good quality, it’s pigmented and it lasts for a whole day, I can’t really say its strong pink undertone convinces me. It doesn’t really give me a sun kissed look (I look pink only on my cheeks) and it also can’t be used as contour bronzer (too pinkish and shimmery). For me it works only as a blush, which you can see on my swatches. I intentionally applied it more intensive so you could get a better picture (because as we all now camera always makes colours less intensive). Btw, on swatches on upper photos I'm wearing only this bronzer. On Ličila.si you can buy it for 3,95 € and on Freedom Makeup site for £3,50. I would recommend you this product only if you like pink bronzer, otherwise it probably won’t be for you.

Have you tried Freedom Makeup bronzer? How you do like them? Thank you for reading!

*PR product

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