Still Alive

I'm still here.

As you may have noticed, I haven't posted anything in several months, and I'm truly sorry that I disappeared without any explanation or anything.

I didn't feel like applying bright/ interesting makeup and as I didn't do anything cool/pretty, I didn't have anything to share or write about.

Most of my daily looks since November have been either neutrals or basic smokey eyes. Some days even just plain mascara, and nothing else. My inspiration and will to apply makeup was totally gone.
I used makeup because I had to, not because I wanted to.

On top of all this, my camera started to act weird. Pics were weirdly toned, out of focus, too bright/too dark (despite the settings). So if I happened to get an inspiration, I didn't get a decent photo of the look.

During January I had to get myself a new phone, and my new phone has a pretty good camera (not as good as D-SLR of course, but good for a phone camera), and I have started slowly doing and photographing my looks again:

So there's a light at the end of the tunnel at the moment, as for my big surprise I have also gotten good photos with my D-SLR again, so yay :)

If you're interested of what I've been doing lately (with makeup I mean), go check out my facebook fanpage or my instagram.

I did peeking Magaman look...

And bright Sugarpill look....

..and simple Illamasqua inspired Valentines look...

.. pop art look inspired by Makeup Geek's Weekly Challenge

... and glittery "anti-valentine's day" look.

LOTD: MAC metals

I thought I'd try to make these Look of the Day posts again..

Anyway, my today's look was made mostly with MAC pigments, featuring Sugarpill's Goldilux:

And here's how it looked:

I think I didn't quite capture the metallic shimmer it had, but believe me, it was quite metallic :D

Here's how the colors are placed:

And full face:

LOTD: Hypnotize

I've been silent so long, that I just have to break the silence with something.
So this will be a quick and short post of my today's look (or LOTD, Look Of The Day):

I was going to the dentist, so I didn't want to do anything too crazy, so I went with quite natural look with winged liner and bold lips (BTW, bad idea to wear lipstick when going to dentist, I wasn't thinking very clearly :P)

I used the the black and the light colors from MUFE Smokey palette:

Eyes: 

• Benefit Stay don't stray primer
• MUFE Smokey palette
• UD Zero pencil
• Isadora Blonde inliner kajal
• Lancome Hypnose Drama mascara

Cheeks:

• Geek Chic Nerdgasm blush (I LOOOOOVE this one!!)

Lips:

• Illamasqua Petulant Intense Lipgloss

I have several review posts coming, but I haven't lately been able to write them.
For the last few weeks my teeth have been killing me, I had a horrible infection in one tooth, and my wisdom tooth was also causing me pain.
Basically I've been rolling on the floor crying for pain, so I hope you all understand that I haven't been able to sit down on the computer and concentrate to my blog.

Chaotic Neutral

Hola!

I've been quite "boring" with my looks lately...

I received these to palettes full of MakeupGeek's eyeshadows (they should arrive to MUG store in few weeks or so):

I then arranged them to colorful and neutral, and I'e been using the neutrals quite a lot!

They are highly pigmented, and I adore the colors <3
I'll make a better post about them, once they are officially released.

But here's few of my latest looks with them:

 (I used colors called Taupe Notch and Bada Bing)

Cinderella and Sensuous

Moondust, Shimmy Shimmy and Corrupt

And non-makeup related news:

I got my first Monster High beauty!
Isn't she gorgeous:

And if I'm silent, it's because of this:

16 hours behind, haven't really even scratched the surface. <3

PS.

Winner of the Illamasqua competition is Carly Bourne! Superduperhyper congratulations to her! <3

This will lash forever

Hello!

I finally used my Paperself lashes I got from Asos.com, these are called Small Peonies:

Like said, the lashes are paper, so you need to be really careful with them when you use them.
But they are quite stunning in their own way!

 I wouldn't use these publicly, but they are awesome for different photoshoots, masquarades, halloween etc.

Mine aren't probably applied very carefully, I didn't want to use too much glue on them, so I could maybe use them again too :D

And while we talk about lashes, I can share my today's look here as well. Not paperlashes, but individual lashes, once again:

 Super simple, just Fyrinnae's French Vanilla Shake, mascara, and few lashes :D

I have like million posts saved as drafts, because they are all missing something. I have reviews halfway done, lookposts waiting texts, tutorial pics waiting for cropping...

Cake is a prize

Hello again everyone!

I'm sorry I haven't really updated my blog recently, I've had so much stuff happening, like my birthday:

Cake wasn't a lie

I'll also been a bit ill, and I've slept a lot.

I also took part to a Make Up For Ever's contest, where the goal was to do a makeup inspired bt Within Temptation's new The Unforgiven album. (I mentioned it in this post, where you can find the look that I did) To my HUGE surprise I was chosen as one of the three finalists!
All of us finalist had to re-do the makeup in front of the judges (to make sure we hadn't used photoshop/we really had done the looks ourselves), and then the pictures of our looks were sent to Within Temptation's lead singer Sharon den Adel, who will choose the winner in the next couple of days.
I did good job with my look, I got quite a lot of compliments (and some critique, but nothing really bad), and I also took some photos of the event BUT I forgot my camera to the contest place at MUFE. Hooray for me!
So you'll have to wait for my pics a bit longer (I hope I'll be able to tell who won, and what place did I get), but here's a pic of the three best looks:

Taken by Jonna@desplumesnoires

 

 

 

Taken by Jonna@desplumesnoires

On the left there's Jonna's bullethole look, in the middle my look, and on the right amazing shatered mirror look (I unfortunately didn't catch the name of the makeup artist).
One of us will win a trip to Paris, and others get MUFE stuff and Within Temptation stuff!
But the biggest prize for me was to get to the finals. There was over 70 participants, and my works was one of the best three. I was also told, that my look was the favourite of the radiostation's workers, who were one part of the judges.
So yay for me! :D

But like I said, I'll get back to this subject when I'll get my own camera and know the winner etc :)

Then some random makeup looks:

Sugarpill Goldilux, Sugarpill Poison Plum, MAC Reflects Bronze, BeautyUK Purple Haze liner

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Some Gaga inspired...

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And today's look mainly to show my new head jewellery (is that even a word?) headdress I bought as a birthday present for myself: