New Tattoo

Today I went to Halo Tattoo to extend my half-sleeve. The tattoo is still wrapped in plastic and sore, but it looks very nice even at this point. It has a bird skull, a cat skull, two roses, a lily and some pearls. On the next sitting colours will be added and a black lace background to tie it in with the top of the sleeve.

The first strokes!

I'll take pictures once I get the plastic wrap off. I usually heal pretty fast, so it shouldn't be too long. The shading looks gorgeous even now!

Kitteh!

We have a new family member. He still doesn't have a name and is feeling very shy. He's a six month old bengal kitten that came to us from an animal shelter. He likes to hang out behind the clothes dryer and on top of closets, but that's okay, it was clearly quite a shock to come to a new home.

I'm expecting earning the kitty's trust will be an interesting experience, I've asked for tips from a friend who works with rescued cats so I'm prepared! At the foster home he already played with humans, but wouldn't let anyone pet him. Here at our place he has sniffed my hand and my other half's hand, so we are clearly becoming friends slowly but surely :)

I was so worried when the kitten wouldn't eat the dry food we gave him, but the problem was that he wanted some real meat. Once that was in the cup, he ate it all!

The kitten came from Kissojen Suojelu, they have an excellent blog telling of the everyday lives of their foster homes, have a look! It's only in Finnish. Update! Kisu also has blog posts in English, you can find them via this link!

Femme Fatale Sinister Calling

I love purple nail polish, and this one by Femme Fatale is no different! It's called Sinister Calling, and it's a purple toned glitter polish. On my pics it's on top of two coats of OPI Ink, a dark purple shimmery polish.

See how many different kinds of glitter it has? There's rose, turquoise, silver and purple in different sizes, and silvery stick glitter and even little stars!

Dolls and Crafts

Yesterday I had a few friends over and we did crafts. There's nothing better than hot tea, cookies and good friends! I had many small projects, like checking what colour of hair I should use for my custom Skelita Monster High doll, drawing a few sketches, finishing pieces of jewellery and glueing doll eyelashes in place.

Skelita and her soon-to-be hair. And my cute bone tiara that needed some hot glue.

I'm loving these colours! The necklace with the rhinestones had been waiting for ages for me to just to replace a few stones that had fallen off. It's one my favourites but for a long time I always forgot to fix it.

Deer skull drawing.

Here's Bella! She's a Soom Glot resin doll. I recently sold my other resin dolls since they were just collecting dust in the closet, but I couldn't part with Bella, she's too precious! I fixed her eyelashes, they had gone wonky when I had carelessly packed her in a box without anything to protect her face. She also needs new strings, the current ones have some how lost elasticity and she constantly wants to nod and curl into a fetal position ;D Might also paint her horns some day.

Bella.

Bella has the cutest pout and I just love her clothes. I have a pink frilly dress for her also, but the shade doesn't match the dusty pink of her cape so I've been planning to sew a new dress that would go better with this outfit. She came with a cape, a tiny corset top and bloomers. Dolly shoes have always been hard for me to find in the styles that I like, so it's a good thing Bella has hooves so I don't need to worry about footwear.

You can see her tiny hooves here. She's too floppy to stand on her own at the moment.

Yes, I'm soon thirty years old and I still play with dolls ;D But she's so cute!

Another Hot Pink Look

I loved Smitten, so I played around with another hot pink eyeshadow too. This is Obsession by Aromaleigh, seen also on my pictures with the swapped dress before. It's a matte hot pink and blends nicely. I used it here with a matte white in the inner corners and on brow bone, and there's just a hint of plum purple shadow (Sugarpill Poison Plum) in the crease, but it doesn't really show.

Sugarpill Smitten

Smitten loose eyeshadow is a limited edition item by Sugarpill. I ordered it as a part of their Valentine's bundle, which included a set of brushes along with the jar of eyeshadow. Smitten is a gorgeous, deep, vibrant hot pink with lots sparkle.

A smoky look with Smitten. Only other products used were primer (Pixie Epoxy by Fyrinnae) black gel liner and mascara.

This one is to show the sparkle better.

I wore Smitten with a matching lip product, it's Maybelline Super Stay 10H Tint Gloss in Forever Fuchsia.

Unlike most Sugarpill loose shadows, Smitten comes in a jar with a white lid.

Smitten in the jar.

I'm really fond of this shadow! Some bright pinks don't work well on my skintone, they make me look like I cried my eyes out the previous night, but Smitten is just the right shade to look stunning with no eyes-red-from-crying -effect. It's a cool toned pink, which might be the trick. The shimmer does not show well over a non-sticky primer, especially if you blend the shadow the sparkle disappears. This way it can be used as a less shimmery pink too. On top of a sticky primer the shimmer and sparkle really comes out!

More Dress Pics

A few more pics from the weekend. I'm wearing Aromaleigh eyeshadow called Obsession, which I bought at the swap. It's such a nice shade of hot pink, a tiny bit too warm for my skin tone, but I'm sure I'll find some other shade that makes it work!

I'm quite excited for continuing the half-sleeve. I want more lace and skulls and flowers on my skin!

I love my nails in the last one ;P Since I started using nail oil regularly, they have grown nice and long and won't break as easily as before. Finally I can wear all my sparkly nail polishes even without first doing gel nails! Gels are nice but I'm too lazy when it comes to maintenance. Maybe at some less busy time of my life I'll wear lovely stiletto nails again :)