Winner of the 400 Readers Giveaway!

I'm sorry it took me so long to announce the winner! To make up for it, I have a little surprise for you :)

I counted all the comments (and took away one that was my own explaining that the giveaway is open internationally and a few others that were additional information to the original comment) and used Random.org to see who will win...

And the lucky winner is...

Violette B.

I was very happy that so many people participated and also many new readers found their way to my blog! To show my happiness (and make up for my slowness) I decided to give out three pieces of jewellery made by me, so there will be three extra winners :)

Extra winners' stuff!

Those lucky persons are...

thorne garnet

(who will receive the turquoise glitter earrings)

LisaK

(who will receive the black metallic earrings)

and

ANA

(who will receive the black glittery resin necklace)

Thanks to everyone for participating, it was so nice to see many people interested and all the lovely questions you came up with! For the winners, congratulations, and please send me an email at karoliina.kalma@gmail.com with your address so I can send the goodies to you!

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Just a quick tip for people looking for fun stuff to do in Helsinki! This is Gothic Fest in happening on Saturday in Lepakkomies. It's the first time, but there are four great bands playing and I can promise to play some nice tunes as a DJ ;P My other half sings in Murnau's Playhouse, so you can take a peek at who I complain about dirty socks on the floor.

The tickets are 10 euros and doors open at eight! I'll be there the whole evening and since there are so many bands, I don't think I have much time to play records. That means I'm totally free for chatting with new people, come and say hi :)

Here's a link to the Facebook event for more details.

Pictures from a Party

Here's a few pictures of me playing with a straw from last Saturday's office warming party. Drinking beer with giant straw = totally awesome ;P

Thanks to Jukka for the pictures!

Rainbow Look

I got my Concrete Minerals order on Thursday, so I just had to try on the shadows on Saturday. A friend's company was having their new office's house warming party with a futuristic theme. I opted for my crazy orange shoes and did a colourful eyeshadow look too, just to balance my all-black outfit.

I got 8 Pro-Matte shadows and one regular. I've ordered from the company before, when they were previously only on Etsy and had sample sizes available. I liked the quality then and now! Bright matter shadows are hard to come by, especially ones that are very pigmented and easy to blend. The colours also seemed to work together very well. So here's my over-the-top rainbow look, done just because I loved all the colours ;P

I used:

Missha Perfect Cover BB-cream in 13

Detrivore Pallor Mortis loose powder

Lost in Makeup Land But I Like It blush

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Black mascara

MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack, black gel eyeliner

Sugarpill Bulletproof (black matte eyeshadow, on brows)

Sugarpill Tako (white matte eyeshadow, on brow bone)

Eyshadows from the inner corner out:

Sugarpill Buttercupcake (medium yellow)

Concrete Minerals Ember (bright medium orange)

Concrete Minerals Hi-Fi (dark fuchsia)

Concrete Minerals Queen (dark cool purple)

Concrete Minerals Domino (medium cool blue)

Concrete Minerals Gossip (dirty mint green)

Buttercupcake, Ember, Hi-Fi, Queen, Domino, Gossip and back to Buttercupcake.

Look of the Day

Today I wore a toned down look because I did a video interview in the afternoon. The day turned out to be super busy, but I'm finally home after running around the city on different errands and looking stiff in front of a video camera ;P

Magenta lips with neutral eyes!

I used:

Fyrinnae Moon Child (a light shimmery champagne, on the lid)

Geek Chic Cosmetics The Pointy End (a medium cold taupe, in the crease and on lower lids)

Lumene lipstain in Promise

Maybelline Super Stay 10H Tint Gloss in Forever Fuchsia

I put the stain on first, then the tint gloss on top to make it last longer.

Soft Pink and Orange Look

Inspired by my orange shoes, I wanted to experiment with some less used colours. I used soft pink, light peachy orange and a vibrant darker pink for this look.

I used:

Evil Shades Sweet Alice (very light baby pink, on the whole lid)
Fyrinnae Rapunzel Had Extensions (peachy light orange with a golden shift, on top of Sweet Alice on the outer part of the lid and in the inner part of the lower lid)
Aromaleigh Flutterby (dark pink, in the outer crease and on outer lower lid)
Petrol mascara

I paired a Lumene lip stain with the light eyeshadow, this is Promise.

And an extra picture of my undercut, which I dyed turquoise! It looks very
blue in this picture, but it was taken in the cool morning light.

Outfit of the Day and Wacky Shoes!

I had been toying with the idea of dying my undercut turquoise for a while now, and after I saw a really nice handbag at the window of the shop I usually buy my dye from, my mind was set. Got the dye, got the handbag ;P And, as luck would have it, it is a perfect match for the shoes I bought from a flea market last weekend!

They also had an offer of three items for the price of two, so I also bought two new pairs of jeans. A pair of shoes used as samples were also on discount, but here my fortune failed, and they were just a bit too small. Not that huge of a huge loss, seeing as I might already have enough shoes to last a few lifetimes.

Someone in Tampere with shoe size 37, go ahead and pick up those gorgeous spiky heels from Pro Spot! Even though it's a hip hop style clothing store, they sell Iron Fist and Abbey Dawn, and have the nicest sales persons to boot! I've been going there for hair colour for ages, and they always stop to show what kind of wonderful discount samples they have available at the moment. I'm super lucky to fit most of the samples, so I think I go there more often than the goth stores ;D

Dress - Second hand (maybe H&M)

Jeans - Abbey Dawn

Shoes - Lita copies from a fleamarket, the price tag said they were originally from New York!

Handbag - Abbey Dawn

I wouldn't consider orange to really be my colour, but the shoes were awesome and I thought they would look cool with the black clothes I usually wear. And, naturally, a girl has to have a matching purse to go with the footwear!

A close-up on the shoes. They are Lita copies made from orange fake leather.
They used to have matching orange laces, but for some weird reason the lace
on one shoe had faded and was partly yellow. So I just got new ones and
black laces were a lot easier to find than orange ones! 

Another pic of the shoes!

And the purse. It also has a shoulder strap for easier carrying. I'm crediting
my graphic designer's education for the ability of buying a handbag in the
exact same shade of orange as the shoes, by memory only.
Good to know those four years were not a complete waste of time ;P

Möttönen the kitty naturally wanted to help. She's on a diet but looks
HUGE in this picture!