Easy Neutral Look

Just another easy everyday look done with the Revealed palette by Coastal Scents. I stayed late in the office and had a pole dancing lesson in the morning, super tired now so only a few pictures! I tried a Maybelline Superstay 10H Tint Gloss in brown on my lips, got it on discount and thought to give it a try. I think it's too brown for me, but maybe it works for office looks. It's kinda nineties. I used Rimmel Scandaleyes eyeshadow pen as liner, it arrived in a LivBox which I ordered to try out. It's a simple, easy black pen, but I feel it's better as a liner than for doing the whole lid.

I'm heading to Helsinki again for the weekend and I'm supposed to be packing my bag, but I'm so tired I'm sure I'll forget something!

Femme Fatale Look

I love Femme Fatale's duochromes, I confess! I have a few and decided to order those very same ones for the 600 readers giveaway because they were just gorgeous. They had a sale at the time so I wanted to try a few new ones. After lots of pondering I decided on Banshee Scream and Sugar Crush. Both are awesome!

Banshee Scream is a murky light greyish blue with a strong green shift. This colour seems to glow on the skin!

Sugar Rush is a light purple with a blue-green shift. In the jar it's looks a bit like The Nightmare, but on skin is much lighter.

The shades go great together and are so so pretty on their own. I think I have to go shopping again, since Femme Fatale just announced eleven new eyeshadows that are all droolworthy!

I wore The Nightmare on my lower lid so you can see how much lighter Sugar Rush in in the crease and blended up. On the lid is Banshee Scream, also padded on the tearduct.

Just look at that glow!

And a full face, I paired the shadows with a plum toned lipstain.

600 Readers Giveaway!

It took me some time but here's the 600 readers giveaway, finally! Also to celebrate my blog's second b-day, yay! I wanted to pick the prizes so that they are great products that I have used and loved. All items are bought by me personally (well, except for the necklace, which I made).

The prize

In the end I settled on these things:

1. Topshop Velvet Lip matte liquid lipstick in Raven, pitch black. This stuff stays and stays! You can see me wearing it here. Incidentally I'm also wearing two of the three eyeshadows in the same picture.

2. Three eyeshadows by Femme Fatale, The Nightmare, Faerie Fire and Nethermancer. I just love The Nightmare and Faerie Fire, both have a strong green sheen. Faerie Fire is lavender and The Nightmare a dark purple, they go great together! Nethermancer I haven't tried myself, but it looked like it would work with both shades. It's a medium purple with a blue shift. Here you can see The Nightmare and Faerie Fire in action.

3. A skull with bat wings necklace made by me! It's band new and never worn. The skull has cool little rhinestone eyes to give it some sparkle.

To participate in the giveaway you need to do the following:

1. Follow my blog. Write on your comment how you follow it.

2. Leave a comment on this post telling me what is your favourite post on the blog so far.

3. Leave your email address in the comment also, so I can contact you easily if you are fortune's favourite!

The giveaway is open until 5.2.2014 and it's open internationally. Good luck!

London Calling Look

This is Darling Girl Cosmetics' London Calling, the blue I never thought to find! I'm usually not a big fan of blues, but chose to order this one since it actually looked very burgundy in the shop picture. I'm glad I did, because it's gorgeous! The pink-copper sheen on indigo base looks great and makes the eyeshadow really complex, it looks like I have more than one shade on my lids. I did put some shimmery white in the inner corners, but the blue alone looks like blue and purple and red depending on the angle.

As a side note, London has been calling me lately! I've wanted to visit Stonehenge for a long time and recently read an article that there was a new visitor's center constructed next to it. I've been to London a few times, but it's been years since the last visit. Maybe this summer London could be an option for a vacation :)

Bees.

I really liked the bat earrings I got a while ago, so I went browsing on Lumissa's Purple Octopus' Facebook page and found a set of earrings and necklace I really liked. Luckily they were still for sale so I just had to get them! They are bee themed and I think they have a nice steam punk vibe going on.

The necklace has a big bee, some gears and black glass beads.

Almost getting the earring in focus ;P

And there! There are tiny bees on the earrings!

Moar Hats!

Now that the bachelorette party is over, I can share pictures of the other hats I made! I got the job of making little hats for everyone participating. They turned out to be a great idea, it was easy to make sure no one got lost when you could just count the little tufts of tulle you could see. And everyone liked their hat, which was great!

There were nine hats altogether, with the fanciest one naturally for the bride-to-be. I made the bases myself with felt and sugar, then used the leftover fabric from my shortened dress to make them match the wedding theme colours which were white, grey and blue. For decorations I bought a a meter of dark grey tulle and a meter of lighter grey tulle, and some grey organza. I made some rosettes with the fabric and scoured the shops for other suitable decorations, which ended up being a pile of discount white hair clip flowers from H&M, a pack of  glittery snow flake Christmas decorations, a packet of fake branches and two little white birds. I already had some blue veiling and a lot of white soft tulle stashed away.

This one was for the bride-to-be!

 It's hard to see the sizes from the pictures, but all of the hats were quite small so they stayed on nicely with just one clip. I almost ran out of hair clips but noticed I could use the clips from the hair flowers I had already gotten for decoration and all was well! The bride's hat got extra treatment, I glued silver toned beads to it and too time to glue some petals on the branches to look like flower buds. I didn't want all the white flowers to be the same size, that looked boring, so I cut off some outer petals from a few and used those cut petals as buds. I think it worked really well!

Some of the participants told me they'll use the hats at the wedding also. I'm so happy everyone liked theirs, and it's such an easy accessory! It's good to know the hats get some use even after the party, and they do match the theme colours.

Harmony Garden Look

Sorry about the bad lighting! Taking pictures is such a pain during the winter.

This was the look I did to go out and listen to Harmony Garden after Christmas. I like a nice colourful look now and then, and I had plenty of time to paint my face so this happened! And the gig was very nice, my other half and I also bought Harmony Garden's new album but I have yet to listen to it.

I used:
Shiro Cosmetics - Steve (bright aqua)
Evil Shades - Suffocation (light pink on the lid)
Sugarpill - Tako (matte white, on brow bone and inner corner)
Madd Style Cosmetics - Fabby Lala (purple on the out edge)