OMFG my shoes arrived!!

Aren't they gorgeous? I've been lemming them ever since they popped up on the Tony Bianco website, but $189.95 felt wayyyy overpriced for my poor uni student budget (mind you, at one stage I nearly pressed checkout). For boxing day sales, these babies went down to $60!! I couldn't resist, so I ordered them. That was Christmas night, and what feels like twenty years later finally they arrived this morning. I've been wearing them around the house, they're a tad loose but who cares right? In real life they're slightly darker than the picture, which I prefer.

Anyway, I'm falling behind on my nail posts so here it is!

Face of Australia LUXE Nail Enamel in Foxy Roxy

Face of Australia LUXE Nail Enamel in Minty Mojito

I received these as Christmas presents from the lovely SilhouetteScreams along with two other polishes and a Concrete Minerals voucher. *kisses cheek* My friends know what colours I like in terms of nail polish, so of course they picked taupe and mint xD

Three coats for both shades, and the formula of both are pretty good. I needed three coats because the first two coats were a tad streaky. But overall, easy application and fairly fast drying. I love the names of the shades, Foxy Roxy and Minty Mojito, they're so cute!

As for the colour, the pictures are pretty good representations of what it looks like in real life. I mean come on, TAUPE and MINT. Aren't they just gorgeous colours?

NYE EOTD

I don't take photos of my eyeballs usually, and all of these photos are thanks to SilhouetteScreams snapping away at the midnight fireworks.

This is for my own record really, since I know its horrendous. I'm still learning, so I need to keep track of what products I used!

MAC Brule inner lid
MAC Satin Taupe all over the lid and middle lashline
Etude House Petit Darling Eyes Matte Cocoa outer v and outer lower lashline
MAC Blackline Pearlglide Liner upper lashline
Inglot Eye Shadow 27 (yellow gold) inner lower lashline
Rimmel Sexy Curves Mascara

Welcoming ZOLL

ZOLL is what jkimisyellow on youtube decided 2011 should be. He is so funny, I'm going to make him marry me even if he is gay. Anyway...

Because I never follow through with new year's resolutions, the only new year's resolution I'm going to set for ZOLL is this:

NEVER USE CUTICLE NIPPER AGAIN!!
It's so bad for the cuticles, but its a habit difficult to break. I've been trying hard to avoid it lately, so I hope to never touch it again.

Anyone wanna share their new year's resolutions?

Happy Holidays ^__^

As much as my family does not celebrate Christmas as such, its just such a jolly time of the year! (except for the fact it is raining bucketloads right now, and I nearly died driving home from work)

This year is special because for the first time, I'm actually gonna be celebrating it like a real Christmas at a friend's for lunch/dinner. It was so great of her to invite me for what I gather is generally only a family thing. RUB YOU RONG TIME xo

So I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and eat lots of yummy food :)

Onwards to the nail post-

I've always liked cream-finish brown/grey/beige/taupe nail polish, but lately I'm drawn to glittery polishes. This one is a combination of both, in that it is a taupe glittery polish; Revlon's Ornate Ore.

I really wanted to capture the multicoloured fine glitter, but the best I could come up with is this, which just looks like silver and gold glitter (if even that). It has really TINY sized glitter, so even with one coat there is no grittiness although not opaque. Three coats for full opacity, it was quite runny (but easy to apply) and dried quickly. The colour looks different depending on the light which I love ^__^

Long time no nail post

Thought I'd do a quick nail post! Here it is:

Products used:
Manicare Ridge Filler as a base coat - it doesn't actually fill any ridges, just kinda smooths out the surface

Inglot 319 - love the colour of this, but it is too streaky for me. Dries quickly though!

Revlon Lush Lime - wanted to have lime glitter, but the glitter in this polish is really sparse/transparent, so it just looks like random bubbles on my nails

Etude House Mini French 06 French Silver Glitter - got bored of plain lime green after a couple of hours, so added silver! I can't apply this very neatly, so it resulted in a messy blob of silver.

Seche Vite Top Coat- no further explanation required.

Smokey Eye MAC Technique Seminar

Seminar makes it sound so fancy, but that is the full title of it. On 15th of Dec Wednesday night, I went to a smokey eye lesson at MAC with the Kraken (I know you're reading this, yes I took photos and I'm posting it like you told me to!)

As I've mentioned it in a previous post, I was super excited for it: A 2-hour lesson from MAC makeup artists followed by getting $120 worth of MAC products!! AND THERE WAS FOOD. (pretty much the most exciting thing yes?)

The lesson consisted of a mua applying makeup on another mua, while we followed step by step. Wish I had taken my camera there, but I went straight from being stuck in labs all day so I didn't think that far ==;;

We learned the basics of prepping the skin, applying foundation/concealer then moved on to the eyeshadow. The products used for the eyes were Painterly Paint Pot as a base, White Rabbit, Melt My Heart and Carbon eyeshadows from the Reelers & Rockers palette, and one of the mascaras (I wasn't told which one). On the face, there was a bronzer (dunno which one), Melba blush followed by Viva Glam V lipstick.

I've cropped/resized and adjusted brightness of the photos, but haven't touched anything else (because I don't know how to do that).

Excuse the clump of mascara and the two eyes being uneven. I'm just gonna pretend its because of the angle the photo was taken. These two photos were taken with flash, because I couldn't get the colour to show without flash.


The next day/night when I got home, I wanted to try it again so I don't forget what I learned. I used matte neutrals, which I am more likely to use than shimmery metallics. Here is the failcake I baked.
I really suck at blending clearly. I tried, but all I see are three splodges of colour. Damnit.

Probably the only Christmas present I'm getting this year

My family doesn't celebrate Christmas, because my dad is an atheist. Despite my mum being Christian, what my dad says goes (or so he thinks) therefore we've always just spent Christmas day like any other summer (Australia here!) day. I'm the only one who puts up a tree, decorates it and places gifts under it, but this year I was super lazy and didn't get around to putting up the tree.

So the point of today's post is this:
My bosses at work are AMAZING!! They got EVERYONE at work these gift bags filled with beauty products and lollies (and an envelope with money! REAL money!) as well as nice snacks for morning tea. In the photo there isn't very much junk food left because I ate most of it already xD The big/full size products are Australian: A'kin, Ulittlebeauty, derm organics and Natio. The lipglosses are L'oreal and Sally Hansen. There is a loose powder and eyeshadow from freshMinerals, and a clear nail polish from Sally Hansen. The other things are little samples to try.

When I looked through the products again though, I couldn't help wondering whether they're trying to tell me something or it is merely a coincidence. The lipglosses are nude/neutral, and I'm wondering whether they want me to stop wearing orange/pink lipsticks. The clear nail polish may be suggesting to stop with my colourful nails. But then I could be overthinking it (as I always seem to do).

Anyway, it was such a nice gesture and now I'm wondering what I can get for them to return the gesture. Ideas?


ps. sorry about the CAPS everywhere. I get excited easily.