Karlasugar's Contest Prizes!

Sorry I haven't been updating much; had a lot of College work to do. Thought I'd update on my contest prizes that I received;

I won a contest from Karlasugar's MAC Liberty London Giveaway! I chose Ever Hip lipstick and Shell Pearl beauty powder as my prizes!

Here is a dorky picture I took via webcam

Will take swatch photos etc tomorow in the sunlight.

Packages for me!

Look what came in for me today (well, two days ago) ~

Holy stock photo, Batman! Sorry, but I couldn't take a picture of the palette without the flash bouncing back and shadowing some of the words - plus it showed my grubby finger prints.

Courtesy of Kara Genki and her previous contest.

This is probably the best eyeshadow palette I have ever owned. Period (for now at least) I like it better than my Sleek palettes.


Palettes with eyeshadows higher than ten usually have pretty sheer (read as 'rubbish') pigmentation - like my E.L.F. palette - YEAH I'M CALLIN' YOU OUT.

Take a look at the pictures;

Oooh pretty

Please not that some of these are over-lapping.

SWAAAATCHEEEEES :D (Taken by finger dabs, no base)
Swatched in order of the the positions I took the palette's picture.

Pros: 

• Pigmented
• Cheap (apparantly $7 from Sasa)
• Not chalky at all.
• Very soft and buttery
• Yay! Lots of colours!
• Probably handy if you're going to stay over at somebody's for the weekend.

Cons:

• Pain-in-the-ass to open the case.
• Eyeshadows are too soft (crumbly). This palette came to me covered in pink eyeshadow as one of them had slightly broken - kinda my fault though, I had asked to package the palette so it would fit through my letterbox.
• If you tap the palette, dusty eyeshadow comes off - probably not a great idea to carry around your bag if you're prone to throwing it about.
• Placing and arrangement of colours infuriated my OCD-complex; I tried to tear off the dividers to arrange them, but I were too weak..

Summer Love: No 7 Speed Dry Nail Polish in Fuschia Daze

Boots has a special 3-for-2 offer on selected No7 products going on right now.
I went straight for two of their Quick Thinking 4 in 1 Wipes (amazing makeup cleansers, will review them some other day) and didn't know what to choose for my third item - I didn't want their blush, didn't need their lipsticks, lipglosses, other skincare, or sunprotection - so I bought one of their 6 new nail polishes released for the Summer.

Readers, meet No7's, Fuschia Daze

Fuschia Daze - what a misleading name - I always associate fuschia with hot pinks with purple tones. This is downright coral.
I can begin by describing that this is a killer coral shade - it is coral, but has flashes of pink grapefruit due to the wonderful pink shimmery goodness,
I can't explain this colour very well, so I took 10 gazillion photos for you to see its beauty.. Remember to click on the picture to full-view!

It was painfully hard to capture the real-life colour of this shade when swatched. I tried my best - again, here's several pictures to give you an idea;

Two coats swatch on my thumb

I know my nals are horribly stubby due to the fact I've been biting them. I know there is a crease line in one of them because I accidentally touched the edge of a paper when the polish hadn't set yet, and I know I have nail polish on my flesh.
So sue me! D:

Quick notes: Contrary to name, the 'Speed Dry' nail polish line do not actually dry quick. I would say at least about a minute, or just under it - I don't really mind, either way I still wouldn't kick Fuschia Daze outta bed.

Petals, and Peacocks, and Pan

I bought MAC's Amplified Petals & Peacocks lipstick today from the Liberty London collection for the insane UK (plus tax) price of £12.50. That's nearly $20.

Anyway, you've probably already seen 5000x different pictures in other blogs and websites, but I'll just quickly skim through;

Outer Packaging

Go on, tell me more about what you're wearing...

Demon Woman paint

I haven't digitally painted in awhile... I couldn't be bothered drawing for the time being, so I painted another person's lineart (with permission of course)

 Please click to full-view

Original drawing and lineart belongs to Rhea Lewis
View the original lineart here.


 Painted in openCanvas 4, and spent approximately 3 hours on it.

Thanks.