Sweater Weater Tag 2014

Hi lovelys,

i saw this tag on Elle Fowlers YT channel and i really liked it, so i've decided to answer the questions.

1. Favorite candle scent?

My favorite candle scents are cinnamon, pumpkin space, baked goodies, vanilla.

At the moment my candles that i love to burn are by Candle Lite in Pumpkin Nutmeg Pie and Creamy Vanilla Swirl.

2. Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate?

Coffee!!!! And i love some hot chocolate sometimes. They just started to sell white hot chocolate with coconut in my fav bar and it's yummi :)

3. What's the best fall memory you have?

Meeting my boyfriend in fall of 2009.

4. Which makeup trend do you prefer: dark lips or winged eyeliner? 

Dark lips deffinatelly! I've been wearing just a simple eyemakeup with dark plummy lips every single day. I love my Catrice Ultimate Stay lipstick in Plum & Base :D

5. Best fragrance for fall?

DKNY Be Delicious, it smells like apples and it's just perfect for this time of year.

6. Favorite Thanksgiving food?

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in our country so i will just tell you what we usualy eat on St. Martins Day (November). We always make  stuffed chicken (traditionaly  goose or a duck) with Mlinci and purple cabage. And wine is a must!

7. What is autumn weather like where you live?

It's sometimes windy, the temperature is changing almost every day, sometimes we have sun and sometimes rain...i like rain so i don't mind :)

8. Most worn sweater?

My H&M sweater...

9. Must-have nail polish this fall?

Catrice Luxury  Million Brilliance in 05 Plum Fiction and my bourgundy gel :)

10. Football games or jumping in leaf piles?

Jumping in leaf piles if i must choose one.

11. Skinny jeans or leggings?

Leggings!

12. Combat boots or Uggs?

Uggs

13. Is pumpkin spice worth the hype?

In candle yes, but i haven't tried it in coffee or in pies. 

14. Favorite fall TV show?

Grey's Anatomy, The Walking Dead and Stargate (it's an old show but i am watching it with my boyfriend at the moment so it counts for me)

15. What song really gets you into the fall spirit?

Guns'n'roses- November Rain...you can see in the title why haha i love the song and Slashs solo in it tho...

Hope you loved this tag, i tag everyone who would like to do it. And if you do this tag please send us a link in the comments so we can check out your lovely answers :)

Have a lovely day! 

Ajda

REVIEW: Catrice Absolute Matt eyeshadow palette

Hello lovelies :)

I have enough neutral matt colours in my stash already, so when I got this palette I wanted to give it to my sister, since I do not really need it. But I decided to try it out and I was really surprized with the quality of it. 

The palette comes in a sleek plastic packaging with a transparent lid. Bottom of the packaging is black and it has some instructions for the look you can do with this palette. It contains 6g / 0.21 oz. of product (6 eyeshadows, 1g each). The packaging feels nice, aldough it is plastic and it is sturdy enough to survive traveling. You also get a double ended applicator with a brush on one end and a spondge tip applicator on another. It is not the best applicator but it is good for application on the go.

What Catrice says about this palette:

Six longlasting matt shades that suit anyone and any occasion - Simply a must-have! The silky and smooth texture comes in a variety of matt shades from light to dark and can be combined easily. With double-ended brush for easy application.

This palette consists of only neutral matt colours, both cool and warm toned. All of the colours are a bit powdery in the pan, but there was no fallout (I always tap off excess of my brush). All of them blended nicely and did not appear patchy on my lids. The first colour (white) goes a bit sheer on the lids, but others are nicely pigmented.Eyeshadows lasted on me for good 9 hours an then started creasing on be, there was also a bit of fading.

The first shade is pure white, I especially like it for a highlight or blending out other shades. It is not the most pigmented but it can be more opaque if you pat it on the lids. the next shade is a brownish flesh colour that can also be used as a highlight or a blending shade, I especially like to use it on the lid or as a base colour for my make up. It is a bit too light to be a crease colour (at least for my skin colour)

Next two colours are quite similar, yet still a bit different. The first one is a cool taupe colour and the second one is warm based medium brown that is just a hint deeper than the taupe colour. 

The last two shades are the darkest shades in the palette,one is a warm based dark brown and another one is a blackened brown colour. Both are pigmented and I like to use them for my eyeliner or for my brows.

 All in all I was plesantly surprized with this palette. I like matt eyeshadows, but drugstore matt eyeshadows are usually not the best quality. I am sure many of us already have these colours in our make up stash, so it might not be a must have for us, but if you are starting with make up, or are in need of a nice drugstore matt neutral palette I think this would be a nice palette for you.

Did you try this palette or any other from the Catrice line?

Have a nice day :)
Tjaša ;)

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Nagrada:

- Catrice volumizing lip booster

-Catrice 3 in 1 skin tone adapting make up in 010 lighter skin

-Essence Lash Princess mascara

-Catrice Million Styles effect top coat

-Essence effect nail polish in 22 I <3 magic

-Essence soo blush! in 10 sweet as a peach

-Essence soo glow! in 20 bright up your life

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NOTD: Moo Moo's on my nails

Hello lovelies :)

I can not get enough of my white nail polish. Mostly I am just wearing it alone, but from time to time I do a nail art with it where I use it as a base colour. I saw a similar manicure on instagram quite some time ago and I decided to recreate it.

Products used:

* Zoya - Snow White

* Essence - 144 black is back

* Essence - Hey Smiley

* Micro Cell 2000 Nail Wonder

First I used Micro Cell 2000 as a base and applied Snow White (2 coats). After everything was nice and dry i used Hey Smiley to paint my thumb pink and after that I used Black Is Back to do spots and eyes on my thumb and spots on my other nails.

I am loving the finished result, how about you?

Have a nice day ;)

Tjaša ;)

Nail polish 101: the horror of the white nail polish

Hello lovelies :)
Is white nail polish still in fashion? I can not tell because, to be honest, I was never into fashion and anything related to it. In fashion or not, I finally bought one, because I needed one (or so I told myself) for a manicure that I had in mind (that I will hopefully do soon). But one does not simply buy a white nail polish and use it, oh no no, it is much more complicated than that. White nail polishes are known to be one of the hardest to get right (alongside with other beautifull light colours), because they are eather thick and opaque or thin and sheer (we are talking translucent). And I learned that the hard way… Let's just say that when I first painted my nails white it looked like I had Grand Canyon on my nails. But practice makes perfect and trough some trial and error I finally managed to »master« the art of applying white nail polish. I would like to share with you today how I apply this white goodness. Please feel free to leave any more tips and your favourite white nail polish :)

Show & Tell: Essence gel nails at home

Hello lovelies :)

How are you? We have a bit of a different post today. Sometimes I have a product that I want to talk about, but do not want to write a review on, and this is how I thought of this new little gem called Show & Tell. It is really quite simple. I show you the product and tell you something about it. It is more of a 'my experience with this product' kind of a thingy. I would really like to know your thoughts and experiences with the products I will talk about in this segment :D Today I want to talk to you about the Essence gel nails at home.

REVIEW: Real Techniques blush brush & stippling brush

Hello lovelies :)

I got my hands on some more RT brushes the previous month and I do not ever want to let them go :P I love to use these soo much I could not keep them clean even for a day, so they are a bit dirty (please forgive me). I am talking about the blush brush and a stippling brush. I was especially curious about the last one, since I did not have any stippling brushes before.

Both of the brushes have a thick pink hande with a black rubberized end that they can stand on. The handle feels nice in hands, it is not too thick or too clumsy. As always I expect RT brushes to be quite bigger than they actually are, and these are no exception. Both are smaller than I thought, but I like that, because it makes them more travel friendly and it gives you more control with make up application. Both brishes have sintetic hair that feels really nice and soft on the skin. They are still soft after a few washes and there was no shedding of the bristles.

BLUSH BRUSH

The bristles of this brush are cut in a very nice egg shape, that really enables precise application. It can be used for highlighting, blush, contour, bronzing and setting powder. I don't like to use it with a powder, since it does not grab as much product as I would like (I like to pile that powder on my face), but it worked well with al the products. The tip of the brush enables more precision, whish I especially like for the blush application. Bristles are black with greyish ends.

STIPPLING BRUSH

This is a duo fibre brush with shorter black bristles and longer white bristles sticking out of it. I used it for foundation, cream highlighter and cream blush. When used with a foundation it gives a really nice natural finish with no streakiness. I especially like to use it with my thicker foundations, because the brush sheers them down a bit and makes them look more natural.

All in all I really like these brushes, I really think you can not beat the quality for the price and I am not surprized that so many people use it. You can get both of these brushes at Ličila.si for 12,95€ (blush brush) and 14,95 € (stippling brush), Destination pretty for 12,45€  (blush brush) and 13,55€  (stippling brush) or moja drogerija for 12,95€ (both).

Do you have any RT Brushes? What do you think of them?
Have a nice day ;)
Tjaša ;)