Makeup - Peacock Eyes

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The weather today was just too awful for me to hope taking nail pictures so let's have some other kind of fun. Here is a very bold and colorful look that I did a whlile ago and that I love to do every now and then. It is not going too bad with grey green eyes, fair skin and brown hair imo. Sorry for the lack of detail pictures and for the affected pose, the pics of this serie were made as self-portrait research (since I'm working on self-portrait) and not really to show the make-up. :)

I'm not especially doing great in make up and have no pretence whatsoever in this domain but I love to have fun. During years, I have not gone out of black and gold on my eyes because I thought I would look bad or ridiculous with bright colors but I suppose we can rock any color if we want. As long as we keep faithful to ourselves. In my case: always a black smoky as a base! =) On here, I love how blue green eyeshadow on a dark base goes with the beige cream lips.

Here's what I used but many dupes can be found.

Face - Sisley Phyto-teint in "0 - Porcelain", Sisley concealer in "Light", Blush agnès b. "Abricot Vitaminé" (= Mac Blush "Peaches")

Eyes - Sisley black khôl (intense black), ck Calvin Klein eyeshadow in "Night Dust" (pure intense matte black) (= Mac Carbon), Bourjois "Suivez Mon Regard "Reflets Or" (as a highlighter) (=?), Bourjois "Suivez Mon Regard "Bleu Swimming Pool" (medium lavender blue with green shimmer) (= Mac Teal Pigment)

Lips - ck Calvin Klein in "Inspiration" (creamy rose-peach beige) (= Mac "Teddy Velvet"?)

Skinfood Nail Vita overview: the BLACK/WHITE family

(All pictures are from Skin Food)

Here's the seventh of the 9 "Nail Vita" families: Black and White which goes from BW701 to BW705. Those shades include also the transparent polish called "water".

BW701 - "Night Pearl" (black shimmer)

BW702 - "Water" (transparent)

BW703 - "Light Silver" (light silver)

BW704 - "White Angel" (???)

BW705 - "Black" (plain black cream)

The description is mine based on pictures observation and the bottles I have. I might not be totally right but not completely wrong either.

Diamond Cosmetics - Chainmail Charm

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Long time no post! I hope your holidays are full of beautiful moments and that you spent a great Christmas time. It is never a happy moment of the year for me and I always tend to feel heavy-hearted and lonely during the 2 last weeks of the year. It all depends our familial background and if we feel emotionally supported, I suppose. This time of the year enhance the differences.

Anyway, back to what I wanted to talk about: Chainmail Charm! Today, it was marvelously sunny so I thought I'd take advantage of this by wearing a polish that reveal its full potential under the bright sun. You know, I've never been a huge glitter lover in general (because of the grittiness) but I immediately adored holographic polishes. They always are so smooth and shiny and interesting to look. They remind me of insect eyes, rainbows, something very surnatural and yet natural.

The base of Chainmail is a charcoal grey slightly leading into the brown territory. Let's say dark warm grey that appears to be more brown in plain sun and more neutral grey indoors. It's really beautiful, both classy and full of fantasy. I could really see this polish worn with very classical grey clothes, it would bring a discreet touch of fun. The formula is very good. It applies very well, dry super fast and it is perfect in just 2 coats. The holographic effect is not as strong as those of China Glaze's OMG collection but it is anyway very visible and even indoors, it manages to spread rainbows.

I have no idea how it compares to Color Club "Revvvolution" or the original version of OPI "My Private Jet" since I don't have any of those. They are for sure all in the same family and I suppose the difference lay in slight differences of holo intensity and opacity. I don't mind not having the OPI and the Color Club because this one is just the perfect charcoal grey holo and that's all I wanted. Plus it's cheap and not hard to find at all, even for us European girls. In short, great. :)

Pink Giveaway!

What is prettier than pink color?

AllYouDesire is having a very cute giveaway themed on pink.

Check it out! Cutee! Contest ends on January 23rd. :)

Manga your face, girls!

Let's play a bit today... And let's face your manga!

It's really too fun not too do it and it only takes 5 minutes. Or a bit more for perfectionnist like me, ah ah. Plus it's so easy that even little children can do it. I did mine, see! With and without my glasses and with a pony tail. And even my sister says it's really me. Will you do it? If you do so, please show me! I love to see them. =)