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Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Friday, July 19, 2013
EOS Max Pure Grey lens review
I've been uploading really slow lately. The pressure is on for Guyana and I'm barely managing to get by... to distract myself from my frustrations I'm making a little break to get into the recent events of the last month or so xD
A little while ago I had posted my review for these lenses up to my Youtube channel. Now for the detailed blog report~
I had gotten these lenses through Kiwiberry1-collection last summer for my Michiko to Hatchin cosplay. If you've been following me since then, you probably remember my rant against whatever lens store I had a problem with before.. xD
Unfortunately these didn't make it on time for my cosplay at Otakon but hopefully they'll last until NYCC, if I decide to attempt Michiko again with my friend.
Anyways, the reason why I chose these lenses was because of the err.. "paradoxical boldness". The design itself is a very subtle kind of grey, and it sort of 'melts' away towards the center. At the same time, it does have the dark ring that gives most circle lenses that 'pop', but even then, the tone of the greys make it look 'well-blended'.
I found these to be perfect to try and portray Michiko Malandro, who have these really doe-like eyes that sometimes make her look somewhat innocent and naive, and at other times sultry and full of her sassy personality.
An old photo from last December. You can definitely see the similarity, not only in design, but capturing the actual personality of the character, depending on the style of eyemake.
More recent photos.
In case you're wondering about my lash game that day~
My usual Angel Diamond lash (inner-center) paired with some other generic lash, but then the bottoms are half of the 'Shiny Eye' Fairy Lash (center) with halves of LOLdisintegrating 'Princess' Diamond lashes. I customed the Princess lash to look a certain way since they were literally falling apart on me.
Shot in a darker setting.
Design-wise, I give a 10/10. They met my expectations 100% according to what I was looking for above~
Enlargement-wise, I also give a 10/10. FYI these are a 14.5mm size, and with the design it doesn't have a super-enlarging effect. For those who would like to wear this with no makeup, these will look really good and won't make you look freakishly soulless.
As far as Comfort though, I'd give an 8/10. In the beginning I had issues with these sitting well in my eye, mainly feelings of dryness and discomfort. Eventually I guess whatever caused that finally got soaked off, but once in a while I get issues of discomfort with these. I'd say rather than the general 8 hours or so, these usually last maybe 5-6 hours before I need to grab some saline.
You see I'm trying to finally catch up on all my posts~ I have another review or two on the way and then I should be posting my next giveaway today or tomorrow so stay tuned!
♥
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
My Skincare Routine~
I decided to use part of my rest day to make a video about my skincare regime! It was a one-shot video since my video editor is being retarded and I kind of don't want to touch it right now. e___e I'm thinking of going back in to try and edit my eyemakeup video again but I kind of don't want to deal with it possibly crashing again for stupid reasons.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Victoria's Secret Semi-Annual gets (Jan 2013)
I got myself a little haul as always during VS's semi-annual~
It was a bit difficult for me this time around because of my trip to Guyana which basically depleted my cashflow for a few weeks. But with VS being evil and coming out with not just one, but ~3~ holiday Bombshell fragrances? I had to do swipe stuff up quick.
If you don't know me like that, Bombshell has always been my favorite fragrance from Victoria's Secret-- so whenever they come out with a special Bombshell fragrance I feel obligated to buy it.
The holiday fragrances were "Bombshell Diamond", "Bombshell Platnium", and "Bombshell Sparkle". The boxes were designed in a way to be like Christmas ornaments..
Aren't they beautiful? ; u;
It was more difficult to find Diamonds when the sale started...
I'm assuming that it was the most popular of the three, not only because of the fragrance, but the design of the perfume bottle as well. It has a 'choker' with cascading stones that looks really sexy.
Sparkle is completely covered in pink glitter, while Platinum is covered in silver glitter with silver chrome stripes.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the matching lotions and body spray with these.. but I'll live, haha
And then I succumbed to PINK stuff.... a sports bra and these hot pink sequined shorts.
I was never really one for PINK, but when I looked at VSX and saw that their stuff either wasn't in my correct size or wasn't flattering me that well, and that the prices weren't all that low, I decided to look in the PINK section and I snatched these up.
The sequined shorts were the last pair in my size.. I had to. pink, flashy, and on sale? yep.
The sports bra was more to just go with it. I was never one for sports bras but my God, I love this bra so much now haha. The only thing is that the material is not all that breathable I guess, but I'm forever wearing it around the house and stuff.
And then as far as cosmetics, I didn't go all out. I honestly didn't really like the tones of the lipstick they had, and I wasn't really bent on getting their bigger seasonal makeup palette or anything like that, so I settled on these two.
The bronzer does a pretty good job, it leaves me with a pretty nice glow without being too much. My other bronzer from VS is a bit darker and I mainly use it for contouring, so this is my bronzer when I want to just dust all over my face and body. They had the bigger version of it, but I decided against it because I was kind of tight on money at that moment.
And then there's the "Diamonds After Dark" duo shadow in "Jewel Thief"...
I mainly wanted to get this because I barely have any cooler colors~ so I was like hey, it's silver & blue~ The shadows are very soft, which may be a plus or a negative for some~ I did try doing a makeup look with it that came out okay, but I think I need a better primer or cream shadow underneath for these shadows. I think I'll also try to look into some actual glitter as well to go along with this.
So I didn't get -too- crazy on the sales... but now VS is coming back with their 'Secret Reward' cards again, so I'll probably be going nuts with that in the coming weeks @ w@
Monday, February 4, 2013
Had my nails did...
I had done it.
I had finally got my er.... nail...cherry popped and had them done.
I've never had anything more than stick-on nails, or regular nail polish on my own nails. For the longest time I grew my own nails, but this time I had decided to just jump in on that sweet smelling crack that is arcylic.
I went (and got lost on the way) to Rio's place in godknows, New Jersey, where we spent all night doing my nails, trololoing her boyfran on skype, and listening to some old school music and ratchet songs.
My outfit going to her house. Shouldn't have dressed like a sl00t... the guys in NJ are 400% thirstier than the guys in NYC.
Rio's workdesk... when we were tacking on stones and stuff..
This isn't even HALF of her collection... her nail and makeup collection is almost legendary
One of the nails... I ended up going with like a fuchsia x plum and silver thing... the big rhinestones I got from Toho Shoji in the city. I really loved the pinkish nails though, next time I get my nails done I'm getting a whole set like those * w* yiss
My left thumbnail.. Rio showed me how to construct this.. arcylic nail work is SO much easier than I expected.
I think I found a new hobby to learn.
BOOM
It was maybe stupid for me to have gotten them done when I did... I had to get them removed before I went to Guyana, which sucked xD But by then, a good portion of my nail had grown out and some of the stones were gone so it was alright xD yep
Definitely doing it again~
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