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BOURJOIS Healthy Mix Serum Foundation I think I finally tanned a little, though my neck is still ghostly pale, but I nonetheless started using this foundation on its own, without mixing it with a lighter foundation. I absolutely love it, I have for all these years, no matter the season because it just blends into the skin so well that is looks almost invisible, but still gives me a light-medium coverage. I know some people dislike the dewy finish it leaves, but I love it because it makes the skin look so fresh and I also like how fast it sets, therefore there is none of that "foundation stickiness" that I dislike.  COLLECTION Lasting Perfection Concealer About a week ago my skin started to act up and I reached for full coverage concealers a lot more than usual. Nars' Chantilly is very light, so I used mostly Collection's one as they are so similar anyway. This covers so well and it also layers good enough if the spot you're covering is particularly stubborn. I re...

Champagne Rain is a champagne gold shade made out of tons of little shimmery bits. I have to say I'm enjoying this shade more than I expected to, as the final effect looks super glam and I always wanted a shade that would look gold, but not so much that it would look a bit orange against my skin tone. It's opaque with two coats because the shimmer is actually very densely packed. The brush is a nice one and fits my nails perfectly as it completely matches the curve at the base of my nails. The one thing I'm not so happy about is that it doesn't always end up even . You can see that on my index finger in the pictures and it happened again the second time and the third time I wore this nail polish. However, since it's a nail polish with a texture, it's not that noticeable from far away. This is the nail polish you deeply regret applying when it comes to removal as it takes forever , but luckily due to the shimmer being so firmly stuck on the nails, the staying ...

Concealers are some of the first beauty products I started buying and exploring. In all this time I've come to a realization that the concealers market is very undernourished here in Slovenia and it almost feels like they are deliberately trying to keep the good stuff away from us. That's why four out of five concealers featured in this post are only available abroad or online, as I won't talk about concealers that I don't believe in, just for the sake of easier availability. Ones I liked that I bought here were Artdeco's Perfect Teint Illuminator, YSL Anti-Cernes Multi-Action Concealer (stick concealer with a lovely creamy formula, but very expensive) and Essence Stay all Day (decent for the price, but there are so much better ones abroad). I've heard good things about L'Oreal's True Match Touche Magique Concealer, but I haven't tried it yet. MAYBELLINE Anti-Age The Eraser Level of coverage: Medium   I've been in love with this concealer since I...

Besedilo v slovenščini je na koncu objave. These lipsticks first attracted my attention when I was looking for the description of makeup products used on Emma Stone for the Golden Globes this year. The lipsticks weren't sold then yet, but I kept the name of these in the back of my mind (her shade was called Iris). Ultra HD is a line of lipsticks without wax and with intense pigments, which means that they are incredibly light, soft and moisturising. Being wax-free could present itself as a problem if you tend to forget your lipsticks in a hot car, also I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be with a darker, brighter shade as things could get smudgy, however, in case of a light shade such as Rose that creaminess is a very good thing. Oh, and did I mention these are all named after flowers which is so cute. My favourite flower is gladiolus , so I might get that shade one day just for the sake of the name. Colour: Rose is a light, neutral-warm pink that gives enough colour to my...

When this whole 90's trend exploded, I was way out of my depth. Everyone raved about Mac's Soar and Brave, while around these parts, where we can't get Mac, it was all about Essence's Cool Nude, Come Naturally and Satin Mauve . I tried the latter to give this very coveted look a try, disliked it with passion and gave up on the trend, dismissing it as not for me. But then Essence launched a new line of lip liners, which includes a shade called Lovely Frappuccino that again became a very popular colour and after a few months of checking it out, seeing reviews everywhere and mostly because my fellow blogger Sara told me to just get it already, I finally parted from those 1.59 € and gave it a go. It turned out to be one of my favourite purchases this year. Based on the colour of packaging, I'd never picked it up as it's one of the fugliest colour I've seen, but don't be fooled, it doesn't look one bit like that on the lips. It's a natural deep pink/...

I've raved about the scent in my New in post and I'll do it again. This smells so juicy and it's perfect for summer. Rhubarb & Orange smells tropically fruity sweet, but a tiny bit bitter, which makes is so fresh, like a nice fizzy glass of soda. If you're familiar with drinks you can get in Slovenia and possibly neighbouring countries, it smells like Radenska ACE Tropik and Bibita, but basically it's the scent similar to those multivitamin drinks. The shower gel is quite liquid and has none of actually nourishing properties, rather it's just a regular soap, which for me it's enough, but the rest will need to use a moisturiser afterwards. The packaging is a big 500 ml plastic bottle that is luckily easy to squeeze, but even so, since the product is so liquid there are not problems in getting this out. I'm not sure where Yummy is sold except on Click2Chic (Slovene site that also ships to Croatia), but it's made in Műnich, Germany. Two other summ...

1. Chocolate Nudes Eyeshadow Palette 010 Choc'Let It Be I was hoping Catrice would make a chocolate palette and I'm glad my wishes came true. I'm a huge fan of the Absolute Matt Eyeshadow Palette , so I have high hopes for this one. For one the shades certainly look gorgeous from the preview.  5.29 € 2. Highlighting Powder  010 Stardust I love their  blushes in the same design, though I don't find them very illuminating on my cheeks, so maybe these will be not super shimmery, but subtly glowy which I would actually prefer. There will be two versions, a pink toned and gold highlighter. 4.29 € 3. Defining Blush 100 Rose Couture My love for Defining Blushes is well documented and out of the three new shades, this one seems most promising. If it's a warm pink in real life, it's going home with me. 3.79 € 4. Prime and Fine Professional Contouring Palette 010 Ashy Radiance Along with the chocolate palette, I'm most excited about this. I'm keeping my fingers ...

I can probably read most of your minds right now, but I'll put off the obvious for a few paragraphs. Born Pretty has a selection of 15 shades available , all swatched on their website and I decided on the shade number 01, which appears a lovely, warm light-medium pink on their swatches, so you might imagine my surprise when I discovered it's orange, but let's start with one thing at a time. Colour: In the tube 01 is a medium orange shade and when I swatched it on the back of the hand, it has this pinkish-coral hue to it, which leads me to believe that this shade would look amazing on medium tones, since it would look like the perfect peachy pink. Unfortunately because I'm very pale, it looks completely orange on me. My camera can't capture it quite true to life, but it is actually neon orange on me (if you check their swatches it's somewhere between shades 04 and 05). I don't think I can pull of orange on my lips, especially not as bright, but as I said be...