2012 Year of the dragon!! A Chinese New Year makeup look

Happy New Year! If you celebrate CNY, I hope you spent the eve/day with family and ate til your jeans button was bout to pop off! (mine nearly did)

I wanted to do a makeup look for CNY that incorporated gold and red.

Now the video was filmed at a very awkward angle lol. Unfortuantely my mirror was very much to the side so you cant see much of what I'm doing but I edited and posted it up anyway. Hope you all enjoy and here's to a fabulous year of the dragon!!

ps - this is my first naked palette tutorial!

Products used:
Inglot face powder
Garnier anti-circles concealer
Rimmel eyebrow pencil
Naked palette e/s: sin, naked, buck, half baked and creep
L'oreal Lineur intense liquid eyeliner
L'oreal voluminous mascara in carbon black
Gorgeous cosmetics gel eyeliner pencil
Nars laguna bronzer
Nars orgasm blush
Inglot lip pencil in #11 (gorgeous coral colour)
Bobbi Brown lipstick in Guava :)

My daytime and night time foundation routines

I've filmed my day time and night time foundation routines for those interested :)





And here is the night time foundation look (no flash)

Products for night time foundation routine:
- MUFE HD primer
- Smashbox photofinish light oil free primer
- MUFE face and body foundation
- Bobbi brown corrector
- MUFE full cover concealer
- Laura Mercier translucent powder
- NARS laguna bronzer
- NARS orgasm blush
- Eve Perez highlighter
- Model in a bottle setting spray

Products for day time foundation routine:
- True solutions tinted moisturiser with SPF
- Garnier roll on concealer for under eye circles
- Inglot pressed powder
- Elf blusher and bronzer palette
- Eve Perez highlighter

I cant believe its back to work tomorrow for me!! The summer holidays have flown by!! :(

Loving right now + Review: Gelish and Shellac!!!

I love nailpolish. I paint my nails EVERY week  (myself, not at a salon) and they are probably in a bad condition because of it! But nailpolish makes me happy :)

So shellac has been out for a while now and I didnt try it until christmas eve. I wanted to have pretty, manicured hands during the holiday season. So I tried gelish for $30 in coral which I loved. So the website says:

"GELISH WILL LAST ON NAILS FOR UP TO 3 WEEKS WITH A HIGH SHINE
NO CHIPPING, NO PEELING, NO MAINTENANCE
IT LOOKS COMPLETELY NATURAL WHILE PROTECTING THE NATURAL NAIL"

My experience with Gelish is as follows:

PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
* remained very shiny!
* variety of colours - absolutely loved the coral colour! (sorry - my only pic is this instagram )
*  didnt need to paint my nails every week!
* I enjoyed the application process - it dried so quickly :)

DISAPPOINTMENTS
* began chipping on one finger by the end of the week - this could be cos my nails were in pretty bad shape to begin with and I was also washing dishes
* began peeling at the cuticle end by the end of 2 weeks
* to take off the gel, the finger needed to be soaked and then the gel nailpolish is removed. this process really dries and weakens the nail :(

In summary, I really LOVED how it looked on my hands, how long it lasted despite doing "rough" activities, and above all, the shininess!! So I went for seconds but at a different nail salon this time and using shellac by CND and this was also $30. I adore this bright pink colour yay!

Will keep you posted on how shellac compares to gelish!

FOTD: New years eve 2011!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope you had an amazing new years eve and a happy new years day!!

I went for glitter and sparkles on NYE, inspired by MakeupByLeinaBaaaby and really loved this look ;)

Face-
MUFE face and body foundation
LM translucent powder
Nars laguna bronzer
Coastal scents blush
Eve Perez highlighter

Eyes-
UD eye primer potion
Mac e/s brown down, vanilla, carbon
Inglot e/s 67, 491
sprinkles eye and body glitter
rimmel eyebrow pencil

Lips-
Inglot lip pencil 27
Bobbi brown lip color in blush 65

Boxing day sales!

Hope you guys had an awesome Christmas and have something awesome planned tonight for NYE!!

Here is a little haul of some clothing pieces I bought during the Boxing Day sales :)

From top to bottom: Seafolly bikini, Bardot bandage skirts, Country Road shirt and scarf and Zara dresses

FOTD: the lips for summer

So it has been freezing in Sydney this whole week, sub 20-degree weather - what is going on?!

Anyways, seeing colours make me happy - on my nails or on my lips, gives me this warm and fuzzy feeling ;)

I LOVE this watermelon colour!!  

On the lips: Inglot lip pencil in #11 and Bobbi Brown Rich Lip Color SPF 12 in Guava 1.

Review: ilovethisbox.com.au

ilovethisbox.com.au is a monthly subscription service that delivers beauty and cosmetic samples right to your door every month!  Brands range from Essie, sunsilk, revlon, chanel and more...It costs $14.95 a month and there is no obligation to subscribe for a specific period :)  If you've heard of birchbox which is the American version its basically the same concept but this company is based and ships within Australia! yay!!

Here are the items from the November box. I have also shared my thoughts of the products in a video below :)

•  Caudalie Paris - Set of 3 Facial Care Samples
• Certified Organic by NATURE, NVEY ECO's Taupe e/s
• Essie - Topless and Barefoot from French Affair's Spring 2011 Collection (LOVE!!!!)
• Keratinology by Sunsilk Salon Perfection Hair Collection (LOVE!!!)
• POD - Liquid Tan - Gradual Tanning Face Serum

NB - I received this box as a gift, but all my opinions are my own.