Lorac Pro Cut Crease Look!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I wish you all the best :D

I'm excited to show you my first post of 2015, it's about my favorite look using the Lorac pro palette (1st).

Are you also as excited about what this new year will bring as I am? I hope you all had some nice holidays and are ready to restart and hopefully do it better than ever before. I have many plans for this year and I hope I can fullfill them. It was about time to start a new chapter and go for adventures.

But let's get back to the actual post and the details that might be interesting for you :)

It's a cut crease look that came to my mind when I got this georgous palette and meanwhile I've seen other AMUs on Instagram (Yes, I have Instagram and you can follow me if you want).

EYES

URBAN DECAY prime potion in Eden 

LORAC PRO Light Pink, over the whole lid and Mauve in the crease (blended out)

SEPHORA long-lasting eye liner for winged cat eyes

ESSENCE white Ahaaa eyeliner in the waterline

MARC JACOBS 30 blacquer omega lash mascara

SKIN

REVLON Photoready foundation in 004 Nude

NARS radiant creamy concealer in vanilla under the eyes

MAX FACTOR Ellen Betrix loose powder in transparent natural under the eyes (over the Nars concealer)

RIMMEL LONDON Stay Matte powder in 006 warm beige for the T zone

BENEFIT Rockateur blush

ANASTASIA BEVERLY HILLS dipbrow pomade in Chocolate for the eyebrows

LIPS

MAC Please Me lipstick

I wear this look once a week, it goes well with pretty much everything. Even great for work, when you work at a office like me. 

Stay tuned for more posts soon ;)

XoXo 

IrSaDA

Anastasia Beverly Hills - Part 2 : The Amrezy Palette

Hello Chicas,

Here comes part 2 of my Anastasia Beverly Hills post, this time I'm showing you the eyeshadow palette I bought ^^

The Amrezy palette is an eyeshadow palette with 10 shades selected by the wonderful, amazing and world known MUA Amra Olevic better known as Amrezy, and produced by ABH! If you don't know her, you definitively missed something in life, follow her Instagram account @amrezy and check out her blogger page: glamrezy.blogspot.com :D

It's a good mix of matte and shimmery neutral colors, the upper eyeshadow row are all shimmery eyeshadows and the lower eyeshadows are all matte. The range of colors is exactly the kind of range I personally often go for. It has two light colors, that could translate a bit more thought, warm colors that are stunning, and some pop of color with a purple and a green color.

The palette has a really cool leopard print cover and a mirror under the lid. It also comes with a double sided brush which I already managed to loose xD Yes, true story!

All-in-all the shades have a good pigmentation and transfer easily to a makeup brush. The formula is a bit buttery and creamy, but with very little fall-out. They apply easily and blend out flawlessly, except Deep Plum and LBD, they are a bit harder to blend.

SWATCHES

My favorite colors of this palette are Glisten, Topaz, Caramel, Morocco & Deep Plum

Vanilla could be more pigmented thought, and I'm not totally satisfied how Iridescent Purple and Emerald turn out on the lid.

This palette is 29 $, I bought mine directly from the Anastasia Beverly Hills website. International shipping is a bit expensive with 18 $ but it arrives in about 12 days. I'm so happy with this palette, I reached out for it almost every day since I got it. Big thumps and congratulations to Amrezy for this creation, great collaboration with ABH!!!

EOTD

I also created for you one of my favorite looks from this palette to give you a clue what the colors look like applied.

I already showed you how I did my eyebrows and which foundation I used on my skin in my previous post. So I primed my eyes with Clarins Instant Light Eye Perfecting Base Primer, 'TOPAZ' on the lid, 'VANILLA' on the tear duct and under my eyebrow, 'MOROCCO' in the crease and 'DEEP PLUM' under the lower lash line up to the crease and slightly blended in the crease with 'MOROCCO'.

Sephora long-lasting eye liner on the upper lash line and along half of the lower lash line, then I blended the lower line with a pointed brush out.

 

And if you prefer more a winged eyeliner look you can do what ever look you like more. To make this look even more perfect I also added a beige eyeliner on my waterline but you can also go with a white eyeliner and of course mascara, Artdeco Wonder Lash mascara..

I hope you like what I came up to with. Let me know what your thoughts are about this palette!!!

Soon more post about more Anastasia products to follow ;)

With Love,

IrSaDa

New Year's Eve Look!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

I actually can't believe we're writing already 2014, for me it still feels a bit like 2013. And this is my first post this year *excited* :D And it's of course about new year's eve and the make up I was wearing that night. For the eye makeup I used my Sleek Vintage Romance palette I recently bought. I think in 2014 I will do more of makeup looks than I tend to (sorry for that btw)

FACE

P2 perfect face oil control base

REVLON Photo Ready foundation in 004 Nude

BOURJOIS bronzer primer

  SLEEK contour & highlighter (in light from the bronzer palette)

MAKE UP FOR EVER mat bronzer in #30

NARS orgasm blush 

RIMMEL LONDON Stay Matte powder in 005 Silky Beige

URBAN DECAY All Nighter long lasting makeup setting spray

LIPS

NYX lipliner pencil in Deep Pruple

ARTDECO #35 lip lacquer (is darker than it probably looks like on the pictures)

EYES

URBAN DECAY eye shadow base in 'eden'

SLEEK 'Propose in Prague' in the crease (6th color, 1st row)

'Court in Cannes in the V zone and along upper lashline (3rd color, 1st row)

'Meet in Madrid' applied WET on the rest of the whole lid (2nd color, 1st row)

& 'Pretty in Paris' as highlighter under the brows (1st color, 1st row)

MAYBELLINE express liner (upper line)

CATRICE gel eye liner in 010 'Black Jack with Jack Black' (waterline)

BOURJOIS volumizer mascara

P2 eyebrow express in '021 perfect brunette'

I had a fabulous night with some fabulous girls of mine and I hope you had much fun too if not I wish you at least a wonderfull 2014 with lots of health, luck and great moments. Enjoy it!

Keep it rocking!

IrSaDa

My Autumn Look!

Hello,

Since it's Autumn, it's time to take out all the fall colors like brown, burgundy, green, orange & yellow ;)

That goes for clothes such as for the eyes! I bought a new eyeshadow palette. Sleek Vintage Romance, which is a brand new palette, to be more precise. It includes bright brown, pink & purple and darker colors in it and they all have the names of cities like for example: pretty in Paris, Meet in Madrid, List in LA, Romance in Rome, ... 11 of 12 colors are shimmery except one, 'Purpose in Prage' (which I used in my crease). Really beautiful colors for a ridicilously cheap price.

 Pullover - H&M

Blouse - H&M

FACE

Laura Mercier oil free foundation primer

Revlon Photo Ready foundation in 004 Nude

MAC RiRi Diamonds Frost (highlighter)

Zoeva mineral highlighter in A53 Summer light

NYX blush in 02 Dusty Rose

Rimmel London Stay Matte powder in 005 Silky Beige

Urban Decay All Nighter long lasting makeup setting spray

EYES

NYX eye shadow base

Sleek 'Court in Cannes' eyeshadow (from the vintage romance palette, lid, blended out)

Sleek 'Propose in Prague' (from the same palette, crease, blended out)

Catrice gel eye liner in 010 'Black Jack with Jack Black'

Benefit they're Real! mascara

P2 eyebrow express in '021 perfect brunette'

P2 pool side party (for the brows)

LIPS

NYX lipliner pencil in 810 Natural

MAC Syrup lipstick

Hope you like the look and are not as sick as I am at the moment ^^

Thanks for reading!!!

IrSaDa

My wedding styling!

Hey guys,

Last weekend one of my many cousins got married!!!! ^^ As you might know I have Balkan origins and that means there was of course a big Balkan wedding with lots of folklore dancing ;) That was a hell of a wedding, my feet hurt like hell for at least 2 days and I was tired for a few more days. 

This is my cousin in her beautiful white wedding dress:

 

 

My cousin with her husband

In her other dress, with her two brothers:

DRESS

And here you can see me with some family of mine! 

 

I was wearing a long black H&M dress with a upper and bottom part that is semi-transparent and oppen on the sides which is really great when you dance. I knew I wanted to wear a long dress since everybody else would wear a short dress and I also wanted to try out this new semi-transparent trend ^^ I was also wearing a black satine waterfall jacket over it cuz back then it was still freezing and not as hot as these days.

ACCESSOIRIES

My gold bag was also from H&M, the gold-black chain was borrowed from a friend who actually got it from another friend of mine while a shopping trip in NY. I was so busy that morning that I didn't had the time (or maybe also forgot about it) to put on some earings or other jewellery. And my black shoes with little black stones, that shimmer in the light, are from Jumex. I like them but I will never ever wear new shoes to a wedding again lol Up to 8 hours in new shoes can't end good!

HAIR

I got my hair done by a friend that works a hairdresser. Once again I wanted something different than usual. I went for a hair bun with a braid that goes from the front to one side and I also had a braid under my hair bun. (First 3 pictures are right from the hairdresser, no make up alarm!).

 

And this is what it looked like when I was done with my styling and ready to leave for the wedding! I really loved it and I also got a lot of compliments for it :D A huge thanks again to my friend Jess for that!

MAKEUP

Since I was in such a hurry I wasn't able to take pictures of my makeup from that day and after I got back from the wedding it wasn't that good looking anymore (lot of tears of joy, you know ;)) and so I recreated it ^^

 

Don't be scared about my highlighting and contoring, I know I look like a crazy person with war paint!!!! xD But blended out it turned out into this:

FACE

P2  Perfect Face makeup base

Revlon Photo Ready foundation in 004 Nude

Zoeva cream highlighter and bronzer (concealer palette)

Sleek Face Contour kit powder in light

Bobbi Brown shimmer brick in Pink Quartz (more hightlighter)

NARS Organsm blush

P2 Ferfect Face! finish powder in 010 white brilliance

Urban Decay All Nighter long lasting makeup setting spray

I was applying first the face primer, then the foundation, the I was using the highlighter and contor color from the Zoeva concealer palette and after I blended them out I had to do the whole highlighting and contoring thing again with powder (that's what you do for a long lasting, powder over cream ;) as powder of foundation). And then I also applied some blush and transparent powder over the whole face + the UD all nighter spray.

LIPS

NYX lipliner pencil in 810 Natural

MAC Please me lipstick

For the eyes I decided to also go for gold-black eyes! ^^

EYES

Catrice prime & fine eyeshadow base

Sleek yellow/gold eyeshadow (from the sunset palette, lid, blended out)

Sleek matt black (from the same palette, crease & upper lashline, blended out)

Sephora Jumbo Liner in Gold (on top of th lid, slightly blended out)

Maybelline Liner Express eye liner in black

Benefit they're Real! mascara

Catrice gel eye liner in #10 Black Jack with Jack Black (waterline)

Essence eyeborw stylist set (dark color)

Catrice lash/brow designer (to keep my brows in shape)

As mentioned above I was in such a hurry when I got back from the hairdresser that I had to do my makeup very fast and I had no time left to put on false lashes, nor to put on more jewellery nor to do my nails xD I guess for the next wedding I will plan sooner and better!

I wish my cousin all the best with her husband. May they be happy together for the rest of their lives :)

Have a great sunny week!

Irsada

EOTD - Green With Envy aka Bronze Drama!

Welcome back,

in today's post I wanted to show you another of my favorite Maybelline quads I owe. Some week ago I already you showed you Taupe Tempress (scroll down) so today it's:

GREEN WITH ENVY:

 (Excuse me if I feel disturbed by my little eyebrow hairs - I have pretty fast growing eyebrow hair!!!!!)

This is what the Maybelline Color Plush #40 Green With Envy shadow quad looks like:

I got this palette sent to me by a dear friend from the US and it seems that here in Europe it's available under another name, #22 bronze drama:

Since I love this quad I was lucky to get my hands on it in Germany (not available in Luxembourg at at all) to have it in case the other one is empthy ;) The colors are the same even if they might look at the second quad a bit darker (talking about the green one), it's only the light that makes it look differenty and since it's unused.

The first color is a very light apricot and should be applied under the eyebrows as highlighter, the second color is an orange-peachy color and goes on the whole lid, the 3rd color, which is a beautiful pale shimmery green (favorite color of this palette) is supposed to be applied in the out corner/crease, I also love to take it along my lower lashline. The 4th color is a black color with gold shimmer and is the eyeliner color that needs to go along the upper lashline.

Final toughts: As Taupe Temptress, I like the formula very much. Amazing drugstore poduct!!! They have a good pigmentation and hold all day long if you use a good primer. At the first look you wouldn't tell that the peach and green color go well together but for me this turn to be a really great combination ;) I only don't get the european name of it, bronze drama? I mean in my eyes there is nothing bronze about it...

Thanks for reading and have a nice week! ^^

IrSaDa

EOTD - Taupe Temptress!

Hello,

Since I finished my last exam yesterday, I finally have my first vacations after one year of internship-work-studying all the time. The time I have off, will give me the opportunity to do some post I already wanted to do since months but never find the right time. The day is here, and this is one of these posts! I'm showing you how one of my favorite eyeshadow looks.

TAUPE TEMPTRESS:

This is the Maybelline Color Plush #50 Taupe Temptress shadow quad I've been talking about:

The 1st color is supposed to be used under the eyebrows and in the inner corner (which I don't like that much). The 2nd redish color you have to apply over the whole lid and then put the taupe, 3rd color, in the out corner/crease. Turns out, underneath that initial 4th wine color is in fact a darker shade of brown with tiny little red sequins, it shouldl be applied along the upper lashline. So, there you have it, mystery solved.

Without flash - with flash swatches:

Final thoughts: I think I already told you how much I like the formula of the Maybelline quads, if not, I really do! For the drugstore price you pay, these are just amazing. They are great pigmented, silky and if you use a good primer they will last all day long. I really love to wear this look for every occasion, over the day as much as when I go out. And those colors might seem a bit difficult to wear but they aren't! They actually fit with lots more than you think ;)

I actually can't tell you if this quad is available in Europe since I got it last year from a friend in the USA and haven't seen it here around. So it would be nice if you could answer that question in case you know it!?!

I hope you like it too and I'm glad for every feedback!!!

BTW check out the new giveaways on my blogroll ;))


Xo

Irsada

EOTD - Green/Blue eyes!

Welcome,

I recently saw this make-up look on Tv where a make-up artist put on these color combination on a model for a shooting and I just loved it. So today I'm showing you my inspired look!

The first thing you probably think, when you think of green and blue, is that those colors don't go together... but IN my eyes they do and ON my eyes you can see the result:

PRODUCTS USED:

Urban Decay Primer Potion Eden

The colors are from my Urban Decay 15 Year Anniversary Eyeshadow Collection Palette (REVIEW here) 

Inner corner: Midnight Rodeo 

Middle: Deep End 

Out corner: Evidence 

Under my eyebrows: Midnight 15 (and a bit under my eyes)

Essence Longlasting eye pencil #15 Bling Bling under my eyes (along the lashes)

Catrice Gel eye liner in #10 Black Jack with Jack Black as liner (along the lashes) and on my waterline

Dior Diorshow Maximizer

Dior Diorshow Blakout mascara

Make sure you blend the colors in together et voilà! ;) 

and a comment would be nice too <3

XoXo

IrSaDa