Review: L'oreal Magic Skin Beautifier BB Cream (Nude Magique BB Cream)

This is the only BB Cream L'oreal has released in Europe, but they have two in the US where they have one called Youth Code as well. This, however is the American version of the BB Cream which is known as the Nude Magique BB Cream here in the EU. The reason mine is the American is because I needed the "fair" shade which isn't avaliable here, where we can only get "light" and "medium".

In this review I will mention them both, but apart from a few differences they are actually pretty much the same.

To the left is the European packaging while the American is on the right.

You can see the European has a little more text on the front and it also seems a little longer than the American version. The American one also has a little color around the name to show what shade it is. The other shades have darker color as you can see by the pictuer below which displays the color Deep.

(Picture from L'oreal)

I think I perfer the packaging of the American kind, but that's just my preferance. It just looks a little more clean and simple. They both contain 1oz/30ml which is the regular amount for most foundations.

Here are the claims of the American BB Cream. The Eurpoean one is the same, except is has SPF 12 which I think is great.

Both the BB Creams has the same type of nozzle. I find it very easy to control and I like this.

Here are the BB creams. I find it very intresting that the American BB Cream is thicker in consitency than the European BB Cream is. I don't mind the thicker consitency but find it a little easier to apply actually as it's not running while putting it on my face.

Here you can see the huge difference in color. 

American BB Cream in the shade Fair to the left and European BB Cream in Light to the right.

You can see by the color of my skin that Light is obviously too dark and orange. I can mix the two if I get a tan, but atm I haven't been able to use the Light shade on it's own. You can adjust the shade a little bit, though. As they have the so-called "Smart Capsules" which are basically beads of pigment in a white liquid you can get a lighter shade by not bursting all the beads. If you are very light handed or use a brush then it might work, but I perfer to use my hands.

Also, after trying my friend's BB Cream in medium, I found they are the exact same shade, but the Medium-shade is actually LESS orange-toned than the Light is!

I really like the formula. I don't have to set it with a powder, and it still lasts a long time on my skin. Keep in mind I have normal to combination skin though! If your skin is oily I would suggest a powder on top and a good base underneath.

I do really reccomend this BB Cream! I like it so much, and just the face that I ordered it off of ebay to get the right shade in the first place is a good indication I think.

Thank you so much for reading guys!

Review: ELF Tone Correcting Concealer

Today I'm writing a review of the Tone Correcting Concealer for ELF!

The packaging is really simple and easy to use. The tube contains 2.4g which is about half of a regular lipgloss. This costs $1 in the US and £1.50 in the UK and Europe. Even if it's tiny it's also really cheap, and it can be bought from eyeslipsface.com and eyeslipsface.co.uk, i addition to ikatehouse.com and probably target.com as well.

It has a standard doefoot applicator which makes both application and getting the right amount very easy.

I have the lightest shade, Ivory, and the 3rd to lightest accoarding to the webiste which is Rosy Beige. I would say light beige is darker than Rosy Beige, though. In total there are 7 shades avaliable (Ivory, Light Beige, Rosy Beige, Apricot Beige, Honey, Spice and Toffee)

I have had this concealer before in Rosy Beige and I used it all up and I decided to repurchase. If you saw my ikatehouse haul, then you know I bought 4 of these babys, and I think that is saying alot! In addition to being cheap and easy to use is has a decent coverage for everyday. I don't like full coverage concealers because I think it can easily look a little fake and made up. As I have a lot of redness both on my cheeks and my chin and tend to use a concealer a medium coverage is more natural.

Here are the shades. Ivory on the bottom, Rosy Beige on the top.

I must say I perfer Ivory to Rosy Beige because of the yellow undertone. Because I have so much redness the yellow undertone does a better job at concealing it, but I can defiently use Rosy Beige too with no problem, Ivory is just my personal preferance.

The lasting power is decent, but I like to set them with a powder to make them last even longer. If you're a concealer junkie as I am, then I really reccomend it, but not if you have major blemishes and spots. It's great as an undereye concealer too, as it's creamy and it dries on it's own after a little while if you perfer not to use powder under your eyes.

That was it for now, guys! I will see you in my next post!

Thanks for reading, too!

What's in my Travel Makeup Bag - What I'll Actually Take with Me

I know I've kind of done this post before. But then I looked through the stuff I was going to bring and I decided to change it up. Yeah, I know, I'm indecisive. Runs in my family I've heard haha =)

Anyways, now I'm not going to change anything as we leave in two days, so I'm showing you guys my makeup bag! Again... You can read what I was initially taking with me in THIS POST and what my travel palette originally looked like HERE.

I had to upgrade to a slightly bigger makeup bag as I'm not bringing a palette in my handbag like I was thinking about in the beginning. This is by Clarins.

It holds a lot of stuff!

Here are the eyeshadows I'm now bringing! The bottom square eyeshadows are from ArtDeco, the three matte shades to the right are from IsaDora and the rest are ELF Custom Eyes.

ELF Custom Eyes Swatches!

Navy - Sage - Ivory - Wheat

Wisteria - Periwinkle - Driftwood - Aubergine - Moon Dust.

I swear, if ELF had any matte Custom Eyes I could do with just these, but I mean, you need a little matte action as well, right...

On top are the eyeshadows from IsaDora. 

Black from Smokey Eyes palette.

Skintone and Matte Brown from Matte Chocolates palette.

ArtDeco Shadows: 04 - 258 - 527 - 235

Then I'm bringing my ELF St. Lucia Blush/Bronzer Duo as well as the ELF Studio Blush in Peachy Keen.

Peachy Keen - Blush and Bronzer from the Duo.

I felt like I needed a little bit of options so I'm bringing these two blushes instead of the ArtDeco ones from my Travel Palette.

Here are the lipproducts I'm bringing in my makeup bag.

Hawaiian Tropic SPF25 Island Berry Lipgloss

IsaDora Twist-Up Stick - 08 Red Romance

ELF Lipstick - Seductive

MNY by Maybelline - 802A

Swatchtime!

Hawaiian Tropic - IsaDora - ELF - MNY

And here are the dace things I'm bringing! I might leave one of the Tone Correcting Concealers at home as I've decided to bring the Garnier Roll-On.

ELF Tone Correcting Concealer - Ivory & Rosy Beige

ELF Clarifying Pressed Powder - Ivory

Max Factor Miracle Touch Liquid Illusion Foundation - 45 Warm Almond

And the little pot contains a bit of my ELF Mineral Infused Face Primer just in case I feel like wearing a primer if we go out or something.

More eye-stuff! 

ELF Liquid Liner - Black

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil - Milk

Maybelline ColorSensational Lip Liner - 440 Coral Fire

IsaDora Build-Up Extra Volume Mascara

Me Now Generation II Perfect Eye/Lip Liner Pencil - Green from a set of 12

Lumene Beauty Base Eyeshadow Primer

L'oreal Paris Contour Kohl - Black

Bringing a little sponge and my Beauty Blender.

Then I'm bringing some tools like my H&M Eyelash Curler, ELF Duo Sharpner, tweezers a little spray with some brush cleanser. Also my Eucerin Anti-Redness SPF15 Moisturizer.

That was all! I will stop bothering me with the makeup I'm going to bring haha!

Thanks for reading, guys =)

Review: ELF Contouring Blush and Broning Powder - St. Lucia

Hey there =) Thank you for stopping by my blog!

Today I'm going to review the ELF Blush/Bronzer Duo, and for a long time I didn't really like this. I found the blush too pink and I don't really use bronzer as I'm too fair and there's a touch of shimmer in it. 

Have my oppinion changed, though?

The packaging is very nice and sleek. It supposedly looks alot like NARS's packaging, but I don't have anything from NARS so I can't compare. 

As for the colors they are also supposed to be a dupe of NARS's Orgasm/Laguna Duo, but again; I can't compare. The blush is a pinky peach with some nice shimmer too it, and the bronzer is a very nice shade of brown with a touch of shimmer as I mentioned. For blush I like a little bit of glow/shimmer and I'm not a huge fan of shimmer in a bronzer. If you blend it enough of brush your fingers over it, however, almost all of the shimmer disappears. 

Here are some simple swatches. They are not too pigmented which is good for me who's so fair and they are buildable.

Here I used a pretty full coverage foundation on my face too erase all redness so you can see how the blush and bronzer performes. I hope you can see this, but the blush and bronzer is used on the right side of my face. I used the E3-method and applied the blush a little higher on my cheeks like I usually do. 

I have really grown to like this duo, so I'm actually bringing it with me to Spain! I figured as I might go out clubbing and hopefully get a tan I might enjoy having a bronzer with me. And as fot the fact that I thought the brush was too pink is because I have redness in my skin, but when I manage to cover all of that up, the color is very nice and it doesn't look like I have rosacea either.

I've really grown to love this little duo and I think I might pick up the other colors that has become availiable since I got mine! This little beauty is $3 from eyeslipsface.com and £3.75 from eyeslipsface.co.uk. There are also two more shade-selections avaliable; Antigua and Turks and Caicos.

FUNFACT: Did you know the capital of Turks and Caicos is called Cockburn Town? Yupp, haha!

Thanks for reading guys =) I hope you liked this little review and that you'll stop by again soon for more reviews and makeup looks! Maybe also follow by blog through Bloglovin or Google Friend Connect? =)

Review: ELF Mineral Booster

Hello again people of the blog world! =)

This mineral booster is a huge 0.63oz / 17.86 of loose powder which is sure to last you ages! There are however two sizes, one "regular" and a "large" which is the size I have. The regular size is 4.8grams, so less than 1/4 of the size. For $5/£5 and $8/£7 the larger size is definetly the better buy in my opinion.

The mineral booster is avaliable in four shades; shimmer, corrective yellow and tinteed. Only Sheer is avaliable in a large size, though. 

As I am really fair and don't like too much shimmer on my face I opted for the shade Sheer, but if Corrective Yellow had been released when I got this then I probably would have gotten that one too or instead. I'm not a huge fan of loose powders, but I've been trying to use this as much as possible to use it up lately.

The powder keeps my face matte all day and is an excellent setting powder, as well as an all over powder alone for those days when you just want to mattify your face with a minimal amount of coverage.

The packaging is really simple, and the powder is very finely milled as you can hopefully see in the picture above. When I got the Mineral Booster there was alot of powder in the top, but as that has been used up, I often find myself having to tap out more powder into the lid to set my whole face.

I reccomend this powder of all my heart even though I defienetly perfer pressed powders, such as the Tone Correcting Powder which I have a review of HERE. 

Have you tried the Mineral Booster? 

Thanks for reading guys! I hope you enjoyed reading this little review =)

Makeup for Work - All ELF Cosmetics!

Okay, so it's not all ELF, I used my other mascara because I don't currently own one from ELF, but other than thay, my eyes, lips and face are all using ELF products!

Here are all the products I used, except the mascara.

And here is the look I did! It's very simle for everyday, but still a little pop of color!

For the face I used the Tone Correction Concealer ($1) for my undereyes and any spots on my face. Then I covered the rest of my face with the regular mineral foundation with SPF 15 ($5). For my blush I used Giddy Gold ($3) and I actually decided to use a bronzer from the Blush and Bronzer duo ($3). It's just the first one, but I think it's now called St. Lucia as ELF has come out with more colors.

And here are the eyes. Just a simle purple everyday smokey eye.

First I primed my eyes with the Eyelid Primer ($1)I used the Custom Eyes in Truly Pink, Wisteria and Periwinkle which are $1 each for my eyes. I just placed Wisteria on my eyelid, Periwinkle in the outer corner and crease and then highlighted with Truly Pink. I really like the outcome! I lined my eyes with the Liquid Liner in Black ($1) and dragged a little of the Mineral Eyeshadow in Seductive ($3) which is just a matte black, along my lower lashline.

If you are wondering I used Gosh Serious Volume Mascara for my lashes.

Then for my eyebrows I used a little of the Eyebrow Lifter and Filler ($3) in the beginning of my brows and comed it out with an old mascara wand. For my eyes I used the Lipstick in Seductive ($1) with is such a pretty color!

That's the entire look! I hope you liked it, and I think I might do more ELF Looks because I have so much of their stuff! I have actually done one before which is THIS dark smokey-eye!

Yeah, that was it for now, you guys! I will talk to you later, but now I have to get to work, I start in half an hour haha =)

Thanks for reading!

Review: L'oreal Matte Morphose Soufflé Foundation

Today I am going to do a review of the Matte Morphose foundation from L'oreal! As you can see on the packaging L'oreal claims this foundation will provide a 12 hour lumious matte finish and make pres and wrinkles look smoother. First thing; isn't luminous and matte opposite finishes? 

Yeah, though so. But anyway, keep on reading if you'd like to find out whether I like this or not.

 The packaging looks like this. It's a glass jar with a bright pink lid and the writing on the bottom of the jar so you can store it upside down. The foundation is thick enought so that it doesn't slip and slide around the jar.

I picked shade 110 Rosy Ivory which is the lightest shade avaliable here in Norway. I am not sure how many shades there are, but I've heard from 7-12 depending on the country I believe. Another thing to note is that this foundation does not contain the usual 1oz/30ml, it's only 1/3 of the size. You do only need a little bit with each application though, so it will last you a long time.

The formula is really soft and fluffy, and it feels great on the skin! When I first got this I didn't use it too much and I wasn't a huge fan of it either, but now I'm loving it, and I've actually hit pan which is so exciting!

I perfer to apply this foundation with a brush. This is by Joursna, but it's pretty similar to the round top sigmax-brush by Sigma I think, even if I don't have that brush so I can't be a 100% certain.

Here you can see the color. It looks a teeny bit dark, but when blended out it's perfect! The formula so smooth and great, and I don't like to set this with a powder. I did when I first got it, but I've found out it's kind of hard to make this not look cakey with a powder on top. With just the foundation alone it's fantastic though! Oh, and it blends like a dream! It's just amazing, it glides on like nothing else.

Here you can see the foundation blended out. It doesn't look to dark, it just adds a little warmth to my skin which is awesome as I'm really pale. The wear is pretty good as well, it lasts very well for 6 hours, and even after 10 I can still feel the nice touch of the foundation on my face. It has medium coverage I would say, and since I have quite a bit of redness and acne it's perfect for my everyday-foundation.

I really like this foundation, and it's been my go-to for over a month now! I am not sure if I will repurchase though, as I have so many others to go throught, but I might go back to this when I'm running out of my others.

Thanks for reading guys =)

Have you tried the Matte Morphose Foundation?

Overview - My Makeup Collection in Pictures!

I was talking to a friend of mine about how much makeup I have, since I've been giving away 50 makeup items and 24 brushes and I'm about to give away 10 more brushes and 3 makeup items to said friend, so I told her I had ALOT of makeup, probably more than I'll ever need, so here are some pictures of my collection!

On the right side of my desk I have these letter-organizers with 7 palettes in them. They used to hold 9, but I've given two away.

Here's my 10 Blush Palette, 15 Concealer Palette and ELF Beauty Encyclopedia for Eyes. Both the blushpalette and the concealerpalette I got off eBay, so they're not by a brand.

Then there's my Manly 120 Palette with a wide range of colors in it. I also had the Sersell 88 Natural Palette and the 88 Shimmer Palette in here, but they've been given away as I like the 120 palette better.

Then there's my MAC palettes which does  not hold any MAC Eyeshadows. To the left is my DIY Vacation-Palette which you can read more about HERE, as well as two more with random eyeshadows and such in them.

In my desk there's several drawers, and this is one of them. Smaller palettes, and a few gel liners, a black eyeshadow and a little Gosh Duo and more.

Here's the content of my smaller palettes. 

Top Row L-R

IsaDora Matte Chocolates Palette, ELF Custom Eyes, ELF Custom Eyes

Bottom Row L-R

Max Factor, MAC, ArtDeco, Oriflame Blush, Visions Pearl Shimmer Highlighter

Then there's my foundation/BB Cream/Concealer drawer which is placed inside a cabinet on my wall.

Contains foundations and BB Creams from Max Factor, Skin79, Holika Holika, Maybelline, Garnier, H&M, MUA, L'oreal and IsaDora, as well as concealers from ELF, Garnier and Viva la Diva.

My drawer of powders, blushes, highlighers and bronzers are next!

Powders from Kubiss and ELF.

Blushes by ELF, L'oreal and Music Flower

Bronzer by IsaDora, L'oreal and ELF

Highlighters by ELF and Skin79

Then there's my crazy liner and base-drawer.

Bottom left has lipliners from all kinds of brands; ELF, L'oreal, Max Factor, Maybelline, eBay and more, which the Bottom Right drawer has eyeliners from the same brands and also IsaDora and probably more there too.

Top left has eyeshadow primers and bases from Hema, ELF, Etude House and more, and the last section has liquid liners from different brands as ELF and L'oreal ++

Then there's my eyeshadow drawer. In the back I have some sponges, and a little section with ELF and some other brands. Then there's the left drawer which has my L'oreal Infalliable Eyeshadows, IsaDora Mineral Eyeshadows and Miners Dip'n'Define eyeshadows. Last box has H&M Dip eyeshadows, Viva la Diva, IsaDora, ELF and even more stuff.

Then in my little drawer-sections from IKEA, named Helmer I have this drawer filled with lipstick and tube-glosses. There's ELF, IsaDora, Maybelline, Gema, Viva la Diva and more.

Back to my desk where I have this basket with my everyday-stuff. Again; ELF, IsaDora, L'oreal, Wet n Wild, YSL, Nivea, Missha, Garnier, Gosh, H&M etc.

Also on my desk I have this little DIY-project with lipglosses. On the top I have some mini's by Miners, then middle left are my H&M Lipglosses, then the middle right and bottom right are by Pierre Rene, and the two other from are miscellaneous brands.

On a rack righ next to my desk I have the bottom shelf filled with makeup brushes, again random brands; Sigma, ELF, Joursna and eBay.

On the same rack but on the top shelf I have all my nailpolishes. H&M, Viva la Diva, ELF and more H&M, haha. I really love H&M nailpolishes!

And then, at last, on the top of my Helmer drawer-set I keep my lipbalms in the back and perfumes on a tray in front. Parfumes from Kimmi Fragrance, Escada, Calvin Klein, Jean Paul Gautlier, Versace and some random small ones and samples.

Phuufh, that was a huge post with a lot of pictures! But I really like watching makeup collection posts and videos, so if you have one too, let me know and I'll check it out =)

If you would like a more depth post or video with my Makeup, Nail Polish or Parfume Collection, then let me know! I've been thinking about doing an Updated Makeup Collection Video for a long time, but when I filmed it it didn't look right, it was dark and then I ended up giving away a lot of stuff I didn't use, so maybe I'll use the footage for a before/after video.

If you see anything you would like a review on then let me know that too!

Anyways, thank you so much for sticking with me through this enormous post, and I hope you enjoyed! I would really apprechiate it if you'd like to follow my blog which you can do through Google Friend Connect to your right. Thanks again!