My Go-To Makeup while Moving

As I said in my last post, I'm back!

And I also mentioned that I'm moving back to my mum's since my (now ex)boyfriend broke up, which means mh makeup has been packed down, so I have a little makeup tray with makeup for everday, which I will now show you, haha!

Here you can see it all! Lipsticks, eyeshadows, brushes and everything else!

Here are my makeup items. My ELF Custom Eyes palette, DIY lipstick palette, 3CE Lip Pigments, ELF blush in Peachy Keen, Holika Holika Aqua Petit BB Cream, ELF Mineral Infused Face Primer in Tone Adjusting Green, Etude House Proof 10 Eye Primer, L'oreal Matte Morphose Foundation, IsaDora Mascara, Oriflame Mascara and the H&M Liquid Eyeliner.

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Here's my ELF palette! I have 14 shades!

Ivory - Pink Ice - Truly Pink - Wisteria - Periwinkle

Golden Glow - Wheat - Mocha - Moondust - Drift Wood

Sage - Navy - Aubergine - Dusk

Mocha is a lot redder than it seems in the picture, and Moondust is darker. The blitz doesn't do them justice at all.

Then there's my little DIY Lipstick Palette with 12 lipsticks. Again, the colors aren't completely accurate, but it's close on most of the colors. You can see the numbers, so I'll list the shades with numbers!

1. NK - Very Berry, 2. Color Works - Ebony, 3. Oriflame - Wine, 4. MNY - 809A,

5. Viva la Diva - Hot Tulip (More pink and darker), 6. Viva la Diva - Vampire Red (a true red IRL)

7. Miners - Baby Pink, 8. Miners - Cinnamon, 9. S.he Makeup - Just Peachy, 10. NK - Amethyst

11. NK -Berry Plum, 12. Viva la Diva - Cream Coral

As you can see there's a good mix, and I'm going to put all of my lipsticks in these palettes. I got this on eBay for $.99 and a full lipsticks fills up one container, so it's the perfect size and really compact for 12 lipsticks! Love it!

Sigma E50, Sigma F25, Joursna (no name), Sigma E25, ELF Eyeshadow Brush

and then two random lipbrushes from a eBay brush set !

So that's the makeup I'm living with right now! Hopefully I'll have my full stash soon hehe. I just have to get in order, I hate moving and cleaning and ugh! Wish me luck, hah!

I'll see you soon :*

Overview - My BB Creams

Holika Holika Aqua Petit BB Cream - #1

Skin79 Super+ Triple Functions BB Cream (Hot Pink)

Garnier Miracle Skin Perfector - Light

L'oreal Nude Magique BB Cream - Light Skintones

MUA BB Cream - Light

Skin 79 BB Diamond Collection Pearl Luminous BB Cream (Silver)

Skin79 BB Diamond Collection The Prestige BB Cream (Light Pink)

Skin79 VIP Gold Collection Super+ BB Cream (Gold)

Swatches L-R

Skin79 Skin79 Super+ Triple Functions BB Cream (Hot Pink)

Holika Holika Aqua Petit BB Cream

Garnier Miracle Skin Perfector

L'oreal Nude Magique BB Cream

MUA BB Cream

Skin79 VIP Gold Collection Super+ BB Cream

Skin 79 BB Diamond Collection Pearl Luminous BB Cream

Skin79 BB Diamond Collection The Prestige BB Cream

I have the same BB Creams in the same places in both pictures. They were taken with the same camera and blitz right after eachother, but they still look different, so I wanted to show both.

On the left side of my forehead I'm wearing L'oreals BB Cream, but I didn't blend it all the way because that would make it way to dark. On the right side of my forehead is Garniers BB Cream. On the top of my right cheek is MUAs BB Cream, while I have the Skin79 Hot Pink BB Cream on the lower part of my chin and jawline. On my chin I have the Holika Holika BB Cream and the Gold Skin79 BB cream is on my lower left cheek and jawline. On the rest of my cheek is the Light Pink BB Cream, also from Skin79.

I used the last BB Cream, the Pearl Louminous from Skin79 as a bit of a highlight on my nose and cheekbones.

I quite like all of these BB Creams, but the MUA BB Cream is by far the hardest to blend. The Aqua Petit BB Cream is a great color for me, but it is a little hard to work with on my normal skin, I think it would definetly work better on people with oily or combination skin. It does work nicely when I'm wearing a primer, but it does need a little bit of work.

The rest of the BB Creams are really good, and I do like them all for different reasons. I love the finish and texture of the L'oreal BB Cream, but it is a little too dark. I have the light-shade as I mentioned, and when I compared it to the medium it was actually more orange. I'm seariously looking into getting the fair-shade online since I like the formula so much.

Garnier's BB Cream has a very dewy finish so I have to set it with a powder, but it is good for everyday. I really want to try the oil-free version which I've heard is great, a little lighter in shade and also a lot longer lasting. A complete different formula than this. I like this too, though.

All of the Skin79 BB Creams are pretty much the same texture except the one in the silver packaging which is a luminous BB Cream with shimmer in it. You can clearly see the shimmer in the swatches above. For me it's not a good BB Cream as I don't like a shimmery face, but it is a really beautiful and natural highlighter!

As with the Overview - My Foundations-post there is a video to go with this post, and I will link it here when it's uploaded.

If you'd like a full review of any of these BB Creams then let me know and I shall do that as quickly as possible =) Thanks for reading, and remember to follow my blog!

Half-Faced Makeup

I've seen these posts going around the Norwegian bloggers, so I thought I would do the same thing! Here's my take on the half-faced makeup!

Here you can see the with and without makeup-sides side by side. *wow that's a lot of "side"*

Here's the without makeup!

And the with. I know, the line on my nose is a little off, but you get the point!

Quite a big difference, right?

Here are some of the products I used. I forgot my gymbag at school, and my eyemakeup was done with that, so I couldn't get a picture of those products.

ELF High Definition Powder

ELF Mineral Blush - Peachy

L'oreal Glam Bronze Duo - Brunette

MNY Maybelline Lipstick - Pink (Material Girl Collection)

Garnier BB Cream Eye Roll-On - Light

L'oreal Contour Kohl - Black

Nivea Daily Essentials Express Hydration Primer

Holika Holika Aqua Jelly Petit BB Cream - #1

I challenge you all to do this post, and then let me know so I can check it out!

Review - Holika Holika Aqua Petit Jelly BB Cream

Hey guys!

With all the BB-hype going around I wanted to try a few BB-Creams from the Asian market. One of the BB-cream I picked up was the Holika Holika Aqua Petit Jelly BB Cream in shade #1. I got it off eBay which is the easiest for me. It came in a box with the foundation and a sponge that Holika Holika has decided they want to supply their buyers with.

First thing's first: the packaging.

It comes in this rather bulky, matte glass jar. You can see there's a lot of access glass at the bottom there, and this little thing is also quite heavy. This thing does contain 40ml, though, so 1/3 more than the standard 30ml foundation-packaging.

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The lid states the name of the BB cream. This cream is also supposed to have SPF20 in it, but it doesn't say anywhere on the bottle, just online.

Inside the lid it this little spatula which you use to scoop out the product. It is fairly simple, but can be a little messy since you have to apply it to the back of your hand, and it has a tendency to get all over your hand.

Here's a little swatch. On the left is the product right after it got off the spatula, and on the right it is slightly blended and had sit for a few minutes, allowing it to oxidize. You can tell the foundation gets a little darker, and also that it dies matte. 

The matte finish was something I didn't expect for a BB-cream with the words "aqua" and "jelly" in it. But that's okay, I like my face to be matte, but accoarding to Holika Holika, this BB-Cream has "jelly texture that helps spread evenly and creates fully hydrated and shiny skin" which makes me think I might have gotten a fake one. The seller I got it from was toprated with 99.7% positive feedback, and the price seemed about right at $12.33, but I don't know. I just wanted to mention it.

When applying this BB-cream I've used three different techiniques. I've used my fingers, a beauty blender (yes, the real deal), and a flat top kabuki-like brush.

Here is my skin without anything on my face.

And here is my very freckled nose, haha.

BTW, I didn't set this with a powder in either of the pictures below. Also, all the pictures were taken with the flash on my Nikon D5100-camera.

On this picture I have applied the BB Cream with my beauty blender. I used stippeling motions and from afar it looks pretty good, right?

Same here, when applied with my ELF Studio Powder Brush. Still looks alright. 

But here's the problem - when you get up close, it doesn't look right. It has streaks, it gathers in my not-so-visible lines, I mean, I'm only 19 years old, I don't have wrinkles or a lot of fine lines yet! But still, in manages to sink into pores and anywhere else it seems fit.

Here you can see the streaks on my nose.

And here too, as well as the gathering on my nose-bridge.

The first time I tried this BB Cream I applied it with the brush, and I set it with powder, because that is what I always do. It looked soooo cakey! It was horrible, but I didn't have time to take it off, so I had to do my exam in front of a sensor with a cakey face. Not cool!

I am hoping that a primer will solve my problems with this BB Cream, because that would be such an easy fix, but we'll see. So far I'm kindof torn. The colour is great on me, and I like to mix it in to other foundations that are to dark on my skintone, but on the other hand, I would like to be able to wear it on it's own.

I also like that I don't have to set it with a powder for it to be matte enough for me, but it shouldn't sink into my pores the way it does. My pores aren't even that big!

Anyway, if this works with a primer I'll be sold, but I think it's so strange because I've seen other bloggers and youtubers raving about this BB Cream, but maybe they have oily skin? Mine is definetly not oily, more normal, but can be a little shiny in the T-zone sometimes.

Anyways, I will give you an update once my primer arrives and I will be able to try that!

UPDATE: Lately I've been using this with the ELF Mineral Infused Face Primer in Tone Adjusting Green and I LOVE(!) this BB Cream now! It's become my staple in my makeup bag, and I use it pretty much every day! Very much reccomended!

Have you tried it? If you love it let me know, because I'm curious!