Review: H&M Liquid Eyeliner Pen

Hello everybody!

Today I am going to review the Liquid Eyeliner from H&M. I know alot of people think the makeup from H&M is cheap and poorly made, but that's not the case for all of their products. This eyeliner has been my go-to for at least a couple of months now so I can give you a review of a well-tried product.

My eyeliner is in the shade Black, and I have seen it in Turquoise before, but right now it's only avaliable in Black on the Norwegian H&M website. The packaging is a felt-tip pen, much like a permanent marker. I have had this for over a year, and it's still going strong! Here in Norway, this retails for 40NOK which is really cheap. In the US it's $4.95, and it's £2.99 in the GB.

Here you can see the marker tip. 

It has a nice even flow and when I got used to using it, it's really easy. If you're used to using a dip liner or something similar it might take a little time to get used to this applicator.

It's possible both to make thin and thick lines which is good for everyday and more dramatic looks. 

I want to mention that I have normal eyelids; no excess oil and no dry spots and this goes on easily and evenly every time. I keep mine laying on the side and not upside down as most people reccomend and I still don't have any problems with it.

Here you can see the liner in action with Dark Heart Design's Killing Moon loose eyeshadow.

I truly reccomd this eyeliner as it lasts a long time, applies easily and just goes on really smoothly! The price is also a big plus of course ;)

Thank you so much for reading, guys! Remember to follow my blog on Bloglovin or Google Friend Connect to the left and I will see you again soon =)

Review: ELF Lipsticks

Another ELF Review people! I know, I'm sorry, but I have soo much ELF stuff, and I know a lot of people find their items a little hit or miss. That's why I want to share my experience with you. As ELF is such a cheap brand, what would be better than to find a HG in their items?
These lipsticks are just $1 or £1.50 depending on where you get them from. They're avaliable from eyeslipsface.com and eyeslipsface.co.uk as well as target stores in the US.

Here are the five lipsticks from ELF I have so far. I have ordered 3 more, but I wont get them until the 16th, and then I wont have time to try them out and take pictures as we leave on the 17th.

As you can see them packaging is really simple with a clear part in the middle which allows you to see the lipstick color through.

Left to right in the picture above

Classy - Seductive - Gipsy - Voodoo - Posh

All the lipsticks has these small stickers on the bottom stating the name of your lipstick. In total there are 12 shades avaliable, going from the light nudes to the dark reds and everything in between.

The lipsticks do differ a little in formula. I find Voodoo and Seductive to be the most creamy and hydrating out of the bunch while the other three are the same formula. They are very pigmented and not drying.

Classy - Seductive - Posh - Gipsy - Voodoo

I think I will eventually have all the 12 shades of this lipsticks, haha! They are great value for your money and the price is unbeatable. Each lipstick contains 3.5grams of product which is about average I believe.

Sorry not all the lip swatches are as clear as they should be. I will change the pictures of a few of them, especially Seductive, but I don't have time to do that right now...

Anyways I hope you enjoyed this review and I will see you later!

Thanks for reading guys, I really apprechaite the support given to my blog =)

Review: ELF Eyelid Primer in Sheer

Hey Hey!

Today I will review a dirt cheap product from ELF which is only $1! An amazing value right?

This is the Eyelid Primer in the shade Sheer, but it is also avaliable in three other shades; Golden, Champagne and Pearl.

Here is the packaging. It's very simple, like a lipgloss and contains 5ml of product. It doesn't sound like alot, but it lasts FOREVER, trust me, you only need so much for your eyes. 

It has a very easy-to-use doefoot applicator, and even though I know some people would rather have a squeezy-tube I really like the applicator of this. And no - it doesn't normally look this messy, but mine is almost empty, so I've taken the little plastic stopper out.

When applying the color it looks like a yellow-toned light skintone, but when blended out it goes clear but leaves the skin feeling matte and soft. 

This is my go-to eyeprimer, and I'm pretty sure this is my 3rd one, and even this one is almost empty! I really love this stuff. It keeps my eyeshadow on all day and makes them go on nice and smoothly without any patches.

I will keep buying this forever I think, but right now I have to use up another primer first which I will also do a review on when I've used it enough.

I hope you liked this little review, and if you would like reveiws on the other shades let me know as I have both Champagne and Pearl as well! =)

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!

Pre-Written Posts

Hey guys!

I just wanted to let you know that all the blogposts posted from now and out July are pre-written posts as I'll be out of the country and probably not have a internet connection.

There will be lots of reviews, for ELF, Dark Heart Designs and alot more =)

I hope you'll enjoy my blog even though I am gone, I'll have posts up about ever other day, so stay tuned!

Now I'm just really excited to leave, our plane leaves at 9am, so we have to leave home inbetween 5 an 6 am as we're picking up my in-laws and such. 

Anyways, I will let you know when I get back,

thanks for reading everyone =)

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? =)

My Travel Brush Kit

Here are the brushes I am bringing with me on my two-week trip to the Canary Islands by the coast of Africa. As we will be gone for quite some time I desided to bring a good variety of brushes.

All my brushes are stored in this Ecofriendly case made out of old truck-tyres and seat belt which I think it really cool. I also have a little tag with my name on it hanging of the zipper.

Here are all the brushes I'm bringing with me! I don't think it's too much for 2 weeks away.

First off are my eyebrushes! Left to right:

ELF Professional Eyeshadow Brush - Used to pack on a lid color and also some blending sometimes.

Sigma E35 - Used for blending

H&M Brush - Presice application of eyeshadow or smudging along the lower lashline.

Sigma E50 - Blending, getting a wash of color and highlighting.

Sigma E25 - Applying a crease-color and blending.

Here are my facebrushes!

Everyday Minerals Eyekabuki - Apply and blend concealer.

Joursna Stippling Brush - Apply a light wash of powder and blusher, sometimes foundation, bronzer or highlighter.

Joursna Angled Kabuki Brush - To apply foundation or contour.

Joursna Round Kabuki Brush - Apply foundation, both liquid and minerals.

Sigma F10 - Used for applying blush or face powder. 

ELF Complexion Brush - Used for powder. 

In addition I'm bringing my beauty blender and another sponge with straight edges.

That was all, guys! I'm going to go wash my brushes now, so they're ready and clean for wednesday morning! Thanks for reading =)

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 =)

My Everyday Brushes / July 2013

There's been a long time since I did my last Everyday Brushes-post. It was actually back in October 2011, and as it's one of my most read posts ever, I decided to do an updated one.

Like in my last one, which you can read HERE, I'm going to section the pictures into face- and eyebrushes, and most and least used. 

Here they all are in their glory! It's a mix between ELF, Sigma, Everyday Minerals, Joursna and H&M!

These are my most used eyebrushes. No matter what I do for a look this is mostly what I use.

L-R

H&M Little Eyeshadow Brush - I use this to apply precise color, highlight my inner corners and also smudge eyeshadow under my eyes. If I want a defined browbone highlight I will also use this brush.

ELF Professional Eyeshadow Brush - I use this to place eyeshadow on my eyelid and also sometime to blend a little.

Sigma Blending Brush E25 - I use this to apply color into my crease. Sometimes I blend and apply a highlight with it, but that's more rare.

Sigma Tapered Blending Brush E35 - I use this to blend my eyeshadows, and also sometimes to highlight my browbone.

Sigma Large Fluff Brush E50 - I could basically do my whole look with this, but I mostly use it to blend my eyeshadow with the highlight color or apply highlight. Also to sweep some color onto the lid if I'm in a hurry or don't really want to do much with my eyelook.

Here are my most used Eyebrushes. These are the ones I usually reach for.

L-R

Everyday Minerals Eye Kabuki - I use this alot to apply concealer when it is in a pot, and also blend foundation if it's a smaller area.

Joursna Round Top Kabuki - This is what I've been using to apply my L'oreal Matte Morphose foundation as the brush fits into the opening of the jar. It's the right size and desity to blend it in perfectly.

Joursna Stippling Brush - I use this to apply my mineral blushes which I have been using alot. It is a little shorter than the ELF one so I feel like I get a little more control.

Sigma Powder/Blush Brush F10 - This is what I have been using if I'm using a powder, and with pressed blushes. It does shed a little, but it's the only brush I have with this shape and size. 

If you have any dupe-suggestions then let me know!

Then there are my less used brushes.

Everyday Minerals Blending Brush - Even though this is an eyebrush, I've been using it to apply highlighter to my face when I want it to be very precise. Sometimes I also blend my eyeshadows with this instead of the Sigma, depending on which is clean and closest.

ELF Stippling Brush - I have started to use this more for powder now as it's a little bigger and longer than the Joursna-version. If I just want a little touch of powder I use this instead of the Sigma F10.

Sigma Tapered Face Brush F25 - The few times I use bronzer or contour I'm using this. It doesn't happen to often though, haha.

That was it, guys! I hope you enjoyed it =)

Thanks for reading!