OOTD - 17.01.2012

For some reason I felt like doing a outfit of the day for you guys, and I have been blogging pretty much lately, and it feels great to be back!

 Here's the top half of me, haha

I'm wearing a white GUESS tee with a wool-cardigan from Cubus over it and a huge, warm, lovely winter jacket on top. And yes, the picture is gorgeous, haha, not taken with my cell at all!

Here's the bottom half, and I'm just wearing jeans from cubus again. The labels are "Superskinny" and "highwaisted" if you were wondering.

 Lastly are these red converse-type shoes. Yes, type shoes, because they are fake. I can't afford to spend all my money on shoes, you know.... Anyways, I like them, but the black pair is more comfortable, these make my feet look huge!

But that's what I was wearing today, and for my makeup I just wore a little bit of Dawn Cream Eyeshadow by ELF Studio with a brown thick winged liner. Also used a bit of ELF Studio Conditioning Lip Barm SPF 15 in the shade Romantic Rouge on my lips.

For another way to use Romantic Rouge click here!!

What do you think? 

I think it's very comforable, and I can't wait for summer so I can flaunt my new jeans (I bought them yesterday) with a pair of high heels in Greece!

Pictorial: Smokey Eye

Pictorial, the new word for picture tutorial, haha!

Anyways, I'm working on a magazine for school, and I'm going to have a tutorial on a simple smokey-eye in there, so I wanted to post it here first to get it "approved". 

Therefor, I'd be very happy if you will leave me a comment, either here or on facebook letting me know what you think!

 1. Apply a base or a primer all over the lid and apply a skintone colour on the browbone.

I used ELF Eyelid Primer in Sheer/Nude and IsaDora Matte Chocolates palette shade 1.

 2. Next apply a light shimmery silver on the inner half of the lid.

I used a Max Factor eyeshadow.

 3. Then take a darker shimmery gray shade and put it on the rest of the eyelid, blending it in with the silver.

I used an eyeshadow by Jan Thomas for Max Factor.

 4. Apply a black in the outer V and into the crease. Drag it a bit under the lower lashline as well.

I used some random black I had in my collection

 5. Blend the black out, and apply a black khol to the upper and lower waterlines.

I used a Maybelline Khol with ELF Cream Liner on it.

 6. Apply a thin winged liner to the upper lashline and a few coats of mascara.

I used ELF Liquid Liner and L'oreal Voluminous Carbon Black Mascara.

That's it, you're done and this is the result.

What do you think?

another thing to mention is that I wont be writing all the products I used, I will just add in pictures of similar colours in the magazine.

Thank you for reading!

Tips 'n' Tricks #4

You've all heard of the famous cream blush, right?

Well, I am not the person to spend a ton of money on new cream blushes when I've already got options at home. One of these options is ELF Studio Conditioning Lipbalm. The shade I have is Romantic Rouge, and it's perfect! Here's how I do it:

 So I take the lipbalm, take it on my ring ringer and dab it on my cheeks.

 Then I blend it in, and it looks like on the picture below.

Here you can see the light dewy finish, and that's just because I hadn't set it with a powder when I took the picture, even though I usually do that. When I use cream blushes I either set it with a sheer blush in the same colour-family, or a transelucent powder, preferably my High Definition Powder by ELF.

An other thing you can do is make your own cream blush, and I will do a post on that later!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you liked my post.

:)

Teal, metallic lips!

Doesn't this look awesome?

I seariously wish I'd have the courage to wear this outside!

I used:

Twinkle Teal Shimmering Eyeliner Pencil by ELF

Hawaiian Tropic SPF 20 Lipgloss - Mango

Help my class win a trip!

My class just entered a competition where we can win money to finance a classtrip, and since we have already planned a trip to London in April, ofcourse we had to enter! 

But we really need you lovely people's votes, and it would really mean a lot to me, so I really hope you will spend one minute of your life to help us :)

Here is the link: http://klassekassen.no/sak/10452

Just click "stem" (vote) and write your email, and you have voted!

Thank you so much, it really means alot <3

Tips 'n' Tricks #3

This time, the trick is making your eyes pop with eyeshadow.

E.g, my blue eyes pop with copper, gold and orange tones, as well as taupes, gray, navy, fuschia and purple.

These colours will make green eyes pop, especially the purple on the lid.

If you have green or hazel eyes you can try purple, apricot, plum, dark green/khaki, brown, and also gold, bright violet and lime-green, and for brown eyes try copper, bronze, beige, khaki or brown. If you like the more edgy, bright colours, hot pink, lime green and tangerine, as well as royal blue will also work.

There are also a few colours that will make all eyecolours pop, and those are:

Navy or Charcoal with a light blue highlight, and silver-sparkly eyeshadows!

Hope that helps some of you, even though I'm sure a lot of you knew this already!

Check Your Cosmetics

You all know how everyone is talking about how important it is to throw out your makeup and skincare items after so and so many months, right?

Well, I have never been able too, because I don't remember how long I've had my stuff, but now it's gotten a little easier, and hopefully it will me even easier in a while!

And the reason for that is an App I downloaded from the Android Market called Check Your Cosmetics. 

When you write in the batch-code and press enter it will tell you when it was made, and how long the shelf-life is, as well as how many months to go. And the best thing? The app is FREE!

It doesn't work with every brand though, which is a shame. Maybelline and ELF is two of the many brands I'd like to have in the app, but what's there is better than nothing.

The brands it works with are:

Arnaud, Aveda

Benefit, Biotherm, Bobbi Brown, Body Shop, Borghese, Bvlgari

Carita, Chanel, Clarins, Cover Girl

Decleor, Dior

Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder

Garnier, Givenchy, Guerlain

Helena Rubinstein

IsaDora

Joe Blasco

Kanebo, Kiehl's

La Colline, La Mer, La Prairie, Lancaster, L'Oreal

MAC, Matis, Mavala

Phyto

Tom Ford

Vichy

As you can see it doesn't have alot of brands, but atleast for you MAC fanatics out there, it will work great!

No pictures of this though, as I can't take picture of my reflective phone-screen with my camera, but I really suggest you try the app, and you don't really have anything too lose (except old makeup) since it's free...

Are you good about tossing old makeup and skincare items?

Random Makeup Looks

Just alot of random makeup looks and stuff I've done over the last couple weeks. Some of them might have been posted before, I don't remember, sorry...

Current obsessions

Lately, I've been obsessed with a few things.

I wanted to share them with you, and the first obsession is, as most of you might already know; hama beads.

I have made so much, and I'm currently working on a huge piece; Stitch. 

Right now, it's taking up all my plates, and I have to buy another one today so I can finish it. 

Then it will take up 9 plates (!) I can't say I look forward to ironing it though, it's always so annoying when the outer parts are done and the middle is still loose!

Anyways, since I've been doing the hama beads, of course I wanted to show them to people, and my blog about it doesn't seem to have come that far yet, so I signed in to DeviantArt so I could post my work of art there, haha

And then, I became obsessed with DeviantArt! 

I love reading people's comments, see what they favourited and recieve llama badged! 

It's great!

I've also had a light obsession with Tetris and Icy Tower, but it's pretty much passed now, haha

EDIT:
Totally forgot to mention the reason I wanted to do this post in the first place!
So, I've been totally obsessed with Mahjong. It's an old chinese game, kind of like memory, where you're supposed to get two and two of the same kind and try to make them all go away, but it's sometimes very hard...
I play this game both online, and I also downloaded the game from the Android Market but it's avaliable at the App Store too, I'm pretty sure.

Think that's about it at the moment!

How would the world be in 50 years?

That's the assignment we got at school today.

We were going to use Photoshop to make a picture, and this is what I have done so far:

My teacher suggested I'd put some colour in there, but I'm not sure how...

Any suggestions?

What do you think?