Thursday, June 17, 2010

NOTD: a few nailpolishes

For todays NOTD I have used 2 layers My Best Friend's Tiara (290 Catrice), 1 layer of a clear polish with silver holographic glitters and round flakes (905 etos) and 1 layers of the Ultra Long Lasting Up To 10 Days Top Coat (Catrice).


I know the picture is awfull!
I made it with my Macbook in bad light, since my mom has borrowed my camera and I can't acces it right now.

I'll make some better pics the next time I'll post a NOTD.
Hope you'll like this one anyway.

Have a nice weekend,

Freya

Monday, May 17, 2010

Make-up Haul 2

So here's what I bought the second time.
There was a sale at the Trekpleister, 50% off of all make-up!
So I bought a lot.
I saved more than 20 euro's , great deal huh!?






From left to right:
*Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer 110 Poison Me, poison You!
*Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer 190 Wrapped Around My Finger
*Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer 140 Let's Mauve On!
*Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer 290 My Best Friend's Tiara
*Manhattan Lotus Effect Nail Polish 35 W
*Manhattan Lotus Effect Nail Polish 68 A
*Catrice Colour Gloss Lip Gloss 110 Glamorous Red
*Catrice Colour Gloss Lip Gloss 080 Secret Mauve
*Catrice Limited Edition Lip Gloss 01 Ocean Sunset
*Catrice Soft Eye Shadow Mono 250 White Silk
*Catrice Soft Eye Shadow Mono 110 Vanilla Cream
*Catrice Soft Eye Shadow Mono 180 Moonstone
*Catrice Soft Eye Shadow Mono 120 Chili Chocolate
*Catrice Soft Eye Shadow Duo 200 Salt & Pepper
*Catrice Kajal Designer 130 Bright Violet
*Catrice Kajal Designer 100 Tropical Green

Needless to say, I'm a big fan of Catrice cosmetics.

I haven't tried everything yet, but I have tried the lip glosses Secret Mauve and Ocean Sunset, and I love them.
I haven't worn Ocean Sunset a lot, but it's a great lip gloss for summer.
Secret Mauve I call my Angelina Jolie lip gloss because it makes my lips look a lot fuller and it's a colour Angelina would wear.
I also tried the Eye Shadows Vanilla Cream and Moonstone.
They combine great, but I also love to wear Moonstone all by itself.
I really love Moon Stone.

The rest of the make-up I will test when I've completed the move from my mom's house to my own appartment!

Love,

Freya

My Eyeko Package :D

I received my Eyeke Packaage 2 weeks ago :D.
It was well packaged and everything looked awesome.
There was just one problem, they forgot to include some products that I ordered!
I ordered the Magic Set (that's the Magic Mascara + the Magic Eye Liner).
So I contacted them saying some products were missing, and the next day I got an email from Eyeko saying that they were sorry, they will send me the missing items, and if I would let them know when the package has arrived.
I think their customer service is really good.

Anyway, here's what I got:


From left to right:
-Cosmic Polish
-Indigo Polish
-Lilac Polish
-Nude Polisj
-Vampira Polish
-Vintage Polish
-Raspberry Fat Balm

I haven't tried the nail polishes yet, but I think they look good.
The Raspberry Fatbalm I did try, and I loved it!
It smells very nice, like raspberries and makes my lips a natural dan bit dark raspberry colour.
The Fat Balm also hydrates my lips well, and I really had not expected that.

The Fat Balm I got for free, but when I've used it up I think I will order a new one, and possibly the strawberry one as well!

I will do a real review (with LOTD/swatch) later.
And I will let you know when I receive the Magic Set.

What do you think of Eyeko?

Freya

Kitty Cat Spam!!!

I uploaded some pics from my camera to my mac book today, and amongst them were some really cute pics of my cats :D.
So naturally I had to post them here!

This is Poesje, my sweet girl (offical name is Otchi, but we call her Poesje because it's easier).






And this is Poekie (my younger brother named him), he is my mom's cat.






Aren't they cute???

Freya

Make-up Haul 1 (+ reviews and swatches)

I've done some shopping the last few weeks, but I was extremely busy, so I couldn't find the time to write a blog about them.
I moved all my furniture and most of my stuff on saturday, so now I have more time to blog :D.

This is what I got at a Dutch drugstore called Trekpleister:


*Catrice Blush Brush
*Catrice ...
*Catrice Lip Gloss 140 Melon Red
*Catrice Lip Gloss 150 Soft Apricot

I really love the lip glosses, especially ... , I've been wearing that one a lot!

Swatches of the lipglosses:


The swatches aren't that great.
The darkest one looks brown here, though it's more of a glittery orange.
It's not extremely opaque, more sheer and it complements my skin tone very well.
It also makes my lips look fuller (yay).
The lighter one is a light salmon colour that looks very sweet on the lips.
Since it's sheer it looks very good, if it was opaque it would have looked bad.
I will post same LOTD (lips of the day) of these lip glosses, as soon as I find out how I can photograph them wel.

I haven't tried the nail polish yet, so I don't know how I feel about that one yet, but I bet it's good!

I'm not a big fan of blusher, but I do like to use the blusher brush to put powder on my face and it works well for that purpose.

Have you tried some of these products?
Leave a comment if you have.

Freya

Project 30 Pan

Here's what I have finished so far:

Whole Products:
1-Pot Enzymion Moisturiser (Lush)
2-Sugar Babe Sugar Scrub (Lush)
3-Wiccy Magic Muscles Massage Bar (Lush)
4-Happy Pill Ballistic (Lush)
5-Eau-Roma Water (Lush)
6-Dreamwash Shower Smoothie (Lush)
7-Small pot (30g) Sweetie Pie Whipped Body Butter (The Secret Garden)
8-Dream Cream
9-Coconut Leg And Body Scrub (Inecto)
10-50 ml scrub (Kring Apotheek)
11-500g Rub Rub Rub SG (Lush)
12-small (not official MMU pot) Body Butter in the scent: Snowcake's A La Orange (MMU)
13-250g Taai Taai SG (Lush)
14-200ml Lotus Petal Body Lotion (The Body Shop)
15-Ickle Baby Bot Bath Ballistic (Lush)
16-Deo Roller Mild & Soft (8X4)
17-Ginger Snapped Smooch! (Villainess)
18-Travel Size Pot Creme Anglaise Body Lotion (B Never)
19-Bottle of Lactacyd
20-Bottle of Lactacyd
21-Smashing Smooch! (Villainess)
22-Ginger Snapped Whipped! (Villainess)
23-150 ml Jardins des Îles de Polynésie aux fleurs de tiaré SG (Yves Rocher)
24-Coconut Leg And Body Scrub (Inecto)
25-Raspberry Swirl Smooch! (Villainess)
26-Jardins Du Monde Deodorant Roll-On Lotus Flower (Yves Rocher)
27-Beautiful Twists Shagadelic Watermelon Kisses Lip Balm (Ella Dean)
28-Big Buffy (Lush)

Samples and partIal products:
-Sample of The Comforter Bubble Bar Slice (Lush)
-50ml Okra Conditioner (Lush)
-A tiny block of Spice Curls Soap (Lush)
-Official Lush Sample of Creme Anglaise (Lush)
-Small piece of Alkmaar soap in the form of a flower (Lush)
-50 ml B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful SG (B Never)
-Flosty Gritter BBS Sample (Lush)
-Official Lush Sample of Forever in Bloom Conditioner (Lush)
-Seaweed Day Cream Sample (The Body Shop)
-Sample of Schnuggle (Lush)
-50 ml Taai Taai Shower Gel (Lush)
-50 ml Blue Skies SG (Lush)
-50 ml Butterball SG (Lush)
-50 ml Ice Blue Shampoo (Lush)
-50 ml Ice Blue Shampoo (Lush)
-50 ml Chai SG (Lush)
-50 ml Happy 4 Sad SG (Lush)
-50 ml Big Shampoo (Lush)
-50 ml 13 Rabbits SG (Lush)
-50 ml Reatread Conditioner (Lush)
-50 ml Almond And Coconut Smoothie (Lush)
-50 ml Coconut Conditioner (Inecto)
-Sample of Honey Touch Body Cream (Rituals)
-Sample of Sweet Lemon Body Scrub (The Body Shop)

I only need to use up 2 more whole products to finish the P30, and then I can start on the P40 :D.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Contemporary music

At the moment there's a specific style of top 40 music that's very trendy.
It fast and with a lot of effects made by computers, and usually includes weird dances and crazy outfits.

The Queen of this type of music is undoubtedly Lady Gaga!!!

Three of her most popular songs (and songs I surprisingly like as well, though I didn't think I would).

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance


This song is obviously about a bad break up, something most of us can relate to.
However, most of us don't murder the person that caused our heart to break.
The music and the outfits are a bit futuristic, sometimes she almost completely covered and sometimes almost naked.
Her outfits can look really tough but sometimes also romantic and sweet.
What I like about this video clip, is that she also shows a vulnerable part of herself, not just the tough Gaga we see in the rest of the clip.

Lady Gaga - Paparazzi


The first thing I noticed about this one, is that there's a whole movie-like story to this clip, and I like that the guy that plays Eric Northman in the tv-show True Blood (Alexander Skarsgard) plays the guy.
Sadly he plays a jackass, but still.
I think this is a sad clip; once again she can't trust the one she loves, and feels she should kill him before he kills her.
I think Gaga has some relationship and trust issues.
I mean, I had bad break ups (a lot actually) but I never felt compelled to murder, just saying!
Paparazzi has a better sound to it than Bad Romance, so I actually really like to listen to this song,
The song is honest and she is vulnerable (for a part at least).
She just wants to be loved and be safe in someone's arms.

On the other hand, this song is also about the nasty phenomenon called paparazzi!
It's about the paparazzi that are obsessed with the stars the need to shoot pics of.
They stalk and chase them and befriend them; they are their biggest fans and don't know where to draw the line.
The paparazzi really changes the life of stars in the USA.
Stars can't go anywhere without being seen, nothings private, and the stars and the people they are surrounded with behave differently because of the paparazzi.
The shield the real them because nothings private, or they go to great lengths to be chased by the paps and get into the magazines.
Sometimes they do both.
The complain that nothing's private, but at the same time they use it at their advantage, they like it because it makes them famous.

Last, but not least:

Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce - Telephone


This song once again has a revenge and murder theme.
Bee's boyfriend breaks up with her or something, so they murder him AND everyone else in the cafeteria.
This song has a opposite statements and feelings, just like Bad Romance and Paparazzi.
In Bad Romance she wants revenge on the bloke, but she also wants to kill him; in Paparazzi she want's someone to trust and peace from the paps, but she's also willing to trow away love and privacy to be famous.
In this music video, Telephone, she wants her other half to pay more attention to her and not to ditch her, but it also sounds like she wants him to back off and stop calling, since she wants some peace and quiet.
Like I said: opposite emotions and thoughts!
I do like the movie-style video, this one reminds me of Thelma & Louise, Bonny * Clyde (though I'm not sure if there's a movie about it) and mostly about the movie "Natural Born Killers".

I like her songs, outfits and music video's, because she's edgy, but I also hate the fact that revenge and murder is such and important theme in her music video's.
She's setting a bad example for people, especially youth.
This shows them, that when you don't like how someone treats you (boyfriend or anyone else) you should just kill them.
It doesn't value life.


Miley Cyrus has also been getting more edgy and grown-up (even though she's only 16).
She has been out-growing her Hanna Montana image for a while, donning sexy, minimal clothes and dancing sexy.
She's also dating an older guy, and there is footage of her giving the directer (or someone like that) of her last movie, a lap dance *shock*.
That seems hardly appropriate for a regular woman/girl, let alone someone her age.
Giving a lap dance in public is simple raunchy and not at al classy.
Lap dances should only be given in strip clubs and in private bedrooms.
Anyway, she's got a new song called "Can't Be Tamed".

Miley Cyrus - Cant Be Tamed


I like that the video is raw, and I like the bird theme.
The big, realistic wings that she has in the beginning and the end of the video are amazing.
I think she acts well especially in the beginning.
Whe she gets out of the nest and looks at the crowd she has this look in her eyes that's fierce and wild, she seems just so grown up in this vid.
This video portrays her completely different from what her image used to be (sweet and girly and young), but now she looks bitchy and like a woman, like a grown up.
I think the bird theme is refreshing, but I do hope she will not keep this wild thing up from now on, just this song.
I like the song and I've played it a lot already.


I have also heard about a American singer called Kesha.
She is supposed to be this hot new thing, so I though I should check what the hype was about.
It turns out it was about bad taste!!!
She's just some trailer-trash chick and though there's nothing wrong with being trailer-trash, there's definitely something wrong with her.
She really doesn't have much of a message besides: "I like to party, being drunk and completely wasted and I'm undoubtedly out of my mind."
I think the music is really useless, the songs are really boring and the message is just wrong.

Kesha - Tick Tock


Great song huh!?
I'm being sarcastic off course.
It has a catchy beat but that's all.
She even sings like she's drunk, weird.
The youth in the USA seems to love her and this song, I think that shows how messed up a lot of youngsters are these days.
I like to party to, sometimes, but I never felt like being drunk and wasted (so I never got past tipsy) and I don't like black-outs or wasting my time like this.
Life is about so much more, which Kesha (and American youth with her) obviously doesn't get.

Kesha - Blah Blah Blah



This song is just as much Blah Blah Blah as the song says.
I like part of the message though, guys really do a lot of Blah Blah Blah so she's right about that, but in the song she doesn't care about talking at all, only about sex.
And the song really sucks.
It's mainly noise and I got a headache by listening to it.

Kesha - Your Love Is My Drug


I actually DO like this song!
It's about a love obsession, which is actually a normal thing to sing about.
I also like the song and the way she sings (especially the refrain).
Still there are some crazy elements in the song (I guess she can't be completely normal) like hoping to hit her head against the wall *raises eyebrows*.
I guess I really do not understand/get her but I do like this song.
The last line is quite funny btw, she says "I like your beard." how random is that *laughs*.

Anyway, I guess this is the music I checked out and how I feel about it.
I should probably watch MTV once in a while, so I know what's playing these days.

Have a nice sunday,

Freya