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One more review on the Naked 3 palette!

Hello my lovely friends!
 Today I want to talk to you about a palette that has had a lot, and I mean A LOT of press lately. It is everywhere on the blogs, all the youtubers talk about it .... people want to know about it, is it worth the price, should they buy it or skip it?

First of alll you might be surprised to see that I did not insert any pictures on this blog of swatches or of the actual palette or even of any look that I did using it. The reason is that pictures like that are all over the place, just google it and you can see more that you ever have time for.

I bought it when it first came out and I anxiously waited for it. i bought it for full price on beautybay. The palette came .....In the meantime I bought a fake palette (Naked 3 fake) from an ebay while knowing it was a fake for 10 dollars just for the fun of it, to compare so to say.....

And here comes the surprise....I use the fake one more!

Why?

Because all the combinations that I tried with the real one end up looking all the same. While with the fake one, because they didnt get some colors quite "right" , you can achieve more looks, more cheap looking looks, this is true, but looks nonetheless.

If you know how to work with eyeshadows, using the right primers, brushes etc, you can make ANY eyeshadow work. So why buy the expensive real thing?

Well, maybe the colors are unique (not the case here, as they end up all looking the same), maybe the pigmentation and blendability are awesome which makes life easier and since you can afford it , why not (well not the case here either). Maybe because the packaging is really pretty.... ( personally I do think that urban decay could have made it look better than the cheap plastic that they have inside, even a different color would look less cheap. Imagine that the outer shell of the palette of the fake and the real one are actually the same). The colors look the same but swatch very differently.

I get that it is the idea behind it that make it so popular, what with the golden rose tones...but to me , it looks like muted blushes with fallout (the light shades and the mattes shades) while the dark ones are just muddy.

You can use this palette for its dark tones thought. I mean if it wasnt for all this hype and I had bought it for the dark tones which are the main tones on the palette, I would be happy but you cannot complete interesting daytime tutorials without adding something extra in the mix!

I know I am quite trashing this palette....but hey I paid a hefty amount and I must say I  am not finding it very enjoyable doing my makeup with it!

For me this was a risky movement from urban decay, wanting to cash out from the previous two palettes, which I have and are very very good by just adding some shades that they didnt before ( and I guess there was a reason for that as it was proven later on) in order to get done with all these naked -nude- neutral makeup before they go on to brights again, which they did by launching the electric light pressed pigment palette.

To conclude, I suggest you skip this palette and only buy a melon- golden- pink pigment that you can mix with your favorite beige, brown, gold and copper and black eyeshadows and completely replace this palette, actually achieving more shades and better shades ,if I might say,  this way.

So girls, tell me what you think of my review. Do you think I have got the wrong end of the stick? Do you agree or disagree with me? Leave your comments below!

Love you all
Kisses
Elina

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FOTD 19.11.13

Hello my dear friends!

This is the face of the day for today! I got ready to go out to my store in the afternoon but last minute my babysitter aka my mother cancelled! So I stayed in and am now taking some time while the baby is napping to write this post!

So today's face of the day is dark brown eyes with the lower lid completely bare and nude lips.

The most important thing about this look is the sequence of the application. This I will have to show on a tutorial in a video on youtube.

The lipstick that I am wearing is the Nude Creme from the Milani Color Sensational lipsticks.

It is a 'your lips but better' color , smooth, buttery, moisturising, with a very inviting smell that has a good staying power, I would say 3 to 4 hours with eating and drinking.

I am very happy with this purchase and I am recommending this to anyone interested in buying a lipstick for everyday use.

love
elina

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FOTD Sunday 17 November 2013

Hello!!!

Just a small post with the FOTD. The products I used are the following :

Face:

MUFE Mat Velvet
Sephora Fond de teint Matifiante No25
Vivo cosmetics Baked Bronze Shade 2
La Femme Blush on Rouge Pink Velvet
Benefit Erase Paste No2

Eyes:

Naked 2 : Foxy and Tease
Estee Lauder Pure color Quick Thick Eyeliner in Black
Lancome Hypnose Doll Eyes in Black

Lips:
MAC Embrace me lipstick
MAC Lipliner in Currant



That's all for today!

Love!
Elina!

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Lipstick of the Week!

This week I rediscovered one of my Sephora lipstick and  I must admit it is a shame I forgot all about it during the summer! However I think that this color is wearable all year around! The shade is C10 from the Chic series of the lip attitude! Here how it looks like in the tube, a swatch and a lip picture!

What do you think?


Love
Elina!

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Self care!

I am not usually a person that focuses on details and rituals. I am spontaneous and usually forget things that are part of everyday beauty routine,like brushing my teeth every night, tweezing my eyebrows everyday ( I wonder what is the norm for that activity), or even brush my hair for everyday.

When I have to be ready and be presentable , it will take me 45 minutes max and that is including the shower, the blowdrying of my hair, my dressing up, my makeup and everything. So I think that is real quick for girls.

Question: How much time does it take you to get ready to go to work, to go for errands, to go for coffee or to go out clubbing and partying or attending special events? Answer with comments please!!!


Anyway, today I got up from my midday siesta ( here in Greece, siesta is a MUST) and unfortunately for me that is 3 hours of sleeping from 3 till 6. I know.... I know... this is not normal, but what can I do. It seems that my insomnia wants to be my friend at night and completely forgets about me during midday hours, when even if I try to stay awake, I just cant.

I got up and I didnt feel in the mood for anything, not even frappe coffee and let me tell you, this is strange for any greek person. So, I decided to have a long shower , exfoliatate, pluck hair from armpits and legs, moisturise and actually give my hair some shape while blow drying it!

I must say I feel so much better now. How great is it to be completely alone at hone, have all the time in your hands where you are not supposed to do absolutely anything, to just say I will work tomorrow, but right now I am going to relax and not do shit! Most of the days that this happens to us, we feel boredom, we kinda feel useless. Today was different. I actually felt like taking care of myself and it actually had results on my peace and serenity. I do feel so much better now. Not that I will go out partying and conquering the world, but I feel an inner peace , which I like very very much!

Question: Do you have days like that? How often do you take care of yourself? Do you have a ritual?
How does it make you feel? How often do you do it? How did you start doing it?


So I will be closing this post and going off to read a book and relax completely in a moment. But before I do that, I want to tell you about a baby gel that I used on my legs to moisturise them. It is the proderm sleep easy baby gel with lavender and chamomile. It costs around 5 euros and it takes for ages to finish as you need very few drops of the gel. It is very moisturising, smells like divine relaxation and is not sticky or oily at all. I highly recommend it for your spa rituals at home. Here is a picture of the product.

That's all for today! Off to my book now! love!!! answer the questions and leave a comment if you would like!!!


Kisses!!

Elina!

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Too Faced eyeshadow palette!

A trip to Sephora was all it took for me to lay eyes on and eventually buy the summer edition of the "Too Faced" eyeshadow palette!!!!

Here are some pictures so you can get an idea of how it looks like! You can click on them for better definition and to enlarge them. I have not swatched them but they work very well with a primer, although I must say the pigmentation is not very good, if you think of the cost of the palette which is 34 euros. 

All in all, however, I like them because, with a primer, they look very nice, are easy to apply and the colors are very well thought of and put together!  
This is a palette which you can grab for your summer holidays and create different looks. You have more of the base colors which will result hopefully in an even usage of all the eyeshadows thus a full usage of the palette.This means that you will not be faced with the situation where the best color is used up before the rest 
So no more talking...Off to the pictures! 




  


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