FOTD and tutorial: Neutral Gold Eyes and Coral Lips

Entering all these eye makeup competitions made me realise something, i.e. I hardly ever do any neutral tutorials, which you girls can actually follow and wear.. Oh well, I guess I'll start now. :)
I love golds and corals, this is a very wearable look, for even everyday, especially in summer. You can also jazz it up a bit for formal events. :) It's very easy!

Final look with flash 

Step 1: Take a shimmery gold colour and pat it on to the center of your lid.

Step 2: Use a bronze/ copper shade on the outer corner and blend it into the gold.

Step 3: On the lower side of the outer corner apply a darker brown shadow and blend.

Step 4: Blend in a taupe colour into the crease.

Step 5: Smudge a black pencil on the outer corner of the lower lid and then use the gold on the lower lid like shown.

Step 6: Smudge some more black onto the outer corners, also line the outer corner of the lower lash line.  Make it look subtle and not harsh.

Step 7: Curl your lashes and add a good amount of mascara, your everyday gold eye makeup is done!

Products used:

• Some Korean gold eyeshadow, I can't understand what it says!
• Maybelline Chai Latte (review here)
• Colossal Kajal and Colossal Volum' mascara
• Colorbar Peachy Rose blush
• NYX round lipstick in Femme 

The finished look in natural light:

I love this lipstick!

Eyes closed

LOL! My blush never shows up on camera!
Anyway, would you wear this look as an everyday look? What do you like pairing with gold and coral in your makeup?
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! I feel so weird doing such a normal look! I'll get over it. Hehe..

MAKEUP BUYING BAN STATUS: 3 days down. I can do this!

Another Late Monday Manicure and a FOTD

I know, it IS Tuesday, I'm late again but I was out the whole day yesterday and by the time I got back I was so pooped, I would have been just typing "Baaboohagdjkagdhfk" and thinking I'm writing the blog post equivalent to a Shakespearean play.. I wonder what that looks like.. But anyway, yeah, so I decided to write when I'm more aware of my surroundings, especially the keys on my keyboard here.

Here's a tip from my boyfriend (who btw I now know is AMAZING at picking out foundation! Who woulda thunk it?!), he says before you look at my nails, make sure to stare directly at the sun for awhile, so your eyes won't hurt as much from the nails... Okay, don't really do that, the camera muted the colour anyway. :(

So here's my manicure, it's Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by China Glaze, I think it was from last year's summer Pool Party collection? Correct me if I'm wrong. I also did zebra stripes, I love the trashy look! LOL!

The camera doesn't pick up how highlighter yellow it is! *stomps camera*

In the sun, I feel it looks more "glowy" in darker conditions.

A close up because I hate your eyes! I kid, I kid!

Yellow Polka Dot Bikini is a very flourescent colour BUT pretty sheer. It has a matte finish and dries in seconds. For this mani, I used 2 layers of white polish below the yellow to make it pop. I'm loving it!

And I'm so happy, I found it on discount for 375 INR, I think its much cheaper than the online stores. :D

Here's the makeup I wore yesterday, it's at the end of the day so it looks pretty messed up now! LOL!

I'm wearing Maybellin's BB cream in Nude, Jordana Stardust blush on my face

I'm wearing ColorBar Velvet Matte lipstick in Peach Crush on my lips and
Maybelline's Chai Latte quad on my eyelids (3 colours) with Hypercurl Mascara and Colossal Kajal.

Apparently my hair is in competition with my nails! As is my lipstick! LOL!

I love it when my lipstick matches my hair btw! Hope you enjoyed this NOTD and FOTD.
See ya! xoxo

Big Fat Haul from Last Week

So ermm, I went a little nuts last week, look at all the things I got! At least, more things to share with you right? Huh? Huh? Okay, yeah, I need an intervention. -__-

Went to Westside, as you know from the Chai Latte review. Got:

Maybelline Chai Latte quad, Makeup Remover, Vivid and Smooth Liner (grey)
and  Bourjois Clubbing eye pencil (Blue Remix )

The Chai Latte was another elusive Pokemon that I needed to catch, the remover I NEEDED!

Local Beauty Store:

Sunsilk Lusciously Thick and Long (that name is so wrong.. *Hauls mind out of gutter*)
Lux Magical Spell Body wash

ColorBar Velvet Matte Lipstick (Peach Crush), nailpolish (top coat), eyepencil sharpner,
Lotus Matte Gel spf 50 sunscreen

I never liked Sunsilk but I think they've reformulated their products, so I decided to try the pink one and I'm liking it a lot so far. :) My sister got me hooked to Lux bodywashes, I like that they don't leave a greasy film after you're done, great for summer. I have 3 now. >_<

ColorBar Velvet Matte Lipstick (Peach Crush) my first ColorBar lipstick. :D

I fell in love with the lipstick! :D

Online Shopping:
Stylecraze got in some amazing NYX stuff!

NYX girls polish: Enchanted Forest *pretty*

NYX round lippies in Stella and Femme.

I've been wanting Femme forever! Stella was a disappointment colourwise, it has silver glitters. :( Reviews will be up soon. :)

Majorbrands had a Mother's day sale, so I picked up 2 shadows that I was eyeing for awhile but they were too expensive, I have to stick to my blog name, you know! But I gave in.. Paid 150rs less though. :P

My first ever Inglot purchase. :D 

AMC 60 (yellow), Matte 366 (coral)

Reviews for these two are coming up NOW! :D

That's it for last week, I have another order coming though, I ordered the L'oreal 360 Go Clean Face wash, It sounds promising, lets see... Until then: Insolvency. That is all.

What did you haul this week? Did you go overboard? Comment and tell! :D

A Mini Naked Palette: The Maybelline Chai Latte quad

Yes ladies, it is BACK! I don't know when it came back but when I walked into Westside two days ago, The Maybelline Chai Latte (Modern Metallics) quad was sitting right there on the Maybelline counter waiting for me to grab it.
At first, I was wary because I knew this quad had been MIA for the longest time, so I asked the nice lady at the counter and she told me that it had been put in stock again. :D

For me, this Chai Latte really is a mini Naked palette, if you can't afford the Naked palette in your wildest dreams, go for this! Rs.240 is an extremely small amount to pay for a good quality eyeshadow quad. Sure you're missing 8 shades from Naked but something's better than nothing!

Seriously, if you look up swatches of Naked, you will find them eerily similar! Dupes almost!

• Top left reminds me of Virgin
• Top right of Toasted
• Bottom Right of Tease (from N2) maybe a tad darker
• And the bottom one could pass off as Smog

Swatches:

Flash

without flash

I found this quad way more pigmented than the Maybelline Diamond Glow By Eye Studio, that one sucked, BAD!
The packaging is flimsy, the lid got scratched up in my makeup bag, the day I brought it home. And the first time using it, the lid came off.. Plus the brushes are not really usable. *Sigh* But then.. Rs. 240! So, I'm not complaining.

As with most shadows, this one lasts really long and looks more vibrant with primer, I'm in love with the copper shade that is numbered for the lid (top right.)

Here are some looks I tried with it, the first one is your run of the mill, office/ daily eye look:

Then I decided to get a little creative and use my new Bourjois Contour Clubbing Waterproof eyepencil in Blue Remix (review soon) predominantly with the copper shade and I got this:

This has become one of my most favourite looks. I hope you like it too! I didn't use any blue shadow, only the pencil and smudged it. If you girls are interested, I would love to do a tuorial on the look. :)

Overall, I give this quad an A, even with crappy packaging, the colours are well pigmented and you feel like you own a little part of the Naked Palette, always a good feeling! So, defnitely go out and get this palette!