Purple and Gold makeup look (and video tutorial in Greek!)

Hello everyone! How are you? I hope you are doing great! I finally managed to edit my video. I haven't posted a makeup look for so loooong! The thing is I always want to put up the camera and record but I just don't get around it eventually :P hahaha

This is the look, please excuse the poor photo quality....

Here is the link to the video (it is in greek):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esY-PDROKzY&feature=youtu.be

Products used:

FACE:

Clinique - Dramatically different moisturizing lotion (for Dry skin)

Seventeen - Time Plus foundation 

Toyoko - Small round with flat top foundation brush

Avon - Translucent Tan powder as bronzer

Bourjois - (can't remember name or number) blush

Essence - Powder brush

TheBalm cosmetics - Mary Lou Manizer as highlight

Essence - Blush brush

Avon - Natural Shimmer as an all face bronzer

EYES:

Clinique - All about eyes, cream

Radiant - Tone corrector, nr. 03

Essence - nr. 22, Blockbuster, as highlight

Essence - nr.35, Party all night on inner corner

2 purples from the 88 matte palette 

MAC - Blacktrack gel liner

p2 - Spectacular Volume Mascara 

Radiant - Eyebrow pencil, nr 2, blondes

Lips

Avon - Ultra color lipstick, carnation

I have one more registered (waiting to be edited) and I will try to film a few Xmas ones before I leave for holidays, I just wish I weren't so darn busy for it. The ratio of the video is messed up, I don't know why. Even though I film it in 16:9 the editing program just doesn't accept it and that is so frustrating because I don't look properly in the video and neither does the makeup look (it makes my eyes and the application look like circles lol).

Take care as always!

Loves and kisses.

Heliana

Goo Hoarding! Cleaning a bit my makeup stash!

I love collecting makeup. I love buying constantly new items and trying them out and experiment with colors, textures and all that jazz. But sometimes we have to clean out our makeup stash and throw away any item that we don't really use or it's really old or it's gone bad, no matter how much it hurts us, haha!

Usually if something is new and I don't like it I will give it to a friend or my mom or my bf's mom. But when something is old or gone bad, of course I throw it away.
It is VERY important to throw away old makeup products ESPECIALLY eyeliners, mascaras and lipglosses. Eyeliners and maskaras that are too old can make eye infections and lip glosses can contain so much bacteria in that small greasy tube that you don't even want to know about it!

From right to left:
- Biguine Makeup Eyeshadow Sticks in 3705 "Lili Rose" and 3701 Satin, both had started to smell funny.
- Carlo di Roma Liquid Eyeshadows in number 09 and 12. They were both fine but I had them for way too long plus I don't even use them.

Essence liquid eyeliner, 01 Black: had it for too long
Shiseido liquid eyeliner, 3 Heather Mauve. I got this from a person working for Shiseido and I had it for way too long it had totally gone bad.

Avon Color Trend, Kiss 'n' Go in "Amethyst": started to smell funny.

Radiant eyeshadow base: had dried out

So that's all for now. Do you clean your makeup stash and how regularly?

Take care!!! Heliana

Avon Fails Vol.1

Luxe Face Brush

It's normal price is around 12 euro, thankfully i got it with only 5 (even though I regret it). DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT BUY THIS BRUSH! You will literally throw your money away. This brush looks nice but it's trush. Bad quality, the hair is cheap and scratchy you definitely CANNOT use this brush on your face it will scratch you. Just never ever get this brush! I am really frustrated that Avon does not have return policy this is probably the worst product I bought ever. 

Avon Eyeshadow Quad - Mocha Latte

You know, you know, another Avon product review. I promise once I am done with my university exams I will do more reviews about other products as well and some tutorials :).

Ok so as the title says, today I am going to tell you my opinion about the Avon eyeshadow quad in "Mocha Latte". 

Now, i have tons and tons of eyeshadows but I always buy bright colors, pinks, shimmers etc so I was looking for something more neutral for everyday looks for the uni etc. So i thought this quad will be ideal.

And yes, the colors are super pretty, very nice, neutral, perfect for everyday looks. We have a shimmery white-pink color a shimmery gold/champagne, a matte brownish beige and a matte brown.

All of them are quite blendable, they are not the most pigmented eyeshadows in the world but are fine. You will probably need a primer to make the shimmery colors to show. What bugged me is that the matte eyeshadows are very dusty, you have to be very careful when you get product with your brush because it just brakes too much of the product and creates eyeshadow dust which means extra product waste :/. Plus you have to be carefull with that because if you don't tap the excess off, all that dust will fall out on your face, so there is a minus right there. This is the only eyeshadow quad I have tried so far from Avon and my opinion is pozitive about it. I will let you know if I try others in the future.

Here are some pictures of the product............

- Are you satisfied by the product?
- I would say yes.

- Will you repurchase it?
- Probably.

- Would you recommend it to others?
- Sure.

That's all for now, always take care and love yourselves! :*

Avon Perfect Kiss Lipsticks Review and Swatches

This is the new lipstick line by Avon that we will be able to purchase from the campain no.3 (in Romania, at least). As a representative I had the chance to pre-order up to 4 lipsticks for promotion purposes.

General Information:
So I did order 4 lipsticks just to see if what are they about and if I should actually suggest them to my friends. Being a pinky gal I ordered the Fuchsia Flirt, Pink Wink, Lovey Dovey Pink and Pink Prance.
The first and positive thing I have to say generally about these lipstick is that they smell amazing! They have some sort of cocoa/ coconut smell.
Also they feel very moisturizing and they don't dry the lips at all.
On the negative side, they are no where close to the colors shown in the brochure (as you shall see). They are more on the sheer side and they have lots and lots of shimmer/glitter (on the brochure they appear thicker/richer colors) not to mention the tones are different. For example the pink prance is almost like a white-ish , silver pink but you shall see the swatches (I manage to make some proper ones).

Photos - Swatches:

 Pink Prance

Fuchsia Flirt

Lovey Dovey Pink

Pink Wink

The Pink Prance and the Lovey Dovey Pink look alike and so does the Fuchsia Flirt with the Wink Pink but in the swatches you will see that they are different. When I opened them and I saw the lipstick bullets I was very happy to see the 2 hot pinks, I thought that they would be super intense but they are not exactly what I expected.

L->R Pink Prance, Fuchsia Flirt, Lovey Dovey Pink, Wink Pink.

If you click on  the picture to appear bigger you will notice that Fuchsia Pink is sheer-er and way more glittery than Wink Pink, the second tends more to a pink red. Pink Prance and Lovey Dovey Pink look alike in the swatches as well (darn cameras :P) but in real like Pink Prance is a lot more shimmery than Lovey Dovey Pink. Even though they colors were not what I expected I still like these lipsticks a lot because they feel moisturizing and they don't dry my lips at all. The staying power of them in my opinion is acceptable for a  lipstick that doesn't promise to be on the lips 24 hours. I mean you will have to re-apply after you eat or drink. One downside is that because most of them have a lot of glitter when you eat dring etc the glitter will probably transfer on your face, which is something expected from lipsticks with glitter.

I took some closer pictures so that you can actually see how shimmery the colors are and the differences between the colors.

Pink Prance and Fuchsia Flirt - More shimmery colors

Lovey Dovey Pink and Wink Pink

Pros:

Very pretty colors

*Quite shimmery - If you like that

Delicious smell but not overwhelming

Moisturizing

They don't dry out the lips

Cons:

The colors on the brochure are not helpful, you better ask your representative to show you some samples 

*Quite shimmery - If you don't like that

The glitter might transfer on your face but not anything TOO extreme, you are not gonna look like Edward in sunlight in any case so it's a minor con.


- Are you satisfied by the products?
- As lipsticks yes, because what I want from lipsticks is to wear them and not dry my lips out. So I am quite happy with them..

- Would you recommend them to others?
- Of course, they are awesome! :D

- Will you repurchase them?
- If I run out of them sure but I will definatelly purchase some other shades, red this time.

Feel free to leave a comment and ask me anything, I will be happy to help.

Take care, lots of hugs!!!