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Coastal Scents – gel liners part 1

A few months ago, I spotted gel liners at Coastal Scents on-line store. I fell in love at beautiful colors and wanted to try them as base for mineral eyeshadows, since I don’t use liners much. They can be split into 2 groups – those with shimmer and those that are matte. The first part … Read more

NYX Girls – Purple Dream

I’m noticing that I’m almost out of my “vampy” phase. I feel like the spring is waking slowly in me. Although I have to wait a bit for real spring to come, I can at least have some spring at my tips When I first saw the bottle of Purple Dream, my first thought was: … Read more

Essence – 50’s Fever

Finally it’s out. I already wrote about the new Essence collection 50’s Fever. Today I only have one nail polish for you and a quick review for the blush brush. Rockabilly is dark cream burgundy shade, which applied flawless. I needed only two coats to get the color of the bottle. It’s an “almost black” … Read more

Revlon – Autumn Berry

Last week I went shopping with Maestra. You guessed it – I bought couple of nail polishes. One of them is Revlon – Autumn Berry. It is beautiful reddish-violet based polish with green, red and gold shimmer. I needed two coast to achieve even coverage. Bad news was, that I had tip wear (as you … Read more

Sweetscents: Christmas 2008 collection – part 3

Third part of Sweetscents series will be about Metallics trio, three beautiful brown shades. First and lightest brown is Metallic Pearl with its light brown base. When you apply it dry (no base) it almost melts with skin (on very fair skin). Only thing visible is shimmer with mainly gold flecks. But when you foil … Read more

Revlon – Purple Petal

I’m so excited about this shade that I can’t find the right words to describe it. Although I am not a huge fan of cream polishes, this is one of the most beautiful pink shades in my collection. It is a wonderful fuchsia color, which is suitable both for the spring as well the summer. … Read more

Creative Nail Design – Satin Sheets

Every time I decide to apply one of CND nail polishes I am impressed how great the application is. In this point of view, their formula is really perfect. Their brush is also good. Although it doesn’t look anything special, it works perfectly for me. I wrote before (HERE) that CND polishes have some drying … Read more

Sweetscents: Christmas 2008 collection – part 2

Today I’m going to show you swatches of my favorite set so far – Egyptian Nile. In it you’ll find following eyeshadows: Fancy, Egyptian Green and Egyptian Desert. Fancy is very dark green Blackstar Green lookalike. The only difference is maybe little bit more brown base in Fancy. They bot have very fine dark green … Read more

Zoya – Asia

2 layers + topcoat Essie Good to go. Picture is taken in sunlight.