Maybelline Jade Colossal Cat Eyes Volum'Express Mascara Haul & Review

Hey guys,

A few weeks ago L'Oréal kindly sent me some products for reviewing. All my opinions are honest, as always. This is what I got:

All of these are products, which were released only a few weeks ago.

Today I'm gonna talk about the Colossal Cat Eyes Volum'Express Mascara:

To keep it simple - I LOVE it! In all honesty, I gotta say I didn't expect that. When I first opened it I was a bit wary if I could be fond of this brush:

Not the most usual shape, but this is actually freaking amwesome! The "bridge" shape is perfect for the upper lashes, it seperates wonderfully, gives length and volume. For the lower lashes, I usually switch it to get a u shape - like you see it in the pic - and with this you reach every tiny lash.

And the best part - NO fall down at all. I always have troubles with mascara wandering down during the day, but this one stays put, all day! Yesterday I cried and after that I looked in the mirror expecting a disaster, nothing moved, it was like nothing had happened!!

I'm really blown away by the quality, I can really recommend it!!! It's 9,95€ which is more than okay, so my advice: if you need a new mascara, go buy this one! You won't be disappointed.

I'll talk about the other products in the next couple of days and I'm gonna do a video on this haul as well.

Love,
Guinevere

MAC Eyeshadow Swatching Project

A lovely reader asked me if I could show my MAC eyeshadows, swatches of them to be exact, and I thought why not. :-) The thing is that this is quite a project *gg* cause I have a ton of MAC eyeshadows. I have a few other shadows, which I depotted in those palettes, so don't wonder, but I'll label them, so there will be no confusion.

I'll start with my Highlighter Palette:

From left to right:

Gesso, Vellum, Vanilla, Blanc Type, Next To Nothing, a MNY colour

Awash, Bold As Gold, Shroom, Hey, Yogurt, All Races, UD Midnight Cowboy

 

Hope you liked it, of course it's difficult to capture neutrals, but I think I got them right. The pics are clickable and I'm gonna continue these posts until I've shown you all my MAC colours. :-)

Next will be, surprise surprise, yellow! *gg*

Love,
Guinevere

The Royal Wedding

Did you see it? I was watching it the whole day and truly adored it. Kate wore such a beautiful dress!! So classy and Grace Kelly..

I was a bit sad about the passionless kiss, but at least we got two and the second one was more authentic. I loved it when you saw William saying: One more kiss? And she slightly nodded and they kissed again. So damn cute!!

I'm such a UK nerd.. I definitely need a tattoo to honour this passion. :-) And I want back to London.. Or Edinburgh..

Love,

Guinevere

Thoughts on MAC's Surf Baby + Preview Night

So yesterday was the Surf Baby Preview Night and it was kinda weird.. I came a little bit late and the place was almost empty, there were like 5 people.. But at least I saw amusedPolish again. :-)

Pics of the displays:

I can't find my camera, which freaks the hell out of me, so unfortunately only crappy I-Phone pictures..

I was most excited for the flower powder, Hibiscus lipstick, the nail polishes, Surf Baby eyeshadow and the bronzing sticks. After taking a closer look nothing was as awesome as expected.. Hibiscus isn't as unique as I thought and Surf Baby looks pretty, but nothing special. The nude polish does exactly look like the Models Own Nude Beige and the blue polish is nice, but again nothing unique.  

The bronzing sticks indeed have an amazing colour pay off, but are quite dark and I have the creme bronzer from To The Beach which is almost the same, so this was a pass as well.

I'm really proud that I was able to skip the collection and save some money. *g* Nevertheless, it's hard.. I just love special packaging..

Love,
Guinevere

Vintage Helena Rubinstein Lipstick

I found an old Helena Rubinstein lipstick in my mum's make up bag. How cool's that?!

It's called Nr. 14 Rouge Glorious

It has so many "streaks", cause I cleaned it with my Beauty So Clean wipes.

Isn't that one beautiful red?

Love,

Guinevere

Bipa, MNY, Catrice Polish Swatches

Further swatches from recent purchases :-)

Bipa polishes:

Flamingo, Rubin, 080,070

Catrice/MNY polishes:

Catrice: London's weather forecast - MNY: 906A, 905A

Love,
Guinevere

Updated Nail Polish Storage System

Hey lovelies,

How are you? I'm so happy to be in Retz and that I can breathe again. The last couple of days were very exhausting and painful. My mums dog, with whom I grew up and naturally love is a senior now and she has water in her lungs..
She is old and her heart doesn't work right anymore, so all we can do is give the best we can and try to make her life as long as possible happy and without pain.
The last few days, while all my other family members unfortunately were on holiday, I spent the most time in the emergency pet clinic. The warmer the weather gets the harder it is for her to breathe. She's better now, but it seems I always have to be the strong one for our family...

But now enough about me. Can you remember when I first showed you my wand displays for my polishes: Nail Polish Storage

Well my collection grew, haven't thought it would be possible that I fill up all the shelves *gg* But it happened:

I need more shelves.. *g* I need two large ones for new polishes and two small ones for my pigments and my nail treatments.

What do you think?

Love,
Guinevere

DM Haul: Essene + Alverde

I might be considered "addict of the month", but let's be honest, this blog is called Anonymous Beautyholic. You know what you're getting yourself into. ;-)

The Swatchaholic posted a picture on Twitter from the Essence LE You Rock! polishes and I immediately got nervous. lol 

I thought the collection would be released first of May and not a week earlier and since I reeeeaallly wanted the polishes and test the eyeshadow base, I "panicked" a bit.. 

So I called my closest DM and they already had the products in store, but not set up. I drove there and asked and they were so nice and got them out of their warehouse for me and I could choose what I wanted to buy.. *gg* 

So here's my haul:

I got the eyeshadow base and all the polishes. In an attempt to convince the saleswoman that I'm not completely crazy I started talking about the similiarity of those to the Chanel ones. She ended up setting a set of the polishes aside for herself. lol
I'm awesome in selling products, shouldn't have quit my old job, but there are so many downsides that I only regret it a little bit.

I already wanted to pay and then I saw the clearance box packed with a bunch of stuff from the latest Alverde and Essence collections!
I think almost every product from the last Alverde LE was in there, which was quite tempting, but since I prefer pressed products, I restrained myself (yes I can do that!!, on occasion *gg*) and only got two brushes and the green powder concealer. I'm really curious if the concealer works, but I highly doubt it.
Two polishes from the Essence Blossoms LE found a new home as well.

Yep, that was my freaky Friday.. *g* I wish my wallet would be more cooperative.

Love,
Guinevere

New Youtube Video online!! - A way to use the VitaZing Creme by Origins

Hey guys,

Remember my video about the VitaZing Creme by Origins and that it is too dark for me? Well I found a solution:

Hope you enjoy!

Happy easter!

Love,
Guinevere

Candy Yum Yum Look

Here is my Candy Yum Yum Look, finally. :-)

..such a gorgeous neon, blue based pink!!!

Everyone said it is not drying but I gotta say I do find it a bit. My lips weren't in the best shape though.

Do you like the look??

Love,
Guinevere