Out and About with Origins & Smashbox

The releases keep coming. Origins just came out with a new serum :-) I love love love Origins and am always excited about news from this brand. So this is a product quite targeting my age group.

While enjoying a lovely breakfast and presentation we got to see the new quarter-life crisis serum with willow bark named Original Skin!

My age group gets more and more recognition in skin care. For years there was just young and mostly troubled skin care, a bit of unspecified one for all age groups and the anti-age range. It's interesting to see more and more of this. It smells lovely and I will do a seperate post after some testing. :)

 Besides the lovely Origins serum Smashbox was also there with their new contouring kit.

Soon, there will also be a contour stick trio available. Quite interesting. :-) Cream products are never to be overlooked when it comes to contouring.

Here it is and it is awesome!

I will review the trio as well of course. :-)

It was a great morning and I enjoyed it immensly, I will share my thoughts about the products soon.

Love,
Valerie

GOSH Spring & Summer 2015

As said, many beloved brands are showering us with new products. My darling GOSH is one of them. Let's take a look:

We get some preeeety pastels :-) All polishes, the new batches at least now come with a wide brush. Since I'm sadly not one of the lucky girls with elf-like hands and nails, I love that. 

There are a new series of liquid liners in many different colours.

A new primer with hydrating ingredients such as alga

There are also some new mascaras headed our way. The left one is already out, a fat volume one. The other two will be released in the next months.

We also get some giant blush sticks. I'm more a powder blush girl, but if used right cream blushes can give a lovely and natural looking result

There are also a bunch of new lip shine pencils, they felt and looked great, I'm gonna make a swatch post when I visit my Bipa.

There is also a complete new area GOSH is entering - hair care. I'm currently testing the Argan Oil series. So far, I'm happy. :)

So, there is a lot to enjoy and try, What do you like most?

Love,
Valerie

Sothys Spring Summer Collection 2015

It's March can you believe it?? And while here in Austria we're still drowning in bad weather our beloved brands are giving us a piece of Summer.

Sothys is one of them and recently released their Summer collection. Let's take a look.

Let's start with the two eyeshadows.

Here we have "Bronze nacré", a lovely chocolaty-hazel tone. It's not much of a catch in the pan, but god it looks goregous on the eyes.

The other one named "Sable fine" is a nice shimmery highlighter colour, but it doesn't really stand out. 

We also get a lovely trio blush named "enlumi-neur", the colour pay off is not overwhelming. I was quite disappointed when I swatched it on my hand, BUT when I loaded it on my brush - concinved that not much will happen - I ended up with such a pink cheek I had to whip out my make up remover. *gg* 

So what I learned from this product, it's not a fan of hands, but if you use a brush you will get a lovely result.

It's summer so you need a bronzer, simply named "poudre soleil". It has a golden overspray, but underneath is a nice bronzer you can also use to contour.

There are also two dewy lipsticks. They have a fruity scent and go on smoothly and are hydrating. 

"Corail Vivienne"

and "beige Garibaldi"

Last but not least there are two summery nail polishes for the beach. "Rouge grenadine" and "orange exotique." Haven't tried those two, but I will. :)

On to the swatches :-)

Bronzer and the blush trio, the seperate colours and below a little swirl. As you can see. the blush didn't like being swatched. 

Here we have out two eyeshadows, on the right is the lovely bronze nacré, which I adore! 

Lipsticks! The coral shade is especially gorgeous.

Here is a look with all the products. Okay I only used "corail Vivienne" on the lips in this one. ;-)

I'm really happy with this collection. I wore it all of last week and always enjoyed it. :) It's summery, dewy, but without drowning you in sparkle. Here is a link to the locations where you can get the products - *click*.

Love,

Valerie

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GOSH 9 Shades "To Play With In Vegas" Palette

Today I have swatches from another of the 9 Shades palettes. :-) The most fun one  "To Play With In Vegas". A burst of colour.

I love playing with it, last week I used the pinks for a little afternoon make over.

What do you think about the palette? 

Here are swatches of the other 9 Shades palette I own "to Enjoy in New York". :-)

Love,

Valerie

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Stay away from these lashes!!!!!

This is a first on my blog, cause when I don't like a product I simply don't mention it, but this made me so angry, I have to warn everyone I can. 

A week ago or so I bought s-he stylezone lashes, so far I never had a bad experience with their products, but this was more than a disappoinment.

I bought the left ones (I threw mine away in a fit of rage) and it's not so much the lashes which are evil, it's the lash glue!

I was naive enough to use the lash glue that came with the lashes and it was UNREMOVABLE. I tried for an hour to get rid of the glue with oil based and oil free make up remover. I tried everything. My eye area was so sore I had to apply Bepanthen like an eye cream.. 

But it wouldn't go away. It took three days and a lot of rubbing until the last bits of glue finally vanished and it left my eyes with several lash-free spaces. It looks horrible, like someone randomly removed them.

I can't tell you how angry and furious I was and still am. I just have to look in the mirror. This glue is an affront and I feel s-he stylezone should pay me money to get lash extensions until my lashes grow back. 

So, please, NEVER buy them. 

Love,

Valerie

Glossybox Valentine's Edition

I hope you all had a lovely Valentine's Day, spent with the people you love. Mine was quite surprising, didn't expect a thing and got a rose AND a MAC voucher! :-)

Let's take a look at what Glossybox put into their love box.

This box focuses quite on skincare which is a bit of a love/hate thing for me. I always love getting skincare products, but well there's always the chance that your skin doesn't react well to the product.

You get a toner by Kueshi, a sample of benefits pore professional and a sample size of the Eucerin even brighter day cream.

As you saw above there is also a perfume sample from chloé and since we are more than just a pretty face we get a Beautybird nail polish, a gorgeous loose eyeshadow from Marsk and an adorable key chain.

"Yo're Toast" - It's a super shiny almost foil goldish tone.

A nice and solid box full of products one really can use. Love that, but again, if you're very sensitive when it comes to your skincare, be careful when trying new products.

Love,
Valerie
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Curly Cuffs

I love Etsy and this is one of the reasons why. Let me show you my most recent purchase: Curly Cuffs

I got myself a septum, they are piercing cuffs. It is perfect if you wanna try out how a certain piercing would suit you.

I little while ago I removed my septum (a real one) and from time to time I miss it. This is perfect for such a moment. They come in different colours, versions and they do look real:

You need to check it out if you think about getting a piercing or just wanna have one for a while, most piercings are just that anyway.

This is just my opinion, but before you make a visible hole in your face which will always be there, piercing or not, trust me I've seen it so many times, get this.

Here's the link. I bought the sterling silver one which was 6,51€. I think I need to get snakebites just to scare the crap out of my family. lol

What do you think about those? Love them just as I do?

Love,
Valerie