Orly vs. Essence

I bought the gorgeous Orly Halleys Comet some weeks ago as you might know and three days ago I saw an uneblievably similar polish by Essence named choose me!:

Wicked right??

But let's take a closer look:

left: Orly, right: Essence

When you look closer you see there is much more depth in Orlys than in Essences polish. I even applied two more coats on the finger with the Essence polish, trying to find out if that would make any difference, but no.

Nevertheless, those twos are super-similar.. Like brothers *g* Essence's choose me! is lighter and has more golden and green particles in it. Orly's Halleys Comet is finer and has an more interesting overall effect in my opinion. I am prefering this one, but there is still a wide gap when it comes to price. Orly costs 12€, while Essence not even 2€.

Own these? What is your opinion?

Love,

Guinevere

My poor baby and Body Shop's Vitamin C skin care range

I'm exhausted... I spent my sunday morning in a pet clinic holding my dog while the vets removed a torn claw which was bleeding like crazy.

I think he knows that we all want him to feel better, but I wish I could explain it to him.

Anyways, I wanted to post the Vitamin C products of which I talked about in my last video, here they are:

The Duo Eye Reviver

The left side is for you lid and the ball on the right is for the under-eye area to refresh an nutrish this delicate area

The gorgeous Capsules - a serum treatment for 28 days

The refreshing Face Spritz

The new and awesome Daily Moisturiser SPF30 with UVA/UVB protection

The half-jewels Microdermabrasion peeling

Skin Boost - an intense, literally skin boosting, serum

The Cleansing Face Polish - makes your skin squeaky clean

Powder Mix - the intense 10 day treatment

That's how it looks like:

You press the white cap down once, then the powder falls down and is ten days active, you remove the white cap and screw the orange cap on and use it with that.

And this is how the products look like:

From left to right:

Skin Boost, Microdermabrasion, Capsules, Daily Moisturiser, Cleansing Face Polish

Close Ups:

Skin Boost, Microdermabrasion, Capsules

Daily Moisturiser, Cleansing Face Polish

If you wanna know more about them, just watch my video, here's the link again: :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHbLavuuXUY

Love,
Guinevere

MAC Venomous Villains & F/W Nail Trend Haul

Well yesterday was a big day.. So many releases of things I really wanted.. MAC's Venomous Villains, MAC's new Nail Trend and the new highly limited Momiji dolls..

You wanna know how bad I was? Oh I was really bad...

I still feel extremely bad about spending so much money I can't even enjoy the products at the moment, but I know myself, I would have regretted it forever if I banned myself from buying.

When you see it from the Blogger point of view - I did great lol but from the there-are-other-things-that-need-to-be-paid point of view I failed completely.

But let's enjoy the pictures for now:

Ps.: I would list the names of the products, but let's be honest, you all know them already.  *gg*

And I bought all the nail trend polishes, which I don't regret as well..

I'm gonna do swatches of all the nail polishes soon. I won't do Venomous Villains swatches, there are a billion better ones out there already and for those who read previous haul posts know that I have the weird habit of waiting a while just worshipping, until I can actually use them. *gg*
And when it comes to such a gorgeous collection, there definitely needs to be some time just marveling. *g*

I really hope there are other people out there who bought that much or more.. Would make me feel better.

Love,
Guinevere

AMAZIIIIIIIING NEWS!!!!

I am SO HAPPY to report that MAC got the Venomous Villains and the F/W nail trend delivered today. I visited my MAC girls and the delivery arrived during this time - so exciting!!

However, this DOES NOT mean that you can buy them today!

They will be released on Friday as said. I so will be there at 9:30.. *gg* I know I'm a freak, but I'm okay with it. Maybe I even see some of you there. :-)

For those wondering why the hell they can't just start selling them the moment they get the products, here the answer:

The products need to be brought into the system and they have to do that first. Even when the products are already in there, there are official release dates which they aren't allowed to ignore.
It has nothing to do with them not wanting to sell, really. Even purchase will be visible in the computer and they would get into serious troubles.
I myself stood before them and nearly freaked out why they can't just sell them, but they can't and it is not their fault. So if you feel like that, cause you have to work on that day and are afraid everything will be sold out, don't be mad at them, it is out of their hands.

Love,
Guinevere

Body Shop's Vitamin C products

I uploaded a new video, finally.. *gg*

It's a review about all the Vitamin C products from The Body Shop. I will make a seperate post about them with pics and descriptions as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHbLavuuXUY

I sincerely hope you like it!!

Love,
Guinevere

My new system to overview my polishes Part 2

Sooo I finally started to get them on to the wall :-)

I mean doesn't that look awesome???

And you can flip every single one over to read the label. I love it!

There's still a lot to do, all the other colours to be exact, but I already like it very very much *g*

Love,
Guinevere

Essence Denim Wanted

I was quite surprised when I came across one of the Denim Wanted gel liners from Essence. I thought they were all sold out, but I found the grey one and couldn't resist. I also grabbed an eyeshadow duo which looked promising.

Let's start with the gel liner:

It looks very shimmery silver in the little glas bottle, but it isn't.

It comes with a little liner brush as well, I love brushes. You can never have enough..

I was very happy with the consistency. Staying power was also nice and as it should be. I'm happy that I did find one. :-) I didn't think the brush would be that good, but you can draw nice thin lines with it, another plus!

Let's move on to the eyeshadows:

I love intense colours and they are intense:

Lasting power was awesome as well, needed my cleansing oil to remove them.

So this purchase was definitely worth it. :-) And as always - gorgeous prices!

Did you get anything?

Love,
Guinevere

B Pretty Brushes

Last week I was at Bipa, a local drugstore and walked by those little cuties and couldn't resist, even ignored my boyfriends subtle comment that I already own a billion brushes.. *gg*

I wanted to test them, how they feel and work on the skin. Those retail for 2,99€ if I remember correctly, which is nothing.

And that's how they look like:

My opinion: They are okay. When you open them and smell on the bristles it just smells awfully like plastic, but after washing this disappears.

The bristles are okay, they are definitely not as soft as they could be and regarding the fact that Essence has a powder brush in the same price range which is adoringly soft one can't help but be a tiny bit disappointed.

However, for the price I think they are alright. Maybe if you wash them with conditioner they will get softer.

I hope this was helpful for those wondering how they might feel.

Love,
Guinevere

New Design

I decided to use a new blog design from blogger itself, cause they were troubles viewing the blog.

Hope this is better now.

Love,
Guinevere

MAC release infos for Austria

I was asked if I know when exactly the Autumn Nail Trend polishes will be released. I called one of my MAC girls and got this info:

Venomous Villains will be released on Friday the first october. 

The autumn polishes might be released the same day if they arrive soon enough, but for sure on the 4th of october. I'm happy they come to us at all, wasn't sure about that.. 

 

pics taken from temptalia.com

Both collections haven't arrived yet in stores, let's hope they come in time, so they release them punctual.

I hope this was helpful.

Love,
Guinevere