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Palettes: which colours are your favourites?

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Is there a need to have so many palettes? Definitely not. I will introduce you a few palettes as a result of years of experience. Well, I do not use the eye shadow every day but I like to have a good palette and do a light makeup. Many years ago my cousin told me how to do it: to do the seven at the edge of the eye when using the eyeshadows. This information has been quite useful. I suggest these two videos for learning eye makeup:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SQjrxRG2c  from Cliomakeup and  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3wNnH1NHA8  from Merve Özkaynak. Cutting the long story short, today I will talk about seven brands (Kiko, Clinique, Lancome, Diego Dalla Palma, Mac, Too Faced and Inglot) and six palettes (2 from Kiko, one from Lancome, one from Clinique, one from Diego Dalla Palma and one from Too Faced), four single eyeshadows (Three from Kiko, one from Mac ) and one which you can combine yourself (Inglot). I hope that it will be a useful one for you before you make deci

KIKO Ocean feel: Challenge day five

I could not feel the ocean. I will be very honest: 1) It dries the skin 2) It does not look smooth 3) Fills into the lines Could not feel the ocean. Cliomakeup gave 5.5 but I would give lower than that. Sorry, Kiko, I love you but I have to be honest with you. Being honest is a part of love. It is good to know this though:  KIKO MILANO does not carry out or order testing on animals, pursuant to the relative European laws.

Kiko 3+3: What to expect?

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Yes I know, I am guilty of Black Friday shopping... I bought three things and three to come with it... 1) Makeup sponge  I bought this one cause it is quite useful and it is one of the best sponges you can do makeup with. 2) Hydrating cream - Christmas special  (17.99 euro) This one smells so nice and natural with shea butter. 3) Lipstick base  I have never used a lipstick base but I think it can be very useful. I have very dry lips. 4) Kiko nail lacquer  This is the simple nail polish that shines your nails... it is simple but elegant. 5) Baked blush 1  (12.99 euro) This colour is really beautiful. It is coral and it smells like cookies, it smells also like a hand cream from the 1980s. 6) Twos-sides eye shadow brush  (10.99 Euro) I have one of these, but when I use it more often, then I need a second one, cleaner one... so it is never a loss to have an extra. I will write the evaluations of these products when I try... but wait for me, cause it

My favourite brushes for daily use

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Well, I know what you will say if I say "I do not wear makeup every day". I really do not. Especially in November, I feel too depressed to wear makeup. But when I do, I have three to four brushes that I use and will introduce them to you now with great pleasure, cause they are good to me and I am good to them (I did not mean to personify them this much, nothing is more important than trees, animals and persons). Okay having said that let us start with the fact that I have a leaning towards KIKO brushes, yes, they are good, yes, they are professional, and yes they do look aesthetic. I have three brushes from KIKO, and then one from Bodyshop, and one from Bellàpiere. Then there is another one Kabuki teint 47, but do not remember when and how I got that one. Maybe it was a present. Let's shoot. The best and the most practical eye shadow brush ever, one brush but have two functions: to spread and to specify. You shoot two birds with one stone (and hope you never do that)

Oh that mascara adventure!

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I used many mascaras till this day but there are ones that I want to introduce to you, that I really like and still use up to this day... For some reason, I could not put any photos of the mascaras here in my blog, but I will post the photos later on; so you will need to read a lot of words and description, I apologise for that. The first one is a colourful one, it is purple. It is Yves Saint Laurent purple mascara that I have used for long years... this one was my favourite for many years and used it even on a daily basis. With green eyes, the purple goes really well. And it is quite a wet mascara but after a while, it becomes really normal as consistency and then the wetness does not bother you anymore. I quit it after a while cause I wanted to use natural products. Still, it is good to try this one if you like the colour purple. The second mascara I really liked was a vegan one, black, normal, daily use... and if you have sensitive eyes it is really a perfect one. It never m

Foot-works: what works and what does not?

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Not only having sensitive and dry skin but having dry heels, such lucky genes! There is though a solution to that for sure. You'd better take care of your feet which carry your whole weight whole day, that let you discover the world, that allow you to wear beautiful shoes, boots and slippers! Well, to cut the long story short, there might also be natural treatments to dry heels, and will look for them for you. However, before that, I would really like to use some of the knowledge I have about a couple of products.  Let's start with the creams for the feet. There are four suggestions on my side... I will tell you which one worked as much as I expected it to work.  First one is Kiko intensive foot cream . This cream is good for daily use. I use it before I go to bed, and wear my socks afterwards. I expect that at night the cream does all the work. Thought that it would not be efficient but it is quite good. However, I was using it with other creams so could not obser

Sprays and Mists for Sensitive Skin

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Hello Again, Once more I have four suggestions for sprays. They are all different, they have different functions, but they are all good for sensitive and dry skin. The one I like the most is the last one of Clarins "refresh" . It smells like flowers, roses and lavender. I really liked it a lot. It has a function of hydrating a lot, and I mostly use it before I go to bed sometimes even without putting on the night cream. My number one is this! The second one I liked a lot but it has lost its smell after six months was Kiko spray... ( Green me hydrating face mist ). This one is supernatural, it smells like grass, its consistency is almost white and I think it functions in hydrating the skin. The third one I suggest to you is the one I finished already and bought a new package as stock in my cosmetics shop, in our little house. So basically, this one is one of the best known from Avene , the spray with minerals for dry skin... Acqua Termale Avenè Spray ... I know

How to organise the nail polish in Marie Kondo style

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As we all know Marie Kondo did it and we loved her ! She organised everything so well. She was the middle child and was kind of on her own most of the time. So she started organising her room, then her friends' room and now she is organising the world. One of her tips is that you bring everything that you have from one category together: all clothes, all books, all cosmetics for instance. So before the organisation, there is some chaos... I have taken all my nail polishes and organised them. I will show this procedure to you via photos... and if you would like I can also share the colours of the products and how they look on my hands. My hands are not the most beautiful but you will have to bear with me! So the first situation is as such. I am alone with all the nail polish that I will never be able to finish all my life. Longing for the fact that my sister would be with me, to finish things would have been easier. Well, that is just a detail before I tell you how disorgan

LIPSTICKS: WHO DOES NOT LOVE TO HAVE A GOOD LIPSTICK?

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This boom with cosmetics in the last years is incredible. So many brands, so many colours, so many artificial products and so many novelties! But how will we know which lipstick is the best one? There are three questions when it comes to lipsticks: 1)    Do they suit you (colour wise)? 2)    Will you ever find the perfect colour? 3)    Which are my favourite(s)? So basically, I have three main questions to answer very shortly. But then I will tell you a summary of my experiences about the lipsticks, brands, textures, pigments, colours… will share you a great variety of them from each brand. The colour range is from red to orange, from orange to pink and purple. But there are a few nude colours which are closer to brown as well. Never liked brown as a lipstick but maybe till I find the right colour I should just shut up. Let’s start with the first question. Does every lipstick suit everyone? It is not possible. I will give some suggestion