Youtube Inspiration #3: Shaaanxo

So by now it's probably no secret that I love Shaaanxo from Youtube. I love her style and wish I could keep my makeup looking so polished from day to day. What I've done here is not a recreation but actually an inspiration, using similar products from brands she likes & colours she would use.

Please ignore my bad hair day, I ended up just sticking it up in a bun for the day. I wish I could get right into the recreation by doing my hair or dressing a similar way, but it's all mostly just what I've done in the morning to get ready for work, so I never have time.

The lip colour here is more accurate compared to the pictures with flash, which make it look almost more lilac-y

 Face | Rimmel Wake Me Up, Rimmel Stay Matte powder, Nude By Nature Eye Definer {Contour} Nars Laguna Bronzer (a fave of hers), The Balm Cabana Boy
Eyes  | MAC Paintpot in Bare Study, Stila Kitten Eyeshadow {Lid}, MAC Satin Taupe {crease, lower lash line}, Naked 2: Tease {Blend out Satin Taupe slightly}, Blackout {Outer V, slightly}, Foxy + Bootycall {mixed together, highlight}. NP Set black liquid eyeliner, Nyx Wonder pencil, Bourjois Volume Fast & Perfect mascara.

Lips   | Wet n Wild Mega Last Lipstick in Dollhouse Pink {meant to be a dupe for St Germain which is another fave of hers}

This is obviously not the look I was going for, but she wears many makeup looks very well!

I think most beauty-obsessed girls would know about Shaaanxo! What do you think of her makeup style? Although I like how mine turned out, I think that no matter how differently I try to do my eyeshadow, it always looks the same! Because my crease isn't as defined like hers what I do will  look different than how it would on her.

Check out her channel here .

xx

Rosegold & Mossy Green Eyes //Spring FOTD

Don't get me wrong, I do not have the pleasure of being in Spring but I kind of feel like it is with all of the spring-inspired makeup looks going around lately. If you can't tell I am quite big in "matching" my makeup to the seasons but I can easily forget which season I am actually in, especially when I barely see any autumny looks going around.
Anyway, without meaning to on this day I was just applying my eyeshadow without really thinking of the outcome in the end, but I ended up with loving this combo! Although the eyes did not end up turning rose gold like they did in the jar, it still looked pretty. Paired with a very light blush and bolder lip added to the springy look.

 This is also the same eyeshadow I was wearing in one of my swatches for the Maybelline One by One post.

~Products
Face: Rimmel Wake Me Up & Bourjois Healthy Mix fdtn. Bourjois Delice de Soleil bronzer, MAC Lightscapade. Topshop cream blush in Head Over Heels, Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso.
Eyes: Vanity Palette Matte Highlight shade [inner half of lid], Random rose-gold pigment [outer half of lid], MAC Golden Olive Pigment [crease], Wet n Wild Vanity Palette Dark Brown  [Lower lash line],
Vanity Palette Highlight shade [highlight]. Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner, Prestige Brow Duo [highlighting colour, waterline]. Max Factor False Lash Effect & Maybelline One By One
Lips: Nyx Lip liner in Pinky, Milani lipstick in Rosehip, Nyx Chrome Eyeshadow in white [middle of lower lip].

 I feel like the lip colour definetly added to the spring feeling, and the chrome eyeshadow that I dabbed on the center of my lips made the colour look less bright pink & more fuchsia while "plumping" up my lips.

Does anyone else in the Southern Hemisphere have the same problem as me with getting too inspired by everyone else's season to stick with their own? Or do you not really care if your makeup matches in with the season or not, for example wearing dark smoky eyes & wine coloured lips when it is summer, or barely there light makeup for winter?

And if you probably didn't see my last post the Procrastinating Beauty Blogger Tag I had a sort of big announcement which I am so excited about.

"Oh and I have some pretty exciting news :) I will most likely be going on a spending ban (awesome specials & the absolute essentials not included haha) as I had to shell out for a new passport... because my Fiancee and I have finally booked our holiday to America in July!! We have been talking about it for years so now that we've booked our flights and started on our hotels I am getting excited because it's actually going to happen! 
So the main reason for my spending ban is because obviously because I am going to take a huge advantage of everything we get taxed so hard for... makeup, beauty, clothes, shoes.....and hopefully not go too much over the luggage limit haha.
I am already planning what I want to buy and what I will need to to take... it is going to be hard to select extremely minimal makeup that I can bring!"




xx

Day To Night Makeup // Ft Wet n Wild Vanity Palette + Swatches

I love posting day to night makeup looks, mainly because there are only a few elements that you need to change in order from it going to a wearable day time look to a sexy & smoky night time eye. Here I am "showcasing" the Wet n Wild Vanity palette. The decision to go out this night was last minute so I didn't have time to completely change it up so it was easy to intensify what I had on from the day.

 Day

 To me this day look is quite boring, not enough definition in the outer v, I kept the lower lash line almost bare with just a bit of eyeliner in the waterline & the eyeliner is not dark enough, personally. But it looked nice with the glowy cheeks & lips. Maybe I shouldn't say boring but it doesn't do anything special for me.
I am really sorry but I cannot remember what I am wearing on the rest of my face! Apart from the usual foundation/ highlight/ bronzer.

Night

As I mentioned I didn't have too much time to change it up. Whenever I apply over old makeup I always reapply my primer which acts sort of like a cleanser in a way, and nothing cakes up. I even used my eye primer over the eyes & reapplied the eyeshadow for more colour. I did the usual winged eyeliner & also applied eyeliner on the lower lashline & waterline unblended for a more dramatic look. Add more more mascara & it's complete. I also kept under my eyes highlighted & started contouring from the temple to leave the highlight more defined.

~Products
Face: Models Prefer illuminizer, Australis Paparazzi Perfect foundation, Rimmel Wake Me Up, Garnier BB Cream (I do these all over my face & blend with my Real Techniques buffing brush for a flawless finish) Maybelline Age Rewind concealer, set with Palladio Rice powder. NARS Laguna, MAC Lightscapade. MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Warm Soul, Nars Orgasm
Eyes: MAC Painterly Paintpot, Vani-t Shadestick [light gold], Wet n Wild Vanity Palette: Gold [lid], Bronze [outer lid], Soft brown [crease] Dark brown [outer v, crease] Matte skintone [highlight, blending] Shimmery highlight [inner corners]. Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner. Bourjois Kohl & Contour pencil e/l with BYS Gel eyeliner.
Lips: Bourjois Levres Contour pencil #11, Nyx Black Label Lipstick in Nude, Nyx Glam Lipgloss Aqua Luxe in VIP

Swatches

The Wet n Wild Vanity palette offers 6 brown/ gold toned shades perfect for any neutral & wearable look. All swatches are done over Nyx's Base in White as I would always use them over the top of any kind of sticky base. I patted them on with a brush to get ultimate pigmentation, so be aware if you were to swatch it without any base it would not show up as pigmented.

Starting from the 1st row, top to bottom:
Left:
-A pinkish skin coloured base, good for blending or as a highlight. Meant to be similar to MAC Brule
-A mid toned soft brown good for in the crease or to blend out. Similar to UD Buck.
-A darker brown good for defining the lash line or outer v. Meant to be very similar to MAC Handwritten
Right:
 -A vanilla toned light shimmery highlight colour. Similar to MAC Shroom?
-Gold, beautiful lid colour. Similar to UD Half Baked
-Bronze-brown, a nice pair with the gold. In between UD Darkhorse & Smog.
 The left side has a matte finish and the right side is shimmery, if you couldn't tell by the swatches.

I have been (up until now) using the darker matte & soft brown colours to fill in my eyebrows as I have almost finished the brown from my Sleek Storm palette but now I have my NYX eyebrow kit.

How do you take your makeup from day to night?

Thank you for looking, as always!
xx

Please follow me on Bloglovin', the link is on the left sidebar, as GFC is closing down from July 1st.
You can also import all your blogs into bloglovin by clicking on the link they have left in the note on the website :)

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Extreme Winged Eyeliner //FOTD Ft Wnw Dollhouse Pink

Do you ever have the days when you do your eyeliner thicker on one eye, so you go back in the other eye but over compensate on that and it just gets bigger and bigger? Yeah, I had that problem. But I ended up liking it in the end and thought it went with the eyeshadow & the lipstick look. Probably definitely a bit too much for daytime makeup but I work in a salon, not an office! Although I def. would love to wear this makeup look on a night out.

Just being silly, my lipstick seemed to match my nail more IRL.

~Products
Face: Bourjois Healthy Mix, Rimmel Wake Me Up in Soft Beige
Nars Laguna, MAC Lightscapade. ELF HD Blush in Headliner, Bourjois Blusher #54
Eyes: MAC Painterly, Urban Decay Naked 2 palette: Verve [silvery-white, lid,], Pistol [grey, inner & outer corner of eyes], Tease [taupey-mauve, crease], Bootycall, [shimmery skin tone, middle of verve, highlight], Foxy, [blending, skin tone]. Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner, NP Set Black Liquid eyeliner.
Lips: Nyx lipliner in Dolly, Wet N Wild Mega Last lipstick in Dollhouse Pink

Wet n Wild Mega Last Lipstick

This was another recent buy from Cherry Culture, and my first WnW lipstick. It is meant to be a dupe for MAC's St Germain but from what I've seen St Germain is lighter. None the less it is still a really pretty cool toned lipstick. It has a satin finish and the lipstick itself is amazingly pigmented & as it claims, long lasting. Great quality for $2.75! They have a huge colour selection & Pinkerbell is meant to be a dupe for MAC's Viva Glam Nicki , I should buy it just to test it :)

Thanks all for looking!
Have you tried any Wet n Wild Mega last lipsticks and what did you think of them?
xx

Collective haul! Cherryculture, Beautyjoint, China Glaze & More.

I've been waiting a while to receive all my packages that I ordered around the same time so I could put them into a collective haul-style post this time. I've been using some of the products in my FOTD's so I'm happy I can finally show you properly, now!

Cherry Culture
Nyx Eye Shadow Base in White, Nyx Soft Matte Lip Cream in Antwerp
Nyx Black Label Lipstick in Nude
La Splash Glitter Splash (names below)
Cherryculture.com has regular specials & I'm pretty sure I got these Nyx products between 15-25% off when they are a good price anyway. The glitters were $5.99 each, and they have the biggest range! I can definitely recommend these glitters, and I've used them in a couple of looks and you can see how glitter can also be wearable but then also dramatic (obviously!! It's all up to you how it turns out ;)). I found this website has extremely quick shipping as I ordered these not long before beauty joint but I got them 2 weeks before!

 Giveaway Prize

 Technically not a haul but new products none the less, I was so excited to win crosswiredreamers.blogspot.com giveaway!! I never expected to win it when I entered so thank you so much girls! I got the Stila In The Light palette, Face of Australia Sheer Gloss Lip Crayons (funnily enough I had these in my giveaway but never actually tried them :P) & 2 O.P.I glitter nail polishes in Gettin' Miss Piggy with it & Fresh Frog of Bel Air from the muppets collection.

Ozsale

 Ozsale.com had another special on China Glaze so I bought 2 of them to replace the ones I never received/ broke in the mail. I replaced skyscraper with Dorothy Who, a similar looking colour that is so gorgeous! As for the 2 light pink's, I was looking at swatches before hand and one looked like a light flesh toned nude colour and the other a baby pink, but both turned out to be like a french pink!!! With one being a tiny bit darker. Oh well, I will find out which one I like more and give the other away.

 L-R: Patent Leather Top Coat, Dorothy Who, Diva Bride, Innocence.

Beauty Joint

I didn't buy any necessities from beautyjoint.com but some pretties, that I had to have.
Top- Jordana Glitters Nail Polish in City Lights, China Glaze Shocking Pink, ELF HD Blush in Headliner, Nyx Stick Blush in Orchid.
Bottom- Wet n Wild Coloricon in Glamrock, Wet n Wild palette in Vanity, ELF Lip primer & plumper, Nyx Glam Gloss in Aqua Luxe, Wet n Wild Mega Last l/s in Dollhouse Pink.
I can't wait to show you swatches of the polishes, I am currently wearing shocking pink- OMG. Both blushes are so pretty, I have been wanting Orchid for ages! I had to buy the WNW eyeshadows after seeing shaaanxo with them, I thought the ELF lip primer would be nice to see how it goes, and the other two looked too pretty to pass up!

Ozsale

Ozsale also had Bourjois on sale with almost everything at $10 a pop so I got the Healthy Mix concealer (I got this in 52 and it's a tiny bit too light but perfect for under the eyes), the Delice de Soleil Bronzing powder (I wanted the chocolate one but they didn't have it), Levres Contour lip liner in number 11, the Healthy Mix foundation in 53 (I looked it up in the foundation matrix because I didn't know which one to get, this is a good match except maybe a tiny bit too yellow but it's not too noticeable since I'm pretty sure I have neutral colouring), The Volume Fast & Perfect rotating mascara (Can't wait to try this but it is in line so it wont be for ages) and a blush in 54 Rose Frisson.

So that's pretty much all the cosmetics I've received recently and I'm not expecting anymore at the moment except for a clothing & a jewelery order.
Expect a bunch of reviews/ swatches and other posts in the upcoming future about these products, but please let me know if there's anything specifically that you want to see!

xx Ashii

Some More Looks... A touch of colour

Products used... Eyes: Make Up Store E/S for the lid (light shimmery pink), purples from Wet N Wild Lust for the crease/ outer V
Cheeks: Mixture of E.L.F Fushia fusion & Peachykeen
Lips: Revlon Colourburst Fushia L/S

No idea how my skin looks so orange here! haha

Eyes: Silver from 120 palette, purples are again from Wet N Wild Lust
Cheeks: I can't remember, sorry!! but its probably ELF peachykeen.
Lips: Covergirl Lip perfection in Kiss (looking super frosty that day)

Eyes: NYX JEP Milk- You can tell which eye I did first that I forgot to put it on haha. Madd Style Cosmetics- Mega Beast (Blue) Make Believe (purple) Nambie Pambie (pink) For the e/l I used a gel e/l from coastal scents called deep plum & I used milk for the white eyeliner.
Lips- NYX spellbound

Thank you for looking sweethearts! <3