Are you making any New Year’s resolutions?
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My second New Year’s resolution is to learn how to use more colorful lip makeup. I’m a fan of nude lips so this is a big step for me and takes some getting used to. From the photos I have noticed that my mouth seems even smaller and lips are almost invisible with nude makeup so it’s about time I learn how to wear bright lipstick.
This resolution requires me to also buy some new lipsticks, glosses and lipliners. I’ve already bought a few new products. Reviews and photos are coming up in the near future.
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| MAC Ruby Woo |
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| Milani Lip Flash 03 Flash Light |
I got my new laptop, pink/fuchsia one of course although the photo makes it look more like red. This should make writing my blog posts a joy :D Here you can also see my little computer corner aka dining room table ;)
Time has gone crazy fast and I’ve been really busy. We have moved into a new place and I love it! I haven’t had any time to think about my nails or do anything to them. Haven’t exactly shown them any mercy either and opposite of what I always tell people to do I have been cleaning and stuff without gloves on.
I have to say that Cesars Secrets gel products are amazing to last through all of this and after 5 weeks my nails are still on with very little lifting. I broke up one nail couple of weeks ago but nothing would’ve survived that hit. Other than growing lenght and the visible line between my own nails and the gel these are looking very good.
Anyways, I’m tired of gel nails now and want my own natural nails back so here begins the nail growing project once again. This time I’ll leave these nails on till they fall off. By far I have saved myself 5 weeks of suffering with short and paper thin nails. I’m hoping these will stay on for another week or two.
Here’s a photo of how they look now and like last time I’ll take pics regularly to show you guys how things are going. I have to say that my nails are growing really slow now since that is all they’ve grown during past five weeks :/
I had to shorten my nails a lot so that I won’t break all of them off during the move. Packing moving boxes and moving heavy furniture isn’t really what my long nails were meant for ;D I’ll try and live with these till next month and then see what I can come up with next. Gel products are from Cesars Secrets and light pink glitter is from eBay.
I finally got myself a little makeup corner that I’ve been dreaming of for so long. Furniture except for the black leather chair are from IKEA.
I had a very limited space to build my little corner so those were really the only things to fit there right now that also pleased my eye. I managed to get all my cosmetics fit in to those drawers for now. There’s not much extra space left for new stuff though. Luckily this Malm furniture series has a lot of different kinds of drawers so I can easily get more space as soon as I can get a bigger room/area for my corner.
Here’s the whole corner. I’m keeping the brushes and often used makeup pens on the table with a couple of my favorite perfumes and my face cream. The black and white jar works as a little trash can for things like used cotton swaps, etc.
In the table drawer I put the cosmetics that I use most often. My Dior 5 Couleurs eyeshadow palettes, Lily Lolo mineral foundations and so on. The drawer is not all the way open and in the back there’s more Dior and my Urban Decay palettes. I wanted to organize everything in a way that I can easily find and get what I’m looking for. I didn’t want to shove it too full of stuff and then have to dig up for everything I needed and making the drawer messy in the process.
In the drawer next to the table I keep more makeup, perfumes, fake lashes and a lot of other stuff. I only took photos of two drawers but you get the idea ;)
All my nail polish is stashed away in this drawer. This one is almost full and I can’t get another one like this anymore. So instead of trying to look for one like this I think I’ll get two white Helmers from IKEA and put them on each side of this to make them look like they belong together ;)
Here’s the pics of my nail art supplies shopping from eBay … finally! I ordered bunch of stuff for gel nails and I think what I got is pretty cool. Few orders are still to come in but this is the most of them anyways.
Now I’m having a really hard time trying to decide which ones to use on my next nail fix. I’ve been waiting a little longer to fix my nails this time cos I’m waiting for them to grow a little more length. I don’t feel like going through the trouble of filing these off and replacing the tips with new ones just to get a millimeter or two of more length. I fixed the broken index finger nail and others still look good too so I can just wait a little longer :)
Glass (plastic) beads
Crushed shell
Glitter with multi-colored spangles
4 sizes of pearls
Star shaped rhinestones
Spangles, but these I’m not so happy with. I was expecting more stars to be on this wheel.
Dried flowers. I really like these ones
Fruit fimos. These were sliced really nice and thin. I’m glad about that cos I was afraid that I’d get thick ones that would be useless for me.
