Immaculately Collected Lashes

This is probably one of the most overdue reviews I have to share with you. I like to call these lashes my 'Madonna Rain' lashes as I was convinced Madonna was sporting similar one in her 80s video entitled 'Rain'. As a matter of fact, I was totally wrong. Madonna wears these funky lashes on the cover of her legendary Immaculate Collection album, on a look immortalised by photographer Herb Ritts.





I found them years ago, while browsing the dusty lashes corner in now closed TJ Hughes. They were probably £2.99 but it doesn't matter now anyway. TJ Hughes has closed and you can find them for £1 on Amazon. Bargain, or what?









As with most crazy lashes, do not expect that they will sit just like that on your own lashes and look pretty. Like 99% of the fancy lashes collection, they need layering under or over some regular lashes. I first wore them on my reptilian sunset makeup look, a look I did ages ago for a little competition on youtube. On this look, I layered them over or under (I don't remember) my favourite party lashes ever (More about that in a separate post)




Unless you have full and fabulous natural lashes (I don't) I wouldn't wear them these W7 lashes on their own. Treat them like a fabulous nail polish top coat and they will jazz up your party makeup.



Recently, I wore them on my devil look. I hope you're not too sick of hearing about it now. xx





What: W7 Lashes
Where: Wherever who sells W7 lashes. I bought them on Amazon and the seller is headprom. Postage and Packing was just £1.50.

  

Today is Sunday and that means Blogging Date with Becky (aka Sirvinya) and she has a rather amazing nail polish to share with us today.

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It's live. My five minutes of fame.

Please allow to indulge in this moment. It's not everyday that I am featured on the front page of a website. There is my photo and everything. Today, I have been featured by Spank the Monkey, aka the Buyapowa Monkey as part of the Buyapowa Blogging week.





This means that the co-buy for the Shu Uemura Smoky Layers False Lashes is live and that you get your lashes for half price (£10 instead of its usual steep RRP £20) if it reaches its best price on Buyapowa.


Buyapowa? CoBuy? Best price? What does all that mean? If you missed my introductory post about Buyapowa and the photos of what the Shu Uemura look like applied on me, you can catch it up all here.




Be quick though. The sale might be opened for the next 45 hours, but the stock is very limited. 
For my review and more photos of the lashes, click here or on the photo below:




p.s This isn't a sponsored post, I'm not being paid for this post, or compensated in any way for taking part in BloggaPowa Buyapowa Bloggers week, I am just addicted to BuyaPowa, I just love the concept and am beyond thrilled that little old me got invited to take part.

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The one which fluttered away…

You might already have seen these if you've been around on twitter today but I just could not not blog about them. I am a massive fan of Eylure false lashes and equally massive fan of Katy Perry's makeup. Katy Perry's eye make up looks always excite me: it's fun, it's colourful, dramatic, glittery and fluttery.






In February, Eylure and Katy Perry fans will be able to purchase nationwide (Boots and Superdrug) the amazing creations of their collaboration. I am not quite sure of the prices but I would imagine that these would retail around the the £6 mark.



Katy Perry's collection is to die for and boast 4 pairs of eyelashes: from the dainty, delicate 'sweetie pie' to the full on drama of 'Oh my'. I prefer a fuller lashline personally (easier to conceal) so will probably pass on 'Oh Honey' and 'Sweetie Pie' as they both sport an invisiband but I just cannot wait to play with ‘Cool Kittie’ and ‘Oh My!’.

Hurry up, February!


Have you got any favourites?
Will you be checking these out in store?

photo credits: source.

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False Eye Lashes: 8 reasons why you still can’t wear them..

Today, I am guest blogging on Lipglossiping.com and we're talking false lashes: how to deal with the little blighters and reasons why you still can't wear them. Click here to read my post.

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False Lash Report – Part Une

I am doing my best not to jump up and down too much as I'm writing this. I've been given the chance to write a post for British Beauty Blogger, about my favourite makeup item in the world: false eye lashes. Part One of this mini series entitled 'False Lash Report' has been published today on British Beauty Blogger.  Today I'm writing about Japonesque Lashes.




How many parts will there be?
When is episode 2 going to be published?
Hehe, you'll just have to wait and see…
For now, pop over to British Beauty Blogger to see part 1 :) x

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Catwalk False Lashes by BeautyUK

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False Lashes are probably definitely my favourite 'makeup item'. I've been trying lots of Beautyuk products lately and when I heard they were releasing some false lashes, I couldn't wait to try some and purchased the 'catwalk' set of false lashes at £3.99 from the website.





This was the first time I ordered some beautyuk items from the website. I paid £1.75 for first class delivery and my order reached me in no time at all. I was pleasantly surprised and received a discount voucher for a future purchase. The second surprise was the size of the box of lashes: I bet you could actually fit one of their eyeshadow palettes in there, the box was huge, complete with fully detailed instructions on how to apply them on. Did I read the instructions? Of course, not. I was too impatient to put them on.



 



The second thing I've noticed is how slightly uneven they are. You'll see that the right hand side differ a bit from the left hand side and vice versa. What you lose in symmetry is gained however in 'natural looking effect' of the lashes. The lashes are very long (perhaps longer than the lashes I am used to wear) but also very light, and once they're on and you can hardly feel they are there.







As for the application, as with 99% most of the false lashes I needed to trim them from the outside corner so that they can fit my small eyes. The lash band is very thin and very flexible and you'll have no problem putting them on. The vertical curl on these lashes is absolutely superb and they instantly lift your eyes. I bought many lashes before (corner eye lashes from nyx from the top of my head) that just won't cut it: as they're so straight, you wonder why you put them on in the first place.








how ridiculous do my bare lashes look, seriously. If nothing else, this should boost your self esteem ^_^





However, the fussy false eyelash lover in me was slightly disappointed with the horizontal curvature of the lashes. When I took them off from their support, they felt a bit straight and not as curvy as my beloved eylure 101. This was not a problem because the lashline is very thin and very flexible but if the lashline had been a bit thicker, I could have seen myself having to spend a bit more time trying to make them 'marry' the curve of my lashline.







Overall, I am quite happy with my purchase. The Catwalk lashes are a bit longer than I would personally usually go for but oh boy, they gave me such drama, I can't wait to wear them again. I hope beautyuk will make them available in Superdrug soon.


how much: £3.99
where to buy: online at http://www.beautyukcosmetics.com/ (accessories section)
disclaimer: I bought these lashes myself.

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CLOSED ::: Twitter Giveaway ::: Stila Montmartre Palette & Eylure Starlight Lashes

My, my, my, the girl can tweet. How can someone tweet more than 55,000 times? I mean, this is scary. How have I reached 55,000 tweets? I have no idea. But as usual,  to  mark my chatterboxiness, to thank you for following me on twitter, and to put up with my flood of tweets, I wanted to do a twitter giveaway. To take part, it’s easy peasy:

What to win: 2 prizes, 2 winners. I am giving away 2 prizes. Details below
Who can enter: Open to all my twitter followers , the giveaway is international
Duration: Starts Tuesday 7 December 2010 and ends Friday10 December 2010, 23.59 GMT (UK Time)
How to Enter:  Follow me on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/tsunimee)  and tweet the following message:


RT & Follow @tsunimee to win Stila Montmartre e/s Palette & Eylure Starlight Lashes #liloo55K - Info: http://bit.ly/stilite

Details about the prizes:

First, I am giving away this gorgeous eyeshadow quad palette from Stila Cosmetics, called ‘Montmartre’, featuring 3 shades of purple and 1 shade of light pink.





 


 



And a pair of gorgeous lashes from my favourite brand of eyelashes, ever, which is Eylure. These are thick black party lashes interspersed with glitter. They say:
“The finishing touch to a gorgeous outfit, Party Perfect have been designed to complement after dark fashion. From elegant dinners to cool clubs, great gigs to A-list parties- these eight exquisitely designed lashes could be the only accessory required. Evening wear lashes for beautiful eyes after dark. Reusable. Easy to apply. Glittering like the clear night sky- the light will catch this style in the loveliest way. The bias cut lashes have been adorned with subtle sparkles on a full, even base.”


 






Rules & Other Boring Information:

- Must be a follower of @tsunimee on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/tsunimee)
- You can enter as many times as you wish. Multiple entries are accepted. (Please note that twitter has introduced a rule against exact carbon copy duplicate tweets. If you want to tweet more than once, you might need to trick Twitter and an extra character or two, so feel free to a smiley in there, or add a comma, full stop/period in the tweet or something like that)
- Winners will be chosen randomly thanks to random.org, like on my previous twitter giveaway)
- This giveaway is first and foremost for my twitter followers: you can naturally comment on this blogpost, but they won’t count as entries for the twitter giveaway
- Tweets posted after to Friday10 December 23.59 GMT (UK time) won’t be counted in the giveaway
- Both prizes were purchased by me. Brand New and never been swatched or used.

Good Luck
Liloo/@Tsunimee xx

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Shopping Spree at Girls with Attitude

Absolutely delighted by the DIVA eyelashes by Girls with Attitude (my post here) I couldn’t wait to try other other lashes from the brand. So when Girls with Attitude announced on twitter their special offer (25% off all orders over £10) well, it was a no brainer and it was perfect time to buy some more. I don’t usually do haul videos or blogposts as I find them to be bragging a bit and not as meaningful if they’re not accompanied by a review so this exception to the rule. Besides I am crazy about lashes and I just had to tell you about this offer. I am not by the way affiliated by any way, shape or form with Girls with Attitude. 


So I placed an order for 3 pairs of  lashes. The original amount was £12 but with the reduction I only paid £9 in total, including delivery! All orders placed on the website have free UK postage and they accept payments via Paypal. Finally this offer ends on 11 December.






So , I got a pair of fancy lashes,  crazy lashes and absolutely bonker lashes. We’ll start with the fancy ones, shall we? These are called GLAMOUR. My friend on twitter and blogger Catherine from Perfectly Polished Nails has been raving about them so you bet I just had to give them a go too. 






I love the gradual effect on this to mimic natural lashes. I don’t know if I will find them dramatic enough for my liking (I have zero lashes) and if these lashes are more suited for people who have already some lashes and want to blend their natural ones seamlessly with these babies, but we’ll see and I can’t wait to try them.






Then, we have the STARRY EYED false eyelashes (£3) I chose this from the ‘bargain bucket’ section from the website, well the sale section. I would imagine this model is discontinued. I love the little discs of colours on these but I feel I am going to have to double these lashes with some others to have a fuller lashes look {I love playing with lashes and doubling them up} Incidentally, this packet was soooooo hard to photograph, I kept on seeing my reflection on the mirror case!









And finally (brace yourselves – girls with a sensitive shy nature might want to turn away now) I bought the DRAMATIC COUTURE. These were on sale at £4, instead of the original price of £10. I imagine this is because they have been replaced by a newer version. When am I going to wear this? I haven’t got a clue but fear not, I’ll make sure to photograph them when I wear them! I don’t think these are going to be as nightmarish to put on as the blue feather eyelashes I wore last year (look posted here) but should still score a whopping  5 on the scale of application ease (1 is easy,  5 is difficult) but I do like a challenge and I am stubborn ^_^  So Katie Weasel from the X factor, you think you got the craziest lashes? Bring it on :) haha!

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