Little Red Riding Hood met Barry M ...

I can't say I am a very charitable person. I don't give enough money to charity really. But there is one charity which always dear to my heart Breast cancer Research Campaign. As every year, I like to force encourage my office to wear pink on pink Friday. It was so much fun. I didn't take photos of my outrageous pink eyes but I managed to take some pictures of the pink manicure I had for the occasion.

I chose to wear my little red riding hood nails (limited edition 2true nail polish in shade 2) with a fresh coat of Barry M pink crackle which got me lots of compliments. I hope you like them too.

and now with ambient lighting :)

Did you also 'celebrate' pink Friday and did pink things on the day?

Hopefully more exciting posts will be coming soon. Please bear with me xx

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Outfit and Makeup for New Year’s Eve - Fail

I don’t know how you fashion bloggers take pictures yourself of your outfit but I am really struggling. How on earth you manage to do these shots of yourself in the mirror with not the flash glaring back at you, I really don’t know. I really liked what I wore for new year’s eve but sadly I failed to capture it very well and I mainly rely of some random girl in the ladies’ toilets in a bar to take a picture for me. Sadly it didn’t work out and the pictures didn’t come out very well. So please excuse the little bits of photo I took to recreate the photo of the night and most of all please excuse the unsightly yellow lighting.


I decided to wear a fancy black corset, a simple black skirt, some really high heels from New Look., with a little jean jacket. I wanted a all black outfit because I wanted a very very dramatic makeup.










Accessories wise, I wore one of my favourite pendant: a diamante pendant from Asos, teamed up with a random diamante cheap bracelet and a black jet butterfly bracelet from Diva (bought at warehouse if my memory serves me right.







For my makeup, I wore nearly exactly the same makeup as my contest entry for Glitterdollz7 but I made the cut crease even more dramatic and drag makeup looking, with a extended ‘up in the air’ white wing. Of course it had to be all glittery as well. Details for everything I used to do this look in my previous post here. These pictures were taken before lipstick. I wore mytrusted mac blankety and the first lipgloss I found.
What about the contouring and the blush and all that, will you ask? I did put some stuff on the cheeks from elf but 1. I am not very good at it 2. My camera which is very kind to me and smoothes my features/skin and all, also washes off my contouring attempts.

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Bonsoir Kitty – Evening 'Spurkle' Cut Crease Party Look

YouTube Makeup Guru Carly aka Glitterdollz7 is doing a makeup contest at the moment. The mission is to recreate one of her makeup  looks. This is my favourite kind of contests: we do after all watch makeup tutorials in the hope of recreating them, right? It was  hard to choose what to do. For ages, I wanted to recreate her Barbie loves Mac look. I was also toying with the idea to recreate her  interpretation of Nina Flowers Drag Look since my eyebrows are very much ready for this kind of look at the moment.






But I eventually  settled for her 'H&M Cut Crease Spurkle’ Look (sparkle and purple). This was such such such such a pleasure to do: I love glitter so  much I could have it for Breakfast. My favourite kind of makeup is drag-gy exaggerated elevated cut crease look at it helps to lift  my droopy lids and and and I've got this one shoulder dress I am thinking of maybe wear for new year's eve and I really wanted to  try my hands at a sparkly and festive purple look.







In reality, the glitter is much much more vibrant and it was hard to capture with  the camera but I hope you'll still be able to see it.




Carly used mainly the purse friendly H&M Hello Kitty Palette to create her look. I didn't have this so I used the following  ingredients:
- purple from Sleek Acid Makeup Palette
- black from Sleek Acid Makeup Palette
- darkest purple from eBay 120 palette
- Mac Blanc Type Eyeshadow
- Fashion Lashes (101 I think?) from Ardell (Ugh, can't stand invisiband lashes, hate them!!) & Eylure Glue
- White eyeshadow from Nyx Trio
- Splash Proof Sealer to stick the glitter on
- Glitter: mixture of mac 3D silver (just a liiiiiiitle bit) and main one used was White Fairy Dust (white and green glitter) from eBay (the one with the  white lid below)




They have also other colours if you want to see on my twitpic here. I love loose glitter. Next I want to buy  bright royal blue mixed with peacock blue glitter.





If you are interested, you can see more photos of my look on my video here.
I’ve made a little montage of some bloopers for you below. Excuse the yellow lighting, it’s the best I can do with my silly camera:

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Festive Manicures featuring… YOU! :)

Lazy blog post from me? Maybe. But you can look at it from a different point of view: I wanted to share with you my favourite manicures from my blogger dashboard for the past 2 or 3 days and make the most of this opportunity to give a little shout out to some bloggers you might have not heard of. It seems a bit ridiculous for someone like me to do some shouts out when I am a small blogger myself and gained the support of just over 250 readers but never mind, every little helps, right? I could have also tweeted about these blog posts, but twitter is very much an instant communication tool and in the real world you can only access the followers who are on twitter, at the very minute you are tweeting.

I have a massive crush over this Turkish girl (Emerald Sparkled) and her manicures and photography are just to die for. For the past 2 days, she has brightened up my blogger reader and offered us 2 amazing posts. First one is very christmassy featuring China Glaze Mrs. Claus. I don't own any china glaze nail polish. I find the bottle ugly but I need to get over that cos I am missing out on a lot. Incidentally, I had my hair cut 2 days ago. The girl from reception was wearing a very snazzy glittery red nail polish. I said 'ooo is that china glaze ruby pumps'. She went 'Oh yes, it is actually'. I had a very proud moment ^_^ She was happy too.





and this is very fun one, featuring Alix Avien Nail Deco polishes, which crackle when layered on top of another polish. A bit like Barry M paint effects, which got the British beauty blogging community buzzing. My favourite from the lot is the blue crackle combination with Orly Mint Mojito. Yum, this is so gorgeous and so neat, I could eat it lol. Find Emerald Sparkled post here






We carry on with Jenni, from NailPolishUK, featuring the gorgeousness of Models Own Green Flash. (you can also click on the photo be redirected to the blog). She did such a good job at capturing the glitter, I am in total awe and need to add this shade to my ever expanding nail polish wishlist.





Still in the party spirit, feast your eyes over AVON 'decadence' nails from Sophie (melovemakeup). I would want to wear this shade anytime and not just for Christmas. It's so gorgeous!





Last but not least, I would like to show you this delicate frosty nails manicure from Alice (Super Gorgeous blog), featuring Ciaté Refresher I am not sure it would suit me, but it looks so nice on her. I love it! What did Alice use to create the glittery frost? Well, you’ll just have to click here to find out :)




I hope you like these manicures. If you have blogged yourself about a festive manicure or seen one around that you would like to share, please feel free to leave me some links. Spam me with festivity lol. Merci beaucoup xx

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