It always cheers me up! How about you?

Just a thought for the last day of the year ;)

xM

A few weeks ago I went to the big Boots in Oxford Street to have a look around when a lady grabbed me and literally shoved a pen in my hand to take part in a competition. The question was simple: "Who is the face of Rimmel?" It is of course Kate Moss. I wrote it down put my email and name and gave the form back to her with the certainty that I will never hear from them, as I never win anything in competitions.

Well, how wrong I was! Last week I received an email that I've won and they wanted my address to send me products from Coty! You can imagine my surprise and joy! Well, only two days later, on Christmas Eve, I got back from work and found a card from the postman, that my package is at the Post Office! I missed him :(

Today, on my day off, first thing after a cup of coffee I run to the Post Office and when I saw the size of the package I couldn't believe it. It was huge!  I was expecting mainly perfumes but when I saw what the beautiful Rimmel bag contained, I couldn't believe my eyes; perfumes, eye shadows, mascaras, lipgloss....WOW!
Have a look at the slideshow to see what was in the bag :)

I really like the Kylie and Kate Moss perfumes, they're both quite strong and flowery, just as I like perfumes to be. The Playboy perfume is nice but I will keep it as a last resort.
The eye shadows are very well pigmented. I love the Twilight ZoneTrio, I know I'm going to use it until it finishes, especially the silver eye shadow! From the Green Sapphire palette I love the pink colour, it reminds me a little of Silk Teddy from Too Faced.
The Scandal Eyes mascara was something I wanted to try. It has a very thick wand, I am going to combine it with my Lancome Cils Booster to see if it makes my lashes bigger than the Hypnose mascara.
The Miss Sporty mascara has a long wand and a nice thick black colour.
I am going to use the tanning lotion when summer approaches, I usually don't use fake tan but I will give it a try...I hope I won't become like an Oompah Loompah! Hahahaha.
The bronzer and lipgloss are fantastic! I am going to wear them tomorrow, woo-hoo!

I am grateful for my luck and my goodies! Thank you Coty, thank you Boots, SO much!!!
A lovely gift for end the year...

I always loved make up. Not so much wearing it, but buying it! Oh, how I love to go into the big beauty stores and spend hours looking through the shelves and trying new shades, make smudges on my hand and buy a couple new lipsticks or eye shadows... Those plastic little boxes with their mirrors and brushes are sometimes to die for!

I have a box full of lipsticks. All colours, all brands, from the cheapest to the most expensive. If I wasn't wearing any other make up, I would definitely wear my lipstick! Boom! I'm wearing it, kiss me! (lol)
My other love has been nail polish and my third one, and lately my biggest one, eye shadows.

Because of my customer-facing work in a luxury environment we always have to wear make up. For the past years I would settle with blusher and lipstick. But a few months ago I was looking myself in the mirror (don't all big decisions start with something like that?) and saw that my eyes are too small and are "decorated" with the most intense dark circles - a problem that always existed unfortunately.

So I decided that it's time to put on make up and it's time to light the lights; not with the Muppets, but with my make up case(s) and some videos from YouTube. I was never in favour of dark and intense colours, they don't suit me after all and I find them a bit scary. So I searched for something natural that I can wear at work, that would be subtle, yet impressive. And I found this:



Let me tell you a little about BreeLovesBeauty (Cambria). She is very young, still at school I suppose, from the U.S.A. obviously, vibrant, joyful and very beautiful. I have been watching her videos the last few months and I got many tips from her - especially from her monthly favourites videos! I want EVERYTHING!
From this first video I saw, I fell in love with the Too Faced Eyeshadow pallette and a few days later I bought it, together with the Too Faced primer! And I have to tell you, they are PERFECT!
I can make different combinations and they work perfectly together, these are great colours.

And although I didn't do it as perfectly as Cambria, I was very happy to hear everyone's praise at work when I tried that look! Hurrah!

And the woman wanted to be loved...and to be loved she had to be beautiful.
So some clever dudes in ancient times created make up. To highlight women's beauty features and hide the not-so-beautiful ones.
Cleopatra bathed herself in snake's milk to tone her complexion and smooth her skin, the women of Greece pinched their cheeks and rubbed fruit peels on their eyebrows to add colour.
And make up secrets floated around throughout eternity. And a multi-billion enterprise triggered in the minds of the greedy to cash in on woman's desire to be beautiful, to be pretty, to be loved.

Centuries later a woman in London decided she would wear make up, the correct way. Not because she wanted necessarily to be loved (although that would be a nice add-on!) but because she wanted to feel beautiful, special, unique, like all other women throughout the centuries, all over the world.

And my obsession with make up was born!
I don't consider myself a Beauty Guru - I am far from that. But I love getting advice from them, I love watching videos on YouTube, I love following their suggestions, as much as I can afford it.
If and when I will have the experience and the knowledge (most importantly when I stop experimenting on myself!!!) I may start posting my own videos and advice on a channel.

Until then, I will feed my obsession with this blog and suggest to you gurus, websites, products, tricks and tips I learn in my journey.

Oh! And of course I welcome any suggestions from you - they will be most valuable and appreciated. Later on I will be happy to have guest hosts, so watch this space ;)

I hope you will join me on my journey!