Fred Farrugia Pearlized Twinkle Eyeshadow Duo

And here we have the second review of Fred Farrugia's eyeshadow duos. You can view the first one here. This was the first one I bought, because as I was rummaging through the palettes, I stumbled upon this one and my first thought was 'Oh wow, that colour looks like Nars Orgasm!' and I have always thought that Nars Orgasm would be so pretty as an eyeshadow.







Of course, after quickly going over to the Nars counter, I quickly found out that this was a lot paler than Orgasm. Oh well, wouldn't have been much of a dupe anyway, considering how expensive it is!









You can't see the gold shimmer much in this picture, but aren't they pretty? I've always loved the pink/gold combo and in fact, I am later on going to see what Barry M's pink gold looks compared to this one, cause if it is similar, all those who may want this colour can save a fortune and buy a dazzle dust instead.









The funny thing about this duo is..I can't find it online. I've looked on the official FF site and nothing there. Sephora? Nada. It's very peculiar...





Here you can see the colours a little better. So you have the pink/gold combo, which I've already mentioned and then the orange with silver shimmer, which is quite nice as well. They're both colours I love as these colours will make blue eyes pop (which is what I need, trust me!)

This picture is a little bit shoddy and doesn't really do the colour justice. You can see the gold in it though, although in reality, the pink is a bit paler. I adore this one as I have always had a thing for pink and gold and it's just so pretty and I should stop cause this is getting corny. It isn't perfect though, don't get me wrong! As with all shades that have glitter, you have fall out of the if-you-don't-clean-off-properly-you-will-look-like-edward-cullen-on-your-cheeks variety. Ah well, you can't have everything.
Now this is a bit more of an apt photograph. Here you can see it's orange, and it's got a silver highlight although it's not as obvious as the gold with the pink, the silver is a lot subtler in this one. I really like this one, as my other oranges aren't really all that sublte enough for daytime, but thankfully this one is, if applied sparingly!

Left we have without primer, right with UDPP. The orange is far more pigmented than the pink and the primer doesn't really seem to make a lot of difference in the picture, but with staying power and such, it does help the shadows stay on. They're both quite pigmented on their own, which is great and well, should be expected considering how much they retail at.

So all in all, I really like these, they're both subtle enough for daytime and the colour choices are just gorgeous! I'm sorry if the last bit seemed a bit rushed, I just want to publish this as I won't have time on Saturday, as I've already said, I shall be in Paris! :D xx

Fred Farrugia Pearlized Cream Eyeshadow Duo

Last week, I was browsing the (very pitiful, I might add) sales in Sephora and despite there not being much choice, I managed to stuble upon these Fred Farrugia palettes.

Now as you can tell by the sticker on one of the palettes, €26,90 is way out of my range, especially for only TWO eyeshadows. So whilst I've always looked at the Fred Farrugia stuff, I've never been tempted to buy any, until I saw the many palettes they had in the sales.

From my research, it seems Fred Farrugia is a brand all about a modern, easily portable concept, which they do by having the eyeshadows/lipsticks/etc in detachable palettes which you can stick in a compact and stack them. I'm not the best at describing, so I'll just show you a promo picture of how it works.

See what I mean?

Ok, so moving on, I bought the pink/orange one first and then my mum bought me the violet/khaki one, which was very generous and nice of her!


Starting with this palette, which I actually realised was cream eyeshadows only once I'd bought it. Whoops! So I'll be reviewing this duo in this post, and the next one will be in another post, cause otherwise it'll be far too picture heavy!

So this is the Pearlized Cream Eyeshadow Duo in shade 02, according to Sephora, this is Violet/Grey, but to me, it looks more of a khaki than a grey to me, so I'll just refer to it as khaki.

[That is a case 'Well, it says that, but I think this and I am blatantly right so I will do as I think!' This is my frequently used logic in tests at school]

[violet? I'll give 'em that. But Grey?! Nuh uh!]

I've already swatched these, as one can tell. It doesn't look neat but I just can't resist!

I'll start with Violet. It looks a bit on the burgundy side in the pan, which is slightly misleading, as when swatched, it seems more violet and therein, true to its name. It's got tiny little sparkles, that aren't all that visible when you have this on your eye, unless you're looking really closely. This colour feels ideal for Autumn, unfortunately, I'm a few months too late for that. But as I don't really pay attention to the trends that much (same with clothes, summery stuff in winter FTW!), I will still wear it.

See? That is not grey! So this one is quite shimmery when swatched, a lot more so than Violet. Despite being all shimmery, it's also very subtle so if you wanted a toned down look yet not a complete nude look, this would be quite ideal.

So on the left, you have them swatched on bare skin and on the right, over UDPP in Eden (that's why my skin looks yellow there). The pigmentation isn't the best I've seen, as they need quite a few swipes, but then what doesn't? UDPP does make a difference, as you can tell here, but unfortunately, it is not perfect and doesn't prevent creasing, which unfortunately is what happens with these eyeshadows. I do like them, the colours are gorgeous, the creasing is just a shame.

So that leaves me with this finished, I'll try and review the other palette later on today, but as always, can't guarantee that. And on that note, has anyone else tried Fred Farrugia? If you have what and what were your thoughts on it? And another question (feels like an essay here, sorry..) Is there a primer to stop creams creasing that anyone could recommend?

Amazing Mac Giveaway!

Just a quick post to let you know that Highlight your beauty, Open your heart is doing a giveaway here where you can win FIVE MAC lipsticks of your choice!

New Necklace!

Bonjour, mes petites poules!

So lately I have developeda habit of loving jewellery, which is quite odd as I have never really been a jewellery person. But after discovering some gorgeous handmade jewellery sites on etsy.com and bigcartel.com, a couple of weeks ago, I ordered a few necklaces from assorted sites and my first one arrived today!

Ok, the picture is not the best, being a webcame pic but you can see the necklace, which is the Oh, to be in England necklace from Ess Bee Vee's etsy shop.

I will be posting better quality pictures once I get different batteries for my camera so that you can all see the necklace clearer, it's gorgeous and lovely and I'm running out of adjectifs to describe it, but I think quaint is quite apt!

Other pics from her shop would be the Lovely Bones necklace, O Swallows flying from the golden woods and the lovely lovely locket love, you could use a little of locket. She's having a sale at the moment, so go check her site out!

On another note, I have decided to make it my mission to convince some of my teachers to do a field trip to the Chateau de Versailles. We have been covering it in History (doing Louis XIV, le roi de soleil!) and Art History, and I just think the place looks stunning! I am a bit of a history geek, especially French history, it's absolutely fascinating and I'd just love to spend a day losing myself in the gardens and the castle, just exploring.

This panorama 360 view of the Hall of Mirrors is making me want to go even more so, as I think that room is just stunning and to see it in reality would probably gobsmack me.

(picture from google search)

So I would love to go there and hopefully, with a few well placed points, I might just be able (with the help of my classmates, obviously) to convince some of the teachers and make a trip to Versailles a reality.

Barry M and No7 Lipglosses

Well, hello there!

This is a very rare thing for me to be updating on a Monday night (ok, I can't finish this in 10 minutes, so probably Tuesday/Wednesday), but as I didn't update this weekend (has not been a fantastic one, that's all I'll give it), I felt compelled to update tonight.

I really need to stop using words that you generally use for essays in stuff like this, it makes people laugh when I use them in sentences and then that makes me, in turn, feel stupid.


So now it is Wednesday and I still haven't updated. I feel awful and I know that if you made a pie chart of my blog, 25% would be apologies and that. Theoretically, I have plenty of time, but it just goes away so quickly and then I realise I have no time to get on the computer. Ok, so moving on...

This post was originally going to be just the two Barry M lipglosses I acquired over the holidays, but then I realised I hadn't actually mentioned my No7 lipgloss in the previous lipgloss post, so I added that to it.


Soo...the first lipgloss is Barry M's Lipgloss Wand in Cherry Glitter was a Christmas present from Steph, the second was a Christmas present from the year before from my granny and has no shade name on it, so after a bit of investigating *coughgooglingcough*, I discovered that it is No 7's High Shine Lipgloss in Dream and then thirdly, we have Barry M's Lipgloss Wand in LE4, I believe, which was a limited edition Spend £6 pounds and get this LE lipgloss for free! in Boots.

First up is the Barry M Lip Gloss Wand in Cherry Glitter. I feel a bit stupid describing this, as the name is spot on. It's cherry red and full of glitter, but the glitter is not silverish glitter that you get in most glittery glosses, but RED glitter. Which is pretty and makes me feel like staring at it for hours on end going 'prettyyyy...' and acting like my sister in front of the Chanel counter. I jest, dani, I jest. (No seriously, she is like that.)

So the tube itself is actually quite misleading. One would think that it would be chock a block full of big glitter pieces, but as the photo shows, they're quite diddy. As usual, it's a typical lip gloss applicator, nothing special but it does the job. Another thing about this lip gloss is THE SMELL! Oh my god, it's definitely cherries and it makes me feel so hungry and just smells so good *drools*

I have swatches of all three lipglosses towards the end of the post, but as I like seeing lip swatches myself, here's one of me wearing the lip gloss.

And I'm actually wearing my glasses here, don't I look sexy?(!)

Excuse the bit of a silly pout, I'm not entirely sure why I was doing that. Anyway, it's quite a cool toned lipgloss and the glitter is a lot subtler than you think, so if the glitter puts you off this lip gloss, don't worry, because it's not that bad! You do have to watch out to apply it evenly, as it can be rather patchy, but that gets sorted out pretty quickly.

Next up is No 7 High Shine lip gloss in Dream. This is more of a shimmery nude gloss with a few sparkles.

So again, another standard applicator. This hasn't really got a scent, which isn't necessarily a bad thing of course, as sometimes lipglosses without scents can be a nice change.

So, another geeky pic from me. Here you can see that, despite looking quite thick and pigmented, it still shows your lip colour and just gives it more of a shine and nude gloss look. Well, duh, considering it's a nude gloss..

Last but not least, we have the Barry M Lip Gloss Wand in LE4, which was a LE lip gloss that you could get free in Boots if you spent £6 or over. I'm not sure if it's still going on, but it if is, it's certainly a great deal, as this is a lovely colour. It's quite unfortunate that this isn't in the permanent line.

Same as the previous one, this also has a standard applicator and funnily enough, also smells of cherries, although not quite as much as the other one. This is more of a sheer red, which is subtle to begin with, but can be built up if you want a bit more of a bold look, although it's not way out there, as it is just a gloss. It's quite decently pigmented and isn't patchy, unlike Cherry Glitter. I suspect that has something to do with the glitter, though. (Thanks, Sherlock!)

Here it's quite red on my lips, but it still has that sheer quality. The photo doesn't really do it justice, it's a lot redder in reality!



Et finalement, the swatches! From left in the order I reviewed them, the first two look a lot more glittery/shimmery than they are on the lips, so I suppose it's just as well I posted the pics with them all on my lips. These are all glosses that I really like, especially the Barry M ones and I would definitely recommend all of them!

So there you have it, a post that took a few days to come out. I hope you all like it and as I'm getting into lipgloss a bit more now, if anyone has any recommendations, please let me know!

Versatile Blogger Award

My first blog award!!!!! As I'm ever so slightly hormonal, I was quite touched when Joy commented on my blog telling me she'd chosen me for a blog award, which is an incredibly sweet thing of her and she definitely deserves hers, so go check her blog out NOW!

Now for the rules of this...





1.Thank and link back to who gave you the award.


2.Share 7 things about yourself.


3.Pass it on to 7 beauty blogs you've recently discovered and enjoy.


4.Leave your recipient a note, telling them about the award.





My 7 facts



1. I constantly take the mick out of my mum for being a bit OCD, but it's madly hypocritical of me as I have OCD like tendencies and everything HAS to be perfect, and if it's not, I get a bit upset. This doesn't count for everything I do, only for the more irrelevant things, so it's a bit weird.

2. If someone cries in a movie, so will I (most embarassing example of this was watching a movie about a pope's life in religion...at his death bed, his cardinal sobs so I started crying in front of my classmates. Funny). The scene that absolutely kills me is Cedric Diggory's father discovering his son is dead in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Not due to me loving Robert Pattinson (I don't), but because the father's pain is expressed so well by the actor and the music. I sob like a baby so much and it actually hurts me, as if the scene were real. Due to a bad event in my life, I am very emotionally hit by scenes of grief, it's a quirk.

3. I love funny videos on youtube and my latest obsession is Jose Mourinho and the Amazing Technicolour Overcoat. It's hilarious and I can't stop grinning when listening. You'd be grinning too!

4. I overthink to the maximum and that is the primary reason why my lip hurts after being nibbled on. Case in point today when talking about my final year at school (which is in 3 and 1/2 years!!!) and already getting stressed out.

5. I pretty much fail with anything Biology related.

6. If I accidentally step on someone's foot, I'll say 'Ow.' I'm not entirely sure why...

7. I once got punched in the face by my teacher which resulted in a nosebleed. It was completely unintentional (so he always said....I beg to differ) and it makes me think of the Pont du Gard with fond memories as that was where my class was at the time.

Now...the 7 beauty blogs
7 blogs

the little curly girl

sophiephiephie

Funny Face Beauty

Beauty's Bad Habit

polkadani

Arcanus Grace

Confessions of a Beautyholic

So there you have them, 7 great blogs that I thoroughly recommend you check out and again thank you so much to Joy, you sweetheart! <3 xx

A bit of a ramble

Hi there! Now to start the new year off with an admittedly awful joke of mine : I haven't posted since last year!

Ok..moving on from my failure as a comedian(ne), as the title indicates, this is a bit of a ramble without any pictures. I know, no pictures is no fun, but I am on my dad's computer without my Photoshop, so yeah, nothing happening on that front.

This post is just a little bit of a talk about my life as my incredibly nosy self likes reading about other people's lives so I thought maybe people might like reading about mine? If you don't, feel free to tell me in the comments, I'm game for all kinds of criticism.

Now, as you all know, I'm a 16 year old girl living in Luxembourg. I go to one of the luxembourgish state schools instead of the European or International one and I suppose I like it. Back up a minute, she likes school?! Well, I suppose I should specify. Bit of an anecdote here, but a couple of years ago, when I first started secondary, I was crap in German and French. I dreaded the lessons, hardly ever did my homework and nearly failed German. It never really helped that my German teacher was an absolute xenophobic knob who basically made me feel I was useless in languages. French was never really my forte either, and yet again, I had a teacher the next year who would NEVER give constructive criticism and always made me feel I was awful at French. To think that I was actually related to my literature student sister seemed insane (add to that that this very sister is one of my role models and that I always wanted to follow her footsteps schoolwise)

Fast forward a few years...I'm fourth best in French. I don't know how that happened, but I think it started last year when I decided to get my act together and work in class. That with a teacher who actually gave constructive criticism and despite my many mistakes, actually believed in my potential. So I started working and over the last year, my interest for literature grew to the point where I want to go to the languages section next year. And so now I generally enjoy French and German classes, despite my being rubbish in the latter.

So there you have my bit of inner geek. And now again for my geekiness on another part..

I've always (well, the last few years) been a believe in trying new things out. A couple of years ago, I joined the school choir due to my love of music but found it wasn't really what I expected and also as I wasn't a fantastic singer, I just lost my passion for that...And then this year, I joined the club that had caught my eye in my first year (but I didn't join)..english theatre (as opposed to german and french theatre). And here, I believe, I've found the thing that I love. Ok, that's corny, but still I've always loved being an extra in movies, but as an extremely vain person, I've always wanted a bit of the limelight, which you don't get as an extra. And here, it happens I'm actually not bad at acting. I feel in my element and I really look forward to practice each week. So I guess you could say I'm a theatre geek as well.

So I suppose that gives you all an insight into my life. I know most people my age don't think of school as important, but I do. I know, I sound like your typical no-fun, geeky top of the class kid, but I'm not. And my classmates certainly think I'm a downer sometimes (I've even had it said to my face on one occasion!), as I get a bit shirty if someone gets punished because after a while, the school will just refuse to let us have lessons off when our teachers are sick, which my classmates all love, so I'm just looking out for them, yet they don't like that, do they? I'm one of those people that sometimes loves their class and sometimes not. I do like most of them, but I have to admit, next year when we're all separated, I'll be relieved.

So, there you have it. A few of the things that dominate my life. I know this is a bit rambly, and also a bit boring to a few of you, but as you can tell, I like talking about myself. I suppose I view my blog as a place where I can talk about my life, because that way, if people are interested, they'll write back and give their opinions, whereas a diary doesn't. I would love to say I'm a typical teenager, but in reality, I'm not. I'm far too uptight (is it just me or is the fact that 14 year olds go out and get pissed just taking the biscuit? I mean, they already get to drink legally at 16, surely that's early enough?) and I prefer watching QI on a friday night rather than going out on the lash , so I guess you could just say I'm an old lady at heart .

Sorry if you got bored reading this, if it's tedious, do let me know and I'll stop at once.

On a more beauty blogging related note, I've been thinking of redoing a few reviews, as the photos I took with them are just plain awful and that really irks me. Agree?