Newcomers from the last two months...

- New foundation : Bobbi Brown Moisture Rich SPF15. I like it very much, it's lightweight, has a medium coverage, the right color for me these days :)

- Lipsticks a-gogo : Nars Pure Matte in Valparaiso in February : Worn it a lot, love it! Good thing it's permanent now, or I'd already have bought a back-up.

MAC's Dish It Up (I love it so much I just bought a back-up), Sweetie (and one for my mom), Creme de la Femme, Zen Rose, Snob, Lovelorn. Those last two I'm not wearing much at the moment because I'm more into brights but it'll come.

Revlon 457 Wild Orchid : I am lemming after MAC Show Orchid which is a Pro shade only, so I got this one instead. Maybe during my vacation if I'm near a Pro Store I'll compare them and decide if I still want it.

Revlon Lip Butter in 25 Peach Parfait : I was looking for something more nude, but since my lips are quite pigmented on their own, and I wanted to try those, and it's quite good but I won't buy another shade.

Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Intense in 9 : yep, another very bright pink which actually I thought was going to be redundant with my Illamasqua Atomic. But once I got home a quick side by side swatch showed me I had nothing to worry, Atomic's got a lot more red in it. Actually the MUFE and the Revlon Wild Orchid are waaaay closer. Maybe if I mix them I can dupe Show Orchid?

(There's a distinct pattern here : almost all of those are pinks. Some very bright!)

I also bought a few MAC blushes and eyeshadows on Cheapsmells. At my MAC corner or on the website, I bought Dollymix, two lip pencils, in Beet and Vino, and an few refills : Beautiful Iris, Plum Dressing, Nylon, and I don't remember the rest. (Maybe I'll do a MAC collection once.)


I also finally got into jeggings (during my spree) and man am I happy. This is what I should have been wearing for years. I'm never going back. Or maybe, for my beloved fitted flare, if I can ever find a pair that fits me like the dream that are my old ones from Evans. 

Watch Out for ....

MAC's Hey Sailor! Collection : particularly the Nautical eyeshadow.

Nars Summer collection : it's getting on the website, ordering possible from April 13th. I'm looking forward to the Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Never Say Never.

Guerlain with Emilio Pucci : looks very nice but I doubt I'll buy anything : I already have a Meteorites compact, a Terracotta, and if I remember correctly the previous editions of that brush were no successes.


Music-wise :
Smash OST due on May 1st. The little serie that boomed has a great timing : i
i can't get that cover i told you about out of my head.

Book-wise :
Looking forward to the new Janet Evanovich :)

Life-wise :
I'm making plan to spend my birthday alone and very far from my family. I need a vacation after the year we got. I'm looking forward to that, you have no idea.

Makeup Addict Problem to solve.

I think one of makeup addicts' first and foremost problems (once money's been figured out, I mean) is ... STORAGE.

You can do whatever you want, give away, re-sell, put in another room... you never have enough space for your make-up. And worse, there's always the next collections coming out.

Why do you think there's so many make-up storage videos on Youtube?
Because once we've found the solution, we're so proud we wanna share! 
Personnaly, I'm still trying.
I bought and put together the Ikea - MALM vanity a few months ago.

Ohhh yeah it's great. But even when I had just organized most of my make-up in it, I was still short on space. Aaaand I'm still looking. I think I'm going to cave and buy a 2 sets of MUJI drawers.
I also haven't found quite the right mirror yet. And the amount of daylight in my appartment sucks, so there's that...

Anyway, it's an ongoing battle we have with ourselves, our money, the space we live in, home decor and the cosmetics companies.

Crisis averted... For now!

I never understood my skin. Neither did my dermatologist.
So I'm doing what I can and usually, since she knows I try, she's good to me.

But these days.... I have breakouts, dry patches, she's not happy with any moisturizer I put on and damn her since she's only tolerating tap water.

But now.... My foundation is the MAC Pro Longwear in NC15. It has been for the past 9 months. And NOW, she decides to change undertones? Is it even possible?
It's got to be, because all of a sudden I look YELLOW with my NC15 on.
Since I don't have a MAC pro store near me to try the Face & Body, I literally went sprinting to Sephora, where for a change I got a good MUA to help me find a new foundation.

Bobbi Brown Moisture Rich SPF15 liquid foundation in 0-Porcelain.

It's relatively neutral with just a hint of pink. Pink?? Since when do I need pink in my fondation?!

My hairdresser is a miracle worker.

Like usual. It's all I'm going to say.

I came in without any clue about what i wanted except a lighter color and chopping off those horrifying edges, so damaged by the curls I had put in three months ago.

I got outta there 90 min later, lighter in color and in hair mass, not much poorer, and absolutelu loving it.

Like usual.
I'm telling you she's Mary Poppins with scissors asnd a hair. Rush!

Let's start...

...with beauty!

I'm quite addicted to lipsticks, I'm having an out-of-control collection of brushes, and let's not even talk eyeshadows since I've discovered M.A.C Cosmetics...

I'm a relatively low-maintenance girl though, I'm without makeup most of the time.
My hair has its own will and I quite respect it though I experimented with colors those last few years, but kept them short in length since it's the best look.  I'm not back to my not-so-great dirty dark blonde, so I'm having highlights put in regularly to keep it nice.

I wear glasses, which means i can pull off a look with both packed eyes and bold lips with almost no problem :)

A few of my favorite brands are :
- M.A.C Cosmetics,
- NARS Cosmetics,
- Illamasqua (oooh their lipsticks...)
- Chanel and Dior have a few amazing lipsticks too :)
- Givenchy,
-...

Regarding brushes, Royal & Langnickel and Real Techniques by Samantha Chapman (from Pixiwoo) are my most loved. And MAC 239 of course.

That's quite a beginning already!