Finally

Easter vacation has arrived! And I'm bored already :)

In an hour or so Nele comes to pick me up to do some shopping. I'm going to look for my webshop software too, hope I can find it and if not.. well it's a nice day to shop.

I don't know what happened to my etsy shop but it exploded. In 3 days I went from 13 sales to 21 sales! And of course I love it :)

Yesterday I also got making faces, a book for make up artists by Kevin Aucin. It is a nice book but I still prefer fashion make-up over normal make-up :)

Well it's a short one today but I'm going to have to find something else to entertain me. Take care!

Photoshoot + High Tea

Yesterday I had my first real photoshoot as a make-up artist. Well not really, there were 2 shoots with in total 4 people. The first was really easy. It was about a group of people that made a mountainbike route to collect money for charity. It was really fun to work with these people. The second shoot was with Karen and Stijn, a couple that wanted extreme make -up. That was a lot harder to do. I had to come up with a design on the spot and make it on her face. But in the end it was ok and I still want to do more shoots. Next one is on March 15!

Today I had a family high tea for my birthday last week. As usual my mom made way to much food. She had: 3 kinds of sandwiches, meat pie, scones, euhm dunno the name dough with sausages in it, brownies, cupcakes, apple cake and some more. Of course I wanted to try it all, everything was so yummy I am still eating it. Not smart I know but for once it is ok. Hmmm I think I'll make me another sandwich with salmon. Tomorrow back to my diet! I would like to go under 60 kg by easter break. That's about 1,5 - 2 kg and I have a month to do that. Doable if there aren't more high teas :)

Non Pareil Boutique Order

On february 14 I ordered from Non Pareil Boutique for the first time and about an hour ago the mailman was trying to get my order into the mailbox :) Everything was very well wrapped, I also adore their business card, it is beautiful and feminine.





This is what I got:

I was amazed at the quality of the packaging for such cheap make-up. Oops I now noticed I also got a lip liner that isn't in the picture. Except for the 4 colour palette, everything is from NYX, the 4 colours are from Kleancolor.

Here is my review:
Amethyst Lipgloss: I first noticed the smell, not smelling cheap at all. I prefer another way to bring on since I can't use this applicator on a lot of people but that's a detail. It isn't sticky at all, just feels good. It isn't blinding you with it's shine but it is a good product.

Lipliner Citrine: I don't get the name because citirine is yellow and this lip liner is a great dusty pink. It's a beautiful basic colour that anyone should have and it's easy to bring on.

Trio Nude/Taupe/Brown: Another must-have. These are the perfect colours for a naturel look or just to use everyday. If you could only buy one trio this should be it and it will be empty before you know it because you will use it almost everyday. The colours are chosen just right. I will use this a lot, even in my work.

Pigments: I got mink and sky pink but they aren't that different from each other. Pink is more well pink and mink is more brown. They are beautiful though. These are 1,25 dollars now, the ones I use are 6 dollars. I'm not sure if they are the same size thought but certainly not 4 times more. The thing I would change are the pots, they aren't that practical to work with.

Lipstick: I love the fact that you can see the colour without opening, this idea deserves an award!
Sparkling plum: Great Glam-colour
Hestia: The find of the season! It is dark red on the outer sides of your lips and almost black to the middle.
Prefect: A bit too brown for me
Aphrodite: total misser for me, a kind of grey-purple on my lips
Herades: a perfect everyday-colour, I will use this a lot!

Glitter Liner Silver: This isn't really what it should be, the brush wouldn't come out like it should and not as glittery as I hope, nice for accents though.

Kleancolor eyeshadow palette: Nothing to say about this, this is a nice product with nice colours for a great price!

I think this was a good order and I will order again!

Styling Hair

As some of you might already know, I'm training to become a make up artist. I've have had lessons since September so that's about 5 months now and every day I'm getting more fond of it. In a few weeks I'm having my first photoshoots. At a lot of places the make-up artist is a bit the person that has to do it all, make up, hair and styling. I was never really good at doing hair but I guess I have to learn :) I'm saving to buy those big curling things, I only have a small one now.

Something that already gave me a lot of ideas are these videos from Ford Models: http://www.youtube.com/user/fordmodels?gl=NL&hl=nl&blend=1 There are a lot of different videos about styling, make up and hair. I just did a friend's make up and now I have a lazy saturday ahead so this is what I will be wathing today and hopefully be able to make it too one day.

30!

No I haven't turned 30 yet (I'm 19) but this is message number 30 on this blog! I'd never thought it keep doing this for soooo long but well I did, yah for me.

First I have to announce the winner of this month's give-away, it's Liz D! Congratulations!

Don't forget there is free shipping on my entire shop before december 15 if you tell me you found me here!

A few days ago I ordered some eye shadow samples from MoiMinerals on Etsy and they arrived yesterday, it was rather fast shipping too! Well today I had make-up class and I tried some of them; I absolutely adoooooore Angle Eyes, if you are looking for a colour to use every day and every where this is the one. You can put it on your entire eye all the way to your eyebrow or do as me and use it as a highlighter on your cheecks! I also like rockstar red very much, it is a really vibrant colour but I couldn't use it in my design today. You can find moi minerals here : http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6018362