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The eyebrow job

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Eyebrow shaping tools

Learning how to frame your eyes in the most flattering way is no easy feat.

Many among us may have committed all kinds of crimes against the eyebrow; from overtweezing to tadpole shapes to insisting on a line that is not natural to you.

Fortunately, with time and practice one finds what best suits ones features. You simply use a spoolie and some scissors to cut long hairs and some tweezers to get rid of the ones that grow outside your shape. And once peace has been signed with what mother nature provided, we want to help our eyebrows to look their best.

The first type of product that I ever used was a pencil. Initially I was really reluctant to follow the advice I had been given and give my too short eyebrows a little tail with a brown eye pencil.

I ended liking the effect and fortunately I found more appropriate shades than dark brown and more appropriate formulas as well.

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Kiko Precision Eyebrow Pencil in 03

These days I am using Kiko Precision Eyebrow Pencil in 03 (5,90€) which is a medium brown shade that leans a bit warm. It is perfect to harmonize my black eyebrows with my dark brown hair.

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Sunday’s summary vol.2

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Aaaah Sundays! That day of the week you get to walk the dog, read your book or paint your nails. Or do anything that it is that you do not have time for during the week. At least it is for many people. Me? I am one of those that works so that others enjoy their free time so it is indeed a rare Sunday that I get to have a free day.

Perhaps it is because today I was free to be lazy that this week’s summary is longer than I tend to.

In the “upcoming releases I am excited about” we have MAC’s Prolongwear Nourishing Waterproof Foundation which hasn’t arrived yet to my store but should be arriving really soon.

Also, I loved the Ombre Matte cream eyeshadows that Clarins released a few months back, so I am really excited to hear that there will be three new Ombre Iridiscent LE shades (heard here).

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Peggy Sage Crayon yeux jumbo in Or and Prune

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Peggy Sage is a French brand that was recently introduced to a local store that catters mainly to professional hairdressers and beauticians.

So, nosy that I am, on a day when I went to buy my hair colour I had a quick look around at what Peggy Sage has to offer. Unfortunately, I have yet to encounter a stick or cream eyeshadow that does not catch my eye, so of course I picked up some of the shades and swatched them on the back of my hand.

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Sunday summary

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Inspiration

Let me tell you about beauty news that have excited me, looks that I have loved an anything else that has been going on this past week.

MUG foiled eyeshadow: I was really excited to read that more MUG foiled eyeshadows are being launched. I have yet to bite the bullet when it comes to this formula, but all the swatches I have seen look stunning. I love that the MUG site offer themselves swatches of their products. Plus, the price is really really interesting (specially if the Euro is high!).

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How to depot the Zoeva Mixed Metals palette

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In my never ending quest to have all my eyeshadows in free-form palettes, it  didn’t take me long after this palette first arrived to figure out that it would actually be very easy to depot.

As the pans, the same size than a regular MAC eyeshadow, are actually in a cardboard palette, you do not need many tools or complicated instructions, just some scissors and some spare time.

First step: detach the cardboard casing

 

 

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The pans are glued to a cardboard casing. This casing is glued in turn to a rigider cardboard casing that constitutes the lid.

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It is a question of bows

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Here is my little bow collection for you to peruse.

The fact is that I started growing my hair two years ago after several years of having it really really short. I think there were times when it did not even qualify as a pixie cut so you get the idea.

Now, growing your hair is a pain in the a***! There are all kinds of intermediate states were hair is difficult to tame and is not long enough to put in a ponytail.

Then is when my bow collection started! I simply needed something nicer than having 20 bobby pins on my head.

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Kiko Luxurious collection Supreme Eyeshadows

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Here are three of the four gorgeous Supreme eyeshadows that Kiko released with their Luxurious collection this past fall.

 

 

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The eyeshadows come in pretty clear plastic jars with golden screw tops. This makes them ideal to carry on trips as they do not weight much.

The formula of these eyeshadows is a bouncy shimmery cream that becomes a smooth powder upon application. To some, they remind them of the Diorshow Fusion Mono eyeshadows.

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My experience with cosmetic acids so far

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One would think that as much as I’ve been into make up these last few years I would have also really gotten into skincare. Afterall, one needs a good canvas to build on, don’t we?

Well, the fact is that that logical and obvious truth didn’t really get into my head until recently, and I have just begun trying different ingredients that I had not tried before. Some of those ingredients are cosmetic acids.

Many might be familiar with acronyms like AHA and BHA but to me it all looked gibberish for a long time. Finally, I pulled up my sleeves, did some online research and jumped into the pool.

The first product that I tried was the limited edition Kiko Intense Peel (currently on sale at aprox 10€). This product is presented as individual wipes wraped in foil. Each packet contains one exfoliating wipe soaked in glycolic, mandelic, citric, malic, lactic and salycilic acids while the second wipe is soaked in some kind of solution that is suposed to “stop the action of the AHAs and BHAs” and “calm” the skin.

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Epic haul teaser

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I have just been back from a short trip in which I took advantage of many stores to which I usually do not have access.

As you may guess from the picture above, I visited the MAC Pro store, Sephora, Muji and the airport duty free store.

From MAC Pro store I got some products that I had been eyeing for a while: some eyeshadows, a couple blushes cannisters, sculpt powder, a brush, face and body in white and the fantastic brush canisters.

At Sephora I got my first NARS products, my first setting spray, some Make Up For Ever products and got two samples of the loved/hated Glamglow masks.

At Muji I got the stackable jars that I love to keep pigments in and at the duty free store I got the Essie polishes.