MAC paint pots and NYX Jumbo eye pencils

I’ve already admitted that I’m addicted to YouTube, and some of my purchases, not to say all of them, are the result of a bit too much time spent on YouTube Makeup Guru’s videos.

My first purchases were made on MAC, accessible in my country.

So, following directions from YouTube I bought 2 paint pots:

Bare study and Panterly, were my choices, after advice from one of the MAC sellers.

One matte and other shimmer, (Panterly matte, Bare study shimmer).

I tried to use them, but the results weren’t good. They creased and when I applied them as a base for normal eyeshadow it looked like I had tried to bake a cake in my eyes…. So, the two paint pots stood quiet and unused for months.

I’ve heard a lot of nice things about NYX, I ordered a box of eye shadows from Amazon, and I liked them. There is an item in almost all makeup collections I see on YouTube: NYX Jumbo eye pencils.

After a year hearing about them I decided to try them. I found a great seller on ebay and it was decided: I order those famous pencils.

They arrived:

It was clear from YouTube that they, alone, creased. I tried them and the creasing wasn’t a big problem for me. The problem was the color of my lids. My lids are dark reddish or purple like, and we couldn’t see the true color of the Jumbo eye pencils. I needed a base. But a normal eyeshadow as base sounded too cakey, what should I do? The pencils would be great to use when I’m on a hurry, they’re so easy to apply. I wasn’t ready to give up on them! Then I remembered: my paint pots! And that was why my paint pots became one of my most used items.

Unfortunately I can’t say that I love both my paint pots. Painterly is a great, great pink-beige base, I can wear it alone or as a base to my eyeshadows, letting them appear in their true colors, and they don’t crease. So, when I’m getting late, painterly gets on to my eye lids. I thought bare study would be great as a highlighter or to use on top of painterly. But it turned out to be a disappointment, for the second time. I believe the simmer spoils the texture. It doesn’t apply creamy and even. Some patches of shimmer appear, it is very hard to get a full coverage of even color or shimmer. So my Bare Study paint pot is back on the quiet, hard to fetch spot in my make up storage.

So, when I’m on a hurry, I apply painterly with my fingers, and if I still have time, over painterly I apply Jumbo eye pencil in yogurt on the lids and then draw a V on the outer corner of my eyes with Jumbo eye pencil in Iced mocha. Fast and it looks great, as if I spent a lot of time doing make up.

I’ve been enjoying this “combo” so much that I order a few new Jumbo eye pencils and I’m planning a trip down to a Mac store to check more paint pots, but I’ll bear in mind that my experience with the shimmer ones hasn’t be that successful!

I can say without doubt that Painterly is one of my favorite make items, and NYX jumbo eye pencils are rising in my list of “Nice, fast things to wear when time is running out!

I’ll get back on this combo after I played enough with the new pencils I ordered :D

Bye, Thanks J

Naruco - This isn't a make up item!?!?!

Well, this isn't a make up item, but if we consider the skin the canvas of make up… ;)

It has been a year since my skin changed, well half my skin… I used to have sensitive dry skin. I still have sensitive dry skin, on half my face :S, from my lips down I’m faced with pimples, not oiliness, but not dryness and, did I mention pimples? :( So my skin care routine had to change, at least from my lips down, my chin and the lower part of my cheeks needed new treatment.

I’m addicted to youtube, for music, news, humor and make up… I learned that Korea and Japan had a lot of great skin care products. I decided to try those wonderful Asian skin care products.

Searching on ebay I found Naruko. What should I do?

First: check if they test on animals, (I’m a vegetarian since 1999). They don’t, iupiiiiiii!!

(http://hope-inablog.com/introducing-brands/introducing-naruko-skincare/;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrI3MEne7Y)

Next step: buy.

They arrived, and I tried them.

What can I say: Well, I’ll be buying more and my best friend has a Naruko moisturizer as a Christmas gift ;)

I bought a serum and a night gelly for acne prone skin, the oil out line:

Tea tree oil out balancing serum and the Tea Tree oil out night gelly.

After cleansing I use the serum on the bottom part of my face, then I apply a moisturizer, (I’m wearing steam cream for now, great cream also), then I apply the night gelly on top of the moisturizer. (On my forehead I use a moisturizing mask, yes, my upper part of the face is the exact opposite of the bottom part, great no?).

In the morning I just use the serum.

The smell is wonderful, it smells like lavender and tea tree, but it isn’t too strong, and after applying the smell wares off. The texture is fine, and my skin reacts immediately, I feel the pores that want to become pimples reacting, stinging. Only the “pimples to be” sting, the rest of the skin fell fresh and moist! Really. I didn't expected that , I thought that moisture wasn't a thing that happened when you use a product for oily skin, I was wrong!)

Is my face pimple free? Well, not really, but the scars are fading away and the skin look glowy, not oily, more even, and pimples die faster :D

I’m enjoying these products. The skin care routine is now a “like spa” experience, and I can see the results.

When my “upper face” products finish I’ll be trying the rose and snow fungus line, oh yes I will :D

First post

I’m on my thirties. My skin doesn’t glow how it used to. My dark circles are the same though. I now have pimples, I don’t know if it is acne. I’m getting older, but not wiser…

My mom had rosasea, so do I. she died in 2004. She taught me how to make up. We had a lot in common. Make up wasn’t what defined her, but it was something present. When my rosasea got horst and my pimples appeared I understood why she never got out of the house without make up.

I always played with make up, but always end up putting it aside, until a year and half ago.

I needed to cover my blemishes, dark circles and dull skin. So I started buying and using make up consistently. Everyone started saying I was my mother’s daughter. Funny. Make up wasn’t the only thing my mother liked or was. As me. But somehow that sameness rang in my mind.

I remember my mother trying to teach me how to cook, knowing I could do it, but I didn’t wanted to. I remember my mother telling me I could do whatever I wanted and motivating me to go on studying, reading, learning.

My mother spoke French, but she didn’t spoke English. She was very self conscient about that, so she made me go to English classes, although we had English at school. I haven’t written in English for ages. I can speak, more than I can write. She would be sad to know that I forgotten how to write in English.

I miss her.

I spend a lot of money in books and in make up. In a strange way, I’m embarrassed that I spend a lot of time with make up. I guess I should spend more time improving my English writing skills, or studying for my thesis…

But we need to rest from the madness, the absurd of reality. And make up does that to me. It relaxes me.

So, I decided I shouldn’t be embarrassed of my love for make up. And I could see a lot of ways to make it useful.

I’m a teacher, I don’t want student’s looking to my pimples instead of paying attention to my class. I don’t want my colleagues miss interpreting my dark circles for tiredness or sadness. And I want to fell nice, pretty. I know that all that is physical will degrade, that what matters is what I do, what I leave behind for others, what I know, what’s inside me, what I can give to others and I have a lot to give.

I really need to improve my writing skills, in English. If I started a blog in English, maybe someone would point out my mistakes, also word has a correcting spell tool….

So I decided, it’s time to embrace my love for make up, it’s time to fell closer to my mom, it’s time to do better in English, has she wished, it’s time to relax from my thesis, so:

I love make up, so what?

Please, if there is something wrong in my texts, please tell me, that’s one of the purposes of this blog :D

I’ll be writing about make up and beauty products that I love. English is not my mother language, so, help me by correcting me when something is wrong or could be better said J

If you’re still reading thank you! :D