BEAUTY BUBBLE BLOG: makeup

Beauty Wish List #3

It is still great summer going on here and that affect definitely my wish list, where everything looks light and bright. I have been lurking on ASOS so much lately and therefore many of my beauty wishes happen to be from their selection. Another wonderful and very comparable website is Siison. I have talked about it before and get regularly so many good ideas from there.

1. OSKIA Skincare Bedtime Beauty Boost, is a nutri-active regenerating and nourishing night cream. I love night treatments as they are highly effective and I love them even more when they are natural and full of minerals, vitamins, omegas, essential oils and peptides just like this one.

2. Sleek Makeup True Colour Lipstick in Peaches and Cream, looks like a perfect bright coral nude lipstick. I have heard that Sleek lipsticks are so pigmented, long lasting and true to colour. No wonder it is tempting me every since I know its existence.

3. Ted Baker Treasured Orchid Makeup Bag, is a floral printed, has a glossy finish, zipper and even smaller inner compartment. Ted Baker knows the world of makeup bags and is always creating new and prettier ones.

4. Moshi Wild Mango Body Scrub is made in Estonia and extremely nourishing smoothing for your skin. It has a sea buckthorn oil full of vitamins and smoothing sugar for extra sweet body exfoliation. Plus it promises to leave body delicious and silky!

5. L'occitane Angelica Protective Lotion SPF 15 is a fresh light textured moisturising day lotion infused with real organic angelica from France. I can imagine how perfect it would be for morning skin routine with its freshness, protectiveness and boosting effect.

6. Bourjois Cream Blush in Nude Velvet looks like a perfect nude coraly pink shade. I am more and more into cream blushes and can't fancy them enough. They are fuss free to apply, stay on very natural and leave such a polished look on cheekbones.

7. Rimmel Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Liner in Nude is a creamy long lasting liner in a variation of colours. I would opt for a nude shade to brighten up the eye area and waterline whenever needed.

8. The Balm Shady Lady Vol 2 Eyeshadow Palette. Apart from cutest packaging The Balm tends to have wonderful quality and colour payoff so this eyeshadow palette would be amazing for autumn. These shades are perfect for everything: from neutral eye to more dramatic look.

9. Jenoris Pistachio Oil Hair Treatment is full of Omegas, vitamins and fatty acids. Perfect for frizzy dry hair as a pre styling product or nourishing oil treatment before washing your hair.

10. SteamCream 3in1 Moisturiser Scarlet Tin is a lightweight all purpose moisturiser in a sleek handy tin. All SteamCream moisturisers are handmade from unrefined steam and floral extracts. Not to mention that all their tins are to die for!

Senna Summer Glow Collection

August 01, 2013 • makeup review

I have been pretty huge fan of Senna Cosmetics for a while now. Their eye brow products are so professional and amazing, their lipsticks are creamy and lip glosses are long lasting. Senna Cosmetics has lifted their bar even higher now and released the whole collection dedicated to the summer of 2013. It is called Summer 2013 Glow Collection. The idea behind it everything warm, golden and glowy, that's what summer is about.

One of the non-makeup items that came out with this collection was Powder Point 33 Brush. It is silky soft with a mint green wooden handle and shiny black barrel. This brush is suitable from powder to bronzers, blushers and highlighters. Its pointed shape gets so perfectly into hollows of your cheeks or tops of your cheeks. It has become a valuable tool in my makeup routine!

These are powders from the new collection called Brilliant Bronze. As you can see this comes in two different versions: lighter colder toned 'Dawn' which has light bronzer and seashell toned highlighter in it and warmer toned 'Sunset' which has deeper bronzer and golden highlight in it.

Both are very wearable even on lighter skin tones as despite their good pigmentation they can be applied with a lighter hand or builded up to more heavier application. Even though they both have a lot of shimmer in a compact it doesn't transfer so much on the face, they rather leave sheen on your skin that gives you that angelic glow.

These two are new additions to Senna Cosmetics Glow Eye Colours. 'Emerald Glow' is a golden warm toned green and 'Rose Gold Glow' is a perfect warm rose gold shade which I can't get enough of. They both are so pigmented, glide on easily to a smooth glossy finish that would make everybody's eyes pop. I have tried to combine these colours together and they compliment each other so well!

Ultra Last Eyeliners come in 'Ultra Black' and 'Ultra Brown'. They are extremely comfortable to use as they have supporting rubber surface on them. Pigmentation wise are these absolutely crazy and last so long without any smudging. On these swatches I rubbed them with my finger and as you can see they didn't move or smear at all. As I use oil cleansing method when removing my makeup I haven't had any problems removing these afterwards. Perfect eyeliners for sure!

I have always loved Senna Cream Lipsticks. They are so smooth, hydrating and yet long lasting and these are no exceptions. 'Midas' is a gold metallic shade and 'Down To Earth' is a warm golden chocolate berry shade. I think that gold metallic shade of lipstick has to be the one product I am least excited about. I have heard that many people are loving it and using it as a topping for other lip products to give their lips more golden shine, but I just haven't worked it out yet. The other shade on the other hand is a perfection. It gives just the right shade of 'your lips but better' on your pout when blended out and turns your lips into nice opaque berry wine shade when layered.

Senna Lip Lacquers are another items I have had many luck with. Their staying power is amazing without any sticky feel like many long lasting lip glosses can leave behind. My favourite one is 'Bonfire' that is blood orange shade without any noticeable sparkle in it. It comes out as beautiful as in a tube and lights up face instantly. For even bolder wear you can apply another layer and rock the brightest look on lips for hours. 'Sunstone' is sparkling golden amber tone which delivers nude bronze lips on its own, but also makes a great topping for any other lip product. Even though it has sparkles in it they aren't something that you would feel on your lips as they are very delicate and fine.

That was a long post, but I still feel I couldn't tell much good things about Senna Cosmetics. Their makeup has always so good quality and lasting power. To be honest I would put them on the same level with any other high end makeup brand as I really can't see the difference with all the effort and passion Senna Cosmetics puts into their collections.

Lumene CC-Cream

August 01, 2013 • makeup review

I haven't had the pleasure of trying CC-creams before, but they should basically act like a lighter version of a foundation that evens out any imperfections on your skin. It was the beginning of the summer when I got my hands on Lumene Color Correcting Cream. So it was right time to get something less heavier for warmer weather. While I am not too worried about going out bare faced, that is what I have been doing for couple of weeks with this hot weather, it is still good to have a option to put on your makeup and still feel comfortable.

This cream comes in pretty tube that gives product out like you want it, not how the developers of it wanted to. I have the shade light, but is also comes in a medium and deep tone. Even if I have a bit of a tan on right now it still suits for me when blending good. So not knowing prefect shade isn't too crucial and will be still wearable when you pick the wrong one.

Lumene promises it to act in a six different ways, act like a fine textured foundation that evens out any redness, cover like a concealer, smooth skin like a primer, highlight and brighten skin like an illuminator, last long enough like a long lasting foundation and give sun protection of SPF20.

It is suitable for every skin type and gives a semi-matte finish.

The consistency of it is perfect, not too thick but not to liquid either. It blends easily and you don't need to work hard with it. You don't even need a brush with it to be honest, hands work just perfect and give you desirable finish. I do give credit to it for its coverage, it cover pretty well any redness or discolouration, I only need to put concealer under my eyes when using it. You won't get the layer that full coverage foundation would give you, instead you get natural looking buildable medium coverage.

The primer part of it is also very true, it hides any big looking pores, smooths skin so well and gives it good power of staying on longer than expected. I doesn't highlight as much as I was hoping, but that isn't big deal as dewiness can also be added separately with a proper highlighter. Therefore I would say it has more of a matte finish but not in a suffocating mask way, It just has the ability to keep oiliness at bay.

The most I love about is the fact that its coverage compared its lightness is amazing. You almost don't feel anything on your face, yet it covers your redness in a very natural way. You can actually see some of it showing through, but it doesn't bother me at all and is a plus in my book.

What do you think of CC-creams? Am I too late to jump on the bandwagon?

Products I Have Used Up #1

July 31, 2013 • body care makeup organic perfume skin care

Lately I have been going through things like crazy and that means another 'empties' post for my blog. Some of these I have done a proper review on and I won't stop on them for too long.

Dove Essential Nourishment Hand Cream is a pretty plain hand cream full of chemicals. Although I didn't enjoy it much I used it up and it took me quite some time. I was expecting a deep nourishment from it, but it did nourish my hands only temporarily. This is definitely a product your hands could get addicted to and I mean it in a bad way. It is so bad that Dove doesn't want to put ingredients on their webpage.

Marc Jacobs Daisy In The Air is a simply divine perfume. It is fresh, floral but in a delicate way. And can we please talk about the bottle? It would decorate anybody's beauty table! I did a full review on it for a while ago.

AEOS Refreshing Hydrating Mist is an organic face mist full of biodynamic essential oils, plant extracts and real gems and crystals. It smells light, floral and super energising! It has been a huge relief for me on hot humid days when I needed a refreshment. My skin was always so soft, glowing and comfortable afterwards. Even though it is quite pricey it is a huge good quality glass bottle you can't miss out on.

Maybelline Colossal Volum' Express Smoky Eyes Macara was a mascara I thought would be good. Instead it was just average. I have seen worse, but also have seen better! It flaked on me pretty bad after a long day and the tube died out pretty fast. Huge plus was blackness of it and quite big brush which gets lashes voluminous with few strokes.

Clayspray Hydrate H20 Spray Mineral Water is mineral rich mountain spring water that treats skin with instant moisture. I used it with my Clayspray clay mask, but I ran out of this spray before I even got finished with my mask bottle. It did feel very good and relieving on skin! I also have a full review on this water spray.

Circaroma Replenishing Hand Cream, so this is a hand cream you can call a real hand cream! It is perfect to achieve permanently soft and smooth hands. It has so much goodness in it and smells just like wild rose flowers. More on this cream is available in my review on it.

Viridian Clear Skin Complex is natural organic supplements that supposed to be good for any skin problems from acne, eczema, aging, pigmentation etc. It has a lot of good probiotic bacteria in it along with much needed minerals, antioxidants and omegas. I didn't notice tremendous difference in my skin, but I did notice a lot more toxins getting out of my system and digestion getting better when using it. I would definitely use it again when I need to cleanse.