Best of Beauty/ Favorites of 2010!

Hey there!
I know a lot of beauty gurus already did their favorites of the year of 2010 in the last days of that year, but I decided to do that now, since the new year has started! These are my favorites of the whole year instead of only the ones for the month of December :)
I will also sometimes mention just brands, because I got to know them this year and liked them. Here we go, my favorites:

- Jesse's Girl Stuff: I placed my first order there in summer this year, and I really like their stuff! So pretty colors, and great quality!

just some of my Jesse's Girl stuff 

- The "NEW" Catrice: Catrice changed their whole nail polish line in spring of 2010, made so pretty colors, and then this fall they changed almost all of the rest of their line, and it's so good! The quality got so much better, it's amazing! Catrice is my favorite drugstore brand :)

some things from the whole great catrice stuff

- OPI nail polishes: This is another brand I discovered in 2010, and OPI is just so amazing :) Unfortunately a bit pricey in Germany, and now Coty bought it, so the polishes will probably get tested on animals :P but I still loved it this year.

just some of my OPI polishes to stand for them all

- China Glaze nail polishes: Discovered them in 2010 and immediately fell in love! So good quality and amazing colors :)

just 2 of my china glaze polishes to stand for them all

- Nivea Ideal Finish Foundation: This is actually the first foundation I ever bought, and I love it! I expected to have to look around and try different stuff until I find my favorite foundation, but I already did :) Here I wrote a review on it.  

YAY!

- Essence Eyeliner Pen: I love this one so much because it is a felt-tip liner which is so easy to use! You can create the thinnest lines that are still opaque, I love it!

love it!

- Catrice Lipstick in Ocean Sunrise from the Oceana LE: Such a pretty color, a reddish pink, which I wore a lot in summer, fall and winter! So so pretty :)

pretty pretty lip color :)

- Blush and Highlighting Products: I love it! I fell in love with cheek products in 2010, especially blush and highlighters :) Glowy cheeks all the way! :) 

just one of my favorite highlighting products

- Yves Rocher Summer Perfume "Aquarelles Vegetales": Y'all know that I love love love this perfume, I've been wearing it so often and can't get enough of it :)

yummy yummy scent <3

- Maybelline Colossal Volum' Express Mascara: This is my go-to mascara, I use it all the time and always buy a new bottle after I finished one :) Perfect mascara for me!

great stuff!

I think that's what they are, my favs for the whole year of 2010 :)
What were you're favorites? I'm sure I forgot about a lot, but I remember these the most :) You want a review of anything?
See ya,
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NOTD December 19th: Snowflake Design

Hey guys!

Today's another nail art design, I'm having a lot of ideas for this season, so I change my nails every few days, and I want to show them all to you!

That's what you need:

- base coat (mine is Essence pro white french)

- lilac polish (I used OPI Do you lilac it?)

- a silver-champagne color (I used Essence Fairytale LE - 02 pixie dust)

- a white color (I used the Essence tip painter in white)

- a silver polish (I used Jesse's Girl in North Star)

- a nail art brush or toothpick to create the design

- a purple color (I used Essie Sexy Divide)

- a top coat (I used Essence Sealing Top Coat)

That's how to do it:

1. Paint all your nails with a base coat to protect the natural nail.

2. Paint some of your nails with the lilac color, some with the champagne.

3. For the nails with the lilac color on them:

we're going to create snowflakes on these nails. You can do how many you like, I always did some in white and some in silver. I did a little graphic on how to create them:

place the snowflakes wherever you want, they can overlap each other if you like that.

4. For the nails with the silver-champagne color on them:

I decided to do these differently so the design wasn't that simple. I just took the purple polish and draw one to two stripes across the nails. You can also do these with the snowflake design, depends on what you like.

5. Seal everything with your top coat.

And that's it! You can also do just one of the two things I did, I just wanted to put a little twist to it :) 

Hope you liked it!

xoxo, Misch

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NOTD December 17th: Jesse's Girl - North Star

Hey there!

Today I'm wearing Jesse's Girl Nail Polish in North Star. I already told you several times that I love this color so much :) It's perfectly opaque with just one coat and so so pretty, the perfect winter color. The color doesn't last that long, you can already see tipwear after two days (with topcoat), but it's fine :)

Do you also like this color? I hope so :)
See ya later!
xoxo, Misch

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Halloween Tutorials: Crazy Purple Look

Hi guys,

here's another Halloween tutorial for you.

This one is really creative and crazy, just right for Halloween! For this look I almost just used pigments.

Let's get started:

First apply a creamy black pencil liner (Essence black mania pencil liner) messily aroud your eye, only leaving out the inner corner.

Now you want to smudge this eyeliner. You can use you finger, a brush, a q-tip or a smudger. It's supposed to be very smoked out and to have a cat-eye shape.

Time for the eyeshadows! The black was just the base, and now we're gonna use purple and a bit of pink! Start at the outer corner and apply a shimmery dark purple pigment (I used [b]basic classic glam pigment in purple) along the outer cat-eye area. Then next to it, on the top lid, you wanna place a a bit lighter purple (Jesse's Girl eye dust in ultra violet) and next to that one, a purple-ish pink (Jesse's Girl eye dust in peek-a-boo). Use a shimmery white for the inner corner (Jesse's Girl eye dust in pixiedust). Then you want to darken up the crease. First use a grey color (Jesse's Girl eye dust in hi-ho silver) for that, and then a black (Jesse's Girl eye dust in blackstar blue). Always follow the shape you created with the eyeliner at the beginning.

On the lower lashline, apply a pink pigment ([b]basic classic glam pigment in pink) and blend it down pretty far.

Add some black pencil liner (Essence black mania pencil liner) to the top lashline, the waterline and the tightline. Add black mascara and fake lashes if you want (I don't.).

The rest of your face should be kept really natural.

So what would you wear this look for? A witch? Another magic person? Tell me!

I'm gonna do a few more looks before it's Halloween next week.

I'll see you later!

xoxo, Misch

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Halloween Tutorials: Blue Smokey Eye

Hi guys,

today it's time for my first Halloween Tutorial! I'm gonna say it now: This is not supposed to be a whole look or a costume, it's just a colored eye make-up, because I know that some people (me for example) don't like to wear complete makeovers, so a colorful "normal" look would be the thing to choose! Also, if you want to see any certain colors or something, go ahead and tell me :)

For this look, I started off by using a blue cream eyeshadow (TheBodyShopCream Eye Colour in 04 blueberry) on the outer half of my lid. Then I used several blue eyeshadows to create the look (120 palette, Rival de Loop Yound eyeshadow Quattro in 02 blue lagoon). All you wanna do is work your way back from the inner corner to the outer corner, getting the colors darker. Make sure to blend very well! In the very inner corner I applied a shimmery baby blue (Jesse's Girl Eyedust in Baby Blues), then I used the two lighter colors of the RdLY quattro on the lid and when it came to the crease, I first shaded it with the third color of the RdLY quattro and the blended the transition to the lid color with the tow colors from the 120 palette. The V-area had to get darker to give the look more dimension, so I applied the last color from the RdLY quattro, a blue-ish black. Then I blended the whole look towdards the brow using a nude skin tone color (Catrice Nude Cream) and used that a highlight as well.

On the lower lashline I just applied the two mid colors of the RdLY quattro to complete the eyeshadows. For eyeliner I used the Essence Black Mania Pencil and and the Essence Denim Wanted Geleyeliner in 01 vintage style. RdLY diamond wish mascara was used for the lashes.

Where blush is concerned, I just used a bronzer, but go with anything not too bright that you like. For my lips I used a light red lipgloss (Essence; don't know the name, it's old). If you want it to be more wearable, do a nude lip!

I really like this look, I think it's pretty! See this as a inspiration and change it the way you like it, using you own products! You could wear this when you are sailor for halloween, for example.

Do you have any color combinations or looks that I should do? Leave a comment and tell me!

Used It Up!: I finished my Evian facial spray, really liked it, but lately it started to smell bad :P

I posted it in my September favs!

I hope you liked this one, I will try to do two looks a week, forgive me if I'm not able to!

Make sure to check back later, because I will post my Clinique skin care experiences, week 1!

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September 2010 Favorites

Hey guys,

September's already over and now it's really getting fall - grey and rainy outside, but really cozy inside: it's time for spending the evenings in front of the TV, drinking a cup of hot tea:) I love love love this season so much

Evian facial spray - this stuff is so amazing :) it moisturizes, refreshes and cares my skin so well, and the mist is so fine. I used it several times a day, and I'm almost out of it :( I'll get a new one, though :)

TheBodyShop Born Lippy lipbalm in raspberry - I really like this lip balm, it tastes great, cares my lips and gives a nice pink shine. Definitely a fav.

Yves Rocher Aquarelles Vegetales Perfume - Y'all know that I love this scent so much - and I still do :) I used it a lot during this month.

Essence Soft Matt eyeshadow in 03 Silky Smooth - School started again for me this month and so I had to do a lot of nude looks everday and this eyeshadow was my go-to color. It's a matte chocolate brown, perfect to fill in my eyebrows, to darken up my outer corner or to simply shade my crease. This color is so convenient!

Beliance Foundation Brush - This brush is perfect to apply my foundation, I really like it!

Jesse's Girl Enamel in Garnet - This is such a perfect color for fall :) it looks very similar to Chanel Rouge Noir and I love it

p2 nail polish thinner - I had a lot of problems with too thick nail polishes this month and this one helped me a lot.

My Uggs - These aren't real Ugg Boots, but I still love them. So cute shoes :)

McDonalds Mocha Frappe - I love McDonalds Mocha Frappe so much (I kinda love everything in this post...), it tastes so amazing

So guys, these were my favs for the month of September. What were yours?

xoxo, Misch

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NOTD September 18th: Jesse's Girl Blue & Silver Nail Art + Use It Up! Product 5

Hey guys,

it's me again :)

I did another nail art design, yay! :) I know, sometimes I'm not in the mood for it, but today I totally was :)

I'm using Jesse's Girl Blue Moon all over the nail (actually I've already been wearing this color a few days before) and added Jesse's Girl North Star over half of the nail. Okay, sometimes it's a bit more than half of the nail, but it can't be perfect. I really love both of these colors, North Star has a foil finish and it so super opaque, that's almost unique :) and Blue Moon is a royal blue with purple shimmer, a really interesting color :) Love it.

Something I don't really like about these polishes is the wear, though. I already wore Garnet (didn't show you, sorry guys, just for got to take a picture) and it didn't stay that long, as well as Blue Moon on it's own. I don't I just already have tip wear after on dan chipping after two days :(. But maybe it's because of the base or top coat I used...We'll see, I might try it with a different base and top coat.

I really like to do this design when I'm wearing a color that has already chipped off on the tips, but I don't want to remove it yet. I just add another color over it, pretty easy! :)

I hope you guys liked this design :)

I also used up another product, the Isana nail polish remover acetone free.

I like this one, but I prefer the one with acetone.

Until next time, xoxo, Misch

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My Nail Polish Collection PART #7: Browns, Greys, Silvers and Blacks

Hey guys,

today I'm going to show you my second to last part of my nail polish collection! These are all of my browns, greys, silvers and blacks:

1 p2 - 143 forever [c]

2 Essence - 49 spotlight [sh] [dc]

3 RdLY - Blackberry [c] it's actually more of a dark berry color, but in the bottle it looks brown

4 Essence Sun Club Collection - 04 chocolicious [c] [le]

5 Catrice - 220 Lost in Mud [c]

6 Astor Lacquer Deluxe - 597 VIP grey [slight sh]

7 Essence Nail Art Twins - 02 Romeo [sh]

8 Essence - 20 fatal [c]

9 RdLY Nail Art Pen - #01 black [c]

10 Essence Eclipse Collection - 01 Undead? [g] [le]

11 p2 - 210 eternal [c]

12 Jesse's Girl - North Star [g]

So, I hope you enjoyed this post! The next and last nail polish collection post will be my nail care stuff + base & top coats! I will update every post when I get new polishes! :)
I'll see you guys later!

xoxo, Misch

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EOTD September 2nd: Jesse's Girl + Use It Up! Product 2

Hi guys,

today I'll show you my EOTD! It's a version of the neutral color pop that I already showed you here, I just did it with some Jesse's Girl products. On the lid I used the Eye Dust in Sunstone, in the crease the Eye Dust in Cafe Au Lait and in the inner corner the Eye Dust in Kiwi Rose. I added a dark brown (Essence Silky Smooth eyeshadow) to the outer corner to darken up the look a bit and lined my eye with the Essence Eyeliner Pen on the top lashline. For the lower lashline I used a light blue cream shadow from the Jesse's Girl Mini Eye Compact #2. I love this look and I've been doing it for the past couple of days! For my lips I used the Jesse's Girl Mini Lipgloss Collection.

Unfortunately, my camera wasn't able to pick up the beautiful shimmer the Eye Dusts have, so it looks more boring than it is in real life!

And, I finished up my second product! If you don't know what I mean, I explained it here. The product I used up is the Essence 12h hand protection balm in repair! I'm happy I'm out of it, because I didn't like the smell anymore!

I'll see you guys soon!

Bye, Misch

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Jesse's Girl Haul!! :)

Hi guys,

I'm sorry for posting another haul, but I'm super excited about this, so don't be angry! :)

I ordered some stuff from Jesse's Girl less than two weeks ago and it already arrived (that's pretty fast considering that it was shipped from the United States to Germany)!

I already played around with the stuff a bit, and it's so good quality for so little money!

That's what I got:

Jesse's Girl Eye Dust: [Price: 3.99 US-Dollar each]

- Sunstone (a shimmery peach-y coral gold pigment)

- Cafe Au Lait (a shimmery reddish brown pigment)

- Kiwi Rose (a greenish whit pigment with gold-green shimmer)

Jesse's Girl Enamel Nail Polish: [Price: 2.99 US-Dollar each]

- North Star (a shimmery silver color, extremely pigmented (onecoater, yay!) and super easy to apply)

- Blue Moon (a shimmery purple-ish indigo color, opaque with two coats)

- Garnet (a jelly-like garnet/burgundy color, opaque with two coats)

Jesse's Girl Mini Eye Compact #2 [Price: it's on sale because it'll be discontinued, so it's just 2.50 US-Dollar]

(a mini palette with ten cream eyeshadows in white, light pink, limegreen, peach, light blue, brown, orange, dark blue, black and dark red; all are shimmery)

Jesse's Girl Mini Lipgloss Collection #1 [Price: it's on sale because it'll be discontinued, so it's just 2.50 US-Dollar]

(a mini palette with ten lipglosses that are mainly red but it also contains a few pink shades)

The company was also kind enough to send me some Eye Dust samples, so I got every color except for Angelic and Kiwi Rose in sample size (that are 26 colors!!)

I'm sorry I didn't swatch the palettes, but they don't contain enough!

I ordered from Jesse's Girl Cosmetics and even shipping to Germany was pretty inexpensive, just 8.95 US-Dollar! I really think it's a great company, so good stuff for so little money! This was my first order there and I'll purchase some more stuff pretty soon, because it's so great! They have a lot more things and I'll try that out! Just check out their website to see the great things they sell!

So, guys, what do you think? I will definitely do a review about something, and you hear more about it from me! Any requests? Just tell me!

Until next time, guys! xoxo, Misch

By the way: Today one of my birdies died :(. She was ill and it's so sad :(

Disclaimer: Everything was purchased with my own money, only the samples were given to me for free, but not for this blog and I think they add them to every purchase. All opinions are my own and honest.

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