I ♥ make-up palette review!

Hello everyone! How are you?

I just got back from a school trip where I got to spend the week with my high school students (which is pretty rare for an intern, but it was so much fun!).

Ever since arriving home I've been spending my days trying to enjoy and spending my nights working on lesson preparations. 

It hasn't been all work and no play, I have allowed myself a couple of things this spring break and well... One of them was to "treat myself". So I did. I treated myself to a new palette by "I ♥ make-up", which is a brand that I've never tried, but I was pretty curious!

 

The packaging is quite simple, but I think it looks nice. Hot pink letters are always a good idea!

This is what the inside of the palette looks like. So many different shades! This palette holds 32 colours. Some of them shimmery, some of them matt! In this palette you'll also find two small applicator brushes and a giant mirror.

Here are the swatches. Both dark and lighter colours actually have a good colour pay off. I wish they would have been a bit more pigmented, but obviously, I've seen worse so I'm not upset. I've also noticed there's little to no fall out.

Time for an eye look! I've kept it quite neutral today. I've also used cool toned eyeshadows instead of the regular gold today. I'm not used to it yet, but it's quite nice. Change is good!

What do you think of this look?

Thanks for reading!

EOTD: Storm part 2

It's amazing how many different you can create using only one palette.

This last week I have been talking about the Sleek Storm palette. I have showed you the haul, the review and one look. Today I have another one for you. 

 

This look is completely different from the previous one. In this look, I decided to go for warm colours such as brown, yellow and gold (in contrary to the pink look I made last week). I'm also planning on doing a green and blue one. That one might be the most exciting one yet!

Other products used in this post:
- Sleek eyebrow set
- Bourjois foundation
-Catrice bronzer
-Essence powder



Have a lovely Tuesday! ♥

Comparing: MAC vs Catrice highlighters

I love comparing products to each other. 

Preferably cheaper and more expensive products. I did one in the past comparing MAC Russian Red lipstick and Rimmel London's lipstick to each other.

Time to compare another MAC product to one of my newest favourites: a highlighter from Catrice!

Here are the two highlighters next to each other. On the right, you see the very famous MAC highlighter called "Soft and Gentle" (that I accidentally dropped and broke, cry!) . On the left, my newest Catrice higlighter in "Light Infusion".

Both highlighters look rather simple in their packaging. Catrice has silver packaging, MAC has black packaging. Both fine.

The MAC highlighter is a little more gold, whereas the Catrice highlighter is a bit cooler.

And swatches! 

The highlighters are not exactly thesame, (Soft and Gentle is warmer) but quality wise,  I must say I'm very impressed with Catrice!

If you want a really good budget highlighter, get your hands on this Catrice highlighter as fast as you can! 

Thanks for reading!

Catrice high glow highlighter ♥

Goodmorning to the whole wide world out there! How are you?
I have been in quite a good mood recently. I have been working for school a lot, but I have also reaping the rewards!

I thought I deserved a little treat from myself too and went shopping. Mostly window shopping, but when I got to my drugstore, I decided to take a look inside and here's what I found: A Catrice highlighter! This is the High Glow mineral highlighting power (phew, what a long name!).

This higlighter called "Light Infusion" is a Limited Edition highlighter and I nearly died when I saw it!
It looks so beautiful! Normally I'd say that the packaging is quite minimalistic and that it's not really my style, but in this case I think it's very handy. That way you can really see the product, and that's what chatches your eye (or at least, what caught mine! ;) ).

When I swatched it, my jaw dropped. Honest to God.
Such a pretty highlighter! And the pigmentation!

As you can see, this higlighter is well pigmented, but it also has a nice structure. There are no chunks of glitter in it, which I'm extremely grateful for. I have bad skin as it is and chunks would only make it look worse.

I'm so happy to have found a budgetproof highlighter that meets my expectations when it comes to textures and everything.
I would for sure recommend it if you're looking for a cheap highlighter.

Thanks for reading!

Manicure Monday: whites

Happy Monday everyone! It's been quite since I've done something new to my nails. I keep going back to the oldies but the goodies. However, today I'm changing it up!  

I decided to paint my nails white using my very old New Look nailpolish. After that, I applied two layers of holo shimmer nailpolish by Essence.

Result? Shimmery white nails! 

What do you guys think about this manicure?