H&M "De Nîmes" coloured eyeliner review!

Another day, another eyeliner added to my make-up collection - or so it seems!

As you might have noticed, I've been getting into glitter and coloured eyeliners recently. I've been experimenting with eyeliner ever since I've started blogging, well over four years ago now!

My latest eyeliner buy was a bit of an impulse; I didn't need more eyeliners, but the H&M store in Bruges has been expanding, adding more make-up to their collection and the eyeliners were on sale, so I got one.

 

The packaging of this eyeliner is so cute! You can see the colour of the eyeliner through the tube. The letters on the eyeliner are gold, which is beautiful. Everything else is pretty basic.

The eyeliner that I got is called "De Nîmes", it's a gorgeous blue colour with a bit of glitter in it. Oh, and I also have an "eye of the day" coming up using this eyeliner, so make sure you check that out as well.

The tip of this eyeliner brush is soft and flexible. It's so easy to draw a line across your lashline.

And would you look at the colour of this eyeliner. My god, it is gorgeous - it reminds me of what the sky looks like at midnight! 

The eyeliner contains a bit of sparkle. I wouldn't say glitter because there aren't any big chunks in it, it's very subtile. It's almost difficult to explain. 

It has a nice texture and applies smoothly. I don't have any complaints about pigmentation either; one layer does the job just fine, this eyeliner isn't watery or anything.

To be honest with you, I never expected to find such a great eyeliner at H&M. 

Finding this eyeliner was a coincidence (I wouldn't have seen it if it didn't have a huge red sticker or if it wasn't placed near the check out- very smart marketing by the way) but I'm glad I did notice it.

If you feel like trying something different, I'd recommend giving this eyeliner a shot.

I'm will be going back to see if they have any other exciting colours! 

I paid €3 for this eyeliner.

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Accessories haul #1 💗

Any fashion blogger or stylist will tell you that basic items are the most important items in your closet. They will also tell you that you should use accessories to spice things up: okay, the trendy accessories do change up from time to time, but they're cheaper to replace. Fashionable clothing items are not so easy to replace (imagine having to buy something from every new collection, sometimes it's just not possible).

 I decided to follow my own advice and go shopping for accessories, since I obviously needed some new, fresh items!  

You may or may not know this, but I'm a huge fan of statement necklaces. I love the ones that H&M and New Look sell, because they have so many options: there's literally something for everyone (different styles, colours, sizes,..).

Here's what I got! 

H&M

I love the necklaces that H&M makes with more than one option. For example this shell necklace, it's so cute, but they give you some more ocean inspired jewels in case you want to change it up!

New Look

So delicate and sophisticated!

Claire's

Claire's is a shop that in my opinion you love or you hate. Some of my friends think it's an awesome shop, others think it's a shop for teenage girls. 

I used to go there to get hair grips and such, but after getting my nose pierced, I also tried a couple of their piercings. I never had any problems with the studs and they're quite cheap, so I went back to check out the other piercings they have for sale.

I ended up getting this pack of four with summerproof belly button piercings!

That's it for part one! I have a part two coming up that are a bit more about earrings and ear cuffs. I hope you'll be here to read that too!

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A little jewelry haul

Hello everyone! How have you been doing? Did you have a nice New Year's Eve?

I went out looking for a cute dress for New Year's eve and I was in luck! I scored a nice black dress with a lace back and I also picked up some statement necklaces! 

 

These were actually on sale, they used to ask about €20/piece for it and now I paid €10 for both!  

 I have this thing for statement necklaces, so you can imagine how happy I was to get these two beautiful necklaces for a small price!

I also got a beautiful gold watch for Christmas. My sister gave it to me. Just in time, because a fellow student broke my other watch.

I like this watch a lot, I think it looks really classy even though it's simple.

Thanks for reading, and once again: Happy 2015!

H&M eyebrow set review

If there is one thing I can't stand, it's going outside without doing my eyebrows.

I don't like my eyebrows, they're so thin and short so I like to adjust them a little. Since my ELF eyebrow powder is empty, I decided to get a new palette to try out. 

This one is by H&M.

 

The packaging is all black, it's simple.

The set holds three colours: a light brown, a dark brown and a darker green-ish kind of colour.

The eyebrow set also comes with a small angle brush.

 

 

Darker eyebrows are beautiful when you have blonde hair, but even the lightest colour is too dark for me. Too bad! 

I do use it at times to accentuate the highest point of my brow, but not much for anything else!

Too bad, it would have been really good if the colour was right for me!

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H&M eyeshadow stick review

I love H&M. Unfortunately, the H&M close to me doesn't have a lot of beauty products to offer. Or they are sold out a lot of the time.

In Prague, I got a bunch of beauty products that I didn't get my hands on here! Today I'll be showing you my H&M eyeshadow sticks.

Ik heb drie kleurtjes gehaald: "Black", "Brown" and "Pink". I like the packaging, but I think the names are just boring. What can I say? I love a good name for a make-up product.

The eye pens can be used on your eyelid, but it can also be used as a base for eyeshadow.

As you can see, the pigmentation of this product is just fine, I think the colours are really pretty. I just don't get why they called the lightest colour "pink", I myself think it looks champagne, but that's fine. The eye pens are very smooth and creamy, which makes it easy to apply, but it makes it also easy to blend out the edges a little bit. I prefer using a special haired concealer brush rather than a normal flat brush though.

PS This black is PER-FECT for smokey eyes!

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H&M chubby lipcrayons review

The chubby lipcrayons have been everywhere lately. 

I remember seeing them at the Clinique counter and thinking "What is this?". Next thing I knew every brand came out with the lipcrayons and everyone I knew had at least one.

Recently, I saw that H&M had the chubby lipcrayons as well, so I decided to get two and try them.

I got "Cherry lips" and "Honeysuckle". Two gorgeous red colours.

I think the packaging is quite cute. Simple, but okay. I do love the fact that most of the packaging has thesame colour as the lipcrayons themselves.

Here are the swatches! 

The first one on top is "Honeysuckle" and the second one is "Cherry lips".

The colour is sheer, but not as sheer as I had expected. It's also buildable. I find the texture of the lipcrayons very nice, it's very moisturizing.

I think these lipcrayons are so beautiful! They cost €3.95 each.

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Comparing: H&M vs. Essence

Yesterday I showed you the new palette that I got from H&M. I was so excited and I kept looking at the colours while taking pictures and editing.
Somewhere, far far away, in the back of my head, in a dusty corner a little light went on. Hé, I know these colours from somewhere, I've seen them in a palette before!

This is where I saw the colours, in one of my Essence palettes! If you look closely, you can see that the white, the skintoned eyeshadow and the darkest brown are almost the exact same colours as in the H&M palette. The only difference is that the Essence eyeshadow palette has one extra colour, which makes it a little bit more pricey. Oh, and the pigmentation is just a little bit better.

 

I like both of the palettes but I would especially recommend the H&M palette to beginners. It's cheaper and three colours is perfect to work with when you're just starting out. If you'd like more colours and better pigmentation (and you're willing to pay a bit more), you can go for the "To die for" palette by Essence.

The H&M palette costs €2.95 and the Essence palette is somewhere around €4 or €5.

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H&M "Nudes" eyeshadow palette review

Last Wednesday I treated myself to a shopping spree. One of the first stores that I always go to is H&M. Normally, I can never find any makeup in there, but this time I spotted eyeshadow palettes! One for smokey eyes and one for nude eyes. I decided to take the little palette with me and see if it was something.

The "Nudes eyeshadow palette" by H&M comes in the cutest, lace printed packaging. It holds three colours that are perfect for an everyday, super simpel, quick and easy makeup look.
There's a matte white eyeshadow (browbone), a shimmery nude, skincoloured eyeshadow (lid) and a matte brown (crease).

without flash

with flash

Swatches! The pigmentation of the colours are actually pretty good. Especially light colours can be hard to work with but it looks alright, I'm pleasantly surprised.

I paid €2.95 for this product, which makes it a "budget must have" (well, for me it is). I would recommend to people who don't wear makeup often or who are just looking for an everyday, budget makeup palette.
Or if you're a makeup addict like me, you could get it as well, haha!

Have a lovely day! Keep safe!

H&M (huge) makeup palette review

I love H&M. It's my favourite place to get trendy yet inexpensive items. The H&M close to my home probably only exists because I shop there so regularly. Okay, no, now I'm overreacting. But do you understand how much I love H&M now?

 

The only problem is that the H&M that we have here, never has the palettes, coloured eyeliners or makeup key chains that the big ones do have, so when I go to a big city, I always check there first. I've told you before that I went to Brussels last week and there they had a H&M. With makeup!

I got this huge, 24 colours palette. I saw it last year when I went to Paris but I didn't get it back then, and ever since, I've been thinking about it.

Like I said, this palette holds 24 colours, which is quite a lot! Browns, purples, blues, greens, greys, it's all in there. This palette can come in very handy! Not only at home, when you're starting out with makeup, I also think I would take this with me if I was going on a holiday. Enough choice for a different look everyday and the only thing you have to bring is this palette.

It also comes with two sponge applicators.

The colours up close:

The pigmentation of this palette isn't really outstanding. It's not like you can compare it to MAC quality, unfortunately. The darker colours are very well pigmented but the lightest colours could have used a little bit more pigmentation.

The good news is that the colours are very buildable and if you just take some time to apply them, you can get a very beautiful look! Be careful for the fall out though!

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H&M Smoky eyes palette makeup look

Hello you guys! Back when I was in Paris (a little less than two months ago) I did a little bit of shopping. I got some stuff from H&M, including two makeup palettes; the "Nudes" palette and the "Smoky" palette. Today I'm going to show you a look I made with the Smoky eyeshadow palette.

The thing I like about this palette is that it holds a lot of brown toned colours. All the colours in this palette are colours that make blue eyes appear more blue, which is nice because I have blue eyes.

Like always, this look is darker in real life, it looks less dark because I take all the pictures in front of a window when the sun shines.

I used the "orange" colour all over my lid, the matt brown (second colour from the right) in my crease, the brown colour totally on the right in my outer "V" and the lightest colour (on the left) in my inner tear duct and on my brow bone as a highlighter.

I also used the darkest colour as a subtile eyeliner. You could always use liquid eyeliner if you want to, I didn't this time.

You can make the look darker by applying some of the dark brown colour on your lower lashline. I didn't because I have sensitive eyes. Other alternatives to make the look appear darker is to use liquid eyeliner on the upper lashline and black eyeliner on the waterline.

That's the look! I hope you like it! Thanks for reading!