January empties!

Hello everyone! January is finished and so are some of my make-up items. Some months I have no empties and some months I have quite a few, like this month. Most of them are face products.

To start off I have a product that I think I will finish in the next week. It's my Catrice All Matt Plus shine control foundation. This is one heck of a nice budget foundation. Loved it! I have another foundation already but I think I might actually repurchase this foundation later.

Another product by Catrice that I most definitely will repurchase: their camouflage cream. This product is the best concealer in the budget departement. High coverage, low price. Got to love it!

Another concealer that I finished is my Essence match 2 cover concealer. I'm using the last few leftovers that I can get to, to shape my eyebrows or shape my face. I liked this concealer, but not as much as the Catrice concealer.

I also finished the left side of my ELF eyebrow kit. I know there is some product left in the corners but I can't get to it with my brush. For now I'm just using the powder (on the right) but as you can see, I'm going through that rather quickly as well! I loved this product and I will for sure repurchase!

That's it! Thanks for reading! 

Make someone smile today :)

True Match foundation review

A couple of years ago, when I was still a rookie at make-up, I bought my first foundation in Amsterdam.

It was the L'Oréal True match foundation. Back then I didn't know much about makeup, I thought every foundation had good coverage, but over the years I have tested a lot of foundations and I have learned that not all products on the market are good products.

Now, a couple of years later, the more experienced version of myself has returned to the L'Oréal counter to the True Match foundation again. I wanted to start using it again. Just because I have such good memories of it. Of course I don't want to keep my experiences from you.

I think the packaging of this foundation is cute. It's shiny with a lot of different fonts which makes it a little bit exciting. The only thing that you might perhaps have a problem is, is that the bottle is glass. I personally don't have any problems with that. Oh, and this foundation also has a pump which is so handy!

The colour that I got is called "Rose Beige". It's the second to lightest colour in the collection. I think the lightest colour would suit me a little better but when I do use a light foundation people ask me if I'm sick all the time.

Above you can see what the foundation looks like when it's just out of the bottle. It's not too cakey but it's also not too watery.

 Below you can see what the foundation looks like after blending it out. The colour now looks like it suits me much more. It blends right in with my skintone and leaves no spots or dark areas. Right now 

I can't show you what it does to acne because I don't have any at the moment (thank God!). Even though the coverage is quite nice, I do continue to use concealer underneath my eyes. What can I say, I have really bad, dark circles.

If you're interested, you can find this foundation in any drugstore! 

Thanks for reading!

Makeup look challenge update #2: purple

Hello everyone! Today I'm back with an update on my make-uplook challenge.

The colour of this week is purple. Like always, I try to incorporate bright colours in my make-up without making it looks clownesque.

Want to take a look?

So here is what the make-up looks like. I used a taupe base on my lid and then I applied purple over it. A little above my crease I applied "Woodwinked" by MAC and I darkened my crease up with a brown eyeshadow. After that I added some black eyeshadow on my upper lashline as eyeliner. On my waterline I used eyeliner as well, here I'm using a purple eyeliner by Essence. It's called "Hola, Chicka!"

Products used:

* Maybelline Color Tattoo in "Permanent Taupe"

* Body Collection make-up palette

*Nude Tude make-up palette by The Balm

*MAC "Woodwinked"

*Essence kajak eyeliner pencil in "Hola Chicka".

What do you think of this look?
Thanks for reading!

Weekly Diary

Hi everyone! This week has come to its end, time for me to show what I have experienced this week!

This week was the first week I went back to school after my internship. I'm especially happy to have my Wednesday afternoons back. Wednesday is the day where I prepare for the last days of the week and not having that was a little hard at times but it's okay.

I also had some delicious pasta this week! I know it doesn't look that way though haha! A lot of pasta shops have popped up recently.

Although during the week I'm occupied with schoolwork, I try to save some time for myself every once in a while. I like to watch Youtube videos (yes, on make-up) and CSI. I'm also trying to keep up with my challenge, which is to read one book every week, but so far the fourth week of the year is over and I am still reading book #1. I just don't think it's that interesting but I don't want to give up on it. If I'd put it to the side, I wouldn't pick it up ever again so....

It's just not my type of book. I hope I can catch up on those three missed books.

Every once in a while I find something beautiful or funny on the Internet. Check out these two pictures below! You be the judge!

I also went to work this week. I work in the service industry and sometimes people make me feel really bad about myself or just ignore/embarrase me. This weekend, the people made me smile and they made me feel good. They let me know that they appreciate what I do and it just filled my heart with love. 

These are the people that I work for! Below is just a before and after picture, I thought it would be fun to share! I love taking pictures of our decor!

 Thanks for reading! Have a lovely Sunday, enjoy!

Winter care favourites

Hi everyone!
Cold weather has been raging through town. I think winter is really coming now.
In order to be well prepared, I got some products to protect my skin. I want to share my favourite products in this post today.

I'll start off with skincare items. They are very important to me because I have very dry and sensitive skin. I've told you about my mango shower gel by The Body Shop before, but I haven't really talked to you about their body butter. The Body Shop's body butters are my favourite body butters in the whole entire world.

There are more scents in the assortment than you could ever imagine, which is great because lots of people - even people with different taste - can find something they like there. Even though I used to think the body butters were overpriced, I got a couple of them to see if my opinion would change. And it has.
There's actually quite a lot of product in the jar! It's so smooth and creamy, what a lovely texture! The scent lasts quite long. And it's cruelty free!

Alright, onto the next product which also happens to be by The Body Shop. I'm talking about their passionfruit scented lipbalm in a jar.
Again, very nice texture and a lovely scent. I often just apply a heavy layer before going to bed so that my lips have all the time to recover. I'm thinking of getting one for in my purse too!

Now it's time for my makeup favourites. A couple of years ago, while on a trip to Amsterdam, I convinced myself to try out L'Oréal's True Match foundation. If I'm honest, this was my first foundation and I couldn't have picked a better one. Now, several years later, after trying a few other foundations, I have returned to L'Oréal.
It just fits me, the colours are very close (if not true) to my skintone and the coverage is good as well, whichi s great because I do need more coverage in winter.
I'll write a more detailled review on it soon.

One of my favourite budget products is the catrice camouflage cream concealer. Like I said, I need more coverage in winter and this full coverage concealer gives me that. It's also nice to hide a red nose.

Just a few additional products that I love in winter are blush and bronzer. I don't do very fancy contouring or anything, I just like to add a little bit of extra colour to my face since I'm a porcelain skintoned kind of girl. The blush that I currently use is a bit brighter than it would be in summer because I get even more pale in winter. It's by The Balm.

That's it! My favourites for winter! What are your favourite products?