// FIRST IMPRESSION: Thirsty Palette by Jeffree Star Cosmetics

Heya Internet! How are we doing?

As I promised in my previous post, I‘ll blog more often from now on! So that’s what I‘ll do today!

I recently used my Thirsty Palette by JSC for the first time even though I had it on my vanity for almost a year now. I just never got around to diving into it with work and simple tiredness dominating my life. Since I‘m slowly reclaiming my life again, I did find the joy of doing my makeup again as well! So I grabbed the palette and just.. started.:D I made a TikTok while doing that which will be at the end of the post.

So, shall we start? Y E S!

The palette:

I bought this palette at the Morphe Cosmetics store in London for about £45, if I remember correctly.

It‘s good quality with barely any fallout. I wouldn‘t say that the shadows in my palette are as creamy as they are in other JSC palettes I own, but I don‘t know whether this is usual for Thirsty or if it‘s because it‘s been sitting around for a while. Colour payoff is great, though. And they blend like a dream!

Here‘s the look I came up with:

I‘m sorry that this photo is not a professional one but rather taken using my iPhone. I do not have my DSLR at the moment. :/

Since I‘m having way too much fun on TikTok at the moment, I keep making some myself. Drawing, colouring, journaling... doing my makeup... :D here‘s the one for the Thirsty palette:

I‘m not sure if blogger will let you watch the video I uploaded, but I‘ve got you! Here‘s the Link :)

To wrap this post up, I‘d say that Thirsty is an overall cute and well thought out palette with colours that go really well with each other. If you want it and can still get your hands on it now that JSC discontinued it and these are your colours: buy it. However, I don‘t think you‘re missing out if you don‘t have it. I for myself am not sure, how often I‘ll use it from now on. I have a lot of eyeshadow palettes by now, nearly all JSC has released and I rather use those than Thirsty. Jawbreaker is my holy grail!

I‘ll see you guys in the next post! Stay cool!

X

// Review: The most hyped eyebrow product ever

Hi guys!

As you've probably seen in my post about my new babies (aka my Anastasia Beverly Hills contour kits), I also ordered one of the ABH dipbrow pomades.

And yes.

It is worth the hype.

I ordered the dipbrow pomade and the ABH brush 12 along with the contour kits on beautybay.com.

Before ordering, I did a bit of research as I wasn't too sure about which shade I should get. My eyebrows aren't blonde or brown so I had to get something in between. A shade not as dark as the NYX eyebrow pomade in "Chocolate" which I've been using for a while now.

So for me, it was pretty obvious that I should get the ABH pomade in "Taupe" but it was kind of hard to find some reviews of taupe that didn't only include a swatch but also a pic of someone wearing it.

Long story short: The only thing I found were swatches. That's why I'll put a pic of me wearing it at the end of this post.

I'm in love with this.

You don't need a lot of product and you can blend it easily.

And it's not too dark. For me, it's perfect.

I tried to take pics of a swatch that show the "real" colour but it's kind of hard. So, if your eyebrows are neither blonde nor brunette I would definitely recommend the ABH pomade in "taupe".

As swatch:

On your eyebrows:

(it's a bit blurry and yes, it's a pic I posted before but I'm not good at taking selfies haha)

//Photo Series: My new vanity

Hi Internet,

I hope you guys are okay as I am ill. Again. Probably because school is stressing me out so much.

Oh well, just a few more weeks and I'm done.

Anyway, during my winter holidays I finally had enough time to assemble my vanity area and, as it's my favourite part of my room, I thought I should share some pics with you :)

I love it.

Haven't put all of my makeup in the drawer yet, and I probably won't just because it looks so clean right now haha 

// First impression: Anastasia Beverly Hills Contour Kit

Hi, hey, hello Internet.

I'm back again. Well, for a while.

School is just very time and life consuming at the moment that's why I haven't posted for what felt like ages. But on the bright side: there are only like 6 weeks of school left. And like 8 until my exams. But I promise, once they are done I'm going to post regularly. (I know I said that before but you know, school is my number one priority at the moment.)

You guys probably know about my obsession with makeup so you won't be surprised if I told you that I bought quite a lot of new stuff during my absence. And I got some makeup for Christmas as well. Like the ABH Self-Made eyeshadow palette. Yes, I cried. :D

But today I want to tell you about the Anastasia Beverly Hills contour kits which I ordered about a week ago and received them after only 6 days. Well, it would've been 4 days but there was a weekend and concerning that it has been only 4 days, it was here faster than the shop, beautybay, said on their website. Thumbs up for that!

I also ordered the Dipbrow Pomade and the eyebrow brush (but there's going to be another post about that).

I got the cream contour kit in Fair, the lightest one, as highlighters so far never really worked on me and I can tell, this kit is the answer to all my prayers.

I tried it for the first time the other day and this cream contour kit is my holy grail already. I always wanted to try cream so seeing an ABH kit suitable for my skin tone was freaking awesome and I actually didn't mind spending 46€ on it. And I usually regret buying more makeup really fast haha

The highlighters really DO highlight my face. They make your cheekbones, bridge of the nose and forehead pop! The contour shades are a bit more ashy than in other contour kits and that's just another pro if you're looking for other arguments.

They also blend in so easily!

The only thing I don't really get is the "white highlighter" in the middle.

Whereas the other shades, contour and highlight, are richly pigmented, this is just like... nothing. It actually makes your cheeks or nose look wet. 

But 5 out of 6 shades are awesome anyway and I recommend this to everyone who wants a great cream contour kit.

Highlighters (left to right): Soft Light, Lustre, Fair 

Contour shades (left to right): Fawn, Shadow, Mink 

The powder contour kit was 46€ as well and I got it in case I wouldn't be able to handle cream contour.

And also because I wanted something different for my everyday contour.

I've been using my smashbox contour kit for almost one year now and yeah... I got tired of it so I needed something new.

The powders blend in perfectly and they're just as richly pigmented as the ones in the other kit.

I don't regret buying this one as well and if you prefer contouring using powders, you should definitely get one of these.

Highlighters (left to right): Vanilla, Banana, Sand

Contour shades (left to right): Java, Fawn, Havana

X

// Review: Zoeva Rodeo Belle Eyeshadow Palette

Heyo lovely Internetians!

Welcome to another review.

When I ordered some Christmas presents the other day I just had to buy some stuff for myself as well.

Maybe as some kind of a pre-Christmas gift haha.

So therefore, I got the ZOEVA Rodeo Belle palette (17,99€), a ZOEVA primer, another NYX soft matte lip cream (6,99€) and the Real Techniques makeup sponge (5,99€).

You've probably noticed my love for eyeshadow palettes and lipsticks if you've been reading my posts for a while so that order shouldn't be surprising haha :D

Anyway, when I saw the Rodeo Belle palette I just HAD to buy it.

The shades are amazing and from what I've seen on other blogs, I was amazed by the pigmentation.

 Take a look at the swatches below (no eyeshadow base):

I was freaking excited to try it and I fell in love with this palette even more while applying the shadows onto my eyelid haha

I used the ZOEVA primer as a base for creating this, I kind of messed up the blending part in the end but I actually don't care because... just look at how high pigmented and pretty the shades are!

I used "Cactus Flower" all over the lid and blended in "Bang Bang" on the inner and outter corner.

I then added "Day Money" on the upper and lower lash line. 

Do you own any ZOEVA palettes?

I already know that "Rodeo Belle" won't be my last ZOEVA palette, but maybe my favourite ;)

x

// First impression: Essence LE Winter? Wonderful!

Hello Internetians!

It's December.

It's winter.

Christmas is on its way and everyone needs to get some presents for their loved ones (well, not me. I bought the last present yesterday so I guess I'm well-prepared :D)

And while I was on a stroll around our local drugstore I couldn't help but notice the latest essence le called "Winter? Wonderful!"

At first I thought "Why would you call your le that... winter is only wonderful as long as you don't have to go outside and face the cold."

Yea, you can see I'm not really fond of winter haha but anyway, I'm that kind of person who always falls for a cute packaging so I couldn't resist and got three items out of all those good-looking lippies, nail varnishes, blushes, highlighters, eyeshadows and hand balms.

As I'm a sucker for eyeshadow, I just HAD to buy the "all ice on me" eyeshadow palette (3,99€)

If you know me you probably also know about my struggle of finding THE perfect, highly pigmented white eyeshadow. The lightest shade of the naked smoky palette is my fave so far although I thought that there's a low budget eyeshadow that's almost as perfect as "Thirteen" because sometimes you only need one eyeshadow and not a whole palette. But since I wanted the naked smoky so bad...you know... :D

Anyway, I should have swatched this palette before buying as the lightest shades aren't that pigmented, tho the brown shadows are really good and I think overall they're very pretty.

And yes, I am sorry for the bad exposure but you know... it's winter, it gets dark earlier so I had to adjust lighting condition a bit.

(but I wrote some softboxes on my Christmas wishlist, so fingers crossed haha :D)

If there's enough time during my Christmas holidays I'll try to review this palette and also the other two pieces. As a whole makup look maybe :)

I also bought the "winter kissed cheeks" blush and the "you melt my heart" highlighter (2,99€ each).

I was looking for a powder highlighter for a while so I put that one in my basket in no time and the blush... it just looked very pretty haha I told you I'm a person who falls for a nice packaging very easily :D

I haven't tried them yet as I made myself an advent calendar (how sad is that hahaha but my bestie sent me one the other day and I cried THANK YOU ALINA) and they're a part of it :)

x

// Review: Urban Decay Naked Smoky

Hey ho Internet,

it's me again.

And I finally found enough time for testing my new baby and telling you about my first impression.

I've been curious about the new Naked palette by Urban Decay, I loved my Naked 3 because it's so rosey and pretty but I've been looking for something darker for a long, long time.

So when I heard about UD releasing a new palette, I was super excited and I just had to buy it.

The Urban Decay Naked Smoky is per-fect!

 The shades are awesome and they're high pigmented, but I'd always recommend an eyeshadow base just for making the shades pop out more and to prevent crumbling.

The first look I created with this is a simple, not-too-dark smokey eyes makeup which you'll find at the end of this post :)

Talking about the packaging I have to admit that this has to be my fave.

I mean, look at it. the smoke in the background... 

Also, the brush that comes with this palette is better than the one you get along with Naked 3.

The shades are called:

High-Dirtysweet-Radar-Armor-Slanted-Dagger-Black Market-Smolder-Password-Whiskey-Combust-Thirteen

Password, Whiskey, Combust and Thirteen are mattes and Black Market is such a pretty, satin-finish black and so far, they're my favourites.

Okay so for the first look I created, I used:

-Combust

-Whiskey

-Thirteen

-Black Market

First, I put some of Combust on the crease, followed by Whiskey, which i also used for creating a wing. Then I blended both of them as good as possible and continued with dabbing Thirteen on the lid, except on the outer corner.

For the outer corner and the lash lines, I used Black Market.

And it's all about blending haha

This is like the first time that I ever created a smokey eye that didn't look like pure shit haha

And excuse the bad quality..

It's just, I sit in front of my window when I'm taking photos for my blog and as it's autumn, it's just dark and grey all the time...

But I'll maybe get a ring light very soon so yeah...

Have a fab day

x

// MAC Lipstick & Lipliner Swatches

Hello Internetians 

(yes, I just made that up but I'm gonna call you guys 'Internetians' from now on bc it's cool ok? ok.)

How are we all today?

Well, speaking for me I can say I'm freezing my butt off at the moment. 

I'm at my dad's, which is in the north of Germany, and it has been raining for days now, it's windy and just cold in general. And guess what?

I didn't take any pullovers with me when I was packing my suitcase.

Ugh. And I thought it's summer.

Anyway, I've been asked to blog about my MAC lipsticks and, as you probably read above, this will be today's post.

I don't have a lot as I'm not wearing them everyday but these lippies and lip liners are the loves of my life.

Starting with the lipliners:

These were 16€ each and actually, I love wearing plum and soar on their own, like without an actual lipstick.

But you should only do that after putting on some lip butter or else your lips will be really dry.

The lipsticks:

Diva - Honeylove - Velvet Teddy - Cyber - Brave

Each lipstick was about 20€.

 Diva.Honeylove and Velvet Teddy have a matte finish while Cyber and Brave are satin.

I usually wear Whirl with Velvet Teddy for creating the ultimate Kylie Jenner lips (as I'm a student and I can't afford plastic surgery this is the best way haha) or Soar and Brave.

My latest lipstick purchase was, as you can see or as you've seen on my Instagram, Diva and I've read that I could use Plum as a lipliner and I'm deffo going to try that :)

I'm going to dedicate a post about what they actually look like on my lips in the near future, maybe even combining it with a Kylie Jenner lips tutorial haha

// Mini drugstore haul + mini review

Hey Internet,

it's May. Finally. 'Finally' as in "it's finally time for spending some money at the drugstore again".

It's just some kind of a habit that I have.
I just always head to the drugstore during the first three days of a new month haha

I'm a huge superdrug addict but we don't have any stores here in Germany, which is kinda sad.
Like, i love superdrug (and boots) so much because of all the makeup stuff they sell there which I'm only able to buy by ordering it online and I'm not a fan of ordering beauty stuff online as I want my makeup asap!!!
So that's why I always end up strolling through DM which is kind of the German equivalent of superdrug. Just not as cool.

Anyway, I'm going to show you what I bought and I even kept the receipt so I'll even let you know how much I paid for these things.

As you can see, it's the obvious makeup/ hair care stuff haha

I know I said it in other posts but I feel like I have to say it again:
I love face masks.
From left to right:
pore cleansing facial mask - 0,45€
peel off mask - 0,45€ (just tried one, not sure if it was helpful, tho)
dead sea mask - 0,45€

Garnier Nutrisse Creme 101 pearl blonde - 2,95€

Yeah, my purple hair is slowly fading. But I loved it. Bringing it back very very very very ... soon :)

Garnier Fructis Oil Repair - 5,95€

A lot of people recommended this one to me, so I though I should give it a try.

Dove go fresh - 1,65€

Balea bodyspray Golden Shine - 2,45€

The bodyspray just smells heavenly! And it literally covers you in gold haha

Balea Blemish Balm BB Creme - 2,95€
Catrice All Matt plus makeup in 010 light beige - 6,45€ (my fave drugstore makeup!)
Catrice Allround Concealer - 3,45€
Catrice All Matt plus powder in 010 - 3,45€

Catrice Glamour Doll mascara - 3,95€
Actually, I thought this mascara would be great as a lot of people told me positive things about it so I decided to try this. Will this one be my new favourite mascara?
Keep scrolling to find out ;)

Catrice Eyeliner Pen - 2,95€

Maybelline Brow Satin Duo in med. brown - 7,85€
The pug... I paid 7,85€ for this?
Hahaha I just couldn't figure out the price at the store and thought it won't be that expensive.
Wow. I'm kind of surprised right now.

Anyway, I heard a lot of good things about the mascara, the brow duo and the eyeliner so I had to try them as soon as I came home:

First of all:
After trying these products, all I can say is that they're worth the money.
Glamour Doll mascara: It's an "okay" mascara. I love how your lashes are deeeeeep deeeeep black after using it but they're not that volumized.
I'm usually using Lash Princess by essence and it's still my favourite mascara. It makes your lashes longer and seperates them better than Glamour Doll does and I think they both have the same price.
Catrice Eyeliner Pen: It's just that kind of eyeliner pen I wanted. But it isn't waterproof. Found that out while I was chopping onions ;)
Maybelline Brow Satin Duo: MY NEW LOVE! I love it! I love how it has an eyebrow pen and and eyebrow powder and it's perfect for creating that faded look.

What are your favourite drugstore brands?
Mine are simple, Catrice and Maybelline haha :)