One of Beauty's Daughters: December 2009

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Oh my Gosh it's holiday season!

Yes, the pun is intended. I received my Gosh gift set today. Bought it from Ebay last weekend and it's already here! The package has had minor damage but the products themselves are in original condition. And this is what it looks like.

The set has two brushes, bag, Quattro Eye Shadow Platinum, Extreme 2Step Volume Mascara: Black, Effect Powder: Purple Rain and Lip Gloss: 0075. Will try the Platinum eye shadows tomorrow so will see what I can think of that palette.

Also I received my book order from Amazon today and got the two Dita von Teese books I wrote about already.

Dita Stripteese

Burlesque And The Art of The Teese

And with this update I will wish you all...

I will return after the holidays.

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Rhinestones and more snow.

Snow just doesn't seem to come to an end. Everyday more and more snow falls from sky. I think we've had last few years' snow in last two weeks. Weirdest is that even the southern coast - where I live - has more snow than Lapland atm. I would gladly get rid of most of the snow, not really a winter person.

But from snow to make up. I really like the blue-ish make up so been trying it with bit different styles. Like this with hint of black.

I think I should change colour to something else for tomorrow so I don't get too stuck in blue. Back to grey and black?

My nail rhinestones arrived today which was way faster than I expected them to. Small chip was gone from one of the boxes but not surprising since it came from Asia in small plastic bag.

The rhinestones are really tiny, maybe I should get something to take them from the boxes and put to nails without fighting.

And here's red star on my nail. They're a bit too thick but I think I will get used to them.

More stuff are waiting for me in the post office so maybe there's one more post before Christmas time.

Friday, 18 December 2009

New Tripp and Folter clothing.

KinkyAngel announced (like everyone who has joined their group on Facebook noticed) that there are new Tripp and Folter clothings added to the site. And bad me went to watch what they might be like. I like Folter's clothing but Tripp isn't that much my style.

Except when I found these:

Marilyn Dress

Marilyn Hoodie

and Double Lace Up Chincher Belt.

So yes, I'm pretty much sold and I think my credit card is trying to run away. I first have to survive the Christmas time but I think after that one of these at least is coming home to me.

And then Folter. It has way more stuff I'd like to buy but these are the few things I think I will get my hands on at some point:

Corset Cardigan (black)

or that in Retro Kitty (purple/black)

Retro Kitty Dress (purple/black)

or Immortalis Long Sleeve Top

But in this -15C degrees those wouldn't do me any good so I'm pretty much bound to wearing thick cardigans and trousers (or leggings and skirt) with winter boots. Even workplace is cool plus skulls don't really suit working in bank.

I wish you all a good weekend! I'm off to wrapping gifts.

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Adding black to red.

I finally went to the post office to collect my Christmas dress. Of course today was the coldest day this year, at least this far: -11C degrees. There's over -30 in Lapland so thank something I live in southern Finland.

Anyway, the dress on me (at least it fits). Hell Bunny usually has bit smaller sizes than average dress makers so I was glad the zipper went up.

Then I was shopping yesterday but instead of actually finding the missing Christmas gifts I came home with new nail polishes from BeYu.

So I thought I should try the black glittery one on since my red glitter tips are growing out already and I need to do something for them soon enough. The picture doesn't show any glitter but there are a lot of tiny silver sparks on my nails.

Sunday, 13 December 2009

Snow and ice.

So yes, there's snow outside. Not really the first snow of the year but first one to stay longer than one day and more's coming. And temperature should drop below -10C which isn't nice since I don't have warm enough winter jacket. I think I need to go shopping tomorrow.

I need to go buy food and thought I could try some more winter looking make up today so I picked up blues that I really don't normally use since I have blue-grey eyes. But apparently blue make up makes my eyes look greenish. So this is the result...

I mainly used different blues from my 96 palette with Shattered and Polyester Bride from my Urban Decay palette.

I tried blue make up earlier this week too but didn't turn out as good even tho my eyes looked really green in some lightning.

And one look earlier this week was red and purple.

And then I was so bored yesterday that I did a bit of shopping in Ebay to find out today I won all auctions I bid for. Now I'm just waiting for them to arrive. And what I ordered? Well..

10 pair of fake eyelashes

12pc of Nail Glitters

3 boxes of Nail Rhinestones

24 Blush and Bronzer palette

7 Brushes with case (and don't worry, I know they're not MAC)

All of the above costed less than a pound per order and with shipping costs: all of the above under £30! Gotta love Ebay!

And for those who don't order much from Ebay, some simple guidelines: check the seller's feedback, pay only with PayPal (most don't take anything else even), really check what they're selling for so you don't get disappointed, check delivery times (can be up to 35 days) and mostly the shipping costs are the biggest part of the whole payment so don't just stare for £0.01 price.

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Teese.

I noticed few days ago I don't have any books that I haven't read or would like to read - Paradise Lost is way too tiring for me to read before going to sleep - so I got a hold of my list of books I should read, went to Amazon.co.uk and ordered some.

First thing on list was Dita von Teese's The Burlesque and the art of the Teese. So I ordered it.

Then of course - like always - Amazon had a package of books and with the one above there was Dita's newer book Stripteese which looks so amazing I had to buy it just for that.

I also got some other books that actually have something I can read since those are mainly pictures.

I will try to get some make up pictures up tomorrow but today I just couldn't be arsed. Here's a Have a good weekend -kiss for you all.

Saturday, 5 December 2009

Past Looks.

Now that you've seen some of my shoes I could give you a quick tour to my closet with older pics I've taken. Easiest way to let you know what I actually like and wear.

I give you a photo and then list where I've bought the clothes if I can remember.

Sorry in advance for the absolute overload of my pics.

Let's start...