Fake Eyelashes

 I’ve been eagerly awaiting a trip to the chemist to get some eye-lash glue.So much so that I spent all of today attempting to use it correctly. I researched it a lot but I suppose experience counts a lot more. I eventually gained a little bit of technique and they worked pretty well. It’s far from perfectly, but oh well.

The lashes were very cheap one’s I picked up for practice. To be honest the glue cost A LOT more than the lashes themselves. It’s quite ridiculous.

The picture to the right is a picture taken with my new powder (Unbranded) and the eyelashes (Kleancolour). The adhesive was Manicare, apparently ‘natural latex’. Pink lipstick was just Ultra. They I used mostly grey eye shadow, with a black crease (BYS) and lined with my favourite eye liner by L.A. Colours. For a generic brand it’s great with such a tiny tip! Oh and, grey eye-liner pencil (Nabi) along my lash line with black eye shadow. I haven’t received my creme foundation yet in Light Ivory (excitement!).

Huge eyelashes are huge.

Badly applied eye-liner!

Best wishes,
-Sary

Product review: Lime Crime; Retrofuturistic Lipstick

Coming home to find this little delight sitting across my key board made my day. I ripped open the packet in joy, after having to wait two weeks for it to arrive due to the Easter public holiday in Canada. To be honest I first stumbled across the Lime Crime website after seeing the very beautiful advertisement on facebook.

Dodgy pose is required. This is the lipstick wet along with the night time lighting of my room.

Lime Crime is was created by Doe Deere to bring fantasy to reality. She created her opaque lip sticks and dazzling eye-shadow’s to make the world a brighter place, literally. Lime Crime features lipsticks in colours such as opaque yellow (New Yolk City), opaque green (Mint To Be), opaque pink (Centrifuchsia) and many more and along with many eye shadows or as Doe Deere calls them “Magic Dusts” (My personal favorite being Medusa).

Lime Crime cosmetics are also certified animal cruelty free by PETA, most of which are vegan also. Each colour of lipstick or eye shadow comes with it’s own fairytale. For example the bio for Cosmopop (softened orange):

She parked her hovercraft with the authority of a queen beside a large sign that read No Parking, removed her large sunglasses to take one quick look at the man taking money from the patrons, and strode through the open door behind him. And that was when the party began.

Sparkly Unicorns all around!

Just to continue with my beginning, I ripped open the package to find an adorable pink bullet shaped lipstick contained, adorned with a sparkling unicorn and stars. In my opinion, Lime Crime would have to get extra points for creativity in their design. The lipstick container is beautiful and completely girly.

Retrofuturistic is, of course, the colour I bought. Any guesses to what colour it is? Red, as always! I’ve already explained how the packaging and the website is but I’m sorry to say it’s not yet time for the results of my extensive testing on the lipstick, just yet.

I bought the lipstick from a certified Lime Crime distributing on eBay of course because I am, as you know, cheap and the few dollar or two I saved was much needed! Anyway, the distributing raised the bar for seller’s on eBay. After paying for the product the seller sent a much appreciated thank you email and told me that I had been a fast customer. She quickly then sent me another email explaining that in Canada it is a public holiday and the product wouldn’t be shipped for a few days and apologizing, though she had dropped it off already. I was actually quite happy about this, as the great service made up for the long wait.

Along with the lipstick I received a personally written note thanking me for buying. These were of course marketing skills and nothing more but the ‘little things’ are the difference from a horrible seller and a great seller.

Finally, to the actual lipstick! I couldn’t wait until I was fully dressed to try the lipstick on so I quickly washed my face, lined my lips and the time finally arose! The lip stick was creamy, but not wasteful. It kept a wet shiny appearance and refused to dry, and, as a bonus, it didn’t even stick to my lip ring; not smudging once.

To test the strength I kissed my mirror four times, that did absolutely nothing. The lipstick remained perfectly in condition, it was still the beautiful masterpiece I had applied. I then blotted the lip stick before attempting to remove it and it didn’t budge. There was no wet appearance anymore but the red definitely held true. I was amazed! The excitement grew from there, I attempted to wash the lipstick off using warm water and a towel/tissues and the stain left was a dark pink, I even tried washing my lips with soap and toothpaste but the stain remained.

Waking up in the morning I looked in the mirror to see the stain still perfectly in tact. I went to school for seven hours and came home and part of the stain still remained. Let me just make this clear here. I had only tried on this lipstick for fifteen minutes to create this stain. If that doesn’t amaze you, than I don’t know what will!

This is the stain not the lip stick, it’s also after intensive (but gentle!) scrubbing.

I give this lipstick a 4.8/5 kisses. 0.2 is missing as the stain doesn’t suit me very well. I find dark pinks somewhat trashy. Otherwise, with the killer endurance, stain (if you consider that a good thing), vegan ingredients, adorable packaging, great customer service, general uniqueness, the fresh feeling and  colour it is the best lipstick I have heard of and used. May your future in lipstick be blessed with such joys as Lime Crime.

-Ms. Walrus.

Medicine and Dreams: Another Unwanted Excuse.

I just wanted to update a few things about the lack of posts recently. I’m on medicine at the moment as I’ve probably already mentioned for chronic headaches. But the medicine is also for constant dizziness and sometimes hallucinations but that is only due to my extreme anxiety.

I once was bitten by a spider. My parents looked at it and said ti was fine. It was swollena dn blue. The conversation with my father then went exactly like this:

Dad: Show me your leg?
Me: -shows leg-
Dad: Well, that doesn’t look that bad.
Me: Oh, okay.
Dad: Wait, show me your leg again?
Me: ..Okay. -shows leg-
Dad: -Dad actually looks this time- OH GOD THAT LOOKS HORRIBLE YOU NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
Me: What? Okay..
Dad: But after I finish watching my programs. It’s recorded but I want to get it out of the way.

I then resumed to get dressed and pace back and forth until I passed out on the bathroom floor from anxiety.

The alst few nights have been horrible. At first it was not being able to sleep and bad dreams. It then escalated to hallucinations at one point from lack of sleep. Last night I slept for three hours (Which is very different). Most of the night was spent hyperventilating while trying to fall asleep (Which is pretty much right before falling asleep and then you cant breath) and the not wanting to sleep from the horrible dreams I had.

This all started when I ‘stopped’ taking my medication, surprisingly enough. The medicine originally (as stated above) only for my migraines and dizziness. Well, that’s about it, oh but I also FINALLY received my new Lime Crime lip stick. A review will be up soon!

-Be safe, Ms. Walrus.

The Act Of Dying: Red Indeed

 Well, it seemed like such a great Friday afternoon that I decided would drench myself in the red stuff you all love. Yes, you guessed it. Hair dye. I’ve recently been thinking about dying my hair and was planning on red but with a very short conversation with my boy friend, I decided against it.

Spontaneously, I came home to find a packet of Schwarzkoft: Brilliant Shine Permanent hair dye in a delicious Red Passion. I eventually decided that I wanted to dye my hair and because I wasn’t committed to dying the whole of it red I would do the under layer and a section of my fringe just to try it out. It’s easily concealed and I wont have to worry about regrowth often.

My bathroom floor. I’m just glad it missed my penguin pajama pants.

The hair dying process.

I have no idea what I love about this picture but the hair just looks striking. Alternatively is also looks horribly disturbing and cold at the same time. What do you think? 

 

You can see how very messy I am.

 

The camera was being annoying so I pulled a face and then it decided to not suck at taking pictures anymore. 😀

 My mother brought homag of make up and didn’t want all of it so I suddenly gained: One new flat edged eye shadow brush! A red lipstick to add to my rapidly growing collection (It’s darker though, which I love), and two new nail polishes. One of the nail polishes is clear with sparkles in it which I wanted desperately after seeing a picture on Google (I know it sounds brief but when I get around to it and perfect it I will explain). The other nail polish was metallic browny-red-burgundy and it soon became the fifth addition to my burgundy coloured nail polished collection (Each one is slightly different though, honest!).

This is my hair normally; straight with a plain fringe.

You can see the red in my fringe but it does take some light.

Under the light layer of brown hair. The bottom section of my hair, all the way around, is completely red.

This looks very faded but in reality it is much more vibrate and less orange. The red actually goes down to where I originally had my hair black and deepens into the black nicely. It was completely unexpected.

Also, this is Merve, my cat.

Well, sorry I haven’t posted in the last few days. The first days back at school were harsh. But I did sign up to do something called “Circus Adventure” for sport so that seems interesting. Apparently you learn how to do some circus tricks, become a clown and such. It’s only the second day back and I already have three assignments to finish. Oh, well. It’s back to work for me.
-Have a lovely day. Miss. Walrus.