Jann Wilde @ Fenix Café on 16th June

This was a unplugged gig, where only Jann and Robin were playing without the rest of the band.
I haven't posted any pictures from this gig yet, mostly because I wanted to wait till Nea's friend will send the pictures he took of us & Jann, but it took him sooo long time (and he still hasn't sent them) and I almost forgot about it.

So, I want to post these few pictures now, because there's going to be two Jann Wilde gigs this weekend..

Well, if I someday get those pictures of me & Nea & Jann, I'm going to add them here and let you know about it..

I don't have pictures of the make up I wore that day, luckily.. I forgot to apply mascara and didn't notice it until we arrived to the gig place! And I didn't even have my mascara with me.. I once had a nightmare about creating amazing make up look, then going out and  noticing I forgot mascara.. And now it came true! (Even though my make up was't so amazing then..). Has that ever happened to you, have you forgot to put on mascara? Well, to some people it wouldn't even matter but my own lashes aren't naturally so dark..

I'm now getting ready to go to Tampere, dying the red splotch in my hair.. I know what make up look I want to try to do today, I might do a tutorial of it too if it goes well.. It's just so weird how excited I am about the forthcoming gigs! Even though I've been to sooo many Jann Wilde gigs.. I'm still so excited to go again! Well, today's gig is going to be very special.. But I don't even know yet if I can get in! Let's hope for the best!

blue & purple make up

This is totally unplanned make up. Yesterday I was in hurry, getting ready to go to Tampere and pick up my Austrian friend Siz from the airport. I had only about 15 minutes for doing the make up before my bus left, and I thought I'm going to do some simple blue look with black liner. Well, instead of the black liner I used blue though, and somehow the make up didn't look fnished yet, I needed to add something purple too. I've worn purple eyeshadow almost everyday, a little amount of it or more, but at least something purple in my eye make up.

The heat is killing me here, so I haven't done many make up different make up looks lately.. But I promise, I will do the looks you've requested, and some tutorials too quite soon!

I'm getting even more happy with my Hello Kitty eyeshadow palette. Look at how this purple looks like in this make up.. Not the same like it was in purple & black dramatic make up or mermaid make up! This palette is very good and cheap palette, the colours seem to be very versatile! :)

 Products used:

1) H&M concealer 
2) H&M - Kitty Beach Party blue eyeshadow
3) Laboratoires Contapharm - eye care maquillage liner, outremer (blue)
4) (unknown brand) - purple kohl kajal
5) H&M - Kitty Beach Party purple eyeshadow 
6) Luminelle - Péché mignon eyeshadow amande vanille
7) H&M - Kitty Beach Party white eyeshadow 
8) Ludinelle - khol pencil, brun syrien 04
9) Rimmel London - stay matte pressed powder 001
10) We Care Icon - magnetic lips perfect shine lipgloss
11) Oriflame - beauty power curl mascara (forgot to put that to the picture)

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So, as I said in the beginning on this post, I went to pick Siz up from the airport. She came to Finland from Austria for the first time, and this is also the first time we ever met! When she goes back to Austria, I'm probably going to post more pictures of us and tell what have we done here together. But now, you could go to check her blog out, she writes daily about her experiences in Tampere and posts pretty pictures!! :)

July update and outfits

I've been spending time with my friend who came here from Hämeenlinna, so I haven't been online lately. I had an amazing time! The whole June was very anti-social month for me, I mostly spend time at home alone, playing with make up and watching movies. So it was great to spend some time with a friend now! I didn't ask a permission to post pictures of us, and I don't know if I would even want to post them.. Of course it would be nice to show how beautiful friend I have but maybe I don't want to share everything here..

But, I have received few requests, people have been asking me to do more outfit posts,  so I've decided to share few! My friend took some pictures of me while she was here, which is nice because usually I take all my photos on my own. And, it's very difficult to take nice pictures on my own, trying to find new interesting places to put my camera and use self-timer.

The first outfit. This is the shirt I forced my mum to buy for herself, I think this looks stunning on her, it makes her look so young! But, she doesn't really like it and she just gave this to me.. I like it, the colour is lovely and I love large shirts! Unfortunately this isn't long enough to be worn as a dress, so I had to wear a black miniskirt with this.

The second outfit. I bought this red polka dot dress from Topshop when I was in London for the first time in 2008, and I wore this to the first Boy George concert I went to. The knit jacket is from H&M.

The third outfit. It's just something casual I wanted to wear when it was very hot outside..

Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of my make up looks.. And they don't show up in the pictures so well. But one day my friend wanted to do my make up, which was very nice look. I liked the colour combo, purple and orange. Actually, if you open the first picture of me in that leopard tunic, you can somehow see that make up look. She didn't want me to use black eyeliner, because she thinks my eyes don't need it.. (I disagree, though.)

And today, it was soooo hot here, I was feeling very lazy, laying in the mattress on my floor, eyes closed... My friend was getting ready, she wanted to go to Tampere. I asked her to do my make up again, and she did it while I was still laying in the mattress. Hahah.. The look was bright, pink and yellow with blue liner on the upper lashline. Sorry, I have no pictures of it..

Anyway, sorry about this text-oriented posts.. I usually prefer to do more simple posts with less text but I seemed to have lots to say now.. I feel I could write lots of more but I think I wouldn't want to bore you to death ;)  I've missed you all and I'm going to start the catching-up now!!

And, just to let you know... If you've noticed that I've unfollowed your blog, please don't be offended, it's nothing personal and I still like your blog, I just MUST unfollow some blogs now... I had nothing else to do last month than blogging, and I found many very interesting blogs which I started following, but now I think I should unfollow some... I just have to time enough for all, unfortunately. When I see hundreds unread blog posts in my reading list, it kind of stress me and I'm trying to hurry to go through them all.. That's not what I want.. I want to focus on what I read, and enjoy the blogs I love! The blogs I unfollowed, I saved the links to my bookmarks though so I can visit those blogs occasionally when I have some extra time. I want to keep blogging fun, not stressing! :)

Galliano's Flower Garden inspired make up

I've seen few blog posts about Christian Dior Haute Couture Autumn / Winter 2010-2010 collection already, but I wanted to share this gorgeousness with my followers too. This is absolutely stunning, mind blowing collection. It's so over-the-top, feminine, flowery, garden themed collection with lots of tulle and vibrant colours.

John Galliano got his inspiration from flowers, as you can clearly see. I love how colourful this collection is, compared to many other autumn/winter collection. I think this is exactly what gloomy dark autum/winter season needs... Lots of colour and dramatic, fascinating shapes!

The models had inverted cellophane bouquet wraps on their heads, and gorgeous hairdos testing gravity..

The make up was geometric blocks across the models eyes in bright colours.

 (all pictures above from www.style.com)

I also wanted to do a make up look inspired by the make up looks for this collection.

Products used: 

1) H&M concealer
2) Laboratoires Contapharm - eye care maquillage white liner
3) H&M - Kitty Beach Party yellow eyeshadow
4) Ludinelle - violet des andes 09 khol pencil
5) H&M - Kitty Beach Party purple eyeshadow
6) Wet N' Wild - kajal & eyeliner black black
7) Bobby Brown - charcoal 12 black eyeshadow
8) Ludinelle - khol pencil, brun syrien 04
9) Oriflame - beauty power curl mascara
10) Rimmel London - stay matte pressed powder 001
11) Markwins International - lipstick

Basso & Brooke SS 2010

I've rarely looked for any fashion things online before, other than what I see on blogs.. But today I browsed londonfashionweek.co.uk and looked at the pictures of some collections. There's sooo many of them.. It would take forever to go through them all! And of course there's lots of other sites with inspiring pics too.. I just wanna see them all!

I love reading blogs where people post inspiring pictures of designer's collections, like Clare's blog. I thought that maybe I could start sharing some of my favourites what I find online too.. My blog isn't all about make up, even though it has lately looked like it was. Because my holiday started, I haven't had chance to sew so I've focused on experimenting with make up. Well, I could sew but I don't like my home sewing machine.. I'm so used to use the amazing sewing machine at school so my own one feels not good enough.

These are my favourites from Basso & Brooke spring / summer 2010 collection. I LOVE those colours, prints and shapes, I'd wear all of these designs anyday. If anyone of you happen to have some of these designs laying in your wardrobe useless, please get in touch and I'd be happy to buy them from you. hahah.

And one design from their autumn / winter 2010 collection.  Absolutely gorgeous and wearable.

(all pictures fromlondonfashionweek.co.uk)