Polished Polyglot

 Hello my lovelies!! How are you doing? as we're arriving to the end of the year I would like to SPAM you!! haha ha! I'm so mean. Well, just thought it would be cool to have in one place all the different eye looks I've created during this year.

Merry and sweet Christmas to all of you my lovelies!
It's a great day, and I didn't want to miss this occasion to write a few words about it, and of course share a beautiful choir version of what is my absolutely favourite Christmas song: Silent night. It's for many people a sad song. As I remember being told infinite times "what a depressing song, can't we play Jingle bells instead?". Well, it's true, it's a quiet song, but no way it is sad. It speaks about the most joyful event we could imagine, the birth of a child. No bells, no santa, no gifts. Still I think it carries the most powerful message for Christmas. Peace, silence, quietness, life, love, hope.

There's a beautiful spanish version of this song called "Noche de paz" which means Night of peace. And its lyrics are for me a beautiful example of humanity.

Someone may say Oh! this is such a religious song and I must answer it is, well Christmas IS a religious holiday after all. It remembers the birth of baby Jesus, thus is the most important date for Christians. But even if your not religious, or you're not a Christian, what this holiday is about, and what the song speaks about, is the most precious gift we can give and receive, represented with a birth of a child, which is LIFE. I guess every human on the face of the Earth should agree LIFE is precious and nowadays the world has turned into such a madness we often forget that. And I know places, including my beloved home country, where the value of life has diminish terribly.

I wish you a peaceful day, surrounded by your loved ones to celebrate Life. Yet, I know very well that's not always possible, this day I won't see my parents, my brothers and sisters, my nephews, my grandma, and of course all the loved ones that have past away, still I know I am blessed and surrounded by their love, wherever they are.

Hello my dears! How are is your Sunday?
While you're reading this, we are out for a walk with my baby and hubby, enjoying a little our time together. I hope the pictures will show today, because my yesterday's slideshows were not showing and I can't find the way to make them appear through blogger. I don't want to post all the pictures individually because they're too many, and all my previous slideshows work well, so I do not have a clue why this happened! Yesterday I gave up and removed my post when I got home, now it's waiting in the drafts until I find a way to make it work. Blogger is not making my life easier these days, I assure you.

Hello my lovelies! We're only a week away from Christmas eve, where did this year go?

I'm here to share with you some ideas on makeup looks for special occasions using metallic shades. Remeber my last week's post on holidays makeup looks using silver?  Well, today is the turn for the GOLDEN shades!

Hello lovelies! How was your weekend? I'm ready to enjoy the winter Sunday evening on my cosy couch, and relax! But first I have some really cool stuff to show you: It's a real 22k gold flakes topcoat that you don't need a loan to buy!

Hello lovelies! How are you doing? How is your Sunday?

Today I'd like to share with you one of my latest favourites: This is Dior 5 Couleurs eyeshadows Golden Flower from the Golden Winter collection.

I know, it's not officially winter yet, but if you lived where I live (or close enough) you wouldn't know the difference, it's freezing cold and it has snowed already!

Hello my lovelies! Could anyone tell me how the heck is already the End of November? Is THAT time of the year, again! It's the time to start the Advent calendars, ginger bread, baking cookies, lighting candles, decorating Christmas Trees, and shopping loooooaaads of presents. What else can you ask for?

Sometimes there's so many things to bare in mind, so many details and so much to do, that you may want to simplify some of it. That's why I think the Christmas theme water decals that I received from Born pretty store for review are genius!

I was shopping for Christmas last week (yes, already! or am I late?) when, oh! what do my eyes see? A new Bourjois cream eyeshadow range, 6 new colours, in a cream to powder finish that claims to last impeccably on your lids for at least 24 hours. (Interesting, where have I heard that before?)

I already know how the game goes, because I own several long lasting eyeshadows. So I wouldn't say I'm in lack of cream-y eyeshadow.

After playing a litlle with the testers,I decided to pick the khaki green called 04 Kaki chéri, the white silver called 01 Merveille d'argent and the red plum called 05 Prune nocturne. Take a look:

Happy Friday to y'all!
I'm so happy it's Friday I'm just going to skip the fact all my pictures for this post are so crappy and smile!
This is day 27 of the 33 Days Challenge, we are approaching the end! The prompt for today was 3 pattern manicure, and as I like to complicate things (as usual) I wanted to recreate a mani from The Nail polish project, but using different colours.

Hello my dears! how are you?
Another day, another mani. This is day 26 for the 33 Days Challenge and the prompt is Inspired on Pinterest. I have an Inspiration board, that honestly hasn't been fed with new images in a while. but I still had some nice pictures to choose from, so I went with a lovely teal dress from Rodarte spring 2013 collection:

Happy Friday my dears! Guess who's happy today? Don't mind me...
Any nice plans for the weekend? Why don't you ever tell me?! too shy? no plans :( ?

Today is day 25 of the Crumpet's Nail Tarts 33 Days Challenge and the prompt is "a new technique for you", that is for me, not for YOU. I always find the "pond" technique very cool so I decided to do a slight variation of it with flowers.

Hello lovelies! Are you enjoying your Sunday? It's already winter here, and of course I'm already ill. Nothing too terrible, but I've been coughing my lungs out for 24 hours :(
Today I have some Born pretty store Elegant roses water decals to share with you and this mani is really cheering me up. I've already said how I like water decals as an easy nail art and that I also prefer them to stickers because they're so thin they're hardly noticeable. For those reasons I was quite impatient to test these flower decals.

Hello my dears, how are you today? 

The 33 Days Challenge continues today with the prompt "the colour you own the most". I have my collection reunited in colour families (purple, blue, green) and then nuances (light blue, medium blue, navy blue, etc). So without hesitation I can say the colour I own the most is Green and the nuance of green that I have more off is Teal green. I always think of Teal as blue/green shade more towards the green side, as the bird, and turquoise more towards the blue, as the stone. Or is it the other way round? I guess this is totally personal and all the more subjective.

Hello my lovelies! I have some exciting news to share with you, is the New Essence Trend Edition for Holidays! It's named "Happy Holidays" and it features several nail art related products, along with three eyeshadows blushes, lippies, false eyelashes and a hair accessory. You can see the whole collection here.

I've spotted this one at Manor, but I'm pretty sure it is already available at Coop and Müller as well. 

I've only picked 2 of the 4 available Colour3 nail polishes, the fimo decorations and the glittery topcoat. Today, I'm going to show you swatches of the nail polishes, because I just couldn't wait to have all together to share with you. The decorations and the topcoat will follow!

Hi my dears! How are you today?
I wanted to share with you a post about two lippies I bought a couple of weeks ago. These are Manhattan Intense Lip & Cheek balm, which are part of the LE Beauty in the air. The collection includes three shades, of which I've only picked two, but I love them so much I might still pick the third one. They'll be available until the end of November wherever they sell Manhattan ranges.

These lippies are quite soft and creamy, they feel comfortable and moisturuzing on the lips. But what is really outstanding is the pigmentation. It caught me by surprise because the word "BALM" usually stands for sheer shades. I chose the shades Tomato juice which is a rich saucy red, and First class which is a vivid orchid pink.

As a cheek product these are more like a stain, they're very pigmented and a little bit hard to blend, as they set quite quickly. I had a better result by dabbing my finger slightly on the product and then dab very small amounts on the cheeks, instead of applying directly with the pen on the cheeks and try to blend it, it didn't work for me like that. Look at the picture to see my point:


The swatches above show each colour applied in different ways n°1 was applied directly with the pen and then trying to blend it. The result was patchy colour hard to blend. N°2 is by applying very little colour dabbing with fingers and it's a much smoother and natural effect.

I think these are great 2 in 1, pigmented, moisturizing, pretty colours and they only cost 7.20 CHF each. So I'd say if you're planning to add some multi-purpose items to your stash these are very good options.
Have you tried these yet? Have you found any drugstore product that surprised you positively lately?
Don't hesitate to leave your opinion in the comments!
Love,

Hello my dears! How are you today? 

This is day 22 of the 33 Days Challenge and the prompt for today is 3 colour gradient + pattern. I really like how it turned out :)

Hello my dears, how is your weekend so far?

Today I have a super quick nail art  to share with you that I have done using Lace nail stickers sent to me by Born Pretty Store for my honest review.

These Lace stickers come in different motives and you can choose black or white. Mine are black H210. 

Hello my lovelies! How is your Saturday so far?
What I'd like to share with you today is one of my favourites items this Fall, one I did expected to like as soon as I swatched it on my hand the first time I saw it at Manor's Chanel Stylo Yeux Waterproof in Khaki précieux.

Happy Friday to all!
Anyone else planning to have a good rest and FUN?
Today is day 21 for the 33 Days Challenge and the prompt is Europe. I went with a very simple mani representing both my favourite cities in Europe, Rome and Paris. the two first places I visited together with my husband back in 1999 and where we spent the most romantic escapades since we met 16 years ago.

Hello lovelies!! I hope you're doing fine today.

I have a really quick post just to share with you some great drugstore cream eyeshadows. These are Manhattan Endless stay eyeshadow duos, which belong to the Colour collection by Bonnie Strange and are limited edition. I got these early in October, and I should have posted about them earlier, but as I was so busy with the challenges I couldn't find the time.

Hi lovelies! How are you today?
We are already at day 20 of the 33 days Challenge, wow, does time fly or what? Today's nail art is dedicated to a pattern in my wardrobe and I thought to make houndtooth nails, based on a pair of leggings I got for Fall.

Hello my lovelies it's me again! 

Finally I managed to swatch the rest of the Superheroes collection over the past 6 days. As an update on my bad nail brake, which is far from good, at least it hasn't torn off and is not bleeding anymore, so that's good. That's the main reason keeping me from using acetone. 

Onto the swatches! (please don't mind the double tea bag wrap on my left middle fingernail)

Hello my lovelies! All ready and set to start the week?

Today is day 19 of the 33 days challenge and the prompt is "follow a tutorial". I had so many tutorial to choose from, because each time I see one I pin it and say "I absolutely have to try that"! After hesitating a while I chose real feather nails! I followed the tutorial by The Nailasaurus and this is what it turned out:

Hello lovelies! How was your weekend so far? Are you enjoying your Sunday evening?

This is a review on a 7 Nail Art Brush set of the brand N.Nail, that KKCenterHK sent me for review. KkCenter HK let me choose every single product I review, and I chose this 7 brushed set over the famous 15 brushes for two main reasons:

Hello my lovelies! Happy Saturday! How is your weekend so far? As October is already gone, I have several empty products to show you. I hope you find it useful!