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Hello, lovelies! Happy Friday and happy March!

We had the most incredible month of February, so many cool things happened, and the sun was bright, the sky clear blue, most days, it definitely felt like spring is coming! I hope March will also be awesome and I hope yours will be too!

Now that February is gon is time for a new edition of my "shopping my stash" challenge! This monthly challenge that I started back in 2017 still goes strong! So, all my "low buy", "no buy" and "shop your stash" beauty friends, you are of course invited to share your own experience! During the past month I've been using an old quad by Chanel "Variation", which is now discontinued, but the truth is I have barely used it until now, so it looks as good as new. Keep reading to find out more about it and to see the look I came up with.

Hello, lovelies! Happy Monday!

How was your first week of the year 2019? While most people are already working on their resolutions, new lifestyles, diets and working out programs... I'm still on vacation! Oops!⠀
I really needed this family overload time (that in my country comes also together with a food overload, lol!) in the past two weeks we have had dinner parties, pizza parties, BBQ parties, poolside parties and all kind of parties which involved much chatting, laughs, hugs, children running and shouting, and much eating, hahaha, it's always about the food, right?⠀

Hello, sweeties! It's me again!
It's time for a new Zodiac inspired makeup. As part of my 2018 resolution, I'm showing using more and in new creative ways the makeup I own instead of buying new items. That is why I challenged myself to create twelve different looks with the BHCosmetics Zodiac palette, one for each sign. Today, I created a Libra look for the "Zodiac challenge".
The shimmery colour for "Libra" zodiac sign is such a fantastic and special shade that will transform any look you do with it into WOW! As I applied the colours I realized that on the skin they look quite different than what they show on the pan, it was so much fun using them. I hope you like it!

Happy Monday, sweeties!
We are enjoying our second vacation week by the sea! I'm sorry I haven't been around much answering your messages and comments, but I didn't have a good internet connection until now. The first week of vacation flew by. My 3-year-old fell and got injured in her face, compromising her front teeth, which risk to fall off. We were really scared, because at the moment of her fall she bleeded soooo much! If you are a mom or a dad you might understand what it means to see your toddler's face covered in so much blood you're actually not able to spot where the blood comes from! We took her to the nearest ER and she was in pain for a while and of course, we were worried for her. But the doctor says it was going to be ok soon and she was already in a good mood when we left the hospital, so we decided to stay in Italy and continue our vacation. Her injury healed so fast! It's barely noticeable now, she's enjoying herself and we are happy we finally decided to stay.

Now, let's get into makeup! I have created a new makeup look for the "Zodiac challenge"! As you know, I'm showing more love to the makeup I own instead of buying new items and I challenged myself to create twelve different looks with the BHCosmetics Zodiac palette, one for each sign. The palette has two beautiful colours for "Leo" zodiac sign and today I used those to create this makeup. I hope you like it!

Summer Time, and the living is eaaaasy! Well, not yet... I know, we are all dreaming, hoping, wishing for a summer break, I know! There are still a couple of weeks to go until school summer break begins in Switzerland. In the meantime, Let's enjoy the World Cup!!
Today's is Argentina's second match and it's something I wouldn't miss for the World. As an expat, this is YET another opportunity to bathe my children in some Argentinian sports culture. This time Italy (my husband's home country) did not qualify for the Cup, so we only have one team to support. I'm less enthusiastic than the last time in 2014, when Argentina reached the Final and lost against Germany, I really thought we could win the cup! This year I see our team is not so well prepared and our coach is not the smartest. So I need to be thinking who to support in case Argentina doesn't make it past the first round. I really like Mexico's performance until now! What about you? do you watch the World Cup? Who do you support?

Now, let's get into makeup! I have created a new makeup look for the "Zodiac challenge"! As you know, I'm showing more love to the makeup I own instead of buying new items and I challenged myself to create twelve different looks with the BHCosmetics Zodiac palette, one for each sign. The palette has two beautiful colours for "Cancer" zodiac sign and today I used those to create this colourful shifting colour makeup. I hope you like it!

Hello, my lovelies!
Is life treating you well on your side? Here I'm still struggling with getting my Spring cleaning done. Yep, I'm super late... well, don't blame me! I'm a natural procrastinator when it comes to extra cleaning. I've been busier than usual on weekdays and then we've been having such nice long-weekends: who wants to stay inside cleaning?? Right. So I am a little behind... well, ok, a LOT! I made a list of unavoidable stuff: washing duvets, defrosting the freezer, cleaning the oven, decalcifying every machine, pipe, and whatever that touches the water, polishing the wooden floors, emptying all cupboards and cleaning every single item... I'm trying to squeeze one task per day into my schedule, let's see if I finish before the winter comes back, lol! What about you? Do you procrastinate the tasks you dislike or you get rid of them first? I'm the kind of person that starts with what I like the most and leave the unpleasant for the last ;)

Today I'm washing every pillow and mattress cover in the house, which is a "light" task so I get enough free time to share my new makeup look for the "Zodiac challenge"!
As you know, I'm showing more love to the makeup I own instead of buying new items and I challenged myself to create twelve different looks with the BHCosmetics Zodiac palette, one for each sign. The palette has two beautiful colours for "Gemini" zodiac sign and today I used those to create this crazy "galactic" metallic makeup. I hope you like it!

Hello, sweeties! I hope you all spent a lovely Valentine's day yesterday!

I took the day off from blogging and social media yesterday, I spent the whole day with my 5 year-old son and we did some fun stuff together. We also went to the cinema, as my boy really enjoys it. We didn't do any Valentine's related celebrations (except heartshaped raspberry and chocolate mousse that we had for desert, lol). Did you celebrate this Date?

Well, let's get into makeup. As every month, today I have a new edition of "shopping my stash" challenge. This month I've been playing with Dior 5 couleurs Cosmopolite #866 Eclectic quint, which I have used several times for my other challenges, but then forgot about it. Today I'm showing you the looks I've created with it, I hope you like it :)

Hi Sweeties! How are you?
Both my children were sick this week, the elder skipped school at the begining of the week, and the little one skipped day care yesterday and today, so this mummy's been busy. As a result, I couldn't write the review I was planning for today, I was really excited about, but don't worry, because that will be coming up next week!
So I went through my drafts and find a makeup look I did quite a long time ago, I thought to share it with you. I hope you like it!

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Hello, lovelies! How are you enjoying this wonderful summer weather?
It's time for another Monday Shadow Challenge and this time the chosen colour is Mauve,  one of my favorite shades for eyeshadow! Let's take a closer loo, shall we?

Happy Valentine's day sweeties! I hope you are having a great one :) you know mine is going to be low profile, so I'm keeping up with the blog.
Continuing with the "ABC Challenge", today I have another untried nail polish to show you. Today's choice is a Swedish brand called Depend, which is not super easy to find.

Hello lovelies! How are you today?
I'm showing some love to my BH Cosmetics San Francisco Palette. I could see so many possibilities using this palette that I hesitated a lot before deciding what to do. I finally went with a mauve purple-y smokey eye look because I'm so fond of those colours.

Hello lovelies! How are you doing? I hope you're enjoying your Sunday.
I just wanted to share with you a look I've done using my new Catrice Arts Collection palette. If you missed it you can click here to see the complete review.
I'm loving this palette, and I think I'm going to use it a lot this Fall.
Without further ado, here is the look

Hello my dears! How are you doing today? By the time you read this we would have spent our first day in Argentina! I'm pretty sure I won't get the chance to paint my nails very often, so I thought I would share with you another oldie but goodie today.

This was part of the OPI Hong Kong Collection for Spring 2010 and is one of the most unexpected shades of the collection in my opinion. I love the shimmer on this one, being fun, but subtle at the same time!
Do you own this shade? Do you like it as much as I do, or you're more like "meh" about it?

In other new, I thought I'd like to write one or two off topic posts about my home country and some fun traditions, landscapes, or things of the sort, would that be interesting for you?

Loads of love!
Nati