One brand review: Catrice Cosmetics

Catrice is a german brand who saw the light of day in 2005. It has been created by Cosnova beauty and is also the sister brand of Essence.
The philosophy of Catrice is based on trends, colours, seasons and the art to create different looks with only two or three products.
I first discovered it in my local drugstore (Kruidvat, a dutch compagny) maybe 2 years ago and I decided to start with nails polishes because of the price tag! If I remember correctly, they only cost 2,39€ each here in Belgium. I was also please by the diversity of colours they suggest.
That is the same diversity that made me want to try some other products so I quickly went to the entire brand display and went a bit overboard
Anyhow, now it sits in my make up collection for all this time and I'm not plaining on changing!

Here are the products I've collected and hopefully you'll find my comments and advices interesting!

1# The nail polishes

The colours are amazing and they like to play on words with the names too!

Ultimate nail laquer collection:
240 Sold out for ever (mint green)
480 Miss Piggy reloaded (pastel pink)
780 Welcome to roosywood (blackberry mauve)
410 Pool party at night (indigo blue)
070 Caught on the red carpet (deep red)
060 Bloody mary to go (this one is weird, I have it twice but the colour is not exactly the same, the newest is a deeper red)
430 Purplelized (deep purple with silver and purple flex)
220 Lost in mud (dirty brown/grey)

Ultimate nudes collection

050 Moulin rouge light (peach nude)

Limited edition

30 Lilatric (lilac with gold shimmer)

I think the colour are great, the brush has been changed a couple of times (from thinner to wider) but I find the quality of the polish to be a bit decepointing now I don't know if my nails just prefer more light sensation polish but it does not stick to my nails more than 2 days. And I use the base coat and the top coat. and also the amount of product you get on the brush is not the easier. You see you have to options, one you get loads of product but then it'll get for ever to dry or you don't but then you'll need Three coat...Of course that's up to you.
I have to say that they could still do better but for the price it's decent.

2# Lipsticks

They are so pigmented! the colour are amazing and you can easelly build the intensity. The formulation is very creamy and the matt ones are not as drying as some other brands.

Ultimate shine collection

080 Corallicious pink (peach nude)
240 And the oscar goes to (browny red)
210 Kiss kiss hibiskiss (pinky red)
200 Get the nudes paper! (mauvy nude)
190 Gentle nude is back (browny nude)
130 Ketch-me-up ( 50's red)

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Ultimate colour collection

080 My red card (bloody red)
130 Frozen rose (pastel pink with a blue undertone)
110 Pink me up! ( deep raspberry pink)
060 Oh juicy! (bright orange)
140 Pinker-bell ( neon purple with a blue undertone)
050 Princess peach
260 It's a matt world (bright red)
220 Step red up (dark red )
190 The nudder the better (sand nude)

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Limited edition

"Velvet matt lip colour" C03 Bloody red

3# Lipglosses

The formula is not too sticky and the shimmers are very suttle. The range offers 13 colours but it doesn't contain a clear one.

110 Tangerine tango (orange)
050 Sugar crush (pale pinky nude with gold shimmer)
030 Rose, would you..? (old pink)
120 Little red dress ( deep pinky red)
080 Love, pink & happiness (raspberry pink with silver shimmer)
100 Peach on the beach (Transluscent peach)
020 Best seller, truth teller (mauvy brown)
090 Pink before you leave (Transluscent pink)
130 How do you dear to wear? (bright red)
010 Nude-tritious (deep brown with gold shimmer)

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What's in your suitcase?

Hello everyone!
Sorry for the delay, my beautiful and quite clumsy cat decided to erase my work. So, in stead of rewrite the same stuffs, I decided to wait a bit and find something new  and the subject of this week is holidays, particularly what to take, what to toss and off course what you can't leave without even for 1 week.
The first step to remind you of is: take mini sizes and samples! Don't bother decant you're luxury products into those special 100ml containers, I always feel I'm loosing some of mine when changing bottles or this mini sizes pedicure bag from H&M.

This is one the many options you can find, one is at ICI PARIS XL 

1,95€ it exist for feet and hands, different colours

Another step that's not neegligeable, when you're buying cosmectics, ask for samples! they usually don't give good stuffs, but you can always find something that'll suit you.

Now, we all know that with the new flight rules, you can't really put your entire make up cabinet in your toilet bag, no worries! here is why:

When you are travelling in the south, therefore in the sun, you will not need your exactly-the-same-skintone-than-your-ice-white-skin-colour-during-the-year, so don't take it! Prefer a compact foundation who is one or even two colour darker than you usually wear because you will bronze and once again a gain of place in your suitcase.

This one is really handy, it is foundation,
a councealer and a highlighter! 

Also, prefer waterproof wake up, nobody likes to redo their make up after 15 min out! Plus, it's not very pretty to look like you're melting all the time is'nt it?
Ladies, is it pointless to take ALL of your eyeshadows because you are sure that the red you bought six mounths ago will suit you better in 36°C...Recommend joining entire make up you've already tried out instead of a buch of different colours who will take-again-to much place into your full of clothes travel bag or suitcase. Even better, if you have duo, trio or quad, take THEM! less plastic containers stuk together, less break... Same for clothes, it is useless to only take 100 shirts for only 2 skirts and one pair of jeans. What I'll do is try load of outfits home and the ones I love, I TAKE (it is not only the time to empty your dusty eighty-kinda closet, but the discovery time)
Last but not least, if you're really dying because you can not take to one pair of shoes that weight 2kg, kindly ask your better half if could put them inside their two shorts two shirts one swimsuit kinda guy!
Hope this helps for some of you, let me know like always what you think/like/dislike.

'till next time,
xoxo
Elisa

On holiday!

No it is not the song of Green Day passing trough my head, it is the sound of summer. Not this fake kinda rainy crap we've been having for the past two years. I talking about what everyone aspires to when may shows it's nose and that students steals jobs all over the city.
this year is Zorba's time to shine, yes Greece indeed! Welcome to the beach, the sun, the sigal's songs and the teeny tiny bikini ! And the man, off course who will attending this beautiful country of mine for the first time. Oh joy to finally stop worrying (even for 10 days) about what kind of clothes a woman should wear on a supposably called summer season. Bikinis every days and shorts every nights!
Rodos, here we come. But not quite yet, before the plane flies, a fiew shopping articles must be found and hurray it is still sales time to shine!
Severals must haves are of course the sunscreen because people know that dead-white skin does not enjoy 35°C right away and who wants to come back home looking scrimpy? (the colour, not the anatomy), the beloved bikinis and flip-flongs are also joying the party.
Ah sometimes I wish theses 3 items could be enough for my well beeing but..Never without my make up, dresses and heels!
Until then, wish you have the best holiday destinations!
xoxo
Elisa

Sales before sales

As it is the last day of June and the eve of the 2012 summer sales, I went a bit shopping and thought I'd
share it!


1) H&M hair clips 2,95€ and 5,95€
Can't find pictures, will upload later


2) Book "Natural make up" recepies and descriptions 7,95€ (initial price 29,95) Bibliopolis

3) Dress on sale 39€(initial price 64€)  Kusjes

So that's not much but still something ! Nothing exciting, I'll do better tomorrow...Have a very good, sunny and warm evening.

Did you say hot?

Wilkome, bienvenue, welcome...
We are now the 21st plus 5 and yes, IT IS SUMMER TIME!
As I am pretty sure it's not going to last ages (2 days??) I decided that enough is enough as so, put out my pretty summer dress, and my pretty little brown shoes and of course, THE sunglasses ( ray-ban vintage bought 3€) and went shopping.

Here are my purchases of the june/july 2012


1) Clinique liquid facial soap 16€

Do I need to comment the brand? It is simply a soap without any chemicals or perfume. Mine is mild to oily skin but they do all types of skin. I bough it in a ICI PARIS XL but you can find it everywere.

2) Yves Rocher correcteur teint/ concealer 3,95€

I have it in 01 clair and in 02 medium ( for friends or for my makeup kit)

I already list it on my 1st blog but I kinda fell in love with it and since I'm not particulary lucky, I choose to buy it twice while it was still on sale because I didn't want to put myself to the decepointment of finding another really good concealer.


3) Catrice Eye brow pencil "Brow-n-eyed peas" 2,49€

I had the same in a lighter shade, which is good for me but right now I'm letting my brows grow a bit so I thought I'd try something similar but darker.

4) Catrice eye shadow base 3,99€

Haven't I said I would try something a bit less cheap for my eyes? I did! 3,99 against 2,99...
Hope it works....

5) Kruitvat Rose water 1,50€

I use it for after my make up removal, feels fresh and clean on the skin.


I apologize for the pictures that I took from the internet but the stores have the nasty habit to put anti-teft tag on like everything! so mine are a bit messy and i didn't wanted to have you look at them ...

'till nex time!
xoxo
Elisa

21st monthly breakdown

Hourra it's the first day of the belgian summer 2012...Or it should be. Yes, as always up in the north today is grey and cloudy and windy and sooo not the day to put out the pretty little white dress to go with the pretty little blue shoes...

OOTD: black jeans, with red and white shirt and red flats... Autumn like.

What's your summer like? And what kind of clothes are you in?

Midnight + fullmoon = insomnia

So, here I am now, completely addicted to this blogger life since I'm behind my screen writing in the middle of the night and when i'm not, i'm simply thinking about what i could write about...Insane isn't it?
Today, tonight's article is about eye primer...You see, I have the kind of skin that doesn't like to be easy with the cheap products on the market. It's been forever since i've tried to find anything to stick to my lids.At first I thought it was the brand of eyeshadows that wasn't good...So, I tried new ones, better ones, expensiver ones...Nada, niente, niks, rien, nothing. And then, as I became new at youtube and quite found of it, I learned that almost every girl who did they makeup used these little tubes call 'eye primer'. Miracle I'm saved! I run to the store, by the cheapest ( as always I don't believe the rule cheap=bad and expensive= good), come home, try it...Wrong turn, try again. So I go to the store, again, by another one, less cheap...Biiiiip. And then when i'm starting to think (wtf?) it can't work on everyone else but me! I realize that this rule might perhaps work for those kinds of emergencies. Anyway, all this to say that my eye makeup doesn't hold even after four hours of work and that I tried some different brands...I don't know. Maybe for this one i'll be obligated to go on higher street brands, thought about Benefit? Or...Any ideas?
Love to hear from you
xoxo
Elisa