Evening!
Apart from makeup and video games, I really love asian culture. Namely, asian pop culture. I'm one of those people that will be on the verge of tears during another heart break on Boys Over Flowers or be in suspense over Personal Taste. At the start of the year I stumbled on the popular Korean pop group, Girl's Generation (or SNSD) and became addicted to Gee. Seriously, how can you not?
Recently the girls collaborated with Intel and did a song and MV for them, which is super colourful and bright. I'm really crushing on Tiffany's hair in this as well ^^.
So, without further a-do, let me introduce the MV for 'Visual Dreams' by SNSD:
Friday, January 21, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
DAAAAAAAMN!
Back again! This time, I'm thinking for good.
Hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year! I had to work on both so there were no raging parties or drunken revelry, I'm afraid.
Originally, this post was going to be about MAC SA's and a general product rant but it's now 11pm and I have to start work at 6am tomorrow. So today is going to be a review/ swatches of all 28 NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils. I bought these for $63.48 AUD just before Halloween (they were part of a 10% off Halloween sale) after playing with them in Groove and just generally lusting after them. So when I got the package about 12 days later from the US it only had 26. Turned out to be a massive 'my bad' as they were listed as having 2 colours sold out (which I received after they re-stocked 2 weeks later) that I didn't read.
Now, Jumbo Pencils retail for $3.99 on cherryculture.com and on the NYX site. The only place to buy them in-store here is from Groove at $6.99 each. Massive difference when you want all 28. As with all of my online purchases, I factor shipping in with the total cost of an item and $6.99 is just way too harsh for one pencil, regardless of how much I love them.
Ok, so the NYX site says that:
'Jumbo eye pencils could be used for lining as well as shadows. Containing mineral oils and powders, the pencils do not dry out your eyes and applies smoothly without pulling of tugging.'
Now, I don't know how much success you're going to have in terms of using these as eye liners, but NYX are correct in that they apply smoothly. If you don't use a good primer (I use Too Faced Shadow Insurance) and then set with a powder eyeshadow, these are a complete nightmare. By themselves they crease and smear like crazy and only lasted on my lid for 20 minutes. Just for reference, I don't have oily lids nor dry lids.
When you set them with a powder eyeshadow, they intensify the colour and can give the shadow cool or warm undertones (depending on which colour you use) with minimal creasing. They store well in my collection and make great additions to anyone's makeup kit. The only annoying part is that you need a special sharpener to sharpen them, but they also melt like a dream if you want to put them into seperate jars. I haven't needed to sharpen mine yet, so I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Although NYX also make Jumbo Lip Pencils, I like to use the Hot Pink and Orange colours on my lips as well. They certainly don't last very long, but if I need a pop of colour for a few FOTD photos then I tend to reach for them. I haven't tried them as cheek colours, though.
Swatch-wise, they're really creamy and very pigmented. These photos were without Purple or Iced Mocha.
My favourites: Milk, Purple Velvet, Lavender, Pots and Pans, Pure Gold and Slate.
All in all, I will replace most of the colours when they run out and Milk and Slate have permanent positions in my kit.
General update:
Andy is home after a 7 day delay due to the snow stopping Heathrow.
The goof forgot my UD Naked palette and has to have his Mum ship it over.
Going to Inglot in the next fortnight!
Sale shopping with my girlies on Tuesday to pick up some new products.
I'm moving soon and get to design my bedroom!
It's still raining and most places are totally flooded here in QLD.
Just found out Avril is releasing a new album on the 8/3 and I'm not sure if I want it. Was never a major fan of her songs minus Sk8 Boi.
Planning my trip to Pa-rie and IMATS for this year!
Ok chicklets, I'm out. Be sure to let me know if you NYE was a rager or quiet.
xo julia
Hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year! I had to work on both so there were no raging parties or drunken revelry, I'm afraid.
Originally, this post was going to be about MAC SA's and a general product rant but it's now 11pm and I have to start work at 6am tomorrow. So today is going to be a review/ swatches of all 28 NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils. I bought these for $63.48 AUD just before Halloween (they were part of a 10% off Halloween sale) after playing with them in Groove and just generally lusting after them. So when I got the package about 12 days later from the US it only had 26. Turned out to be a massive 'my bad' as they were listed as having 2 colours sold out (which I received after they re-stocked 2 weeks later) that I didn't read.
Now, Jumbo Pencils retail for $3.99 on cherryculture.com and on the NYX site. The only place to buy them in-store here is from Groove at $6.99 each. Massive difference when you want all 28. As with all of my online purchases, I factor shipping in with the total cost of an item and $6.99 is just way too harsh for one pencil, regardless of how much I love them.
Ok, so the NYX site says that:
'Jumbo eye pencils could be used for lining as well as shadows. Containing mineral oils and powders, the pencils do not dry out your eyes and applies smoothly without pulling of tugging.'
Now, I don't know how much success you're going to have in terms of using these as eye liners, but NYX are correct in that they apply smoothly. If you don't use a good primer (I use Too Faced Shadow Insurance) and then set with a powder eyeshadow, these are a complete nightmare. By themselves they crease and smear like crazy and only lasted on my lid for 20 minutes. Just for reference, I don't have oily lids nor dry lids.
When you set them with a powder eyeshadow, they intensify the colour and can give the shadow cool or warm undertones (depending on which colour you use) with minimal creasing. They store well in my collection and make great additions to anyone's makeup kit. The only annoying part is that you need a special sharpener to sharpen them, but they also melt like a dream if you want to put them into seperate jars. I haven't needed to sharpen mine yet, so I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Although NYX also make Jumbo Lip Pencils, I like to use the Hot Pink and Orange colours on my lips as well. They certainly don't last very long, but if I need a pop of colour for a few FOTD photos then I tend to reach for them. I haven't tried them as cheek colours, though.
Swatch-wise, they're really creamy and very pigmented. These photos were without Purple or Iced Mocha.
All in all, I will replace most of the colours when they run out and Milk and Slate have permanent positions in my kit.
General update:
Andy is home after a 7 day delay due to the snow stopping Heathrow.
The goof forgot my UD Naked palette and has to have his Mum ship it over.
Going to Inglot in the next fortnight!
Sale shopping with my girlies on Tuesday to pick up some new products.
I'm moving soon and get to design my bedroom!
It's still raining and most places are totally flooded here in QLD.
Just found out Avril is releasing a new album on the 8/3 and I'm not sure if I want it. Was never a major fan of her songs minus Sk8 Boi.
Planning my trip to Pa-rie and IMATS for this year!
Ok chicklets, I'm out. Be sure to let me know if you NYE was a rager or quiet.
xo julia
Monday, November 1, 2010
Stress! And Monday Strikes Again! (DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNN)
Hey Guys!
Ever had one of those days? Where nothing is going the way it should be and the temptation to either scream or bash your head against a brick wall is clouding your judgement? I'm having one as we speak and it's a curious case of the revenge of The Mondays.
Very few people know of the pure evil that is Monday, where students and employees are forced to leave their warm, comfortable beds in Arctic conditions to learn to live or live to work. It's a vicious cycle that has never been broken. Well, except in Egypt, because their weekends are on Thursday and Friday due to Friday being a day of prayer and the like. But it just means that they must hate their Saturdays as much as we hate Mondays. Or as I hate Mondays.
Most Saturday and Sunday mornings result in me waking earlier than I do to go to school, simply due to the fact that I normally start at 7am and that it takes a good 20 minutes to muster the will just to get out of bed, let alone get ready for work. But alas, the few mornings that I don't start at 7am make me relish any extra time I have with which to sleep in, which is something that has become quite unheard of within my world and is something that could be closely tied to Heaven. Lovely to think about but you won't quite know whether or not it exists until no one can hear your loud shrieks of joy and funness of the cloud roller coaster and shirtless guys. But whatever.
But there are certain perks to working in the morning. I can sleep for the rest of the day if I feel like it and can go out in the afternoon. But it also means that it’s warm enough to do domestic things around the house and clean my room, a task not attempted for at least 2 months now. The only condition that my brother gave me was that as long as I could find everything within a minute or two, he didn't care. Which is fine with me.
In my Geography class, the teacher (Sully - not his real last name lol) actually acknowledged Emily, who we had all believed to be invisible in his eyes. At the moment I’m attempting to complete the report draft that is due in a week tonight so that I can slap it on his desk tomorrow morning instead of procrastinating. This is a habit that I’m currently trying to rid myself of. And while it may sound easy to those of you that have never been labelled as a 'hardcore procrastinator' it's easy to just say that I'm lazy, which is true, but the sheer terror of assignments just makes me turn to MSN or Blogger to fill the void of time that I've just acquired.
But enough of this now, for I have to go and shower and finish this report. A big defeated sigh right here.
Monday strikes again. Well played Monday, well played.
Ever had one of those days? Where nothing is going the way it should be and the temptation to either scream or bash your head against a brick wall is clouding your judgement? I'm having one as we speak and it's a curious case of the revenge of The Mondays.
Very few people know of the pure evil that is Monday, where students and employees are forced to leave their warm, comfortable beds in Arctic conditions to learn to live or live to work. It's a vicious cycle that has never been broken. Well, except in Egypt, because their weekends are on Thursday and Friday due to Friday being a day of prayer and the like. But it just means that they must hate their Saturdays as much as we hate Mondays. Or as I hate Mondays.
Most Saturday and Sunday mornings result in me waking earlier than I do to go to school, simply due to the fact that I normally start at 7am and that it takes a good 20 minutes to muster the will just to get out of bed, let alone get ready for work. But alas, the few mornings that I don't start at 7am make me relish any extra time I have with which to sleep in, which is something that has become quite unheard of within my world and is something that could be closely tied to Heaven. Lovely to think about but you won't quite know whether or not it exists until no one can hear your loud shrieks of joy and funness of the cloud roller coaster and shirtless guys. But whatever.
But there are certain perks to working in the morning. I can sleep for the rest of the day if I feel like it and can go out in the afternoon. But it also means that it’s warm enough to do domestic things around the house and clean my room, a task not attempted for at least 2 months now. The only condition that my brother gave me was that as long as I could find everything within a minute or two, he didn't care. Which is fine with me.
In my Geography class, the teacher (Sully - not his real last name lol) actually acknowledged Emily, who we had all believed to be invisible in his eyes. At the moment I’m attempting to complete the report draft that is due in a week tonight so that I can slap it on his desk tomorrow morning instead of procrastinating. This is a habit that I’m currently trying to rid myself of. And while it may sound easy to those of you that have never been labelled as a 'hardcore procrastinator' it's easy to just say that I'm lazy, which is true, but the sheer terror of assignments just makes me turn to MSN or Blogger to fill the void of time that I've just acquired.
But enough of this now, for I have to go and shower and finish this report. A big defeated sigh right here.
Monday strikes again. Well played Monday, well played.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
New Blog!
Ok guys, I'm changing where I blog to one that is purely about makeup and beauty on here >> www.juliamakeupaddict.blogspot.com
All new posts will now be on here!
julia
All new posts will now be on here!
julia
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
A Tad MIA?
Hey Guys!
I knowwww, I've been totally MIA for weeks now, but my blog has been pushed to the back of my mind in the midst of it all. My makeup collection has swelled, my hair is different, my room is different, my friends are a bit different, a lot has changed from how I was a few weeks ago. My mum came home, my brother dropped out of uni and I'm going to an independant college to do my Diploma of Specialist Makeup Services for next year! So in 2012, I'll be a fully licensed makeup artist and I'm SOOOOO EXCITED!
It's my school Athletics Carnival on Wednesday, which means that I get to dress up in a kooky costume and spend time with my equally kooky friends.
Am going out to buy some new things to help organise and store my makeup tomorrow, as I'm expecting another parcel full of makeup and I don't have enough room in my drawer sets for the last 2 parcels. Haven't been able to go to Officeworks to go and get that 12 drawer trolley set thing yet, but I intend to before my last term of high school. For like, ever. I just know that I'm going to bawl my eyes out at graduation. And then again during the speeches at the formal, an event that I still don't have any idea of what dress I'm wearing to. I did promise Joel that it would be purple, although I was going to have pink, it's easier for him to match if I'm the purple monster. lol.
It's getting pretty darn late here and I need to go to bed, it's a big day for me tomorrow!
Good to be back!
Julia
I knowwww, I've been totally MIA for weeks now, but my blog has been pushed to the back of my mind in the midst of it all. My makeup collection has swelled, my hair is different, my room is different, my friends are a bit different, a lot has changed from how I was a few weeks ago. My mum came home, my brother dropped out of uni and I'm going to an independant college to do my Diploma of Specialist Makeup Services for next year! So in 2012, I'll be a fully licensed makeup artist and I'm SOOOOO EXCITED!
It's my school Athletics Carnival on Wednesday, which means that I get to dress up in a kooky costume and spend time with my equally kooky friends.
Am going out to buy some new things to help organise and store my makeup tomorrow, as I'm expecting another parcel full of makeup and I don't have enough room in my drawer sets for the last 2 parcels. Haven't been able to go to Officeworks to go and get that 12 drawer trolley set thing yet, but I intend to before my last term of high school. For like, ever. I just know that I'm going to bawl my eyes out at graduation. And then again during the speeches at the formal, an event that I still don't have any idea of what dress I'm wearing to. I did promise Joel that it would be purple, although I was going to have pink, it's easier for him to match if I'm the purple monster. lol.
It's getting pretty darn late here and I need to go to bed, it's a big day for me tomorrow!
Good to be back!
Julia
Friday, July 9, 2010
Yesterday was fun spending time with my Dad. We were going to see Toy Story 3, but my brother Anthony started to feel sick so we just went for lunch instead. Had a big 'doh' moment too, as we were trying to all fit in Dad's ute, not even thinking of the family 5 seater sitting idle in the garage. Have to buy more yummy strawberries today! Strawberry season has started early this year and dunking fresh berries in melted chocolate helps to ease the cold of winter. And hot chocolate.
I have to start getting ready so that I can leave in an hour, so I might update later on with my FOTD.
Enjoy the sun while you can and as many berries.
Julia
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Good Morning!
AHH!! The cloudy days are over and today I can see a really pretty blue sky. Still some clouds around, but now I don't feel all 'blah' from grey overload. Passing the time before my Dad gets here and adventures ensue. Today I have no housework! NOTHING! Lol it has really made my morning so that I can have a lazy day, hihi.
Today's face is pretty basic, cause I have no idea what we might do today so I just opted to have the same face as I do for school. I also stole my best friend's scarf when I left her place yesterday and she forgot to re-steal when she took me home. Wasn't going to remind her hihi.
Today it's all about the lashes and the skin using Maybelline products. I know that some people like to collect MAC products, but I always manage to veer towards the Maybelline stand in the store.
Last night I also went online and bought an 88 matte palette for $13 including shipping. The exact same as Coastal Scents only the case doesn't have the Coastal Scents logo on it, which I like. Trying to shake up my Face of the Days - even though this is my third FOTD - and get some colour in. It also helps me practice new techniques and all that jazz on myself and then attempting on other people.
Well my Dad will be here anytime now so I need to pack my bag for the day. Fill you all in on my adventures later!
Today's face is pretty basic, cause I have no idea what we might do today so I just opted to have the same face as I do for school. I also stole my best friend's scarf when I left her place yesterday and she forgot to re-steal when she took me home. Wasn't going to remind her hihi.
Today it's all about the lashes and the skin using Maybelline products. I know that some people like to collect MAC products, but I always manage to veer towards the Maybelline stand in the store.
Well my Dad will be here anytime now so I need to pack my bag for the day. Fill you all in on my adventures later!
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