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Outfit Of The Day Black And White

by VioletLeBeaux | Apr 12, 2012 | Outfit Of The Day

Same jacket different days this time 😀

Skirt- 7 Angels
Shirt- 7 Angels
Shoes- Femme Connection
Jacket- DottiYou know what I love about this outfit? That the skirt and shirt were $3 each 😀 😀 😀

And under the jacket!

I love drapy chiffon clothes at the moment, anything that swishes when I walk 😀

I thin the shirt/skirt are a really versatile set too because they can both be worn tighter or loose.

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Now some make up 😀

I’ve being wearing bottom lashes a lot more lately but only on the corners. I’m yet to find a set that I like going all the way across.

Lots of brown and bronze too 😀

Outfit number 2 has the same jacket but in a completely different style. This was such a good buy 😀

Jacket- Dotti (like 7 years ago)
Scarf- Forever New
Skirt- Valley Girl (like 6 years ago)
Shirt- Old work shirt from when I was in highschool, probably Target or similar?
Glasses- Pink

I like that this is casual but still really comfy.

Underneath I wore the skirt high on my waist with an old work shirt. I tied the shirt in a knot to make it much more fitted 😀 My Mum saw this outfit and said it was very work-ish, probably because I haven’t worn a collared shirt in many many many years!

What is your favorite style at the moment? I think I’m leaning towards more sophisticated styles ^_^

Hello Kitty Cosmetics Competition And Review- CLOSED!

by VioletLeBeaux | Apr 11, 2012 | Beauty, Competition

Limited edition Hello Kitty make up? Oh yes please. After my last review of the Hello Kitty range (cough and seeing my sizable collection of it) their PR department was lovely enough to send me some of the new limited edition items that are out this month and offer some prize packs for you guys!

YAY HELLO KITTY COMPETITION!

Review first then competition details at the end 😀

First up the limited edition items starting with the compact mirror.

Thoughts:

It came in a little protective bag which was a nice touch. It’s light black plastic with a slightly shiny finish. The Hello Kitty print on the front is made from silver hologram which has a rainbow finish in the sun. It’s quite subtle but very cute.

Inside are two mirrors, one regular one and one magnifying face mirror. It’s very thin, thinner than the face compact which makes it perfect to keep in the handbag while still being a good enough size to actually be usefulOverall I really like it and I’m considering decoing it. That’s another thing actually, the surface is perfect for deco because it’s so flat 😀Next up is the travel brush.

It’s fairly small, and the bristles are quite short. I would probably use it for foundation because I prefer larger blush brushes. The bottom section comes up to protect the bristles so when the lid goes on which is useful. The casing is made of metal with the pink logo printed on the side. The bristles are synthetic and I’d say probably medium quality.

Last of the limited editions, the sharpener.

Plastic with the printed logo, I don’t know if there’s much to review with a sharpener… it sure does sharpen pencils XD

Actually inside it comes with a little removable pick thing which I was wondering about. Is it to remove clogs or broken pieces of pencil?? Either way it does it’s job and looks cute! You can also flip the lid so it goes the other way and holds shavings in on the go.

On to the non-limited versions!

Two more polishes, the orangish Kawaii Coral and silver Le Fric C’est Chic.

The polish is a nice formula as I mentioned last time, the bottles are cute and the colours are interesting. The Kawaii Coral is a bright slightly milky orange it is opaque in two coats and stands out a lot. The Le Fric C’est Chic is a super shimmery silver that reminds me a lot of the Ulta3 silvers. It is opaque in one coat and would be great for konad because of the amount of shimmer.

Lipgloss in “Girly Lip”. I have the Baby Lip colour in this too and I love it to death as a neutral but this Girly version blows it out of the water. It’s a shiny dark pink with blue undertones… it’s pretty much my favorite shade of make up ever 😀 It lasts a while but it’s not what I would consider a long lasting gloss. The colour and finish totally make up for that though and it’s quickly become a colour that I use constantly!

Eye shadows! Desert Dore on the left and Gunflower on the right 😀

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This Desert Dore shade really surprised me. I normally hate neutrals but I found this to be so wearable that I fell in love. It has a gold shimmer through it and so it goes perfectly with pinks and stands out from my skin tone well. It lasts all day and doesn’t crease easily. One thing I love about these is that they stack, the tops are flat so if you have a couple of them you can stack them easily in a drawer.

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The pink in this duo works perfectly with the above shade too and has a slight simmer in it so they mix really well. I wasn’t a big fan of the black shade in this one but I personally don’t use black a lot and it did go very well with the pink and neutral above.

And here are some photos of me wearing the make up! The lipgloss has worn off quite a bit at this point, it’s much brighter at first swipe.

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Competition time!

Hello Kitty has 5 prize packs to give away:

Valued at $62.85 and are made up of three gorgeous Hello Kitty Cosmetics and three LIMITED EDITION Hello Kitty accessories:

Hello Kitty Mirror Compact (Limited Edition available in April only)
Hello Kitty Makeup Sharpener (Limited Edition available in April only)
Hello Kitty Retractable Powder Brush (Limited Edition available in April only)
Hello Kitty Nail Polish
Hello Kitty Diamond Gloss
Hello Kitty Duo Eye Shadow

Terms:

Australian residents only (sorry everyone else, I am finalising 2 other competitions coming soon for you!)
Entries accepted from when this goes live until midnight 25th April 2012.
Winners will be judged on creativity.
I will contact winners via email for their details to give to the Hello Kitty rep who will send your products. You have 1 week to respond before another winner will be picked.
More terms and conditions here.

To enter just leave a comment on this entry telling me which product is your favorite and why 😀

Good luck everyone!

How To Make A Hair Donut… or Sausage? I’m hungry :D

by VioletLeBeaux | Apr 10, 2012 | Craft, Hair-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial

So have you ever wondered how people make fancy perfect buns like this?

Well the answer is a hair donut. Really the same thing can be achieved with a sock, piece of foam or anything squishy that approximate shape but hair donuts are cheap and come in a variety of colours.So what’s a girl to do when the shops are closed and she needs one for some photos or she can’t find them in her area? Make one of course!What I’m showing you today isn’t completely a hair donut, rather a hair sausage which is more versatile that a donut and can be worn in so many different ways (tutorials on those ways are up coming of course).

The end result is a light squishy tube which is flexible and held in shape via wire.

You need:

Polar fleece or similar stretchy fabric
Thick wire for the inside
Needle and thread
Stuffing or fabric scraps if you’re desperate
Pliers to cut and shape the wire.

Cut a piece of the wire a long as you want the sausage to be. Remember it needs to be able to wrap comfortably around a ponytail with a bit to spare and the ends will need to be curled over so they aren’t pointy. I made mine around 25cm and then curled the ends into circles as seen below.

Fold a piece of polar fleece in half and lay the wire on top.

Cut out a trapezoid shape like below and make it substantially longer than the wire, the long end of mine was almost double that of the wire.

Stitch from one corner up the side and around to the other side. Leave a gap so you can turn it inside out.

Turn it inside out ^_^

You should have something along these lines…

Put the wire inside.

Stitch on each side through the wire loops. This will hold it in place and make sure it doesn’t slip around inside.

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Because the polar fleece is bigger than the wire it will look something like this when you sew each loop.

Fill the whole thing with stuffing.

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It should be packed in there fairly tightly but not so much so that it can’t bend.

Stitch the end up and you’ve got a hair sausage!

To use it you just need to make a ponytail, wrap this around and the form the bun around it.

The reason I prefer the sausages to donuts is that you can use them in a variety of ways including in vintage style rolls etc. I’ve seen a lot of sock versions of this too, have you ever tried them?