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Violet Circle Lens Reviews/Taking Care of Your Lenses

by VioletLeBeaux | Apr 9, 2010 | Advert, Beauty, Beauty-Tutorials, Review, Tutorial, Video-Tutorials

After my last circle lens review I have completely fallen in love with them!

I mentioned last time that I wanted to try different colours… especially violet! E-CircleLens.netwere lovely enough to send me some 😀 I was so excited for them to arrive! This was the cute package that came!

Whenever you purchase they send a travel contact case, last time I got one shaped like a puppy and this time I got this one:

How cute is that? I think it’s very Anna Sui inspired 😀

I got Candy Violet lenses and Marie Violetlenses.

Ok review time!

Marie lenses.

These are a light violet colour with yellow flecks in around the center. They are 14mm diameter.

Because these ones are quite transparent I found they didn’t make a strong colour over the top of my green eyes but the effect was really pretty anyway. One lens in the left eye, nothing on the right:

Because I naturally have yellow around the pupil of my eye they really bring that out too 😀 With them both in:

Comfort-wise I thought they were really great, I’ve been wearing them quite a bit for the whole day and by the end of the day there’s no discomfort. Verdict- These ones are really good for a subtle look, they purple isn’t overpowering and it looks quite natural. Love them!

Candy Lenses.

These ones are a really bright violet with a black outside ring. They are 14.5mm in diameter.

These ones are my favorites out of all the lenses I own now! They are absolutely HUGE! It’s funny because they are only 0.5mm bigger than the Marie pair but they look soooo much bigger because of the black ring. Lens on the right side, none on the left:

I’ve been wearing these ones pretty much non-stop since they arrived because they give such a cool effect. They are dark enough to cover the green in my eyes and because they are this dark I can wear more/darker eye make up without looking washed out. LOVE IT! They really do give a huge dolly style eye, perfect for hime style!

These were the lenses I was wearing the other day in the curly pigtail hair tutorial and there were lots of comments about them! Verdict: LOVE. Super comfortable, pretty, bright and the colour is awesome!

Mwahaha this is my growing lens collection… I think I’m addicted now!

Now the second part of this post! Quite a few of you have been asking questions about caring for your lenses and how to clean them etc. I’m by no means an expert on the subject but after researching and talking to the very helpful staff at E-CircleLens.netI wanted to try answer your questions… so I’ve made a super quick video about it. On anything more complicated than this I though I would suggest you talk to your doctor or optometrist 🙂 Before you do anything I suggest buying a decent sized bottle of lens solution so you can keep everything clean and hygienic. This is the lens solution I’m using in the video:

And here’s the quick video ^_^

So I hope that helped and answered some questions!

Next time I’m going to be doing the hair and make up tutorials you’ve been requesting ^_^ Let me know about your circle lens tips! <

Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen and Corrector Pen Review

by VioletLeBeaux | Apr 7, 2010 | Beauty, Nails, Review

Thought all my Gum Leaf Mafia Australian/NZ nail polish girls would be interested in this: Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens! ^_^

Over here in Aus the range of Sally Hansen has up until now been rather scarce. Even though they’re stocked by a billion major chains the range usually only consist of a few nail treatments and maybe 2 of the light pink polishes. Imagine my surprise when I walked into Priceline to a whole new display of them *_*
There was a whole shelf of the Insta-dri’s in some pretty weird colours. They didn’t have the fluros which lovely Brooke sent me from the US but if these ones are anything like them I would definitely grab some if I had the money.

More interestingly they had some really pretty looking HD colours…

There was also a deal where if you bought anything from the lip/nail collection you could get one of the treatment pens for free… So I bought a light pink nail art pen for $13 and got a Corrector pen (which cost $16) for free…

While it looked like a good deal at the time here’s my review…

So nail art pen first. The best way I can describe this is it’s like a paint pen. It comes with a clear tip to begin with…

To get the colour out you have to press up and down on some paper a few times.

Colour of the tip:

I put a falsie on and did a base coat of and Opi white so I could see how opaque it was. Because the tip is super pointy and thin I thought I would be able to get a nice detailed stroke.

Not so much.

It’s more like trying to paint using the wrong end of a paint brush. When colouring with a normal felt pen you press the pen to the surface and it leaves a trail of pigment, when colouring with this it basically puts out a watery blob that you can sort of move around with the tip.

It did nice even dots very easily and the colour was very opaque straight out of the pen.

Unfortunately because it puts out such a huge amount of polish the drying time is a bit much. If you smudge it you end up with this:

Verdict: I don’t think it’s great for doing detailed work but for basics like dots and little designs it would be good. The drying time might be a turn off if you’re working on your natural nails. I think it’s not so great for the price though.

Ok now on to the corrector pen. The idea of it is just say you’d done a fantastic nail art design and then go to finish with a French tip and make a huuuuge mistake *o* rather than starting again you can just wipe away the mistake by drawing on it with the corrector pen. It comes with 3 different tips depending on the size of the mistake.

*Edit* A couple of you lovely readers have pointed out that the corrector pen is actually used for removing polish from the skin and cuticles if you make a mistake rather than polish mistakes on the nail. Firstly the pen was actually recommended to me by the clerk at Priceline with the nail art pen saying that it was great to use and clean up mistakes in nail art, so firstly fail on the clerk for not knowing what she was talking about and fail on me for not reading the package properly. I did actually test it out on the skin too but apparently when I was posting half asleep this morning I forgot to include that part of review, double fail on me!

Anyway on the skin/cuticles I found it to be a little bit pointless as it took quite a bit of effort to remove any polish rather than just mushing it into my skin and turning it purple. For a highly pigmented polish you would have to stop and clean the tip several times if you needed to clean more than one finger which I found frustrating and time consuming. I think for the price (assuming I hadn’t gotten it on sale) I would rather just use an orange stick with a little cotton and polish remover >_< */Edit*

Oh noes I made a huge mistake with dark purple nail polish what ever am I to do?!

Following the instructions I wiped over the mistake. The pen didn’t specify if the polish should be wet or dry when I used it. When removing wet polish it just kind of moved it around. To be honest you might as well use an orange stick covered in a tissue because it really just smudged everything. You can see the results below:

I let the remaining polish dry and then tried the pen again. All it seemed to do was scrape off polish layers and mush them around together. Results:

Verdict: I wouldn’t buy it. I tested it in several different situations and with different polishes etc and all it didn’t do anything different. I don’t think it would be useful for removing small mistakes without destroying the rest of the design. It’s a pity though because it’s such a good idea 🙁

Next post is going to be a circle lens review 😀

Have any of you had good results with a Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen?

Hime Gyaru Pigtail Hairstyle Tutorial

by VioletLeBeaux | Apr 5, 2010 | Beauty, Hair, Hair-Tutorials, Tutorial

Hello! Finally what you’ve all been requesting, a cute hair tutorial on this style:

Seeing as I couldn’t think of a name for it, this hairstyle shall now be known as the Hime-Style-Gigantic-Curly-Piggy-Tails ^_^

Things you need for this particular cute hair tutorial 😉

Hair spray
Brush
Bobby pins
Curl enhancer spray/curling water etc
Hot rollers and clips
2 hair ties
Whatever you need to do a hime style pouf

So how long does your hair need to be for this style? I think that as long as you can manage the hime pouf yours should be long enough, really even with shoulder length hair you could do it, it would just look more like two fluffy balls ^_^
My hair has gotten quite long over the last year so I’m happy! Haha by the time I can afford extensions I won’t need them anymore *_*

To start with, you should do a standard hime style pouf. If you need a tutorial on that take a look over here!I’ve been thinking of doing an updated tutorial on hime style hair which is more detailed but I have so many other posts waiting to be posted that it will have to wait a while.

First step is to brush out the hair that is left down.

Separate your hair into two even sections on either side of your head. I just do it loosely so I can make sure everything is even.

After you are satisfied with the sections put them in higher pony tails just above and behind your ears. It should sit just below where the pouf starts like this:

Taadaa! Add a bow and this by itself is a cute hair style!

Plug in your hot rollers and allow them to heat up. Mine are Vidal Sasson and they’re super nice.

Starting from the back, take the section of hair which is the tail of your hime pouf and apply your curl spray. I am using one by Tresemme which I find works quite well.

Give it a quick brush through and roll it up with a small roller ^_^

Clip it into place being very careful not to put the weight on the pouf as you might destroy the hard work you already did!

Now take the next section from the front and repeat the process.

If you have a lot of different sized rollers like mine you should use the smaller ones at the front and bigger at the back.

This is what you should end up with when you’ve used up all of the hair…

Repeat on the other side!

Done!

Now hairspray the hell out of both sides.

Wait for the rollers to cool completely. It takes around 20 minutes, I used the opportunity to catch up with you all on Twitter 😉

When they’re completely cool start undoing the rollers.

You should start from the bottom and work upwards.

Again if you added a few bows this would be a cute style in itself ^_^

Again spray the hell out of all the curls! No such thing as too much spray!

Ok now the fun part! Pick a curl randomly and use your brush to tease it. To get the correct effect you should hold a small section of the curl and use the brush to slide the rest of the curl upwards.

This technique allows you to keep most of the length but the curls are really obvious and fluffy.

See the difference between normal curls on the left and teased curls on the right?

Repeat on both sides to all the curls and add more hairspray. Again you could just wear it like this with a few more bows XD This is like a tutorial with 5 different styles depending on how much time you’ve got hahaha!

So that looks pretty cute but what we really want is to make the pig tails higher, hide the hair bands and give it even more volume. So have your bobby pins at the ready!

Grab your pony tail and pull it upwards.

Hold it to the side of your head straight up.

Using the bobby pins you should pin the hair roughly 3cm above the hair tie. You will need a couple of pins to hold it all. You should be pinning it just higher than the start of your pouf. Make sure to do it securely because this is what’s going to be holding up all your hair!

When you drop down the hair again it should look like this:

The hair has much more volume and looks more fluid because it looks like it’s part of the pouf ^_^

This is what the back looks like, you can easily cover the pins with a big bow. Also you should probably do a better job of parting your hair in a straight line than I did ;P