Dolly Eye Make Up Tutorial – Violet Vision

This dolly eye make up tutorial took foreeeeever to upload!

Vimeo is down so the reason the quality is not great is Youtube’s stupid compression rubbish. The sound levels seem to have also been warped so beware, the theme song is super loud but for the rest you might need to turn it all the way up in Youtube and on your computer to hear what I’m saying *_*

I’m working on fixing things as fast as possible but until Vimeo is back online there’s not much I can do!

Aaaaanyway aside from all of the technical junk this video was made as a request on how to do the more involved make up style that I sometimes do. This style is possibly more of the traditional hime gyaru style than my every day make up. I prefer this look with a bolder outfit and definitely with dark circle lenses because my natural eye colour is too light for it to work.

The disclaimer is that I am not an expert in make up techniques, this is just the way I do it when I wear my make up in this style.

Products used:

  • Moisturser- Skin MD
  • Lenses- Candy Violet from e-circlelens.net
  • Foundation- Innoxa
  • Mascara- Bourjois
  • Lashes- some cheap brand
  • Lash glue- Lash Me Type 1
  • Black Shadow- Bourjois
  • White Shadow- Bourjois
  • Shimmer dust- The Face Shop
  • Lip Stain- Bourjois
  • Lip Gloss- Bourjois

If you want to know the product line or numbers used for the dolly eye make up tutorial just let me know 🙂

Double Buns Hairstyle Tutorial

Today is all about the double hair buns or as some have called it “Minnie Mouse hair”! So many of you girls requested this tutorial so I hope you enjoy it ^_^

This style works best with medium-long hair but if you used more hairspray you could probably do a version with short hair.

We are aiming for this style:

Hair Buns Tutorial

What you need for double hair buns:

  • Brush
  • Bobby Pins
  • 2 Hair Ties
  • Any decorations you want, I’m using leopard print bows I made ^_^

Hair Buns Tutorial

First brush your hair so it’s nice and free of tangles. Divide it into two sections on either side of your head.

Hair Buns Tutorial

Take the first section and make a really high pony tail on the side of your head. I tend to turn my head upside down so I can get it extra high.

Hair Buns Tutorial

This is what we’re aiming for:

Hair Buns Tutorial

Now take a minute to relive your childhood fantasy of being one of the Spice Girls. Please don’t make me feel old by telling me you don’t know who they are >_<‘

Hair Buns Tutorial

Back to it! Take one of the piggy tails and tease the hell out of it.

Hair Buns Tutorial

Mwahaha you’re ready for a night on the town!

Hair Buns Tutorial

Ok seriously hair spray all over your piggy tail.

Hair Buns Tutorial

Hold on to the very end of it and twist it towards the front a few times.

Hair Buns Tutorial

Now let’s make a bun out of it! Following the twist you just made, curl the bun around the base of the pig tail. Don’t do it too tightly or else you’ll squish all the teasing you just did.

Hair Buns Tutorial

Get your bobby pins ready to pin the ends in place. Should look something like this:

Hair Buns Tutorial

Using the pins secure the ends into your head. Don’t make the mistake of just pining towards the middle, you need to make sure you are actually pinning to the hair which is not part of the bun to give it a good anchor.

Hair Buns Tutorial

Once it’s fairly secure you can squish the bun into the shape you want. If you find bits sticking up out of the middle, just carefully stick a pin in towards the middle.

Hair Buns Tutorial

Repeat on the other side and then add hairspray.

Hair Buns Tutorial

Time for decorations! I’m using two leopard print hair bands that I made, but you can use anything from flowers to tiaras!

Hair Buns Tutorial

Because the bows are on bands I just pull it over the top of the bun

Hair Buns Tutorial

And taadaaa! We’re all done ^_^

Hair Buns Tutorial

This style is really great for summer because it’s totally cute but it still gets the hair off of your neck!

Hope you enjoyed and let me know if any of you guys try your own double hair buns!Love Violet

 

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Violet Circle Lens Reviews/Taking Care of Your Lenses

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

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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!

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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:

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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

E-Circle Lens Review 2

I got Candy Violet lenses and Marie Violetlenses.

E-Circle Lens Review 2

Ok review time!

Marie lenses.

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

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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:

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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!

E-Circle Lens Review 2

Candy Lenses.

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

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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:

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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!

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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!

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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:

E-Circle Lens Review 2

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

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.

Sally Hansen Nail Review

More interestingly they had some really pretty looking HD colours…

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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…

Sally Hansen Nail 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…

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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

Sally Hansen Nail Review

Colour of the tip:

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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.

Sally Hansen Nail Review

Not so much.

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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.

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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:

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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*

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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:

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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:

Sally Hansen Nail Review

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

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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 *_*

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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:

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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!

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Repeat on the other side!

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Done!

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Now hairspray the hell out of both sides.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

When they’re completely cool start undoing the rollers.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

You should start from the bottom and work upwards.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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!

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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!

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Grab your pony tail and pull it upwards.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Hold it to the side of your head straight up.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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!

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

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

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

And the side:

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Finished!

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Hopefully you all found this helpful, once you get the hang of it, it’s a really easy style to do.

Tutorial- Hime Pigtails

Let me know if you want another cute hair tutorial like this!

 

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Nailart Pictures – Revisited

I’m here to distract you with nail art but I’m sure you’ve all noticed a few of the changes I’m making around the blog by now ^_^

I’ve been quite busy over the weekend and fixed a lot of the issues we were talking about last post, there is still more to come so when I’m finished (probably in the next few days) I’ll do a round up post of what has changed. Please keep in mind that I’ll be tinkering so if something doesn’t work, don’t stress just wait a little bit and try again 🙂

So it would seem that my heart shaped measuring bowls and spoons are a bit of a hit! I was inundated with emails and comments asking where you could all get one. So here are two websites that apparently sell them or very similar to them. These sites both stock the spoons and other cute things as well.

Hear Mum Roar found this site: http://www.littlebetsybaker.com.au/store/pc/Heart-Shaped-Bowl-143p962.htm

My Mother found this one which is definitely the same: http://www.chalet.net.au/home

Now onto what you all really want to see: NAIL ART!

Because I’m going to be spending the day making a heap of sets of nail art for my Etsy store I though I’d treat you to some eye candy 😉 I know a lot of you have only just started reading my blog recently so I wanted to show you some nail art I did quite a while ago, most likely before you all started reading ^_^ If you’ve been reading for over a year feel free to skip this one 😛 Apologies for the size of the photos, these were all edited back when my blog was even tinier on blogspot.

These ones are all done with a Konad stamper for a competition, there are non-konad ones at the end.

Omg back when I had red hair 😀

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Fimo Fruit Nail Art

Fimo Fruit Nail Art

Fimo Fruit Nail Art

Hope you enjoyed and look forward to the nail art designs I’m doing today, some of them are pretty spectacular ^_^