Gradient Nails (HQ-pictures and how-to description!) & golden smokey eyes

I thought I should please you with HQ-pictures instead of all those poor webcam-shots ;) This was my second attempt to smokey eyes, this time I used a light gold shimmer, a bright gold eyeshadow and some brown eyeshadows and 2 different black ones. They are all from Catrice, god I love that brand! Also i used a bronze eye pencil (essence) but you don't really see that in this picture unfortunately. Almost everyhing I used was a present for my birthday, and I am very happy with them all!


As some of you might already know, I like to do something creative with my nails :) And so i did

 

Those gradient nails (with the nyan cat) are a lot more didfficult than they seem. It's pretty hard to get as much colour as you want, instead of a very translucent effect, but hey, for a first attempt I'm satisfied! :)

If you want to try it yourself, basically all you have to do is follow these steps:

- Base Coat in a nude colour.    let this dry completely before you start

- Pick 3 colors that you want to use (or 2 or 4, but you have to have pretty long nails for 4 colour, which i don't have so not all 4 colours appeared on every nail)

- Get yourself a make up sponge, and wet this in a bowl of water.

- squeeze it for a bit, just so that it's only moist, you don't need a soaking wet sponge

- Apply your desired colours in the order you want to your sponge.

- dab the sponge on your nail ( make sure you cover your entire nail with the nailpolish that's on the sponge!)

- Repeat this 2 or 3 times per nail. Make sure you put on new polish on the sponge if the colours don't intensify anymore when you aplly it to you nails

- Once your satisfied, let your nails dry for about 5-10 minutes.

- apply a glossy topcoat

- your gradient nails are finished!

nailed it!

Just a short post for now :)

as some of you might know, I like to be creative with what I put on my nails.
2 weeks ago I had an audition for a talent show with a friend, and we wrote a song about superheroes, which apparently inspired me enough to make all this :)

Do you recognize them all? sorry again for the (very) poor quality, but I'm simply too lazy to take pictures with my camera and upload them ;) (maybe I should just buy a HD webcam, that'll do the job)

you've got any onther ideas for superheroes that I could put on my nails ?

except for the hulk, which is quite hard to depict in a recognizeable way, I am kinda out of ideas

that's all for now! xx

BAM!

I thought I could either write a whole story about my new stuff, or just post some pictures of it ;)

this shiny paillette skirt is from h&m, just like the black top and the apple ring I'm wearing in the first picture. The cardigan, of which you can barely see what it looks like (grey, with brown padded elbows), is one of the things I bought in France. Unfortunately the paillette skirt is too big for me, so I sent it back and asked for a smaller size, which i really hope they have because I really like it. I'm addicted to this top, it was only 4 euro's, but the fabric is really soft, and, not unimportant, it looks nice too!

this is a really nice dress ( h&m) but unfortunately this picture is really bad, I might upload pictures of better quality later. Originally it was pretty long for me. As I'm not at all tall, i have to make the dress a little shorter, like in the picture. Also I'm wearing the apple ring again :) Actually I just bought it because i thought it was funny, but it also reminds me I should eat more fruit, and it works!

currently, I'm in the middle of my 'exam-week', but to make myself a little happier, i stopped by a shop, and there I bought dry-shampoo from andrélon and a beautiful black sparkly eyeshadow from Catrice (to create smokey eyes with).

well, I tried the dry shampoo, but I absolutely hate it, to be honest. It doesn't do what it promises to. It says 'gives you a suprising amount of volume, and absorbs the grease from your hair. well, 'suprising' the amount of volume surely was. I have never had so flat and heavy hair in my life.

to make things worse, my hair feels really dirty and looks as if i hadn't washed it for days. So you could say I don't really recommend it, and it's even very expensive too!

I also tried the Catrice eyeshadow. It has very much pigment, so you can create really black smokey eyes with it. It has tiny silver and blue sparkles in it, which gives a very nice effect if you're going out to a club (or a concert), or any other party with lights.

bear with me please, haha. I haven't tried smokey eyes before, and such things need some practice ;) anyway, here's a (poor quality, sorry!) picture of my attempt to subtle smokey eyes.

besides the black, i also used a light blue and a pastelle yellow colour, to add some colour to the 'smokey' black colour. i was to lazy to use that much mascara, but I also made pictures with the  camera, and that's of much better quality, i'll (probably) upload them soon!

this is the Catrice eyeshadow I bought, it's no.140 - The Captain Of The Black Pearl

so that's all for now, I think I should get back ( read: start) to learning for my upcoming tests..

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I'm dreaming of a white christmas....

Just like last time, i said i was so sorry for not posting anything for so long. And again, it took me soooo long to find anything interesting to tell you. So i should better top apologizing for not posting anything for so long 'cause that won't work :). But now i do have time! *hurray* i am so glad we have christmas holidays now, i really needed it. The one and only thing i simply Dislike, is the lack of snow and ice. I found out, as it is the first day of christmas todfay, that i really need snow for the real christmas feeling. And it would be very nice if the waters would freeze, so i can go on the ice straight from my backyard:) no matter what; this is the time to be with your family and loved ones, no matter if there's snow or not. Right no i'm at my grandparents, we just had a huuuuge christmas dinner, i'm still expecting my stomach to say 'poof' this evening. I'm sorry that i can't add some nice christmaS pics, but maybe i'll do that when i'm home. Looking at my 'activity' on this blog, you could still take a look every now and then to look at what i've been p to on fashiolista, because i use that much more often, and gives you a quick insight of what items i love and have/ would like to have. I still have the hope that one day i will win a big price to shop till i drop, or just much money, which would be completely ok with me :) but christmas isn't about these things, so i won't go on and on about that. I think i am just going to quit talking completely now, and have fun with my lovely family instead, and so should you! I hope you all have a lovely christmas, and please make fun! You deserve it! :) xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox and much love!<3

(don't) wake me up when (september) summer ends

Back from your holidays, only a few weeks left before you have to start with school or work again,I  think we all know how it feels and we don't want summer to end yet. Here in Holland it's freezing, but i refuse to wear anything else then my clothes that i also brought for my holiday in France, where it was about 37c! we had such a nice holiday with all our friends. Friends we know for 5 years, friends we met there... I have to admit that i miss them, even though i don't know some of them for such a long time.
But anyway, I was also glad to return because I could have my own room, shower and shops again. And I could finally hang out with my friends again! But the weather should've been better, it's not nice to return and its less then half of the temperature that you've been in for so long.
today i'm going to do something i was planning to do for a really long time: making a huge collage of fashion and other nice pictures on a triptych (google translate said this was the word for it but I'm not so sure..) when it's finished i will post some pics of it, maybe for your own inspiration too?

I better get started, because i think it's going to take me all that is left from today! :)

with love,,

Laura

Yummy

Hey You!

So sorry for not posting anything for such a long time...
Anyway, now there's this new post!


Fimally summer has arrived! at least, if you look at the date. Not here in Holland. I'm sitting here with my bear-like cardigan, tregging and Adidas (sneakers). Do you detect anything summer-worthy in that?
Kind of sad it's not that good weather yet, but then i am not forced to wear shorts with my porcelain white legs, so that gives me a little time to tan in the backyard when there is sun without anyone having to see it ;)

as you can see in the sidebar, i'm on Fashiolista! Since today, and I'm really excited, I'm allready addicted to the website, oh my poor money... this isn't going to help me with spending less...
Well, follow me on fashiolista :)

this weekend i made cupcakes with a friend, and when we were in the shop to buy everything, we thought: well, we want to make 50 cupcakes. Apparently, that's pretty much. It cost us a whole afternoon, but they turned out really well, and delicious :)

so, to possibly make you a little jealous:

 yes, we also made christmas-cupcakes :) 

That's it for now!
xoxo

be who you want to be

Maybe this Barbie slogan isn't so stupid at all. i made this small 'rule book' (well okay, actually it's just a list, but anyway-) with rules which everyone should follow:


BE YOURSELF
MAKE MISTAKES, you'll learn from them, but maybe it will take a while for you to see that.
DO WHAT YOU LOVE
FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS, at least try to follow them!
DO/DON'T LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE, it just depends on what they have to say about you :)
LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO YOU ARE, clothes/ looks are a reflection of someone's inside
ENJOY
BE POSITIVE
SHOW YOUR TALENT(s), why would you waste such precious things?
LOVE
SMILE
BE(COME) WHO YOU WANT TO BE, there's nothing wrong with having a big goal right?
DON'T BE AFRAID
LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST
CRY
LAUGH
BE HAPPY
BE CONFIDENT

BE IMPERFECT



i hope this is an 'inspiration' for you all!


much love, xx ♥




cause baby, you were born this way-Lady GaGa