New stuff from E.L.F.

I actually would like to make those month to month new stuff posts, but at the moment I am so behind on all of my blogging, that I'll just give it a go in the old way.

I am starting at the top again, when I should start at the bottom and show you all the makeup I already have and use. And I am planning to do that. And I will do that! But as I have not yet, I might as well show you guys some new things I got during two different hauls (sale, of course!) this year.

As I have told before, I dyed my hair all black over oh-so-many years this autumn and then I really got into lipsticks. I have had a few lipsticks over the years here and there, but I rarely ever used them, because I thought that they did not go with my colorful hair.

I actually use makeup that is organic or at least as natural as possible, but as I did not know if I would start (and continue) using lipsticks this time, I decided to go for a cheaper version at first. And E.L.F. is at least cruelty-free and actually has quite good ingredients compared to other mainstream cosmetics. 

So, first I got a moisturising lipstick in the color Red Carpet. I really love it! It's a true deep red, but not too dark. It's really pretty and lights up my look in a second. Also, the lipstick is truly moisturising as promised. It stays on quite a long time, although it does stain a little when you drink something but I think it's the same way with all the lipsticks? Anyway, I love and recommend it. 

I also got the same one in Velvet Rope, but that was way too bright for my taste, so I did not keep it.

As I am in the process of coloring a part of my hair nowadays (yes, again), then I can not use red lipstick at the moment. So I ordered the same one in color Rosy-Go-Round, which is a nice subtle pink and what I use most at the moment.

I also got a new tone in the Glossy Gloss series, a Merry Cherry - it's a nice red lip gloss, not so bright as a lipstick and more suitable in some days. I already got the Funky Fuchsia, love the bright magenta color, so I decided to get a red one also.

The Lip Stain in color Crimson Crush, a darker deep red, I do not like so much. It dries my lips so badly that it hurts. And I have to apply many layers to get a nice color and after a while it goes kinda...flaky? I also found it weird that it looks, smells and feels like a regular marker, I am not comfortable in applying that to my lips and I do not even want to know the ingridients. I read a lot of good reviews on it, so I was really surprised. The only thing I do like is that it does stay on forever.
So I decided to use it instead of a lip pencil to line my lips. It goes really well with the Red Carpet lipstick, being just a little bit darker. But I still do not know if I am going to keep using it. 

I also got a new mineral eyeshadow, I have a few of them, they stay on nicely and I like them. This is in color Glamorous, a nice subtle lilac tone. I actually have not used this one yet, because as I said I am in between changing my hair color and it limits me a lot at the moment. 

This Studio Small Smudge Brush I got for I do not know what reasons, but I found it to be a wonderful eyebrow brush, as I recently discovered coloring my eyebrows with mineral pigment. It has a really good size for my eyebrows, but I do think it's too small and firm for smudging eyeshadows, at least for me.  

So, that's it for this time and hopefully I will get around to showing my makeup collection soon!

How do you smell?

Compared to most women, I am so not into perfumes. I have only two perfumes at home and I don't even use one every day. I am definitely not up do date in the perfume world. I have had the same so-called signature perfume for over 6 years.

When I was young, of course we bought all those cheap supermarket perfumes for teenagers. They were almost always really bad. Then I had just different gifts, but I did not really keep in mind to use them. I usually gave the perfumes away after some time, no point in wasting them, right. I also won a couple from girly magazines, even a Burberry one. I used some of it and then gave it away, like always.

I think that Valentino's Rock'n Rose is the first "nice" perfume I longed for. At least I don't remember any others.
I saw the picture of it in a magazine and fell ab-so-lu-tely in love with the bottle. I almost did not care what the scent was!

I went to a fancy shop to smell it and loved it even more. It was so me! I was also lucky to score some small testers from the shop what lasted me quite some time.

Of course, the real perfume was way out of my price range. But I still longed for it. Until, more than 6 years ago, I got a surprise package for Christmas from my friend. It had all sorts of really really pretty things in it, but the prettiest was a bottle of Rock'n Rose! Oh, I was so happy I was in tears!

I used it every day. I loved it. I still do! When the first bottle was finally empty, I was in a better place with my life and could afford to get a new one. I got a big bottle! Fortunately by that time it was not so trendy anymore, so I got it for a pretty good price. I still have more than half left, so I guess it will last me another 5 years.

The second perfume I have was a gift from my thenboyfriend-nowhusband. I love it too, it's very different, much more mature and elegant. It's Paco Rabanne Black XS. It still has some life left, but soon it will be empty.

I don't really care for perfumes as they are really toxic. But at the same time I do use them as they are in my make up cupboard and I do have periods in my life when I love using a perfume.

I think that by the time I need I new one, I have changed a little and gotten older, so I will not get another bottle of Rock'n Rose. I still love the smell, but I feel like it's starting to be a little too girly for me. Although everybody says it's so me and they have gotten used to me smelling like this all the time.
Yet Black XS - I am not woman enough for that yet. Haa. So I need something in between. And hopefully a little less toxic than usual perfumes.

Do you have perfumes you consider your signature ones?