Nic's Little World: blue

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Even though I have a pretty decent make-up stash, last Summer I felt a need for a blue eyeliner.

I googled my eyes off, and the only things I could find were frosty/shimmery/glitter liquid eyeliners, and I'm a gel eyeliner kind of girl. Only blue gel eyeliners I stumbled upon were dark blue, and I wanted cobalt blue.

Luckily, there were some photos on the Internet that showed MAC makeup artists using just the kind of eyeliner I dreamed of on a model.

I waited and waited and it turned out that it will be a part of MAC Philip Treacy collection. As soon as the collection arrived at MAC Store in Zagreb, I went in and snatched my eyeliner.

At 160kn (24$; 3g/0.10oz) MAC Fluidline Royal Wink is the most expensive gel eyeliner I own, but I didn't care, because this blue is sooo pretty.

I went home, took gazillion of photos of untouched product and tried it on my eye without any eyeshadow or base and was extremely disappointed when I saw that it sucked. My first thought was: "OMG, I paid that much money for a jar of this sheer flaking crap?! Well, but at least the colour is pretty..."

The problem with it was that it went on really sheer and when I tried to add a second layer, the brush would pull the first layer and the line would be really patchy. When I tried to rub it off, it flaked really bad and it would fell off in patches.

A few days later, I was getting ready for work and I felt like the blue eyeliner would be perfect as a finishing touch. I was so relieved once I saw that when Royal Wink is applied on top of eyeshadow base and eyeshadow, it just glides on like any other eyeliner I own, which was amazing. Next thing I need to do is to pair it with blue mascara and see if I can handle the double blue awesomeness.

MAC Fluidline Royal Wink; one layer (left and middle), two layers (right)

I instantly fell in love with it and the only regret I have now is that I didn't get another one when it was in stock, as this is really unique gel liner.

My final verdict:

MAC Royal Wink is an amazing gel liner. It may not have the perfect formula, but if applied with the right brush it will provide a perfectly crisp matte cobalt blue winged line. I'm using a really fine nail art brush that allows me to create a perfectly thin line and gives me completely control over gel liner application.

For this post I wanted to use as many MAC products as I owned, so I chose MAC paint pot Painterly as eyeshadow base, and used Catrice Starlight expresso and Vanillaty Fair eyeshadow with L'Oreal False lash wings mascara. As always, I used Catrice Starlight expresso on my eyebrows. I also used Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum 51 as my foundation and Avon concealer for under-eye area. My current blush obsession is MAC The Perfect Cheek, and this look couldn't really go without it.

I wasn't really sure if I wanted the bright red, or deep, wine red for my lips, but I felt this was a job for MAC Diva, and Ruby Woo was left for some other time.

Here are my favourite brushes that I use for on everyday basis, and that I used for this look:

Left to right: Sigma F40 (blush), Sigma F80 (foundation), Ecotools angled brush (eyebrows), MAC 217 (eyeshadow), thin nail art brush (gel liner) and essence spooley brush (eyebrows).

The final look:

I wanted to snap a pic of me actually smiling and I felt so silly. It may seem that all of these photos were snapped effortlessly: click and it's there, but just imagine me kneeling near my bed, trying to catch the best lighting possible, while looking sideways to Ikea mirror on my bed, so I can see if the camera I'm holding in my left arm is actually focusing on my face and not my shoulder or the nightstand or something else around me. And I don't even want to start on my across the street neighbours who have the front row to crazy-lady-show (that means me as the crazy lady) who is spending half an hour with camera lens three centimetres from her eyeball (and if you check my instagram in a few hours, I will post a pic on how that actually looks like for me).

Ah, woes of the beauty blogger... *dramaticNicisdramatic*

Of course, I'm intentionally overreacting :D

I really like taking photos for blog, but I seriously need to invest in some kind of lighting rig, because this daylight is just not enough.

Lets get back to the topic of this post!

Do you like non-black gel eyeliners? Or do you prefer liquid ones?

Did you get anything form MAC Philip Treacy collection?

Please, tell me in comments :)

Love,

Nic

A week or so ago I was browsing through Emma Pickles' YouTube feed and I loved this purple eyeliner look. Some time after, I wanted to play with make-up but, since I was obsessed with blue eyeliner, wanted to do a something more navyish.

And this is how this look came to be. I'm not happy with it, the black eyeliner line is not really good and it would've looked better if it was thicker, but there's nothing I can do about it now.

I should really come up with a new photo-shoot face expression...I look silly to myself, but when I try to make a kind face with a hint of smile, it ends up being a Blue Steel. So I guess we are all stuck with a bitchyface Nic (like that is something different than IRL).

Prije nekih tjedan dana gledala sam videe Emme Pickles i ovaj look s ljubičastim eyelinerom mi se jako svidio. Malo iza, igrala sam se šminkom, ali pošto sam bila opsjednuta plavim eyelinerom, htjela sam napraviti nešto modro.

Tako je nastao ovaj look. Nisam baš sretna, trebala sam napravit bolju i deblju crtu tušem, ali što je-tu je.

Trebala bih stvarno nekako naučit radit novi izraz lica kad se slikavam. Sama sebi izgledam smiješno, ali kad pokušam napravit neki blago nasmiješeni izraz lica, na slikama ispadne kao da pokušavam rekreirat Blue Steel. Na kraju mi ipak ne preostaje ništa drugo nego bitchyface Nic (ne bi da se to puno razlikuje od mog izraza lica uživo).

Things I used:

Bourjois Healthy Mix foundation #52

Catrice Starlight expresso

Lorac eyeshadow base

Lorac Pro palette

Catrice Black Jack with Jack Black gel eyeliner

MUA Royal blue eyeliner pencil

120 eyeshadow palette

Chanel Notorious

essence Braking dawn blusher

L'Oreal Miss Manga mascara

MAC Ruby Woo

Rimmel Apocalips Big Bang

Nude lips, weird smirk

With MAC Ruby Woo

MAC Ruby Woo and Rimmel Big bang

Hello :)

Nadam se da ste provele krasan vikend :)
Ja jesam :D
Imala sam divan girls hangout vikend, uz puno landranja po Zagrebu, pizze, sladoleda, Illamasque (škicnite na post Voodoo Blonde, a usput i Girly :) ) i druženja :)

Kasno navečer nam se pridružila i jedna plavuša koju je jako zanimao Lidlov puding :D

Divan vikend, hvala vam puno cure, na krasnom druženju :*

A sada, čajnaglejzić :)

CG Dorothy Who? je originalno izašao u kolekciji The Wizard of Ooh Ahz davne 2001. godine. China Glaze se smilovao pa je vratio kolekciju u prodaju 2009., uz male preinake. Sve swatcheve možete pronaći kod Scrangie, a za Dorothyne cipelice klikenzi na ovaj link ;)

Dorothy Who? je krasni lak koji se sastoji od jelly plave baze i srebrnog i plavog glittera. Na slici su dva sloja, uz nadlak za brzo sušenje, iako se i sam dosta brzo suši.

Kupila sam ga na Danima ljepote na Zagrebačkom velesajmu, ali se ne sjećam koliko je točno koštao, s obzirom da je u igri bio i neki sajamski popust :/

Kupila sam ga na štandu Studija Di, a sudeći po njihovom on-line shopu, dođe oko 40 kn i in stock je :)

Studio Di možete naći u Zagrebu u Okićkoj ulici na Trešnjevci, a isplati se svratit i pročačkat po Konad i Ardell asortimanu, uz čajnaglejziće :)

(ne želim nikoga reklamirat, ali pošto su koliko znam jedini gdje se može nabaviti China Glaze, Konad i Ardell, mislim da je korisno širiti informacije ;) )

Za kraj, molim minutu šutnje za krasne duge nokte na gornjim slikama

Usput, iritira li vas watermark s adresom bloga na slikama?
ostao mi je u Lightroomu naštiman iako ga nisam mislila stavljati, ali mislim da ne bode pretjerano u oči :/
Da ga mičem ili može ostati? :)

Odoh u krpe :*
Hvala na čitanju :)

Nic

Hello :)

Za ovaj post me inspirirala Sleek Berry kolekcija u koju sam se zaljubila cim sam je vidjela. No, kako to i inace kod mene ide, ovaj lotd nema nikakve slicnosti s bojama u Berry kolekciji, ali ipak je ispal borovnicast :D

For this post, I was inspired by Sleek Berry collection in which I fell in love at the first sight. But as it usually goes with me, this lotd has nothing in common with the colors of the Berry collection, but it's still blueberry-like :D

U petak mi je bio rođendan i to 25. :D Sto znaci da je essence Re-mix your style darivanje gotovo :)

Rafflecopter je odabrao pobjednicu, a to je:

Irena B.

Ali to nije sve :)

Odlucila sam da cu odabrati jos jednu osobu koja ce dobiti essence Dance top coat, a to je:

Katarina B.

Cure, čestitam! :)

My 25th birthday was on Friday, which means that my essence giveaway is over :)

Irena B. is the winner, and I chose another person to win essence Dance top-coat, and that was Katarina B.

Congratulations :)

Hvala na citanju :)

Thank you for reading :)

Nic

Happy New year!!!
I wish you all all the best in this year, a lot of great nail polish and make-up, and beautiful looks and manicures :)

Sretna Nova godina!!!
Želim vam sve najbolje u ovoj godini, mnogo krasnih lakova i šminke, i lijepih lookova i manikura :)

This year I start in style, with flakies :)
I made a flakie franken with my Inglot flakies and layered it over Golden rose matte nail polish.

Ovu godinu počinjem sa stilom, uz flejkije :)
Napravila sam franken od mojih Inglot flejkija i nalakirala ga preko Golden rose mat laka.

2 layers of Golden rose and one layer of INM fast dry top coat

Look at the shimmer :)

How do you like it?

Are you a flakie fan or you don't care about it?

Kako vam se sviđa?

Volite li flejkije ili vam nije stalo do njih?

Thank you for reading

Hvala na čitanju

Nic

Hello :)

I want to show you how to spice your teal nail polish with amazing Inglot flakies :)

Here we have essence Street styler from the last NOTD post with a layer of 202 Inglot nail polish with flakies :)

Click on pictures for enlargement purposes :D

Don't you just love this amazing multichrome flakie nail polish? With blue/green base, flakies are primary pinkish, but they change from green-blue-yellow-light red, depending on the angle :)

Whaddaya think? Like it or you think it's too much?

I simply loved it :)

Thank you for reading,
Nic

Hello, girls :)

Were back to the good old NOTDs :D

Hair is going back to brown this Saturday, and that will officially be the end of the hair saga :)
I chose Country colors no. 65 which is supposed to be Chestnut brown, so I hope my hair will still have red sheen to it.

Now, back to the nail polish.

Žana , if you thought that red Catherine Arley nail polish was pain in the mikta to photograph, think again :D
essence Street styler (Urban messages TE) is a gorgeous teal-ish nail polish with tiny glass-flecked silvery blue glitter, that simply cannot be photographed as is.

Sorry for the terrible cuticles, I took this pics after a whole day of house-cleaning :(

Now, this nail polish is much more green than my swatches, but what can you do :shrug:

Stay tuned tomorrow for flakiefied Street Styler :)

Thank you for reading and don't forget to enter my giveaway, only two days left :)

Bye-bye,
Nic

Hello :)

Hair experimentation went great and now I'm a red-head :D
Until I compile the pictures of the hair torture, I have an eotd for you.

I used:

ArtDeco eyeshadow base
Catrice Dalai Drama orange eyeshadow
Diego dalla Palma 57 blue eyeshadow
Catrice All round mascara

Thank you for reading,

Nic

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