Catrice Absolute Nude Eyeshadow Palette Review & Swatches

Hello everybody!

Today I want to give you a little review of my latest purchase, the Catrice Absolute Nude Palette, which was just released in February this year. They call this shade 010 All Nude IN THE MOOD FOR NUDE even though there only exists one shade. I was super excited to try out this product, thus, I want to share with you my impression and also some swatches. So if you want to know what I think about the product, then keep on reading!

Price: 4,95€

Catrice promises:

Six nude shades in one palette: subtle sand, delicate beige and brown in various facets. Some matt, some with a shimmer. The soft eye shadow texture with high pigmentation and colour dispersion creates natural-looking eye make-up, yet is also ideal for smokey eye styles in the evening. With a practical double-ended applicator. 

 

Swatches

• great for everyday, natural eye make-up look
• travel-size, handy 
• high-pigmented colours
• price
• similar to Urban Decay Basics Palette 

• a bit powdery
• no really dark colour -> dramatic or very variable make-up isn't possible
• not comparable to Urban Decay Naked Palette 

Conclusion

In total, I like this palette very much as I usually use neutral colours and hardly pick out colourful ones. I think, this is a great palette if you don't want to buy a ton of different eyeshadows especially when you are starting with make-up. Also, this little palette might be really handy while traveling, however, the last eyeshadow could be a bit darker so that one could great a nice smokey eye too.

★★★★☆ Stars

So this is my review of the Catrice palette. I hope you found this helpful and tell me whether you have already tested this product or whether it is available in your drugstore? Also, let me know whether you like this little positive and negative arguments as an overview or whether you preferred the written form subdivided into various topics.

Wish you a wonderful day! Love,

Der beste Highlighter in der Drogerie

Hallo Leute,

Wie geht es euch?

Ich hoffe ihr habt einen schönen Tag. Mein Tag war etwas stressig und vorsallem langatmig. Ich musste heute stundenlang in der Uni sitzen und meinen Professoren zu hören, wobei nur ein Bruchteil dessen überhaupt für mein Studium relevant ist. Wie auch immer, ich wollte mit euch mein Lieblings "highlighting" Lidschatten zeigen. Ich weiß, dass man ihn schon sehr lange im Handel erwerben kann, aber ich finde ihn so toll, dass ich ihn euch noch vorstellen wollte. 

Das Produkt: Catrice Intensif´eye Wet & Dry Shadow

Farbe: 030 Vanilla Sky Ride

Herstellerversprechen:

Die handgemachten, hochpigmentierten Baked Eye Shadows mit einzigartiger Marmorierung aus drei Farben haben es in sich! Je nachdem, ob trocken oder feucht angewendet, variiert die Intensität der Intensif‘eye Wet & Dry Shadows von zart bis leuchtend. Für jeden Tag, jede Stimmung, jeden Style.

Preis: 3,79€

Swatch

Farbe: ideale Highlightingfarbe, zwischen weiß und champagnerfarbend, schimmernd, lichtreflektierend

Haltbarkeit: mit Eyeshadowbase sehr lange, ohne Eyeshadowbase auch sehr lange im inneren Augenwinkel

Fazit

Wie schon oben erwähnt, ist dieser Lidschatten nun mal mein absoluter Lieblingshighlighter für die Augen. Es ist die perfekte Mischung zwischen weiß und zu unscheinbar, sodass der Highlighter nicht zu unnatürlich wirkt. Außerdem wirkt er super auf Fotos und lässt automatisch einen viel wacher, aufgeweckter und freundlicher erscheinen. Daher ist das eine absolute Kaufempfehlung und gehört in jede Schminktasche :)

Ich hoffe, ihr fandet die kleine Review etwas hilfreich. Lasst mich wissen, was ihr von der Farbe haltet und ob ihr auch schon weiter Lidschatten aus der Reihe ausprobiert habt?

Ich wünsche euch einen wunderschönen Tag!

Alles Liebe,

NYX Caviar & Bubbles - Review & Swatches

Hello everyone?

How are you? After starting to create ore dramatic eye make up looks again, I discovered my NYX 10 Colour Eyeshadow Palette in the colour Caviar & Bubbles again, which was originally named Champagne & Caviar. As I am so thrilled about this palette and really enjoyed using it, I want to give you a review and show you some swatches.

Price: $11

NYX promises:

Look no further than these scintillating eye shadow palettes inspiredby runway trends and modern style. Available in 16 different color combinations, and sleek enough to fit into a clutch, you’ll likely want more than one. The shades are wearable, covetable and fashionable. Expect rich, lasting pigments and glamour.

The palette comes in a sleek, small black packaging with a sponge applicator that I don't find of much use as I only use brushes for applying my eyeshadows. The packaging also includes a large mirror and looks elegant, in general.

Swatches - left to right 

Swatches - right to left

Swatches

Positive

✧ dupe for Urban Decay Naked Palette

✧ variety of light to dark, matte, shimmery and frost eyeshadows

✧ high-pigmented

✧ easily blendable

✧ good for traveling

✧ price

✧ elegant packaging with mirror

Negative

✧ pink colour is hard to combine

✧ not smudge-proof

 ★★★★★ (5/5 Stars)

As you might can tell from the positive side, I am totally impressed of the product and would totally recommend it to everyone. The good quality and the perfect colour combination for this low price is insane and comparable to the Urban Decay Naked Palette. So everyone who is searching for a cheaper version, a dupe for the UD Naked Palette can go for this one! 

What do you think of NYX products?

Wish you a wonderful day! Love,

Another DM Drugstore Haul? Yes, please!

Hello everyone!

This is a cautionary tale: Don't go in a drugstore after having a frustrating fight with a salesman only because you wanted to spend some money on some lovely new trainers. Especially when you know that absolutely everything makes you happy in the drugstore and you have the insatiable longing to buy everything. Well, that happened yesterday and before I am going to declare myself as being crazy, I thought I take the chance and show you what I have purchased. So without any further ado, let's get started.

I primarily had to buy a new shampoo for my mum and I used this in order to buy million other things for me. So the shampoo that my mum and I use is the Pantene Pro-V shampoo for volume and coloured hair for 2,65€. This is the best drugstore shampoo that I have tested so far. So far! Because I also purchased the Guhl Blonde shampoo for natural or coloured blonde hair for 3,35€ due to the fact that another costumer bought it. We'll see how good this is.

The Sagrotan Healthy Touch hand sanitizer is probably the least exciting purchase, but this is great when you are traveling or eating outdoor and want to refresh your hands when there isn't a bathroom nearby. However, the price of 1,95€ is discussable.

 

 

This is my favourite purchase of all - the Catrice Absolute Nude Eyeshadow Palette for only 4,95€. My frustrating mind literally grabbed the product as this reminds me so much of the Urban Decay Basics Palette only without the black. I will write a separate post about this palette, but I think it is great for everyday makeup looks.

 

Then my face powder hit the pan. I always went with a Maybelline powder, however, while standing on the Catrice counter, I thought why not trying out another, much cheaper powder? And as I haven't had any bad experiences with Catrice, the Catrice Skin Finish Compact Powder for 3,95€ ended up in my basket.

 

directly applied and 2 minutes after

 Finding a light, neutral, medium-coverage and not too dewy foundation is a really tough task whereas meanwhile I doubt whether this perfect foundation exists in drugstore or whether I have to spend some money on a high-end foundation. So I gave the Astor anti shine makeup in shade 201 sand for 5,35€ a go and you can see that it oxidizes and gets darker because of the mattifying effect. Thus, let's keep fingers crossed that it suits my skin tone.

 

The last purchase was the Garnier face mask against pimples with a special thermo-formulation which costs only 0,95€ and includes two uses. I actually realise right now, that I had an allergic reaction to their facial wash...

So this was my frustrating drugstore haul which ended up being not that bad and completely nonsense. I still hope that I will find a good store with a friendly salesman that is willing to sell me some proper trainers with a reliable advice. Thank you for reading this and let me know whether you want to here a specific review to one of these products!

Wish you a wonderful day! Love,

How To Apply An Eyeshadow Base

Some people might ask: "What? Everyone knows how to apply an eyeshadow base!" Well, in fact, for some people this can become a tough task! When the eyeshadow doesn't last even though you've applied an eyeshadow base, then this post might help you.

An eyeshadow base prevents the eyeshadow from creasing, which means that the color is "running" into your crease, by being like a layer between your skin and your eyeshadow. During the day our skin produces natural oils, some people produce more, some people less. We also produces these oils on our eyelids, especially people with oily skin have to deal with this issue. The problem is that the eyeshadow base can not work as a "second layer" when your skin produces so much oil. Basically what happens is that your skin absorbs the base.

If you have got normal to dry skin (normal to dry eyelids) you can be really lucky because you just have to use a tiny amount of product. Just dot your fingertip with a little bit of product and there you go! If you have really dry skin then you probably don't even need any eyeshadow base!

If you have combination or oily skin (oily eyelids) then you definitely have to use more. I have to use a thick coat of half of my fingertip. When you apply it to your eyelids, it appears to be way to much, but after a while half of the product will be absorbed in the skin. Then you have enough product on your eyelids left, so that the eyeshadow will last!

amount of product for oily skin

And I promise with the right eyeshadow base and this tips your eye make up will last at least 8 hours!

DM Haul! Haircare, Nails, Face & Eye Make-up!

Immer wenn ich meine Klausuren beendet habe, belohne ich mich selbst mit einem kleinen Einkauf in meinem geliebten DM. Mein Raubzug ist diesmal recht überschaubar, nur bin ich momentan mit meinem Make-up Sortiment relativ zufrieden und denke momentan über meine Einkäufe vernünftig nach. Dennoch denke ich, dass es wichtig ist, dass man sich etwas gönnt gerade nach einer bestandenen Klausuren-Phase.

Haircare:

 

Ich hab schon viele gute Reviews über die Gliss Kur Pflegeserien gelesen und nun habe ich mir die Gliss Kur Ultimate Repair Anti-Schaden-Kur geleistet, nachdem ich bemerkt habe, dass meine Spitzen schon recht trocken werden. Bisher bin ich mit dem Ergebnis sehr zufrieden!

Face & Nails:

 

Noch nie habe ich in der Drogerie ein Make-up gefunden, was wirklich hell genug für mein Hautton ist und fast hätte ich meine Hoffnung aufgegeben, hätte ich nicht das Max Factor Soft Resistent Make up in 1 Light gefunden. 

Swatch

Es wird definitiv eine Review folgen, weil da es bisher so scheint, als ob ich mein perfektes Make-up gefunden habe.

Dann habe ich mir noch den Essence colour & go in 122 chic reloaded gekauft, ein sehr dunkler holographischer Nagellack. Swatches und weitere Inspirationen findet ihr hier.

Eye Make-up:

 

Zum dritten Mal habe ich mir nun diese Mascara, die Essence I love extreme Mascara, nachgekauft und ich bin immer nun begeistert von ihr und kann keinen einzigen Nachteil anmerken. Von daher fällt dies höchstwahrscheinlich in meine Kategorie des "Must-haves". 

 

Mein letzter Kauf waren diese beiden neuen Lidschatten von Essence. Einmal 64 greybound, was ein wunderschönes schimmriges grau, braun ist, und 65 is it purple?, welcher einen holographischen Effekt hat und je nach Lichteinfall lila, braun erscheint.

 

Swatches - oben: is it purple? / unten: greyhound

Ich hoffe ihr fandet meinen kleinen Haul etwas interessant und konntet vielleicht für euren nächsten Einkauf bei DM inspiriert werden. Ich wünsche Euch noch einen wunderschönen Tag und genießt die letzten Sonnenstrahlen des goldenen Oktobers ;)

Alles Liebe,

  

Most Worn *Summer* Things TAG!

I was tagged by a lovely friend on twitter with the Most Worn *Summer* Things Tag where you show in certain categories what you liked to wear during this summer. Even though the summer isn't over and it wasn't that summery here where I live, I still really like to do this tag. If you want to know what my most worn things are, then keep on reading!

 The Tag:

1) Most worn nail polish

For elegant or more natural days I always used the P2 nail polish in Lovely whereas my new Essie nail polish in 99 Mint Candy Apple was perfect for a hot and funny summer day.

2) Most worn hair product

The John Frieda Frizz-Ease Hair Treatment is a wonder. Applied in towel wet hair your hair is so smooth and looks much more shiner and healthier.

3) Most worn bag

I loved to wear my Accessorize cross body bag in this beautiful nude cream colour. It looks trendy and elegant at the same time. HUGE LOVE!

4) Most worn shoes

A year ago I wore these shoes and got terrible blisters, but this year they are incredible comfortable. And because of the wedge, I can walk in these Unisa sandals for hours.

5) Most worn accessories

I haven't worn a lot of jewelry, I was rather on a minimal jewelry trip. So my classic pearl gold earrings were suitable for every outfit. 

6) Most worn clothing item

These are my Tailly Weil brown shorts, definitely my most worn clothing item. They are a tiny bit longer then a hot pants and not that tight. Therefore, they are perfect for longer walks, because the most unattractive thing is when a woman pulls down her shorts in her inner thighs.

7) Most worn foundation

I purchased this just a few weeks ago and I am totally loving this. It is the BB Cream by Garnier for acne prone/ oily skin. This foundation is amazing and makes my skin looks just gorgeous. It is light, but at the same time almost full-coverage and it does minimize my pores.

8) Most worn blush and/or bronzer

It is so funny that I used to hate this bronzer and now, that I found the right way to apply it, I love it. The Essence sun club bronzer for lighter skin gives you a natural tan applied on the apples of your cheeks.

9) Most worn lip product

I actually made a review of this here and I still like the Blistex Lip Tone so much. I used this during the whole summer, because it is not too heavy or sticky and still makes your lips look so much better.

10) Most worn mascara

Another probably all time favourite is my new discovered Essence I love extreme volume mascara. This mascara makes my lashes extremely long, voluminous, just everything! 

11) Most worn eyeshadow

Seriously, I can not say how much I love this product. This was probably the best purchase ever! The Catrice Intensif' eye Wet & Dry Shadow 030 Vanilla Sky Ride is the best highlighting eyeshadow I have ever used. I love to  wear a beautiful pin up look with this eyeshadow.

So these are my most worn summer things! I hope you like this tag and please comment below what you liked to wear this summer!

Wish you a wonderful day!

Lots of love,