Sephora Meteor Shower Eyeshadow Trio

Heya!

So I recently purchased one of Sephora's Microsmooth Eyeshadow trios in 08 Meteor Shower (blue/gold/brown pictured below) and was dying to try it out! So yesterday, when I was out and about doing some shopping, I decided to smack it on and give it a test run. Here's the product and what I came up with:

The pic on the left is courtesy of the Sephora website, and both on the right are finished product, just in a bit different lighting :)

And then here's a couple zoomed out-pics so you can see what the whole thing looks like. #shameless-selfies lol

So as you can see, what I did was just apply a neutral base followed by the dark brown colour in the crease and outer lid, the teal colour in the middle of the lid, and the gold in the inner corner of the eyes and a little bit in that first third of the eyelid. Lined the top again with the dark brown colour and lined the bottom outer half with the dark brown, and inner half with the gold. Then just blended it all a little, applied my Make Up Forever mascara (might review in a short while if I have anything specific to say) and voila! The colour on my lips is Clinique's Pink Spice lipstick and face is the Too Faced "Natural Face" palette to complete the look.

Overall, I was really happy with it all, and in particular, I REALLY liked the gold colour. The idea with the blue though was to have it in the centre of the eye to draw the attention there and bring out my brown eyes a bit. Although I do think it did that, I would have preferred if the blue was a little more pigmented as I had to apply a few layers to get the colour in the pictures. In the future, I'm thinking I might sub in my Surfin' USA Sephora shadow featured a few posts back (link here) instead. The dark brown was also alright but I would have preferred something a little more bold. However, once it was all on, it did stay like this all day through my walkin' and shoppin' and haircuttin' adventures so I am really happy with it all put together - plus the colours almost perfectly match my shirt which I thought was a really cool coincidence ;p

Basically, I like the trio, I'll continue to wear this look on the occasional summer day out in the sun, but sub in another blue for the one in the trio to make it more bold. And it will be cool. And yeahhh. That's pretty much that! Let me know what you think about the Meteor Shower trio or anything else related, and I will catch y'all on the flip side!

Bye for now! xo

~SV

Pretty in Polka - Mexx Outfit of the Day

Hola senoritas!

Recently the sun's been coming out more often, it's getting warmer and brighter outside, and that just makes me happy! So out with the dark, cold clothes and in with the bright, fun, cute summery ones! Take a look:

So yeah, today I'm wearing everything Mexx (except for my shoes purchased somewhere in Serbia last summer) with these white pants I literally just bought yesterday and a loose polka shirt that's tucked in at the back so it doesn't look too big for me (thanks mum for letting me raid your closet! xo). Although it's a complete coincidence that my whole outfit is Mexx, I'm honestly not even surprised because I LOVE that store! They've got the perfect classy clothing you can wear for work or anywhere else when you wanna dress things up a little. Needless to say, their pieces play a significant role in my wardrobe ;P

As for hair and accessories, you'll notice I'm keeping it light today for work, but I've got my basic Mexx purse which I lug around everywhere, a couple of Sephora ribbon hair elastics (I'm always donning the hair elastics on my wrist or in my hair lol), and a simple messy (by nature, not choice haha) side braid. Nothing fancy! Though, now that I think of it, I totally could've used my blue/gold Aldo earrings or a nice necklace with this outfit...oh well! Onto makeup!

Sorry for the weirdness in these pics, they were taken early in the morning with different lighting because whatever :p

So I did something a little different with my eyes today too, as opposed to my regular neutral look, wearing just two light brown neutral base colours for lid and crease paired with new (for me) Sephora blues: #17 Sweet Dreams in the inner corner of the eyes, and the #14 Surfin' USA for both upper and lower lash lines. And then rounded off with Make Up Forever's Smoky Extravagant Mascara - it's my first time using this mascara as opposed to my Clinique High Impact Waterproof Mascara, but so far I'm liking it! Everything else is the same as usual, keeping it light for summer ^.^

Aaaaannnnnd yeah, that's pretty well that! Hope you're enjoying your day, and if you have any suggestions on how to wear blue eyeshadows, let me know! I'm dying to try out different looks with my new ones!

Till later!

~SV