Summer fresh!

Ok so I'm out in the archipelago for 3 weeks and the Internet here is extremely poor. It depends a lot about the weather believe it or not! But as I'm typing I can't get a single web page to open and here I'm sitting with a bunch if great pictures on my laptop that I can't upload and post. Just to be safe I just snapped a few selfies as one does anywhere everywhere anytime and all the time. So for now it's gonna have to do with just these iPhone pics. #gottalovequalitypictures

xx Bettina

Just look at me, look at me, I've been burning for you so long.

This morning I was doing my makeup as per usual. Listening to great music. Dreaming away. Thinking about my life. Feeling happy. Thinking about how I'm in such a happy place in my life right now. But wait a minute... What's that now?

 

How can one just drop ones mascara brush? Me? noooooo....! I haven't done that. Just trying out something new. being creative. Lip-art you know?

Here's today. Was loving the orange yesterday so I kept with the orange again today. However I wanted a little more pure orange as yesterday the orange melted together with my lip colour and became a little bit more coral shade-y. So I used my concealer as base for my lips today to have a nude natural base for my orange lips.

 

Hope you're all surviving with the quality of the pics. Will change veeery soon. Believe me I do photography as a hobby and no, that is NOT with my iPhone but with my DSLR so nobody suffers from these pics now the way I am !!! Oh the torture...

xx Bettina

Your like a shot of pure gold. I think I'm 'bout to explode.

For todays look I went with something really quick and simple, yet I found my inspiration in a few comments I saw on a site last night. I can't remember the site as I was just flicking though pages randomly surfing the net while trying to stay awake waiting for my sis who wanted to fashionshow for me. It was some video post about this summers biggest trend of orange/peach/coral colours and quite a few had commented on that particular post that, well basically, that the video was quite bullshit as thy couldn't wear any of those colours in a million years. Well I'd like to disagree and I also did so while commenting offering those who feel this way to contact me though my blog and I will 'do them up' and prove them wrong. Find a "never in a million years"- colour that suits them perfectly. As they mentioned themselves that it's not just about the colour. It's just as well about any shade of that colour.

Well let me tell you my lovelies why I so strongly disagree and why I'm up for the challenge to prove a.n.y.b.o.d.y who disagrees with me, wrong!

It's not just about the colour nor just about the shade. They play a massive part, yes. Don't  get me wrong but it's equally as much if not more up to how it's applied and how the rest of the face is made up. You need to find a harmony in the face. If your very pale and a little bit of a wallflower and not about to walk out on the catwalk for a fashionshow you obviously should stay way clear of MAC's brightest matt orange lipstick. Depending on the look one goes for and what type of style and personality one has, the colours has to harmonize and complement each other on the face.

Myself I've been a massive "never in a million years" kind of person and not even as a teenager but just a few years ago I felt this way about orange especially. Not anymore though as I, to my joy, proved myself wrong.


Here I'm sporting orange on the lips and coral on my cheeks.

And to complete the look I kept clothes quite natural. LOVE beige ...

And to add a pop of colour in the spirit of the makeup;

What do you think What's your "never in a million years" colour?



xx Bettina

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars.

So I had a few of my Naked Cosmetics eyeshadows with me and hey are amazing applied wet so I decided I wanted to do an eyeliner look today. I used shade EB-03 from the Ebony Collection,- see it Here . I unfortunately enough, did not have my Mixin liquid from Make Up Store - which by the way is a MUST HaVE! I can assure you. Use the mixing liquid for your cake eyeliner or nearly any eyeshadow you can imagine (sometimes the quality and type of some solid eyeshadows don't agree with liquid) and it'll become next to waterproof and smudgeproof. It's amazing and puuuurrrfect for beach season!!
So yeah. I didn't have that one. Bummer. I went along with water. Not the greatest of ideas as the colour comes off from he lightest touch after it dries. Which I knew. But hey ho, what does one do in a desperate attempt of proving oneself wrong?  Meaning my eyelashcurler was full of the stunningly glittery green whilst left on my lid was a very dull greyish shadow of there the beautiful glimmer once had been.... I touched up on the eyeliner once I'd applied mascara but it for sure won't stay neat for long. Not even hours I'm sure.

Super too bad I didn't have my camera as this colour as an eyeliner is actually really cool!
Will redo this look with both Mixing liquid and my wonderful DSLR..

 

xx Bettina

Cuz I never knew what I wanted, 'til I looked into your eyes.

Only 5 days more of super quality pics after this! Hang on lovelies, it can only get better once you're at the bottom! whoooa am I being depressing or cheerful? ha!

I'd be a nightmare to be around as we speak. My cousin already had a little taste of it and unfortunately enough she's got more coming but I've got a little case of diarrhea of the mouth and I can't stop babbling once I start. Super happy mood despite the rainy weather. For some reason I'm just loving it, loving life loving all the people around me. Gonna grab me umbrella and take a little stroll in the rain now I reckon. Summer rain smells so amazing.

Enjoy todays; soft purples.

oh and here's todays nails, just simple and classy.

Lots of love and kisses to all of you. Hope you're having as lovely a day as I am !!



xx Bettina

So don't act like it's a bad thing to fall in love with me .

Ok guys so as it looks I'm gonna be back home end of this week. Where I have my camera and all my gear so even though I'm kind of breaking my blogging promise of not uploading shitty quality iPhone photos of my makes, I'm gonna go with "better this than nothing"...?


So this is today's look.

 

 Lotsalove !!

xx Bettina