FAQ - Beauty Addict

1. On average, for application of your typical day-to-day work/college makeup, how long do you spend?

I do my make up, my hair and dress up all at the same time every time I go out. I am a bit all over the place, you know?! Usually, to get the result I want it will take me one and half hours, but one hour is enough for me to get ready. 

2. On average, for application of your going out/special makeup, how long do you spend?

It's the same as the answer for Q1, it takes me around 1 to 1.5 hours to get ready. No matter what!

3. If you were to be stranded on a desert island, which 4 products would you want with you?

Before I start answering, I just want to let you know that this question has been asked to my friends to test how well they do know me. Most of them said I would bring a suit case full of make up, shoes, and clothes. When I read it, it really sounds shallow actually xD and I guess it's not true, when I know I will get stranded somewhere, maybe I will bring lot and lotsa canned food (with the can opener of course) and bottle water. 

But in the case of make up, I will bring with me (I won't bring make up as noone  will see me with it anyway!):

• my holy grail product, Biotherm moisturizer
  
• La roche posay skin toner for sensitive skin
• Tanning oil with sun protector (SPF 25)
• leave in conditioner for my hair

4.What beauty 'must haves' do you always carry in your handbag?

I am obsessed with lips, I never touch up my make up, but I always get very annoyed when I forgot to bring my lips products like lip balm, lip gloss anything. When the product I put in the morning came off, I really feel the urge to put on (I try as much not to let my lips get dried).

5. Which drugstore brand would be your favourite?

I don't have any particular feeling to any of the drug store brand, but most of the time I will end up with Maybelline or Bourjois. Now, I got sucked into buying more and more GOSH, this girl really sell it to me.

6. High Street or High End makeup?

If I have the money, there is no doubt that I will go for the high end brands. But for now, I try to minimize my make up expense; as a consequence, I buy 'important' products such as foundation, concealer, primers from the high end brands and 'not-so important' products like eye shadow, mascara,etc.  from high street brands.

Sometimes, high street brands are not that bad either. You just need to experiment a bit. 

7. On average, how long does it take you to get dressed/select your outfit?

I always do my make up, hair and choosing my clothes all at the same time, so I cannot tell. It also depends whether I have already planned an outfit the night before or not; it really saves time but I am always too lazy to do that in a regular basis.

8. On average, how long does it take you to get ready for a special occasion/night out?

1 to 1.5 hours.

9. If you could only choose one item of clothing from your wardrobe, ie jeans which would be your favourite?

Without taking the shitty weather here into account, I think I will go with a nice summery dress. 

10. What outfit gives you instant feel-good factor?

A cute dress, black opaque tights, shoe-boots (or any killing shoes that match with the rest), with edgy accessories will do!

11. Which shops do you favour?

I love River Island, I also love Urban Outfitter but unfortunately they don't have any branch here and they aren't willing to ship to the Netherlands either. I don't deny that I buy a lot from Zara and Mango, but it's mainly because those are easily accessible and affordable.

12. High Street or High End clothes?

Again, if someday I don't need to worry about money, I will surely go for the high end, even though I am also 100% sure that I can't keep myself away completely from those high-street brands because I just love the idea of spending money on clothes, shoes, belts, etc.

Looking at the runway shows and the products they have to offer, I think I am gonna go with Lanvin, Burberry Prosum, LV and channel as my fave high end designer brands.

What am I using at the moment TAG

I have been a loyal reader and viewer to Lollipop26 and I found out the tag that she stole from her neighbor is kinda fun to do, so this is me participating in it.

What I am using at the moment as for:

HAIR

• Shampoo & Conditioner: Head and Shoulder (it's a two in one product - I thought it cannot be any easier, right?)
  
• Heat protector: NAK Heat Beat, which is I am very satisfied with; but I found it a bit expensive (18 eur). I really like the smell of it and it also has a formula of leave-in conditioner, which is always good, right? Due to the high price range, I tried to find a cheaper option (only cost me 5 eur) and I went with Tom Sebastian heat protector as well as volume boosting spray. I tried it a couple of time already, but I kinda hate the smell of it. I don't know if I am gonna be switching back to the Nak. I think it's kinda important for me to have a good heat protector as I blow dry and also straighten my hair almost every day.
• Styling product: I have a lot but I mainly use L'oreal Studio fix and shine finishing spray.

Any other remarks: That's all I use. I don't use any hair mask or anything like that. 

FACE (beware - it's a lot!)

 Skin care

• Cleanser: Avene gel cleanser for very sensitive skin 
• Tonic: Louis Widmer Skin appeal Lipo Sol Lotion (for my forehead) & La Roche-Posay solution micellaire Physiologique (for the rest) - I have oily & acne prone forehead and dry & sensitive skin --> I only use this in the evening and only if I use make up.
• Lotion:  Biotherm Nutrisource for a very dry and sensitive skin (made with not only water, but also natural oil, it's expensive, 40 eur, but worthed) --> it is so good especially if you have a very very dry skin like me! I tried so many skin cream out there to fix my dry skin, but nothing works except this one. I use this day and night but only for cheek and nose. Another lotion for my forehead is Neutrogena Visible clear spot stress control, which is not sold in the Netherlands. I bought this in Berlin (around 6 eur), but honestly, I don't really see the differences that much, I still get acne every now and then and they do not disappear right away after the first application. So, I might not buy this one again. 
• Serum: Vitamin E moisture serum from the Body shop (I am loving it!!!! Definitely will buy another one when it's finished!) &  camomile soothing eye serum, also from the Body Shop. It doesn't give me any difference, but it definitely calms me down from wrinkles, etc.

 Make Up (it's not in order of application)

• Foundation Primer: Make Up Forever HD primer in green (to eliminate redness)
• Foundation: Currently, I am liking Maybelline dream matte mousse in 030 sand.
• Powder: Good old Studio fix by MAC, I am a C4.
• Blush: nothing - I do have some, but I am not in the mood of applying any of the colour on the apple of my cheeks. 
• Bronzer: Sephora bronzer
• Eye shadow primer: Two faced shadow insurance
• Eye shadow combi: light brown & dark brown from two faced glamour to go palette 
• Eye liner: Mac eye kohl pencil in Teddy (and I smudge that with sephora dome shadow brush number 13).
• Eye lashes curler:Maybelline Stretch and define, waterproof - It has to be waterproof otherwise my lashes won't stay up that long.
• Mascara: Shu Uemura eye lashes curler -  amazing!
• Brows: Anna Sui (don't know the colour and the number)
• Lips: First, I always apply lip balm on and currently I am using Yves Rocher  in coconut and then lately I am so into combining: Barry M touch of magic lipstick in green and Gosh lipstick in Darling then put a clear gloss on top. 
• Make up remover: Avene eau thermal extremely gentle cleanser for sensitive and irritated skin
• Eye Make up remover: The Body Shop waterproof cammomile eye make up remover. I have another eye make up remover from Sephora, but it contains alcohol in it and it hurst my eye lids. 

BODY

• Shower Gel: Dove Go Fresh shower gel - smells so good!
• Body Lotion: Dove Body Silk
• Perfume:Sheer by Stella Mc Cartney
• Nail colour: now I am not wearing anything, I give my nails a break but I was putting on the body shop nail polish in angel pink before.

I hope I am not missing anything. 

That's it, so I am really into make up currently as you can see!

Anyway a new eye shadow palette coming soon! I am so excited. 

So, I will leave this tag open as always....cause I don't want to leave somebody behind by not tagging them. Please ladies (and also gents), if you wanna do this tag, please do and let me know in the comment below, so I can visit and read what you are using currently... 

thanks!

Being narcissistic is not a crime

EOTD

My make up today. It does not look so extreme in the picture, but in person you can tell that I put make up on. 

The closer look:

Neutral brown look:

• MAC eye kohl in teddy near the upper and bottom eye lashes
  
• matte brown eye shadow by Etude on the eye lid
• GOSH pigment eye shadow in satin on the crease 
• MAC eye shadow in nano gold (from the culture cherry collection - spice chocolate quad) to highlight the brow bones
• Maybelline waterproof stretch and define mascara in black

Drugstore Haul, EOTD and food xD

Before I start with my haul and EOTD (read: eyes of the day), in line with my own slogan written in the bottom of the page, "FASHION IS LIKE FOOD, THEY ARE STARTED WITH AN F AND BOTH ARE FEEDING YOUR SOULS"

I just want to show off my cooking ability. About two weeks ago, I cooked stir-fried scallops with sugar snap peas. Below is how the result looked like. 

Enjoy the food first, before we get into the haul part!

Here you go!

Today, I went to a drug store to buy shampoos, heat protector for my hair and whatnot. In a sudden, I remember her and her contest's prize a while ago so I thought I will give it a try. I actually realized that nude lipstick never really suit me, because my lips are naturally pale and nude, so having a nude lipstick, brownish lipstick - whatever -  will make my lips even paler and unattractive. But, somehow, I still believe that there must be one kind of nude lipstick that will suit me, I just have to find it! When I swatched GOSH velvet lipstick in darling (7.99 eur) on the back of my hand, I thought,"Wow, this is not so bad at all, it's not as brown as my mac honey love, which doesn't suit me completely. Maybe this is the one!" 

That's that, I know I am a sucker so I brought that to the cashier and paid that along with three other pigments from GOSH in Meringue, Butterfly and Satin (6.99 eur each) and an eye shadow quad from Rimmel (9.99 eur). I know, I don't expect good pigmentation from the eye shadow quad, but I thought, I didn't really have a silver and grey eye shadows for every day make up and I believe for every day make up, I don't need good pigmentation. When I swatched them on, the colour pay off was quite good (up to my standard) so I also picked it to the cashier. 

Here you go!

GOSH Pigments in Satin, Meringue and Butterfly 

GOSH Lipstick in Darling (134)

Rimmel Eye shadow Quad in 001 Smokey Noir

Swatches: Meringue - Satin - Butterfly

My verdict:

• Rimmel Quad: I don't recommend people to buy their colourful eye shadows, I bought this because I see it as my daily necessity. You know what I mean, right? If you have the money, you should just go to MAC or Nars and buy their eye shadow. 
  
• GOSH pigments: the pigmentation is also not as good as mac pigment, these are more like micro glitters, which are quite good if you just want to spark your eye make up. Or, you can mix the GOSH pigment in meringue (the left one in the swatch picture above) with your foundation to get a glowy canvass. 
• GOSH Velvet Lipstick: The quality is quite good actually, I might buy another colour in the future. 

Now, on to my eyes of the day(Request from my honeybee). Please excuse my blemishes and oily forehead. 

Anyhoo, I hope you enjoy! Next post will be about my sort of 'new vanity area' and my skin care regime. Bear with me! 

Doei!

PS:

• I can't stop laughing at the last picture of my EOTD, look at my bottom lip! Somehow I like to pout my bottom lip in all of my EOTD pictures today. I was a bit hesitant to post this picture, na ja... whatever! Hahaha...
  
• And in this picture, I wore the nude GOSH lipstick on with Lancaster glamour gloss in coral colour (I ripped off the name nor the number of the lipgloss! Sorry!)
  
• I really need to have my eyebrows groomed!

2nd win in Polyvore

So, today, I won the 5th place in Ugg boots contest... yayyy I am so happy! =)

My first win in Polyvore

So, for the first time in my polyvore life, which is only 17 days, I won the second place of 'Yellow contest'.

My user name is Hoeytje =)

Look of The Day - In Style Magazine

I love to collect pictures from fashion magazines or just celeb websites and put them on the wall or here in my blog, especially if they have the same style as I do and if I think I have the assets to channel their looks. 

Here is what I got from in style magazine.

Eyebrows

I really don't know what to do with my eyebrows...I am hopeless with these, they are untamed, never groomed and look so gross...

Please please anyone give me some tips on how to do your eye brows

Make-Up for tomorrow

So after quite a while, finally I am going to Amsterdam to meet my best friends during my 'hogeschool' period and have a little fun. I am not sure what I am gonna wear but I did browse on mac website and I think I am gonna put make up like this.

This 'full-face' picture is meant to be used with Blonde, Brunette and Red-head collection. Well...honestly, I don't own any of it, but I have so many brown eye-shadow, I will try to work with what I have.

Another thing, I am so happy that finally my boyfriend is flying back to Germany, meaning that from tomorrow on we can talk freely on the phone after three weeks of almost non existence phone conversations. He had a 9-hour transit in Malaysia, so I asked him to buy me MAC brushes cause I heard that they are a lot cheaper there. Finally, I got my first MAC brushes and they are 109 (face brush for contour) and 217 (eye brush for blending). 

I AM EXTREMELY HAPPY!!

217 blending brush

109 contour blush

Polyvore addiction still goes on

Little Miss Pinky by hoeytje


Pink & Green Village Girl by hoeytje


I love My Pattern Skirt! by hoeytje

Back to School by hoeytje



Contest Entry - Dem Shades by hoeytje


Love Beach by hoeytje


Glamour - SJP by hoeytje


Nine degree celsius by hoeytje


Miss Fruity by hoeytje


PS. I love you! by hoeytje


Celebrity - Nicole Richie by hoeytje


Summer Days by hoeytje


Chic and Nerd by hoeytje

Le Paris by hoeytje


My perfect little date by hoeytje

Review: Maybeline Mascaras

So, here I am trying to do a review about two different maybeline mascaras. I love a cheap drug-store brand mascara because it works amazingly and inexpensive. Lately, I bought the new comer, Maybeline the Colossal Volume Express Mascara (the yellow one - see picture below) for around 12 euro (I don't remember precisely) and according to the Maybeline's official website, it's supposed to create nine times the volume instantly with no clumps. But.... somehow, it doesn't do the job for me...I am very disappointed after all.

So this is my bare eye (see, I don't even seem to have any single eye lashes), which I didn't do anything prior to mascara application. I didn't put any mascara primer either. (bear with me -  I don't have any make up on ma face..so it may look a bit scary xD)

Then, I curled my eye lashes on both eyes with my Shu Uemura eye lashes curler (see my review on Shu Uemura's eye lashes curler in the previous entry). So, after the curling process, my eye lashes were raising up on high and then I applied the colossal mascara, it did the job... but it only lasted for a couple seconds (really... literally...after I am done with my other eyes, my eye lashes on which I applied the Maybeline Colossal on have gone down a bit like this... see the picture below!)

And after a day, the lashes would definitely go down like there is no mascara to make it stand up.

Where is the 9x volume which is promised???????

Now, up to the second one, Maybeline Lash Define. I believe the price for this one is about the same range as the colossal one. I bought this one twice already and so far I am very satisfied.

Unlike the Colossal one, this one has a flexible wand. At first, I got so annoyed with it, but now I adore the wand because it can be bent and reach the tiny lashes in the corner of my eyes and near the tear duct area.

According to the website, this Maybeline's eye lashes definition will give your lashes no clumps and create stunning length as well as clean definition, which I think is really true.

So, I did the same step to my bare lashes; after I curled my lashes I applied this mascara instead. Below is the result.

Can you see the difference???? I think this one above is more defined, longer and believe me, it stays like this till the end of the day. Ask my boyfriend for a proof. xD

So... I hope this review is helpful to you guys. Have a good one!