Cristina Scabbia Inspired Makeup Look

Hi! Today I bring you a slightly different post. Tânia did something similar to this close to the holiday season where she posted a photo from her Instagram page and identified all the products she used under in the post. This post will be something like that.

This look is inspired by Cristina Scabbia and I posted a photo of this makeup on my Instagram page, which is now private due to my sister that has been stalking me lately, so sweet of her. But anyway, this look is a recreation of that dark smokey eye Cristina loves to wear so much and the red lips that she also seems to love.
She usually goes for a full on black "panda" eye but I find that that look doesn't suit most eye shapes so I decided to highlight the inner corners instead of doing them black as well like she does.

Eyes:

Essence I Love Stage Eyeshadow Primer

Avon SuperSHOCK Gel Eyeliner Pencil in Black

Avon True Color Eyeshadow in Blackest Black

Catrice Absolute Eye Colour Mono Eyeshadow in 660 Ice White Open

H&M Gel Eyeliner

Avon Mega Effects Mascara in Blackest Black

Brows:

Essence Eyebrow Designer in 02 Brown

Essence Lash & Brow Gel Mascara

Essence Big Bright Eyes Jumbo Pencil in 01 Nude

Face:

Catrice Prime & Fine Face Primer

Garnier Oil Free BB Cream in Light

Catrice Camouflage Cream Concealer in 020 Light Beige

Catrice Nude Illusion Loose Powder

H&M Bronzing Powder in Gorgeous Tan

Lips:

Essence Lip Liner in 13 Transparent 

Rimmel Lasting Finish By Kate Moss Lipstick in 01

I hope you enjoyed this slightly different post.

I got very inspired by Tânia's post and I'm thinking about doing something similar next and I'll probably post it on tuesday or wednesday since I have some free time after my Portuguese test (Fernando Pessoa is killing me). I've been posting more than usual..

Anyway, I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Love, 

Anna

Review: Avon Vixen Lipstick

Hi! Today I bring you a review/swatch post of a lipstick I am very fond of.

I ordered this lipstick because it looked like such a beautiful color and, surprisingly, it turned out to be very similar to what they had in the little magazine thingy.

I've had bad experiences with ordering lipsticks from Avon and Oriflame and Yves Rocher and such because they looked like something in the paper and turned out to be much lighter or much brighter in real life. But this time I sort of took the risk cause it looked so beautiful in the picture, I had to have it.

This lipstick is from the Hollywood collection, which I believe is limited edition, and its name is Vixen.

The shade Vixen appears to be a deep dark red in the tube but transfers as a deep reddish purple color rather.

It has a very glossy finish and that leads it to transfer a bit less opaque than I would like. 

It has no shimmer to it and you can achieve a good pigmentation by layering it over a lip pencil or by applying multiple layers of the lipstick itself.

After about an hour on the lips, it starts to lose it's glossiness probably because the lips absorb the moisture in it.

This lipstick is, overall, a good lipstick if you're going to do a vampy look or just want to do some autumn makeup, it's perfect for that.

It definitely stands out in a simple makeup, just a wing of eyeliner, mascara and this lipstick will give you a glamorous look just like that.

If you have the patience to work with it to build up a smooth opaque finish, I would totally recommend it.

If you're more into those lipsticks that give you an opaque coverage with one layer, you should forget about this one, it's not at all for you.

I would also not recommend this if you have naturally chapped lips. It would emphasize that and make it look very unattractive. 

I think that this lipstick would be a close match to MAC's Lingering Kiss but, again, I don't have that lipstick, so this is just a guess.

That's it for this week's post, I hope you have enjoyed it.

I hope to do a look next week but I'm not sure who I should inspire it in. I think it's a bit too soon to start doing christmas looks already, so an inspired look it shall be.

Love,

Anna