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Last weekend me and my friend Tamar got creative and took a go at the Met Gala Challenge! I had so much fun doing it, being creative with clothing, making jewelry from aluminium foil and going all out with make-up.

In case you’ve missed it: this year the Met Gala was postponed because of the COVID 19 measures. The people of the internet took it upon theirselves to have a fashion party anyway, and recreated their favorite Met Gala looks from the past years. Born was #metgalachallenge!

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Lili Reinhart attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

I decided to recreate this amazing look by Lili Reinhart from the 2019 Met Gala. The theme was Camp: Notes on Fashion and Lili rocked a Marie Antoinette inspired look.

And this is the look I created!

My ‘dress’ is made of a bath robe (pinned and tucked away with clothespins) and a mattress cover for the train.

My shoes are the only strappy heels that I own and they are black, so I wrapped them in aluminium foil.

My necklace and earrings are both made of aluminium foil as well.

For the headpiece I used 3 big pink paper orchids and 6 smaller purple paper orchids, all made by me!

The make-up look was not about many products, but mostly about the shape and shades of all the pink! In this picture you can also see my necklace close up. There’s so much you can do with aluminium foil, apparently :).

And here’s a closer look of the makeup. As you can see, it’s pretty easy in colors. One pink and one white on the eyes, one pink on the face and some highlighter. Very happy with how the eye look ended up, because I did needed some practice with blending it into the right shape and intensity.

On my eyes I used ‘Sandbar’ from the Colourpop Ooh Lala! eyeshadow palette and Ofra Pillow Talk highlighter for the inner corner highlight/inner third of the lid.

On the face I used ‘Poodle’ from the Colourpop palette as well, with a dense stippling brush because it really had to pop. It was basically blushing and contouring, both with a bright pink.

For highlighter I used the Wet ‘n Wild megaglo highlighting powder in ‘Botanic Dream’ and for the lips I used the Charlotte Tilbury lip cheat in Pillow Talk and added some Marc Jacobs Enamored Hi Shine Gloss Lip Lacquer in ‘Sugar High’.

And that’s all that I needed for this look! It was very nice to use these Colourpop shadows because they are so damn pigmented, smooth, and easy to blend.

I loved recreating a more editorial make-up look for once. I might do it more often :).

What Met Gala look would you recreate? Let me know!

Met Gala Challenge – Lili Reinhart 2019 recreation Last weekend me and my friend Tamar got creative and took a go at the Met Gala Challenge!

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A while back you could read all about the Marc Jacobs Worth the Wait O!Mega Glaze All-Over Foil Luminizer on Weeks of Beauty.

Because the Marc Jacobs Luminizers were on my wishlist a few months back, I picked up both the Worth the Wait and the Showstopper (LE) shade, when I finally found a website that shipped them to the Netherlands. Here’s a look at Showstopper! Showstopper was a Limited Edition shade in the Lust and Stardust collection at the end of 2019. You might still find it at Sephora or MarcJacobs.com in sale!

I love this packaging! It’s the same huge (huge!) and sleek packaging as the Worth the Wait luminizer, but Showstopper has all over multi color glitters on the packaging which make the packaging gorgeous. I couldn’t catch it on the photo, so you’ll just have to believe me on that 🙂 (or Google pictures that do show it).

It’s quite hard to describe the shade, so I’m gonna go and quote Temptalia.com for that: Showstopper is a ‘moderately warm-toned, light peach with a sparkle finish’. 

The luminizer is pigmented well, extremely smooth, a bit crumbly when you go over it with your finger or brush (so don’t press to hard) and mostly very pretty and shiny.

You can see the peachy shade well when swatches on my skin tone. I was a bit afraid that it would be too dark for my face.

Luckily, the shade did work on my fair skin tone, but I do have to have a tan going to make it work and I have to go lightly with the application. The shade is so special and gorgeous though!

Above are some of the dupes mentioned at Temptalia.com.

This luminizer is easy to build up, in intensity of the shade and the glow. The glow mostly comes from tiny multi colored glitters, where as the Worth the Wait luminizer shade was more a ‘no glitter glow’.

Even though this is a great highlighter and a very pretty shade, it is very expensive and not that special to be priced that steep.

It retails for $49, for which you do get a great amount of product. For my price/quantity comparison, check out the blog about Worth the Wait. But, as you can see from the dupes mentioned at Temptalia, there are dupes for just a fraction of the price.

Would you pick up this shade if it were to make a come back?

Marc Jacobs Showstopper O!Mega Glaze All-Over Foil Luminizer A while back you could read all about the Marc Jacobs Worth the Wait O!Mega Glaze All-Over Foil Luminizer…

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In case you’ve forgotten (probably not because it’s a recurrent subject on Weeks of Beauty, haha): I love me some mini’s! They look cute on the vanity, are easy to carry around in the bag and you can try out more colors and formulas of the product.

Back when we could still travel and discover the world, I posted a Canada haul. One of the products I picked up was the Pat McGrath Mini Lip Fetish Lip Balm Trio.

It’s a set with three of the Lip Fetish Lip Balms, but tiny. I always adore the Pat McGrath packaging with the gold and sequins. It looks so posh. However, I do realize that it’s a lot of material for no reason, so it’s not very environmental friendly. I kept the sequins as decoration in a brush holder and recycled the outside packaging.

I am definitely a fan of the Pat McGrath lipstick/lipbalm packaging. The bullets are sleek and classy, and the gold lips make it look luxurious. Again, these have been on display on my vanity since I got them back in september 2019 (feel ages away, doesn’t it?!).

The three shades featured in this set are Clear, Flesh 3 and Blow Up.

Flesh 3 is also one of the most popular lipstick shades from Pat McGrath.

The swatches from left to right are Clear, Flesh 3 and Blow Up.

I’m wearing Flesh 3. This lip balm is soooo smooth, it feels thin and so lightly on the lips, it’s amazing! I’ve never felt a lip balm like this one before. Also, this is just one layer of the lip balm. Do you see that pigment?! What I also love is because of the small, pointy lip balm, it applies perfectly neat.

This lip balm is amazing quality, but a pigmented and smooth lip balm also comes with transferability of the color, which I do not like at all. When I wear a lip balm, it’s a clear or very light one, so that I can just throw it on the lips without looking and without worrying about the color sliding around and looking funny.

Blow Up is a peachy pink on my lips, and I like this shade the most. It also has a lot of pigmentation going on though, so I have to be aware of the lip balm sliding around.

The Clear lip balm is a clear balm indeed. No shade at all, also no white cast which is a great pro! All three lip balms are very pretty as to the glow/shine.

So to conclude this review: the Pat McGrath lip balms are lovely to apply, very smooth and moisturizing and have great pigmentation. The glow is nice as well.

The downside (but it really depends on how important that is to you of course) is that because of the smooth formula in combination with the pigmentation, it’s not an easy to wear lip balm, since you will have to keep an eye on the product gliding around.

For $25 this little trio set is a fun way to give the Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Lip Balms a go!

Which shade would you wear?

Pat McGrath Mini Lip Fetish Lip Balm Trio In case you've forgotten (probably not because it's a recurrent subject on Weeks of Beauty, haha): I love me some mini's!

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The past couple of months (since December) I’ve thoroughly been enjoying the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Instant Eye Palette. The ‘big’ eyeshadow palettes by Charlotte Tilbury have been known to be gorgeous and since I love the Pillow Talk shade so much (find the lipstick and blush here), I decided this was my moment to pick up the newest release of the Instant Eye palette.

I am going to spoil this review a little bit for you because I already want to say that I love the shades and quality of the palette, but I do not think it’s amazing enough to be priced so incredibly steep at €75,-.

Let’s check it out!

When it comes to the palette design, I love how luxurious it looks and feels. That’s one of the many powers of Charlotte Tilbury makeup. The (rose)gold luxury packaging already makes half of the product (and the price, probably).

Here is a peek at the inside of the palette. The palette is divided in four looks: Day, Desk, Date and Dream. You can obviously also mix up the shades from every look, which is what I like to do.

I was instantly drawn to the shades in Day and Dream. The Day shades are very similar to the Pillow Talk Luxury Palette. The first two from Day and the second from Desk might even be identical to the shades in The Easy Smokey Eyes Palette (read the review here).

Okay maybe not identical, but very similar so you won’t need The Easy Smokey Eyes palette If you’ve got the Instant Eye Palette :). The Easy Smokey Eyes palette was originally a Nordstrom exclusive but you can now also purchase it from the Charlotte Tilbury website and Cult Beauty!

The shades are absolutely gorgeous and I couldn’t wait to dip into the shimmers. In the palette I am missing two kind of shades though: a light pink and a light white shade that would both be perfect for an inner corner highlight and to give more definition to the shimmer on the lid.

As you can tell from the swatches, the lightest shade in this palette is actually very warm, more a white golden shade.

More on the shade selection is that I find it very unfortunate that the brown shades are all so similar and that the two brown/pink-ish shades are so similar as well. I would’ve replaced some of them for some lighter shades so the palette would be more diverse.

Overall I think the shimmers are of wonderful quality and that’s a huge plus for this palette, because the shimmers in the Luxury Palettes by Charlotte Tilbury tend to be way less pigmented and creamy. Still nice, but not Huda Beauty creamy quality and the shimmers in this palette can actually be considered to be of high quality, if you were to ask me.

When it comes to the matte shades I think it’s pretty okay. They are pigmented okay and are really, really nice to blend. Though, some of the mattes are a bit on the dry side and a tiny bit of more pigment wouldn’t been bad.

Applying these shades with a brush is very easy and flawless, so that’s nice. The mattes are easy to pick up and I press it on the eyes. After that I take a clean brush and blend it out. The shimmers are also easy to pick up with a flat brush. I put some pressure on the brush when picking up the product and I press it on the eyes as well.

The first look I’ve created is with the Day and Desk shades and one of the Date shades to darken the outer corners a bit. Even the pink/brown shimmer turns pretty orange/copper on me, as you can see. The lipstick I’m wearing is (if I remember correctly) Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution in Pillow Talk and the darling blouse is from Fabienne Chapot.

The second look I’ve created is with the first shade from Desk and the third shade from Day in the crease, the matte pink from Dream in the inner and outer third of the eye and the first shimmer shade from Dream on the whole eye lid. I completed the look with the light shade of Day in the inner corner. This picture makes the look a bit more copper than it is, because in real life it’s definitely a pink smokey look.  A lighter pink shimmer would’ve been great to get more definition in this look, though. The lipstick I’m wearing is Amazing Amal (Charlotte Tilbury Hot Lips 2). The cutest sweater ever is also by Fabienne Chapot.

To round up my thoughts on the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Instant Eye Palette: it’s a gorgeous and luxurious eyeshadow palette with some nice, basic shades. You can go from basic and natural make-up to a pink and/or brown smokey out glam eye. The shade selection could’ve be a little bit broader (no shades that are so similar). The quality of the shades are nice, with some very good shimmers to okay mattes.

Even though it’s a nice palette with beautiful shades, I think it could’ve been so much more for €75,-! I will make sure I get some good use out of it, of course :).

What do you think of this palette? What is your favorite Charlotte Tilbury product?

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Instant Eye Palette The past couple of months (since December) I've thoroughly been enjoying the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Instant Eye Palette.

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Work from home staples #stayhome

In the Netherlands, we’ve been social distancing for a little over a month now, since March the 13th. The full out glam looks I keep reserved for my days off work because then I’ve got the time to enjoy putting on my make-up.

On the days without video meetings I honestly don’t put on any make-up at all. But when I do have a video meeting I like to look put together with minimal effort, so in this…

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Pastel Easter Manicure

I just wanted to come on here and show you my Easter/spring manicure that I’ve got going on here. I’ve always like matching my nails to whatever is going on: Christmas, Kings Day, Easter, etc.

Easter is the perfect time to grab your pastel nailpolishes and get some extra spring vibes going.

I went for pastel purple and pastel pink.

The nailpolishes I used are OPI ‘Let’s Be Friends’ (from the…

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Hi everyone! I hope you and your family are doing well and are staying home, this Easter. What a weird time we live in, right?!

Today I decided I wanted to go for a glam look because I’ve got some products laying around that haven’t gotten the love they deserve lately. On a daily work from home basis I wear minimal and glowy make-up. I will write about my social distancing staples soon!

For now, let’s take a look at today’s glam and the products I used!

Since I got a little tan going (YES for the sun and our garden to make staying at home pretty okay) I love me a good glowy look.

These are the products I used for this look:

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Instant Eye Palette. Shades from Day and Desk;

Glossier Play Color Slide in Pretty Penny;

Glossier Lash Slick Mascara;

Physicians Formula Butter Blush in Plum Rose;

e.l.f. Metallic Flare highlighter in White Gold (WOW this highlighter!);

Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick in Very Victoria;

Patrick Ta Major Glow Lip Shine in She’s an Influencer.

All of these products are huge favorites at this moment so that’s why I grabbed them together for this little glam look.

Happy Easter everyone! What kind of look did you go for?

Easter Glam 2020 Hi everyone! I hope you and your family are doing well and are staying home, this Easter.

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2019 Lip Favorites

I can’t believe it… it’s true… I am back! I have been MIA big time lately for all different sorts of reasons being work, studying, Holidays etc. But the good thing is that Weeks of Beauty is back in business! Even though we are already halfway through January (wait what, already?!) I still want to share my 2019 favorites with all of you.

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Last week I wrote about the Walk of Shame Luxury Palette (eyeshadow quad) and about how much I adore the shades.

The eyeshadow palette is inspired on the Matte Revolution lipstick shade Walk of Shame which is also a gorgeous shade.

I absolutely love the Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution lipsticks in general so it was no surprise that I would love the Walk of Shame shade as well, especially because of it’s berry shade.

This is the lipstick swatches on the right of the eyeshadow quad swatches. I am not completely sure about how the lipstick and the eyeshadow quad go together because they differ quite a lot in undertones. The eyeshadow quad is way more brown orientated, whereas the lipstick is more of a berry shade.

The lipstick has great coverage and color payoff. The lipstick is not extremely matte, more like satin (you can see a bit of shine on the lips). The formula is very comfortable to wear and stays on for a couple of hours. It does move around when you are drinking or eating, but overall it will last pretty well and only fades a bit when you’ll eat.

Here are some comparison swatches. On the left is Pillow Talk (Matte Revolution), in the middle is Walk of Shame (Matte Revolution) and on the right is Very Victoria (Matte Revolution).

At this moment, the Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution lipsticks are my absolute favorite high end lipsticks. The Walk of Shame shade is one I will be using a lot because it’s a good shade match for me :).

Charlotte Tilbury Walk of Shame Matte Revolution Lipstick Last week I wrote about the Walk of Shame Luxury Palette (eyeshadow quad) and about how much I adore the shades.

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When I was in London I stopped by the Charlotte Tilbury Covent Garden store. The Walk of Shame collection just dropped (based on the Walk of Shame Matte Revolution lipstick) and since the eyeshadow palette swatched beautifully, I picked up both the lipstick and the eyeshadow quad.

The eyeshadow quad is an addition to the well known Luxury Palettes, which all contain four shades in the steps to prime, enhance, smoke and pop. This Walk of Shame quad only has shimmers and a glitter, so keep that in mind if you prefer to work with a matte as well.

Usually I like to have a palette with both shimmers and at least one light matte shade to blend with, but for this quad I don’t mind that much because I only picked it up to use the shades individually.

The shade that really makes this palette for me is the second one from the left, a red/orange/copper-ish shade. That is the kind of shade that makes my blue eyes pop so it totally lives up to the ‘enhance’ name that’s on the palette.

The Pillow Talk Luxury Palette did not have much pigmentation and intensity. It’s the kind of palette that I use when I want a soft, pink/brown eye look.

This Walk of Shame Luxury Palette has way more pigmentation though and the eyeshadow is more creamy and less powdery. As for the shades, I like to use these shades individually or maybe combine two of them. These shades are great enough in quality to use them individually. Still, the shades are not the most pigmented or intense ever. They work more for a subtle pop of color.

For this look I used the top right shade (in the quad) (enhance) on the eyelid, the bottom right shade (smoke) in the outer corner, the top left shade in the inner corner (prime) and a tiny bit of the bottom left shade (pop) in the middle of my eyelid.

I honestly don’t like the shades used together. I prefer just using either the enhance shade or the smoke shade all over the light and then lightly blended into the crease with a matte light brown shade.

In the pictures I am also wearing the Walk of Shame Matte Revolution lipstick. Such a gorgeous shade!

I have not made up my mind yet if I like to wear the lipstick together with the Luxury Palette or not. Both are gorgeous but I feel like they differ too much in undertone to be matched. However, in my look I did wear a cardigan that does something with all the colors and I did not choose my blush very carefully, because it does not match at all with the eyeshadow and lipstick. Still a pretty blush shade though :).

I will have to play around some more with the Luxury Palette and lipstick to see if they go together on my face, but for this review it doesn’t really matter.

As for the Walk of Shame Luxury Palette I was pleasantly surprised by the creaminess and pigmentation of the eyeshadows and I adore the shades, so it’s also a big hit for me!

  Charlotte Tilbury Walk of Shame Luxury Palette When I was in London I stopped by the Charlotte Tilbury Covent Garden store. The Walk of Shame collection just dropped (based on the Walk of Shame Matte Revolution lipstick) and since the eyeshadow palette swatched beautifully, I picked up both the lipstick and the eyeshadow quad.

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A while back I did a little Glossier online shopping to stock up on their mascara and I still really wanted to try out some of the Glossier lipsticks. I picked up one of the Glossier Play Vinylic Lippies and two of the Generation G lipsticks.

A Glossier package has a special place in my heart with the stickers and pink pouch. I also got a cute hand mirror with my purchase :).

Let’s take a look at the Generation G lipsticks!

I picked up the Glossier Generation G lipsticks in the shades Like (the purple shade) and Crush (the red shade). The packaging is simple but strong and well made.

The Generation G lipsticks are described as a sheer matte lipstick:

Generation G is a new kind of lip color that gives the look and finish of just-blotted lipstick, without the blot. We’ve created a short list of the six most important shades, with dialed-down pigment loads for a casual look. They’re lipsticks that adapt to you, not the other way around, so they’ll appear a bit different on everyone as your natural lip color shows through. The effect? Diffused, matte goodness—just swipe it on.

The shades look vibrant in the bullet but are indeed dialed-down in pigment when swatched or applied on the lips.

Crush (on the left) is ‘a hot raspberry pink’ and Like is ‘a light, cool pink’ (which looks way more purple in the swatch than on the lips). The formula is something I’ve never seen before. When applying on the lips it feels very stiff and dry, but when applied and all set it’s not drying or anything. The products does not move around on the lips and it stays put for quite some hours.

I really like these lipsticks for days that I have a meeting or when I’m out and about the whole day, so I don’t have to worry about moving or weirdly fading lipstick. It’s fool proof.

You can build up the intensity of the shades but it will still look blotted and ‘muted down’. It’s a special kind of lipstick!

Here I am wearing Like. It’s a ‘my lips but better’ kind of shade for me.

Here I am wearing Crush, a more vibrant shade. I do have to apply three to four layers of the shade to get this shade intensity.

Even though the formula does not feel dry to me (it’s comfortable wearing the whole day), I do think that this lipstick is not for you if you prefer a lip balm or moisturizing lipstick. When you are looking for a ‘muted’ lipstick shade that stays on basically the whole day, then I recommend the Glossier Generation G lipsticks!

The Glossier Generation G lipsticks retail for $18 online at Glossier.com. 

Did you try the Glossier Generation G lipsticks yet?

Glossier Generation G Sheer Matte Lipstick in Like & Crush A while back I did a little Glossier online shopping to stock up on their mascara and I still really wanted to try out some of the Glossier lipsticks.

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One item on my make-up wishlist for a long time was one of the Marc Jacobs Foil Luminizers. People were raving about the first ever shade and it came in this huge pan, so it’s worth your money. Unfortunately the shade Gilty would be too deep for my fair skin tone.

Marc Jacobs came out with the pale gold shade Worth the Wait a couple of months ago and it got itself a special place on my wishlist. I managed to order it at Harvey Nichols and grabbed up the luminizer from the newest Holiday Collection as well. You’ll see that one soon on Weeks of Beauty!

The packaging is simple but oh so sleek and stylish. Totally up my street when it comes to packaging.

The product is huge for a highlighter and the pan is huge as well. It contains 10 gram / 0,35 Oz of products, compared to a Becca highlighter that contains 8 grams / 0,28 Oz, which is already relatively large for a highlighter.

For comparison: the highlighter next to a MAC lipstick.

The shade Worth the Wait is described by Temptalia as a pale gold with subtle warm undertones and I couldn’t have said it myself any better. I would’ve gone with a silvery gold because it’s pale and fair, but you do see the warm golden undertones peeking through.

The highlighter is very pigmented and you only need a tiny bit for a gorgeous glow. The product does get a little dusty when picked up with a brush, I feel like the product is lightly pressed into the pan so I try to be careful when picking up the product. None of that is a problem though when applied to the skin, it applies evenly and blends seamlessly into the skin.

The glow can be build up which is nice so it will work for every kind of glow you’d like. What I love the most about this highlighter is the shade. It’s kind of cool toned and warm toned at the same time, however non logical it sounds :). I goes with a lot of make-up looks!

The glow holds up very well during the day. Without any primers or touching up, just the use of Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray, the highlighter stayed on and glowing during my whole work day.

The quality and shade of this highlighter (once applied) reminds me a lot of the Vanilla Quartz shade by Becca. On the left I’m wearing Worth the Wait and on the right I’m wearing Vanilla Quartz (another ‘yes I looked so differently a year ago picture 🙂 ).

In the pan both shades are also very similar, but when swatched I can see the Vanilla Quartz has more of a yellow undertone and pink glitters that make the glow warm, whereas Worth the Wait thanks the warm glow from the golden glitters.

The downside to the Marc Jacobs O!Mega Glaze All-Over Foil Luminizer is the price… for 10 grams of product you pay €45,-, which is very high up there if you ask me.

A little price comparing:

Marc Jacobs Luminizer Worth the Wait = €4,50 per gram product Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Moonstone = €4,75 per gram product Maybelline Master Chrome highlighter = €1,87 per gram product Charlotte Tilbury Magic Star highlighter = €3,90 per gram product Wet n Wild MegaGlo highlighter = €1,10 per gram product Colourpop Pressed Powder highlighter = €0,98 per gram product

The prices might be different everywhere but I used them from websites I can easily order from in the Netherlands. But you get the point!

Even though it is a gorgeous shade, I do think there has to be a good dupe out  there and Temptalia agrees. In the picture above you can see some of the best dupes and there is a Makeup Revolution and a Colourpop dupe in there, so depending on which highlighters you like the most, you could save a lot of bucks if you don’t necessarily want the Marc Jacobs one.

It’s a great highlighter and I use the shade very often because it suits my fair skin tone so well, but again: there are less expensive alternatives out there! 🙂

Did you ever try one of the Marc Jacobs O!Mega Glaze Luminizers?

    Marc Jacobs Worth the Wait O!Mega Glaze All-Over Foil Luminizer One item on my make-up wishlist for a long time was one of the Marc Jacobs Foil Luminizers.

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Empties 2019

I’ve done quite some make-up hauling the last couple of months because of my trips to London and Canada so I’ll be posting about some great new finds soon on Weeks of Beauty. Before I start with the new though, I want to take a moment a appreciate the products I’ve been using in 2019 so far, that are now empty.

Let’s get ready for the Empties 2019!

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Beauty Nieuws Nederland

Hi everyone,

Just a quick general notice.

If you are just as a beauty fanatic as I am, you know that @trendmood1 is the Instagram page to go to if you want to know about the newest launches, new brands and sneak peeks of upcoming products and collections.

I found that there is no page like that for the launch dates in the Netherlands. Trendmood mentions international dates from time to time but…

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Canada Haul

After my London haul in the beginning of this month, comes another haul! I just came back from a holiday to Canada (went to Gananoque, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Toronto) and I picked up some lovely items.

This all are the beauty items I picked up at Sephora. Shoppers Drug Mart and Bath & Body Works.

I also was quite successful at the Niagara Outlet Collection. I bought two Levi’s jeans (that was…

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Recently I took a wonderful five day trip to London with Jenny to visit our friend Jamie. We had such a good time and we saw so much of the city. Obviously we also made some time for shopping and here’s my beauty haul!

These are all the goodies I picked up!

On the first day we stopped by the Charlotte Tilbury store in Covent Garden. Such a pretty store and really fun to see all the products together. In the Netherlands we only have small counters in other stores for Charlotte Tilbury. The most recent launch, the Walk of Shame Luxury Palette for the eyes just became available in store and I loved the swatches and color story, so I picked it up along with the Matte Revolution lipstick in the same shade Walk of Shame. I also grabbed a new Magic Away concealer in shade 3 because I just ran out of it!

I have to say that I don’t wear concealer often anymore because my skin is in great shape and I have a tan with freckles going on, but when I do wear concealer I go for the Magic Away concealer because it makes my under eyes so radiant and healthy looking!

At Selfridges I ran into a Laura Mercier counter and I saw their popular Flawless Fusion Ultra-Longwear Concealer. I just wanted to shade match myself so I could pick it up later, but after finding out I was more neutral than cool toned, I decided to pick it up anyway. Can’t wait to try this one out!

Even though I didn’t pick these to up while in London, I did order them from the UK (via Harvey Nichols) before I went on my trip and they were waiting for me on my arrival at home.

I have been wanting to pick up one of the Marc Jacobs Beauty O!mega Glaze luminizers for so long but I could never find a retailer that would ship to the Netherlands. Sephora France did sell the Worth the Wait shade, but ironically I waited to long before ordering it and it sold out.

Marc Jacobs Beauty just launched their Holiday 2019 Collection named Lust & Stardust and it has some bomb glittery packaging and a gorgeous highlighter, so I decided to pick that one up as well. It’s the O!mega Glaze all-over foil luminizer in Showstopper (the peachy pink on the left). On the right is the O!mega Glaze all-over foil luminizer in Wo!rth the Wait (from the Spring 2019 collection).

Really excited to give both a whirl!

At the London Gatwick Airport on our way back home, we had some time to kill and besides enjoying a Wagamama lunch, I did some make-up swatching and discovering. I noticed a new lipstick launch by MAC, the Love Me lipsticks.

They are described as: A weightless argan oil-infused lipstick that delivers an instant hit of powerful colour and all-day moisture in a luxurious satin-soft finish.

Sounded good to me and I found a gorgeous color in a my lips but better (and more pink) shade!

It’s the MAC Love Me lipstick in shade 405 Under the Covers.

Here I am wearing the shade. On the eyes is the Charlotte Tilbury The Easy Smokey Eye Palette that I wrote about last week (check it out here).

Last but not least I found this brilliant brush holder and set by MAC. I knew it existed but only on airports and in special stores so I had never seen it before. It’s even better in real life and I put it in my cart right away!

It’s a giant MAC lipstick case that looks awesome on my vanity, but it’s brush holder and contains four travel sized brushes (highlighter brush, flat eyeshadow brush, blending brush and an angled eyeliner/brow brush).

I’m in love! 🙂

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London Haul Recently I took a wonderful five day trip to London with Jenny to visit our friend Jamie.

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Hi everyone!

Soooo… I’ve been MIA lately. I took a little blogging break because I had a lot of fun stuff planned, like a five day trip to lovely London! A haul coming very soon :).

For today I wanted to show you the Charlotte Tilbury The Easy Smokey Eye Palette. I purchased it during 2019 Nordstrom 2019 Anniversay Sale. It’s a Nordstrom Exclusive palette and it looked so gorgeous, I just had to try it! Also, I was curious to see if this palette has it all to become my new favorite daily palette.

The palette has the usual stylish Charlotte Tilbury packaging going on. The brown packaging with gold/rose gold details. Special about this palette is that Charlotte Tilbury usually only makes quads (like the Pillow Talk Luxury Palette and once a year for Christmas a large palette with 12 shades. This Nordstrom Exclusive palette is kind of like halve a Christmas palette.

It’s the perfect size for traveling and it has the shades for an easy, nude look, a soft pink look and a glam look.

The palette is made with two different looks. A Day Eye and a Date Eye. Honestly though, you can make way more looks with it!

The catch with this palette though is that you really have to dig these kind of shades, otherwise you will not get much use out of this palette. I on the other hand, adore these kind of shades because a soft pink or brown/golden look is what I go for the most.

Look at those swatches! I was pleasantly surprised because the usual Charlotte Tilbury eyeshadow is very soft and not that pigmented. I love the Pillow Talk Luxury Palette because of the soft shades, they are very fool proof. These shades however, are so pigmented and creamy and the shimmer is real! I can’t wait to try them out!

This is the look I go for on a work day (if I even feel like putting on some eyeshadow, haha). I just take the Enhance shade from the Day Eye or the Prime shade from the Date Eye and put it all over the eye lid. Then I blend out the edges with the tiniest bit of either Smoke from the Day Eye or Enhance from the Date Eye.

When I want a glam eyelook I first apply some Smoke from the Day Eye and apply it in the crease. I add some Enhance from the Day Eye on the eye lid, put some Smoke from the Date Eye in the outer corner and I finish it off with some Prime from the Day Eye in the inner corner.

The eyeshadows are easy to apply, I love how the shimmery shades stay shimmery throughout the day. The only thing I could think of for a con is that some of the shades are very similar and the difference can be hard to see when applied on the eyes.

Other then that: I think this Charlotte Tilbury The Easy Smokey Eye Palette is a winner!

Unfortunately it’s not available anymore, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it in next year’s Nordstrom Anniversary Sale again or maybe around Christmas time?

Did you get anything from the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale?

Charlotte Tilbury The Easy Smokey Eye Palette (Nordstrom Exclusive) Hi everyone! Soooo... I've been MIA lately. I took a little blogging break because I had a lot of fun stuff planned, like a five day trip to lovely London!