My dear low/high maintenance beauties. About a year ago, I wrote my first post and setup a Blogger account. I didn’t think much about how it’s going to go, what I was going to write about or if anyone will ever read my ramblings. And now, a year later, I’m looking back at everything and feel very thankful for each experience and every single one of you who read my posts, like, click, share and comment. You make my day – every day.
I’ve also had some bad experience, but most of it was related to specific people behind specific brands. I still stand by the fact that I will not write a BS positive review, no matter what you offer me – be it products, money or something else. You can send me a product, yes, but I offer no guarantee that I’ll be writing anything about. Some people were not happy about my position on this – I say it’s their loss. It does make me sad, however, when I see some other bloggers posting over-excited reviews for such brands. But to each his own. I believe that with greater power comes greater responsibility – I wouldn’t want people I trust deceiving me, so it’s not my intention to be deceiving to you.
What surprises me the most is how far even such a small blog like mine can reach and how many doors it can open. Not every single discussion came to a positive conclusion, but still, they were priceless in my eyes because of the experience they offered.
I said that I’ll evaluate what I’m doing after a year and do a self-review of a sort. I think that I’ve improved on the writing and the precision of thought, the photos have gotten somewhat better (let’s all take a moment to admire the first ever photo I published – below) and I’m also a bit more consistent at posting new contents.
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| LOL at the composition, background, focus. |
I do however need to work more on providing better swatches and really do some make-up looks as well. Also, I need to concentrate a bit less on make-up and start doing more posts in other areas as well. Possibly start translating everything into Slovenian as well? What do you think? Is there anything I need to put on my list of things to improve?
Anyway, enough ranting, let’s get to the fun stuff, right? Again, I have to prizes for two lucky ladies (or gents). Each includes some must-haves, some of my favorites and some things that will help you be on point with the spring-summer trends that I talked about in my previous post.
1. ICONIC PACKAGE
- Makeup Revolution Redemption Iconic 1 palette
- Makeup Revolution Redemption Iconic 2 palette
- Makeup Revolution Redemption Iconic 3 palette
- (yes, all three of them)
- Makeup Revolution Focus & Fix eye primer
- Essence Longlasting eye pencil (Tu-Tu Touquoise)
- Essence XXXL Nude lipgloss (Just nude)
2. FLAWLESS PACKAGE
- Makeup Revolution Flawless Matte palette
- BH Cosmetics 12-brush set (Berry)
- Makeup Revolution Focus & Fix eye primer
- Essence Longlasting eye pencil (Tu-Tu Touquoise)
- Essence XXXL Nude lipgloss (Taste the Sweets)
You can enter through several possibilities, all listed below in the Rafflecopter. I wish you good luck in the giveaway – thank you for celebrating with me!
Your ideas and suggestions – a recap
First of all, thanks to each and everyone of you for entering my giveaway and for all the lovely messages and ideas. I love giving gifts even more than receiving them, so hopefully we’ll be able to do many more giveaways in the future.
Anyway, when reading your comments, I realized I had to somehow organize everything by category, otherwise I will randomly forget what it is you want to read about. So without further ado, here are your ideas and my thoughts about them.
Review of high-end make-up (Marc Jacobs, Bobby Brown, Clinique, Benefit, …)
Many of you suggested these brands or specific products from these brands as something you’d like to read about. The thing is, I’m not too sure about most of these. I would never go and make an online purchase of, for example, Marc Jacobs Genius Gel Super-Charged Foundation ($48) without being able to test it out first. Since most of these brands are not available in Slovenia, these kind of reviews are less likely to happen and they would really not be that beneficial to most of you. I will most likely stick to reviews of products that are either available on Slovenian market or that are easily enough shipped over here from EU stores and are not crazily expensive. Jamberry nails for instance sound like fun, but I can’t find any EU shipping so again, unlikely to happen.
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| Source: http://www.simonelovesmakeup.com |
Drugstore make-up brands (Essence, Catrice, Barry M, …)
I feel there are so many reviews of these brands out there already. I think that Essence and Catrice just held a blogging event in Slovenia and stocked-up the invited bloggers with their products. So I’m not really sure I’ll be going out and buying the same collections just to do reviews on. But if I buy a product and have a strong (positive or negative) opinion on it, you will be the first to know 🙂 I do think that this category is good for finding inexpensive dupes for high-end products, which was also one of the requests – this I think I will try to do as often as possible. A penny saved is a penny earned, or however that saying goes. View Post
How it all began
It’s not that I don’t care. Because I do.
I always made sure that my hair was clean, my nails were pretty (yes, nail polishes were always a must for me) and that my lips weren’t chapped. I wore foundation, some eye shadow and mascara. An occasional lipgloss, always in pink, because I thought that that was the only color that complimented my blue eyes, blonde hair and light complexion. This brings us to about 5 products.
I am and will always remain a sucker for shampoos and conditioners, because the highlighting leaves my hair somewhat dry. So I always stocked up on those. Also, I used a hairspray. Not counting simple elastic bands, we’re now at 8 products. Of course, I have a face cream, a hand cream and a body lotion. Some sunscreen, Aloe Vera, some perfumes. But I hardly think that counts. And if it does, we still haven’t reached the fairy tale dozen.
In the past, I had sometimes tried to experiment and bought products I didn’t quite know what to use for. I remember buying a liquid eyeliner about five years ago, but telling you that story is a whole new chapter. I bought a brow pencil (at least I think it was a brow pencil, but I am not so sure) to help my over-plucked eyebrows, but as it was the wrong shade I quickly dismissed that idea.
So, you probably get it by now. Not that I didn’t care, I just didn’t put any effort into it. I don’t think that I necessarily looked like a tomboy, but only now I see what I »coullda, shouldda, wouldda«. And it’s ON. Being precise and stubborn by nature, I am taking this on as a project. I will master all things beauty!
And share my insights, learnings, tips, tricks, reviews and stories with all of you as I go.
Be beautiful, stay awesome!
Be beautiful, stay awesome!
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