It's that rainbow time of the year again.

Yeah, yeah... I haven't updated in a while and blah, blah, blah, but my last two weeks went with me stressing over Uni work, pulling all-nighters, and so on... so I really wasn't in the mood for any updating x)

BUT HERE I AM NOW.

Munching on Pantteri-sweets, which my Finnish friend kindly brought as she's visiting England at the moment, writing something to you about last weekend and Eurovision.

Let's start with last weekend, when I went to Birmingham to a convention, and happened to meet some of my online friends IN REAL LIFE, and made new friends.
It was crazy. We were crazy. And we met some of the most beautiful people out there such as:

 

Matt Cohen. Damn that man is gorgeous in person. Photo by yours truly.

And Kim Rhodes (everyone should know her from The Suite Life of Zach and Cody), who is an amazing person and I got to enjoy her and Carrie Ann Fleming's coffee lounge. Photo by yours truly.

All the actors I got to meet and talk to were AWESOME. So amazing and funny and nice.
And the friends I made and who I hung out with... OH MY CHUCK. So many Dick jokes. SO MANY. And let's not forget muted Hollyoaks with our own dubbing. It was HILARIOUS and it was a great weekend to finish my second year of university.

Anyway, it is pretty much summer here, and I am dying because of the heat. 26C is NOT cool.
Yesterday, after my counselling, I went to the racecourse with my flatmates to have a small picnic, but I was lying on the ground, head covered with my cap and sunglasses, suffering. Over 23C heat pretty much kills me.
At some point I went to a nice, cool restaurant called Café Rouge for a dinner with my Finnish friend and her friends who she's visiting Worcester. Minute steak with the most awesome garlic butter ever and lemon sorbet + chocolate ice cream for dessert? DON'T MIND IF I DO.
Those people also managed to remind me that it is once again that time of the year when bunch of different countries gather under one roof to listen to some amazing, and some less amazing, music.

Yes, it is time for Eurovision song contest once again. My life is once again complete.

As I was watching the first semi-final yesterday, one of the stars being interviewed referred to the contest as this "circus extravaganza" which had me thinking that I want to do a make up to go with that sentence.
Now, I haven't ever been to circus as a performer, but I know that the make-up is similar to what singers, dancers, figure skaters or any other performer usually have to use in performances.
It has to be visible to the very back row, and considering it's circus, should probably be rather colourful as well.

This also a good excuse to re-do one of my older make-up looks, which I probably never posted here, and change it a bit:

Green, orange and pink with black eyeliner and Sleek Amped lipstick.

I did this look in February already, and I really can't remember posting it (I checked and couldn't find it in my blog) and as you can see, it was quite soon after I had dyed my hair red since there are no roots.

Now then. Circus. Extravaganza.

circus  /'sks/

▶ noun  (pl.  circuses)
1. a travelling company of acrobats, clowns, and other entertainers which gives performances, typically in a large tent, in a series of different places. ■ (informal) a large group of people travelling together on the circuit of a particular high-profile activity: the Formula One grand prix circus. ■ (informal) a public scene of frenetic, noisy, or confused activity: a media circus.
2. (in ancient Rome) a rounded or oval arena lined with tiers of seats, used for equestrian and other sports and games.
3. [in place names] (Brit.) a rounded open space in a town where several streets converge: Piccadilly Circus.

- ORIGIN late Middle English (with reference to the arena of Roman antiquity): from Latin, ‘ring or circus’. The sense ‘travelling company of performers’ dates from the late 18th cent. 

extravaganza  /kstrav'ganz, k-/

▶ noun 
an elaborate and spectacular entertainment or production: an extravaganza of dance in many forms.

- ORIGIN mid 18th cent. (in the sense ‘extravagance in language or behaviour’): from Italian estravaganza ‘extravagance’. The change was due to association with words beginning with extra-.

These definitions are provided to you by Oxford Reference Online.

In short circus extravaganza is a spectacular performance by various entertainers, performing in a large space.
Exactly what Eurovision is about. Costumes, hair, make-up and the show.

Something about these words made another thing in my head snap and this morning I took out my make-ups and went half-crazy.

 Yes, I re-dyed my hair red and got complimented by Jim Michaels and Kim Rhodes about it, just FYI.

Also, I've been hearing some complaints about how "you can't do nice, colourful looks with the cheap eye shadows", which is (in my very honest opinion) complete bullshit.

You don't need to spend all your money on the most expensive eye shadows, when you can spend that money on a good base and primer.
Let me tell you from experience, the "cheap stuff" on a good primer and base is enough to get noticed and get compliments. I should know since I my most expensive eye shadow is M.A.C.'s Electric Eel satin, which I don't even use extremely often even though I love it.

Sure, more expensive stuff is usually better, but like I said, it's complete bullshit that one can't do colourful and nice looks with the "cheap stuff".

For this look I used:

♥ A bit of Gosh X-Ceptional wear to hide most of the imperfections around my eyes.

♥ Collection 2000 Pressed powder

♥ Gosh Velvet Touch eye primer.

♥ Lumene Arctic Definition Mineral Eyebrow Pencil.

♥ Green and yellow eye shadow from Gosh trio eye shadow palette TR20 Tropic Fever (upper lid)

♥ Orange and pink eye shadow from beauty UK's eye shadow collection 2 (upper lid)

♥ M.A.C. Electric Eel Satin eye shadow (lower lid up to the eyebrow line)

♥ Sleek Flamingo 937 blush

♥ Sleek Mystic matte lipstick

♥ Wet 'n' Wild Mega Shimmer illuminating powder brush 11 White Glow
♥ M.A.C eyelashes

Now, before any of you go off and start yelling at me that "M.A.C., Sleek and Gosh are not cheap" let me say this: I KNOW.
I know they are not the cheapest, but compare that to stuff like... gee I don't know, Lime Crime or L'Oréal, the cost-effective with M.A.C., Sleek and Gosh is so much better in my opinion.
They're affordable, their eye shadows are pigmented, and M.A.C. and Sleek's lipsticks are so good to apply, not to mention Gosh's foundation.
My Gosh Tropic Fever was about £7, and since it's really nice, easy to apply and lasts long, I don't think it's a bad prize. I can't remember how much I paid for my Sleek blush and lipsticks, but they couldn't have been over £10 per product.

BUT beauty UK is not expensive at all. I got my 10g eye shadow palettes (which both have 10 different eye shadows) for £4 pounds per palette. That's £8 for 20 different colours.

Granted, the palettes are not that big, nor are the colours massively pigmented, but they do their job just well with the primer, so I don't feel the need to go and pay myself sick with expensive eye shadows when these work well.

Eurovision, here I come~

Now after that rant, let me get back to my point about this make-up and Eurovision xD

Usually the ladies of the contest wear natural-ish make-ups and bright lips, and what the make-up lacks they make up in hair and costume. For once I would LOVE to see an extremely colourful make-up on someone on top of those costumes and hair. I would love it. Circus extravaganza at its best.
What do you think?

Anyway, this post got waaayyy longer than it was supposed to, so I'll be finishing now.
I really want to throw an Eurovision party on Saturday when the final airs, but I'm afraid no one else is willing to come and watch it with me, so I'll be dressing up alone x)

OH! Before I go, I'd like to know if any of you dear readers have any good recipes for light food that's nice during summer? My "counsellor" told me that I should eat regularly, but I barely feel like eating when it's hot outside...

But, I'm gonna go out now and see how long it takes all my make-up to melt in that heat, so stay human and blog ya later~!

This. Is my face.

Updated the lipstick pictures (except one) in one of my old posts!!!

This post only serves to show my face. There is not really much else here this time, because what I'm working on takes time x)

On Monday I went to see David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which is a great movie with awesome music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and people should go see that movie, see the original movies, and read the books! So yeah, I wanted to look a bit more presentable than on an average day which I would spend inside my room in my pyjamas, and without make-up.

I present you:
Eyes:
beauty uk eye shadow collection 1 only the brown shades),
M.A.C. gel eyeliner (Blacktrack),
M.A.C. Studio Fix Lash mascara,
Lips:
Sleek make-up lipstick Amped 781

Wet hair is wet :I

I really like Gosh's X-Ceptional Wear foundation, since it just kind of absorbs into my skin and adapts to it while still covers well, and it feels like it just looks better the longer I wear it :D
Besides, I don't need to spend so much money on powders since I really don't need a super powder with this foundation :3

On Tuesday I went to see War Horse, which also a great movie, and I had trouble keeping my emotions in shape, and I actually even cried at few points. Tom Hiddleston is truly amazing in that movie.
Luckily enough my make-up stayed on surprisingly well, but I had taken a picture before I left the house, just in case.

Eyes:
Famous Trio Eye Collection midnight,
M.A.C. gel eyeliner
M.A.C. Studio Fix Lash mascara
wet 'n' wild eyeliner
Lips:
Sleek make-up Mystic 783

Lazy make-up is lazy.

The darker eye shadow looks really dark, almost black, which amuses me since in reality it's just dark blue.

The dark blue on the right is the one I used for the corners.

I originally got this palette so I could do the scales, and eyes for Mystique. Remember, this one?

Photo by Donston Powell.

Yeah. I didn't have the right shade of blue for it, so had to get one. Because the cream make-up doesn't work that well alone on the scales, painted with liquid latex:

The cream make-up covers them okay, but they stay lighter than rest of the skin for some reason.
The white nearly showed through some of them so. I had to pull out the eye shadow.
(And I'm sorry, I took this pictures when I didn't have a proper camera, and I refuse to do the make-up again JUST to take two pictures)

Eyes are the darkest blue from the palette and scales are the blue from the middle.

The lighting is a bit bad in that picture, but it shows the contrast between skin, scales and the eye shadow the best so I'm not complaining :D

Now I will run away again to spend my time on something redundant.
Stay human and blog ya later~!

I can't help myself from looking for you.

I feel like going on a rant about things, but I'm going to keep this entry nice and (hopefully) interesting instead.

Last week's Saturday I made a cake:

And because I'm nice enough I'm gonna tell you the ingredients :3

Ingredients
base:
3 eggs
2dl of sugar
2dl of flour
1 tsp of baking powder
filling:
rasberry jam
topping:
whipped cream
strawberries
chocolate and white chocolate sprinkles

I am NO baker or confectioner, but this is the easiest thing to make, and filling could be changed to another jam or pretty much anything, like mashed bananas with nutella :3
The important thing is to moisten the base enough (which I quite didn't with this one). I used diluted lemon juice with a pinch of sugar which gives a whole new level of delicious to the cake since then it's not ALL SWEET.

Here, have a piece :3

Btw! Remember the Barry M. nailpolishes I wrote about? I decided to try them together and was very happy with the result:

Ended up wearing these for almost a week till I changed the base to pink (does not look as good.)

Also, I can't be assed to change my nails so often 'cause it takes time...
And throughout the week I spent most of my time in Uni. Or dancing.
I have ridiculously long lectures on Mondays and Tuesdays (I'm talking about over 6 hour lectures), on top of that I have dance on Wednesdays (2 hours) and Fridays (1,5 hours) and another lecture on Thursday (only 4 hours this time) so that's how I spend most of my week.

Free time is spent by tumblin', which I'm kinda addicted to, learning lines, reading, dancing some more, writing and watching movies/TV shows. Sometimes I even play something :D

The gratuitous picture of myself.

My friends, Danni and Reece, and I went to see The Lion King 3D on Friday so I wanted to put some orange/yellow make-up on :3 After the movie, when I had cried most of my make-up off, I got an idea to do a proper Lion King inspired make-up. I might try out my idea one day (soon) so wait for it!

Yesterday we actually celebrated Danni's birthday, in neon-theme, so I went to get some stuff for it.
Ended up getting these very cute, sailor-ish flats:

Not exactly neon, but I've been in dire need of flats and these where just too asdsfdfdsf ♥
£10 - Office

Here they are, again, against my terrible carpet.

I also ended up getting two new lipsticks because it was love at first sight.

Sleek MakeUP True Colour Lipsticks

The best (?) thing about them: they are both matte *__*
And they contain Vitamin E which, I guess, is supposed to help protecting the tissue of the lips.

I actually have swatches of these!!!
I'm not wearing any make-up base or lip-primer in these pictures, so it is ALL lipstick or lipstick+gloss:

Amped 781 without gloss

With Wet N Wild glitter lip gloss (E81810)

The pictures are taken with DSLR camera, in my room with natural light the window and nature provided, so the colours appear a bit lighter than they are in real life, it's actually pretty fluorescent pink~ (/EDIT 18.1.2012)

Mystic 783 without gloss

With gloss

And both at the same time, without gloss. Mystic on left, Amped on right.

In pictures the difference between Amped and Mystic might not be that big, but when live, you can actually see it.

I'm just so in love with these two right now :3 I just wanna use them all the time, but I do not dare because it would get boring so soon.

I actually used Amped for the birthday, because it is bright and after all the theme was neon.
Shamefully enough, I forgot to take a picture of my make-up, but I know other people took photos during the night so IF I find a not-so-embarrassing picture I'll post it!

I do have a picture of my hair that my flatmate, Monica, made for me:

Bun!

There's a secret how we managed to make it look like I have a lot of hair, but that's a whole another story ;D

It was a good party although thinking about some things that happened last night makes me want to go on a rant again...

So I guess I should quit here x')

P.S. Ah, I am sooo in love with Adele's Set Fire to the Rain right now and I really, really want to make a contemporary-ish routine to it (I even have an idea/story for it), but I feel that I'm not good enough as a dancer to actually make a routine.