Flormar Black Dot Nail Polish BD05 Review&Swatches

The 5th topic of the #2014BloggerChallenge is nails, so I decided to finally review a nail polish from my favorite brand: Flormar. I know a lot of you are not familiar with this brand and I also don't know to many details, except that they are a Turkish brand. They do also makeup, and actually I have one of their eyeshadow quads and it's crazily pigmented!

Over the time, I featured Flormar's Nail Polishes in my NOTD posts, but you never saw this one (mainly because I just bought it last week)! I was in a shop, waiting in the line to pay and I saw this small bottle near there are I was very intrigued by the concept! I knew higher end brands already had this kind of nail polish, but for some reason I wasn't expecting my beloved Flormar to have it also!

After the small introduction, let me show you the star of this post: Flormar Black Dot Nail Polish in BD05.

Shop till you drop: Urban Decay Online in Europe!

Exciting news everyone: Urban Decay is available online with free/almost free delivery to Europe (EU)! If you are like me, and you live in a country where there is no Urban Decay, this means that you can finally try some of their cult products.

Finally, feelunique.com added Urban Decay to their range of products! Why I say finally? I am shopping quite often on feelunique, and I feel that Urban Decay is exactly what they were missing!

Foundation battle: Bourjois Health Mix Foundation vs Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua

Today is time for a foundation battle: Bourjois Healthy Mix vs Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua. The 4th topic of the #2014BloggerChallenge is high end/ drugstore vs high street and what a better post than comparing two foundations from sister companies ?

Interesting fact: Contrary to popular belief, Bourjois owns Chanel and not the other way around!

General information and prices:

• Bourjois Healthy Mix foundation comes in 8 shades, so not a big variety and they all tend to have a yellow undertone. Unfortunately, they don't cater for super pale or darker skin tones.It retails for about 12-15 euros.
• Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua comes in 10 shades: 5 with warm/yellow undertone (B10, B20, B30, B40, B50) and 5 with cool/pink undertone(BR10, BR20, BR30, BR40, BR50). It retails for about 35-40 euros. 

Both foundations come in 30ml plastic bottles, with the difference that the Bourjois one has a pump while the Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua is a "squeeze bottle". I don't find the lack of pump disturbing, because the spout allows you to control the quantity you want to dispense.

My Acne Journey and How I Cleared Up my Skin (Steps to Clear Skin- Part 3}

I started this series (Steps to Clear Skin) on my blog almost 1 year ago and I think it is time to sum it up as my skin it's pretty much clear now and I focus more on maintaining and treating the acne scars I have left. Today I will share my acne journey with you and I will tell you about my acne treatment, what home remedies for acne I used as well as what face masks available on the market I used and had results with. In the end I will tell you a little bit what I do now to prevent acne and how I treat acne scars.

I will first show you how my skin transformed during the last year! Please keep in mind that I didn't really plan this post and these pictures are what I could find in my computer, so I don't have my best pose in them/ I can look pretty odd.

Background information:

During my high school years I didn't have particularly acne prone skin - I was getting one or two odd pimples around my period, but that was all. After high school I moved to Finland for university and I can't say my skin suddenly became prone to acne, but it definitely became more sensitive and reactive. Almost to the end of 2012 I decided to try a "high end" foundation and that totally ruined my skin. I started to get all sorts of "foreign objects" - comedones (blackheads and whiteheads), papules (pinheads), nodules (large papules), pimples - on my face and you can imagine my shock. I didn't think for 1 second that my new "fancy" foundation was causing the change so I continued using it. Luckily for me, in the middle of December I went for holidays in Romania and the first thing I did was to see a dermatologist. After analyzing the situation of my skin, she considered that just some topical treatment (4% benzoyl peroxide) will do the job and she also suggested to stop using any new skincare product or makeup which I started to use around the time my skin changed. For some reason, that foundation again didn't cross my mind and I kept using it. After a week or two, I was talking with my mom about my skin and what the dermatologist said and she remembered me that I started to use that foundation around the time my skin problems started. So I stopped using it and here is where my steps to clear skin started.

Now that I got that story said, let me show you my skin over the past wear as well as how I treated my acne. Please click on the pictures so you will see my skin in all its glory!

Valentine's Day NOTD: Hearts and Dots

Finally a blog post which doesn't include a tutorial!!! Yesterday I painted my nails with something that hopefully will last for tomorrow as well: hearts and dots. I already showed you how to do hearts on your nails using things that you have at home, so today I will just show you what will be on my nails for Valentine's Day  :)

2 Ways to Contour and Highlight (Cream Products)

I know during the past week or so, my blog posts were only about my videos, but I've been really busy recently. I am trying to organize my time better to get some real posts up, so lets hope for the best.

Today's tutorial is how to contour and highlight using cream products and I will show you 2 ways to do it.

Valentine's Day Tutorial: Day to Night Makeup Look

Valentine's Day is approaching so fast, but guess what? It is on Friday, so those who are working or going to school won't have enough time to get ready for their night out. Don't worry! I will show you how you can take the makeup you already have on and transform it into an evening makeup, just perfect for a night out!

For this look I used my Sleek Oh So Special Platte (review here), but first let's see with what I started:

Sleek Contour Kit - Light - Review & Swatches

Let me just tell you what a bad beauty blogger I am: I have the Sleek Contour Kit for a little over a year now and I even took pictures for this post, but I never ended up writing it! Why? I don't even know.... You know what they say, better later than never, right? So today is my time to review the Sleek Contour Kit in Light.