Cute Blog Award!

I got another award! This time it's the 'Cute Blog Award'.

I'm glad to see that my effort to make my blog look nice paid off :)

I just want to send out a HUGE thank you to everyone who supports my blog. It really make me happy. This blog means so much to me, more than I thought it would when I first started off. Now, I can't imagine a life without blogging. So I can't thank you enough for giving me motivation to blog. :)

Cute Blog Award: Rules

  1. Link back to the person who awarded you.
2. Answer the award questions. 
3. Tell something about yourself that you haven't told anyone on your blog yet. 
4. Award as many blogs as you think worthy of this award
5. Make sure to let these you gave this award to know that you awarded them. 

Blogger who awarded me with this award:

stokelyrainbow

Thank you SO much :)

Award Questions~

1. What is your go-to makeup product?

Mascara. It just brighten up my face so much. I know some people who find it tedious to do their lashes so they do their normal makeup routine but don't wear mascara and im just like o.o whaaa?

2. What was your favorite fashion trend of 2011?

Blazers!

3. What is your favorite dessert?

Ice cream.

4. Favorite color?

Purple.

5. What is your middle name?

My dad's name, Roopesh.

6. What was the last song you listened to?

Fuck U Betta - Neon Hitch

Something you guys don't know about me yet:

I'm bisexual.

Blogs I am awarding this to: 

putbeautytowords

daily-nail

allthatglitters21

Thank you once again :)

purple.

Created a purple themed look. I realized some people find it hard to wear purple without looking like they got punched in the eye. That's where I come in! :)
Here is the eye look-

I have a tutorial for you, now. Hope it helps!

1.

• Prime your eye. I used Two Faced's Shadow Insurance. 
• Darken your eyebrows. 

2. 

• Using a berry purple eyeliner, draw a line in the direction of your eyebrows, almost as if you would join it but stop halfway.

3. 

• Using the same liner, draw a line in your crease, stopping before the inner corner.

4. 

• Apply a light rose pink all over 2/3rd of the lid.

5. 

• Apply a warm pink all over that, but stopping a little more than halfway into the lid.

6. 

• Using the same eye liner, draw the outline of a larger wing, extending it further than the eyebrows. The previously draw 'V' should be kept intact. (I drew the wing later because I wanted the 'V' to be visible when I was filling in the darker purple)
• Fill it in with a berry purple shadow, following the shape of the 'V' but blending away the sharp edges.

7. 

• Using a darker purple, go over the wing but stop 2/3rd in. blend with the remaining berry purple.

We're now finally done with purples and pinks. So far, starting from the inner, it is a light pink, a warm pink, a berry purple and a dark purple, respectively. Make sure they're blended seamlessly. 

8.

• Blend in a yellow in the inner corner. Blend it in the light pink really well, or it looks harsh. (In this image, I hadn't blended it very well. Later, I realized my error and blended it in further. But I'd advise you to blend it in well from the start.
• Using upward sweeping motions, fade yellow out from the top of the wing, make sure to blend it upwards, and not get any on the purple wing. 

9.

• Line your eyes. (I used a gel liner) 
• Create an eyeliner wing along the line of the purple shadow wing. Like a miniature wing inside  a wing. Wing-ception!

10.

• Apply false lashes and mascara, and you're done with the eyes!

11.  Face: I used a dark berry purple to define my cheekbones, and applied a rose pink blush right above that, and a peachy pink on my cheekbones. 

12. Lips: Black Lipstick, with berry purple blended into the center of my lips. 

Don't they look awesome?

All done! :)

Hope you liked it!

P.s. This isn't wearable, fi you haven't noticed already. Well, maybe the eyes, if you tone them down a little. Does anything want another eye look similar to this but wearable? 

Youtube.

I'm planning to start making youtube video tutorials.
I'm making my first one today.
I will let you guys view the videos straight off my blog, so look forward to that :)

Anyone have any ideas for what I should make my first nail art video tutorial?

Tetris Inspired Nails

Remember the old games of tetris?

Well, I created Tetris inspired nails :) 

Hope you like! :)

Stressed.

Starting Monday, which is tomorrow, my mock igcse exams are starting.

This is extremely annoying.

My igcse's are in MAY. I don't see why my mocks have to be all the way in January! I'm most definitely not prepared.
Therefore, I am extremely stressed out. I won't be posting much for the next couple of weeks. 

Versatile Blogger Award!

I got my first blog award! I'm so excited.

It was given to me by Colour by makeup, and I'm really, really grateful to her <3

You have to check out her blog! It's amazing and super creative!

Here are the rules if you get given the award:

• You must thank the person who gave you the award, including a shout out with a link on their blog. 
• Share 7 random facts about yourself.
• Send the award to 15 other people whose blog you like to read, and let them know about it.

I AM AWARDING THE VERSATILE BLOGGER AWARD TO:


http://dashingdawns.blogspot.com/
http://daily-nail.blogspot.com/
http://msveve.blogspot.com/
http://putbeautytowords.blogspot.com/
http://dinorahbaby.blogspot.com/
http://bombay-beauty.blogspot.com/
http://danussasnails.blogspot.com/
http://thebeautyvixen.blogspot.com/
http://beautybylee.blogspot.com/
http://fashionista-playground.blogspot.com/
http://stokelyrainbow.blogspot.com/
http://ilovewarpaint.blogspot.com/



RANDOM FACTS:

1. Whenever I wash my hands, I wash my nose too. I don't know why! I always have to touch up my nose because I wash off the makeup from it. I don't know why I do it, but I always do! I can't stop, either, I tried. 
2. I live right next to the sea, and it's so pretty. I love waking up early in the morning and watching the sea from my balcony with a hot cup of tea and my fluffy Golden Retriever sitting by my feet.
3. I don't want to ever leave my school, DSB. Sometimes I try and make time go by reaaally slowly, because I know I will be leaving in half a year, and it makes me really sad. It feels like home, and I don't want to leave.
4. I can't do anything if I don't have my iphone with me. I'm handicapped without it. I do EVERYTHING on it. Without it I am...lost.
5. I love cherries. My dad always gets me these really good, but expensive, ones. They taste so good, I absolutely love them<3
6. I don't know how to make tea, although I drink it every day. 
7.  I feel very, very insecure if I leave the house without makeup on. Lately, I've been doing that very often because I'm studying so much that I don't have time to bother about my appearance. But it makes me feel really, really horrible, and I avoid looking in mirrors or taking pictures. I can't wait to be done with all this exam stress, and be able to go back to my daily routine of making me look pretty.

2012.

It's 2012.
Unlike most people, I did not spend new year's out partying.
Instead, I spent it curled up at home with a giant blanket.
I've been in a horrible, sad mood these past few days. My family and my friends assumed it was because of my news years plans. Or lack of them.
But that's the thing. I don't care about whether I stay at home or not, because I don't like partying. I wouldn't have minded staying home with a couple friends, but everyone wanted to go out and party. So i stayed home.
Either way. My sadness has nothing to do with new years.
I just feel so confused.
I don't know what I'm doing with my life. I wish I did. I wish I could just shut my eyes, open them after a few minutes and be hit with the answers to life's hardest questions.
But I can't do that.
I'm so sick of hiding. Pretending I'm someone I'm not. Caring about what people think. I'm so sick of feeling guilty because my life is perfect, and I'm still unsatisfied.
So it's currently 1 am. January 1st.
I'm not going to do this anymore.
I'm not gonna sit around wondering why I'm not satisfied. Wishing for things I've lost. Mooning over a lost love. Crying over betrayal.
I refuse to do that.
This year, a new Kim is going to be born. One that won't fall in love. One that won't get hurt. One that won't get kicked when she's down. One that won't trust as easily as she did.
The new Kim isn't gonna take shit from anyone.
Not like I do. Correction - did.
No, this year marks the start of something new. Something stronger.

Big Bounce Shadows.

I went to MAC today. Last time I was there, I noticed their Big Bounce Shadows and I really wanted one.
I ended up buying two, though.
The Cool Elite, a pearly white with a shimmery finish.
Extra Charged, a dark olive green with blue shimmery bits.

They're not that big. They're decent sized. Bigger than MAC's powder eyeshadows but smaller than say, their blush. Around the same size as their paint pots.

I hadn't really bothered swatching, or even opening them in the store, because I was in such a hurry. So I just grabbed them, paid and left. 

So when i got home and opened them, I was surprised at how... pretty they looked. I didn't wanna dip my brush in them! They looked good enough to be eaten. (Well, not literally.)

Extra Charged

The Cool Elite

Once I swatched them, though, I was terribly disappointed. I found the formula far too thin and it looked extremely washed out. It took several layers for the colours to actually show. And considering my skin colour, it looked even more washed out.

Here it is with just one layer.

Couple more layers.

  

The only way to apply this would be with a brush. Using your finger sis extremely messy, product gets everywhere and slips and slides all over your lid, causing uneven coverage.

As you can see, applying this with simply one layer is not enough, as it hardly shows up. 

Overall, I was extremely disappointed in them.
In my opinion, it was a waste of money, and I would have been better off buying MAC Paint Pots.
It's a real shame, because the colours are beautiful and I love the shimmery shades.

Procrastinating my life away?

Failure of a day.
Today, I woke up at noon. Something I never do, because I think sleeping away at least four hours of your life in the morning, when you could be doing something productive, is a waste. When you could just do that sleeping at night instead of staring into space and letting thoughts eat at your brain. But I guess that's hypocritical of me to say, because that's exactly what I do. Oh well.
Instead of getting down to studying because I woke up so late, which would have been ideal for me to do considering the limited amount of hours I had left for this day to end, I procrastinated. I spent over an hour  eating breakfast, tearing away bits of bread and staring at them like bread was the most interesting thing on the planet.
After that, I attempted studying. Didn't concentrate much, though. Next thing I new, the whole day had passed by and I'd barely got anything done.
Waste of a day, I know.

Winter

Sometimes, I really don't like living in India. Winter is one of those times. It never snows in Mumbai. Normally one would find that amazing, and most people do. But sometimes a year long summer gets tiring. Plus, I've never even touched snow. How sad is that? So I decided to create some snowy makeup to cheer myself up! This is me as an ice queen.

And here are some snowy lips I created -

Hope you liked them! Comment and share :) P.s. I have some Christmas designs coming up.