Preview: Alverde Vintage Rose LE :)

Hello again :) Another preview for you, this time it's by Alverde :) The collection is called  Vintage Rose and should be available at the end of January 2014 :)

Eyeliner - A natural eyeliner makes the vintage look complete. The eyeliner with jojoba oil from organic farming can be applied accurately thanks to its fine applicator. For a particularly nostalgic eyelashes eyeliner can be pulled across the outer corner of the eye.

Available in the shades Vintage Nude and Vintage Rose.

Handbutter  with rose scent - Aloe vera and glycerin provide the skin with moisture and lend a silky-smooth feel and a pleasant scent of roses. The recipe with shea butter and wild rose oil from controlled organic cultivation gives very dry hands rich care.The Hand Butter with Rose scent is a vegan product.

Kajal pencil - The eye pencil in the dreamy vintage colors can be precisely applied. For nostalgic beautiful moments! With the built-in sharpener. The eye pencil is available in the variants Vintage Brown, Green Stylish, Classic Grey and Black Original. 

Mono Eyeshadow - Delicate eye shadow colors that are reminiscent of a bouquet of roses. It can discreetly create nostalgic makeup looks. With rose quartz powder. The recipe with chamomile flower extract from organic farming and bisabolol are gentle on the delicate skin around the eyes. The Mono Eyeshadow is available in shades Innocent White (vegan), Vintage Taupe (vegan), Passion Pink (not vegan) and Valentines Rose (not vegan).

Lipstick - Rich colors for a vintage kissing lips with jojoba oil from controlled biological cultivation and shorea butter. Apply the lipstick from the center outwards. The lipstick is available in three shades, all are not vegan. 

 Mascara Shimmer + Shine - The transparent mascara with wild roses and almond extract from organic farming can be applied to the already inked lashes. It gives momentum and enchanting glow effects.

Mousse Blush - The light and airy texture of the mousse blushers can be gently spread over the cheeks and give a warm rosy cheeks emphasis. Apply just with your fingers, take a small amount and apply to the cheekbones. With jojoba and apricot  oil from controlled biological cultivation.The mousse Rouge is available in the shades Sweet Rose and Deep Rose, both are vegan.

Cleaning powder - With its delicate foam cleaning powder frees the skin from makeup, debris and excess sebum, suitable for oily skin. Application: Apply a small amount of powder sprinkle in your hand and mix with a little water. Then spread on the face and massage. Avoid the eye area and rinse with warm water.The cleaning powder is vegan.

Rose gel - The Rosengel with wild rose extract and aloe vera from organic farming gives shimmering highlights on face and décolleté. The delicate rose fragrance will captivate your senses. Use just a small amount  and gently spread freely on the skin.The Rosengel for face and neckline is vegan.

Pretty, right? I would love to try the lipsticks, cleaning powder and rose gel :) These seem the most interesting to me :))) How about you? See anything you like? :)

Thanks for reading!

Love, UniqaPoly 

Beauty haul - my new stuff :)

Hey there! It's autumn already and it's time to refresh a bit my beaty and make up bags :)
In the last two or three weeks I got myself some pretty new stuff, but I wanted to post them all together in one post.

Here's a group photo of my newbies!

What we have here is from left to right: Balea Bodylotion Feigen- und Schokoladenduft limited edition, Essence Wild Craft LE nail polish 03 mystic lilac, Catrice Ultimate Nail lacquer 900 Steel My heart,  Revlon ColorBurst lipstick in 095 Crimson, Catrice Hollywood's Fabulous 40ties LE, Velvet Lip Colour, C01 Red Butler, Terra Naturi kajal eyeliner in 04 Jade Green, Essence Class of 2013 LE, eyeshadow pen in 02 School's out forever.

First off, the body lotion should come along with the shower cream, but in our DM stores I only found the body lotion and the other one that smells of almond and cherries. I prefered this smell more, it is really gorgeous! Very chocolatey, creamy, a bit of sweet scent and vanilla. I'm not sure I even know how figs should smell, so I can't really say I smell them. I like this because it is not just chocolate but also a bit of sweet, fruity smell. The texture is as always with Balea, light, white colour, absorbs quickly, doesn't leave a sticky feeling, but doesn't smell on the skin for long. I wish it did thou, I love the smell.

Second is a nail polish from a limited editon by Essence. the first time I saw it it didn't persuade me, but the next I kinda had a shopping spree and was way too much in a good mood, so I bought it. But I am actually satisfied with it. In comparison with the second nail polish by Catrice, it's more long lasting and easier to apply. I don't have any photos of how it looks on my nails thou... Love the colour, really nice purple shade, quite dark also.

The second one by Catrice is a bit more special, because it has a brushed metal effect. It looks different and also feels different on my nails. It's not as glossy and smooth as I am used to with nail polishes, but is a bit more rough, has an unique finish to it too. I took a photo of how it looks one day after applying it. With application I had problems because I needed two coats to get them look even, but after applying the second one the nail polish didn't dry as quickly and as good and it started to crease if my nails tuched my clothes or phone or anything really..  It is also not long lasting, it goes off pretty easy by itself, but a lot harder with nail polish remover.

This lipstick is by Revlon, a company very well known around the globe for their lip products. I believe everyone knows the make up world was in a huge hype for their Lip Butters and still are. This one is from their range Colorburst, it's number 095 Crimson. It's been out for a couple of years now and it has been on my wishlist for a long time. It's a really nice product, very creamy, easy to apply, quite longlasting if you ask me, I think it lasted about 4 hours with drinking, but after eating I had to reapply. It does have a bit of a smell but it doesn't bother me. The colour is amazing, really nice brick red, suitable for warm skin tones. I would suggest this product to those who want a red lipstick, but not a very strong, statement one. I will probably mostly use it as a daily lipstick. This can be worn without any lipliner.

Another lipstick I got is by Catrice. This is the first lipstick by them that I own and it is very good! This one here is from a limited edition Hollywood's Fabulous 40ties, Red Butler. It's a really great shade, the colour payoff is also very good. It's a more cool toned one, and even thou I'm warm and more yellow toned I can still pull it off. Normally I would never buy such a shade, but I just had to try it. To me it looks like more a cold colour, with a touch of violet shades, so I usually associate this kind of colours with fair skin, but it still looked good on me. Both lipsticks demand quite some work on the skin, you really need to cover up all the redness and the spots, otherwise you look red all over the face. As for texture, it is really comparable to the Revlon one. It's creamy, easy to apply, easy to blend, but it's not that longlasting. Plus the colour demands a lip liner, it's just such a shade that really stands out and needs to be  a touch more defined. It's also half the price of the Revlon one, so it's a nice alternative. I will definitely try some other shades. Longivety is not that important to me, because I would re - do my lips anyway, every hour or less, just because I'm used to it.

Here are the swatches, the upper one is Catrice Red Butler and the second one Revlon Crimson. And here's how they look on my lips in the sun :)

Revlon, Crimson

Catrice, Red Butler

Also a swatch of an eyeliner and an pencil eyeshadow. The first, upper one, is by Terra Naturi, a brand of natural cosmetics, by Müller. It's a nice shade of green, named 04 Jade Green, it goes one with abit of trouble and it stays on for about 3-4 hours, but than I needed to reapply it. I have very greasy eyelids, so 3-4 hours is actually really good for me. I used Essence eyeshadow base for mineral eyeshadows, so I think that helped too. It did not fade much, but enough for me to notice the difference and feel the need to reapply it.

Sorry the photo didn't get the reall colours, I hope I manage to get some sun and make another one.

The second product is an eyeshadow in a pencil by Essence, Class of 2013 LE,  in 02 School's out forever. It's ok for an Essence product and price, but nothing special really. It can work as a mono eyeshadow or as a highlighter, it stays put for a few hours, it did not crease. Still the colour in the store looked a lot more promising than on the natural light and I kinda regret this buy, since it really did not impress me. I'm tryng to include it in many looks but.. I just don't like it much. It's too shimmery even for me, and I love shimmery eyeshadows.


So this is it, all my newbies and more of them yet to come! I hear Alverde finally delivered their new autumn products to Slovenia, so shopping it is! XD

Hope this was useful to you and thanks for reading!

Preview - Catrice - Big City Life LE

Catrice strikes again with a new limited edition collection Big City Life. This one will come out in October and November. It consist of three eyeshadow pallets and corresponding nail polishes. All three are a combination of eyeshadows and blushes, they have a little applicator in it and also a small kajal pencil.

Paris

Paris collection is in shades of pink and grey, some nude tones.

San Francisco

San Francisco has one colour that really stands out, a teal blue one, the rest are more neutral .

Shanghai

Shanghai consist of gold shade, some light browns and a bit darker browns.

Here are the corresponding nail polishes:

Catrice launched a similar collection last year, but with different cities and different shades. I was too late to get any of the pallets, so I hope this year I manage to at least try them out in store.


Thanks for reading!

Alverde Goodbye products - review and swatches

Alverde is preparing to launch new, autumn products and therefore there were sales on the ones that were going out. I saw a list published on some german site and I think they had more stuff going out than we did or just we had fewer things on sale, but they are still going out. I got myself Alverde  Quattro eyeshadow in 37 Chocolate, baked eyeshadow in 09 Nude Rose and kajal eyeliner in 10 Dark Violet. All together were about five euros, yeey! I love this brand of cosmetic and make up because they make such great products for a reasonable price, they also have a lot of vegan stuff and certificates confirming they have natural substances in it and are not testing on animals.

First, the eyeshadow  is in classical warm tones from very light beige to dark matte brown, the third shade is rather shimmery, but the rest are matte ones. They are nicely pigmented, they have that usual Alverde smell all their products have, I wouldn't say they are very longlasting but thay stay put for at least 5 hours on me. Probably on someone with less  oily skin that would last even longer.

Than next two are baked eyeshadow and kajal eyepencil. Baked eyeshadows were  some time ago a part of a limited edition and than some shades got to be in the regular range. At first I got myself a wonderful green shade when they came with LE, and based on my experiences with that one I decided to get this one too. Although I have a lot of similar shades already, I can never get enough of nice natural pastel shades that can be used in so many ways :)

It's a very pigmented eyeshadow, even more than the ones from the quattro range, it lasts longer but it does have a bit more of an intense smell, because it's baked and it was made with a different technology. As for the kajal pencil - it's a very dark violet shade. To me it looks  a bit electric violet with the right light, it has a bit of shine to it. It is a quite longlasting product, I had to wash my hands several times just to get the swatch off. Out of these three only quattro is a vegan product :) I'm very content with all of them, I hope Alverde will continue making such wonderful products and I also hope that even more of the make up will be made vegan :)

Hope this was useful to you and thanks for reading! :)

Preview - Artdeco Mystic Garden LE

New limited edition Mystic Garden Fall - Winter 2012 Collection. It is again as expected from Art Deco - classy, very nice shades and again a lovely box for eyeshadows :)

The new eyeshadows can be stored  in this new limited edition Beauty Box Quattro Art Design 12/ 13 featuring floral design.

Four intensive eyeshadows offer a shimmering range of colors in violet, night blue, light brown and chestnut brown. I find their eyeshadow very good quality and a reasonable price, about 5 euros for one. This is available in  283 Intense Aubergine, 89 Pearly Eternal Violet, 213 Attractive Nude and 209 Earth Spirit. Personally I would like to have the aubergine and violet one :)

Art Couture lipsticks are the first two on the photo, they come in two shades Cream Tosca Red – dark red and Cream Autumn Brown – brown-red.
Second ones are Perfect Colour Lipstick, they come in 32 Autumn Flower – brown-red and 82 Cabaret Pink – bright cherry red. The last one is Hydra Lip Booster in 40 Translucent Cryptal Bud.

The nail polish contains patented ceramic particles that increase its durability and ensure long-lasting shine. Polyester resin shortens drying time and prevents discoloration of the nails.It comes in four shades - 26 Deep Scarlet Red – dark bordeaux, 69 Rich Cream – subtle cream, 31 Brown Truffle – chocolate brown and 07 Pink Cabaret – bright fuchsia. I would go for Deep Scarlet Red, such a pretty shade :)

This waterproof eyeliner is fragrance-free and contains nourishing Vitamin E. This comes in 16 Autumn Leaves – mysterious brown.

The kajal eyeliner is also suitable for use on the waterline. It won’t smudge and is suitable for contact lens wearers. This comes in64 Warm Brown.

In this collection there are also Eye designer that comes in 90 Autumn Flower – creamy beige and 98 Rich Cream – dark chestnut brown. All in one mascara that is in only one shade 07 Gray- Green. Mineral lip styer in two shades, 12 Mineral Tosca Red – intense red satin and 17 Mineral Vintage Nude and High precision liquid liner in 03 playful - brown. And ablusher also, but I did not find a name or number for it. Also could not find any information on the other two eyeshadows, so I can only guess if they are creamy or mineral?

Do you like anything? I will check it out, but for now I do not intend to buy anything.


Thanks for reading! :D