F A R ★ S T A R : Feat. Gandalfkorv

Two posts in one day? Say what? 

(No I did not fall and hit my head, creativity just attacked and that is nice!)

This right here is a flyer for a brand called FAR★STAR, featuring my stylish buddy Lina.

Guess who is the proud photographer?

Yours truly. This intro would not make a lot of sense otherwise.

Anyhow, FAR★STAR asked Lina to model their clothes and take some pictures they could use for their flyers. Knowing I have a DSLR camera, she asked me for help, and so we fought the Swedish summer heat - believe it or not, it does get really freaking hot in the summer, before the polar bears take over - and walked around for hours, looking for good, clean backgrounds and taking an endless amount of pictures.

♡

This human can really pull off anything,
and I have all these rather great pictures on my laptop. 

Seems silly not to post them anywhere, right? 

So here goes: 

  

First some white and black (as you can obviously see)...

 And then some black and white. ~

Looks great, right? I cannot believe I have not used this lens before. 

They turned out so Sharp and Vibrant.

+ 10/10 on these designs, man.

♡

I really do love taking fashion pictures of friends and other people, but for some reason I rarely do. This was heaps of fun, despite the heat and my boiling wig hidden head. I want to have a photoshoot with more people. 

A Hunger Games Capitol fashion photoshoot would be so epic, right? On some sort of urban or more city-like location. I know many people who have pulled off amazing looks for the premieres, or just in general been inspired by it. I have to pester my friends and convince them to join. (If any of you are reading this, by any chance, hit me up okay! This kind of applies to the rest of you as well. ♡)


Okay, time to sort out my life and log out.
It is 03:00 in the morning here and I know I am exhausted, I just simply do not feel it. I am 21 years old now. I am getting too old for these teenage habits. Dear Lord.


Goodnight darlings. ♡ U da bomb.

l i f e ♡ u p d a t e : December 2015 edition

Winter is here, and I have not updated in a while. So here is a picture of the sleeve of the best thing I have ever bought, and a mindless update about my life. I will whine a little bit but end on a positive note. Enjoy!

Every single time I get to experience a couple of great weeks, full of energy and fun plans, life decides to slap me in the face. I applied for the 5 week science course when I thought I applied for the 10 week course, did not realize until two weeks had gone by... Thus, did not sleep for three weeks because I had to work, science is not my best subject so I really had to concentrate, and lost every ounce of energy and motivation to, you know, go outside.

I do only have me and my own klutzy brain to blame, here, as this could have easily been avoided, had I only bothered to sit down with my calendar and properly plan my working schedule.
I think many can relate to this, though.

So, who else is a total airhead?
We are pretty great no matter what. Do not feel bad.

At the same time, I have been popping pills for stress developed gastritis and pain killers for my wisdom tooth, which has been hurting so much I have not been able to even think. I finally went to the dentist and while the rest of my teeth looked good, thank god, my dentist just fell silent when he looked at that damn tooth, then breathed that it was the worst thing he had ever seen.

Anyway, the tooth is temoporarily filled and will be surgically (it had crooked roots and could not just be pulled out) removed in a week, the course is finally over now, and I somehow managed to get a B. I started laughing manically when my grade came in the mail. A B in science?! If my younger self, a sad emo crying into her chemistry book, could se me now. Sorry if this is bragging but I am really, really proud.

Remind me to never ever postpone things though, I am still exhausted and boy do I need some time off. I am finally starting to feel more energetic though, so let me stop the negativity right here!

So, what have I been up to, since the course ended?

Well, I have started playing games. Life Is Strange was amazing and now Beyond: Two Souls. I have spent time with dearly missed friends, cleaned my room and gone through all the crap my hoarder brain has forced me to keep. This weekend I spent the evening at lovely Isa's place and watched a really bad movie, today I went into town with my friend Lina, and now I am sitting here, officially not feeling very bitter at all.

I even managed to wear actual clothes today!
(I wore pajama pants out with this though but let us not discuss that.)

The light is awful this time of year. Thank you, Sweden. 

So no full outfit, but my coat is fluffy, which makes it completey okay.

♡

I have done a little bit of shopping too... not everything at once, but here and there. 

A little bit of makeup, the Lumene foundation is highly recommended, and the 24 hour Maybelline tattoo eyeshadow is mind blowingly amazing. H&M's new makeup line is great, so I got two eyeshadows. Two lipsticks from Kicks, two from Viva la Diva, an eyeshadow primer from NYX, a white eyeliner from Isadora, a fine tip liquid eyeliner from Maybelline.

So is the coat from Monki!
I have not treated myself to a proper coat since I was 16, I am worth it.

The pictures are - due to, you guessed it, the light in Sweden - awful, but these are this week's purchases: a beanie (shaped like the top of a condom when I wear it, ironic considering my sexuality) from H&M, super hipster glasses from a place called Butterick's, and glitter and rhinestones from a local craft store, for makeup experiments.

I also bought a pair of zodiac/star sign print pajama pants, that I am using as regular tights. Because I can and they are awesome.

♡

I am not quite sure as to why I wrote this post, or what the point is, but I started writing and I figured why not share? Even though this is all seemingly pointless.

I suppose I just wanted to update a little, write off the stress, after taking a social media break. I think we all need that sometimes!

Okay, now we have reached the end of this post.
Go hug someone you love and I will see you soon. I do have some outfits to post and other mindless rants as well, I believe! ♡

s u m m e r ♡ f a s h i o n

It is September, and it is officially not summer anymore. Well, at least not really, I am not entirely sure, because Sweden has been playing tricks on me for the past two weeks. My father once said "Sweden is more bipolar than you" and thought he was so flippadoodelin' clever he was practically jumping with joy when we were talking about the weather and changing seasons here, and while I aged thirty years from listening to that clever joke, I had to admit that he was actually right. 

Two days ago it was pouring so heavily I almost drowned and it was so cold I could barely feel my legs, yesterday was so warm and sunny my eyes wanted to crawl out of my skull. 

I will regret saying this in a few weeks; but I actually want Sweater Weather to unpack its bags and settle down comfortably, already. I am actually quite done with summer. 

So, I figured it could be a nice idea to say Good Bye to the season with an outfit post? 

Yes.

s u m m e r ♡ f a sh i o n 

2 0 1 5

Wig: Taobao

Lashes: Dolly Wink

Choker: Taobao

Padlock necklace: SEX POT ReVeNGe (available at CDJapan !)

Tee: Sheinside (do not support anymore, read here) *

Shorts: Some shop in Harajuku, sadly not for sale online!

* A tip, use Google to find alternatives to Sheinside. You can either type in "Bambi tee Sheinside" and save an image of it to use for image search, or simply stay with the web search results and see if you can find it elsewhere, without having to use image search. 

♡

Rose crown: Meltychocolatemoon (lovely Raichi !)

Wig: Taobao

Necklace: Closet Child 

(also available at Innocent World, and various other Japanese brands)

Dress: SisterS Point

Peignoir: Beyond Retro

Lenses: GEO Holicat Sexy cat grey 

(apply coupon code irodohieru @ Pinkyparadise !)

♡

Wore this for Club Cosmos, hence the cosmos theme. Super original...!

Headband: Just a good ol' satin ribbon

Wig: Taobao

T-shirt: Vulpaevulpae.bigcartel.com 

Necklace: A gift made by Alice

Lenses: GEO Eyes Cream RayRay Grey 

(apply coupon code irodohieru @ Pinkyparadise !)

Eyeshadow from H&M, lipstick from Viva La Diva, 

gem stones from a hobby store.


♡

Hat: BikBok

Wig: Taobao

Top: Sheinside (do not support, read here !)

Pins: Taobao

Skirt: Beyond Retro

Tights: Some shop in Harajuku, have not found them online!

Socks: H&M

Shoes: Y.R.U (bought at Dolls Kill)

Lenses: GEO Eyes Cream RayRay Grey !

♡

Headscarf: Glitter

Wig: Taobao

Choker: Paris Kids (in Harajuku)

Necklace: Gift from mother

Dress: Sheinside (I repeat - do not support !)

Tights: Taobao

Shoes: Y.R.U

Lenses: GEO Eyes Cream RayRay Grey

♡

I only managed to repair my hair to a somewhat decent state towards the end of the summer, so there have been a lot of wigs... Boy do I wish it had looked this good all summer. Wigs are warm. Not recommended.

♡

Featured here are things from SEX POT ReVeNGe, Vulpae 

and Wildly Unpopular Apparel, which are all favorites. Just, for the record !

♡

I consider "Only weak people do not wear black in the summer" one of my mottos in life, so I suppose these last few images - the strangely pink and perky one in the upper left corner aside - saved me from completely failing my own philosophy this summer. 

I have been thinking about whether I should start making more "hello this is what I have been doing lately" posts here, so that might be something that will pop up here in the future! Do you think it would be a good idea? 

Hm. It feels incredibly strange writing a question to people I cannot see, while pictures of my own face are staring back at me. 

Oops, there goes my sanity. I guess winter really is coming.

Anyways! I hope your summers have been great, I am one hundred percent sure you deserve only the crème-de-la-crème. ♡ Thank you for stopping by! Take care, ok?

p a s t e l ♡ c o m e b a c k

Title is - obviously - referring to my new hair color!  

Okay, to be fair, I have had it for about a month now... but I have not yet posted it here, have I? So why not. Let us say "new" and move along. 

Was not even blonde for a month, I think. I am so very indecisive it is almost amusing. 

Before and after, anyway.

 

For this, I used Directions ("Neon Blue"), which is my go-to hair dye brand. I get my Directions from Kawaii Shop or Shock here in Stockholm, but you can find it ridiculously easily on eBay. Literally, it takes two minutes.

Neon Blue is quite a dark shade of blue with purple pigments, so I mixed it with conditioner to brighten it a bit. Pastel things up a notch, so to speak! I used about one cup of regular conditioner, I think I have some Elvital repair type thing, with a little less than a teaspoon of hair dye, give or take a few drops.

This method is great, because you will certainly not have to run to the store or order new hair dye every other week, as I would have had to do if I had gone with a lighter shade of purple dye. So, it is highly recommended! However, I feel obligated to add that you cannot do this with permanent box dye, only with conditioner-based semi-permanent hair dye. Things will go horribly wrong if you try to mix permanent box dye with conditioner ("and you will get cancer and die").

♡

Now that I have washed it a few times, it has turned a little blue though, to say the least. But I think it still looks rather good, so I will wait a while before buying some pink conditioner to throw in the mix and going purple again.

Seems like no matter what I try, I always end up going back to blue. 

Seems like no matter what I try, sooner or later I always go back to blue. 

Oh, well. 

Over and out, petals! ♡

m a k e u p ♡ cheap knock-offs vs. brands

Trying to write these long entries I have planned for such a long time, is really not having a very positive effect on my creativity, nor my ability to actually go through with it. I have repeatedly apologized for my messy brain, and surely it must be getting old by now, so I will just say that from here on out I will just write what I feel like, and what I have planned will come when it comes. Simple as that!

So, today’s topic, completely out of the blue?

The beauty of brand makeup. 

I have been thinking about this a lot lately. The reason as to why, is me growing up a dedicated cheapskate, who would rather chop her own arm off with a kitchen knife, than spend more than 300 SEK on a cosmetic product of any kind. That is, until a few weeks ago, when I finally gave up, and bought something I have literally been dreaming about for a very long time – The Too Faced Chocolate Bar nude eyeshadow palette.

Just looking at it is makeup porn, I am officially converted.

The thing – and the reason I am even writing this post – is, I learned a very valuable lesson from this experience, after going through a very stressful couple of sweaty what-have-I-done days. I have used this palette almost every day since I got it, and when I think about it, the price of all the cheap questionable quality products I have bought without feeling bad about it, probably adds up to a couple of 100 SEK bills more than the Chocolate Bar cost.

And I barely even use those cheap guilt free products.

Ironic, huh?

After the Too Faced palette, came a lip balm and cheek palette from TheBalm, as well as an eyeshadow palette from the same brand, and a foundation from MAC. Touching my savings made the cheapskate inside my skull throw a tantrum, but you know what, it has been completely worth it. (Note: All from http://www.beautybridge.com/ ! Highly recommended seller, they have great offers and coupons and stuff too.)

Remember; "If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad"!

So, what else is there to say about brand makeup?

♡ Q u a l i t y : When it comes to eyeshadows, in particular, the cheap ones are far less pigmented, and do not look nice and vibrant for as long. Cheap black eyeshadows are okay – I have one from H&M, and it is completely okay – but black is black, it is technically not even a color. Very hard to mess up.

As for foundation and powder, I am never ever buying cheap foundation again. There is a major difference when it comes to how the skin cooperates with different foundations, and if you like me have sensitive, dry skin, investing in a good foundation is a… well, good, idea. My old foundation made my skin flakey and cakey, but my MAC Studio Fix Fluid foundation covers everything up instead.

If your skin is not as dry and uncooperative as mine, a cheaper foundation might work, however! Just thought I would add that as well.

♡ V a r i e t y : This mostly applies to shadows and lip colors, obviously, but this is where the biggest difference shows – you actually get a lot more for your money. A basic palette from H&M comes with four or five different shades, whereas most of the bigger brand palettes come with over ten different shades. If you think about it, it could actually be that if you buy several palettes which combined add up to the same number of colors as one of them more fancy palettes, you might even be paying the same price. So the question is; which option is more worth it?

♡ D e s i g n : Let us face it, an eyeshadow palette that smells and tastes like chocolate (please Saga Malva, just shut up about this goddamn thing already) is much more appealing than one of those five shade basic palettes from H&M that I just mentioned. Not to mention TheBalm! I love TheBalm and the half-naked cowboys posing with the apple themed lip balms.

♡ F u n : I could not come up with a better title for this one, so let us ignore the somewhat pretentious feel of it. This part goes hand in hand with design, anyways. Quirky products are just as nice to look at as they are fun to play with. I can honestly say I have enjoyed doing my makeup a whole lot more lately, and it has actually been very inspirational as well. Heck, I even made a YouTube video!

♡ E a s y : Because these palettes are themed, in colors and whatnot, it is much easier to match the different shades and create looks that “make sense”, if that makes sense. Pun intended. It also helps a lot to see the colors next to each other on the palette, so you can do some combining in your head before trying it out on your eyes.

♡

When should you go cheap, then?
Well - brushes, eyeliner, mascara, and perhaps you can live without the fanciest brand of clear lip gloss because real talk, they all look exactly the same.

Money management, when and what to invest in is another topic I could write a book about...! Surprisingly enough, I hate math, but I love numbers. Oh well.

♡

As always, this post got quite long, but I do get quite a few questions on this subject, and I really wanted to share my experience, because converting has done so much for my creativity and inspiration!

Now, there is also a lot to say about ethical makeup as well, but I am planning to write another post on that subject, after hearing some gross things about a certain brand called Lime Crime. Too Faced and TheBalm are cruelty-free, I can say that much. Just now I discovered MAC is no longer cruelty-free, after moving their production to China (long story short), but MakeUpStore is a good alternative. I have some more digging to do, before I can publish a well thought out list. To be continued in part two.

Time for me to go offline and get some work done.
Have a great week everyone! Take care until next time. ( ´ ▽ ` )



P.S. In case you missed it, here is my new video makeup tutorial !
Shamelessly advertising myself.

t u t o r i a l ♡ [ Aye Space Captain ! ] video and product list

Okay, I am just going to post this. I have a lot of things to say - for example, I ended up completely panicking with the music - but it is unimportant. Going to stay positive! It is my second video, hopefully someone will enjoy it despite the somewhat messy editing! And most importantly, I had a lot of fun with this look. 

Brought to you by the glitter and aliens 

I always come to think of when I am wearing this sweater:

[ Aye Space Captain ! ] Makeup Tutorial

p r o d u c t s ♡ u s e d

B r u s h e s :

Every day is Caturday set from Forever21 

H&M's own brand 

eBay

L e n s e s :

GEO Eyes Cream RayRay Gray (click !)

- Get them from Pinkyparadise, and apply coupon code irodohieru!

La s h e s : 

Upper lashes - PLAYGIRL from Decorative Eyelash

Lower lashes - Off-brand value pack from eBay

Duo eyelash adheshive

F o u n d a t i o n : 

MAC Studio Fix Fluid, NC15

Manic Panic Dreamtonic White (it's vegan!)

P o w d e r & b l u s h :

MAC Blot Powder Pressed, Light

Estée Lauder Deluxe All-Over Face Compact

E y e s h a d o w : 

H&M basic smokey eyes palette

- All shades except light light grey used.

M a s c a r a : 

Max Factor Wild Mega Volume

Isadora False Lash Wings

E y e l i n e r & e y e b r o w p e n :

Dolly Wink

Off brand liquid eyeliner

Wet & Wild liquid eyeliner, brown

Isadora Eyebrow Pencil, 21 Dark Brown

L i p s : 

Tony Moly Cat Chu Wink lip tint, Cherry Pink

Face Stockholm Nektar lipgloss, Äppleblom

♡  

There we go! Again, I hope someone enjoyed this or found it helpful! Feel free to subscribe if you like! But then you have to go to bed, it is getting late. 

Much love to each and every one of you (and please be nice, remember it is only my second video, haha...) !

P.S. Oh my, looks like I almost forgot these lovely behind the scenes treats.

t u t o r i a l ♡ video and product list!

I have to say, this turned out a bit awkward, I had to cut it quite ruthlessly to not make it too long (I started with 50 minutes and literally butchered it to get down to 10),
the camera angle in the talking parts was a bit unfortunate, so enjoy the lovely sight of the underside of my chin.

Now, I always apologize too much, so I will bother you no longer.


Modern Witch Vibe Makeup Tutorial
A little inspired by American Horror Story: Coven

p r o d u c t s ♡ u s e d

B r u s h e s :

Every day is Caturday set from Forever21 (standard flat brush)

H&M's own brand ("smokey" eyes brush, round and angle brush)

L e n s e s :
GEO HoliCat Sexy Cat Grey (click)
- Get them from Pinkyparadise, and apply coupon code irodohieru!

La s h e s : 

Dolly Wink

Top & bottom (click)

Duo eyelash adheshive

F o u n d a t i o n : 

MAC Studio Fix Fluid, NC15

Manic Panic Dreamtonic White (it's vegan!)

P o w d e r & b l u s h :

MAC Blot Powder Pressed, Light

Estée Lauder Deluxe All-Over Face Compact

E y e s h a d o w : 

Too Faced Chocolate Bar

- White Chocolate, Marzipan, Black Forest Truffle, Triple Fudge, Haute Chocolate

M a s c a r a : 

Isadora False Lash Wings

E y e l i n e r & e y e b r o w p e n :

Dolly Wink

Off brand liquid eyeliner

Isadora Eyebrow Pencil, 21 Dark Brown

L i p s : 

The Balm How 'bout Them Apples? cheek and lip cream palette

- Caramel, Cider

Clinique sheer lipgloss (that I hae had for at least five years, no shame...)

Done!

Thank you for watching,
and please enjoy this sexy foursome of screenshots.