Jewelry Haul ~ Accessorize & Primark (Boxing Day Sales)

These are all the jewelry I got on Boxing Day. If you're not familiar with this day, it falls on the 26th of December, and most stores in the UK (and a few other countries) put up major sales for some reason. Don't ask me why it's called 'Boxing Day'. I read about it on Wiki, but I don't remember... maybe I didn't even understand. 

Anyways! I'm very happy with my haul, especially Accessorize because I find it more expensive in the UK & I'd been waiting for the sale for months!

Accessorize Jewelry: All 50% off

• Carved Rose & Leaf Ring ~  £2 (Rs.177)
• Gold Earrings ~ £3 (Rs.265)
• 3 sets of gold hoops ~ £2.50 (Rs.220). 
• Gold Chain Hair Bando ~  £4 (Rs.354)

Maybelline Superstay 14HR Lipsticks Review & Swatches

I've already given you a preview of Maybelline Superstay 14HR Lipsticks, so you can click here to see more pics. I have 2 shades: Infinitely Fuchsia & Stay With Me Coral, and will talk about them separately here.

Finish: Semi-matte & opaque with some sheen. They are not velvety matte (like MAC or Colorbar mattes). I'd say they feel kind of sticky- used sellotape sticky. For a smooth application, you have to avoid locking your lips in between. It's one of those high maintenance lipsticks.

14 hours, really? Not really. They last, but the texture start to crack like candle wax and begin to look flaky where your lips meet, after eating & drinking. Then it's uneven city. Maybe they'll last that long only on the outer edges =D

Fragranced? Yes. They smell of cherries.... maybe even pineapple pastry. I love.

Packaging: Cute. Young. Color coordinated- every shade has its own individual matching casing.

Infinitely Fuchsia 160: I'm so in love with this vibrant fuchsia color. If you're looking for a true blue-based fuchsia, this might be up your street. You can see how intense & opaque it is, and that's what I like best about it. It is more intense & deeper than Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Intense #32 Satin Fuchsia

Accessorize Lipstick Smitten Review & Swatches

First official makeup blog post of 2013! I wanted to show you something so very pretty. A lipstick with floral prints....butterflies.... and an owl. On top of that, it's called 'Smitten'! I love that word, because I feel it all the time.

*If you hate anti-climaxes, I apologize in advance. But it's not like the series finale of 'Lost'.

OOTD ~ NYE Masquerade Party

Welcome To The Dark Side

New Year's Eve Prep ~ Makeup & Outfit

I have no idea what to wear tonight. I have this H&M lace embroidered skirt, but I don't know what to wear with it. Damn this freezing weather! We are going to a masquerade party, so I feel like dressing up a little bit Moulin Rouge-ish. I'm planning to make a bustier out of a matching bra to wear with the skirt. But it could look really awful, and I'll end up wearing something else. I don't know.

H&M Skirt ~ That's the back, front is plain. I got this on sale for only £7 (Rs.624)

Rest In Peace Nirbhaya

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♥ Cynthia Z *.*

Our Christmas Presents Unwrapped!

Time to open our Christmas presents! Not literally, but it sounds more fun. Let's pretend I also don't know what they are. This is basically all the gifts Mr.CZ & I gifted each other. Well, except for the make-up products that I got before Christmas & all the jewelry, some of which I got on Boxing Day (26th Dec) sales.

The snowman (which lights up), candy canes & green sequin ornament were all the christmassy decorations we got this year.

 Some of you may have already guessed what's in the tin boxes

Maybelline Superstay 14HR Lipsticks ~ Stay With Me Coral & Infinitely Fuchsia

The Maybelline Superstay 14HR Lipsticks were some of the products I returned back to the shelves during the Revlon Sequins episode. Few days later, I came to know they've been launched in India. I wanted them even more! =)

I got 2 shades:

• Stay With Me Coral #430
• Infinitely Fuchsia #160 

The best thing about these is....they smell like cherries! I think I want a perfume like that.

Finish: They're matte, but always feel somewhat sticky. They're not velvety matte.

Top: Infinitely Fuchsia, Bottom: Stay With Me Coral

2 Holiday Makeup Looks ~ Red 'Vs' Coral

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

This was supposed to be up yesterday, but we were busy, and I was exhausted by evening. So I decided to just sit back and do nothing..... listen to  Last Christmas & All I Want For Christmas Is You....and wait for Christmas Eve!

I couldn't decide which lippie color I wanted to wear, so I wore 2. You know, I don't usually smile wide in my FOTD's because I always end up looking too enthu... like, too much teeth.... sometimes too goofy. But a Holiday/Christmas-themed look is an exception =D

Christmas/Holiday Eye Makeup Tutorial ~ Nancy Ajram Inspired

I've wanted to do a Nancy Ajram inspired makeup for a long long time- since last year, to be precise. This year, on 6th April, I seriously planned to do the look, but I guess I got sidetracked again. I know the exact date coz I'd written the post in a Notepad.

Who's Nancy Ajram? She's this Arabic singer. I'm obsessed with only one of her songs - Fi Hagat. Not the song exactly, but the music video. I have watched it a hundred times, I think. So this is kind of a tribute to the song ;) Pic of her makeup in the video......

We have very different eye shapes, so I had to do it to suit my eye shape. She had her eyeshadow right up to her brows, but that would look very weird on my hooded lids. If you have a deep pronounced crease, you could do it exactly like hers.

1. Apply eyeshadow all over lids & Lower lash line I used Maybelline Color Tattoo Permanent Taupe. You can straight away apply a chocolate brown eyeshadow. I didn't have a dark brown matte eyeshadow.
2. Take a brown eyeshadow on a blending brush. I used Sigma E25.
3. Apply the brown eyeshadow on top of the taupe cream eyeshadow. Also apply on lower lash line. I used Urban Decay Buck from Naked Palette.
4. It should like that.
5. Take a shimmery taupe or bronze eyeshadow. I used Maybelline Color Tattoo On And On Bronze.
6. Pat it gently with your ring finger in the center of your lids as shown. Make sure not to touch the edges.
7. Pat a little bit of gold eyeshadow on top of the bronze.
8. Reapply the brown eyeshadow making it darker on the outer corners
9. Get the color in the hollows under your brow bone and blend using circular motions.
10. Blend & soften the edges of the brown shadow with a fluffy blending brush. I used Sigma E40. Blending Tutorial here.
11. Line very close to your lashes with black gel liner & an angled liner brush. Start from the outer corners, then line from inner corners by pushing the brush on your lash line, and then join them in the center. I used Maybelline Lasting Drama Gel Liner & MAC 266 angled brush
12. This is optional: False Lashes. I used Eylure Katy Perry Lashes in Sweetie Pie. Skip if you have naturally full lashes or a darn good mascara.
13. Apply black mascara to blend the false lashes with your natural ones. I used Maybelline Colossal Smokey Eyes Mascara.
14. Darken the brown eyeshadow on your lower lash line. I mixed Urban Decay Buck & Blackout because I don't have a dark brown eyeshadow with me.
15. Apply a bit of the shimmery eyeshadows you used on the lids just on inner half of inner corners of lower lash line. I used only Maybelline On And On Bronze with a pencil brush.
16. DONE! 

 My brows look dusty (in pics only) because I used cold brow wax. Big mistake >.<

Red Lipstick suggestions: Here she's wearing a YSL Rouge Volupte Lipstick (as shown in the video) - probably in Red Taboo. Other suggestions: Maybelline Pleasure Me Red & MAC Russian Red.

♥

The Video:

Stupid stupid man, isn't he?  =D

Fi Hagat means 'There Are Things'. Translated to English (because I'm that  interested heehee):

"I can't ask you to make my world sweeter, to change how things are

No matter how close you are to me.... How dear you are

I can't tell you how I want our life to be

Know, on your own, how I want our life to be.

At times, it seems that I'm content

That I'm calm, that I've accepted everything and got used to it

That doesn't mean you can believe that I gave up."

[Full song translated here - if you're interested.]

I love her makeup in last scene as well. Suggestions: 

Eyes: You could use the same taupe Color Tattoo I used here, or any matte taupe eyeshadow.

Lips: MAC Angel Lipstick

I will post a full LOTD with these eyes in a bit, but it will no longer be Nancy Ajram inspired. Hope you found the tut helpful.

Post Updated: 

More pics here 

♥ Cynthia Z *.*

 

 

Sephora India Opened Today!

Source: Sephora India  (posted yesterday)

Delhiites!

Sephora has opened today the 22nd of December '12, if you didn't know it already. At Select City Walk, New Delhi.

Hope you went...or you are still there!

Please come back to give us all the juicy details! =)

♥ Cynthia Z *.*

Christmas Nails ~ Sequins On Pillar Box

Simplicity Gone Gorgeous! 

Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette At Debenhams

The Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette was launched in stores in the UK yesterday. Here are some mobile phone pics.