ArtDeco - Dita Von Teese

wow...where shall I start...

I have been MIA...again :S I'm not posting as much as I usd to, at least as a year ago and I feel a bit sad about it. On the other hand this is still a hobby for me, and other things just needed more time and attention I guess.

I started a new job from 1st of October, still in a pharmacy but this one is based in a hospital, and I'm having so much fun there. So many new things to see and learn. It was really time after almost 10yrs in a public pharmacy. Must admit I don't miss the patients comming at the counter with their nagging at all!! I do miss some of the sweet patients/customers who were in for a little chat...ah well, can't have it all!

I got swaftlifted on MUA....of course the other person is nowhere to be found. If you're reading this..I hope your happy with your goodies as it were quite a bunch of awsome stuff!!! Mua doesnt allow to write about names or whatever...but you... "pcm52311" or Shaina Mellon from Saltsburg if that is a real person.... I do hope you're happy with your new goodies :) You've only made it worse for other people now as I'm having trouble trusting swappers...gggrrrr. And that's all the rant time I'm allowing this topic to cost me. I do would like to thank all the amazing people I've had lovely swaps with, you mean a lot to me ;)

And now I'll move to the favorite part....sharing my new goodies with you!

















I got these lovely Artdeco goodies when I went to Germany for some fabulous foodshopping with a friend. I'm familair with the brand as I once bought a small box with 3 refills. Everytime I see the stand I always take a quick look if there are some new colors that caught my eye. And yesss this time the entire stand did so!! there was a limited edition by Dita Von Teese. I wasn't aware of this edition cause I'm not really keeping track, so I was a bit suprised. The entire stand included nailpolishes, lipsticks, mascaras, eyeliners, refill blushes and a huge range of refill eyeshadows devided in glamour, matt and pearl finishes. I picked out nr300 Night Porter (glamour), nr150 Mascarade (pearl) and nr175 Sapphire (pearl).

As you can see they're all a bit dark/black based (all used over Too Faced shadow insurance) and i loooove em!! last one in row is Night Porter...looks more a matt to me than an actual "glamour" but still i'm glad I picked out these 3!! The refill eyeshadows are €4,80 and the LE box was €11,50. The size of the refill are half a square refill from Inglot...which is tiny. Check the entire LE collection here.

ArtDeco + Xmas cookies :)

Even if Xmas is gone I still have some photo`s of the cookies I baked and the chocolate hearts I made for desert yumm yumm

On to the polish :) ArtDeco is a brand which is being sold in NL by Douglas shops....but I actually buy most of mine in Germany for some reason. I can never spot a nice color I really wanna own in NL, and in Germany it`s more wooow which ones shall I take out of my basket before I see the huge amount I have to pay at the cashier :S Last time I went there I bought this color, it`s noted to be "Ceramic Nail Colour" no idea what`s so different then others. It just appeals to me cause of the nice shiney foiley color. It reminded me of the MAC Venomous Villains collections. The color has no name, just a number 285, 6ml in the bottle and the price was about 7euros.

I tried to make a close up, as I will adjust my way of taking photo`s a little :) In these pictures I`m wearing a Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails basecoat, 3 this layers of ArtDeco, and topped it with Seche Vite. It`s a rose foil, very seethrough, really needed 3 layers...but I love it!!!!

Germany haul + **Give-Away**

I was in Germany again today, with a colleague, and bought some nice stuff :)

When i was in london I saw an add in a magazine about the Neutrogena - Pink Grapefruit fasewash. The add really got my mind trigegred, and i wanted to try it out. We did visit some drugstores but at the time I wasn`t really bothered taking it with me as we had limited space in the suitcase. So i was glad I came acros it today, they even had an exfoiliant type, but I`ll take that next time I visit. they were both about 5euros, taking em both would be a little too much for now :)

I got some cream from Nivea as well, the soft line, I use this mostly for my hands and just some dry spots really. I don`t like this as a facecream. In the background you can see an eye-mask/sleepingmask, I love the angelpicture and the colors made me very happy.

The polishes you see are on the left 3 P2 polishes; 020 Dramatic Green, 030 Sinful Blue and 010 Daring Purple. Really dark intense colors with what it seems foily finish. Next to the Nivea tube a polish by ArtDeco nr 285...it has no name, but it reminded me of the MAC Venomous Villains...only a softer color, yet same shimery effect...love it already!!! Last 2 polishes are P2, I think they`re from springcollection as the sign said they were new collection, and they don`t really look fall/wintery ;) baby green color 044 Dating Time and a baby blue  042 Being In Heaven. The 2 polishes I didn`t mention are 2 crackling polishes by P2, which I will explain under the next photo, as I will be using them for my first **Give-Away** !!!

As you can see I have used both crackling polishes; 010 Black Explosion and 020 Silver Blast...I`ve added P2 matte topcoat, which has been in my posession but has never been used. These 3 bottles will be the price for the **Give-Away**.

"rules" for this **Give-Away** ;

* to enter the give-away you need to fill in the form, comments made are always apreciated and read.
GFC-name + email are needed ofc and will count as 1 entry, if you blog about my give-away and even place me on you blogroll they can add 1 extra entry each. ( 3 entries total, bigger chance to win )
*  you have to be a follower through GFC, cause I use a rondom-thingy-website for the winner, and I will check every entry, pls note I will not become friends with you on FB just to see you made a blogentry, if the link isn`t showing properly  I`m afraid I won`t count it in.
*  items won cannot be traded for something else in my swap-page.
*  items come from a smoke-free, dog-free, yet cat-full house.
*  items are new, unless described other, if you have problems with that then pls don`t enter give-away.
*  give-away will be open till 18th December 11.30am(dutch time) and winner will be anounced later that weekend.
*  I will send an email to the winner, if I don`t get a response within 48hours I will pick nr 2 in the list. ( auto message saying you`re on a holiday and will get in contact asap are np at all )
* last but not least, it`s an internationally give-away, feel free to join in :)

This **Give-Away** has ended