EOS Candy Brown Review

Ah, finally!

Well, I've been struggling with this review from it's conception!
I really didn't know where to start and which path would be the best to take so I asked myself:
"What is to be said about a pair of lenses? What could I add with my opinion that could help anyone take that decision?"
And answering these questions will then be my path to review this pair of lenses!

Por fin!
Llevo unos días peleándome con ésta review desde su creación. Realmente no tenía ni idea de qué camino tenía que seguir para analizar un producto como éste y me estaba suponiendo una cuesta importante, así que hice más o menos lo que siempre hago, preguntarme a mí misma. "Qué se debería decir de un par de lentillas? Qué puedo añadir yo con mi opinión que pudiese ayudar a alguien que estuviese dudando si comprarse éstas lentillas o no?"

Y ha sido contestar a éstas preguntas mi inspiración para analizar éste par de lentillas!

And which lenses am I talking about?
Y qué lentillas son ésas?

EOS Candy Brown
Diameter : 14.5mm
Water Content : 38%
Base Curve : 8.6mm
Life Span : 1 year disposal
(info and pic from Pinkyparadise)

Why did I choose this lenses?
Por qué elegí éstas lentillas?

First, the originality of their design. They're my second pair of lenses, being GEO Angel Brown my first ones and I wanted something really different, design and effect wise.
In my opinion, these lenses are, with difference, the ones whose effect is more noticeable and erm... different! XD
Ante todo, por la originalidad del diseño. Es mi segundo par de lentillas, siento GEO Angel Brown las primeras y quería algo realmente distinto, por lo que al diseño se refiere.
En mi opinión el diseño de éstas lentillas es mucho más destacable y distinto que el de las demás, con diferencia.

I mean that while the difference between Angels, Wings, Barbies, Adults and about every other well known pair of lenses that look more or less natural (that I know of) is may more subtle and you might have to do a lot of checks and research to find out what effect does this or that model, you will instantly know how do Candy lenses look.
Lo que quiero decir es que mientras las Angel, las Wing, las Barbie o las Adult por nombrar lentillas de las más conocidas (dentro de lo natural) son entre sí mucho más similares y para poder escoger unas u otras hay que mirar muchas más fotos, "investigar" mucho y fijarse en un montón de variables para saber exactamente qué efecto hacen y qué respuesta pueden tener, se puede saber exactamente cómo van a quedar o cómo se van a ver las Candy.

How do I feel with them?
Cómo me siento con ellas?

Well, I like them. I feel instantly dolly-fied when I'm wearing them, I'd say that they enlarge more than the Angel do, and I'd say it isn't just because they're bigger. They don't feel too artificial either. Having only one other pair of lenses I can't really compare that much, but... You know, I feel it.
Bueno, me gustan. Siento que te dan ése toque de muñeca a tus ojos (lol, esto se dice así? XD) de forma casi instantánea. También me parece que aumentan mucho más que las Angel, en proporción a la diferencia de tamaño que tienen. Tampoco se sienten muy artificiales (ni muy obvias, siempre que el color sea similar).

Aunque teniendo sólo otro par de lentillas realmente no tengo mucho con qué comparar, pero... Lo sé. Lo puedo sentir.

(Note on the light of the pic: It's the mixture of the backlight of my screen and my desktop light, which happen to have a very different color temperature, hence the weirdness of the white balance)
(Sobre la luz de la imagen: Hay una mezcla de luces con temperaturas de color muy distintas, cosa que hace que el color de la imagen sea bastante difícil de corregir y quede algo raro. Lo siento!)

Here is a very unflattering make-up-less picture of the typical One In-One Out circle lens shot for review.
I wanted to do it without make-up so you could clearly perceive the difference it makes.
Aquí tenéis una foto bastante poco favorecedora de mí sin maquillaje haciendo el típico Un Ojo Sí-Un Ojo No de las reviews de lentillas. Me gustaba hacerla sin maquillaje para que se pudiese ver de forma más clara y directa el efecto que hace la lentilla en el ojo.

You can see that the eye where I'm wearing the lens looks fuller (which it is) and bigger (which it really isn't, and it's just an illusion). The color blends well enough with my dark eyes, even if with the artificial light of the picture my darker background can still be noticed.
Podéis ver que el ojo en el que llevo la lentilla se ve mucho más lleno (porque lo está) y mucho más grande, cosa que no es, pues lo podemos comparar con el otro y ver que realmente son iguales. El color se funde bastante bien con mis ojos oscuros, aunque con luz artificial aun se puede percibir el fondo más oscuro de mi ojo.

As you can see in the next two pics (flash pic and outdoors lighting pic) the background gets blurrier with natural light, so the overall effect (color-wise) is somewhat lighter.
Cómo podéis ver en las dos siguientes fotos (con flash y con luz exterior), el fondo se difumina mucho más con luz natural, por lo que el efecto general (por lo que respecta al color) es algo más claro.

(Ignore the shitty eyeliner, mkay? TT
Luckily this is a pain I won't have anymore now that I've got my new DW liner -which happens to be as good as everyone says-!)
(Ignorad el eyeliner mierdoso, vale? >.< XD Por suerte no tendré que sufrir esto más con mi nuevo eyeliner DW, que resulta ir tan bien como todo el mundo dice!)

Beyond aesthetics, I think they're comfortable. I don't notice they bigger diameter, and I don't really feel them for quite a lot of hours. They're easy to wear, easy to put and easy to remove.
Más allá de la estética, creo que son cómodas. Su mayor diámetro es prácticamente imperceptible y realmente puedo llevarlas durante horas sin darme cuenta. Son fáciles de llevar, fáciles de poner y fáciles de quitar.

What would I say to anyone that wants to buy these lenses?
Qué le diría a alguien que quisiera comprarse éstas lentillas?

Go for it. I had wanted them for a long time and I'm happy I got them. I will probably get them again, and I wouldn't mind having them in different colors either, and I'd say this is a great indicator of how much does someone like a pair of lenses!
Píllatelas. Yo las quise durante mucho tiempo y estoy realmente contenta de haberlas comprado. Seguramente vuelva a comprármelas y no me importaría tenerlas en distintos colores, lo cual creo que es un gran indicador del grado de satisfacción que se pueda tener con unas lentillas!

And that's all folks. Feel free to ask me anything if I've forgotten to review anything that you might want to know.
As always, thanks for reading and everything!
Y eso es todo!
Preguntadme lo que sea si me he olvidado de analizar algo de las lentillas que os interese saber.
Y cómo siempre, gracias por leerme y por todo!

Candy Brown + Dolly Wink No.5!

Another meaningless post!

I finally got my new lenses (Candy Brown), falsies (Dolly Wink No5 & 6) and eyeliner (also by DW), and I find them to be so pretty that I thought it was a good excuse for a meaningless post featuring almost all of them (can't wear two kinds of lower falsies at the same time... Or could I? JK).

"Proper" light but awful cam:

"Proper" cam but awful lighting:

(this pic I looked better when it was in full size. I love how funny can pics get when you resize them XD)

And... Okay, light isn't anything near proper anywhere.

Anyway!
Looking at these pics I realize that I shouldn't wear this lipstick anymore. It looks way more nude-ish in real life, but ugh, here it's just disgusting!

I'm not really sure of which option should I choose (I tried on a MAC nude lipstick but it looked a bit.... weird. Maybe it was the light of the place, I shall keep investigating!), any of your suggestions would be very welcome indeed.

I promise that the next post won't be as useless as this, lol.
I've got plenty of reviews to do!
(But I shall play with the new items a bit first!)

Thanks for reading, visiting, commenting and everything <3

The journey of a hairstyle

Beware: meaningless short entry!

Today my hair went from this:

To this:

Woah!
Where did all the volume go? LOL

I love seeing how hair ends through the day, and I hope I'll get better at making my hairstyles more resistant to time with practice (and maybe a better/more (MORE?) hairspray. I use a Pantene one atm).
I might make more posts like this, I find them funny and they're short enough to be made in a very little time.

By the way!
If you follow me on Twitter you might already know about it, but I've officially started using my tumblr publicly, so if you're around say something and I'll follow you there!

Jill Stuart 'mix blush compact' Review

My second (make-up related) Christmas gift by my other half was this lovely blusher which I had been wanting for a really long time. I was really in love with its cuteness case and applicator and how the colors looked like!
Being a pink blush lover, I obviously asked for shade 01: Baby blush!

Pues como ya fui diciendo por ahí, aquí está la review de mi segundo regalito (de maquillaje) de Navidades (cortesía de mi mitad querida). Hacía mucho mucho tiempo que lo quería, siempre me había encantado la presentación (el nivel de detalle de los brillantitos y los gravados es una pasada!) y después de verlo muy a menudo me decidí a añadirlo a mi wishlist. Cómo amante de los coloretes rositas que soy, me apunté el tono 01: Baby blush!

As you can see, the case and the brush are pretty and princess-y like the most. It's really beautiful and it stands out, BUT it gets dirty easily!
(See that fingerprint there? lol)

Cómo podeis ver, tanto la caja cómo el pincel son totalmente princesiles y preciosos. Destaca bastante PERO se mancha con mucha facilidad! (veis la huella? XD)

The brush is detachable and retractable. It smelled bad when I first got it out of the box but it had -and still has- an awesome touch (I'm not sure if it's synthetic or not though).

El pincel es separable y retráctil. Olía bastante mal al sacarlo por primera vez, pero tenía (y tiene) un tacto genial. No estoy segura de si es sintético o de pelo.

So this is what it looked like right out of the box:

Éste es el aspecto que tenía el colorete nada más salir de la caja:

After 11 days of (regular) use, this is what it looks like:

Después de 11 días de uso (normal), éste es el aspecto que tiene:

I'm NOT unhappy with it, even if its pigmentation level deceived me a bit. After a few days of using it I'm getting used to the way it looks and the right amount of blusher I've got to use and the colors/combinations that suit me better I'm starting to like it. I don't like how coral tones look on my skin, so I tend to use tones from 1 to 3 the most (and you can tell because the "flower" of the last one has kept its form way more!).

NO estoy insatisfecha con él, aunque el nivel de pigmentación me ha decepcionado un poco. Eso sí, después de estar usándolo unos días (11, jaja) me estoy acostumbrando a cómo pinta, a cuánto colorete usar y a qué colores o combinaciones me gustan más y me está empezando a gustar.
Eso sí, siguen sin gustarme los tonos coral en mi piel, así que cómo podeis ver por el desgaste de la "flor" los tonos que más uso son del 1 al 3!

And here are some indoors lighted swatches!
I'd been delaying this for too long because I couldn't find a moment to take a pic of both at the same time, so I've decided to post it without the daylight swatch. It's in indoors light pics that blush tends to disappear, so it's not going to be such a bad indicative.
According to MAC, my skin tone is NC15.

Y aquí unos swatches con luz de interior!
He retrasado esta review precisamente por culpa de los swatches, pues quería encontrar un momento para hacer los de interior y los de exterior a la vez pero era incapaz, así que al final me he decidido a poner sólo éstos. De todas formas, es en las fotos de interior que el colorete parece desaparecer, así que ya va bien que nos muestre su efectividad en éstas condiciones!
Por cierto, según MAC mi tono de piel es NC15.

My overall (humble and inexpert) opinion:

It's beautiful and practical, since it easy to carry around without having to have a full arsenal of stuff with you.

The colors are pretty and shiny, and while you'll need (I do, at least) quite a good amount of blush to make it noticeable it'll look nice when it does.

The brush feels a bit big to carefully select each shade, but when you're using it it actually works and doesn't mix the colors (too much). It gets a bit dirty though.

Price is a huge drawback. I'm not sure if I would have bought this myself, since I'm on a tight budget. Now I know about them, I probably would have gone for a NARS blush (I'm saying this and if I don't own one yet, so I might take it back in a future, but I doubt it).

Mi humilde e inexperta opinión general:

Es precioso, práctico, y se puede llevar por ahí fácilmente porque apenas ocupa espacio.

Los colores son brillantes y bonitos, y aunque necesitarás un montón de producto para que se note, queda bastante bien cuando lo hace.

Al principio el pincel parece demasiado grande para coger cada tono sin mancharlo todo pero, no, funciona bastante bien! Eso es algo que me daba miedo! Se ensucia todo un poco, pero imagino que es normal.

Tiene un gran defecto, el precio. Yo no estoy segura de si me lo habría comprado, pues tengo un presupuesto ajustado y quizá no me hubiese compensado, por más bonitos que me parezcan el packaging (todo el rato dudo de si la caja y el pincel entran en packaging o no, jaja!) y los colores quizá me hubiese comprado un colorete de NARS antes (aunque no tengo ninguno y quizá me desdiga de éste punto en un futuro, pero me han hablado tan bien de ellos que dudo mucho que sea así!).

Thanks for reading and hope to see you soon! <3

Gracias por leer y espero veros pronto! <3

January sales GETS 1 & NYE's look

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
(Wasn't "Year Everyone" a trending topic in twitter this year?)

We've got plenty of new year posts around, so this won't be one of them.
I'm gonna talk about something great of the beginning of the year: January's sales.
It's true that the other day that I went cloth-hunting (lol) the sales hadn't actually started, BUT, there were a lot of lowered prices which allowed me to buy a few things.

One of this items is a jacket which totally suits the kind of jacket I had been spotting in my favourite magazines. I do have a huge collection of clippings of different kinds of jackets waiting to be posted (lazynesss) and you'll see what I mean when I say that they really helped me making my mind clear!

I'm pretty happy with my purchases.

I've also bought a couple necklaces and hair accessories since it's what I had been seeing that my outfits lacked the most. Even though I'll continue accessory-hunting another day because I know that I would have kept buying just flowers that day. You can't (at least it happens to me) buy so much stuff in one day because you'll probably end up with a lot of things that look pretty much the same!

AND (I don't have pics yet) I bought a lot of tights which I happen to love! I'll post pics as soon as I have them (and I'm not lazy). I'll probably just update this post, so if you're curious you should come back here to check (how pointless would it be to make a brand new post just to show some tights? I'll think about it. XD).

Finally:
NYE's look
Blurry pics are blurry. Bad pics are bad. I wish I had a proper way to take pics of what I wear. And maybe a compact camera to do all the camwhoring, because the SLR looks a bit too much for shooting a mirror. XD

The outfit is just a refined version of the last one of my outfit post. I was wearing some pumps you can't see with the shitty pic. I've got the feeling that the cardigan has gotten somewhat bigger, but I'm sure I haven't shrunk!

Speaking of poor quality, I just added an iPhone pic of how my hair ended the night!

Anyway...
Thanks for reading and happy new year once more!