Get the celebrity look: Sonam Kapoor

Remember Sonam Kapoor at French Film Festival at Cannes in 2011? Not only Sonam’s outfit was widely appreciated but her makeup as well. Sonam marched the red carpet in a stunning white Jean Paul Gaultier gown and her makeup complimented the gown gracefully.
The look was quite festive and can be carried by almost anyone. Want to know a secret? You don’t necessarily need to visit a swanky makeup artist to get the makeup done. You need a very few products and you could easily do it yourself.
To make it even easier, I will guide you through the makeup breakdown.
First off, clearly the eyes are taking away the glory here. Usually, whenever eyes are in focus the lips and the rest of the face is kept nude and Sonam’s look was in absolute sync.

Start off with a matte base, as one can tell Sonam is wearing a matte foundation and very light bronzer below cheek bones and temples. Apply a peachy pink blush on the apple of cheeks.
On eyes, do not forget a good quality primer/ base. If you are applying a nude base, take a kohl pencil or gel liner and messily draw out your upper lash line, the line can be thick and should be smudged all over the eye lid. Now take a medium brown eye shadow and put it in the crease. Don’t forget to go back into more brown if it doesn’t appear a deep brown colour. Next take a medium black eye shadow and apply it on half the lid, remember to blend it well since another colour will go next to it. Take a blingy gold eye shadow and land it right next to the black covering the rest of the lid. Make sure you blend both the eye shadows well in the middle. Last but definitely not the least take a champagne coloured shimmery eye shadow and apply it on the tear duct area and use it as your brow highlight. Once you are done with the eye shadows, choose a gold loose glitter and pat it lightly all over the eye lid and crease area.
The eyes are done and so is the face, choose a nude brown lipstick and top if off with a long stay same shade or clear gloss and rock the party!
Tip: You can use a lip liner before using a lipstick to make it stay for a longer time.

REVIEW : NYX jumbo pencils & glitter palette in Ocean Breeze

I am yet to think of a better greeting than HI GIRLS, so till my brain starts working, i shall continue using the same sooo, HI GIRLS :P

After writing my first post yester-night at about the same time, I was really kicked about writing another one! Sadly, my laptop's charger broke and i was unable to use it *sad face* (smileys are kinna boring) BUT.. I managed to steal my brother's laptop while he's asleep *devil face*

So as the title says, this review is about a couple of NYX products I purchased off Urbantouchabout two weeks back! (Yes, im kinna obsessed with that website these days)

I have had my eyes on NYX from quite sometime but sadly paypal doesn't accept my DEBIT CARD, so yes I have to rely on Cash on Delivery option!

After much thought, I ordered two jumbo pencils and one glitter cream based eyeshadow palette.

Lets talk about the much raved JUMBO PENCILS first.

I ordered two of them. One in Black bean & the other one in Strawberry Milk (I confused it with Milk)

Swatches below :

1st picture- 3-4 swipes of both

2nd picture - Blended with a very light hand

Honestly, whatever I had heard about these pencils made me very excited to receive and use them and I was really disappointed. Without a doubt, the pencils are good but not as good as they were claimed. I like the fact that they're really creamy and glide on the skin very smoothly but they are definetely not worth paying double the amount for (as I did because I ordered them from Urabntouch) .

They can be used as quick eyeshadows and base of similar color powder eyeshadow (doesnt make a huge difference though).

I like black bean better than Strawberry milk!

Black bean is a jet black color which can used for tightlining & a base for smokey eye looks.

Strawberry Milk is a shimmery baby pink color which can either be used alone as an eyeshadow (strictly not in summer time as it spills all over the place after 2/2.5 hours) or as a base for any neutral colored powder eyeshadow. It did NOT pop the powder eyeshadows a lot.

Bottom Line- This product is average, nothing too fancy.

I would rate both of these 2.5/5 .

Next on the list is CREAM BASED GLITTER EYESHADOW PALETTE (Ocean Breeze)

I have always loved glitters though I never tried any cream based glitter shadow so I was really kicked about using this palette. There are other colors available as well but I ordered OCEAN BREEZE keeping in mind that I dont have a lot of blues and greens! The packaging is fine nothing over the top but a plastic palette. I was never attracted to its packaging anyway. My main concern was the product underneath that ugly plastic cover. Soooo *drum rolls*

ITS A WASTE OF MONEY, just being precise.

No really! I like my loose glitters way better than this.

Below are the swatches of all the colors. I dislike all of them but if someone insists on choosing one of these I'd pick the fourth one from the left.



Do not buy it if you are not a glitter freak like me.

I might use it on one of my eye looks if you say ?

Let me know if you'd like to see how it looks on the eyes! :)

Prices:

Jumbo pencil : Rs 340 each.

Glitter Palette : Rs 520

Would I REPURCHASE? NEVER! I might try jumbo pencil in Milk though!

Much love.

Tanvee W.