Vassen Stella 3 Tone Grey

Without flash

With flash
These came as part of the first circle lenses I ever bought, this was almost a year ago now. I didn't open them for a long time, because I quite rapidly collected circle lenses in a short period of time, and never got around to reviewing these. The first time I tried these lenses, they were so ridiculously uncomfortable I couldn't even take photos. A while has passed since then...

Colour:/5
The lenses are grey, with a light golden brown inner ring, and a very feint black limbal ring. Pretty stock standard grey, quite light in colour, but very translucent!

Design:/5
The lenses have a natural design, I would say they are similar to the Geo princess Mimi grey, but less opaque. They have a similar tri colour design featuring a spikey outer rim, and golden brown inner ring which blends the grey colour into naturally brown eyes. Due to the lack of opacity in the outer ring and the grey area, these lenses give a great halo effect on my eyes, \due to the combination of the 15mm size and the light limbal ring.

Enlargement:/5
The enlargement on these lenses is quite good. This is probably due to their 15 mm size. Although they are not as enlarging as other more vivid lenses, they're a good compromise, being still natural looking, yet still providing a good level of enlargement.

Comfort:/5
Although I really love the design and effect that these lenses have, I found them quite uncomfortable. If you look closely in the photos, you can see there's quite a bit of water in my tear ducts. I only put one of the lenses in as well, because I couldn't manage to get the other one in. (Thankfully I only took photos of one eye with all my other lens reviews as well haha!)

Overall:/5
All in all, I really wish these lenses were more comfortable, their appearance is amazing and I'd wear these semi-casually. I'll probably try to wear to wear them again in a little while and see if anything has changed. I really do hope they get more comfortable. (Although I'm not making any bets on it)

Do you think weirder coloured lenses can look natural? Wear any yourselves? (I'd like to see who can fnd natural pink lenses!)

Natio Rich Colour Creme Gloss - Passion

A a lover of red lips, I figured I should try out a red lipgloss. However, this wasn't the perfect pick up and I'll have to keep searching.

The packaging is quite plain, a clear tube to see the colour and a doe-foot applicator.
This lipgloss is the perfect colour. It's a blue based red, almost like raspberry juice. It has some blue/purple duochrome sparkles but they don't appear apparent on the lips nor are they grainy.

The formula is a medium consistency and not sticky at all. However it smells and tastes terrible. To me it tastes like plastic, maybe my lips are too close to my nose, but I literally cannot stand it. :/ I took it right off after I swatched it on my lips.


The reason why I dislike this gloss is mainly because of how it photographs. As you can see in the bottom two photographs, flash seems to go right through all the pigment, leaving it looking blotchy and terrible on the lips. It looks a lot smoother without flash (the top photo). The way it looks without flash is how it looks to the ordinary eye. I really wouldn't recommend wearing it if you're planning to get photographed though.

All in all, I really do think that you can find much better glosses with similar colours. I personally wouldn't obtain another gloss in this series. The colours aren't terribly unique and the smell is really off-putting to me.

Overall:/5

Arctic

Dress : Taobao
Shoes : Taobao

An outfit not at all suited for the long awaited spring weather. The second hot of the shoes was actually a jumping shot, I would have shown it in it's entirety but I'm not a very graceful jumper. I don't know how some girls just look like they're floating in the air like birds. I look like a jellyfish which has found itself flailing on land, arms and hair going everywhere.

You might have realised I'm a bit of a taobao addict! This dress was quite expensive (as far as taobao goes) however I'm really into the print, and the quality is really nice. The dress is soft and smooth, and the cut hugs your body. Perfect. I'll probably wear it in the summer, when I'm melting in the 40 degree heat, maybe the printed snow will trick me into feeling cooler!

What do you think of the printed lycra trend? Own any printed lycra leggings or dresses?

Adelaide Beauty Conference 2012

On the weekend I attended the Adelaide Beauty Conference. Before this, I had never been to a blogger meet before, and I was pretty eager to meet other bloggers in my city, although I'm too socially awkward and shy to actually contact someone myself haha! *awkward penguin* You can tell that I had a lot of fun at the conference though, because I took many photos, and as a result this is going to be a monolithic post. :]

First thing when I walked into Media Makeup where it was being held, a girl greeted us and gave us pendant necklaces with our names! They were so cute, and much more creative than having stuffy nametags haha!


After going up stairs where all the other guests were, the first thing I noticed was how there was an array of delicious food on the far table. xD We had tasty canapes, cakepops made by one of the organizers of the event and personalized cupcakes! I've never had a cakepop before, but they were absolutely delicious, the one I had tasted like jaffa and they were so rich I could barely finish one. I'm so weak when it comes to chocolate.


Then Celeste greeted us and we had a tour around Media Makeup. Their workspaces are so cool. My favourite room of theirs was definitely the special effects workshop though. There were so many weird heads around the wall, if you look carefully on the top shelf in the middle is Yoda haha!



We then had presentations from Evo and Akin and Alchemy about their products. I was a huge fan of the Akin and Alchemy talk, as one of their chemists told us about the ingredients in their products and we swatched the raw ingredients on our skin. It was really engaging and you can really feel the difference between varying oils and extracts.




Afterwards we played a few games. One involved drawing names of Australian brands. Our team sucked haha, we only got 2 right. xD It was probably my crappy drawing. Then we finished the day with a panel of bloggers and a discussion of sponsorship.








Lastly, some images of various people throughout the day. (In the last photo, if you notice there's food on the corner of the front table, that's where I was sitting haha.)

All in all, I had a wonderful time meeting a bunch of Adelaide beauty bloggers. :] Everyone was friendly and I'd love to see them again at future events! It just serves to remind me how much I love blogging, and how much I love fellow bloggers.

Have you ever attended a blogging event, or ever met up with local bloggers? Tell me your experiences.