brown sugar

for the days when you want to use natural colors, without doing a natural look....

 

eyes: i started by painting mac's antiqued on my movable lid, pulling the color from the roots of my lashes to the crease where i blended it with hush. also using a blending brush i sculpted my eyes with coppering, on the outer half of my crease. the upper lash line got defined with a soft band of embark, black eyeliner on the waterline and mascara. the bottom lid got a dusting with a shimmering gold-brown loose powder.

lips: for a more naturally intensified base i tinted my lips with revlon, just bitten, lipstain + balm, forbidden, before adding maybelline, color whisper, rose of attraction.


have fun

i can't do without… dust it

next to baxter, clay pomade my other almost-every-day beauty product is schwarzkopf, osis+, dust it, texture, mattifying powder. i have been using it for yeeeears. it is a white powder that texturizes the hair in a way that is very hard to describe…. it kind of makes the hair rough and dry-feeling. on the homepage it is described (among very appropriate adjectives) with  "natural feel"... which i will have to disagree with... because it essentially make it impossible to run your fingers through your hair. but it does absolutely not make the hair crispy and it is totally invisible on the hair. a nother reason why i love it… no matter how much you touch it, the rough texture will not lessen. (not like hair spray that does not really do anything once wind or hands messes it up.) the powder will work its magic until you wash it. (i also want to note that it keeps the shampoo from lathering properly, which is kinda strange at first…..) 

i put it on my roots for volume when i want that super-cool-swoosh. and truuust me, i do noooot naturally have volume. 

details on this make-up-look... here

it gives braided hair styles that fuzzy-touch......



don't have a tutorial for this make-up look (because it was pre-blog) but a similar thaaang... here


and it is a must for up-dos, because i have the kind of hair that (if i don't use dust it) will slip out of the pins and fall apart.

the story on this make-up… here

look at how it transforms rachel's beautiful sleek-asian-hair. 

can i get a "messy hair don't care"?

 

photos of rachel... by me

the streets of new york

all photos of the streets of new york... by me 

no-mascara

the look: i did it! (still inspired by the whole "pure gaga" look) i did a no-mascara make-up. it was kind of a big deal because, if i could only have one beauty product, for the set of my life, it would definitely be  mascara. 

skin: i didn't want the i-am-just-not-wearing-any-make-up-at all look. so i made sure to even my skin with a light foundation and powder.

brows: natural but groomed with grow gel.

eyes: for natural sculpting i used bare minerals, vanilla sugar for the base... mac, eyeshadow, quarry for the crease and swiss chocolate for the lash line... and for the highlights mac, paints in stilife.

lips: i wanted my lips in a-tone-darker-than-naturlly, without adding a thick layer of color or gloss. 

what is your first-choice beauty product?

black mesh...

i am in love with this escada sport top rachel is wearing. i feel like it is a every-ocasion piece. over a bikini at the beach… over a tank during the day… or just over a bra……..

all photos of rachel... by me

say hello to my left hand

 the funnest part about jewelry (to me anyway) is finding random pieces that tell stories… 

(from left to right)

vintage silver ring, from this crazy flea-market-house, in munich, that i went to with my parents before it was torn down to build an aldi (a discount grocery store)

gifted from my mom santa mouse (my sis has the same one in pink)

  vintage gold and rose gold double-ring gifted from my dear friend, christa

coral and turquoise ...my two favorite stones. i bought this queen-of-boho-rings from my super-special-jewelry-lady ching (who i most recently bought this pendant from)

isabel marant ring i bought in a random boutique in berlin. it reminds me of the crazy-fun times i had opening berlin fashion week (with my former company)

cos ring that was part of a set my friend bought. but like it usually happens with sets…. there was one she didn't like. (scooore!)

……..no, i don't take these rings off at night ….a faq.

and now the nails….
i really think this color is my all-time-favorite. it is one of the very few nail polish bottles i actually finished.  because of all my rings i don't really wear colorful nail polish ….even though i love it. i go for non-blacks like essie, wicked or nudes like opi, hopelessly in love. aaaanyway this is the perfect navy-purple-non-black…. opi, russian navy. and to add some extra bad-ass-ness i also used a matte top coat. 

one in a million...

there are sooooo many lip products out there. different price categories and finishes and glosses and tints and who-knows-what.... in an endless amount of colors. why buy one and not the other?

i saw this color (that has since been the newest addition to my lip-box on my make-up table) on a girl. and i didn't care... what brand it was... or if it is a classic lipstick or a gloss... or if it possibly is berry-vanilla-whipped-cream flavored. i wanted it because it was really bright. we know red lips have a certain power to them. so no wonder that the red-lip look is about as common, on the streets of new york as broken umbrellas.... so, if you do it, you better do it bright.

nars, velvet matt lip pencil, dragon girl… 

the color is so saturated and it feels amazing (like i am not wearing anything on my lips at all)! it is easy to apply (do to lack of a naturally defined lip-edge, i do combine it with a lip liner...) and doesn't wear off super fast.

what do you think? was i right to choose this one and not one of it's million competitors?