Lipstick Collection

Over the last few days, I've bought quite a bit of lipstick. In the past I'd never really been much of a lipstick person, but lately I feel I am becoming one. For some reason, I absolutely can not wear lip gloss, or basically anything shimmery on my lips, so I've taken a shining to matte (I guess) lipstick. I'm very picky with the color and quality of lipstick that I buy, because I feel like a lot for not go well with my coloring and my lips are almost always dry, and some lipsticks make them look terribly chapped when they aren't. 

But anyways, I thought I'd show you my collection of lipsticks!

I have ten in total, and all from various stores. The four on the left are part of the latest Kate Moss for Rimmel London collection and they are absolutely amazing! The quality is great, and I love these colors - if you can get your hands on a few then I definitely recommend getting them. The next two are from a random store that I found in Amsterdam, and they're very nice and very cheap. The Gold by Giles ones are from New Look, and the last two are from Mac and Makeup Forever, in that order. The Makeup Forever one was a free sample I got a while ago from Sephora.

If you can get your hands on any of these lipsticks, I absolutely recommend them all.

Love,

Caro

Makeup Review: Gold by Giles Lipstick in "Jazz" and "Crush"

A while ago I picked up these two lipsticks from New Look for a couple of pounds each. I think it was about 9 months ago so I don't remember how much it was, and its not available on the website, but they could still be in stores.

I absolutely love these! The colors are great - Crush is a nice, natural looking color that's a little less pink than my MAC Creme Cup lipstick but still great for day, and Jazz is a great, bright pink. I'm not very exciting in my lipstick color, in fact I only recently just started wearing lipstick (I was always a lip balm kind of person) so for this price and this quality, I definitely recommend branching out of your comfort zone. 

Overall, I definitely recommend these if you can get your hands on them. They're not very expensive, and they're a great quality.

Love,

Caro

Makeup Review: M.A.C. Cremesheen Lipstick in "Creme Cup"

My friend highly recommended this lipstick to me a little while ago, so I decided to check it out at the M.A.C. store in my mall. I went in, and immediately asked to see it, and fell in love. It's a gorgeous natural, light pink color - its basically the same as my natural lip color, so its great for every day looks. 

It is a little bit more expensive than drugstore lipsticks, but its only $15 so its still less expensive than NARS or other makeup brands from Sephora. It is the same quality though, in my opinion, and absolutely worth the money. From the color to the quality, I am sure I will be getting a lot of use out of this lipstick.

If you can get to a M.A.C. store I recommend picking this up! Of course you have to try the color on your hand first to make sure it works with your skin tone, but its a great quality lipstick.

Love,

Caro

Style Steal: Isabel Marant Ariana Jacket

I'm really not a very colorful person when it comes to my clothes. Don't get me wrong, color is nice, but my closet stends to stay in the darker hue range, with blue or tan being the most colorful things I wear on a semi-regular basis. So when I find a piece of clothing (that's not a dress) that is colorful and that I love, I buy it, because its a pretty rare occurrence. 

Unfortunately, this time I fell in love with a jacket that costs about the same as a months rent for my flat. So since I couldn't spend the money that I need to live on a single jacket, I started looking for a cheaper alternative.

The Isabel Marant Ariana Jacket is an absolutely gorgeous jacket that is sold out most places online, and way out of my price range. Luckily, Asos stocks a very similar blazer, called the ASOS Blazer In Pink Textured Boucle for £35. And right now, Asos has free shipping and a ten percent off coupon for everything on their website! It really is a great deal, and I can't wait to wear mine.

Love,

Caro

Pajamas!

Recently, I've developed a love for pajamas - especially adorable, super comfy pajamas. I'm the type of person who loves lounging around the house in lazy clothes - when I have Uni during the school year, I come home from a long day of classes and studying and immediately get into my pajamas for more studying. And while it can be so tempting to just get into the same old pair of sweatpants every day and every night when you go to bed trust me when I say some cute pajamas go a long way in making you feel better (and cuter).

These are the pajamas that I've bought recently. I got the pink gingham Topshop ones off of Ebay, and my mom bought me these adorable Munki Munki ones from Nordstrom that have little whales all over them! They come in a few different prints, and they're on sale for $45 here on the Nordstrom website, or in the store. And they are so incredibly soft, I definitely recommend them. 

Do you guys have a favorite pair of pajamas? Tell me about it in the comments!

Love,

Caro

Colored Jeans

Colored jeans are a great and easy way to make an outfit a little more exciting. It takes the basic "jeans and a t shirt" look to a new dimension, but its just as lazy as a normal pair of jeans with a t shirt. 

For yellow jeans, I love them paired with white or light brown things. To avoid looking washed out, you could add in some slightly darker colors like gray or a denim blue. However, I would steer clear of black - I think it looks too harsh paired with the light yellow.

For pink or salmon colored jeans, they look best paired with lighter colors like white, tan, or grey. Again, I would avoid a lot of black, because if your jeans are more of a salmon tint, when they're paired with black they can look a little halloween-y.

And finally, for the khaki jeans, in my opinion they look best with black, grey, or white. The earthy color of the khaki really contrasts nicely with both dark and light colors, so long as they are neutral. 

So yeah. This is my take on how to style colored jeans. I actually own all of these colors, and they are super fun to rock. I definitely recommend finding a pair.

Love,

Caro