YEA! I let one of my favorite YouTube beauty gurus, Petra Kozina (whom I've featured on here before) know about that post I recently did on the cover of Lula with Karen Elson and that amazing makeup she had on...and Petra loved it so much that she recreated it! And I love it even more methinks! It's such a rockstar look (or what I like to call a rockstar-girlfriend look). It's so unconventional and radical and she's right...it is very 70's...like a very 70's Bowie look. I'm so excited she loved it enough to teach us how to achieve this look. Which is the most amazing part because I've been staring at that Lula cover for a couple of years, and now I finally know how to achieve the look. Doesn't hurt that Petra has amazing blue eyes and red hair right now, too...
See the post with this cover here....and see the video tutorial on how to get this look below! And other things I've posted about Petra here...
YEA! Petja (or Petra) Kozina is an amazing beauty guru and real makeup artist on YouTube that I always write about on here. She's a friend at this point. And, if you read the recent blog post about how to look good when you're doing a Skype video chat, then you'll have seen my request to her and another guru (I think she's also going to do one) to please create a video on how to look pretty/cute when you're going to use a webcam either with a potential love interest or for a job interview, etc. AND Petra already posted her video and it's amazing!!! See her video below and subscribe if you haven't yet to her channel! You can see the original post here...it explains the story as to why I am sort of freaking out (much less freaked out now, though :). It also explains how to work the lighting and the camera angle, et al. Petra shows us how to use makeup for the camera and even explains my request to her. I just love this lady. She is awesome and the makeup is always beautiful! (THANKS, PETRA!!!XX) ♥
I have my favorite YouTube makeup/beauty gurus...I guess at the top of my list would be Lisa Eldridge andRuth Crilly from A Model Recommends. I feel like these are the glamorous older sisters I never had who know about good product and makeup tricks and looking feminine, modern and sexy. Recently I discovered a new guru...her name is PETRA KOZINA and herchannel is here. She is amazing. A real artist. I scrolled down to comment on the first video I ever watched about how gorgeous and beautiful the makeup was and every other comment said the same thing and that they were thrilled to have found her channel. She does 60s bombshell like no other and she does a lot of other bombshell looks like no other. Plus, everyone loves listening to her Slovak accent. I couldn't even decide which videos to showcase....I hope after watching her videos a while that I can do my makeup to look like hers...even for a second. Go to her channel and show her some love! Here is her website. OH and PS I forgot to mention that she studied with Pixiwoo in their makeup program.♡
OK...here's the double feature...truth be told, I've been sort of or not sort of...I've been corresponding via email and Skype phone with a boy I think I like who lives in a different time zone. Now, I have to be honest and say I never do webcam anything. Only with my brother and some old friends and even that is rare. I hate the whole being conscious of what you're doing, thinking, moving, etc. thing. And...I don't like how I look in a webcam at all. It doesn't look like me in fact. I feel I look like an old scary lady. :D But...of course the next step for us is to start video Skyping and now I am looking up tips for this...and I'm excited about it because I AM NOT ALONE! Thank goodness it's a known fact that it's not the most flattering of anything to webcam. There are tips (just like any camera tip, too) for doing this. I found this very helpful video above, but I also plan on asking one of my favorite or two of my favorite beauty gurus on YouTube to do a webcam video with makeup, too....(HI< Petra and Rachel if you're reading this!). I consider them friends. Cute girl friends I can go to and say, "Hey...I like this dude and now we're gonna video chat and I wanna look as pretty as you guys do!!! Help me!"
But I thought I'd share this video in case you're also going to do a Skype interview or you, too, have a special potential (that's a great way to say it...a special potential) that you want to look hot for. Or, cute.
more soon. xx♥
UPDATE!!! PETRA KOZINA DID THE VIDEO ON HOW TO DO YOUR MAKEUP FOR WEBCAM DATE OR INTERVIEW!!! AND IT'S AWESOME! SEE IT HERE!
UPDATE!!! RACHEL ANISE AKA THE BEAUTY PROFESSOR ALSO DID A VIDEO ABOUT THIS AND IT IS ALSO AWESOME!!! SEE IT HERE! THANKS TO RACHEL AND PETRA FOR ANSWERING MY REQUESTS!!! xxx
I was all prepared to start a review on a new favorite Japanese skincare product I've been testing out, and then I saw Petra Kozina, a makeup artist I follow and love on YouTube (I wrote about her here), had a brand new video up...a review of her favorite eyeshadows. If you don't care about the shadows, just listen to her voice....it's amazing. She is on the rise to becoming one of the premiere YouTube beauty gurus quickly because she's the real deal...she does looks that we all wish we could do. And, a lot of us wish we could sound as kitten as she does when she speaks. :)♡
Yea! Rachel Anise (AKA The Beauty Professor) has answered the request from my post a few days ago! And it's cool because she has a different take and some addition advice to the video Petra Kozina did! (I just love these ladies...they're both so gorgeous and have the best advice and the best blogs/channels!)
(Thanks, Rachel, for doing this!!!) You will definitely get some good info from this video, darlings...! Enjoy and be sure to go over to her blog and her YouTube channel and subscribe!♥
I have no idea what Cover magazine is (there are so many new magazines these day and they all kind of could be the same magazine...one long one), but that doesn't matter. You might have just seen this is you sub to Fashion Gone Rogue. I think the model is a bit to 12-year-old thin...but the makeup and hair color is awesome. My hair is now a bit lighter or a lot lighter than this. And these are my favorite colors for face. Especially the lips. It was such a great story, I had to post it up.
A little later today, I'm going to do my post on a really good dupe for the sadly discontinued fave red color of Lisa Eldridge, Revlon's Strawberry Suede (how could you discontinue a lip color with such an awesome name???). The dupe I found is a very very VERY good match. So good, in fact, that I tweeted Lisa and she was super excited about it. I have another bit to post up later, too, more fashion-y like.
To see more of the below story, go here. The makeup artist on this story was Anya de Tobon. ♥
Today I have to do a post on these new-ish L'OREAL INFALLIBLE EYESHADOWS. I haven't really always been an eyeshadow girl. I have pretty big eyes and they're light. I always felt less makeup was more. But these days I'm reallllly loving all the gorgeous looks created by eyeshadow and that it's back in a big big way. But before I head on over and drop a bill or two on Armani or Tom Ford or even Chanel, I wanted to check out some drugstore brands to figure out what colors really work with my eyes. I did do a review on some of the Maybelline Color Tattoo eyeshadows, which are creamy and pretty cool. But I'd been hearing that the new L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadows are a dupe for the Armani Eyes To Kill shadows, especially since L'Oreal and Armani are the same company. And low and behold, the packaging is almost identical down to the little disc to press the pigment down.
These are pigments that are pressed into the pot. So the colors are super pigmented. I initially had purchased the shade ETERNAL BLACK, which looked like a dupe for Chanel's Mirifique. I am going to still buy the Chanel shadow, but Eternal Black by L'Oreal is pretty damn close. I love it. I can't wait to wear it to an even at night! Or every night when I move to Paris! :)
Chanel Eyeshadow in Mirifique
L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow in Eternal Black
Then I started hearing that L'Oreal and Armani cosmetics were made by the same company and that the Infallibles were a dupe for the Armani Eyes To Kill, which I had planned on purchasing anyway...I had to investigate. I did and I was won over. So the next time I went to the drugstore, I picked up three more shades: BRONZED TAUPE, AMBER RUSH AND MIDNIGHT BLUE (which I love love love love love). These shadows are amazing. AMAZING. They "read" like expensive shadows. The colors are very luxury looking, if that makes sense. I dunno but these are going to be fun to wear. I especially love Midnight Blue...it reminds me of that amazing blue shadow that Nars does.
Armani Eyes To Kill in shade 9
L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow in Amber Rush
L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow in Bronzed Taupe
L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow in Midnight Blue
look how amazing they swatch! (though the very first one here is ice latte...which i didn't feature because there are a lot of shadows you can get that look like this shade...but look at the eternal black or midnight blue especially...! bronzed amber looks so armani it's amazing!)
These are my new favorite eye products. I took a while to get them because I didn't really believe they could be this amazing. But they are! I know Armani has some colors you can't get at the drugstore. But some of them are so close, why not get the L'Oreal shadow and get something else high end?
I also have some other high end posts that should go up soon on some amazing product I scored! Stay tuned! Below is a makeup look by Petra Kozina (again!) I'd love to do for a party one day soon!♡
I couldn't resist posting this. I just did a post on this YouTube guru PETRA KOZINA recently. But then she had to go upload a new Lana Del Rey look that of course I LOVE LOVE LOVE! So enjoy!
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