Eye of the day and Nails of the day

Hi my lovely readers! Today I decided to share with you my #Eotd &  #Notd ;)

Eyes of the day

(Well I guess this would be considered as face of the day)

Eye makeup: Naked palette's Naked & Buck in the crease, Virgin and Stila's Kitten on the lid and Lucky on the lower lash line. Black gel liner by WetnWild.

Turqoise kohl liner in waterline by Barry M, color: 13

Blush: Benefit's Coralista

Bronzer: Too Faced Chocolate Soleil

Lipstick: Lumene's Raspberry Miracle lipstick shade: 10, Flower Meadow/Niityllä.

These nails were inspired by highlighters. I was taking some notes with my highlighters and thought of this design. It was simple to do. I used China Glazes Flip Flop Fantasy, Orange Knockout and Celtic Sun. I used three very thin coats of each polish. Love the super bright result!

Hope you liked this post, thanks for reading!

xoxo Pauliina

REVIEW: Chanel's Fire nail lacquer

Hi my lovely readers! :) Here's a review of Chanel's 159 'Fire' nail lacquer for you all!

*note* This is the only pic I've photoshopped in this post. Changed the curves slightly.

I purchased this nail polish over a year ago, it was on sale for only nine euros. Normally this polish sells for 26€ in Finland. The bottle contains 13ml of polish.

Texture/formula: 9/10
Loved the texture of the polish. It was nice and creamy, no excess bubbles or any issues with the formula.

One coat of polish

Honey, this is 'Fire' with just one coat.

Two coats of polish.

Pigmentation: 9/10
This nail polish is very nice, it takes only two coats to make it completely opaque on the nail.

Two coats with flash. As you can see, I made quite a mess with the polish, because of not being used to the square brush. So excuse the mess, I just wanted to show it to you guys.

Brush/application: 6/10
While this brush doesn't leave any streaks, the shape of it is absolutely terrible. My cuticles form U-shape, and considering the fact, that this brush is a complete square, makes applying polish harder than it should be (especially at this price point). If you only used Chanel nail polishes, you'd propably get used to this brush easily, but if you only paint your nails with Chanel polish once in a while, you'll propably make more of a mess than usually. At least I got some polish on my cuticles, I usually don't get any, if I use OPI or other brands with better brush.
It also took ages for this polish to dry... 20 long minutes (without any fast drying topcoat etc)! Duhh!

Packaging: 10/10
Classic Chanel packaging just gets me! Very lovely, beautiful and easy to store bottle.

Longevity:  7/10
The staying power of this nail lacquer is not that great... Without any topcoat, this polish chips he very next day after applying it. I do have to say, that my nails encounter quite a bit possible damage/wear  when I'm working. So it's quite typical that my nail polish only lasts for a day or two, but I would have expected better results with Chanel.

Overall: 8/10
I liked this nail lacquer very much. However, I wouldn't pay 26€ for a Chanel nail polish unless the color was super special. If you see this somewhere for a little bit cheaper, take the chance and grab it! :)

Thanks so much for reading, feel free to leave any requests in the comment section down below!

xoxo Pauliina

What I've been up to?

Sorry again for the major lack of posts! I've been so busy so I haven't had time to film videos or write blog posts. I've been working hard, and studying for my entrance examination for Laurea university of applied sciencences. The examination was held on 5.6 -6.6, so now I'm free! Well, I still have couple of days of work here and there, but now I don't have to stress about the entrance examination anymore. Fingers crossed I'll get in to my dream school!

Me working in SM-liigagaala, posing with Poika and Mikko Leppilampi.

Me &  Sini reading chemistry for our entrance examination

What else have I done recently?

I've went to a Fashion Stock sale...

...Or maybe two Fashion sample sales...

Spotted a fashionable bug, which clearly was either born really lucky, or rolled in Chanel's Peridot

Eaten a really cute cupcake

Drank some yummy Arizona teas...

& Some soda

Adored my bunny <3

Bought new shoes

Listened to great music...

...such as Phildel's Storm Song

Baked macarons with my mother... Looks pathetic?

 OK LETS GET A BETTER PICTURE OF THEM

IN ANOTHER POST! 

Attended my little sister's graduation party

And finally, I have painted my nails quite a few times.

Thank you so much for checking out my blog! Next post will be a review :) 

xoxo Pauliina

Recent nails & what I've been up to!

Hi my lovely readers!
Let's take a break from the NYC post series!

Last Saturday I was working in an event for Candyshop. It was such an amazing day! I met so many lovely people there, it was especially nice to meet Sini, Pumpulipupu and Mirssiina. This was propably the last time I did manicures for Butter London, and I have to say that I've enjoyed the time I got to work with this awesome brand! Candyshop will start importing Rococo Nail Apparel instead, so I'm looking forward to see how good that brand will be :)

My notd: Two coats of No More Waity, Katie and one coat of Knackered (Butter London). The accent finger: OPI Black Onyx & Butter London's Rosie Lee.

Another notd; WetnWild Sagreena the Teenage Witch.

If you don't live in Finland, you propably don't know what 'Vappu' is. Vappu is a Finnish word for May Day (1st of May).  It's a huge celebration of spring, people who have graduated from college, and so much more. Mainly people celebrate Vappu, because they want to get drunk (in the middle of the week, on 30th of April). To me, Vappu means a feeling of carneval, crazy colors, balloons, paper streamer and good time. 

The nail polishes I used for my May Day manicure

My May Day nails

My makeup on May Day -see the tutorial below!

The ice hockey world championships are here again!!!! The games will begin today, 3rd of May. I'm so  happy, I hope Finland will do well.

My Finland flag nails

Me sporting my beloved Finland/Leijonat scarf.

<3

Thanks for reading, have a wonderfull day!

xoxo Pauliina

Spring nails // China Glaze & Gina tricot

Hi my lovely readers! Here are some nails of the days from past couple of days :)

China Glaze's Sweet Heart is super cute milky pink. It's opaque but kind of streaky so I applied three thin coats. I just love this pastel pink for spring! :)

This is Gina Tricot's nail polish in color Line Up. I was so surprised by the quality of this polish! It was super cheap but went opaque in two thick coats. It didn't last for that long though, just couple of days.


Last night there were these gorgeous northern lights all over Southern Finland. I've always wanted to see the northern lights, but I've always missed them when they're been on the sky. Northern lights are pretty common in the Northern Finland, but in the South they're quite rare. It was so calming to fall asleep watching the dance of the lights <3

xoxo Pauliina

Nails of the day // OPI Just Spotted the Lizard & New years eve nails

Hi my lovely readers!
I haven't posted a nails of the day post in a long time, so decided to do one now! :)

OPI's Just Spotted the Lizard

Today I'm wearing two coats of OPI's  Just Spotted the Lizard on my nails. This polish came out in the Amazing Spiderman collection and it's said to be a great dupe for Chanel's Peridot.
I really wish the polish had more blue dimension to it, because now it's mainly greenish gold shimmer. But it's lovely anyways! My second time wearing this ever.
My nails are getting too long because of the winter break, I have to cut them down soon :( I just love longer nails and it's such a bummer that a cosmetologist has to have pretty short nails in order to not hurt the client.

I thought I'd also share the nails I wore on New Years eve;

It was supposed to be a silvery-glitter to black -gradient but I ran out of time and it didn't turn out quite what I wanted... But it looked just slightly better in real life ;) To the ring finger I added three rhinestones which I hadn't played with in a long long time! Didn't remember how much fun it was to wear rhinestones! I highly encourage you guys to bring in some glitter and sparkle to your life!


If you're from Finland, check out my newest video on my Finnish channel:

Hope you're having an amazing week!

xoxo Pauliina

NOTD: Simple flowers

Hi loves! :) Here are my newest nails! Super duper simple & lovely for springtime! If you want a tutorial of this desing, just let me know!
I haven't been able to film videos recently: my iMovie is full of footage, so I should move some of it to a memory card or something, and my video camera is broken! :( So I don't know where I should I take it to be fixed, obviously it's just half a year old so yeah... xD
And on top of everything, I have been sick, on Friday my blood was taken and I fainted for the first time of my life! It took 20 minutes to get me conscious again. Bet the people in line for laboratory were super happy for extra waiting x3

Well, see you guys later!
xoxo Pauliina