My makeup style & looks from the past year

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I would describe my makeup style as natural, playful and soft. I love glowy skin and warm tones. My makeup also depends on my mood – when I sit down I never know what look I’m going to do. I love to go with the flow and do what feels good in that moment. Sometimes the weather outside inspires me, sometimes I just really feel like adding glitter.

In this post I gathered some of the looks I’ve done during the past year. Maybe you’ll find some makeup inspiration here!

yellow glitter eye makeup

My makeup style

I like to look – or feel – like myself when I’m done with my makeup. I don’t feel the need to hide every single imperfection. I’m all about skin positivity. You can see some pimples, texture, or redness here and there. In short, I like my skin to look like my skin.

I like to play with colors, but I don’t necessary go with the strongest colors. Adding just a hint of color makes a huge difference. I also like everything to be soft and blended. My blush, my eyeshadows – nowadays I might even blend the edges of my lipstick. I just prefer soft blended lines and colors instead of harsh lines or colors.

I also like to try new styles and tehniques, but most of the time, I stick with what works for me.

My makeup looks

purple gold eye makeup

Mojito inspired makeup –  green and yellow on the eyes

green yellow mojito makeup

green yellow mojito eye makeup

Inspired by my favorite summer cocktail. I have shared the best mojito cocktail recipe here!

Yellow eyes with glitter liner

Tutorial is saved on my IG highlights.

Key products: Too Faced Gingerbread Extra Spicy Palette, NYX Ultimate Phoenix Palette, *Jane Iredale Triple Luxe Lipstick Ellen, Glitternisti glitters

Purple & gold makeup

purple gold makeup

This look was inspired by Celine Bernaerts. Taking inspiration from others pushes me to do something different.

Key products: YSL Sequin Crush 1, NYX Off Tropic Palette Hasta La Vista, *Smith’s Cult Lip Gloss 2

Natural look with orange and green on the eyes

orange and green eye makeup

Looking at these summery looks and my freckles makes me miss summer so bad.

Key products: Zuii Organic eyeshadows (Flame, Peacock), Clarins Natural Lip Perfector 5

Navy smokey eye look

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navy smokey eye makeup

Sometimes I want all the drama in my eyes. And that’s when I wear falsies. (Confession: I take them off as soon as I’m done with photos.)

Key products: House of Lashes Ethereal Lite, YSL Sequin Crush Eyeshadow in the shade 8

Light blue halo eye makeup

light blue halo eye makeup look

light blue halo makeup

I did this look on a snowy icy day. Surprisingly, I loved this look, even though it has cool tones in it.

Key products: NYX Perfect Filter Palette Golden Hour, NYX Baby blue loose eyeshadow

Pastel makeup

light blue yellow pastel makeuplight blue yellow inner corner makeup

 

 

Simple, yet colorful.

Key products:
*NYX Ultimate Phoenix Palette (yellow), NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil Milk & NYX loose blue eyeshadow, Clarins Natural Lip Perfector 7

Yellow and a pop of blue

a hint of yellow makeup

Here I also used yellow and blue.

Black glitter liner and deep pink lips

black glitter liner makeup

glitter liner makeup
I really loved this look. For this I also have a tutorial saved on my IG. It includes fun bloopers.

Key products: Glitternisti glitters, Gosh Matte Lipstick Antique Rose

Red lips with glowy skin and peachy eyes

red lips peachy eye makeup

 

Key products: YSL Tatouge Couture Matte Stain 21, Morphe 3502 Palette

+ Random older makeup looks

I haven’t shared these before, so I wanted to add them to this post.

I know I used NYX palettes for this look.

Very colorful look I did for New Years a few years back. That gorgeous lipgloss is YSL Glossy Stain 206.

The lighting is off in this as well, but I thought this look was fun!

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This look was actually from a challenge I did with other beauty bloggers. Not perfectly happy with it, but it has potential.

 

 

There you have it. Should I share my makeup looks like this more often? And tell me: what look is your favorite? 

Everyday makeup from Clarins – Natural Lip Perfector & Joli Blush review + swatches

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I love easy natural looks, that don’t take too long to create. More often or not I need products that do the their job quickly and that I can throw in my bag. It’s magical how using just a few simple products I end up feeling more powerful and put together.

Today I’m talking about products just like that. These are things that I use every day. I received these quite a while ago from Clarins, when they came up new Joli Blushes and some new shades on their Natural Lip Perfector glosses. I’ve always loved Clarins makeup products and these are no exception.

Keep on reading to see all the shade swatches on the Clarins Natural Lip Perfectors and 6 shades of the Clarins Joli Blush.

Clarins Natural Lip Perfector review & swatches

Clarins Natural Lip Perfector is a gloss that gives some color, but most of all gloss and volume to your lips. The plumping effect comes from the gloss, by the way, so if you’ve been wearing matte lipsticks in hopes of bigger lips, try a gloss instead. These glosses have a gel-like formula that feels very comfortable on the lips. The applicator is a soft cushion.

There are oils and shea butter in the ingredients, so my lips don’t feel dry after wearing these. Then again, lip glosses tend to be more hydrating anyway – another reason to skip matte lipsticks.

The best feature about these glosses is probably the scent. It’s a vanilla, toffee-like scent, that I can’t seem to get enough of. Especially now since I’m not eating candy for a year (sigh).

Overall I love these glosses, because the shades are so wearable and they go with almost any look. I also use these a lot on top of lipsticks. And yes, I usually have at least one in my bag on the go.

New shades in the collection are shades 16-19 and their packaging is slightly fancier with gold details (as seen in the photo above).

Clarins Natural Lip Perfector Swatches 01 05 06 07 08 16 17 18 19
Clarins Natural Lip Perfector swatches on my arm in a warm light.

Where to buy:

*Clarins Natural Lip Perfector (Clarinsusa.com)
*Clarins Natural Lip Perfector (amazon)
Finnish stores listed here

Wearing Clarins Joli Blush shades cheeky pink & cheeky boum – and Natural Lip Perfector shade 19 on the lips.

Clarins Joli Blush review & swatches

Clarins knows their packaging and their makeup products are beautiful. These are products that I love to keep on display and that also makes me use them even more.

Clarins Joli Blush is one of those blushes, that you can’t go wrong with. The consistency is nice and easily blendable – and most of all – it’s easily buildable too. Blush is one of those products that can be ruined with too much pigment. Here there is just enough pigment.

There’s just something special about these blushes. I’m not sure whether to believe that they’re really ‘pH-reactant’ as advertised, but they do seem to adjust and melt to my skin and cheeks very nicely.

My favorites shades are cheeky pink, cheeky rose, cheeky peach and especially in winter, cheeky purple. So, basically all of them. The only shade I don’t love as a blush is cheeky boum. That is super shimmery and definitely more of a highlight. As a highlight though, it’s beautiful. I sometimes use it as a shimmery topper to any other blush.

One thing I need to mention about these blushes though, if you end up trying them on your hand at a store and feel disappointed. They swatch poorly on the hand applied with a finger, but when you apply them with a blush brush to your cheeks, they work brilliantly. For the swatches I used a sticky base, so you’ll be able to see the shades properly.

Clarins Joli Blush Shades (01 cheeky baby, 02 cheeky pink, 03 cheeky rose, 04 cheeky purple, 05 cheeky boum, 07 cheeky peach) swatches
Clarins Joli Blush Shades 01 cheeky baby, 02 cheeky pink, 03 cheeky rose, 04 cheeky purple, 05 cheeky boum, 07 cheeky peach swatches.

Where to buy:
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Clarins Joli Blush (Clarinsusa.com)
*Clarins Joli Blush (Escentual)

Wearing Clarins Joli Blush in cheeky pink & cheeky peach and Natural Lip Perfector shade 18.

I was also wearing Clarins Everlasting foundation here (mixed with a CC cream) – check out my review on it here.

Are there any other Clarins makeup lovers out there? 

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