Sailor Moon Miracle Romance Shining Moon Powder & Moon Stick Lipstick

Every girl seemed to be getting the Miracle Romance Sailor Moon Make-up items and I fell victim to this, too. As I bought both trough figuya.com I didn't have any problems with getting them or shipping or any other fees, because the shop ships from Germany (I think). I'll review the powder in a bit more detail:

So the powder cost 49,90€ and I think is a bit expensive, but the proplica of the crystal star is about 80€ and does absolutely nothing so I guess I get a powder with this at least so it's more worth it for me. I am not a person who simply collects and displays stuff, everything I buy -no matter how pretty or precious-will be used on a daily basis by me. 

When I bought this powder I wasn't sure how it looked inside, even though I heard from others, that it's simply a white coloured highlighter powder!

So here it is when opened:

The pretty pink ribbons are actually just a plastic cover of the powder to protect it, when you peel it off it leaves a white faintly glittering powder! The powder puff is super cute and soft and I like the mirror inside.

You can hardly see the glittery particles on the picture, and there aren't that many in my opinion. So this is a swatch of the powder and while it works ok to soften my blush (which I always do when applying my makeup) it doesn't really give me a nice glow or anything, it could even be considered quite dull on the skin (even though there is some glitter inside). I really like the compact since I am a huge Sailor Moon fan like everybody (although I am not too fond of the new crystal series, hate the opening...) I think as a makeup item it fails. No one would buy it for that of course so I am not exactly disappointed.

Now for the Moon Stick Lipstick:

As you can see it is super precious and adorable, I love love love the packaging and it is the sole reason I bought it. Inside you find a colourless lipbalm which actually hydrates quite well. There was no point in taking a pic of it because it's just like every other colourless lipbalm! I do use it quite frequently and think for the 20€ I paid it s quite ok, of course as before you pay for the packaging!

All in all I have to say the Miracle Romance Powder is pretty but useless and I will rather use a good highlighter and keep the powder as a compact mirror... The lipbalm is ok, but it is more pretty than it is useful (especially for that price!). I'd only recommend buying if you are a Sailor Moon fan (which nowadays everyone is haha).

Bonus pic of my cat Milky with the Miracle Romance powder:

Too Faced Haul (Sephora)

This haul is actually a couple months old but I guess I can comment on the products better after having used them for such a long time! I bought all of the following products from sephora online, I paid about 100$ for everything combined but I'l list prices down below. I have to say that sephora is a great place to order from, the only downside is that I have to pay taxes because I live in germany,
so even if the products seem to be cheaper in comparison to german shops, they actually aren't.
Nevertheless the free samples are awesome (depending on the day you purchase, I got a tarte mascara!) and the shipping was very fast!

Here are my gets:

First of, I got the papparazzi ready set, which includes the bronzer, lashgasm mascara, sweet sun shines lip gloss in mocha freeze ,a beauty balm and an eyeliner. The set was 40$ but the actual value was 87$!
- The mascara is ok, nothing special here and doesn't give any volume
-The lipgloss is nice (especially the scent and texture) but it fades quickly
-The eyeliner is pretty good, glides very smoothly
-The beauty balm is unfortunately not my shade, I gave it to someone else so I am not sure about it.
-The bronzer is da bomb, it lasts me sooo long! I guess I have been using it for a couple of months on and off and the chocolatey smell, the texture and the way it stays on my face just made this the best bronzer ever (I have the chocolate soleil bronzer in milk chocolate, might review it in detail)

Also pictured is the under the mistletoe lip creme set which was 28$ (value 71$), will review this later

And my favourite: the Candlelight Glow Highlight Powder Duo, which is just amazing:

The packaging is already so dreamy, and the colors and chandelier from the powder itself are breathtaking. I hesitated for some time before I would actually use it! The highlighter was 30$ and the whole sephora purchase was mainly because of this beauty. 

I tried to capture the golden shimmer glow, but it's really hard. So the particles are golden, I have not noticed a significant difference from the pink or white powder, but I still tend to mix them both. Usually I apply way too much blush and then just go over the blush with the highlighter using a blush brush. It just makes the face glowy and the blush underneath looks way better this way! 

To show the actual effect better I did not wear any blush underneath:

This is just lightly applied, did not use too much and already the effect is pretty great! Before I found this great highlighter I used a benefit high beam dupe from mememe, which was very difficult to apply because of the creamy texture or my skin79 star glow ball highlighter! I will probably stick with this highlighter forever.

Overall the purchase was worth it, although I'll have to speak about the lip creams seperately. But the papparazzi set was worth it because of the bronzer and of course this highlighter was one of the best buys ever!

Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick

Haven’t posted in some days, but that’s because I’ve been sick and had university and related stuff to take care of. I’m still sick though…cough sirup is not helping at all… Anyways, I got the Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick from Stadtparfümerie Pieper to try out, which I was very happy about. Now because it’s a german store I will make this entry in german for once. The translation I give is in no way identical to the stuff I write in german, I am way to lazy to translate it directly haha

Ich habe den Bobbie Brown Shimmer Brick von der Stadtparfümerie Pieper zum testen zugeschickt bekommen, hab mich darüber sehr gefreut, weil sonst finde ich den Shimmer Brick mit seinen ca. 50 € etwas teuer. Ich habe die Farbe “Rose” bekommen, was meiner Meinung nach perfekt ist, ich mag nun mal lieber rosa-stichige Blushes an mir! Natürlich ist am Shimmer Brick ja auch das tolle, dass man ihn als Lidschatten verwenden kann, aber ich konzentriere mich auf seinen Einsatz als Blush.Ich habe mich außerdem sehr über die süße Verpackung gefreut.

As I said I got the Shimmer Brick to try out and was very happy about that because usually it would be a bit too expensive “just” to try out for about 50 €. I even got the shade “rose” which I like most when it comes to blush and highlighter! The Shimmer Brick can also be used as an eyeshadow but I only review it as a blush. The packaging from the store with the message was also very cute.

Ich war überrascht wie groß der Shimmer Brick ist, er wirkt auf mich eher wie ein Puder in der Verpackung! Aber auf jeden Fall alles sehr hochwertig, mit extra Spiegel noch. Sehr einfach zu schließen und zu öffnen ohne sich die Nägel abzubrechen (eine Seltenheit für mich).

I was surprised by the size of the Shimmer Brick, it almost looks like a powder. Everything is high quality, even with an extra mirror. It is easy to open and close without breaking any nails.

Ich glaube auf diesem Foto kommen die Farben des Shimmer Bricks am besten raus: von einer weiß über latte-artige töne hin zu einem kühlen und einem stärkeren rosa. Alle Farben sind durchsetzt mit Schimmer-Partikeln. Die einzelnen Farben kann man auch genau so ungemischt als Lidschatten verwenden.

The colors are best represented in this picture: beginning with a white, then some latte-like shades and in the end two pink-rose shades. All of the colors have shimmery particles in them. ach color can be used as eyeshadow.

Der Gesamt-Swatch zeigt, dass die Farbabgabe nicht sehr stark ist, ich finde ihn so aber umso besser. Ich habe entweder Blushes die zu stark sind oder ungleichmäßig in der Abgabe sind, der Shimmer Brick lässt sich Stück für Stück schichten und kann dadurch noch intensiviert werden. Als Gesamtfarbe scheint er aber schon etwas in die Latte-Richtung zu gehen!

The swatch shows a slightly weak color, but I like it this way because as opposed to other blushes that are either too intense or very patchy and irregular the Shimmer Brick is very build-able. The color seems to go a lot into the latte direction, with a slight pinkish shade.

Ich mag den Schimmer den mir der Shimmer Brick gibt (klingt doppelt gemoppelt), und auch die etwas bräunliche Farbe. Ich mag, dass er sowohl ein Blush ist, als auch Highlighter eigenschaften hat! Ich bin wirklich sehr zufrieden mit dem Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick, finde den Preis aber doch etwas hoch. Andererseits ist er vielseitig einsetzbar und es ist recht viel von ihm da (10 Gramm, hört sich wenig an…). Bin trotzdem froh, dass ich ihn mal probieren durfte! Danke noch mal an Pieper!

I like the shimmer it gives me and the slightly brownish color, too. It’s great that the Shimmer Brick is a blush with highlighting effects. I am very satisfied but I still think that the price is a bit much, though you get a lot of product out of it and it is also possible to use it as an eyeshadow. I am very happy I got to try this out! Thanks to Pieper for this!

Review: Skin79 Diamond Collection Star Glow Ball Powder

Only recently did my interest for highlighters begin to grow. Before I have never used any but now I would like to sometimes highlight my cheeks a bit to have an extra glow. I ordered a highlighter that I’ve seen before when buying korean make-up, the Skin79 Star Glow Ball Powder! I bought it from rubyruby76 on ebay for 14 $ (shipping included).

Well I was kinda surprised that there were so many green shimmering balls, I would like more pink/rosé colored ones. But that shouldn’t matter for the application right? It came with a little powder-puff but again I rather use my brushes to apply it.

As you can see it is pretty much white, only some green particles and for my taste it is not even glittery enough. I know some people like to have a toned down highlighter but for the occasion that I actually apply highlighter I want the whole shab bang. So for application I just lightly brushed over the powder and than applied it like I would do with a rouge.

Now let’s see how it looks on my face!

Well ehhmm I had to use flash so that at least a little bit was visible but I am disappointed! The highlighter is so weak… maybe others’ might like it but for me it’s definitely not enough glow, even if I cake on some more….Too bad! But this gives me the opportunity to look for a new one haha