Dry Shampoo by got2b Schwarzkopf

Hi ladies! Many people have a problem finding the right dry shampoo, especially brunettes since they need a dry shampoo that sprays out dark powder, but this dry shampoo sprays out in white and it still works if your a brunette! I've been looking for the best dry shampoo forever, but I've never had luck finding the best one, but then one day when I was in Germany I saw this thing standing and calling my name. It's the best dry shampoo I've ever tried hands down. It doesn't smell funny or anything, it doesn't get stuck in my hair, it's not sticky, it's very easy to brush out and it really does remove the greasiness from your hair. I just love this product!

Before using it you need to shake it well and then you can apply it to your oily roots. It really gives you the appearance and the feeling of new washed hair. With this thing you can go up to 4 days without washing your hair. I recommend 3 days max, since you need to wash your hair.  

On the back of the bottle it tells you all the things you need to do to use the product correctly and it says ROCK YOUR STYLE 1 MORE DAY!

What is dry shampoo? If you don't know what dry shampoo is, it's like a shampoo in sprayform that comes out in powder. If your hair is looking greasy and you don't have time to take a bath, just take your dry shampoo out and spray your oily roots and you can rock another day without washing it.

If you haven't found your best dry shampoo yet - give this a try!
Have a nice Sunday ladies <3

 (My dry shampoo, love them!)

How to Get Tan with Dove Tanning Lotion & Maintaining Tan

Hi ladies! Today I will talk to you about how to maintain a tan, and which tanning product I prefer. I am not really about getting in the tanning bed since it increases your chances of skin cancer with 25% already after only one time in the tanning bed! The sun isn't healthy either in big quantities. That's why I am showing you this amazing product. Let's jump right in.

My go to favorite tanning lotion is the one by Dove. It's the No. 1 gradual self tanning product in Scandinavia. The lotion is white-brown and you can apply it easily like a normal lotion. It contains 250 ml. and can hold up to 12 months after opened.

Colors: It comes with two different colors Light - Medium Skin and Medium - Dark Skin. I've been experimenting with both colors, and I'm defiantly all about the medium - dark skin, since your tanning for one reason - TO GET TAN! The lighter one makes me look greenish and it doesn't give you that much color. If you want to get tan you should use the darker one.
For a full coverage (making sure no white spots) apply two layers - that will make you look tanner, and it will last longer. Let the first layer dry and then apply the next.

Scent: When you first smell it and rub it into your skin it smells nice and summer-like. BUT when you wake up it doesn't smell that good anymore, you will defiantly need a shower to wash of the smell.

Applying: Before applying the lotion I recommend you scrub your body (or the areas wanted tanned). That will help the tan last longer. It's very easy to apply and it dries fast unless you apply many layers.
Make sure to not touch your elbows, because dry areas will absorb the lotion way more than your soft skin. After applying wash your hands really good, cause you don't want those yellow looking hands so everyone can she you've been tanning - we want this to look as natural as possible. 
I recommend that you apply 30-40 min. before going to bed, so it can get into your skin (a tanning lotion needs 6-8 hours without sweating or taking a bath, swimming etc.) so it can develop into your skin nicely while you sleep.
When you wake up you should see great results! When you wake up I recommend taking a shower to get rid of the bad tanning scent.

Maintaining:  Maintaining a tan can be done through many different ways, you can drink a lot of water to keep your skin nice and soft, make a carrot smoothie (it helps keeping your tan) and you can invest in some very good lotions.

These two are really good lotions. The Loreal Sublime Body lotion and the Plaisir Body Lotion makes your skin the softest ever! I've honestly never tried any lotions like these two. Plaisir is a bit more high-end and loreal are a good drugstore alternative, if you don't want to go out and buy an expensive lotion.

I've used these lotion for a long time now and I defiantly see a difference between using them while having a tan or without. They make my tan last longer plus my skin gets really soft.

Now you can enjoy your tan!

(My little collection)

How to Look and Act like Kim Kardashian

Many people adore this lady, and I understand why. She got the money, all the men and she got the style. Follow these tips and you're on your way to become Kim Kardashian's new twin ❤ 

1. The beautiful dark brown hair
As we all know, since Kim began dating Kanye, we haven't seen her with her long beautiful hair (extensions) and her style has changed a bit. That doesn't mean that we don't rock the old Kim K hair. All you need to do is 3 simple things. First of all you will have to color you hair a shiny dark brown, if you already have the same hair color, then you obviously don't have to do that. Second thing is get the loooong hair, what you can do is, that you can wear extensions or if that's not your thing, you can buy some hair growth treatments. There is one by Lee Stafford that I've heard good things about. It's called Hair Growth Treatment by Lee Stafford.

The third thing is you gonna use a hair styler (curling iron) and you have to curl the ends of your hair and add some volume to your hair, you can tease your hair and hold it up with some hairspray. When that's done, your hair is totally Kim Kardashian.

 

Style before Kanye:

Style after Kanye:

2. Get the style

Kimmie got a lot of looks, and you rarely see her in the same outfit twice! She wears a lot of dresses and skirts with a cute top and a nice black blazer. Kim makes sure that she always look girly. Then theres also the accessories. Kim wears a lot of gold bracelets and gold big earrings + she always likes a good french manicure or pink nail polish. When you have done that you don't need that much more.

3. Tan

Kim is so lucky that she got some Armenian in her, which means that she is tan all year around! But although she still gets spray tan even though she already is tan. If you see her show, you know that she almost gets a tan everyday. But when you tan, then you have to do it the right way so it doesn't get the muddy look and so that you don't have white spots. I recommend the Dove Summer Glow Lotion and get it in the darkest color! Therefore you will get darker faster. I've been experimenting with the lotion and it fades naturally and it doesn't leave white spots. 

4. Act like a lady

Kim is really not a fighter, and she is friendly to most people (if you are kind to her). She acts like a lady and she's really sweet. When Kim gets a bad reputation, she really doesn't care that much and gets through it easily. If you have to be like Kim, then you have to think: You know who you are and your friends/family know who you are, and that's all that matters at the end of the day. She doesn't really care about the people who makes rumors about her. 

5. Get the makeup look

Kim is also very known for her long eyelashes, contour and soft smokey eyes. What you'll have to do is grab your smokey eye palette and get the soft dark brown colors. Then in the inner tear duct you'll have to apply some glitter, if you haven't noticed Kim does it very often. If you don't have naturally long lashes, then fake it ("fake it, till you make it" as Khloe, Kims sister says) and then you will have to apply lots of black mascara. Kim favorite mascara is Hypnose by Loreal. What you need now is some clear gloss, or some with a little tint of pink in, and now you are ready. Remember to contour your cheeks, jaw line, temples, then highlight the bridge of your nose, under your eyes, under your contour on your cheeks, forehead and under your eyebrows. Check the picture below if that's easier for you.

DRUGSTORE SHAMPOO ETC.

Hi beautiful! So many people can't afford always going to salons and buy the best products for your hair, so I've gathered some of my best drugstore shampoos together. They are all very affordable and works wonder for your hair.

Let's start from the left. Garnier Respons the mother of pearl & cherry with no parabens. It may look a bit like some grandmother shampoo, but I guarantee you that it isn't! It smells very fresh of flowers and gives you silky soft hair. It says it gives intensive shine, but I don't really agree with that. It does make my hair fuller and softer, but it doesn't look shinier. If your hair is a bit straw-like you should try this out!

Moving on is the Garnier Respons the avocado oil & shea butter also with no parabens. This smells heavenly! You can really smell the avocado oil and the shea butter. It just a really nice refreshing smell. It gives you nutrition and softness, and I couldn't agree more. This is just the best drugstore shampoo I've tried. It leaves my hair the softest ever and just smells wonderful. If you have dry and damaged hair this will work wonders for you, but if your hair is already pretty healthy this wouldn't hurt you either.     

Next is the Loreal ELVITAL Volume Collagen volumising shampoo with no silicone. This is my second favorite shampoo ever! It has a smell I haven't smelled before, it's a really good smell. This is basically a volume shampoo obviously, and it gives me the best volume of all the volume shampoos I've used. So if you want volume you should defiantly try this one out! The bottle says it's for fine hair with no volume. But I have a lot of hair and it's not fine, but it works for me. This shampoo is also really good if you straighten your hair, cause the straightening won't weight down the volume.

Moving on is the Loreal ELVITAL Color-vive for colored/striped hair.
It does 3 things for your colored hair;

• Seals the hair color
• Protects the hair
• Prolongs the shine

It seals the hair color and protects the color from fading 80%. It smells wonder. It also protects against UV rays with it's UVA and UVB filters.
A very good drugstore shampoo if you need to seal your hair color.

Then we have the two Loreal ELVITAL Anti-breakage shampoo and anti-breaking instant miracle strengthening treatment with cement-creamide. Both products are for dry and damaged hair. Specially of you have colored and used a lot of heat tools on your hair these are the products for you. They go hand-in-hand with each other. The shampoo smells great, but not fantastic, but I guess when it's a product that needs to help your hair it's probably also that it's all about and not the smell. The treatment is actually like a conditioner, cause it doesn't need to stay in for 2-3 minutes or what not, but because it's says instant miracle means it instant. So you can just put it in a wash out right away. I recommend using this just as a conditioner, right after you've done your shampoo-routine. I really feel a difference using these two products.

TIP: Wash your hair twice with your shampoo each time you wash it. It will help preventing greasiness and your hair will "last longer", by that I mean you can go more days without washing it. When you wash twice each time you're in the shower your hair can last to 3-4 days without shampooing it again. 
The meaning of this is because when you wash with shampoo the first time, it is only washing away bacteria and greasiness, and after that you wanna shampoo again because that's when the product will go in and go its magic.


Products mentioned:

• Garnier Respons the mother of pearl & cherry 
• Garnier Respons the avocado oil & shea butter  
• Loreal ELVITAL Volume Collagen volumising shampoo
• Loreal ELVITAL Color-vive
• Loreal ELVITAL Anti-breakage shampoo
• Loreal ELVITAL Anti-breakage Instant Mircale Strengthening Treatment    

Have a nice hairday!

Shop with Olivia Palermo

Hi ladies! Olivia Palermo is a big inspiration to me and I love seeing videos with her doing some shopping or tips. Check the following videos with some great tips and tricks from Olivia Palermo

Hope you enjoy the videos as much as I do!

MAKEUP ON A BUDGET // FULL FACE

Many people don't just wanna go buy makeup for thousand of dollars, even though we actually wish we could, but I guess we gotta get it together and do makeup on a budget! Let's be honest - the only difference between expansive and inexpensive makeup is sometimes just the name of the company.

The products I'm going to recommend are of course some products I've tried and thinks work amazing for me! It's defiantly makeup on a budget I tell you! For a studying girl like me - you defiantly would want makeup on a budget. 

It's actually just about trying a lot of makeup, try different brands, see what your skin can take etc. and when you finally find something that's working for you it's amazing, so here's some products I personally can't live without:

1. My primer which I can't live without cause without my primer no base, and no base... well we all know what's gonna happen - makeup sliding around, especially if you're a oily beast like me haha
This primer works so good for me, it's from Nivea so it's very affordable and it smells great + it has hydration in it too, so it's a primer and it hydrates! Really great if you ask me :)

2. This is a concealer, but I actually like it as a foundation! YES you heard me. It's oil free and the product is almost free haha since the prize is so looow! It covers amazingly and it lasts me all day! Give it a try you defiantly won't regret, and maybe you can switch your expansive foundation out with this cheap alternative.
TIP: If you got acne this product will cover all the red with one swipe of it, I bought it because of my acne and it worked amazing, and today I don't have acne, but I love this product so much I can't let it go now :)

 3. Then apply a concealer where needed (blemished, under eye circles) try the True Match by Loreal it's a really great concealer and I do have to say set it of with a good matte powder so it doesn't crease or else it will.













4. To top of my ELF concealer "foundation" I recommend using the Stay Matte Powder by Rimmel it's amazing, go for one with no color "tranparent" if you are wearing a foundation, cause if you use a powder on top of your already colored foundation it will get a little muddy in my opinion.
This powder will keep you matte all day and it's easy to touch up with it later same day.

5. To contour you forehead, cheekbones etc. try this one from ELF. It's the ELF Pressed Powder, get one in 2-3 shades darker than your skintone so you will get a nice contour. You just can't go wrong with this!

6. To set your brows try the ELF Eyebrow kit. It comes with a gel and a powder and a mini brush and mirror. It's a really great packaging (all the products from the Studio Line just have a great packaging which kind of reminds me of nars, which is not a bad thing at all)
TIP: If your blond choose a shade 2 shades darker. If your brunette choose a shade 2 shades lighter.

7. For eyeshadow I recommend getting a cheap palette with colors that compliment your eyes. This one I have a post on http://melinachristiansen.blogspot.dk/2014/01/review-swatches-elf-baked-eyeshadow.html so go check it out. It's the ELF Baked Eyeshadow Palette on Texas.

8. Add mascara. Here I have the Falsies by Maybelline, which I use on my top lashes and for the bottom I use Accelerator by Rimmel london. Both mascaras makes your lashes longer and the Falsies defiantly gives you a lot of volume. For best results apply 2 layers.

9. To finish the look apply a affordable luscious liquid lipstick by ELF in Baby Lips to your lips and you are ready to go with your makeup on a budget look.













This is the products I use everyday going somewhere special, the look completed gives a very classic put together look. It's a clean look and you didn't use that much money on it which is such a benefit! Hope you liked it!

SECRET TO LONGER FULLER LASHES

 The secret to fuller and thicker looking lashes is very simple, the answer is VASELINE! It will make them look longer, thicker and it will make them stronger, so they don't fall out often. Every girls dream is to have long lashes, and now the only thing you'll have to do is to apply vaseline every night and wait for your results.

You can either apply with your fingers or take an old mascara and clean the wand, and there you have it a clean wand you can dip into your vaseline and apply to your lashes. 

It took me about a month before I saw results. Just be patient and it'll work! 

Let me know in the comment box below how it's working out for you :)

I wish you luck!

 

HOW TO GET RID OF ACNE - SKINCARE ROUTINE

Hi ladies! This is a very important post for me, cause I've been having acne for a couple of years now, and I am so happy to say that it's almost completely gone! I want to give you some tricks step by step that can help you, if you are struggling with acne as I did or just to maintain your fresh acne free skin. I feel like I need to tell you what worked for me, and hopefully it can help you!

STEP ONE:

If your acne is really bad try going to your doctor, they can help you with a special cream or pills. If that doesn't help you, then your doctor can recommend you a doctor that is specialized in skin and can help you with stronger pills or another thing that your normal doctor couldn't help you with, cause remember seeing a doctor that is specialized in skin will know exactly how to help you. 

STEP TWO:

A very important thing is that you can't touch your face, unless you've just washed them! You have so many bacteria on your hands and if you got acne you defiantly don't want to rub them all over your face. Always wash your hands before applying any cream to your face or primer. 

STEP THREE:

To scrub out any bacteria and dead skin, try the Manhatten Wash Scrub. Use it when you're in the shower. First you wanna take your shower head and point it at your face to wash it, don't touch your face while washing your face, clean your hands with a bit of soap and then you wanna take a little bit of the scrub and scrub it to your skin - especially on the cheeks, forehead and nose area, avoid getting it in your eyes, and DON'T rub to hard! Remember if you rub hard on your skin the acne will get irritated and it will become red and maybe it will swollen a bit. It's your skin and you wanna take care of it so do it nice and gentle. 

After that wash it of with the shower head, don't touch your face while showering the scrub of. 

STEP FOUR:

Apply a moisturizer every morning and night. Before applying wash your face with pure clean water, as I'd like to do is to grab a little towel and make it wet with cold water and press softly to your face to clean it up before applying any moisturizer, now wash your hands. Don't take to much cream and apply to your face while doing circle-motions. Your face will now smell fresh and feel soft. I recommend the Nivea Aqua Sensation Moisturizer  - choose the one for normal skin.   

STEP FIVE:

If you have acne on your bag or anywhere else applying a good body lotion is the answer. You'll need to invest in a more expensive one, but it will be worth it. Try the Plaisir Body Lotion.

 This lotion has a lovely smell and gives you the feel and appearance of soft arms.


















STEP SIXTH:

If you are wearing makeup try using a primer, which brand do skincare products. It's not always a good idea buying a primer from a company that does makeup. Buying a primer from a skincare company makes sure that they have the right ingredients for your skin. Try out the primer from Nivea, it's a really good primer and it hydrates your skin as well. 

 

Review & Swatches: ELF Baked Eyeshadow

Hi ladies, it's time for another review & swatches. This time it's ELF again! Yes I know, but I just can't resist the quality mixed with those affordable prices - that just screams my name. Especially for a girl like me working hard in high school with a low budget, even though I work in a clothing store and earn a good amount of money, I still prefer a great cheap alternative! BUT it's only because of the quality of these products I do, if not I wouldn't buy them but use more money on a better product.

About the product:

As I sit with it in my hands I feel like it's gonna last me forever to use it up. I've used the shadows so many times and it keeps looking exactly the same way as the day I received it, even though it does get a bit dirty (as seen on the photo above)
As the ELF Baked Palette I do find it easier to apply the product with your hands, cause I find that the product reacts to body heat and gets easier on your fingers than a eyeshadow brush. You can apply with both, it's just that I prefer to apply with fingers when it's baked.

Besides all that it's a very pigmented eyeshadow and I do like the colors a lot. There's 6 colors (in UK) and there's 10 in US and I've got 3 of them as you can see. I don't know why we only got 6 out of 10 in the EU, but I guess there's a weird reason for that. I am defiantly going to order the rest of them, cause I think it's just a good investment and you get a lot for the money.

About the packaging:

I really like the packaging, it's these small shadows and it's clear so you can see right away which color to pick up in your (maybe) big collection of makeup, which I find very helpful so you doesn't have to open each shadow to see which color it is.
It opens up very easily and it's just an easy shadow to bring with you.

          "Pixie"                                               "Bark"                                     "Enchanted"

 

 "Pixie" - This I would say has the opposite from the "Enchanted" this is pink with a touch of gold and it looks really girly and flirty on your eyes.

"Enchanted" - This color is really gorgeous in the inner of your eye and has a gold look with a touch of pink.

 "Bark" - this color is mainly a pretty dark brown color with gold glitter. This I would say is more for the smokey eyes look while it has a very dark color and lots of glitter, I would apply this on the entire lid or apply it as an outer v on my eyelid.

                        Enchanted                             Bark                               Pixie

          Pixie                                   Bark                             Enchanted

Without blitz

Buy the product here:

EU - click me

US - click me

Ingredients (as said on ELF's website):

Mica, Talc, Bismuth Oxychloride, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Paraffinum Liquidum (mineral oil), Dimethicone, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Rosa Canina (Rose Hip) Fruit Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben. May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491 , CI 77492 , CI 77499), Ultramarine Violet (CI 77077), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Tin Oxide (CI 77861), Yellow No.5 Lake (CI 19140), Red No.40 Lake (CI 16035), Blue No.1 Lake (CI 42090).

How to Cara Delevingne Eyebrows

It's time for the eyebrows! And who is famous for her eyebrows? Cara Delevingne! But she's of course also famous for her modeling.  
But let's not talk to much and jump right to it!

Eyebrows can change up your entire look, and it's just about experiencing with them until you find the best way for you! But right now we are doing The Cara Look. 

If you already have fuller eyebrows like Cara just keep reading, but if you don't a want fuller eyebrows scroll down to "grow longer fuller eyebrows"

For fuller eyebrows:

STEP 1: Take a mascara wand and brush all of your eyebrows upwards so that your brows will look longer (Trick: if you don't have a clean mascara wand, make one - by taking an old mascara and just take the wand and wash it with warm water and soap and there you have it a nice clean mascara wand you can use for eyebrows)

STEP 2: Check the picture above of Angelina Jolie, if your eyebrow fits with the angles you don't need to drag a longer line or anything, BUT if you don't you may drag your line longer to (3) or (1) as seen on the picture. Because if your eyebrows don't go all the way into the "corner" your eyes will look further apart.

STEP 3: Now take your favorite eyebrow product and start filling in your "holes" in your eyebrow. If you need a darker shade use a gel, but if you need to do them lighter take a light powder to fill in your brows. (Trick: If you're not sure about which kind of shade you should use let me help you. If you're blonde, then you should wear a darker shade on your eyebrow 2 - 3 times darker. If you're a brunette you should wear a shade 2 - 3 times lighter than your hair.)

 STEP 4: If you "ruined" your eyebrows the way you brushed them first you may brush them through again to set them.

STEP 5: To "clean" up your eyebrow you can apply a white shadow underneath your brow, just a slighty thin line (don't make it to visible) it makes your eyebrow stand out more, which is exactly what you want because we're going for The Cara Look.

  

Grow longer fuller eyebrows:

For you who hasn't those long eyebrows... YET!
You can do a simple step to grow them longer, you may have heard it before. Apply vaseline every night to your eyebrows and they'll eventually grow stronger, thicker and longer in a few weeks :) Same thing as you can with your eyelashes, just make sure it doesn't get into your eye. 

I've done this myself with both brows and lashes - it helps!

Try with the vaseline for a few weeks and then come back to read how to do the Cara eyebrows :)

Review & Swatches: ELF Baked Eyeshadow Palette Texas

Hi ladies! So I thought it was time for my first review with swatches etc. It is going to be on the "ELF Baked Eyeshadow Palette" with the name "Texas".

I've always been having my eye on the palette and I decided to order it and I received it for two-three weeks ago I think, with some other goodies of course.

I've decided to write numbers on the pictures so you can match the swatches with which color it is in the palette since the colors doesn't have any names.

The packaging is very simple but works perfect for me! The surface is really soft and does not get dirty like for example the original NAKED palette. It comes with a big mirror (as seen on a picture further down in this post) which I really like if your on a vacation and doesn't have a mirror with you, so you just take out your eyeshadow with the mirror. 

The shadows are gorgeous!!! They are very soft and pigmented, BUT the lighter colors aren't as pigmented as the darker colors which I'm pretty down about, but it's nothing big. I do find that you have to apply the shadow with your fingers, cause if you do it with a brush I don't really feel it pick as much product of as i you use your fingers. But I think that's a plus, cause then if you want a more natural look you just use brushes, but if you want "party/more glam" look then you use your fingers.

All the colors are very gorgeous and they all contain glitter. The darkest colors 4 and 5 contain less than the others for some reason. I do find that the darker shadows reminds a little of one another, but that's fine cause your look more put together, but just so you are aware of that :)

If you are to a party and they take a lot of pictures with blitz, then your eyeshadow will look so stunning. The blitz gives the shadow a really pretty look. 

Here are some swatches with blitz and no blitz

Color 1 - 5

Color 6-10

Lovely big mirror

Ingredients (as they say on Eyes Lips Faces' website):
Mica, Talc, Bismuth Oxychloride, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Paraffinum Liquidum (mineral oil), Dimethicone, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Rosa Canina (Rose Hip) Fruit Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben. May Contain: Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491 , CI 77492 , CI 77499), Ultramarine Violet (CI 77077), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Tin Oxide (CI 77861), Yellow No.5 Lake (CI 19140), Red No.40 Lake (CI 16035), Blue No.1 Lake (CI 42090).

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