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I gave in. I am now a Lush Cosmetics fan. But! Only for face products. I will never buy soap or whatever there. I still hate the store and the smell. But since my skin is in desperate need of good products that don't cause allergic reactions (yes- I'm looking at you, Body Shop) I had to try this. I bought the Enchanted Eyecream in Berlin last week, and after using it for a week, the skin around my eyes is SO much smoother, so I decided to give the other products a try too.

Basically, what I use every day is a cleanser, a moisturiser and a toner. The lady helped me picking out the right products. I was surprised to find myself choosing the moisturiser for mixed skin over one for dry skin after trying it out, it felt really soft and smooth. And I liked the smell.
The moisturiser is called Imperialis and I think it smells like nuts - yes, nuts. Surprisingly there are no nuts in this product.
Ultra Bland is the cleanser - I needed this one because their other cleansers are not effective enough when it comes to cleaning off make up. It's kinda thick and smells like honey. After I clean my face with this, it's supersoft but it leaves some kind of greasy 'layer' - the lady from the store said it would. So I use a lot of water after using this product and then I use the toner.

Breath of Fresh Air is the toner - goddamn this thing smells bad. It really does. But it refreshes and calms so well. I would recommend it any time, same thing with the other two products. I can't really tell what it smells like, it just doesn't smell good.

Since I wouldn't be in Antwerp again very soon I had to go to the M.A.C. store one more time. I am completely broke but luckily I got these things as presents :)

I have been craving for this pigment for quite a while now - it's called Antique Green and fuck, it's probably my new favourite pigment ever. It goes very well with the colour of my eyes. Though I think this pigment doesn't give that much colour (like most of the other pigments do, except for Kitschmas, I've noticed that doesn't give that much colour off either) so I just tried it with only two layers, it's such a soft and nice dark greenish. Can't wait to try it with more layers and do some sort of a smokey eye with it. I took pictures of my make up today but I looked so bad in them, I deleted them. New ones soon, I promise. Also working on the photos of my room btw.


Shaping powder - or just highlight powder in Emphasize C68. I used some old shiny white H&M eyeshadow as a highlighter for a long time but it just looked tacky sometimes, I needed a M.A.C. product to do this. M.A.C. 219 brush & M.A.C. 227 brush. I already own a 219 and it's my favourite eyeshadow brush ever. I decided to buy another one for the highlighting under my eyebrow. And the 227 is for highlighting on my upper cheeks. Now this MA.C. brush has been my powder brush for about 1,5 years now. You can't even read the number on it anymore. Anyways... Everyone always said that I should wash my powder/blush brushes with some water and soft shampoo/soap. Apparently not. It completely destroyed this brush. For the last year I was covered with black hairs after using this brush. I desperately needed a new one and so I bought the same brush as I already bought in Oslo for my blush. And goddamn, the difference! The hairs of this brush were completely fucked up too. The Brush Cleanser product is the only thing that will ever touch my brushes from now on.