SMOONSTYLE

A couple months ago I blogged about Jacks Beauty Line and introduced you the gorgeous brushes from Miriam Jacks.

She created two travel brush sets, containing all the brushes you need to create a complete look.

Who doesn't want a set of high quality brushes in a cute bag?  I know I want the pastel set :)
I fell in love with these tiny brushes.  Don't think that the quality might be less than original brushes. This is most definitely not the case. The only thing that is different is that the handle is shorter. The quality is just as amazing as with the normal brushes.


What do you get?




Leave a comment below this post and you are qualified to enter the giveaway. I have two sets that I can give away. The give-away is world wide.

Don't worry if you don't win. Miriam gave me a discount code for you where you can get 20% discount:  SIMONE20JBL

www.jacks-beautyline.com

Good luck everyone!

First of all thank you for the lovely feedback on my HALLOWEEN video!! As promised, I have enlisted all the products that I've used to create his holographic skull/Catrina.

Creating this look was so much fun! Originally I wanted to do a smoky glittery skull look, but it ended in a 'Dia de los Muertos' Catrina look.

For this Halloween make up I didn't buy any new products, but 'shopped my stash'. I knew I still had some sequins left from a Pat McGrath purchase that I made a while back. I've kept the packaging with the sequins, because I knew that they could still be useful one day.



* PR samples

One of Stuttgarts many beautiful sights is the Rosenstein Park. At this time of the year it is even more beautiful than it normally is.
We walked through the park to the Rosenstein Palace which has a museum inside. Vincent was intrigued by the skeletons and insects. I can't help but getting an itch when I see certain insects. Must be related to the fact that I mostly get an allergic reaction when bitten by any insect.

On our way out of the park we passed another museum located at the 'Löwentor', the Lion's Door.
There you can marvel at dinosaurs. Oliver and Vincent have been there a couple of times, but I haven't. Vincent wanted to go inside, but it was almost dinner time.

Time to go to one of our favourite restaurants 'Noodle One'. We had two young female students as our neighbours. They ordered the same dish as Oliver and I. Since we were sitting so close to each other, we could easily hear what they were discussing.
One of the girls complained about hair in her food. She couldn't talk about anything else. She then asked me if I also had hair in my food. I asked if I could take a closer look. My suspicion was that they were fibers of lemon grass, which was one of the ingredients of our meal.
She then asked the waiter, and he confirmed. He said; our cook doesn't have any hair ;)

After we filled our bellies, we took the train back home. It was a lovely day!

La Butte Marshall

Last time I went for a walk I took my camera (Panasonic GF7) and a tripod with me. Took some shots and here they are!

Walks through the forest have been somewhat medicinal for me, especially around this time of the year. If only the leaves could stay like this.

L'Oréal recently released 'Les Chocolates' which are chocolate scented liquid lipsticks and I tried tested them for you.
There are nine shades that vary from a beige nude to mauve pinks to reds and to browns. I am sure there is a color here for everyones taste.

Tasty Ruby caught my eye, because I love to wear a nice red every once in a while. The mauve and pinks I didn't swatch on my lips, because with my hair and skin tone they won't look nice. Besides that I don't know why they are included in a chocolate themed Limited Edition.

They do smell like chocolate. It is not overpowering, nor very artificial. I prefer lip products to not have a strong scent to them, but I can live with that. The scent goes away quickly once applied on the lips.

I can tell you that they are very long-wearing.  I wore the Tasty Ruby for a couple of hours, had dinner and I tell you it didn't move!

Overall conclusion:

+ Long Lasting
+ Comfortable
+ Opaque, great pigmentation

- Shade range
- Need to use a lip brush for precise application

Right after application and still wet.

Dry

My two favorite colors from these are Tasty Ruby and 70%Yum.

864 Tasty Ruby

856 70% Yum

*Pr Samples

This is part II of Chit Chat #25

Our backdrop got soaking wet too and needed to dry in the sun the morning after.

During out taxi drive from the plane to the bagage claim I continued to help the mother with her children. The bus was filled to the brim and the little girl couldn't see anything, nor did she have anything to hold onto. I lifted her up and sat her on one of the higher parts of the bus and made sure she would't fall off.

The mother asked me to help her get her luggage, but when we arrived at the baggage claim, we were welcomed with an 'EPICA' sign and I couldn't join her.
There was no official goodbye and no thank you either. She must have forgotten because of the stressful flight.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We were taken to one of the lounges where they would take care of our immigration process. We were hoping that it would speed up the whole process, because we were running out of time due to the delay.
This ended up taking so long that we were the last ones to go through immigration.

At the baggage belts there was no sign of any suitcases, it was utter chaos.
With the long drive to the hotel and venue, we were really afraid that we might miss the show. Our crew still needed to prepare the stage. The clock was ticking. The crew went straight to the venue and the band to the hotel to freshen up and have a quick dinner.

Our hotel was gorgeous. Unfortunately, there was only little time to enjoy it. We ordered some room service and had to eat quickly because we had an 'early' lobby call to drive to the venue. Rob's dinner came so late that he had  in the car on the way to the show.
On our way to the venue I thought I saw planes descending, but it turned out to be thunder....

Police men, driving on motorcycles were escorting us to the venue. It felt like we were in a movie. It was so surreal!

Our backstage was lovely decorated, we had plenty of snacks and a coffee machine we didn't know how to get working haha! I was in desperate need of some coffee to keep me going after a short night and long travel day. My energy level was non existing at that moment.

Then it happened, the rain came pouring down the skies. It was bad luck. The only time it rains in Bizerte was 30 minutes before our show. All of the equipment got soaking wet and the organization decided to cancel the show. Everything stopped working. Electrical devices don't do well if they get water on them.

All of us were standing in our stage outfits, ready to go on stage. When we heard the bad news it felt like the ground was pulled from beneath us. We worked so hard that day despite of the huge delay, our exhaustion to make the show happen, but it was not meant to be.

The least we could do was walk on the stage to tell our fans in person that we were forced to cancel the show and that it was out of our hands. We really wanted to perform and have a good time with our fans from Tunisia. Arien tried to talk to the crowd, but was struggling a bit without a mic. I admire his courage, I was at a loss for words.

I want to thank the fans for being so understanding and hope we will see each other really soon in Tunisia again!

At this moment we are looking for a new date to come back and we WILL play.


xo


Simone