Look What the Bat's Dragged in...to My Mail Box

I'm very fortunate to be friends with the very generous Kierra of Look What the Bats Dragged In, who sweetly grabs a few things from the Sydney Illamasqua store for me once in a while (if you ever happen to read this, Kierra, thank you so much!). She recently picked up some things from the Illamasqua 'Once' collection which I think came out some time nearing the end of August.


(Apologies for the even-crapper-than-usual photo quality)

 Cute :P

 Love the wrapping paper!

 

This is a cream eyeshadow - I've been slowly getting more and more into cream products lately and this one has just an amazing formula.

 

 I love layering this over the Taupe Maybelline Colour tattoo cream shadow. I'm seriously thinking of investing in the other cream shadows from the Once collection.

 Love the packaging too.

 So smooth

 Now this polish...Oh man. It's to die for. Illamasqua make my favourite polishes in the world but this colour is just breathtaking.

 The colour is called 'Melange', sorry it may be hard to see in the photo

 

 Kierra also managed to grab me the 'Elope' tester from the Illa store - the colour is my fav of all time and is now discontinued :(


 I also got some bonus samples, I'm so spoilt :D

 

All the Illa products have pretty much become permenant members of my make up/nail routine. I may need to get a back up of Melange if they ever decide to discontinue it, which apparently Illamasqua love doing to things I regularly purchase from them. Sigh, anyway that's all I have for now.


Over and out lovelies!


The Green Fairy
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First Sleek Purchase

Today I took the plunge and made my first purchase of a Sleek eyeshadow palette. The online cosmetic-obsessed community seems to have nothing but good things to say about their products and at such low prices it seemed time to take the plunge.

The one I have ordered in the one pictured above, Ultra Matte VS - lots of dark, cool toned colours, plus I prefer matte everything to be honest.

Can't wait for it to arrive!

What have your experiences with this brand been? I'd love to know.

That's all for now,


Over and out

The Green Fairy
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I'm Not Dead...Yet (Mecca Haul)

Sorry for the break in posting lovelies, things had a little bout of furious activity round these here parts and then there was nanowrimo and even social endeavours - phew, stuff...Tiring.

Anyway I thought I'd post a small haul I got from Mecca a few days ago because they're easy posts and people seem to like to see what other people buy for some reason :P (I do too, I don't understand it but I do). Anyway, here we go.

 I ordered a few things I've had my eye on for ages

 Nars velvet matte lip pencil in Train Bleu

 

 Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush in 'Ethereal Glow'

 Purdy packaging

 Reminds me of ice cream or something, I kinda wanna eat it haha. I already have the ALP in Ethereal Light and loved it. I tried this blush last night for the first time and it's so pretty and subtle, just the way I like blush to be.

 

 Samples! The perfume sample - holy shit! So nice! I'm really, really fussy about perfume and rarely wear it but something made make choose this sample....The name reminded me of Fallout New Vegas and the scent is just the kind of thing that I like. I'm not good at describing scents but it is sweet, I can tell you that much. The images it conjured were a Black Widow type character, roving the wastes of the post apocolyptic Mojave - someone who watches you through her scope as she plans what to do with the things she loots from your corpse, purposefully positioning herself up-wind from you so that the last thing you notice before you die is a sickly sweet scent upon the gentle desert breeze..Ahhh. I think the only thing holding me back from purchasing a full size is the price :-/

Moving on..

 Hourglass Femme Rouge Velvet Creme lipstick deluxe sample in 'Grace'

It's a pretty pinky nude colour but unfortunately I don't think it'd suit me because it has a peachiness to it and I can't wear anything peachy as it pulls very orange on my skin.




I haven't tried the other samples yet but hopefully will in the next few days...I love freebies.



Anyway that's all for now, have you done any recent purchasing? If so what? I wanna knowwwww


Over and out


The Green Fairy

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It's Haul Time again Part I, feat. Lootcrate and BM

 So the last 2 weeks have been pretty great in regards to mail. I got several full day shifts at work and as such had much more disposable income - hoorah!

 

Postman literally could not hold all of this awesome and get me to sign at the same time haha

  

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  

Bosch dress for the win! 

I just kinda wanna go nuts and wear all of this stuff at the same time. :P

  

Riddle me this! I got so many comments on these when I went down the street in them. I wish I could get a photo that actually shows how freakin' vibrant they are.

The other item I got from Black Milk were the mecha legs however I haven't yet gotten a photo of them. II did enjoy wearing them and watching the new x-men for the second time though - I felt so badassssss. My only fault with them is that I wish they were less blue and more black/grey but eh, it's not too bad.

Moving on to this month's Lootcrate who's theme was 'Fear'. It seems to have very zombie/undead undertones, this one.

 

You know only good things come with old school 3D glasses

 Woooo 3D!

 I'm guessing this is from a game but it's not one I've played.

 Badge as usual

Oh cthulhu, this thing was the most painful experience in the history of my tastebuds :P I physically could not bare it haha. Like...I can eat lemon pulp but this was on a whole new plain of sour.

 Temp. Tattoos!

 Comic

 Shirt...with a skull...made out of cats...*twitch* :D

This one for my tastes definitely wasn't as good as the spacey themed one but still not bad.

That's all for now, does anyone else subscribe to Lootcrate?


Over and out

The Green Fairy!

Decrypting the Secrets to the Perfect Flatlay

 As an alternative fashion enthusist, I often come across various flatlays and yet I feel despite my efforts I can't seem to grasp the concept of making good ones of my own. Not to say that I think mine are completely shite but they do seem to lack that certain...crispness.


 I guess a better background would help, and better lighting but making do with what I have at my disposal, my house and natural lighting, I'm not quite sure how I'd achieve the results I'm after.


Anyway, here's a few of the better ones I've done;




Jaded

Gilded Wine

 

This Dress has a Mass Effect 

 

That's all for now,


Over and out!

The Green Fairy
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Halloween Envy

Anyone who lives in Australia (or who might've visited around late October) can tell you that despite that among its (admittedly dwindling) virtues, you will unfortunately not find an enthusiasm for halloween. Obviously this is quite a disappointment to aussie gothlings like myself and many I would speculate that may be reading this right now.


In light of this situation which I would call nothing less than a tragedy, we Aussie goths have to take what little halloween goodies there are to be had wherever we can find them.

Speaking of which, my chums and I stumbled upon the very small Halloween section at our local Big W and I imagine our squees were audible throughout the entire shopping centre. :P

 Orange and black bliss

 

 Candles!

 Luke checking out dancing Frankenstein

My little haul, my cthulhu, it's pathetic :P


Here's hoping there's more stuff to come out in the few weeks we have remaining before the 31st. I'm sure there's more exciting things in the big cities but alas, this is what we have to work with in the country. :P

Anyway, that's all for now; how are you other aussies faring in the hunt for Halloween stuff?


The Green Fairy
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New Members of My Nylon Family

WARNING! The following post contains lots of selfies

Thought I would because there seems to be this selfie-hating culture out there...I don't really get it but whatever.

Moving on, MY CTHULHU DRESS ARRIVED! It's seriously like..the most gorgeous thing ever.

 Matchy matchy with my phone case makes me smile :D

 It's surprisingly long enough for my 6' frame, eee!

And featuring my new mac lipstick in 'Cyber', mentioned a few posts ago ;)

 Aaaand I may have worn it to work yesterday too :P

 I've decided I really love the way it looks with a nice dress shirt underneath. We'll have to see how long I can stand this when the real summer heat rolls around. (Sorry the pic is even more terrible quality than usual)

 

 

Also got these with a voucher I received for my birthday a bit over a month ago (I really should do a haul for that) and holy crap they're so awesome! Can't wait to bolt up for Halloween ^_^

The detail on these things is unbelievable!

Unfortunately I missed the mecha leggings so I'm waiting on a restock but as with everything I have to wait for, I take Tom Hiddleston's advice regarding situations like these and consider them exercises in delayed gratification. ;)

Sigh. I'm never going to save for a new laptop if I keep buying nylon haha.

I probably need rehab.


Anyway, that's all for now

Over and out


The Green Fairy
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