Review: e.l.f. Daily Brush Cleaner

I always clean my brushes with shampoo + hair conditioner mix once in a week, but I was curious about this e.l.f. product, so it eventually ended up in my card while shopping online on their UK website. You know, I love e.l.f. for being cruelty free and affordable brand who produces good quality products, but ugh, this thing made me very disappointed. Why?

• I followed instructions written on the package: sprayed Brush Cleaner over the brush bristles and wiped brush onto clean tissue. At first I kinda liked that it smells like DKNY Be Delicious perfume, but when the smell stayed in my room for hours giving me a headache, I thought that this is getting out of hands. Don't get me wrong, I tried to ventilate my room by opening window, but even now I can smell it. 
• While the product doesn't promise to make brushes fully clean, I didn't except it to have such small cleaning effect. Some of my brushes still have eye shadow powder on it :/

Also it contains parabens in it, when Avalon Organics Shampoo which I use for cleaning my brushes doesn't. Cruelty free bloggers from #cfbloggers chat are also suggesting to try cleaning brushes with Dr. Bonner liquid soaps. We don't have it in Estonia, but I might be getting one from asos or feelunique.com.

Will I repurchase Daily Brush Cleaner again? No. Sorry e.l.f., but I stick to my usual cleaning routine.

What do you think about this product?

Make Up Store: Snowflake matt eye pencil

I've been thinking about getting eye pencil in nude or white for coloring my lower lash line for ages, but finally bought one this month. As I wrote before, Make Up Store is cruelty free brand from Sweden. Despite them selling in UK, I've seen only few reviews on MUS products which were written mainly by Swedish bloggers. It's such a shame, since the brand offers good quality for affordable prices (it's not either drugstore nor high end brand - something in between). Showflake is white matt eye pencil. 

It's very pigmented, has long lasting power and creamy formula, doesn't irritate my sensitive eyes and is suitable for contact lens wearers. As you may know, coloring your lower lash line in white or nude colors will make you eyes looking even more bigger. Also you can use white pencil for Halloween makeup looks, marking teeth or mouth like in this tutorial. Essential item in every makeup bag. Retails for 11 euro.

Killer Clown Halloween look

Used some photoshop to hide my eyebrows

Had really fun today making Halloween look :) Oh my God, youtube is full of such awesome tutorials!! I won't post what I used because even if these face colors have "not animal tested" written on them, the company didn't answer my email regarding their animal testing policy. So yeah, no advertisement for them. Still, had great time creating Killer Clown look. I love circus and clowns theme, Stephen King's "It" is my the most favorite horror novel & the new American Horror Story Freak Show is scariest tv show ever (watch it!!).  If somebody explain me how to hide your eyebrows completely without shaving them out, I'll love you for ever. 

Who are you going to be on Halloween?

Three cruelty free & vegan brands to try out

Pacifica Beauty

Pacifica Beauty is US based company which offers makeup and skincare products, but is best known for its perfumes. There are 3 types of perfumes: roll-on, solid and spray. As you may know it's really hard to find cruelty free and vegan perfume, so this is something every animal lover should try. Pacifica's perfumes are very affordable ($9.00 for solid perfume, $12.00 for roll-on at iherb.com) and I'm really intrigued to buy both solid and roll-on versions.

Where to get: iherb.com, feelunique.com

Read: Is Perfume Vegan? and Vegan Perfume Guide by Logical Harmony

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE COSMETICS

100% vegan and cruelty free OCC is now available at beautybay.com which makes me happy beyond words, because we don't have it here in Estonia. Yay for free shipping! I have been craving for their lip tars for ages!

Zoya Nail polishes

Cruelty free and, as far as I know, also vegan. Zoya offers huge variety of colors, but their prices aren't cheap compared to other brands. The biggest department store in Tallinn, Kaubamaja, retails one Zoya bottle for 10 euro. But why not to treat yourself once in a while?

Remy from Fall 2014 Ignite Collection is just too gorgeous.

 

Amsterdam in one week

Current wishlist #2

ASOS Pastel Cat Peplum Pyjama Top / Illamasqua Masquara / Illamasqua Nail Varnish in Creator / ASOS Crazy Cat Shell Top

Not much, really. Asos is having its usual sale at the moment and cat pyjama tops are something I really need in my life. Also I want to try high end dramatic lash mascara - I can't choose between Too Faced Better than Sex and Illamasqua Masquara. Since Too Faced isn't sold in Estonia anymore (well, I haven't seen it around lately) and Beautybay.com is out of stock at the moment, I guess I'll buy Illamasqua one, but still not sure. Illamasqua Nail Varnish in Creator is beautiful black nail polish with glitter which suits perfectly dark autumn evenings.

What are you wishing for?

Is Naturigin Organic Beauty cruelty free? (updated)

Recently I've contacted Denmark based company Naturigin Organic Beauty. I need to dye my hair and their hair colors are promoted as "cruelty free" at the biggest department store here in Tallinn. Well, as you know, package can lie unless there's Leaping Bunny logo on it, so I had to check them.
 

Review: Lush D'fluff Shaving Soap

I know that summer season is over and maybe instead of writing a review on shaving product I need to focus on berry color lipsticks, but listen me out. 

Horse riding

This weekend I went horse riding for the first time in my life. I mean, the real horse riding, when it's only you who navigates the horse (not instructor with rein of your horse in his hands). Instructor, my boyfriend and me, we all got on horses and went on walk into the forest. Everything was more than fine at the beginning, but then we met a huge crowd of bicyclists and horses started to panic. It seems that in this forest some kind of bicyclists competition was held and our instructor wasn't informed about it. And as it turned out horses can get scared very easily. If the first encounter with bicyclists went kinda okay, then the second one gave me the real chills, because my horse started running :D I don't know how I managed to not to fall out of the saddle and not to lose rein, but eventually I stopped panicked horse and we went back to farm peacefully. Horse riding is such an extreme kind of sport, I must admit. Despite adrenaline rush, which I could feel in my blood hours after the ride, I definitely want to ride a horse again, such a marvelous experience. 

How was your weekend?

Cruelty free travel makeup bag essentials

Hello everyone, long time no see! Since I returned from my Amsterdam trip I've been a little bit busy getting used to my usual work routine and spending time with friends/boyfriend. The huge post about my trip will be up as soon as I finish editing videos and photos (oh I have a lot of them, believe me). But for now, here's "What's in my travel bag?" post which I've wanted to do for ages.