Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The Beauty that changed my Life


I am a young girl with a good profession and a happy marriage. I thought nothing missed in my life. I had my family always by my side and a lovely husband. I don't belive like some people do that children are the base of marriage. I only thought that it was the right time for me to have my own child. My living conditions were good and I felt mature enough to rise one. 
 
My pregnancy was hard and very long. I was happy but still anware of the beauty I was carrying.
I was happy to meet her in July 9th 2014.  She was a red baby with blue eyes. She looked just like me although she resembles her father now. I noticed how beautiful she was when I looked at her wide opened eyes. I wasn't expecting it. I always thought babies were born with closed eyes and they open the eyes 1 week after their birth. How wrong was I! She was a beautiful little girl with eyes, ears, hair, a small nose and long fingers! 
 
And her lips, perfect like her father. I loved her more and more every second. Tears came fron my eyes as I so what a beautiful little baby she was. When they put her on my chest, oh it was the paradise in earth! I was the happiest and most peaceful person in universe.
Looking after her was another way to be happy. She came out to be a sweet little girl who breastfeed so well, was calm and serene. She was just like me and her father was as a baby, an easy baby.
From my parents I have always been told to be humble and not to count on the external appearance, but for the first time in my life I can't help. I feel beautiful with her, I think every mom should feel so with her baby!

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

My Morning Routine

My morning routine is very important for me. It makes my day go well. I feel splendid, I feel good if I do it.
I begin my morning routine brushing my teeth. My toothbrush is a Sensodine one, it has straight brush hair and straight handle as the dentists advice.

My brush cover is Steripod. I bought it from Jocker Baby Shop. It is an antibacterial cover which effects as long as 3 month. Than you have to change it to ensure the antibacterial effect continue.

My toothpaste is Sensodyne, Whitening one because there are so many types on the market. It is the only toothpaste I have seen whiten my teeth for real.

I wash my face with Neutrogena Deep Clean Face Wash gel that I mentioned in my last blogspot. It is very good in cleaning black heads.

My daily roll on deodorant is Nivea Fresh Natural. It is the best drugstore deodorant I know but I am looking forward to finish it so I can skip to a high end one.

In stead of parfume, daily I use Body Mist like this Love Spell from Victoria's Secrets. The Pure Seduction is my favourite one.

I use Sephora Dry Shampoo in my second day hair. I tried some others too but went always back to this one.

As regarded to skin care, I use Rosense Rose Water as a tonic. It is perfect for summer because it doesn't contain alcohol, so doesn't cause dark patches in your skin. I will get the sprey bottle version as soon as I finish this one.

After 25 years old every girl should use eye cream. Mine is Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Complex 2. It is a little pricey but as I am an assistant doctor who works and has night shifts in Emergency Room and have a lot of sleepless night because of my baby girl, I think is a must for me.

I use Lancome Hydra Zen gel cream to hydrate my oily skin and as far as it goes I am happy.

My lipbalm is Born Lippy in Watermelon by The Body Shop.

Monday, June 15, 2015

My face cleaning routine

My skin type is oily. I always use gel cleaner to wash my face.
Neutrogena Deep Clean Gel Wash is my daily cleaner. It is suitable for normal and oily skin but I wouldn't use it for normal skin as I find it to be harsh even for me especially in winter when my skin need a good moisturizer afterwards. 
I use Neutrogena First Step Makeup and Face Washing Gel in my before bed routine as a face wash to take of my makeup. I wash my face and eye makeup with it. It can be used in normal and combination skin.
I use Clarisonic Mia 2 once a week on Sundays to deep clean my pores. I think it does a perfect job. It cleans the skin, open the pores, helps imperfections dry out and peels off.
I use Neutrogena Deep Clean Invigorating Daily Scrub once a week on Wednesdays in stead of Clarisonic to peel my skin. It is a physical peel with big grains and menthol smell. 
I use ActyPach Blackhead Cosmetic Patches sometimes on Wednesdays in stead of Neutrogena Scrub.
When I have skin problems I use Neutrogena Clear Pore Wash. It is a harsh cleaner but very effective.
I don't use these two together as they are both peeling agents.
I dont use the first two around my eyes or to remove eye makeup. I use them only for face makeup. I use the blue one to remove eye and face makeup.
Dip not: I am not sponsored by any means bu Neutrogena I only love their products. I am also opened for your suggestion in similar products. Hope it was helpful!

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Makeup of the day 3

 EYesterday I was going to buy sunscreen. As the Clinique one with spf 50 didn't suit to me, I gave it to my momm. I haven't yeat tried a sunscreen with spf 50 that doesn't break me out. The best I tried is the Dermaplus one but its spf is still 30. So nowadays that I am so busy with my almost 11 month old dear daughter, I decided to give a try to Shiseido foundation with spf 30. So I minimise the waste of time and the number of products I carry around. I did my makeup with bare face and than went to Sephora and put the foundation. This is my makeup. 
My makeup is inspired from a tutorial of Elle Fowler in You Tube. Shiseido spf 30 foundation. I think it photographed good even it has spf. Nars Radiant councelar in Vanilla under my eyes. Mac Dressed well blush. Mac Soft & gentle highlighter on my cheeks.
Eyes: Maybelline On and on bronze cream eyeshadow as a base all over my lid. From Urban Decay Naked eyeshadow palette Sin all over my lid, Sidecar on the outer 1/3 of the eye, toasted on the outer corner and the crease of my eye, Virgin under the browbone, Hustle as an eyeliner on my upper lid. Covergirl mascara in black on my top lashes.
My lipstick is Mac Angel and on the top Nyx Babe Lipgloss.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

All about my hair

 
This photo was taken a summer night 6 years ago in the wedding of our close friend. I love this haircut and colour of my hair I had. I cut my hair in Paris Coiffure which is located in Izmir, Turkey. I used to colour my hair by myself with professional dye I bought from coiffure L'Oreal Majirel 9.1 mixed with 1.5 bottle of Kolestone peroxide solution 9%. This way I can control the dye used which sometimes you can't when in coiffure. I mix the due and peroxide in right ratio. A lot of time I think hairdresser put less dye and a loy of peroxide and it burns my scalp very often. At last I keep the dye in my hair as short as possible because I am naturally blonde and my hair goes lighter quicker in difference from Turkish girls who are darker.

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Favourite hair care products

These are my hair care products. It's nothing new if you live in USA but all amazing and unobtainable for Europian  and Asians ;)The shampoo I love is Kerastase Bain Satin 2. It smooths and detangle the hair. It is heat activated, so perfect for people who likes to take bath with hot water. It is a good shampoo for dyed, bleached, dried, dehydrated long hair. The only disadvantage is that it doesn't do much for scalp. So when I used to dye my hair and had dandruff I used once a week Tresan shampoo for my scalp to repair from the damage (usually in the middle of the week) and once a week Kerastase for my hair to look great (usually on weekends).

Macadamia natural oil is a hair masc  but I use it in stead of conditioner.  It is the most amazing hair masc I have ever used. It makes hair like silk and even my dry hair. I use all over my hair however you should apply mascs only on split ends on the tips of you hair or at least on the hair past you ear longitude. But I don't feel at all my hair geting greasy earlier, so I like the way I use.

It's 10 leave-in conditioner is a multipurpose conditioner. It detangels, protect hair from heat etc. I sprey it on my damp hair and than comb it.

Go Blonder from John Frieda is a bleaching sprey for blondes. I sprey it on damp hair on my roots, comb again throw and I dry my hair with hairdryer for the sprey to cause the reaction of color lightening. It works perfect for me. It doesn't burn my scalp like dyes do, lights my hair color gradually, so it looks very natural, like highlights caused by sun. I didn't noticed any orageness on my hair so it's my favourite product to lighten my hair. The only thing is that it's almost impossibl to be found in Turkey. 

The last but no least. Moroccan oil. A treatment oil that smooths, defrizes and nourishes hair.

Saturday, January 31, 2015

My favourite eyeliners

Today I want to show you my favourite eyeliners.
My favourite liquid liner is Maybelline Master Precise. It is really a precise liner and very black, easy to do very fine line and very sharp edge. It's perfect when you do bold or red lips and you don't want too much eye makeup but you still want to look sophisticated. I used it in my New Year 2015 makeup and loved the way it looked.

My favourite pencil eyeliner is L'Oreal Infallible Indefectible one. In contrast with the first liner it isn't very black. I use it when I don't want a sharp line but a more natural liner look. It smudges easyly and once dried, stays in place all day. That's why it is perfect for smoky eye and for underneath eyeshadow especially when you want a black mat eyeshadow  look. It is not waterproof so not the perfect one for waterline ( although I use it there a lot of  time ) , but when used in upper lid as liner it don't comes off easily in sea or pool. I use it in beach very often. I love it best with Maybelline cream eyeshadow On and on bronze, it is a perfect combination to poop up my eye color. I love the elevator for easy use and also the rubber to smudge, I use it in stead of my brushes a lot of time.

My favourite gel eyeliner is Maybelline Eyestudio Lasting Drama in 01 Black. It is the first gel eyeliner I tried and I immediately fall in love with it. It is the eyeliner that helped me to learn how to do eyeliner. It is so easy to work with, the best for beginners. I use it with Mac 210 or 266 eyeliner brushes. I prefer Mac 266 better, it is easier to use.

My favourite eyeshadow eyeliner is Crave from Urban Decay's Naked Basics eyeshadow palette. It is the most natural of all liners, it is a brownish black that makes my lashes look denser, perfect liner for blondes, perfect liner for daily use but be careful it falls a lot so better apply it before foundation and concealar. It creates the look of no eyeliner but you still have it there. Best applied with Mac 266 eyeliner brush.

Hope you like them. If you have some better option let me now down in comments.

Kisses!

Thursday, January 8, 2015

My favourite highend makeup products of 2014

Today I decided to write my favourite highend products of 2014. They are a bit pricey but worth every penny according me. They are in order I would use them to do a makeup look and I choose one of every group even sometimes I like 2 foundations or 5 lipstick. I tried hard to narrow my choice as much as possible.
Best Primer: Benefit The Porefessional 
Best Foundation: Estée Lauder Double Wear
I didn't forget concealar but for the moment I don't have a highend one that is my favorite.
Best Makeup Fixing Sprey: Mac Makeup Fixing Sprey
Best powder: Laura Mercier Transparent Loose Powder 
Best Bronzer: Nars Laguna
Best Blush: Nars Orgasm
Best Highlight: Mac Soft and Gentle
Best Eyeshadow Base: Nars Eyeshadow Primer but I forgot to put it in the photo.
Best Cream Eyeshadow Base: Mac Paint Pot in Painterly 
Best Eyeshadow Palette: Lorac Pro
Eyeshadow Palette 
Best pencil: Nars Longer than Life Eyepencil in Rue Bonaparte
Best Mascara Base: Clinique Mascara Base
Best Mascara: Cover Girl Lash Blast Volume Mascara
Best Lipstick: Estée Lauder Crystal Baby
Best Lipgloss: YSL No 27 Peche Cera-Colla
Best Face Sprey: Caudali Beauty Elixir.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Foundations

The foundation I use and love are:

The first one is a drugstore foundation that I can't stop using, Maybelline Affinetone in 30 Sand. It is a perfecting & longlasting foundation. It really lasts 24 hour, but at the end of the day I get greasy as I have greasy skin, so I always apply a transparent mattifying powder over it. It has SPF 19 sunscreen so suitable as a daily foundation. I apply it with Mac 187 brush evenly and very quickly perfect when I am in hurry. As I have cronic anemia I love that this foundation gives me some warmness and colour and I don't look as pale as I really am. It is a medium coverage foundation.

The second foundation is a new one for me, Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua in 22 Beige Rose. It is a real mach for my skin tone. It is an ultra-light skin perfecting foundation with SPF 15. It is such a fine and smooth foundation that you can wear it even without primer. It looks like your skin and feels like satin. It's ideal for no makeup makeup look. The right foundation if your boyfriend or husband doesn't like the caked look the most foundation leave. You can fool anyone with this :) It is a light coverage foundation so sometimes I have to apply 2 layers and I always apply coloured powder on it to build up the coverage. I apply it with a dense kabuki brush like Sigma Flay Kabuki - F80.

The last but not least is the best of the best foundations of 2014 for me, Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation. It is a stay-in-place foundation with SPF 10. It photographs perfectly. It is a full coverage foundation. The best to wear in special events of your life. I even wore it during my labour this year. It covers all the spots, all hiperpigmentation. I apply it with a damp Beauty Blender (pink makeup sponge) because it is very dense and sometimes it can look caked. It applies beautifully that way. Because I have greasy skin I apply also transparent powder on it, but you may not need it. If I had to choose only one of them I would choose this one without any doubt.

Hope it has been helpfull to read my opinions!

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Makeup of the day 2

@makeupgirls76 began a new tag #15daysofmakeup and @pinkiesoftheday_ found it out and brought it to Instagram Turkey. Dear @nemihaa tagged me to partecipate in this tag and I am happy to do it. 
First day I should do an everyday makeup. So here it is:
As we are on holidays now I did a light but glam makeup today. The products I used are: 
Face: I applied Benefit Porefessional face primer with my fingers, Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua foundation in 22 Beige Rose with Mac 187 makeup brush, Mac Studio Finish concealer in NC20 warming it and blending it with my fingers because it is a very difficult concealer to use, Stay Matte in transparent under the eyes with Real Techniques contour brush ( I am sorry I didn't put my face brushes in the photo), Mac Mineralized Skin Finish powder in Light Plus all over my face with  Mac 182 kabuki brush.

Cheeks: I put Nars bronzer in Laguna with Mac 163 brush, on my cheeks, front, under my jaw bones and on my neck and Benefit Coralista blush with Mac 129 brush on my cheeks anf sides of the front.

Eyes:I put Nars Pro-primer all over the lid with my fingers. I used Lorac Pro palette to do my eye makeup. I put White eye shadow with Mac 224 brush on my brow bone, Nude in the inner corner of eye with Mac 219 brush, Taupe in my crease and on my lower eyelid with Mac 224 brush, Maive in my crease with Mac 217 brush than I blended the eye shadows with a clean Real Techniques deluxe crease brush. I applied Champagne on my upper lid with Mac 239 brush and Expresso on my upper lash line as eye liner and on 1/3 of outer lower lid lash line with Mac 266 brush. I curled my upper lashes with Shu Uemura eyelash curler and finished my eye makeup with one coat of brown Maybelline Volume Express mascara on my upper and lower lashes and one coat of black Maybelline Volume Express mascara only on my upper lashes.

Lips: I moisterized my lips with Nivea Milk & Honey and put on my Mac Syrup lipstic that is a beautiful light mauve perfect for winter.

Hope you like it!

Friday, January 2, 2015

Makeup of the day

Welcome 2015! Welcome January! Today was a cold sunny day in Izmir. After several days of using red lipstick because of New Year celebrations, I wanted to do a lighter makeup so I came up with this one. 
The products I used are the most high end ones because I prefer to use them during holidays and drugstore ones on daily bases.Face: Benefit Porefessional face primer to minimise the pores and help foundation stick better since I am using a light coverage one. Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua foundation, because it is smooth and so light that looks like my bare skin and my husband thinks I have nothing on my face :) Mac Studio Finish concealer, I find it heavy but I'm trying to finish it before using another one. Rimmel Say Matte transparent powder under the eyes. Mac Mineralised Skinfinish Natural powder in Light Plus all over the face to add some coverage to my light foundation.

Cheeks: Nars Laguna bronzer, which is a matte warm brown. Coralista blush a satiny coral blush, the best if you got some kilograms more but you stil want to have something on your cheeks ;) Mac Mineralized Skinfinish in Soft and Gentle highlighter that is shinny enough but not glittery or white.

Eyes: Mac Paint Pot in Painterly, Maybelline Master Precise eyeliner, Maybelline Volume Express black mascara.

Lips: Sephora Lip Attitude Glamour G03 lipstick a beautiful creamy coral suitable for both winter and summer. 

Hope you liked it!