4,5,6 Learn Some Tricks

Luminous Night

Rosy Delight

Smoky Champagne

Golden Dusty

Fall Is Calling For Something Else

FOTN - Candy Floss

Cranberry Sorbet

Boulevard Rock - Addictive Shell Look

Bottom of the Sea

Bright Side Of Life
In Love With Hulk

 Into the Storm - Glamorous Shimmer
1,2,3 Look At Me

Wood Burgundy

Frozen Chocolate

 Velvet Macchiato

TFIOS Inspired Look

Apricot Smoothie

 Aureus Imperium
Royal Zircon

Is This The Perfect Combo? - Nude

 Spooky Week - Iridescent Goddess

Reviews/Collections 

Catrice Prime and Fine Mattifying

Inglot Freedom System Palette

Inglot Duraline - Review
Shape in Place

Make it Last - Eyeshadow Base Collection

Fall Lips Of My Choice 

Kiko Unlimited Stylo - Review

Kiko Cleansing Eyes and Lips - Review

Other

What's in my Makeup Bag

Top 10 under 5€

Thanks for reading and making 2014 the most wonderful year!!

Best Wishes,

Zircon is the name of a precious blue stone that I found pretty inspiring for this makeup look! 

New Year's Eve is close and we all get that feeling of pressure when choosing the outfit and makeup. For today's suggestion I have a brown eyeshadow look with glittery gold eyeliner plus a pop of color.

To begin with Kiko eyeshadow in 121 made its way all over the lid followed by 123 on the crease, the first a taupe matte brown, the second a medium tone brown with sparkles. 

For the eyeliner I used the gold glitter from Claire's glitter tower mixed with Duraline by Inglot.

The blue eyeliner of choice is Catrice Longlasting Eye Pencil Waterproof in 090 Petrol And The Wolf. If blue is not your cup of tea you can always wear a nude liner and it will also make your eyes look glamorous! 

This is one of my favorite ways to wear gold and blue at the same time in a more subtle way. 

Which color would you dare to use on the waterline in this look?!   

Thanks for reading,

2014 what a year. A lot happened and I can say it was all for good.

Mary Bloomy, the blog, has improved in content and photography and you surely noticed the changes as the time passed. I started with no schedule, then blogged everyday but found it too overwhelming and honestly my content wasn't the best at that time. I finally decided for a schedule of two posts a week which gives me time to prepare better content and photography for you.

I started by writing everything I thought about the story but now I'm just focused on the important things, the ones are worth a read.

We all know most of the followers go for the pictures so I've been trying my hardest to improve my skills not forgetting the good text. It all works as a duo.

I've changed my template so many times the past months I can't even count. I'm happy with this for now but I won't stop here.

Blogging has been a huge part of my life, a huge part of me. It taught me many things from beauty to actual human values. I definitely grew up a lot while blogging and I'm thankful for having you.

As you may or may not know, my name is Sara, I'm portuguese and I'm finishing a Pastry course. My main goal for 2015 is to move to a different country and find a job. I'm 19 by the way, I'm young but I never feel like it so I try to do what I love every single day. The blogger's community is a huge group of good friends and definitely take part of my daily basis.

I want to grow my blog, not for the pr, not for the fame just so I feel completely proud of myself.

More than this blog is for you, it is for myself... as I usually say, its my own therapy.

I'm making myself too long, above everything I want you to know I love what I do and I'm thankful for your support. Means a lot,  makes a dream come true. Thank you!

Christmas is magic and you, yes YOU made my year a whole world of magic. 

Merry Christmas!! 

Eat lot of sweets and enjoy your time! 

Best wishes, 

Since festive seasons are here we have to hurry and find the perfect dress and a makeup look to go with it! Whenever I think about Christmas or New Year, gold is the color that pops in my mind. Maybe it's the champagne bottle cap or the fireworks, I just love to see gold makeup at night, not to say it is a glamorous color! 

Aureus Imperium as known as "The Golden Rule", is the Latin expression that defines best this look!

To start off I used the Elf Jumbo Stick in French Lace all over the lid emphasizing the inner corner. The eyeshadows are from Storm palette, by Sleek and on top of French Lace is the champagne shimmery color followed by the goldish & the brown with red sparkles all over the crease and bottom lash line. I finished the look applying mascara but if you enjoy wearing fake eyelashes go for them!

The best part is obviously dessert time! The "cake" in the left is called 'Bolo Rei' again, a traditional sweet bread made with almonds, raisins, nuts and is decorated with crystallized fruit and confectioners sugar. I personally don't like it much but I assure it is mandatory in everyone's table at Christmas time! 

Now my favorite thing ever! 'Aletria' the most amazing dessert on earth (in my opinion). A sweet pasta flavored with lemon and cinnamon completes every Christmas! There are dozens of traditional Christmas desserts and we could spend the day listing them! If you want any recipe just tell me below :)

Which dishes you usually eat on Christmas Eve?! 

Thanks for reading,

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Neutral looks go well with everything. I was in doubt of what to wear on my shopping trip! I came up with this simple look with subtle browns and a burgundy eyeliner.

To start off Inglot 344 (swatches here) all over the lid with Catrice Absolute Eye Colour 080 Go, Charlie Brown! on the crease. The brow bone  070 Double Espresso Macchiato, Please! by Catrice and the luminous inner corner is a shimmery champagne color from Kiko 02 Adictive Song palette (swatches here).

To finish the look Velvet Matt eyeshadow - 040 Al Burgundy by Catrice combined with Duraline by Inglot (review here) created a different eyeliner.

Overall I enjoyed this look and hope to wear it more often! It is natural but has a pop of color on the eyeliner without making it extreme or unwearable! 

Do you always wear black eyeliner or change the color sometimes?! 

Thanks for reading,

If I tell you this was the first time I did makeup on another person besides me, will you believe? I know it's not perfect, I know I have a lot to improve, but hey we have to start somewhere! 

Raquel, owner of the eyes you're seeing, is a great friend and she kindly offered to be my model so I can actually practice my makeup skills in different eyes/face shapes.

I started with purples which makes her brown eyes pop! The palette was Petal Pusher by Wet n Wild and it did a great falling out job... you have no idea! 

I lined a dramatic eyeliner since her almond eyes are big enough to suit it and went for a purple waterline. She's not one of a lot of makeup, she wears lipstick and that's all... I think her eyes shape is great to get out of my comfort zone and help me improving my skills.
It was definitely a great experience we intend to repeat!

What do you think?

Thanks for reading,

Holidays are coming, who's excited?! I AM! I love how glamorous we can get at this time of the year! Christmas & New Year's Eve are the best ones to get a dress and matching makeup full of shimmer or bold matte! For those of you who actually prefer shinny looks here's what I came up with!
The palette I'm using is Storm by Sleek and as a base I have NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk. The first color I use is the light matte brown all over my crease to softly define it. All over the eyelids I have the shimmery rose gold and following to the inner corner is the champagne shade. To define a little bit more the crease I used the brown with shimmery red undertones.

I finished the look applying black gel liner following the lash line and mascara. 

Storm is one of my favorite palettes, you can achieve many looks with it from natural day look to a glamorous night out eyes! Do you have a favorite Sleek Palette? Tell me bellow ;)

Thanks for reading,

You know makeup is my obsession, my passion. Last week I posted my "Trash Talk" where I got rid off of some old makeup. Since they're not good for use anymore why not recycle them?! 

With sewing thread and scissors you'll be able to put those beautiful packaging on your tree and make it look special! 

I've made this with eyeliner tubes, lipgloss and mascaras of all different colors. It gave life to my tree and made it look beautiful! 

You can make your own out of white paper and color pencils! It's easy! Draw shapes of your taste and paint them with color pencils or markers with colors of your choice. With a needle make a little hole on top of them and tie a thread. It's ready to hang on! 

Mine are quite simple but you can do whatever you want from starts to snow flakes! Everything is allowed and it adds a bit of personal touch to your tree being a cheap and funny thing to make!

I have braces for almost 4 years now!  Crazy the amount of time it takes to get your mouth fixed! First of all, nobody has the same problem and the process speed is different from person to person. I have a dysfunction on my maxillary and it leaded to not so right teeth (if it makes sense) and I also lack of my both upper lateral incisors. 

My initial treatment would fix my maxillary putting it on the right place and also give me space on my upper teeth so I could implant some prostheses. It didn't work. I used a temporary prosthesis but soon got bored of it, I had many problems while eating and using it at the same time. I grew out of my shame and put that aside. I now have nothing, people obviously notice my lack of front teeth but I'm pretty confident and it's not abnormal, it's like any other problem... People lack harms or legs I lack teeth and it doesn't affect much my life as I thought it would. It definitely isn't the most great thing but I won't stop smiling or eating...
I of course have many restrictions, I can't bite with my front teeth so I have to cut everything I eat with my hand or a knife. If I eat/drink too cold or too hot meals/drinks it definitely hurts and it's impossible to have white looking teeth when using braces. I can't properly wash them it sounds gross but it's the truth. Try to put a barrier on your teeth and wash them you obviously will have trouble with that.
As I said my initial goal was impossible to achieve so now I'm pushing my teeth inwards in order to unite them all, so my lateral incisors will be replaced by my canines. I'll have to get them fixed to make them look as natural as possible but it won't look perfect which makes me a bit sad. But well, it's not the end of the world and by far a huge problem.

If it hurts having braces? Of course it does. If I can handle the pain? Hell yeah I can! It works like this: the 1st month you put braces on you won't be able to eat anything stiff and you'll feel like everything spit out of your mouth.. the next months you won't be able to eat every 3/4 days after the monthly appointment. You will have your mouth cut many and I mean MANY times through out the process... you'll sometimes be in so much pain you'll actually take paracetamol to ease the pain.  It's DEFINITELY NOT COOL having braces. 

I can't eat everything, it hurts a lot when I go to an appointment but worse than the physical pain is to see the treatment not working or taking much more of the expected time. I was told I had to use braces for 2 years max.. next January I'll turn 4 with this and I hope it won't take much more than that. The treatment is slow because it failed. I'm on my last chance to make my mouth look decent since I won't ever be able to make it look perfect. What it takes to the money yes it is expensive so make sure you're in for it and do everything as said by your dentist, you don't want to waste money right? 

It is already a big text so to sum it up I want to tell you that using braces is not easy so don't think of using them if you only have like 1 teeth different from the others, probably nobody notices and I assure you it won't pay the work/pain you'll have when using braces. It's a lot of work, dedication and a lot of restrictions too, think about how much you're willing to go for it and make your decision. 

I hope I helped you with this and if you wear braces tell me why and how you handle it!

Thanks for reading,