The Denglish Life : May 2014

Hey guys!

This weekend I went to Holland as a kind of "last classtrip" with all my friends from school/my year, because this year is our last one. Seeing as we've been on classtrips together every year since Year one, we thought we might as well keep the tradition in our last year.

Additionally, it was my birthday on Saturday and I turned 19. I had a blast of a time, celebrating with most of my friends (minus the English ones) and drunkenly dancing on the beach while eating a huge muffin with a sparkler-like candle on top. And no, even though it was Holland, it was just a normal muffin!

The next day though, the girls got me a "brownie" in Amsterdam. I didn't want to eat it though, so I gave it back to them and they had it. Apparently it didn't even work haha.

I love my German friends to bits and I am now realising that leaving school is going to be a lot harder than I thought. I know it sounds so cliché, but it's true. School was an amazing time and has had a place in my life for 13 years now. I've known some of the people in my class for longer than that and they've all become so important to me, that leaving will be hard.

But that's what growing up is about, I guess. Leaving things, friends and an amazing time behind to start a new chapter in your life with new things, friends and an amazing time.

I can't wait to start uni in September!

Here are some photos I took on the trip. Excuse the quality of some of them, I only brought my camera to Amsterdam and took all the pictures of the campsite with my phone.

Leoni

Hey!

So here goes another product review. Well at least my attempt at it.

A few weeks ago my parents went to New York for a couple of days and they asked me and my sister if there was anything that we'd like them to get us, which we can't get it in Germany. I instantly thought of the Urban Decay NAKED 3 palette, as we don't have Urban Decay here - yet. It's supposed to come over soon.

Seeing as it is significantly cheaper in the U.S., I thought it was a great bargain and asked my parents to get it for me. And they did. When they gave it to me I got as excited as a child who gets told they are going to Disney Land.

I already own the NAKED 2 palette, which I bought in Barcelona last year and I love it. I've used it so much that two of the shadows are only a few crumbs now and I was in desperate need of a new palette to obsess over. I have definitely found that palette!

Let's get down to it then:

The NAKED 3 palette contains 12 shadows, just like the other two NAKED palettes do.

There are 3 matte shadows, 5 shimmery shadows and 4 glittery shadows. The colours are more on the rosy, pink and rose-gold side, whereas the two previous palettes were more in the brown, beige and gold range.
It also comes with a double-sided brush, which has a blending brush on one side and a small-ish liner brush on the other. Additionally, there are a few samples of the Urban Decay Primer Potion in its various versions in the package, which the palette comes in.

Combined with the Urban Decay Primer Potion the shadows last really long. And when I say really long, I mean REALLY long. I can apply a full eye make up in the morning, spontaneously go out in the evening and get back home around 3 in the morning - and my eyeshadow will still look perfect. No creasing, no smudging - it's amazing.

The colours in the NAKED 3 palette are perfect for people with fair skin - like myself - and the rosy colours really compliment light eyes. Although I am sure the shadows would also look nice on darker skin and on people with darker eyes.

I personally prefer them on lighter skin and lighter eyes in the blue/green range though, seeing as these colour's complementary colours - orange for blue and red for green - are distributed throughout the undertones of the shadows.

The only downside to the shadows is that they have quite a bit of fall-down. When applying them, be sure to put concealer on afterwards, because they will fall and crumble on your under-eye area. Apart from that there's nothing I don't like about them!