Daytime Glamour

 For some reason the other day I felt like wearing makeup appropriate for going out.... so here it is haha. Complete with falsies & glitter.

eeek frizzies

ommmg the eyelashes are horrendous (application, anyway ha ha), I didn't even notice until I saw these pics. Although I could feel it coming off in the inner corner. Yikes! I'm too scared to bind them into my natural lashes with the eyelash curler in fears of the shape getting damaged.
 Also my hair is the biggest mess. IDK what to do with it lately =/

Products:
Bourjois Blush in 16

ok so for the eyes I applied nyx glitter liner in disco ball first and than applied the gray in the 2 Faced duo "Ooh Ahh" but I think I should have done it the other way around because it didn't work very well & the glitter sticked to my brush.
I used Nyx Black Bean (not pictured) before I applied the black in the 2 Faced duo & blended a bit into the silver. I also lightly applied a neutral colour in the crease.
A little bit of Nyx Milk JEP was used on the lower lashline but that was all as I wanted to keep that simple.
Lashes are by BYS.

For lips first I applied MAC hue and then BYS lipstick(red) on as a stain. & then a bit of the Revlon Colorstay lipgloss over the top.


How do you like to apply Nyx candy glitter eyeliners? Apart from as a liner lol


Oh also some sad news.
My brother found one of our cats, that we have only had for a little while after giving him a home as his old owners couldn't look after him anymore, on the road, hit by a car. His name was Blitz and although we only had him for a short time and he was a very naughty cat, we miss him so much as he was the friendliest, smoochiest cat ever(unlike our Mishka who is the biggest snob hehe).
 Doesn't help that we live on a busy road but we think it would have happened late last night, and although we try to keep him in at night things happen.

here he got into the pantry & knocked down the cat biscuits. naughty!! lol. He was a huge cat for his size and soo friendly, but he always tried to trip us up haha. A sad thing was Mishka never got used to him so he was always getting chased by her.

R.I.P Blitzy xoxo

Thank you for reading.
xx

Pin-up MU ft. Kate by Rimmel & Maybelline Master Precise

 I have some products/ looks lining up & I have used 2 of them in this look to kill 2 birds in one stone, ha.
I have been searching high & low for these Kate lipsticks every time I see a Rimmel display & finally found them, but only chose one colour, so next time I think I want to buy a few more.
Also I have been wanting to try a new liquid eyeliner in a while, so I went with the Maybelline Master Precise e/l because the title is exactly what I wanted, haha. Anyway...

If I had more time I would have made my hair a bit nicer, but I had just washed it the night before and it wouldn't stay in place, plus I had to finish getting ready for work.

 Products

28 Neutral Palette for the eyes

Maybelline Master Precise e/l

Nyx milk JEP on waterline

Falsies would have been nice but I didn't want to make it too much for work.

CG Lashblast Fusion

Blush is Face of Australia in Outback Primrose.

The Lips

Kate by Rimmel in 09

I did use a lipliner, but it wasn't the sharpest so it kinda made the lipstick look like it was bleeding... but I used Nyx Bloom l/l & it matched pretty much perfectly. Also it last all morning, so about 5 hours I think that was mainly thanks to the lipliner, filling in l/s with a brush, then blotting & reapplying from the bullet.

This is a really gorgeous dark pink slightly reddish lipstick,as I said it lasted for quite a while but it depends how you apply it. I have a few similar colours but this is the most burgundy-y colour of what I have.

The Eyeliner
Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner

 As you can see, the tip is verry fine, which is really good for drawing little pictures with your eyeliner (as shown in the ads) It is good to build up with a thicker line if you need too. I found this lasted really well all day, with no flaking or smudging as I have read in some reviews. In fact, I had to rub over it with a remover wipe a few times before it budged.
 However I didn't really rub my eyes, so I should test this out when I have hayfever haha. It also sets pretty quickly, so if you accidentally touch straight after it wont smudge.

Practiced my doodling... but not a very good one haha but you can see that you could do all sorts of things with this eyeliner.

I got the Kate lipstick for 9.95 from Priceline & The Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner for 7.95 (originally 12 I think) from Big W but depending on where you live the prices will be different. I recommend both of these products if they are what you are looking for!

Thanks for looking!
xx

Today's (quote-unquote) "Gold"

Gettin with the times...small Sugarpill Haul

yayy. Just a quick post to show off my goodies that arrived today. Shipping was decent from Sugarpill's website, especially since I'm in Australia so it was a few weeks but I'm always expecting that.

How it came in the box

I'm sure some of you have seen the packaging many times before, but here it is again.

L-R:  Darling, Hysteric, Goldilux. I just new I had to get goldilux after seeing so many looks with it haha, & the other 2 colours are stunning, although it was so hard to choose which ones to order (for now)

Swatches straight out of the tub

I also got a sticker & a free sample of ... well I don't know the name as it doesn't say it haha but I'm sure I will be able to recognize it on the website.

All loose shadows were $12 each & shipping was only $6 I think so they are very reasonable priced, I cannot wait to play around with them yahoo :)

Thanks for looking!! Looks & opinions to come later.

xx

Glowy Makeup

 Just another basic, glowy look that I've done many times before. A fave of mine for summer as you probably know by now!!

The liner isn't looking too flash, sorry haha
Products
Revlon Photoready
Mac Strobe Cream
Mac Peachykeen Blush

Stila Kitten
Light brown from Sleek Storm
Maybe a bit of Mac Satin Taupe
Maybelline line Allure E/L
Makeup Storecrazy lazy e/l (blue)
CG Lashblast + Elizabeth Arden Mascara

Lips I think I did Nyx Strawberry Milk l/s  & Nyx Sugarpie l/g

A bonus OOTD, taking advantage of the full length mirror haha. Top from Temt, Skirt from Dotti, Shoes from Cotton on. Earrings from Diva

Thank you for looking, even though it was a very short & boring post! haha

 & I'd hate to tease y'all, but another picture of the beach that I took on the weekend when we went "fishing" haha (the boys did but only caught seaweed haha)

Yo Warren B, you are so OG!

Elliott wave predits $32659 gold on 16 Jan 2015

Nick from Sharelynx with help from Geoff S has put together an Elliott Wave theory prediction using 'The Golden Mean' & 'Fibonacci Sequences' to arrive at the future price of gold. Click here for the chart.

It predicts the next peak as $3,559 in Jan 2013 with an eventual peak of $32,659 gold on 16 Jan 2015. Nick's comments:

The first two uplegs (blue line) generate (through the formulas) the future uplegs (red line) as the price heads to it's peak at W5(5). The Time, Price and Percentage of each leg up & down are shown on the edge of the chart.

So having left W4(A) behind the next 16 months we are heading up to W4(B). Presumptions are that the blue line (actual gold price) will stay above the red line for the first 1/2 of the next upleg falling to below the red line for the second half of the upleg and rising steeply into the peak of W4(B) as gold likes to do.

Perhaps gold's final top is W4(D) or W5(1) or higher and perhaps the timing doesn't play out right but this presumably will be something close to the shape of gold's rise over the next few years.

A nice speculation and one to dream about. I'm certainly going to be bookmarking this chart and checking back from time to time. If it works out with reasonable give and take then I think Nick will achieve Guru status within the precious metals internet community.

Catch Up

Been stockpiling the following for comment:

Silver shortage vs coin shortage

I've been on this issue for a long time, now I have backup from David Morgan: In 2008 there was no shortage of all silver per se, but there was a shortage of coins, bars and other retail “investment” items. The evidence: Much higher premiums back then for small silver products on the street versus the commercial price for average 1,000 ounce commercial good delivery bars in late 2008 and early 2009, since then corrected. I also note that he says it is a myth that silver is currently in shortage.

India's love of gold

Here in the West the average person (and Buffett) has no idea of how pervasive gold is in East society. Mineweb notes loans against gold as collateral was one of the country's fastest growing businesses. Though many Indians continue to use the glittering metal to flaunt their family wealth, most working in the informal sector, have few choices to borrow money and resort to pawning their family jewels rather than taking the longer route of bank loans. and By the end of November this fiscal, total credit issued by banks grew at around 20%, while organised gold loans grew at 50%, making it an increasingly important source of liquidity. Typically, most loans are repaid within four months, since most Indians prefer to hoard their gold.

Need to watch that word "hoard", which can become a dirty word. See this The government had raised the import duty of gold and silver to curb import of precious metals which result in huge outflow of dollars outside the country. Much better you save by giving your money to bankers and if you won't then Vietnam again leads the way with plans to "mobilize" Gold Bullion held by Vietnamese citizens "in service of the national socio-economic development".

Venezuela

Gata reports WSJ as saying Venezuelan officials completed a two-month process of repatriating 160 tons of the country's gold holdings Monday, by welcoming home the final shipment of the precious metal from Europe. Where are those excited gold bulls with the thought that the withdrawal of some 150-200 tonnes of gold from the Bank of England and bullion banks will force a squeeze on traditional stockpiles of gold?

Did Bankers Deliberately Crash MF Global to Crash Gold and Silver Prices? I can't split between JS Kim and Jeff Neilson for people who have come out of nowhere to be sudden gold market experts. Short answer to JS Kim - no.

Gold Commission

When I see Newt Gingrich calling for a gold standard I start to get worried. How much different is a gold standard under the control of a central bank from fiat? When I see mainstream articles discussing the issue, I wonder if the central bank gold standard is put up to sideline the Ron Paul open currency approach?

Pretty Pastels... + a few extras, + a note to all Aussie Beauty Bloggers

In case you may have realized, I had been gone for just under a week. I went up to Perth with my boss & another girl to go to a DMK course, which is our skincare brand that we use in the salon. Because it is a paramedical skincare it is very scientific & complicated, and you have to do many courses each year to keep up with itm but as it was my first time attending it was good to learn more about the brand & its theories. Thank god I didn't have to do the assessment at the end too!

Anyhoo.. while I was gone I added to my collection so hopefully I will have plenty of things to show you for some while. Also while I was gone I got my Nyx goodies from Ebay, yay :)
P.S I'm wondering why this wont save,,, so I get out of it to realize I've been signed out. grrr. Lucky I copied it before I got out lol.

Aussie Beauty Bloggers
just a quick note, We saw in a Beauty Therapist magazine that they are holding a convention thingy in September in Sydney, I don't have any more details sorry but maybe google it, it is a course to build uhh skills and things, and they also take you to IMATS!! woooo. Anyway I'm not the biggest & best beauty blogger otherwise I would love to go, but if anyone else out there is interested I think you should go for it! (great description, huh :P) PLEASE NOTE: Just an update, I didn't see until later that the magazine was a year old!! So its obviously been & done haha sorry!
Products
Face: Revlon Photoready Foundation mixed w/ darker fdnt
Coastal Scents concealer kit
Palladio Rice Powder in Translucent
Nyx peach blush
Eyes:120 palette (I think its too obvious to name which colours I used :P)
Unsure of which eyeliner I used...
CG LB Fusion
Lips: Revlon Colorburst in Candy Pink

Also last weeks nails.. Although I'm just about to paint them again :D

 O.P.I Too hot pink to hold 'em... althought it looks rather red in most lighting, with Sally Hansen Gold shatter on my ring finger & thumbnail.

Bonus Pics:

 View from our cabin in the caravan park where we stayed..

 They have this huge jumping pillow which was soo much fun as you can see hehe.

we feed the ducks every morning... this was the cutest little family we have ever seen!! they walked around with their parents everywhere zomgg so adorbs :D there were also ducks and many other types of birds... and we even saw a friendly bunny hehe.

Thanks for looking!!

India's Gold

Italian banks pawning $976m of gold with Scotiabank?

In January FT Alphaville's Izabella noted that "Negative rates imply that banks are pawning gold in exchange for dollars. A move which happens to depress gold prices. But it’s always been difficult to establish who was pawning what and when, and how prevalent the practice really was."

She quoted Goldman Sachs who thought "this new demand for dollars was mostly from European banks using the gold market to source US dollar liquidity when their funding from the US money markets dried up, which created a significant amount of gold selling."

It is with interest then that in updating this post I noticed Scotiabank disclosed the following on page 37 of their 2011 Annual Report: "The Bank had exposures to Italian banks of $976 million, primarily related to short-term precious metals trading and lending activities."

Superorganism Open Forum

Martin Armstrong on metals manipulation

Below are some relevant extracts from Martin Armstrong's The Analytical Shill. The article is generally about how research and analysts are conflicted and how analysts and investors and gurus can be blinded by their biases. The paragraphs below are straight from the article and will jump around a bit because I've just pasted them in order they appeared without all the extraneous stuff.

Martin Armstrong:

The metals were one favorite sector where they were constantly bullish – never bearish for 19 years. But hey, the market manipulators always needed cheer-leaders to get people to buy every high so they could sell.

On the Buffett Silver Manipulation, it was PhiBro who had a shill call the Wall Street Journal and tell them I was trying to manipulate silver down because I was short. When the WSJ & I argued and they refused to print the name Buffett they demanded I give them, that forced the CFTC to act calling me to ask where was it taking place. I told them London and they called the Bank of England. When they in turn ordered all silver brokers to show up the next morning, Buffett was forced to come out and admit he bought $1 billion worth of silver but denied he was manipulating the price.

You can ask the guys at GATA. They were well aware of the first 1993 Manipulation by PhiBro (Philips Brothers). They got in bed with Buffett when he stepped in to run Salomon Brothers after they got caught MANIPULATING the US Government bond auctions. They began buying silver and the CFTC stepped in demanding to know who their client was. Now if it had been anyone else, PhiBro’s reply was they refused to tell the name of the client. Forget the law. That does not apply to New York firms. The CFTC responded saying if they could not know who their client was, then PhilBro had to exist the trade. They did and of course made a fortune for the hawkers had all the little guys buy silver just in time for PhilBro to sell it to them.

This is WHY the manipulations began to move to London. Not only did PhiBro try to get me on board, their broker walked across the floor and SHOWED my broker Buffett’s orders at the low!

To create the fundamental, they moved inventory from New York to London. They were manipulating silver as always. Playing games with the inventories. They were moving silver from New York to London where the Buffett orders were being executed. This made the US warehouse inventories drop sharply. Go look at the analysts who talked silver up on that very fundamental. If they said there was a shortage of silver and you better buy it is going to $100, then you may be dealing with a shill or a biased analyst.

Many of the metals analysts with an agenda back then hated my guts. How dare I say there was a manipulation when it was at last silver was going up instead of down. Now I was part of some covert conspiracy hell bent on suppressing the metals because I dared to say “they are back” (manipulators) and the target was $7 by January 1998. To this crowd, a manipulation is always to the downside and never up.

Go check the recommendations of analysts back then. See where they stood. The best one I heard was silver was in demand in London because it was .9999 there instead of .999 in New York.

GATA began to see the same nonsense that I did during the early 1990s. It was just that I saw the manipulations as being UNBIASED. In other words, they did not care what they manipulated as long as there was a guaranteed profit. They manipulated even base metals such as rhodium. They manipulated platinum in league with Russian politicians who strangely recalled all platinum to take an inventory. Hell, Ford Motor Company filed suit over that manipulation.

How do you distinguish a REAL bull market from a bullshit manipulation?

Most manipulations can be seen easily when you look at a market in terms of a Basket of Currencies. Why? Because a REAL bull market must take place ONLY when it rises in terms of ALL currencies. Unless that takes place, investors in some countries will be sellers while others are buyers. Here is a classic example as to why we were bearish on gold for 19 years despite the hate mail and the best attacks of the shills. The manipulators ALWAYS need to get the metals guys worked up into a fever to sell to them to make their profits and big bonuses.

So when analysts only espouse one side, be very careful. For no matter what the market, there is always a time to rally and a time to pause. Nothing is ever straight up or straight down. Anyone who portrays that is either ignorant of the market behavior, or a shill – paid cheer-leader. Putting out bogus research has been the name of the game. Unfortunately, there are just some people who are hardcore.

Markets are the same mix as politics. There are people who simply believe in a given position and no matter what you say or what evidence you present to the contrary, they will never believe it. Thus, I have NEVER been interested in preaching to the choir. I have always preferred the independent thinker – the investor who wants to really learn about market behavior and not read someone who simply supports their never changing view of the world. Nor am I interested in exchange words with those who may not be shills, but are just part of a particular hardcore group. I am cheered only when I agree, and if I disagree, I am despised. But that is expected in the retail world – NEVER in the professional institutional world.

There cannot be a perpetual bull market in anything anymore than you can stand there with your arm straight up in the air. Oh shore, you can do it briefly. But then your arm will feel so heavy you can no longer keep it up. Everything takes a pause for the same reason you sleep at night. Nothing can maintain the same energy output all the time. People come up with all sorts of excuses why they are right yet the market declines. Usually it is some conspiracy of a mythical group so powerful that they just win.

Markets collapse because EVERYONE who ever thought of buying has bought. They are now counting their profits for the next eternity. Something happens and scares the herd. Suddenly, the long try to sell but there is no bid. The market collapses in the blink of an eye. Why, because the majority has already bought and there are no new buyers to keep the momentum going. It is never some mythical short player preventing the upward advance. It is just not time yet.

Philip Tetlock, a professor of organizational behavior at the Haas Business School at the University of California-Berkeley, has been following the so called experts for some 25 years studying primarily the institutional forecasting skill of political experts. He had signed up nearly 300 academics, economists, policymakers and journalists keeping track of more than 82,000 forecasts plotting them against real-world results. He analyzed not just what the experts said but how they reasoned and how quickly they changed their mind in the face of contrary evidence. He also tracked how they reacted when they were wrong, which was of course the majority of the time. Most could not even beat a random forecast generator.

Tetlock's research did discover that there was one kind of expert turns out consistently more accurate forecasts than others. The most important factor he discovered was not how much education or experience the experts had but how they actually thought. The best forecasters were those who were self-critical, eclectic thinkers who were constantly updating their beliefs when faced with contrary evidence instead of clinging to dogma. He found the best were suspicious of grand schemes and conspiracies and were more practical about their predictive ability. The less successful forecasters clung to the same ideas never wavering pushing the same idea to the breaking point of absurdity. These types of people were more often embraced by the media because they loved to articulate and persuade as to why their idea explained absolutely everything.

Tetlock uncovered widespread forecasting failures. Of course, there is the herd of followers who for some reason want a GURU and unrealistically expect infallibility. This may reinforce the pundits that like to put on a show and claim why they are personally better than everyone else and only their ideas are correct and when wrong, it is the result of some giant conspiracy, not their lack of ability to forecast.

The key to the future lies in the UNBIASED view of whatever it is. You cannot be married to a single position EVER! Tetlock points out that a successful analyst always qualifies their arguments with "however" and "perhaps," while the dangerous analysts build up momentum with "moreover" and "all the more so" as they try to be more entertaining. The dangerous analyst wants to keep the clients happy and to a large extent preaches to the choir telling them what they want to hear.

The one thing about markets is that the MAJORITY just have to be wrong! Why? They are the fuel that drives the market up and down. Trap the majority either long or short and you create the fuel for the next move in the opposite direction.

So for now, it is far better to let the markets speak. As I stated at just about every conference I have ever given, there is ONLY one analyst that is never wrong – that is the market itself. The key to successful trading & forecasting is to learn how to let the market speak to you and go with the flow. It does so in both TIME as well as PRICE. Turning points are NEVER specific events, but inflection points where highs and lows take place. It would have been nice to have a low first and a more orderly advance afterwards. But markets like to create the worst of all worlds.

So for anyone who thinks he can beat the game as an analyst or trader, must remember one thing. The market is always right. To survive, we have to align ourselves with the market and listen when it speaks. This is not a game for arrogance and prognostications fixed in stone steeped in bias and dogma. History repeats – but also with a slight twist. So how high will gold go? It is a question of CONFIDENCE.

You will ALWAYS be your greatest adversary, for to succeed you must conquer your own biases, fears, and doubts. You cannot do that as Philip Tetlock has keenly demonstrated with fixed ideas. If you are married to a philosophy and will not yield and blame everyone else for conspiring against you and that is the reason something has not yet unfolded, you better see a shrink.

Turquoise Serenity

"He loved the serenity of the place... I think he also just loved the word"

quote from a gold Aussie movie "The Castle"

The title of this look is just something I made up hoping it wouldn't sound weird. So I googled it & up came some images which was totally how I wanted my look to come across. When I was doing it I was thinking of the beach so I think it worked out well. Not really sure where the purple came from though haha

 

Products:

Face: Revlon Photoready Foundation

Coastal Scents concealer kit

Palladio Rice Powder in Translucent

Revlon Hushed Blush

Models Prefer Illuminator

Eyes: Nyx Nude Pearl Mania Pigment- Inner lid

Turquoise from 120 palette- Outer Lid; Blue from 120 palette- Crease

Purple 120 palette- Lower Lash Line

Nyx White Pearl- highlight

Black e/s in waterline

Maybelline Line Allure e/l

CG Lashblast

Lips: Bloom L/S in Honeysuckle

Of course, my inspiration for the title

It doesn't picture the sand but I can imagine it crisp & white.

Or how about a little bit of Turquoise Serenity a little bit closer to home, ie in my backyard (not literaly!)

I think the colours are similar to a look I did a little bit back, just placed differently.

Thanks for looking, hope everyone is going well!

xx

Glimpsing the Hereafter

Daytime Smokes feat. UD Naked

The other day I just wanted a simple sexy daytime smokey eye, and what better to do that with then the naked (number one) palette.Of course this could be easily transformed for night time, or even more toned down if its too much for the day.

looks like a bit is wearing off on the lid.. oh well

Ignore my bad hair day!

Natural light, makes me look like a ghost!

I used the beauty settings on my camera for the first time in a while, if you couldn't tell haha

Products:
UD Sin all over lid
Naked in crease blended upwards
little bit of Sidecar on outer 1/3 of lid
Gunmetal overlapping sidecar
Creep in outer v & into crease
Buck to blend out creep in the crease
Virgin as a highlight
Zero pencil eyeliner on the top lash line, tiny bit on lower lash line & into the waterline.
Creep over eyeliner on the lower lash line.
Insy binsy bit of Half Baked on lower lash line.

*maybe a diagram would have been easier haha*

Cheeks umm I think is Bourjois Blush in 16 Rose
Lips is Avon24k Gold l/s in Golden Rose

Lastly I would like to thank laura from missmakeupaddict & Patricia from artlook4u  for the versatile blogger award, I have already received it before so heres the 7 facts (Although I probably should change them lol)


7 Facts

Thanks for looking, MWA x