Summer/ Spring fresh colours + current nails

Oh man I wish I had a name idea before I start doing my makeup, but as I choose the colours as I was doing it, it makes it harder to come up with names.
Onto the makeup.. I was not so happy with the crease but ya get that. I wanted to something bit brighter then lately but still simple at the same time, so I kept the lower lash line free of colour (except for a tiny bit that I didn't mean to get there haha).

Products:
Madd Minerals E/S in Snot Face (lol) for the 1st half of the lid, the rest of the colours are from the 120 palette.
Liner is Nyx Black Bean Jumbo pencil as always

Cheeks I *think* is Nyx Peach, & damn I wish I could remember what I used on the lips (I'm going to make it mandatory to take pics so I remember goddamn it!).
For that extra glow I'm pretty sure I used Mac's Strobe Cream (but its whatever works for you!)

Thanks for looking at this boring, predictable post!! ahah

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oopsies almost forgot to include pics of my nails

Sally Hansen Xtreme wear in white as a base, O.P.I Black Shatter, Sally Hansen Pink Shatter, O.P.I Silver shatter. It doesn't look very good when it starts to chip, though!!

How to: Cream Contouring & Highlighing

I like to do contour & highlight for a put together look especially for a night out & it adds a lot of dimension to your face, especially since I feel like I have no cheekbones. I used to only do it with powders but I find that doing it with cream concealers that are a few shades darker/ lighter than your skin tone help it look more polished plus you can still set it with the powders on top.

I like this coastal scents palette for this as it has some shades that I would never use except for in a kit. This is brand new as you can see but I'm still finishing my old one haha.

I'm only going to contour my nose & cheeks but here is an in depth chart if you want to go all out, however I would advice to stick to the face unless your in a photoshoot haha.

Contouring:

Make sure you've applied your foundation with no powder first. I've applied the cream to my cheeks & nose using a concealer brush. Ignore that it's not completely even haha. I've only done the tip of my nose because I think that's what needs refining. You can also see that it is a loott darker than my skin tone but I blend a lot of it away so it doesn't look unnatural.

Now you will want to blend it good! I use the foundation end of my beauty of essence brush to blend all my concealer. It is best to blend the outside of the lines outwards but not blend it completely away.

& that's it blended out. Apply more & blend again if you need to.

Highlighting:

I use the lightest colour in that concealer palette to highlight. You will want to apply it to the features you want to bring out, as shown in the face chart. I've only applied to the tops of my cheek bones (although you can't see it haha), the bridge of my nose & my cupids bow. & Then blend it in again, I use my fingers to blend this part.

So here I have gone over the top of my contour with Nyx Taupe blush, you will need to use something with no shimmer in it otherwise it will bring those parts back out. Alternatively you can just just translucent powder to set. For the highlighter I used Nyx White Pearl eyeshadow or you can leave it for a dewy look. I have also applied my blush & lipstick.

I hope this is useful, especially to any beginners out there! Don't forget makeup is about enhancing your look, & at the end of the day it can be washed off :)

Open Forum

Inconsistent nonsense

Worth reading this response by Victor the Cleaner in FOFOA comments to this question: "At the moment, in order to influence the Gold price downwards, all that needs to be done by the authorities in LBMA and COMEX, is to raise the margin requirements."

This is complete and utter nonsense.

LBMA is a trade association and not an exchange and as such does not set any 'margin requirement'. The LBMA member firms are typically those banks and other financial institutions that trade gold and silver OTC in London, but non-members around the world also trade OTC with these institutions.

When Newmont has some trucks on the road on the way to the refiner, they might want to sell that gold immediately to eliminate any further price volatility from their accounts, and so they might phone JPM and sell that stuff forward. None of the two counterparties is a speculator here. Newmont does have the real stuff, and JPM does have the cash. So even if they would require collateral, this would not influence the price.

Yes, there are probably some raw recruits who follow websites such as TF and who trade COMEX futures in under-capitalized accounts. Yes, CME occasionally raises the margin. Yes, they may just be checking who is the under-capitalized novice and who really has the cash in order to purchase the gold for the contracts they hold. Yes, they may just rip off the clueless novice for fun (and money). But to think this would set the spot price of gold is quite a hubris.

The OTC market is ten times bigger than COMEX, and so it pushes COMEX around in a way that most COMEX-fixated goldbugs don't understand.

If you want to keep gold cheap in the long run, you need to create a huge volume of gold loans, expand the 'money supply'. If you want to manage the price of gold intra-day (and yes, there is indeed statistical evidence for this), you need to sell a lot of gold at spot in a short period of time. But you can do this only if you are a credible financial institution and only as long as you can hand over the allocated whenever your counterparties request it. So you need to understand extremely well what you are doing and how much physical per paper you need to be able to show. Hiking the COMEX margin is a side show.

What I find rather disappointing is the extremely poor quality of the discussion that is presented on the typical precious metal websites. This is financial product pushing of the same quality as pre-1999 when they IPO'd the companies that sell dog-food online.

Here are FOFOA, people discuss a very good reason for owning gold. For some reason, the mainstream goldbug websites totally ignore the good reason and push gold with inconsistent nonsense instead.

Why is that? Want to scalp PSLV? Want to create a mania, sell them financial products (including GoldMoney which is no longer 'money' by the way) and then when the big blackout comes, grab the gold for cheap from those who sell in panic because they never understood why they owned it in the first place? Very sad. And when the Financial Times calls the goldbugs confused idiots, sadly, there is even some truth in this statement.

If Victor keeps this up I'll be out of a blogging job.