How to wear bright lipstick

Photo by Claire Huish, Make Up by Liv Lundelius

If you want to check out more on how to wear bright lipstick check out my guest post I have written for Lena from Musings to write a guest post for her beautiful blog here. As well as been interviewed by Elie for Punctuation Mark her inspiring blog about design and photography here. Thank you so much Ladies, for these great features.

Liv as wedding guest

Via My-Wardrobe.com this dress is by Acne, shoes by Sam Edelman

In the unlikely event of Liv attending Dave's brothers wedding in Australia in August this is what I would wear. With smoky eyes and nude lips. Sadly I am stuck with loads of work in London and couldn't get the time off, so he will have to go on his own. I can only dream- If I were going to attend, let's say my work for August will be getting cancelled and I will be able to take holidays, at the same time I will be able to get a free flight and I will have only 1 day to get my outfit together online and uhm, while we are at it, I wouldn't have to pay for my outfit either.... ...Then I would prob. wear the outfit above. All found at My-Wardrobe.com

I would love to make it happen. Weddings are so magical. I only need to find the time to go. The fabulous evening dress I can do myself.

bio sculpture nails part II

3 weeks later, my nails have been growing really fast, so that I can see now a gap between the gel and my natural nails. The colour is still brilliant and shiny and didn't chip at all. Fascinating. I really liked having my nails done without worrying for weeks, and would definitely recommend this to any brides. Today I soaked the gel off, and it's true, my nails underneath are healthy and strong and not damaged at all. For now I will only wear a clear base coat and will try to keep my nails in this good condition.

spoilt with choice-or what's your favorite colour?

As professional make up artist, I really have to look after my nails, since I am touching peoples faces all the time. But I am not a fan of thick tacky plastic nails or smelly toxic nail salons either. My research for a solution lead my to Bio Sculpture and after all great things I read about it really wanted to try it and see for myself and tell you about my experience. So this week I had a Bio Sculpture nail treatment done! Whoop. And it looks fantastic.

So why is Bio Sculpture different then? Bio Sculpture is is a non-chip nail treatment that can be applied to any nail type, much like a regular nail polish. The gel-like substance is formulated without any toxic chemicals (meaning it’s free from acrylic, formaldehyde, toluene, and DBP), and is designed to act as a protective layer to your own nails, treating and improving the overall health of your nails while simultaneously providing a smudge- and chip-free nail finish. Yes that's right, non toxic, non tacky, chip free, strong nails for about 4 weeks. I went to the U.K. head office in Hertfordshire, where Haley their professional nail technician worked magic on my nails. With about 140 colours to choose from (they do french as well), I was spoilt with choice. She just got married herself and explained that Bio Sculpture is great for brides, because they can have their nails done a week before the wedding and will still have great chip free nails through their honeymoon. I choose a bright coral pink that I am loving but I can apply a different colour Bio Sculpture nail varnish on top any time. "What's your favorite colour?" asked René who is managing the whole head office. She surprised me with a few more purple and orange nail varnishes, so that I can change my colour. So far I am really impressed with the result and I will keep you up to date, how it wears and lasts now.

time for new shoes...

I have been in "need" of fabulous new shoes. Being a busy bee at the moment and the whole day on my feet I should better go for trainers or some sort of healthy shoe. I usually don't like compromises either. But hey, I have to grow up or at least sometimes make a grown-up decision. Just in case you are in the same boat, I have a shoe hybrid recommendation for you.

These heels are comfortable, but they are making your legs look loooong. Might be good for dance-loving-brides(-maids) as well? I got my new heels from very.co.uk because of my moving chaos situation I haven't found the time to go shopping lately. (hooray for online shopping!)