A'PIEU Full of Color Eyeshadow Palette Doraemon Edition MONO BEST Swatches and Review☆

Hello!

A couple of days ago I got my A'PIEU Doraemon eyeshadow palette I ordered from ebay (mainly because of the cute packaging and glittery shades--) and I decided to do a swatch & review for you all! 

Sorry about the bad lighting in these photos... At this time of year we have like 3 hours of natural light here in Finland, so both of these pictures are taken in artificial light. I tired to photoshop the colors to look more genuine but natural light would have still been the best.. 

So the eyeshadow case has the same Doraemon picture on the lid as the cardborad box and it's just so cute! I also love all the shades, since cold toned eyeshadows don't really suit my pasty skin color and 

blue-green eyes. So these warm colors really are my cup of tea! They are also neutral enough, but still fun!

                       1. A cream-colored shimmery shadow (which you can hardly see since I'm so damn                                                        white)

                       2. A matte warm brown.

                       3. Almost a glittery version of the shade 2, but slightly more orange tinted

                       4. Looks like a nude color in the upper picture, but actually it's a matte peach color!

                       5. Very glittery rosey-pink

                       6. Very glittery, bright orange

                       7. Glittery light brown

                       8. A dark brown with some glitter

I don't really have experience with any extremely good (=expensive) eyeshadows, so the quality is what I'm used to: Very good and enough for me, but not perfect. The matte shadows are a bit chalky and none of the colors are very vibrant, but hey that's what I'm used so it doesn't bother me! I personally really like this palette and it's quite inexpensive too, so the quality is pretty much what I expected! I have no complaints, since I mainly bought it for the glittery shades and they are soooooo sparkly I'm so happy (♥ω♥ ) ~♪

See you again soon!

Yaiba Cosplay Wig Process and Makeup Test☆

Hello beautiful people!

I finally received my other wig for Yaiba earlier this week, so as an impatient person I started working on it almost right away! I always want to get things done now or never-- So I decided to do a sort of picture process post about the project that was Yaiba's wig. I've never done anything else with cosplay wigs, except simple cutting and styling so this was my first bigger wig styling experience. And surprisingly I'm quite happy with the result-- I could say that wig styling is one of the cosplay things I consider myself good at. But yeah, without any more blabbering let's start the actual post! 

I'm quite sad I didn't remember to take invidual pictures of the two wigs I was using... This is the only one and here I just stacked the wigs together (with the ears) for a silly picture for a group chat with my friends-- But you can get a pretty good idea of what I was working with!

So here I've cut the two wigs apart, seven rows of wefts from the blonde one and left seven rows of wefts on the top one, and sown them together! The process was very simple, but I was still nervous of ruining my wigs-- I ended up sewing a few wefts under the black part's bangs to get some more length in it.

So here I've done some styling, cutting and using a hot iron and some hair wax. As you can probably see, I accidentally did the parting of the hair on the wrong side... But I later fixed it! I haven't touched the lower part of the wig yet. 

Here I thought I was finished with the wig and did a really quick makeup test, but I ended up dyeing some of the blonde in the front with some old Copic-marker filler color.

So here's the actual finished wig! I used some dark dark warm-gray color with the dyeing (since I couldn't get my black to open) and just used a normal brush to paint the color on. I'm really pleased with the outcome now that I did the extra effort of dyeing some of the blonde away! Extra effort really does pay off in cosplay. 

And here's the back and front of the wig! I don't have a wig head (though I just ordered one!!) so I'm using this old lamp-- It works just fine though! The ears still need a bit of refining since they look like squirrel ears now-- But yeah that's all!

Thank you for reading and see you again soon!