Nails ~ French Manicure

They are called Classics for a reason ... 


Taking a break from fun designs and incredible nail art to in bark the classics; French Tip Manicure ! 
A classic look which truly goes along with everything; Everyday chores, daytime, night time; rock concert even a wedding! every now and then we fall back to this style of nails. 

This time we went with acrylic nails instead of gel nails. There is really no huge difference between the two materials it's just a matter of habits. There is no UV light when you do acrylic which is good because the material hardens with chemicals and off course air! Acrylic nails are also less time consuming ;) 

In order to lessen the contrast between the white tips and the nail color a top coat was applied; in this case O.P.I Heart & Tarts. 

Give this look a try! 

xoxo 

DY 

NailArt

One flower print is just enough 


It's not everyday you can rock pimped out nails - at least not all ten nails! Sometimes it's enough with one nail.This design is a where nine nails are just coated with a shear pink nail polish and the thumb nail on DY's left hand has a floral design ;) 

This is perfect for everyday errands and  for running about! 

xoxo 

DY & Roe 

Make Up Session w/ favorite M.A.C. eyeshadow

#Grain 

A new favorite shadow by M.A.C. called #Grain. It is by no means a new shadow but we just discovered it! Beautiful creamy color which goes very well with grey and brown shades. We combined it with MakeUpStore's #Kakaow and some dramatic lashes .. Jersey Style! 

xoxo 

DY & Roe 

Tiffany & Co.

All Time Favorite Accessory 

There are certain things whenever you buy they immediately become a favorite. First, you wear it all the time and thee eventually they are no longer a part of your style. My all time favorite accessory is a silver bracelet from Tiffany & Co. with a heart chain suspension. What is great about this bracelet is it can easily be complimented with other accessories as well. 

This bracelet was bought four years ago and I was looking through my jewelry and found it! It made my day I had totally forgotten about it! It are the small things like these that make my day ... 

 The heart has an beautiful inscription which was the main reason I bought the bracelet in the first place. It so cute and has a clean cut style. The inscriptions say Please return to TIFFANY & Co. New York 925. 

What are some of your all time favorite accessories which you can't live without??

Share them with us!

xoxo

DY 

NailArt tutorial

Three Colored Design 
We have shared with you guys a few pics of different nail art designs but we have finally decided to do a nail art tutorial! We have decided to do a three colored design 

What you need for this design is the following: 

A nail file 

Three different shades of nail polish 

Base coat polish

Top coat polish 

Toothpick 

Glitter powder (color is optional we used green glitter). 

Our shade choices : 

Italian Love Affair by O.P.I , #031 by Depend and #48 Black by Mavala 

Step 1.  Shape your nails with a nail file, remove cuticles, and apply base coat.

Step 2. With a nail polish of your choice, make a diagonal stripe.

Step 3. Make a triangle on the edge of your nail. There should be space between the two shades making room for another shade. 

Step 4. Fill in the gap with another shade of polish. 

Step 5. You have to be quick with the nail polish because in this final step you should take a toothpick and draw lines from the edge of the nail to the middle creating lines that go through all three lines.

 Let the polishes  dry and apply a top coat, while its still wet sprinkle some glitter powder (very little! sprinkle it as far away from your nail as possible so it does not become clumpy). Finally, apply a second coat of top coat and 

Voila! 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial ! 

Let us know what you think! 

xoxo 

DY & Roe 

NailArt

Italian Love Affair by O.P.I 

Playing w/ nail polish has always been a favorite leisure activity. I recently bought nail polish by O.P.I Italian Love Affair. It is a beautiful soft pink shade. 

My cravings for leopard printed nails have been keeping me up at night HA! No not really.. but I wanted to do it with a twist. A bottom coat with a pink nuance and black dipped nail tips. The tips ended up with micro stripes =)  

Do you have any more ideas for fun nail art? 

Share them with us! 

xoxo 

DY 

Makeup sessions

Peachy 

This look is a very simple look which can also be used for daytime. It's not that intense where you would feel overexposed during daytime. However, it has enough sparks to wear to night time as well so its a pretty look for any hour of the day ;) 

The products used for this peachy eye makeup look was the following 

all the eyeshadows were from MakeupStore (MUS) 

Eyeshadow dusts: Lounge

                      Hot

Microshadows: Bronze  

Eyeliner: Click-it (by Oriflame) 

Mascara: False Lash Telescopic (by L'Oréal Paris) 

xoxo 

DY & Roe 

African Tribal Jewelry

There are no better gifts than jewelry! 

Somehow DY has received three different items from friends who have visited Africa. African tribal jewelry can be so elegant and turns up the volume on a ordinary outfit! Take a look =) 

From Kenya! 

                                                                                        

 From Sudan! 

Gifts are always fun to receive but gorgeous gifts are AMAZING to receive .. right!? 

xoxo 

DY & Roe 

Make Up Session

Finally got around to blog about own makeup creations! 


I had an amazing makeup session with the always gorgeous Umran Can. You can follow her on Twitter @canumran. She had no specific requests so we just improvised and ended up with an amazing look for her =) 

Make up used for this look 

Base; Bare Minerals Foudnation (medium shade) 

& MAC Mineralize Blush (Warm Soul)

Eyes; MUS (MakeUpStore) Microshadows: 

Famous

Bronze 

Pollution 

Kakaw 

MUS eyedust ; Hot 

Lips; MUS Lipstick Baby 

These colors really compliment the shape of her eyes and of course eye color ;)) Or what do you guys think? 

xoxo 

DY 

Have fun w/ your nail polish!

Express your state of mind not only through fashion, express it through all your ten fingertips ;) 

When it comes to nail art there truly are no limits! You can either just go with one color (whatever that maybe) or you could go wild and crazy with leopard printed nails! However, it does take a brave soul to walk around with pimped out nails! People always compliment DY on her nail designs but they never have the courage to do them themselves! 

Nail art does not have to be complicated and they can be straightforward and still but some excitement to your day =) 

  

This design is very cute and can be worn for everyday errands. The bottom coat is Pink then with a small sponge the tips were dabbed with Orange down to the middle region of the nails. The tips were decorated with a thin glitter strip which was Green glitter powder which stayed on with the help of  a clear nail polish. 

Faux Gold

Faux diamonds? NEVER! Faux gold? 

YES YES YES!

Jewelry can be so much fun, so you should not always take it so seriously and feel the pressure of spending huge amounts of money on them! There is a lot of jewelry out there that look great [and expensive ;)] but does not cost that much! 

DY recently bought two pieces of jewelry that are FAKE but you have to show them love as well ;)) 

This gorgeous necklace is from H&M for just  $14.00 It's a very light necklace to wear  but does it not look heavy? a.k.a. REAL?! 

A very simple and chic designed bracelet from Bijou Brigitte for only $19.00

Hope you liked them ;) 

xoxo

DY & Roe 

 

Skin Essentials

The Body Shop - Skin Essentials 


The Seaweed Collection from The Body Shop has the most refreshing products. They leave a minty fresh feel on the skin and as soon the smell of the product touch all your senses you're hooked!

THE STARTER KIT INCLUDES FOUR ITEMS 

Seaweed Cleansing Facial Wash 

"Refreshing gel removes impurities, makeup and excess oil". 

Seaweed Clarifying Toner 

"Refreshing, alcohol-free toner removes impurities and reduces excess oil". 

Seaweed Mattifying Day Cream

"Moisturizes dry areas, controls excess sebum and shine".

Seaweed Clarifying Night Treatment 

"Balances excess oil as it moisturizes".

This series is optimal for combination / oily skin. If you fall into this category try this starter kit! We bet you that you will buy the original series as soon as the kit runs out! 

Have a minty fresh start & end of your day! 

xoxo 

DY & Roe 

Versatile Blogger

Pigs must be flying because we just received our second blog award in less than 24 hours!

Thank you to Chelsea Morgan @chelseamorganbeauty.blogspot.com for awarding us with this exciting award! The seven random facts that are supposed to be posted along with this award & the 15 other bloggers we would like to nominate are the same as the previous post! 

Thank You!! 

xoxo

DY & Roe

We just got .. wait for it ... A BLOG AWARD! 

We were checking our emails and saw that the faboosh Chelsea Morgan @chelseamorgan.blogspot.com has awarded us with a ONE LOVELY BLOG AWARD!! This is amazing! We are  new to this blogging business so it feel great to see that people enjoy reading our blog =) This is our first award and we like the feeling of this! When you receive this award there are few strings attached to it  but they are moooore than reasonable so here we go! 

 List 7 things about yourselves 

1. We have known each other for more than 13 years! 

2. Our common favorite movie genre is COMEDY 

3. Obviously, we both are makeup junkies! 

4. Female inspirations - Roe; Nicole Richie. DY; Sofia Vergara. 

5. Jersey Shore is our guilty pleasure *Beating the beat*

6. We hope one day thatMarc Anthony will come to Sweden ha!

7. Our motto in life  is " Dooooo it!" 

Time to award 15 other blogs! 

Obsessive Compulsive Beauty

Lipstick Fridays

myvogueobsession

inspiredbeauty

La vie,style et beauté

makeuponmymind

never2broke4beauty

daisy meadow

raspberrykiss-raspberrykiss

beelovesbeauty

beautymakeupaddict

helloterrilowe

onnaslittleblog

LipstickLesbian

ymbeauty

We really enjoy reading other blogs so we really feel great to award these blogs above ;) 

xoxo 

DY & Roe 

Beauty Shots

Celebrity look-a-likes

Everyone has heard the urban truth; everyone has a twin somewhere in the world., someone who is a exact replica of you. Well we thought it might be fun to find each others celebrity look-a-likes. So DY will look for a celebrity who looks like Roe and vice versa =)  Take a look at what we found! 

psst! click on the images to enlarge the pics ;) 

DY's choice for Roe's celebrity look-a-like           

Kourtney Kardashian! 

         

Roe's choice for DY's celebrity look-a-like 

Emmy Rossum! 

Do you agree with us?? Do you see a similarity between the pics?? 

Let us know! 

xoxo 

DY & Roe

Swedish Spring

The Swedish spring is so unpredictable! 

When people complain about  bad spring weather they usually are talking about the crazy amount of rain- well readers these people have not lived in SWEDEN! Here, the weather is so unpredictable that we are almost mid April and its snowing! 

View from the kitchen - and no its no joke its April in Sweden!

We got our hopes up and changed our wardrobe and nail colors!  As you might remember DY got some gold glitter tips now she feels like it does not go together with the WINTER that we are experiencing so she had to change her nail color to a more winter friendly tone.

Its beautiful but so frustrating that we cannot experience spring with pastels and fun colors! Obviously you could, but its feels out of place to do so when everything is covered with snow! We're going to be positive and embrace these tones on our nails for now =) it aint ugly its faboosh!

 

Are we crazy or do you feel us when it comes to fashion (and anything to do with color) it is definitely weather influenced?

xoxo 

DY & Roe

Hair trends- Ombre

Finally!! 

After months of back and-forth  DY finally did it! She has been a big fan of the latest hair trend - ombre and now she has highlighted lower parts of her hair! 

What do you guys think??  

xoxo 

DY & Roe

  

Check us out on #INSTAGRAM

The latest social media outlet we are obsessed about!

It's so much fun! It is similar to twitter and facebook but pictures! No fuss about misunderstanding each other's written messages!   -you can follow other people and they can off course follow you ;) The beloved hashtags ' #'  can also be used on INSTAGRAM 

Create an account ASAP! 

and follow DY  ;)

username: Demet0

No worries Roe will soon be persuaded to create an account!

xoxo 

DY & Roe

Glitter nail tips!

Completely obsessed with glitter tips! 

This time around the choice of glitter color was gold (with a pinch of brown and copper pigments). 

This is an absolute faboosh substitute to the traditional -french white tips. It's so much more fun!!  you can choose any color really, you can't go wrong ;)) spring and summer are knocking on our door and its time to answer the door with some sparkling nails!! 

xoxo 

DY & Roe

Want to give up on your diet?

Diets can be painful! 

We all have tried diets; some have worked better than others. There are a few things to keep in mind in order not to give up on your diet!

• Set a realistic goal for yourself! Don't expect to shed all your extra weight in two days; if you do, it will only lead to MAJOR disappointment.

• Tell a few people about your diet & that you want to loose X amount of pounds If you tell people about your diet than you are more likely to be persistent with your diet because you do not want to disappoint other people or you just want to prove people that you can do it!

• Get yourself a scale!  This is probably the most important aspect of being on a diet. You want to see results so make sure to get a scale so you can see exactly how much you loose. Weigh yourself every third day or so and hopefully you will see a figure on the scale that makes you content =)

•  Make lifestyle choices and avoid crash diets. Even though crash diets are great when you have an emergency (like a dress that you need to fit in in two weeks) but for a long term result you need to be on a diet that includes a lot of proteins and fibers.

•  Crash diet + hectic workout schedule = BIG NO NO. This is something you should avoid! You will ruin your body if you are on a crash diet and workout like a maniac for a long period of time! Don't do it! However, a well rounded diet and exercise is optimal!

• You have to let yourself cheat once in a while ;)  Being super strict about your diet is great but you have let yourself cheat now and then because we need to feel like we have control over ourselves and having something goooood (and naughty) is OK if it does not happen all the time!

As if you can resist these homemade doughnuts by DY! Take one it's OK ;)

Hopefully these tips will make those tedious diets more bearable ;) 

Let's go  #Beach2012 ! 

 xoxo 

DY & Roe  

Makeup Bags, Cases or Boxes?

Makeup Storage can be tricky! 

We all store our makeup in different manners, some like them on a desktop others in bags. Obviously this all depends on how much makeup you have. If you only use a few products you might just have them on a desktop (or bathroom sink!). 


In our opinion, makeup bags are difficult too use if you have more than a few products, they get easily full and dirty ;/ Makeup cases feel too big for just one person, however, it's perfect for all you makeup artists out there! 

We are going to share a favorite way to store our makeup! 

A makeup box! 

These makeup boxes are really  'craft' boxes! They can be found at craft stores, according to them it should be used to store different crafting tools ( scissors, glue, glitter, paper, paint brushes etc.) We immediately saw the box as  perfect makeup boxes! 

You can fit big palettes, bushes, bottles in the bottom level and the other two levels can be used for single eye shadows, mascaras, makeup pencils, small scissor (for eyelashes!) makeup glue whatever you have! It is really easy to travel with these boxes. I (DY) have two boxes one for makeup products and the other for just makeup tools but start by getting one and see how it compliments your stuff! 

If you are quite anal about neatness & like things in a logical order you have to get one of these! 

Go to your nearest craft store and get one!  

xoxo 

DY & Roe 

Wet n Wild

Day & Evening makeup all in ONE palette! 

Wet n Wild Vanity palette is amazing! It consists of six eye shadows (different shades of beige, gold and brown). The eye shadows to the left side of the palette are perfect for daytime makeup! The have a matte quality to them which is perfect for a day to day look. The eye shadows to the right though...are perfect for evening makeup! they are more shimmering =) 

It truly is a 2 in 1 eye shadow palette!

Have fun with it =) 

xoxo 

DY & Roe