Recent goings on clothes makeup and life

Well hello my Sparkles, 

I hope you are all keeping well and this week has gotten off to a good start for you all. 

My post today is going to be a bit of a mismatch of things as I try to fill you in on why I am MIA so much and to answer a few questions I have received from you guys asking if everything is ok. And of course there is also some recent clothes haul pics hehehe. 

So lets get the bad stuff out the way first eh . .  

I have been trying to get back and forth to visit my mum in the UK as much as possible as she is in the middle of fighting Cancer. She was diagnosed at the beginning of the year and started chemo, which let me say is not nice to watch her go through. 

Then I suffer with Bi-polar which as you may be able to imagine with the whole mum stuff has decided to kick my butt recently, some days I don't even manage to get out of bed, and others I can be up out and running round for 3 days straight. Does not make for a very productive way of doing things though I can tell ya. 

So instead of keeping the blog and facebook page and you tube up to date with all this stuff I felt it was better to just wait till I was having a better day so you guys didn't have to read all the depressing stuff. 

Now I have answered your messages about where I am, what I am up to etc time for some of the more fun stuff. . . . 

With everything thats been going on I have managed to loose almost all my weight I had planned on. Look at the difference in my face in just a few months. Ive done nothing different but I guess stress and a side order of worry can be useful with some things. 

Hubbie and I spent the weekend with some dear friends here in Norway. They live about an hours drive from us. The two guys use to work together before my hubbie was layed off on sick leave oh yeah thats another busy aspect of life at the moment living with a disabled hubbie..... anyway moving on . . . I am very much a believer in upcycling and passing on things to others that I no longer use or need, and Maria is the same. So on Saturday we spent the day going through her closet and let me tell you man am I jealous lol . . . this woman has closet space most of us only dream about lol. 

      Chanel purse and a lovely winged necklace

I came away with so much stuff it took me 2 days to sort through it all and put it all away lol. I have only given you a few items on here as there was far to much to take pics of everything.


      Simple black maxi dress and chanel belt.

I love the bling and the chain  on this belt. It is right up my street.


Black corset leather mini skirt and a corset style top. 

Im not sure who liked these outfits the most hubbie or me lol.

                 Wool knit dresses

Come on I live in Norway it may well be spring time apparently but it is still cold and snowing as I write this.


    Back lace dress and a lilac summer dress

Well spring and summer will arrive eventually wont it? So I have got to be prepared right?!?!

There has of course been a little of the old makeup hauling in between as I just cant resist the call of makeup and I have started to get back into an old hobbie of mine penpaling Do any of you still put pen to paper and send happy mail?

Well this evening we are off to a BBQ and yes I did tell you it was snowing and yes we will be BBQing outside crazy life of a norwegian I guess lol. But it is all in a good course as I am going to be working as well on some interesting avenues to take my makeup business so hopefully my next blog post will be more up beat and fun for you guys to read with lots of positive aspects in.

Thanx for caring, thanx for reading and hopefully speak to you all soon.

Big hugs from my house to yours

Love and new clothes

Vikkie

Photo Shoot

Good morning my little Sparkles, 

I hope everyone had a good weekend and the start of the week has started off well for you all. 

As some of you may know, I had my first photo shoot as a free lancing MUA on Saturday. It was so much fun and went really well. 

The photo shoot was in a place called Austmarka here in Norway with a local photo club, grenseland-fotoklubb. I can not thank them enough for the opportunity they gave to me. Everyone was so welcoming and the place they had chosen for the shoot was beautiful. 

The day was a little cold and windy, but the location was perfect for the natural rustic look that was wanted.

My day started at 7 am which is a little early for me lol esp without ALOT of coffee, but after my drive to meet with everyone I was awake and ready to go. 

Here are a couple of photo's from the shoot. i am very pleased with how they look. My models where lovely and the photographers have done a great job at capturing their natural beauty. 

Model: Kaja Caroline Kojan

Photographer:  Gunner Johnsen.

Model: Linda Kristin Storrø Henriksen
Photographer: Lasse Svenson

Model: Kaja Caroline Kojan.

Photographer: Knut Hvithammer

Model: Kaja Caroline Kojan.
Photographer: Merethe Sundt.

 Model: Linda Kristin Storrø Henriksen

Photographer:  Per-Martin Grambo

Model: Kaja Caroline Kojan.
Photographer:  Per-Martin Grambo

Please remember all photos are NOT for reproduction without permission from all parties. 

What are your plans for this week? I am going to build my online portfolio a little, and then I am going to decide  if it is appropriate to contact local photography studios to enquire about any vacancies they may have. Would you do it? What would you say? 

Ok folks thats enough from me today with my photos, I hope you enjoy them and please let me know what you think? What was your first free lance photo shoot like, did you have a good experience? 

Hope you all have a great week and remember to Sparkle, 

Love and hugs from me to you 

Vikkie 

St Patricks day inspired look and opinions wanted

Happy Friday my Sparkles woohoo its the weekend!

 Do any of you have any plans? 

As you know I am working tomorrow at a photo shoot sooo excited but tomorrow night hubbie and I plan on celebrating with 2 dear friends, I dont suppose I will be home much before Sunday afternoon lol. 

Anyway I am having a pamper day today after hoovering and washing all the floors, its a daily chore with having 3 huskys! It was then onto my hair and skin. I mean come on I have got to be glowing tomorrow cant have the models out doing me now can I lol. 

Now I have a question for you I am off back to the UK soon and intend on doing a little shopping. So what is your favorite must have full coverage foundation, primer and highlighter? Give me a few items you cant live without so I can try them please, They can be drug store or high end. 

Dont foget to check out the  FACEBOOK page event for this months swap and sign up for it. 

Last night I had a little bit of a play around with some green eye shadow and lips, to create a look to wear on Monday to celebrate St Patricks Day. No I am not Irish but I do come from Liverpool, which is known as Little Ireland due to the fact there are a lot of Irish decendents there. 

What do you think? Please excuse my lovely yellow band lol Im liking the way my eyes look in the top picture. 

Well thats all from me folks to have a great weekend with love and hugs from my house to yours 

Vikkie 

NYX haul

As you may have seen by some of my pictures on Instagram recently I did a fair sized haul from NYX. I kept promising to write this post and to share what I ordered and to give my first impressions on the items I have already used. 

I have in no way been able to use every item as yet although wait till Saturday when I am working and I am sure there will be lots of pictures and first impressions to come from that. 

I fell in love with NYX while I was in America at New Year and was thrilled to be able to find it when I came back home to Norway and to be approved as a NYX retailer, ( busy building web site and business page so watch this space). 

So what did I get and what have I used so far I hear you ask, 

Illuminator - Narcissistic    LOVE it!
Round Lip Gloss Farge 36 Ballerina Pink
Round Lip Gloss Farge 24 Cafe Latte
Round Lip Gloss Farge 29 Shiny Ice
Matte Bronzer Farge Light MBB01                          Another product that I hav fallen in love with
Matte Bronzer Farge Medium MBB03
Roll On Shimmer Farge Nude
Roll On Shimmer Farge Onyx
Pore Filler Primer                                This is a great dupe for Benefits pore fessional
Doll Eye Mascara - Waterproof
Doll Eye Mascara - Volume
Matte Lipstick Farge Angel
Matte Lipstick Farge Maison
Matte Lipstick Farge Sweet Pink
Matte Lipstick Farge Butter
HD Eye Shadow Base
Jumbo Eye Pencil Farge White
HD Studio Photogenic Foundation Farge Nude
HD Studio Photogenic Foundation Farge                                                                A great foundation smooth to apply and does not feel heavy  Soft Beige
Eyeshadow Base Farge                                                          Love this makes the colours pop! Base White
Eyebrow Cake Powder Farge Blonde
Eyebrow Cake Powder Farge Dark Brown
Concealer Jar Farge Glow
Concealer Jar Farge Fair
Mosaic Powder Blush Farge Dare
Mosaic Powder Blush Farge                                               perfect blush  Paradise
Black Label Lipstick Farge Nude
Black Label Lipstick Farge Italian Chic
Black Label Lipstick Farge Hot Pink

So my sparkles what NYX products have you tried loved or hated? 

Have a great wednesday and speak to you all soon. 

Love and Foundation Vikkie 

Woohoo Im excited

Good evening sparkles 

My gosh I am so excited its only Tuesday and I have got to wait all the way till Saturday for my first free lancing job as an MUA! 

Let me say that one more time incase you didnt understand it the first time . . . Are you ready . . . 

ON SATURDAY I HAVE MY FIRST FREE LANCING MUA JOB

I will be working with 2 models and a photographer. Yes I will be instagraming pics through out the day so dont forget to watch out for them.

I am so super excited and hopefully this will lead to more free lancing with the photographers if all goes well on Saturday so please wish me luck. 

Would you like to see video clips as well of us working and what it is like on a shoot set? 

Have a great evening folks sparkle and dont forget anything is possible you can make your dreams come true. 

Hugs and excitement 

Vikkie 

Looks

Good Morning Sparkles, 

Todays post is a quick share of a few different makeup looks and colours I have been using over the past month or so. 

i love experimenting with colour and find that lips are the easiest and a dramatic way to change and spice up a look quickly. 

I recently went to Liverpool to visit my folks and stupidly forgot to pack my lipstick hahaha i guess thats as good an excuse to buy another one as anything else right?!?!

I started out with a pink lip and then replaced it with a bold red colour . . .  which one do you like best? 

Another look I use alot is bold lined eyes with a muted lip. This look is using benefits bene tint which I love for just that hint of colour. 

This look I used more of a dramatic eye and a plain lip. Eyes are another great way to play and dramatise a look but remember to pick either ur eyes or lips to play with dont try and do it with both aspects at the same time.




I recently did a NYX haul (will share in a different post the products I got) and decided to use some of them to create a soft natural look.


So my sparkles, what makeup do you like to experiment with? Do you have a go to look or do you wear something different every day?

Well thats it for my quick look share today hope you are all having a great start to the week.

Stay safe and well and dont forget to sparkle

love and lipstick

Vikkie

Small haul

Good afternoon my sparkles, 

What a lovely sunny day it is here in Norway today. What about where you are? 

I left hubbie in bed today and decided to head into the local town and do a wee bit of shopping and pampering of myself in the form of having my haircut. Now for those of you who may know me you will know this is quite a  big thing for me as I am so fussy when it comes to people cutting my hair and trust issues, however at 10 this morning I was relaxed and enjoying having my head played with. As  much as I have trust issues with people when they have a pair of scissors in their hands washing my hair is a different story lol. 

So after my little pamper session I headed into the shopping centre, now ok to most of you that is going to sound like there is a ton of shops but trust me I think there is about 20 and for where I live thats a lot lol. 

After having a wee wonder around I headed into the trusted makeup store, well whats a girl to do, Hi I am Vikkie and I have a makeup addiction. 

I picked up these 3 items by a swedish company called viva la diva. They are cruelty free and the lipstick lid is inlayed with little crystals  . .  soo sweet. 

Next up was these 3 lip products by Rimmel London. We do not get a huge selection of Rimmel products here, which is a shame. I have been wanting to try the Apocalips products since they first came out but up untill today  I had never seen them here, unfortunatly there was only this one shade :(


I thien treated myself to these two tops. I am normally just a vest top kinda girl but I also have a weakness for lace effect and cut away shoulders or backs so I couldnt resist this black top above.


The cut of the peach one is a little flared around the bottom so it hides them little lumps and bumps some of us have lol. No idea what I will wear it with though. Do you ever do that, buy something but then have nothing to wear it with so it sits in your closet till you either A) buy something  or B) throw or give it away ?

Well on that front I am off to do some house work and upload a video etc etc. Hope everyone has had or is having an amazing Monday.

Keep Sparkling

Love and Lipstick

Vikkie

Recent Videos.

Happy Sunday Sparkles,

I have been a busy little bee this weekend with my recording so I thought I would share with you the videos that have been uploaded to my youtube channel Makeup by Tink.

This video is a recent haul, well we all know just how much we love to see the goodies others have gotten dont we?!?!

On my instagram, facebook and twitter I asked you guys to give me some questions to answer and this is the resulting video. 

We ended up with a drunken visitor last night so I escaped into the spare room to record my video to share the quick tip I mentioned from the benefit counter for using the pore fessional primer. This works well also with NYX pore filler and other primers that do the same job or are meant to anyway lol.

I am off out for a nice  long walk as the sun is shinning again today and then maybe record another video or two while my roast pork is cooking mmmm cauliflower cheese and roast spuds mmmm, so what do you all have planned?

stay beautiful and sparkle

love and tigger onesies lol

Vikkie

First time with benefit

Hello My Sparkles, 

I know it has been a while since I have managed to update here, please forgive me I have been away to visit family back home in Liverpool.  

One of the good things of having to fly is of course duty free lol. 

While I was waiting for my flight out of Liverpool I killed time by sitting and being pampered at the Benefit booth in Duty free. 

We all know how good the pore fessional primer is meant to be and if you dont where oh where have you been. 

A quick tip for the primer is not to use it as a base on its own but to mix it in with your foundation before applying it. This worked a real treat. I will do a video over the weekend with some helpful hints like this so watch out for that. 

I decided to get my self the primping with the stars kit which includes: 

Stay dont Stray a concealer and eyeshadow primer. 

Some Kind of Gorgeous  a foundation faker in medium 

Benetint a rose coloured lip and cheek stain

The Pore Fessional Primer 

Girl meets pearl a liquid pearl for the face 

There Real Mascara. 

I am in love with the pore fessional and the mascara and to be honest plan on buying the full size versions next time I am in the UK as i am sorry to say they are not on sale here in Norway.. Over the weekend I will also do a full review of the products mentioned in the kit but just wanted to give you a little peek of some goodies Ive tried recently. 

Dont forget to head over to the FACEBOOK PAGE and sign up for the monthly swap for march. Hope you all have a great weekend. 

Love and sparkles 

Vikkie 

Something to look forward to

Hi Sparkles, 

Wow it is all happening for me at the moment some really exciting news today I will be attending a press night being held by lily lulu fashion in Manchester, UK in March. I have been asked to do a blog post for them. The event will be a preview of their new stock before it goes on sale online, clothing will be available to buy on the night and a percentage of this will go to cancer research uk. I am excited about this opportunity and thrilled at being given the chance to do this.

I just thought I would share this with you all as quick as possible. 

Speak to you all soon 

dont forget to sparkle 

love and fashion 

Vikkie 

Palettes

Good Morning my little Gems that you all are, How are you doing today? 

Well as you know for my everyday makeup I am all about high street options and try to stay away from the high end cosmetics that I use in my MUA kit. The reason for this is I think Beauty is for everyone regardless of the budget they have. 

Saying that I would like to share with you my recent buys from an Amazon seller. Jazooli, they also have a website which can be found HERE.

I ordered the 120 colour eyeshadow palette which was 9.35

88 colour eyeshadow palette in neutrals which was 7.99

and 15 shade colour concealer palette for 2.99 

(all pr ices are in british pound stirling) 

Everything was dispatched within 24 hours which gets a big thumbs up from me. It was well packaged for shipping and the sleek black containers are light weight and easy to store. 

I know I know you dont care about all that do you all you want to know about is the product its self. On opening the boxes I was impressed with the different colours and shades. They contain a good selection of neutral, vibrant, shimmer and speckled shades. There is no way you can be disappointed with the variation in each palette.

Pigmentation looked good and for the price you cant really complain. I would recommend always using a base of either eyeshadow primer or a white eyeshadow pencil, you will see why below. 

They are nice and smooth and blend really well.However I have only swatched these so will let you know about length of wear over the weekend as you can imagine with that amount of colour I am sure going to play this week. 

With Eye Shadow Primer. 

With White eye shadow pencil as a base.

With No base. 

As you can see with a base of some sort these are pretty vibrant colours. Without I would say they are great for a more muted effect say for day time look or even a younger person. 

Over all my first impressions are that these eye shadow palettes are great value for money and I would recommend you giving them ago. I will be re purchasing for sure when I need to, and they will also make good value gifts for other makeup loving friends. 

Dont forget to let me know what you think of them if you have already purchased or end up buying yourself one. I am interested in your opinions. 

Much love and eye shadow 

Vikkie 

Disclaimer: I have not been compensated in anyway for this review. All views shared are my own and are unbiased in anyway.