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Catrice Twinkling Treasures advent calendar 2025

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I was quite impressed by the Catrice advent calendar from last year, so I decided to buy it again this year. It’s called the Twinkling Treasures advent calendar 2025, and I really like that the items come in a reusable make-up bag. As per usual, I’m going through the products six at a time.

The first six items were a blush in C01 Baked Apple Pink, a lipgloss stick in C01 Merry Me?, a highlighter glow stick in C01 Glow Ho Ho, a mono eyeshadow in C01 Starlight Sparkle, a charm ring in C01 Christmas Charms, and a Glam & Doll volume mini mascara in C01 Holly Glam.

The only one of these items that I’ve tried so far is the blush, and I really liked it. I think these baked glowy blushes from Catrice are really nice. I’m excited to try the eyeshadow as well.

The next six products were a lip mask in C01 Star Glaze, a nail lacquer in C01 Winter Blossom, a powder puff in C01 Touch of Treasure, a lipliner in C01 Snowy Rose, a juicy lip balm in C01 Champagne Fizz, and another nail lacquer in C02 Golden Bell.

The lip mask is supposed to go on the charm ring. A bit gimmicky, but also kind of cute. I usually like the nail lacquers from Catrice, so I’m excited to try these new shades. The lip liner is similar to a lip liner shade we got in the 2024 calendar, but I like that they included new types of lip products, like the juicy lip balms, in this year’s calendar.

The second to last set of six products were an eyepencil in C02 Golden Eye, a peptide lip tint in 01 Merry Night Shine, a lipliner in C02 Winterberry, a highlighter in C01 Holly Jolly Shine, a kabuki brush in C01 Festive, and another eyepencil in C01 Ruby Noel.

They also included a berry coloured lipliner in last year’s calendar, so once again, I wish that they would have done something a little different with the shades of the lip products this year. I really enjoyed one of the eyepencils from last year’s calendar, so I like that they included eyepencils again this year, but in different shades. The highlighter is in that baked formula again, and it’s quite nice.

The last six products were an eyeshadow brush in C01 Midnight Glamour, a blush stick in C01 Candy Cane, a liquid eyeshadow in C01 Golden Treasure, a juicy lip balm in C02 Burgundy Bliss, a nail lacquer in C03 Holly Night, and a jelly eyeshadow topper in C01 Twinkling Crystal.

I haven’t tried any of these products yet, but I like that they included different kinds of eyeshadow products.

Overall, I’m very happy with this calendar. I love that it includes only a few non make-up products. If I could make one wish for future Catrice advent calendars, it would be that they changed up the shades of lip products, and did something other than nudes and berries.

Collective haul – beauty (October 2025)

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I have a large collective beauty haul to share with you today. It’s a collection of orders from Matas, Zalando, Lyko, and Beauty Bay.

I wasn’t sure whether to get a few pieces from the Essence YEE HAW! collection or not, because the shades aren’t my favourites, but the packaging was so cute, so when I found the collection on sale, I decided to get the Moisturizing primer stick in 01 Howdy Y’all!, the Jumbo eye crayon in 01 Big Dreams in Big Boots, and the Plumping lip oil in 01 Boots On, Carry On!.

The e.l.f. Cosmetics Brow Lift in Clear is my favourite brow gel, and I needed a back-up, so I picked one up.

I love the Buttermelt highlighters from NYX and I love Bridgerton, so I had to have one of the Royal highlighters from the NYX Bridgerton collection. I got the shade 1 Iridescent Peach, and it’s beautiful. I also thought I would try a couple of newer products from Essence; the cream eyeshadow in 03 Oyster and the Satin Blend gel eyeliner in 03 Bronzed Shimmer.

I purchased two products from the MAC Gift MAC Holiday 2025 collection. I always pick up a lipstick from MAC’s limited edition collection, and I had to have the Macximal Sleek satin lipstick in Unexpected Red from this year’s holiday collection. And then MAC launched a new product with this collection called the Bounce & Gleam highlighter, and I chose the shade Investmint. The texture is similar to the Glow Play blushes from MAC, and the colour is so fun.

Lyko is a good place to get Catrice and Essence, so I made a Lyko order including a lot of the new products from Catrice and Essence. From Catrice, I got the Butter Like Bronze & Contour palette in 010 Born To Shape and the Soft Glam baked blushes in 020 Peachy Breeze and 030 Cheeky Coral. The blushes are obviously a dupe for the Rare Beauty Soft Pinch luminous powder blushes, but I really like the Catrice version as well.

I also picked up the Diamond Glaze gloss stick in 030 Too Glam To Give A Damn, the Colour Cushion Juicy lip oil in 030 Palm Punch, and the Drunk’n Diamonds eyeshadow stick in 030 Bronzed Jelly Bliss.

I wanted to try the magnetic nail trend, so I got the Catrice Bold Magnetic nail polish in 010 Love At First Pull and the Catrice Bold Magnetic nail magnet. I tried them out last night, and even though my nails look really pretty, I’m not sure the magnetic effect is that visible. I’ll have to try it again some other time.

Let’s move on t0 the things I got from Essence. I bought the All About Soft Glow! fixing compact powder waterproof and the Jelly Jewels glitter stick in 02 Diamond Dust. I’ve been really into shadow sticks lately.

These are all products from the Soft Touch line from Essence, including the Soft Touch butter bronzer in 10 Whipped Buttercup, the Soft Touch bouncy blushes in 20 Electric Peony and 30 Exotic Daisy, and the Soft Touch bouncy glow in 10 Soft Glaze. I’m excited to play more with these.

The last bits in this haul are from Beauty Bay. I usually pick up the 20 colour palettes from By BEAUTY BAY, and this holiday season, I got the Dark Lights eye collection that includes the Dark Lights 20 Colour palette, three Bouncy Beam shimmer sticks in Gold Hoops, Setlist, and FOMO, and a mini High-Key volume mascara. So far I’ve only used the Bouncy Beam shimmer sticks, and I like them. I’m really excited to create a look with the palette.

I recall hearing about the brand Samplr before, but I’d never tried the brand, so I picked up the #03_NEON GRUNGE 25-pan colour palette and the MAGN_EDIT duo kit.

The last two products I bought were the Urban Decay Moondust eyeshadow in Headliner and the Half Magic Crystal Butter lip balm in Icon Aura. I like both of these products.

Lyko sale haul (August 2025)

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I have a Lyko sale haul to share with you today. I purchased these products back in August, which is why most of them are a bit summery.

I bought another one of the DKNY Ice Pop fragrance mists. This one is the Citrus Splash one.

Here’s a mix of make-up products that I purchased. I got the Anastasia Beverly Hills Beauty Balm Serum Boosted skin tint in shade 2, which has been quite disappointing so far. I’m not sure if mine had gone bad even before I got it, because the texture is bumpy and weird. I also got the Essence Juicy Bomb Party Jelly blush in 01 Cassis Crush and the Catrice Midnight Sun Jelly Glow Stick in C01 Bright & Breezy.

I also picked up these three lip products. I got the Catrice Summer Lips lip glazes in C01 Lemon Spritz and C02 Orange Spritz, and the rom&nd Glasting Water Tint in 02 Red Drop.

I love a fun nail colour, and these Rimmel Spotify collection super gel nail polishes are lovely. The shades are called (from left to right) 112 Summer Fizz, 115 Dj Set, and 114 Beatmatching.

Lastly, I purchased this Skin Glow Kit from Smuuti Skin. It includes the Watermelon Dew serum and the Watermelon Jelly cream. I really like both of these products, and the packaging is cute too.

Matas haul (March 2025)

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I have a beauty haul to share with you today. I purchased these products from Matas, and I got some of the items 20% off.

Dior is one of my favourite high end make-up brands, and the Dior Forever Luminizers look so beautiful, so I had to pick on up. I got the shade 03 Pink Halo, and isn’t it pretty?

I picked up some products from a new at the time limited edition Essence collection, which I’ll get to next, but first I thought I’d show you the other Essence items I got. I bought the Essence foundation stick in the shade 50, and it’s quite a nice foundation stick. I also got the Essence Line N Stain tattoo lip liner in 02 Must Have Brown and two Essence blending brushes.

I purchased a bunch of things from the Essence FaBOWlous collection. I got the FaBOWlous highlighter in 01 Get That Bow Glow, the FaBOWlous loose setting & baking powder in 01 Bow Set Go, the FaBOWlous jelly lipstick in 01 Be My Bow Bae, two of the FaBOWlous freckles pen in 01 BowTastic Smile, and the Essence FaBOWlous nail stickers in 01 Ballet Of Bows. A very cute collection indeed.

Lastly, I got a back-up of the e.l.f. Cosmetics Brow Lift in Clear, which is one of my favourite brow gels.

Lyko haul (February 2025)

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I have a Lyko haul to share with you today. The majority of the haul are Catrice products, but I also got a couple of NYX blushes.

Let’s begin with this random little selection of Catrice products. I got the Catrice Arctic Illusion highlighter in C01 Crystal Cold, which is very pretty icy highlighter. I also picked up the Under Eye Brightener setting powder in 010 Light Rose and the Catrice Soft Glam Filter Stick in 010 Fair-Light. I’m not super keen on the powder, but the Soft Glam Filter Stick is nice.

Catrice added three more shades to their line of Space Glam chrome eyeshadows, and I purchased all three. They’re called (from left to right) 040 Stardust, 050 Cosmic Coral, and 060 Galactic Glow. These are great affordable multichrome eyeshadows.

These are the Catrice Kiss & Glow peptide lip tint in C01 Kiss Bomb and plumping lip liner in C01 Kiss Bomb. They’re okay, but not my favourites.

I love these two shades of the Catrice Gel Affair nail lacquers. They’re called 031 Electric Turquoise and 033 You’re The Lime To My Tequila, and I’ve been especially loving the lime one.

Lastly, I picked up two more shades of the NYX Buttermelt blushes. They’re called 09 Feeling Butta and 10 Back And Butta, and they’re darker than the other shades I own.

Lyko haul (November 2024)

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I have a rather large Lyko haul to share with you today. The haul mainly consists of a bunch of products from two limited edition collection from Catrice plus a few random products as well.

Let’s begin with the Catrice Mystic Forest collection. I purchased all three nail lacquers, two metallic liquid eyeshadow, the two cream blushes, and the two lipsticks.

The nail lacquers are in the shades C01 Enchanting Lights, C02 Falling Leaves, and C03 Woodland Magic, and they’re super pretty darker metallic or glittery shades.

I picked up the metallic liquid eyeshadows in C02 Falling Leaves and C03 Woodland Magic. I like that the metallic liquid eyeshadows and the nail lacquers came in corresponding shades.

The cream blushes are in the shades 010 Purple Touch and 020 Red Allure, and they might look really scary and dark in the pans, but they looked really nice on the cheeks.

Catrice tends to release mostly pinks, reds, and berries, when it comes to lipsticks, so I love that this collection included a black lipstick called C01 Deepest Secret and a deep red called C02 Dark Seduction.

Catrice also released a really pretty holiday collection in 2024 called Festive Treasures. I picked up the velvet headband, the two hydrating shine lipsticks, two of the Blush Drops, the multi-use palette, and one of the metallic eye pencils.

Here’s a closer look a the headband. It’s very festive indeed.

I really like the velvet packaging on the hydrating shine lipsticks, which came in more classic Catrice lipstick shades; a pink called C01 Merry Kissmas! and a berry called C02 Kissberry.

The Blush Drops came in three shades, but I just got two of them; C01 Merry Mauve! and C03 Chestnuts Roasting. I’ve already decluttered C01 Merry Mauve!, because I thought it looked a little patchy on the skin, and the packaging broke as well. The packaging has broken a little on the C03 Chestnuts Roasting shade as well, but I really like the colour, so I’ll keep it a little longer and see, if I get use out of it. If not, I’ll declutter that one too.

I was quite impressed by the multi-use palette in C01 All I Want Is Velvet. I wore most of the eyeshadows and both cream cheek products here.

This metallic eye pencil in C01 Mistlegreen is a very nice dark metallic green shade perfect for holiday make-up looks.

The last three products I picked up was the Catrice Pure Volume Magic Brown mascara in 010 Burgundy Brown, which I really like, the Rimmel Nail Care Nail Nurse 7-in-1, and the Lancôme C.E. Skin Transforming highlighter in 04 Halo Glow. I had recently bought another shade of the Lancôme C.E. Skin Transforming highlighter, and I really liked this white gold shade as well.

Matas haul (November 2024)

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I have a Matas haul to share with you today. The haul includes items purchased during the Singles Days 25% off sale and the Black Friday sale in November last year. The last few products in the haul weren’t on sale.

I’ve seen Fenty Beauty release highlighter palettes like this one before, and I’ve always been intrigued to get one, so when they released the Killawatt: Arcane Quad freestyle highlighter palette, I knew I wanted to get it. I don’t have any attachment to Arcane, but I thought the palette was beautiful.

Lancôme isn’t really a brand on my radar, but I’d been wanting to try out their C.E. Skin transforming bronzer in 01 Fair, and their C.E. Skin transforming highlighter in 01 Light Glow, and they’re really pretty.

I don’t purchase a lot of luxury make-up in generel, but I do really like Dior. This is the Dior Forever Star Glow Filter in 0N, and it’s such a pretty base under foundation.

I previously bought a lipgloss from the NYX Beetlejuice collection, but the palette wasn’t available at the time. It was at the time of the Black Friday sale, so I picked it up 40% off. I wore it earlier this week, and it was quite nice for an affordable eyeshadow palette.

I love the Rimmel Kind & Free mascara in 002 Brown Black so I picked up a back-up. And I thought I would give the L’Oréal Panorama mascara in Black a try.

The last thing I got on sale was the Rimmel Multi Tasker setting spray. I haven’t tried it yet.

e.l.f. Cosmetics is never on sale at Matas, so I just got two of the Fine as Fleck glitter eyeshadows, because I wanted to try them out. I picked up the shades White Hot and Straight Fire.

Lastly, I got three items from Essence which is another brand that’s usually not on sale, because their products are so affordable already. I bought two Satin Chrome nail polishes in 02 Artificial Pinktelligence and 03 Meta Maroon, and then I picked up the Xmas Kisses blush & highlighter duo in 01 Under The Mistleglow!, which was from a limited edition Christmas collection.

Small Boozt haul (October 2024)

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I have a small Boozt haul to share with you today. It includes make-up and accessories.

I’ve been interested in trying more things from rom&nd, so I picked up the Dewy-ful Water Tint in 11 Lilac Cream, the Glasting Melting Balm in 04 Hippie Berry, and the See-Trough Veillighter in 02 Moonkissed Veil.

I’ve also been wanting to try out the Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Velvets, so I finally picked one up, and it’s in the shade Parchment. I also got a back-up of the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze, which is one of my favourite brow products.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again; I love a flower pin/brooch. These two beauties are from a brand called Becksöndergaard.

Lastly, I picked up some more Crocs Jibbitz. I got a 5 pc of different mini Crocs and a 5 pc of Squishmallows. Aren’t they cute?

5 favourites – March

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March has come to an end, and in Denmark we’ll be starting of April with a couple of beautiful sunny spring days. I’m so ready for warmer weather, so I’m hoping to see more of it throughout the month. All of my March favourites that I’ll be sharing with you today are beauty-related. I tried out two great foundations, fell more in love with a blush formula and a mascara shade, and wore a beautiful nail colour.

Maybelline Superstay Lumi Matte foundation (shade: 96): I’d been wanting to try this foundation ever since it launched, and I’m so glad I finally decided to buy it, because it’s so nice. I’m not into matte foundations, but a lumi matte foundation, I can get behind. It’s a buildable foundation, which I like, and it just looks great on the skin.

Essence foundation stick in (shade: 50): I love to wear a stick foundation on days where I have to get up early to go to work early, and I’ve been really enjoying this one from Essence. It’s quick and easy to apply, and it looks good.

Huda Beauty Liquid Blush Filters (various shades): These might be my favourite liquid blushes in my collection. This formula is so good! I have a bunch of shades, and I’ll probably continue to add more.

Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High mascara (shade: Burgundy Haze): This is one of my absolute favourite mascara formulas, and I love that it comes in so many shades now. The shade Burgundy Haze has been my favourite though, because it goes with so many different eye looks.

Catrice Gel Affair nail lacquer (shade: 033 You’re The Lime To My Tequila): I’ve noticed that I’ve been loving lime green more and more, and this nail colour is so stunning. It’s pretty much the perfect spring nail colour.

Collective beauty haul (August 2024)

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I have a collective beauty haul to share with you today. About half of the products were on sale. Let’s talk about those first.

I had a bit of an obsession with collecting all of the Sol de Janeiro Cheriosa perfume mists in 2024. This is number 48 (90 ml), which I think used to be the limited edition scent called Bikini Season. It has notes of guava nectar, sunlit orchid, and pink musk, and it smells very nice.

The KVD Beauty Dazzle Sticks are probably my favourite shadow sticks, and when they release new shades, I have to pick them up. These two newest shades are called Tornado Haze 70 and Dusk Rush 80. And I loved the Fenty Beauty Demi’ Glow light-diffusing highlighter in Pretty Purlz 01 so much that I had to pick up the pink shade called Tutu Much 03.

From NYX I purchased three more shades of the Buttermelt blushes; 04 U Know Butta, 05 Had Butta, and 06 For The Butta. I also got one of the newer shades of the Fat Oil Lip Drips and it’s called 13 Losin’ Cone-trol.

I love that rom&nd has become more widely available in Europe. I bought the Juicy Lasting Tint in 06 Figfig and two of the Dewy-Ful Water Tints in 07 Cherry Way and 10 Murmur Pink.

Lastly, I picked up some things from two Catrice summer collections. From the Summer Obsessed collection I got the bronzing cushion stick in C01 Sun Of Rhodos, the cooling lip oil in C03 They See Me Aperollin’, and the glowy face palette in C01 Seaside Glow. Sadly, the only product I liked from this collection was the lip oil. The packaging of the bronzer was horrible to use and the shades in the face palette barely showed up on the skin, so I’ve already decluttered those to products.

From the Catrice Poolside of Life collection I got the waterproff eyeliner in C01 Lime Crush, which I actually haven’t tried yet, and the three nail lacquers in C01 Sundowner, C02 Deep Dive, and C03 Purple Skies, which are all pretty, shifty shades.

And very lastly, I got the Make Up Store metallic liquid lipstick in Queen as a free gift with purchase.