Call of the banshee

To play along the lines of a Feline-post, do you know the word skogsrå? Of course you don't. I wish you did though. It's our swedish little twist on the Banshee. A bit darker, a bit nastier. A hole in the back and all.

That's how I feel today. An alluring call, sweet presence and then a punch in the face. It makes sence my nails look like they're dipped in blood. They're not though, just La Colors Luscious wine. A nice red jelly that might look like wine in it's bottle, but on my fingers, it's blood.

As I have no forestgreen eyeliner, I took the devine Eyeko Magic Liquid Eyeliner and dipped it into my old Stillness eyeshadow from Face. Two old green eyeshadows from HM (Kitty beach party from this summer and a no-name from -04) serve as base. Now I look as mean as I feel.

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Last of it's kind

What ever happened to Baby Jane Kaos? Do you know?
It used to be one of my favorite makeup-brands with a big range of colors in nailpolish as well as eyeshadows and lipstick. One of the first brands I came across that had colorful matte eyeshadows for a reasonable price. Sold at department stores, in my case Åhlens, around the country.

Unfortunately, the eyeshadow above is all that I have left or rather, that survived the hurricane Iggy*. The label can't be read (note to makeup-companies - please use water-sustainable print on packaging!) and a Google-search doesn't result in anything of value other than the fact that International MakeUp Center has it as a registered brand while the store Kaos is linked to Make up Store. The MakeUp Center is a school for makeup-artists but they use Make up Store's products. Where does that leave the brand Kaos?


(* Hurricane Iggy:

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long lost lover

Declaring this, I'm aware it put's me in the que for a show like What not to wear (where Mica Paris will tell me mature women don't do punk), but for 10 years or so, my favorite eyeshadow has been a turquoise from HM. The cheapest of the cheap at $1.8 á piece, more vibrant and pigmented than any  you could find elsewhere. I don't know how many of these I picked up and send to my friends in States and the UK, but it wouldn't surprise me if I was the biggest customer in my town.

Of course, it was discontinued ages ago and when my beloved kid found my beloved (unused, saved for later) eyeshadow stash and played dress-up with it, I was less than happy. So, when I found it and some of it's siblings online, I was ecstatic. Let's hoard eyeshadow like there's no tomorrow, or rather, like I'll be around for the next 300 years!

Unfortunately, when I got them and realized that HM had given the eyeshadow a makeover before discontinuing them and that makeover wasn't just the package, but the shades as well. Same numbers, different slightly colors.The ones marked as Divided eyeshadow are the ones I used to wear and these new ones are duller. All of them are duller. Reading the ingredientlist it's obvious it was intended as it's not the same.

I feel cheated. Not financially as they are still dirt-cheap, but cheated of my dream of being able to wear the same color I wore when I was young and un-hip.

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