Just like this tiny little hummingbird tries to get the best out of the sunflower, I always try to get out the best make-up products from the industry.

A few weeks ago I purchased a bunch of products from zuii organics (http://www.zuiiorganic.com/) hoping to find a natural and skin friendly make-up.

The zuii organics set box

The first thing I tried was a velvet set box including a lipstick, a lip gloss and black mascara.

The box was a special offer from a shop, so everything became alittle bit cheaper for me as if I had to buy all three items seperately.

I am chuffed with the lipstick and the gloss (both very nice colour and they last quite a bit!), but the mascara let me down a bit.

I know that one cannot exspect a mascara like any other when it comes to "natural" ones, but I did really not expect to see nothing at all of it on my lashes!
It literally looked like I woke up and didn't put any make-up on... not to mention the fact that the skin beneath my lashes was covered with the black colour which had fallen of my lashes (I know this sounds weird...)

To sum things up: I really can't recommend the mascara...

 But we're not finished yet with all the products! :)

 The foundation I bought is called "Light rose". It was a really difficult decision, because you can't find a proper colour chart of the foundation ANYWHERE! So I thought it would be better to have a light foundation (and look like a ghost ;P) than too look like somebody who's overtanned...

The smell is quite acceptable, but it doesn't stay liquid on your skin for very long (or my skin is just weirdly sokin' up the foundation?!) So you gotta be quick when it comes to creating an even tone everywhere.

The powder I pruchased is called "ivory" and I think it's worth the money. The only suggestion I had was that one should be given advise or at least a proper colour chart to find a matching powder for each foundation!

The powder box

The foundation box

The foundation box

Here are the ingredients of the products :)

Nevertheless I think next time I'll go for a darker foundation...

A whole new world

The little stars shine on forever whereas the great sun sets in the end

Nail Art

I think it kind of looks like the Nike symbol

You just need a white tippainter, a pink nail polish and a top coat

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

Lately I've been looking through some of those old jewellery boxes and decided to turn some of the earrings, necklaces and loose pearls into new ones. :) Here are the results...

My favourite necklace

*tweet tweet*

These somehow remind me of the Inca

The Italian Gypsy Earrings

The Medieval Ones

Auroras earrings

Out of pearls taken from a necklace

Too bad I couldn't find another one with such a mask

My favourite brooch, even though I'll probabley never wear it ;P

Selfmade Chinese and Modern Art Jewellery

I used the pearls from my favourite chinese bracelet (which sadly broke)

Modern Art

You can't really see it in this picture, but the big white-looking pearls on the left are supposed to be a blue/green/yellow mix

Beautiful Curls by Alaffia

I tried the Beautiful Curls Curl Activating Shea Butter Shampoo, the BC Shea Butter Deep Conditioner, the Shea Butter Curling Cream, the Shea Butter & Coconut Hydrating Curl Oil, the Shea Butter Curl Activating Leave-In Conditioner (all for culry to kinky hair) and the BC Shea Butter Curl Defining Gel for wavy to curly hair.

My rating of the products is based on the following aspects:

1) Ingredients
2) Price
3) Smell
4) Use
5) Animal friendly or not
6) How my hair felt afterwards


1) Ingredients~ Comfrey Extract, Arnica Extract, Saponified Shea Butter and Virgin Coconut Oil, Decyl Polyglucose, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Magnesium Sulfate, Choline Chloride, Coconut Oil, Raspberry Fruit Extract, Ylang Ylang Flower Extract. 

 Ingredients~ Comfrey Extract, Arnica Extract, Aloe Vera Gel, Agave Extract, Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut Oil, Potassium Sorbate, Magnesium Sulfate, Choline Chloride, Citric Acid, Emulsifying Wax, Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Pathenol, Essential Oil Blend

 Ingredients~ Comfrey Extract, Arnica Extract, Aloe Vera Gel, Agave Extract, Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut Oil, Potassium Sorbate, Magnesium Sulfate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Citric Acid, Emulsifying Wax, Pathenol, Xanthan Gum, Essential Oil Blend.

  Ingredients~ West African Sesame Oil, Shea Leaf, Infused Sunflower Oil , Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut Oil , Baobab Oil, Lavender Essential Oil, Ylang Ylang Essential Oil

Ingredients~ Comfrey Extract, Arnica Extract, Certified Fair Trade Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Emulsifying Wax, Panthenol, Potassium Sorbate, Magnesium Sulfate, Choline Chloride, Coconut Oil, Raspberry Fruit Extract, Ylang Ylang Flower Extract and Citric Acid

Ingredients~ Chamomile (Matricaria recutita) Extract (aqueous), Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Extract (aqueous), Aloe Vera Gel (Aloe barbadensis), Agave (Agave azul) Extract, Certified Fair Trade Shea Butter (Butyrospermum parkii), Panthenol, Coconut Oil (and) Apricot Fruit Extract (and) Ylang Ylang Flower Extract , Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid

(all ingredients taken from http://bliss4curls.eu/index.php?lang=DEU&page=SN_Home)

2) first price is where I bought the product, second one is the official website

15,95€ / 12,00$   14,95€ / 16,00$   14,95€ / 14,00$   12,00€ / 8,99$   15,95€ / 12,00$  14,95€ / 14,00$ 

(I bought the products here: http://bliss4curls.eu/index.php?lang=DEU&page=SN_Home
 this is the link for the official website: http://www.beautifulcurls.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=10&idcategory=3)

3) Ok, so here I can say that generally every product from the Beautiful Curls line smells (in my opinion!) like chewing-gum (the sweet and candy-like smell a normal chewing-gum has...maybe you know what I mean ;)  )

4) It didn't foam up a lot (maybe a tiny bit), but it didn't spread easily so I had to use a lot to 
massage it all over my scalp...

Nope, this conditioner is definitly not something to use on thick hair! The product literally fell of my hands into the water... It is really really cloggy! 

Actually I only had a sample of that one, so it wasn't enough for my entire hair. Nevertheless
I would say that it is ok, even though there are better ones.

The oil is really good: easily spreadable, nice smell (not that heavy chewing-gum smell, only a little bit). But you should try to use only a small amount of it for your hair can easily look greasy!

Even though the benefit it did for my hair wasn't that great I would say it is a good product to use. (Remember it's always better to use something [that isn't the best, but still sufficient] than nothing!) 

The gel was (amongst some few others) the best product I tried out of this line! The only thing annoying is the heavy smell (which sticks to your hair for some hours after applying it)...

--> These are my personal opinions! You can't be 100% sure if you haven't tried them yourself, so if you still have doubts: Go ahead and try 'em!

5) The signs on the packaging are "Allocated to Alaffia Community Projects. 10% of Sales" "Fair For Life. Social and fairtrade certified by IMO".
And yes, they're animal friendly as it says on the back "no animal testing"!! :))

6) This is the daunting part of the whole review... at first my hair felt good and I thought " yep, that's a great product to use!", but after a few more rounds of washing and applying and rinsing out things started to build up...and I mean the product! Everytime I scratched my scalp I found 
residues of the products under my fingernails!! For me this is a serious no-go! I just don't feel 
clean and the roots of my hair are lying flat without any volume just like if I would wear a really tight hat...Not great...
Anyway the Leave-In Conditioner and the gel are not as bad as the shampoo or the deep conditioner. I would you to try those on your own, but for the others I would say you should overthink if you buy 'em or better save the money.

In the end it's always up to yourself isnt'it?! ;))