The Geek Girl Beauty Blog

Action MAX make up nail polish review

2013-09-12T23:44:00.000+02:00

Action is a store whit a big assortment in all kinds of stuff. They sell: food, clothes, paint, thing you need at school, pots and pans, toys, cosmetics and much more.
Action has it's own make up brand named MAX make up. It's really cheap. For example Action has mascaras for 1 euro, lip gloss for 75 euro cents, eye shadow pallets which costs 1,69 euro. I bought four nail polishes because the colors where really nice and the polishes only costs 49 euro cents each. That's really cheap.
So now what I want to know, are these good nail polishes? Lets find out in the review.

The four nail polishes

from left to right: Deep sea, Peach, Freso blue and Pink candy

I know it costs a lot of package material, the way the nail polishes are packed. But It's also a bit of an asset. You can know for sure nobody has used the product before you use it.

All of the four nail polishes are applied in two layers. I used a base coat. I did not use a top coat.

Deep sea

I really do like mint green. this is a really nice pastel mint green
color

Peach

A pink-soft orange peach color. looks a bit like a soft pink coral
color to me. A sunny summer color to me

Fresco blue

A really special blue color. A sort of metallic blue but also not.
I absolutely like this one. this one also applied as best.

Pink Candy

definitely it is candy pink. A bright pink color. It's a gorgeous
pink color. will wear this one really often i think

I'm absolutely satisfied with this nail polishes. The colors are bright and high in coverage. Also these polishes do not give stripes. For that little amount of 49 cents I will buy buy more MAX make up nail polishes in the future.

Goodbye warm sunny days

2013-09-10T16:43:00.002+02:00

I think autumn has really started now unfortunately. Grey skies, a lot of heavy rain and storm. The leaves on the trees are still green, but for how long? I think they will fall of soon. One thing where the rain makes happy faces will be on all the plants an trees because it was so dry in Holland the last couple of weeks.

Upgrading your electric flyswatter

2013-08-12T23:56:00.006+02:00

In the stores you can buy those electric flyswatters which are shaped like tennisrackets. The do work but the electric shocks are not that strong. So the fly or musquito will not be dead in once. You can hack the thing to make it more powerful. Its really easy. Here is a howto

First, open it. Like shown in the photo

Second, search for the resistor. Search for the beige one with the blue-colored stripe. This is the10M Ohm Resistor.

Cut its metal leg. and bend the resistor to one side or remove it completely.

Put the cap back on. And you have a much more powerful device to catch all the annoying flies, mosquitoes and other bugs.

Be careful because for 30 seconds after pressing the button, there will be still power on the racket, so do not touch the metal.

The flowers for the King and Queen

2013-05-02T23:10:00.000+02:00

After the coronation of the new dutch king and queen, the church where the whole event took place opened the doors to the public to view the decorations and all the other stuff that was used on the day of the coronation.
I also wanted to see it myself, so i went to the church. After 50 minutes waiting in the long row, which was not that bad because when one talks to others time flies by. I stepped inside the church. Which was really beautiful as you can see in the pictures.

Beurs van Berlage

Balcony of the royal palace at the dam square

the church

Rutte the dutch prime minister

Magna plaza

The flower outside the church

entering

the golden chairs of the king and queen

The flowers outside, one hour later

Queensday Nails

2013-04-29T22:24:00.000+02:00

Tomorrow The Netherlands will celebrate the last Queensday. After this year it will be Kingday. It's the abdication of Queen Beatrix. She says goodbye to the country and Prince Willem Alexander will become the King of The Netherlands. Time to celebrate it is. I already bought an orange shirt and a little orange diadem with a gold colored crown. To complete the Queensday look I've painted my nails in typical dutch colors.

As base color i used an orange nail polish. The blue, red and white dots are created by using a toothpick(which now looks like the Dutch flag).

And pink it is!

2013-04-24T23:10:00.000+02:00

Finally, my hair is pink. I wanted to color it pink for a long time but did not dare. Now i thought, well i just do it. The great result:

I've used Pretty Flamingo by Fudge. Fudge is a highly pigmented semi permanent haircolour. They have a big range of colors that will cost you about 15 euro. One tube contains 75 ml. If you have a darker shade of hair, my advice is to bleach the hair before you color it with a bright color like this one. The colored paint will stay in the hair longer and will be better visible.

How to apply make up, 70 years ago

2013-04-04T23:17:00.000+02:00

When browsing on you tube I saw this really cool video that I must share here. It's a tutorial about applying your make up, from the 1940s.

Happy Easter

2013-04-01T23:19:00.000+02:00

Easter, to celebrate that spring has started, well it's still winter, there was some snow last Friday night, but sitting inside, watching the sun feels somewhat like spring. Yesterday I cooked a delicious Easter diner. tonight i will enjoy the gourmet. Gourmetten is a Dutch tradition. You and your friends or family sit around the table with in the middle the grill plate. You can put ingredients like meat and vegetables on the plate or in your own little pan to make your own little dishes.

Back to yesterday, here's my Easter dinner

Easter tree

Easter decoration

Pea soup with crisp baked smoked ham

filo pastry with ham green asparagus and sage

main course

strawberry orange ice cake

a new view

2013-03-21T13:56:00.001+01:00

First of all, i would like to thank my iiyama visionmaster 1400 17 inch CRT screen, for being my friend for the last ten years. We've spent a lot of time together. We made some beautiful websites, games, other projects. We also have watched great movies and listed to good music. But now, time has come for your retirement. I'm sorry to say but, you've worked enough to deserve that.

My new pal for the next couple of years will be this much bigger screen. Also an iiyama, 24 inch VA screen, so its still familiar. A great screen to produce new websites in the future and also to do other stuff.

Pi pie day

2013-03-15T23:44:00.005+01:00

Yesterday it was the 14th of march, which you also can write as 3.14 and means PI. What better to do on PI day than baking a pie. I made a PI pie. It's a lemon meringue pie.

Let it snow

2013-02-08T20:48:00.001+01:00

And the winter came back. This are some snow pictures from last Tuesday night

How to have a uncomfy train journey

2013-02-04T18:45:00.001+01:00

A very comfortable couch in the train :-P (train: ddar 7444)

King Winter has arrived

2013-01-16T13:22:00.002+01:00

After a some winter months that looked and felt like autumn with a lot of rain and high temperatures even on Christmas, King winter has arrived on Monday. At daytime temperatures do not reach the above zero point. So it is freezing all day and night. At night minus 10. It will probably getting colder. I like the winter. I also do like the snow and ice and it looks so white an bright outside because the sun is shining. It looks like a real winter wonderland. All to do now is dress for this winter temperatures since here in Holland we are not quite used to weather like this.

The first drops on Monday night

Tuesday afternoon, with catpaws in the snow

bike in the snow

Rubber duck on private ice skating pool ;)

Today. While my cat sits on the bin enjoying the sun

happy 2013

2013-01-01T17:02:00.002+01:00

Best wishes for the year 2013!

Christmas 2012

2012-12-26T23:47:00.000+01:00

This Christmas did not really got any Christmas weather it's more like autumn. But hey you have to make the fun yourself. On Christmas eve, I've made a Christmas diner for one:

steak with bacon, mustard sauce, fresh mad oven chips and salad

The first day of Christmas, I've made a Christmas diner for me and my family

Potato and leek soup with mustard toast

lovely candle

vintage Christmas table piece

Christmas dinner main course

dessert: Caramel orange mousse

On the second day of Christmas, my sister and nephew came over to celebrate Christmas. We ate gourmet. That's what is a big tradition in Holland because almost every family has a gourmet or fondue at christmas.

My nephew Milan

Family picture, with mom, dad, sis and nephew

Here you see my Christmastree, with a bauble of my favourite Lingerie designer: Marlies Dekkers

Marlie Dekkers Christmas bauble

And last but not least: me in my Christmas outfit:

Me in my Christmas outfit

Merry Christmas

2012-12-26T17:53:00.001+01:00

It's a piece of ice

2012-12-14T14:47:00.001+01:00

So clear and quite thick and probably the last piece of ice in 2012(at last in the Netherlands). That's because the temperatures are above zero again at day and night time. And the weatherman said it's not going to freeze again this year.

Last night while standing in the garden

This weather deserves a pie

2012-12-02T23:47:00.001+01:00

Outside it is rainy, dark, cold, and also hail showers. Perfect weather o make a pie for dinner. Today I made this very Delicious cottage pie. The recipe of this pie is available here: cottage pie. Already the second meal post of this weekend. That's because I miss cooking a lot since I am busy now with my Internship. So the two days I do have time to cook, I do cook. I think autumn is one of the nicest moments to cook food. Wonderful pies that are rich in flavor ingredients smell, wonderful and keep you warm when cold with this type of weather.

Tasty chicken dish

2012-12-01T23:57:00.000+01:00

Tonight i've made a very tasteful chickendish. I'found it on a Swedish website and you can find it here: Chicken with mustard sauce, tomatoes and basil. I did not used fresh tomatoes but sundried tomatoes, which went very well with the rest of the dish.

In the dish after 25 minuten in the oven

on my plate with green beans and home made chips

The Halloween dress

2012-11-30T23:58:00.000+01:00

Well and here is the result of my trash bag Halloween dress and the braided belt. The dress was quite easy to make. Just tape some bags(16) together to make the skirt. For the top you can take one which you cut open and shape when you putted it on as a top you can model it to make a nice shirt shape The straps are braided from 3 bags each. The belt was a lot of work because trying to make small folded strokes is a lot of work with duct tape because as you can already guess, it's quite sticky.One disadvantagege of this dress was that it makes you look fat. But the result of the dresswas very great I must say. I also made a duct tape bow to put in my hair.

The duct tape belt

show a leg.

Sandpit Amsterdam central station

2012-11-02T17:30:00.000+01:00

For years now they are working on the renovation of the central station in Amsterdam. The station square is now ready since half a year i think, the main hall has as far as my memory goes back a rubber-tiling floor because of all the renovation work. I no idea how the real floor looks. So that must be there for years now.

Now they are for quite a while busy creating a new passenger tunnel. That means this tunnel runs under the train platforms. Because of that, they also have removed some of the railroadtracks, and what you see when standing on the platform now is this:

building a new passenger tunnel

the railroad tracks are removed

what i really do like, is that you can see the layers of brick where the stations fundamentals are build from

Me on stage

2012-11-01T11:17:00.000+01:00

It still feels like yesterday that I was standing on the stage of De kleine komedie, which is a theater in Amsterdam. In there was a public script reading of one of my favorite TV series: A'dam and E.V.A. Next January 2013 they will start with the recording of the second season.

Because there are more characters needed then the four permanent members, the audience was invited to read the script with the actors on stage. At the started of the evening there was a flashback to the first season and interviews with the four cast member the writer an the producer. after that the scripts where divided to the people that wanted to participate on stage. So I raised my hand.
I had tot do the first scene. There I was standing on the stage saying the first text of the second season. I had to play the role of course leader of the Lamaze class.(that's because Eva got pregnant in the first series.) I really Enjoyed it to be on stage performing.

Here you see me on stage while playing my part.

me at the microphone

with Teun Luijkx en Evan vn de Wijdeven

Halloween costume

2012-10-27T15:09:00.004+02:00

Already i talked about duct-tape and bin bags for my halloween outfit. I deceided to make a drawing. At the moment I ;ve made already some of the parts of the dress, the braided duct-tape part in the middle of the dress and the shoulderstraps. To show what the dress is going to look like, here's a drawing i made of the going to be dress.

the skirt and top part will be of bin bags and also the straps and the little bag in my hand,. The middle section will be made of duct-tape that i braided into a wicker. Maybe i will also make a hat or bow to put on my head.

Things to do when having the flu

2012-10-18T23:51:00.000+02:00

I must say I'm getting quite bored with having sinusitis for the second day. I can not do anything so while lying in bed and watching some movies, I watched a great one I must say. It was On the road. I also finally came up with a great idea for my Halloween costume. I really want to tell but on the other side, i also don't because then the whole surprise is gone. All i can say, that's it includes duct tape bags maybe some staples and some sparkles for decoration.

Here's the trailer of the movie.

The Born This way Ball Amsterdam

2012-10-18T22:43:00.000+02:00

Since i was kind of busy in the past weeks, i finally found a moment now to write about the lady Gaga concert in Amsterdam. Almost all I can say It was really great/amazing/cool/wonderful/ and more words in that category to describe the Lady Gaga concert Tuesday September 18 2012 in the ziggodome in Amsterdam. I was so happy I could finally go to a Lady Gaga show. The show is more like whole theater play than just a singer on stage. She really acts with her audience. I was happy that there where big video screens since it was so crowded I could not see much of the things that happened on the stage. But I enjoyed it so much. here are some pictures of the concert.

Gagacorns :D I also got myself a Born this way ball tourshirt