0 MAC Vera Neumann Haul

Oopsss... Bought these 2 mths back but have not got about reviewing these till now...

Being a die hard blush addict, I bought both pearlmatte face powders in Sunday afternoon and flower fantasy. Just like the previous pearlmatte face powder from MAC in lilyland, these face powders have a sheer finish, reminiscent of the sheertone blushers, only that MAC has added in a highlighting area in each of the face powders. U can mix the colors or use the colors seperately by themselves. As the words and ladybird pic is embossed right into the powder, I don't have to worry that they will go away after a few uses.

  

 Flower fantasy pearlmatte face powder

 Sunday afternoon pearlmatte face powder

Being a sucker for greens and turqoise colors, I also bought the crushed metal pigment set in Butterfly party (loving the combination of purple turqoise, silver and blue in this set). Also bought Aloha crushed metal pigment (though Aloha kinda reminded me a little of the warm one in the one released from Spring color forcast). As the crush metal pigments are much more chunkier than the normal pigments which are much finer in texture, I usually will crush the pigment on my hand into smaller bits before patting the color on my lid either with a 242 brush or fingers. I find that synthetic brush like 242 works better for the crush metal pigments rather than brushes with natural bristles. Would advise patting on the lid rather than sweeping, as sweeping the pigments will cause quite a fair bit of fall out

 Butterfly party crushed metal pigment

Aloha crushed metal pigment

Also bought the plushglass in confetti. I like the coral-ness of this plushglass which provides some color on my lips and is non sticky, and as well as plump up my lips. I love coral lipstuff loadss..so I had to get this.

 Confetti plush glass

0 In Extra Dimension skinfinishes and eyeshadows

I know I am kinda late to the party and slow in posting, but late is better than never. heh heh.

I am totally loving the cream to powder texture of the skinfinishes and eyeshadows in this collection - super blendable with decent color payoff. But alas due to budget, I only could  buy all 3 skinfinishes and 3 eyeshadows :( If I had all the $$$ in the world, I would so buy this whole collection cause they are all super blendable. So I ended getting up Whisper of gilt, Glorfiy and Superb for the Skinfinishes and Havana, Grand Galaxy and Blue orbit for the eyeshadows. I am totally in love with these products.

Skinfinishes

These are shimmery but definitely not as glittery as ur usual mineralized skinfinishes (Plus pt = no glitter fallout ). They have a metallic kinda texture which looks really good on the cheek bone area, more so than the MSFs which can look a bit powdery at times if not blended properly. I am fair but I still bought Glorify cause it makes a beautiful bronzey gold eye color on the eyes. The pigmentation of this skinfinish is to die for. <3 <3

 Whisper of gilt skinfinish

 Glorify Skinfinish

 Superb skinfinish

Eyeshadows

As I have mentioned earlier in the posts, the texture of these shadows are of a cream to powder finish and color payoff is good and very blendable. Plus, they last the whole day on the eyes and do not crease @ all even without a primer. Definitely way much better than the metal x cream shadows imho. I wished I could have bought all, but unfortunately I am on tight budget for this mth, so I could buy only 3 and it was a very tough choice choosing 3 only :x

Havana

Grand galaxy

  Blue orbit

0 Jill Stuart Cosmetics Haul

Went on a holiday to Taiwan with my bf and bought my long awaited Jill stuart cosmetics. Was totally lemming for the mix compact blushers. The packaging is just soooo princessy. I love love love the packaging and I love the combination of colors in the mix compact blushers. They look too pretty to be used...I still don't bear to use them. Even the retractable mini brush that comes with the blush looks uber cutee too. I also bought 2 eye palettes from them (they are more towards the sheer shimmery side as they are a japanese brand cosmetic company) and an eye jelly.

Packing of the mix compact blush and the retractable brush tht comes with it

Jill Stuart mix compact blush in Baby blush

Jill Stuart mix compact blush in Candy Orange

Jill Stuart mix compact  blush in Fresh Apricot

 Jill Stuart mix compact blush in Romantic Poppy

 Jill Stuart loose powder blush packaging

 Jill Stuart Little anemone loose powder duo blush

Jill Stuart eye palette packaging

Jill Stuart eye palette in Dazzling Moon

 Jill Stuart eye palette in Sweet Amethyst

0 MAC Naturally Haul

After skipping MAC's Daphne Guiness collection (The colors didn't appeal to me in in that collection, way to dark and dull for my liking :X), I made up for the lack of haul in MAC's Naturally collection.

I bought: All the 3 mineralized blushers in Subtle Breeze, Early Morning and Fresh Honey. 3 Mineralized eyeshadows in Daylight, Summer Haze and In the Sun, and 1 lipstick in A Perfect Day. I skipped both msfs in Blonde and Redhead as I already have them from an earlier collection.

My overall comments on this collection: As with the name of the collection, most of the colors in this collection are very subtle and neutral and are good for day to day wear.

Here are pics and swatches of what I bought

Mineralized e/s in In the Sun, Summer Haze and Daylight (from top to bottom)

Left to right: In the Sun, Summer Haze and Daylight  - Swatched dry

General comments on the MES: As with most MAC mineralized e/s, they go on pretty sheer when dry (esp for In the Sun..which I feel contains the most chunky glitters amongst all the MES from this collection. If u hate chunky glitters, I would advise u to skip In the Sun MES). Would recommend using it wet if u want higher color payoff from these  MES.

Top to bottom, left to right: Fresh honey, Subtle breeze and Early morning

Left to right: Fresh Honey, Subtle Breeze and Early morning

Fresh Honey mineralized blush kinda reminds me of a more orange and pigmented version of MAC peaches sheertone blush. Subtle breeze reminds me of MAC's coygirl sheertone blush with pronounced muave undertones to it. As for Early morning, it's a perfect color for medium to deep skintones but definitely gotta be used with a light hand for fairer skin ladies. All 3 mineralized blushers are more towards the matte finish as can be seen from the swatches.

Will post pic and swatch of A perfect day lipstick later on....

0 Dior Spring collection 2012 eye palettes

The first time I saw these eye palettes in one of those beauty blogs, I was drawn in to the lacy rose packaging. I bought both eye palettes, in Garden Pastel And Garden Rose. And to be honest, I m only buying them cause they look sooo pretty in the pan and I won't be using them, because i do not want the oh so nice pattern to be rubbed off. I bought the palettes solely for collection... I know some of us like to buy pretty make up but end up not using them because they are too pretty to be used. I am not too much of a packaging person but these palettes are too pretty to be missed! Sorry no swatches are available, as I don't plan on swatching them as they are for collection purpose :X :X :X

Garden pastel

Garden Rose

0 Updated make Up storage

Bought new storage from MUJI (A japanese store known for its neat storage containers - abeit price on the high side) to store more make up (yes...My make up table is big but I am OUT of space again... that means I have to seriously cut down on buying stuff which I don't need) and skincare.

Previously my make up table was very very cluttered and full of tall bottles of skincare and foundations which I had no other space to store. So with this Muji containers, I can store them neatly and stack these drawers on top of my existing make up tables...

Here's how the storage containers look...

For this particular storage, the top layer I store my lunasol eye shadow palettes and the 2nd drawer I store my skin care and some Urban decay eye palettes 

For the other 2 containers, they are actually seperate, but because the dimensions are similar I can actually stack them on top of one another

I store my mac lipsticks and blushers on the upper 2 compartments and other miscellaneous items in the deeper container on the bottom

And here's how my make up table look like after I have stacked up all the containers... Less clutter of tall bottles on the table...

0 Jill Stuart Blush in 02 Sweet Mum

A sweet friend of mine bought this loose powder blush from Japan and gave it to me... and I have to say the packaging is totally sooo princessy!!! Even the retractable blush brush that comes with it is also so cute. Too bad this brand is not available in my country, cause I really love the packagin of this brand.

Color payoff wise is sheer with very very fine shimmers... Gotta layer up more for the color to show. But I don't mind, the packagin of this blush more than makes up for its lack of pigmentation :X :X 

0 The Face shop nail polish in PK 105

I have always heard rave reviews about The Faceshop's (a Korean brand) from colleagues and friends but haven got about trying one on until one day when I went into The Faceshop with my friend.

It was first love for this color when I swatched this color on my nails. It's a beautiful magenta fuschia color with a blue duochrome finish to it. And for the price I paid for it, it is definitely very very value for money.

And not to mention I love The Faceshop's top coat too. It gives a more shiny finish than my OPI topcoat for half the price :):)

And as usual, I m horrible with nail painting as I'm not very stable with my hands...so would like to apologise for the uneven nail painting yeah...

And last but not least, I know this is a bit late... Happy new year to all! :)

0 Obsession with blushers...

One of my new yr resolution is to try and stop buyin cheek products... coz I have too much for myself already...

Below are pics of the current MAC blushers n cheek products that I own. I have no time to take pics of blushers from other brands, but if I should add them in, I would have at least about 80 more blushers in the pics :X :X :X  By the way, I never buy backups of blush colors...so the below are all different colors. No repeats.

No more BLUSHERs for me!!!!

MAC mineralized blushers

MAC powder blushers 

MAC miscellaneous cheek products

MAC msfs

MAC cream cheek products

0 Kiehls Powerful-Strength Line Reducing Concentrate

I am so glad that for last mth I manage to curb expenditure on make up by only buying one chromographic pencil. Although I have to admit that for this month I am very highly tempted to buy MAC's metal X cream shadow :X :X :X

Anyway instead of buying make up for this month, I bought one skincare from Kiehl's in the Powerful strength line reducing concentrate. According to the consultant, this is one of their best selling products and contains 10.5% pure vitamin C to help brighten skin and for radiance. I decided to give it a shot ... (Since I don't own any serum and any anti-ageing products).

Directions for use:

1. To use after cleansing and toning and before moisturiser.

2. Can be used for day and night

Comments on product:

It gives a really soft feel on the skin (somewhat of those kinda soft feel when u apply silica products on the face ya)and helps to plump up the skin. It's non greasy so it's suitable for oily skin as well. It does help to brighten the face and give slight radiance and the smooth feel helps me to apply my make up more smoothly onto the face. Only downside is the price is quite pricey for a small bottle... up to date, this is the most expensive skincare that i own. And i'm usually won't spend on skincare..... I can't say much about the line reducing effects as i still don't have much lines on my face. But i do like how it feels on my face - hydrated, soft and smooth.

0 Best of 2011 - Face and cheek products

My favourites for the yr 2011...some of which are HG products which I have been using for years and will always be my favourites.

Base make up

1. Best primer: MAC prep plus prime skin base visage (It's silica base and I love the smooth finish it gives on my skin)

2. Best concealer: Covermark basic formula cream foundation

3. Best Liquid foundation: Giorgo Armani face fabric foundation (Helps to minimise the look of my open pores and feels super silky smooth on my face and has a pretty light weight blendable texture)

4. Best pressed powder: MAC msf natural And MAC studio careblend (I like both a lot and I can't decide between the two :X )

5. Best powder foundation: MAC lightful foundation SPF 25 (This is a brightening foundation and from what I know is asia exclusive)

I don't really use loose powder that much so I don't have any particular favourites

Cheek products

1. Best powder  blush: MAC Joyous beauty powder blush - LE (I've found myself reaching for this blush almost everyday and this is says a lot considering that I have more than 200 blushers :X :X)

2. Best contour powder for fair skin ladies: MAC equilibrium blush (Is a brown base blush which helps to lightly scupt the face without being over the top)

3. Best highlighting powder: MAC Lightscapade msf - LE (This is HG material. Have been using this for the past 2 yrs...)

4. Best cream blush: MAC something special cremeblend blush (A very natural flush of peachy pink, works best on ladies with fairer skintones. Ladies with medium to tan skintone may wanna try Posey creme blend blush instead)

0 Best of 2011 - Eye products

So the year 2011 is coming to an end.... it's time to sum up my favourite products for the year (Both Limited edition and Regular...) ..... I will be starting with eye products...

Pressed e/s

1. Best yellow e/s: MAC pro long wear e/s in Sunny outlook e/s - New perm product

2. Best green e/s: MAC pro long wear e/s in Fresh flare - New perm product

3. Best base e/s: MAC ricepaper e/s (Multi purpose can be used for highlighting parts of the face as well)

4. Best brown e/s: A tie between MAC mulch and MAC embark e/s. I can't decide which one I like better :X 

5. Best Turqoise e/s: MAC Parrot e/s - LE

6. Best purple e/s: MUFE #92 e/s 

7. Best blue e/s: MAC Freshwater e/s

8. Best bronze e/s: MAC amber lights / casino (these 2 look really similar, so If u have one, U do not need the other)

9. Best LAZY day e/s: MAC naked lunch e/s

10. Best white e/s: MAC crystal avalanche e/s 

11. Best Black e/s: UD Black dog e/s from UD's black palette

Best eye palette

1. Lazy day e/s palette: UD naked palette

2. Colored palette: MAC tempting eye quad - LE from Cult of cherry which was donkey yrs back :X 

Eyeliners & Mascara

1. Best pencil eyeliner - Nil...all pencil liners smudge on my lower lash line..still on the hunt one that doesn't smudge on my lower lash line

2. Best liquid eyeliner: MAC liquidlasts  (Alas, they are dc-ing the whole range of colors except the black :( )

3. Best gel eyeliner: MAC Chromographic gel liner in Marine Ultra (I love love love this shade of royal blue eyeliner)

4. Best lengthening and curling mascara: MAC Opulash optimimum Black (It helps to slightly curl my stubborn poker straight lashes and lengthen it) 

Cream eye products

1. Best eye primer: Too Faced Shadow Insurance (prefer this texture to UDPP, a creamier texture but still helps my eye make up to stay on the eyelid maintainin the color intensity through out the day with little fading)

2. Best cream e/s: MAC bare study paintpot

0 OPI nail polish in Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous

I can't say much about the texture of this nail polish, although the color is quite nice - a silverish gunmetal grey. But I kinda find the texture of this nail polish to be a teeny bit too liquidy or watery for my liking. One coat is definitely not enough for this color. The first coat applies on very unevenly n sheer and I need to layer on another 2 coats after waitin for the 1st and 2nd coat to dry. I personally prefer polishes which goes on opaque with just maximum 1 or 2 coats.. I find that I have to be very patient with this color coz I need to build it up by layering and I don't have the luxury of time to wait unless I am doin my nails on my off day and I don't wanna buy those kinda fans jus for drying the nails....

I like this color, but not the texture of this polish.... may or may not repurchase this again. Too much work for me in layering up the color. The color that u see in my nail swatch is after 3 layers... Once again apologies for the lousy nail painting skill....

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0 OPI nail polish in Cajun Shrimp

Another of my favourite nail polish color from OPI. Well, I do think the name Cajun shrimp is very apt for this polish color - a hot coral on the nails. It's a pretty summery color. But I am one of those who don't believe in wearing colos associated with the season. U can wear Coral lip or nails whole yr round. Who gives a darn about what is the latest color in trend for the season as long as u love the color, be it on face, nails or clothes.I love Cajun shrimp and I would wear this the whole year round! 

Sorry forthe poor nail painting skills. I suc at nail painting I know that :X :X :X