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 Lunasol autumn 2011 haul

I love collecting Lunasol eye palettes as some of you who have previously followed my blog might know. Most of the times, I'm guilty of hoarding up these beautiful palettes and NOT using them. Cause they look so perfect, clean n pristine in the untouched state that I dun bear to use them....

Actually, I only planned on gettin maybe about 3 of the eye palettes from Lunasol's autumn collection, but when i went to the counter (as we all know how it is, we usually end up with more than what we actually planned to), and after swatching... I couldn't decide which to get as I liked all. So i ended up getting all.... 01 Neutral Beige, 02 Soft Beige, 03 Mysterious Beige, 04 Cool Beige and 05 Deep Beige. And i also ended up with a Full glamour liquid lips in 11 Natural light Beige. I kind of like the color of this gloss... It's nude but not too nude as to wash me out completely, and it's non sticky. As with most glosses, I need to touch this up after eating.

As for the eye palette textures, when I swatched them at the counter, they are definitely leaning towards shimmery (typical of Lunasol...Lunasol is known for their high shine eye palettes) and each palette has 2 matte shades for users to mix with the shimmer colors in the palettes. I find that the shimmery side, has more color payoff than the matte side of the palettes though. No swatches for the eye palettes yet, as I haven got about to using them yet...nor do i bear to swatch them yet. But when i'm ready to, I'll post swatches up. Sighs...I'm really such a HOARDER.... Pls click for enlarged images.

0 My Virgin Holika Holika mini haul

Met up with a friend today and while we were talkin bout make up, she talked about this blush with cat embossed on the powder from Holika Holika (a Korean cosmetic brand by the way). Being a blush addict, I was very curious to see how it looked like so immediately after that I made my way down to the nearest store to check out the colors.

I was indeed very attracted to the cat embossment and owl embossment on the blushers..... Even though I know that I probably won't use the blushers after I bought them, I still went ahead to buy. I like loving @ pretty things u know.

Color n Payoff

As for color payoff n texture, Midnight Owl (the owl one) seems to be more glittery n powdery (I swatched them in the store) than the other 2 i bought Hello Holika and Merry Holika although in general Holika Holika's blushers feel more powdery than the usual blush that I'm used to. Color payoff is sheer to med. And one can use different parts of the blushers for diff color.

Packagin

I kinda like the packagin of the blushers... It gives me a very fairytale or magical kinda feel. U know what i mean, like Harry potter...

These are the pics of the products...

0 MAC Art of Powder haul

I bought all 3 powders from this collection. They are pcs of art by themselves... and nope, I won't be using them (I bought them mainly for collection purposes just like what I did with Marine Life from last yr's To the beach collection).

This is overall a very small collection which consist of a e/s (Street art e/s), a Bronzer (optical bronzer) and a highlighter (In the abstract highlighter). But imho, they are too beautiful to be used. And the designs are all embossed into the powder, so u won't haf to worry about the design fading off after a few uses (IF u bear to use the powders)

I would like to apologise that no swatches are availble for these products as I don't bear to swatch these products to :X :X :X :X many apologies!!!

0 False lashes haul

Bought these overseas @ a very reasonable price.... less than USD$10 per box for 10 pairs of lashes. And I can reuse each pair for up to 5 times. Definitely Value for money..... Now i'm regretting not buying more.

I wasn't sure how these 2 pairs of lashes would look on me so I only bought 3 boxes in total. Now after wearing, I actually like how both pairs look on me, natural but yet lengthening and volumizing. The lash band is also very soft and bendable and feels very comfortable on. Definitely repurchasing these when I go back the next time...

0 Latest MAC haul....

Forget about make up bans. I will never be disciplined enuff to go on one what with MAC always releasing new and LE collections each month. I surrender :X :X 

Here's my MAC haulage from the last week or so.. As u can see, I'm very into bright e/s colors... I have a soft spot for them

Colorization haul:  Double feature 1 (yellow, purple), Double feature 2 (Lime green, Grey),

Double feature 3 (Turqoise, brown), Double feature 4 (Forest green, brown)

Pro longwear e/s:  Sunny outlook (yellow), Fresh flare (green), Sweet satisfaction (neutral), Tease with ease (Plumish pink)

Colorizations: Performance art (neutral), Waterfront (blue), Purple haze (purple)

MAC me over : Heirloom shadestick, Butternutty shadestick, Cakeshop shadestick, Tundra shadestock, Street cool shadestick, Stunner blush, Equilibrium blush

Will post review and swatches @ a later date... stay tuned :) No more make up for me this month....... HOPEFULLY....

0 A boring MAC make up haulage

I decided to set myself on a no make up ban for at least the next 2 months, replacing only basic necessities when i'm done with them. But since I've just replenished my basic necessities with this haulage, I hope I can be self disciplined and not buy anything for the next 2 mths. But I strongly suspect my will power will be deeply tested by next month's new LE collections from MAC. But luckily, I'm not interested in the collections for this month...so i'm still safe for this month

Anyway here are the stuff which i bought, most of which are replenishments of my basic necessities and plus a few more mac brushes which I most often use and do not have enough of (I'm fast becoming a hoarder of MAC brushes. I buy multiples, but most often, I always use the same old one and refuse to use the new ones. It's a weird habit of mine... :X )

What I bought:

1. MAC prep plus prime skin base visage - My first and probably last holy grail primer. It's a silicone based primer which helps to smoothen out the face before make up application. Contains subtle shimmers which help to subtly brighten up the face. If u need oil control, try the Prep plus prime protection SPF 50 instead of this 

2. MAC studio sculpt concealer - My under eye circles are really horribly dark and I need a full coverage concealer on top of a corrector to conceal my panda eyes :X Or maybe, I should start slping earlier...

3. MAC Blacktrack fluidline - My holy grail eyeliner of all time. Lasts the whole day on me. Texture is creamy. Product does not dry up easily in the jar as compared to other brands of gel liner i've tried.... PROVIDED if u screw the cap tight or turn the jar upside down when applying to lessen exposure to air.

4. MAC msf natural - This gives a natural satin finish which a very very subtle hint of sheen which is hardly visible to the eye unless u look at it closely. Coverage is sheer as with most pressed powders. If u need oil control powder, u may wanna consider the select sheer pressed powder instead of it as it is more mattifying than the msf natural

5. MAC fascinating eye kohl - Can u imagine? I've never owned a single white pencil after all these yrs.... omg.... so I decided it's high time for me to own a white pencil ....

6. MAC Graphblack technakohl - Talking about this, the previous time I bought this pencil, I lose this after just ONE day and a ONE time usage. OMg...I can't remember how I lost it, but I hope I will not lose this for a second time. I find it applies more smooth than the powerpoints though.

7. MAC Pen highlighter in radiant rose - MAC's version of the all time cult fav YSL touche eclat. Bought this on a whim to try out to see if it works as well as my YSL touche eclat.

8. MAC cleanse off oil - Nuff said of this product. It's my holy grail product and I've previously posted a full review of this product. Have finished at least about 4 or 5 bottles of this. And will be repurchasing this again and again.

9. MAC 239 brush - Pls refer to my post on MAC brushes for my review on this 

10. MAC 217 brush - Pls refer to my post on MAC brushes for my review on this

11. MAC 116 brush  - Best for specific blush application. Applies product very precisely on the apples of the cheeks

12. MAC 129 brush - Has a bigger brush head than the 116. Very good for face powder application. Am using this on a daily basis to apply my pressed / loose powder. For people who have small faces, the brush head may be a little big for specific blush application