September Favorites

I was planning to do a Hits & Misses, but considering the fact that I haven't purchased any new items that I hate...there's no point in including the "misses", right? I decided to spare the details and mainly just provide pictures of the products along with some comments on a few of them.

Sooo for this month, my favorites are:

L'oreal Magic BB Cream

MAC's Soft Brown & Swiss Chocolate Single Eyeshadows
The FaceShop single eyeshadow in BR803

MAC's Skinfinish Natural in Medium Plus

NYC Sunny Bronzer

Milani's Baked Blush in Luminoso
L'oreal's Limited Edition Project Runway Blush in Watchful Owl

Left: the FaceShop eyeshadow
Top: MAC's Swiss Chocolate
Bottom right: MAC's Soft Brown

Unfortunately, this blush has been discontinued so if you have any interest in buying it, you'd probably have to purchase it online somewhere :/

L'oreal's Limited Edition Project Runway Blush in Watchful Owl

Milani's Baked Blush in Luminoso

If you're no stranger to the beauty community or YouTube, you would know all about this bronzer. So, in short, it's $3, matte, a very flattering color on several complexions, and can be found in drugstores such as Rite Aide, Target, and CVS.

MAC's Mineralized Skin Finish in Medium Plus

Now, my K-Pop favorite for this month is:

EXO

I realize that this is obviously not a beauty related thing, but I figured that it couldn't hurt to add in a little something about myself. Plus, I mean...look at them, they're adorable.

Happy Birthday To Me!

Since I expect no one here to know....YESTERDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY!! And what better way to celebrate than to splurge on some MAC collections that came out the day of my special day!?

I purchased blushes from the Tres Cheek collection as well as from the Reel Sexy collection.
I was able to get my hands on all the things I had my eyes on except for the Reel Sexy lipstick :( sad day, but it's okay I'm sure there are tons of lipsticks that are similar to it. Anyway, I'm very very excited about these blushes because lately I've just been developing a new found love for blushes.

So I purchased Modern Mandarin and Lovecloud from the Tres Cheek collection and Pink Cult from the Reel Sexy collection.

Modern Mandarin with flash

Without flash

Lovecloud with flash

Without flash

Pink Cult with flash

Without flash

Interesting thing because this was the first time I had decided to pre-order anything from MAC and I ended up getting the last one in stock for ALL of these blushes. I couldn't believe how much hype these babies have gotten and I'm so glad I was ahead of the game.

Initially, I wanted to skip out on Modern Mandarin and purchase Immortal Flower, but Immortal Flower had absolutely NO color pay off. I'm between an NC25-NC30 and it did not show up on my skin whatsoever. I haven't had the chance to try any of them on my cheeks, but swatched on my hand....that color did just not workout for me. I wasn't expecting to purchase Pink Cult either, but the sales associate asked me if I wanted to take a look at the Reel Sexy collection so I just thought, "what the heck I'll give it a look". Of course, I ended up making another purchase.

The Tres Cheek collection blushes are all satin finishes and Pink Cult is a matte finish. I would love to give you guys swatches, but as some of you may or may not know....I have a weird thing about not being able to touch new makeup products haha but Temptalia has excellent swatches posted up on her site so I'd first suggest checking her's out.

I hope everyone has a fantastic week!! 

February Hits & Misses

My goodness, February is always such a short and sweet month. Didn't really get too many things this time around considering my "makeup strike" still being in affect. Before I get into anything, I want to apologize if this post is less than pleasing because I did write and put it together rather quickly. Now, let's just move on to the hits shall we?

Hits:


Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Peach Satin - I may be one of very few people to actually enjoy the dream bouncy blushes. I only have one, but upon first usage I truly enjoyed the effect it gave. It's not crazy pigmented that much is true, but it does leave a nice staining/natural effect on the cheeks, which is a look I personally like. I know that each color differs so many of my opinions will be based off of the one color I have. When I put this on my cheek, it actually looked like I was blushing, but not so much in a way that it made me look like pikachu. That would be kind of disgusting. The lasting power is quite long to be quite honest, but then again I did set it with a translucent powder. In case you were wondering I applied it this morning at 9:15ish...it is now 4:30PM and it's still very much intact.

Maybelline Define-a-Lash mascara [waterproof] - This isn't a new product to me. I've actually been using this since my junior year in high school when one of my classmates was totally raving about it in my math class, pulled it out of her backpack and everything. Funny thing is, I wasn't even remotely interested in makeup in high school, but felt the need to try it. I have yet to find a better mascara than this one. It holds my curl and lengthens like crazy. It is a bit difficult to get off, but I think it just requires a good makeup remover.

Which brings me to my next hit, Mitsuwa Face Cleanser/Makeup Remover. I apologize, I wish I could give a name, but it's written in Japanese and well...I'm not Japanese haha. Anyway, I have been on the hunt to find a new cleanser that can remove ALL of my makeup especially my mascara, this baby does the trick. It comes with a pump, which is very useful. It claims to brighten the face, but I haven't seen any effects of a brighter face. Also, there are 2 other versions of this, which are anti-wrinkling and moisturizing obviously I opted for the brightening. My only gripe is that it does run out rather quickly. I've had it for a couple weeks and I've pretty much used 1/3 of the product.

MAC Innocence Beware! & Viva Glam Nicki lipstick - please read review here

Tarte Limited Edition Quilted Makeup Bag - The love I have for this bag. It's purple, quilted, and just the right size. My family and I travel rather frequently and my makeup is always traveling with me. I have a caboodle case, but it is rather large to carry around. I wanted something a bit more compact and big enough to carry my essentials. My go to palette to bring on vacations is none other than the Naked palette. Imagine my excitement when I discovered this bag was the exact size of my palette with room to spare for many other things. I just love it!

Misses:


MAC Fleshpot lipstick - please read review here

MAC Limited Edition Lipstick Review

Here it is! My review for the 3 lipsticks I got a few weeks ago. For shade references, I'm currently in between NC25-NC30. Remember, these are my personal opinions and I don't claim to be a lipstick expert.

Swatches (left to right): Viva Glam Nicki, Innocence Beware!, and Fleshpot

With white light

With flash from cellphone haha

Haul: Limited Edition Items

Not too long ago, I decided to start a Project 20 Pan. My only exceptions to purchase new items were if they're limited edition or if I ran out of an everyday product (i.e. foundation, mascara, & eyeliner).

MAC: Around mid-February I had a Back-2-MAC and I used it for their Fleshpot lipstick, which is sold only at the Pro stores. I also purchased a few of their limited edition lipsticks. I bought Innocence Beware!, which is actually a re-promote. I regretted not purchasing it when it was released in the Venomous Villains collection so I had to jump at it when it came out again. I also purchased the Viva Glam Nicki a few days before it came out because the MAC Sales Associate that was helping me was wearing it that day and I knew I had to have it.

Left to right: Innocence Beware!, Fleshpot & the Nicki

ULTA: I got an email about this new Tarte Limited Edition makeup bag with 5 little goodies in it for $40. I needed a new makeup bag and I wanted to try some of Tarte's products. The makeup bag is absolutely gorgeous and it's great because my Naked palettes fit in it soooo it's PERFECT for travel. I'm so excited about it! It comes with a full-sized eyeliner and mascara. The blush, bronzer, and illuminating serum are all sample sized/minis.

Expect some reviews kiddies :)

First Day of School & Retail Therapy

Hello you wonderful people!
Today, was unfortunately my first day school. I had class at 10:15AM. Being the night owl that I am you can imagine how difficult it was for me to fall asleep. I got into bed at 11PM and went to sleep at 3AM. I woke up feeling like DEATH! Did I mention that it was raining like mad today? Oh, did I also mention that I ended up getting a cut from my garage door because I wanted to check if I had an umbrella in my car? Moving on...

After school my cousin and I went to go get some lunch and then decided to go do some retail therapy at the mall. Originally I just wanted to get a new cute pencil case for school, but ended up getting a multitude of things on the way.

10$ - Cotton On (Sale) also please excuse my closet for looking like the apocalypse

MAC Fix+ ($21), hat (Cotton On, $2), pencil case (Artbox, $9.25)

Charity Bracelet for Uganda (Cotton On, $1)

Same yellow bracelet, but please notice my beautiful band-aid

Now I'm tired and my feet smell BUT before I go here's a quick eye look I did today.

Super simple winged eyeliner with mascara mainly because I was just too tired to try hahaha.

I'm on the verge of falling asleep on my laptop right now soooo I bid all of you a good day and wish you all a Happy Asian New Year haha :)

ANNDD here's a picture of my dog nappin' on meh....

January hits & misses coming soon!