FOTD: Purple Sky

I was inspired by Mizzchievouz' latest video so I decided to create something similar to it. I didn't do mine as dark and dramatic as she did hers; I had to make mine a tad more subtle to make it work for the office. I also didn't copy her eye makeup entirely. I added my own touch to it, which is why I lined my waterline with UD 24/7 in Ransom and my lower lashline with UD 24/7 in Binge.

Her video tutorial on the MAC Style Black Look seems to be very timely as I had already intended to wear purple (well, plum, actually) eyeshadow today prior to watching her video. I originally planned to create a plummy-purplish look using my Warm Palette, but after watching her video for just 5minutes, I reached for my mineral eyeshadows instead. As you may have guessed, I don't own any of the products that she used to create this look (except for L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara) from the Bat Black Cream color base down to the eyeliners.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I didn't overdose on bronzer today (compared to how I "over-bronzed" in my Kim-spired FOTD. I guess you can see the difference). I only lightly dusted my face with my MAC Matte bronzing powder just to add a bit of warmth and did a bit of contouring with it as well; nothing too harsh. I had to keep everything else subtle since my eye makeup is already, well, bold.

On Eyes
ELF Mineral Primer
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Black Bean
Bare Naturals Mineral Eyeshadow in Stiletto (you may use any purple eyeshadow) (apply on lid, passing slightly over the crease. blend harsh edges )
Monave Mineral Eyeshadow in Bordeaux (you may use any fuschia eyeshadow) (apply on the crease blending softly into Stiletto)
Too Faced Eyeshadow in Boy Toy (you may use any shimmery pink eyeshadow) (apply lightly on the brow bone blending into Bordeaux) and Milk Chocolate (highlight)
Fashion21 Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Pencils in Ransom (bright iridescent purple) and Binge (navy)
EB Eyeliner Pencil in Brown (for eyebrows)
NYX Brow Powder in Dark Brown
L'Oreal Double Extend Beauty Tubes Mascara
L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara


On Face
Bare Naturals S5 Skin Perfecting Primer
Skinfood Peach Sake BB Cream
Skinfood Dark Circle Concealer Cream #2
Skinfood Dark Circle Powder
Everyday Minerals Original Glo Foundation in Golden Medium
MUFE HD Powder
Too Faced Brightening Blush in La Vie En Rose
MAC Matte Bronzing Powder

this photo was taken behind my apricot colored curtain, the reason why this photo's color looks a bit odd

On Lips
Maui Lipbalm
Maybelline Colorsensational Lipstick in Madison Mauve

In this photo, I topped Madison Mauve with NYX Lipgloss with Megashine in Orchid

For this last set of photos, I wore my Lancome cream lipstick in Love It! and topped it with Maybelline Shine Seduction Lipgloss in Born with It.


My review on the Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Pencils is on its way!


Enjoy the weekend beautiful ladies! Smile, it changes everything.

FOTD: Kim-spired

Here's a look I created using my Coastal Scents 88 Warm Palette (actually, this is what I wore to work yesterday). As I have written in my review, this palette is a great addition to one's makeup arsenal especially if you wear more Kim Kardashian looks. I'm not a fan, but I have to give this classy lady merit for her always fabulously done makeup from the eyes down to her lips. Now if I only have that much money to have my makeup done by a professional. Le sigh.

With that said, I attempted to recreate her makeup using my Coastal Scents 88 Warm Palette. Of course I didn't do mine as dramatic as she usually does hers with thick black eyeliner all around the eyes and false eyelashes. I had to tone it down a couple of notches to make it more, "work appropriate," so to speak. However, the colors don't show up quite well in the photos below. My eye makeup looked a bit more dramatic and smokey in real life but... ugh, the flash killed it. I should probably reward myself with a new camera. Or, perhaps ask my beloved to take my pictures all the time, which hopefully won't make him suspicious.

And for more Kim-ness, I donned a black boatneck top from memo which I paired with a black high-waist pencil skirt cinched in the waist with a wide belt. To finish up my outfit for work, I slipped on my 4inch Steve Madden heels. I wanted to take a full body shot of my outfit but my beloved was sleeping soundly that time I was getting ready for work. Maybe next time. For the meantime, enjoy the headshots.

Here are a couple of shots taken using my phone. The colors don't come close to how they appear in real life, but I think they're decent enough. Not to bad for a camera phone, don't you think?


Till my next post ladies! Good night for now!

Coastal Scents 88 Warm Palette

After waiting for so many months, I finally have my grubby hands on this palette, the Coastal Scents 88 Warm Palette. Well, I've had this with me since the end of September but wasn't able to play with it enough until recently.

top: no flash
bottom: with flash

If you will notice in a lot of my FOTDs/EOTDs, I lean towards more browns and bronze-y hues because these colors look very flattering on all skin tones. So if you have an inexplicable love affair with browns and bronze-y hues like I do, this palette is for you. It has a great selection of eyeshadows that will surely suit your skin tone, whether you be warm or cool-skinned. Now you can boldly wear silver eye makeup the way Kim Kardashian does!

Yay!

• Price. 88 gorgeously pigmented eyeshadows for $25? That's a steal, baby!
  
• Color Variety. With 88 colors to mix and match, you'll surely never run out of ideas for your eye makeup.
• Variety of finishes. This palette has everything from matte, to satin, to shimmery to glittery.
• Color Payoff. The eyeshadows in this palette have a very gorgeous pigmentation with or without a primer or an eyeshadow base. Not convinced? See the swatches below.

Pretty, aren't they? All colors were swatched dry, without a base.

• Pan Size.
• Staying Power. I have to say, impressive. The colors did not fade nor crease on my eyes for an entire 12hours.
  
• Compact. A palette as thin as Macbook Air can surely fit in your purse.
  

Nay!

• Too many highlight shades.
  
• Fragile. Both the case and the eyeshadows can easily break. In fact, if you click on the palette's photos above, you can easily tell that one of the eyeshadows broke in transit and was restored upon arrival. Curious to know which one it is? Go to the third row from the bottom, then count five to the right.
  
• Texture. Some eyeshadows are a bit too powdery.

My Verdict
I say, go grab yourself one if you're looking for colors to suit your warm skin tone or if you simply want to expand your makeup collection. This is also great for a novice who tends to gravitate more toward plums and browns/bronzes which almost always go well with most skin tones. With this very versatile palette, you can do neutral everyday makeup and bridal makeup and even create dramatic smokey eyes. All that for only 25bucks.

So what do you think, yay or nay?

Too Faced Glamour Revolution

As promised, here's my review on the Too Faced Glamour Revolution Kit.


I'm stoked and head over heels in love with my Too Faced Glamour Revolution Kit from the artsy-fartsy packaging down to everything inside it. Look how gorgeous the front cover is! This makeup kit is love! Okay, let me breathe first. I'm getting too excited.

This amazing kit opens up like a book with a pull-out mirror on one side, while on the other side are 3 lipglosses, 1blush, 1bronzer, and three pocket cards that give you clever ways to use the eyeshadows housed in this kit.


The nine gorgeously pigmented eyeshadows and the mini eyeshadow insurance are contained in the slide drawer on the side of the book. Whoever designed this kit is a genius!


There goes the slide drawer!

Here are swatches of the nine eyeshadows. See how gorgeous they are? They're so pigmented even without a base! Can you imagine how beautiful they'd look on your lids when foiled? Oh, double the gorgeousness!

From L-R (I tried my best to describe them for you)
Neptune - shimmery teal
Party Girl - grape purple with blue glitter
Dirt Bag - glittery deep brown (perfect for the crease)
Glamazon - shimmery pinkish-purple (very pretty!)
London Calling - taupey-gold with loads of chunky glitter (not too fond of this one. its glitters are way too chunky)
Label Whore - reddish brown with fine green glitter (my favorite of all!)
Boy Toy - shimmery pale rose pink (another pretty shade)
George & Weezie - shimmery milky light gold (this one's lovely. I can see myself using this a lot)
Milk Chocolate - matte chocolate brown

Here's the blush and bronzer. The blush is a very pretty bubble gum pink with fine shimmer. It shows up well on most skin tones I've tried it on. Definitely a winner!

The bronzer is perfect as an overall color, but not so much as a contour shade unless you're fair skinned.


I don't have swatches of the lip glosses since they really don't have much color in them. I don't think there's any difference when compared to each other. All three glosses look pretty much the same when swatched on my arm and on my lips. I'm honestly not too fond of these. They smell delicious, but I find them a little too tacky. Maybe it's just me. Others who bought this same kit didn't complain much about these glosses except for the fact that they're not pigmented. Maybe my standards are too high? Good thing they last a pretty decent amount of time on my lips. I you want more color, you can just simply top your lipstick with any of the three glosses.

All in all, I think this is a good all-in-one kit to have and to carry around in your luggage. I won't recommend you to tote this with you everyday since the book itself is rather huge and bulky, but it's ideal for traveling. It houses everything you'll ever need on a trip. If there's anything else that you need that this kit can't provide (you can't have everything, ya know), that would be a complete brush set and you're good to go. With this kit, every penny is money well spent.

If there's anything else about this kit that you want me to write about, tell me in the comments section.

Have a great week ladies!

Snaps: In the Sun

Hey there my lovely ladies! I know I should be finishing up my review on the Too Faced Glamour Revolution Kit tonight but I'm a bit lazy to write a liturgy, so... I'll just leave you with another set of photos my beloved and I took a couple of weeks ago. I was supposed to post these right after the shoot but my beloved said he'll have to watermark all of them, which apparently, he hasn't done till now.

This shot was taken while I was goofing around by the pool. I think it looks cute, and I look very happy.

On Face:
Bare Naturals S5 Skin Perfecting Primer
Innisfree Troublecare BB Cream
Skinfood Dark Circle Concealer Cream Shade2
Skinfood Dark Circle Powder
Everyday Minerals Foundation in Light Medium
MUFE HD Powder
ELF Studio Blush in Peachy Keen
MAC Matte Bronzing Powder (for contouring and all over color)


On Eyes (Gold and Black eye makeup)
ELF Mineral Eye Primer
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Black Bean
Bare Naturals Pigment in Mod
NYX Eyeshadow Trio in Ceramic
Fashion21 Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Revlon Colorstay Automatic Pencil Eyeliner in Black
L'Oreal Double Extend Beauty Tubes Mascara
L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara

On Lips
Maui Lip balm
NYX Round Lipstick in Perfect
Smashbox Reflection High Shine Lipgloss

This was by the shade, near the barbecue grill. haha

I just had to throw this one in here. There's nothing spectacular about this shot except... my shoes. Man, I love 'em. Don't they look hott?!

Outfit Breakdown
Top: Dorothy Perkins
Mini Skirt: Topshop
Shoes: Paprika
Earrings: Bought at the Eastwood Bazaar
Ring: from St. Francis Square

Exposed, but I kinda like it still. Yes, this is how my hair looks like under the sun. My hair color's a bit strange. It's Chocolate Brown from the roots to like half of the entire length; the other half is a deep auburn shade. I also have some natural light brown highlights around my face.

Thanks for visiting my blog! I promise I'll have my review up tomorrow.

Latest Haul

This has got to be one of my most exciting purchases ever. Well, okay, I always get giddy when I buy something. But... you get the feeling.

I've always wanted to try the Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Pencils but always ended up putting off buying them. I was even more gaga to buy these pencils when Urban Decay came up with the VIP and Velvet Rope sets. But since I wasn't big on makeup then, I put purchasing these babies on hold for while. When I saw that 24/7 Super Stash a month ago, I didn't think twice on placing an order. Think about nine 24/7 pencil liners for $36, not bad eh? Glad to finally have these amazing pencils in my collection. Now I'm lemming for MUFE Aqua Eyes.

The main reason I got Too Faced's Glamour Revolution is because of the Chocolate Soleil Matte Bronzing Powder that I've been meaning to try. As most of you know, I'm obsessed in looking tanned. My beloved is, too. I enjoy faking a tan coz it makes me look so much healthier and radiant. I feel like a completely different person when I'm tanned. I'm not sure if it's just me, but I feel a whole lot sexier with a good tan. I have to be honest though, I hate being out in the sun. I love going to the beach but I always make sure that I'm bathed in sunscreen before exposing myself to the harmful rays of the sun. I just don't want to get sunburned. Anyway, instead of purchasing just the bronzer which already retails for $28, I thought, why don't I just add a few more bucks and get this set that has everything I'll ever need sans mascara. It has a mini eyeshadow primer, 9 eyeshadows, 3 lipglosses, 1blush and 1bronzer. Isn't that a good deal for $39.50? Imagine $100 worth of Too Faced products in one compact set. I sure wouldn't pass on that.

I love to accessorize. I don't always wear necklaces but I always have to be wearing earrings and rings. These were purchased at a hobbies and crafts store near my place. They're pretty inexpensive at $1.50-$2 a piece.

There goes my latest haul. I probably won't be buying anything for the next few weeks so I'll be doing mostly reviews of products I've had and used for some time but never got the chance to write about them.

What have you bought recently?

NOTW: I think I'm FALL-ing

We may not have fall in the Philippines (heck we have only summer down here), but my nails feel like joining the rest of the world in gearing up for the chilly fall season. No, I'm not buying myself coats and boots (I'd love to, though), but my color selection for my nails and daily outfits will have a touch of fall.

What exactly are the colors of fall anyway? Purples, deep reds, and some reddish brown hues are the ones that come to mind. Those are the colors that you will be seeing in this post. Well, minus the reds.

I first painted my nails with a good two coats of Caronia's African Plum and thought I could stop at that. However, seeing how dull this color looks on my nails made me decide to top it off with a sparkly purple polish from The Face Shop. I think it made a huge difference in the way my tips and toes look right now. They're so much prettier with sparkles. I just wish my nails were longer (I broke a nail a couple of weeks ago so I had no choice but to trim my nails lest I want to look stupid with an odd looking one).

See how different my pinky is from the rest of my nails?

Trust me, that's plum, not black.

See how blah African Plum looks on my right hand? (my right hand is the one on the left)

And here are my nails for the week. Sparkly, and very much perfect for fall.

Oh, and here's what I had on my nails last week. The nail polish that I had on my nails was Bobbie's Sparklers, a pretty sparkly golden brown hue.

FOTD: Silver Bells

Boy oh boy is Christmas fast approaching! I'm not exactly so stoked about the holiday rush and all, but heck, who am I to complain when all of us endure the same horrible traffic and jacked up prices?

While I may not be too thrilled about the traffic and incredibly high prices that come with the Christmas season, I'm feeling ridiculously cheerful today. Such is the reason behind this simple silvery-gray eye makeup that's not too sparkly for work.

Oh before I forget, I gotta have to thank to MAC for my fake tan! Gotta love looking sunkissed! Haha!

Flashing a rarely seen million dollar smile on a ridiculously happy day

On Face
Bare Naturals S5 Skin Perfecting Primer
Skinfood Peach Sake BB Cream #1
Skinfood Dark Circle Concealer Cream Shade2
Skinfood Dark Circle Powder
Everyday Minerals Foundation in Light Medium
MUFE HD Powder
ELF Studio Blush in Peachy Keen
MAC Matte Bronzing Powder (the best bronzer I've tried to date!)

On Eyes
ELF Mineral Eyeshadow Primer
NYX Jumbo Pencil in Cottage Cheese
96 Color Palette
Covergirl Eye Enhancers Quad in Urban Basics
Milani Powder Eyeshadow in Silver Bullet
Fashion21 Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Revlon Colorstay Automatic Pencil Eyeliner in Black
L'Oreal Double Extend Mascara
L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara

On Lips
NYX Round Lipstick in Fig
Maybelline Shine Seduction Lip Gloss in Born With It

My signature gaze

Eyebrow lift

Tata!