Etude House Oh~m'Eye Line, NOTD - Blueberries

NOTD - Blueberries(?)

Saw this design on Youtube and thought it was just so pretty. It seems pretty simple too, a dot her, a dot there, nothing that requires a rocket scientist. Which is a good thing since I definitely ain't one.

I'm not too sure how well it turned out but I sorta liked it. White has always been a nice base to use for any designs but I hate using white. It's hard to get it even and some brands - needs plenty of coats to get it opaque.

An ex-colleague of mine informed me that it was Etude House's 4th year Anniversary - that means sales!! I rushed over as I have been eye-ing their eyeliner for a while now. I saw my ex-colleague using it and she never seem to smudge.

It comes in Brown, Black and Gray. No prize guessing what i bought. The brush is surprisingly easy to handle and it only cost RM19.90. There was a 30% discount so the total price came out to about less than RM14 which is unbelievable.

So how was it? Does it last? Does it smudge? Does it go MIA after 2 hours?

Well, you need about 2 application to get a full even coverage and after that, it last for a good 12 hours without smudging. Seriously.

Today after 12 hours

What if you sweat?

It remains as it is. It does not run. How sure am I? I ran up the stairs to the 5th floor (there is no lift!) a total of 3 times and ran from building to building, sweated like a mad woman and nothing moved. I was wayyyy impressed.

It sort of dries to a slightly rubbery texture and is super easy to wash off. A little make up remover and it balls up into little clumps and doesn't smear even during removing. To my knowledge, it is waterproof as it does not run under water however under water and scrubbing can get it off.

For something that is that cheap, I'm really impressed and this is something that I will definitely rebuy.

Inspired Look: Atelier Maquillage; NOTD Bears with Pink Afro

Mass Effect 3 is out! How do I know? Easy, no messages, emails, sms etc from Sir I-Live-Only-For-Games.

End result

Since I have the entire night to myself I decided to do a look I saw on Youtube. I forgotten the actual name but it might have been Atelier Maquillage. The lady in the video used an incredibly bright cobalt blue and I was in love.

Heeeee~

It's been a while so please excuse my now rusty skills. Also, I have my office make up on and I didn't bother to remove it. Heh!

In this post, I used 2 cameras so the size of the pictures are different. To start, I used the 88 colour palette and used the colour marked below. I didn't want to use Turquoise as I'm forever using it. Apply all over lid then use the lighter blue and put it on the center of your lid only. Apply black and wing it slightly.

I've always known that the 88 palette is extremely chalky, the fallouts are unbelievable. I spent so much time wiping the black from my other parts of the face. Good thing I decided to put the foundation on last. I applied Mac Nylon to highlight below the brow bone and blend the blue together to create or in my case attempt to create a gradation. I apply black eyeliner to my water lines and liquid liner to the inner corner of my eyes.

I look strange

Foundation, as usual, el cheapo grabbed my now-almost-finished-and-extremely-expired Elianto stick foundation. Applied it like a mad woman with enough foundation to cover the world. Then I filled in my eyebrows.

For blusher, I used Avon soft mousse blusher in Peach. Heavy Rotation Milky Color Lips in 04 and NYX Smokey Look lip gloss completed the look. Not forgetting, I lightly dusted my face with The Body Shop's highlighter on my cheekbones, applied my bought in Japan-because-it's-cheaper Dolly Wink eye lashes and I'm done.

Looking at these pictures, I guess there is no denying that age is really catching up to me. I look much older now then when I first started (D'oh) and I'm not too sure what to think other than..

I need to get better skin care? And maybe start switching to Anti-Aging series. Should have started much earlier but my pimple skin didn't like the 'richer' ingredients and broke me out even more. I guess now is a good time to start. I'm getting older but why isn't my pimples going awayyyy.. Go awayyyyy!

Yea, you can still see the un-dried glue :P


Valentines gift from Sir Who-Are-You-Again

NOTD: Bear with Pink Afro

Since I've done the normal brown bears, I decided to do one with beige. Since it was just an experiment, I used the cheapest nail polish I had with me at that time, the Etude House PK003. Then started on bears and happily showed Sir.

Sir Knows-Alot took one look and commented that my bears had pink afro on then with an evil grin said, 'What has been seen cannot be unseen' and return to his game.

&^%$#!

A short Holiday to KL; Hello Kitty stuffs etc, Kutsuwa key chain making kit, Etude House nail polish, Konad M59, Hada Labo

52 hour week ended up being just a dream; starting this month it will go up to about 55 hours on some weeks. *sigh*

Anyway, Sir Terrible Memory had to go down to Kuala Lumpur for his CFA exam so I happily tagged along for the ride. It was a relaxing 3 days with no phone calls, endless shopping and eating. A much needed break for me. Unfortunately for Sir Terrible Memory it was a stressful week/month leading up to his exam.

*Fingers crossed*

My face is still on a rampage and they don't seem to be going away. At my wits end, I decided to switch to Hada Labo from my usual skin care. My skin seems to be having hydration problem since I noticed that it has been excreting lots of sebum. Thankfully, after just 2 days, it has shown signs of improving. It might also have something to do with me switching over to a better make up remover too. I've started using the Biore Make up remover for eyes and lips (Review coming up next!)

With no Sir Terrible Memory by my side to control my spending, I ended up spending my money on knick knacks. *sniff sniff* I bought earrings for my sister, Soap& Glory body butter for mom and lots of cookies for family from Mark&Spencer (All distributed the moment I set foot in my house)

On my last trip to Singapore, I saw the red Hello Kitty lunch Bag and love it so much, unfortunately, it spoilt and I found the exact same on in KL. I happily bought 2. Along with the Hello Kitty mouse pad and Hello Kitty plastic bag.

Tadaaaa, the cute Hello Kitty plastic bag. I have no doubt, Penang's Daiso should have it soon but I couldn't resist. I also bought a weird looking hair bow hair clip. AHAHA!

I still have curly hair so it looks very odd on me. Not to mention the fake hair is super duper shiny; kinda like the girls in the shampoo commercials. But it's so cheap, it's hard to resist. I guess I could use it with one of my wigs.

Other than that, bought some over priced hair accessories from Sunway Pyramid Asian Avenue *kicked myself a few times after that* a Konad stamp M59 from some small shops in there for RM13

Sorry for the bad picture. I have taking pictures that has a reflective surface.

And even stopped by Etude House (as if we don't have one in Penang) and bought two nail colours with 30% discount. PK003 is a colour I can no longer find in the Penang Etude House. They don't seem to be restocking that much now and most of the nail colours are gone. BOOO!

Oh, I also got a size too big Hello Kitty T-shirt from Uniqlo. It was the only size left and I really wanted it. *sigh* Stupid me, should have checked another outlet first before being in a rush to buy this. But still, thank you Sir Terrible Memory!

And after all that, I finally got the Kutsuwa keychain making kit from Kinokuniya at KLCC. Whee! I been watching RRCherryPie on YouTube for a while now and his video inspires me. I am really happy I finally got my hands on it *rubs hands gleefully*

I actually just want the mold. The cookie mold is all that I wanted.. *wipe drool from mouth* All instruction are in Japanese and lucky me; the only word I can read is ... the full stop! Seriously. But it can't be that hard right? I mean, I watch RRCherryPie done this a dozen times! Instructions, distructions, who needs them?

Uhh.. then again. Thankfully, Sir Terrible Memory reads Japanese so I still have something to fall back on and when all fails - I have someone to blame! AHAHAHAAA!

*rubs hands gleefully while going.. OH HO HO HO HO HOOOOOO~*

A quick revisit

Hola everyone, just wanted to do a quick re-review on some items I bought a while ago and has been using.

Bobbi Brown gel eyeliner
THE BEST eyeliner I have ever used. I used this last Friday while cleaning out our office container (big metal things that people store all sorts of shit inside) and sweated crazily under the hot sun and guess what, my eyeliner did not move an inch. Ahh me love love!

Deja Vu Lash Knockout
I would personally like a bat to knock this baby to the nearest dust bin. Wasn't all that great, hard to wash off, no volumising effect, no lengthening effect. Been using this for over a month and I'm still hating it. BOOOOO!

Etude House Precious Mineral make up essence
I LOVED the Etude House Precious Mineral BB cream but I absolutely hate this. This was given to me by my colleague with about 30% left *point to picture*, tried it and hated it. It makes our face oily. Not dewy, mind you but oily, even the driest foundation starts to slick off after a while and streak all over. It doesn't make the face glowing or anything fancy, it just makes our make up 'float' above our skin and after a while melts off. Gross.

Maybelline Magnum
Almost finish and I guess it really ain't too bad. Believe it or not, it's easier to wash off than the Deja Vu Lash Knockout and the Deja Vu one was suppose to be removed with just warm water. Many bloggers has claimed to like the Magnum better than the Collosal but I'll remain with my own verdict. The Magnum is good but I love the Collosal more. I don't have a lot of lashes and they are short but if given a choice of either volume and length, I'll always go for volume and there's where I differ from others.

Fasio Eyelash Primer
Forgotten the exact name since it has rubbed off from the sides. Loving this and it's finished. *sniff* It does make our mascara slightly harder to wash off but the effect is worth it. It's not heavy enough to weigh your lashes down,

NYX Long Pencil Liner
I'm taking this off my 'to sell list'. I have only used it for about a month and if you look closely, it's REALLY short, That's because I got a bad batch and all the eyeliner on the inside is 85% broken. I sharped it and it broke horribly. I used the proper eye pencil sharpeners and not just any sharpener and still it broke.

It's a good eyeliner because it's black enough and medium cream and doesn't really make me smudge but it broke so badly that I'll be ashamed if anyone bought it and went thru what I did.

Revlon Liquid Eyeliner
So far so good. I like the brush. It can run a little and smudge a little tiny bit but other than that it doesn't go MIA on me even after 6 hours.

Majolica Majora Pore something or another
If it wasn't for the casing, this would have gone flying as well. It's chalky. Not smooth and will probably only work if your face is starting to be so oily it's reflecting the sun. *Ahem* In simpler words, it'll probably work if you want to powder your oily nose. Don't use this to set your make up. It wasn't made for that, me thinks. Don't try to be as smart as me.

Victoria Secret Very sexy duo eyeliner
It belong in the rubbish bin. Enough said.

*This opinions are entirely my own and don't sue me just because I don't like some of the products. I R Poor.

A love package from Dblchin; Looking in to Etude House BB cream

Yana (she's a real beauty :D ) smsed me during work to ask me when what post did I sent her package out with. She bought some of my remaining NYX stuffs (Thank you for the support!) and I had happily posted it to her last Tuesday. It was a express post so it should arrive the next day. But nearly one week later and it had not reached her? My face tuned blue, then white and then my blood shot up to my head as I cursed and swore at our post office's lousy service. I feared that they had lost the package and then I will have to start killing people.

Tried checking the tracking number but as usual our lousy internet connection decided to be super slow that time and day. I can't tell you how much hair I lost over it. Was busy panicking and sms-ing Yana back and forth. For someone who lost a package, she was surprisingly very calm but luckily in the end, she actually headed over to her post office and found the parcel waiting for her there. No notice, no phone calls etc.

THANK YOU POS MALAYSIA! - NOT!

Now give me my hair back, dammit!

EDIT: Thank you Yana for the wonderful post on me, you're such a sweet girl that I would really love to meet up and have coffee with one day. You're so beautiful that I do really enjoy looking at your pictures XD, keep up the fantastic job you're doing with your blog k!

Came home all relieved and then spotted a parcel for me on the table from Singapore. It's not often that I get pressies other than from Tahira or Elyn.

Happy happy, joy joy! *does the rabbit dance*

It turned out from non other than my favourite Singaporean blogger, Dblchin. She had previously left a comment to let her know should I ever need another tube of eye glue after mine beheaded itself. After mulling for a couple of days, I shamelessly told her yes. I know, I know, I'm shameless!! Shameless, poor and desperate.

I've been keeping an eye on her blog for a while now and I liked the way she seems real, down to earth and not afraid to laugh at herself type. I admit that I tend to subscribe to blogs like that. I really love the bloggers that is not afraid to show the real them and is just generally being themselves.

That being said, my first thought when I saw the parcel was , 'Wow, that's a LOT of bubble wrap for just an eyelash glue.' As soon as I unwrapped it;

Two false eyelashes from Daiso, the DUO glue and the flamingo mascara along with a hand written note with my name on it. It's really times like this that I love my name. Never really liked my name all this while cause the only time people call me was when I was in trouble. Seriously.

My first and foremost instinct when someone shouts my name is to get a panic attack. So the easiest and fastest way to get on my bad side is just to stand pretty far and scream my name. To stand pretty far is to discourage me from taking off my shoes and throwing it at them. Yes yes, I'm the jumpy type.

After using the DON glue and then losing even more of my real eyelashes, I am reduced to using the eyelash glue that comes FREE with every purchase of The Face Shop's eyelashes. They are actually pretty good. I'm so glad I kept them from a gazillion years ago!

The creepy part was this though; I kinda went all big eyed when I saw the mascara cause I was just contemplating whether to get it or not the night before. I found an old thread in the forum on the mascara and it seems really good. In the end, my piggy bank won. Decided to just drool and not get them. And la dee da! The very next day, it's in my house! It's magic, I tell ya!

A biggie thank you to Dblchin for the early Christmas XD!

Operation for the day, patient: Etude House precious mineral BB cream.

Yes yes, my curiosity never cease, wanted to know how the inside of a super flatten BB cream tube looks like. I've always liked the Etude house precious mineral despite the bad reviews. It usually get a pretty bad rating because of the lack of shades and that it comes in fair and even fairer. Occasionally it can be too fair even for me but the oil control is good and coverage is pretty good.

Does this remind you of dried cuttlefish?

*snip snip* Hmm, not too bad. It wasn't like the Skin Food Aloe Vera tube where I had a LOT of BB cream stuck on the sides. This had about 3x usage on the bottom and that's about it.

Not too bad at all. Hygienic and not too wasteful.

In my glasses; Maybelline Hello Kitty X Volum' Express mascara

HA-HA! For those of you who though I must have died. Sorry to disappoint you but I'm still alive.. and half kicking. I have not been in the mood to blog lately for a few reasons. One of them being that I've been a good but annoyed girl having to wear my glasses for the past one week.

Nope, didn't lose any bets but rather I'm preparing my eyes for the i-lasik assessment this coming Tuesday. They require all contact lens users to remove their soft lens for atleast a week to get an accurate reading on how thick our cornea and see whether we qualify for i-lasik. It's been one hell of a week with me tripping over everything, being extremely blur and unused to the sudden 'limited' vision (vision only within my small glass frame)

I look awful. Enough said.

My glasses are super thick and so makes my eyes appear smaller. I have actually collected a bunch of 'Ha-HA! Your eyes are so small' comments. It stopped bothering after getting like a 100th of these kind of comments. If I got a dollar for everytime someone said that, I will be a living in a big fancy bungalow. Ok ok, that's exaggeration there but definitely enough for me to buy a branded bag.

Ta-daaaaa.. I'm so brave to post this up! *pats herself on the back*

We had a girls night out last Friday with my colleagues and since I was in glasses. I wanted..needed to make my eyes look normal and not eenie meenie itsy bitsy by putting on some falsies.

Oh btw, I HATE putting on make up when I can't really see shit to what I'm doing. My very short eyeliners have been fighting with the mirror lately and I am merely guessing what the hell I am doing every morning.

Be afraid, be very very afraid

Saw the 'natural' eyelashes that I bought a while ago still all nice and comfy in it's box and decided to use it. Damn it's long. It look ridiculous on it's own but with glasses on it looked okay cause they were half hidden behind my glasses. Phew!

Hee, is this your first time seeing the actual colour of my eyes? It's really dark dark brown with black outlines. While some girls have very light coloured iris, I'm actually happy with mine. It's nothing special but awww.. it's mine. All mine, nyahahahahaha! Oh wait, I'm acting weird.

Moving on, it pays to read newspapers, let me tell you why. Cause I saw this!

Maybelline Hello Kitty X Volum Express mascara! I nearly died. I begged JH to fetch me to Watson and happily got it home despite being so freaking poor. I must have it even if I have to eat nothing but bread till payday!!

The back of the box is stated is Japanese but the one thing I CAN read is: Made in China. *toot toot toot toot*

JH was nice enough to translate what it says. it says;

Limited time only. Spiky comb waterproof black mascara. Makes eyelash 'lift' up. Holds curls for 18 hours. Makes eyes 'pop' / 'wide'. The word is actually "pacchiri" (JH didn't know how to explain this, a little help Bunny?) Waterproof against water, sweat and tears. Comb type brush.

So that's the gist of it.

Aawwwwwwwwwwwww

*Goes and eat bread*

NOTD: For Audrey with golden swirls

China Glaze For Audrey with Etude House BR003 Gold nail polish. Don't think it'll be keeping this long

P.s: I'm really sorry but looks like my giveaway is postponed till August. July is just too busy for me. Feel free to join Bunny's though. Damn her prizes looks good. Makes me embarrassed of my little gifts. Dang it! Dang it Bunny T.T

Lmao!