Hectic week + MAC sweet Sage, Sugar Shock, Testimo and disappointing hauls

I think I'm going a little crazy. This week has been one of the craziest I've experienced since joining the banking line. Our team didn't do all that great and stricter rules were enforced. Not that I can blame Mr. Team Leader. My cases has either been rejected or slashed to the point no return, a slight exaggeration there but close enough. I'm drowning here and I need a life line.

Worst I was so worried about work that it gave me writer's block the past week, I didn't know what to write or say and I was losing sleep over everything. But I realize that if I do not update today, I'll never have the time to as I'll be spending my weekend in roadshows once again for IJM and Reapfield, so I'll compile everything together and to do a fast review on the items I bought recently starting from a few weeks ago.

*Warning, picture intensive

MAC fluidline in Sweet Sage, MAC lip gelee in Sugar Shock, brushes from Coastalscents.com

MAC fluidline was an unexpected buy, E was browsing through some blog when she came across someone selling MAC Sweet Sage and alerted me knowing how much I love blues and greens. One looks later, I was in love. It's olive green with gold shimmer. It was beautiful! Since it's too light to be an eyeliner, I mainly use it as an eyeshadow. I normally pair MAC Nylon (highlighter) with Sweet Sage since they are both have gold-ish base and blend it all together with black. I'll post some pictures of the look up later.

MAC Fluidline in Sweet Sage and Blue Peep

MAC lip gelee in Sugar Shock

I've been searching high and low for this colour for quite some time, it was launched back in the Mid - 2007 with the MAC C Shock collection. A colleague asking me why I bought such an "aunty" colour after taking one look at the colour in the tube. I do admit that the colour on the tube is deciving but it's describe as a sheer red berry colour and I instantly knew that it's going to fit me but I asked E just in case.

E took one look and said 'Get it!' and she's hardly wrong and so I got it, wheee!

It looks extremely natural on me. It's my healthy lip colour colour

I have forgotten all their name and I admit that I was being stupid when I used a black cloth as the background

Finally, me and E ordered more brushed from Coastalscents.com. We didn't get a huge load but just about 6 brushes altogether. Regreted it, should have ordered more! I never had proper brushes before Coastalscents and I'm now slowly collecting them after getting nagged from so many people saying that I should invest in good brushes. And after using them, I can tell that there is definately difference between good and bad brushes. These are so soft and has yet to shed a single hair. I'm really happy with this batch. Just do a wash before using. Can't risk irritating your eyes right?

12/11

Kanebo testimo lip gloss in BE161

Another natural looking colour, but this one has more hint of orange and some sparkle. Nice nice nice nicee

Was walking around Parkson when E and I stumbled upon these babies, they are very affordable since there was some discount. What attacted us most was the packaging. It reminds me of the limited edition lip stick that my sister got for me a year or so back! I'm somewhat an occasional sucker for nice packaging.

Disappointing hauls

Egypt Queen Glitter liquid eyeliner and Locia white eyeliner

Looks like black...mascara clumps/ dirt(?) whatever

This has got to be the MOST disguisting eyeliner I have ever seen in my life! It's so gross I can be sure that it's not coming anywhere near my eyes. It refuses to be applied evenly and it leaves me speechless. No wonder there was no swatches on the seller's page!

It all happend when the seller private messaged E to check out her page and we saw that she was selling cosmetics (no name brands) for a very super low price. Being greedy with itchy hands, we order a few stuffs each and shared shipping. Boy, were we disappointed. It really goes to show that nothing good is free. In our case, it wasn't free, despite being cheap, I wouldn't have even forked out RM1 for this item. To be truthful, I wouldn't even have taken it if it was displayed outside a shop for FREE! I'm so tempted to give it away for free to anyone that message me but it's so disguisting it's an insult to even give it to anyone! I'm not sure how so many girls actually order this stuffs. I'm guessing that they do not know how the real thing actually looks like.

A comparison between Bobbi Brown gel eyeliner and Relian's gel eyeliner size

Relian gel eye liner in brown

Since I've recently acquired Bobbi Brown's gel eyeliner in Black, I decided to try out the Relian's gel eyeliner in Brown. I was expecting dark, chocolatey brown but what I got was ... brown. The Milo kinda brown. To me, its too light to be an eyeliner. It's going to look really awkward on me and that tone of brown will make my eyes look puffy and swollen if used alone. I really have no choice but to try to use it as an eyeshadow or something and blend it with other colours. This was another item without a swatch, and the seller's picture looked like a much darker brown. The seller happily told people that some buyers used it for their eyebrow. I can understand why, it's a beautiful shade if you are a BLONDE! I'm so so disappointed with the items I got. But hey, if the brown appeals to you, go ahead and get it, it was really cheap too!

Left to right: Egypt queen black glitter eye liner, Relian gel eye liner in brown and Locia eyeliner in white


Coming up next
MAC Holiday 2008 Collection
Passion in Red, Warm eyes

The concert was finally on

Macho and Jacky were incredible singers. I can vouch for that! O.O;;

We met J and Macho at Oriental after work on Monday and we were amazed. I now understand how is it that Macho won those singing competitions. Anyway a very big thank you to J for treating us, we'll be sure to repay you back!

Girls night out

Stole this from Kern's blog, muahahha!

*ahem* Now, let me explain to you what the pictures means

Left to right, top to bottom:

Pic 1
E: If I was president, the shopping malls would be open for 24 hours...
K: Hmm, I like her idea
A: Right!

Pic 2;
E, K & A : Heeeeeeee~

Pic 3;
Spoons, the next deadly weapon!!

Pic 4;
E: This is how I pray, first, clasp your hands together, then give God the biggest smile you can!
K & A: Is she serious?

Checkered Nails

This is what happens when you're bored

And what happens when you get even more bored

Looks weird?

Problem is, how on earth am I going to do my right hand now? (I'm right handed) ARGHHH!

P.S: I forgot to mention, as many knows, CherryCulture.com no longer ships to Malaysia. So the only way you can order NYX stuffs is either get a friend to get it for you or join a spree that gets shipped to Singapore and then shipped to you or something.

When questioned about it, I got a reply stating that they no longer ship to Malaysia due to security reasons. What kind of security problems and when they'll start shipping to Malaysia again? I have no idea.

Smokey eyes EOTD

Look who drop by for lunch? A kingfisher that finally got caught after snacking on my dad's fishes for months. We let it go of course, so don't go calling SPCA yet

It's been some time since I last did smokey eyes. It used to be a favourite of mine since my small small slitted eyes would looked bigger, but it's so long since I did it, I actually forgotten how to do it properly so this is nothing but a try-out again.

For one eye, I used nothing but MAC's cream base and Silkygirl's Yin & Yang which is white and black, d'oh.

Since it was in impromptu EOTD, I do not have foundation on other than around my eyes and I did not draw my eyebrows so ignore that one, also I did not curl my eyelashes and there's no mascara on.

Used:

• MAC cream base in Luna
• Silkygirl 08 Ying & Yang duo

I've been using this since last year, my second one actually, I heart it

My small slitted single eyelids eyes with cream base + yin (white) on 3/4 lid

Smear yang (black) on like no tomorrow, kidding, if you have crease, put it on above your crease, single eyelids, put on enough to open your eyes wide and still see the black

Line your lower lids and blend, blend, blend like crazy

And the end result with just 2 colours. Line eyes with eyeliner for extra effect, put on your false eyelashes for extra drama and go out there and break some hearts

Two words, butter fingers. Blame it on the coffee

Used:

• MAC cream base in Luna
• MAC Vanilla
• Sweetscents's Shamrock
• Silkygirl's Yang

Sweetscent's Shamrock was my love at first sight. It was actually a free sample from Enpointe when I first ordered from her. Elisa mentioned that it might look nice as smokey eyes with a twist and I decided to try it out for fun. If it doesn't look all that great, it's because it's my first time combining both colours but hopefully I'll improve the next time.

Slap on some vanilla on inner lids and paint the rest with Shamrock

Smear on some war paints, oops I meant Yang or any black eyeshadow

Line under eyes and BLEEEEEEEEEEENNNDDDDDDDDD

End result, add mascara or false eyelashes and you're done!

Muahahhaaaa, one grey and one green, how odd is that?

They only hires the stupid...

I'm so freaking mad, mad mad. One at Ian, the other at M.A.C. MUA (Make Up Artist) in KL. Penang one is fine since I dealt with them personally but the KL ones gives me one word to describe them. STUPID. It's really not nice to call people stupid, but these bunch of people, namely Chole and Emily from the M.A.C MidValley takes the whole freaking cake!

I don't particularly understand the requirement to be a M.A.C MUA, is it; one, must know how to make up, two, must know how to be arrogant while not knowing their products, three, stupidity.

It's always been super important to me to know what the hell we're selling first and foremost in a job. We do research and countless homeworks regarding our products and such before we go out selling and try to convince customers about the benefits.

But over in M.A.C when they have new stuffs coming out every few months with only a FEW things to remember, namely the names of the newer products, yet they can never remember. Or is it, it's not important to remember? Hell, I can remember their products and I don't work there!

They also seemingly enjoy arguing with customers. They treat everyone like an idiot and they know the best. I called these two idiots mentioned above only to have either one of them tell me that Mineralize skin finish comes in Light, Tan, Medium or whatever when I specifically asked for Petticoat.

Yes, I understand that Mineralize Skin Finish is also the name for the bakes face powder but M.A.C isn't as stupid as to call two different products with the same name. Which is why, they called one Mineralize SkinFinish and the other Mineralize SkinFinish/Natural. M.A.C ain't stupid, they just hire stupid people.

I'm not sure what's wrong with the name Petticoat but it might as well be a name of an alien species from the way they, 'HuH??! Petti-what?!' then went on to 'teach me' that what I wanted was Mineralize BLUSHER. Proceed to rattle on the names which I already know and DON'T want and I repeated that I wanted the Mineralize Skin Finish from the Sheer Minerals Collection where they has Mineralized Skin Finish in 3 colours; Petticoat, So Celyon and Soft & Gentle. Alot of huhs later they came back and said ' Don't have'.

ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!! I WANT PETTICOAT!

Financial Woes

Everyone has addictions, some are addicted to nicotine, some to drugs, some to coffee, mine's to cosmetics. It all started some time back, in Good Friday, April 2007.

I'm not sure just how to type all this down but I'll try my best. It was that day that my house was broken into while I was in KL and my parents out to have dinner. They went through my room and took everything valuable they could find. My entire 24 years of jeweleries collection that my mother have ever given me (I get pieces of jewelries every birthday and special occasions) and basically to cut it short a lot of jeweleries and money that I have faithfully collected for my 'dream' house fund. It's silly to keep that much cash and jeweleries at home but back then, I don't own a safe deposit box of my own and never thought of asking my mom to keep them in hers.

After the incident, I fell into depression and thought of all the money that I lost and hated the thoughts of the evil scums that I'm still cursing till this day, happily spending the money that I have collected so hard all this time. I do have bank accounts but in my naive little head, I've always liked to keep 'cash on hand' because I was too bloody lazy to head to an ATM and withdraw.

It drawn to me that despite saving so hard, I never got to spend a penny of it. After that, my 'dream' house fund went on hold and to cheer myself up, I bought things that I liked. It all started from there and everything went down hill from there. Nowadays when ever I feel upset or unhappy or even stressed, I like to browse online for cosmetics or go shopping for something. It may just be a lip gloss or something but the urge to get something is very strong. This habit went unnoticed till of late when I turn back and see all the stuffs I've accumulated since last year and how empty my bank account has become. How did they get that much (cosmetic) and how did it get so little (money in bank account)? Worst, I can't stop and I'm still buying them. Part reason why I'm writing down something like this is so that I can finally translate my thoughts into words and read them and wake myself up. I know that sounds silly and most of your would have probably went 'Huh?' but I need someone to wake me up from this cosmetic addiction hell.

Why I would like to wake up from this is also because my bank account has gone on diet. An extreme diet. When I was younger I would tell myself that my piggy banks were pets and I needed to keep 'feeding' them or they'll stareveeeeeee... Right now, I can't even remember when was the last time I 'feed' them. They must have died and gone to where all piggy banks goes when they die.

I've been working for about four months now and I can sincerely tell you that by every end of the month I would have practically emptied my account. How sad is that? I have no commitments other than my hand phone bill and car petrol and yet I'm suffering this bad. I've cut buying books down to minimal along with my sweets/candy addiction, only to have everything go to cosmetics.

The only excuse I can come up with is that I buy them to cheer myself up every time some thing upsets me. In the end, I really need something that does not cost so much to cheer me up next time. Wish Ian would be more supportive of my problem especially when he's one of the causes of it...