[Tutorial] - Fuchsia Hot Pink Look

As a neutral makeup kinda girl you almost never catch me with bright bold eyeshadows even though I love them! I decided to take on a challenge before I get too old sitting at a corner of the house painfully regret what I didn't do while I was young wtf.

Yes I got another Inglot palette last weekend from NYC and rearranged all the eyeshadows I have. I couldn't help but notice this gorgeous FUCHSIA hot pink color. I filmed a tutorial for you! But since a lot of you complained about having difficulties hearing me from other videos, I am making this sans sound lol. So, here you go -



Though the eyeshadow is super pigmented and bold, its actually very pretty for a night look in my opinion, especially with a simple black dress. Me likey!

Products used - 

Revlon PhotoReady foundation in 006 Medium Beige

Skinfood Salmon Dark Circle Concealer in 02

Chanel Natural Finish Loose Powder in 30 Natural

MAC Paintpot in Bare Study (Primer)

Inglot eyeshadow in ds495 (Hot Pink)

Revlon eyeshadow in Violet Scarlet (Purple)

Inglot eyeshadow in 451 (Dark Grey)

Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler

Maybelline Ultra Liner in Brown

Maybelline Stylish Smokes (over liner)

Majolica Majorca Lash Expander Frame Plus Mascara

ELF Contouring Blush

Shiseido Perfect Rouge Lipstick in RS701

Chanel Glossimer in 87 Seashell

Hope you enjoy the video! I am making the steps as simple as possible for girls who are lazy yet curious to play with colors *contradiction of life wtf.


Also let me know if you like this night filming setting as I will only be able to film at night from now on *sad face. Are you a big fan of vibrant eyeshades? What colors do you use the most?

Smudge Brush Reviews (Urban Decay, Sonia Kashuk, Bobbi Brown and ELF)

I have finally put together a throughout review after all these months of lazy blogging. Please read and feel my effort! This time I am doing things a little differently. I have put together a smudge brush reviews on 4 smudge brushes from all different brands.

The Smudge Brushes I am comparing:

1) Urban Decay Good Karma Brush

2) Sonia Kashuk Smudge Brush from the new Gold Mine Collection

3) Bobbi Brown Ultra Fine Eyeliner Brush

4) ELF Small Smudge Brush

What Smudge Brushes do?
- Creates detailed pin-pointed color application
- Blend in eyeliner and shadow to create a smokey eye look or to fill in brows
- Use to apply powder to line eyes or create concentrated color definition
But I only use all my smudge brushes to line my eyes using either my Bobbi Brown Long Wear Gel Eyeliner in Black Ink or the ELF Cream Eyeliner.

Characteristics of each smudge brush:

1) Urban Decay Good Karma Multi-Tasker Brush
Got it from Hautelook for $12, this brush is in amazing quality. I use and wash this brush everyday for the past 3 months. This high performance multi-tasking brush is still in great shape after so many washes and my rough use. The medal handle gives the brush a good amount of weigh and the grooves designed on the handle acts as the pivot point allows me to easily control and get a good grib moving the brush around when applying liners.

2) Sonia Kashuk Smudge Brush from the new Gold Mine Collection
Don't fool by the flared bristles even only after 2 times of wash. They do not affect the application. This lightweight, slight convex C shaped brush is perfect for beginners. The handle is the thickest and shortest among all. The wide width allows fast and precise application.

3) Bobbi Brown Ultra Fine Eyeliner Brush
Got this brush along when the very first version of the Bobbi Brown Long Wear Gel Eyeliner came out, yet have never been (and never will be) impressed with this brush. The bristle hair is very high quality. Though named to be 'Ultra fine', it never occurred to me that it was any 'fine'. But at the time I was a makeup noob and had so much loyalty towards Bobbi Brown so thought it was the best it could offer for $25. However, after couple months of usage and wash it flared out like crazy. Yes call me superficial but I expect Bobbi Brown brushes to last for a very long time! Unlike all 3 other smudge brushes, this brush comes with same length bristle hair. What does it mean? It means when the bristle hair flare out it will get in your way during application because touching the 'flared out' hair is inevitable.

4) ELF Small Smudge Brush
Not sure if it is because this synthetic haired Taklon brush has the shortest bristle hair among all, or it really has lived up to its expectations, this brush has still not yet flared out on me after many washes. The thin and light handle compliments the short bristle to allow easy turning and twisting for pin pointing flawless application. The only down side about this product is that it may be difficult to draw a thick line due to its thin tip, you might need to "redip" to get more eyeliner to do so.

Handle & Bristles Comparison:
Handle Length:

1) Urban Decay: Shortest

2) Sonia Kashuk Smudge Brush: Short

3) Bobbi Brown: Longest

4) ELF: Long

Handle Material:

1) Urban Decay: Medal

2) Sonia Kashuk: Wood

3) Bobbi Brown: Wood

4) ELF: Plastic

Weight: 
Only the Urban Decay Good Karma Brush is significantly heavier, the others are pretty much the same.
Bristle Hair:

1) Urban Decay: Feels like animal hair but they claim this brush is Vegan lol!

2) Sonia Kashuk Smudge Brush: Synthetic

3) Bobbi Brown: Horse/Syethetic

4) ELF: Synthetic

Price:

1) Urban Decay: $24 but got it for $12 from Hautelook

2) Sonia Kashuk: The entire Gold Mine set is $24 with other 6 brushes, so roughly around $3

3) Bobbi Brown: $25

4) ELF: $3 but got it for $1.5 with a 50% discount

Horizontal line Competition: (From Top to Bottom)
1) Urban Decay: Easily manage to draw a line from thick to thin. Color fades as stroke fades.

2) Sonia Kashuk: With its wide width, it was difficult to perform thickness on application. Yet the stroke and coloration are constant.

3) Bobbi Brown: Impossible to avoid the flared bristle hair even tipping the brush during application. Coloration is, however, very constant and smooth.

4) ELF: Handle seems to be too light to apply pressure with. It's hard to get a "feel" of how much product is being applied. However, coloration is comparable to the Bobbi Brown brush, the color remains opaque with thin strokes.

Curved Line Competition: (From Left to Right)
1) Urban Decay: Constant and easy to turn and twist.
2) Sonia Kashuk: Very difficult to draw thin curved line with with its wide width. When forcing it to do so, it adds thickness to the line. However coloration is constant and opaque.
3) Bobbi Brown: Almost impossible to draw thin curved line because of the flared bristle hair.
4) ELF: Thin tip allows precise curved line application. Application does appear 'roughness' due to the lightness of the brush.

Overall Recommendations:

Quality:
The Urban Decay Good Karma Multi-Tasker Brush is the best quality among all the brushes and is the one I recommend the most. The hair stays the same even after many washes and its heavier weight applies a good grib to make application a lot easier and manageable. It is a little pricy (only $1 less than the Bobbi Brown) though I believe it will last for a very long time. 

Price:
I do recommend both Sonia Kashuk Smudge Brush and ELF Small Smudge Brush if you are on a budget yet are on the hunt for a decent quality smudge brush for your cream liner. However, after comparing them from different perspectives, I slightly recommend the ELF one over the Sonia Kashuk Smudge brush because of its shorter bristle and better quality bristle hair. 

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Hope this review helps! With my poor composition ability this has taken me HOURS to do *tears go down. Have a great weekend and leave me comments if you wanna share your 2 cents on any of these brushes or have any recommendations!


April Favourites video and couple OOTD videos are also uploaded on my youtube channel! Make sure you check them out if interested! Last but not least, Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers out there!

Pearls & Lace

Taking a day off work I am turning my effort into an OOTD + FOTD post. See how much I love you, my fellow bloggers?

 

 

OOTD:

Lace Cardigan: Hong Kong // Lace Dress with belt (similar HERE) // Hearts Tights: F21// Suede Shoes: F21 // Pearl Bracelets: F21 // Silver Bracelet: Links London // Earrings: Handmade

FOTD:

Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer in Sand (Had to dig mine out after seeing Cathy raved about it!)
Skinfood Salmon Dark Circle Concealer Cream

Chanel Natural Finish Loose Powder in 02

ELF Eyelid Primer

Maybelline Color Gleam Cream Shadow in 25 Neutral Liasons

Bobbi Brown Long Wear Gel Eyeliner in Black Ink 

ELF Liner Brush (used for the 1st time, not bad)

NYX Blush in Pink (Review soon!)
NYX Round Lipstick in Pumpkin Pie (Review soon!)
Lancome Mineral Foundation Brush
RMK Blush Brush

Favourite Products of 2010 + Resolutions for 2011!

Today is the 10th day of 2011 and I hope you all are progressively making your resolutions come true. 10 is the very first number to round up in the number family and I hope to make today a little special by doing what 10 does on a daily basis wtf. I was never a person who would ask myself to change this change that. Hence, shame to me I never had any resolutions because I honestly didn't see a point in making any - I felt like if I meant to do something or was in urge to do something, simply and easily, then I would. Though this year is a little different, I unwillingly participated in the society work force, dedicating 30 somewhat hours a week to a job fml. It's not like I don't like my job. I have started working full time for exactly a month now and am loving the environment, people and how much I am learning everyday... but it's so different than sitting at home or going shopping everyday, and be able to blog however and whenever I want.

Things are different now, you know?

So this year I want to make some resolutions for once to keep things on track, since there are many more 'obstacles' fighting against my freedom. And I want you all to supervise this resolution newbie in making this happen aka I want you all to be apart of my life :P

Also as to relate to my primary purpose of this blog, I want to do post regarding my favourite products of 2010. For the sake of my blog I will not go into super details of each product but I will try to list the reviews I had on them if possible.

Listed Products and Reviews:
Laneige Skin Veil Base
Laneige Makeup Primer Serum Control
Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream
Missha Signature Complete BB Cream
Skinfood Salmon Dark Circle Concealer no.2
Chanel Poudre Universelle Libre Natural Finish Loose Powder no.30 Neutrel - Translucent 2
Inglot Freedom System 10 Eyeshadow Quad
Maybelline Stylish Smokes in no.02 Natural Smokes
Stila Collectible Travel Palette no.4  Make an Impression in Moscow
Benefit Hoola
MAC Melba
Bobbi Brown Long Wear Gel Eyeliner in Black Ink
Urban Decay Wonder Brush
ELF Powder Brush
Dollywink Eyeliner
Maybelline x Hello Kitty Volume Express Mascara
Majolica Majorca Lash Expander Frame Plus
Duo Eyelash Adhesive Dark Tone
EOS Lip Balm
Revlon Super Lustrous Lipglosses in Pink Pop, Coral Reef & Cheeries in the Glow
Shiseido Perfect Rouge Lipsticks in RS701 and RD405

Resolutions for 2011
- master in snowboarding: as I tweeted earlier as a joke, I am taking snowboarding really serious this year. I am going to snowboard every weekend until I could do it in Aspen, then Switzerland.
- lose 10 lbs and become a hot girl so all my ex-es will regret if they haven't' already: Just kidding la, though I really wanna start dancing or kickboxing again or some sort of routine exercising to keep my body strong for snowboarding, and simply to stay healthier.
- grad school / work overseas decision: probably not going to have to decide until later on this year since the deadline for this upcoming September has already passed but I wanna figure out if I could get into Stanford or some ways to work in either Singapore or Shanghai... I don't want to stay in this East Coast weather if I was about to spend 2 years in school (after 6 years-_-).
- travel: not sure if I could do as much traveling as I did in 2010 since having a f/t job but will definitely try going to somewhere new if I could get vacation days from work.
- everyone stays happy, grateful and healthy!

What are your resolutions? And what were your favourite products of 2010?

ELF Haul

I am too lazy to give detail reviews on each of the product.

Things I absolutely like (and will probably repurchase):
Mineral Infused Face Primer <3<3<3
Powder Brush
Cream Eyeliner
Eyeliner Brush

Things that are not bad:
Shadow Primer
Translucent Matifying Powder

Things that suck:
Pressed Powder (Its orangeeee! So awful! shall i consider using it as a blush lol ;)

In conclusion, i think it worth every penny to buy their brushes, esp the ones from their studio line. For the similar prices they are much greater brushes than avon brushes in my opinion. But they also make some pretty awful products. Honestly try to stay away from their foundation stuff. they are no way in hell even comparable to drugstore products.

see my other recent ELF purchase HERE

let me know what you think about elf cosmetics!

CVS Sale, Drugstore Lippies, Foundation, Bronzer, ELF and Darkness Falsies

Hi Everyone! How was your weekend?
I am finally back from New York! it was a lot of fun!

but it feels even better being back home after being gone for a week
and finally having time to update :)
i want to dedicate this post to what i bought over the past week
nothing fancy - all very feasible products

jamming them together they are all from
1) CVS 50% off 75% off sale
2) ELF from Target
3) Darkness and ELF Falsies
first things first - lippies(from left to right)
Maybelline Moisture Extreme in A12 Sugar Plum Ice
Maybelline Moisture Extreme in A34 Born With It
Maybelline Moisture Extreme in A60 Windsor Rose
Revlon Super Lustrous in 080 Cherries In the Glow (can def wear it by itself, love the pigmentation, will def buy more in diff. colors)
Maybelline lipgloss 505 (not sure about the name)
Revlon Creme Gloss in 060 Peachy Sheen
ELF Hypershine gloss in 91106 Flirt ($1 quality)
Sally Hanson Color Comfort Lip Color in Sunbeam 1030-55 Rayon de soleil (sucks!)
Revlon Colorburst in 070 Soft Nude (New fav!)
Revlon Colorburst in 075 Peach (Sec fav!)

 



Swatches in room light and sunlight accordingly

Foundation and Bronzer

Rimmel Lasting Finish Mineral Enriched Foundation in 201 Classic Beige (Love it! lasts all day)
Maybelline Pure Makeup shine-free Foundation in Creamy Natural light 5 (So light! Perfect for summer )
NYC Color Wheel Mosiac Face Powder 727A Mocha Glow (Nothing special, does its job. 75% off quality)

ELF Haul

The nearby Target finally has ELF stuff

most impressed with the studio brush

the rest are so-so, but not too bad for the price

Contouring Blush & Bronzing Power (very cheap for $3)
Complexion Perfection (pretty bad quality for pressed powder, too light for my skin)
Brightening Eye Color in Sliver Lining 91106
Studio Eyeshadow "C" Brush (love it! will probably buy more from the studio line)
Professional Eye Shadow Brush (not too bad for $1)

Falsies
Darkness from HMart (Love the quality for the price)
ELF from Target (havent tried out yet)

In conclusion, I dont need to buy all expensive makeup to make myself happy. I have been cutting down my spending and trying out a lot of so called drugstore products lately and I am very pleased with the results. It really depends on if you have the time to try new things out. Of caz, I still believe its a bigger risk of investing in sucky products, but overall I really enjoy the experience/experiment haha

Last but not least, as promised from the last post

i was having too much fun and forgot i needed to take pictures

the only picture - blurry

and here are the jessica simpson ones

hehee the T-Storm is gone! Enjoy the weather <3