Clinique Chubby Sticks, how I love thee. I love thee with thy greatest love…

Okay stop. I’m not a poet. I was just illustrating on how much I love Clinique Chubby Sticks!

It just has to be the best invention in the lip color world! I’ve been whining far too long about lip products that give out great color, but are drying on the lips. Oh, my lips can be chapped at times, and it just shows, specially when you apply color on them!

Clinique invented such a great lip product and truly listened to its consumers. It fulfilled all my fantasies of a perfect lip product :

* Natural, luscious-looking lip color
Okay, I do have those moods when I only wear really basic makeup, and I’d love to pull off that natural look. Clinique Chubby Sticks give you that your lips-but-better look! Continue reading

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I admit. I admit! I really love high end brands. I feel that my skin is safe with them, at least. But that’s just my mentality, so please don’t judge me. I don’t usually go below 800 PhP specially for a liquid foundation because I believe that my complexion is already as “complex” as it is ( hahaha! ), and my skin, being not so nice, deserves something good. I can get even a low-priced lip product, but for foundation, I’m not taking any risks. If you ask me what my favorite foundation brands are – may they be liquid or in powder form, I would have to say Lancome, Clinique and Coverfx. There are even other high end liquid foundations that feel so heavy on the skin, that I don’t really like them, even. These top three loves of mine feel really light, look natural, and have crazy nice light diffusers that create the illusion of really flawless skin.

As alot of my readers are asking me about budget makeup finds, I am really, really trying my best and am constantly on the lookout for the best budget finds, and I must admit that sometimes I find it hard to find good budget foundation. The reason would be my skin is far from perfect. I have large pores, I have depressed scars, and I recently explained to a friend of mine that I need a skin care that is water-based that can prevent oily skin and banish my breakouts, but also cannot be too matte that it would magnify my pores, and show my depressed scars. My skin is so weird – it needs to be balanced and dewy – just right, just the way my skin wants it. Same goes for liquid foundation – I’m really really particular about it, that I’ve thrown away alot of foundations that I thought of giving a try, but end up disappointing me. Alot of good-skinned gals have found their loves with really affordable foundation brands ( even below 500 – you’re really lucky! ) and as for me, I’m having a hard time. I was able to find my favorite foundations in high end brands, but it’s a good day today, that I’m about to share to you one of the great exceptions, and one really good budget find for foundation!

It’s the L’Oreal Lucent Magique Two-Way Cake Foundation

Light. Translucent. Fair. The 1st skin luminating Tri-powder foundation for a seamless lit-from-within skin complexion. A finest quality powder foundation with seamless trace coverage. Infused with 3 powder finish: Luminating Pink Tourmaline, Translucent Light Pearls and Vitamin C whitening Complex.

Skin is transformed with the lit-from-within skin finish. Sensorial upon touch with the light as a feather texture that lets your skin breathe. Suited for the young modern woman.

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I really love eyeshadow primers. They’re just the idea of heaven for those who have oily lids like me. Heck, even my eyebrows have oil glands that I need really waterproof eyebrow pens, eyeliners, and even eyeshadow primers. I need makeup products to stay put, and trust me, it’s not cheap. I think my skin’s just too demanding and challenging. *pouts*

For reference, before we go further, I’m defining what eyeshadow primers are. Eyeshadow primers are what you apply on your lids just right before you apply your eyeshadow, to make the eyeshadow “stick” to the primer, and remain there, preventing oxidation, and oiling up of lids which can make the eyeshadow run all over your lids ( which is messy ). Eyeshadow primers can actually be concealer, but they’re just too moisturizing. A good eyeshadow primer is usually sort of a cream with not much moisture, a bit dry, to help the eyeshadow just stick on the lids, and just stay put there. For me, it’s imperative to get one if you’re into eye makeup. It gives you security!

I’ve been using Urban Decay Primer Potion, and as much as I love it, and I know how effective it is, I can’t help but have some difficulty getting it in the Philippines. It’s also a bit hard and sorta tricky to blend eyeshadows with the Primer Potion. But then, I’ve always thought that it’s the only thing that works, so I just stayed faithful to it for years. I’ve had tubes of Urban Decay Primer Potion all used up and some just dried from time, I think I’ve used more than 5 tubes in this lifetime already.

But then something came along that made me change my mind about things.

Yes, this! The Bobbi Brown Long Wear Cream Shadow Stick in Vanilla is my new HG Eyeshadow Primer. Continue reading

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Two weeks ago, Sample Room Partner Bloggers were given a treat to an afternoon of beauty pampering, and makeover, courtesy of Shiseido Philippines. We all met up at SM Makati, at their current pop-up store at the ground floor, near the SM Department Store there. We were given a chance to try Shiseido’s newest breakthrough product that promises you that your dark spots will be erased, and what would be left, is only beautiful, even, bright, beautiful skin.

Shiseido White Lucent The Ultimate Whitening Pair works hand in hand, as the Shiseido White Lucent Spot Targeting Serum+ crushes all the hardened melanin on our skin ( our dark spots caused by aging, sun exposure, and even hormones ), and Shiseido White Lucent Power Brightening Mask ejects all the existing crushed melanin.

This is the Shiseido pop-up store at SM Makati. There, they offer free consultation ( no purchase required ), and makeovers and facials with a minimum purchase. There, you can also see Shiseido makeup that you can actually swatch and check for your perfect shade!
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I’ve always had preference for long haired styles. ( Gosh I sounded like a guy there. ) I remember someone telling me never to cut my hair short. Well, to be perfectly honest, I looked like an egghead when I had a really short boycut when I was in first year high school. Not the cut’s fault, it was actually my hair’s fault. My hair was just so thick that it poofed up big time.

who can ever forget this scene? Tell me!!!!

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Hear ye, hear ye!

This February, Majolica Majorca is challenging YOU. Yes, you!

This February 8-10 in SM Makati, and February 22-24 in SM North EDSA, trade your old mascaras for the Majolica Majorca Lash King, the undisputed king of mascaras in terms of volumizing, lengthening, thickening, and even some curling effect!
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Apparently, I’m not yet done with my lipstick love, that all I can be experimental about this year would be lipsticks. Yes, I go out on most days for meetings, and it is important to be presentable, but I find myself having that “minimalist” look lately – using foundation, defining my eyebrows ( VERY important for me ), lining my eyes with my trusty black eyeliner, mascara, blush, and lipstick. Still too much for you? That has been my day look lately. Eyeshadows would have to take a backseat for night events and dinners, when I have more time.

Moving forward, I’m here to introduce to you one of the newest makeup brands in the Metro. BYS Cosmetics is an Australian drugstore makeup brand that is really well-received, and I’ve seen alot of them when I was doing my rounds of cosmetics hunting in Australia in one of their bigger groceries. Continue reading

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As I am still on a lipstick frenzy, catching up with the lipsticks I have in my collection, please bear with me. Lipsticks are therapeutic anyway, as they can just lighten up your mood in any bad day, don’t you think? Or even make a good day even better, and happier I suppose! I believe that lipsticks just give our face that nice glow, and just does wonders in a swipe or two!

I posted about this lipstick in my Instagram account early this January, and I didn’t expect it to be that popular, with even friends from out of town sending me SMS messages so as to what brand and shade I was using in that certain picture. It was funny, my friend was planning to have her mom shop for her this shade abroad, thinking it was MAC or some high end brand. Well, for the great reveal, I’m now telling you, this amazeballs lipstick that I just sported a look was from Tupperware Brands, Colour Collection’s Color Intense Lipstick in Walnut!
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Look. I am so sorry!!!!

I hope the Shu Uemura x Karl Lagerfeld Collection are still in stores, or at least, sold online! I heard they were still available in Duty Free!

I got this last December, but with my super crazed up schedule, I only got the chance to fully enjoy and check this lipstick out this January, and it is just soooo fabulous!

Shu Uemura x Karl Lagerfeld Lipstick in Celebrity Beige is that bright peach nude shade that glides on glossily on the lips, and give it a few swipes and you get good, enough coverage already. This shade is so pretty that I get compliments ( around 3x already on separate occasions! ) whenever I wear this. Continue reading

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Oh my goodness. If you’ve seen me tame down a little bit ( juuuust a little bit! ) on my MAC addiction for the past few years, this is the first time that I’ve hyperventilated, and got really excited ( to the moon! ) as I saw the visuals for MAC Cosmetics The Stylish Brow Collection.

I love my eyebrows. So much. I used to stay after my formal classes in makeup in Singapore to practice shaping and drawing eyebrows until I perfected it, and I am just so obsessed with it. I believe that it frames the face, and you can go bare-faced for all you want for the day, but the eyebrows always need to be perfectly shaped, whether it is just naturally shaded for that effortless, polished look for a simple day, or that well-defined, elegant look for night time. Brows are everything. Repeat after me. You’ll thank me next time when you finally realize it! I feel so naked without eyebrow makeup. Really.

MAC Cosmetics holds the one product that I swear by over, and over, and will never get tired of searching, and hoarding – the MAC Brow Set in Girlboy. After shading the eyebrows, I always like to soften it as my brows are pitch black, and no amount of shading would make it lighter. I shade my eyebrows with a soft shade of light brown, and proceed to apply girl boy like a brow mascara on my eyebrows until it looks really soft focus and light-colored. I love it with all my heart!

Now, MAC Cosmetics has launched Stylish Brow, a limited edition collection of eyebrow products that I’m sure alot of you would love! Here are the products with some of my commentary to further guide you on which you might want to get!
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