What I'm loving right now

L'Oreal Telescopic Mascara in Carbon Black.
I have been on the search for a new HG mascara ever since Maybelline Lash Stylist was discontinued. This one's actually really nice. Although, you need two coats for it to be. It isn't waterproof but might as well be. Usually if I don't use a waterproof mascara, it will smudge. This has not at all.





Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick in 070 Airy Fairy.
I have mentioned before how much I love this. And I haven't really used it as much actually. You know when you find a product you love again. It's like reuniting with someone you love. lol.





Nyx Round Lipstick in Summer Love
I know I haven't done a post on thse NYX lipsticks I bought. You know, all 25 of them haha. I do love them. This one's really nice to nude out a lippie. By itself however, on my skin tone looks horrid. I'm not really one to wear a nude lipstick by itself. I usually have to put a pink gloss on top to add a bit of colour so I don't look dead.





Annabelle Le Gloss in Breathless
My favourite light pink gloss probably ever! I remember using this for my debut. I went to Walmart with Gerene and David the day before and was looking for something that will make my lips look nudish pink. And let me tell you, 2 years ago, I was a complete makeup noob! So I thought that a gloss is good enough but obviusly not. I know better now lol. Anyway, I love this.


PS. The three products mentioned above are what I love using together right now. It makes this perfect glossy nude pink lips. :)




Maybelline Dream Liquid Mousse Foundation in Medium (2) Pure Beige.
Basically a perfect colour match for me. The pigmentation and cover is great! It feels very light as well on my face. However, I don't know if it's because it's a mousse or not, but I find I have to pump more than I usually do for other foundations such as Revlon Photoready or MUFE HD. I usually need 4 pumps for this one for my whole face and full coverage. And guess what? It didn't break me out!! (yayyy lol)




MAC Blush Ombre in Vintage Grape
Ahhh I so wanted the Ripe Peach one but it sold within an hour of opening of the day it came out at the MAC in Square One. I ended up getting this instead and I really like it! The pink half of it needs to be layered a lot to actually show up on my skin, but mix a teensy bit of the purple and it's super pigmented! I try to avoid using too much of the purple because it will look like a bruise lol. This really compliments my skin though I think. Well I like it so that's that. :)




Now for the non-makeup related things:

• Tom Yum soup with Chicken from Thai Express because this really cleared up my nose and throat yesterday. I am soooo sick right now. :( For those who want to, bring me some now please?
  
• D Gourmet Biscotti from Dollarama
• Chocolate Mallows from Dollarama (I forgot the brand but these are sooo good)
• Theodore from Alvin and the Chipmunks
  

MAC, Urban Decay, Revlon Swatches

Don't y'all love the holidays? December's my favourite and least favourite month of the year. I love it because it's my birthday month and I get twice the presents (usually) because of Christmas/New Year. But it is also the dreadful exam week(s). Too bad it went by fasssssssssssst but I'm not really complaining... Anyway here are some stuff I got that are worth blogging. Everything was a present except the 3 lippies. ♥ Enjoy the swatches and ignore the dryness of my lips (duhh it's winter here in Canada!!) and my blurring photograph skills. And LOL @ some having cotton residue due to the constant wiping of tissue to swatch. :) Oh and they're all clickable and are HUGE images when you do.

Here are my lips with only Aquafina chapstick (HG product for me btw) just for reference:


Urban Decay Show Pony Shadow Box Palette

(top: Snatch, Mildew, Flash; bottom: Painkiller, Smog, Toasted)

Snatch

Mildew

Flash

Painkiller

Smog

Toasted

MAC 5 Frisky Business Bright Mini Lipglass/Lustreglass Set

2 Lustreglasses (Wonderstruck and Pinkarat):




2 Lipglasses (Totally It, Silly Girl, Beaute):

(the flash is actually the one in the bottom and vice versa xD)

OMG. My first 2 MAC lippies :O




Revlon 002 Pink Pout
Sort of a MAC Snob dupe. I took a picture of half Snob and the other half Pink Pout but I think I ended up deleting it because I thought I took the same picture twice shoot... xD My bad. I also ended up forgetting to take a picture of the Pink Pout itself haha..

This colour caught my eye while waiting for Mike to finish work... This is just one swipe and it is VERY buildable for those who want really purple lips?

Revlon 066 Berry Haute

That is that. I would review each one of them but I would be super repetitive with the "I LOVE THIS" comment. :)

Sigma Brushes review

My favourite brush in the set. This beats any of the foundation brushes I've purchased by miles (E.L.F., EcoTools). Stippling brushes just has a better and more naturalistic finish (just my opinion).
Like I just mentioned with the 187, I am not a fan of these kinds of foundation brushes. You have to work twice as hard to blend and get rid of the streaks. And the coating is not as even as with the stippling brush.
I use this to contour my cheeks. I don't know if the product I'm using (MAC MSF in Medium Deep) is not dark enough to contour or the brush simply does not pick up product well... It feels very nice on your skin though... so soft :)
This is good for spot concealing but since my scars are not so small, I need a bigger brush to conceal faster. Like this would do the job, but with twice the time. I just use my foundation brushes to conceal instead :P

It's soft and very good to apply colour in your inner corners and eyebrows (like the site says). There's not much difference with my E.L.F. Defining eye brush though.
I LOVE this. Very good to apply your shadows as liner or to set your eyeliner. It's very dense and it is the perfect size. Ecotools has one of these as well which works just as good.
I find myself reaching for this more than my ELF eyeshadow brush. I think it's because it's a bit bigger than the ELF and therefore applies shadow faster.
I love this as well!! It's the perfect size for applying colour in the my crease (I'm asian so there isn't really a crease. lol monolid) It's pretty dense and softer than the ELF contouring brush.
This is a very fluffy brush and it blends my shadows SO well.
This is sooooooo soft. Like I can't even tell you how much. I can keep fluffing my face with it but that would be OCD. :P
I don't really have a gel liner (yet) so I haven't tried this at all.
It's a nice shadow brush but if I had to choose, I'd still choose my ELF eyeshadow brush because it is a dollar and works exactly like this (except ELF is not very consistent with the lengths of their handles...)

Overall, these are good quality brushes which are still a bit pricey, but the quality (apparently) is very similar to MAC (which is like 5 times more expensive.. and also I wouldn't know the comparison very well because I don't own any MAC brushes.)

I'm in search for a good lip brush. Any tips?

makeup update

For my face:

I recently bought St. Ives Moisturizer because I never really put on any moisturizer before but I decided to try it. I read reviews on MUA and they reviewed this one pretty well. Also the price is so cheap so that's another plus. I use it in the morning/before putting up makeup and at night after I wash my face. It "wakes" up my face and it feels nice :)


Then I got the Rimmel Fix & Perfect primer just the other day since my MUFE primer was nada for so long now. It has an orange kind of tint and I was like wtf primers are usually clear right? But it was like 6 bucks so why not? I dont know if it's this product or my face being weird again but my face is sometimes itchy in random spots but anyway I'm gonna try it out for about another week or so and find out.


I use the Physicians Formula Twin Concealer (green and beige)and I really like it because I need both the green (for redness) and beige for blemishes and undereye circles. It never broke me out so that's good. I sometimes use the E.L.F. concealer (I think it's the medium shade) and it smells like oranges (yummm) but the packaging is weird. It's that twisty tube thing and sometimes when I twist it, it doesnt go up but like it comes off idk it's weird but not a biggie. I also sometimes use the Clinique concealer (which I thought was a weird shade of lipstick before haha) and it's really thick but I'm just kinda eery about it since I don't know how old it is. (I think it's been discontinued as well. The picture I put up has different packaging from mine... maybe I shouldn't use it anymore lol...)



Then my Revlon Colortstay foundation in Natural Tan. I bought a new foundation brush because the E.L.F. one I got is horrible after a while. It's like stiff now and you're better off blending with your hands. I got the Ecotools Bamboo Foundation brush which I LOVE LOVE LOVE! It's super soft and super easy to blend foundation with. It's also organic so yayyy! :)