Manly 120 Palette Look #9 – Trying Greens Again

Yes this is yet another Manly 120 look and I’m a bit behind so some of these were from last week, but only posted now when I had free time. Today I tried another green look since the first look I did wasn’t all that great. I love green but I find them hard to work with on me. I’m not sure what it is about me, but I find green kind of hard to suit.


I wore this look on Saturday when I made my trip down to IKEA for some little pieces to help organise my makeup better. It was a nice sunny day and I thought green was a nice colour to wear. In some way not all that satisfied with the look, but I find that green make me feel that way all the time. That’s probably why I avoid it the most.

Here is how it turned out:

Still doesn't feel right... will have to try again some other time?

Eyes Closed

With Flash

Titled up

Normal

 
Products I used for this look:


Manly 120 Eyeshadow Palette


<>

Inner Corners



3/4 of the remaining lids

Crease line

Outer corners

Lower Lash line

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Coastal Scents Gel Liner – True Black

Maybelline Great Lash Waterproof Mascara

 

Just a bonus… Outfit for the day… simple and getting lighter since spring had taken off wonderfully with beautiful warm sunny weather.



Black Jumpsuit by Target Free Fusion
Vest Cardigan in Cloudy by Body and Soul
Leggings by Taget Free Fusion
Shoes by Target
Barret by Tempt
Bag by Polo



Closer view of the casual clothes.

CCs are welcome here all the time and I love hearing from you guys and I do reply your messages in the comment section so if you check back sometime you’ll find my reply :)

I was hoping to do an update on my Vanity organisation since it had changed heaps from the last time I featured it on my blog. Would that be a good idea?



Check out my 50 followers giveaway if you have yet!


http://hairandmakeupoverload.blogspot.com/2010/09/50-followers-giveaway.html

Autumn/Fall Inspired EOTD

Australia is going into spring so I do feel a tad odd do a look based on Autumn/fall inspired, but this look is for Turtle Beauty 160 Followers giveaway. I thought it would be fun and then I could post an extra EOTD on my blog as well.


I don’t’ have a photo of where my inspiration comes from, but when I think of fall I pick the leaves falling from the trees. The orange, brown and green colours that all mix together is a very nice combination. It somehow makes me feel kind of warm as well.

Here is how I do colour combination, I don’t think I ever mentioned it ever on my blog that I actually swatch eyeshadows onto a white card to find the right combinations I want to wear on my eyes.

My swatches while picking out the colours for this look

This look is indeed wearable and nothing outrageous or dramatic. I’m not a fan of orange I have to say and when I first applied the orange on my lids I was thinking it was going to be too bright. However in the end I think the colours worked out pretty well.

Products used…

all products used for this EOTD

Estee Lauder Eye shadow base

MSCHIC Eye shadow in Gloria – bright shimmer/glitter orange

NYX Eye shadow in True Taupe

NYX Eyeshadow in 24 Karet

NYX Eye shadow in Skin

Rimmel Mono Eye shadow in 084 Saucy Mint

#1 is for the first half of the lid
#2 is for the second half of the lid
#3 is for the crease and outer V
#4 is used for brow highlight and inner eye corners
#5 was placed on the lower lash line

Rimmel Mono Eye shadow in 214 Jet Black – lightly shaded in the brows

Coastal Scents Gel Liner in True Black

Maybelline The Colossal Volum’ Express Mascara

Chi Chi Glitter Eyeliner in Get down and boogie

no flash

with flash

left eye with no flash



Right eye with no flash but white light
More clear photo using close-up function on camera

Left eye with no flash
clearer picture using close-up function on camera

This is completely beauty/makeup unrelated but I just had to share this photo. It’s a photo of the little fluffy ball that is very important in my life. Meet Miss Coco, half Bichon Frise and Pekingese. She’s currently 9 years old and she likes to sleep/nap in the bathroom so we put a pet bed in there for her. This is a very rare sleeping photo of her since she hates the camera. She has an under bite and just recently recovered from being run over by a cyclist. I cried because I was in Hong Kong during March/April when she had that accident. I hope that cyclist feels guilty for the rest of his life after leaving my dog in a bloody mess! You should have paid for the medical fees you asshole!

Miss Coco taking her daily afternoon nap in the bathroom

Ok I’m signing out now and only 5 more followers until the first giveaway :)

June Favourites

Rather late with this post and I know tonnes of people already done their post for June’s Favourite. I’ve been caught up with work lately and then I partied all night Saturday, so never got the chance to update. I think I do most of my updates on a Sunday, at times more than one post as well. Sunday is pretty much my lazy day so I do most of my stuff on that day to catch up.

Anyway enough rambling for now I’ll get on with the list first. These are my personal favourites that I use frequently in June. Feel free to drop me a comment if you have a question about a particular product I’m using. I’ll always be glad to answer and help out people who want to know about a product. The favourites are in no particular orders; I’ll just list them as I go.

The body shop skin primer moisturise it base de teint hydrantente.
25ml (0.84 US FL OZ)
AUS $26
Currently my favourite face primer, good for people with dry skin but also works for combination skin type. So anyone can use it. It works wonders on my skin and really keeps the foundation from budging. Love the smoothness of the primer and how it instantly makes my face feel soft.

Lancôme Photogenic Lumessence Foundation
Light-mastering & smoothing makeup 14H comfort SPF15.
30ml
AUS $??
It’s very light yet it covers quite well, it’s easy to blend when you apply it and for a heavier coverage just builds it up gradually. Love that fact it has a pump on the bottle. No need to worry about pouring out too much and wasting the excess. My skin feels like it can breathe and at times I don’t even really feels like I’m wearing foundation at all. My shade for this foundation is 01 Albatre Beige.

Lancôme Effacernes Longue Tenue
Long-lasting softening concealer SPF12
15ml
AUS $??
Smooth and easy to blend and really does the work for the bags under my eyes. Just a bit hard to squeeze out of the tube since it rather hard. Using shade 01 Beige Pastel.

Lancôme Color Ideal Poudre
Skin-perfecting pressed powder8H Matt Effect
9g (0.31 OZ)
AUS $??
Cute packaging, very simple and comes with a sponge. I know it is pressed powder but at home I uses a kabuki brush to apply it over my face. I only use the sponge when I’m out an about. Nothing particularly special about it but it does give a really nice matte finish to the face, especially to those who has an oily T-zone like I do. Uses exact same shade as the foundation above.



Maybelline great lash mascara
12.7ml (.43 FL OZ)
AUS $10.99 (Sale price)
Extends my lashes and make them look longer as well as making them darker and thicker. No need to use false lashes to achieve some beautiful lashes. It’s not thick and it doesn’t clump so that is definitely a plus! I started off with the original which comes with a green cap, then because Australia is in winter season it means rain so I went and got the waterproof one as well which is in the black cap. The shade I use is very black for both of them.


Covergirl Continuous Colour Lipstick
825 In the nude desnudo chair
3g
AUS $??
Currently my favourite colour to use for winter season. It says nude but it more of a pink but a nice tone of pink that is not too bright but enough colour to give your lips a bit of colour. The texture is smooth and creamy and glides on nicely without clumps or making the lips dry. Not much of a smell to it so that’s good too, I hate it when you find a nice colour lipstick but it has that heavy chemical smell to it.

NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil
616 Pacific
0.5g (0.18oz)
Approx. AUS $2.50
Love NYX jumbo pencils always creamy and easy to glide on. However this colour is gorgeous! Love this particular shade of blue.

NYX Single Eyeshadow
37A Lagoon Sparkle
2.7g (0.09oz)
Approx AUS $4.30
In love with this shade even though it is winter season and I tend to go for nude or neutral tones. This is a colour I like to wear on a night out to give my eyes that extra colour especially if I normally wear black.

No base was use for the swatches.

KMS California Moistrepair
Leave-in conditioner revitalisant sans rincage
Detangles instantly with ultra-lite moisture
150ml (5.1 FL OZ)
AUS $12.99 (Sale Price)
Description from bottle: Infused with aloe and vanilla and formulated with advanced IOPS techonology, this ultra-lite spray provides instant detangling and a supple surface feel while conditioning dry or damaged hair.

It makes my hair really smooth and helps to tame the dryness of my damaged hair from previous hair colouring. Love the smell, it’s very pleasant!

Hawaiian Hula
Deluxe hand crème
An exotic mix of summer berries, promegranate and hibiscus flower.
100ml (3.4fl oz)
AUS $3.99 (Sale price)
It smells so nice! Love the scent of it and of course it keeps my hands soft and moisturised. It silky smooth like it’s melting into your hand as you apply it.

Well that is all for now…

Chi Chi haul and Nail Polishes Swatches

I extended the poll on the left at the top for another 2 weeks so please don’t forget to vote.

Just wanted to share some photos of some Chi Chi products I picked up at Myer, using my free $20 beauty and skincare gift voucher when I bought my Lancôme stuff. I didn’t want it to go to waste so I might as well use it up.




I’ve never tried false eyelashes before so I’m going to change that and my first falsies are from Chi Chi. Not cheap I tell you but it does say you can use them up to 6 times if they are cleaned properly.



I got 2 pairs of the bat lashes (Full lashes)




And 2 pairs of the cat lashes (Demi Lashes)




I can’t wait to try them out, but I wonder how well I will be able to put them on without gluing my eyes together.

Next were just 4 nail polishes and I know I’ve never been a big fan of nail polishes but I thought why not. I did some swatches on the false nails left over from my mum’s kit.




The abnormally oversized nails that is, I couldn’t’ believe how big they come in and thought they be some good props to test the polishes.

I bought “Single White Female” and “Walk the Walk”

I also picked out “Merman” and “Moondust”

While I’m on the subject of nail polish I like to share two recent ones that I bought but didn’t mention.

Covergirl boundless colour 515 “Megawatt Mauve” and Rimmel I (heart) lasting finish 199 “Go Cobalt”

The last thing I picked was nothing new, it just Maybelline’s great lash mascara, but the waterproof one since it is winter and that means rain. Just to be one the safe side I want something that is waterproof, I’m definitely up for the experience of having mascara run down my cheeks.

Completely irrelevant to beauty, I picked up some really cute star lights from a cheap store and they call them mood changer. It’s really just lights that changes colour, but I thought they were cute and thought I would share. They currently sit on my Vanity table on either side of the mirror.

Disclaimer: I paid for the items mentioned in the above post and was not paid to review or promote their products.

Drugstore cosmetics haul and review

Yet again I strike the stores and put another hole in my bank account. My never ending shopping when it comes to cosmetics is not a surprise anymore. I’ve given up; it’s just too hard to restrain yourself from something you love so much. I don’t ever regret spending the money on all those beauty products I buy. Maybe except those that isn’t all that great and I paid quite a bit for. There are still so many products I want to try from so many variety of brands out there, but when will I ever stop? Never probably, hahaha…

My new love at the moment is Harajuku cute little perfume bottles. They’re so cute and sadly I’m missing one out of the 5 original  I want to buy the red one when it’s on sale. I saw the summer and winter editions one and they were so cute too! I want them all! Hahaha! I don’t even know if I will actually use them, I think when I bought them I was only planning to use them as displays.



So I was supposed to be just popping into Target to get something for mum, but the cosmetic section was too hard to skip by. The sales signs and promotion signs were even harder to be ignored. I did limit myself to spending and only bought stuff I don’t have and had never tired or would like to try. In the end I didn’t really spend all that much since every item I bought was discounted.

I bought a couple of things from Maybelline, since they were having a $4 off their products in Target. So I ended up with 3 Quad palettes, brow pencil and mascara that people have been telling me is worth using. I also bought mascara from Rimmel, their newest on with the 1-2-3 looks mascara. Looks absolutely weird in my opinion but we don’t know until we try. It was on special otherwise I don’t think I would have bought it then. The last two are brushes, one from Manicare Cosmetica collection and one from Australis. It’s the first time I’ve seen brushes by Australis, so I’m guessing they’re quite new since they only had a small selection of them. Even though I wasn’t able to feel the texture of the brush like you could with the Manicare ones, I thought it looked pretty good in the package. So what the heck I’ll just give it a shot, it was cheap anyway.

The Maybelline eye shadows are alright, not great but not that bad. I was disappointed with Eyestudio PP-1 Winter Iris. It was not very smooth yet it was also not very pigmented so it was hard to actually get the colours to show. As you can see from the swatch I did on my hand it was pretty poor. However the Expert wear Eyeshadow 06 Amethyst Smoke and 30 Seashore Frost was not too bad. I did like the purple colour in amethyst smoke a lot though so I’m not too bothered that I bought them. I’ll find some way to use them and I’m sure of it. It’s kind of nice that it has a diagram on the back showing you where each colour goes so I guess if you’re a beginner these ones will really help you with application of shadows to get a smokey look.

Maybelline Define a brow is not that bad, the only down side to it is what ever you twist out and don’t use cannot be retracted! I didn’t know so I ended not being able to put the lid on or it’ll snap it and waste it. It’s not a good design for a pencil if it isn’t retractable. So be careful if you ever decide to buy it and try to remember only twist out a little bit at a time in order to maximise the use of it.

In love with Maybelline great lash mascara in Very Black. My short eyelashes are in love with the product because it done wonders to them. It extends them and thickens them to the right degree. Not clumping for me as of yet so I’m definitely really happy I decided to try this one.

The new Rimmel 1-2-3 look mascara is a BIG no-no for me. Just like any other mascara except it clumps for me so I’m not sure about anyone else. I tried the 3 and I was horrified to find that it was like scooping the mascara out of the bottle. I could barely see the mascara wand! Haven’t tried 2 because 1 seems like any normal mascara and 3 was horrible so 2 must be somewhere in between. I wonder how I’m going to use this. It was a waste of money in my opinion but I’m sure there are people out there who would appreciate it. This mascara is definitely not for me.

Now for the brushes, they’re both pretty good and they’re soft and non-prickly like some I’ve tried. However to use the Australis angled liner brush I find it hard to actually apply gel liner with it. I think it’s too fat and too wide so it makes it harder to get it close to the lash line and to great thinner lines at time. However it does work nice as an eyebrow brush for those who colour the brows in shadow or gel.

Have anyone else tried any of the products I mentioned above? If you have what do you think about them? It would be great to hear other people’s opinions.