Maybelline SuperStay Matte Lipstick review

Maybelline SuperStay Matte Lipstick

Dear beauties!

I have bought this lipstick from Guardian even on the first week of release in Singapore! I have been using it for some time now and I have thoughts about it!

First of all, the colour range that came to Singapore I believe it was only the first set of colours Maybelline released, not the NUDE series that they released this year. I am QUITE DISAPPOINTED because non of the colours are what i liked, such as pinky corals that are not very pastel.

This particular shade I bought is called  10: Dreamer. This is the closest shade to what I would wear on a daily basis. Yet, it looked too mauvy and greyish on my mouth, with a lot of pastel in it.

It did no work in brightening my complexion, instead, it made me look sick with my yellow undertone.

I would like to get the bright pink as it may suit me better, but it seemed overly bright to wear, especially because this is a hard core opaque liquid lipstick

The formula was SURPRISINGLY interesting. It is very ultra longlasting even through meals, but it may be quite annoying for people who hate sticky lips. My issue is not about the feeling, but about my food sauce sticking on it, and I cant even wipe off the lipstick, because it is so longlasting. For example, when there are some back sauce sticking to my mouth, it is a little bit hard to remove the color of the sauce from this lipstick

Overall, I would only wear this lipstick for occasions where I need to wear a lipstick for long hours.

Rating: 3.5/5
Price: $19.90 ( I cant remember exactly)

Catrice & Essence Massive HAUL Buy 1 Get 1 free!

Hi Beautiful!

Recently there was a big haul at GUARDIAN stores selling Catrice and Essence products! 

Last month it was still 30% off for each of the red tagged items! This month it was buy 1 get 1 free!!!

Please hurry down to guardian and Watsons to get the remaining stocks before the Buy 1 get 1 free deal is over! Since i just got them not too long ago, i will do a full review on them when I use them! 

My greatest effort was in finding the Matt 12 hour powder from Catrice, as the deal was so good, each going for $6.50, and now with buy 1 get 1 free, its only going at half the price now. The only shade for the Matt powder that has this deal is shade 015. I went to 8 guardian stores and finally found them and grabbed them all!

See you in another blog post! Please grab them now before the discounts are gone! They will be releasing new products soon and these will be wiped out probably by this week

Bye for now!

SHOP MISS A HAUL REVIEW (Overview)!

Hi Beauties!

My SHOP MISS A haul has arrived to me! I live in Singapore and it took them 2weeks + 1 day to reach me. I bought about 30 items, total cost was 30.55+ 9.95= 40.50 USD. One of the item cost USD$1.55 because part of the money was donation to Animals, their new initiative.

I have taken some close up pictures of all my items , but some are still left in the wrapper as I do not intend to use them yet! So here comes the close ups and overview!

Let me first start with Shop MISS A's homebrand : AOA cosmetics

AOA baked eyeshadows in Creasmsicle and Rose

 These eyeshadows are shimmery and reminded me of my UBUB eyeshadows. I love these colours, I cant wait to use and review for you!

AOA perfect setting powder in Brightening and Banana

 From what I heard, the banana colour may be a dark colour, I hope its not too dark for me though! Use a light hand please!

AOA wonder Brow Promade- Caramel

 The Brow promade still in the wrapper, I have not opened it and plan to open it only a few months later. Don't worry, when i use it i will review it here too!

AOA Perfect Eyeshadow Primer-Nude

 These eyeshadow primers are creamy and easy to blend

AOA wonder Skin- Poreless Primer

 Contrary to what most influencers say, I cant detect any glitters in this poreless primer

AOA perfect BB cream- Fair

AOA wonder Baked Highlighter-Fairy

AOA diamond lipgloss-GRL PWR

AOA Super Soft Wonder Blender and Wonder Blender Holder (Sold separately)

The AOA wonder blender costs USD$1.55, the item that is part of the PAW PAW donation initiative. The wonder blender holder costs $1. I love the beauty blender because it is so soft! The image here shows the beauty blender in its dry form. The beauty blender holder is so useful! Now I no longer have to put my dirty blender on my table anymore! I don't like to stain my other things or have it rolling around.

Now, lets move on to Santee cosmetics products

Santee Twin Matte Eyeshadow Duo-Color 1

 I got this because I thought a yellow eyeshadow will look good as a transition shade. This looks too light though, we'll see!

Santee Flawless liquid foundation-Creamy Beige

Had wanted to buy the fairest shade but it was all sold out! This is the 2nd shade in line. Since it was sold out so fast, it must be good eh?

Now let's move on to LA colors cosmetics

L.A Colors-Eye Shadow Pot-Champagne

L.A.-Colors Chunky Lip Pencil-Terra Cotta

L.A Colors- Mascara- Black Brown

Now on to Amuse cosmetics!

Amuse Lusture Metal Eyeshadow Palette

Amuze diamond glosses and longlasting liquid lipstick 

Now on to Elf Cosmetics!

Elf Essential lipstick-Nostalgic, Elf Essential luscious lipstick-Ruby Slipper

One is a stick lipstick and the other is a squeeze lipstick with sponge applicator at one end

Now on to Starry Cosmetics!

Triple mineral blush sets-color 2

Lastly, Princessa Cosmetics!

Princessa 8 color eyeshadow set- #5

This Princessa shadow name comes surprisingly odd to me as each set only contains 4 colors. I chose the one with a wash of brown, purple, olive green and cream color. Sounds quite usable to me.

All in all, I am super excited to try out these products! The cheapest deal I have found so far (apart from some random items from Aliexpress). These are technically FDA approved, which is considered safe as compared to Ebay or Aliexpress makeup. What's more, everything is 1 dollar only! So you can't go wrong with the price. Look out for the PAW PAW charity and A2O labelled items, those are not USD $1. I definitely will try these products out and show you some looks and maybe do up some reviews pretty soon! Hope you can give me some time to test them out :) Meanwhile, I will still do some reviews of products I have been using so far and show you in swatches and reviews. 

Thanks for reading! See you soon!

Rating: not yet rated

Price: USD$ 1 for all

Essence Pure NUDE Makeup foundation REVIEW + SWATCHES

Essence Pure Nude Make-Up foundation

Dear Beauties,
I have just recently opened my Essence Pure Nude make-up after keeping it for 2 years! I really like this foundation! It is not only natural looking, i find it very long lasting! It took me about 6 hours of wear before i see any oilyness in my skin! Most of my other foundations start to break apart with my oils within about 3 hours. This is a major breakthrough! The only con is that it is quite a light coverage, takes me about 2 layers to be medium coverage.

Very liquidy  consistency

It is definitely buildable and very easy to blend out! I really think this colour is a good match to me, although I typically use porcelain or light ivory colours-- This is all thanks to its natural sheer coverage that helps me wear it nicely even though it was quite dark for my skin tone.

I really love it soooo much! I think they discontinued this series, and replaced it with the "18 hour wear foundation", the one with a similar tube packaging as this! Yes! I believe it is really a 18 hour wear even for this PURE NUDE one as I once tried wearing it from 8am to 10pm which is already 14 hours! Its a fantastic foundation. If indeed it is the same as the "18 hour" one, please go grab it!

It leaves a slight tacky feeling after put on, do powder it a bit before heading out!

Rating: 5/5
Price: $7.50 (At guardian stores)

Revlon PhotoReady Face Primer REVIEW

Dear Beauties!
I have a product that I have been using for the PAST 4 Years(2 bottles over 4 years), and I am nearing the end of the 2nd bottle, so I decided to do a very experienced review on it since I have used it over 4 years already

As you can see in my past photos, I have really bad skin, so I preferred to do less skin related posts. Now my skin condition is better after going back to my ARTISTRY skin care routine (See my past blog posts on ARTISTRY), I finally am ready to talk about this primer!

Revlon PhotoReady Primer

I had 2 kinds, one in the Lavender shade as shown in the picture, and another one in Nude. I finished the bottle in nude and am nearing the end of this lavender bottle.

I personally think that this primer is NOT FANTASTIC. When i bought it 4 years ago, each bottle was $39.90. Now, when i go and check them out at Guardian, their selling price is $29.90! This tells me that the demand for this is getting low! As you can see, a lot of the product at the nozel is because of its CRUSTATION. Since it is silicon based, every single time i use it, there will be a build up of hard silicon product at the beginning of the pump because it has hardened at the tip. Its such a waste of my product as I have to wipe off the hardened part before it goes to the cream part. The cream part is just quite smooth and silicony.

It applies transparent to the skin after smearing out, and has minimal smell. I really think it is not worth my money to buy again. I would rather test out other brands' primer. The pros is that my make up DOES LAST LONGER with this primer than without, in the sense that I get less oily when I have this primer on.

Overall rating: 2/5
Price now: $29.90

Daiso Face Foundation Powders REVIEW

Dear Beauties!
Check out the new powders at Daiso! I recently picked up the ELLEFAR foundation powders from Daiso at Plaza Singapura and have tested them out!

Ellefar foundation

As you can see, I have not opened the packaging for the lighter colour because I have so many powders in my stash that I am still using. However, I have used the darker one. The colours are : Ecru(left) and Light Beige(Right)

I am fair skinned, so i actually bought the Ecru one for a blush. However, it is not pigmented enough to be a blush or bronzer! So i usually pack it on my cheeks to give some enhancement before i use my real blush colours. Technically, these foundations are not very pigmented if intended for blushes, but is okay as a light coverage foundation.

I will still try to finish it up although it has not much impact on my skin, but here is what i looks like, together with my pink blush

Note: Picture is taken with front camera of SAMSUNG S7

As you can see, my camera is not very clear because i am using a front camera to take pictures of myself.

You be the judge of the item :) I still like this product because it does not emphasize my pores and gives my skin a smooth feeling

Overall rating: 3/5
Price: 2 dollars(DAISO SINGAPORE)

Korea Daiso Makeup Overview!

Korea Daiso Makeup Haul

Dear Beauties!
My relatives just came back from Korea and this is the haul they got from me from Korea Daiso! I am sure you cannot get these anywhere else in other countries because Korea Daiso is distinct from other countries' Daiso. Daiso Korea is separate from Daiso Japan after some sort of a quarrel, so these makeup are only exclusive to Korea! I am so happy to finally get my hands on them!

These are the 0720 range more directed towards Korea school girl makeup.

Each product feels super luxurious, the texture like those of Etude House, Innisfree and Skin food! But the prices of each product is really relatively much cheaper!

I will be testing these products out in future months, keep a look up for update posts! Take a look at each close up pictures below, and the prices will be listed against the picture. Please note that I have bought repeated products so I will only show one of each item.

Brown mascara- 2000won

CC cream--3000 won

Orange sherbet blush-2000 won

BB cushion-5000 won

Surprisingly, the bb cushion sponge is really soft and chubby! Every packaging feels heavy and dense and i have high hopes for them! I am really excited to use them!

Stay tuned for upcoming posts as I use them (I have many other products still in line to be used before these, please be patient :)   )

Rating based on packaging: 5/5
Price: 5/5