Recent purchases: Daiso, MUJI, Sleek, Heavy Rotation

Purchases from Daiso, Heavy Rotation, Sleek, MUJI, Essence

It was quite a cathartic relieve to be shopping for cheap, discounted beauty products. Gratification sure if high buying so many things and not spending too much.

Picked up Sleek's Suede blush from undertwenty's flea market stand at SCAPE yesterday afternoon and was surprisingly given a freebie (Napoleon Perdis Pigment)! I have been wanting to get my hands on Suede after watching Beautycrush do her Rita Ora tutorial.

Sleek Suede Blush

Suede is a matte nude-peachy colour, an earthy blush. I have no blush similar to this and am pretty excited to start using it!

The other Sleek blush that I own is the ever popular Rose Gold one. I was pretty impressed by the pigmentation and amount of product in it. Each blush contains 8g of product! The size of the mirror also impresses me. It is nonetheless a very 'compact' compact, the design of it wastes no space and perhaps helps with its competitive prices.

Bought from undertwenty for S$12.

MUJI Light Toning Water

Have been finding a cheaper and easily available alternative to MAC's Fix plus. Have been reading around how water and glycerin will make a good dupe, and someone actually recommended MUJI's light toning water. I have decanted some of the product into a Daiso spray bottle. Let's see how that works! Really pretty and sleek bottle (actually for men but whatever), and costing S$13 for 200ml. That's so much product for the price! 

Heavy Rotation Gel Liner

Heavy Rotation Gel Liner

Heavy Rotation Gel Liner, a much quietly celebrated product in Singapore. Got introduced this by Fitrina and have been itching to try it. I haven't used a gel liner for quite some time and now is probably time to give it another go.

Heavy Rotation is yet another Japanese make up brand that came to Singapore Watson's. It carries pencil, liquid and gel liners and also beautiful nude lip glosses.

I have tried the Clinique gel liner here and there. However, it tends to smudge under my eyelids in the humid, sunny and warm Singapore. Really detest smudging and that's probably the reason I stayed true to the Dollywink liquid liner or the Kiss Me Heroine Make liquid liner. Hopefully the Heavy Rotation one will make me love gel liners! Stay tuned for a review!

Napoleon Perdis Loose dust pigment #38

This was a freebie that came with the Sleek blush! I actually picked this colour as it really reminded me of MAC's Club eyeshadow. It is a duo-chrome brown and metallic green/blue. Its gorgeous to look at from the container and is a pain to dabble with. It flies absolutely everywhere as with pigment and loose dusts and glitter. Sadly, when I swatched it, the brown didn't come out. It was an extremely light dusting of power when used dry. However, when I used the MUJI toner as a solvent, the colour came out much much better. This product must be used wet, or over a cream, MUST.

Daiso purchases

My Daiso buys: 50pc bobby pins and a grey brow pencil. I've begin to draw my brows as I notice it disappears in photos. This is a perfectly working product that's very affordable. For just S$2, you get a compact with an inch length of product.

Essence C'est la vie! Nail polish

Last but not least, is Essence's quick drying nail polish in C'est la vie! This is a perfect nail colour for Summer. It is a bright peachy pink colour (photo has gone a bit too orange). At S$2.80, its really affordable and great on the nails. It has a gel-ish colour and finish but I had to do three coats for a truly opaque colour. I'm excited to get more polishes from Essence!

Essence is available at the Watson's in Ngee Ann City.

What a long post! Once again, I love getting new stuff (new cheap ones ><) and had great fun shopping for these items!

Thanks for reading!

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Findation.com Know your foundation shades across brands and products!

I recently got introduced this very ingenious website, http://findation.com/. Findation (currently beta) claims to help you find your right shade of foundation across different brands when you input at least two of the brands (and shades) in their dictionary of products.  

findation.com

The steps are fairly idiot-proof. You first type in to search, or scroll through the long list of brands for something you already have (for example, Bourjois). The second step is to find the specific name of the foundation (e.g: HealthyMix Foundation) and lastly the shade you're in (e.g: 54). 

Then select the second foundation in the same manner as the first. 

After you're done with at least two, you are ready to find the brand, foundation and shade! It's cool isn't it? And I really think it solves a lot of problems that we girls have, having to try shades over the counters with snobbish makeup sales people. However, I cannot confirm that the shades equated to you are the perfect match and so can findation. Thus, a percentage of what they think is close will be provided. It's a good, shortcut way to getting a match. No harm trying it out!

I was quite surprised when I saw a couple of Asian (Korean) brands like Holika Holika, Skinfood and Missha. I thought it would be a more Western,  European help site. Heh, happy to know Asian cosmetics count as well :)

Illamasqua Pure Pigment Furore

Featuring the makeup world's fairydust – Illamasqua Pure Pigment in Furore!! Furore is the Italian word for Frenzy, and indeed if you're easily excited by glittery and pretty things, this will certainly make you go nuts!

Illamasqua pure pigment Furore

This pigment is incredibly gorgeous! The glitter is so finely milled so you won't find chunks of them stuck onto your face the whole day. The colour is pretty as well, a champagne neutral colour that is perfect for the inner corners of your eyes or all over the lids for a glamourous party look.

The packaging is sleek, classy and very 'Illamasqua-ish". The product comes out of a circular hole right in the middle of the plastic 'cap' and this prevents excess product to be out of the container. You know how messy glittery pigments can be!

illamasqua pure pigment Furore swatch

Here is a swatch on the back of my hand. Since it's consistency is so fine, you can swipe a little or pack a lot of product onto the skin. Be wary though, as since it is a pigment, you ought to be careful of fallout while applying. But the effect is worth the caution.

illamasqua pure pigment furore swatch blended in

It can be blended easily into the skin. The end result is a shimmery pretty finish that can excel even further with a cream base under it. MAC's paint pot in Bare Study will do the job purrrrfectlyyy.

I love this product and have yet to finish trying out different looks! Come to think of it, it'll be great to wear it out for drinks this coming Friday with my buds ;)

This product was purchased off asos.com. 

 

Eyeshadow: Furore
Liner: tight lined with NARS China Blue eyeshadow
Mascara: Lancome
Foundation: Shiseido Aqualabel White + Banila co. It Shiny highlighter
Lips: balm + TOPSHOP Hazard
Cheeks: Sleek Rose Gold

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NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in San Paulo and Istanbul

Howdy! I have been quite obsessed with lip products this couple of months, especially with NYX's lip creams! My first purchase was San Paulo, a dark rose pink which turned out to be one of my favourite lip product of all time! My second lip cream is Istanbul, a fairly light and soft pink. Both colours are closer to neutral to cool-tones.

It's not lipstick, nor is it gloss. It's like nothing you've experienced before. It's lipstick cream that goes on silky but looks soft matte. 

Not exactly the most beautiful description but it is, honestly, true. The texture of the lip creams are a dreammm~ Soft and creamy, gliding effortlessly on your lips and leaving a colour true to what you see on the tubes. It is very pigmented (especially for San Paulo) and easily spreadable and movable during the first few minutes of putting it on. Look over to the right bar for the Lip of the Moment, currently San Paulo. The cream then slowly and subtly dries off to a matte (slightly powdery) feeling, adding colour to your face yet not stealing the limelight. I don't like shiny/glossy lip products as they can make me look more mature (yikes!). 

Longevity of the product is, like most lip products, according to what you do with your lips. If you're gonna have a meal or drink, the lip cream fades with wear. However, it's such a dream to put on you won't mind touching up! One thing though, since it feels close to nothing on your lips, you might forget having lip colour on. Becareful not to rub your lip area accidentally! 

Since this product is blendable and dries matte, I'm sure you can use them as cream blushes! Use Istanbul for a fresh-face blush or San Paulo for more intense colour. 

I love the NYX Soft Matte Lip creams and can't wait to collect em' all!! 

I bought the lip creams from Smoochiezz and it's Watson's Atrium Sale for $10 and $15.90 :( respectively. 

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