Simply Siti Eyeshadows

Last weekend, I went to Watson and Simply Siti single eyeshadows caught my attention.

Doesn't the pan shape looks a lot like NYX singles!

I swatched the Simply Siti eyeshadows and I find it to be very powdery and most the shadows are pretty sheer. I think it's because the line is manufactured in Korea, and typical Korean and Japanese eyeshadows are like that.

Lancome L'absolu Creme de Brillance

For my mum birthday, I wanted to get something from a luxury brand, but I couldn't afford most of it. Luckily, there are stuffs from luxury brand that cost less than RM100.

I decided to get Lancome L'absolu Creme de Brillance after reading a positive review saying that it's more of a liquid lipstick than a gloss.

It's priced RM75 each and the shade I got for my mum is Rose Absolu (I think so).

Here are the swatches in different light condition. I gotta say, I'm really impressed with the texture and pigmentation of this product. I wish I can get one for myself, but the price is too expensive for my budget and I think Lancome is not cruelty-free. I'm not gonna get this for myself, but I gotta make an exception this time since I think my mum deserve something from luxury brand once in a while.

p/s: It's her birthday today! I didn't get the chance to personally give her this, but I passed it to my dad few days earlier when he was in Kuching. My dad bought my mum a handbag! My mum never have enough bags or shoes...like most of us. LOL.

Shu Uemura UV Under Base Mousse SPF30 PA+++ Samples Swatch

I finnaly received the Shu Uemura UV Under Base Mousse. If you read the post earlier about the Shu Uemura express makeover, you read about me complaining that the makeover make me look greyer.

I finally found the culprit. It's not the face powder, it's actually the base. It make sense since the product have pretty high SPF.

The sample is pretty generous. 30g each.

The product is in super light mousse form. I believe the sample I got is 'beige' version. There are also pink and BB beige. BB beige is the limited shade in Mika Ninagawa collection.

 

It's too early to write a review for this product. So I'm just gonna swatch it in this post.

Swatch w/o flash: I apply the base only at the left side. The white cast can be seen here.

It become more obvious with flash. So, basically, this product is not good if you're taking picture.

But the good thing is that, the area where the base applied look more even and smoother. I think I'm gonna reserved this as sunscreen for the day I'm playing volleyball.

Swatches: ELF Bronzer and Highlighter

From left to right:

First four are from ELF Studio Warm Bronzer
5th is from ELF Studio Contouring Blush & Bronzing Powder
6th is ELF Essentials Healthy Glow Bronzing Powder Matte Bronze
7th is ELF Essentials Healthy Glow Bronzing Powder Luminance

Swatches: ELF and Silkygirl Blushers

Here are swatches of some of my blushers. I will do full review once my blushers collection become static (no new blusher). I'm not good with color description, but I try my best.

1. Blushed - ELF Studio Contouring & Bronzing Powder (Pinkish coral w/ slight gold glitter) note: Over UDPP, Blushed appear less pinker and more brownish.
   
2. Candid Coral - ELF Studio Blush in Candid Coral (Dirty coral w/ golden sheen)
   
3. Flushed - ELF Essential Natural Radiance Blusher in Flushed (Mauve-y pink w/ very little silver sheen)
   
4. Honeywood - Silkygirl Blusher in Honeywood (Matte corally orange-brown lol~)
   
5. Mellow Mauve - ELF Studio Blush in Mellow Mauve (Purple mauve w/ purple sheen)
   

Swatches in different lighting condition

p/s: Aisyah and I received our swap items today at almost the same time (what a coincidence) and I'm glad to tell you that I received two more blushers to play with. Unfortunately, the blusher would make their appearance a lil bit later as I got quite a few post on queue to be publish. Thanks Aisyah for the awesome swap!

Review and Swatch: ELF Essential Clarifying Pressed Powder.

ELF Clarifying Pressed Powder is my favourite pressed powder. It's cheap and it works! It claims to mattify skin and treat breakouts. I don't really think this product contribute much in reducing or treating break out, but it does works in eliminating shine by absorbing oil.

I used it most of the time to set BB Cream or foundation that is too dewy. I have oily skin, so dewy look looks good for the first 30 minutes only. Longer than that, I would look line frying pan. What makes this powder works great for that purpose is the ingredients. It contains talc, mica, kaolin and cyclomethicone. I think most of you already know how kaolin works wonder on oily face.

Packaging of this product aren't that good since it's only price $1. It comes it cheap flimsy plastic container with useless powder puff. I use brush to apply this product. The lid of this product comes off easily and the hinge breaks with little amount of pressure. The powder have no noticeable scent and the texture varies, I think depending on which batch it was made. I have some that are just okay, some that is to hard to pick up using brush and some that crumbles with the slightest touch.

Finding the right shade is months long quest for this powder. I first started with Rosy Beige, but it's too light and too pink for me. So I tried Honey for the next spree, but it's too dark eventho it have correct undertone. So I thought Apricot Beige would be a good match, and yes it is. I also bought Spice and Toffee as I thought it might work as matte contouring powder. I haven't properly used the two for that particular purpose, but from the swatches below, you can see how orange Spice is. So I might used Spice for blusher or something. Toffee shade is okay for contouring.

In swatches picture below, the product applied over UDPP on the lower half (across my arm horizontally) of the swatch and over bare skin on the upper half of the swatch. That's why the bottom part appear a little darker.

Powder in the pan and swatches.

Top: Natural light. Bottom: With Flash

I would definitely recommend this product, especially if you can find shade that works for you.
I wouldn't repurchase at the moment since I'm still on makeup shopping ban, but once it over, I'm gonna restock tonnes of Apricot Beige.

Review and Swatches: ELF Studio Complete Coverage Concealer.

I ordered this concealer on the very week it was first available in ELF website. So, there are no reviews available at that time. While waiting for the concealer to arrive, more and more review of this concealer can be found online, I'm a lil bit disappointed since the reviews are mainly negative review.

The shade that I picked was light. I was actually going for medium, but my friend convince me that light is a better match. She's actually right.

The product come in typical ELF Studio packaging, and a very tiny concealer brush. When it first came, I can see clear drops of moisture on the product surface. This drops of moisture make the concealer become very runny when I first try it on. After sometime, when the top layer been used up, the concealer become a lil bit better. but it is still hard to work with (gonna explain that later).

The palette comes with 4 concealer in different shade. The first two from the left is two light for my skintone, while the other two works okay. However I prefer the one in far right (in picture below) as it have yellow undertone while the second one from the left is a lil too pink for my skintone (I have strong yellow undertone). I'm not that good at describing color/shade. So let the picture below do the talk.

The concealer have weird creamy consistency. I tried a lot of application technique, over the period of two weeks, to make it work.

• Swiping it on caused the concealer to be extremely streaky
• Patting it on would make it become very cakey and streaky after 5 minutes you applied it.
• Stippling is the only way to make it work. I use Everyday Mineral Eye Kabuki brush.
  

IMO, this concealer coverage is sheer. It work well brightening my under eye dark circles, but not good enough to cover it. It help reducing redness on my cheek and around my nose. But no matter what I do, it would crease around my nose. I tried building the coverage up by layering the concealer, it could be done, however it would start being streaky and cakey.

I tried to use this concealer under and over BB Cream, it didn't work. It become patchy and cakey. Then, I tried apply it after moisturiser and set it with pressed powder (again, I need to stipple the powder on). It looks fine. But I have to control the way I apply pressed powder so that the concealer won't look cakey.

With all the tedious work to make this concealer work, I had facepalm moments when it come to how long this product last. One hour later, the concealer settling into fine lines. 3 hours later, it starts to look cakey. 5 hours later, I removed it altogether and went makeup free for the rest of the day. I tried it again the next day, the very same thing happen again.

As conclusion, not recommend at all and unless the formulation become much better, I would not repurchase this product.

p/s: Noticed that I used the 'cakey' generously in this post? XD

Swatch: ELF Essential Brightening Eye Color over UDPP

I'd done review and swatches for ELF Essential Brightening Eye Color here. Honestly, I'm not that happy with the swatches picture. Especially the one without flash.

I bought Urban Decay Primer Potion in pro size last December, so I got lots to use for swatches.
Since I recently depotted all my ELF eyeshadow quad in to a CD case, I changed the pans position, but still group within its original quad.

All swatches done over UDPP. First row-natural light, second row-with flash, third row-eyeshadow in the pan.





I hope this post is useful for those looking for swatches picture of this quads since the one in ELF website is very very inaccurate.

p/s: I try my best to get the picture match as much as possible to RL color. As usual, different screen show the picture color slightly different.

FOTD and NOTD: 12th January 2011

Today I'm showing some love to my ELF Essential Brightening Eye Color in Blue Moon that I rarely used. I pair ELF Essential Lipstick in Classy with Super Glossy Lip Shine in Pink Kiss.

Here are swatches for Etude House nail polishes that I got from my last haul in 2010.

Review and Swatch: L.A. Colors Twisty Lip Gloss Coral Cobbler

This lipgloss comes in a sturdy cute packaging. To use it, twist the bottom of the packaging until the lipgloss come out from the slanted applicator tip. Eventho I prefer slanted tip applicator most of the time, this one just not my favourite, it doesn't apply the lipgloss evenly right away. I think this is because of there's too much holes on the tip. The size is good tho.

The problem with the twist mechanism to get the product to tip is that it tend to twist out too much. Most of the time, I end up wiping the excess off, such a waste in long term. Sometimes, I found some lipgloss stick inside the cap. It could be I twisted the gloss accidentally inside my bag or something.

L.A. Colors website describes this lipgloss as "Hydrate and Volumize your lips with these bright, sheer colors! Leaves lips soft, hydrated & vibrant!". Well, I love the color of this lipgloss, especially when it looks great in picture. Sadly, I'm not fond of the smell and the stickiness. It's sticky, but not moisturising. Boo~ It's not hydrating, my $1 ELF lipgloss works much better than this one. This lipgloss last for few hours before it become unbearably drying and uncomfortable.

Another con of this lipgloss is the fact that everytime I want to put this on, I have exfoliate my lips, if not, it would exaggerate any part that dry. For me, lipgloss should be a quick fix to dry lips. Simply slap it on and problem solve.

Would I repurchase? No.
Would I recommend? No.

L.A. Colors Lipstick (Cranberry Red, Jazzy Red and Lucious Wine) Swatches

From left to right: Cranberry Red, Jazzy Red, Lucious Wine

For an inexpensive lipstick, L.A. Colors lipsticks are actually good. The seller that I bought these lipsticks from even says that these lipsticks are comparable to MAC's. I don't have a single MAC lipstick, so I'm not really sure about that.

IMHO, these lipstick texture way better than NYX round lipstick. It have this particular scent, like how lipsticks used to smell ages ago. 'Ages ago' I mean when I used to play with my mum's lipsticks when I was small.

I find L.A. Colors lipstick to be very pigmented. However, it is a lil drying on my lips. I never wear this lipsticks out, so I don't know how long-lasting this lipsticks are.

The swatches online are not accurate at all, that explains why I have 3 red lipstick that's rather similar.

From top to bottom: Cranberry Red, Jazzy Red, Lucious Wine

Review and Swatches: ELF Essential Lipstick (Classy, Gypsy, Seductive and Posh)

Boy, this lipsticks are pleasant surprise. 3.5g for $1, they really worth it. Typical of ELF Essential, this lipsticks packaging are cheap. It is light and kinda flimsy, but I love the clear plastic part of the lipstick tho. It have strong scent in tube, but the scent is very weak when applied. The lipstick are a bit hard. When I first received 'em, I have to glide it many times on my lips to apply it. It is easier to apply after you warm it up a bit. I guess, warming at the back of your hand would help soften it.

From left to right - Classy, Gypsy, Seductive and Posh

The texture is kinda creamy and I think it's a semi-matte lipstick since it have subtle sheen to it. It's not drying on my lips. The best thing, none of the lipstick I ordered are frosty. No glitter, no shimmer. Yay! I'm not sure how long lasting this lipstick is since I always reapply lipstick or lipgloss. Ok, this lipstick actually last quite long, I only need to reapply after meal. It didn't fade or feather after few hours. That is impressive considering that these lipstick only cost $1 each.

Clockwise - Gypsy, Posh, Seductive, Classy

The pigmentation of this lipstick are great. I find this lipsticks works great as lip stain or as sheer lipstick. If you layer the application, it would go semi-opaque. Basically, the color is buildable. Great huh!

• Classy is nude pink, sort of lipstick version of Pink Kiss gloss except for the blue undertone.
  
• Gypsy is light pink mauve.
  
• Seductive is muted coral pink, sadly, Seductive broke at the base the first time I used it.
  
• Posh is a very wearable red lipstick, it's more to maroon color.

Would I repurchase? If they got new color, a big YES! After all, it's only $1 each.

I found that these lipstick works great together with the ELF Super Glossy Lip Shine.

The swatches online are not accurate, so I would suggest finding more swatches pics from blogs and all. My description might not be accurate. The swatches picture may vary from different screens and lighting.

p/s: I'm going to JB this evening on Air Asia flight. Luckily, few days ago, I went to the website to double check my flights. Guess what? Typical of Air Asia standard, they change my flight schedule without informing me anything about it. Last time they did this, they call me to let me know. Not this time. So, boo~ to Air Asia. Anyway, for those flying to JB, Brunei, Sibu and Kuala Terengganu, there are no counter check in available from now on, so remember to check in via web, mobile or through the self check-in kiosk days or 2 hours before your flight, Air Asia won't be responsible if you couldn't check in because they don't have enough kiosk or its broken.

Review and Swatches: NYX Round Lipstick Review

I take all picture in this post ages ago. I thought I deleted it cos I couldn't find it in my picture folder, turn out it was in my video folder *bimbo moment*.So yeah, the reason I got these lipstick are #1 the rave in YouTube and blogs #2 dirt cheap price #3 ready stock available in LYN. I bought it around RM10 or so per tube.

So I got 3 lipsticks, namely Darling, Rose Bud and Miracle. The packaging is small and cute. Kinda like it since most of my lipstick in silver tube, while this one in black tube. It have this weird funky smell, I don't know what is smell like, but for sure I don't like it at all.

I was curious what is at the bottom of the lipstick tube, it turned out to be some sort of rubbery gel, feel nice to squeeze you know. I'm kinda impressed on how accurate the color of the gel to the lipstick. Cute stuff.

I'm not that good with describing color, but I can tell you that Darling and Rose Bud are frosty lipsticks. Arggh, I hate frosty lipstick. I hope the swatches picture helps.

Anyhoo, the lipstick have creamy consistency, too creamy for me that it settle into fine line, easily rub off and very hard to pull off. I don't understand all the rave about these lipstick. Maybe it is just not my tube of lipstick.

Maybe the shades that I got is not the good one, but I'm not taking any risk, so...

Would I repurchase? No way. I find better alternatives to cheap lipstick that works better.
Would I recommend? If you like to experiments with color, yes, this lipstick have tons of different shades with different finishes. Who know this liptick might work for you.

Review and Swatches: Silkygirl Moisture Rich Sunny Lipstick and Clinique High Impact Honey Blush Lipstick

Left: Silkygirl Moisture Rich Sunny Lipstick
Right: Clinique High Impact Honey Blush Lipstick

I got my Silkygirl lipstick last September during buy one free one promotion, I bought Sunny, while my bestfriend bought Playful. Without promotion, I think it is priced around rm17 or so.
Sunny is orange coral shade without shimmer or glitter and applied sheer. It have faint scent, not sweet or floral scent, could be the lipstick ingredient smell. I think it is in cream finishes, when applied, it sort of melt like butter. Mind you, I know very little about lipstick since I'm more of lip-gloss girl. Usually I use this lipstick by mixing it with ELF Super Glossy Lip Shine in Mauve Luxe or Watermelon. Alone, this lipstick does not last long, maybe about 2-3 hours before it started fading. Well, I did not expect much from it. I'm not sure if I will repurchase, but since there tons of shades available, I might find one that I like.

I sort of won the Clinique lipstick during Clinique workshop at my university. The makeup artist ask everyone where is the most suitable place to check how a foundation suit your skin tone. I answer correctly and given this lipstick. Last time I check at the Clinique counter, the price of this lipstick is almost RM70. The one that I got come it Clinique green tube. But the one on the counter is in different tube. So I guess mine is sample type.

It is a very natural color, it's my MLBB (my lips but better) lipstick. Again, I'm not good at describing color, but I would desribe this as peachy nude. LOL. Ok, at least I tried. This lipstick is actually pigmented, however, since I have pigmented lips, it appeared nude. Did I make sense here? *sigh* Anyhoo, it feels slightly gritty when I apply it on because all the shimmer. I dislike frosty lipstick, and this one is almost frosty. But it's not that bad. This is my HG lipstick as I can't do wrong with this one. It is moisturising. I would only reapply during mid-day after lunch. Would I repurchase? I'm trying to finish up the tube that I have right now before it go bad. Maybe I'll repurchase it when Clinique comes to my university.

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Review and Swatches: ELF Brightening Eye Color

Edit (26th Jan 2011): I had taken better swatches pictures for these quads over UDPP. To see it click here.

I love this quads, I have tried almost all of the quads that available and I finally find the one, well, ten, that I like.

I find that the quad with matte finishes are not good. I couldn't make Brownstone, Hazy Hazel, Punk Funk and Matte Mauve work for me. The eyeshadows are too hard that I have to really rub my brush to pick up the product. It's not that pigmented and hard to blend. Pretty n' Pink and Ethereal on the other hand is too light to show up on my skin. I think it would work for porcelain fair people. Glam and Rocker are glitter madness, not all in the quads are glittery tho. I'm too old for glitter.

There are 18 different quad for Brightening Eye Color, we've gone through 8 of them. The rest, the 10 quads are the better of the lot. What they have in common is that most of them are shimmery shades.

Swatches were done w/o any base or moisturiser. Primer and bases surely will help bringing out the color vibrancy.

From to bottom:

• Blue Moon - The dark blue, off-white and brown are soft and pigmented. The light blue is a little chalky and not so pigmented
• Butternut - My favourite neutral palette, this quad blend easily. The lightest color is a bit hard (to pick up using brush) compared to the other 3.
• Day 2 Night - I think this is the best of all the quads. The black is matte with slight shimmer. The other eyeshadows in the quad have metallic sheen to it.
• Drama - Great for smokey eyes. The white is matte, but crazy pigmented. The greys have shimmer and glitter, but still okay. The black is not so pigmented, but works with the other eyeshadow in the quad.
  

From top to bottom:

• Ivy -My go to palette. The quad pigmentation is great for everyday use, furthermore, the shades complement my dark brown eyes very well.
• Luxe - Luxurious! The color are so pigmented and gorgeous, easy to blend too.
• Nouveau Neutrals - The color doesn't show up very well on my medium skin. But I still like this for days when I'm too lazy for makeup. Well, you hardly go wrong with color that barely shown on your skin.
  

From top to bottom:

• Nymph Dream - If I want a pop of color, this quad is the one I reach for.
  
• Silver Lining - another palette that is gorgeous for smokey eyes. All the eyeshadows in this quad are soft and pigmented.
• Teal Dream - Just like Silver Lining, All four eyeshadows in this quad are soft and pigmented. The blue especially is lovely with iridescent shimmer.

Eventho the packaging is small and cheap, I have no complaint. After all, it's only $1. I have no problem dipping my brush into the eyeshadow triangular pan. The size of these eyeshadow are small, but since it's quite pigmented, I think it gonna last for quite some time. This quads are far from perfect, some are powdery, the other a lil chalky. But all in all, it's great for the price. One more thing, these quads needs good primer or base to show its true potential. NYX Eyeshadow Base in White really bring out the quads vibrancy.

Would I repurchase? If I finished it up, yes.
Would I recommend? Only the ten quads that swatched in this post.

Prettia Bubble Hair Dye Sweet Pink

I'm always curious with the concept of dye-ing hair using foam. The idea is that, if your shampoo foams can clean your hair thoroughly, then dye in foams will cover your hair thoroughly too. So I got mine from JPstylez LYN sale thread. It arrived yesterday in a very neat packaging. The dye box wrapped in bubble wrap, and wrapped again with packaging paper. They also include business card with the box. The dye comes with instruction manual in Japanese. I could only makes sense of few words, but the illustration is really easy to understand. Better safe than sorry, I google for instruction, review and video related to this dye. Internet, very useful.

So, I follow the instruction, pour coloring agent in bottle 1 into bottle 2. Invert bottle 10 times to mix well, changed cap into foaming cap. Change to old shirt, apply Vaseline to my hair line, ear, back of my ear, etc. Comb my hair. Put on glove, squeeze bottle 2, apply the foam to hair, keep massaging the foam into my hair. After 30 minutes, wash my hair using my own shampoo. Apply my own conditioner after I rinsed the shampoo, wait for 5-8 minutes, rinse conditioner. Towel dry hair, apply leave in conditioner that come together with the dye, apply generously. Let me hair air dry. Walla~ Well, I make the video below in case you want to see how I apply it. *Beautiful dreamer~~*

Regarding application, it is so easy! Years ago, I dyed my hair using DIY dye in cream form. Heck, it's a nightmare. Period. Prettia on the other hand very easy to use. The foam makes even application by yourself possible. It have strong ammonia smell, so remember to dye in well ventilated area. It stings a lil, very minor compared to my previous experience with DIY dye.

The dye foam changed into pink color from white, as time goes.

Kushu-kushu

Contrary to the instruction manual, I apply the dye from the bottom of my hair to the root. I continuously massage the dye to my hair, focusing less on the hair root. I think that helps even out the application. After I washed my hair, I find root of my hair to be lighter than the rest. From my research, it gonna even out in 2-3 days.

The result is actually not bad for DIY dye. It come out as dark brown with red tone. Just like the result of henna. I used to henna my hair when I was children. The color looks similar except with Prettia, there are no stinking smell of henna (ammonia instead), shorter application time, 30 minutes instead of overnight, stains on my skin easily removed, while with henna, it gonna stay for days.
I used more than enough dye during application and I still have a lot of leftover. The stains on my skin and on my curtain easily removed using water.

I'm pleased with the result. The dye is not damaging to my hair at all! The leave in conditioner is damn good. Did they sell separately? I like it. Actually, after using the dye, my hair feels softer.

Would I repurchase? After 3 months or longer, yes.
Would I recommend? Oh yeah, there are variety of shades available, you bound to find one that you like.

Review and Swatches: ELF Super Glossy Lip Shine SPF 15 (Candlelight, Honey Do, Mauve Luxe, Pink Kiss and Watermelon)

Everybody have their own preferences when it come to lipgloss. Some would like it to be thick and sticky, while others might want it light and non-tacky. Some like it with scent, others might not. I like my lipgloss to be scent-less, moisturising, tinted, a bit thick and somewhat sticky. ELF Super Glossy Lip Shine are everything I want it to be except for the strong scent. I like how it taste tho. Hehe.

This product come in squeeze tube topped with slanted plastick applicator. The applicator need some getting used to, after that, it work great. I like the applicator since it is much easier to clean it up compared to sponge tip. To apply above lipstick, you might want to use lip brush. I think the packaging is very practical with no nonsense.

This glosses are smooth and easy to apply. I love how glossy and moisturing this glosses are. It improved my dry lips condition the first time I put it on. I only reapply it after meal, if not, it could last all day long. I not really fond of the smell but I can stand it since I love this glosses too much.

There are 10g product in the tube and that's a steal considering it was priced $1. I love it so much that I bought more for my mum and my sisters. They seems to love it too. I found out that the batch of this glosses no longer comes with SPF 15, boo~

From top to bottom:
Watermelon, Pink Kiss, Mauve Luxe, Honey Do and Candlelight.

• Honey Do is very lightly tinted, so it's more to clear lipgloss.
  
• Pink Kiss (light pink) and Candlelight are sheer nude color. I love using Pink Kiss with smokey eyes.
  
• Watermelon is watermelon red, I used this one almost everyday lately since it's perfect for everyday use.
  
• Mauve Luxe is so pigmented that it looks like I'm using lipstick instead of lip gloss.

Would I repurchase? Hell yes! Actually I just repurchased Pink Kiss, Mauve Luxe and Watermelon. I'm gonna try other shades in the future.
Would I recommend it? If you like moisturising, tinted, a bit thick and somewhat sticky lipglosses. Yeah.

Born Pretty NAILART GIVEAWAY!!

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Yet Another ELF Haul Yo! Plus Swatches.

Some of the products in this haul are back ups. So I would only elaborate more on stuffs that I didn't get from previous hauls.
I got another 3 tubes of ELF Essential Mascara, read review here.
Glad that the ELF Essential Blending Eye Brush is batch #00618. Read this to find out what the difference between batch #00618 and older batches.
Recent batch of ELF Essential Eyeshadow Brush seems to be not as good as previous batch.
I got another 2 tubes of ELF Mineral Eyeshadow Primer and ELF Studio Eyebrow Kit for back up. This gonna last me for long.


Clockwise

• ELF Essential Healthy Glow Bronzing Powder (Left:Luminance, Right: Matte Bronze) - Luminance is perfect for highlighting, the texture very smooth, very shimmer. Matte Bronze got very little gold glitter in it, but it is matte when swatched.
• ELF Essential Long Wear Lip Liner - Pretty shade, the liner is not hard at all, not sure whether it would feather or not.
• ELF Essential Individual Lash Kit - I don't think the glue works, but the lashes looks lovely. I find this lashes are reusable.
  
• ELF Essential Eyelid Primer - The texture quite similar to ELF Mineral Eyeshadow Primer. Smell rather bad.

Top to bottom

• ELF Essential Super Glossy Lip Shine SPF 15 (Candlelight and Honey Do) - I love this glosses.
• ELF Essential Lipstick (Classy, Seductive and Gypsy) - This lipsticks really exceed my expectation. All the shades are lovely and the texture quite nice. Seductive however are broken, I think it is a lil soft. Cheap packaging also didn't help.

Don't you noticed there's a lot of giveaways in December, surely that's not a problem since I love giveaway

Giveaway - 4 Face Candy Couture EyeshadowsEnds 20th Dec

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