Make-up Haul

Some products I've purchased over the past few months:

Chanel

 

Glossimer in Erotic 

 (It is really as pink on the lips as it is in the tube! I'll have to do a swatch of this some time)

MAC

 

Kissable Lipcolour in Love Peck 

Kissable Lipcolour in Exxhibitionist

Dazzleglass Creme in Do it Up

Dazzleglass Creme in Totally Fab

NARS

 

Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Red Square

Lip Gloss in Bilitis (on sale now on Ebay - bidding ends Apr 02 @ 15:16 PDT)

Lip Gloss in Babe

Lip Gloss in Bloodwork

 

Eyeshadow Palette in 9947

Blush Duo in Hungry Heart

Eyeshadow Duo in Rajasthan

Eyeshadow Palette in 9947

 

From left to right

Top: Kilimanjaro, Bohemian Gold II, Surabaya II

Bottom: Himalayas, Ondine, Night Flight

Here's another, better photo, courtesy of Latin Minx 79. (My camera is broken so I borrowed my mom's and hers isn't very good).

 

My cat being curious.

 

My cat admiring himself. 

Blush Duo in Hungry Heart

 

 

These are swatches done on my hand. I noticed that the consensus of reviews on the internet are negative and claim that this product is just a glorified glitter. The two colours aren't very different from one another and when applied, they only provide a faint coat of micro-glitter. BUT...this is what I love about it! The micro-glitter is so pretty! It looks great pretty much anywhere on the face or body.

  My cat being curious again.

Eyeshadow Duo in Rajasthan

 

Again, look how crappy the photo is. Plus, my pan is just a mess!

 

So I borrowed this photo from Temptalia, who always takes spectacular product photos!

The quality of this eyeshadow is really sub-par for me, which is probably why my pan is so gross. I have to dig into it about 7 or 8 times just to get an even coat of colour on my eyelids, and of course that results in tons of fall-out. Even applied wet, it doesn't work for me. But I just love the colour so much that I refuse to give up on it. I will swatch these at a later time...perhaps when I get a new eyeshadow primer to show you the difference in application.

Make Up For Ever

 

Lipstick in #37 (coral pink)

Glitter in #11 (gold sand)

Star Powder in #947 (iridescent white-peach-pink)

And finally some more pics of Snowball!

Happy Monday!

J

Make-up

My most recent infatuation as of late: make-up, especially make-up and beauty blogs. I'm just addicted to Temptalia. That girl is gorgeous and the amount of product she reviews and the detail that goes into those reviews and the photos is simply astonishing. I won't post any photos because I haven't asked her for permission yet and I respect a girl's right to blog.

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I'm not a big make-up person. My routine for the day consists of powder foundation, blush, eyeliner, mascara, and lipstick. I only have one powder foundation and two blushes and don't use anything else on my face. I can't stand bases and primers and concealers and bronzers and highlighters (actually...I just bought a NARS blush that doubles as a highlighter so I guess I can't make that claim on the last one) because I feel like a geisha with all that shit caked on my face. I got my make-up done by MAC for my high school prom back in ---- and I couldn't even smile for fear of cracking my countenance. Needless to say, I went home and removed all my make-up and did it again myself. One light coat of Chanel face powder, one Chanel kohl cat eye, two coats of Dior DiorShow mascara, and red Chanel lipstick.

Chanel Rouge Allure

I tend to invest on my puckers because I love bright lip colours. A lot of reviews don't apply to me because of this preference but they also don't apply to me because I simply do not understand the cult of MAC. I always liked Chanel beauty products better than MAC. I always wanted to like MAC, especially since it was more affordable for a teenager to buy their products, but every product I ever bought failed me (except for the eyeshadows - those were hit and miss) so I eventually divorced MAC and went steady with Chanel. But then I fell deep in love with the glossy black packaging and the shimmery pinks and neutrals and the double C logo.

MAC Stylishly Yours Collection

While I was in Hong Kong, I didn't want to pay the premium on designer make-up products (Asia is extortionist when it comes to marking up retail on beauty brands) so I started checking the professional make-up brands like NARS and Make Up For Ever. Wow! Now there's a bang for your hard-earned buck. I adore Make Up For Ever products now. I learned to stop being an obsessive-compulsive brand-whore and that it was OK if not all my beauty products matched. This was when I grew up and stopped putting beauty before quality. (It was also shortly before this transformation that I stopped dating the bad boys and decided to commit to a good guy - my current boyfriend. A correlation between my dating habits and my make-up choices. Coincidence?)

Make Up For Ever

I still love my Chanel products like the Glossimers, the Rouge Allures (although I'm liking these less now because I've already experienced 3 tube defects since I started purchasing them), and their brushes (superior to MAC, by far) and I still care about good packaging (MAC was a bigger disappointment in this department, for me) but I'm definitely open to all that the beautiful beauty world has to offer. This means that I'm open to trying MAC out again. There's still some products that I will never buy again, like their nail polishes, their lipglasses, and any of their face products, but I'd like to think that with all the grudges I hold for this company that I can channel some of that past, pent-up disdain into a satisfying future romance.

Did anyone else out there have bad experiences with MAC or does anyone just simply not worship them like every other beauty addict out there?

J