Kylie Lip Kit Review

Hey, yes! I am one of those lucky bitches who is quick enough and lucky enough to get this lip kit! :) Worry not, Kylie said she will restock the lip kits more often now. Just keep your eyes and ears open. I would sleep with one eye open if I were you.

Okay, the lip kit is US $29 each, but you get a really sick packaging and two items, a lip liner and a liquid lipstick. I just can't get enough about the packaging. It is so cute, Kylie sure did a really good job, the box it came with is very cute and it also came with a card with Kylie's handwritten message (printed of course, duh!). The international shipping is $14.9 flat, to any country in the world including Singapore. Price wise, it's okay. But I am not too happy about the shipping, Kylie is very loaded yes, she is equal a big conglomerate company. With $15 in net a porter, you can get super express shipping that arrive within 2 days. The lip kit took 2 weeks to arrive (to Singapore), I would say it is expensive for $14.9.

Anyway, I totally did not expect the formula to be this good! It is really good! When I watched reviews online, people claiming this is the best liquid lipstick they've ever tried, I was a bit sceptical, but now that I've tried it. Hello, heaven! It. Is. Good! Dammit! Kylie really did a good job formulating this liquid lipstick! As expected from the queen of lip liner and matte lipsticks! Other strong contender for liquid lipstick is Jefree Star. I have that one too in Celebrity Skin, I thought it was so good, but not until I tried Kylie one! Jefree's smell a bit funky compared to Kylie's. Kylie's smell so good!!

The color choices is also very good! Nudes. Like, duh, who doesn't obsess with nudes lipsticks and have like 50 of them and still need more? Not me. The lip liner is very creamy and pigmented. Very creamy, unlike MAC lip liner which is very very dry for me. So lip liner, is 10 out of 10!!! The lip liner is the same color as the liquid lipstick. It looks like plastic but yes you CAN sharpen it! Don't worry!

The liquid lipstick dries almost instantly. And when it dries, it doesn't feel sticky when you touch your lips together, it feels almost like powdery (?), I don't know how to describe it but it doesn't transfer at all, not sticky, not smudgy, NOT FLAKY (which is very important) just feels very very good and comfortable!! After a few hours, it does look dry (it is a matte lipstick) but not to the point where it sinks 5 meters deep into your lip lines. The formula is also very thin, watery not thick like mouse. It is very pigmented so you only need one swipe to cover your whole lips. I would give 9.5 out of 10 for the lipstick. 0.5 for being too hard to get :P

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Mario Badescu Skincare, Life Changing Overnight!

Okay, before we start I want to explain something about my skin. I have oily skin with a few acne scarring. I've always used Korean skincare line for everything. Face wash, toner, moisturiser, everything. My skin don't really agree with 'western' skin care line, those skin care line they have on Sephora basically. I've tried the oh-so-popular-and-adored Philosophy Purity cleanser, even that don't work on my skin. Hate it! I've tried, again, Philosophy Renewed Hope in a Jar, it was just okay. It was good but not life changing, and considering the price, uhm, no! I've tried Fresh Soya face cleanser, hate it too. Not that I hate 'western' makeup brand, 95% of my makeup are 'western' brand, but for skincare, nope. I have Asian skin. 

However, I was looking through Luxola Black Friday discount. Their biggest sale of the year 40% off. Ever since Sephora got its hand on Luxola, Beauty Blender and The Balm is no longer on discount, which is suck. Usually I would get like three Beauty Blender on their 40% off and be done with it, but not anymore I guess. So I explored other brands and I came across Mario Badescu as one of their discounted brand. Before I buy, of course I googled for reviews. Amazeballs! 90% of the reviews were 5 stars. Before that I've also heard some beauty gurus on Youtube talked about it but not really that interested. But now with 40% off, no doubt I immediately clicked add to cart. 

I selected three products. Their rose water spray, silver powder, and (the famous!) drying lotion.

Where should I star with this? This rose water smells and feels AMAZING on the skin. It says on the bottle, "Once you've tried our rejuvenating facial spray, you won't want to be without it." I couldn't agree more. Next sale, I'm getting three of this. This is a multi-purpose product, you can spray this as a refreshing spray, primer spray before your makeup, or setting spray after your makeup. It doesn't feel sticky or anything and it does improve your skin. I always sit in front of the computer for hours and not move an inch. Then my skin would get reddish and nasty and super oily. But, yesterday, yes, I only got these stuffs yesterday, I sprayed my face with this mist every once in a while while in front of computer like usual and my skin didn't get nasty at all! There was no redness at all. It also helped with the excessive oil. I think this stuff would be BOMB in the airplane. Never tried this as a makeup setting spray but I think this would be as good. Because what if I told you that MAC Fix+ is not a setting spray? It is a refreshing mist. And I dig Fix+ as setting spray, so I think I would feel the same about this. 

PS: This spray has 2 years shelf life. How about that?

My friend, I've tried Glam Glow. I thought it was good, until I discovered this. With 1/3 of the price. I think Glam Glow is a piece of.... wreck. Glam Glow is good, but this is AMAZEBALL! Okay, this powder is a mask. The applying technique is a little bit tricky. In the packaging the instruction is to grab a cotton pad, wet it with water, dip the cotton on to the powder, and apply it to your skin. The powder should get like a paste with the water from the cotton pad. That's how I see other people use it too. It works, with a high quality cotton pad. I only have this cheap square cotton pad from the drug store and as I tried this method, my cotton pad got sticky into the paste and it started ripping off. Horrible description. Anyway, it didn't work. The cotton sticked to my face. So I improvise. I put the powder on to the lid, and give it a few drops of water. I mixed it with my finger and it turned into paste, put it on my face and done. Easier in my opinion and I didn't waste any product. 

You only need to leave it for 10 minutes. It would harden and you suppose to wipe it off with toner. I rinse my face after toner because I felt like the toner didn't remove all the residues. Anyway, result, amazing. I've never seen any mask that have this immediate after effect. My pores shrank so much! I feel my complexion brightened so much, and my pores. My pores. Amazing. I don't have that much problem with black heads, but what I read this stuff help a lot for black heads. This is my first use. Imagine your skin after a month! Use this mask 1-2 times a week. Get this. Now.

Now this is one of the product that Mario Badescu is famous for. The drying lotion. So you're not suppose to shake this product. You dip your cotton swab to get the pink powder, that's the magic, and put it on your troubled area. I have one active acne on my face right now and a few acne scarring on my cheeks. I applied this on clean face, before bed, dabbed it on to my acne and acne scarring. Over night, my acne has improved greatly. It doesn't make my skin dry or anything. It dried out my acne so fast! And what makes me amazed even more, dare I say, after the silver powder and the drying lotion, the acne scarring on my cheeks almost GONE over night!! Almost gone. It has improved super duper well!!!!!! This stuff is no joke. I always have problem with my acne scarring, no product ever helped me like this. Seriously if you have acne problem, go run and get this. You. Need. This. In. Your. Life. Thank me later. 

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Kathleen Lights Colourpop - Where the Light is Quad Review

Can I get an amen for this? I am so happy that I finally get to try Colourpop shadows and not to mention they are from Kathleen Lights! If you guys didn't know, I am highly influenced by Youtube beauty gurus. They are my mentors, my guides in (makeup) life! I watched them day and night and Kathleen Lights is definitely one of my favorite and most influential Youtuber! Check her out here! Anyway, I am also very excited to try Colourpop because I have heard nothing but good things about them and their shadows come in special jar like so, because their formula is never before seen. They are called the Super Shock shadows and the formula is made to last inside the jar, that's why they will never have palettes. I bought this from an online store in Indonesia (Instagram @houseofmakeup) for $40. Some Singapore online shop sell this quad but more expensive (around $50).

The pigmentation of these eyeshadows are insane! The name, super shock shadow, really live up to reality. These eyeshadows are blendable but when they set, no matter what you do, you cannot move it. It. doesn’t. move. Amazing. The texture as you may have heard, like nothing you’ve felt before, it is like cream to powder and kind of squishy in the pan. This eyeshadow is best applied with finger. The metallic ones are great and very smooth, I’m not really feeling the matte ones. They are harder to pick. These shadows in general don’t really apply well with brush. Better if you use your fingers and blend with brush. I’m really digging the metallic ones tho. It is very creamy and nice on the lid. And can we say Kathleen did a great job with the colors? They can be easily mix matched and I think they look great on every skin color.

Stila Eyes are the Window - Soul Palette

This palette is my first ever high-end eyeshadow palette and I am so proud I bought it. It is the Stila Eyes are the Window palette in Soul. They have four different version, Mind, Body, Spirit, and Soul. I almost bought Mind because it has all matte colour, you know I like mattes. But the color of Soul is so captivating. It retails for $69 at Sephora. I told myself that I wasn't buying a palette, I was buying 12 eyeshadows for less than $6 each. This is like drugstore (lies makeup addict tell herself).  

The colors are beautiful and I am so happy that it actually has Kitten, the oh-so-famous eyeshadow from Stila. As you can see the shadows are all pigmented except the first shadow which is a shame because it is very light :( By the way I did not build up the color of the swatch, only one stroke of swatch. My favorite color is Individual, which is a peanut butter like color, it is a very warm color. I love warm shadows. Kitten is gorgeous for the inner corner. And this palette has a black shadow, Essence. Black shadow, everyone needs in their life, in their palette. And they all blend so easily and stay all day on my lids. I did not use primer I only used Mac prolongwear concealer on my eyelids and set it with powder as I go along with my under eyes. I truly love this palette, I've never been an eyeshadow person until I met this palette.

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Nails Inc X Victoria Beckham in Singapore + Review

I still can't believe it I met Victoria Beckham! It was surreal! I remember I was at work when I saw the email from Sephora and I immediately typed an RSVP email to them. I was as fast as lightning. I didn't set my hopes high because I didn't think I can go because I have work. I think the invitation email only sent to black card members and the RSVP was on first come first serve basis and I was very lucky to get a reply from them! Guess I was fast enough! From the RSVP I got to bring one friend along with me. The event was held at Sephora ION at 11am, 19 May. I had to take a leave from work to see her. Doesn't matter. Saw VB.

Long story short, it was very crowded. I didn't get to see her from up close but I was able to take some pictures. I am such a bad blogger, I only used my phone camera. So you can see her pictures are all very blurry because I zoomed in too much :(. She was so charismatic! Her aura filled the room. And those cheekbones, can we talk about it? Are as sharp as blades. Her style is to die for and she is a mother of four? Hello. Doesn't make any sense. 

I had to buy her nail polish to get her sign. I've been eyeing Judo Red, the red one from the Nails Inc collection since a long time actually. I tried it before and I loved it. So I grabbed and purchased that one. It retails for $39. But when you can get her signature, the price is nothing. I was in front of the line I think I was the third person to get her sign. I went to her and damn, she was so cool, it was intimidating. I had to collect all my courage to say, can you write my name? She did not reply and there was a long pause as she sign my box, and then she said, spell that. And I was like YES MA'AM! Never I felt so nervous spelling my name. She's amazing tho. She has an empire. Who doesn't want to be in her shoes?

The nail polishes are gorgeous! The other color is Bamboo White, a bone color (that I might get soon because I can't stop thinking about it now!). The one that I have, Judo Red, is a red-orange sunset color. Very bright and fun. The pigmentation of the nail polish is amazing. One swipe and you're done. I'm not a big nail polish fan so I don't know how to talk about it. They stay on pretty well. Well, they should be! It dries fast and looks amazing on me. I don't know what else to say except, go get it now! 

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Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick Review

Happy May everyone! I am such a bad beauty blogger. I never realized Stila has liquid lipsticks until only one month ago. I wanted to buy them at Sephora but they had no stock at all at that time. Like literally they didn't have a single stock. That made me want the lipsticks even more. Until two weeks ago I went to my Sephora and I found some nice colors on stock. I immediately grabbed them. You know I love my nudes. I got the color Dolce (only one left!) and Bellisima. Dolce is a brownish nude color while Bellisima is baby pink color. Each of them retails for $32 and they have 10 variations of colors.

These lipsticks dry to matte finish. The first thing I noticed was this lipstick is super creamy and the pigmentation is insane. One swipe you literally get the color in the bottle. It is too creamy even. Sometimes you can get a big lump of product. With one swipe I will have a very very thick layer of product and it is just too much. However, I feel like the formula for each color is different. Bellisima is thicker and creamier, I always get a super thick layer with one swipe, but not too much with Dolce surprisingly. But this lipstick doesn't make my lips flaky even though it dries to matte. And Stila was serious when they called this product Stay All Day because this lipstick stay all fucking day. It doesn't move a bit. It dries fairly quickly, I tried kissing my palm several times, no product transfer at all. I drink from a cup, no product transfer. This is by far the most long lasting lipstick I've ever tried. No joke. It is though smudges a little bit when I eat greasy food. Can't help it because oil dissolves makeup. Science, bitch. Anyway, 32$ I would say they worth the money considering the price is not so different to MAC lipsticks and because liquid lipstick is the it item of 2015, and since I cannot get my hands on ABH's.


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Marc Jacobs #InstaMarc Light Filtering Contour Powder Review

I've been wanting this contour kit ever since I first saw it on Instagram. Let's talk about it okay. I'm the kind of person who cannot resist any contour kit, ever! And Marc Jacobs released one! It was like dream come true. The packaging is just irresistible, sleek, thin, black Marc Jacobs packaging with a giant ass mirror. I didn't care how much it was, I saw it, I grabbed it. I am a person with simple mind.

It is called #InstaMarc Light Filtering Contour Powder. It suppose to make your face Instagram ready without any filter(?). I don't see how that works and I don't think it is necessary to link everything to Instagram to sell products. Anyway, I'm not against the Instagram thing, I just don't care. I think it's unnecessary because this product itself is great! Retails for 60$. This kit contains a lot of products (18gr, 9gr for each powder) so it is worth the money.

The contour shade is perfect because it has the right amount of grey. It'll give a natural shadow for your cheekbones, and it blends so well. The highlight shade is also great! It feels so smooth on the skin and it gives light coverage. I used to set my undereyes with Ben Nye banana powder and Makeup For Ever HD setting powder, but I've never touched them again ever since I have this Marc Jacobs. It is very easy to use compared to those loose setting powder. It is compact but the result is as good as those loose powders. This contour kit sold out fast, so you better be quick.

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