B.e.a.uteafull: Gunmetal liner with lilac accents

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Welcome 2013! A fresh new year and of course a fresh new start. Thankfully, school hasn’t started for me yet, relief RELIEF! I need a break from that hell hole.

Lemme kick off the new year with an EOTD! =) Here’s what I came up with

Totally digging this look. I favourite part is the lilac accent at the bottom. I feel like it kinda softens and completes this look. What daya think?

The breakdown
1. TFSI (of course) over the entire lid plus lower lashline
2. Line your eyes with a gunmetal coloured liner of your choice. I used the Maybelline colour tattoo (15 audacious asphalt). Feel free to pull your liner into a wing as I did or stop at the edge of your lash line. Totally up to you. I personally love winging eyeliners! Gives my eye a more feminine shape
3. Set the liner with a gunmetal shadow of choice
4. Line the upper lash line thinly with the blackest liner you can find. I like to use liquid liners when lining on top of other product because I get the BEST opacity. 
5. Line lower lash line with lilac cream liner of choice. I used the etude house’s bling bling liner.
6. Set the coloured liner with corresponding shadow of choice. I actually opted for a periwinkle shadow to mute out the purple tones and cool down the liner so as to match the coolness of the gunmetal. 
7. Line the inner corner with a silver liner. I used the clio gelpresso waterproff pencil gel liner in metalic silver No.6
8. Curl lashes and apply mascara.

Lining the eyes is easy peasy don’t you think?

So did any of you guys catch the magical word up there? That’s right, MAYBELLINE 24 hr COLOUR TATTOO! Omg it’s finally in Singapore. I almost gave up hope on them. Life has a funny way of turning itself around. Just when you least expect it =) Imagine my amazement when I saw them sitting prettily atop the Maybelline display shelf. I can’t believe this took forever to come. While the whole beauty community was raving about this, we were here, sitting, wishing that we were in the US basking in its glory as well. No matter. It’s all forgiven now that I have gotten my hands on them.

I understand why the colour tattoo’s received the attention that they did back when it was first released. They are G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S AND G.L.A.M.O.U.R.O.U.S! Comes in an array of bright colours as well. I don’t think the whole range is here but it’s enough to keep my occupied for a while. Couldn’t decide between purple, gunmetal or orange when I swatched them together. The other half really liked the orange but I put down the orange reluntantly and got the purple and gunmetal ones. Haven’t been regretting since!

Just a heads up on how amazing they are, the swatches on my hand once set couldn’t be rubbed away by sheer force, neither with water. Survived the bath process and remained on my hand till the next day. OMG. Super budge proof and lives up to the 24hr claim. NAISE.

If you wanna grab em. Check em out at watsons. They are $3 off now =) I don’t recommend the branch @ plaza sing because it’s fresh out there.

No I’m not advertising for Maybelline if you were wondering. I’m just excited about the colour tattoos and can’t wait to share them with you guys

Once again, another narcissitic post of my eyes just because. TOTALLY LOVE THE LINER. Omg where is there a pesky any crawling up the screen of my computer *flicks*

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Now that the New year has passed, it’s time to look forward to Chinese new year of course! That’s all the way in Feb, but yet not too far away either. I am tempted to recycle my old clothes from last year for my New year’s outfit because they are all in the colour oxblood. How apt for CNY! As long as nobody knows that they aren’t new it’s fine right??? I hope so =) Doing the whole chriselle lim trick. Switching up outfit so that I never look like I ever wear the same thing twice when I actually do xD

So far, I am really enjoying the whole holiday thing. Korea was a mega blast and waking up 11pm without guilt is awesome! Gotta relish in the moment and do more shopping before the hols also past by in a flash. Then there’s a stock pile of nasty homework awaiting completion. Oh life. Oh my life. =(

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B.e.a.u.TeaFull~: Gradient Liner (Mixing burgandy and purple)

O-heyo!

Since I've really gotten used to winging out my liner and have found the perfect way to carry off eyeliner for my hooded eyelids, I have been experimenting with coloured liners. Colours play such an important part in my life that I can't live without them. Can you imagine a world of black and white? BORING MAX. So, other that incoporating them in my everyday clothing items, I have decided to also wear them on my eyes. 

Of course I know my limits too. Can't go around looking like a clown right. Colours must always, ALWAYS be balanced with something neutral. Can't use to many cause it distracts, confuses and destroys other people's poor eyes. Can't go around doing that now can we. WILL GET STOMPED ONE YOU KNOW. PFffttt

Anyway. so here's what I created using one of the top trending colours this season, bungandy =) pretty much in love with it

Tada! My gradient eye liner look! Can you make out the 2 colours? It's meant to be subtly obvious if you get what I mean. Warning though, this look requires MEGA thick liner. Which is just perfect for people with hooded lids like me (I can totally use a blunt nyx jumbo eyeliner to line my lids roughly and the liner can still NOT be seen -_-") because the colours are very much toned down when our eyes are opened. For those with double/ non hooded lids, you might want to make the liner thinner so that it suits your eyes more

The breakdown:1. Prime your eyelids with TSFI or any other primer. PRIME THE BOTTOM LIDS AS WELL because it really saves the mascara from bleeding around your lower eyelids, hence emphasising those panda eyes
2. Ue a burgandy coloured liner (e.g Sephora crayon jumbo pencil 12 hr in purple) to line the eyes and wing the tip out. I find it helpful to use a liner bursh to create the wing. I just line my lids to the edge of my lids and use the brush to pull out excess liner product to form a wing. If there's not enough product, just coat you bursh with the liner directly. Set with a respective shadow colour if so desired
3. Take a slightly more cool toned purple shadow and using a pencil brush (because I have more hidden lid space to work with). Carefully place the colour above the burgandy liner and blend the 2 colours together seamlessly. Remember to wing out this colour as well.
4. Place a light coloured eyeshadow over the reamining lid space and blend.
5. Use the same colour to highlight the tear duct area
6. Use a glitter liner (tear drop liner from etude house) to slightly line the inner lower lash line for an instant perk me up to the eyes
7. Take your blackest eyeliner that you have (L'oreal super liner in black) and draw a thin winged liner. (this helps to thicken the lash line without the black overpowering the rest of the look)
8. Curl lashes and apply mascara

Bam, IT'S DONE!

Here's a picture of my eye fully opened. As you can see, the burgundary got kinda hidden but still peaks out! 

I totally found out that my eyes don't work too well with the whole crease thingly and contouring. Doesn't help my eyes much and it still looks super flat if I dont make my liner visible above my lids so I gave up with that. Besides, I dont have much of a crease to begin with anyway, even though the whole point of a crease colour is to fake a crease. But whatever.. Totally prefer the whole bold liner, simple lids look now. 

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Can I just take a moment to dedicate my love to the trending colours this season since I was on that topic way above up there. It's truly one of my most favourite trends ever. Yup, you probably guessed it, none other than the whole OXBLOOD, WINE AND BURGANDY colour trend. I totally can't get enough of that colour. I used to completely hate red because I have always only know about that gaudy shades of red that totally can't be pulled off but these colours really take red to a whole new level. I totally love red now! Ok, partially because I'm getting old and my taste is too probably getting old but cmon, the trending colours are AWESOME. So awesome that I have to have everything in those colours. The oxblood LongChamp bag is GORGEOUS (which I don't have but secretly envy those who do). It's the only one where I think the normal brown leather handles totally matches the colour of the bag itself. Oxblood leggings/jeans esp in velvet material are beyond awesome as well. Recently got a pair of studded shorts in burgundy and love them TO DEATH. Arghhh! I wish this season won't come to an end!!

Anyways, today's 12/12/12. What a nice date don't you think? I figure that loads of people totally got married today because of the cheesy date haha! Anyway, starbucks is having an awesome promotion today. 1 for 1 venti. GO GRAB IT WHILE YOU STILL CAN! =) Can't wait for xmas AND TOTALLY CAN'T WAIT TO GO SHOPPING!

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B.e.a.u.TeaFull~: Cobalt blue super thick liner!

Hellow!

It's really late into the night now am I'm really feeling it's effects on my body so imma try keep this post short and sweet. I'm OLD omg, i didn't use to be so weak =((( Plus, I already had 1 and a half hours of ZZzz in the afternoon. OMG.. am I a pig or what. Then again, it's always good to sleep early ain't it. Could be something to do with me staying out till extremes of times and waking up at ungodly hours to ferry my lovely sister around. Really taken a toll on my body clock. YTD I was suffering so much, I could barely even keep my eyes open. You know... the whole droppy eyes despite tremendous effort to compensate by raising your eyebrows. Yup, that was me ytd, right in front of the tutor. Didn't help that I had major post prandial issues too after a hearty lunch. =( Oh the cruelty of fatigue.
Ok what was I saying about keeping the post short?

Anyways, here's a look that I did over the week end. Got inspired by my dear friend whom I bought the smoke palatte for and decided to capitalise on her idea. Fans of bold bright liners READ ON! Of course those that are a little more mild at heart should also consider going wild some time!

Shadow : maybelline baked duo in pink
Liner: NYX jumbo pencil in cobalt with sephora blue blood over + L'oreal liner intense thinly over the lashline

The Breakdown
1. TSFI base (am I not kidding about this base, it really does its job, I wore my look out from 8am to 4am in the morning and there wasnt a hint of creasing. WHAT!? not to mention that I have oily lids. Trust in insurance I must say!)
2. Over all the lid wash of pink (meant to be subtle and almost unnoticable) - hence there redundency of blending the liner into the shadow colour
3. Thick lining of Cobalt base over the upper lashline topped with the darkest shade in the sephora trio - blue blood. Wing the liner out for a more elegant feel
4. Use an INTENSE black liner (L'oreal liner intense) to thinly line the upper lashline 
5. Curl lashes and apply mascara generously (wanna have thick VISIBLE lashes to compliment the thick liner, don't want them disapparing on ya)

Here's the look with my eyes opened. 
This look is great for those with hooded lids like mine. The thick liner gets hidden underneath the extra eye folds and instead teasingly peaks out above the lashes. Note how it doesn't look as intense any more?
For those with non hooded lids, you can still pull off this look simply by thinning out the liner. 

If you're not into the whole pop of colour liner thing and still want something bold, just replace the blue liner with a black liner and there you have it. 

Out of focus picture to highlight the sheen that the colours give off. LOVE!
I want to take some time to talk about the sephora trio - blue blood (very aptly named, or least I think the name's really COOL). Found this gem while randomly swatching around at the sephora section of sephora. I'm usually not a fan of the sephora line because of bad experience from my first palate but this one blue me away. I'm really attracted to BLING and this one captivated me completely. Sold after 1 swatch. This post just features the darkest shade of the trio which is already stellar and crazily pigmented but wait till you swatch all the colours together. O.M.G It transforms into a lovely glitterly sky blue the screams :"Look.At.Me! LOVE ME!"
Will do a swatch and detailed review another in upcoming posts so stay tuned for that!

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