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

Hey Hey,

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: Favourites of 2012

Heyhey,

1 year has come and gone. In a twinkling of an eye, it is now the last day of 2012. I must say, it’s been one heck of an eventful year and another year of massive expenditure on my part! Haha! My new year resolution: To spend less money! (Like that’s going to really happen?) But hey, I’ll try!

I’m sure most of you have plans to party the night away. ME TOO! I’m spending it with my extended family and sadly deserting my dear other half.. Regardless, it is time to throw out the old and bring in the New year!!!

Before that, lemme sum up 2012 with my favourites of 2012. (Disclaimer: these product have either been given to me as gifts or bought with my own money, hence my own buys! Just saying ^^).

Here are my favourites. Most of which have made it into my tiny makeup bag =)

Let's begin shall we =)

1. Shu uemura waterproof lengthening mascara.

This one is a long-time favourite. Believe it or not, I’ve gone through at least 3 of these tubes now. Considering that I only don on makeup about once a week or less. That’s really saying something =) Now I’ve used the YSL fauxcils, cover girl lash blast, a couple of Maybelline mascaras but the Shu Uemura mascara remains my ultimate favourite and the undefeated champion! Let me tell you why I love this product so much. It gives me amazing length in my lashes. Not only that, it gives each and every lash a nice even coating and separates them beautifully giving you the most natural looking lashes ever. Also, the formula is on the dry side which works well for my lashes. I have literally seen my lashes wilt before my eyes after using the fauxcils. Not pretty. This however, holds the curl in my lashes perfectly through the whole day.  It can even withstand a couple hours of sleep. AWESOME STUFF. Also, no clumping action going on, no spider leg lashes and most importantly, no annoying flakes! But wait, the best is yet to be. This mascara (although VERY EXPENSIVE and probably should be used on its own) is great as a base layer for volumnising mascaras. My poor lashes are a little too weak to hold up volumnising formulas and I guess a little too sparse to carry volumnising formulas as well. With this mascara as a base, I get the best of both worlds. Evenly separated lashes that hold up their curl and look fantastically volumnised at the roots =)  Plus, this way, I don’t have to throw out the mascaras that don’t work for me.

2. L’oreal super liner in black

This baby rocks my world. The felt tip is so flexible you can get to the hard to rest inner corner of your eyes without making yourself look like a total wreck! Also, I can get the thinnest line with this liner! Not that I need really thin lines but it allows me to create the most natural wing tip ever =) LOVES! Plus plus, when they say black, they mean black. This eyeliner is dead on BLACK! Super pigmented super black! Since this is a liquid liner, there is no need to go over it with eyeshadow to set it, which is a bonus.  Only downside to this, like most liquids, this one dries to a shiny finish which can be a little annoying.

3. Sephora Trio in blue blood

This one is a pretty new addition to my collection. Got it some when in October when Sephora was having it’s member’s 20% discount thingy! This trio is awesome! You know how I love sparkly bling stuff. This encompasses my love for it super well! I especially love that gorgeous deeper than royal blue shade at the top! Gorgeous! Been getting compliments for my eyeliner each time I wear it out =) The sliver strip there, is also something else! It’s sliver, bling but NOT glittery. Which is awesome! The light blue shade down there unfortunately hasn’t been receiving much love. I haven’t exactly used it that much yet. Nonetheless, I have used in on a friend over black liner and it metamorphoses into a stunning sea green shade.  I couldn’t stop looking at her eyes! Last thing, you can swirl all the colours together to get yet another shade of blue! Which was what made me get this trio in the first place =)

4. Sephora Jumbo liner in burgundy. 
Also a relatively new addition! I adore this jumbo pencil so much I’ve used it for consecutive weeks now. Owns in colour, formula and staying power =) I did a look using this pencil as well! Anyway, the colour is just drop dead stunning. Couldn’t say no to it. Formula is creamy max which when dried, is totally unmovable. Doesn’t smudge too! Maybe because I use an eye primer so there’s a little bit of a confounder there. *Here's* a look a came up with using this liner =)

5. Etude house tear drop liner
Love this to death! (well everything here are my favourites, so naturally I’ll love all of them)

6. Too faced smokey eye palette

Also a gift from the other half. How this product came to be is really interesting. The other half totally knew that I was intending to get the smokey eye palette from urban decay. He had been meaning to get it for me for a while. 1 day, we were dining at bugis + when he suddenly said that he had to go to the toilet. TOTALLY TOOK AN AWFULLY LONG TIME. I think people were starting to wonder if he ran off or something LOL! Anyways, when he finally came back, he handed me a shopping bag from Sephora containing this palette! OMG SO SUPER SWEET! He had forgetten the brand remembered the smokey eyes part. No matter, I fell in love with the palette as soon as a laid eyes on it. Pretty max with insanely gorgeous highlight colours. LOVE LOVE LOVE! He’s been super proud of this mistake ever SINCE =)

7. Too Faced Shadow insurace (TSFI)
Cannot leave home without this! I've only used this primer before hence it is here. Does its job and makes sure your eye makeup stays in place the WHOLE DAY. Love it! With this, I have no problems with panda eyes at the end of the day!

8. Shu uemura eye lash curler. 
Totally need this in my life. Gives my lashes that perfect curl abd perks them up for the day. It is a good investment to have a good eye lash curler. Makes all the difference you need

I know I know I have loads of eye makeup favourites but well I really do concentrate mostly on my eyes. Eyes are the windows to one’s soul as they say. So you’ve gotta make em look the part =)

9. Mac cream blush/lip colour - weekend getaway (casual colours collection)
The other half give this to me as a present. SUPER SWEET OF HIM! He loved the colour at first sight and got it without hesitation. OMG! Haha I love it when he picks my girly stuff for me! He has awesome taste =) This one is a gorgeous “soft” hot pink shade. Looks scary in the pot but fret not, totally blendable. Blends out into the most beautiful, natural glow ever =) TRES BIEN! Check out my swatch *here*

10. Missha BB cream
A super sweet and thoughtful gift from my dad’s friend’s daughter given during my family trip to Seoul. Now I have heard only good things about Korea’s skincare and cosmetics so naturally this one is GOOD AS WELL. Really nice stuff! Totally ousted Skin 79 from my list and so close to the end of the year as well. Too bad skin 79. This BB cream Comes in a nice natural skin colour! Or at least, it suits my skin tone perfectly. No grey toned nonsense. I would say it gives medium coverage cause my blemish pigmentations are very much faded buy not completely covered. One thing I’ve notice about this product is that it dries pretty quickly so you’ve gotta work faster with it. Before that happens, it’s super creamy and really blends seamlessly into the skin. I can hardly tell that I’m wearing anything. Best of all. DOESN’T BREAK ME OUT. =)

11. Mac lipglass in viva glam V
Need I say more about this one. Lovely tan colour with golden flecks! Perfect natural colour to rock any day. Totally helps that my lips are ridiculously pigmented so it turns the lipglass slightly pink! =) I love to wear this over Mac’s lipstick in hey sailor! They complement each other well.

12. Hado labo facial wash
Lastly, skin care! Coveted Japanese brand so naturally it’s good! There’s something about it being sold every 4 seconds? I have gone through bucket loads of this. I'm sure it has something to do with sharing with my sister but still. We have gone through ALOT. Love how this cleans my faces super well without stripping the moisture out it. In fact, my face is so clean, no extra dirt comes off when I use my toner. Magical! 
My regime: Hadalabo facial wash, Neutrogena gentle toner, hadalabo milk moisturiser. 
PS: I bought the lotion in the same line before, TOTALLY SUCKS. Made my sis and I break out majorly.. NEVER BUY THE LOTION. The milk is fine though =) With awesome whitening properties (I used the arabutin milk one)

With this I conclude my 2012. TMR is the new year and hey! The world didn’t end so it’s time to celebrate =) Happy new year and may each new year be better than the last!

Love,
Charmaine (x3ASweetAffair)

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