All The Things I Can't Live Without...

I was really into greens last week, not a colour you see me often spotting on my lids, but here's 2 LOTDs featuring it!

LOTD #1) Smokey green with Wet 'N' Wild's Comfort Zone palette

Close-ups of the eye makeup:

Though this is a green smokey eye, I love how there's this overall hint of gold through out all the colours I used. Definitely complimentary with our warm asian skin tones!

This picture of my eye is just to let you see my very visible lower lashes, all thanks to Clinique's Bottom Lash mascara! The wand is SO tiny, but it coats and thickens each and every lower lash very well! The down side would probably be that it takes much longer to put on mascara that way, but I'm still digging the product!

And... a smile for you~

LOTD #2) CHEAP Aqua-gold look

Why do I say that? Because that beautiful teal shade is actually Daiso's S$2 pigment. Which is the price for 1 big bottle and I only used a smidgen here. All it needs is a good base, which will make the colour really pop. The gold shade is from my very first eyeshadow palette, which is the copper L'oreal Open Eyes palette that has been with me since Nov 2009.

Close-ups of the eye makeup:

Well okay, maybe it's not that cheap, cos I forgot to mention the sky blue eyeliner, which is Urban Decay's 24/7 eye pencil in "Deviant". But I got that for free, so it's still considered 'cheap'!

Pouty face~

Ha ha, but I really like this look a lot. It's very summery and ocean-y! And who doesn't like it when cheap products give you as good a result as high end products? xD

Once again, thanks for looking at this post, people!

Warning: Pic spam post! :D

I was inspired to do this look after watching Michelle Phan's newly uploaded makeup video yesterday night.

She created this look to celebrate Japan's upcoming spring in April and the beauty of the soon-to-be blooming sakura flowers. Aside from it looking all girly and pretty, it struck a chord on my heartstrings as she specially dedicated it to the disaster-stricken Japan (no pun intended) and is going to donate $1000 to the Red Cross if she hits 1 million views.

Please just pop over, spare her 5 minutes of your time, and watch this beautiful makeup video. It'd be great if she could hit a million views on it soon! Anyway, besides that, I really love this look, as it's one of her prettier and more workable looks. I love the backdrop of the sakura tree, I love the song that was playing (Mika Nakashima's "Sakurairo Maukoro", a classic), and I love the nuance behind this vid.

If only Japan could spare some time, you know with all the nuclear radiation trouble and tsunami survivors and all, to admire spring and their very own sakura flowers. Which, I hope are still able to bloom splendidly despite the 2 giant disasters. I think it'll give the people of Japan great encouragement if the flowers still bloomed despite how bleak their future may seem.

So anyway, here's my take on the look:

Close-up of the eye makeup:

Okay, granted I didn't have the best products with me because I left half of my makeup stash at my dorm, so I made do with whatever I had. There's no good gold e/s here (in fact, I don't have any good gold e/s ;__;) so you can't really see the gold, but it's there, transiting between the white and pink.

Full-face pics:

Products used

Eyes: 1) UDPP   2) L'oreal Timeless Green Quad (white highlight shade)   3) e.l.f. Studio Blush in "Fuchsia Fusion" for the pink   4) e.l.f. Studio Shimmer palette, as a cream base to make the colours pop   5) Daiso e/s palettes, for the gold transition shade and the dark purple for contouring at the outer V   6) Silkygirl Funky Eyeliner in Purple   7) Silkygirl Lash Prism in Purple   8) Sasatinnie Shocking Volume Mascara (still goddamn clumpy)   9) Stage Pencil Camouflage in "Creme Brulee"

Face: 1) Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation   2) Random reddish-pink blush (grabbed it from my mom :D)   3) Daiso palette, used the white highlighter shade to highlight my nose and cheekbones

Lips: Nyx Mega Shine Lipgloss in "Candy Shop"

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More pic spam, har har har!!!

And some candid shots...

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I want to leave this as a final note to this post:

And salute to the brave workers still trying their best to prevent any further nuclear disaster!

Japan, strive on!!! Gambatte kudasai!!! All our prayers are with you. Thanks for viewing~

I was messing around with one of my Daiso palettes and here's the look I came up with.

Close-ups of the eyes:

Because the palette consisted mostly of pale and pastel colours, this look turned out to be very sweet and fairy tale-like. The palette is the one right in the middle, at the top.

I also used the glitter Tear Drop Liner by Etude House to create some sparkly dots and designs (more obviously seen above in the 2nd picture), and dabbed some on my lashes to make it more magical looking.

I actually has on some light pink blush, which you probably can't see due to the strong lighting; but you can still see the highlight! My lips were nuded out with NYX's "Circe" lipstick and the Daiso lip gloss that I bought too (not too fond of this one).

Normally I don't bother with concealing my lips (or putting any lip makeup on at all) so I was kinda disturbed with how pale my lips were. In my opinion, it made me looks sick and dead. I got really uncomfortable with it so I wiped it off, and felt much better instantly! Can smile already (that's my normal lip colour)!

Ha ha, awesome fun, really. Thanks for looking people!

I've been messing around with the Daiso cosmetics which I've bought recently in Malaysia and besides the lovely palettes, the green pigment intrigues me the most. Why? Cos it's a colour cameleon! Lemme show you!

The cream base was just a random translucent sticky base, while the white and black bases were the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils in Milk and Black Bean. When the sunlight hits the pigment directly, all 5 swatches gives off that gorgeous gold reflux; but when you angle them away from the light, you can see they're distinctively different colours. The wet and white base swatches give off a more vibrant blue while the the dry and cream base swatches mixes a bit of green and gold. The black base swatch gives off the brightest gold reflux, there's hardly any blue/green colour.

Anyway, my friends and I went for a session of karaoke and so, I decided to test drive the pigment out.

This would have been my normal to-go smokey eye, but the Daiso pigment added a flash of greenish shimmer to the middle of my eyelids. With UDPP and my L'oreal Gel Liner as good bases, the pigment held out well through the whole day. Even when it was raining heavily that afternoon, through our korean BBQ that we had and when we went strolling along Clarke Quay at 11 p.m. at night~

My karaoke-cum-best buddies!

We sang this song, ha ha ha!

And a sweet ending to an enjoyable day! Green tea shaved ice with red beans~

Thanks for reading guys!

Presenting the LOTD I wore to the flea market nearly 2 weeks back (previous post)~

And featuring the cheap S$2.20 Daiso e/s quad I bought from M'sia a while back!

Smashing the myth that all cheapo e/s aren't worth anything.

Anyway, it's this quad that I featured a few months back in my M'sia trip haul, don't know if you remember it?

I know my smokey eye came out all black and grey, when all the e/s are suppose to be green - that's cos I mainly used the darkest shade at the top. I only applied a bit of the lighter green shade over the black to give the look a slight green reflux, but it turned out grey in the pictures (don't most moss green e/s turn out grey on camera??). The other 2 lighter shades were used for blending and highlighting.

Pigmentation was kind of light but after using UDPP, the colours definitely came out more intense. You wouldn't guess it's a S$2.20 shadow quad once you use a good primer/base underneath the e/s! And I super love using the white and beige shades; they blend out the dark e/s very well and the highlighting by the white is quite good! Texture is fine, not chalky at all. But like I said, a good base is required.

Finally, here's the black baby-dress I wore:

Decided to go girly a bit, and the weather was scorching hot that afternoon!

Convinced to try some Daiso e/s next time? Too bad SG Daiso's don't bring them in, so remember to khoop some when you M'sia! Thanks for reading!