Silver Edge.

Hi errbadeh! Last Saturday was a fun-filled one indeed. The beau and I were invited to a wedding reception at Empire. For the dinner, I decided to use some BH Cosmetics' products that I have never used yet - the 6 color & blush palette, Eyes On The 70s palette and the rose gold brush set. Without further ado, here are ze pictures!

Eyes:

↬ Using Bobbi Brown black gel liner and angled liner brush #1, I first mapped out the wing shape that I would like.

↬ Applied black eyeshadow #3 according to the winged shape drawn previously, only covering the outer third of eyelid.

↬ Applied silver eyeshadow #1 across the entire lid where it's left empty without the black eyeshadow.

↬ Applied light purple eyeshadow #2 on the centre of lid to create a little dimension so the whole eyelook won't look too monochromatic.

↬ Used tapered blending brush #3 to blend everything altogether.

Base/Face:

↬  Used Benefit POREfessional's primer as base.

↬  Applied Tarte Amazonian clay foundation and Tarte maracuja creaseless concealer under my eyes - classic foundation brush #1.

↬  Powdered T-Zone and under eyes with powder 2 - powder brush #3.

↬  Bronzed cheeks with powder 3 and blush powder 4 - angled brush #2.

↬ Used Anastasia Beverly Hills' dipbrow pomade to fill in and shape brows.

↬ ACurled lashes and coated them with Essence's Lashes Go Wild mascara.

↬ Tightlined only upper lash line using 3 Concept Eyes waterproof eyeliner [skipped using the basic eyeliner because I didn't want the eyelook to look too top-heavy].

Lips:

↬ NYX's soft matte lip cream in Copenhagen.

With this look, I started off with doing my eyes first because if I happen to make any mistakes and if any cleaning up is required, I can do so without worrying that I would mess up my foundation/base. Also, since I was working with a darker eyeshadow, I was worried that there might be fallouts.

I guess that's all for now! Thanks for reading and have great week ahead of you.

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NYX soft matte lip creams.

Hello everyone! I am very excited to share this post with you because it'll be about something that I love love love. It's none other than NYX's soft matte lip creams! I have featured a few shades in previous blog posts (links here!: Paddle Pop, Naked Bronze, Selfish Silver Smoke, Purple Line, Bronzed).

I think you might be able to tell that NYX's soft matte lip creams represent my very-much used lip products, ever. They are pigmented, they don't dry up your lips and they smell like heaven! The pictures and swatches below will show you why!

(L-R) Zurich, Ibiza, Addis Ababa, Prague, Monte Carlo, Copenhagen.

↬ Zurich.

↬ Nude shade (my perfect nude!) that doesn't make you look too washed out. Perfect for everyday use when you just want a subtle pop of color on your lips.

↬ Ibiza.

↬ Dark peach shade.

↬ Featured here! Purple Line

↬ Addis Ababa.

↬ Barbie pink shade.

↬ Featured here! Paddle Pop

↬ Prague.

↬ Dark purple shade (my favourite one out of all!).

↬ Featured here! Selfish Silver Smoke and Bronzed.

↬ Monte Carlo.

↬ Blue-toned red shade; pin-up red shade.

↬ Featured here! Naked Bronze

↬ Copenhagen.

↬ Wine shade; dark berry shade.

↬ I've yet to try this as I just got it recently. But I know I'm going to love it as much as I do Prague! It seems to be a little darker than Prague (but at least it doesn't look as it does in its tube...).

I purchased Zurich, Ibiza and Prague from Urban Outfitters (link here!). You can get the soft matte lip creams for USD6 from the website, that ships to Brunei at a flat rate of USD30 so you could buy as many products (not just NYX) as you want to maximise the international shipping fee.

However, if you don't wish to buy them online as you need to wait for approximately three weeks to a month, you can get them at Shop@Sarah's at Seri Kiulap Mall. But I don't recommend because they cost roughly BND16 (I purchased Monte Carlo there which I felt ripped off about).

As aforementioned, I just recently purchased Copenhagen from a dear friend who sells makeup products on her Instagram (@blushnsmudge_bn). Great customer service too! I got Copenhagen for BND13 which is BND3 cheaper than what you would get from Shop@Sarah's. BND3 is actually a lot of difference (to me at least) because..add 20cents and you can buy yourself some Thien-Thien chicken rice!!! Do follow her makeup page for more, you won't regret it!

I hope this post has helped you in one way or another. You need at least one soft matte lip cream in your lipstick collection! Butttt, please don't blame me if you decide to have more than one after that hehe. Once again, thank you so much for reading! Have a great weekend ahead of you!

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Kitten wing + Bold lips

In my previous post I mentioned that I was going to go a blog post dedicated to a look featuring bold lips, here it is! I did this look for a birthday party at a dearest friend's place.  To go with the bold lips, I opted for a kitten wing liner, a matte and bronzed base/face, as I didn't want too many things to be going on. 

Pictures!

↑ Face/Base:

↬ Tarte Amazonian Clay full coverage foundation.

↬ Tarte Maracuja creaseless concealer.

↬ Rimmel Stay Matte powder to set concealer and T-zone.

↬ theBalm Cosmetics Betty-Lou Manizer to bronze up my face.

↑ Eye area:

↬ BH Cosmetics Flawless Brow Trio in Medium.

↬ Benefit They're Real! push-up liner.
↬ 3 Concept Eyes creamy waterproof eyeliner [to tight-line my upper waterline]
↬ Essence Lashes Go Wild mascara.

↑ Lips:

↬ Lime Crime Velvetines in the shade Wicked.

I think this look is rather simple as you needn't use any eyeshadows. But if you'd like to amp it up a little more, feel free to use matte eyeshadows (I think it'll look better with matte ones as shimmery ones can make the whole thing look a little "too much") and some shabam false lashes! I most of the time opt to not use false lashes because they make my eyes heavy and I wouldn't want to worry about them falling off or having red/watery eyes half the time at a function.

That's all for now! Thank you so much for reading and please leave a comment down below if you have any questions. Have a great week ahead of you!

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Simple Effort.

I was just asking the beau what I should call a look that I wore for his dad's birthday dinner last Wednesday. I told him the look leaned towards a simple one, but one that will look like a little effort was put in to make the whole look come together. And, he suggested Simple Effort. So I shall call it Simple Effort (tenkssss babe!!!!)!

Without further ado, here are ze pictures!

Face/Base:

↬ The Body Shop Instablur primer.

↬ Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk foundation.

↬ Garnier light BB eye roll-on.

↬ Catrice Cosmetics Prime and Fine powder.

Brows:

↬ BH Cosmetics Flawless Brow Trio in Medium.

I used Wax 1 to tame my brows and put them little fly-aways in place and proceeded to use Powder 2 to fill in visible gaps.

 ↬ Anastasia Beverly Hills tinted brow gel in Chocolate to set.

Eyes:

↬ Essence Metal Glam eyeshadow in 05 Chocolate Jewellery.

I used my ring finger to apply this over my lids and took a dabbed a little of Powder 2 (from the Flawless Brow Trio palette above) on the outer corners of the lid to create a little dimension so the eye area won't look too flat.

↬ Yves Saint Laurent Babydoll mascara.

↬ Catrice Cosmetics liquid liner in Dating Joe Black.

Lips:

↬ Revlon Colorburst Lacquer Balm in Provocateur.

The whole look took me about ten minutes so if you are in a rush to get ready, this one is for you! It's super wearable and suitable for any event, a date, a birthday dinner, or even a wedding dinner (which happens to pop up quite a lot in Brunei). Feel free to switch up the look to make it even more dramatic, depending on your liking, with chiseled cheeks, false eyelashes, thicker winged liner and a bolder lip color  ---- in which there will be a blog post dedicated to that soon!

That's all for now! Thank you for reading and please leave a comment down below if you have any questions! Have a great week ahead of youuu.

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