Sleek Makeup: Highlighting Palette.

Hello everyone! MERRY (one day belated) CHRISTMAS!!!! I hope you had an amazing celebration. We're almost at the end of the year! It has been five months since I posted my very first entry on this blog back in July. It's crazy how quickly 2014 has flown by. 

On another note, I mentioned in my previous post that I would be doing separate posts on the Sleek Makeup's products that I had purchased. Today, I will be talking about the highlighting palette! I think that it's the most unique one out of the others in my haul. It's priced at USD14.99 on Sleek's official website. 

↑ The packaging

↑ Highlighting palette in 029 Precious Metals

↬ Shade 1, Platinum

↬ Shade 2, Royal Gold

↬ Shade 3, Renaissance Gold

↬ Shade 4, Antique Bronze

Shades 1, 2 and 3 have velvety, creamy formulas, whereas Shade 4 has a powdery formula. With this palette, you can use any of the aforementioned shades on the inner corner of your eyes or on the brow bone, or even the tops of the cheekbones, as mentioned on the official website (link here!). But of course, one is not limited to its prescribed ways of using any makeup product. You can use it even on the bridge of your nose or on your cupid's bow. Simply put, use it on any features in which you want to bring out or complement. 

As for myself, I would probably use this palette, not only for highlighting purposes, but as eyeshadows or eyeshadow bases. You could pop Platinum, Royal Gold and Renaissance Gold on your eyelids as eyeshadow bases and then layer on normal eyeshadows, which would in turn have more intensity. Antique Bronze is my thanggggg. I love my bronzy, brown shades! =3

I guess this is it for today! Sleek Makeup ships internationally to Brunei at an affordable shipping rate, so if you're looking for a good highlighting palette, this could just be it! I hope this has helped you in a way or another. Do leave a comment down below if you have any questions :D Thanks so much for reading!

Happy (advanced) New Year errbadeh!!! Here's to an amazing year-end and an even more amazing 2015...(and more makeup!!!)

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Sleek Makeup Haul.

Hi errbadeh!! I don't know about you, but I often sign up to receive newsletters from websites (especially those that sell makeup) in order to get some inside scoop about discounts or sales! In October, there was a 25% discount provided on Sleek's website.....and that only means one thing: online shopping!

My order date for five items was made on the 22nd of October. The subtotal was USD68.95 and with the discount code applied, it was reduced to USD51.70! Might I also mention that the shipping to Brunei was free! So it was definitely a good deal! My packaged arrived nicely packed in a black box and with the items bubble-wrapped. Without further ado, here are ze pictures!

↑ New Skin Revive foundation in White Rose, USD11.99

↑ Eye & Cheek palette in Dancing Til Dusk, USD14.99

↑ Eye & Cheek palette in See You At Midnight, USD14.99

↑ I-Divine palette in Arabian Nights, USD11.99

↑ Precious Metals Highlighting palette, USD14.99

I can't wait to try them out! I feel that Sleek is one of the most affordable makeup brands that offer high quality. Blogposts on each of the aforementioned product will be up soon, along with more pictures and swatches! I actually have four other eyeshadow palettes which were bought last time. I should probably blog about them too yes? :D

Feel free to leave any questions in the comments section below if you have any! As always, thank you so much for reading!

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Review: Sleek Makeup's Bare Skin Foundation

Harrow pretty earthlings!

A few weeks ago I ordered some goodies from Sleek Makeup and one of the products was their new Bare Skin Foundation (link here!). The shade that I picked was Bamboo as it looked like the perfect shade for me as seen from the website. The foundation is said to:

• Provide light to medium, buildable coverage
• Conceal blemishes and imperfections Innovative formula evens out skin tone
• Have advanced moisturising properties help to keep skin nourished
• Be light base feels weightless, allowing skin to breathe
• Instantly enhance and illuminate skin

When I first got it, I was little bumped out because the foundation looked a little darker in real life than it is displayed digitally from the website. But then again, sometimes products do look different from time to time. Below are two swatches of the foundation which look quite different from the website.

Swatch taken from the website

My swatch without white light

My swatch with white light

Tonight, I'm going out for a dinner so I decided to give the foundation a try, though I thought it would be a little too dark for me. I opted for a light look and here are the products that I used.

• Sleek Makeup Bare Skin Foundation
• Garnier BB eye roll-on (to brighten under-eye circles)
• Revlon The Lash Potion mascara
• Real Techniques miracle complexion sponge (to apply both Bare Skin Foundation and BB eye roll-on)

I decided not to further use any products because I wanted to see how the foundation holds up. Surprisingly it matches my skin pretty well (despite from it looking a bit too dark from the bottle)! I really love the finish of it and it sure does feel very light-weight! Also, I do have normal to oily skin. Here's a picture of the foundation, without any powder-finishes or any filters.

Overall, I think the foundation lives up to what it's stated to deliver. And for only £8.99 at that! Definitely a good buy for a good price.

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Selfish Silver Smoke

Hello pretty earthlings! I attended a dinner last Saturday, the 12th. I initially wanted to use the Naked 1 palette because it's my all time favourite, but I saw my unopened-still-in-its-plastic-bag NudeTude palette so I think I might as well make use of it!

From the title of this post, it needs no pointing-out that I made this eye look on the one shade that caught my eye, Selfish, a silvery taupe shade. Hence it is the main color of this look. The products I used are as below :D

Face/Base

• Benefit the POREfessional primer
• Yves Saint Lauret Le Teint Touche Éclat foundation
• NYX Above & Beyond Coverage concealer
• Rimmel Stay Matte pressed powder
• theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer as a highlighter
• theBalm Betty-Lou Manizer as a bronzer
• Sleek Blush by 3 in pink lemonade

Eyes

      Shadows:

• Applied Selfish from the inner corners to the middle of eyelid, leaving the outer corner bare
• Lightly tapped brush onto Serious and put it on the outer crease of eyelid, blending inwards together with Selfish
• Used my ring finger to apply a little hint of Stand-offish on the middle of eyelid to give that extra pop and dimension so the entire eye look won't look too flat

      Rest of the eye area:

• Bobbi Brown long-wear gel eyeliner in Black Ink
• Shu Eumura eyelash curler
• Revlon Lash Potion mascara
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Ebony

Lips

• NYX soft matte lip cream in Prague

Brushes

• Foundation - Real Techniques buffing brush
• Concealer - Real Techniques domed shadow brush
• Powder - Real Techniques multitask brush
• Eyeshadows - Real Techniques base shadow brush
• Eyeliner - Real Techniques fine liner brush
• Bronzer - Real Techniques contour brush

Final look!

I really liked how everything turned out in the end, nothing too fancy and yet nothing too..simple. I hope you had a great weekend and here's to another one!

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Makeup Look - Purple Line

Hi!

Just got back from a dinner/function/gathering of a baby's full-moon, meaning the baby has just turned one month old! Opted for a light purple eye look with a touch of slight smokiness. Here are what I used!

Face/Base

• NARS Sheer Matte foundation in Barcelona
• NYX Full Coverage Concealer

Eyes

• Cosmetics Shade Play in Tokyo Palette [1+2 on the inner most eye corner, 3 on the middle of the lids and 4 on the outer lid. Blend properly to ensure that there are no harsh lines]
• Physician's Formula purple gel eyeliner

Brows

• Anastasia Brow Wiz in Ebony

Cheeks

• Sleek Make Up "Blush by 3" in Pink Lemonade [centre, cream one]

Brushes

• Real Techniques buffing brush [foundation]
• Real Techniques deluxe crease brush [concealer]
• Real Techniques base shadow brush [eyeshadows]
• Real Techniques pixel-point eyeliner brush [eyeliner]

Lips

• NYX soft matte lip cream in Ibiza

Here's the finished look with everything aforementioned put together :)

Decided to call this look Purple Line because I was coincidentally listening to DBSK/TVXQ's music called Purple Line.

Hope everyone had a great weekend and here's to a good one ahead!

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