The Lipstick Tag

If there's one beauty product I'm really crazy about, they're lippies.

I'm always in search for the perfect one depending on my shade preference.

Lipsticks can really change your looks and mood, believe me.

I honestly carry more than 4 shades in my bag, just in case I want to change

my look or my mood. Since I'm fickle minded, my favorite lippie shade changes

every year.

Here's the Lipstick Tag that I enjoy answering, and even reading through

my fellow beauty bloggers' post. I'll be including a few pictures so that this post won't be boring and dull.

How many lipsticks do you own?

I honestly lost count. I started collecting lippies since I was in high school.

I've lost some, others were unfortunately stolen,
while others were now residing inside my cousins' purse.
Let me do a headcount by their brands.
(excluding lip tints, lip balms and lip glosses)

(3)  Estee Lauder in Mars & Creme De Marron
(3) Kirkland Borghese in Maple Glaze, rare Ruby and Plush Plum
(13) Avon in Island Glow, Pout, Vermillion, 24k Pink, Natural Gold, Golden Peach,
Pink Peach, Divine Wine, magic lipsticks in pink and red
(6) Maybelline Angel Rose, Cosy Tangerine, Pink Peach, Hypershine Diamonds in Ruby Diamonds, Plum Perfect, Baby Lips
(2) Wet n' Wild Think Pink, Nouveau Pink
(5) Nyx India, Dusty Rose, Hot Pink, Narcissus, Orange Soda
(7) Etude House VIP Girl PK006, Dear Darling OR204, OR205, PK009, PK 0012, PK 0014
(1) Victoria's Secret in Cutie Pie
(10) Mac including the Hello Kitty & Heatherette Collection
Russian Red, Pink Nouveau, Please Me, Shy Girl, Heroine, Big Bow, Miss Popular,
Glitz, Hollywood nights, Lollipop Loving
(6) Revlon in Nude Velvet, Soft Nude, Pink Pout, Nude Attitude, Champagne, Beyond Natural in Peach

(3) Nichido Pretty Tulip, Baby Chic, Berry Princess
(2) Sophie Paris Mango Peach, Summer Pink
(2) Ever Bilena Offbeat Pink, Mauvey
(1) Careline Magic Lipstick

Oh gosh, it's 64.. excluding those I've lost, and those that were stolen..

What was the first lipstick you owned?

I've had lipsticks from my mom and aunt prior to this one, but when you say "first"

then it has to be the one I bought with my own money.

It was in highschool and I really saved up my money for Maybelline

Watershine Diamonds Lipstick in Peach Flash. 
I saw it from an ad when I bought my first Cosmo mag.
Since it was too glittery I couldn't wear it for school and another one
which is Blistex Lip Tone. I loved them. Maybelline got chunks of micro glitters that I sooo love. Blistex smells like chocolate, I even remember my friend Nelly licked it.
Sadly both were phased out. :(

What's your favourite lipstick brand?


 I owned a few and it has the best consistency, texture, 

finish and pigmentation. It's long lasting and smells like
those ice cream from Cold Stone. I love it not because it's pricey.
Who will like it when something's expensive? right? I want to save and buy cheap ones
as much as possible but with its quality, Mac has taken all my moolahs.

If I couldn't afford one I look for dupes and go for Nyx and Wet n' Wild.

What's your most worn lipstick?

Mac Please Me and Mac Shy Girl. 

Both were good for an everyday natural glam look.

For a cheaper alternative with a pinky peach hue
 I go for Maybelline's Lipstick in Angel Rose.

What is your favourite finish?

Matte. I've loved glosses and shimmers when I was younger,
but then I started hating them when I was still active in my dance org, 
coz whenever my hair accidentally gets into my lips the gloss glides 
all over my cheeks. Also, a matte lippie gives off more natural looking lips.

What was the last lipstick you bought?

It's Mac Heroine. I was really itching to get that goth purple lippie

but then I have to think several times
coz my cousin was making fun of me when I was swatching it
at the back of my hand. She's like, "you won't buy it, right?" then laughs

How many lip products do you currently have in your bag?

my bag at the moment: small xoxo hot to trot handbag filled with 5 lippies
from Mac, Etude House & Nyx. Yes, bag's already full.

As I've mentioned I carry 4 to 5 shades of lippie in case of emergency.
I know I sound weird.

If it's a big date or big event I carry
Mac Please Me, Mac Shy Girl, Mac Russian Red & Mac Pink Nouveau.
If it's just an ordinary day like hanging out with friends I carry lippies
mostly from Maybelline, or Revlon or Etude House or Nyx.

What is your favourite red lip colour?

Mac Russian Red. I swear its the best. I've received gazillion compliments

from it, and it's a real head turner from random strangers.

How do you store your lipsticks?

I have this small gold train case where I keep those that I rarely use,

and those most used were stored in the ice cream can from Yellow cab.

I also keep them somewhere out of my little cousin's reach.

She broke too many lippies already.

What lipstick is next on your wishlist?

Lime Crime's Geradium, a bright radioactive pink &
I heard it's a good dupe for Mac's Viva Glam Nicki plus
the packaging is gorg!

 What are your current favourites?


Mac Please Me is my everyday gorgeous lippie.
Then I love mixing my other lippies together to create a gorgeous combination.
My current fave is the combo of my
Nyx Black Label Lipstick in India and Avon Lipstick in Island Glow.

What's your favorite lipstick packaging?

Most makeup addicts and enthusiast have to agree, 

Mac Heatherette lippies were f*cking amazing. 

Now Lime Crime produced purple versions with holographic unicorns on it

and I'm dying to get one.

Now if you happen to be as addict as me wen it comes to lippies

then I'm tagging you to do this and send me your link to your blog

so I can happily read yours!

What To Do With Your Yellow Cab Ice Cream Can

My highschool friends, my husband and I had a dinner together at Yellow Cab Dasmarinas.

Well, the last time we ate out it was January of 2013, and that's more than a year ago! 

For the first time I also met my best friend's older brother, Kuya Lee Carl.

I also had a chance to bond more with my husband since he didn't go to work that day.

Baby's left with my mom. We had fun at the dining table, hubby's cracking funny jokes.

Then there's these 3 ice cream with different flavors for dessert. Pistachio. chocolate and vanilla. Pistachio's weird!! it tastes like max cherry candy. Yellow Cab Ice creams were famous not for it's taste I guess, but it's coz of its can. You'll definitely have that urge to keep it after finishing and satisfying your sweet tooth. Once again, I'm not into sweet food, so it was just ok for me. Mcdonald's sundae is still the best.

After pigging out, I wanted one of those cans coz I can use it for something.

When I got home, mom washed it, then it became like this:

It's a very good holder for my Mac bullets and other lippies! I can easily see what to use and what to pick. It can hold 12 lippies, or if it's all Mac maybe it can hold up to 13 Mac bullets.

What's inside:

Nyx Black Label Lipstick in India

Nyx Round Lipstick in Narcissus

Etude House Lipstick in OR204

Mac Heatherette Lipstick in Hollywood Nights

Mac Hello Kitty Lipstick in Most Popular

Mac Hello Kitty Lipstick in Big Bow

Mac Lipstick in Pink Nouveau

Mac Lipstick in Russian Red

Revlon Colorburst Lipstick in Soft Nude

Avon Moisturizing Lipstick in Island Glow

Avon Lipstick in Divine Wine

Nichido High Definition Lipstick in Pretty Tulip

These lippies were just 3% of the total population of my lip products. The rest, I still don't know where to keep them. I guess I need one more to hold up my fave lipglosses.

**UPDATE**

After 2 years, I finally recovered my Instagram password and username!! I'll post more pictures about makeups and more soon, I'm just so busy these days. Follow follow!!

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Have a happy day! ^_^

What's In My Makeup Bag?

You have no idea how many eyeshadows, powders, brushes, lippies and mirrors I carry with me. When I was in highschool and college my pen's always missing, but my eyeliners were always complete, and never misplaced. Sometimes I even forget my notes at home,

but my book of eyeshadow palettes were never forgotten...

Makeup Kit last 2010

1.Avon Supershock mascara in black

2. Revlon eyelash curler

3. Estee Lauder eyeliner 

4. eyebrow brush

5. lipbrush from Tinte cosmetics

6.Elf smudge brush

7. Barenaturals flat top brush

8. Tinte Cosmetics Matchbook in Natural Beauty

9. The Face Shop Cream Foundation

10. Lancome ColorFocus Self Select eyeshadow quad

11. that pie looking eyeshadow that I couldn't remember the brand

I used to love that Matchbook from Tinte Cosmetics in Natural Beauty that I bought at Beauty Bar for P1,600 pesos only and the Lancome Color Focus Self Select eyeshadow quad from my bezzie.

More makeups that I alternately use before, some were prizes from Maybelline and L'oreal

when I won for Hair in Manila's contest last 2010.

http://hairinmanila.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/look-of-the-week-winner-jan28-feb5/

When I was working my makeup kit has doubled. Sometimes I carry everything I can,

coz whenever I have free time I put makeup on, take a selfie and blog.

It's my office table way back 2012. That flowery tangerine makeup bag's from Clinique,

and was given by my aunt who gave the same Louis Vuitton's Spring 2002 Collection White Multicolour/Murakami Monogram Speedy 30 bag. I told everyone in the office that the bag's fake every time they ask me if it's authentic. I don't want to overwhelm them like why I use such thing and I seldom use it. But it isn't. It's actually the original LV Speedy 30.

Aunt bought it before the knockoffs were sold in the market. I'm still thankful she gave it to me, of all the people that she knew. The first time that I saw this bag, I think I was in highschool. I don't care much about LV that time. Seeing it again, it didn't look old, and it's more than 10 years old.

What's more important than that bag was the piece of advice she gave me and it really did change some of my plans in life, love and career. Aunt currently resides in California.

I just see her once every 2 years, or twice a year.

Another office table shot! Yes I do share my makeups with my office mates.I even received gifts from them. That Chanel kit was given by Ate Janice, my friend who used to work with Elizabeth Arden at Duty Free Cosmetics aisle.There's more that wasn't even reached by my cam.You have no idea.

Now that I'm preggo I've decided to minimize everything! I only carry the important ones, but they still seem plenty for a small purse.

Purse from: Marithe Francois Girbaud

What's inside my purse?

1. Revlon Eyelash curler

2. Victoria's Secret Dream Angels miniature perfume

3. Clinique eyeshadow and blush quad

4. Mac Heatherette Compact replaced with a dual powder foundation

5. Maybelline Clearsmooth Mineral Blush in Original rose

6. Etude House Shini Star Lipbalm in Guava

7. L'oreal Hip Eyeshadow brush

8. Elf Stippling brush

9. Barenaturals Flat Top brush

10. Kirkland Borghease Eyebrow brush

11. Jazzy Collection Cream Foundation

12. Johnson's baby lotion

13. Nyx Lipstick in Dusty Rose

I even customized my own palette that I can easily carry around,travelling, sleepovers at my father in law's house, anywhere.I depotted neutral eyeshadows and a few pink and peach blushes. Some were from my Kirkland Borghease palette, Sugar Skull Cosmetics 88 Earth Palette, and single eyeshadows that I got from the past.

When I was still a student nurse all the essential things for the patient should be at bedside.

Well, my bedside's like this at the moment, a few weeks from now it'll be different

and all my makeup stash will be there. ^_^ I feel sorry for my husband.

The scent that I'm loving at the moment: Heiress.I've been sniffing this scent from my bestfriend for years and years but I don't like it that much. Now my pregnant brain told my

olfactory nerve that this one's the best, aside from Purr by Katy Perry.

 By the way go and check it out! I'm lovin' these accessories from Sweet Frostings.

https://www.facebook.com/sweetfrostingsph

Summer Wedding: Copper Bronze, Sparkly Golds & Corals

If I only knew that I wouldn't use "Marasigan" for a long timeI would definitely choose a different blog name instead. Well I didn't see it coming as well. I got married last May! It was faster than a bullet one. Nobody saw it coming. It happened that fast coz suddenly I found the person that I want to spend the rest of my life with.Even if he asked me out the next day that I met him again I will still say "yes".

True love will only come once in a lifetime, and if he's the right one,you will still end up together eventually.I even got the biggest surprise of my life when I passed the pregnancy test. Hahaha!!! If I will turn back the time I will still choose the same path,having a baby and marrying the sweetest and most caring husband.

Our wedding was supposed to be the simplest one possible. I realized that if you're happy it 

doesn't matter if the wedding is not extravagant, as long as both of you are deeply in love and willing to be together for the rest of your life. We just wanted to get married right away.

If I planned it well I will definitely have a different concept for our simple wedding, since my favorite colors were black and red, but since it was the peak of summer season the colors and outfits should fit the venue, and should be appropriate too, so I chose the tropical colors.

It rained hard on my big day! but since the venue's a bit far from my place it just drizzled there and the event was still romantic

Unfortunately I don't have much time and energy to plan my wedding day. I was too busy eating foods to nourish my precious little angel inside my womb, didn't stress myself either.

My aunt, cousins and mom took the part in planning. Of course, there's no such thing as perfect wedding, but it was the happiest day of my life. If one day my life will flash right before my eyes, then that day would be one of the most vivid, and one of the best. I think next will be the delivery of my baby. I hope he'll take his looks after his daddy.

**Snapshot of my wedding preparation**

I've always wanted to do my own makeup, coz I don't like others to change my face on my special day. I still want to look as"me", no extraordinary transformation or whatsoever just like what I see from the other brides. They look different on their big day coz of their makeup. As for my hair, I dunno how to do it so I asked out a very good friend of mine who does bridal hairs gorgeously.

**Products Used**

Face

Nyx High Definition Primer
Jazzy Bronze Cream Foundation 004
mixed with
Revlon Photoready Cream Foundation in Shell
Sugar Skull Cosmetics 10 Correct & Conceal Palette
Origins Mineral Powder
Christian Dior Powder Foundation

Eyebrows
Elf Eyebrow Kit in Dark Brown

Eyes
Sugar Skull Cosmetics 88 Earth Palette
Etude House Tear Powder in Crystal Gold Tear
Kirkland Borghease Mineral Eyeshadow in Gold Digger
Etude House Gel Liner in Strong Black
Christian Dior Pencil Eyeliner in Noir
Christian Dior Diorshow Mascara

Cheeks
Sugar Skull Cosmetics 10 Glow & Blush Palette
Mac Heatherette Beauty Powder in Alpha Girl
Maybelline Mineral Cheek Blush in Ordinary Rose

Lips:
Mac Heatherette Lipstick in Lollipop Loving
mixed with
Avon Moisture Rich Lipstick in Island Glow
Mac Heatherette Lipgloss in Sockhop

I'm so blessed with my husband. Of all the people that I've met he's the kindest and the sweetest. We've met before but we weren't given a chance to show how much we really value each other. Fate and destiny might play with us, and only God knows who's the perfect person for us.He knows who we really need in our lives. I will never give him up and I'll do my best to become the perfect wife and the perfect mother for our baby. He gave me the most precious gift and I'm really thankful for that. I will never do anything that might hurt and harm him. 

Francis, if you are reading this I really want to tell you that 

I love you so much.