Gold Love + MOTDs

My addiction and obssession over something seems like a recurring process for me. Though I'm fickle minded I know most of the things that I like seems connected to each other, or they seem to have something in common. 

It was 2007 when I started lusting over anything with gold in it. Makeups, earrings, shoes, bags, everything.. As long as there's gold in it I'll surely love it. I've bought a gold cream lipstick from Elizabeth Arden, metallic gold lipstick from in2it, metallic gold lipstick from Mary Kay, Revlon Super Lustrous Lip Gloss that's also glossy gold (I forgot the shade's name)and then there's Herbench Paintbox eyeshadow duo in bronze and gold that I used to pair with Mac Gliss lipstick (perfect pair! plus JErgen's soft shimmer lotion) and I used to have a glitter cream eyeshadow from Avon that I used to wear almost everyday. Sad thing about all these gleaming items I've mentioned is that they're all discontinued now. Young me feels Cleopatra-ish and I love my eyelids with micro gold glitters on them. The King Midas fever in me lasted for 2 years and I was even so thrilled when Avon released 24k Gold lipstick collection and I even bought 3! Shades I went for were natural gold, 24k pink and my favorite golden peach. What I don't understand is that why on earth these cosmetics company discontinued every products I've mentioned. Even the very latest Maybelline Eyestudio Diamond Eyeshadow that I love so much is gone forever as well. I'm currently in search for perfect replacement for those, and still willing to buy if they'll all be recreated and manufactured again.

Fortunately and unpredictably, my special affinity to sparkly things and gold hues have resurrected. The addiction has been reborn and stronger and stranger than ever! Suddenly I have so many gold and glittery eyeshadows once again in my makeup traincase, all bought and received just last April.

Kiss Me Heroine Make Eye Jewelries from Japan. P595. I already did a review for it and just when I thought I'll be using Yellow Sapphire more, it turned out that I'll be frequently reaching for Pink Amethyst coz I'm currently addicted to its pale gold shade which I use for strobing. I want a beautiful highlighter/strobe powder so bad but I still haven't met my dream highlighter. So far, the pale golden eyeshadow powder from the Pink Amethyst paltte gives me an amazing glow and It's now my improvised highlighter and strobe powder. During lazy days I reach for Yellow Sapphire to give my eyelids a touch of very fine glitters and it easily brightens my eyes, but lazy days were a rare occurence for a makeup addict like me. I always top it off or mix with several eyeshadows.

The Face Shop Color Me Lovely Me: Ex Glitter Eyeshadow in Sand Dune from South Korea. P195 I bought it at The Face Shop store in Glorietta. It's also more of a cream/mousse type than powdery and glides on my eyelids like a dream. The specks of glitters were bigger than Kiss Me Heroine Make's Eye Jewelries, and the explosion of glitters were more intense. When photos were taken with flash the glitters were pretty obvious I use it when I want more emphasis on my eyes or I feel like I'm Tinkerbell, as the glitters were too fabulous and disco-ball like for daytime wear.

Mac Eyeshadow in Tempting from Canada. It's actually a Canadian brand but came from my best friend from Singapore. I was thinking of getting Woodwinked again but I've decided to try another shade that's more taupe-like. It looks great on its own but I love pairing it with Makeup Geek's Badabing or with my Sugar Skull Cosmetics 88 Metal Palette. Without an eye base, it creates a sheer wash of color on eyelids that is still pigmented (since it's Mac after all) and when used under a primer/eyebase the pigmentation's so intense. Best paired with any shade that belongs to the brown, orange and bronze family

Now I would like to share with you two fresh, glittery MOTD that I did for two consecutive days. By the way I'm not really that flawless but the flash made my skin smoother than usual. (I sooo love my Samsung Grand Prime!)

MOTD 1 is more on fresh, au naturel look but shimmery.

Product Breakdown

FACE

Mary Kay Luminous Wear Liquid Foundation in Beige 2

Mary Kay Mineral Powder in Ivory 1 mixed with Avon Smooth Minerals in Natural

Clinique Cyberwhite stick concealer

BROWS

Mary Kay Eyebrow Pencil in Brunette

Avon Eyebrow Pencil in Soft Brown

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Mocha

EYES

The Face Shop Color Me Ex glitter eyeshadow in Sand Dune mixed with 

Kiss Me Heroine Make Eye Jewelry in Yellow Sapphire

Mary Kay Eyeliner in Black

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Corrupt

Clinique Mascara

Revlon Eyelash curler

**no false eyeslashes**

CHEEKS

Kiss Me Heroine Make Eye Jewelry in Pink Amethyst's pale gold shade for strobing

Mary Kay Mineral Blush in Shy for my cheeks (it also has gold glitters in it) 

LIPS

BYS Matte Lipstick in Day Dreamer with

The Face Shop Color Me Ex glitter eyeshadow in Sand Dune on top

MOTD 2 has more intense golden copper color. Still shimmery and more on strobing, and I used my other not so new glittery golden eyeshadows that I still love.

Product Breakdown

FACE

Mary Kay Luminous Wear Liquid Foundation in Beige 2

Mary Kay Mineral Powder in Ivory 1 mixed with Avon Smooth Minerals in Natural

Jazzy Collections cream foundation used as concealer

BROWS

Mary Kay Eyebrow Pencil in Brunette

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Mocha

EYES

The Face Shop Color Me Ex glitter eyeshadow in Sand Dune mixed with 

Etude House Tear Powder in Crystal Gold Tear

L'oreal High Intensity Pigment in Fluorescent

Avon Eyeshadow Quad in Sandy Corals

Maybelline Eye Studio Diamond Eyeshadow in Copper 01

Mary Kay Eyeliner in Black

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Corrupt

Avon Lengthening Mascara

Revlon Eyelash curler

**no false eyeslashes**

CHEEKS

Kiss Me Heroine Make Eye Jewelry in Pink Amethyst's pale gold shade for strobing

Mary Kay Mineral Blush in Shy for my cheeks (my HG blush!) 

LIPS

BYS Matte Lipstick in Day Dreamer mixed with

Etude House Dear Darling Lipstick in OR205

L'oreal High Intensity Pigment  dabbed on top of lips

My addiction to it won't fade for sure. More gold products I'm currently eyeing on: Maybelline Color Tattoo Metal in Gold and Nyx Cream Stick in 24 Karats. Glad to know that they're cheap and I hope I can purchase them soon.

My thoughts on Strobing: it's just highlighting, minus contouring. I'm not really a fan of contouring since the bony parts of my face were too prominent now, plus it makes my facial features sharper than ever. Though it doesn't work that well on me I love seeing beautiful and talented muas on Instagram with their contouring on point. I look different in person and even in pictures so I just do light contouring with a darker powder. Horaay to the strobing trend, I'll be doing it til I ran out of strobe powders.

How about you my lovely readers? What's your favorite eyeshadow shade? Is there an addiction/obsession that has died down and suddenly you want to be addicted once again to it? Aside from this gold thingy my old flame Hello Kitty' catching my attention again, yet I'm still thinking about it coz I have a son now, I don't think seeing him play with my kitties will be a good idea.

So long my pretty readers! Thanks for visiting my blog! Seeing the blog hits of more than 400,000 makes my heart flutter! when i started I was pretty sure no one will even read my blog, but now I've got tons of readers! Thanks to all of you! Ciao Ciao!

Kim Kardashian Inspired Look: Warm Tones and Apricot Lips

It's my birthday once again and I suddenly have this urge to recreate another Kim Kardashian Inspired Makeup just like what I did last year. This time I'm sticking to my signature and favorite colors and I actually haven't seen any mua or guru replicating this look. Not only that I'm a big Kardashian/Jenner family fan but what I'm actually rooting for and so inspired about is that most of their makeup looks were done by my favorite makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic. J.lo started this neutral glowy bronzed skin and Mario has replicated it so well with a twist of his own creativity and skills, doing a perfectly flawless makeup for his celebrity clients. Now the trend for neutrals, smokey browns and warm coppery eyes have been grazing Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr as most muas have been doing neutrals and no makeup makeup, plus the major contouring trend. In my part I still need to learn more and soon I'll be practicing and painting my friends' face and I'm excited to share it with you.

My take using Canon DLSR. In my honest opinion, I prefer using the back camera of my Samsung with flash on coz the true colors of my eyeshadow and lipstick really shows. I've had several pictures taken with DSLR and it didn't do any justice for my MOTD. I couldn't see the vibrant colors on my eyes and lips, but then my cheeks were flushing perfectly. Later I'll show you one photo taken using my cellphone.

This is my all time favorite makeup look from Kim and it's very much similar to the makeup look I did on my wedding day. It flatters any skin tone and since most colors were from brown and orange family, it doesn't look too much and it can create a sultry glow.. I saw the same makeup look during an interview with local celebs Maxene Magalona and Ellen Adarna having an interview with Tim Yap prior to my wedding in 2013, that's why it became an option for my bridal makeup.

picture taken using my Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime front camera

The MOTD's a combination of warm tones from my Sugar Skull Cosmetics Palette and to achieve this look I really have to contour a lot and warm up my skin with bronzers and peach blush. Since I'm not into sharp contouring I just used a darker powder instead of a darker cream concealer. I have layers and layers of eyeshadows mixed in together just to create the right color I saw on Kim. On my lips I even dabbed it with the same blush powder I used on my cheeks. Unfortunately if you can see the current situation of my Mac powder blush, your heart will definitely break. Mine did, when my son threw it up in the air and had an epic smash on the solid ground.

PRODUCT BREAKDOWN

FACE

May Kay CC Cream in Light to Medium

Jazzy Collections Cream Foundation in CF-04

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 10 Correct and Conceal Palette

Mary Kay Mineral Powder Foundation in Ivory

EYES

Fashion 21 White Eyeliner

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Badabing

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Mocha

Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Corrupt

Mac Eyeshadow in Tempting

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 88 Warm/Earth Palette

Kiss me by Isehan Heroine Make Eye Jewelry in Yellow Sapphire

Glintz False Eyelashes

Mary Kay Eyeliner in Black

Avon Extralast Mascara in Black

CHEEKS

Mac Sheertone Blush in Springsheen

Avon Simply Pretty Pressed Powder in Natural (for contouring)

Elf blush and bronzer duo

Mary Kay Mineral Blush in Shy

Kiss me by Isehan Heroine Make Eye Jewelry in Yellow Sapphire (for highlighting)

LIPS

BYS Matte Lisptick in Daydream

Mac Sheertone Blush in Springsheen (mixed on lips)

Mac Heatherette Lipgloss in Sockhop

Using my cellphone's back camera with flash on, here's one good shot: pores and flaws visible.

Since Kim Kardashian's skintone is far different than mine, I didn't look so glowy and peachy and I already think my face looks too dark for using a lot of bronzer. Just a natural looking flush will do, and I also didn't use thick false eyelashes coz my eyes were already small, it'll automatically block my eyesight if my lashes were heavy. Overall, I'm in love with this makeup look, and it's something that I would wear everyday. I love how healthy I looked in pictures and makeups can really fake everything. Can you even tell that I'm anemic?

Thanks for reading lovelies and I hope y'all liked my MOTD. I'm thinking of more makeup inspirations and theme makeups and a little, just a little product review. Ciao~!

A Coachella Themed Party

It's a deep sigh that we don't have much festivals here during summer compared to what they have in there in America, and I'm also talking about the infamous Coachella that I've been dying to experience since I'm a concert/music festival lover. My cousin Atta told me there's a counterpart here in the Philippines called Wanderland, and we're still planning if we're gonna attend next year or not. Though the plan isn't that concrete yet, I had fun just tying a simple laid back Californian vibe when my bestfriend's younger sister had her 18th birthday Coachella style. Actually, I was the one who suggested it since they're aiming for a pool party. Most of my bestfriend's cousins were girls so it'll be nice to see flower headbands gracing their heads. It was just a simple celebration that became cuter since we're all game for a bohemian style. 

Here's me on my way to the party surrounded by Jessa's balloons. I love this shot taken from the front camera of my Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime.

What I'm wearing that day is a boho inspired off the shoulder floral cropped top from Cotton On and I got it as gift from my bestfriend. It actually shows too much skin, the back part's open and the flowy lower part exposes my belly. I love it since it was hot that day my outfit made me feel more comfy. I just paired it with jeans since I think wearing it with mini skirt or short shorts is too much for a birthday party. Maybe if I'm in Boracay I'll pair it with super micro minis and all. Every girl in the party got flower headbands too. Mine's from Forever 21 and I picked it since it matches the flowers on my cropped floral top.

I also did the hair and makeup of the debutant. Jessa's like my younger sister, as I've seen her since she was less than a year old. My concept for her look is fresh, youthful and glowing. I used neutral colors for her eyes and soft curls for her hair. To perfect the bohemian/coachella girl style I finished off her hairstyle with of course a flower headband.

Makeover! I did my bestfriend's hair and makeup, and also my other friend Karen's soft glam look.

That day I also get to spend time and hang out with my high school friends. It's like we never get old and we're still as crazy as the old times. Laughter never ends and rude mouths filled the room where were staying in.

For my MOTD I chose most of the products from Mary Kay. I'm proud to tell everyone that I'm now an independent beauty consultant and soon I'll be attending several seminars and trainings related to skin care, colors and business and I've accepted a business opportunity. I'm so excited about it and it's making me really busy.

Here are my selfies and my skin's really glowing, and I was even told my skin's so flawless that day. With the right combination of Mary Kay products here's the result.

The night before I used the Timewise Miracle 3 in 1 cleanser, used the sample pack of Microdermabrasion set and finished it off with the Age defying moisturizer.

For my MOTD, here's the list of products I used:

FACE

Mary Kay CC cream

Mary Kay Luminous foundation in Ivory 5

Mary Kay Mineral Powder in Beige

EYES

Kiss me by Isehan Heroine Make Eyeshadow in Yellow Sapphire

Makeup Geek eyeshadow in Badabing

Makeup Geek eyeshadow in Corrupt

Koshize eyeliner in Dark brown

Heroine Make Liquid Eyeliner

Avon Super Extend Mascara

CHEEKS

Mary Kay Mineral Blush in Shy

LIPS

BYS Matte Lipstick in Day dream

Wet n' Wild Megalast Lipstick in Pinkerbell

Hope you all liked my MOTD and soon I'll be reviewing my favorite products from Mary Kay.
For more information about Mary Kay products and prices visit Beauty by Mary Kay Ph.

Kluge Moisturizing Lipstick in Candy Peach

I love Sophie Paris Cosmetics and I've been their lipstick fan since 2009. I've tried two before and the shades were Hot Pink and Sexy Nude in a packaging that resembles that of Shu Uemura lipsticks. Whenever I mixed them together it gives off a vibrant barbie pink shade that I love. They've been discontinued but Sophie Paris continues to produce new packaging and formulation for their makeup line.

For today's lippie test it's Kluge Moisturizing Lipstick in Candy Peach. I want to concentrate on each lippie so I'll just post and review them one by one.

Kluge line's packaging is pretty and pink. It has a sweet, cute and princess-y type of vibe. The packaging even reminds of Etude House lippies. The lippie cap and the rest of the lippie's body is transparent pink in color. You have to twist the lippie to use it, and the scent is very feminine and bit strong but I don't care that much since I like it. The scent's it's not fruity at all and more of like floral, and it reminds me of the scent of imported expensive dolls. (Yes I used to sniff my toys)

The shade "Candy Peach' is the lightest or more likely close to nude with a tinge of peachy hue. It's almost similar to Etude House's Dear Darling Lipstick in BE101, except that BE101 is nude with a beige~brownish hue. Kluge lippies were very glossy and creamy. the pigmentation is good and lipstick appears to be sheer. You can even mix it up with matte lipsticks to help achieve a perfect glossy combination.

testng Kluge Candy Peach lipstick on my skintone. For reference I'm in  between MAC N25 and NC30

If you're in search of a perfect nude lipstick but scared of looking too washed up you can try this lipstick. It looks good both on fair and morena skin tone and best paired with neutral eyes for a natural daytime look or smokey brown eyes for a sexy night time look.

Photo taken with flash

Candy Peach can be your "my lips but better" type of lippie

I'm also recommending it to young girls who wants to wear a li'l bit of makeup but not ready yet for a bright lipstick or too glossy lipgloss. Kluge lipsticks were in between lipstick and lipgloss. Just pair it with a peachy toned blush and you're ready now for a natural daytime glow. It'll last for two to three hours, no stain will be left on lips.

Here's a selfie of my FOTD using Kluge Moisturizing Lipstick in Candy Peach paired with my favorite copper, bronze and gold combination from Makeup Geek, Mac cosmetics and Heroine Make.

Next up: Kluge Moisturizing Lipstick in Smooth Rosewood. Please look forward to that! Thanks for reading lovelies. Ciao!

American Flag Inspired Makeup

Just a short post for you lovelies! 

My article with RebelsMarket about Patriotic Glam has been officially published on their blog and I had the opportunity to play with colors all belonging to the American Flag. If you have time you can read and find out the tips I shared, and the possible looks you can do with your eyes, whether you're ready for a loud look or just a simple one with still a touch of red, blue and white.

I'm also officially sticking to my interest as I'll be sharing more articles with RebelsMarket that are all concerned with beauty and cosmetics, and still a bit of subculture fash & style. Here's the compilation of eye photos I've used from famous beauty bloggers like my favorite Jangsara and more.

Weeks prior to my article being published, I posted a sneak peek on my Instagram about what I'm currently working on and the involved look.

Now here's my photo that was featured on my article. It's my selfie using the 5 megapixel front camera of my Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime (best selfie phone ever).

As a tip here's a peek of the products you can possibly use to achieve this look. Photo from my blog post "Patriotic Glam".

To further enhance the eye makeups and I would like to show all of you how bright it is, here's another shot using the 8 megapixel back camera of my phone with flash on. I swear I'm so in love with my new phone and it's so blogger-friendly.

Products Used

FACE

Etude House Correct & Care Cream

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 10 Correct & Conceal Palette

Sephora 8hr Wear Mattifying Powder in Medium

EYES

Fashion 21 Eyeliner in White used as base

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 120 Rainbow Palette (blues & reds used)

Ever Bilena Lip Liner in Red used as base

Glintz False Eyelashes

Sephora Custom Smokey Eyeshadow Palette (white e/s used)

Clinique Mascara

Revlon Eyelash Curler

Nichido Eyeliner in Black

Heroine Make Liquid Eyeliner

CHEEKS

Mac Hello Kitty Powder Blush in Tippy

LIPS

Ever Bilena Lip Liner in Red

Mac Matte Lipstick in Russian Red

The Patriotic Glam article I wrote is also appropriate for the 4th of July Inspired look. Jangsara's recreation of Captain America Inspired Makeup is one of my favorite eye makeup looks of all time.

But then of course for next month I'll be showing some love for my country as we'll be commemorating Independence Day. Color inspiration isn't too far from the American Flag coz I'll still be using red, blue and white with a touch of yellow.

For my American readers, have a happy long weekend for y'all!