Eureka Moment: Big Time Make-Up Storage

If you are fond of reading beauty blogs and watching YouTube videos on beauty.  You probably knew about this "storage system" Makeup Gurus are going gaga for!  I remembered wanting this myself and imagined what I will put in here!  Back-ups probably?

I may be late with my Eureka Moment but I finally found them locally!  At Handyman (Ronbinson's Otis Branch) for Php2,500 (approx $59.50).   You may also check  Sogeshome for international readers.

As colorful as my life is, I actually prefer the white frost version as we all know, most of our make-up are colorful and I like to see a bit on what's inside without sliding the drawer outwards!

The aluminum frame makes the drawer quite stable!  I like the fact that I can put a sticker and label them by Foundation, Powders, Blushers, Lipsticks, etc...

The negative part that I can say for now is that dust can easily get inside!

Still, its nice to see them available locally! The price maybe shocking at first glance but come to think of it, I've been purchasing so many storage stuffs and it actually boils down to paying as much as this drawer!

I gave this a pass for now as I currently own a 5 layered plastic drawer where I store all my back-ups!  If you don't own one and you plan to, this is one product to consider! 

What's your make-up storage?
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Stay happy

AMW Reports: TBS Brush with Fashion Event

I've always known The Body Shop for their body butters!  My brother would always ask me to help me purchase one because it really helps his skin during winter season!  I do take a look on their makeup collection and my first purchase was their mini brush kit! 

Last year, The Body Shop is coming up with better make up collection and I can't help but choose favorites of mine to include inside my make-up train case!  

Here are the list of TBS items I got inside my make-up traincase ---

1. The Body Shop Eye Palette in Twilight
2. The Body Shop Autumn Leaves Compact - in which I use to dust all over the shoulders and arms of my clients.
3. The Body Shop Special Edition Kajal Eyeliners - perfect base for that smokey eye makeup.
4. The Body Shop Lightening Touch - well, I remove this from my train case as I love using this personally!
5. The Body Shop Love Gloss - perfect in giving that nice shine after lipstick application.
6. The Body Shop Cheek Blush Cream - to use as base prior to powder blush application.

4 out of 6 of the items above have something similar --- their ability to make me cry because they are limited editions!  *laughs*  What I love about The Body Shop though is that the makeup collection they are coming up are getting better and better!  I learn something new on this event and I'll share it all to you!  Ready?

Brush With Fashion

For the Spring of 2011, our dear friends from The Body Shop collaborated with the London College of Fashion in producing a makeup line that is also fashionable!  The new Limited edition "Brush with Fashion" Spring Make-up collection comes with built-in cruelty free brushes!  The colors in this collection were inspired from catwalk!

I took a quick peek on the display and got a closer look on the testers for you to decide if this collection is worth checking out or not! :)

Boho Beauty Eyeshadow Quad
Php2,195 (approx $52.00)

This quad I assumed as the neutral quad right away!  Though the orange eyeshadow is a bit out-of-place, I actually like it that its there as it makes this Neutral Palette a bit more special as compared to others!  This palette also comes with a tiny eyeshadow brush and brown eyeliner.

** Limited Edition available locally until end of March 2011.

A La Mode Eyeshadow Quad
Php2,195 (approx $52.00) 

At quick glance, this will be named the "smokey eyeshadow" palette right away!  The unique part of this palette is a sweet pink eyeshadow that comes with it making it easy for you to mix and match smokey looks!  From romantic, day-time smokey makeup to dark, ready-to-party look!  This palette also comes with a free eyeshadow brush and a black eyeliner!

** Limited Edition available locally until end of March 2011.

Illuminating Face Base
Php1,195 (approx $28.45) 

This was the first item that I grabbed right away!  I am into "illuminating" stuffs as there are days my skin needs the "healthy glow" or "boost".  This is a perfect product to highlight your cheekbones, the bridge of your nose and your chin!  I am loving this!  Sad to say, this is also Limited Edition available locally until the end of March 2011.

Tailored Cheek Tint
Php1,095 (approx $26.00) 

 I originally thought this was the famous TBS Lip and Cheek Tint that got transferred into a different and more "posh" tube.  I was told otherwise!  This is totally different as this is gel-like texture that looks clear and once blended in your skin will create a shade depending on your body temperature!  Mine turn out light pink! 

** Limited edition available locally until March 2011.

High Shine Lip Treatment in Pink Cream

Php595 (approx $14.00)

 High Shine Lip Treatment in Juicy Peach

Both High Shine Lip Treatment will be available even after the Brush With Fashion collection but they won't be designed or packed in such a pretty packaging shown on photos above!  I honestly did not play much with both shades!  Must be the fact that I know they will still be available even after March?  I am also not much of a fan of lip glosses nowadays!  

The collection also includes the mini brush kit!  I have the original plain back brush kit and this one is super cute!  There's no point in owning 2!  So maybe, I'll just go home and paint my plain looking mini kit? :D

Mini Brush Kit

Php1,495 (approx $35.60)

 

With certain amount of purchase, I was told that buyers can get a free bag as modeled by our dear friend Kim! (thanks dear!)  Correct me if I'm wrong but I was busy thinking about other stuffs!  I think you should purchase Php3,500+ worth of products to get this?

 If you spend Php8,000 above, you'll get a cute tote wherein you can put your favorite makeup stuffs and brushes!

The Body Shop events are known for the fun activities they ask bloggers to do!  We were given a pizza box, and I was hoping I could eat the shirt?  *laughs*

A shirt with the word Brush With Fashion printed and we get paints to play around and paint our shirts!  I told them I'll probably end up taking this to a real artist and ask them to "Photoshop" the shirt for me!  :P

Thanks to Kim for this shot, I didn't even know she took a photo of me! I was that serious!  

Of course you'll know it's my shirt!  Just look at those tiny flowers!  *lol*

We were gifted with a gorgeous cookie after the T-shirt painting!

It was a fun event!  I want to thank The Body Shop Philippines for the invite and for making such fun activities to help relieve stress after a long work day!

Overall, the collection is not bad!  I am actually surprised on how pigmented the eyeshadow quads are and I will definitely go back for the Illuminating Face Base and use it as a highlighter!  I will test the Tailored Cheek Tint and see how it will also look on other people!  It'll be fun to have a unique blush shade per individual!  The lip glosses?  I'm not that thrilled so I'm giving them a skip and leave those to gloss lovers out there to tell me how much they like it!

I want to add that The Body Shop will have a Run to fight Human Trafficking this coming March 13, 2011.  I have done my part in leaving my signature,  have you?

Add them up on Facebook to get more updates about the Run and other good deeds The Body Shop Philippines has up in their sleeves!

Which among the products mentioned above caught your attention?

**Note from TBS Philippines: Php200 off on Brush With Fashion Makeup until March 17, 2011.

Keep smilin'
Stay happy!

Avon Ultra Moisture Rich Lipsticks Review

It was Avon Lipstick Army inside my room for the past weeks.  I randomly picked 10 of them to test and gave 10 away!  I hope the winners will enjoy these as much as I do!  I was told the Avon Ultra Moisture Rich Lipsticks are rich in Moisture and it will work really well on my dry lips!  How do I find these?

Something New: MAC Peacocky

I am updating you with another MAC Collection available locally!  I haven't seen the collection in person yet so let's all "computer shop" our favorite shades and colors available this month!

MAC Peacocky

According to MAC ---

Arrogance or elegance?  The showy display, the undeniable sexual spectacle, the iridescent irreverence...it's awe-inspiring.  We fetishize the exotic peacock as a symbol of extreme beauty, an act of elaborate nature, raging against everything simplistic.  Peacocky fans out in a foray of intense color for Lips and Eyes, exotic and sophisticated with a touch of '30s F. Scott Fitzgerald glamour and mesmerizing metallic sheen.  New Kissable Lipcolor combines full flash with creamy comfort.  It's molten, with elastomer technology that imparts a velvety, aerated feel without sacrificing shine.  Light as a feather, Mega Metal Shadow gleams like chrome, with light-reflecting properties --- yet creamy, crease-resistant, vitamin-fortified flexibility.  Dramatic doesn't even begin to describe the girl who knows she's peacocky.

 Kissable Lipcolour

Php1,150.00 (approx $26.70)

• Enchantée - Light blue pink
• Woo Me - Light pinky nude
• So Vain - Muted dirty coral
• Vanity Fair - Mid-tone blue pink
• Exxxhibitionist - Red-toned coral
• Strut Your Stuff - Bright true red
• Scandelicious - Blue fuchsia
• Peacocky - Sky blue with red pearl
• Super - Muted neutral brown
• Temper Tantra - Mid-tone reddish brown
• Flaunting It - Grey mauve
• Love Peck - Blackened blood red

Mega Metal Shadow

Php1,175.00 (approx $27.30)

• Peek-at-You - Frosted yellow white
• Dalliance - Light champagne
• Prance - Frosted mauve pearl
• Top of the Posh - Frosted white pink
• Tweet Me - Gold bronze

• Mating Call - Dirty frosted violet
• Odalisque - Deep teal
• Sexpectations - Metallic burgundy
• Paparazz-she - Deep copper bronze
• Ego - Forest green

• Noir Plum - True purple with silver pearl
• Dandizette - Navy with silver pearl
• Spectacle of Yourself - Deep bronze
• Centre Stage - Frosted chocolate brown
• Unflappable - Frosted black with purple pearl

Available at ---
February 2011 at all M·A·C locations,
Rustans Makati 8128265
Rustans Shangri-La 6319310
Rockwell Power Plant 8982045
Marionnaud Mall of Asia 5560419 - Starts February 25, 2011
Trinoma

What caught your attention in this collection?
I'll give the Mega Metal Shadow a quick look and probably stay longer checking out the Kissable Lipcolours!
I know I'd love to catch them in person!

Keep smilin'

Stay happy

AMW Reviews: Revlon ColorStay Liquid Liner

As I get lazier and lazier each day on makeup application.  My makeup routine has also decreased in number!  I can go as fast as 1-2-3 and leave the house.  

1. Face Powder

2. Eyeliner

3. Colored Lipbalm

Yes guys, I chose eyeliner over mascara application because it's a full proof secret of mine to make me look awake!  I have been a pencil-alternating-to-gel liner for the past years and I have to admit, I missed my liquid liners!  The effect of liquid liner and gel liner for me are almost similar but isn't it nice to not reach out for a separate brush?  That's probably one factor I missed about liquid liners, the brush that comes with it!

For a couple of weeks now, I've added a new member to my eye-lining essentials!  Revlon ColorStay Liquid Liner in Blackest Black.

Revlon ColorStay Liquid Liner says ---

Elegant, sexy and sophisticated, Revlon Colorstay Liquid Liner allows you to emphasize your eyes with precision. Dries quickly and lasts all day. 

Available in: Blackest Black and Black Brown 

Made in Germany good for 12 months

AMW says ---
Pros

• Easy to use packaging.
• Liner comes out very pigmented.
• Blackest black is super black!
• Perfect for winged liner.
• Allows to create thin and thick line easily.
• No smudging nor flaking for the whole day.
• Stays all day until removal.
• Dries quickly.
• Not too difficult to remove with a good eye makeup remover.
• Brush applicator is short so its easier to control.

• The liquid liner does not dry up easily or gets "sticky" after several usage or once exposed to air!  My Revlon ColorStay Liquid Liner is as good as new at this very moment.
• Can make tiny eyes look larger! 
• Price isn't bad for a liquid liner that lasts all day and super pigmented.

Cons

• Since the brush is stiff, it may irritate the sensitive lids.
• Can only be used to line the upper lash line.
• Can be tricky to apply especially when you're a first time liquid liner user.

Overall

A nice liquid liner to start with!  What I like is its capability to dry quickly which makes it easy for first timers to try.  Very pigmented and one swipe can give a truest black liner color!

Tips

• Shaky hands?  Dot your upper lash line with several tiny dots and gently connect it.
• During application, try to tilt your head backwards, raise your eyebrows during application.  
• Do not open your eyes wide at once, give a couple of seconds for the liner to completely dry.
• Apply with light pressure as the stiff brush can hurt your eyes.
• You can choose to pencil your lash line first then apply this liquid liner on top!  Creating an outline with pencil is easier and mess-free.
• Made a mistake?  Do not worry, dip your q-tip with make up remover and gently remove liquid liner
• Do not tight line with this or apply on waterline as it will hurt your eyes!
• I prefer application with the brush on sideways rather than applying it straight poking the eyes!
• You see a space in between the lashes and the liner?  Proceed with tight line using your favorite pencil eyeliner.
• On removal, wet your cotton pad with your preferred eye makeup remover, close you eyes and leave the pad on the eye area for a couple of seconds, gently wiping the liner off.  Do not leave residues as it may cause allergic reactions.
• Stop usage once allergic reactions occur.

Will I repurchase?
No.  I'll go look for the "soft brush applicator" version.

To whom do I recommend this to?

Anyone who has shaky hands but wants to try liquid liner!  The short and stiff brush gives control to line the eyes precisely!  

Where to purchase and how much?
At Revlon counters locally for Php550.00 (approx $13.00).

Here's to show you how easily you can create thin and thick lines 

with this firm brush

Applied with one swipe on my upper lash line 

creating a semi-winged look

My eye looks larger with Revlon ColorStay Liquid Liner
(No wonder KPop stars love their eyeliners!)

(note: I applied a tiny bit of black eyeliner on the waterline)

I missed my liquid lining days!  With the Revlon ColorStay Liquid Liner, its easy for me to create an obviously "lined" eyes!  I don't mind reaching out for this on days I want my eyes to be more distinct!

What's your favorite liquid liner brand?
Keep smilin'

Stay happy!

(Note from Author: Product sent as gift.  The author is not affiliated with the company. All information written are based solely on author's personal experiences.  Please purchase at your own discretion.)