April 2010 Makeup Collection

Today's going to be a makeup collection.
I've only just begun collecting so I only just have the basics.
But enough chatting, let's just get to it.

First, are pictures that give an overall view of the drawers I store them in, which I forgot where I bought it, but any Walmart will do, it was probably under $10.


This is my brushes and tools drawer.


My face drawer including powders, foundations, concealer, bronzer, blush and highlighters.


My eye drawer including eyeshadows, palettes, liners, mascaras, bases.


My lip drawer including lip glosses, lip balms, lipsticks and lip liners.


Now, I will go more in depth and list the brand and name of the product.
Starting with the brushes and tools drawer. . .FACE BRUSHES

L-R Ecotools Kabuki, Posh Flat Top Mineral Brush, Ecotools blush brush, Annabelle blush brush, Ecotools powder brush, Ecotools Retractable kabuki

EYE BRUSHES

L-R Shieseido eyelash curler, Elizabeth Arden eyeshadow brush, Elizabeth Arden eyeliner brush, Posh dual-ended eyeshadow brush, Ecotools concealer brush, Ecotools eye blending brush, unknown brand eyeshadow brush, Ecotools eyeliner brush, unknown art brush, unknown art brush, Elizabeth Arden lash comb

COMPLEXION PERFECTION

Top row L-R: Estee Lauder finishing powder, Physician's Formula Perfecting Mineral Concentrate (sucks)
Bottom row L-R: Shiseido powder, Becca Sheer Colour Make up, Physician's Formula mineral loose powder, Physician's formula mineral face powder, Maybelline Mineral Power concealer, Becca compact concealer

FACE COLOURING

Top row L-R: NYC matte bronzer, Benefit Hoola bronzer, Elizabeth Arden cream to powder blush, Fasio Blush, Benefit High Beam, Tony&Tina herbal powder blush,
Bottom row L-R: Urban Decay powder blush, Clinique all over colour, MAC MSF, Profound 3 color blush

EYE PALETTES


Top row L-R: Urban Decay Get Baked, Too Faced Naughty and Nice
Mid row L-R: Kimchi Blue Eye palette, Cover Girl dazzling metallics, Estee Lauder compact disc eyeshadow
Bottom row L-R: Lancome maquiriche, Estee lauder quad

EYESHADOW SINGLES


Top row L-R: Stila Kitten, Caboodles eye love you
Mid row L-R: Milani Leaf green, Urban Decay midnight cowboy rides again (glitterball!), Urban Decay secret service, Annabelle #225
Bottom row L-r: Clinique south beach, Clinique sugar sugar

EYE BASES

Top row L-R: Mac paint, Nyx jumbo eyeshadow pencils in iced mocha, french fries, cottage cheese and milk
Last row L-R: depotted Urban decay primer potion, sample Urban Decay sin primer potion, Benefit gilded pencil

LINERS+MASCARAS

Top row L-r: Clinique cream liner, Gosh art liner, Urban Decay midnight cowboy glitter liner, Urban Decay metal head liner, NYC liquid liner
Bottom row L-r: Shiseido perfect mascara sample, Rimmel sexy curves, Maybelline define-a-lash volume, Rimmel style and shine, Rialto slate liner, Orlane black liner, Rimmel purple liner

LIP BALMS/TREATMENTS

L-R: Burts Bees lip shimmer, Agatha Ruiz De La Prada lip balm, Ballmania lip balm, Oiseau (from Anthropologie=love) lip balm, Nature's Gate lip balm, McBlooms lip balm (from Chapters Indigo)

LIP GLOSSES

Top row L-r: Aerie kiss soft gloss, Benefit California kissin, Beauty rush lip gloss, Sephora lip gloss, Sephora lip gloss, Clinique long last glosswear sample, liquid Lip Smacker
Bottom row L-r: 3 flirt plushious liquid velvet lipcolour, Joe Fresh lip gloss, Marcelle lux gloss, Bare Escentuals buxom lip gloss in Amber (alltime fave!), Stila kitten lipglaze

LIPSTICK/LIPLINERS

L-r: Natura lipstick, Revlon super lustrous lip stick in just enough buff (no pigmentation), Quo stay put lip colour, Red Earth Lip wonder pencil, Estee lauder lip defining pencil

BACKUP STORAGE AND PACKAGING (is that weird, i love to keep makeup packaging?)


UNOPENED MAKEUP (waiting until other stuff is used up)

L-r: Carmex cherry lip balm (the best), Maybelline FullnSoft mascara, Benefit Badgal brown mascara, Physician's Formula duo mascara, Bare Escentuals buxom lip gloss, Maybelline Dream Matte Powder (heard good reviews)



YAYYYYYYYYYYYY i'm done! That took over 2 hours to post.
Hope you guys enjoy. If you have any questions or want further details, let me know in the comments below.

Oh-ma-zing!

Went to Vaughan Mills today with friends and family. I was especially excited to go back to Holt Renfrew Last Call but there was not much there that interested me. . . that is until we were about to leave.

SPOTTED. Bowl of cosmetics. Becca cosmetics. Additional 80% off last ticketed price. Wait, what???? So an additional 80% off already reduced prices? OH-MA-ZING!

I only got two things, but looking back, I should've let myself go crazy and bought more things and backups. The first time I went there I sorted through all their dual-sided concealers until I found the best colour matchup for my undereye circles. So, I got the Becca Compact Concealer in the colour Butter-Scoth (great colour selection by the way). Now hear this: regularly priced at $40, was on sale for $14.80, paid only $2.96 plus tax!


That was the first trip over there. My friend picked up a concealer as well. After a while, we went back because we heard that they had other bins containing more Becca stuff. We were able to find eye tints, eye shadows, brow powders, cream blushes, loose powder, stick foundation and tinted moisturizers. The friend picked up an additional brow powder and stick foundation. I was eying the tinted moisturizers but they looked too light or dark for my skin tone.
After wandering the mall, I convinced my friend to go back with me to test out the TM to see if it would match my skin tone and it matched pretty well! Since it was lighter coverage, it blended superbly. I got the Luminous Skin Colour Sheer Makeup in Sand. Original price $44, on sale for $18, got it for #3.60 plus tax.



This things were cheaper than drugstore makeup and such high quality. Wish I'd picked up backups. If any of you have a chance to go to Vaughan Mills, check it out. It's a great, huge mall. And even if Becca is no longer sold at Holt Renfrew Last Call, you can still find great deals on clothes, shoes and accessories!

Review coming up after I get a chance to test it out further.

March Favourites

Last month (March) I bought a couple new products to try out and I also opened some of my backup stuff as I was running out of some necessities.
March was a hell-month, so many assignments due. Which is funny, since almost half-of it was March Break, Long Weekends and PA days.

Back to the point. Gosh I'm so bad at staying on track.

My first favourite is the Physician's Formula Talc-Free Mineral Face Powder. What a mouth full! My colour is in Buff Beige. I've almost run out of my Shiseido powder which I really like because of its soft and dewy finish, but I can buy a new one because it has been discontinued. Sucks, I know.


Next is this asian-brand blush by Fasio in the colour Orange Berry 250. It is infact orange but surprisingly it suits my skin-tone without looking crazy. This following picture is not the right picture, but it's the same line of blushes.


Every time I wear this next product, my friend tends to notice and comments that "I'm glowing". Hopefully, she meant in a natural way because I love what Benefit's High Beam does to my skin. The bottle looks like a nail polish and only the littlest amount is needed to create a radiant effect.


It's strange but never in my life have I used a mascara until it was "running" out. But, it finally happened with Rimmel's Sexy Curves and let me assure you that I was surprised and sad to see it dying :(. In mascaras, I look for volume rather than length and this mascara did it well with an added bonus of no flaking what so ever! I'm not in a hurry to buy another one though until I've finished and tried the other half a dozen in my collection.


Last of all, (I'm not going to say last but not least, I never understood that saying :/) is the Ralph by Ralph Lauren perfume. I only have a sample but it just smells divine! I don't have a huge perfume or fragance collection but this would be one of the next added to my list! It's a floral sweet scent.


That's all for last month's favourites. I'll try to remember to do this each month.
I'm hoping that one of my next posts will be a picture or video, if possible, of my makeup collection. These are one my favourite things to see or read about on Youtube and Blogger.

Contest Entry for Lorraine's Everyday Makeup

Hey guys,

This is my entry for Lorraine Stannick's (TheCurrentCustom)Everyday Makeup Contest!

Note that everyday varies but this will be a general idea of the products I apply on a day to day basis.

1. Start out with moisturizing my face with Clinique's Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion (Important step, have very dry/flaky skin)

2. Apply loose/pressed mineral powder with a flat top brush, usually Physician Formula's Talc-Free Mineral Wear

3. Optional, apply liquid highlighter to cheekbones with fingers, Benefit's Highbeam

4. Apply Urban Decay's Exhale blush to the apples, sweeping up with blush brush

5. Brush on either NYC's Sunny bronzer or Benefit's Hoola bronzer with kabuki brush (My bronzer must be matte!)

6. Wash of shimmery eyeshadow over lid (Stila's Kitten) or simple brown neutral eye using Too Faced Naughty or Nice palette

7. Black cream liner (Clinique's Brush-on liner) or black pencil liner (Orlane Black pencil) to only top lid

8. Curl lashes with Shiseido curler (Needed step!)

9. Apply mascara to usually only top lashes with Rimmel's Sexy Curves or Maybelline's Define a Lash Volume

10. Finish off with a sheer pink lipgloss, my favourite is the plumping Bare Escentuals Buxom Lipgloss in Amber

So that's my everday makeup routine! Thanks for having the contest Lorraine!

Haul #1

Hey guys,

This will be my first here on a blog. These are items that I've collected over the Easter weekend.

First, I got a chance to finally catch up with a friend on friday and spent some time with her. We went to one of the only places that are opened on Good Friday, Pacific Mall. It was sooooooooo extremely packed there and we almost/kinda/slightly witnessed a purse robbery. Exciting yeah? Oh anddd, I introduced my friend to one of the best desserts! I heard it's really popular in the states, but one of the first of its kind is at Pacific Mall called Yutopia. Normally I don't like yoghurt, milk, eggs, cheese or any of that sort but the frozen yogurt there is really delish! It tastes like ice cream but better! It's also a really great concept, sort of a help yourself style, with the old-fashioned ice cream lever. I had mango flavor. And then there was a station that you could add all the condiments you could fathom: chocolate, peanut butter, fruit, even Pocco sticks! Then they weigh it and you pay and eat.

Oh boy, kay I'm getting off track but just thinking about it makes my mouth water!
Anyways, there I bought some really cheap (and I mean really) false eyelashes. It's hard to describe, but they're basically long, not criss-cross, and thick. One pair was 50 cents and the other was a dollar! Incredible! Oh, and I just picked up some eyelash glue which funny enough, ended up costing more than the lashes combined! *shock!* (insert sarcasm). I also picked up a Tony&Tina herbal powder blush in Self-Trust, normally retailing $24 for only $3! It's an interesting purple-tinted blush, which may be why it's on sale, but it looks flattering on my skintone. As well, I have been wanting another eyeshadow brush so I spotted one for a under $3. The quality is not too impressive but it will have to do for now.

The next day I went out with another friend to Kensington Market. Nearby, was a discount MAC makeup store so I picked up a limited edition MSF in Refined for $20, normally retailing for $33.50. It's a gorgeous peachy-champagne sheen with bronze veining throughout, perfect for a light blush or all-over glow.


Finally, I picked up one of my wishlist items, the Maybelline Full n' Soft mascara. It was finally on sale at my local Shoppers for half off ($4.99). I'm not going to start using it now though, since I'm currently using 3, so it's going to my backup drawer.

*Quick update on my Longchamp. It's really great. Light (by itself) and easy to carry. The straps are the perfect length and so far have not had an issue with the large inside pocket.