All-nighters & ultra simple fresh-faced FOTD

I had another all-nighter on Monday night/Tuesday morning while working on my business law assignment. I finished early in the morning and had time to kill so I decided to put on some makeup, also partly because my skin looked so horrible and sallow after another night of no sleep. You can see the crazy sallow face here:

This was my face after I gave it a quick, deep cleanse with some cleansing oil and Clinique Liquid Facial Soap. Its not as scary as before and there is some warmth back into my skin after washing it with nice warm water.

You can see that makeup makes a world of a difference.

Products I used

Face

• Make Up for Ever HD Primer in #2, which is the mauve one
• Jill Stuart Moist Silk Powder Foundation
• Guerlain Meteorites Powder in #2 Pink Fresh – Blush

Eyes

• Too Faced Shadow Insurance – Primer
• Dior 5-colour Iridescent Eyeshadow in #859 Graphic Lights
• MAC Penultimate Eyeliner in Rapidblack
• Diorshow Iconic in Black
• Clarins Double Fix’ Mascara
• Dior Jazzclub Palette in Purple Jazz – Eyebrow powder

Lips

• Burt’s Bees Replenishing Lip Balm with Pomegranate Oil
• MAC Lipstick in Cutester

Its a very simple FOTD that you can do in probably 5 minutes flat. I love how the Graphic Lights palette is already pretty blendable, although some colours can get quite chalky.

I’m not wearing any falsies, so you can see that without them, I have almost no lashes XD. Also you can see that the Jill Stuart powder foundation has almost no coverage, as it doesn’t even cover up my freckles… *sigh*

This is before my lashes got combed out, haha. Oopsies.

Let’s end off with a funny face.

I realized today that I constantly have low blood sugar. How do I know that? I tend to feel ultra tired after a while with no eating. And I’m not just making up a reason for my pigging out… lol. I’ve noticed this pattern for a while now, especially when I’m in Kingston and I sleep for a bit longer than I usually sleep. Maybe its because I’m not eating a balanced diet or something, because it never happens when I’m at home and living with mom.

Anyways, what do you think about this look? And don’t forget to follow me to get updates about the one-year anniversary contest that I will have coming up! More full-size products have been added to the prizes.

Swatches and review: Too Faced Decade of Glamour Pt 3

This is part 3 of the swatches for the Too Faced Decade of Glamour Palette. If you missed out parts 1 and 2, you can check them out here and here, respectively.

Part 3 is going to focus on the right flap of lip products. There are 9 lip products in total in this palettes, which is why it is taking me so long to swatch everything.

This is Girly Grapefruit Beauty Balm from Summer 2004. It is a very sheer pink, that has some shimmer. Because it is a lip balm/gloss duo, it is also quite moisturizing and rich. Compared to what it looks like in the pan, it offers pretty good colour payoff as what you see is what you get, kind of thing. This would make a good everyday colour.

This is Ring Pop Bauble Gloss from Spring 2000. It is quite sheer, but very iridescent. I would think this is better layered on top of something more beige.

This is the lipstick (top) portion of Vanilla Ice Juicy Jewels from Summer 2003. This is VERY creamy, and one of my favourite consistencies from all of these lip products. It applies with very good pigmentation and it does a very good job at hiding my original lip colour. I would say this would make an awesome nude lip.

This is the lipgloss (bottom) portion of Vanilla Ice Juicy Jewels from Summer 2003. It is a gorgeous colour, with very good payoff as it comes out to be a very beautiful gold/copper shimmer. This would be beautiful on top of the lipstick that comes in the same tube.

This is Love Bites Glamour Gloss. Originally, I loved this colour when I was applying it because the pigmentation is amazing and the colour looks quite nice on. However when I was taking the picture, it looked somewhat blotchy, like the colour wasn’t distributed evening. Nonetheless, I still really like this colour, it is a near-raspberry, with gold shimmers.

The next and last part, will focus on the face products, as well as a thorough review of the mascara, eye liner and lip injection. Stay tuned!

Swatches and review: Too Faced Decade of Glamour Pt 2

This is part 2 of the swatches and reviews of the Too Faced Decade of Glamour Palette. You can check out part 1 here.

This time, we are going to focus on one flap of lip products. The products that have been swatches are seen below.

This is You’re no Lucky Girl lipstick from Fall 1999. It is a very nude beige colour that has medium pigmentation. I have pretty pigmented lips so in combination with this lipstick, it turned out to be beige-rose in the end. This is very creamy and applies smooth. This would make a really good lip colour if you were looking to create a nude lip. Even though it is quite creamy, it took me a large number of swipes with my lip brush in order to get enough product to cover both my top and bottom lips.

This is Marcia Marcia Marcia lipstick from Fall 1998. It looks bright pink in the palette but it lacks pigmentation. It turns out to be a pearly baby pink. It is creamy but doesn’t apply as smoothly as You’re no Lucky Girl. The pearl also seems to settle into fine lines, which is a turnoff for me.

This is Tattle Tale Gossip Gloss from Fall 2000. This is a very shimmery bronze colour. This would look gorgeous layered on top of a beige or fuchsia lipstick as it will create a lot of dimension. I wouldn’t say this is something I would wear on its own as it lacks a “base colour,” so layering would be the way to go. It smells great though!

This is my favourite out of the four. It is Sabotage Gossip Gloss from Spring 2003 and it is a very shimmery raspberry gloss. I would definitely wear this on its own because it has good pigmentation. You also don’t need too many swipes because the product is very smooth. It is somewhat sticky, but smells great.

Overall, I would say that this palette offers some good lip colour/consistency choices. There are 5 more lip products that I will swatch next time, but just from these 4, I am pretty much sold. The Too Faced Decade of Glamour palette is available at Sephora.

Swatches and review: Too Faced Decade of Glamour Pt 1

This is part 1 of the swatches and review of the Too Faced Decade of Glamour palette that I had previously purchased at Sephora. This part will focus solely on the eyeshadows.

Here are the swatches:

Top: Astro Turf (dark lime green), Zsa Zsa (purple with glitter), Label Whore (Taupe with green shimmer)

Bottom: Pixie Dust (gold), Ooh and Aah (metallic silver), Lovey Dovey (beige shimmer)

I am actually quite pleased with the pigmentation in most of the colours with the exception of Pixie Dust. While swatching these, I actually only had to swirl my finger 2-3 times to get the colour intensity that you see in the picture. However with Pixie Dust, I probably swirled my finger 7-8 times and still nothing much is showing up.

The shadows are all very smooth and easy to blend and apply. Zsa Zsa is the most glittery with obvious chunks of glitter and some shimmer. Labour Whore and Lovey Dovey are shimmers, Ooh and Aah is a metallic silver, Astro Turf is more matte than the others, although it does have some shimmer in it, and Pixie Dust I just couldn’t figure out what exactly it was. I was guessing Pixie Dust is supposed to be another metallic, but because of the lack of pigment, it was really hard to tell.

I would say these colours, with the exception of Lovey Dovey (and Pixie Dust due to lack of pigment), wouldn’t exactly be appropriate for work or daytime wear. They would definitely look gorgeous for a dinner or a holiday party. I am quite impressed with Ooh and Aah as it is a pure metallic silver with nothing special. Nowadays it is harder to find a pure colour because everyone likes new combinations of stuff, but this is good. I also really like Label Whore because it gives you a different colour payoff depending on which angle you look at it from: it is more multi-dimensional. I personally don’t wear green eyeshadow, so I doubt I will be making much use of it, but I just might end up creating a Christmas themed look some day in December when I feel inspired.

Overall, I still think this is a really good value to have because you have everything else on top of the eyeshadows. Also, I feel that this will make a really good kit to take with you when you’re going on short trips when you won’t be doing too many looks. I have a feeling I will be bringing this with me to the UK and Asia next year, along with some of my Dior stuff.

I will be swatching and reviewing the lip products and face products separately in later posts, so if you’re interested in it, watch out for that.

Review, NOTD and more pictures of the Too Faced palette

Here is the NOTD. I recently did a haul from Sephora and I was looking for some new nail polish, so I ended up getting this. This is Sephora by OPI in Opening Night, which is a dark blue with some shimmer. This picture was taken with flash, and you can see the shimmers more obviously and the colour looks more blue than in real life. When you see this in real life, it looks VERY dark, almost black, and the shimmers are not that obvious. I was looking for a shimmery dark blue nail polish and it didn’t end up being what I was looking for exactly. Nonetheless it is a gorgeous colour and I have a feeling I will be wearing this quite often.

What I love most about the Sephora by OPI formula is that it is extremely fast drying, something that Essie completely failed in. The colour is also very opaque (depending on which colour you get) and you get a very smooth finish. Believe it or not, in order to reach the opaqueness in the picture, I only applied ONE coat. There are no streak lines, even though I reapplied the polish to parts of the nail afterwards; everything still managed to blend in nicely.

Also, unlike the Essie that I had used for my previous NOTD, this formula is quite long lasting. I haven’t had much tip wear and no chips even after a few showers and once of scrubbing of scalp vigorously while washing my hair. This is my second Sephora by OPI nail polish, the other one being Mermain to Order, but I am quite happy with its formula overall and I can say I will be buying more.

Now for more pictures of the Too Faced Decade of Glamour wardrobe palette that I previously purchased from Sephora.

This palette includes NINE lip products! I think it is a bit too much as they could have included more eye products, but the colour selection is really good. I like that it is not all pinks, or red, and not all neutrals, there are some of each. There is also a mixture of glosses and lipsticks.

There are also 9 eyeshadows, a pure bronzer, a pure blush, and a bronzer/blush in one (the powder with the sillouette of the girl), a mini Lip Injection (plumper), a mini eyeliner and a mini mascara. I am looking forward to trying out the eyeshadows, the bronzer/blusher combo and the Lip Injection. After my last experience with a plumper, I’m hoping this one will be better.

Swatches and reviews of this palette will come later!

P.S. I have been super busy with assignments and presentations lately. I have 5 presentations and 3 major assignments in the span of 2 weeks, so please bear with me if I am not updating as much. Thanks so much for understanding!