FOTD with UD Alice in Wonderland, Benefit Lady’s Choice + YSL Golden Gloss 20

I got back from Hainan last week with a heat rash on my face so I had been trying to lay off the makeup for a while. But after a week of light skincare and using up the rest of my Gel de la Mer sample, my skin is finally almost sort-of back to normal.

There was a Hong Kong products exhibition in Fuzhou over the weekend and my aunt took my cousin and I to go check it out. There were a lot of products from HK that they were selling over 4 floors, including clothes, accessories, skincare products, jewelry, watches and even food. We bought some random snacks for me to eat when I study for the LSATs, aka bored. Anyways, here is the FOTD I did when I went to check out the event.

On my face, I used:
- Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream in No. 23
- MAC Mineralize Blush (Duo) in Two Virtues

On my eyes, I used:
- Urban Decay Primer Potion
- Urban Decay Book of Shadows in Alice in Wonderland (colours marked below)
- Bobbi Brown Gel Liner in Ink
- Clinique High Impact Curling Mascara
- Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Honey

On my lips, I used:
- Benefit Full-Finish Lipstick in Lady’s Choice
- YSL Golden Gloss in 20 Golden Macademia

UD Alice in Wonderland colours used:

As usual, lets end off with a silly photo!

P.S. Please excuse the PJs. It was getting dark soon, as we were going to the exhibition at dusk since it was so hot during the day. I wanted to get pictures in natural light as opposed to synthetic flash lighting, so I took pictures before I changed into my outfit =)

Swatch/mini-Review: Yves St. Laurent Golden Gloss in 20 Golden Macademia

I bought the YSL Golden Gloss in 20 at Heathrow Duty Free after looking at Temptalia’s swatches and swatching it in person with Jess in Vienna. I had been looking for a nice milky, nude lip gloss to go over my nude lipsticks and this one is really good for that purpose. The gloss is very nicely pigmented, and on my very-pigmented lips it still shows a lot of colour and tones down my original lip colour. The name Golden Gloss is perfect for it as it really is shimmery and gold. It also makes my lips really plump looking, while still being non-sticky. The best thing about it is that I found the gold shimmer doesn’t travel into my lip lines, which makes it perfect for girls, like me, who have many deep lip lines.

There are some downsides though. First, I really dislike the applicator. It is a brush applicator, but unlike other brush applicators, this one is shorter and firmer, which although it can give a more precise application it doesn’t apply a lot of product. This means you’ll likely have to dip it back in the gloss and reapply over the same areas over and over again, which can be unsanitary especially if you’re touching up during the day.

Second, which is one of my important factors, it smells really funky. I know its not old because Heathrow has very high turnover in its products, and because this product is LE for Spring so it must’ve not been there that long. If you asked me to describe the smell, I would say an overly synthetic tropical scent, like mangos or lychees. Not to mention because it is a lip gloss, the scent lingers on and on and on…

Weighing the goods and bads, I still say I really like this lip gloss. I can’t wait to pair it with some of my favourite nudes like MAC Myself lipstick and Benefit Lady’s Choice.