Product Focus: Fanny Serrano + Swatches
Quickie: fake your Orgasm
Product Focus: Fashion21 Color Shine liquid lipstick
my hauls policy and products review policy.
i have this thing regarding hauls. i love love love reading other people's hauls and i don't have anything against it, but i am not too comfortable posting mine. don't ask me why, it's just my thing.
an open letter to the makeup artists in the santino serye
Dear Makeup Artists in the Santino Serye,
Splattering blood all over does not a believable accident wound make.
that's all.
xxoo,
a thinking viewer.
okay. ever since sembreak, i've been hooked to the santino serye.
the last episode i saw was the one where desiree del valle pushed dina bonevie off the cliff.
before des pushed dina off tho, they were having this fabulous confrontation scene. and i have to give it to Desiree del Valle. she acted her ass off even tho her foundation was several shades lighter for her skin tone. she completely soldiered on. it was kinda distracting to watch her, with the ghost face and all, but she acted her ass off as if the MUA did not butcher her face. then she pushed dina off the cliff or sumwhat. the next scene tho was in her house, a follow up of the cliffpushing scene and her foundation was totally the right shade already. good job MUA!
what boggles me off in this serye tho is that they looooove pushing people off the cliff and putting the actors in car accidents. i mean, ive been watching the serye for two weeks on and off and ive seen dina push someone off the cliff, be pushed off the same cliff, and participate in a car accident. that's all fine tho, wouldnt be a pinoy serye if nobody got pushed off the cliff. i'm actually surprised nobody's got blown up yet.
it's kinda distracting that in all these accidents, dina, the mother of santino, and dina's son did not sport any accident wound at all. they all just splattered blood all over! where did all those blood come from when there's no open wound huh?!!?
so i did this:and a more elaborate:
and all these just using aido eyelash glue, ever bilena concealer stick and setting powder, fashion 21 lipstick in wild cherry and aido brow duo.
i'm pretty sure with your makeup training and your more sophisticated makeup tools you can do a better job.
pick up the slack people!
product focus: Fashion21 fruit gloss
this is a quickie post. for pics please refer to my old hauls.
Product Focus: Careline Eyeshadow Powders
i have careline loose shadows in several colors but i decided to make a review on vanilla white
le price:
they're no mac pigments, but for 80 bucks (pesos) a pop, they aint so bad.
le experience:
they're very pigmented too! i have several individual ones and i have duos, and i love them! i just use a good base so that it sticks. being loose and all, it tends to fall out fast, but with a sticky base (i use my white gel liner most of the time) it works fantastic!
this review however is for the individual ones, more specifically, it's for the vanilla white variant.
it has so many uses. most of the time, i use it as a highlighter for the brow bone, the cheekbone and sometimes even the cupid's bow (upper lip area).
most of the time, i mix it with a liquid foundation or even a tinted moisturizer and i'm good to go. i did this mostly last summer, when it's too hot to put on makeup and i just want to put a little coverage and to even out my skin tone. it gives me that subtle glow, and it gives me a kind-of MAC strobe cream look, minus the pinkish tinge, which is okay for me. it doesnt come off as too shiny, oily look, but it just gives my face a certain pop.
i also mix it with careline's mestiza white loose shadow and petroleum jelly and it's my instant lip balm which i use on bare lips and i'm good to go. sometimes i put it on top of a lipstick and it doubles as a great lipgloss. useful, innit? (pics to follow, i left my pre-made one in manila)
you have to watch out for the crappy packaging tho. the bottom part unsticks like 9 out of 10 times and it leaves a serious mess in my trunk, which i hate. i saw the salesladies at watson's festival use a trusty scotch tape to keep it in place, but i dont use scotch tapes, so i used my invisible tape (sticks better, in my opinion)
le verdict:
i find it too oppressive that mac pigments are always, always out of stock here, so i make do with the next alternative.
i give this product 3.5 lipsticks.
i took points off because of its crappy packaging and limited color options.
oh and i bought sunnies! yay me! i know, i look like a bug, but i love love it.
my july gawang pinoy haul
i will be embarking on an 8week no buy mode cuz i am saving up for this uber cute mini netbook that i sooo want! i know, i already have Shia(my eeepc) but then again i can't really do much on a 4gig netbook and Chuck is too bulky to be carried around so imma get a little something that's more efficient for my pics, games, and blogging needs. now on with the good stuff.
it'll be a while before you see yet another haul, but i really tried to get as littlest as possible so here it is:
i know, i know it's not a lot, but as ive mentioned, i am really trying to save. i got:
1. Fanny Serrano sponge - best gawang pinoy sponge IMHO
2. Nichido lipstick - rose shimmer - been hearing lotsa goodstuff about this
3. Fashion21 sharpener - for eye/lip pencils
4. Nichido GNO eye pencil - pink diamond
5. Fashion21 white eyeliner - i broke the last one i had in half.. *sniff*
6. Fashion21 clear gloss - a clear gloss is a must have in every kikay kit IMHO
i honestly dont want to put a non-makeup/beauty item here, but this one is soo beautiful, and is the main culprit anyway why im broke this week. i got myself a sturdy bag to lug heavy law books around and shia too to boot! :D i bought an uber cute jansport bag! and before you ask, no.. pink is not my favorite color.. green is... the animo lives on!
My Lips But Better
this is my own rendition of My Lips But Better (MLBB) using several gawang pinoy products. the only non-local lip product here are blistex and lust lipglass.
but the main focus here are lipsticks. (L-R) i used Fashion21's gentle peach, EverBilena's skin, and EverBilena's mauvey. all of these are matte lipstick's so i had to use a gloss on top of it.
gentle peach - peachy nude lips
skin - perfect MLBB
mauvey - pinky nude lips
first, this is my uber pigmented lips when bare:prior to the application of each lipstick, i moisturized my lips with a blistex balm
the first product imma focus on is gentle peach. as you can see above, my lips are very pigmented so i had to "erase" my lips first before applying gentle peach. after applying gentle peach, i added a clear lip gloss. this is what it looks like:
skin - the next lipstick is skin from EB. this is how it looks like alone:now that i am looking at it, methinks i shouldve erased my lips too before application! :D
this is how it looks with lust lipglass
look's soo much better innit?
mauvey - now this one was recommended by another girltalker, sis twiist.
this is how it looks like alone: and this is how it looks like with ellana mineral's first kiss lipglass
the verdict: i love, love, love skin most as it does not change my lipcolor at all! it is my HG MLBB along with lust lipglass!
excuse the low resolution of the pics, i was using my laptop's isight for this cuz i left my cam's tripod at home. imma repost this next week with better quality pics. :D
araw ng maynila early haul
since SM Manila was on a 3-day sale for araw ng Maynila, i excitedly went there yesterday only to be sorely disappointed as most makeup lines, especially the ones i wanted stuff from was not on sale. :( i ended up getting fewer things than i'd have wanted.
1. fanny serrano concealer stick - sand
2. EverBilena matte lipstick - mauvey
3. EverBilena matte lipstick - skin
4. nichido eyelash defining mascara - black
5. nichido GNO eye pencil - bronze
6. nichido GNO eye pencil - smoke green
7. nichido GNO eye pencil - thin mints
8. Fashion21 eyeliner - white
9. 4u2 E/S palette
product face-off: Fanny Serrano Silky Coral blush VS. Nars' Orgasm blush
i recently bought fanny serrano's silky coral blush which have been causing wildfires @ the girltalk forums.
when i first saw the fs blush, i had doubts. it looked too pale to be a good orgasm dupe. but once i swatched it. the similarity blew my mind away. of course it is not an exact match but the difference is just minimal. nars' orgasm has a bit more gold flecks when swatched but once blended, you can't tell the difference at all. i kid you not.
and before both colors could show up in my hand and in my camera, i had to make three swipes from each, so the color is really intense. i find it really hard swatching blushes cuz they're not supposed to intensify in color when applied right? the theory "a little goes a long way" is very much true here. so colorwise, it seems like it's a deadlock. or if you like it more shimmery, go for the nars' one. less shimmery, FS is for you.. but then again, as i said, once blended it really is the same.
here without flash.
when it comes to staying power, again, it is a deadlock. both stayed on for 2-3 hours before i had to reapply (it's lucky they showed up on me at all.) maybe even four hours, but i like a good color on my cheeks so i reapply sooner than i have to. i dont wait for the color to disappear totally. in terms of staying power, i think i have my TFS span primer to thank for that.
packaging, of course the matte rubber of nars win as opposed to FS' plastic case. the brush that came with FS is not completely useless too so i guess that's a point for FS.
price:
Nars = 1350 vs. Fanny Serrano = 350. there appears to be a clear winner, right?
my back to school gawang pinoy haul
i know it's a lot but it's my first time hauling philippine-made makeup products and for everything i got.. it's not too expensive! :D
1. nichido - sunset glow
2. nichido - south beach
3. nichido - cinnamon glaze
4. everbilena - pro lipliner
5. everbilena - shy - cheek blush
6. fanny serrano - cake foundation - mocha
7. fanny serrano - concealer stick - chestnut
8. fanny serrano - concealer stick - walnut
9. fanny serrano - powder blush - silky coral
10. fashion21 - lipstick - wild cherry
11. fashion21 - lipstick - gentle peach
12. fashion21 - candyglaze - flamingo
13. fanny serrano - eyelash curler
14. san-san glossy lips - lip gloss
15. careline - loose shadow - mestiza white
16. careline - loose shadow - vanilla white
17. careline - loose shadow duo - poison ivy
18. careline - loose shadow duo - mineraluz
i honestly can't pick a favorite cuz i love them all