LOTD: Boy Toy by PureLuxe Cosmetics

A look using PureLuxe cosmetics mineral eyeshadow powders.

The star colour of this look is "Boy Toy", a rich peacock blue with green reflects/duochrome. 

Its one of my favourite colours from their line... have a look! Its under their "Fall Collection", I've just linked it here.

I really should get around to swatching all the colours i got from them, they are quite lovely, and really cheap too ($1 to $2 for the "1/8th tsp in a jar" sample sizes, which in my opinion, is still more than enough, and have last me a LONG time).

When used foiled (wet with water or mixing medium) the green comes out more. I absolutely love this colour!

I did this look for my dads birthday, so i just quickly snapped some shots, and i didnt take much other note on the other colours used, i know they were all PureLuxe eyeshadows though for this look.

Lips, i used NYX round lipsticks, a mix of B52 and Circe!

P.S i know my false lashes look really obvious in the last picture, but i was in a rush :P

LOTD: My little sisters Masquerade party

Hey you guys, my sister had a masquerade party and since i always do her makeup for parties, i decided to document the general process of this one! I did this look like a month ago but i never had time to upload it properly, and since im stressed out with homework i thought that i might aswell destress, take a break :P whatever.

here are the pics!

enjoy!
xx

STEP ONE:

I rolled her hair (almost dried hair) in curling rollers hours in advance, heated it with a hair dryer on the hottest setting with the least force, so it doesnt go everywhere and frizz, then set it with hair spray.

Hours later i then proceeded to do her foundation, concealer, eyebrows, and NYX Jumbo Eye pencil in Milk as an eyeshadow base, smudging out all over the whole eye area.

STEP TWO:

Pat an aluminium silver onto the lower lid, i used the one from my 120 palette...its the best silver ive ever tried/owned! So buttery and refined, i LOVE IT! Oh and a white or white silver in the inner corners.

 STEP THREE:

wing out the eyeshadow until it just connects with the brow with a darker silver. Repeat for other eye.

 STEP FOUR:

Shade a metalic dark blue into the crease and blend upwards and out with a lighter metalic blue shade. Highlight under the brow with a champagne or white gold shadow.

STEP FIVE:

Add liquid eyeliner and draw the whole length of the eyeshadow 'wing' until it connects to the brow bone. Add false lashes! dont forget bottom ones too for a dramatic masquerade look :)

STEP SIX:

Add gems to the eyebrows for a more themed look, apply a baby pink lipstick and gloss

&&&

Take out rollers, dont be shocked by the crazyness of the curls!, just brush them out with your fingers and run a shine serum or curling balm through them, flip your head/hair around abit until it looks natural and falls into place :)

FINAL LOOK!!!!!

Hope you liked them!! :)

WISHLIST : Possible double-use for NYX Push Up Bra for Eyebrows!

omg i want this!

but i cbs ordering online, paying for shipping, and waiting for it to arrive. Ill just pop by my local gloss store and see if they have anything similar.

Im also in need of a pinkish skin toned liner for my water line. I hate using white! its too white and unatural (its whiter than my eye whites, like hello? ew?) , i think if you want to make an illusion of bigger eyes a creamy nude or pink pencil should be used (to match your eye whites or blend out from them to look less conspicuous) ...so i have more uses planned for this product if i ever get it :P

REVIEW: NYX Milk Jumbo Liner & Natural Look

Ive been waiting a long time to try this out! i just havent had the heart to open it cos i have so much other makeup :P

Pretty standard packaging, plastic lid, looks very clean and smooth all around... Im just worrying about how i will sharpen it, Ive never been good at sharpening thick pencils.

The texture is so so creamy, you can see ive blended out the one on the left. It glides on really smoothly and feels a tiny bit tacky, which is good as a colour intensifying eyeshadow base!

This is what it looks like on my eye,,,haha my eye looks funny/gross

Today i just did the usual liquid foundation, but opted for my MAC Studio Fix powder in NC40. The picture always makes it seem brighter, but in real life its pretty tanned (in the context of a natural toned chinese asian), which suits me cos im that tad bit darker than the rest of my kind haha.

The colours i used from my 140 "manly" pallete (HORRIBLE brand name choice LOL) that i bought from ebay for less than $20. Its one of those hong kong factory makeup outlets that also sell the essential same product to companies such as Coastal Scents in america... the quality is very good in my opinion, but ofcourse there are the few duds, such as the yellow range, which is one of the hardest colours to find which will actually pack a punch! Thats why i used so many yellows :P to try bring it out as much as possible.

 My yellow and grey eyeshadow look

 lalala di daaaaaa.... :)

I put NYX Rea ontop of NYX Smokey Look megashine lipgloss. This way the application is alot smoother and doesnt sink into fine lines in the lips :)

I never take time to do my hair properly, especially for makeup blogging..so this is me tryin to make an effort by putting my hair down :P

Peekaboo! I remind myself of some kind of toxic bumblebee....

*****EDIT UPDATE*****

I did the look during the morning, and now its night! and still going strong, i decided to just have a bit of fun and pop some false lashes on :) They are the ebay lashes that I cut and curled myself to make them look more natural....you can see me do that in this post >>HERE<<

*****EDIT UPDATE****

Oh,, and also, today my sister had to go get her proof of age card from the liscencing centre, and i told her that the cameras there were really shit so i better help her bring out her features as much as possible...and heres what i did! (see below/next)

a very neutral but contrasting pallette to define the eyes, nude lipgloss (same combo as i did with Smokey Look gloss and Rea lipstick) and the use of my MAC studio fix powder in NC40, which does a very good job in a photography sense, as my sister usually has a really bad acne problem, and it seems to cover up really well in photos!

LOTD: Pureluxe Cosmetics Mineral Eyeshadows Purple haze

Another random look i snapped pictures of (i actually did this look 3 days ago but only uploaded them now), no idea what i used, probably PureLuxe mineral eyeshadows again. Ever since i tidied up my makeup drawer and whipped them out of their boxes, theyve been sitting in front of me so i tend to reach for them more now :)

Anyways, as u can tell i seem to always reach for the purples and oranges/golds, it just suits my skin tone i guess. I shall be more creative in the future! :P However this time the purples are used are more dusky, and i matched it to the lipstick which was a combination of NYX round lipsticks, i probably had like Rea, Circe, and Power mixed together or something. i really dont remember. I think its a very understated glam autumn look, and reminds me of suede :P Anyway, here are a few snapshots :)

goofy grin :P

I love these really nude and subdued purple shadess :D

do you?

CherryCulture Ships in Sweet Time ;)

its literally only been 4 or 5 days since i placed my order on CherryCulture.com and it arrived this morning!!! from america to australia that fast? buying stuff from there usually takes about 2 weeks or more! amazed...

reviews will be up soon. i just cant do them today because its me and my hunnie's 22nd lunaversary ;) (aka 22 months / 1 year and 10 months) so we are going out to see a mooovieee :) wub him :D

i might edit this post later to add in the reviews, or should i just post separately? dunooo....
meh.

kk g2g movie now ciao xx :D

-------- *UPDATE* IM BACK WITH (lots of) PICTURES------

The parcel!! eee!

bubble wrapped in minipacks

The products are (top to bottom, left to right):

1. NYX concealer in a jar - Medium

2. L.A Girl Diamond Top Coat

3. L.A Girl Calcium Builder

4. Amuse Ultra Fine Liner - Brown

5. Amuse Ultra Fine Liner - Black

6. L.A Colors  Auto Eyeliner - Black

7. Jordana Quickliner eyes - 09 Cocoa

8. NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil - Milk

9. NYX triple shadow palette - Lake Moss

10. 4x NYX Round Glosses

11. 2x NYX MegaShine Lipglosses

REVIEW L.A Girl treatments : Calcium Builder

Price: $2.69 (cherryculture.com sale)

Brush: The brush is quite slimlined, thin, and is made of see through bristles. Its a really good size for smooth application as it holds/deposits/spreads the right amount. I really like this brush :) Makes painting nails easier!

Colour: Although it shows a milky tint in the bottle, it shows up clear and shiny on nails, even after i applied 5 coats to build up thickness.

Drying Speed: The drying speed is quite good, even as you start building up your layers you can start to feel the sticky drag (dont worry it doesnt leave streaks at all! it sets oh-so-smoooth). To me this is a good thing, so you know that its not just watery polish with no substance, after all, it is supposed to be a nail treatment!

Does it deliver what it claims?: Overall i do feel that my nail gets thicker and stronger with more layers of this stuff, i originally bought this because i had a waitressing job and the constant wetting of my hands make my nails brittle and weak (and layers would peel off! yuck!). Time to get my nails back into shape!

REVIEW NYX Round Glosses / NYX Mega Shine Lipglosses

Nyx Round Glosses:

1. Queen of Africa

2. Mauve

3. Sorbet

4. Whipped

Nyx MegaShine Lipglosses:

5. Smokey Look

6. Dolly Pink

NYX Round Glosses

Price: $1.80 (cherryculture.com sale)

Amount: 2.5ml

Applicator: Doe foot applicator, angled. REALLY STIFF :( makes it harder to apply a gloss that is a thin consistency! The fluffs on the doe foot applicator are sooo short that it hardly helps to soften the application. My suggestion is to turn the applicator into a brush tip! yay!

Colour: Many many many different shades available for sale!!! Some with shimmer, some without, some colours are more pigmented than others.

Sorbet can be seen to slightly even out liptones and add a nice gloss, however its still abit thin/see-thru in places and i think it would look better if lipstick was used as a base.

You can also see how see-through queen of africa is. i was expecting more of the deep purple with a blue duochrome like seen in the bottle. nevertheless, its still a gorgeous vampy plum and would look better over a lipstick!

Texture: These glosses are very thin, but smooth/moisturising and not sticky, so they are comfortable to wear; so comfortable in fact, that sometimes i feel that i could forget i was even wearing it! You can see from the swatches above how thin they are, especially "Queen of Africa" as compared to "dolly pink" from the Megashine range below.

The only thing that surprised me here is that although its very thin, it was rather hard to wipe off while doing swatches, making me think that it could actually/possibly last me some time throughout the day if i were to wear it!

Smell: This is the only thing that bothers me. It smells like my orange home surface wipes...aka it feels like im eating orange detergent.

NYX MegaShine Lip Glosses

Price: $3.37 (cherryculture.com sale)

Amount: 15ml

Applicator: Doe foot applicator, angled, larger than the round glosses! It has more/longer 'fluffs' on the applicator and is a tiny bit more flexible than the applicators of the round glosses.

Colour: As above, many many different shades available for sale, some colours being more pigmented than others, like Dolly Pink! Smokey Look had the slightest amount of very refined shimmers and the colour itself is sheerer, and Dolly Pink remains a shimmerless and extremely vibrant Barbie hot pink.

Dolly Pink could be worn on its own, but Smokey look should be worn over a nude lipstick or lips set with some sort of foundation base or lip erase (as i have a really pigmented ring on the outside of my lips).

Texture: These ones are alot thicker, creamier, and feel like it has more 'substance' than the round glosses, however remain unsticky and comfortable to wear. However i probably wouldnt be able to forget i was wearing it due to it being abit more moisture heavy :) These are definitely the better quality glosses in comparison. It really gives my lips that "juicy" factor :)

Smell: It smells strongly like a really musky cherry candy. The smell goes away pretty fast though, after application.

OVERALL VERDICT
(RoundGloss vs MegaShine)

Round Gloss Pros:

• Cheaper Alternative, only around $2
• Non sticky and comfortable
• So light that it feels I'm not wearing it at all
• Love the look of the packaging (reminds me of MAC cremesheen glosses)

Round Gloss Cons:

• Smells like Orange surface cleaner
• Too thin, reminds me of lipstain liquid mixed with some watery gloss, so pigmentation settles into fine lines and is abit see-thru
• Only 2.5ml of product
• Inflexible and hard applicator with minimal cushioning

Megashine Pros:

• Smells better IMO. Id take 'strong musky cherry candy' over 'orange detergent' anyday :) at least one of them seems to be a flavour you should have near your mouth :P
• Thicker, more moisturising, gives that juicy look to lips
• Non sticky and comfortable
• Pigmentation of some colours (e.g Dolly Pink) proves to be significantly better than Round Glosses
• A whopping 15 ML of product compared to the measly 2.4ML in the Round Glosses!
• Applicator is more flexible and has longer furs for better cushioning and to grab more gloss out of the tube in one swipe.

Megashine Cons:

• The more expensive alternative ($4) even though thats still cheap; but it really makes a difference if you're purchasing like 20 different colours :P

• There were many raves on the colour "Smokey Look", and it personally disapointed me because although it was a juicy nude colour, it wasnt pigmented enough to cover the pigmentation on my lips (without a lipstick or liperase underneath). But thats just on the one colour, Dolly Pink had amazing pigmentation, so it just depends on the colour you buy!

SWATCHES: NYX Round Lipsticks

My Haul from Cherryculture involved a whole lot of NYX round lippies for $1.75 each. I must say that it is gorgeously creamy and pigmented for its price, although the quality cant be compared to MAC cremesheens (my fave lipsticks), its still extremely good. At such a low price, a girl can afford to try a few out ;)

First row of lippies <3 a="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixarnm4sud3LJwDb5Y_sxnQDcWuP9pU0ueF9PJrtnZoA4BTpQfq1CgIgnGgl5CmW_dk5-Y4AWtw6dBnKdUQV2NpSW1HWQRwPKBCVGw7hx0GciWd6Rj6T3occWUhcGxzlETFhVHA3VAJA0/s1600/IMG_7562sml.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">


Second row of lippies 

Circe in comparison with my Creme de nude MAC Creemesheen lipstick. Circe is creamy, but its more of a matte creamy, whereas cremesheen by MAC is a dewy creme, if that makes sense, and also its a few shades lighter, however both are gorgeous nudes on my NC40(Mac studio powder) skintone. See all the swatches next for more detail!


All the swatches! Click to see everything bigger! my favourites would have to be Circe and Orange soda. They both look absolutely HOT with a smokey eye! B52 is actualy the darkest colour that i would consider every day wearable (for me) because its not too brown, not too red, not too plum; its not too light, and not dark enough to be considered vampish. i cant describe it more than just the perfect middle shade of EVERYTHING! Oh and i do like the way strawberry milk looked in the pictures, but when applying it you may want to 'dab' it on, as if u swipe as usual...strawberry milk may apply unevenly. Lastly, apologies for the horiffic swatches for "Tea" and "B52" and others...as i was applying the lipstick and swiping it off in order to take swatches, it made my lip abit sore and "water" with saliva...thats why my lipstick application isnt perfect.


This is my full face shot with Circe :)


All in all, these are a musthave for any lady that wants every shade under the sun (if you like having something to match every occasion). They are creamy (matte finish), pigmented (not very lasting but you can always reapply :D ). I definitely use these more than my liptars just because i dont dare to bring my liptars around (as they tend to break in bags etc) and that is NOT good :P