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Chantecaille Sea Turtle Palette Review and FOTD

April 30, 2011

I have a lot of unopened make-ups, the Chantecaille Sea Turtle palette is one of them. I bought this one from Mecca a while ago but never had the heart to spoil the embossing because it is just too beautiful to look at. It is time for me to use it as I have way too many makeups to be reviewed in the near future.

From a makeup collector point of view, Chantecaille limited edition palettes are pieces of art. Their palettes look and feel like true luxury. Unlike other brands, Chantecaille only release a few palettes a year, the quality has always been consistently superior. What I love the most is the color coordination of their palettes. I rarely come across a face or eye shadow palette where I like every single shade. Chantecaille is an exception – it only comes with the most refined and elegant neutral shades that are designed to enhance your natural beauty.

This palette contains 3 eye shades and 1 cheek shade, all inspired by the beauty of the sea turtles and their nesting grounds.

These shadows are buttery soft and easy to blend. Pigmentation wise they are on the moderately sheer side as they are designed to leave a sheer veil of color on the skin with a subtle glowing effect.

I created a smokey look using this palette – using the champagne color all over my lid, the brown shade over the crease and the dark teal color along my lash line and on the outer v.

Blush swatched on my cheeks, it is a beautiful peachy pink with really fine shimmers and lasted all day on me.

Overall look:

Other products I used:

Primer: Nars

Foundation: Dior Natural Glowing Hydrating

Highlighter: Giorgio Armani Sheer Shimmer in no. 1

Eye Primer: Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Falsies

Brow: Shu Uemura

Lips: YSL Rouge Volupte in no. 30

Chantecaille Sea Turtle palette retails for $120 in Australia, 5% of proceeds will be donated to help WIDECAST ensure the survival of sea turtles.

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Labels: CHANTECAILLE • DIOR • FOTD • Giorgio Armani • NARS • Shu Uemura • YSL

FOTD – Rosy Cheeks

April 9, 2011

I have a birthday dinner to go tonight, I made an effort to do my makeup hours before so I can take some time to do a few snaps for FOTD. My makeup for tonight is quite natural. Main focus is the rosy cheeks (When I think of Autumn I think of rosy cheek) – eyes and lips are kept neutral as I don’t like to have too much makeup on since my friends usually only wear minimum makeup.

Closeups shots of my eyes

Eye Products:

Too face shadow insurance

Chanel eyeshadow Quad in Spice

Stila smudge pot in Kitten

Lancome eyeliner in brown

Kiss Me Active Girl Mascara in Black on lower lashes

Ardell false eyelashes in Babies Black on upper lashes

Overall look:

Face and Lip Products

Dior Radiant Base along my cheekbones

Dior Nude Natural Glow Hydrating foundation

Shiseido Natural Finish Cream Concealer to highlight my under eye areas

Stila blush in Rose

Rimmel Lipstick in Nude Delight

Chanel Glossimer in Volage

What is your favorite makeup look for Autumn? Would love to hear your thoughts.

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Labels: FALSE LASHES • FOTD

Sportsgirl Makeup

April 2, 2011

I was going to do a post on face products part 2 – foundations overview, but I got sidetracked because I found some lovely treasures at Sportsgirl today. I went there to pick up a hat but their makeups totally caught my attention! I must have been living under a rock for the past few years – I had no idea Sportsgirl is doing makeups these days…and the quality surpasses my expectation of drugstore products. Their products are really smooth textured and pigmented, and the color selection is right up my alley – can’t say about the lasting power yet..

Being a sensible shopper, (haha who am I kidding..:-P) I only picked up 4 items today. 1 Eye Color Pencil, 2 lip crayons and 1 lip gloss.

See the color payoff in my swatches below, these were just 1 swipe each. And the colors are absolutely gorgeous.

As soon as I got home, I couldn’t wait to try them on my face. I applied the teal part of the pencil along my upper lash line, and the gunmetal part along my lower lash line. They are very soft to apply, doesn’t tug my skin.

The pink lip crayon is a very barbie pink or “Jessica Simpson” color – a color I would hardly reach for. I don’t find it flattering on me and in the picture below I had to apply lots of bronzing power to make me look less washed out. If you look like Jessica Simpson, or a blond, or tanned, then this is the color for you!

Lurrrve the beige crayon – actually it appears more of a rosy brown on me. I have been obsessed with anything beige and brown since the start of Autumn.

Lastly, this is the new hat I bought from Sportsgirl, love it!

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Labels: FOTD • Sportsgirl

NARS Nouveau Monde Swatch

March 24, 2011

NARS Nouveau Monde is another must have eyeshadow duo from Nars – it is part of the NARS Spring 2011 collection. When it comes to eye shadows, I know Nars will never let me down. The beauty of Nars duo eyeshadow is when you look at the color combination in the pan, sometimes they do seem odd to me. When you have them on your eyes, this is the moment you realise Francois Nars is a genius for makeup creation.

The combination of Nouveau Monde was beyond my expectation the moment I applied them on my eyes. The lilac shade is just perfection. It is not frosty, neither too silvery nor too bluey, just a perfect lavender shade with a taupe undertone. I was a bit wary about the moss shade at first – it can look too warm on me. Surprisingly it complements the cool toned lavender shade.

NARS Nouveau Monde on my eyes. I applied the lavender shade all over my eye lids,then apply the moss shade in the outer corner.

The thought of wearing lavender and moss shades to the office has never crossed my mind until I found this one. I would totally wear this color combination to work tomorrow – glad tomorrow is Friday!

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Labels: EYESHADOW • FOTD • NARS

NARS Kalahari FOTD

March 13, 2011

I went to a boat party on Saturday night and this is the makeup I wore. I like to wear false eyelashes to parties just to add a touch of glamorous effect to my makeup. I normally go for neutral eye shadows to balance the dramatic effect of false eyelashes so I don’t end up looking like a drag queen.

Eye makeup details:
Eyeshadow used: my favourite Nars neutral Eyeshadow Duo in Kalahari

I used 2 pairs of false eyelashes!

More close ups of my eyes: without flash

With flash:

Other products used:

– Nars Sheer Glow Foundation

– Nars Multiple Tint in Cadaques on my cheeks

– Nars Turkish Delight on my lips

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Labels: EYESHADOW • FALSE LASHES • FOTD • NARS • TUTORIAL

Ombres Perlees de Chanel Swatch and FOTD

March 2, 2011

It is the time of the year when the new spring makeup collections are arriving in Australia. This probably is the time of the year I anticipated with excitement the most (other than public holidays!), as I LOVE spring inspired hues seen in each collection, they are beautiful to be collected yet subtle and natural enough to wear throughout all seasons.

Today I like to talk about Ombres Perlees de Chanel Palette, which has been the talk of the town amongst beauty bloggers for a while. I had this palette for a week now and I can say it totally lived up to its hype. The beauty of this palette is its versatility. These eye shadows can be worn sheer as well as dramatic due to its creamy texture that can be built to your desire.

Swatch on my hand:

Ombres Perlees de Chanel swatch - daylight

I did a subtle eye makeup with this palette today. It takes no effort to apply these cream textured eye shadows – the easiest way is to apply them with your fingers. I have yet found a brush that picks up the eyeshadow well considering I have an extensive collection of makeup brushes. Please do let me know your preferred brush.

Here are some close-up shots of my eyes:

I used:

a: pink pearl

b: a very sheer wash of the green pearl

c: black pearl on the outer corner

d: white pearl on the tear duct

e: the purple pearl along the lower lash line

Now let’s move on to the products I used on my face. My FOTD is totally inspired by the makeup worn by the model in the Chanel spring 2011 makeup campaign, so most products I used are Chanels.