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Another travel essentials post!

Creme de La Mer The Radiant Concealer 01 Light review

Ah! Easily my favourite, most Holy Grail concealer I have used to date! Purchased back on the 25th of August, 2012, this post has not seen daylight even though it has been one of my most requested posts.

I have a few *cough* excuses for you today. Before I proceed, allow me to present you a photo of this beautiful product, in its beautiful box:

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Excessive packer.

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If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed me flooding your timeline at about 7am (Malaysian time) yesterday. The last day of 2012 was a crazy one for me where my body simply had to kick the day off on a high note, temperature wise. It is frustrating for me as I only just recovered from a bad cold, and having this with another last minute piece of news sent my body into overdrive.

Then comes the reason behind me flooding Twitter with one too many tweets at once. I received a call from Mum while I was out yesterday asking me to book myself a ticket back to my hometown up north. Apart from that, I had to book myself a ticket out of that city the very next day and head to the Pearl of the Orient, with grandma in tow. Tickets also had to be booked for her to travel back to said hometown a couple of days later, this time the companion being an aunt.

Upon receiving the news (which is great news, by the way) I had to rush to purchase all the tickets. Thank goodness I had my Ipad with me or I would have gone a little bonkers as I was going to be out until late evening. Tickets were bought, words exchange, transportation arranged and here I am, telling you the story of how I can never, ever pack light.

I flew back to my hometown with Air Asia, Malaysia's famous low-cost carrier and I proudly proclaimed to mum the night before

“Yay I am so happy my suitcase's ultra light this time round!”

Mum happily agreed with me. I only carried a “few” items, them being:

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Femme Boulevard December: Ushering 2013 in Style!

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Hello lovelies! I hope all of you have had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the new year! I for one am extremely excited about the new year and I will let you in on why in a bit. Meanwhile, allow me to introduce you to today’s post!

Yours truly has been given the opportunity to participate in a Femme Boulevard post! Femme Boulevard is a monthly column written by three fabulous bloggers: Joey , Lily, and Teri. For the month of December, the three lovelies decided to open their column to all us beauty bloggers out to join in the New Year festivities and so here I am, attempting to do something totally out of my comfort zone!

The theme of today’s look is metallic / shiny lids with vampy / bold lips. Imagine my slight horror when I read those words as I have never really worn bold lips out nor have I worn metallic lids very much. Thankfully, it can be an editorial, wearable look or “anything, as long as you have fun doing it” qoute Lily.

I chose my look based on something wearable as I will be attend a cousin’s wedding early January 2013, the main reason on why I am so excited about starting the new year!

Onto this wearable look! Here are the products I used to create the look:

As I will be wearing a teal dress (either the one featured in this post or another) to the wedding, I thought I’d match my eyeshadow with my dress. I then dug out my Guerlain Les Ombres de Nuit 4 -Colour Palette from Guerlain’s Christmas 2011 collection. The look also requires vampy lips and I immediately thought of the Guerlain Nuit d’Amour Rouge Automatique from the same Christmas collection!

Here’s a list of the other products I used:

1. Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation in 51

2. Creme de La Mer The Radiant Concealer in Light

3. K-Palette Real Lasting Eyeliner 24h Waterproof in Black

4. No7 Nude Lip Liner

5. Shiseido Perfect Mascara Defining Volume

6. Guerlain Terracotta La Selection De L’ete

7. Guerlain Blush 4 Eclats Rose Plein Vert 05

8. Guerlain Rouge Shine Automatique in Altoum

9. Shu Uemura Hard Formula Brow Pencil in 05 Stone Grey

And… Here’s the look!

Pardon the peeling nose, I’ve just recovered from a full-blown cold but my nose has not ceased shedding its skin just yet!

Onto the face first, I used Bourjois’ Healthy Mix foundation as it’s more moisturising and it’s yellow undertones really help conceal the redness around my nose and cheek area. My skin has also been dry of late so this is a go-to for evenings out! A light dusting of blush went with the look as I didn’t want to take any attention away from my eyes / lips. An attempt to contour went in too with the Guerlain bronzer but it doesn’t really show up in the photos.

For the eyes! I first applied a thin layer of the shimmering grey shade all over the lids. Then I took the blackened blue shade and applied it on the outer lids, slowly working it into my crease. I layered on the colours slowly and carefully as I wanted all shades to blend well together. The lighter teal shade was used on the middle of both lids and blended out. The key to this look? Blend, blend and blend some more! I dabbed some of the shimmering grey eyeshadow on the corner of my eyes to make them pop a little.

As this look will be worn in the evening, I brought some of the blackened blue shade down under the outer corner of my eyes and blended that out with the teal and grey shades, working my way to the inner corners of my eyes.

The eyes were tightlined with the K-Palette eyeliner, a gift from my soulmate who with Lily introduced me into the world of eyeliners. =) As usual, I then curled my eyelashes with my trusty Shu Uemura lash curlers and lashings of the Shiseido mascara went through them. Brows were lightly filled with the Shu Uemura Brow Pencil.

Finally, I lined and filled in my lips with the No7 Nude lip liner before applying the Guerlain Nuit d’Amour Rouge Automatique with a lip brush onto my lips. Upon applying the shade I felt it could do with a little shine so I slicked on a layer of Guerlain’s Altoum Shine Automatique but it’s barely visible, even in real life. Guess I shouldn’t have bothered with it. =p

I tried my very best to take photos without me looking really silly but I guess I am not photogenic at all. Sigh. I’ll let the photos do the talking.

This one, I took in hope of showcasing the eyes without looking weird. Succeeded in the eye department, failed in terms of looking weird.

Then there’s this shot. A family member mentioned I bear an uncanny resemblance to The Joker.

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Do you think the look meets the shiny / bold look? The look’s nothing metallic as I can’t bring myself to wear such a bold eye out but the shine gives my eyes more depth. The deep plummy lips seems to breathe a new lease of life into an otherwise boring matchy eye and dress look. What say you?

Do not forget to check out what the other ladies think! =D

Beaute Fabuleuse
BellaChique
Bronzer Bunny
ChloeAsh‎
Eye Heart It
Joey’space
Messy Wands
Mostly Sunny
Musing On Beauty

I really enjoyed collaborating with so many other bloggers and I hope there will be more opportunities like this in the future! Till then, a very Happy New Year to everyone and here’s to a fantastic year ahead!!

I have something rather exciting coming up in the next few days so be sure to stay tuned!

September Favourites!

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Hiya! It’s nearing mid-October and I am just about to churn out my September favourites post. Oops! Still, I hope this post is better late than never.

Since coming home, I have discovered my foundations are all a tad too dark for me which turned into a major nightmare as my skin has been misbehaving a little too much lately. I really needed the coverage so I had to turn to quite a few concealers to help conceal those eye sacks and blemishes. Naturally, some of these concealers made the list!

First up, Rimmel’s Wake Me Up Concealer:

This was purchased as part of a last minute mad dash in Boots at London’s Heathrow Airport. Seeing there was a £3 off offer, hence bringing the cost down to a rather affordable £3.99. I bit the bullet, chose the lightest shade (Ivory) and whipped out my Boots Advantage card even though I have not swatched the product beforehand! This creamy concealer works a treat when it comes to concealing my eye sacks but sadly doesn’t perform as well when it comes to those angry red zits of mine. However, it still works well as an all-in-one concealer so it sits permanently in my travel makeup kit. Colour wise it is just a little dark for me but nothing a light dusting of powder combined with my Meteorites can’t help!

The next favourite, an under-eye concealer I doubt I can ever live without:

My Creme de La Mer The Radiant Concealer in Light. Let’s start with that ugly nick right at the top of the concealer.

I was applying the concealer one morning in my room when my brother thought it would be funny to barge into my room and greet me with a massive

‘BOOYAH!’

that made me jump, resulting in me digging into my then-pretty pot of concealer with my fingernail.

Boy oh boy did he get into a load of trouble for doing that to me! This concealer blends like a dream, doesn’t settle into fine lines and matches my skintone perfectly. Only downside is the hefty price tag and the fact that this is unavailable in Malaysia. T__T

Now for some colour in this post! =D I have been absolutely loving this Kate eyeshadow palette in BR-2 thanks to Steph and her awesome taste:

A lovely, shimmery neutral palette (three colours on the right) that can be worn from day to night! I am slightly wary of the white shade as the glitter is a tad chunky so that goes onto the inner corner of my eyes when I want to look a little more awake! Other than that this is a versatile and travel-friendly palette! Yet another item that has been sitting in my travel makeup bag over the last month!

Actually, I noticed that most of this month’s favourite products come from my travel makeup bag. =)

Yet another Rimmel gem which made its way into my September Favourites is this simple-looking item:

The Stay Matte Pressed Powder doesn’t break the bank at £3.99 (approximately RM20) with its minimalist and lightweight packaging. I own the Transparent version as I only use this to lightly set concealed areas, or the entire face should I be using foundation or BB cream. I usually favour my Dior Nude Natural Glow Sculpting Powder when it comes to travelling but for some reason this has been in my makeup bag for the last month and I have been reaching out for this ever so often! Having a generous 14g worth of product in the pan means this will last me quite a while. =)

One always needs something to combat ‘em evil breakouts. I found a product that seems to work well for me:

Dr. Sebagh’s Breakout Spot-On Blemish Corrector is one product that reduces the redness in my zits not long after application. It then takes 2-3 days for the zit to dry up and heal. What sets this apart from the other zit-busting products is that this one does not sting my skin even when applied onto raw, just-popped zits. Mega plus points for this one!

That’s all for my September Favourites but I have one little bonus photo to share with you! I had my hair done just yesterday (which was a nightmare) and the end result was a little too light for my liking. The photos I took all turned out redder than it looks! In real life it takes on a really yellowish-blonde shade, which does upset me severely as I specifically said I did not want to go light.

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I really don’t know! Even Mum agreed that this colour looks too light and ‘improper’ but pray tell me what all of you think, pretty please! Should I rush out to the nearest drugstore and re-colour my hair?

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Here it is!