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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Ebay palettes

I recently purchased this 120 color palette from an Ebay Seller: under-net. OMG!!!!!! This palette is insane! Upon purchasing it, because of the value, I didn't really put high hope into this palette but when I received it, holy grail.... the colors are SO VIBRANT! I did some swatches on my finger and although the texture may be abit rough, JUST ONE SWIPE, you could see the intense of the colors. They are so pigmented and most colors are vibrant and true to its color. Price for it is USD$14.99 + FREE SHIPPING. Really good deal for an amazing palette.

***However I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who's sensitive to fragrance smell. This palette may be a good value for money but they do have a very strong scent of smell. Perfumed! When I tried them on my eyes, I could basically smell the fragrance for quite sometime before it faded away. They are shimmery eyeshadows. If you are looking for matte, this is not the palette for you either. Those are the 2 negative things I could think of.

Brand: Nobility Shines Series Eyeshadow (forgot to check which country it made from- will check & update on that)

Shadows come in croc skin case

Colors are more vibrant in real life.

Swatches from the Top 1st row starting from left... (****Without primer, just on bare hand)

2nd row- A mixture from pastel to bright colors

3rd Row- This row consists of pastel colors

4th row

5th row- love the blue and the copper tone (bottom first color)

6th row- Combination of pinks, purples...

7th row- More pastel colors.

8th row- Even the white is shimmery n pretty!

9th row- Love all the colors from this row

10th row

11th row- Love the purple (first left)

12 row

Example of the eyeshadows I used on this palette

Okay... this is another palette which I have bought quite some time ago from a different Ebay seller (can't recall who that was). It's also the same brand but different shades of colors. This palette consists of 96 colors and the colors are more of neutrals with a few similar colors in the palette itself. I weren't as excited about this palette but ... oh well, since I've bought it, might as well try to use it. :) Some of teh colors on this palette might look the same but when I swatched them on my hand, they are actually different tone of shades. They are shimmery and quite pigmented. Stange enough, Although they may be of same brand, this palette however didn't have the strange fragrance smell like the other one. Hmm... I really wonder about that!

Anyways here are the swatches:-

1st row starting from left (according to the palette)

2nd row- Pretty shades of colors

3rd row

4th row- Love the colors from this row

5th row

6th row- nice whites and goldish browns

7th row

8th row

9th row

10th row

11th row- MY FAVORITES of them all!!!!

12th row

Well... there you go... my Nobility Shine Series eyeshadows!!! Till next time, take care and have a lovely week ahead!!! xoxoxo

Review on FACE IT Splash BB Cream (By FaceShop) & Guerlain Meteorites

I recently got a gift from a friend of mine. She went to Korea for holiday and got me a BB Cream from FaceShop. I have tried Missha BB cream- No.21 but this BB cream is very different to that. The cream texture is thick and I initially thought that it's gonna be sticky and hard to blend but when I spread it out, although the color looks darker than my skin tone, it blended in with my skin tone and it does feel great on my skin, no stickness and it just smoothes out my fine lines and brightens up my face. I'm pretty impressed with this product. There is a FACESHOP Boutique in Perth City and some other places in Perth. I'm not sure of the pricing here in Australia but certainly worth checking out.

The other product which I had got was from Ebay. - Guerlain Meteorites Miniatures. It comes with 3 little Meteorites- Beige Chic, Pink Fresh, Mystic

Beige Chic- could apply as a blusher, light contour, bronzer?

Pink Fresh- Blusher

Mystic- Highlighter, face brightener

(The colors in the mini boxes are shown on the pics below. Each of them has different colors and different purposes for you to use). The kit also comes with a free brush. Brush is pretty soft but because the bristles is in pink, I can't bare to use it. :)

Me with my cleaned face

Applied the BB cream after moisturising my face. A little product goes a long way.

Can you see how it brighten up my face?

Using the 3 colors meteorites

Beige Chic as Contour, Pink Fresh as blush and Mystic as highlight.

Add abit of face powder and DONE!!! Here's my look after applying both BB cream and Meteorites from Guerlain.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Aromaleigh mineral swatches

I have heard alot about the Aromaleigh eyeshadows so recently I've decided to purchase some to try out. As they currently having a promotion for some of the collections, I ordered the Sonic eyes collection. Usual price was USD $6.50, currently on sale for $3.90 and there is an additional 25% off with the promo code: Fleur25. This promo code ends on the 14/5/10. It's a Great deal and I'm considering of getting more of these range.

Here are the swatches of the items I've got:- (Swatch them on bare hands)

From Top row, left to right are: Stillinhollywood (Gorgeous purplish tone with tons of fine glitters) , Blackdiamond (black with silverish glitters), Estranged (shimmer lime green)

Middle row, left to right are: Psychocandy (Hot pink with tons of fine glitters-I like it!), Adrenochrome (Shimmery silver with lots of silver fine glitters), helter (red with fine pinkish glitter, very pretty), Spellbound (matte purple), Whiteriot (shimmery white with very fine glitters), Velvetgoldmine (orangey gold with very fine orange glitters)

Last row, left to right are: Shadowplay (Black with very fine green glitters), Boilingpoint (kinda reddish pink with very fine red glitters), Agentorange
(Bright shimmery orange)

On my eyes is Estranged. (Oops, think I didn't blend properly and could see some creases.)

As you have noticed, most of the eyeshadows which I've ordered are very shimmery/glittery. I simply love glittery stuffs and eyeshadows are of no exception! Sometimes when you get eyeshadows with glitters,they tend to be abit of a rougher texture. However these are different... the texture are so smooth and fine, can't even feel the glitters at all and I'm absolutely in love with all the colors I've bought. I can't wait to try them all and also to order more!!!

PS: Just my opinion, to get the eyeshadows to last longer, always use a primer or apply it wet to get the best effect. If you just apply on your eyes without any base, the glitters will not stay and just fall everywhere and the eyeshadow tends to fade off very fast.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Palettes which were purchased from Ebay - 30 colors...

Bought this 30 color palette from one of the ebay stores quite some time ago and thought I should post a blog about it. This palatte is a good start for anyone basically. It has different range of colors from pink, green to purple... Some chalky and fragile but then overall most colors with good pigmentation especially the shimmer/metallic ones. The palette is pretty much similar to the 88 color with black shiny compact.
I think you can still get them on Ebay. Just search under "30 color" or "manly" and should be able to find from there.

Below are the pics and swatches:-

(PS: 2nd row only has 4 colors cos the last color (Black) was totally wrecked when I dropped the whle palette. I've restored a few of them thats why you could see that the surface of some are not smooth)