Magic Of Makeups

29. Do you like wearing liquid liner? If so, what's your favourite?

Yes! Ta-daaa!

28. Favourite makeup remover

For removing eye makeup, I have gone through many a bottle of Loreal's Gentle Lip and Eye Make-up Remover.

For the rest of my face, I'm currently using Shu Uemura's White Recovery EX+ Brightening Cleansing Oil. I like ZA's Deep Cleansing Oil too. I still prefer Dove's Lathering Oil Make-up Remover though.

27. Favourite powder

With my dry skin, I seldom powder my face but if I do, I'll usually use either Canmake's Concealer Foundation Powder or Beauty Credit's Face Powder (which is shimmery). My absolute favourite powder though, is Origins' Silk Screen Refining Powder.

I know that this has been done many times by many others but I just wanted to share my own stash of GA ETKs with you.

Here they are:

Close-up:

#2 Lust Red

Black base with red and fuschia sparkles

#3 Purpura

Purple base with gold sparkle

#4 Pulp Fiction

Grey base with pink and silver sparkles

#5 Gold Blitz

Copper base with gold sparkle

#6 Khaki Pulse

Brown base with gold sparkle

Swatches:

That's all!

We had our company annual dinner at MBS a few weeks back and all staff were invited to attend the event dressed up as our favourite movie characters. There is a long and complicated story behind my table's theme but bottom line was, we decided on Yukatas for that evening.

We also drew names for our 'secret santa' gift exchange and I prepared some Sephora vouchers.

My lucky number for that night

A week before the event, I went down to Kim's flea stall to do something about my nails. To match my Yukata, Kim did a glittery blue V-french-tip gellish manicure for me.

Really digging the Swarovski crystals

Initially, I foolishly thought that I'd be able to handle doing both hair and makeup for my colleagues by myself. Thank goodness for Amy and Sophia who came to the rescue like a pair of superheroes, an invincible duo, armed with their arsenal of makeup brushes and bobby pins. Wish I had taken some shots of them in action but I was too frazzled. They swooped in like professionals and within 2 hours, we were ready!

Don't we look like a bunch of Japanese ladies on a tour bus? LOL!

Granted, it was quite a struggle getting into our costumes and figuring out how to tie the belts but I dare say that we managed to pull it off quite well =D

I'm the one with the biggest butt 8-P

Door gifts of popcorn, cleansing foam & universal adaptor

The food wasn't fantastic but neither was it bad. Wish I had time to get more of the cod though.

Here are some pictures we took that night...

Our table

I say, is that Harry Potter?

The hills are alive...

Can you guess which one's the guy here?

My favourite picture of the evening

Happy holidays everyone!

26. Do you wear makeup everyday?

I would definitely say 'yes' to this question. See this.

Ideally, I would like to be able to do 'full faced' makeup even on days where I'm at work.

However, it's not working out too well for now. Sigh. At least I've been trying hard and I did manage to flabbergast my colleagues with my LOTDs on a few occasions 8-P

Was re-organising my blush drawers when I decided to do some swatches of the NYX blushes I had on hand.

First row: Angel, Silky Rose, Natural |  Second row: Cinnamon, Mauve, Red

Swatches (in the same order):

Close-up:

Angel - Baby pink with subtle shimmer

Silky Rose - Plum with reddish undertone

Natural - Light peachy pink

Cinnamon - Bright orange

Mauve - Plum with brown undertone

Red - Bright pinky red

25. Favourite eyeliner

As with eyeshadows, there are a gazillion different types of liners available in the market to cater to the unique needs of savvy consumers.

So let me share with you three of my favourite liners (which all happen to be black):

Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow/Liner in Towne Car

This particular shade, unfortunately, has been discontinued. Why anyone would discontinue a perfectly practical colour, I have no idea.

Anyways it really is what it says it is, creaseless and stays put with zero flaking, which is nothing short of a miracle for me, me of the hooded mono-lids which fold in on themselves =.= My current pot is pitifully dried up and has shrunk away from the sides of the jar but luckily, I am still able to use it thanks to Inglot's Duraline.

Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Liquid Eyeliner in Deep Black

After I'm done with my Benefit liner, I'll use this liquid liner to go over it to intensify the black and to draw in my usual wing, which is easy to achieve with the in-built brush. I've tried using this on it's own but it just doesn't work for me, thus the reason for layering it.

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Eye Pencils in Zero

To finish off my eye-look, I'll use this on my waterline. I wished I could get my hands on Perversion which is darker than Zero but it's not available on it's own. Sads.

What's your favourite eyeliner?

24. Which do you like: cream, matte, powder, sheer or shimmer eye shadows?

I...I...I...love em' all!

Especially when nowadays there are so many 'hybrid' kinds which manage to marry the best qualities of each other together.

Here are a few of my favourite eyeshadows:

Canmake Metallic Eyes in 09

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Shadow Pencil in Barracuda

The Face Shop Touch & Shine Dual Eye Color in Gold Bronze

MAC Mineralised Eyeshadow in Young Punk

So I saw this video of an editorial/runway inspired look by the talented Lisa Eldridge and was immediately hooked.

I am fully aware that red eyeshadow is extremely difficult, if not, almost impossible to carry off without looking like one was suffering from sore eyes but I wanted to give it a go, with my own little twist to it.

I wore it out last Saturday to town, had my nails done at Kim's stall @Scape, watched Breaking Dawn and had dinner with Amy and Kas. Amazing thing was, all through the day, nobody stared.

Here it is:

Close-up:

Tools:

1. Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion (depotted)
2. LA Splash Eyeshadow Sealer/Base
3. Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow/Liner in Towne Car
4. NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Black Bean
5. Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Liquid Eyeliner in Deep Black
6. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Eye Pencils in Zero
7. Inglot Matte 351
8. Elianto Pearl Shine Shadow in Coral Red
9. MAC Reflects Blackened Red
10. MAC Shadowy Lady
11. In2it Long Wearing Blush in Denial

Joey did her take on the look too and I think she looks red hot :)

Would you venture out in this?