Huge rant about one thing I really hate is their packaging! I don’t know why they can’t just put a pump, just like photoready. Even the colorstay cap would have been better than this! Nearly naked has a upper odd twist -snap cap thingy going on which I honestly can’t figure out. LOL. This is the one product which I sometimes don’t close after using, not by choice but when in a hurry the twist-snap cap just doesn’t cooperate at all! *rant over*

Just a quick background, I do enjoy super lightweight foundation. I don’t really need much coverage just abit of even-ing of the skin. I like the my-skin-still-peeps through kinda foundation. I liked it sooo much that I even contemplated getting another bottle because mine is probably about half way done! I think I wore it non-stop for about a month when I first got it! That is quite something for me, it’s rare for me to like a foundation this much because a lot of time I skip foundation

I always order my foundation via swatches online. lol. I thought Toast would be a good match for my skin. As for the powder I have the Revlon photo ready powder in medium deep so I went for that! Powders are a lot more forgiving though!

When I first saw the bottle, I was so sure it will probably be too dark for me. However since I’ve already purchased it, I decided to just open it. Don’t be deceived by the color you see in the bottle, because its not accurate! You’ll see how Toast works out perfectly for me!

Toast in the bottle, looking so dark!

Medium deep pressed powder. Seeing the powder & foundation side by side, they really look like they wouldn’t match! lol.

I love the powder for it being super finely milled and it actually feels rather luxurious! I have even worn the powder on it’s own and it does look good too! it definitely doesn’t have the same lasting power as the foundation but it will last for a few hours.

Toast when switched, it actually looks a tad dark & orange-y to me, However after blending it was perfect and did not look dark at all. It might be because the foundation is so sheer that it is slightly more forgiving but I could really work well this color & since foundations do not oxidize on me. This colour worked out pretty well!

Bared faced me alert! lol. You can see here how the foundation is super sheer, you can’t even really see it. It just makes your skin look better, but still allows it to shine through! It is truly nearly naked, which is really how I like my foundations. It can be build up to a heavier coverage but I personally feel that this foundation is made for a more natural look. If you need heavy duty coverage then this might not be the foundation for you. I also feel it has a tiny bit of glowy-ness to it too, which I love!

As for lasting power, I would say it isn’t like a super long wearing foundation, think colorstay. However it will last through nicey for about 5-8 hours (with primer), it will wear off especially in our super humid weather but since its so sheer & light it doesn’t wear off patchy.

Full face of makeup with Dior Nude duo, which I featured a few post ago! I love it & will be dedicating another post solely to it!

Hope this review has helped you to decide if you should get the product! I personally love it & I think if you like light coverage you will too.

This foundation is unfortunately not available in Singapore & I got mine on drugstore.com

Anyways I finally went in & decided to grab these! I’ve been eyeing another polish but I have not seen it in Singapore! >:( I got mine at Topshop ION & if my memory serves me well the lipstick was $19 & lip cream was $13-15(?).

Firstly, why does my lipstick tube look sooo discoloured? The top part just looks soooo yellow! The packaging especially the lipstick feels quite cheap, & when I say that I mean it feels cheaper than drugstore products!

Lipstick in Beguiled & lip cream in Smart (quite a weird name.lol). I do like the polka dots & strips on the packaging!

I loveeee the berry looking colour & I knew I needed the lip cream the minute I saw it! I know the lipstick looks soooo dark, but when worn it’s a very pretty wearable berry colour!

This might be super random & odd, but I love the font for ‘LIPS’ & ‘LIP CREAM’. LOL!

The usual doe-foot applicator, nothing fancy.

Swatches! They actually looks super pretty on the hand & when applied to the lips it’s very pretty toooo!

Beguiled lipstick on it’s own! It’s quite a pretty colour but has almost no staying power! Considering that it is a darker colour, I would think it would leave abit of the stain but it didn’t!

Okay, so now about the lip cream. It looks kinda pretty on the lips BUT I feel the quality is REALLY lousy! Firstly since it is marketed as a lip cream, I would assume that it would be more creamy, thicker & less runny. I think the reason why they market it as a cream vs gloss is because it is not sticky or tacky. Since it doesn’t have the stickiness they decided it would be apt to name it a lip cream. It just didn’t work because they used the formulation that glosses usually have minus the stickiness which is a no go because that just equates to glossed up face.

This product does not stay on you lips at all! In fact you can get this all over your face, no I’m not kidding. If you go out with this and the wind blows your hair & it touches your lips, get ready for some mess all over your face. While snapping picture I accidentally brushed against the top of my lips, low & behold I had gloss on my NOSE. I mean that is kinda of ridiculous, what kind of lousy the staying power is this.

I think it is mainly because it isn’y sticky. I would tell you to save your pennies on something better, the lipsticks are okay nothing to shout about but definitely skip the lip creams. They are just not worth your pennies albeit the gorgeous colours available.

Have you tried any TopShop makeup products which are worth trying? I’ve heard the polishes are pretty awesome, but I don’t think I’ll be getting them anytime soon!

I went down with Mabel, Sophia & Sara to get these awesome babies & I decided to pick up 4 gorgeous colours!

As always, the classic NARS black packaging! If you are wondering where to find these, you can find them at the NARS counter at Tangs Beauty Hall for S$37 for 0.07oz or 2.2grams.

I love how the tips looks, so round & chubby looking (definitely doesn’t look like that now.lol). NARS come out with a good range of colour, but there were definitely alot more brights compared to neutrals! However there seem to be a neutral for EVERY skin tone, no joke! NARS did well, as always!

I love love how NARS always put the colour of the pencil at the ends of the pencil, it’s so much easier for you to know which colour you’re grabbing without having to open the caps!

The downside which everyone have already been talking about is that you have to sharpen these pencils, it’s not a biggie to me honestly. They feel sooo nice I could live with sharpening them! I figured it might be because they are soooo creamy that if they were to be in a retractable tube, they might melt easily. *don’t quote me on this please! Purely my own deduction!*

Swatches! You can see that all the colours are soooo pigmented & gorgeous! If you’re wondering why there is 1 extra swatch, I’ll explain later!

I know everyone was saying how Yu was like super gorgeous, must have etc but before I went to NARS telling my gf & Sara, I won’t be getting Yu! Haha, who knew one swatch & I was sold. I need it in my life! I am usually very scared of such colours because they tend to be more blue-tone & they look terrible on me IMO but Yu has such a nice-not-too-blue undertone! It is still bright, but I love bright lips!

Disclaimer : Please ignore the ‘spidery’ looking lashes, I was trying a different mascara & I hate it so please don’t remind me. Thankyouverymuch.

Luxembourg is probably my favourite bold colour! It’s very wearable (to me) since I do have pretty pigmented lips I do not really like nude shades! For me it’s the perfect kind of raspberry colour but it is very very bright & pigmented! You can also use it as a stain so that you don’t get the full ‘impact’ of the brightness!

Majella is also one of those colours I was eyeing even before it was launched! It is such a gorgeous red, which isn’t too warm or cool so it’s worn easily by most skin tones!

Palais royal is a very vampy dark shade (though in the picture it isn’t showing off as vampy!) I contemplated getting this or Hyde Park which is super gorgeous toooo! Bagged this home & I can say I don’t regret! It is alot darker than what I would usually wear, but it looks lovely as a stain & I don’t think it looks too bad on me (if I could say so myself.lol).

So, I picked up Het-loo a week after I got the rest. I was soooooo addicted to wearing these awesome lip pencils that I really did not want to use another lip product! I happen to be wearing a brighter lip colour & did not want to wear a bright lip colour, hence I decided I need a nude! I mean it should have occurred to me to get a nude amongst all the bright, but evidently I was soo drawn to the brights! I ended up picking Het-loo which I lOVE!!! It’s the perfect everyday nude, it doesn’t give me the dead look & would lovely if you have got tanner skin like me!

I know because all the other colours are so bright, this looks kinda blah. But trust me, this is a very nice nude for the days where you would like to play it down!

So that’s a round up of my NARS lip satins! They feel soooooo soft and creamy & definitely goes on like a dream! The darker colours do give abit of stain and they do hold up pretty well through out a meal.

I love them &  I feel like everyone must try these, though it’s really hard to stop at 1! You have been warned! 

I have been hauling way faster than I can blog, be prepared to see ALOT (I kid you not) of haul posts!

Today I got back &  was like I NEED TO SHOW THIS TO YOU GUYS NOWWWW. So here I am

Mabel & I met for brunch at Wild Honey this morning (it’s becoming a routine!<3), we decided to pop by DFS to check out the Dior Summer 2013. I did not think I would be tempted by the paradise duo because you know it’s a bronzer + blusher. Also these bronzers + blusher duos are usually very light & usually don’t suit me. I thought I would be safe to swatch it, yeah so I thought.

I swatched it & was telling Mabel, okay I need this! It is really gorgeous, YOU need it too. xD  So we popped by Tangs, asked the MA when it would be launched & she was so sweet because she sold it to me! It officially launches on the 1st of May.

Okayyyyy enough rambling, let’s get to the real deaaaaal!

As usual, all Dior products come with the little velvet pouches, the brush pouch is EXTREMELY cute! I love it! You actually just slip the brush out of the pouch there isn’t a flap to close it..

The packaging is sooo gorgeous, it feels heavy & luxe. However it is a fingerprint magnet! I love the design on the compact, it’s not the usual blue Dior compact yet at the same time it eludes Dior. <3

It was quite hard to photograph the compact without having that light being seen!

Dior Nude Tan Paradise Duo 001 Pink Glow! It is soooo gorgeous, I absolutely love how it looks!

The bronzer colours are pretty nice & nude on my skin but the blusher colours just makes it totally worth it. The name is very apt, nude it is really pretty nude & natural looking!

N is more of a bronzer, while D has some highlighting sheen! U & E are just 2 different shades of blusher to really help complement the bronzer. You can use them on it’s own since the pan is not very small, however I love the look when they are being swirled together! It does mess the perfect product though, with the mixing of colours LOL! The brush helps dust the products off and makes it perfect again!

It retails for $90 at any Dior counters, which is a pretty decent price since you are getting blusher + bronzer & also a kabuki brush!! Definitely get it if you are thinking about it because it is limited edition & I’m sure it will sell like hotcakes since it is a very wearble colour!

Have a good Sunday lovelies!

Basically BeautyAsia is a fair which mainly sells polishes, nail art stuff, lotion,scrub all that jazz for your nails & abit of makeup/skincare. Thanks Long for the invite, I really had an awesome time though before went for the fair with Mabel, I told her I was not going to get anything. haha I lied.

My haul! Woots, you can see there were alot of polishes & plus they were doing for awesome prices!

My first ever Zoya! I am OBSESSED with the pink, Lola. I’ve not tried the other 2 polishes yet though lol. They do look watery in the bottle but the formulation is great!

Grabbed this picture off my IG & it is sooo much more gorgeous & brighter in real life! <3 <3 I think I repainted it a few times, which is really rare seeing that I’ve got soo many polishes.

Orly! My first too! I kinda got sucked into getting these. LOL! I am not exactly a nail topper girl to be honest so while these are absolutely gorgeous I’ve not used them yet! I will get to using them soon though! Now that I’ve seen them, I feel like I need them on my nails.lol!

Okay slightly boring but essential stuff! I love nail-tek & they were going for $7 which is relatively cheap! I love the ‘treatment’ which I’ve already used like 3/4 of my first bottle, I use it as a base & it dose help to strengthen my nails! The foundation is pretty interesting & it has a matte finish! Orly Bonder is supposed to help your polishes adhere for longer, but to be honest I haven’t seen much of a difference.

So thanks to Sara, who got me to grab for her a few Solone eyeliner (I’ve not heard of this brand prior) I told Mabel about it & she was telling me that they have an awesome eyeliner. So we started swatching & I left about $100+ poorer. LOL! Plus they had a 25% discount, so it was a really good deal!

Those $100+ were definitely well spend! The eye liners are really awesome! I will do a post on these cool liners soon! THey are really waterproof & smudge proof!

These pencils have to be sharpened though & because they are very soft, it is slightly hard to sharpen.

Swatches of the Solone eyeliners! <3

Mary Kay® turns 50 & they are celebrating with the Asia pacific region with the  Mary Kay® One Woman Can™ Beauty Contest 2013.

5 lucky winners will win an all-expenses paid, four-day-three-night trip to Hong Kong for the grand finale.  Where they will compete against other Asia Pacific winners to earn the coveted Mary Kay Asia Cover Girl title.

Five lucky winners each receives
SGD 500 product hamper
Professional styling & photo shoot in Hong Kong
Cover feature and story in Mary Kay publications
Charity donation in her name to HOPE Worldwide Singapore
Chance to compete with other Asia Pacific finalists in Hong Kong

Do check out www.marykay.com.sg for more details!  

Once again I fail to keep my hands off

The packaging is pretty luxe & I did not take much pictures of the packaging in this post, if you want to see the packaging do check it out in my ‘What I got for Christmas’ post!

This time I got more wearable colours, yay for awesome shadows + lippie for daily usage (not that I did not have any previously).LOL!

As usual TF has done it again with awesome pigmentation & smooth soft shadows!

Super wearable colours & taupe! I’m sold!

Swatches the gorgeous palette, as you can see it’s neutral colours but I really love it!!

Casablanca lippie! Not the most unique colour, but I love it!

I love mauve-y colours & it it my favourite go-to colour for my lips! Since I do have really red lips.

So I thought I’ll do some dupe comparison! Though I do love taupe, I don’t have alot of taupes! & the closet one I’ve got is probably NARS Lhasa!

I’m comparing it to the bottom left colour in the TF palette, they don’t look that similar in the pan but I think they look pretty close on the skin!

I personally think they look pretty similar, granted the TF is slightly darker but I don’t think it’s that noticeable when worn as eye shadow!

Thanks for reading girls! Have a good Saturday night & Sunday! Don’t we just love long weekends? I’ve got alot of upcoming post, need to start posting more consistently! *grin*

Spring’13!

Hello gorgeous!

I loveeeee the packaging of their blusher! Soooo gorgeous & sleek!

Hydrangea blusher x Pink Sweet Pea gloss! <3 How gorgeous are the colours!

Pink Sweet Pea lipgloss, it retails for S$39 at Tangs, it’s super pretty it has a nice sheen to it too!

Swatches! I think it looks soooo gorgeous! It is also super pigmented & you can wear it on it’s own! It feels really nice too! HOWEVER it has an ‘old lady’ smell? I don’t know if it’s just me but I dislike the scent so badly! No idea why I did not take a whiff of it before buying it.

Hydrangea blusher, it retails for S$61 at Tangs. It is sooooo gorgeous!

Being a blusher fanatic,  I was ecstatic to get my very first Burberry blusher. It is sooooo soft and definitely very pigmented! LOOK AT THE SWATCH! Super excited to wear it tomorrow!

I think these are limited edition (the cursed word.lol) so if you think you need these, you had better start running to the mall now!

Have a great week ahead my dears!

So since then I have been on the hunt, literally to get this palette! I even asked Mabel to check out for me when she went to HK if they had it! So last week, I went to Ion YSL, just trying my luck again (like I always do, lol) the guy MA was super nice! He said he doesn’t have it but can check if Tangs still have it, he called & they said they have got a few left & well, I flew there. LOL! I was asking the lady why they still had these palettes since the last time I went it was OOS, she said the warehouse had a few left & they send it to Tangs! SCORE! The feeling of getting a LE product which is soooo hard to find, is beyond words. HAHA!

OKAY ENOUGH RAMBLING! LOL!

Low & behold, you are finally mineeeeeeeee!

It comes with a sequin sleeve. This is my first YSL palette! So I am super excited!

How gorgeous is this palette?! I just LOVE the colours!

I think the applicators are super cute & unique! I actually wonder how to use those plastic applicators, shall do some research! heh.

Arctic Night

GORGEOUS!!! My 2 favourite colours are the brown & the dark purplish blue colour!

Swatches! These shadows are actually quite hard to apply with your fingers, you’ve got to use a brush to get the best effect.

I wore them out yesterday & posted a picture on instagram (@elizabeauty), I did notice they faded/creased abit after about 6 hours, but I’ve got to do a proper test before I pass the verdict on them. What I know for now, the colours are absolutely gorgeous! <3

I stood in Sephora for AGES, told my friends that the staff probably think I’m trying to rob the whole Sephora, walking up & down deciding which palette I should go home with. Finally I decided that as much as I am #teamglinda, I could not miss out on being #teamtheodora too! So of course I ended up walking home with both palettes. LOL. What’s a girl to do when UD is so smart in making me want both?! lol! The whole time I was thinking how great it would be if they had combined it into just 1 palette.LOL!

On the side not, why did UD call the palette Theodora?! The wicked witch of the west is called Elphaba! Isn’t she? HMMMM. thanks subtleshimmer for clarifying hehe.

Okay enough blabber gibberish! On to what you’re really here for! THE PALETTES!!!!

How gorgeous are the palettes? Even the boxes are so gorgeous! I actually love how they don’t actually put the girl’s faces on the front, I think it looks sooo much better this way! So yay Urban Decay!

Let me know if you’re #teamglinda or #teamtheodora okay!

Theodora palette! I love how the back is sooooo gorgeous, with all the shadows ‘swatches’ + their names!

Glinda palette – I love how the lip colour is named after the characters, truly limited edition.LOL!

How gorgeous are the picture cards?!?!!! OMG I think it is one of the prettiest picture cum tutorial cards. I feel like I should frame these up, just because they are sooo gorgeous!

#teamGlinda!

This is the back of the Glinda picture card! I forgot to take the Theodora palette’s card but you get the idea So basically, they do use like almost ever shade. lol!

OKAY on to the palettes!!!!!

Glindaaaa, the colours are all very ‘sweet’, kinda subtle & slightly frosty-er than Theodora.

The whole Glinda set. Picture card x palette x eyeliner x lip colour!

Don’t mind the many pictures, they were too gorgeous to stop at 1

Swatches without a base They are super soft & buttery! I love love love the new UD eyeshadow formulation, they have improved soooo much! Magic is soooo gorgeous it has tiny gold shimmers too! Although Tornado looks & is super pigmented, you can sheer it out! I wore it the other day in my crease, sheerly & it was gorgeous!

#teamTheodora!

Alot more earthly, more matte shades tooo! The matte shades are soooooo buttery!

Theodora is honestly abit easier to wear because of the many neutral x matte shades! I like the fact that they added a nice red lip colour, just to spice things abit a tad bit too!

The shadows up close!

Swatches of Theodora. Soooo prettyyyyy! The greens are just gorgeous!

Both of the palettes are sooo pretty, you tell me, how to choose?! Just get both HAHA!

In case you did not already know, these shadows can be removed & slotted in interchangeably! All of the new Urban Decay are able to be remove from their pots! So you can travel with your favourite shadows! & honestly if you are thinking ‘Oh, it is so hard to remove.’ ‘I’m going to accidentally spoil my shadows.’ No worries, they are soooooo easy to remove from their casing, UD has really done a great job with their new palettes! Plus they clip in so you know that they are secured

Final picture of the two stars of the show! Thank you Urban Decay, this was awesome (probably more so because I watched the musical & read the books!). I love the pigmentation & the formulation! Oh they retail for S$78 at Sephora!

Both palettes are pretty, but if you’re looking for more neutrals, then I would say go with Theodora. Glinda is slightly more unique (to me) & has slightly more pastel ‘sweeter’ colours.

Hope this has helped you if you were contemplating which palette to get! Do share which you end up picking up!