Hoozey’s Neighborhood

Gotten this yesterday from Frond. LOL! It's very interesting.. If you put it on a flat surface and hit it, it would get lighted up.. The Hubs is very intrigued with it. He's been using it to check the time and what-not. A BIG THANK YOU TO FROND for letting me have this.

I recently gave in to curiosity and purchased 2 liptars by Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics. I purchased vintage and clear. While vintage really wasn't quite what i was hoping for (i wanted more of a wine color and vintage is more of a burgundy/maroon color- more brown than purple), clear really opened a whole array of experimentation for me. I don't recall a flavor associated with vintage but clear is lightly minty- which i love. Both are non-sticky liquid lipsticks that require just a drop for application and dry down to a longlasting non-drying matte lipstick finish.

For the clear, I decided to add in SN pigments since I have such a huge array of them. I tried to dupe existing OCC liptar colors though I'm sure they're not exact. If you try this, I will caution that pearl eyeshadow make frosted lippies and a touch of heavy base will help make any color more opaque.

 

at IL. fun. mostly consist of board games, gift wrapping and unwrapping, sleep and boardgames.

bonanza and pictionary are played the most :)

just found out march 2009 was when i first start my shop! definitely not what i envisioned the year to be like, but, i've tried my best.

how will this year be like?

I don't exactly like this look but I do it ALL the time.. Coz it's easy and puts me together the quickest and goes really well with black clothing. =X

Items used..
Eyes - Napoleon Perdis Golden Girl Palette
Lips - MAC lipstick in Brave New Bronze and MAC cremesheen glass in Boy Bait
Cheeks - Canmake Creme Cheek in 03 Strawberry Whip

I've got a love hate relationship with Brave New Bronze.. I find the colour washes me out a little sometimes.. Looking really oddly brown on my lips. So I finally found a way to make it work. After applying the really drying death looking Brave New Bronze, I would apply a sheer gloss over it. At the end, a much happier me.

The Canmake Creme Cheek blush is really wonderful.. It's been a while since I've like pink blushes.. I know I look kinda tan still.. *Sigh* The tan seems to last for ages now.. Okay.. I'm rambling.. I don't love this look but I am ok with it.. Don't ask me why I keep doing it. Hopefully I would come up with something new for this year.

Tiger's thoughts..
"I like sitting in everyone's chair. I've tried out all the chairs in the study room. My current fav. is Mummy's hot pink chair. I do like Diana's chair too.. It's red and allows me to look into the cabinets.. Maybe I could find something to play with in there.. Hmm......"

p.s. and we're back online with the photos!

These pics have been sitting in my drafts folder for months. I’m ashamed :(( Just never ever got round to writing a review on this.

Well, since I seem to be in a little more of a blogging mood today. Here’s a quick review.

When I first started using makeup about 2 years back. My first foundation purchase was Maybelline’s Angelfit Powder Foundation. It was a lovely foundation that gave a glow to my face. Sadly, I stopped using it when I realised that my pores were becoming seriously clogged. Before you go “eeeeekkk”, please bear in mind that I was a complete makeup noob. Didn’t know how to get it off properly. Light dawning? I know better now and am seriously tempted to give it a go again soon :P

But this review isn’t about that… its about its sister product called the Pore Zero base.

here’s my super blur pic of it. Sigh. It comes in a 30ml tube which dispenses the product easily on to your finger.

Please click on the pic for the description and their product claims. Have added another pic for those who want a clearer understanding of the ingredients used.

  

So here’s what it looks like. Slightly creamy but really easy to blend out. You’re supposed to put little dots all over your face. Not all at once cos this dries fairly quickly. So you dot, blend, dot, blend, dot, blend.

  

See how my pores have gone bye bye… seriously, this product does work in blurring out the look of large pores. It also gives a slight glow to your face which is rather pleasant. Does leave a slightly greasy feel on my skin but that’s goes away once I put on my loose mineral powder. What I especially like about it – and what got me to plunk down cash for it – was the spf factor (SPF 25 PA++). Having a sunscreen feature is a really nice touch for a primer/base.

The only reason why I don’t use this as often as I do my Biore UV Bright Face Milk(yeah I know.. cheesy name) is due to the ease of application. I’m a lazy person – just in case you didn’t know that already *grin* – and prefer to pore a puddle into the middle of my palm, rub it between my palms and apply. The whole dot, blend, dot, blend thing is just too much for me. Although when I do it, I get a lovely base for makeup that lasts through the day.

*note – as with all other makeup… make sure you use a good m/u remover at the end of the day or you’ll be sorry. I use JustFr0nd’s exfoliating AHA cleanser on my face and a oil/water blend for my eye m/u*

I was clearing my iPhoto library yesterday.. The dang thing sync-ed itself with my flickr and deleted it at the same time.. *SIGH* Technology is a PITA sometimes. I'll be re-uploading the stuff.. Really sorry!

I was feeling a little adventurous (Mind you.. I DO NOT COOK IN GENERAL!) and made this for dinner today.. It was really simple and awesome. Taste best when hot!

The Hubs gave me some money to spoil myself silly.. I wanted to get By Candelight MSF from MAC but decided not to and gotten two cream blushes from Canmake instead.

The Canmake Cream Cheek is finally launched here in Singapore.. The first Watsons I went to didn't had much available stocks.. So I decided to try the 05 Sweet Apricot. However, I had time to kill before picking up the Hubs so I headed to another Watsons which had a lot more stocks available and picked up 03 Strawberry Whip.

They go from cream to powder.. The colours do pack a punch alto the range are your boring colours! I used my EDM angled blush brush to apply them.. Blends pretty well. Pretty value for money. Here are some swatches.. I'm still not very good at them.. Do bear with me while I figure my camera out..
They're now going for $15.90 instead of their RRP of $17.90! Pretty good quality in my honest opinion.. I applied them over my powder foundation and it was still ok. Does not cake.. Blends easily..  So Jo?! What are you waiting for?! LOL! For more info on them, Rouge Deluxe and Yumeko has written about them too.. I'm actually tempted to go back and get 04 Vitamin Orange.. (but I should just shop my stash right?)

Someone… and I won’t say who… complained that I used a LE shade that wasn’t available any more. So here’s a similar look using a regular shade that was is one of my favourites to use as a highlight or even over another color to lighten it up a little.

no base – unless u count sunblock 
NYX JEP in baby blue – all over lid 
TSS Moonlight Whimsey – patted on lid and blended upwards til the brow bone 
MM’s liquid eyeliner in 995 
MM’s gorgeous lash mascara  
Maybelline’s Volum’ Express Turbo Boost mascara in black  
Inuovi’s brow pencil in Cocoa (found the name :P)