Throwback Thursday: Inspired Makeups

Hello everyone! I hope your Thursday is going well for you all. I am experiencing one
crazy Thursday here and to top that off, I have a crazy headache that won't go away. Weekend is not coming soon enough...

So I apologize that today's post will not have new materials but rather a compilation of throwback posts. I was contemplating which posts to throwback on and I have decided on Inspired Makeups. Looking through my posts, I have a total of seven inspired makeup posts, most of them K-Pop inspired.

Megan Lee "8dayz" Inspired Makeup

Jun Hyosung "Good-Night Kiss" Inspired Makeup

Song Ji Hyo for Benefit

Chun/Cheon Song Yi Obsession

NS Yoon-G "Yasisi" Inspired Makeup

NS Yoon-G "Yasisi" Inspired Makeup 2

Puppy Eyes

I hope ya'll will check these posts out and hopefully you'll enjoy them. New materials will be back tomorrow so please come back soon.

As always, thank you for visiting and thanks for reading. :)

Today's Make Up: Song Ji Hyo for Benefit Inspired Make Up

Hi guys! Are you ready to start the weekend? I am excited!! The postponed BBQ from last week is on again this week. So far, no weather forecast has mentioned rain or wind, they did say that the high temp will be at 104 degrees! If that doesn't hint swimming, I don't know what does. Ahhhh, so exciting.

But today, I had errands to run, in 95 degree heat...Blegh. Today's Make Up is inspired by Song Ji Hyo, the new face of Benefit in Korea as of 2013.  She is what we call a natural beauty, always wearing her Mong expression instead, but when she gets dolled up, she is impossibly beautiful. Today's Make Up is very natural, radiantly glowing and fresh, it is Spring.

Isn't she gorgeous?

FACE
Rimmel Fix & Perfect Pro 002
Pixi Correction Concentrate in Brightening Peach
Covergirl + Olay Concealer Balm in Fair
L'Oreal Magic Lumi Light Infusing Primer
Skin79 Lovely Girl BB Cream
Revlon Nearly Naked Pressed Powder in Fair
Hard Candy Baked Blush in Living Doll
Physicians Formula Bronze Booster Glow Boosting Pressed Powder in Fair to Light
Physicians Formula Happy Booster Glow & Mood Boosting Powder in Translucent 

EYES
ELF Eyelid Primer
NYX 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette The Runway Collection in Caviar & Bubbles
Wet N Wild Color Icon 5-Pan Palette in Floral Values
L'Oreal Infallible Lacquer Liner 24H in Blackest Black
Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes 4-in-1 Mascara in Rich Black
Holika Holika Jewel-Light Under Eye Maker in 02 Pink

LIPS
NYX Butter Lip Balm in Parfait
Etude House Fresh Cherry Tint in PK002 Cherry Hot Pink

You've probably noticed by now, but the Koreans' natural beauty face involves flawless, radiant, glowing from within kinda skin. My skin is nowhere near flawless so in order to achieve that, I must moisturize, prime and conceal, conceal, conceal! In order to get that glowing from within look, I took one pump of L'Oreal Magic Lumi and mixed that with my BB Cream on the back of my hand. With a beauty blender, I dabbed that all over my face; using a beauty blender gives a more natural effect, as if it is one with our skin. I set everything I've done by far with a lightweight pressed powder. From what I can see, she has some bronzer on, but it's more on the line of adding color to her face and not contouring. This is where I am adjusting the look a bit to fit me, so I'll be using a very light bronzer to contour a tad, nothing too extreme. I just like my face more sculpted. Her cheeks reminds me of dolls, glowing pink cheeks which I recreated using Hard Candy Baked Blush in Living Doll. I gave a big smile and applied the blush onto the apple of my cheeks, not blending it back like I would normally. I used a very glowing highlight to get a radiance. For those with oily skin, like myself, be extremely careful because that might either come across as being oily or when we do excrete oil, it might clash and our face will turn into a grease pan.

I prepped my eyes by priming it, then I start off with my NYX palette, using a matte beige shade, I applied that in my inner corner and browbone. Using my Wet N Wild Floral Values palette, I took "Eyelid" which is a vibrant pink shade, I put that all over my lids, don't wing it out. I keep packing the shadow until I am happy with the intensity, which isn't much because you can barely see her eyeshadows. The I took "Brownbone" - super light lilac shade, and applied that on top of the pink. Then I simply blended the two shadows together. With a clean fluffy brush, I went back to my NYX palette and used the nice caramel brown shade onto my crease. This shade defined my crease without looking too harsh. So I kept buffing and blending everything well. Her liner is kept very minimal, so I used my gel liner to thinly line my upper lash line and tight line. She has like a little flick at the end, but it is not winged out. So keep lining the upper lash line thinly, whatever is left on the brush, give it a little flick at the end. I wanted to enhance my eye smile so I took my Holika Holika Jewel-Light eye pencil to my bottom lash line. This is double ended, one end is a brown eye pencil while the other is a shimmery pink shadow like stick. Not too far from my lower lash line, I used the brown end to draw a thin line, and filled the void between that and my lash line with the pink pearly shadow. Then I curled and mascaraed like always.

I used NYX Butter Lip Balm in Parfait to keep my lips moisturize and give it a little base color. Then I took the Fresh Cherry Tint and dotted three dots on my inner lip, top and bottom. Using my finger, I blended the dots out, concentrating on the inner lips and only dragging it out with what's left on my fingers. Then I took my Concealer Balm applied that on and around my outer lips. Using a clean finger, blend out the concealer, it should conceal most not all of the lip color underneath. Back to the Lip Tint, I dotted another three dots on my inner lip again and with a finger blended it out as I need before. You can either top it off with a gloss or leave it as it is.

And there we have guys. Enjoy the rest of your Friday and have an awesome weekend! I will see you back here tomorrow for another waterproof make up post. Please do check it out. Thank you for visiting and thanks for reading. :)

Mini-Haul: Ulta & Walgreens

Hellooooo everyone! Once again another Hump Day, almost there folks. Alllllmost theeeere. In the mean time, let's join me for yet another haul post, well mini-haul. These were actually bought last week, but I didn't get around to organize them until today. It's just a few things I picked up while I was at Ulta and Walgreens. They're all mostly lip products and a few nails. Here, I'll just show you...

LIPS
Nivea A Kiss of Smoothness
NYX Butter Lipstick in Hubba Bubba (BLS07)
NYX Butter Gloss in Cupcake
NYX  Butter Lip Balm in
- Macaron (BLB04)
- Biscotti (BLB06)
Wet N Wild Megaslicks Balm Stain in
- Lady and the Vamp
- Red-dy or Not
- Rico Mauve
- Pinky Promise
- Nudist Colony

My night lip balm ran out so I picked up this Nivea to give it a try. I always apply a lightweight lip balm before heading off to bed to keep my lips hydrated and lock in the moisture. Seriously, do this and your lips will be silky smooth, baby skin soft in the morning. I've been using this since last week and I must say, feels pretty comfortable on my lips, no weird scent, feels light, not tacky or sticky. It's perfect, I like it.

Most of the Wet N Wild products at my Walgreens were on sale, 50% to 75% off. These Balm Stains were like a dollar each, so why not right? I bought one shade a while ago in A Stiff Pink, a bright bubble gum pink. It's not the most hydrating balm stain I own, but it's definitely not the most drying. DO wear a clear LIP BALM underneath though. The only thing I have to complain about this stain is that after it sets on my lips, maybe, 15 minutes after applying, the color totally changes. When first applied, the shade on the lips looks identical to that from the pencil, however, after 15 minutes, it turned to a whole 'nother shade, like a dark, rosy pink. It's not just once either, it happened to me every time I wear it. So I'm not sure if it's just the lighter shade or not, so I'll give these darker shades a wear to see what will happen. Besides that, there's really nothing else that bothers me. The scent, unlike the Fergie Vicious Varnish High Shine Lip Stain, is very faint to the point where I can't even smell it. That is a relief.

Because I own so many Balm Stains, I will eventually do an updated recommendation post. So if you're into Balm Stains, please be on the lookout.

Now for NYX, love NYX. I picked up the last two shades from the Butter Lip Balm, now I own all of the shades. These Lip Balms are amazing, the color is so pigmented, so comfortable on the lips, long-wearing, moisturizing, low maintenance. These are my on the go Lip Balms. It gives me color, does exactly what a lip balm is supposed to do and does not need a mirror to apply.

Bright pink Butter Gloss, ah, yes please. I have been into the bright pink lips lately, this shade in Cupcake will be perfect to top it off. I love how this gloss feels on my lips, and you all know how much I dislike lip glosses. These Butter Gloss does not bother me because it's not like a normal glosses, it's more of a high shine lipstick. That, I can deal with.

Just another pretty pink shade of Butter Lipstick. Love, love, loooooove these Butter Lipstick. Even though I do love these lipsticks, I really do think I'm being biased. To be quite honest, there's nothing especially special about these lipsticks. They're hydrating, long wearing but still moisturizing, pigmented, comfortable on the lips...many other brands have lipsticks with the same qualities. I am just a huge NYX fan and think the shade selection is superb so I pick them up.

NAILS
Essence Effect Nails 3D Pearls in Candy Buffet
Essence Nail Art Express Dry Drops

I loved the Nail Art Dry Drops so much I decided to stock up and buy another bottle. The Essence section at my Ulta hardly ever gets stocked up and Essence might discontinue this product (like they always do), so stocking up on a beloved Essence product is totally necessary. If you don't remember, I first gave this a go when I did my Easter nails a couple of weeks ago and I immediately fell in love. From the moment you drop the liquid onto the nails, one or two seconds later, it becomes dry. This thing is AMAZING! I urge you to give it a try, it's very affordable, only $2.99 at my local Ulta.

There's only so much one can do with their nails (at home at least), so I find ways to jazz it up to not be boring. I was into the whole Ciate Caviar crazed back when they first came out; I only bought one kit though, the price was a definite turn off. Can you guess how excited I was when I came across these beads? These were either $2.99 or $3.99, waaaaaaay cheaper than Ciate is what the price is. But ya know, you get what you pay for, I don't expect this to be on the same level as Ciate, but hoping it's at least worth the price.

FREE SAMPLES - Hair Products :D
Garnier Fructis Damage Eraser
Garnier Fructis Hydra Recharge

The Walgreens' Beauty Expert stuck this into my bag after ringing me up. Samples are always nice, I shall give these a try to see how  they are, even though I already have the Damage Eraser Butter.  I bought it a while ago but I have not started using it yet. I'm actually waiting for the Summer, when my hair gets super dried and damaged from the chlorine and sun.

I'm actually more interested in the Hydra Recharge, it claims to keep hair hydrated, weightlessly silky for two whole days. Hmmm.

Thank you for your visit and as always, thank you for reading. Hope you enjoyed it and come back soon. :)

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Woman Crush Wednesday, Korean Actress

Song Ji Hyo (Miss Mong, Mong Ji, Bad Ji Hyo, Ace) - 32 Years Old; Actress, Model, Entertainer

Hardcore Monday Couple Shipper here...I mean, how can you not?!?

I just can't with this couple...urgggh, so cute together!

My thoughts exactly; thank you Running Man

Running Man Family Forever!