Today's Make Up: Wedding - A Bridesmaid

Happy Saturday all! Hope you're all enjoying the utmost fantastic weekend!! :D

If you visited my blog yesterday, you probably know that I am one of the bridesmaid for my friend's wedding today. It will be a traditional Vietnamese wedding, ceremony in the morning and reception in the evening. Needless to day, I will be busy all day today; so for the sake of convenience, I had composed this blog last night. By the time y'all read this, I will probably be at the reception getting ready.

Any who, on the face today. This is probably the most products I've worn on my face, like ever! LOL.

FACE
Rimmel Fix & Perfect Pro Primer in 002
Pixi Correction Concentrate in Brightening Peach
Amazing Cosmetics Amazing Concealer in Fair & Light
Revlon Photo Ready in Shell
L'Oreal True Match Powder in W3 Nude Beige
Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Matte Bronzer
ELF HD Blush in Diva
City Color Be Matte Blush in Pink Grapefruit
the Balm Cindy-Lou Manizer
Urban Decay All Nighter Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray (not pictured)
Avene Thermal Spring Water (not pictured)

EYES
Urban Decay Primer Potion
Urban Decay Naked 3
the Balm Overshadow The Sexpots in No Money No Honey
Wet N Wild Mega Liner Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Perversion
Rimmel Scandal Eyes in Nude
Etude House Tear Liner in Sunlight
Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes 4-in-1 MascaraKiss iEnvy Premium 100% Human Hair Eyelashes in Diva 01/KPE21 (not pictured)

LIPS
ELF Lip Lock Pencil
Peri Pera Peri's Tint Water in Candy Juice
NYX Butter Gloss in Peaches And Cream

As y'all can probably see from the products above, I did not use a BB Cream today, awwww, I know, but instead relied on my trusty Revlon Photo Ready foundation to last the entire day and also photo friendly. I went through the routine as I would normally but when it came to blush and bronzer, I opted for mattes. When I know that I'll be wearing make up for a long period, I tend to shy away from shimmers because as the day progress, the oiliness will give me enough shine as is. I want to keep everything as matte as possible. 

As for my eyes, I didn't do anything over the top. I used the eyeshadows from the Naked 3 palette to create a brown smoky eye and topped it off with an Overshadow for a little more shimmer. I did, however, wear falsies today. Gaaaaaasp, I know! Wearing the Kiss Human Hair Eyelashes in Diva 01; received this in my iPsy bag a couple days ago. 

For my lips, I went with something I know works. I used my Peri's Tint Water underneath my NYX Butter Gloss. I took an extra step and applied the ELF Lip Lock Pencil around my lips to ensure feathering as a precaution. 

After everything was finished, I set my face with a setting spray to ensure my makeup will stay on and remain fresh throughout the day. Before I left the house, I did lightly mist my face in Thermal Spring Water to keep my face hydrated and I also through in a travel sized can into my bag to frequently mist myself throughout the day.

Y'all enjoy your fabulous weekend now and don't forget to be safe. Thank you for visiting and thank you for reading. Please do come back soon! :)

Today's Make Up: Friday Nudes 2

Hi, hi all! Happy Friday and happy weekend!

On the face this morning, and only for a bit longer before I strip it off to lather on sunscreen. Goin' fishing again tonight. It's been a tough week and this fishing trip is much needed for all of us...

On the face today. :)

FACE
Pixi Correction Concentrate in Brightening Peach
Skin79 Super+ BB Triple Function
NYX Stay Matte But Not Flat Powder Foundation in Natural
NYC Smooth Skin Bronzer in Sunny
Hard Candy Baked Bronzer in Tiki
Milani Baked Blush in Delizioso Pink

EYES
NYX HD Eyeshadow Base in ESB04
Maybelline The Nudes
Wet N Wild Mega Last Liquid Eyeliner in Dark Brown
Etude House Tear Eyeliner in White Tear
Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes 4-in-1 Mascara

LIPS
Peri Pera Peri's Tint in Pink Juice
NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Sydney

Will result in this... Narcissistic selfies. LOL 

Have a great weekend all! Stay safe!

Thank you for dropping by and thanks for reading. Come back soon! :)

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. :)

Today's Make Up: Quick n Easy

Hello Tuesday all!

I was  lounging around this morning with no intention of stepping out of the house today. Things never go as planned because not long after, one of my girl friends called me up and proposed we go out on a lunch date, ya know, to catch up and what not. If she had called, oh I don't know, maybe a couple of hours in advance, it would have been fine. Unfortunately, being the spontaneous soul that she is, she told me to meet her half an hour later at PoPo's. Uh huh...

So what do I do? I dried shampooed the heck out of my hair, threw it up in a messy high bun. I used a white cream shadow to brighten up my eyes, lined my waterline, subtly winged my liquid liner, mascara to open up my eyes and tinted lip balm. BAM! Done!!

Today's Make Up: Quick n Easy

Maybelline 24 Hours Color Tattoo in Waves of White (Limited Edition)
Essence 100% Splash-Proof Eyeliner Pen in Ultra Black
Essence Long Lasting Eye Pencil in Black Fever
Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes 4-in-1 Mascara in Black
NYX Butter Lip Balm in Parfait

I didn't plan to turn heads or to wow anyone. I just wanted to quickly fix myself up to look presentable.  Apparently it worked ahaha.

Thank you for reading guys. :)