Friday, December 5, 2008

My Love

A while back I posted my mini haul from Sasa and this included the LE of the Winter Fiberwig mascara. It's actually nothing special aside from the packaging and color of the tube.I saw on Rouge Deluxe's blog that in Japan, one of the LE Winter Fiberwig is blue!


Compared with the regular packaging it's nothing too spectacular. The regular tube is red with a silver top while the LE one has a deep metalic pink tube and a silverish pink top. This wouldn't be something I collect as I go through this mascara like mad.
This is THE best mascara, my love, the Fiberwig. The one piece of makeup that I can't live without and the only one I use. Even if I try other mascaras, I always use this as a top coat just in case the other mascara will smudge. (because they had)
Although this does not plump up your lashes as much as other mascaras, the lengthening of this mascara is pretty amazing. It contains wee little fibers that hold on to your lashes and creates an almost fake lash look. I've had comments from some of my friends thinking I had falsies on. I've never had any problems with the fibers falling out, so it works perfectly for me since I wear contacts.
This is also my love because it lasts and it does not smudge!! My eyelids are oily so it's quite frustrating to pick out a good mascara. I thought the Majolica Majorca Lash Expander would work. I read reviews on how it's hard to remove, which is true, but it still smudges! Damn thing.
The Fiberwig is the only one that's budge proof, even with crying. The good thing about it, it's easy to remove. This is available on Sasa, Sephora and Adambeauty.
Another mascara that I've tried back in the highschool days (before it became celeb popular, I swear!) is the Kiss mascara. My mama got this at a spa show as a little souvenier for me. turns out this was my first favourite mascara.
This mascara is the only other one that does no smudge and only comes off when it's time to be removed. The formula is created so that it forms tiny tubes around your lashes. Best thing about it is removing only requires warm water and then mascara will come off like little tubes. The only down side is it doesn't create as much length and volume that I like, but this is still a good mascara to try. It's available on Sephora, I'm not too sure about the price.

Steff hotdog is a hotdog chain from Denmark. Looks tasty, but it's quite bland. I'm not even sure that was real bacon bits.


I was soooo excited to find ramen! I saw through the window that the bowls were huge, so I assumed that there would be a Western sized portion of noodles. Turns out this is the smallest portion of noodles I had for 6500won. In the picture, it looks like I finished 3/4 of it already when I haven't even started yet. It's supposed to be Cha Shu ramen, but it just tastes like boiled pieces of pork. The tasty soup base makes up for the crummy pork pieces.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

EOTD: Grande Shine Eyes


I got bored so I decided to do an EOTD with one of T'estimo's last palettes released before the brand was killed off. Don't get me wrong, I love the new replacement, Coffret D'or. I feel that most of the items are kind of similar to the T'estimo line with some slight differences.
I've done an EOTD with the Grande Shine Eyes palette in 02, which I purchased off some store on Ebay for $36ish sometime last year.
One of the major factors that caused me to get this was the tutorial that came out with these palettes. I luuurrve it!! (see below)
Just a quick review. The shadows and liner are quite pigmented, except the main shade. The main shade is a sort of lavender blue and it's not as smooth as the other shades and it's also not super pigmented.
The shadows and the liner fade quite easily, even with UDPP. After maybe 4-5 hours or so, I need to do touch up which gets kind of annoying.
The liner shade goes on very pigmented. The eyeliner brush that comes with it just sucks. It doesn't spread the product evenly so I have to go over it with a sponge tip applicator to smooth it out.
All in all, this isn't the best palette because it lacks the staying power, especially since I have oily eyelids, blah! The Coffret D'or 3D Lighting Eyes hold up much better than its predecessor.



What I used:
Sana Concealer
Grande Shine Eyes 02
Coffret D'or Star Dazzling Liner WT04
DejaVu Fiberwig mascara

I did pretty much the exact same thing as the video except the shadow and liner on the bottom. I also lined my eyes with the glitter liner instead of dotting it on.


I must be either really shitty at taking pictures or my eyes are messed up because I can see that crease thing happening there. This isn't makeup that was on for more than 10 minutes. Well as long as it doesn't look like this in person XD
And here's the lovely video! If you look up Kanebo Modern on Youtube, you'll see the other video that creates a more dramatic look. They also use the Grande Shine Eyes palette but I can't remember which one. Enjoy!

I need to find a good eyecream, but at the moment I can only go for cheaper ones, such as Skinfood. Maybe they'll have a good one.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Makeup Videos

Haha...no not my own videos, but videos of how-to's and tips from one of Taiwan's most famous magazine: FG magazine (Fashion Guide)
Check this out -----> FG Videos (everything is in Chinese and they speak Mandarin in the videos)
There's also a makeup book by one of FG's makeup gurus, his name is Kevin Zhou.

I WANT THESE BOOKS SO BADLY!!! It's got makeup tips and other sorts of goodness! Obviously not knowing enough Chinese, I really just want it for the picture tutorials XD
I saw it back in June. I was hoping my friend would be able to ask his friends to help me get it in Taiwan, I dunno what happened.
If you're interested go to this link to purchase it. It's 315 Taiwan dollars for the set after a 10% discount, you can do the conversion. I dunno anything about how to buy, shipping etc... The site is in Chinese, and again since I don't know enough, I have to wait till I go to Hong Kong and ask Tim's papa to help me order it XD



Look at all these goodies!!!! It's like heaven...almost. There's a few other books/magazines available by other FG makeup artists as well. If I figure out how to order this book, I'll let you all know XD