Beauty Favourites Of The Month | July’15

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Tamanna

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August 3, 2015

Beauty Favourites Of The Month | July’15

Hello there,
It’s a new month, August’15, and it’s the time to share some beauty favorites from the past couple of month. If you’re reading me regularly then you already know the gist of this post, I feature few of my beauty favorites (that I have been continuously using and loving) every other month.

If I be honest, it’s not easy to pick some product as favorite because I do use, switch and try a lot every month but again there is always those few that I do like to stick with. There is always so many of them that I want to feature as my favorite, however, I have to limit picking product when It comes to ‘favorite post’. So, as my beauty favorites of July’15, I picked up 11 Beauty product that I’ve been using and loving in past moths, June, and July. They include skincare, hair and makeup product.

Let’s have a look what I have in my Beauty Favourites Of The Month… 😃

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Mario Badescu Whitening Mask: $24 (shop here)

I have been using this mask for 3-4 months now and love it. It’s a white paste like clay-ish, wash-off mask. Though it says it is a whitening mask but it’s nothing whitening or so, yet it helps to clear up sun tan and gives an instant brightening effect. Skin feels soft and smooth afterward, I use this mask once or twice a week, at morning to start off the day with a fresh skin.

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Clinique Foaming Facial Soap: $20 (shop here)

I’m quite new to Clinique skincare stuff! Got this just to try out but I’m obsessed now. This is a foaming facial wash and has excellent cleaning power. Though it’s a foaming cleanser but doesn’t really lather up much. if you have dry skin it might feel a bit drying but in my combination skin it just works so perfectly.

Tarte Maracuja Oil: $48[full size] (shop here)

An oil that is not really oily and lightweight than any other oil I have used so far. I have been loving using this prior to my night cream as a part of my night time skin care regime. Also, this has been performing as my favorite cuticle oil. I’m using a mini size bottle at the moment, a little amount of this oil goes long so a full-size bottle might last you forever.

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Loreal Paris Frizz Eraser:

This frizz Eraser is that daily liv-on spray, but this also offers thermal protection. As I use hot tools (blow dry etc.) almost every day so I do require thermal protection for my hair. The best thing about this spray is it is non-sticky and leaves hair smooth and shiny afterward. This is my best-find drugstore thermal spray so far!

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MAC Strobe Cream: $33 (shop here)

I would like to mention that MAC Strobe Cream is actually a re-found love for me! My skin is combi-type but it is terribly dehydrated recently and I look for everything that can possibly keep my skin hydrated especially while I’m wearing makeup. I use it prior to my foundation primer as a moisturizer, it works beautifully and locks moisture into the skin till the end. This cream also has illuminating particles in it which help to create a dewy finish on makeup.

Elianto Nail Polish | Thulian Pink:

Just a budget nail polish but I’ve been loving this mauve-pink s.hade for last two month. Probably this will be loved more in future as well.

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Makeup For Ever Artist Palette – 2: $42 (shop here)

One of the newest releases by Make Up For Ever and I’m loving this palette ever since I got it! I’m a girl who loves color so any shadow palette with colorful shade does attract me! These shadows are insanely pigmented and very easy to work with also the color combination in this palette offer an uncountable possibilities (makeup-wise). Swatch and in-dept review on thins palette will be posted soon, so stay connected for that.

Sigma 3DHD Precision Brush: $19 (shop here)

This 3DHD precision brush is fairly new to my collection, however, I’m loving it for concealer application. This brush has become my go to for spot concealing as well as under-eye concealer application. Its angular shape is just beyond perfect to reach those critical corners of the face.

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Lip color:

I’ve been loving 3 lip product last couple of month. They were literally my go to.

NYX Butter Lipstick | Pops: $5.99 (shop here)
A rosy nude, has decent lasting power.
Too Faced Melted Lipstick | Melted Fuchsia: $21 (shop here)
A bright fuchsia, last long, super pigmented.
Essence Lip Liner | Cute Pink: $1.49 (shop here)
An off pink shade, extremely creamy and has good lasting power.

Swatch below:

So these were my beauty favourites for the month of July’15. I swear I wanted to pick less, didn’t realise it was a total of 11 product at the end, hope you aren’t bored. Did you spot any of your favorite?

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July Goodie Box – Sigma Beauty | Makeup, Brushes and Gadget!

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July 30, 2015

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July Goodie Box – Sigma Beauty | Makeup, Brushes and Gadget!

That moment, when you get a huge box full of fabulous goodies from your favorite brand! As a beauty blogger, I couldn’t be happier! Sigma Beauty definitely made my month of July a special one with their care package. Apparently, I couldn’t resist sharing this haul with you guys.

By the way, I’m pretty sure everyone whoever knows a bit about makeup they already know about the brand Sigma Beauty. They are one heck of an innovative brand for makeup tools along with their makeup line. I’m not any new Sigma user but quite an old Sigma lover (mentioned earlier that it a favorite brand) and if you don’t know, there are uncountable Sigma (specially their brushes, so damn good!) lovers around the world.

So let me show you further what was inside…

The goodie box was full of goodness and surprise! A little-handwritten letter (not showing that here, a letter is always personal, if you know what I mean😊), product catalog, care manual/guide, and of course with a bunch of product.

I’m completely touched and can’t wait to experiment with each of these goodies! I won’t talk much today but will provide you some closer look at what I got and shopping info’s for your interest. Needless to say, I’ll be reviewing all of them one by one to let you know how they work, you’ll also see them in action in my future YouTube tutorials.

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Sigma Beauty Makeup Product I got:

Lip Base, Magnetism – $12 (Shop Here)
Initially, a fat lip liner that can be used to line lip as well as can be worn alone as a lipstick. It is nicely pigmented and gives a semi-matte finish.
Powder Blush, For Cute – $12 (Shop Here)
Single blush by Sigma, beautifully pigmented and easily blendable.
Eye Shadow, Fawn – $11 (Shop Here)
This eyeshadow is from Sigma single eyeshadow range. Fawn has an opaque metallic finish in it yet not chunky at all.
Lip Vex, Get Ready (Deluxe Sample) – $10 (full size) (Shop Here)
Lip Vex is a type of Sigma lip glosses. Particularly this shade has visible glittering particles in it. Creamy and non-sticky in texture.

Sigma Brushes I got:

3DHD Kabuki – $24 (Shop Here)
A uniquely shaped face brush that has angled top. This is made to perform in a multi-way.

3DHD Precision – $19 (Shop Here)
A smaller version of 3DHD Kabuki I’ll say. A great face brush for precise application eg. concealer, spot correction etc.

Buff & Blend E39 – $16 (Shop Here)
An eyeshadow buffing and blending brush. It’s rounded and quite packed in shape that can offer a good blend. In my point of view, this brush can come handy to create depth on the crease.

Medium Sweeper E54 – $14 (Shop Here)
This is one of the most used brushes for eye makeup that you use to pack shadow on the lid.

Eye Shading E55 (mini) – $14 (Shop Here)
A fluffy shedder brush to grab and pack shadow on the eyelid. You can also use it to give your shadows a slight blend.

I have been using Sigma 3D HD Kabuki Brush since last year and l love it (visit here for my review and more details) ever since. It’s a multi-tasking face brush, might be a bit tricky to use at the beginning but you’ll love it once you get used to it. And to complete my 3DHD collection now I have the little 3DHD precision brush! Already been using it for my concealer and I swear I love it more.

The Star of the Show:

Spa Express Brush Cleaning Glove – $25 (Shop Here)
A soft rubbery/silicon made, thumb-sized brush cleaning matte with varieties of texture to give face or eye brushes a good and fast cleaning help. Reusable, washable and travel-friendly.

Honestly, I literally jumped out of joy when I saw Spa Express Brush Cleaning Glove in my goodie box. Ask me, why? Well, among all Sigma brush cleaning gadget only this ‘Express’ one was on my wish list. I think this is the perfect, handy and compact shape of all.

That’s it for today. Any question you have in your mind or you want to know something specific do not hesitate to ask me in the comment box below.

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Shopping Info:
🚩You can shop directly from Sigma Beauty website from anywhere in the world and their international shipping is free from $150 spent.
(Get 10% OFF on your total order, use the code ‘GreenStory‘ at checkout,

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The Balm Bahama Mama Bronzer | Review & Swatch

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Tamanna

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July 27, 2015

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The Balm Bahama Mama Bronzer | Review & Swatch

Since I started using MaryLouManizer, The Balm products are one of my favorites among all makeup brands. Well, that’s may be too much to say, but again at least I absolutely love all The Balm hot and sexy product packaging or I should say it’s the illustration actually. Don’t get confused, their product quality is also amazing and underrated in my opinion. Let’s come to the point, I’m going to talk about The Balm Bahama Mama Bronzer today.

So, Bahama Mama Bronzer comes in a cardboard packaging with beautiful (sexy! 😜) illustration on it alike all other The Balm packaging. inside there is a metal pan with 7.08g of product and a mirror on the opener.

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The Balm Say’s about Bahama Mama:
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A Caribbean getaway in a compact! This matte bronzer creates the look of beautifully tanned skin without any orange undertones for a fresh-off-the-beach glow. Bahama Mama also doubles as the perfect contour powder and matte brown eyeshadow.

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The Balm Bahama Mama bronzer is a cool-toned brown, with slightly grayish undertone, in color. It’s pretty unique and perfect color for sculpting. The powder itself is finely mild but nicely pigmented. It’s matte, blends into skin like nothing else, doesn’t leave any orangey or muddy shade and last forever without fading. For its cooler tone, it works best as a contour or sculpting powder. Probably this is the one and only bronzer/contouring powder I have that doesn’t look orange upon application and that’s why I love it.

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Color swatch below:

The formulation of Bahama Mama bronzer is kind of interesting. Though the pigmentation of this powder is opaque but in one swipe it doesn’t come as opaque as it looks in the pan, you’ll need to build it up to get a dark shade. Thus, you eventually get the freedom to achieve your desired opacity very easily. Because of its super bendability I never really went wrong with it, this bronzer literally gives the perfect contouring every time. Moreover, it also photographs beautifully without giving any muddy cast on the picture.

An additional feature, it works fantastic as an eyeshadow, especially as a transition shade.

I must mention one thing, I’m a medium brown skin (ref: NC42) girl and Bahama Mama bronzer works absolutely fine for me but sometimes when I feel I want a bit more sculpted face I find this powder not dark enough. This bronzer can work perfectly on fair skin in every possible way, medium skin tone girl might need something else for a dramatic sculpting and I’m sure this is not going to work on dark skin tone.

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Overall, The Balm Bahama Mama Bronzer has been my most used product for contouring over the past year and till now! I’m yet to find a substitute for it. For the price and quality, this is a must try. I also love its compact packaging because it’s secure, thin, lightweight and very much travel-friendly.

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Shopping Info:
TheBalm.com – $20
Drugstore – $20
Lulu’s – $20
Sasa Malaysia – RM65
Luxola – RM60

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I highly recommend The Balm Bahama Mama bronzer if you haven’t tried it yet.
However, do let me know what you using at the moment for shaping up your face. What is your current favorite contouring product?

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Bath and Body Works | Impulsive Haul

Tamanna

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July 23, 2015

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Hello there,
I believe you all had a wonderful Eid-ul-Fitr and enjoyed your holiday to its fullest. I’m now back from my long Eid-Holiday and all fired up to kick-start blogging! …thought to start by sharing a small Bath And Body Works haul.

I actually purchased all these before Eid holiday and it was completely an impulse shopping. That day I planned to visit Watsons for some random toiletries but middle of the road I stopped by Bath and Body Works and noticed their clearance sale was still going on (the sale started almost a month ago). I wasn’t meaning to buy anything at all, but I ended up with grabbing a few (sale and non-sale item) and return home without even visiting Watsons.

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So let me tell you what I got…

Aromatherapy Stress Relief Antistress Shampoo – RM49 (non-sale)
Aromatherapy Stress Relief Antistress Conditioner – RM49 (non-sale)
Moonlight Path Body Lotion – RM31 (PWD – 62RM)
Wild Madagascar Vanilla Whipped Shimmer Butter – RM37.50 (PWD – 75RM)
Mango Dragon Fruit Three Week Scented Candle – RM26.25 (PWD – 105RM)
Pocket Back Holder – RM18 (non-sale)

Then I also got additional 10% off for buying 6 item in one receipt. Without the sale, I was supposed to pay RM358 in total but at the end with additional 10% off and with GST my total bill was RM200. Isn’t it awesome?

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The Scented candle was the highest bargain indeed, a giant jar of three-week candle only for 26.25RM! I’m not really a candle person (just picked one to have that fall feeling at home) otherwise I would stock more I guess. Shampoo & Conditioner I bought only to try out the brand as definitely they smell delicious so if they work well it’s gonna be a ‘love’ for sure!

I believe the sale has ended by now, but Bath and Body Works stocked up (peaked from outside yesterday 😜) with lots of new collection now. Might pay a visit there for something new sooner or later!

Have you been to Bath and Body Works lately? Do you have anything in mind that you want to recommend? Let me know in the comment box below. I always love to try new and awesome product 😊

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My New Hair Color for Summer & Post Color Care Info

Tamanna

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July 9, 2015

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My New Hair Color for Summer & Post Color Care Info

Hello there beautiful,
Hope you all doing well. I’m wondering if you’re following me on my social network? If yes then you already know I had a new hair makeover a few days ago 🙂

What do you do when you get bored of your hair? You style it, of course, maybe with a new hair cut or hair color. I already chopped my hair a few months before so couldn’t do anything about that yet badly needed a change. I’ve been doing only base color for a long time now and remember doing two toned hair color almost five years back so thought this is the right time to do so.

When I fixed my mind to get a new hair color I started doing some research on the web, what color might suit my skin tone or what would be the right choice for a short length of hair. My husband, as always, and my friend did help me a lot on suggesting a perfect style 🙂

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Then I went to my nearby saloon, Hair Emporium, my husband is actually a regular customer of them so I do trust their service. I talked with the owner/stylist, Keith Lui, about what I want and also showed a couple of similar pictures that I collected earlier. I think showing few demo picture to the stylist is very important to give them a visual idea of your preference. Then we went through few color chart. Initially I asked my stylist to go for lavender ash as my base color but he said that will not go well with the highlight I want (a muted shade of blonde, almost 3 shade deeper than pure blonde), instead, he suggests me dark blond as a base color. I put my trust on him and agreed with the dark blonde as my base color.

And then the hair makeover process begins… the whole process took me around 3 hours.

The picture below was my past hair condition, badly washed out hair color and pretty dry hair texture, isn’t it?

Here my highlighted part was done touching up and wrapped up with foil. I was surprised to see my stylist’s effort on that, he parted every single hair that he could literally count my hair. I was sure by then I’m going to have a nicely distributed highlight.

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And then the base color was applied and wrapped up with foils and plastic. I was asked to sit like this for 20minute! Waiting for 20 minutes doing nothing is kinda boring but then I got chance to check on Instagram… ha ha ha

After that 20 minutes of waiting, he washed my hair and the color was done but I went for and additional service, Scalp Treatment. So another 15 minute there and then a little trim and blow dry.

And Viola! ….My brand new colored and healthy hair 🙂 I was so happy seeing the outcome.

The picture below is my hair color in direct sunlight. I freaking love it!

My husband’s comment after seeing my new hair color, “Just the way I imagined it, you look perfect’. Well well, couldn’t be happier with such compliment from husband, moreover, all my friends liked the outcome as well. Big thanks to Keith for such beautiful work.
What you guys think???

Post Color Care:

A new hair color can make you beautiful, but color does harm the health of the hair. If you don’t take care of your colored hair properly then you might face heavy hair fall, breakage, split ends, frizz, dullness and so on. So it is must that you put extra effort on repairing your hair and also protect the fresh color of your hair.

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I’m pointing out below what I follow to repair my hair and protect my hair color:

A shampoo and conditioner that is specially made for color treated hair. I’m recently using Bath & Body Works Eucalyptus Spearmint shampoo & conditioner, which is volumizing and suitable for color treated hair.
Oil massage. To me, oil massage is must at least three times a week. I’m recently loving extra virgin coconut oil (I would use my homemade mix oil, recipe here, but all ingredients aren’t available here in Malaysia). You can also use other oils like oil, almond oil, castor oil, anything you prefer.
Deep conditioning once a week to keep up the strength. I’m here talking about deep conditioning that you can do at home. Get some repairing mask of your preferences from the market use that alone once a week or you can mix that with egg or mayonnaise for more protein boost and use that before the shower.
Get a hair repairing treatment done once a month from your trusted salon. Now, this is the part where many of us (even I myself!) hesitate a lot. Hair repairing treatments aren’t cheap and we all in some point think that my hair is doing great I don’t need to go to the salon. Yet the crucial truth is what is your hair condition and what should be done with it to prevent further damage only a hair expert can say that. So, if it’s possible to do give your colored hair a saloon treat every month, do it.

Don’ts:

Don’t use henna or such thing on colored hair.
Avoid hot water shower as much as possible.
Avoid hot tools as much as possible.
Don’t use acidic natural ingredients like sour curd, lemon, etc. Those fade the color faster than normal.

Are you thinking to get a hair makeover or recently done any? Do share with me, I would love to get some new inspiration.

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Salon Info:

Hair Emporium
Mutiara Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia

*The service (Duotone color/base color and highlight) I took it cost me RM300(with promotion) in total including scalp treatment and hair trim.

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Althea Korea Shopping & Experience | K-beauty Shopping Destination

Tamanna

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July 8, 2015

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Althea Korea Shopping & Experience | K-beauty Shopping Destination

Hello there beautiful, If you’re following me on my social media (FB, Instagram etc) then you must have been noticed me talking about my K-beauty haul from Althea. Couldn’t resist sharing more about Althea with you guys.

Recently everyone is into K-beauty especially their skin care product. I was also eyeing on some Korean skincare item for long and when I got to know about Althea my excitement speed up in double. This shopping site is filled with all popular brand and much more amazingness.

Let me describe you in a minute why and how my shopping experience went with Althea…

But first, let me give an overall look of Althea website.

So, Althea is basically a shopping site operated directly from Korea and filled with Korean skin care and makeup. Their website is new; however, I couldn’t find a single glitch. Obviously, I did my research prior shopping.

Service that Althea Offers:

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***Free Shipping on orders over RM150
***Authenticity Guarantee
***Best Price Guarantee
***30-Day Unconditional Refund
***Safe Delivery

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First of all, I admit that their price is unbeatable. Althea price is way cheaper than K-beauty product priced in the store. Moreover, for their new launch, they are having a lot of promotions at the moment. And you defiantly can’t deny when you can get free shipping for your international orders right?

Althea site navigation is pretty simple and user-friendly as well. They also have Paypal and other payment options.

Apparently, I placed my first order and patiently started waiting (we all know international shipping takes minimum of two weeks).

But I got surprised and overwhelmed when I received my order just within three days! Can you believe? How can you not be impressed already where their website state that the shipping will take 10-15 days! Firs thought came up in my mind, “is Korea really close to Malaysia?”. Well, my geographical knowledge is very poor, to be honest.

However, the pink box made me happier. Once I held it I knew all my product inside is nice and safe.

Inside the pink plastic package, there was this light lavender cardboard box wrapped with bubble wrap. They were also double-protected inside the cardboard box with wrappers and all. How nice, ‘Safe Delivery’ at its peak!

I ordered…

Laneige Firming Sleeping Pack | RM95
Innisfree Jeju Volcanic Pore Clay Mask | RM40
Innisfree Capsule Recipe Pack | RM5 each

Needless to say, all of them were nice and intact and if you know their retail price in Malaysia then you can already notice the price difference.

I’m super excited to add these k-beauty products in my skin care routine 🙂 Will definitely review them after using them at least a couple of weeks. You gotta stay connected for that.

Overall, shopping with Korean beauty site ‘Althea’ went pretty pleasant for me. For any other Korean product, I’ll definitely reach them first because they offer lots of popular brand and product, competitive price, ships with care and shipping time is fast. I really hope Althea will keep up their service quality in future as well.

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Shopping Info:

Visit ALTHEA Website here.
You can also receive an additional discount of 5RM[using my code ‘ GreenStory’] + 30RM[new signup credit]

Want to save some more?
Shop Via ShopBack (read all about my ShopBack experience) to get up to 10% cashback.

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By the way, Althea’s fabulous deals (RM1, buy one free one etc) are still going on and I do recommend you to check them out.

LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealer | Review, Swatch & Comparison

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Tamanna

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July 2, 2015

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LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealer | Review, Swatch & Comparison

Been trying to write this post since last two day now, just couldn’t find out where to start! …Am I having blogging blockage! Whatsoever, let’s start…

So, LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealer, probably the most raved budget concealer so far! They have 24 shades in their range including three (Orange, Green, and Yellow) corrector. You are probably aware of current cream contouring trend (or madness!?), especially for that LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealers are more popular also because of their pocket-friendly price and huge shade range.

If you haven’t experienced them yet then you must be wondering how they perform? Well, I’m coming to that point soon.

I picked up six shade of LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealer including one corrector (orange) for myself. Why I got six? Well, as because I bought online so it wasn’t really easy to pick a perfect shade and I wanted to try darker shades for cream contouring (so obvious!) as well.

L.A. Girl Says:
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Crease-resistant, opaque coverage in a creamy yet lightweight texture. The long-wearing formula camouflages darkness under the eyes, redness and skin imperfections. Provides complete, natural-looking coverage, evens skin tone, covers dark circles and minimizes fine lines around the eyes.

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If you wondering about ingredient then have a look at the picture below…

LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealer comes in a basic plastic squeeze tube with 8g of product and the tube has brush applicator as product dispenser. I actually like how nicely it dispenses the right amount of product, it is actually very much controllable. However, I don’t really like to use the brush directly, it doesn’t feel hygienic. The product itself is fragrance-free, thick and creamy in consistency, easily bendable and little goes a long way.

I’m absolutely amused by the pigmentation and smoothness of Beautiful Bronze, Toast, and Fawn; I feel Medium Beige and Pure Beige aren’t consistent enough as like others. They all are lightweight and long wearing but neither gives full coverage nor crease resistant ( when you have fine lines under your eye). I know many people compare these concealers with MAC Prolong Wear concealer but I totally disagree with that. Yes LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealer does give heavy coverage but that is not that level of full coverage. Moreover, the staying power MAC Prolong Wear concealer has it’s nothing compared to that.

Nonetheless, they aren’t bad at all, actually way better than any other drugstore concealer I’ve used so far.

Shades I picked ( left to right):

Beautiful Bronze (GC987)
Toast (GC981)
Fawn(GC983)
Medium Beige (GC978)
Pure Beige (GC976)
Orange Corrector (GC990)

Beautiful Bronze and Toast almost looks similar in the picture, they are close shade in real as well but Toast has a more warm tone in it and Beautiful Bronze has a more red hue. Fawn is a pretty warm shade with an orange hue and quite darker than my skin tone. Medium Beige has rose-tone in it and Pure Beige is on the warm side. Because of rosy undertone, Medium Beige doesn’t really go with my warm skin tone. I found Pure Beige as my perfect under-eye highlighter for its warm tone.

Orange Corrector has pretty strong red hue in it and it gets darker once applied. Pigmentation of this corrector is insane and you just need a little amount.

I tried to show some shade comparison in the picture above. There is MAC Prolong Wear foundation in NC40, MAC Studio Fix Fluid in NC42, MAC Prolong Wear concealer in NC35, Urban Decay Naked Skin concealer in Med-Dark and Bourjois Healthy Mix concealer in Dark Radiance (53). I know many of you order LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealer online and get confused to find your perfect shade. Hope that helps you.

In a nutshell, LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealers are defiantly a good choice for its decent quality and a pocket-friendly price. Its larger variety of shade range is obviously a plus point and they do worth a try.

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Availability:
Price of LA Girl PRO Conceal HD Concealer actually varies to $2.99-$5.00
They are available in L.A. Girl website, MorpheBrushes website, Walgreens, eBay etc.

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Dior Nude Air Ultra Fluid Serum Foundation | Swatch & My Thoughts

Tamanna

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June 24, 2015

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Dior Nude Air Ultra Fluid Serum Foundation | Swatch & My Thoughts

Nude Air Ultra Fluid Serum Foundation, a fairly new foundation by Dior. Mouthful name but what is so special about it!? Dior Nude Air Foundation introduced a unique serum-based formula that is ultra-lightweight and focus on emphasizing the beauty of natural skin.

Sounds interesting, isn’t it?

A couple of months ago my lust for ‘skin but the better’ type of makeup made me indulge in this foundation.

Dior Nude Air Ultra Fluid Serum Foundation

Dior says about the Nude Air Foundation,

An incredibly fine, exceptional texture.
Made with oils that evaporate instantly, the talc-free Diorskin Nude Air formula deposits an undetectable film of makeup on the skin. Its high-precision dropper easily delivers exactly the right amount.
Perfectly natural-looking makeup in an instant.
The formula enriched with soft-focus agents and glazed pigments produces an even, radiant complexion in an instant for perfect correction with a sheer finish. The complexion glows with natural beauty.
Day after day, all the benefits of a breath of pure fresh air for your skin.
Dior introduces Oxygen Activ™ technology, an innovative combination of a hyper-oxygenated oil, Cranberry oil, vitamins, and minerals. Revitalized, the skin breathes and becomes more beautiful each day.

If I start, I can’t say enough about packaging. The packaging is just so beautiful, a luxe-looking matte glass bottle with a dropper. I do love everything about the packaging but again I do not feel the dropper is really user-friendly! The dropper head looks like metal but it is actually rubber made.

DiorSkin Nude Air Ultra Fluid Serum Foundation ( 30ml) offers 9 shade total (here in Malaysia I saw only 6 shade is available). Finding a perfect shade within these six (only!) wasn’t easy. Luckily there was two in my undertone and almost close. Although I got confused at the beginning, the shade (040) felt a tad bit lighter than my skin tone so I picked next shade (050) at first. When I got home then I realized 050 is way too dark for me. So I had to take 050 back and change with 040. After trying the shade 040 at home (there is those store lighting always to trick you and Sephora Malaysia doesn’t provide sample… phew!) I was finally satisfied that this is the match for me!
Nonetheless, I can not appreciate the minimum range of shade variations.

DiorSkin Nude Air foundation has certainly serum-y texture that you can literally feel upon application, it’s that oil like sensation but evaporates within a second and the product turns into a velvety matte finish.

Before using the foundation I assumed it’s going to give demi-matte finish, it turned out to be matte yet not drying or cakey. About the fluid fact, yes it is fluid-y/watery (prior to the application you must shake the bottle to mix ingredients properly) which feels extremely lightweight on the skin. The foundation has quite a strong fragrance in it, I love that but some might not like that fact. It blends into the skin without leaving any trace, gives sheer finish (not sheer coverage)/soft focus, light to medium coverage and lasts throughout the day.

Some say it gives super light coverage, I totally disagree with that. With one layer the foundation almost covers up uneven skin tone and minor imperfection and it is buildable to medium coverage. The best part about this foundation is no matter how much you layer it up it never cakes up.

The foundation doesn’t give any illuminating effect but it gives some kind of soft-focus that is literally noticeable (impressive, huh!?). As because it appears matte and velvety almost instantly once applied so powder setting process is not really necessary for this foundation.

However, with so many goodnesses there is a drawback as well. I found out DiorSkin Nude Air Foundation does sit on dry patches and kind of accentuate them. If you have any dry patch on your skin then you must prep your skin carefully beforehand.

A before and after picture below. I did prep my skin with moisturizer and foundation primer and applied one layer of DiorSkin Nude Air foundation with Beauty Blender (I prefer applying this foundation with BB).

Usually, I use an illuminating primer usually which isn’t oil controlling or pore erasing ( I don’t have large pore). I do need to set T-zone with powder. FYI, I’m a combination skin type. DiorSkin Nude Air Foundation last on my skin all day without sliding or fading. If it’s a hot day and I’m under the sun only then shine appears on the skin within 4/5 hour.

DiorSkin Nude Air foundation has SPF 25 – PA++ in it, a plus point if you want a foundation for daily use. Additionally, it’s great for the night as well because it doesn’t give any white cast on the picture 🙂 Needless to say, this is my new favorite foundation at the moment.

In a nutshell, DiorSkin Nude Air Serum Foundation is a weightless foundation that gives perfect skin-like undetectable (almost!!!) finish by its amazing blend-ability. It’s matte but it’s velvety, gives coverage but doesn’t cake up, has good lasting power.

I can’t tell how this foundation going to react on dry skin. However, I think it will be suitable for normal to combi to oily skin.

Limited shade range (only six!) of DiorSkin Nude Air Ultra Fluid Serum Foundation might be a problem for many, if you find your match then you’re lucky!

Shopping Info:
Available at Sephora or Dior Boutique | RM195 | SGD88 | £33 | $53

Hope you’ll find my thoughts on Dior Skin Nude Air Ultra Fluid Serum Foundation helpful. If you’re keen on a full coverage foundation then read my thoughts on Too Faced Born This Way Foundation. That is on a lower budget as well.

By the way,
what is your favorite foundation right now? Let me know, I love to try a new product 🙂

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Althea Korea Shopping & Experience | K-beauty Shopping Destination

Service that Althea Offers:

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