Sleek - Limited Edition in Bad Girl

First and for most, the purchase of this palette is simply because I was attracted to the casing (matte black casing with the word Sleek) and secondly the variation of colors in the palette namely "Bad Girl".

I'm not much of an eyeshadow fan naturally because of my super monolid that rarely carries any eyeshadow nicely without looking like a goth or clown.

Sadly, the palette didn't make it to me in one piece because Ms. Innocence probably got a lil afraid of the dark and decided to shatter herself. Anywhere the rest of the colors are well intact. 12 shades in a palette and I got it online for RM 52 + RM 7 shipping which I personally think is pretty decent. Any even more so when I swatch it.

From left to right, we have Ms Innocence, Gullible, Blade, Gun Metal, Underground, Noir, 

Second row : Intoxicated, Envy, Obnoxious, Abyss, Twilight (Oops sorry not Edward Cullen this time) and Rebel (So ME !!)

1. Innocence - Silvery White
2. Gullible - Champagne Rose
3. Blade - Silvery Grey
4. Gun Metal - Silvery Dark Grey
5. Underground - Slight Metallic Black
6. Noir - Matte Black (Super love this color)
7. Intoxicated - Dark Greyish Green
8. Envy - Dark Deep Green with a hint of black
9. Obnoxious - Matte Dark Blue
10. Abyss - Almost Similar to Obnoxious with more hint of Blue
11. Twilight - Deep Purple (Currant) with slight Metallic
12. Rebel - Wine, Burgundy, Plum 

Even without base, these are the best colors that I ever had. I'll try on more FOTD with this palette and Smokey with be almost effortless since the colors are all so intense.

To any of you gals out there and wants a palette for everything under the sun.. Please do go for this.

  

Shiseido MaQuillage Spring/Summer 2012

The blooming petals in spring this season comes in soft pink with pearl shimmers and warmth from the earthy tones lay across summer. I’m not describing the Sakura season for Japan but Shiseido’s latest collection for this upcoming season.

Soft and sheer has always been the trademark for Japanese makeup product. While spring often relates to vibrant yet these brand will pick the softest out of all hues. Pink and green for “Spring”; brown and champagne for “Summer”. 

Shiseido offers 3 collections this season which includes lip color “True Rouge”, limited edition eye shadow palette “Styling Eyes” and compact powder “Perfect Multi Compact”.

Comes in 12 shades, “True Rouge” are define in 3 types of looks; Natural, Multi-fit and Elegant. Star-child for this collection? “True Rouge” - BE 748 a shade that combines a good balance of volume, glamour and intensity that fits almost every woman’s skin tone. Long lasting rating, 4 stars – stays up to 8 hours plus its semi-glossy finishing so you need not to carry extra gloss around. 

Strong and bold colors rarely relates to Japanese makeup. Shiseido MaQuillage Styling Eyes palettes are soft, natural with pearl shimmer and super long-lasting colors. So what’s so surprising with the new collection? A square-tip applicator!! Yes, it’s specially design to ease the application when lining the eyes as well as blending in the colors almost effortlessly. 

One of my personal favorite in the entire collection is this – MaQuillage Perfect Multi Compact. You can always go off without eye shadow and lip color but at least please make sure you have a radiance looking skin. If you look closely to the compact, you will realize that there are actually 3 different shades in it. 

Shiseido named it the Highlight, Skin and Shape color. It defines, cover and hide various flaw that one have in just one single compact. The texture is superbly smooth and soft. I’m impressed! Even tanned skin like mine is able to look for a suitable shade. With its crystal like case, I’m definitely getting one of these. 

MaQuillage True Rouge – RM 90

MaQuillage Styling Eyes – RM 135

Maquillaage Perfect Multi Compact –TBC

You won’t be getting these yet; it will be very likely to be available by end of March or early April in Shiseido’s counter nationwide. It's here !!! However, no sight on the Perfect Multi Compact yet.

Shiseido – Make Me Beautiful 2011

Sometime in September 2011, Shiseido had organized its 1^st ever makeover competition nationwide. Unlike every other makeup competition, the main idea of this campaign is to discover the true beauty of women by helping them to understand how to enhance their beauty from inside out. 

Just like painting, even Mona Lisa will have to starts from a perfect piece of plain base. So keeping a good skin regime is important. With the help from Shiseido’s beauty experts, each participant will go through a skin consultation to understand the basic need of their skin, followed by a step by step make-up guide in picking the look that best fit for each individual. Their manes are taken care by a group of professional stylish before taking a stardom shoot in their best pose.

The competition comes in 2 categories, A: <30 years old and B:>30 years old. All participants will be shortlisted by a group of BluInc editors followed by online voting through the Shiseido Make Me Beautiful website.  

120 beautiful contestants – only 6 will be chosen and the winner walks away with prizes worth up to RM10, 000. So congratulation for all the winners and here’s a recap of the lucky ones.

Clinique - Derma White C10 Brightening Anti-Age Serum

As I remember, this has been in the market for quite sometime. I have not personally bought this, it was from the GWP of my last purchase. 

Since I have run out of ANR and won't be getting one till the next sales season. I decided to give this a try. I have previous experienced the turnaround serum and the brightening serum which both work very well for my skin. 

The difference from those mentioned, this is actually a "home-made" fresh serum. Inside the package contains bottle of serum and a tube of vitamin C powder. It claims to help boost natural collagen and goes beyond brightening to strengthen skin's resistance to future darkening.

It's lightweight oil-free formula is suitable for all Skin types. 

Sounds promising right? Once you have done your little mixing magic to the serum, it will last you for a week. It's not because of the portion but it's the active ingredient that are not to kept more than 7 days.

I'll start using this today and will make a comparison update in 7 days later. However, I'm not sure if this is still available at the counter.

Something interesting

Due to work related purpose, I found out something that's rather entertaining today. You must be thinking if I'm either loving my job very much or simply gone nuts.

Actually, this is something that many may find pretty normal and some just have fun playing around with it.

I was working some charts to present some ideas and find conventional bullet point too boring. Then I decided to go with using   , it basically creates a random arrangement of words you type in and ends up with something looking like what you see up there. you can tweak the color, font design, round edge and even the arrangement.

So the next time if you want to have something better than bullet points, try using this. It's web based so you don't need to download any software and what's more - it's FREE !!!

Solone - Magic Waterproof Eyeliner Pen

A friend of mine who recently came back from a vacation in Taiwan bought me a Solone liquid liner - knowing that this is one most talk about brand for their liners.

It's quite seldom for me to use liquid liner on my day to day makeup. Mainly because I either not wearing a liner or puts on a heavy duty one. Since having a thin line on a mono-lid shows almost nothing, I always turn to gel or pencil liner. The other thing is also because they tend to be much more user friendly and easy to draw on.

As you can see, it draws a neat thin to medium line in one stroke. Pretty much like other liquid liners. It dries up rather quick and you won't have to worry on smudging it. It's very easy to draw on as the liquid liner flow smoothly from the tip of the brush.

It does stays waterproof and smudges very little when I run my thumb over it. However, this doesn't make it difficult to remove at all.

It does get a little difficult to scout for this liner in Malaysia. But it's not impossible now that there's plenty of forum that offer shopping spree from other countries. You just need to place a little effort in finding it.

Selling for somewhere around RM 20, I would say that it's quite a decent liquid liner.

Maybelline - Master Liners

Unlike my usual workday, I picked up my brushes and put on my makeup today. As I dig through my stash of makeup, I found the Maybelline Master Liners.

To my surprise, after more than 9 hours on my oily lid it did not smudge nor crease a lot.

Is not the kind of super fine tip liner but is super easy to glide on. But there's a way if you wanna draw a thinner line. Just tilt the tip at 45 degree and use really light hand to draw.

It does smudge if you swipe your finger across but is definitely quite water resistant and not easily to remove without a remover.

However, I found that the liner is rather fragile. I accidentally broke the tip as I draw too hard. So I suggest be gentle when using this eyeliner. Comes only in black and it's selling at super affordable price - RM 15.90 only. O_O

Logitech Christmas Party ~

Christmas came early this year - thanks to Logitech Malaysia for the invitation to their mini gathering at Apartment @ The Curve.

It was also a mini launch of their 2 latest products which I find just in time for this festive season.

Upon arrival, guest will sign in via their Facebook Fanpage & leave down their valuable contact details a.k.a email address in their guest list as well.

 "Like" : Logitech Malaysia

I was greeted by this cheerful girl at the registration table handing out doorgift and santa hair ~

The 2 wonderful items launching or soon to be launch is the Logitech HD Webcam C615 & Logitech Mini Boombox (coming soon) - I personally find these 2 items super fit for the festive season. Webcam if you are away from your family during the holidays & boombox is just great if you are partying away with friends.

Since we arrive early, I grab a sit and sip away pretending "Rudolph" for the day.

The party started of with a brief and crisp speech by Mr KP Sim - Country Manager for Logitech on the latest product launched. He also addresses his gratitude in organizing this mini Christmas gathering for those who supported the digital world and their love for tech throughout the years.

The latest Logitech Mini Boombox video showcasing the ease of usage by simple pairing action with any bluetooth enable devices. It can double up as a handsfree as it has a built in mic which can be a great feature while you are on the road or needed a group call. It comes in a internal battery that charges via a usb cable which able to within a 10 hours till the next charge. The best part is, nothing larger than an adult palm (regular) size. Easy carry easy to have fun.

Now this is my favorite, the portable Logitech HD Webcam C615. Be it work or family matters, online chatting, conference call are now widely adapt by many people. The one thing you don't want is that they look like you LEGO friend with pixelate square heads when you enlarge the image or looking at a scene from panic room where your friends or family face kinda of unclear. It's HD, it has a 360 degree swivel rotation, it comes with a one-click HD video and photo upload to Facebook, Youtube and/or Twitter. It can be mount on tripod too. It comes with a built in mic that cancel out background noise (at least the kind that is good for conversion), auto-focus even on close-up and super clear due to its 8 megapixel images.

This is one of my choice of the day as I was looking for headphone but unfortunately the test unit was not working or wasn't connected or so.

The night ended with 2 lucky draws with on Ipad dock + keypads to one lucky girl of the night. So where's the webcam Santarina's holding? HD webcam oooo ^_^ well apparently Santa thinks that I'm a good girl after all and there comes my early Christmas present. Thank you Santa, Logitech and Rantau PR....

How clear is that? check out the image.. It's really that clear.. I promise I'm gonna Vlog very very very very very soon....... First let me check how to operate this cute little cam here. By the way, the 2 blue line you see is actually a security feature. Just in case, if the webcam is on the light is one and you will know if you are being capture just to avoid if anyone trying to do anything nasty to you.....