It's been ages since I posted my last tutorial video. And I apologize!! I had been away for so long from Sydney since March and I have been going back and forth between Tokyo and Sydney for my personal (but mostly not too fun) errands. Now I am back in Sydney and I am settling back to my normal life so here is another tutorial, why not?
The product list is below.
Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette (Color 67&80)
Borjois Eyeshadow in 90
LeClerc BRAMI face powder in Cuivre
MAQuillAGE True Rouge in BE213
NYC Bronzer Smooth Skin Bronzing Powder in
Sunny
Freshel
Mineral BB Cream (UV) in Natural Beige
Majolica
Majorca Brow Customize-Powder in BR771
Majolica
Majorca Brow Customize-Super Slim in BR771
And if you have been checking back my blog every once in a while, I am truly sorry.
There has been some big concerns that I had to face and I am explaining briefly about it in my YouTube video which will be available tomorrow.
So let's talk about what this video is about, because no one really likes to hear the chit-chat from a person who makes beauty videos. I mean this is not my life blog/vlog. It is dedicated to makeup, not my life.
This upcoming video is What Is In My Makeup Bag video, but it is very specific. It is for carry-ons for the international flight.
Unfortunately, ever since we had 9/11, airline company and airports have been very picky and strict about the security. I know it is for our safety and I want to be a good citizen so I follow it all but I have to admit that this is annoying because I WANT TO TAKE ALL MY MAKEUP WITH ME.
But the rule is a rule so I made the video, hoping that it can be helpful and fun to watch what I pack for myself.
The video is available from tomorrow.
I will post the video here as well, once it is open to public.
As a child, my favorite flavor of ice cream was always choc-mint. Japanese choc-mint ice creams are bluer than the ones I have in Australia for some reason. It was almost baby blue!
And the pairing of the minty blue and yummy chocolate was so delightful to the eyes, as well as the actual taste, and I just loved having choc-mint ice cream.
After 10 years, my father introduced me to this ice cream flavor of grownups.
Be prepared to meet your nemesis, choc-mint, it is rum raisins!
Anyway, that is how the ice cream war ended...Well, not really but this has nothing to do with the makeup so I'll tell you some other time.
This is the time of the month, yup, the Favorite time!
I combined beauty favorites, hates and empties because no one likes all separate videos.
Although I am thinking now that maybe I should have done empties separately because it just made the video ridiculously long. But oh well. It is not that bad.
I would say the absolute favorite is the concealer!
I was holding on to okay-ish concealers from drugstores because I didn't want to spend $$$ for concealers and I thought the ones I have are okay. I always convinced myself like "Someday, when I find a good drugstore concealers, I will toss these babies away. But until then, they have to do their jobs."
And the time has come. So I threw away a lot of concealers.
Sometimes, when you cannot fine "the one", just like guys you date, you settle for compromise, which you should not really do.
The same things happened here. Even though I didn't like my old concealers, I just didn't know better or I just thought that they exist beyond my reach, so I hang onto them. Because they are not that horrible, but not the best.
Now I have no regrets tossing my old concealers that I rarely used.
I have this awesome concealer, I don't need you any more. :P
Happy New Year to you! I truly hope wish you the wonderful year of 2013!
So I had been away from YouTube, this blog or pretty much internet for a while because
1. I was away on holiday.
2. I had big exams for my career.
I spent some time sitting at home all day and do nothing but eat, go to bathroom, study and sleep. It was kinda fun, even though I felt like it was a torture while I was doing it. It reminded me of when I was in my junior high school and studying like crazy.
Anyway, fingers crossed for my exams, I hope I don't jinx it, and let's talk about makeup!
The first tutorial of the year would be one of the sequel sweets themed tutorials.
It is Choc Strawberry (as the title says) this time!
I know a lot of people own Coastal Scents eyeshadow palette.
I have 88 Original and ULTRA SHIMMER Palette and 78 eyeshadow&blush combo palette.
These palettes have so many eyedshadows and some of them are amazingly beautiful and very pigmented.
However each color does not come with color names or numbers so it is very hard to identify the color.
I see a lot of people use CS palette in their tutorials on YouTube and they just say "I'm going to use this pretty blue color on my crease.." Well, "Pretty" is very subjective and there are so many blue colors in the palette!
Then I had to pause the video and count the rows to identify the color.
This might be useless to people who doesn't have the same palette, but if you do have the palette and want to use exactly the same color, it is nice to have the ways to figure out the color without pausing video every single time they mention and hold up the palette awkwardly in front of the camera.
So I just numbered.
That simple. I did almost nothing.
But if you watch my videos, this is how I refer to the color from CS palettes from now on, so please use this as reference.
CS 88 Original Palette
CS 88 ULTRA SHIMMER Palette
Yup, that is it. I know it is nothing to really blog about this: I just number them.
This is NOT a universal thing. This is just how I do it.
So, here is my recent makeup tutorial video using this numbering system.
When I watched 007 Skyfall the other day, I knew I was doing this tutorial.
Darn, she looks so GOOD! I loved her makeup, dress and everything.
She is super mysterious and sexy. Well, just like all the other Bond Girls. Ha!
I was happy to see more of Oriental looking female in this movie.
She is from France but one of her ethnicity is Chinese, I read somewhere.
Anyway, I think she is super sexy, especially with dark eyes and lips. She rocks the smokey eyes!
http://youtu.be/VMvyjx_85RU
The Products I used in this video:
Banila Co Prime Primer
Rimmel BB Cream in Medium
essence coverstick in MATT SAND
Ben Nye Eyeshadow in SHELL
NYC Bronzer Smooth Skin Bronzing Powder in Sunny
NYX Blush in Cinammon
NYX HD Eyeshadow Primer
Petit Lasara Eyebrow Palette (gray and brown)
Coastal Scents 88 Original palette (matte black)
Revlon colorstay eyeliner in black
NYX Jumbo Lip Pencil in Hazelnut
Loreal HIP Lipstick in Daring
Optional item:
Maybelline colortattoo in Bold Gold
This is a new type of video, doing both language in one video.
I didn't want to make two separate videos because it is just the same thing, explained in two different languages. I feel that this is better than making subtitles. Because you don't have to be reading anything. I know subtitles help some people, but this is easier to watch because you don't have to follow and read carefully.
Please let me know what you think. Have a good day!
Ok, if you watch my videos on YouTube, you might have seen essence concealers in my video.
I said that they SUCKED, big time. Because they turn orange and it is not true to the colors at all. I honestly did not understand why there are so many products out there (especially recently) and they turn darker/orangey after the application.
This new guy does not do that!
WOOT! WOOT!
Not only that, it is very smooth and covers well, I mean, REALLY REALLY WELL.
I had a red scrach-looking-but-not-scratch thing on my cheek the other day and I put on some concealer and powder and went out.
I knew that my concealer did not cover well, but by the mid day, it was very visible.
I was in Target so I went to the makeup section and was browsing.
Then I saw the essence corner.......
"Damn, essence! Your concealers suck! ..... But hey, this concealer I haven't tried..."
And I picked up this lipstick-looking concealer.
Why did I try essence concealer again?
It is easy, you can't beat the price!
I put the tester on my red bits and it just disappeared. Like it did not exist at all.
WOW!
Then I applied it to my under eye area. WOW!
I went home with this guy and I have been trying out for 2 days.
So far, so good. It is very smooth, nice coverage, not dry, no crease.
I will give it another week, but I see this product creeping into my monthly favorite video... :)
