brushes, again??

i'll be getting those new elf brushes tomorrow, yey! it's gonna be perfect tomorrow and for the rest of the week to use it since i haven't brought home the ones i use at work for cleaning. then i'd probably provide my two cents next week, if you haven't heard of the gazillion reviews you can find on the internet. i'm excited!

lining the entire waterline

this is one look i dreaded to try (again) for some time. i used to do it once, and it looked horrendous. so i put it off for so long, even if i did look good on it some 10 years ago. yeah, that's one reason why i kept the black liner at bay - some things just work well when you're younger :P


but then again, i gave it a try last tuesday, and whoa, it looked great. perhaps, i can say that it's the technique that was missing all along. i just didn't know to apply the kohl liner well. but last tuesday, i suddenly had the courage, and boy am i glad i revisited it. i got lots of nice compliments about the look which i kind of eventually thought of Kim Kardashian's many liner/mascara laden looks. the result was so pretty that one colleague at the office said, "Girl, you are gonna do that on my eyes tomorrow". And i gladly said yes. Too bad, i didn't take photos. Perhaps tomorrow, i'll do it again. And take a photo or two and post here this weekend. 


happy painting...

revlon foundations and trying a new routine

a friend gave me a gift of my choice - a couple of foundations that i can mix to get the correct shade i want. i have been really wanting to get these since i ultimately want to do makeup for people as a freelance makeup artist. so after a grueling research on which products to get, i finally decided on revlon ones. i had been a revlon sucker even before i wanted to do makeup for other people. i had their several illuninance creme shadows that i got at walmart when i was in the US 2007, then i also got myself their colorstay eyeshadow quad, the custom creations foundations, i got super lustrous lip gloss and the colorburst and matte lippies, and they all are my favorites. i just thought revlon stuff is good enough, and reasonably priced even here in the philippines. so, i got a colorstay foundation in the lightest i could get (sand beige) and a photo ready one in caramel. i combined both products to come up with the shade i need, and i thought the mixture was amazing. i used them last week with my other favorite products to make a new daily makeup routine that is wearable at work. it's not that i already hate my mineral product routine, i just gotta try something new.
i'll post photos of my looks next week as i didn't get the chance to take photos last week. i'll also put on the products i used and a mini-review.