MOTD - Vice 2 and Tarte Blush Palette

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Time for another MOTD featuring the New Urban Decay Vice 2 and also Tarte Blush Palette.

 

 

For more photos and swatches of the UD's Vice 2, click here

Pictures are all taken with flash

 

 

 

Face products:
-MAC Studio Fix Fluid SPF15
-Sonia Kashuk Hidden Agenda Concealer Palette
-Tarte's Blush Palette ( Darling and Dazzled)
-Maybelline Define-a-brow
-Benefit Cosmetics Sun Beam
-Hourglass Ambient Palette

Lips:
-Stila Colour Balm Lipstick in Sonya

A close up of the eyes

 

 

On the eyes:
-X-rated (inner half eyelid)
-Coax (outer half eyelid)
-Rewind (socket)
-Habit (browbone)
-Voodoo (outer 'v')
-Betrayal (lower lash line)
-Damaged (outer half lower lash line)
-Maybelline liquid liner in Khaki
-Clio Gelpresso Liner
-Dior Mascara

Overview of products used

 

 

 

 What are you wearing today? Let me know!

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Ida Erin Chan

 

 

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette (Photos and Review)

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Hourglass ambient powder has always been on my Wish List/To Buy List ever since saw it on YT and beauty blogs. But with a price tag of $45 for a finishing powder, I can just wish that it will magically appear in my hand. Ok I know that's pretty much impossible because no one knows I want this.

Anyway, I was looking at Sephora's website to check what's new and I saw this Hourglass palette. Without even thinking twice, added it in my cart and check out immediately! And, here's the beauty:

Taken from Sephora:

Available at Sephora's Website
A limited-edition palette featuring three shades of Ambient Lighting Powder, the high-tech, soft-focus finishing powder that features state-of-the-art technology to recreate the most exquisitely flattering types of light. 
Create your perfect light. Ambient Lighting Powder is a groundbreaking collection of finishing powders that capture, diffuse, and soften the way light reflects on your skin. Unlike traditional powders, which merely cloak imperfections, Ambient Lighting Powder utilizes photoluminescent technology to filter out harsh light and refine the appearance of the complexion. The powders deliver a multidimensional luminescence to every skintone, making it appear softer and lit from within. The finishing powders enhance skin in any type of light, including flash photography. With three universal shades available in the Ambient palette, you can create your desired effect

This palette includes one new limited-edition shade, Incandescent Light, and two existing shades, Dim Light and Radiant Light. It also comes with a complimentary 0.16 oz deluxe mini sample of Veil Mineral Primer. This product is free of talc, gluten, fragrance, and nanoparticles.

Pictures are taken in different lightings

 

 

Retails at $58, I can finally justify my purchase. Instead of 1, you get 3 finishing powders. Though it is smaller than the regular size, it is perfect for a makeup junkie like me!  It was hard to capture the swatch on camera, however I did manage to do a before and after picture with this product.

Before

 

 

After

 

 

My thoughts:
I feel that it looks amazing when photographed. My under eyes area are usually my biggest issue due to the Syringoma but this powder helps to blur it out. Nothing can cover my syringoma so to have a product that blurs those imperfections, I give it a two thumbs up. What I also love about this palette is that I can use all 3 powder on my face at one go. Here's how:

Incandescent Light- Use as a highlight on my T-zone, cupid's bow and chin
Dim Light- Use all over my face after my foundation especially under the eyes
Radiant Light- Use on temples, jawline and near all hairlines
All in all, I did not regret getting this palette and foresee myself trying more of Hourglass's products, if not, more of the ambient lighting palette.

So, will this be in your Wish List? Or would you just rather get out and purchase this yourself a.s.a.p?
P.S: This palette was OOS on Sephora's website when I last check on 12th November!

Thanks for reading!

Ida Erin Chan

Sephora Favourites - Give Me More Lip Set (Photos and Swatches)

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In today's post, I will be showing you swatches and details on the Sephora Give Me More Lip Set.

Taken from Sephora.com , the Give Me More Lip Set  consists of:

- 0.12 oz bareMinerals ® Marvelous Moxie™ Lipstick in Never Say Never
- 0.05 oz Bite Beauty High Pigment Pencil in Pomegranate
- 0.04oz BUXOM® Full-Bodied™ Lip Stick in Menance
- 0.07 oz BUXOM® Full-Bodied™ Lip Cream in White Russian
- 0.03 oz Hourglass Opaque Rouge Liquid Lipstick in Icon
- 0.03 oz Kat Von D in Everlasting Love Liquid Lipstick in Backstage Bambi
- 0.042 oz Kat Von D Foiled Love Lipstick in Adora
- 0.1 oz Laura Mercier Lip Glace in Bare Naked
- 0.05 oz Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Natural N45
- 0.33 oz Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in Strumpet
- 0.1 oz Smashbox Be Lengendary Lipstick in Nylon Nude
- 0.14 oz Smashbox Lip Gloss in Pout
- 0.03 oz Stila Color Balm Lipstick in Sonya
- 0.03 oz Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lip Color in Dolce
- 0.009 oz Tarte Glmazon™ Pure Performance 12-Hour Lipstick in Inspired
- 0.11 oz Too Faced La Crème Color Drenched Lip Cream in Marshmallow Bunny

 

Retails at USD$59 (Value of $209), consisting of 16 lip products (4 Full Size) ranging from pinks, nudes, plums and reds, you can layer the products within the set or just wear them on its own. Each colour family has different types of lip products from lipglosses, lipstains and lipsticks.

Afraid of wearing loud and bold lips? Fret not as this set has a fair amount of sheer and opaque products within each colour family

Here are the swatches:

Nudes

Clockwise: Smashbox, Laura Mercier,

Buxom, Stila

 

With Stila being the most pigmented, I thought I was gonna dislike the Smashbox, but surprisingly, I like the way it looks when applied on my lips. As for Buxom and LM, they are still wearable and great for layering even though they are the sheerest out of all 16 of them.

Pinks

Clockwise: KVD, Smashbox,

Too Faced, Bare Minerals.

 

As much as I like the Smashbox from the nude family, I totally dislike thes Smashbox Lipgloss. It makes me look so ghostly and unflattering on my lips. The KVD was a little too dry on the lips but will work just find if you apply some gloss on top. It has the most matte finish and can look super "unnatural" and "chalky". With Too Faced being the least opaque from this group, my favourite will have to be the Bare Minerals. It glides on smoothly and a pretty wearable everyday pink.

Plums

Clockwise: Tarte, OCC'

Buxom, Stila

 

Perfect for fall, the plums are my most favourite. I love all four of them. From sheer (Stila) to opaque (BM) to all day staying power (OCC) to an everyday fall colour (Tarte), you cant go wrong.

Reds

Clockwise: Bite, MUFE,

KVD, Hourglass

 

These reds are also my favourites. I can have a 'BAM IN Your Face' red with the Hourglass or just a hint of red with the MUFE.

So there you have it!

All in all, this is a great set to give or receive as you get to try different brands, finishes and types of lippies. Great for lip junkies! You can also gift each colour family or pick a product from each colour family to 4 different people for a great stocking stuffers! Or just keep them all to yourself!

Have you got this on your Wishlist already?

Thanks for reading!

Ida Erin Chan

Huge Beauty Haul!!!!

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Holiday season are always the best time to shop for beauty products. Not only you get pretty limited editions, you can also save money with value sets, discounts or gifts with purchase! My Christmas shopping started as early as October! With companies already bringing out the holidays specials, I could not resist waiting or risking it going OOS! And I did a major haul.

Disclaimer: All of the following things were bought with my own money and I am not showing off. All the products are bought partially for reviewing purpose and of coz as a treat to myself.

In this post, I will only be providing links to where I purchased the products. Detailed reviews and pictures will be done individually as I do need time to play around with all of this. Hopefully I will be able to do a post on X'mas Gift Guides after I have completed individual reviews on all of these items. If you have anything that you would like me to review first, let me know in the comments. Also, if you have other products that you would like me to try or review, let me know in the comment section as well... So lets start!

I did a lot of damaged at Sephora.com  and here is what I got:
- Philosophy Hope In A Jar Day & Night Duo (link)
- Bumble and Bumble Thickening Serum (link)
- Sephora Favourites Give Me More Lips (link)
- Stila Colour Me Glossy Lip Glaze Set (link)
- Urban Decay Vice Palette 2 (link)
- Benefit Cosmetics Gettin' Cheeky (link)
- Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette (link)
- Tarte The Tarte of Giving Collector's Set & Travel Bag (link) and Off The Cuff Amazonian Clay 12-hour Blush Palette and Bracelet (link)

From Nordstrom.com, I got only one value set
- Clarins "Firming Experts' Age-Control Trio (link)


And lastly from Drugstore.com/Beauty.com
- Philosophy Purity Made Simple Duo (link)
- Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs Leg Makeup (link)

Keep a look out for the individual reviews in the next few blog posts.
I hope you enjoy reading my haul!

So what have you hauled so far? Let me know!

Thanks for reading!

Ida Erin Chan