Lipstick of the Day

Nars Audicious Dominique

Nars Audicious Domonique, despite had so many raves, was one of last I wanted to purchase from this collection. For some reason I kinda thought I had enough purplish mauve-ish kind of lipsticks from various brands. But of course, one shade might look a 0,1% difference but the formula might make a difference and there's no secret that Nars  Audicious formula is ah-ma-zing! 

NARS Turkish Red

The best thing about shopping for a beauty product was getting it at a discount. Nars Turkish Red was such a product. I didn't know why the seller let it go, but darn it, that was the best decision she ever made because that fabulous creamy blush was mine to have *evil laughs*

I always felt a little wary toward a cream blush because a) germ transfer possibility so hand has to be clean, and b) it's not practical. But it's NARS! At a discount! So, yeah!!!

It looked pretty terrifying on the pan, but as you could see from my FOTDs (my neck looked strange in the first picture), it didn't look clownish (blending and blending) and it gave my cheeks a just-been-pinched look).

So, say it with me now: Nars Turkish Red is awesome.

Attack of the Jollieness & FOTD - March 6, 2009

Last Wednesday after picking up my kids, I stopped by at Prema Salon. It's brow-threading time! I'd been having difficulty drawing my eye brows and realized that I needed to take action stat!

Well, I asked Acu to take care of me and apparently made a mistake asking for a slight arch. As a result, I ended up looking consistently surprised until my next threading schedule. Yes, they look pretty clean and shapely, but, I still couldn't pull off being a Jollie gal with my thin lips and plumpy cheeks. *le sigh*
Anyway, Acu does help drawing shading my brows easier and my face looks a tad slimmer what with my arches, but I'm staring at a face which is quite alien to me.

See for yourself!


Anyway, this morning was a hurried day as usual, except I was woken up by this weird dream of me not delivering Hanif's share of lunch sharing on time. I started the day cooking up a storm aka heating up sambel goreng hati. Luckily the meal didn't go bad eventhough I forgot to put it on the fridge last night. Hence the dream, I figured.

Putting on a morning face was not going as smoothly as I wanted since MAC Deep Truth was a blitch to blend. Perhaps POND's eye cream made my lids too oily, but even after I smoothed Groundwork paint pot and NYX jumbo pencil Black Bean, deep truth still acted like a kid who insisted to stay at the toy store and no amount of dragging would make him step out. When such case happened, I just use my finger to blend.

As always, blush and lipstick came to the rescue when I had a bad eye look. The day is saved today by Nars Orgasm, a concoction of MAC Syrup, Revlon Ginger Rose & Estee Lauder Pure Gloss in Plum Nectar.

And voila!

But at least I look pretty decent.

Seeing 3-s

I have to kick myself on the butt for having 3 (almost) identical cheek colors. Seriously, I have a problem finishing up one blush, let alone having 2 similar ones to hit pan.

Some might say Nars Orgasm is peachy pink, but side-by-side comparison with Rimmel Apricot showed very little difference. Rimmel Apricot might look a tad red, but on the cheeks, it look similar with Nars and TBS. Formula wise, TBS and Rimmel blushes are more powdery so you need to be careful that you don't put on too much while with Nars the effect is a bit different. You can put on loads but since the blush is finely milled there's not much chance that you'd look all clownish.