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! 

Look of the Day

After wearing matte liquid lipstick for awhile, I miss wearing a regular lipstick. No matter what, there usually were no issue of dried lips and application was also a dream since there was no chance of the product sinking into lip lines. 

I've never tried the regular lipstik from Studio Make Up but I love its lipstick crayon. The application is a cinch and the color payoff is great. Take a look at Melort I'm wearing today, the exact bold red wine color which covers my pigmented lips yet still look fresh after several hours. 

It cost only Rp. 175,000 when I got it last December 2015, so I'd say run!

MAC Rebel & Kisch for a Muggy Day

The weather had been totally unpredictable in the past few days.  Dark and drizzly in the morning, and suddenly a full blast hotness from noon.  It's hard enough to choose my outfit on normal days, now this.  However, today was sooo gloomy on the get-go weatherwise, and might possibly well into the afternoon, so I picked out a grey and black outfit, busted out my dusty boots and crumpled tights for work.  And face...smokey with dark burgundy and purple lipstick. 

Left home with MAC Mattene Kirsch

And possibly would leave the office with MAC Rebel.

I want this weather to last!

On eyes I used MAC Warm holiday palette 2009 and MAC Bite of an Apple from Venomous Villains collection on my cheeks.

FOTD - MAC Purple Rite

The only thing that I hate about MAC frost formula is that it is never frosty enough. On me, the frost seems disappear and I usually end up with light sheen/shimmer on my lips.

Anyways, on this look I had on MAC Purple Rite (frost), Orgasm blush, and I used the Red, She Said warm palette to create the eyes.

Chanel Rouge Coco in Cambon

What words do I associate with Chanel? Grace, femininity, luxury, class, style, expensive. I might never be able to buy a Chanel 25.5 bag (someday, someday) nor the suit. I don't think I would be able to have the pose and the style that Coco Chanel might give a nod to, but by all the power of beauty goddesses, I shall be able to wear Chanel lipsticks and carry each well.

Thanks to Indrya, who helped me purchase Chanel Rouge Coco lipstick, I'm now the proud owner of Cambon. Yay!



Rouge Coco line was launched last March and it was a pretty huge collection with 30 different colors (US$30, RM95) each of its name was inspired by Coco Chanel's life. Vanessa Paradis, the icon of the collection, was sporting "Mademoiselle", by the way.

Peter Philips’, Global Creative Director of Chanel Makeup, said that

Rouge Coco fascinates me, because I’ve never seen a texture this comfortable and easy to apply. It’s the ready-to-wear lipstick. Just one sweep over the lips colours them and covers them in a melt-away balm … I like the idea that women from the gloss generation, who are afraid of lipstick, can return to this essentially feminine beauty step with Rouge Coco.

I think what drew me in to Rouge Coco lipstick was because it seemed soft with a touch of sheerness to it and yet. I'm a fan of lipsticks and although a nice coverage is great, sometimes I want to wear a lipstick which whispers the color instead of announcing its presence. I know a lip gloss is an alternative for a sheer wash of color, but I have to admit, some formula can get uber-sticky and make lips seemed like they're covered with saliva (ick!). And shall I mention the staying power? Almost non-existent. So I'm always leaning toward lipstick when I'm on my lipstick binge.

Here's a picture of my Cambon and me wearing the lipstick. Don't you think I look faboosh?

All about Lipsticks - Maybelline Colorsensational

Having been a lipstick junkie all my life, the minute an opportunity to get more lipsticks arrived, I'd immediately be clicking sites for swatches, salivating over new colors, latest collection from X brands and when my evil shopping twin's around, I'd click buy, buy, buy!

And when the goodies arrived, I would be so excited until I saw the lipstick. Oh. I had that color already. At a fraction of the price. As in the case with Maybelline Colorsensation 205 Nearly There and Oriflame Color Attraction Metallic Nude (Rp. 75.000 vs. Rp. 20.000). Bwaaahhh! They're exactly a dupe, down to the shimmer.

See for yourself here:

Maybelline Colorsensational 025 Pink Please is also another dupe for something which I already own (just need a little diggin, y'all). So, *sighs* Me:0 - Online Shopping: 2

Pink Please is slightly easy on the eyes. The swatch on hand isn't exactly accurate. I'd say the picture of the lipstick above is true to its color.

I rummaged through my work desk, and swatched some lipsticks that was in the same color family; pink nude.

Left to Right: Oriflame Vivid Baby Beige 4286, Maybelline Colorsensational 025 Pink Please, Revlon Superlustrous Ginger Rose 131

Oh well.

On a side note, don't you just love it when the online shop owner sent you a cute little thank-you card along with your purchase? How courteous! See, sometimes this little note is all it takes to make buyers recommend the store and at least browse the shop. I salute Doreen Valencia from http://beautedeamour.multiply.com. She also has a fanpage : beautedeamour.




So, to all nude-lipstick explorers out there, check for dupes first in your drawers, dressing tables, cosmetic bags, etc, before you try purchasing another one. Leason learned.

FOTD Nov 8, 2009

I absolutely adored the cottonink shawl in acid rose and honestly I didn't know why I had not gotten my hands on it. Look at it and see how it instantly brightened up my look. I wore purplish lipstick and lipgloss combination before actually putting the shawl on. Instantly as you could see in the pictures, the color instantly gave my whole look a lift!

Now I'm a tad obsessed of finding a lipstick that could match the shawl color. Some girls from the FD/Twitter suggested MAC Lickable, cremesheen Speak Louder or Dior Rose Panoramique. I would definitely check them out soon, but not before checking at the Revlon or NYX counters, first!.

FOTD-Nov. 2, 2009

My arms still ached after on and off picking up Kasih during my office Fun Walk yesterday. Today's highlight though was trying out the new products from NYX.
The makeup bag that I won included this ver pretty baby pink single shadow. The naming was quite a misnomer cos this baby was really a ver light lavender.

I also used the lip pencil in purple rain and topped it off MAC purple grape warrior collection lipstick.
I'm eyeing 2 fabulous mega shines at the stores and couldn't wait till next month to purchase it.

My FOTD for NYX Contest

I was running out of time!!! It was one day before deadline of the NYX Contest in Fashionese Daily. So I rushed out of the shower and then put on all the NYX products in my posession : jumbo eye pencil in Black bean, round lipstick in Chloe and megashine gloss in Beige.



The rest of my face I used my usual Revlon foundation, MAC blushes Fun & Games.

My Makeup Pouch-what's inside

The thought of having just one lipstick scares me. Eventhough my lipstick of the day is red, I need to have other lipstick on just in case I change my mind on my next touch-up.

So here's a peek of my makeup safety blanket and a tiny swatch of each lipstick.

Pouch content :
NYX round lipstick Chloe, Bobbi Brown Ruby, Christian Dior creme de gloss 845, NYX lipgloss Beige, Clinique High Impact Magenta Rose.

Oh I forgot to take a snapshot of Burt's Bees replenishing lip balm with pomegranate oil and Burt's Bees Honey lipbalm. How I have 2 lipbalms in my pouch is beyond me, but I would say it's probably out of laziness.

7 products inside a smallish pouch. My pouch should get an award!

FOTD - October 13, 2009

A very simple look for today.

I've been loving my new lipstick combination: NYX round lipstick Chloe + YSL Rouge Pur #19, Revlon lip pencil in Mauve, top by NYX lipgloss in Beige.

For cheeks I've started to get a hang of my PAC blush in brown which I used to contour, then I blended either TBS blush on #4 which is a peachy pinkish color that a horde of people claimed pretty similar to Nars Orgasm. I disagree, though, and had made a comparison swatch to it in this post.



As always, can't leave the glasses-on look cos my glasses always the last piece of make up (well, not really makeup per say) I have on my face.

In Search of Holy Grail - Maybelline Water Shine 3D

Coral Pink, 3D #10
I can't rave enough about Maybelline Water Shine 3D #10. It's the perrrrrFECT lipstick for me, given my dark upper lip and pigmented lower lip, strange lips, I know. Sadly, it's discontinued. The whole line is discontinued! I've checked Maybelline's site and sadly, they don't have any dupe recommendation for it either. Why do I love it so much? It makes my lips plumper and it's pretty shiny and yet pigmented and it stays. The 3 things I (read almost the whole lipstick wearer population) look for in lipstick.

So, as I wallow in front of Maybelline counter, I discovered Maybelline Extreme in Coral Pink (#830). It's a different formula, true, but swatched in my inner arm, it look pretty similar with my HG Water Shine 3D #10, except that Coral Pink has more coral than #10 which is a bit more pink coral. Thankfully this mission only cost me Rp 42.100. A relief!

Time to take a rest now and just make a good use of my new lipstick. I'm not 100% happy but sometimes you need to take whatever you have and just put your feet up.

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.

Party Look to the Reunion

I have a 20 year reunion to go to in New Jersey that I couldn't go to. So instead, I cooked up some idea of what I'd like to look like. Mind you, it's around 8:30 pm, I just got back from work, was about to wash up before bed. Why not? That yellow dress wasn't a dress at all, just this shawl I tossed on my shoulder. The bottom? None! I' m at the bathroom, anyway. It was fun, though, playing dressed up. I had to dig several boxes to find me some earrings.

Wait! There's no earrings on the 1st picture.

Pretty festive, ain't it?

FOTD - October 28, 2008

I must say it's hard to post regularly every day. I don't know how other bloggers do it.

Here's my look today. I've been using mineral make up from Everyday Minerals in the past week. It seems that the foundation (I used a combination of Golden Medium, Buttered Tan and Medium Tan) works quite well with my prescribed sunscreen lotion. Neat. Now I just need to stock up.

I tried a mixed of MAC melon pigment, MAC love connection e/s (the solid one) and Revlon Espresso on my eyes but I wasn't too happy with the result.

On lips I used MAC "O" and Dior gloss. Look pretty good!

Cheeks : Fashion Frenzy and EM Waffle Cone.

Pink and green

My closet's a total mess. Kasih has a fever when I have already played hooky at work planning to take my kids to the beach or to somewhere else fun before they start school again next Monday. It's almost noon and i just finished getting ready. It looks like all the plans will be off, too as my girl wants me to take a nap with her.

Lips : MAC Vivacious l/s & Too Fab l/g (dress camp collection)
Cheeks : MAC Nuance

FOTD Oct. 7

This is the look inspired by one of the Cult of Cherry looks. I used my La Tulipe palette, MAC love connection, Revlon pinking of you blush, MAC bronzer, Russian red lipstick and Cult of Cherry lipglass.

More picture :

Lipstick Love

I originally wanted to sell Vivacious because pinkish purplish are always hard to work on my skin tone. It's probably just me, but I looked like d-rated tranny when I had that kind of color on my lips. So, before throwing it off to a market, I wanted to see if it still would work for me. See how persistent I could be when it comes to lipstick? I wish I had the strength when it comes to my bank account. Over the weekend, I managed to buy MAC blush Coygirl, MAC MSF Sonic Chic Gleeful and a Stila lip glaze, ordered LashBlast Very Black waterproof, 2 EM brushes.

Come next month, I'm so dead.

But here's my new lippie experiment :



Very pretty, yah! Might resist selling Vivacious.