January 2013 ipsy glambag

This month's glambag theme is "a true star will always shine". I expected a cute makeup bag to switch out my current one, but was quite disappointed when I saw the plain black bag.

This month includes the following items:

•soho eyeliner brush
•josie maran 100% pure argan oil
•sexyhair big sexy hair spray
•nailtini nail polish in bloody Mary
•pacifica tusan blood orange body butter

My favorite product this month has to be the nailtini polish. I have been so busy recently, my nails have been bare for a few good months already. I'm so excited to use this new polish and knowing the quality of my previous nailtini polish, I just know I'm going to love this one as well.

Can't believe its almost 3 weeks in the new year already! Definitely need to step up and work on the plans that I have for 2013!

Ciao!

January Ipsy Glambag

pacifica tusan blood orange body butter: smells amazing

josie maran 100% pure argan oil

soho eyeliner brush: I like the quality of these soho brushes but I always think they are too big for me. This eyeliner brush does not create a line that is as good as my other eyeliner brush, but this is good for an angled shadow look.

sexyhair big sexy hair spray: it holds my hair up... for like 30 minutes, before my hair gets weight down by the grease from excessively washing, haha. Not the spray's fault tho!

nailtini nail polish in bloody Mary: Love love love this! Such a beautiful red color! Just perfect for Chinese New Year. I will post up a picture of this polish on my nails.

Ipsy- December glambag

The December glambag came in earlier than I thought this month. But I was so busy with work, I didn't have the time to post up a review.

This month's bag includes...

•urban decay- 24/7 glide-on eye pencil (in zero)
•Mai couture- highlighter papier
•Mirabella- prime for face & eye
•NYX- loose pearl shadow (in mocha pearl)
•bombshell- hot mess lip gloss

All of these products are amazing. Especially urban decay's eye pencil. I actually already own one in black already and I cannot express enough how much I love that product. It's just so good!

The bombshell lipgloss is also a perfect color. I have always wanted a bright red lipgloss and just happened to never got one until now. I'm planning to wear this next time!

The highlighter paper is interesting too. It just makes highlighting so much easier.

Keep up with the good work, ipsy!

Sephora: haul post! Black Friday 2012!

So I finally got my package from Sephora for stuffs that I ordered on Black Friday! What a stressful process trying to let UPS leave the package in front of my door. The UPS lady told me there's nothing she can do if the driver doesn't take the slip and my package would be sent back if so. I'm like, wahh?! But, but, those are goodies that I scored on black Friday through a crazy Internet traffic battle,

Anyway, I got my package and here are some of the stuffs. All of them are $10 only and are in great value! (besides the two lollipop lipgloss, they were 6 each I think). Great brands, great values, great deals!

Now, I can't wait to get my forever21 package. Yes, yes, yes... I said I would never buy from them online again because of their terrible customer service and attitude, but I didn't want to be on a physical Black Friday trip. Lol.

Enjoy the pictures!

November- ipsy- MyGlam: party perfect

Hey all!

The long-waited November glambag arrived a while ago but I was so busy with life, I didn't have a chance for me to post the pictures up!

Another month and another great bag!

This month's bag includes the following 5 awesome products.

• •theBalm: meet matt(e) eyeshadow palette, in black
• •Starlet: intense eyeliner, in black
• •Nailtini: Nail Lacquer in Millionaire
• •bareMinerals: Marvelous Moxie Lipgloss, in DareDevil
• •Chella: Defining eyebrow gel

Some people may have recieved the Benefit they're real beyond mascara. I have seen quite an amount of complains saying that they don't want the eyebrow gel, but in fact, I love the eyebrow gel and don't mind trying a new product!

I love the lipgloss from the bareMinerals. It's a dark berry color and it gives a very sexy mature look. The eyeshadow is in very good quality... I mean, it's a product of theBalm, duhh! Haha.

Can't wait for the December bag!

Another end of another year and I wonder what I have achieved. Hmm... I got promoted, took an exam and failed it, spoke my mind for one last time, fallen sick, struggled through personal problems, went through and still going through family crisis, etc. Compared to last year, I'm not sure which year is more difficult. 2011 was at least good for the first half, and 2012 has pretty much been down, down, and down, well, one or two ups from here and there. Now all that I hope for 2013 is to cure this neuropathic pain in my head and simply just be a little bit happier and a little less tears than now.

November- samplesociety box- products review

Hey guys,

Pictures now and review later!

Generally small to very small samples this time. Was wishing for a full size lipstick too, but didn't happen.

Metallic gold nails for fall

I know it's fall already (and probably winter soon... NYC has been getting colder recently) but it doesn't mean that your nails have to stick to all boring nude colors. I didn't like shimmery nail polish before because I thought they make me feel older. But recently, I found them very lovely and I'm starting to own more shimmery nail polish. I really like how the light reflects on my nails, and on certain polishes, you can see different kinds of color reflections.

This time, I used sephora's nail polish in metallic gold. This polish was on sales so I thought "why not" and added it to my online shopping cart. I got my package the next day and I know I made the best decision to buy this 3 bucks cutie. It looks so good and it's perfect for a night-out and the fall season, actually it also brings out my inner rockstar! I'm looking to buy the other colors before they are sold out.

I didn't do any designs on my nails this time since my head hasn't stop hurting since last week so I wanted to get more rest tonight.

Health warning: dry your hair completely before you sleep or tie it up in a pony, because that's how you get this really weird infection in your heard (no idea of the medical terms in English). The piercing pain hurts like a pineapple is growing in my ears, lol.

Anyway, can't wait for a new start on the 29th!

P.S. I love neon orange my eye-hearts tee from f21 (though, very very very bad customer service).

October ipsy (former MyGlam)- glambag review- hello, bombshell

I thought I wasn't going to receive my bag until next Tuesday but seems like life does want to give me a break so when I came home from hanging out with my bestie (1st time in 4, 5 months), I saw this beautiful hot pink envelope sitting in my living room, and I instantly cheer up.

This month's bag continues with the MyGlam awesomeness.

This month's awesome bag include 5 different products.

•the Balm- what's your type? "the body builder" mascara
I have used the Balm's products before and I'm excited to try this one out. I have heard reviews saying that this mascara does not hold curls (which is very bad for Asian lashes because that weights down our lashes).

•minernesse.com- lip bomb glossy lacquer stain in red
Another lip product from MyGlam. Not exactly the color I want but it's a nice color. I wanted the dark red color (knowing it's this season's trend) but this lovely one is quite awesome. Good for a long day out.

•couture colour pequi oil treatment
Hair product makes my mom happy! Another product for my mom to try out!

•coastal scrents- eye shadow
Not so sure how to use the yellow shadow without looking like a clown... The other 3 colors are greenish color in different tones, not my color either. I have dark brown eyes and I don't think green (and yellow) compliment my eyes...

•be a bombshell- eye liner
This eyeliner is amazing! Love it, love it, love it! It lasts for the whole day without any smudges (usually my eye corners would smudge the eyeliner there). Though, the eyeliner tip is a little big, so gotta be extra careful with narrow corners (I have deep double eyelids, so I have to be extra careful with my inner corners.

Oh, and how can I forget about the cute makeup bag that I received as well? Very cute bag and also very nice materials!

Keep it up, MyGlam. Though not all of this month's products are the perfect fit or right color for me, for 10 dollars, this is still quite awesome!

October Sample Society- beauty box review

October's sample society beauty box arrived very early this month. I believe I got it on the 1st or the 2nd but since I was busy preparing for an exam, I waited until now to post a review.

Please excuse my pictures. I'm writing this post on my phone and I can't flip the pictures, haha.

This month's box is quite disappointing.

This month's box included the following products.

•Jane Iredale- fantasia self tanner
Not only that I will never use a self tanner product, I don't think it's quite seasonally correct to be using a self tanner in October. My first reaction was "what the heck, sample society". Can't say I'm not disappointed.

•Kate Somerville- exfolikate intensive exfoliating treatment

•aromachology- clean & fresh eau de parfum
A very nice perfume. Full size costs $100. Will never buy this in full size, but it's good to have a try.

•Oscar blandi- pronto wet hair care
Don't quite use hair product, so I'm pretty sure this one is going to my mom as well.

•erno laszlo- phormula 3-9 repair balm
Perfect product for this autumn. Full size costs $245, isn't this too expensive..?

This box also came with an extra sample bonus of a lavender towelette from Herban Essentials.

I'm in consideration to cancel samplesociety and possibly switching to glossybox.

September MyGlam- glambag review

MyGlam continues with their awesomeness this month. This month's bag has 5 amazing products!

This month's bag includes:
•London Soho New York smudge brush- this brush is soft but a little too big to be a smudge brush! Funny thing is I was actually looking to buy a smudge brush, I guess I won't need to now.

•Jane sparkle gloss- another lipgloss from MyGlam. I'm starting to get bored of lip products. This lipgloss comes in a bright pink color with glitter. Although this color is something that I would use, but I already own more than 15 lip products so I'm looking forward to seeing some other products from MyGlam.

•circus by Andrea's choice nail polish- a very bright neon purple! I absolutely love this nail polish set from circus by Andrea's choice. I'm looking to buy the other 2 that I didn't received.

•carol's daughter monoi repairing split end sealer- I'm not a big fan of hair products so I gave this to my mom. She loves this product and is asking me to get her this product in full size! Seems like MyGlam knows how to cheer my mommy up!

•Mirabella eye shadow in brown- a brown eyeshadow without a closable container. I'm glad that I finally received an eyeshadow from MyGlam and I'm glad that this is a color that I can use. But the only thing is that there's no container for this eyeshadow so I'm having a little headache as to how to store this.

Oh, another note, absolutely love this month's bag (the actual bag). It's a black wristlet with gold zipper! Very classy and re-usable. I'm looking to do a little DIY project on this cutie! I have so many pending DIY projects waiting for me in October, can't wait!

Looking forward to October!

September- sample society box review

My third box from sample society and definitely the best box so far!

This month's box included the following products:
•stila smudge crayon in black- perfect product and color for me. Stila's products rarely disappoint me!

•diptyque fragrance in tam dao- not a product that I will even consider buying. I'm not very impressed by the smell. It smells like a fragrance that my dad would use (in fact, this brand's fragrances are unisex).

•Borghese B gloss- a deep brownish color lipgloss. I was unsure about this product at first, but knowing that deeper lip colors will be the trend in fall, I have learned to love this product!

•ahava purifying mud mask- a very nice mask from the dead sea! It leaves my skin very smooth afterward. Definitely considering to buy this product in its full size.

•cellceutics extremely gentle skin cleanser- the name tells it all. This product is extremely gentle, it almost feels like I'm cleaning my face with baby oil. It also leaves my skin very soft and moisturized afterward. Definitely buying this product in full size.

Everything came in sample sizes but big enough to test out the quality of each product. I was considering to cancel my subscription earlier because I didn't seem to like many of the products from the past 2 months but this month's box has changed my mind!

Keep it up, beautybar!

August MyGlam- endless summer

I absolutely love this month's glambag. It came with 6 products and I love each of them. Along with the samples, discount codes were also included in order for glammies to buy the samples in full size in a discounted price.

This month's bag (August) includes the following products...

• eclos- moisture therapy regenerative cream
• This regenerative cream has a very refreshing lemon smell and I love how fast my skin absorb this goodie; I am using my discount code to buy this in full size
• eclos- cellular activator facial serum
• I don't quite like the smell of this serum... It has a very weird fishy smell and it's not very pleasant; but on a good note, this serum works very well on me and I love how my skin feels after application
• Demeter- Roll on Perfume Oil (in Clean Skin)
• Not the type of perfume that I would use on a daily basis but I keep it in my purse for any emergency or any occasions that I forget to apply perfume (usually when I run out of my house in a rush)
• S.A.L.T.Y. cosmetics- Glama-ZOID! eye shadow
• Very nice pigmented eye shadow in a light pink glittery color. I may consider making a color of my own because I'm still in debate what kind of tone I would want to create.
• Circus by Andrea's Choice (in Spectacle Nailcolor)
• Love, love, love, love this color! It's a very bright neon orange and I joke about how I need to wear my sunglasses to look at my nails! I also love how these nail polishes are vegan polishes!
• Glam Gloss- Baby Pink?
• I was wishing for the red color but I still love how wearable the baby pink is! This is a special thanks from MyGlam for all the appreciations from the glammies! 

 

MyGlam has improved a lot since it first launches! Their bags rarely disappoint me. Keep it going, MyGlam!

August sample society review

 

August's Sample Society box includes the following products...

• Phyto- Phytonectar Treatment Oil
• Deborah Lippmann- Private Dancer
• Jane Iredale- longest last mascara
• Elemental Herbology- Skin care (facial peel)
• Arcona- Cranberry Toner

I am quite satisfy with August's box especially with a full size sample of a Deborah Lippmann nail polish. Just the polish itself worth about 18 dollars in retail. I also love Jane Iredale's mascara and the Cranberry Toner from Arcona. I only wish that they came in bigger sample sizes. I am considering to buy Arcona's cranberry toner in full size because it's working very well on me and if I haven't said this before, I am obsessed with cranberry.

Not so much of a review with products that I received this month because I haven't used all of them or I don't plan on using some of them. I gave the hair treatment oil to my mom and I have heard good things about it. I am also not planning to use the facial peel due to the my extremely sensitive skin. 

Anyway, looking forward to September's box.