Nurul Gan

Nurul Gan

Thursday, July 23, 2015

NARS SHEER GLOW FOUNDATION



I don't even know where to begin with this foundation. 
I LOVE IT SOOO MUCH! This is my 3rd bottle of using this foundation.
It has medium to full coverage.
 Perfect for someone who wants flawless looking skin.


It's funny how they named it sheer glow while the coverage is actually medium to full.
Anyway, I love how it glides on smoothly on the skin. 
And you will have enough time to blend, leaving a perfect looking skin.
This foundation will not oxidise so the shades you first apply will maintain the same throughout the day.


I'm in a shade of "FIJI" which is a bit light for my skin tone but I don't mind it because I can top it off with my darker pressed powder.

The only downside of this foundation is that it does not have any pump so you will have to tilt the bottle the get the foundation out. Which for me it's a bit inconvenient as you tend to spill it everywhere and waste a lot of product.

Nonetheless I will not stop purchasing this foundation and will always be my holy grail foundations.

PRICE: RM175
SIZE: 30ml
AVAILABILITY: NARS oulet in Pavilion, Midvalley

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Review: Daiso cleansing pad

Happy Saturday once again to my beautiful readers,

It's been a while since I last went to Daiso (Japanese store which sells everything for Rm5). Recently while I was walking in mid valley with my family, I saw there was a new Daiso (not sure how new) and of course  me being me, I couldn't stop myself from going in. As I walked along the beauty shelf, I saw an interesting looking cleansing pad on it's own section. I have decided to try it since it was well-talked in the beauty communities.


I took it home and unpatiently tear the packaging off and wash my face with that cleansing pad straight away (yes, I was that excited). My first experience was fine. I did not love it that much. But as time goes by I got used to it. And now I LOVE it! It really does help me to cleanse the dirt on my face. I am amazed by how well it did on removing my waterproof mascara. I just rub the pad on my lashes and it takes off the mascara like wonders.


At first, the rubbery texture kinda bugs me. I don't feel like it's going to do any good to my skin and I am a little afraid that the rubber will hurt my sensitive skin. But it turns out that it did not hurt at all. In fact it feels like as if the cleansing pad is massaging your skin while you are washing your face with them.


I am so glad that I took the chance to try this cleansing pad. It is such a good product with such little price. I hope this review help some of you guys who wanted to try this.












Saturday, January 26, 2013

REVIEW: Syahirah's face toner

Happy Saturday to my beloved readers,

     My skin has been acting up for the past few months and I've tried many ways to recover the spots on my skin. Having a beautiful skin is every girls dream. I have always been struggling with acne and still am. One day I will have clear skin and the next day I woke up I will have numbers of pimples on my skin. It come to the point where I learnt that I will not be able to have a pitch perfect skin.

  My discovery on this product however change the way I look at my skin. Although I still got few pimples here and there, I am happy that I am able to go through a week without having a zit on my face. This product helps me in so many ways. I have used it for more than 3 months that turns to be my best 3 months ever for my skin.




    This toner comes in 2 types. One being the pink bottle that supposed to hydrate your skin and the other one comes in a so-called white bottle that supposed to whitened the skin.

   The pink ones is the first toner that was introduced to the market. It used to be in different packaging than this one. Photo shown above is their new packaging. Both toner are packaged similarly. It comes in 100 ml which is decent and average like most toner in the market. The packaging was well-designed. It comes in a glass bottle and it feels decently heavy and expensive.


Hydrating toner.


The whitening toner.


This is what you will see when you first open the bottle cap. The top of the toner hole is sealed.


After you have opened the seal, you will be able to see the hole where the toner  flows out.

   These toners have different scent. The white one smells stronger than the pink ones. It has baby powder scent which turns me off a little bit despite being an amazing toner. The pink one smells a little bit descent and not as strong as the white ones.  I purchased this toner at the local drugstore such as Guardian, Watsons and sometimes caring. It is available in most drugstore in Malaysia.

   Price wise it is absolutely cheap. This retails for approximately RM10++. This is one of the cheapest and most effective toner that is out in the market (at least for me). I will not be surprised if it retails for more than RM50. For the quality and the effectiveness that you will get, this is one the best purchased I have ever made in my entire life.

  The way I use this toner is to put it on the cotton pad at first before applying it on to the face. I rub gently onto my face with the cotton pad after I cleanse my face. Most of the time I used 2 cotton pad due to the fact that I have make up on my skin in most days. Although you have just finished cleansing your face, don't be surprise on how much dirt are still left on your skin. This toner will help to deeply penetrate onto the skin and get rid of any makeup residue or any other dirt on the face. I noticed the difference on my skin during my first application. It is more cleaner and my skin looks slightly fairer. My blackhead reduced especially on my nose area and it helps to lightened my post acne scars.

  I am very skeptical when I first bought it thinking this must be another product that claims for nothing. Plus, for it's price, I don't think it will do much in the beginning. But I was absolutely wrong. It is true what my mom once told me, price do not define quality.

Price: 5/5
Packaging: 4.5/5
Scent: white-3/5, pink-4/5
Effectiveness: 5/5


 

Monday, February 20, 2012

REVLON LIP BUTTERS arrive in Malaysia!!





lollipop is my favorite personally. :)









PROS:

  1. The consistency is super smooth and highly moisturize
  2. I will not call it as lip butters as it super pigmented. You get the actual color (ok. i lied. maybe some of them are quite sheer).
  3. The color range is beautiful especially the ones in US. In Malaysia, the color choices are not much as it is only limited to 8 colors. But it is sufficient for me at least. better than nothing rite?
  4.  It accessible. You can get pretty much at all watsons and guardian. 
  5. No scent. It depends on individuals preferences. Some might prefer to have sweet candy scent as the name itself is super sweet. 
  6. It is super affordable. I'm surprised it retails for just RM25 considering it is one of the most popular lip product Revlon has ever had before. 
  7. This comes to my next point. I love the adorable names they had on each lipstick! ^.^

CONS:

  1. I hate the packaging. It feels soo cheap. I know most of all people who have tried the lip butter, love the packaging. But the quality of the packaging is a no-no for me although it will look pretty if it were made by metal instead of plastic.
  2. I'm not a fan of it's glitter. Although it's not much but I prefer if it is just a regular creamy lip butters instead of the glitter.
  3. It doesn't hold on to your lips very long. Just for a good 2 hours max (I'm referring on my personal experience. It varies depending on your activity that day).

PRICE: RM25 (Sometimes you can get it cheaper)
WHERE TO GET IT?: WATSONS, GUARDIAN

p/s: swatches coming up soon. and I might be doing a video review soon. crossing-fingers*

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Urban Decay 15th year Anniversary palette

Front View
The beautiful detailing on the side of the packaging
It comes with a velvet covers that protect the bottom part of the palette

The eyeshadows with flash
The eyeshadows without flash

Without flash
From left: Midnight rodeo, tainted, deeper, midnight 15, junkshow, M.I.A,  vanilla

With flash
From left: Midnight rodeo, tainted, deeper, midnight 15, junkshow, M.I.A,  vanilla

Without flash
From left: Omen, ace, flow, evidence, blackout, chase, deep end, half truth

With flash
From left: Omen, ace, flow, evidence, blackout, chase, deep end, half truth


Hello makeup geeks,




   This is my second attempt on writing this post which upsets me because I had completed my reviews but due to the freaking blog probs I had to re-do this back again. But it's fine since it is for my readers (if there's any). Anyway, to start of I got my palette at Sephora in KLCC which personally I think I like KLCC Sephora better than the Starhill Sephora. I don't know is it just me but I feel like KLCC Sephora offers more choices. Originally I was in KLCC to accompany my boyfriend to return his Uniqlo sweater where it was wayyy to big for him. But me, being a make up freak have a bad idea to visit Sephora thinking that I might be able to passs all of the makeup since I'm kinda broke that time. However, as expected it did not happen. I walked out from Sephora with Sephora paper bag filled with this palette. I was soo excited when I saw this palette placed on the front section. I literally almost screamed! There's only 4 more palette's left when I grab mine. Fuhh. Lucky me. teheee. So now, enough of me rambling about my life. Let's go for some serious business.


COLOR SELECTION (4.5/5)


   There are 15 colors of eyeshadows in this palette. As usual, UD offers beautiful colors to play with where it comes with 7 neutral colors (midnight rodeo, midnight 15, deeper, chase, vanilla, M.I.A, and flow), whereas there's 5 fun playful colors (junkshow, omen, evidence, deep end and tainted) and the rest are silvers and black. It comes with only 1 matte color which is the black color called blackout while the rest are shimmery colors. This is the only problem on the eyeshadow part where they don't provide enough matte colors for everyday use. They should provide at least 3 or 4 more matte colors to make this palette more presentable and preferable. Regardless of that, I could make thousands of make up look just using this one make up palette. AH-MAZING. I am so in love with this palette. However, there are some people that are not please with the color selection as they are hoping to get more neutrals like the infamous naked palette but I must say that you could not ask more from this palette because this palette is made to celebrate their 15th year anniversary which explains why they are some fun colors because anniversary should project FUN! am I not right? Having to many neutrals in this palette will make it a little bit plain and less interesting looking. 


COLOR PAY-OFF/PIGMENTATION (5/5)


   Pigmentation will not be a question in UD eyeshadows. The texture of the eyeshadows are smooth, velvety and well-pigmented. With just a light swatch you will be able to get a really good color pay off which is why it took me for a while to fully use the eyeshadows. With just a light dip using your brush you can get enough color to be apply onto your eyes. 


PACKAGING


   I could not express how excited I am when I first saw this palette's packaging. It is super elegant and beautiful. It is soo different from the other palettes that I have seen so far. It is soo breathtakingly beautiful. The top cover of the packaging is in silver color while the bottom part is in purple. I will never imagine that silver and purple can go so well together. I could not get over how pretty this packaging looks like. There is also a velvety packaging to cover the bottom part of the palette. I guess to keep the palette's from having scratches which brings me to the downside of this palette. The packaging itself is very easy to get scratches which explains why some people prefer not to move it from their vanity. It is also quite weighty and might inefficient for people to bring along during travel as it is quite bulky as well. However, despite the drawbacks of the packaging I still LOVE this palette.


DETAILS OF THE PALETTE


Price: RM180. So it's around USD50++. Some people might think that this palette is wayyy to expensive but personally I think it is a great deal. There's 15 colors included in this palette which represents their 15th year anniversary. It is a lot of color. If you do the math, 1 eyeshadow is equivalent to RM12 which is a good deal considering this is a professional brand from UD. 


Where to buy? : I bought mine from Sephora in KLCC but you can also get it from the Sephora in Starhill as well.


Is there tax?: No. It's RM180 net.


So yeah. This is my full review of this palette and if you have any question please leave it on the comment section below. I just completed making a tutorial out from this palette. I might post it here end of this week. Look up for it. There will also be another review on the famous Naked palette on my next post. 


Anyway, I hope you guys like it. Don't forget to look up for the upcoming reviews. Thank you sooo much for spending your time reading. I'll see you on my next post. xo


Love, 
Nurul

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Happy birthday mom!

HEY BLOG READERS,


   I just went back from One U, buying gifts for my mom. Bought some few stuffs for her. Went her with my little sister, fadya. It was fun to hang out and I LOOVEEEE to shop for gifts. It's just fun to see someone's smile and happy for what has been done for them. Me and my other siblings aree actually waiting for the clock to reach 12 am to surprise her. I'm super excited. :) Anyway, I'll post up all of the photos taken during my mom's birthday on my next blog. I'll see you guys in my next blog post. Byeee. :)

Saturday, June 4, 2011

GARNIER LIGHT (brightening eye roll on)

HEY EVERYONE,





     Due to tons of assignments and college work, my under eye circles is turning darker than it is. I have no eye bags at all till I turned 18. That's when I first went into college. Early month this year I went to the drugstores to pick up some mosturiser, and I went to Garnier section where there is a display of under eye roll on brightener. It looks interesting so I picked it up considering I had quite dark under eye circles where this roll-on claims to reduce it. I have been using it for almost 6 months I would say. So, here are my thoughts on it.

PRICE: I can't remember exactly the price. I think it somewhere between RM20-RM30. correct me if I'm wrong.
WHERE TO PURCHASE?: Guardian, Watsons, online purchase (http://www.onlineskincareshop.com/shop.php?c=6&n=11061961&i=B002EWGSDK&x=Garnier_Light_Eye_Roll_on_15_ml)

PROS:


  1. It does reduce the appearance of puffiness under my eyes.
  2. The packaging SOLD me.
  3. I felt slight refreshments under my eyes right after I rolled this on. It has cooling effects when u put it on.
  4. It absorbs pretty quick. I would say for a good 2 minutes before you put can your mosturiser.
  5. You'll feel relaxed as you massage the roller under your eyes.
  6. Price wise, it's affordable.
CONS:

  1. Although it claims to reduce the appearance of dark circle under the eyes I did not see any dramatic results considering I have been using it for quite some time which is really disappointing.

Here I attached link on how to apply this roll-on in a correct way.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Nail of the day: China Glaze, For Audrey

Hey Everyone,

    I've done nothing for the whole day today. Was a tiring week for me. So, I've decided that today will be the time I'll be sitting in front of the laptop screen and watch YouTube. But as time goes by (when my eyeballs,neck & my back is in pain), I've decided to update my blog with "nail of the day". haha. To begin with, this had nothing to do with promoting products or so forth. Just showing you what I had on my nails for today. So, here goes.




For Audrey


I can say that China Glaze nail polish has the same quality as OPI nailpolish.
Price : RM25
Unfortunately this nail polish is not available in Malaysia (As far as I know).
But you can purchase this at nail fiesta. Hope this helps.

Friday, May 6, 2011

URBAN DECAY : Ammo Palette

URBAN DECAY 
Ammo Palette


The packaging

The colors

It comes with a big size mirror and a sponge tip applicator.
Colors that came in this palette. 

 PRICE: Can't recall. But I think it was about the same price as the other Urban Decay palette which retails around RM145.




     When I first bough this I was super super excited to try it. It is said that this palette are the combination of 10 best seller colors! How cool is that! It has a lot of neutral colors which is a plus for me because I love neutral colors. It comes with a sponge tip applicator and it has a magnetic bar which secure and shut the palette. So, you don't have to worry on having the eyeshadow to shatter all over the place. Anyway, moving on to the pro's and con's of this palette.

PRO'S:

  1. As usual, Urban Decays' eyeshadows are well pigmented and vibrant!
  2. These are the 10 bestsellers eyeshadows of Urban Decay. You can't go wrong with it.
  3. The packaging is excellent for travelling as it is easy and light to be carried around.
  4. There's a big size mirror which is easy for you to make touch ups.
CON'S:
  1. I have no other complaints on this palette other than once again, the price is too expensive.

You girls can purchase it here online. This is by far the cheapest price I've seen. http://www.amazon.com/Urban-Decay-Ammo-Eye-Palette/dp/B00133S5KA

You can also purchase this at Sephora besides Starhill, Kuala Lumpur.

Disclaimer: I won't be responsible to any online purchase transactions as I only provide information to help you girls get your hands on this palette.

URBAN DECAY : Sustainable Shadow Box

HEY GIRLS,

     Like I promised you guys that I will review some of the products that I bought during my visit to Sephora in Malaysia last weekend. This is the first item that I will review for you guys which you guys can see from the title above, the "sustainable shadow box" from Urban Decay.


PRICE: RM145


PRO'S:

  1. The color is well pigmented
  2. Wearable colors
  3. Comes in 10 colors which is A LOT!
  4. Comes with the infamous primer potion
  5. Cute packaging
  6. Comes with a mirror and mini brush
CONS:
  1. The price is expensive. Should I be stressing this out? Duhhh. It's Urban Decay.
  2. The glitter in midnight cowboy rides again & VZI is too chunky. I guess by putting a base for this glitter shadow to stick on would be better as the glitter will fall all over the face.
      Needless to say, I still LOVE this palette. It is super pigmented and the color is just wearable. I wore this  almost everyday to school since the day I grab this palette. I can create tons of looks by just using this palette. For those who just started might want to grab this palette as it comes in a variety set of colors and is good for neutral look (I found out that newbies will likely to start with neutral look).



The mini primer potion that comes together with the palette.

Unwrapped


The packaging of this palette looks like bamboo.

Swatches
Top from the left: Twice Baked, TDK, Flipside, Grifter, VZI
Bottom from the left: Midnight Cowboy Rides Again, Flash, Oil Slick, Kiddie Pool,  &  Half  Baked
This is the colors that comes in with the palette.

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