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

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


 

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*

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