Benefit Eye Bright: Multiple Ways on How to Use

This cute little pencil really does wonders! before I thought that I can replace this with a white eyeliner pencil, but using white eyeliner pencil makes it look really white, so scratch that. though white eyeliner pencil is great for lining the lower middle waterline (only in the middle, it mainly to give contrast to the brown area of your eye) enough white eyeliner, I read and watched a good amount of reviews for this tiny pencil and I thought that I can also use this for other areas of my face not just in the lid or inner corners of your eye!

Draw a fish around your eye. Put less on the eyebags area, you don't want it to look too white. Remember to blend (semi tap and semi smear)

This is what I usually do to really touch the outer corner of my eye, with less strokes!

Lower waterline. It gives more brightening effect to your eyes, makes it look more awake.

Pat a little under the brow bone. SPREAD! Again, you don't want it too white.

On the side your nose. This area usually gives unflattering shadows to your face.

last but not the least! I sometimes also use this as a highlighter, dabbing it just above the cheeks (some highlighter gives me that oily effect by mid day, and I hate it), not too much. Just to give an ample brightening effect because it has micro glitters! :)



Let me know what you think!

-A

My Undying Benefit Love

I'm sure you ladies are waaaay over hearing raves about the new benefit Cosmetics store in Greenbelt. I'm sure everyone of you knows that you can grab your favorite fixes there! I've been a fan of Benefit since the day I laid my eyes on their counter in Harbour City in Hong Kong! It was their first branch at that time there, being a BIG fan, I was blown away! I totally hoard! and I wasn't satisfied, I went back before we go home to Manila! We stayed at the Marco Polo Hong Kong, so it was just a walking distance to the mall (Thank you Lord!!) I still remember this because I didn't go shopping for clothes or other stuff, I just literally bought Benefit products!

Hearing that they will open a branch here in our shores, made me giddy and excited! To think I only get my Benefit fixes when we go to Hong Kong, but now?! Ha! I'll go straight to Makati! With my busy December schedule, full of bazaars and delivery ek ek, I never got the chance to visit Greenbelt. Not until yesterday! Uhuh! Well, this time no need for hoarding. It's not good to speend too much since it's Chinese New Year.They say it's bad luck to spend on New Year. Oh well. I still spent..a little :) haha!

The items I got, Porefessional, Bathina and Eye Bright

Eye Bright testing

Eye Bright when blended, tilted my hand so that you can see that there's a 

minimum amount of glitters / shimmer

 Porefessional --uber love this! it give you a velvet matte finish! you can use 

this on top (gives an airbrush finish) or under your makeup

 Bathina, sa sobrang tuwa ko, nakalimutang kong kunan ng picture :/

New addtion to my kit!! Darn my Shu Uemura Glow On is smashed :(

Sorry forgot to take Bathina's picture on skin! But I swear! it's nice! At first I don't want to buy this because It's just a waste of money, I can use a lotion with glitters or a large brush and dip it to my highlighter powder and brush it to my legs to give a wonderful sheen. But by the time I tried the tester, I bought it immediately haha! it's different than your regular highlighter, it doesn't have large glitters, it gives a dewy shiny look that's really sexy when applied to the legs! It's one of their best sellers too! and I chitchatted a MA before and swears that Bathina is what celebrities (like Kim Chiu) uses. Diba Chikadora?!


Other Benefit Cosmetics that I tried:
Posietint
Ooh La Lift
Dandelion
Georgia
Badgal Eyeliner
Lemonaid
Erase paste


Lemming for:
Watt's Up
Hervana
Stay Don't Stray (read a lot of nega reviews, will still do more research)



I do have some not-so-lovely purchases from Benefit, I'm really sad about this because they are NOT CHEAP! they're like more expensive than MAC. Although their packaging is a plus for me! the 50's (or 60's? 70's?) themed going on is so awesome!


Will post my not-so-lovely Benefit purchases on my next post.

-A

Holy! Tony Moly!

If you've been following my posts, you must already know that I'm still hunting for the RIGHT, NON-SMUDGE, LONG LASTING, WATERPROOF, EASY TO GLIDE eyeliner. Yes! I'm that icky-picky! I was strolling with my friend last week in Megamall, when I chance upon a Tony Moly store, I didn't know Tony Moly is here in Manila already! Seriously, I really don't know! That's how outdated I am. And I think it replaced Etude House. (I think) I'm not in anyway thinking of buying anything in Tony Moly,but I just went in and "survey" the place. HA! When I see something in the corner of my eye, eyeliner in different colors and tried the black one with GLITTERS. GLITTERS! The SA said that it's really waterproof and smudge proof, well, syempre ang lola nyo kailangan i-testing! I test it on the back of my palm and walked around Megamall and try smearing it with my fingers after 5mins or so. GUESS WHAT?! It didn't budged in my hand. Before you know it I'm back in Tony Moly and bought the eyeliner! The great thing about it, aside from the non-smudging, it has glitters, did I already say glitters? Anyway, I don't have any glitter blackeyeliner, so this is really something for me, it's nice when I blink there's glitters in my eyes, not just a plain black line sitting on my eyelid diba? It add ooomph to my peepers!

 Perfect Eyes Eyeliner

 

Daylight

 

Fluorescent light

 

I MUST SAY, I LOVE IT!

-A

On The Hunt

I'm currently hunting for the best pencil eyeliner out there! I'm looking into Urban Decay's 24/7 in Zero and Mac's Powerpoint in Black. Sad to say there are really some bad reviews on the Powerpoint. and the UD one is a tad bit pricey and has bad reviews as well! Grrr I'm torn! Though I'm inlove with mac's fluidline! I never looked at other eyeliners again after I used this for the first time! SERIOUSLY! But my problem now is, when I'm in a hurry, I always do it in the car, so pencils are always best for me when I'm in a hurry. So yeah you get the idea.

Any suggestions? :/

-A

My Not So Red Lipstick For The Ber Months

Phew! Long title isn't it?! I don't know how do you call that kind of color..berry shade maybe? Anyhoo, Autumn and Winter season is here! Well atleast for some countries. :P I want to get into the Holiday cheer, though I don't really feel the Christmas cheer this year, If feel that it lessens year after year (sad). Since December is just around the corner I want to feel Christmas-y, so I went to do my business wearing my not-so-red lipstick! what's great about the color is that it's not overpowering and great for daytime use! It  adds a little spark to anyone's face. My fave shade is NYX's Midnight Dinner. Oh and the color's buildable.

Oh there's my driver!

What's that on my neck?!

 

 Love it? love it!!

-A