Napoleon Perdis Set Lipstick Review + Giveaway!

Hey lovelies!

A few weeks back, I checked my mail and was surprised to receive 2 Napoleon Perdis Set lipsticks in my mailbox! Surprise makeup via mail, almost as good as surprise flowers.

Apparently, NP was giving out some free lipsticks and the bf decided to get 2 for me. According to his logic, if one is good, two must be better! XD

Well, I don't need 2 lipsticks so I'll giving one away the second lipstick to one of you!

Kiss Me: Heavy Rotation Milky Color Lips 04

Hey lippie lovers!

A quick review on Kiss Me's Heavy Rotation Milky Color Lips in 04.

A while ago, a best friend of mine gave me this lipstick cause it didn't work on her dark skin at all. Since I have fairer skin, I gave it a go!

I used to be all about the nude lips, white pale and oh so glossy, complete with concealer and the works. Fast forward to the present, I've become a lazy lip balm girl or on good days, I'll pick the brightest lipstick I could find. XD

This lipstick looks and feel very milky on my lips, emphasising it's name - Milky Color Lips!

Sexy Swatch: MAC Dazzleglass Creme in Amorous

MAC Dazzleglass in Amorous.

I love the luxurious packaging, brush applicator and of course, the beautiful glittery red formula that really does the name Amorous justice.

Unfortunately, it's been discontinued. XD

If this post sent you into an adrenalin high and you're already planning your next visit at MAC, I apologize. I couldn't resist sharing life's little luxuries with you guys.

Anyhoooo... I hope you enjoyed the eye candy!

Do you have a favourite red gloss?

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

CL "New Evolution" Poster Inspired

Hello dolls!

It's been ages since I've blogged. I've had a good long holiday back home in Malaysia and now it's back to reality.

Oh Malaysia, how I miss the food.

But yes, back to the blog post!

I'm a huge fan of 2NE1 for their talent and style. I mean, they can rock sneakers to a red carpet event.

'nuff saif.

I'd love to go on about how awesome 2NE1 is, but that's for another time. =D

I was inspired by CL's 'New Evolution' poster and I decided to recreate the look.

CL's rocking Violent Lip's B&W Stripes but I decided to challenge myself by painting on each and every stripe.

*oh the horror*

CL has on Jeremy Scott's unicorn dress from his F/W 2012 RTW Collection.

Unicorn. RTW. Right... No thank you.

Instead, I've replaced the unicorn with a bear! Meet my crazy ass multi-coloured bear named Paddle Pop. It's hard not to love such a funky looking bear, no?

On my eyes, I have 3 layers of false of eyelashes to recreate the fluttery lashes on CL.

The lips were filled in with a silver cream eyeshadow and black gel eyeliner for the stripes.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post and I plan to do more Kpop inspired makeup looks in the future!

Are you a Kpop fan? Tell me your favourite Kpop group!

*Gangnam Style doesn't count*

XD

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Super Easy Ombre Lips

Hello my dearies!

It's been a while, hasn't it? XD

Exams this year's pretty chill-ish cause my exam dates were pretty spread out but I did put my blog aside for a bit even tho I've had some posts ready on my draft. Bleh!

Yes, back to ombré lips! They're also fondly known as Just Bitten Lips, Lollipop Lips and whole bunch of other cute names.

They're basically lip colours fading from one colour to another, with most common colour combinations of pinks and corals fading to a nude colour. It's a super fun trend to try and I really love the look! Be it black-red lips, purple-pink lips or rainbow lips, as long as they're a fun colour to try, I'm up for it!

It you're interested in getting super simple and cute ombré lips, here's a tutorial to get them in just 2 steps!

Step 1:

Apply a layer of lip colour on the inner part of your lips. I used my Revlon Lips Butter in Sweet Tart.

Step 2:

Blend out the colour using concealer.

And you now have super cute kissable lips! Super easy and you can achieve it without a lips brush, just use your fingers!

I love this method and it's versatility with colour choice.

Here's a bunch of other ombré lips I've tried out before. Click on the pictures if you're interested! =D

What lip trend have you been rocking lately?

And to those having exams, how are you holding up? We're gonna partyyyy~~ after this! XD

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Matte Orange Lips

Hellooooooooooo~~ (say it in the tone same as GD's One of A Kind. Go on. Give it a try)

Now that we're done greeting each other, yes, I have straight bangs now. I was really annoyed with my 'in between lengths' fringe one day and hacked it straight across at 2am. I am now officially a rather awesome hairstylist (IMO). Lol.

Ok anyway, back to the topic, I've been noticing girls rocking beautiful orange lips and I thought to myself "I want that!!!"

Completely forgetting that I owned orange lipstick used here coupled with the fact that I'm still on the vampy ombre lips phase and matte lips phase, I present you with orange-ish vampy lips!

For my lips, I:

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 1. Lined my lips with black eyeliner and shaded in the inner corners.

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2. Applied a light layer of lip balm to prepare for the next step.

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3. Patiently applied layer upon layer of orange eyeshadow on my lips till I achieved my desired intensity.

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4. Blended the black eyeliner with the orange eyeshadow.

I think I may have used too much orange eyeshadow because I was aiming for orange fruit kinda orange, but ended up with more of a burnt orange.

I guess I was too excited. XD

As for my eyes, it was my regular everyday eye makeup.

I lined my upper and lower eyeline with my Maybelline eyeliner and also applied white highlighter along the inner half of my bottom eyeline using my Revlon brow pencil duo.

Did anyone notice my natural nails? I'm giving them a breather for the week so please say hello to them! XD

So tell me, do you prefer glossy or matte lips??

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

✿ p.s. Yes. I was dancing in my last picture. =D

Fire Inspired Lips

Hey there!

Lately I've really been into fire and flames. Don't know why, but I really love how strong and powerful fire looks.

I decided to play around with my makeup and came up with a gradient lip look inspired by fire.

I used my red Hello Kitty lipstick reviewed here, an orange lipstick from MAC in Ardor and a beautiful gold pigment.

I combined the gold pigment with vaseline to achieve to really gorgeous gold paste.

Mmmmm... Shiny...

And here's how I achieved the gradient lip look!

And you're done! Easy-peasy! =D

Also, for this look, I used normal painting brushes I bought from Spotlight and it worked just fine.

Here's how everything looked after finishing up.

I hope you liked the look!

Thanks for reading!!

=D

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Sportsgirl Lip Liner

Hey girls!

Just wanted to share a lil review and swatch of the Sportsgirl Lip Liner in a nude shade. I'm not too sure if there's a name of it!

This was officially my first Sportsgirl purchase and I'm pretty satisfied with it. For a discounted price of $3, who could complain eh? =D

I have been in search for a nude lipliner ever since the gorgeous Jenni-Fuhhh (Helloooooo!!) suggested trying a lip liner under the Hello Kitty lipstick I was complaining about and waddaya know, it actually made helped make the lipstick less sucky!

And behold, the lipliner.

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The liner comes in a weird brush on one end and what I like most about the liner is the 'black pencil part'. Am I making sense?? You know, the part of the pencil which is usually brown but it's black on this liner. You get me?

✽ Overall ✽

Overview: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡

It's a nice creamy consistency which could probably be worn alone (not for me because it the colour doesn't show up on my lips) without feeling heavy or sticky.

❝ Pros ❞

No shimmer.

Non-greasy.

A good neutral nude colour.

❝ Cons ❞

The fact that it's a pencil which requires sharpening. I personally dislike pencils because I do not like sharpening my pencils. I always opt for twist ups. =D

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

On a fun note, the bf seem to have taken a liking to the drama 1litre of Tears. I'm gonna be mean and pry him off the drama. Probably steal his external drive when the climax of the drama hits. Hehehehe...

Is anyone a fan of Hana Kimi?? There's a Korean one releasing soon (this week)! I'm so excited!!

Revlon Lip Butter Sweet Tart

Hello!!

=D

Another lip butter review for you! Lol you're probably sick of them by now. Heeee...

Say hello to Miss Sweet Tart!

I choose this colour because of it's sweet creamy pink colour. This is easily one of my favourite lip colours to date!

✽ Overall ✽

Overview: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡

Creamy pink goodness! I personally love it because it doesn't have shimmer and it's a really cute Barbie pink!

Hydration: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡

Way more moisturising than the Peach Parfiat last reviewed. I'm guessing the shimmer from the Peach Parfiat caused a lil extra dryness.

However, I did notice that my lips cracked and peels excessively after removing the lip butter! Did this happen to anyone who used the lip butters?

Colour payoff: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡

This lip butter's pretty pigmented and gives my lips a gorgeous pink. Not too artificial (eg. bimbo pink. lol), but not too natural where no one notices the colour. Also, one swipe over's enough to achieve the colour intensity I wanted.

Application: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡

The smooth creamy buttery application. No complains here!

Packaging: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡

*Copied from my Peach Parfiat review*

The packaging is rather... Mehhh... Nothing special like YSL, but still pretty enough for me to love it! The cap clicks on with a satisfying 'click' and has gone through many adventured with me in my handbag without opening. So it's travel safe!

❝ Pros ❞

More moisturising than regular lipstick.

Gorgeous creamy pink colour.

No shimmer.

❝ Cons ❞

Seems to dry out my lips AFTER removing the lip butter.

I'd like to know if anyone experienced this as well? I'll by 'experimenting' to see if the lip butter does lead to dry lips after removing.

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Hello Kitty Red Lipstick

Hey dolls!

I have been wanting a matte vampy red lipstick for the longest time ever and I finally bought one!

When I first saw this red Hello Kitty lipstick, I just knew I had to buy it!

It was compact in size, a beautiful red and had Hello Kitty embossed on the cap! 

The beautiful packaging gave me high hopes for this lipstick, but alas...

*falls dramatically to the floor*

...the lipstick left me very very disappointed.

✽ Overall ✽

Overview: ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

Very very cute packaging, but lipstick formula is sheer and doesn't glide on smoothly at all which requires a very generous amount of swiping to achieve the pigment level above.

Extremely disappointed with this lipstick.

Colour: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡

A gorgeous vampy red when swatched and I love that it doesn't contain any micro shimmers!

Application: ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

The lipstick was sheer and streaky which made it very hard to work with. I had to swipe the lipstick on my lips a huge number of times to get the colour intensity I wanted and had to use a lip brush to even out the colour.

 Also, the colour appears orange-ish in my lips, as seen above.

Packaging: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

The packaging's teeny tiny (about 5.5cm) and I love it! The bullet fits snugly in the case and cause of it's compact size, it's pretty obvious that it doesn't have a ridiculous amount of 'wasted space' like many other lipsticks in the market.

And let's not forget the cute Hello Kitty bling on the cap! 

❝ Pros ❞

Cute compact packaging!

❝ Cons ❞

Sheer lipstick formula, streaky application. Sigh.

Would definitely not purchase again!

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May