New Years 2013

Hello my beauties.

I hope the first 12 days of 2013 has been treating you well.

It's been a while since I've blogged, so here's a simple post to wish all of you a great 2013 ahead. We survived 2012 (no end of the year pun intended) and it made us stronger.

Cheers to 2013!

It's been exactly a month since I've been back home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and really I'm enjoying my time at home!

Aside from good food, fab shopping and people I love, I have... really bad internet. Blah. Every internet related plans of mine are being stubborn and not working according to plan.

Anywayyyyy... Here's my New Years makeup!

Lol apologies for the creasing, but these were taken 12 hours after application and they held up pretty well!

I went for a dramatic-natural look (does that make sense??) by extending out the eyeliner way more than I've ever tried and piled on 5 layers of mascara.

They turned out pretty natural on pictures but looked rather dark and smokey under dim lights.

Eyes: Stilla Light Up The World Palette

Lips: Boost Watermelon Crush Lip Balm

Say hello to the busiest background ever to be featured in my blog:

My Wardrobe!

Well, more like my teenage wardrobe filled with monotoned hoochie tanks, stomach baring tshirts and baggy jeans.

I should shudder at my teenage self, but I wore those outfits with pride. So kudos to my old self. XD

Do you cringe at your younger fashion sense or you're hella proud of them?

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Stila Light Up The World Palette

Hello!!

*waves madly*

Today shall start with a review of the Stila Light Up The World Palette!

Grab some pop corn and let's start!

^.^

I purchased this eyeshadow palette a while back because since I don't have a Naked Palette, I shall have one which looks slightly similar. Heh.

I didn't expect to totally fall in love with this palette but to my surprise, this is my current most used eyeshadow palette.

The palette's simple and classy, no?

But it didn't come with a mirror, which is a bummer.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the double ended brush provided was fairly soft and a joy to use (I was initially planning on ignoring them, like I usually do.)

The shader brush on the right's really soft and now I don't bother with my usual brushes because it's good enough for me.

The bushy pencil looking brush on the left is just... weird. Seriously, don't use it. Heh.

Back to le eyeshadows!!

The palette comes in 10 colours consisting of browns, bronze and plums.

As you can see, they go in 'threes' with the first 3 being darkest, middle 3 bring medium and last 3 being lightest. Oh and of course the last white frosty colour - Sugar, which I use for the inner corners of my eyes and brown bone.

During the day, I usually use the lightest colours for the entire eyelid and the medium colour to give my eyes some definition.

And you may have already guessed, I use the darkest colours for more drama for a night out.

The good/bad news (depending on your preference), the eyeshadow isn't super super pigmented as you can see from the swatches on my arm.

A few colours requires a slight stab, violent swishing and swearing for the colours to be picked up on the brush (I may have slightly exaggerated this fact) but some are strangely super pigmented.

Is my palette retarded??

However, I do see it as a good thing because it minimises error when you're in a hurry. It allows major layering without looking over the top, so errors can be easily fixed. =D

I also love the fact that they have plum and pink shades, taking us away from the cliche browns when we need a pop of colour.

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May