L'OREAL PARIS: GENTLE Lip and Eye make-up Remover for waterproof make-up

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen! How do you cleanse your make-up? Let us imagine a face with thick mascara, foundation and matte lipstick, I found it is quite hard to remove all of them with just water and soap. Especially mascara, because eventually it will run out and create black shades around eyes. Our eye make-up is one of the concern because the skin around eyes are gentle hence we need proper care to cleanse it.
L'Oreal is one of my trusted brand, the quality and price is quite affordable, also readily available from drugstores to department stores.
Applied it on clean cotton and wipe it on your eyelids, eyebrow and lips, then followed with cleansing oil to all areas except eyes and lips.
It cleanse well without leaving greasy area, it did not irritate my eyes, if we kept our eyes shut tight >.<
 I bought it on Guardian for around IDR 95,000 last August 2016 (125mL).

Overall:

Packaging: 4
Price: 4
Effectiveness: 5
Value: 4

LIP ICE SHEER COLOR WITH BEESWAX

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to share one of my favorite lip balm: LIP ICE SHEER COLOR WITH BEESWAX

According to Wikipedia:

Lip balm or lip salve is a wax-like substance applied topically to the lips of the mouth to moisturize and relieve chapped or dry lips, angular cheilitis, stomatitis, or cold sores.

The primary purpose of lip balm is to provide an occlusive layer on the lip surface to seal moisture in lips and protect them from external exposure. 

The older generation used earwax to put on their lips before they invented lipbalm >.< 

Even though I live in practically tropical country, I work in full air-con environment, as in 24 hours a day (My husband is such a polar bear cub, he cannot bear a little bit of heat). Also my habit to use matte lipstick worsen my lips condition. In Indonesia, whenever u mention Lip balm, usually we think NIVEA, they are the pioneer of lip balm ever since I was an elementary school student. When you grow up, your world suddenly open up, and you wonder the magical world of makeup, where you can find lip balm in rich variations. It may contain SPF, petroleum, Beeswax, Camphor, Paraffin. Also the colors and flavors! (yipeee)

As I mentioned in my previous post before, I prefer lip balm to give natural sheen on my lips compared with natural color lipstick. Although the staying power is lesser than lipstick, it can be fixed easily because a girl always bring her lip balm in her bag/purse everyday ^__^, and I tend to leave my lipstick at home (a matter of habit I think).

And here I would review LIP ICE SHEER COLOR WITH BEESWAX, Natural color.

It moisturize enough with good amount of natural pinkish red color on your lips. It is great kind of sheen that can be used in your everyday/school look. 

If you compared Lip Ice with of Nivea Essential Care, it cannot deliver moisturize power unlike Nivea, but the color and sheen made up its weakness.

  

OVERALL

Packaging: 3

Staying Power: 3

Effectiveness: 3

Value: 5

Price: 5

Will I buy it again? YES

FACE or FACIAL OIL

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen :>! I would like to share my passion about Face Oil, Yes, you heard me right, I have greasy, oily complexion yet I love Oil on my face. Face/Facial oil is a long business in beauty regimen, before all the hype, our ancestor used drops of olive oil or maybe virgin coconut oil on their face, lips hair, bodies. Yet today, the hype is coming again, and we have so much varieties: grape seed oil, sunflower, jojoba, almond oil, argan oil (remember the hype?).

These kind of oil are different with essential oil, (the one with aromatherapy and fragrance). These oil usually plant based and has no irritant base like the one in fragrance oil.

And here are the most asked question about facial oil:

• Why do you need oil on your face?
• Our face has natural oil, which is produced by our lovely skin, yet in our 30's we started to lose its production. When you give natural oil on your face, it will protect your skin, penetrate deeper and give nutrients on skin, it also make your skin supple in the morning after, and amazingly it reduce my oil production and evened my skin tone.
• Who needs facial oil?
• Everyone can reap benefits of facial oil, especially the one who have dry skin. It controls oil production and enhance hydration on face. For someone with combination and oily kind of skin, this is tricky questions. Because when I use a few drops (2 drops per used, 3x/week) my skin become better, smoother, healthier. But when I use more than that, My face felt greasy. 
• When to use?
• Facial oil is an additional product, yet important, you cannot use it alone but it will enhance the power of your serum and moisturizer. My usual step: cleansing -> toner -> serum (wait 10 mins) -> facial oil (wait 20 mins) -> moisturizer. Although we can use it twice a day, personally I love to use it after my evening shower, because I need time to make it completely absorbed on my skin.
• Benefits of facial oil?
• free radical protection
• plumping skin: oil is lipophilic, it loves fat and can absorb faster and compensate for lack of oil
• improved skin tolerance: some have anti irritation properties
• better absorption: it can deliver molecules of our moisturizer easily. 

Best facial oil? Oh there are so many out there that not all facial oil created equal. Almond, Rosehip and Jojoba oil are the most frequently used, so you can try them first.

RECOMMENDED for everyone who loves skin care and want to try its benefit.

MAYBELLINE: Eyeshadow Quads

Hi Ladies and Gentle man, I would like to review Maybelline Eyeshadow Quads... I remembered when I was a senior high school and just learn how to do your makeup, Maybelline is a must brand for learning, aside from cheap, it has many varieties. I love their lipstick, then I tried to buy the other products which is Maybelline: Eyeshadow Quads

(picture taken from beautygala.com)

My verdict about this eye shadow: sadly disappointing
Packaging is okay, but the pigmentation, color, power is 1.5/5

I guess they have decent lipstick, but for eye shadow they have to extend their research to make one which is affordable yet has better quality.

They have their nude palette which was released just last year 2015. I have not tried that one. They compared it with Urban Decay, but because of my bad 1st experience with Maybelline Eye Shadow, I don't think I will buy another one.
Still their Mascara and Lipstick are one of my favorite ^__^

KANEBO IMPRESS: Cleansing Cream

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite facial cleanser, the famous Japanese brand: Kanebo. For facial cleanser, I tend to rely on Asian brand, especially Japanese brand, because they have long reputation to make products with excellent quality and more compatible with Asian Skin.

For this past 3 years I have used Mario Badescu, Olay, Ponds, Shinzui, but almost all of them have (except Mario Badescu) successfully dried up my skin, then I remember one time that my skin have perfect condition was when I used Kanebo Cleanser from my Mom (I forget the series).

Kanebo is one of the high end brand from Japan, aside from Shiseido. Impress series has a vision to:

 For Impress, beautiful skin is defined as finely textured, clear, translucent, and firm. These are the very qualities attained by the two unique approaches of Impress – “Normalization of the skin blueprint” and “Normalization of the binding and adhesion of the skin structure.”  (from kanebo.com/brands/impress.html)

I bought Impress Cleansing Cream on May 2016 at Metro department store, Jakarta

Price: IDR 350,000

After 1 month usage my skin feel supple, more thoroughly cleaned, more even skin tone, and it is just from 1 pea sized for all my face. I think, If I used it carefully, one bottle could last for 6 months, so I spent around IDR 59,000/ month for facial cleanser (A girl needs to think her spending)

Overall:

Packaging: 5

Texture: 5

Effectiveness: 5

Price: 4

Value: 4.5

Will I buy it again? YES

L'OREAL Paris Lucent Magique Blush Palette

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen out there! Blush On is one of the staple part in my everyday makeup, for natural look, it is good to keep our makeup down and simple, a face powder and 3 swift of blush on could make your face awake. Combine your natural look with lipbalm and eyelash curler (and a little bit of mascara) is enough to make you presentable in your classroom or workplace.

Today I would like to review L'Oreal Blush On, the Paris Lucent Magique Blush Palette. It came out around early 2014 or late 2013 if I were not mistaken. It has 4 colors

• Duchess Rose
• Fuschia Flush
• Blushing Kiss
• Sunset Glow

The Duchess Rose and Fuschia flush are ideal for warm toned, dark colored skin, Blushing Kiss for cool toned, and Sunset Glow for Neutral skin tone.
I bought the Sunset Glow at SM Supermall Philippines, discounted for around PHP 400 or IDR 120,000 but in Indonesia, we can buy it for  IDR 180,000.
It has shimmer and good for dry skin with small pores, but for me, it enhance my already big pores >.<
Sadly it only last for around 4 hours on my skin, maybe because my skin is oily. The pigmentation is not really strong, I need 4-5 swift to make the color pop out, even though the color is gorgeous.

 

 Overall:
Packaging: 5
Texture: 3
Power:3
Pigment: 3
Price: 3
Will I buy it again? No

L'Oréal: Voluminous Miss Manga Mascara

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to review one of my favorite brand for makeup: L'Oreal. 

L'Oréal is one of the best drugstore brand who can deliver great result that can be compared with high end brand, personally I love their foundation and powder. It also easily available from drugstore to department store.

Mascara is a must in your beauty routine, one magic swift of mascara wand can make your eyes glitter and open. Even the most natural makeup needs magic touch of mascara. Why I love L'Oréal mascara? Maybe because it is affordable and have great result. Mascara is one of the product that I never use more than 6 months (as recomended), because of that, I cannot think to spend so much money for this product (big NO), my budget for mascara usually less than IDR 200,000  or < USD 16, unlike lipstick or eye shadow (you can use it up to 12 month- 2 years).

Miss Manga by L'Oréal is designed to make your eye lashes look like Japanese manga or anime character (remember rose of versailles and glass mask?). Not literally like those things, because you need false lashes to create those glittery butterfly effect, BUT for simple mascara, it gives one of the best result. My eyelash become darker, thicker and looks longer, combine it with Shu Uemura eyelash curler, and you get perfect combination.

Price:  discounted in Watson's for PHP 400 or IDR 120,000

Overall:

Packaging 5

Power: 4

Result: 4

Price: 5

Value: 5

Will I buy it again? YES

SHU UEMURA: Eyelash Curler

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen out there, today I would like to review my all time favorite eyelash curler, yes the legendary SHU UEMURA eyelash curler.
Because I am an east asian descendants who has small eyes, eye look become an important factor in my everyday look. Eyelash curler can instantly open up your eyes, and make your whole face different.
I NEVER have any accidental pinching with this eyecurler, I have tried other brands, from drugstore, no brand eye curler, but shu uemura is the best (Price don't lie).
I bought it in Shu Uemura Philippines for around PHP 1300, or IDR 420,000 but I think you can find cheaper price in some online shop or beauty bazaar. You will have an extra pad for the curler, I think you can use 1 pad for 1-2 years. Make sure to clean it regularly.

Overall:
Package: 5
Design: 5
Value: 5
Price: 3

NIVEA, FRUITY SHINE WATERMELON

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce you with NIVEA Fruity Shine Watermelon

Lip balm is a must in my purse, when I want to have natural look on my face, I would rather apply lip balm than lipstick (compared with having natural color lipstick). It give natural gleam on my lips also moisturize my pouts. I like Nivea because it is a well established brand, it has many line of skin care and lip care, although I always lost my lip balm :D.

This is a shiny lip balm, which gives off sweet, gentle, watermelon smell. It is glittery, but the con: did not have the moisturizing power compared with the intense moisturize one (the classic one with blue tube).

The price is around  PHP 120, or about IDR 36,000, Weight 4.8 gm.
I bought it in Watson's Philippines. Hopefully I can found it in Indonesia.

Overall:
packaging 4
texture 4
smell 4
effectiveness 3
value 5
Will I buy it again? YES

Bio Essence: BIO SPRING WATER

Hi Ladies and Gentleman! I would like to introduce you to this sweet product from Bio Essence: BIO SPRING WATER, that I just tried since last month. I saw it on Guardian, with discounted price (Maybe just launching) for about IDR 120,000 I got 2 bottles 100mL + 30mL

I am one person who is a bit skeptical with this kind of product, because I always think that, this is JUST water that you spray on your face, its a scam. Even when my friends bought Evian in my high school era, I did think that this kind of thing is fake, and they were stupid to buy these products. Until curiosity hit me then I decided to try this stuff by my own, no harm done with IDR 120,000 I got 2 bottles.

In the morning, I put it on my face after makeup and in the evening,  I put all the creams first then spray it later, surprisingly it works!

My face felt smoother, more supple in the morning after I sprayed this water on my face and neck. I bring the small bottle in my everyday bag, and the big one on my vanity desk :>

If you put it after you make up, It will become more natural looking, and your skin is glowing.

I always have combination yet dehydrated skin, hence this product is perfect for me, and I recommend this products for all people out there who wants some added benefit.

OVERALL

packaging 5

texture 4

smell 5 (no smell)

effective 4

Will I buy it again? YES! 

AZTEC SECRET Indian Healing Clay Deep Pore Cleansing Facil Mask

Hi Ladies and Guys out there! I would like to introduce you to this amazing product, It is cheap, it is part of DIY, and it works!

Ingredients: 100% Natural Bentonite 

Mix with: according to label: water and apple cider vinegar (for oily big pores); for me you can also add drops of coconut oil, lemon, cucumber juice (anything)

Tools: non metal spoon, bowl

• What is Natural bentonite? 
• it is ash from volcanic eruption.  
• How it works?
• It draws out impurities made by heavy metals to our body (cadmium, mercury, lead, benzene). It also contains rich amount of minerals like Magnesium, Calcium, Copper, Iron, Potassium. 

When you mix it I use 1 by 1.5-2 combination, examples: 1 tsb clay, mix with 1.5 tsb apple cider vinegar until it form paste that is easy to apply. Put it on clean skin, let it stay for 20-30 minutes, and I swear you will feel pulsation on your skin, it will become so hard that you cannot smile or move your facial muscle :P. It is so strong when you pull off some of the flakes, you can see few soft comedoes on it.

You can prepare warm water and cloth to wipe off the mask, then after you clean all of it, you can put toner then your regular serum, and moisturizer

I don't know if its just me, but every time I use it, my face become reddish, but it disappear overnight.

The price is a BIG YES, for around PHP 400 or IDR 120,000

OVERALL

packaging 4

texture 4

smell 4

value 5

effective 5

Will I buy it again? YES! 

L'OREAL PARIS REVITALIFT ANTI WRINKLE + FIRMING EYE CREAM

Hi ladies, today i would like to give you my opinion regarding L'Oreal Eye Cream. This is one of the most forgotten cream in our daily routine, that you won't realize its importance until you see those small wrinkle near you eyes (gasp!). The texture of skin around your eyes are soft and thin, it has many blood vessels, hence it is really sensitive towards biological changes, even lack of sleep could make those eye bags more prominent. We need to start this regimen in our early 20's because when we hit 20 years old, our skin will start to lose collagen.

Ideally once opened, you need to finish this cream for 6 months, but eventually I finished it after 1 year >,<. Even I don't use it regularly, I still feel the differences on my eye bags the morning after. it felt smooth and the color become more even, it felt supple, moisturized and hydrated.

The price around 800 pHP or around IDR 240,000. You can find it on leading department store or big drug store.

Overall;

packaging 4

texture 4

smell 4

price 4

Will I buy it again? YES