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