July + August favourites and empties

Yay back on time~ (sort of)

I meant to post this a couple of days after the others, so it'd only be a few days late, but I dithered over whether I had a favourite because these 2 months were the busiest so I spent very little time wearing makeup or paying attention to my skincare. 

Favourites

Chichi baked single in I’m every woman (matte medium brown) 

    Chi Chi? Chichi? Anyway, completely matte baked eyeshadows are something I’ve never seen before (or since) so I was quite interested when I saw this. I’ve been looking for a good transition shade for ages and though I had my eye on a MUFE shadow, I also really wanted to try this, especially because these swatched so pigmented and so smoothly. I love this shade, it’s not exactly what I was going for but it’s so versatile and it blends seamlessly into skin even without primer.

Empties

Sukin facial moisturiser

    Technically I still had a little bit left but I dumped the bottle and scraped the little bit out into a tub so . . .  (edit: I finished it off on the 6/9 so not far off)

This was an ok moisturiser in a kinda hard to explain way. It felt moisturising but it left my face shiny afterwards, in a freshly moisturised kind of way not a greasy/oily way but still. It was a good basic moisturiser but not helpful with my oily t-zone. I think this would make a great basic moisturiser for dry skinned people, and I think it might have mild calming/soothing properties as well so good for dry and irritated skin. The smell, though mild, was certainly in the calming range. 

Cheap blush brush

    After I bought my new gloss blush brush I honestly don’t know why I didn’t dump this straight away, I mean I did like the shape of this one as well but it’s not like the shape was all that unique I didn’t need to hold onto this for comparison *sigh*. So I dumped it after I remembered this fact.

Maybelline forest smokes quad + Revlon satin eyeshadow single in shimmering sienna (packaging)

    So like a month before I bought the z-palette I dropped my favourite Maybelline eyeshadow quad (it’s my only Maybelline quad but I was quite fond of it) and broke the lid so I couldn’t travel with it, which was rather annoying. I forgot to put it in the z-palette straight away because at first I just wanted to get rid of all the single eyeshadows that were bugging me. The Revlon one I always meant to transfer to a z-palette as I love the colour but I can never be arsed to open the singles lid when I’m working from a palette. 

March + April empties (and favourites?)

 . . . Hi. 

Um . . . all I can say is uh, you were forewarned? ^^; 

yeah my project has sucked my life into a pile of denial and yeah 2 months late but better than not at all, right? . . . maybe?

So I love watching/reading monthly favourites as well as empties, however I usually don’t have a lot of things to talk about myself, what with my relatively infrequent use of makeup, so I decided to combine the favourites and empties of every 2 months, like Fables in Fashion does, though she limits it to 2 favourites a month. I may not even have 2 favourites in a month so I’m just going to leave it at whatever number of things I’m loving at the moment. (P.S. if you haven't already heard of Celina, check her out she's awesome.)

Favourites:

Australis budapash velourlips

I’m making this a favourite for the sole reason that I love this colour. I only wore it like once or twice in April (bought it in late March) but every time I just wanted to stare at my lips in the mirror because this colour was so perfectly what I wanted.

 

i know it looks a bit bloody but trust me it's gorgeous

Batiste dark & deep brown dry shampoo

This colour is harder to find than the brunette one, some pricelines don’t stock it I think so I didn’t realise they had this, but I love that it’s dark enough that you can’t really see it in my hair.

 

picture from boots.com

Gloss professional angled blush brush

Up til now I’ve been applying blush with my fingers or a cheap rounded brush which I didn’t like ‘cause it was scratchy. I’ve been eyeing a couple of blush/contouring brushes online but then I went to Gloss and actually touched a tester. So soft and smooth~ and it was angled so contouring would be easy right? This brush is so much more comfortable to use and softens the blush so much faster than my fingers (obviously).

Empties:

Daiso face powder

Well I didn’t finish this so much as I dropped it and it fell down a grate ;P. but I hit major pan before that happened so I came really close! I bought this powder because its colour (pale yellow, you know asian here?) was a good match for me in terms of tone though it was noticeably lighter. My T-zone would start getting shiny looking after ~4 hours, which I’d say is pretty decent for a $2.80 powder. It wasn’t the finest milled nor the smoothest when applied, and if I reapplied it didn’t last as long but for the price, not bad.

Otaku pomegranate mask

Was nice? I think the pomegranate one was meant to be brightening and it might have, but I was so tired the day I used it I’m not sure anything could’ve made a difference. It did leave my skin feeling moisturised and I think it was good for my forehead which may get oily due to dehydration, it’s kinda debatable whether it’s that or just excess oil period.

Klorane dry shampoo with nettle – oil control

So now I know I don’t have OILY hair as according to Klorane because this stuff was hardcore. It sucked all the oil out of my second day hair to the point that my roots were a little powdery and dry feeling and this is with minimal spraying. Also it apparently takes me only 2 months to go through an average bottle of dry shampoo (in this case a 150ml), and that’s with semi-regular use. I clearly have too much hair. Now I really want to try the dry scalp one. And maybe a bigger can.