Saturday, July 18, 2015

Kiko Milano makeup haul and swatches

The Kiko Milano makeup brand was originally manufactured and sold in Italy only. A recent trip to the mall made me discover that now its also sold in NYC Queens Mall. I was very excited because I have heard lots of nice reviews on this brand. The store is nicely displayed with newer and limited edition products in the center, and permanent ones along the walls. The sales people were really nice and helpful. Although they couldnt seem to find a decent matching foundation for me, and kept telling me its a good match no matter which shade they tried on me. Its not their fault since its never easy to find a matching foundation inside a store with artificial lighting.

The first time I was there, I went overboard with the purchase. Of course that happens with every makeup lover when it comes to new and foreign beauty products. I grabbed as many varieties of makeup as I could, but retrained myself from getting every single colors from every products. I was really happy that they offer this store credit cashback perks. For every $7 you spend in the store, you get $1 back. Thats a great marketing strategy because customers will have to come back again to use the store credit. Who would turn away practically free money to spend on more makeup products?! Therefore, I went back to spend my $30 cashback store credit the following week after consulting social media on what other products to get from them. I did return a foundation because it was turning orange on me, and the return policy was not bad. Since one of my social media friends recommended nail polishes to me, and I already have tons of nail polishes that I dont even use anymore, I still went ahead and used my store credit on few polishes and lash products. Even after using the store credit and went over a little, I got another $9 cashback! Now I just have to go back again and try to use up that. 

My haul video is below:


Below are the swatches of all the Kiko makeup items I got so far. 

















































































































































I did a Summer look using some of Kiko's products that I got from the first trip with the exception of foundation because I had to return one that was too orange on me. The second skin serum type foundation will be in a separate review so Im not going to include the product and swatch here. 


Monday, July 13, 2015

Jennifer Lopez 2015 Tony Award Makeup Look

I have uploaded a makeup tutorial based off JLO's 2015 Tony Award look, and you can check out below.

Here are some of her original red carpet pictures as well as my interpretation of her look.







Monday, June 22, 2015

TonyMoly BCDation spf30 air light base but perfect face makeup

I did a view review of this product:



You can also read it on  TonyMoly's website

I purchased mine from this ebay store, but you can find it in any Tonymoly retail stores as well as Asian beauty supply stores/online stores.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Sephora Favorites Bronze Bares-All bronzy neutral essentials

This bronze shade value set is now available in Sephora stores and www.sephora.com. It retails for $39, but total product value is $109. It contains 3 full size products, a Nars lipgloss, a Sephora waterproof eye pencil, and a duo eyeshadow split pan from Urban Decay. The rests are deluxe sample sized/travel sized products. You can create a beautiful bronze goddess easy beachy Summer look using these items. My video review is below.














Its the second swatch. First swatch is the Tarte Contour stick.