"The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.”
Emboldened by my DIY cushion compact experience, I decided to try making a cushion blush (a la IOPE Air Cushion Blusher). Unfortunately, as far as I know, there aren’t any premade mini-cushion compacts designed for DIY-ing. (Missha, A’Pieu, Memebox, you listening?)
Captain’s log: last day in Taipei 03/20/15 sitting outside fking SaSa waiting for it to open like I’m an addict at a methadone clinic. And guess what? There are a ton of others waiting with me!!!
This is my exact location, because you WILL want to visit this very spot (or any SaSa, but this location is your best bet to start) and walk east towards Taipei City Hall MRT station to find the biggest proliferation of Asian cosmetics in the area. Like, a LOT.
Greetings from my sick bed in Taiwan. But let me start from the beginning. I’m here visiting my friend who’s in one of those maternity clinics after giving birth to her first baby. Women here can stay in the hospital center for up to a month, and everything is taken care of. After visiting her, I binge shopped and went to Taroko Gorge and got severely sick. This is my first post on my Taiwanese haul:
Continue reading “To Sea or Not to Searun – Magma Bath Salt Oyaji”
I’ve had disappointing experiences before with Fairydrops mascaras, but this one–Scandal Queen Waterproof Mascara–came highly recommended by my friend. When she gave me this as a gift, I was cautiously optimistic.
Continue reading “Beauty Queen: Fairydrops Scandal Queen Waterproof Mascara Review”
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the su:m37 Miracle Rose Cleansing Stick was an actual miracle. The raves on the interwebz are nearly universal. This little stick inspires buying frenzies and, when it goes out of stock (as it did when it was temporarily discontinued last year), laments of regret.
Intrigued by the hype, I ordered a stick when it briefly came back into stock on Soko Glam in October. Since then, MRCS (as it’s known in Asian beauty circles) has made a full comeback and can be found for purchase online from various Korean sellers.
Continue reading “Heaven Scent? su:m37 Miracle Rose Cleansing Stick Review”
Here’s a super seed to supersede your previous beauty cleanser: the face shop’s new seed line. I got a sample of the whitening and exfoliating chia seed cleanser and fell in love with it. So of course despite having a vanity full of scrubs I had to get this:
Now the “white seed” cleanser doesn’t specifically mention Chia seeds. But it doesn’t really matter because the graininess of the seeds are used for exfoliation and not for their moisturizing properties.
Continue reading “Need for Seed – TheFaceShop’s White Seed Exfoliating Foam Cleanser “
I wanted to spread the word. Until 11am EST tomorrow (that’s Friday Feb. 27), select items are available at Soko Glam for 50% off. To see the items, go to http://sokoglam.com/collections/LUCKY-BREAKS and use the code “luckydaily4” at checkout. Bonus: Free standard shipping for U.S. orders of $50 or more. Full details here.
Piggy piggy piggy can’t you see, somehow your collagen just hypnotizes me….ok it’s not the best rewrite of Notorious B.I.G ever but rap songs ain’t gonna make your skin silky smooth like this mask:
Continue reading “I Like Pig Butts and I Cannot Lie – Elizavecca Green Piggy Collagen Jella Pack”
Asses aren’t just great in rap songs anymore! Leave it to the Koreans to milk the benefits of donkey lactation! Donkey milk is the new skincare rage. And why not? If it was good enough for Cleopatra it might be good enough for moi! Behold my latest acquisition thanks to Angela’s recent LA beauty hoard…er…haul:
Continue reading “Nice Ass! – Imselene Donkey Milk Holic Sleeping Mask Pack”
I love cushion compacts and I love customized things, so a DIY cushion compact is just up my alley. A DIY cushion is also a great solution for the dearth of cushion compacts for deeper skin tones and the general dearth of cushion versions of color makeup (highlighter, blush, bronzer).
A’Pieu and Missha actually have empty cushion compacts made for this purpose. I’ve seen some other DIY tutorials involving kitchen sponges, stamp/finger-wetting sponges, and regular makeup sponges. But the Missha Magic Cushion is so cheap ($10-13) that I figured I may as well just buy one that’s intended specifically for this purpose.
Continue reading “Magic: The Gathering (of Makeup): DIY Missha Magic Cushion Review + Tutorial”
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