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goo goo ga ga

well, aint that the level of sparkling drivel you expect from this blog? :DI was tagged by Liz (the lovelier-than-Taylor Liz!) of So Lonely in Gorgeous to share some pictures of babydriveller, and took...

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Sunday Face: Old & New

Just a quickie, inspired by a recent makeupalley 'neglected palettes' challenge. Though lately the combination of spring allergies and insane workload has meant that pretty much all my eyeshadows fall...

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The Beauty Spotlight Team: Weekend Links

Is Marc Jacobs Lovemarc Lip Gel in Strange Magic true love, or a true miss for Lola's Secret Beauty Blog ? How did it compare to Tom Ford Nude Vanilla?Carrie from eyeliner on a cat shares her love of...

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Korean lipstick series: Laneige Serum Intense LR08 Flare Magenta

Making a virtue of my continued eyeshadow-neglect (dammit, spring! stop it with the pollen already), I present the first in a series (remember my epic gift card Innisfree haul?) of Korean lipstick...

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Finished on Friday...

Pans of the Week: Addiction cheekstick in Amazing (first reviewed/acquired way back in 2011)Guerlain Rouge Automatique in Chamade (which is, despite my greater affection for Liu, my most-worn Rouge...

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The Beauty Spotlight Team: 15 Questions with 15 Minute Beauty

It's 15 Minute Beauty's turn to answer some questions, so of course she's answering 15 of them!  Head over to see why she still can't really smell chocolate (really) and if she's a gloss or lipstick girl!

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Femme Boulevard: The Oldest and The Newest

It's such a lazy blog cliché, but I really have no idea where this month went. It's already the last Saturday of April, which means a Femme Boulevard post, and thankfully it too is a lazy one,...

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The Beauty Spotlight Team: Weekend Links

When Mostly Sunny got wind of a pencil liner that is supposed to be as good as a gel liner, she had to see for herself if it can do everything a gel liner can while sparing her a dirty brush to wash...

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Visée Eyeshadow Palette Roundup

Part 2 of my post-brand-relaunch Visée review series examines the four eyeshadow palettes I've acquired: the first (Smoky Rich Eyes PK-1) a thoughtful gift from Rosy very soon after the relaunch, whose...

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Me-Made May 2014 Week 1

Some of you may know that I took up dressmaking in earnest  in 2013 i.e. we are discounting and nevermentioningagain the "patterns / learning to operate the sewing machine correctly / vaguely human...

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Me-Made May 2014: Week 2

....so this is turning into drivel about fabrications. I'd meant to post a few makeuppy reviews, but my camera has been hiccupping all week and I ended up discarding every fuzzy picture it took. D:...

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MOAR Dior: Fluid Sticks 373 Rieuse and 995 Intrigue

My love affair with these Fluid Sticks continues to... roil and ...be torrid, and stuff. So as soon as my quarterly no-buy ended (no really, we're talking literal stroke-of-midnight paypalling here...)...

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Me-Made May 2014: Week 3

The 'Look Ma, No Knits' edition! Because not only did spring finally deign to visit London, summer came right on its heels, and the week went from warm to glorious. Which probably means we'll be back...

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Foundation Review: Bobbi Brown Skin Stick 00 Alabaster

A much-belated, oft-requested review of a product that probably no longer qualifies as 'new' :P Bobbi Brown's 2014 reformulated version of their cult foundation stick, in the palest shade, 00...

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Femme Boulevard Goes Graphic!

Graphic editorial makeup usually connotes something bold and fierce and totally cool in that fashion-ugly fashion. Y'know, primrose-yellow blush, blue lipstick in a joker grin, one entire eyelid...

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Magazine Monday: Maquia April 2014

I know, I still need to blog the last fortnight of Me Made May, but camera hiccups / wagon fallings-off / general busytimes mean that I'm running behind on pics. In the meantime, here's an alliterative...

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Pale Foundation Swatches: My Mother's Matches

Look, it's another non-me-made-may alliterative post! :PMany of the emails sent to this blog address (aside from those gems offering to enlarge my prostate and/or make le big bucks by shilling...

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Me-Made May 2014: The Final Fortnight

So late, so excessively alliterative, so, in fact, jeJUNE...And now that my audience of three has dwindled down to one after that revolting opening, limber up your scrolling finger, because it's a big...

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Fake-Up: Suqqu EX-20 Natsubotan

Welcome to another edition of Makeup Fakeup!Featuring my distant desired object du saison, Suqqu's limited-edition summer quad, EX-20 Natsubotan. As, uninspired by the promo images, I foolishly waited...

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Friday Night Dinner

Apologies for the sporadic posting of late; I've been gearing up for another trip to Asia and trying to spend as much time as possible with my real-life nearest&dearest as I can. But missing you...

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Two Looks with THREE 04 Art of Parties 4D Eyeshadow Palette

Well, this is embarrassingly late. According to my my picasa albums, I bought Art of Parties two whole years ago, in June 2012 -- and that's when I took these pristine snaps:in (angled) sunlightThe...

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Femme Boulevard Vamps It Up

Long time no see, dear ones! In the spirit of K.I.S.S. I haven't been wearing much interesting (or indeed unsmeared) makeup so far this sweltering Asian summer, but the ladies of Femme Boulevard have...

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Femme Boulevard: Simple and Seasonal

Hello world! As you can tell, I am shooting for 'laziest blogger of the year' this year, so thanks for all your support *genuflects* But as before, my lovely pals of Femme Boulevard have dragged me out...

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Summery Summary

A lookbook, representative of my basic makeup doings (cough snort) during my blog hiatus. I've chosen to include only looks featuring products I haven't shown you before, with reviewlets, since the...

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SUQQU 2014 Christmas Set A featuring EX-22 Yukiichigo

Until the release of Christmas set A, I had thought that 2014 would've been my first Suqqu-quad-less year since my falling for the brand since 2009. Then I saw the palette in Set A, EX-22 Yukiichigo...

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