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...
View ArticleSummery 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...
View ArticleFemme 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...
View ArticleFemme 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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleFriday 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...
View ArticleFake-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...
View ArticleMe-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...
View ArticlePale 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...
View ArticleMagazine 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...
View ArticleFemme 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...
View ArticleFoundation 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...
View ArticleMe-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...
View ArticleMOAR 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...)...
View ArticleMe-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:...
View ArticleMe-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...
View ArticleVisée 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFemme 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,...
View ArticleSkincare for Pigmentation: HABA and Dr Wu
I've been sitting on this post for over three months, and had meant to do so for a while longer before letting it hatch, because I have a horror of jumping the gun on skincare, raving about something...
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