The Beauty Spotlight Team: Weekend Reads
Cindy from Prime Beauty is head-over-stilettos with a fabulous new foundation. SENNA's Lasting Illusion Foundation has a satin finish perfect for the over 40 woman.15 Minute Beauty shares her favorite...
View ArticleTHREE 09 Star Guitar 4D Eye Palette
My favourite eyeshadow palette of 2013 is without question THREEÂ Star Guitar. It's become such a key part of my makeup wardrobe -- I wear it as a palette at least once a week, and integrate its four...
View Article2013 Favourites
The past makeup year was marked more by endings than beginnings -- my favourite lipstick formula (Suqqu Creamy Glow) was discontinued, and I came to the end of some favourite products from my first...
View ArticleChanel Diapason Illusion D'Ombre 92
Spring collections are already peppering counters here in Hong Kong like a flock of predictably pastel butterflies, but personally I'm not over ye burgundy-bruised opium-eater eyes of winter yet....
View ArticleThe Beauty Spotlight Team: Twenty Questions with Marcia from Beauty Info Zone
Does Marcia from Beauty Info Zone hold anything back in her 20 questions session? You'll have to read to find out the truth and nothing but the truth.
View ArticleBiteki February 2014 Spring Collections Catalogue
Welcome to another edition of Magazine Monday! This time, my favourite: the Biteki new collections booklet! :D I know with the internet dese days (tsk tsk) and ever-earlier release dates, much of the...
View ArticleNew/Old Face
After showing you the sad remains of my Chanel Illusoire Illusion D'Ombre, I realised that, true to my blogging fail ways, I'd never actually posted a look with this obviously much-loved staple. XD So...
View ArticleThe Beauty Spotlight Team: Weekend Links
Helen from Lola's Secret Beauty Blog never thought she would find a primer she loved more than Hourglass Veil Mineral Primer until she tried Hourglass No. 28 Primer Serum! What a total revelation for...
View ArticleSunday Sundries: Miss Korea
My latest obsession: Korean drama Miss Korea, both gloriously camp and surprisingly thoughtful, currently halfway through its twenty episode run. So to while away those agonising hours until...
View ArticleBiteki Feburary 2014: Looks and Tutes
This issue of Biteki was rather slim pickings for looks, the bulk of the magazine being taken up with a 'best of 2013' retrospective (which I shan't bother scanning, because it's basically advertorial...
View ArticlePaul & Joe Face Powder S
I have quite the history with Paul and Joe and their balls. It consists of my missing out on them ALL THE TIME. Disney balls. Flowery balls. Bottled balls. (Okay those ones kind of freak me out.)But...
View ArticleFace Stockholm Crème Blush Part Two: Milan, Shanghai, Paris, London
Now please indulge me and help pretend there will definitely, positively, absolutely be NO part three, eh? >.<To recap, I adore these unctuous, silky, pigmented,...
View ArticleBeauty Spotlight Team: Twenty Questions with Pink Sith
The Beauty Spotlight Group has decided to ask each of its members to reveal a little something about themselves through a series of 20 questions. It's Pink Sith's turn, and while she is not a fan of...
View ArticleSpringboard Paul&Joe: Pastels and Diagonals
These two recent looks jumble together an array of influences and tweaks from magazines posted previously, but are most immediately inspired by my attempt fake up and thus avoid purchasing the two eye...
View ArticleDupe or No Dupe? Brief Brush Comparisons
Remember my 2013 favourites? They included two Sephora Pro brushes (#28 and #56), and I've received quite a few questions about them and how they compare to earlier favourites/staples in the *cough*...
View ArticleYSL Spring Festival Giveaway!
This is my first Spring Festival (otherwise known as Chinese New Year) in Hong Kong, and so royally (i.e. rottenly) have I been spoiled -- with red envelopes (containing giftcards to various girly...
View ArticleThe Beauty Spotlight Team: Weekend Reads
With Valentine'sDay fast approaching, Visionary Beauty finds that the new Illusion d'Ombres from this years Chanel Notes de Printemps collection were meant for each other.Want to know how to make your...
View ArticleYSL Spring Dohwa Look
This edition of Testing Tuesday is Dohwa Dienstag! Because iz international wimmin of mystery, innit? And alliteration.To showcase a few of the YSL goodies I'm giving away (you have two more days to...
View ArticleYSL Giveaway Winner!
Out of 179 entries, the internets drew:Which is:Congratulations, leah! Looks like you'll be adding some bright pinky reds to that pretty spring look :DPlease email me with your mailing address within...
View ArticleBrush By Brand: Hakuhodo
Let's play a game. It's called 'pretend it hasn't been almost six months since I announced this Brushes by Brand series of posts'. Big fun to be had. Much fluffs. Pointy sticks.Kicking things off, my...
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