Counting Gifts for Christmas: My Christmas Wish List

With Christmas just 5 days to go, I cannot help have the little kid in me create a short list that I'd wish from Santa. If only magical elves and flying reindeer's were still applicable to older people I would have still sent my wish list to North Pole!

Anyway, this is pretty much the top 5 things that I'd wish to see under the tree on Christmas day!

1. Rocki Wifi Music System - who hasn't suffered bad sounding Wifi speakers? I've had countless incidents when I had to make do with those cheap portable speakers whenever I'm streaming music from my Ipod. Enter this handy little thing that can turn all speakers into wifi speakers! Really cool thing right? Though not yet available on retail, I can settle for the next best thing. Pledge on its Kickstart Page to be part of the initial production. Delivery is estimated by February of 2014.

2. Form 1 3D Printer - Let's just say, this is more of a want than a need. But who doesn't want to have a 3D printer? I mean, you can make a lot of things with it. I'm dreaming of creating ornaments, accessories, cases and other what not's with it. This Formlabs product actually is cheaper and handier than the other 3D printers.

Pencil 101: Write the Lines the Right Way

Sometimes you're just wondering, how come I can't get the perfect cat's eye? Why does my eyeliner looks like Taylor Momsen was my image peg? And what in the world! My lip liner looks so dang crooked! Well, fear not, our friends from The Beauty Department just gave us the answers to our life's question on penciling. 

Eyebrow Pencil Week: Holika Holika Wonder Drawing 24hr Auto Eyebrow

Whew! Busy, busy, busy! Christmas is fast approaching and with this little bee very happy buzzing around, I cannot help but scrimp on makeup prep time. As you may remember, I am a huge fanatic with regards to creating perfect eyebrows. Unfortunately when you say "perfect brows" that means taking time to do them up. Thank goodness for these amazing products that helps me accomplish my desired brows in a jiffy. 

So it begins: Eyebrow Week.

  

First stop on my beloved eyebrow pencils is the Holika Holika Wonder Drawing 24hr Auto Eyebrow. I got the shade 04 which is Red Brown in color as I am planning on dyeing my hair burgundy in the following days.

Make Your Lips Bloom: Etude House Rosy Tint Lips

I'm really envious of young girls today. They came in at a time where makeup has become adventurous, creative and accessible. As a student back in 2002, the time where I had found my love for makeup, I was limited with the number of products to choose from and can afford. Big brand names where out of the question and I had to rely to the occasional gifts from Aunts. 

Anyway before I go too far down the memory lane, I really am happy that with the entrance of Korean brands. Girls nowadays have more options to choose from, in budget friendly prices and can easily find a shade that can work as perfect dupes for big name brands. 

Such is the Etude House & Rose Collection for Fall 2013. Going through the products included in the collection, I picked up the Rosy tint Lips in shade 8 called After Blossom.

The product comes in a hard plastic tube, which to be honest is a little too hard to squeeze. Quite annoying because it always makes me feel like its almost empty. The tube has a sponge applicator on the end that looks a lot like a woolly cotton sponge. It doesn't spread as evenly on, and  in my opinion not really hygienic.

Sneak Peek: Inglot Has Landed

If you've been following my blog you would have noticed the count down I posted for the opening of the first ever Inglot store in the Philippines. I was so excited that I needed to have a visual reminder of the number of minutes I have to wait.

But Inglot Ph upped the ante by giving their fantards a sneak peek 2 days before the actual opening of the store. My makeup fairy must be in hyper mode (remember the MUFE thing? *smirks) because I scored exclusive passes.

Now I'm sharing you first dibs of this exciting day.

Shu Uemura Week: The Hard Formula Brow Pencil

If there's a part of my face that I wish I can magically change, it would be my eyebrows. I have asymmetrical eyebrows with my left brow a lot shorter than the right. Over all it's also very sparse with hair growing on all directions. They happen to be really bad that one hapless MUA exclaimed "Pwedeng ahitin ko nalang kilay mo, tapos drawing tayo ng bago? Hirap kasi eh."(Can we just shave off your brows, so I can just draw them on?). 

Though I am still struggling with it, I can definitely say that I am at least lucky to find my HG brow pencil that brought us to talk about Shu Uemura all this week.

Yup, it's the Hard Formula Brow Pencil today folks. I will never stop raving about this pencil because I've found a partner, a soul mate and the best soldier to combat my ill-shaped brows. Though a lot of other brow products have come and go, I know this one will always hold the glory of staying put in my makeup kit.

Makeup DIY: Kool-Aid Lips

Sometimes you just want to be a cheapskate, and that includes makeup so what a better way to do that by reaching for that handy dandy container of Kool-Aid you have on your cupboard eh? Our friends from The Beauty Department just gave us the deets on how to get the swoon worthy lips without breaking the piggy bank. 

Just keep in mind not to suck on your lips too much. I know that would be a bit hard, because the powder is just yum!

Shu Uemura Week: High Performance Cleansing Oil

So my day has been amazing. I woke up with the smell of longanisa and daing na pusit wafting through the air (Filipino's know how amazing that smells, yum yum!). The best breakfast of the champions on the dining table, nobody can surely beat that eh? 

Anyway, before I go and completely salivate let's get back to great topic at hand. 

For those who just tuned in it's everything  Shu this week, so today I bring you one of their makeup cleansing products, the Skin Purifier High Performance Cleansing Oil.