How's everybody doing? I've been very busy having fun with my family at Jakarta :D, we even went to Star Trek's exhibition earlier today *LOL*. I'd be the first to admit that we're the biggest nerds out there, but we're not exactly Star Trek's fans, still-we'd never let any chance to geek out pass us by :P. That's not what i'm going to yap about today (i snapped a truckload of pics and would be dedicating a whole blog post for the exhibition!) though, i have no way to import the pictures from our cameras to my Ipad and yes, i am attempting to do a full blog post entirely from my mini Ipad! (All the pictures in this blog post's also taken by my Ipad for convenience sake, so please excuse the quality!)

One of my fave reads in beauty blogs is the "What's inside my makeup pouch" kind of stuffs (no idea why, probably because i am simply a nosey person in general :p) and i've been doing that type of posts more than a few times myself, especially the "Beauty stuffs i bring to my travels" ones-but since what i am bringing on my travels mostly always changes, i think it's always interesting to make a new one on (almost) every travel *LOL*. I sure hope most of you are as nosey as me, that is!

Those are the makeup pouches i brought with me in this 2014's family summer holiday (yezzz, i like to put a title on everything, sue me!)-but that's not all, i still have one more makeup organizer that i used mainly to store my skin cares. Not going to show you that other pouch here though coz i'm focusing on the makeups right now, i'd probably make another post for skin cares (if i'm not too lazy. Told ya i left my glasses in Surabaya and as comfortable as my contacts are, i do not like to use them for much longer than absolutely necessary, my poor eyes!) since i have anxiety for leaving this blog dormant for too long (damn #Undecided for not writing at all since i left! Please don't abandon me, readers!!! *dramatic*).

Anyway. Let's see what's inside pouch #1, shall we?

But first, let me take a selfie... Errrr, no, i mean let me tell you a little bit about that pretty and elegant looking (meaning : totally un-me.. LOLOLOLOL, i'm all about pinky, rainbow, cupcakes and unicorn, remember? Not a single classy bone in me!) pouch... I actually got it from attending Shiseido/Grand Palace event last August (i'd normally link the blog post up but i don't think it's possible to do via ipad zzzz) but never found the right ocassion to use it yet, until now :D. So yes, the pouch is brand new, i just took it out from the plastic wrap before we left... And so are around 50% of the content! (oh, i take that back, only 25%'s new!)

Yup, those are the stuffs inside, and i also cannot write captions on the pictures. ZZZ. Travel-blogging is definitely not convenient.

I actually forgot to feature 1 item, because i chucked it in my makeup organizer (yes, i am messy, whatever. You can discuss about my messiness or general ickiness with my mum and you'd be talking to her for a month), and that is :

Wah, so blurry ah. LOL, sorry. Anyway, turned out not 1 but 2, eh? But they're the same product, Tony Moly Expert Triple BB Cream-both travel sized (pretty big, not the sad sad tiny ones) deluxe sample i got from beauty boxes (which we have no more zzz, RIP Indonesian' beauty boxes!!!). I wore it in Hong Kong (and Bali) and now throughout the Bandung/Jakarta trip (and i haven't even finished one, so 1 tiny tube's more than enough for one month of daily usage!) It's quite nice! I will do a more thorough review on them sometime in the (you guessed it) future.

Nothing new or exciting here, just my must have item : concealers. My usual DHC Medicated Acne Care concealer that's on its last leg (i wear it everyday here because my face is a hot mess right now, combination of monthly business with travels and my allergic to Jakarta super polluted air.. Sigh. Lots of red dots on my chin right now, driving me insane. NEED. FACIAL. NOW) and Etude House's Surprise Essence Concealer for my under eyes.

Tiny Hello Kitty brush set (which i hardly use because i rarely wear more than one color on my lid and i prefer to use my fingers when i only use one, shimmery color hehe) and bow brush that i use to apply finishing powder all over my face (bought it in Sasa).

I brought my cute (and tiny) Kluge by Sophie Martin's compact powder and it turned out to be 1 or 2 shades too dark (and yellow WTF, i look like i got jaundice or something whenever i put it on hahahaha) even though i chose the lightest shade available. And yes, i am one of those crazy people who puts on new makeups on d-day without trying it on before, don't judge me. That's why i also brought along my Esprique face powder which doubles up as both a finishing powder and a highlighter (when i wear powders that are way too dark for me, i like to apply crazy amount of light highlighter all over my face to neutralize the color, not the crazy shimmery ones of course, i have no desire to cosplay as a disco ball...), I feel naked without a streak of pearly white sheen on my nose bridge now WTH...

I don't think i'd be reviewing this Kluge compact powder (coz i dunno if they still sell it? Sophie Martin tends to change up some of their products as Oriflame and Korean brands...), mainly because i forgot to take pictures before using it (and turned it from uber cute to uber dirty and fugly *LOL*) and also because i planned to use it just for touch up purposes-that's before i realize that it's way too dark for me so it won't ever work for touch ups!) so lemme summarize it quickly here : it has a surprisingly good coverage (i'd say it's medium coverage), pretty great oil control (i only need to blot my face like once or twice in a whole day), very powdery (as in lots of fallouts when i swipe the puff on it) therefore making the case absolutely messy, has a strange-floral but not very pleasant-old lady smell. It comes in a super cute packaging and very cheap price (don't ask me how much). Unfortunately since it's pretty thick, it has the possibility to clog up your skin, i think it's making my whiteheads problem worsened zzzz. But it should be okay if you use it like, 3- 4 times a week, i personally think it's unhealthy to wear compact powder every single day anyway, but that's just my opinion! It performs much better than i thought it'd ever be, now if only they have a lighter color choices...