Pink and Undecided: challenge

Revlon Colorful Affair Challenge

Hey guyssss!

Anyone missed me? I haven't really been present (both in my blog and social medias except for posting photos because... gotta be updated, no?) this last month because as most of you might already know, i was in Singapore and Malaysia-holidaying with my fam bam! In fact, i literally just got back in Surabaya 2 hours or so ago and as soon as i get settled (as in feeding myself, get changed and other necessary steps) here i am, sitting in front of my computer to write this blog post! Why? Because this is the last day of this fun challenge held by Revlon and BBlog : Colorful Affair Challenge!

To be completely honest with you, as this challenge is to create an EOTD, i was quite apprehensive-you know i am not the most creative person out there when it comes to makeup (as much as i love makeups, i mostly stick to my signature look!) but with the spirit of putting myself out of my comfort zone (as #Undecided said, that's one one grows #LOL) as well as really wanting to try out Revlon's new eyeliners, i decided to take a leap of faith! Here's the look i come up with :

Eye makeup only using Revlon eyeliners!

For this challenge, Revlon and BBlog kindly sent these dynamic duo :

Thank you!

I was very happy when they arrived just in time before i left to Singapore and saw that the colors they sent somehow really screams my name! I got a purple Colorstay pencil eyeliner (which is definitely one of my favorite colors) and silver Colorstay Skinny Liquid Liner! I always love love love metallic liquid eyeliners and pretty much been searching high and low for the perfect one, now my search has come to an end : i am in love (dramatic, i know)!

I don't know about you, but eyeliner is definitely a staple product for me! I used to put blush on as the number one makeup that i can't live without, but ever since i discovered how a simple thick, dark liner can open up my eyes and make it so much bigger and livelier-eyeliner has definitely taken over the top spot for me! For everyday look i prefer to use black or brown liquid liner on my eyelid and brown or black pencil liner (but often substituted by dark eye shadows) on my waterline-but i really do love myself some brightly colored eyeliners too! They're great for a quick eyeshadow replacement and totally suit my colorful and bubbly personality as well!

Here's the step by step to achieve the look (which i call "Futuristic Geisha" hihihi), it is very easy (as usual), simple and quick!

Step one :

Line eyelid with Revlon Colorstay pencil liner in purple, make the line thick enough to cover half of your double eyelid (if you have double eyelid, of course. For monolids, line as thick as you comfortable with because i personally find very thin liners to make my eyes look smaller!), extend the line to create the longer eye illusion. I like to drag the wing down for a more innocent, sad puppy eyes.

Step two :

Apply Revlon Colorstay Skinny Liquid Liner in silver on top of the purple liner, leaving only a thin line of purple beneath. I find lining over the colored pencil liner gives the silver liner more depth and definition that it can lack if applied on bare skin.

Step three :

Apply the purple pencil liner again on top of the silver and connect the edge to make a more mod, futuristic look.

Final step :

Line half of your outer waterline with the purple pencil liner and continued with the purple on in the inner half.

Don't forget to do your eyebrow and viola! You're done! Took me less than 10 minutes for the whole look!

I completed the look with a soft pink blush on and sweet, bright pink lipstick for a toothache-inducingly sweet look hahaha!

This look really suits my personality well because nothing describes my style better than a youthful, bright, colorful and glitzy look (i would say that this look is perfect for a self-professed Gyaru Mama hahaha!)! Even though i am in my early 30s, i am forever 21 at heart *LOL* and i always have this innocent, naive part of myself that i don't ever want to let go. I love the girly, kiddie part of me (as much as i love the wisdom and knowledge that comes with age) and i don't ever want to let it go-this eyelook gives me an ever cuter (ahem!), more innocent and sweet looking eyes, which really shows the world how i really am inside : forever in awe of the big big world with its wonders, and always believe in the good of people (until proven otherwise!).

Even my hunny, who never really comment much on my makeup, told me i looked very "Japanese school girl" and cute that day, that's quite something alright!

Btw, i really really love these Revlon eyeliners, especially the skinny liquid one! I am not just saying it, but i really mean it! The silver one is just PERFECT. I will definitely review them in more detail (they deserve separate blog posts really!), are you looking forward to that?

In the meantime, always keep updated with the latest news, new releases, quizzes, promotions and events from Revlon by following their social medias :

Twitter: https://twitter.com/revlonid

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RevlonID

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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/RevlonIndonesia

Thank you once again for Revlon and BBlog for the awesome eyeliners!

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Looxchallenge : Bombshell

beauty

Happy Saturday everybody!

How's yours? We just got back from GM, watched Las Vegas-which was H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S, i said it before and i'd say it again : those old bas***ds still got it! Hehehehe.

Anyway, it's been so long since the last time i joined any make up challenges, yes? For a while it was because i was too busy traveling (that JB/SG and Taiwan trips were kinda close to each other, less than a month apart!), then i think the challenges that came next was out of my capability *LOL*... I have a lot of free time this November, so when i stumbled into the next do-able MUC, i decided to join it. This time it's another Looxchallenge by Looxperiments and the theme is : Bombshell.

Upon hearing the theme this month, #Undecided's reaction was... Well, she burst out laughing. She told me to pad my bra as much as possible (coz i am not well endowed, by a MILE), then i told her "HOYYY, it's a MAKE UP challenge!!!! FACE!!!! FACCEEeE-ahhh!!!!". Not that she stopped laughing, she said she couldn't imagine my face in a bombshell mode. Pfffftttt, so little faith in me (just as little as my faith in her for ever following her previous words about carrying Baby Luca while he's still a baby! Scaredy cat!!!).

Not that i blamed her, i myself think that i am naturally unsexy *LOL*. I guess girls are divided by two categories in terms of looks (and then by so many other sub categories), you're either hot/sexy or cute/sweet. I've been told that i am cute *ahem* countless time, but sexy? Well, maybe by hunny (and ex bfs) hahahaha. So i did had a hard time, especially posing (because you cannot do a bombshell make up interpretation and then act all cute, no?) that i ended up with like, 50 pictures? More than half were unusable and so cringe-worthy i couldn't even look at them. Here's some of the final photos :

This is just the first picture but by the end of the entry you'd know i've given up and decided the most bombshell pose was one with come-hither stare, partially parted lips with fingers hovering nearby. LOLOLOL FML.

Another one hahahaha

As usual, no make up challenge without simple tutorial following! I decided the only way to make me look even slightly sexy was to pile up on make up hahaha.

Base : Vaseline for lips, Etude House AC Clinic Daily Sun BB (even though we were going out at night, i used this just because i've just had a facial a few days before-i only wear acne preventing products after facials), Mentholatum Acnes Compact Powder (same reason as before, plus it was 2 tones darker than my own skin and i always associated sexiness with tans), Clinique All About Eyes Concealer and DHC Medicated Acne Care Concealer

After eye lid primer (i only own one : e.l.f's) i used this cream eye shadow all over my lids

Hahahaha look at how RED my face looked! This Acne powder def cannot be used alone by me, i have to buffed on lots of highlighter all over my face to brighten it up!

Then used a dark brown eyeshadow for the crease, making a V shape (i used my Aphrology Palette and as you can see, the eye shadows were very powdery-some more than the others. The dark brown's one of the worst one)

And they are not very pigmented either, but that's fair comparing the price i guess. And i am quite bad at eye shadow application so maybe this is the right consistency for me haha

Then a very dark brown to deepen my creases

Don't worry about any fall off, you'd use the same dark eye shadow for under your eyes anyway. Yeah, i was going for a slightly smokey look

My eyelid looked so wrinkly here! LOL. I was squeezing them too hard :p

Then line your eyes heavily, and don't forget to extend it for a sexy cat eye! Be dramatic!

I was unhappy with the eyeliner that i had to re-do them a few times, thank God for make up corrector pen-or else i'd have to re-do the whole eyes! The horror!!!

I was rushing (because i did this on a Saturday night before we go out and we wanted to catch a movie-and i was taking more time than expected because of the whole eyeliner incident!!!) so i just grabbed the nearest thing i saw for my brow bone and it just happened to be my Esprique Precious Double Shine Face Powder-i think this is the first time the actual thing make a photo appearance in this blog?-even though it's a face powder but the white powder's white and shimmery enough to be used as an eye shadow!

With the Esprique powder as browbone shadow!

Then i lined the lower parts of my eyes heavily with dark brown eye shadow, followed with black pencil liner. Didn't forget my mascara of course!

Eye make ups used. I layered my Maybelline Falsies' mascara with ZA's because none of them works well by themselves (for me) but pretty amazing combined!

I used some light bronzer on my cheeks and cheekbones but panicking when they disappeared on my skin (because that Acnes powder was darker than my light bronzer LOL!) so i decided to put on this Teen Teen Powder Blusher. I'm not a fan of this type of packaging, i prefer using brush for blushers. It's a bit tedious, dabbing the small sponge all over my cheeks, not to mention hunny managed to tore off a bit of the sponge when trying to open the plastic covering the holes-and now whenever i'm using this tiny particles of blushers would float out of the hole and choke me *UHUKKK UHUKKKK* LOL. But it's a pretty rosey color with pretty shimmers on it, other than tan, i also always associate sexy with glowy, shimmery skin!

Final result

See??? Same pose over and over again ahahahaha

I must warn you ah, even though i told you i had hard times trying to pose, i over compensate by taking SOOO many pictures. Mostly not only the poses that bothered me, but my super long bangs which cannot be controlled (and looked fugly) totally ruined the pictures. In fact, almost none of the first batch pictures (taken before we go out, LOL, i ended up leaving the house a lot latter than i planned to be, obvi) was usable, i resumed taking pictures after we go home-when i was no longer rushing, had all the time in the world and my bangs already loosened and followed the shape i wanted! Since i worked so hard, please don't mind me posting LOTS and LOTS of self-centred selcas here! There are a LOT! I cut down as much as i could already :p.

Can you see me showing off my nails? I was using Elianto Sparkling Diva nail polish in 18 Racing Green.

I will review this nail polish in another post :)

It's a lot darker in real life, very mysterious and gorgeous. I'd say it's emerald green with gold speckles (i checked some reviews who described it as a forrest green-which is true too, but for me i'd prefer to describe it as an emerald green). It was already on my fingers because i painted it the day before for my dad's birthday celebration (another post for this look coming up) but i think it fits with the theme (you know, sexy and dark hahaha)!

I got one negative comment (from someone who likes to give out negative comments at every situation *LOL*) "Why green??? So horrible!!!". Oh well, i really don't understand that type of people, i mean... i don't go on and tell you that your face's horrible, right? So don't go and vomit nonsense about what you think of my nail polish selection *LOL*. If nobody asked for your advice/opinion, don't give it-they don't want it!

Now onto the OOTD of course!

Turtleneck Lace Top (inner) : Forever 21, Black Floral Mini Dress : My own boutique, Shoes : Everbest

Sexy doesn't always have to be revealing, leave more to the imagination!

Well, i had lots of fun trying to be a bombshell for one night *HAHA*. Too much fun in fact that i'd try dressing up and using this kind of make ups more often in the future *if i'm not too lazy. The eye make up was a lot more work than i'm used to hahaha*! Hope you had fun reading and didn't laugh at me (trying to look sexy) too much! Oh yeah, the challenge's still going, come and join it as well! If you've done it (or decided to join as well after reading this-because if #Pink can do it then you can do it, teehee!), i'd love to see your interpretation, do drop me a link if you write an entry about it :D!

#Pink

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Looxchallenge : Indonesia Banget (Very Indonesia)

batik

Hi guys!!!

How y'all doin? I'm currently really annoyed with hunny. I don't understand how guys cannot throw their dirty clothes in the laundry bin, instead they just throw wherever they like, including on top on MY clean towel, or on top of the sink shelve. Anywhere but the right place, like a feet away. Also they will leave the cupboard's door open after taking their clothes, but promptly tries to close the walk in closet whenever i am inside. FYI, i don't always turn on the air conditioner inside my walk in closet unless i plan to stay there for awhile (like when i'm putting on my make up or playing dress up, etc) so it's really HOT and suffocating if the door leading to the (fully air-conditioned) room's closed. Arghhhhh!!!! Why the eff are they so friggin annoying??? WHY???

Okay, feeling much better already after writing it down *easy* LOL. Anyhoo... You should notice lately i'm really lazy to join any outfit or make up challenge, just been feeling very tired and sleepy (yes, not 100% over the stupid flu yet, it takes up to three weeks for me to get over bad cases of flu zzzz) and whenever i went out i tend to throw whatever on *unlike usual, normally i'd carefully choose my outfit, top to bottom*. I'm also too lazy to play around with my makeup, just slap on the basic stuffs over and over again LOL. Seriously, flu makes me so lazy and unlively zzz.

But! Been feeling much better already so i decided to pay more attention to my outfits again, and decided to join Looxperiment's latest challenge (this time, unlike usual, they only have one theme that can be incorporated to any outfit, nail art or make up). The theme caught my attention immediately and i've been meaning to join it because of it. It's called : Indonesia Banget (or Very Indonesia). You know i'm a pretty patriotic person *national anthem blaring, posing patriotically* :p.

So, since it's Saturday night (weekend is when i'm more daring with my makeup and outfits), i decided to dress up to the theme, complete with the complimenting makeup. Yes, time for dramatic make up, after weeks of lazy nude colored make up haha.

For the outfit challenge, i immediately think of Batik because what's more Indonesia than batik when it comes to clothing, right? Yes yes, i know i'm not creative lah sorry LOL. I know it's not Friday (for non-Indonesian readers : Friday is the official Batik day in Indonesia, everybody's encouraged to wear Batik on Fridays. Even in banks, etc, you'll see the employees all wears batiks on Fridays), but hey, we should always be proud to wear our Batik anytime of the week, right?

Here's the look that i came up with for my Indonesia Banget look :

My Indonesia Banget Outfit

My Indonesia Banget make up

The color theme for the outfit and make up was also inspired by one of the picures Looxperiments posted for inspiration :

Beautiful blue and green colors are dominating the view in Bedugul Temple, Bali

I was highly inspired by all the beautiful blue and green (and in between) in the picture, and i was really happy when i remembered i had this beautiful blue batik patterned dress (FYI again, real hand painted batiks worth a fortune, i don't really own any real ones, just mass-produced batik patterned ones), it's not new for once, had this for years already.

Only worn it once before though, i do remember my mum complimenting it, telling me the dress was pretty *as i said before, my mum doesn't really approve most of my clothing choices, so any compliments i'd very unlikely going to forget haha. Even dresses she BOUGHT for me like this beautiful Valentino inspired one she didn't remember-or liked. I had to remind her that she bought it for me and she was like "I did?" and then went on criticizing the way i styled the dress. She said my blazer ruined the whole look, that's why she didn't even notice it was the dress she bought me. WTF*

It's a tube/halter dress (can be worn in both ways), of course i had to put on an inner lah haha.

As for the make up, it looks really subtle in the photos, it was really vivid and dramatic in real life lah! Not super crazy though, i think it was still very wearable lah *i did wore it to GM*. We (accidentally) had dinner with A and her hubby and they didn't say i looked crazy or whatever (but that could be down to the fact that i often look crazy??? I sure hope not!) so i guess it was OKAY lah???

Here's a little step by step tutorial, oh first lemme show you the eye shadow colors i used (all from the same Australis make up palette)

Only used the blue and greens, didn't use the purple :p

As usual, start from the base (light foundation+concealer+powder), followed by eye shadow primer. Next i used the lighter green eye shadow on my lid as a base.

Please excuse the little pimple next to my eyebrow, my period's just finished :p

Somehow the eyeshadow looked subtle in the pictures, it's really bright IRL

OH! Also please excuse my crazy eyebrows! LOL! I'm growing them because i'm tired of people telling me "thick eyebrows are in! Korean style, Korean style!" WTF, also because a friend (N) commented a few times when she saw me "What's wrong with your eyebrows?". My plucked eyebrows could look a bit sparse from the wrong angle, you see.

So i decided to let them grow and be naturally thick, don't worry i plan to go to a professional eyebrow-shaper later in Jakarta that once my sis-in-law and niece tried, they looked nice. In the mean time please bear with my uneven and holey brows *LOL*, i seriously have no idea on how to draw them. My eyebrows were always *ahem* nicely shaped, even if it was a little thin (plucked thin, not naturally thin), people sometimes mistaken them as being embroidered of drawn on *LOL*.

Anyway! Next, i used the darker (bright) green eyeshadow on the outer V, all the way in around the eye sockets, blend-blend-blend! Let the middle and above the eye socket alone so they'd create a subtle green-gradations. (I picked on too much eyeshadow so i had to tone them down with a very pale grey eye shadow later so i didn't look nuts!)

I didn't plan on doing a smokey-eye look but there were some fallen eye shadows under my eyes and they looked pretty nice (and too lazy if i had to clean them, i'd have to re-do my under eye concealer!) so i just add some more green under my eyes and viola, instant smokey eyes! LOL. Also applied the blue eyeshadow from the same palette in the middle of the lid, blending them until there were no harsh edges between the three colors. Also applied very pale grey eyeshadow (from the same palette as well but not pictured) on my brow bone and use the rest to blend all of the other colors and lighten them up a bit because it was really bright, like crazy bright!

Don't worry, i know it looked a bit like my Sloth look *LOL* (i really was tired though), it will look awake once you put on eyeliners and mascara :D.

Then of course, black liquid eyeliner on the lid!

Next is mascara (my mascara's running out... i just got one from my stash to bring to Europe, and i realized i was left with four more mascara on my stock, somehow i feel like i don't have enough stock. WTF. *slaps self* FOUR is more than enough #Pink!!!! Haih, i kinda regret not getting some while we were grocery shopping a few days ago, Maybelline's having a sale in Carrefour at the moment, info for my fellow Indonesian!)

Later i also lined my waterline with black pencil eyeliner as usual, halfway in. Lined the rest with a pearly lavender eyeliner, not forgetting the inner corner on my eyes. A little bit of bling there is always a perfect touch. Then i applied a reddish blush on lightly and put on my Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Cherry Ice (19). I've been using it non-stop for almost a month, not because i'm very in love or whatever but i tend to wear a new lip color a lot for sometime then chuck them and move on to another color *LOL*, this lipstick is also very subtle and easy to pair with any makeup style (although could look a bit pale on me if i wear very mininal make up), i also been meaning to take pictures for a review and kept forgetting to, and i kept on wearing it because i keep on wanting to take pictures! I know, WTF...

Final look :

So... That's my version of Indonesia Banget! Hope y'all like it :p!

I went shopping with L again yesterday, i finally got the scarf-will tell ya more about our shopping next time! And earlier tonight we (as in me and hunny) shopped some more for stuffs we need for the trip, it's getting closer and closer to the D Day! It's going to be my first long haul flight and i'm a bit panicked thinking of my make up cleanser and a bit of make up to bring to the cabin (coz we're going for the tour straight from the flight, i don't want to look too crazy since i'm 100% sure i'm gonna want to take LOADS of pictures!) plus my contact lens solutions! You know i'm blind as a bat without my contact lenses and am not comfortable going out with my glasses because they confuse me (totally disoriented whenever i go tried to go out with them). Haih.

I think i'm gonna write an entry to show your guys the makeups i'm bringing to Europe (because i love reading such entries on other blogs so i also want to do one lah hahahaha)! Mostly i purposefully bought (miniature size or non-liquid ones) for the trip hahaha so they'd make a future appearance on my haul post as well :p.

I'm gonna stop now (and go back obsessing over stuffs to bring to Europe, i'm sorry i already told you i'm very easily obsessed), hope you guys are having a rockin' weekend! Toodles!