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Eye Stories 08 : Clinique Cream Shaper for Eyes in 03 (Egyptian)

Helloow ^^!

Weekend's here again! Whatcha'll doin? I'm still in hibernating mode after a rather late show of Gods of Egypt last night and plenty of things to do starting tomorrow i just don't feel like going anywhere today zzz.

Anyway, I was about to write that this seems to be my first eyeliner review, but then i checked and i actually did a Collection glitter eyeliner review before that i totally forgot about (hey, i have over 700 posts by now, you can't exactly ask me to remember them all alright!)-but this is definitely the first normal (if you can call olive green eyeliner normal, that is) colored eyeliner.

Anyway, this eyeliner i'm about to review has a rather... Different name, it's Clinique Cream Shaper for Eyes :

I received this eyeliner as part of a goodie bag from Clinique's event so i don't really know how much it costs. According to their official website, it's USD 16.50, which is over IDR 200.000 *faints*. I've never purchased such an expensive eyeliner, let's see if it's worth the hefty price tag!

I got the shade 03 Egyptian, which is olive green color with gold specks

It comes in normal pencil shape, which means you'd have to have to use eyeliner sharpener-something i hate coz it's such a waste of product but at the same time it's a good thing because you can get the pencil tip to be as thin as you want it to be

I always use liquid eyeliner for my eyelid and alternate between pencil liner and eyeshadow for my waterline, but for review purposes i decided to use this eyeliner on both my eyelids and waterline.


No need to be alarmed with the "olive green" part, i think it looks very natural and nice when worn

It's super easy to use too

Snapped the photos before i line my waterline, sorry!

How it looks with full makeup. I combined the eyeliner in the waterline with a gold eyeliner from Make Over (which i loveeee)

Clinique Cream Shaper for Eyes is one of the creamiest (without being too fragile or crumbly), non-tugging, soft to my skin eyeliner i've ever used. It glides on gently without me needing to add extra pressure, the color also shows up easily which means it's pretty pigmented too.

I love the fact that i don't have to work extra hard to make the color shows (extra pulling on eye area is always a no no!) and how soft it is to my skin, although it has gold shimmer or it there's no gritty feeling that some of other glittery/shimmery eyeliners can have. Don't worry about the shimmer too, no need to be afraid to look like a disco ball since the shimmer is very soft and subtle.

According to their website :

Creamy-smooth eyeliner pencil with a hint of shimmer. Shapes and defines with intense, stay-put colour. Non-smudging, water- and transfer-resistant. Easy to sharpen, too. Ophthalmologist tested.

So i can totally vouch for the creamy smoothness, how about the non-smudging, water and transfer resistant part?

Well, i wore it to an event, for about 5 hours or more and here how it looks after :

Notice the smudges on the waterline?

It definitely smudges on me haha. To be fair, most pencil liners tend to transfer to my upper lid due to my eyelid shape (tapered double eyelid) and Clinique Cream Shaper for Eyes doesn't, it stays quite neatly on my lid. I do have a very oily skin and i live in a high humidity country, most pencil eyeliner doesn't stay a chance to be stay smudge free for long! (Tips : you can prevent smudges on your waterline with application of powder eyeshadows beforehand, totally works for me!)

I read the reviews on their website and most confirms that it doesn't smudge and stays on its place-so maybe it depends on where you live (drier climate would probably be the best bet for non-smudgy liners to be true to its claims) and skin type.

I splashed my face with water (forgot to take pictures zzz) and it stays put (as long as i don't touch it) and doesn't seem to change when the water dries out, so water resistant-yes.

I think for a creamy eyeliner, it's definitely quite superior. I mean, it doesn't smudge as bad as most other pencil liners on me, it stayed put on my upper lid, it's soft but not to a point of being crumbly, it can be sharpened easily and it doesn't break (some pencil liners drive me crazy coz they keep on breaking when i sharpen them!) and it doesn't dry out on when i don't wear it for a while (ahem Collection eyeliners -___-. They become super hard and impossible to use after a while).

It is very expensive though for an eyeliner (although admittedly eyeliners can last a while even when you wear them daily)-i don't really know how much their local counter's price is but it's around IDR 280.000 at strawberrynet . It does have a luxurious, high quality feeling when used though.

I would recommend this eyeliner to those of you who are looking for high quality, super creamy but not crumbly, easy to apply eyeliner with an unusual, but not stark or tacky, color (i'm talking about this shade, of course).

I would not recommend this for those with limited budget (obviously), lives in tropical countries but want their eyeliner to be 100% smudge free.

I honestly won't buy this with my own money, i love Clinique and all but i prefer to spend my money on their other products. For eyeliner, i already found my holy grail one that's less than half of this one's price and works better for me. Are you interested to learn about my current holy grail pencil liner :D?

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Event Report : Breast Cancer Awareness 2015 with Clinique Indonesia

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Hey guys!

I pride myself to seldom post similar contents back to back, variety is my motto :p, but what can i do when this event actually happened on the 1st of November and it's closer to mid Nov already-need to get it done!!!

So as usual, Sabsab (who's like, bloggers' spokesperson for Clinique *LOL*) informed us about their annual Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign (you can read about our experience at the same campaign last year here) event-what's even more fun is that the quota's rather huge (so huge we didn't even manage to fill them hahaha) and we're allowed to bring our friends and families!

Was rather kiasu so you can see that i dragged my niece AU, my BFF G, my friends Lid and Shelley hehehe

The campaign itself actually went for 6 days (from 26th October to 1st November) but we're specifically invited for the last day starting from 1 PM, but when we arrived (just slightly late as usual *LOL*), the stage was still taken by their previous events involving singing/instrument playing kids.

Since the seats were still full (mainly by the parents of said kids, i suppose), we weren't very sure on what to do *LOL* besides huddling together like lost chicks and eventually when i saw the backdrop free

Pose like celebrities and harassed the photog to snap our photos (endlessly, from the same angle, with the same pose *LOLOLOL*). Dress code was (OBVI) pink

We're also asked to sign the backdrop as a sign of our support for the event

The participating brands (all under the same company) are : Bobbi Brown

(Of course) Clinique

Estee Lauder

And DKNY

The crowd dispersed and we stalked like hungry lions to claim our seats, lest we don't get the desired spots #bloggersproblem .

MC of the day who's very vibrant and probably the most entertaining thing that day *LOL*


First up is Clinique's Skin Care demo

Sabsab was the ~~victim~~ model that day. The first person who introduced me to skin care routine when i was around 13 was my sis in law CJ, and she's a loyal user of Clinique so i learned about their 3 steps routine from years ago and never look back since

Using proper skin cares is a vital step for the perfect canvas to start your makeup

Next was the everyday makeup demo by an MUA from Jakarta (by Bobbi Brown)

Yep, heard all the other blogger debating on how she looks like a local celebrity, according to Dyta she looks like Nikita Willy, i personally think she looks like Astrid

She explained step by step the makeup that you can use daily without looking too much

The result. Not gonna lie to you, definitely not my cup of tea, the eyebrows scared me stiff *LOL*, but it's definitely a good demo for makeup beginners who are not sure on what to wear daily

Weather's crazy HOT in Surabaya so Shelley finally brought her portable fan after suffering for days (i've been going out nonstop with her those days hahaha)

Selfie :p

After all of the demos' were done, we were entertained by some dancers with some crazy head pieces

Followed by sleepwear fashion show by Wacoal

Errr. The event area's suddenly super crowded and i was shocked when i looked up and saw people flocking to the rails to watch those sexy ladies strutting their stuffs. Most of the newly formed crowds were of course, made of males of all ages with scary grins upon their faces. Some immediately flipped their phones up and started recording *while grinning maniacally*. It was disturbing to say the least -____-.

Then Mr. Mario Joke gave a brief speech in preparation for the next agenda

Which was a talkshow about Breast Cancer with a doctor, survivor and representatives from Wacoal and RSS. One of the thing that piqued my interest was the fact that the doctor stated that the youngest breast cancer victim during his career was a 17 year old girl. We can never know who and when breast cancer strikes, there's no proven "reason" or "cause" for breast cancer but we can always do our best to live a healthy lifestyle and do self-examinations at home periodically, never ignore any bumps!

Last but not least was another fashion show by Musa Widyatmojo, all of the outfit can be purchased (price started from IDR 1 mill) and all of the profit will be donated.

My fave is the middle one, loveeee the whimsical and romantic loose top!

The event was a wrap but of course, bloggers gotta be bloggers and we were busy taking pictures with all combinations possible :p

Irritating duck face with Shelley

Selfie with my pillow/personal photographer/camera holder

Photoception

With lovely Trixie ^^

LOLOLOL

And the rather awesome goodie bag

Even Better Essence Lotion from Clinique and a pantyhose from Wacoal

Thank you Clinique for having us and always try your best to spread awareness for breast cancer, we're definitely stronger together!

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Event Report : Pretty Easy with Clinique

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Hello hellooooo :D!

You know what, i've been meaning to challenge myself again to post every single day for a month (for no reason at all, i've done it before and i thought it'd be fun to do it again), with lots and lots of events and other blog related activities surrounding me from all sides, i certainly have no problem with topics (when did i ever...)-but what i did not expect's how all of those activities totally wore me out that i have no energy left to sit in front of my computer to write at the end of the day!

Anyway, i have the energy now and i'm going to tell you all about this fun Pretty Easy event with Clinique Indonesia!

Lauren Tan (or known as O in this blog hehehe), Shasha, moi, Sabsab, two tall models between Yessica (who's also a blogger) and Ms. Lidwina

Lauren Tan is one of the contributor for this event in Surabaya, as she's my very close friend of course i'm extremely happy and proud of her!

I'm not going to go for details on the mechanism, but in short-Mario (who's the Clinique's PR & Event person whom we met last October as well) invited Sabrina to attend this event and allowed her to bring two more bloggers-me and Shasha ^^ (thank you Sab, *wink wink*. Note for newer beauty bloggers, this is why it's very important to be humble and maintain a good relationship with other bloggers, we can invite each other most of the time and we certainly won't even consider you if you're rude, annoying or snobbish! Not giving credit when it's due's firmly categorized as rude!).

As the invitation stated, the event was at 1 PM, but since O's one of their contributors (and she tagged along with me and hunny), we had to come earlier. I guess this is the first time i've ever arrived in an event almost an hour before it began *LOL*, but the good thing is-i had lots of time to snap pictures around their counter in Metro Department Store in Ciputra World mall :

Clinique's counter, looking clean, professional and exclusive-as always

This area would be very full and cluttered with people once the event started!

Pretty Easy is their latest campaign, and the tagline's totally self-explanatiory *LOL*. Their latest makeup range's the twist up type that are super easy and fast to use, you don't even need to apply them with tools! Mario also told us lots of people are not aware that Clinique has a pretty extensive makeup range because the brand's so well known for their skin care, as a beauty blogger (and a beauty enthusiast, well before i started blogging) of course i know (and use) about their makeup range, here are some of them :

Foundations and powders

Blush on, eyeshadow and lippies. Sorry if the display's looking a bit bare-some of them were already gathered to be used on the live makeup demo!

Here's a semi candid (you know, where she pretended to not know her picture's being taken *LOL*) pic of O picking the products and shades to use on her model later. She was asked to do a Korean style makeup and she told me that since it's Spring/Summer season, the latest trend in K-style makeup is bold orange eyeshadow. Unfortunately, most of Clinique's decorative colors are pretty neutral so she had to settle for the usual K-style makeup (light eyeshadow and bold eyeliner)

As their tagline's Pretty Easy, the products used in the live demo were mostly from their "Chubby" range. I heard about their chubby lips many times before (arguably the pioneer in twist up, crayon style lippies) of course, but i certainly didn't know that there are chubby cheeks and chubby eyeshadow as well (apparently there are also chubby contour and highlight!)!

As we were pretty early and like all events, it started latter than the time stated *LOL*, we actually managed to have some perk-me-up coffee first before coming back to the venue.

MUAs of the day, Ms. Lidwina from Clinique and our very own Lauren Tan

Well, of course :p

After waiting for a little more while, finally the MC opened the event

As usual when an event's held in the counter, we kinda have to walk around, back and forth to the front area *LOL*. Next time i would give up on vanity and wear a sensible shoes instead of high heels, my feet felt like they were going to fall off by the end of the day (which didn't end when the event did haha).

Attendants of the event waiting patiently for the MC to come back to the counter *LOL*.

Picture taken from Clinique Indonesia's Twitter. You can see us bloggers busy snapping pictures at the background hahaha. Btw, Sabsab, Shasha and i chose to stand next to the display counter on the right because the sitting area's too crowded and it'd be hard to take pictures if we sit behind (coz the front row's already taken and you know how crucial it is to get front row seat as bloggers!)

View from the back

The MC introducing Clinique's Beauty Consultant, Ms. Lidwina

Then he introduced Lauren Tan. It's a good thing that she's also a tour leader so being asked to talk in public didn't scare her off too much (although she did threaten me not to ask weird questions *LOL*)

Here are the models for the live demo with their bare faces. Sorry for the dark tone, lighting wasn't so hot in this area!

Before the live makeup demo started, Ms. Lidwina and another consultant (i think her name was Ms. Icha) prepped the models' skin. As you should already know, the best base for makeup is healthy skin so the first step is understanding the models' skin types and applying the right skincare range for their skin

Began with the usual routine of cleanse and tone

Then they also applied Clinique's Smart Serum (which i have and haven't even tried yet, so many skin cares and i only have one face!) as well as demonstrating the right way to apply it

Moisturizing is next

O explaining the importance to recognize the facial structure and skin tone so you can apply the right shade and makeup style

Both started with foundation, of course

Applying concealer

O's model of the day had a sensitive, acne prone skin (i think) and she had a lot of red acne scars, which looks much better after foundation and concealer

Different MUAs has different sequence, Ms. Lidwina started the decorative makeup by applying chubby cheeks on her model

The MC asking Sabsab about her experience with Clinique

O explaining the color trend (like i mentioned earlier, bright orange eyeshadow!) on Korean trend at the moment

One of the products O used was the twist up eyeliner. Clinique really has twist up products for everything! You simply twist them up and apply (and blend, please *LOL*)! Beauty really can be very easy!

And here Ms. Lidwina using the Chubby Stick Shadow Tint on the model, the MC's blocking the way zzzz *LOL*

Applying concealer under and over the eyebrow for very sharp and defined brows

We were in awe because she didn't even use an eyelash curler and the model's eyelashes instantly looked super long and fluttery with only mascara! Sooo enviable because we have such short and stubby lashes, ours would never be visible if we don't curl them first!

O dusting off any fall off from the model's face

Here's the super famous Chubby Lips!

Adding some gloss for extra sexy pout ^^

O explaining the most famous K-style lip technique-gradient/ombre lips!

Before-After by Ms. Lidwina

Before-After, simple Korean look by Lauren Tan. FYI if you're wondering (coz an uncle actually went and ask O about it, i'm wondering who that uncle is??? And why is he so concerned with makeup?) why the acne scars weren't fully concealed, well that's because this is a simple, everyday look they're creating-using very lightweight foundation. You can hardly create a simple, everyday look if you apply super thick, mask-like foundation, right???

MUAs and their models

After the live makeup demo was done it was Face Pad Competition time! I heard about this before (where you're given a piece of paper with a face illustration on in and you're suppose to put on makeup on the face, using real makeup!) but never participated before. I... suck at arts, so.... LOL.

Picture taken from Clinique's Twitter

I looked very serious, no?

I got bored like, halfway through *LOLOLOL* *why am i so bad*, and my paper face looked quite messy (especially the lips *LOL*, don't try applying lipstick straight from the tube on paper faces!!!) >.<, i was damn embarrassed when we had to put up the paper for Ms. Lidwina and O to judge >.<.

Picture from Clinique's Twitter

Mine's on the left (LOL at the messy pic, i can't color inside the line-ever!) and Shasha's on the right

And Shasha's picked as the winner!

Happy Shasha :D

I wasn't paying attention, but there's a little quiz next, the MC was asking us if any of us had any Clinique makeup inside our bags. I guess i mentioned that i brought their eyeliners in my cosmetic bag to Sabsab or Shasha earlier and somehow they remembered coz they immediately poked me *LOLOLOL*, thanks girls! My blur self wouldn't even realize it myself :p. I ended up being the winner, yay!

This actually turned out to be quite the bloggers' day, with all the prizes being won by bloggers (i can assure you, this is not something that happens very often. In fact, bloggers are rarely chosen to win anything in this kind of events *except if they're giving out presents just for asking/answering questions, we're very active when it comes to this hahaha*! I have to mention this because there was some misunderstanding and we heard some of the other guests bitching about us being picked because we're O's friends. FYI, Ms. Lidwina chose Shasha's face pad and I brought the most Clinique products in my bag, how is that having any connection at all with us being O's friends? It didn't help when they see Mario giving us hampers later on *sigh*. People, get acquinted with the term "blogger first" and do you know that we're actually working?)

Anyway, haters going to be haters so i'm not going to dwell on that. The activity's not done yet, there's also a 30 minutes self-makeup competition. I would never participate in this kind of competition because... well... I'm not wiping off all my makeups and reapply them! Sabsab didn't wear any makeup that day (coz she's going for badminton next haha) so i encouraged her to join-she can take the makeup off right away anyway...

Sabsab and Yessica applying makeup very seriously

Here Ms. Lidwina and O inspecting them and another participant

And here's the winner! The event was a wrap after this ^^

But photo taking is a must, right!

Here's one of Mario with the models

Picture taken from Clinique Indonesia's Twitter

The very generous hamper (the chequred purple and white box consisting of four travel sized products. I've used the eye cream before and i liked it, now that i have another one, i can review it in the future!) and the gift for winning the quiz

Shasha and Yessica both received Chubby Eyes but i actually received the one that we all coveted, Chubby Lips (i think it's a sample/travel size, but who cares woohooo *LOL*. It's not like i'd be able to finish any lippie anyway) and i'm very very happy :D!

Thank you Clinique and Mario for having us (and Sabsab for inviting me and Shasha), it was a fun event!

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