Lip-Talk 14 : Emina Oh So Kissable Lipstick in 05 Cherry Pie

Hello girlsss (again because i don't think my male readers read my lipstick reviews >.<)

I am back with my 14th lip product review (and i have two more in the pipeline that i plan to review ASAP!) and it is from one of my current (if not my ACTUAL) favorite Indonesian cosmetic brand : Emina! (I got a request to review my Emina lipsticks when i post about my Sociolla haul, and i'm pretty happy when i get requests although sometimes i forgot about them, i clearly remember this time!)

Emina Oh So Kissable Lipstick in 05 Cherry Pie

I first learnt about their "mini lipstick" from Instagram (of course, how can one live without Instagram these days???) and immediately went to panic mode because i just gotta have it! Back then Emina was still pretty hard to find in Surabaya (now they have counters in SPI and Lotte Mart!) so i was super happy when i learned that Sociolla sells them!

The price is making me happy (what can i say, i love cheap stuffs :D) only IDR 25.000 and when i got the product, i got even happier! When they say mini lipstick, i expected smaller, travel size size-but although the bullet is slightly smaller than regular lipsticks, it contains 3.4g worth of product and that's actually aplenty! I personally think it's almost the same size as most normal sized lipsticks! I will show you the comparison with another lipstick later but for now let's talk packaging first!

Emina Oh so Kissable lipstick comes with a pale pink cardboard box with a clear window in the front side

I got the darkest color available (there were only three colors in this line before, but they recently added new colors which color charts are sadly nowhere to be found yet) number 5, Cherry Pie (personally i found the color to lean more to tomato red than cherry red tho)

Information on the manufacturer, expiry date, etc

Ingredient list

The lipstick itself is made of lightweight but definitely NOT cheap looking matte plastic that has a matte and velvety feeling. The shape is oblong, which makes the pale pink casing looks even cuter (although some might argue that it looks like a toy. I happen to like my items looking like toys :p).

The only thing that concerns me about the packing is the slightly loose cap, it can become detached with the softest pull-that's a bit worrying! I did brought it to Japan for a week and it didn't detached itself in my pouch but still i hope they'll work towards making sure that the cap can close more safely in the future.

Cherry Pie is a bright orange-ish red in the tube and translates pretty well to my lips

I don't know if you can see it from the photo above, but the bullet is definitely not mini (my mini lipsticks contains 1.5gr or 2gr worth of product, not 3.4!), so here's a comparison to my normal sized Pixy lipstick (that contains 3.8gr worth of product)

Not much difference, no?

The lipstick color looks different depending on the lighting, but it looks close to how it looks in real life in this picture

My pale pink bare lips

Wearing it very lightly as a lip tint that day. Sorry for the messy looking application, i swear it didn't look that bad IRL! With natural sunlight it looks like it has a hint of pink. I wore moisturizing lipbalm underneath so the result looks more glossy than when used on its own

With full makeup on

I dunno why the color looks pinkish on the photos taken using Marshmallow, but here's some more pictures using my Iphone which gives the real color more justice :

Looks more orange-ish in these pics, no? I think when it's super bright it looks more pink, but when it's dimmer then it looks a lot more orange

Emina Oh So Kissable lipstick glides on easily and feels creamy and soft upon application. It is quite pigmented and gives bold color with one easy swipe, that's why i used it softly in dabbing motions when i want to use it like a lip tint as in the pictures above (it was for an afternoon event, i didn't want to look too loud).

According to the website, Oh So Kissable has a satin finish and i agree, it is not dead matte but has a little shine (not too glossy at all, don't worry). Like i said earlier, i wore rather glossy lip balm underneath so it looks shiny, but when i wear it with less glossy lipbalm it looks a lot more satiny.

Here are some photos taken in Japan when i wore this lipstick that shows the real color and finishing better :

I wore it in full capacity and immediately looked like a Geisha *LOL*

The lipstick has an artificial sweet scent (vanilla??) that's not too strong or disturbing for me. It last pretty much the whole day for me when i wear it on its own/with non glossy lipbalm and leaves a beautiful stain even after heavy meals. It disappears easier when i wear very glossy lip balm underneath, obviously. It doesn't dry out my lips (but definitely recommending using a lip balm beforehand, like any other lipstick) and in conclusion? I do love this product a lot!

These are the original available colors :

L-R : 03 (Peach Cream), 04 (Flame Pea), 05 (Cherry Pie), which looks rather similar to each other in the stock photos that it confused me a lot

They have added four more colors recently : Orange Slush, Jelly Blush, Pink Berry and Fantasti-Cho. I plan to visit Emina's store soon and swatch them and see if there's any new color that caught my fancy!

Emina Oh So Kissable Lipstick in Cherry Pie is a great affordable, satiny, non-drying, pigmented lip color, highly recommending it for you who are looking for orange-ish red lip color (it brightens up one's complexion!) that are not going to make a hole in your pocket and leaves a pretty stain. Not recommending it for those who.... hates cutesy packaging and artificial scents on their lipsticks (can't find any other fault!)

I bought mine from Sociolla, sadly they've sold out this variant for the moment (please restock soon! And the new colors too!) but when they do restock (of you're interested in Emina other products. They said the Creme de la Creme lipstick is pretty much the same thing but with bigger size), you can use my referral and discount code for IDR 50.000 off with minimum spending of only IDR 200.000 :

Will i repurchase? Yes! In all of the cother colors! I mean, 25.000 x 6 is only IDR 150.000, i'll just add some other thing in and use my code-then i'd just have to pay IDR 150.000! How awesome is that? Definitely worth collecting every color *LOL*.

For more information on Emina, you can follow their social medias :

Instagram : Emina Cosmetics

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/eminacosmetics/?fref=ts

What do you think of this Oh So Kissable Lipstick? Something you'd like to try too or not?

With my travel mates at Asakusa Shrine, still wearing Cherry Pie! Missing Japan badly now...

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Review : Bath Tea from The Bomb ID (SPONSORED)

bath tea

Anyone here like to pamper themselves with long warm baths?

Actually, i'm not the biggest fan of baths (i have a weird fear of bathtubs! But it's not as bad as my fear of stairs. Oh God, why do i have so many fears), i prefer a quick shower and be done with it-but once in a while, particularly when i'm over-tired, warm baths' totally enticing even for me! So when The Bomb ID (which is a local *based in Surabaya!* hand made luxury bath essentials store) kindly sent me these Sweet Rose Tea Baths before my trip to Singapore/Malaysia, i got very excited! FYI, i can actually sniff some of the sweet rose scent even from the sealed container!

Yep, for IDR 68.000/container you'd get two bath teas, very affordable-i would say!

I honestly never heard of bath teas before-but then again as you just read, i don't do a lot of baths (except when i was little and went through a phase of pretending that my parents' huge bathtub was a pool-and i was obsessed with bubble baths as well) so i'm not exactly familiar with bath products anyway-so i was very silly and didn't expect that bath teas would work similarly like... well... Teas. LOL. As in turning your bath into a tea-looking bath water!

But i'm jumping too much forwards here so lemme rewind to the very beginning : let's talk packaging first!

The bath tea duo comes in a cylinder mica container that is sturdy enough to survive being tossed in my super packed luggage to and fro (because i just managed to use one during my trip due to lack of time and definitely too kiasu to leave the other one behind!) Singapore and it's actually pretty enough to reuse as a container later (go green and all)!

I love the way the owner decorate the container with a semi transparent paper and soft, earthy colored images and wording-it's very fitting to the vintage-y, romantic nature of the brand and product itself. Kudos for the very thorough brand imaging, The Bomb ID!

They printed the direction for this bath tea at the container but since the print's very soft, i'm going to write them here :

Place one bath tea bag into the bathtub, don't forget to cut the "Bath Tea" sign. Place in bath water and enjoy. The salts and powders will flow into the water but leave the botanicals inside so they won't clog the drain.

Easy as pea, right? Like usual, i don't really read instructions (silly me!) so i was a bit worried that the leaves would dirty the bathtub (i was borrowing my sis' bathtub in their lux condo in Singapore! She'd kill me if i clog the drain!) or worse (clog the drain is the worst case scenario lah!) so when i finally did read the instruction, i was totally relieved *LOL*.

Here are the ingredients (also printed on the container) :

Magnesium Sulfate, Himalayan Salt, Dries Roses, Buttermilk Powder, Oats, Organic Black Tea, Essential Oil, Tea Tree Oil and Fragrance Oil.

Yes, i just read the ingredients as i type this, and boy don't they contain some real awesome stuffs!!! I mean... Himalayan salt, buttermilk powder and organic black tea??? They sure don't skimp on the goodness!

Here's how the tea bath bag looks like upon closer inspection :

I love the bath tea tag, looks like a real tea bag string-it's in the details, peeps! The bag itself reminds me of a potpourri bag

I must apologize for the different lighting starting from the next picture. I took the earlier pictures during day time, with natural sunlight coming in from the window-but i only got the time to relax in a bath at a very late hour (in the last day in Singapore as well) so i had to rely on the not-so-bright artificial lighting!

Anyway, as the instruction stated, all you have to do is run you bath water and cut off the tea bath sign! The wonderful sweet rose scent is very strong on the bag, it emanates an intoxicating sweet aroma (just like a potpourri!) even being left as it is!

I did not take a picture of the stuffs inside the bag, but here's a pic taken from their Instagram :

Hmmm i have a thing for crystallized rocks. Even salts.

Then drop your tea bag into your bath :

To my (silly) amazement, the bag started to ooze brownish color into the water!

I even made a little video of it. I really don't know what i was expecting, maybe i thought the tea bath wouldn't change the bath's color and only makes it smells of roses???

Then gradually, the bath water turns light brown :

This is not the final color, just like a real tea (of course, it does contain organic black tea!), it'll deepen in color the longer you leave it. I ended up with brownish colored bath after a while

I had fun swirling the tea bag in the water, you don't actually need to do it but it was fun!

Excuse the pale face and oily, limp hair. I did not shower that morning *LOLOLOL* because we were going for a very smokey Korean BBQ, i expected to have my bath right after (because obviously i reeked of pork!!!)-but my mum forbade me to (coz she knows i'd be in the bath for a while, even when i do my "quick showers" it's not that super quick la especially when i wash my hair-which is everyday! Let alone having a warm bath hahaha) and forced me to go out straight after (yes, without showering first *LOLOLOL*, it was just a brief and casual trip to a neighborhood mall to get some last minute bakwa to bring back to Indonesia so i didn't mind)

Hunny came in to help me take those pictures, and then he started playing with the tea bag as well *LOL*. I don't even know if you're supposed to do this, but it looks even more mesmerizing when you squeeze the tea bags (people do this to their teas as well to squeeze out every aroma and taste left so i guess it should be okay to do this to the tea baths as well!) :

Even though the sweet rose scent's very strong in the pouch, once diluted in the water it becomes a lot subtler (so not assaulting to your nose at all, even if you're sensitive to strong scents-don't worry, your bath would smell light and sweet!) and i really felt super relaxed as soon as i took a dip! It's ah-may-zing!

Other than the relaxing part (i felt immediately energized and not so tired anymore right after!), the bath also left my skin subtly scented and silky smooth!

So.... their claim?

Herbal Bath Tea is a perfect way to relax, relieve tension, soothe aching muscles and joints, stimulate circulation, or help to chase away a cold. Each unique blend of organic botanicals enhances the natural healing and soothing effects of a warm bath.

My verdict? JUSTIFIED!

It really turns a normal hot bath into one luxurious bath experience and i totally love it! I would definitely make more time to do long hot baths from now own, it's so good for my always-wandering-and-obsessing brain (i drive myself crazy most of the time, and yes-i'm aware of that!) and my stiff muscles!

Did i manage tempt you to try tea baths for yourselves? Contact The Bomb ID now and get yours! Also available in Lavender!

The Bomb Indonesia
Luxury Bath Essentials
thebomb.id@gmail.com
Phone. +628175077553
LINE : kikicoroline
LINE : sakura_wind
Admin LINE : noviyanagst
PHONE. 081398285667

Thank you The Bomb ID for these bath teas, they really are da bomb!

Happy

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Body Tale 08 : Evete Naturals Body Butter in Relaxing Lavender

bath and body cares

Hey, girls (and boys, maybe :p)!

I've been one lucky girl lately and won some giveaways that i joined (and i don't even join a lot of them *LOL*), one of them is Phanie's giveaway with Evete Naturals. I got a body butter and a lipbalm from this natural handmade local brand, as i always wanted to try out handmade local products and also aspire to support local brands-i decided to use them right away (and not waiting for their turn in my overflowing stash like all of my other non-sponsored products hahaha).

I'm going to review their body butter first :

Evete Naturals Body Butter in Relaxing Lavender

Yes, i know that body butter's got nothing to do with a teapot and a cup, but they just look so cute here with all the whites :p.

Anyway, let's talk packaging first!

Like most body butter, it comes in a rounded tub with twist off lid. It is dominantly white with accents of purple since the variant is lavender. It's quite small and compact so it can still be tote around if you're traveling (remember, traveling dries out your skin so bringing a good body lotion/butter is a must!) and contains 50gr worth of product inside

Ingredient list and direction. It is said not to be exposed to direct sunlight because it will melt and might change color (it won't return to its original texture, FYI!)

The tub is sealed with a clear plastic sheet to indicate its newness. It's manufactured in Yogyakarta and contains no mineral oil, artificial colorant nor paraben

I'm not gonna lie to you that when i received the package i kinda felt like wailing "WHYYYYY lavenderrrrrrrrrrr" coz i actually dislike lavender scent *LOL*, but i change my mind!!! It is widely known that lavender a good mosquito repellent and Surabaya's been swarmed with crazy mosquitoes in the last few months-i am forever the easy target (coz i am soft, and white and fluffy FML)-but whenever i'm wearing this body butter, i am mosquite-bite free!!!!! SO happy about that hahaha.

The interesting texture

A generous amount got stuck in the lid so of course i used them first!

I was quite surprised when i first saw the texture, it is definitely unlike any other body butters that i've ever tried in the past (both international and local brands). Some body butters are very solid, and it can be frustrating to try to scoop them out, but Evete Naturals' very different! It's incredibly soft, light, fluffy and smooth! You can see from the pictures that it's got almost like a whipped appearance, with porous surface. I find it very interesting and fascinating!

Lemme give it a try...

Seriously applying on my hand hahaha

Although it is very light and fluffy, it's actually very heavily moisturizing! The light butter melts quickly into oil upon contact with my skin. A little definitely goes a long way! I only used like... a dab in that picture and it was enough to moisturized both of my hands extensively! It give off a very sexy glow when used *LOL*.

I have a normal body skin type and i always hated body butters because they're way too oily for me (since my skin's not parched or dehydrated, it's always harder for my skin to absorb body butters), Evete Naturals' actually also a little too oily and greasy for my liking (but drier skin would definitely be loving this!) so i prefer to use them very lightly and only when i'm staying home.

The lavender scent is also quite strong, like i mentioned earlier-i do not like lavender scent, but after continuous use i begin to get used to it and not too bothered by it anymore. It is however, strong enough to interfere with your perfume-so that's another reason why i prefer to use it when i'm not going out. Turns out that i'm not the only one who's not into lavender scent, because when i use this body butter and sat beside my mum, she wouldn't stop sniffing around and insisted something was burning! Then i realized that it might be my body butter and told my mum *LOL*, when she sniffed my hand she said "OH yesss, that's where the burning cable smell's coming from!!!" LOL.

My hunny's skin is really weird as well, it's super dry and cracking (it's back to its original condition after a good few months of nice skin because he's using a wrong shower cream for just a few days zzzz) so definitely a good candidate for body butters, no? Apparently not! Light body lotion is not enough for his skin, but rich body butter also do nothing but sits on his skin! His weird skin can only accept some brands of body lotions, i cannot stop wondering why. Sadly this body butter also did not work wonder for his skin, but i kinda expected it since no body butter can anyway *sigh*.

As for me, it's definitely quite moisturizing. My skin's soft, supple and smooth thanks to it. Some dry patches that appears after using the wrong shower cream (the same one as the one that ruined hunny's skin) are getting better and less dry after just a few use. I also absolutely adore the added benefit of repelling mosquitoes (even though it's not even one of its purpose) so i do not have to use a mosquitoes repellent (which cannot be good for your skin with continuous use, i imagine!) on top of it! It also doesn't aggravate my allergies but help soothe them instead.

This small tub would last me for a pretty long time (at least a month or more) because i need only to use so little (i had to use a lot for hunny, but since his skin's not reacting all that well with it, i decided to stop using it on him. Why waste a wonderful product on his sucky skin, no? LOL. I better use it for myself only).

Evete Naturals Body Butter is an excellent product with a pretty affordable price (i just checked their IG and the body butter's IDR 80.000) and i would recommend it for everybody who are looking for a nice, all natural, no fuss, affordable body butter, especially for those who has a normal to dry skin (super dry skin probably better go to a dermatologist and get checked *LOL*). For this variant, i would also recommend this for those of you who are mosquitoes' easy target like me!!!

Will not recommend this for those of you who has a very weird skin like my hunny's (very dry and sensitive), those who cannot deal with greasy feeling and for this variant-those who cannot stand strong scents.

Would i purchase it with my own money? I guess so, but i'd love to try out the other variants instead.I also hope that they would come up with body lotions (that i would definitely buy!) so people who hate greasiness (like me!) and can only deal with lighter moisturizer would be tempted to give them a try as well!

Are you looking forward to the lipbalm's review?

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Healthy Skin with Gizi Super Cream (SPONSORED)

facial cleanser

Hello, dears :)!

How's everybody doing? I want to share some info and a bit of a review for a natural Indonesian skin care brand, Gizi Super Cream today :D!

Thank you Gizi Indonesia and Kawaii Beauty Japan for the package :)

If you're an Indonesian, i'm sure you've heard of Gizi Super Cream already! Gizi's been around since 1972, which means more than 40 years! It was a popular product a while back (my elder relative swears by this affordable brand and i've been quite curious about it, now thanks to Gizi Indonesia and KBJ, i get to try them for myself!).

If i am not mistaken, they used to have only one product before, the cream itself (it isn't called Gizi Super Cream for nothing, right!) but now they've expanded and added more products in their line. Despite their growth, Gizi Super Cream's core is definitely still the same and they are keeping true to themselves-which can be explained with 4 H :

1. Herbal (Gizi Super Cream use 7 natural ingredients)

2. Hi-tech (with nano technology which function is to soften so their product's easy to absorb into our skin)

3. Heritage (like i mentioned earlier, they've been around since 1972!)

4. Halal (Gizi Super Cream's products are certified Halal so they're completely safe to use by all of us including Moslems ^^)

Now that we've learned a bit about Gizi Super Cream in general, let's get to know their products better :

Daily Natural Lightening Foam is a facial cleanser made from herbal ingredients that helps to cleanse dirt and traces of cosmetics. It helps lifting dead skin cells, brighten dull skin, and also reduce overactive sebum productions as well as helping to keep skin being hydrated longer.

Gizi's Daily Natural Lightening Foam comes with a small (containing 50ml of products) squeeze tube with a flip top, like most of other facial foams in the marking out there. It is dominated by white and green colors (which we've associated with Gizi Super Cream by now).

It has a very soft, very creamy but light texture. If you inspect it closely, you'd be able to see countless tiny air bubbles in the product. It is so light that you need to be careful when squeezing the tube because if you use too much pressure then you'd get way too much products than what you'd need.

This facial foam, like their two other products that i got to try, has this very distinctive scent. It is very sweet but natural, i cannot exactly pintpoint what scent it is, but definitely reminding me of an exotic tropical fruit-the over ripe one. It smells very natural but i have to be honest, i am not a fan of the scent. It's just a bit overwhelming for me.

When rubbed with water, it turns to a thick, white paste. It feels very soft and rich despite its light texture and a real pleasure to use. My skin feels soft, bouncy and brighter after using it nonstop since i received it. It totally helps to get rid of any dirt, makeup traces and sebum from my face without stripping my skin of its natural moisture. My hunny also been using it alongside me and it's very kind and gentle to his very dry, sensitive skin.

I was quite confused when i saw two boxes that look a lot alike, just with different color accent :

Apparently they now have two different Daily Nutrition Cream, but upon closer inspection i believe that the only thing differentiating these two is the fact that one contains SPF 18, while the other doesn't say. However, they have slightly different texture and after feeling.

Let's talk about Gizi Super Cream Daily Nutrition Cream first

This cream claims to be a complete treatment in one package with 7 active herbal ingredients for your everyday use. It helps giving nutrition to you skin, keeping skin's hydration to be on optimum level, brighten skin and prevent premature aging.

Both of the creams comes with a small cardboard boxes

With information and ingredient list on the side. Since both boxes have similar design and details, i only snapped detailed pictures of one of them which you'll see later

Daily Nutrition Cream comes with a small squeeze tube (kinda similar to the facial foam, only smaller and slimmer) with twist off cap and contains 18g of products inside

It has a normal sized opening and don't forget to be gentle when squeezing it!

The Daily Nutrition Cream has a thick lotion consistency, it is quite easy to spread and gets absorbed quite easily. Due to its rich texture, it leaves a slightly greasy feeling on my skin. Very hydrating and moisturizing-and it is the lighter cream between the two and has the same sweet scent as the facial foam.

The last but not the least

Daily Nutrition Cream with SPF 18 has the optimum protection from UV light with SPF 18 for you who are actively outdoor in the afternoon. So if you're confused on which one of the two to choose, then think about how much time you spend outdoor in the afternoon? If very rarely, then you should get the original Daily Nutrition Cream (it does contains UV protection too, just not as concentrated as this yellow one), if it's quite often then opt for this one.

Very similar box, right?

More information on the side. The suggested storage temperature is at 25 celcius and do not expose it from direct sunlight. I am also delighted to see that it is not tested on animals!

The suggested price is IDR 40.000 (the print on the box of my Daily Nutrition is upside down and a bit confusing, but it stated that the suggested price is IDR 34.960, so the one with SPF 18 is slightly more expensive)

The only difference between the SPF 18 and the original is the yellow color accent (representing the sun, i guess :p?). It is also containing 18g of products inside

As it is containing SPF, the color of the cream is more opaque. It's also slightly thicker and heavier, which i've expected because that's the nature of most of products containing SPF. It's stickier and greasier-oh and it has the same scent as the previous two products. Since i have very oily skin, i do feel that this cream is a bit too heavy for my skin, i look like a greasy mess and my makeup would melt very fast if i wear this underneath (but i tried using it very lightly on top of a mattifying powder lotion, which makes it a bit better) so i believe that the original Daily Nutrition Cream's more suitable for me.

Both creams work wonderfully on my hunny's very dry and sensitive skin, his skin is a lot firmer, softer, hydrated and super healthy now (after almost a full 2 weeks of usage)! They work well on me too, but since they're a bit heavy and rich, i did develop quite a bit of white and black heads as a result, so personally i would stick to the facial foam (which is great) and continue using the creams for my hunny.

One more thing that i noticed is how they really work to soften and brighten skin fast. I just had my monthly facial when i started using the trio so my face was a mess, lots of redness and crusts from the extraction. Normally it'd take up to a week for my skin to clear up of the crusts and look bright again, but when i used Gizi Super Cream, my skin actually was already clear and bright after two whole days! How awesome is that? I would strongly recommend Gizi Super Cream for people with dry, hydrated skin and also those who wish to brighten their skin!

Are you interested to get a healthy and glowy skin with this awesomely affordable, genuine local product? They are available in various stores in Indonesia, i think it should be easy to find them!