How to Contour the Nose

Rimmel Bronzer, Sigma Tapered Blending E40 brush, Bobbi Brown highlighter

So what I do is I use a fluffy blending brush and pick up some of the bronzing powder and first blend the color right under the beginning of the eyebrows, where it sinks in. Then I blend the color down my nose, going inwards and underneath to the tip of my nose (where the purple is in the picture).

Then for highlight, you can use a matte rice/white eyeshadow, shimmery champaign eyeshadow or a liquid highlighter (such as the bobbi brown or YSL one). I personally prefer a matte one because I get oily easily. Make sure you highlight the bridge of your nose[area in between our eyes] because thats the most important part to make your nose stand out more.

Things to watch out for:

• blend the color really well so it doesn't look like you have two streaks going down your nose
• make sure the color is not too dark or too orange. You can use a bronzer but make sure it's not orange based. Use a shade that is more to the brown side.
• when you use a shimmery highlighter on your nose, don't apply it all the way down to the tip because it will make it seem like you have an oily nose, so stop 2/3 down.

Contouring your nose will make an obvious difference especially in photography. If you think your nose is too flat, fat, crooked or what not, try this out! I was never and still not fond of my own nose. My family members criticized my flat nose all the time when I was younger but it's gotten slightly better... -_-" But I'm glad there is a way to make my nose appear taller .. hahaa

Good luck :)

MAC "Dip Down" Fluidline

When I wear cat eyes with fluidline I love using the body shop slanted brush because it's so thin >=] When I want to go for a softer look, I go for the MAC "Dip down" fluidline :)

I must be honest that the mac fulidlines smudge on me, but a lot of people claim that they don't smudge... but anyway if I set it with powder then it's better I guess. Once again, my eyelids are just super oily.. haha in the first picture.. I think that line on the right side of my eye lid is from the liner... LOL when I draw my eyeliner too thick, it transfers onto my lid when I open my eyes ... thanks to my Asian eyes -.-" but on the left side of my eye I believe it's just my vein XD

Coral blush, Coral lipstick

Anna Sui lip gloss #604

Bobbi Brown lipstick "Guava"

MAC Mineralized Skinfinish "Stereo Rose"

I love coral colored make up :D and once again I love matching my blush to my lipstick so I wore this combination together :)

I wore the MAC MSF for around the same length of time as the Bobbi Brown Shimmer brick and the Shimmer brick has a much longer lasting power =_=" The MAC MSF was almost gone by the end of the day......! Well the shimmer was still there but color was barely there. They both give me the feeling that they give the same kind of finish on the cheeks because they're both very shiny, but I think the shimmer bricks has more shimmer so it gives a different kind of sheen to the face.

Putting the Anna Sui gloss over the Guava lipstick makes it a bit lighter. I think Guava is the darkest coral lipstick that I have... >=] I can't wait to go check out the MAC Sheen Supreme lipstick collection! I want to see 'daring' and 'full speed'... I also haven't checked out the viva glam gaga II lipstick! oh and I definitely want to try "lady danger", but it's just in the normal collection, which is an orange based red lipstick :)

I just dyed my hair a darker brown colour few days ago so I have to switch my eye brow color back to my old one! So I'm back to using my Shu Uemura twisting brow pencil.. It's just so amazing..! The color goes on so well and I don't have to draw that hard. I heard the actual pencil (ones u need to sharpen) is really popular too but I never tried that. The twisting one seems to be more convenient since there's a brush on the other end :) haha I LOVE Shu Uemura!! <3

Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick (Nectar)

So! Last week I ordered the Bobbi Brown shimmer brick in Nectar on http://us.strawberrynet.com/main.aspx .. Guess how much it was?

$18 CAD !!!!!!! WITH FREE SHIPPING! amazing right!

I think the retail price is probably around $40-50. I never saw it that cheap before.. I was going to get one during christmas for like.. thirty something dollars? I think it was in Bronze, but I missed it and it was sold out (on strawberry.net) So when I saw this I ordered it right away... With free shipping you'd probably think it'd take forever to come,but it came in a week!

It was unboxed though but it's okay :)

I applied it with my Eco-tools blush brush and just swirl it all over the color strips. It sort of looks like my Bobbi Brown 'coral' blush... haha but a lot more shimmery. It's a very nice coral/pinkish color and you definitely don't need to apply a separate highlighter with this. What I do is I just apply the colour on my cheeks and brush over my cheek bones afterwards with the left over shimmer. It basically looks like a pinkish coral blush with NARS Alabtross (gold shimmer) all over the cheeks.

Some of BB shimmer bricks can be used for eyeshadow as well, but I don't think I will with this one..maybe just the white color strip... =P

I wore it since 7 am in the morning and I took that picture at around 9 pm, so it lasts quite long on the cheeks :)

Anyway, you can find some really great deals on that website sometimes... check it out!

Murale Points Redemption :D

BB lipstick Guava

I didn't know how much to twist the BB highlighter pen when I first used it and I twisted too many times so the product just squished out =_="

BB e/s "Java" ...really nice taupe colour and texture is very smooth <3

So last weekend there was an event at Murale for points redemption and I redeemed $90 :D I spent 40,000 points and it claimed that I was saving $27 during that event compared to the normal system... Anyway I bought the Bobbi Brown eye tinted highlighter [light bisque] $50, BB lipstick in "Guava" $27 and BB e/s in "Java" $26. I ended up paying around $25 for the tax and because I went a little over $90 so I covered the rest :)

Maybe I will try accumulating my points up to the highest level, which is like $180 or something o_o haha it will take a while....

I should do a comparison between the BB Guava lipstick and some other lipsticks later :)

Order finally came!

So because last summer I only brought back like one or two of these from HK... [I totally regret it] I had to buy the Maybelline falsies. I just dont' think I can find any other mascara that can lengthen as crazy as this mascara. Well my friend said the Dior one is really good but it costs a fortune! I'm really not willing to spend so much on a mascara since i have to throw it out at most after 3 months of use. So I found this website http://hairbb.com/ and they sell them for $13 each! wooot! I think it's around.. $11 CAD in HK so it's not much of a difference... and guess what ! It's free shipping! However.. it took about 3 weeks for these to arrive. It's okay, I'll just order more maybe after I finish using one up. One usually lasts me.. 2 months? I like wearing the Maybelline Falsies mascara over this to darken my lashes :)

Where did my perfume go?

So I got this tiny perfume bottle in HK but I believe you can find them in Daiso/Yokoyaya here in Vancouver. Anyway I put my Issey Miyake perfume in there and I pop it in my make up bag that I bring out with me. I have been neglecting it so one day I took it out and realized some of it was missing...! I guess maybe the lid doesn't screw tight enough or something.. or it just slowly evaporates... -_- I probably won't be putting perfume in there anymore.. I always forget about it when I'm out haha.