Month: March 2013

On Beauty Blogging: Thoughts & some of my new local favorites

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Okay, this isn’t technically about beauty blogging. And if it were, I don’t know if I have anything of value to say on the matter, or if people would really care about my opinion on it. Yet, anyway. I do have a post on why I’ve ventured into the world of beauty blogging, which I wrote about two weeks into it. I started this blog in late October, after a weird new love for makeup. I say “weird” because it’s really not something that people, including myself, expected me to get into. I liked photography, books, art, and music. Which isn’t to say that you’re not allowed to like beauty and makeup, if you like those things. It also doesn’t mean that you’re not allowed to like those things if you are into beauty and makeup. In fact, most of the people I talk to about these “girly” things are some of the most intelligent people I know. I’m not trying to prove a point of the direct correlation type; what I’m trying to say …

FOTD: A Midafternoon in Paris

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Hello, everyone! I just wanted to share my FOTD for Saturday because I liked it a lot. Haha. I went to the L’Oreal event for their newest range(s) of products, and also had dinner with a few friends later that day. Face: Snoe Beauty Let it B WasaB BB Cream (Warm Honey), K-Palette Zero Kuma Cover Control Concealer (02 Yellow Beige), bareMinerals Mineral Veil (Original) Eyes: Benefit Lemon Aid, Laura Mercier Artist’s Palette for Eyes (Café Au Lait, Coffee Ground, Cameo, Vanilla Nuts), Rouge Bunny Rouge Long Lasting Eye Pencil (Lola), The Body Shop Brow and Liner Kit (02) Cheeks: Tarte Amazonian Clay Matte and Waterproof Bronzer (Park Avenue Princess), Illamasqua Blusher Duo (Lover) Lips: OCC Lip Tar (Lydia) That’s it for now! Thanks for looking. 🙂

A Midafternoon in Paris with L’Oreal

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I don’t get invited to a lot of beauty events, so I really appreciate it when I do. Last Saturday was the launch of some new and exciting products for L’Oreal in the Philippines. The products were divided into skin care, hair care, and of course—makeup. A Midafternoon in Paris was held at Sweet Bella Cafe in Greenbelt 5. It made me really nostalgic for my most recent (and first) trip to Paris, just because I was attempting to edit my video diary for it a few days ago. The cafe was littered with tiny Eiffel Towers. I really liked this particular event because it was small (but not too small), and I don’t know. It was just a very relaxed gathering~ Here’s the invite, because I found it so cute. Here are some new people I met: Lana and Arnie. They’re local fashion bloggers. Niche is an old, old friend. We met online and worked briefly for an online publication called Altercation. I was around grade school/high school age then. Now, we see each …

February Favorites

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YAY, I actually had this up on time! Also, on video, too. Ooooh, fancy. Anyway, here are some products that I’ve been loving the past month. February was the month of the ghosts of parcels past. Everything that I ordered on impulse in January came to Nickelback* me. So, I didn’t get to do try some of the products quite as extensively as I used these ones that I’ve picked out. Here are my February favorites! All are mentioned in the video, but I thought I would do a little bit of talking about each product some more in text and picture form~ 1. Tarte Amazonian Clay 12-Hour Blush (Collection Reviewed & Swatched) Holy cow, these blushes are amazing. I was on the fence about purchasing them, since they are a bit on the pricey side (Php 1,200 each, from the retailer I got) and the only way I could pick any up was if I ordered online, without seeing how the colors would look on me or how the texture was. I first got …