Swatch: NYX Round Lipstick in Protus

Forgot to post this up yesterday! Day 3 of my no-repeat lipstick challenge sees Protus on my lips. The colour is a coppery-brown and quite pretty. I don't wear this colour that much on its own. I tend to layer this over other colours as it is a bit sheer.

Swatch: NYX Round Lipstick in Shiva

Day 2 sees me wearing one of the brightest NYX lippies I own. I love love love this colour, it's not crazy bright pink like OCC Anime. It's a great pick me up for a washed out face, which I have pretty much all the time now since Ilan still hasn't learned to sleep through the night!

Much love for this colour. I've already worn it  couple of times in the last few weeks and have gotten a lot of compliments on it as well as requests to purchase for them the next time I buy NYX!

Haul + Swatch + Vanity Pic: NYX Slide On Eye Liner Pencils

I go through phases in which I crave different things to add to my makeup collection and at the moment, that seems to be eyeliners. Before I hauled this lot, I actually only had a grand total of 2 eyeliners. 1 black pencil eyeliner from Bourjois and 1 brown retractable eyeliner from Silkygirl. I kinda have a love hate relationship with the Bourjois Kohl pencil as I love how black, soft and creamy it is, but I hate that if I don't set it properly either with eyeshadow or by smudging, I'm definately panda-eyed 2 hours later.

So anyway, browsing around for eyeliners to play with, I came across this new product from NYX. The swatches floating around the internet were gorgeous and I was immediately SOLD on the colours alone. Sealing the deal were the reviews saying that these babies are comparable to Urban Decay eyeliners and I knew I just had to get some!

Here are swatches of my current collection of the eyeliners:

I initally purchased the glitzy gold, jewel and tropical green to try from EBay just to test them out. Once I tried them, I fell in love immediately and had to strongly resist the urge to immediately order the other 15 colours just so I could own the complete collection! Luckily I could exercise some discipline on myself and ordered just two more from Cherry Culture when they had their Christmas sale.

The eyeliners themselves are called Slide On, Glide On, Stay On & Definately a Turn On Waterproof Extreme Shine Eye Liner, usually shortened to Slide On. I did a test with my first batch of eyeliners to see how budge-proof they were and these are the results:

I ran water over the back of my hand and rubbed at the swatches REALLY HARD, and they wouldn't budge!! Even with a little soap, I had to scrub quite a bit before they came off. To remove cleanly, I had to use my DHC Cleansing Oil.

I'm definitely really sold on these liners. They are very smooth and creamy to apply so it was no problem at all getting an even straight line on my eyelids when I use them. I think these are definitely going to become my HG eyeliners!

Here's a pic of me today wearing tropical green on my upper lids and brown perfection on my lower waterline:

Vanity Pic: Featuring NYX Round Lipstick in Chic Red

Very minimal makeup today. Just plain ol' moisturiser followed by my trusty powder concealer, a dusting of silk powder. Blush used is the Autumn limited edition blush from Body Shop in Berry.
What I really want to show off today are the red lips! I don't naturally gravitate to reds. I'm more of a berry/wine/burgundy kind of girl and red to me kinda screams for attention. But today, I was in a more daring mood and went for the red lips, since I didn't really feel like putting on the eyemakeup too.

I like this colour a lot! I thought that red would wash me out or be too aunty but amazingly this didn't do that to me (of course, only in my own opinion. Others around me might think differently!)

Wearing this colour got a lot of comments from my students though. Mostly "Ma'am, why your mouth so red today!" To which I just retorted something along the lines of drinking student's blood hahah. I love teaching my students. I get to joke this way with them, we have a good laugh, then we get down to the business of study.

So anyway that's my lip for today :)

Just for reference, I've put the pic for the swatch I did in my last post here for more comparison.

Vanity Pic: 4 Jan 2012

Vanity pic up today to show off a new haircut!

My resolution for the year is to love myself. And one of the steps I'm taking in loving myself is to go through a makeover. I'm kinda tired of being frumpy and mumsy and feeling like I'm not pretty in my own right, so here's a step for me in that direction.

I have super fine and dry hair and it's evidenced from the frizziness that is still visible in the pic, but the treatment I did when at the salon yesterday has helped tame it down somewhat. My hairdresser also gave me a lot of tips to take care of it on a daily basis and hopefully I will see an improvement on it soon!

I got it cut at REDS Salon at Parkway Parade by stylist Christine. The photo doesn't really do my hair justice. She did a great job and I love how it turned out! Makes me feel very feminine and finally I have some sort of fringe to cover my high forehead so that I don't look quite so bald!

Colour on my lips is NYX Peach Bellini by the way, which I swatched in my previous haul post :) Other than that it's pretty minimal makeup for the day :)