SHIKIMIKIE

This is how it looks like on my hand. Don't be fooled though because I applied this when I was about to go to the hospital and then when I looked at the mirror there, my lips were neon. It doesn't look like it for the first few minutes that you would apply it but really? Neon? I was like surprised because WTH? It's probably just my lips or whatever but this is intense. Now, I actually like the color it gives but it was just inappropriate that time. 

You definitely can't see the neon here but this is the pink tinge it gives at first so yeah. On another note, my skin is still at its worst right now. Oh well. 

For some reason, I think my sister's watching too much YouTube Tutorials and she's been making different masks and stuff like that so I decided to join her little party because my skin is really being a bad bish right now. I don't know if I told you guys about this already because with 478 posts, I don't know what's going on already so yeah. Okay, as I was saying, I break out (as in break out) once a year so that time is now. and when my skin is extra greedy, I would break out twice so hopefully this would be it na for this year. 

1. You have to have green tea leaves and what you can do is that you can prepare yourself a cup of tea and then after you do so, do not throw the leaves because that's what you'll be working on. 

2. Just add a liberal amount of sugar. It actually depends on how gritty you want your mask to be. The more sugar you put, the rougher the mask would be so if you want to exfoliate big time, then add a lot! 

3. Add honey. It has moisturizing property and it'll make your concoction  pasty which will make it easier to apply onto yer face.

4. Mix all the ingredients until you somehow see that it's looking like this. There might be too much honey in this picture but never mind! Also, it'll be very nice if your tea leaves are finer than this because it's rather difficult to apply. Sort of.

5. Apply evenly and leave for five minutes. Or at least that's how long we waited before rinsing this out.

I'm actually a sucker for hair products because without a help from such, my hair is dead. My hair is pretty much on life support to be honest. And to be honest once again, I don't think going to the salon once or twice a month would really do anything so these products having the price of one salon session or even less, I thought I'd give it a go. 

I bought them at Watson's and they actually have a different set of hair treatment there but I already finished a bottle of that without actually seeing any difference so it's probably my hair or maybe that really is just another hair product. But I'm not gonna talk about that stuff, yeah? The Keratin Hot Oil Cream sounds really promising so I hope it won't let me down. I actually started using the Keratin one and I also asked my sister to try it and it was actually good but using a product once or twice wouldn't really be fair so I'll just keep using it!

I don't know if it's just me or maybe because I'm watching too much YouTube beauty gurus but the consistency is quite thick so maybe that would do something to my hair. And they smell quite good. I'm just happy that it doesn't smell much of an artificial fragrance but rather some chemicals. Nah, just kidding!

And if all else fails, I would just make a concoction and mix these two there and then it would do the job! :)

Nothing really special about the packaging. Not nice or anything. It's simply boring. But you can't really complain much because it's cheap so yeah. The brand is ELLEFAR  and I got the colors Elegant Mauve and Clear Coral. If you don't speak colors, it's pretty much hot pink and orange. Yay! 

To open the lid of the lipstick, you have to remove the plastic covering it so the only thing you could hold on to is the label below the lipstick like the picture above.

The swatch of "Clear Coral" is kind of longer because I didn't expect it to be that pigmented so I kind of recklessly drew a line so yeah. They go on very smooth actually. I was a little bit surprised too when I applied it. I am pretty impressed with how vibrant the colors are. As you can see in the photo though, since I have dry skin, it basically followed the texture of my skin so if you're gonna apply this on your lips, you better have exfoliated, smooth lips. 

AWKWARD POSITION

I was wearing an olive green eye shadow in this photo and I really looked like a beaten up panda when I checked on the mirror and since it's iPhone 4's front camera, it didn't pick up that color did it? Surprisingly though, it did with the ELEGANT MAUVE lipstick. So that's how vibrant the color is. I don't know if I like it. I think light pink fits me more. Not nude or anything because that just makes me look weirder. Just pink. Light pink. Paulit-ulit? LOL.

Okay so we are not actually allowed to paint our nails. Technically! The MedTech intern coordinator in our laboratory actually said we are allowed to paint our nails. ONLY NATURAL THOUGH. And I was like...ARE YOU EFFIN KIDDING MY NAILS? So now I decided to paint my nails. Ha! Nope. I WISH!

I like the principle of that MATTE BLACK AND BLUE thingy. Although my nails would probably look unhealthy with that on. Nails should be a little shiny and stuff but it's kind of scary to look at it mattified like that. But I still think it's gorgeous and would definitely try it SOON. I also love the principle of that violet thingy. The black portion. I wonder what's on the THUMB though. The PINK LEOPARD IS JUST SO TIMELESS. I want!

I think this is so CUTE. I would definitely get one of this SOON. As much as I wish to get it now, we all know that NAIL POLISHES aren't the best investments because they have a tendency to be of different consistency as time passes by. It's either they DRY UP or they become THICKER and then kind of hard to APPLY.

After having watched heaps of YouTube transformation tutorial, I came across tons of techniques to pop and brighten the eyes and one of the techniques that most of the GURUS claimed the same thing. And that's to use...

Actually... I don't know. I can't tell if there's actually a difference. Not in my opinion.

My left eye is weird so never mind. Okay...There's actually a little bit of difference. Thinking about it logically though, every thing makes perfect sense. If you would adjust the white part of the eye by putting a white eyeliner on the the lower waterline, then it'll make an illusion of a bigger eye. Or eyes. The right picture looks more awake and lively than that of the right eye. I guess. So it kind of works!

Here's how it looks like.

It's 9 ml so it's not really a lot. And for some reason, my tube is kind of dry already. I don't know of it's just me or the product kind of dried inside. I don't usually use mascara that often so I don't know what the hype is all about.

Here's how it's brush looks like :) I kind of like the tip of the brush because it makes it easier to apply mascara to the lower lashes.

The left picture is my eye with nothing on (but curled) And then the left is my eye with the mascara on. Pretty impressive and the change was quite dramatic but believe me, I WORKED HARD FOR IT. Like coats and coats and coats of mascaras to achieve this final look. Also, it can get really clumpy and stuff. I mean, I didn't do anything unusual for it to be potentially harmed and suddenly decided to kind of be coagulated inside so I don't know if I have anything to do with its faultiness and stuff. So yeah.

But with persistence and probably if I am not in a hurry or what, I don't mind coating my lashes so many times to make it look better, fuller and nicer.

I don't know if you noticed but my lashes really looks fuller and yeah so much dramatic than my natural lashes. I know mine when super done just looks like normal to you but whatever. LOL.

Also! I took Michelle Phan's advice not to forget the lower lashes because they also need some lovin' and stuff. See how it looks better?

So yeah, that's my review of it. I wouldn't choose it over any other nicer product. But probably for a survival kit or some sort of "I-don't-have-anything-else-to-use" then no choice. Gotta work it! :D