Little drugstore haul

Yesterday I stepped into Watsons and got a few items from there.

Watsons is an Asian drugstore chain that carries healthcare and beauty items.

Watsons in M'sia carries Western, Japanese ,Korean, HK , local and etc. brand of cosmetics. The last I saw they carry :

Western brands : L'oreal, Maybelline, Revlon 

Japanese brands : ZA, Majolica Majorca, Heavy Rotation, Kiss Me, KATE, Eyemazing (by Komori Jun), Freshel

Korean brands : Luview, Touch in Sol, PeriPera, Clio

Other brands : In2it, Elite, Silky Girl

There maybe other brands they are carrying that I missed out. 

Mostly all lip items and a pimple gel. 

The Maybelline baby lips are so highly raved everywhere and I am so late jumping on jumping the bandwagon.

My friends were raving so much about this on how it moisturized her lips so well and how they feel so good on the lips. 

I have been wanting to get them but in Moscow they were not available, so I had to wait till I get back to get them.

I wanted to get them in the glow version but then I saw the color version, they were slightly cheaper than the glow version and they look fun and cute!
I will go back and get the glow versions someday.

There were 3 colours available : Pink Lolita, Rose Addict and Coral Flush.

I picked up two out of three colours. 

Coral Flush is an orange colour.

Pink Lolita is a medium pink colour. 

Since they are lip balms, these product swatches sheer with a flush of colour. 

My poor Revlon Kissable Balm Stain that I ruined the tip when I was removing the plastic covering it. 

The colour I got is 015 Cherish Devoted.

It is a bubblegum pink. 

I tried these on, and bam! I LOVE IT.

They are so moisturizing, smooth, creamy, pigmented and the list goes on and on. I just fell in love with this product. 

Looks like I need to get myself running back to the drugstore to pick up more colours. 

Swatched on the lips. 

The colour is so pretty~~~

In2it Gel tint in 02 Strawberry

I wasn't going to get this but i saw that it was under RM10 so i just grabbed it up. 

There are 4 colours to choose from. 

I also got a little something from Daiso.

A plastic container for me to organize my ever growing collection of lip products.
I do own a lot of lip products ^^;; 

New buy + review : Pore brush

This is going to be a new buy and at the same time review post.

In Korea, there's a lot going on about skincare tools especially pore brushes.
There are lots of brands offering pore brushes, for example Tosowoong being the most popular, Missha, Innisfree, Secret Key etc.

I was thinking of getting one since I couldn't afford getting the Clarisonic set.

So one day, I was browsing through the internet, I came across this seller who was selling these pore brushes for a very affordable brush. I manage to snap it up for around USD8 only.

The delivery took about 2 weeks and the brush came in good condition

The pore brush is nicely packaged in a hard plastic packaging. Even the brush bristles are held together with a cover.

The wood is nicely lacquered so that it will remain water-resistant.

The brush is really really dense and soft.

Okay, cleansing time.
Squeeze a dollop of facial cleanser on the slightly wet brush and then brush through the face.

Before,

My super clogged and dirty pore after a long day.

After,

Dirty clogged pores no more.

I have been using this item for around 4 days already and I would say I really love using it. The brush feels soft on my skin and didn't irritate my skin at all.
So far, It has been keeping my skin really clean and smooth, definitely better than normal washing. I can feel my skin is deeply cleanse.
I have noticed that I have less clogged pores after using this brush.

I haven't been breaking out, so I think it is also controlling breakouts but It can be my skincare that is keeping my skin under control.

The brush is too dense to dry, so keep it in a well-ventilated room after using it so it won't turn moldy fast.

I am glad I invested in a pore brush. 

G-market haul #3

I placed orders to G-market through out when I was not at home, sometimes to get my mum's skincare and also my sister's Kpop CDs (that is also when I sneaked in to placed some orders of my items, well, well, to make the hefty shipping worth it)

I will be separating my G-market haul post according to batches. 

This haul is a birthday haul. It is fairly larger than most of my other Gmarket hauls. 

I got tons of skincare samples from high-end Korean brands, blushers, lip balms and primers.

First, I got two blushers from an unknown Korean brand to me, Tears.

It was on offer and I thought there's no harm to grab it and give it a go. 

The colours I got are PK01 and PK04. 

PK01 is a light baby pink.

PK04 doesn't look pink at all, I do not know why it has PK at its name. It is more of a brown tone orange. 

It opens side ways, took me awhile to realize that. 

Click here for seller's link. 

VOV Lipbalms. They are too cute to resist. 

Not to mention they are really affordable themselves. 

From left : 02 Strawberry Rabbit, 01 Cherry Rabbit, 03 Coral Rabbit

Click here for seller's link. 

Banila co. Primer Primer in Hydrating Shimmer

I heard many rave reviews on this primer so I just got one to try out. 

Actually, I wanted the hydrating version at first but it was out of stock, so I settled with the hydrating shimmer version. 

Chosungah Raw Dayshu Real Skin Fixer.

This is the most expensive item I got in this haul.

Chosungah is a skincare brand started by a Korean Makeup Artist - Cho Seong Ah.

This cream is like those of korean volumers and skinbase that provides the korean actress luminous face glow to the skin and It is a 'hit' in Korea. 

I read a review from Hope-in-a-blog, and from then, I just knew I had to get it. 

I am a fan of the luminous skin look because it 'cheats' flawless skin. When you face glows, it somehow takes away the attention from your skin imperfections. 

Click here to read the review from hope-in-a-blog. 

If this is too expensive for you but you want to try something like this cream,there is some road-shop brand that have a dupe for this cream.

The one I know is Holika Holika Miracle Real Skin Finish. 

I got my cream from this seller. 

Next, I got skincare samples from Korean high-end brands like Sulwhasoo, History of Whoo and Su:m 37

Sulwhasoo Essential Firming Cream

Each sample has 5ml worth of product and they come in 22 pieces of samples. 

Su:m 37 Air Rising Dazzling Base. 

Each tube contains 17ml, there two tubes in each set of the sample, so that makes 34ml. That's close to a full size product at 40ml. 

History of Whoo Whitening Essence.

History of Whoo Secret Court Cream

There are two more items which I totally forgot to include in the 'group' haul picture.

Aritaum Mono Eyes. 

They are very soft so they crumbled during the transit. I need to go out to get rubbing alcohol to press them back. 

The colour I got is no 41. Swiss Veil and no. 43 Athens

Can't read Korean so I don't know the name.

The Aritaum eyeshadows are a big 'hit' in Korea due to their affordable price and great texture and pigmentation.

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Depotting Jumbo Eye Pencils

Urgh I just realize my LA Colors Jumbo Eye Pencil are not the twist up type, I hate it like that because when you sharpen you just lose so much product (and I don't like sharpening my cosmetics).
So I went up to google and found a great way of depotting them

All you need is a hair-dryer, a small jar and something to hold the pencil, you don't wanna hold it while melting it, you don't want to burn your hands.

I got myself the remaining empty jars that I use to store my loose eyeshadows from NYX.

Blow~ Blow~Blow~
It is starting to melt! Gently tap down the products into the jar.

Done with both, now I am gonna cool them down in my air conditioned room. You can also put it into the fridge for a moment.

Done with both of them, gonna send them off to the bin!

Since I messed some up, here are little swatches

Sand Castle

Cherry Blossom

NYX haul + some LA Colors

I made so many hauls in the past month, it is just so overwhelming. 

I haven't been going out much since September till July this year due to my stressful semester and all the extra pocket money which I manage to save went to online shopping (mostly cosmetics & skincare).

I placed this orders last year and only manage to get them shipped to my house this year around Jan or Feb. 

Majorly a NYX haul with two LA Colors Jumbo Eye Pencils.

I have been wanting to try out their soft matte lip cream and xtreme lip cream for quite some time since they have quite a number of good reviews, an interesting concept and I love lip products.

NYX is a great affordable American brand with great products, I love their lip and cheek product mostly and own a collection of their round lipsticks.
They are one of my favourite affordable American brand, maybe most favourite.

NYX Rouge Cream Blush.

These cream blush are super great in quality and pigmentation. I own one of the cream blush in Natural and I like it so I went back for more.

Rose Petal & Hot Pink.

LA Colors Jumbo Eye Pencils in Cherry Blossom and Sand Castles.
Both are shimmery. I prefer shimmery eye colour over matte since it adds dimension to my Asian eyes, I guess this is also why Asian likes shimmery eye colour.

Actually the reason I picked them up is because they are cheap, even cheaper than the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils. I do not own any jumbo eye pencils and I thought this might be a great buy to start off discovering jumbo eye pencils.

Now, to my favourite part, the lip products~

NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Stockholm and Milan.
Stockholm is a pinky-brown nude and Milan is a medium rose-pink.

I have been eyeing at this Lip Cream for quite some time. The interesting description caught me.

Not a lipstick nor lipgloss but something I've never experienced before?
WANT.

Lastly, the Xtreme Lip Cream in Candy Land, Bonfire and Buttery Nude.
Candy Land is a barbie pink, Bonfire is a deep bright pink and Buttery Nude, like its name is a peachy-pink nude.

The Soft Matte Lip Cream are well, like their name, matte whereas the Xtreme Lip Cream are in a glossy finish.

They work  like a liquid lipstick. 

I am back & an ELF haul

Left Moscow on the 29th. Now I am back in Malaysia.

It feels so great to be home. 

Since now, i am at home, I have access to items I have getting online from the past year. 

My Korean hauls are very messy and I still need to clear them up from the box and try to fit them in my makeup drawers (they are gonna explode soon)
so now I am going to post on my American hauls first.

My ELF haul. 

These are the items I got from ELF. 

The ELF HD Blush and the Tone Correcting Powder in shimmer are the ELF items that I am most excited about. 

The Tone Correcting Powder comes in a matte black packaging. 

The shimmers are really obvious in the pan
It is gonna make a great highlighting powder to give a luminous look. 

ELF HD Blush.

I got mine in the colour headliner and diva. 

The blush is actually really really tiny. 

This is the size compared to a NYX lipstick.

The blush is really pigmented so a size like this should be able to last forever! 

I can never have too many lipbalms because I basically run through them a lot. 

The colours I got are Peaceful Pink and Mellow Berry.

Mellow Berry is a deep berry colour. 

Peaceful Pink a medium shade pink. 

ELF is one of my favourite dirt cheap cosmetic brand, some items work like a gem.
Usually they have 50% off their studio/mineral line which makes everything even cheaper.