Drugstore haul : Bourjois, Pupa, Essence, Catrice, Art Deco

There are a few new releases that I wanted to try from Essence and Catrice. The other day I went to the other outlet of the beauty store and saw that they had stock for some items that weren't in stock in the outlet which I always go to. Besides that, they had a stand dedicated to Art Deco, which I picked up a few products from.

No make up feel foundation? I am all up for it. I am one of those girls who doesn't like thick foundation, the more natural and lighter the better.
When Essence launched a no makeup feel foundation, I am all for it.

This product was not in stock when I visited the beauty store I usually go to, but when I saw that it is in stock at the other outlet, I went ahead and grabbed it.

My shade is 10 pure beige and in MAC I am about a NC15- NC20. This fits me quite right from the swatches. Can't wait to try this foundation out.

Another foundation I picked up is from the brand PUPA. This brand is not really well known in the beauty community since they are not easy to get hold of. I am just fortunate that PUPA is really widely available over here.
So far, I have tried a few products from PUPA and I like them. They are really good quality drugstore products.

This time I just wanted to try a foundation from them so I picked up this PUPA Active Light Foundation.

I always like a luminous finish for my foundation compared to matte. So it is no brainer that I went for this foundation. Sign me in for anything that says luminous, dewy, light activating, light reflecting.

The name, Liquid Camouflage, High Coverage and Waterproof, just intrigued me.
It was just calling for me, I had to pick it up.
I hope this will work as a really good undereye concealer for me.

I bought this shade from Bourjois again because I love this shade.
When I was doing my blush routine I somehow just miss using this blush from Bourjois. Bourjois definitely have the best powder blushers in the drugstore market. They are so soft, pigmented and long lasting.
This shade Rose D'or is gorgeous, it is a medium pink with gold flecks. It gives the cheeks a beautiful blush with some highlight.

I did a swatch and short review on this shade before, you can check it out here

Up to this point of the post, I guess you could already see that I like my products to have an illuminating finish.
I picked up the Catrice Illuminating Blush in 030 Kiss Me Ken. It is a mix of a light and deep berry pink shade with silver glitters.

A closer look at the blush, you can really see the glitters from here.

The last items I picked up are three eyeshadows from Art Deco.
I have used Art Deco eyeshadows before and I do enjoy using them. They have a wide range of eyeshadows, I kid you not.
When I went to the stand, I saw like a ton loads of eyeshadows to choose from and I was having a tough time narrowing down my shade selections.

373 Glam Gold Dust
It is under the Glamour finish. I do not know what that means, but I am just gonna assume it means lots of glitter.
As you can see from the pan, the eyeshadow is loaded with gold glitters.

578 Matt Smoky Mauve.
The matte line from Art Deco are gorgeous. They are so pigmented upon swatching.
This shade like its name is a plummy brown shade.

18 Light Misty Wood.
This is a pearl finish. It is a beautiful shimmery cool toned brown.

That's all for the items that I have hauled this time. 

Mini loot : Maybelline Dream Lumi Concealer

I did a haul again. Guilty? Not guilty.
The beauty store near my hostel was having a 30% off on all Maybelline and Garnier products.
I only own one undereye concealer that is the 3CE Full Coverage Concealer. The Maybelline Dream Lumi Touch has always been on my list of products to try out along with the L'oreal Lumi Magique Concealer. I heard lots of great reviews about them and they seem to be a great drugstore dupe of the YSL Touche Eclat.
There's a sale, so it would be a great chance to get the concealers.

I got the Dream Lumi Concealer in 02 Nude. I may look like a hoarder because I got two of them. They are usually not in stock since there is 30% off and they are in stock, I just took the chance to get a back up so that I wouldn't experience headache trying to find backups when they are sold out. The product also looks like it doesn't have much product in the tube.
From testers, this product applies like a dream, it is light but the coverage is great, very high coverage. I haven't try it out under my eye but I can't wait to give this product a testdrive, I can see that I will like this concealer a lot. 

Massive 3CE haul #2

Another massive 3 Concept Eyes haul. It has been a year since the last time I did a massive 3 Concept Eyes haul (link here).

This might be my last 3CE haul because for the price I am paying for these products, I could top up a little more and get better products. They are pretty pricey for what they are despite getting them at slightly lower than market price in Korea.
They are not bad or awful products, after buying so many of their products ad trying them out, I felt that they are many better brands outside that I could get than this brand.

3 Concept Eyes Enriched Treatment Face Oil

The dewy makeup look is a trend in Korea and this product helps in creating the look by dropping some oil into the foundation.
This face oil reminds me of Nuxe's Huile Prodigieuese .

It comes with a beautiful frosted glass jar.

3 Concept Glossing Waterful Foundation

One word. Impulse buy.

The shade is #milkivory

The packaging of this foundation is gorgeous, with the frosted glass bottle and also dropper. The dropper makes it convenient and avoids overpouring of foundation.
This foundation is very watery the coverage is non-existent to light. If you have perfect skin and you just want to slightly even out your skintone, this might be the foundation but other than that, I don't think it is the foundation. It won't cover redness or blemishes. Also, it can't be build up.
Since it is light, this foundation won't settle in lines nor cake, it gives a beautiful soft glossy finish. On oily skin type, it might lean too oily. It is more suited for drier skin types.
This foundation is not long lasting. That is the problem with light foundations.
It depends on what your skin needs. This is not a foundation for everyone. It is the foundation for people with dry and close to perfect skin.

3 Concept Eyes Natural Finish Loose Powder in #001

This loose powder comes in a typical black lidded packaging and a puff inside.
I haven't tried this powder yet and it is collecting dust in my vanity, I am just too attached to my MAC MSF Natural.

3 Concept Eyes Powdery Lip & Cheek

3 Concept Eyes Powdery Lip & Cheek in Popo & Tibet Orange

Popo is a light purple pink shade and Tibet Orange is bright orange.

I like these products. The colour are gorgeous especially on the cheeks, they are great! The product sorts of finishes powder-like on my skin. Since they lean to a powder finish, they do not work well as lip product, they just settle too much on the lip line and even made my not-so-dry lips like Sahara desert. Flaking everywhere. Pretty much any lip junkie's nightmare.

3 Concept Eyes Cream Blusher in New Pink

New Pink is a pale pink shade. A nice everyday shade for blush.
Cream blush are great during the colder months where the skin is dryer, it gives the skin a luminous glow and also colour to the cheeks.
I picked this up because I just wanted to their cream blusher.

3 Concept Eyes Liquid Foundation in Ivory Beige

It comes in a squeezy tube like this.
The texture of the foundation is slightly watery and light. It finishes of semi matte on the skin but due to the texture, the coverage only lies at light to medium. Definitely more coverage compared to the Glossing Waterful Foundation but it doesn't conceal much redness and blemishes.
It is light on the skin but it is not light airy like.
It doesn't last too long on the skin, without setting it, it can melt of just like that in a mere 4 hours. I just somehow find this foundation stays on the skin and doesn't 'stick' to the skin.

A foundation for the close to perfect skin.
Those with blemishes, acne or pimples, this won't be the foundation you are looking for.

3 Concept Eyes Full Cover Concealer in #001

I think I have found a gem in 3CE's makeup line. This has been my favourite concealer for my undereyes.
The texture of the concealer is gel-like so it is very light on the undereye and doesn't set into the fine lines.
It last very long and coverage is great for dark eye circles.

This concealer works well for undereye but it doesn't set well on blemishes.

3 Concept Eyes Fresh Aqua Mist

I got this as a free gift from purchasing the creamy lipstick.

3 Concept Eyes Jumbo Lip Crayon

3 Concept Eyes Jumbo Lip Crayon in #Pop Orange.

I remembered ordering in #Cream Orange instead of #Pop Orange. Kinda disappointing because it is not the colour I have hoped for.
I am not buying anymore Jumbo Lip Crayon because I am lazy when it comes to sharpening my makeup.

3 Concept Eyes Back to Baby BB Cream.

Another product that comes in a squeezy tube.

Their BB Cream is newly released so I was really interested in it.

Finally a product for the girls who need coverage. If you were thinking about the Glossing Waterful Foundation but need the coverage, then this is the product for you.
The texture is viscous like most Korean BB Creams and the finish is soft and dewy with medium to high coverage that is slightly buildable.

3 Concept Eyes Lip Lacquer in 'Pink Boom'

I got really intrigued with the lip lacquer since products like this are not easy to come by in the Korean market.
The texture, it's really creamy. I applies 'wet' on the lips to dry down and 'clings' to the lips. It reminds me of the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream and Bourjois Rouge Velvet.
Like most lip creams type of formula, it is always advised to exfoliate and moisturize the lips the day prior of using the product as along the day upon application, the product will dry the lips out and settle into fine lines.
Not a very attractive look.

Comparing the 3 Concept Eyes Lip Lacquer, NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream and Bourjois Rouge Velvet, I would say the Bourjois Rouge Velvet is definitely the winner. I just like its unexplainable velvet airy feeling on the lips, it's a velvet dream and throughout the day my lips still doesn't feel dry.
In terms of colour selection, I give the 3 Concept Eyes Lip Lacquers and NYX Soft Matte Lip Creams the thumbs up.
If you have to choose 3 Concept Eyes Lip Lacquers or NYX Soft Matte Lip Creams, I would say give NYX a go because in terms of performance these two are somewhat similar but NYX wins at the price department.

3 Concept Eyes Honey Face Chiffon Fluid

3 Concept Eyes Honey Face Chiffon Fluid comes in a squeezy tube too.

The texture of the foundation is slightly mousse like. The finish is matte and the coverage is medium to high. I find it has better oil control than the other foundations from 3CE.

More 3 Concept Eyes lippies, I am a lippie junkie and I have got to say I like 3CE's lipsticks due the great colour variety.

3 Concept Eyes Lip Color in Deep Kisser, Violeta and Bella.

Bella is a deep plum berry colour. It is very vampy.

Violeta is a deep purple pink shade.

Deep Kisser is a fuchsia pink with slight purple in it.

3 Concept Eyes Creamy Lip Color

I got two shades : Roller Coaster & Dazzling.

Roller Coaster is a baby pink.

Dazzling is a pink beige.

3 Concept Eyes in Water Gloss in Chewing

This is a new product from 3CE so I picked it up to try it out.

That sums up my really massive 3 Concept Eyes haul. 

Oops.. I did it again. A Watson's haul.

Don't you just love popping into the drugstore on the look out for some cheap or affordable thrill. I know I am one of those people. 

When I was on my winter trip to UK, the image of Superdrug is vividly imprinted in my mind. The huge stands of cosmetics just made me glee like a little girl in a candy store. I remembered how much items I had bought from the Collection stand but I missed out the most popular item. The Perfection Concealer. I still have no idea why I didn't check on it maybe then I didn't think I need a concealer but my skin was worse off then. 

Now I am so glad that Collection had made its way to Malaysia so I don't to save on the lipsticks I am using because I don't know when is my next trip to UK and I could get my hands on the oh so highly raved concealer. 

I got the concealer in the 2nd lightest shade Light 2. I don't think I am English Rose fair to use the fairest shade of them all. I haven't tried the concealer on yet but I have swatched it. It is really creamy and with high coverage. 

If you had missed my UK haul. I will link it here. 

The next item Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Pink in the Afternoon. This is my first Super Lustrous lipstick and I am really excited about it. I had to control myself not to hoard the whole stand of lipstick. 

In the end I settled for only one shade. 

Pink in the Afternoon is a warm medium pink with peach undertone. I find it is the most appealing and wearable pink in the collection.
It is said to be inspired by the lipstick shade that Audrey Hepburn wore in 'Breakfast in Tiffany's". Audrey Hepburn is my style inspiration, she is such a gorgeous lady. This just gets me more excited for the lipstick.