Hi beauties,
I would have posted earlier but I have been a busy bee!

As you can see from the picture above, I dyed my hair!!!

But I had to get it redone at a salon. Boo Hoo Hoo.

All I wanted was to have Ulzzang Moon Danbi hair color ( something similar to the picture above). Unfortunately for me, one box of  hair dye  was far too little and I had blocks of black and golden brown as well as blonde streaks all over my head. My hubby actually helped me and he kept telling me that even though he managed to cover my whole head, the dye was really thinly spread and this was going to be a bad hair job!

My hair ended up looking real bad –>

Also, it was my first attempt lightening my hair with bleach and I simply sucked at it!  I really wish I had just made the trip down to the salon in the first place but I abhor waiting for hours on end in the salon. I used Palty’s hair dye and I must say it’s a pretty good hair bleach ( even though they are pretty stingy with the amount compared to Revlon) but I was wondering why my hair was turning orange after a few washes!!! I used the golden brown shade btw. Long story short, I'm no pro at handling hair bleach so I shall try to leave it to a professional in future should I have the crazy urge to go light ! Well, I kinda needed to visit a hairdresser anyways to get rid of the dead fried ends so I ended up opting for a darker ash brown shade to cover all the blotchy & faded highlighted parts.

I’m not particularly excited about the darker shade but I have to go darker to even out all the crazy color tones. Now I just have to focus on leaving my hair alone to prep it for a future color changes! Arghh…

I also have a cosmetic confession to make. I finally got my NAKED Palette. I got the original one because I liked the shades more. I’m such a laggard but I absolutely love it.

Love, BlovetBeauty

* Sponsored Review *

I’ll be really honest here, sometime last year I think, I found out about skin79’s BB line from the beautiful Eki’s blog and I didn’t pay it much attention then because my first and only experience with BB Cream was with Hanskin and it made me break out!

Well, I think it isn’t quite fair to my readers and BB Cream users for me to just say NO to reviewing BB Creams just because my skin type didn’t quite suit it. Moreover, I was more willing to test out this newly launched BB Balm as it contains SPF 50+ which sounds pretty darn good to me.

Aesthetics wise, I think the orange packaging looks expensive and pretty. Practicality wise, I’m not totally in love with the dispenser because it gets dirty quite quickly and I can’t just throw it into my bag to bring out.

One pump dispenses just enough product for me as I  only need more coverage under my eyes and at certain spots. Since I’m not a regular BB cream user, I was a little surprised by the ashy color it initially gave off but I waited it out and it blended into my skin after 20-30 mins. Also, upon testing it on my skin, I was immediately impressed by the coverage. This BB Balm covers everything. Also, it claims to whitens and  aid in wrinkle improvement ( Ingredients list right below!)

Can’t believe I’m showing you guys a close up of my skin but here goes. This is the left side of my face and I am wearing a layer of Skin79 Vital Beblesh Balm. The BB Balm can be very thick if you use to much. The key to making it work, is to use a little and spread it quickly and evenly all over the face. Too much and it brings out any dents and looks really cakey. For me, it covered a few of my obvious childhood scars by 60% but they have been with me since young so that’s considered excellent coverage to me. I must warn you again though, using less will get you a more porcelain look. You can always go over imperfections with more BB cream and a light hand.

Overall, I did experience a little reaction to the BB Balm on my nose area but it went away after a few uses. I like to use this BB Balm around my eye region because of the high SPF and for the fact that it isn’t drying. I do feel that the consistency of this BB is rather thick, so a little goes a long way and I highly recommend this for BB Cream lovers with drier, non sensitive skin types. I personally think the coverage on this is excellent.

Skin79 sent me their recently launched pen eyeliner which is now selling at Watsons. The review will be coming up soon!

Hope this helped you BB Balm Lovers!

Love, BlovetBeauty

Hi Beauties,

I’ve been so busy and tired with Lunar New Year Celebrations and of course some shopping. This is actually the best time to go shopping in town cause most folks are celebrating with family. I had mini celebrations but most happened on the first day of Lunar New Year so today I had time to look around with my hubby.

Steve Madden was having a sale and I decided to pick up a pair of flats! It’s my first ever pair and so darn comfortable. I’m in love.

I have a sponsored skin79 post coming up soon so look out for that k.

Wishing all my friends and readers who celebrate Chinese New Year, a great dragon year ahead

Love,BlovetBeauty

Hello Lovelies,

Sorry for the lack of updates this week. My little toddler has finally made the transition to sleeping only once a day and I swear, I literally  have no time to breathe. By the time I cater to all his needs and get ready for work, it’s time to zip out the door. Really I’ve not worked this hard for some time. I’m still adjusting to the increased work load and having a really really active toddler.

Let me explain the random eye picture! Darling NIC NIC of Bang Bang She Shoots, tagged me! Since I haven’t done this in a long time, I knew I had to do it and I put in quite a lot of thought into this tag, so I appreciate u taking the time to read it!

**I’m using peripera blue eyeshadow and topshop’s brown eyeshadow as well as skin79 pen liner ( luv this) for the look.

Top 10 Cosmetics

1) Dollywink liquid liner

Truly amazing liner. Enough said about it.

2) Shu Uemura UV Fluid ( I switched over from CD because it was a little too drying for my skin but that has to the best alternative to SU UV Fluid)

I’ve been using this since I was 18 or 19. It has never broken me out and now that my skin is drier, I like how it seems to have a hydrating effect as well.

3) Shu Uemura Curler

I get one every few years and every time I try a different brand, I always end up regretting it and switching right back to this awesome curler.

4) Esprique Precious Dual Gradation Eyes D2

The texture of these eye shadows are so smooth, so soft and the pigmentation is just right. I reach for this palette more than I like to admit and it makes my eyes sparkle when I use it. The earthy shades make it super practical too. I love this.

5) Lioele Magic Lip Treatment

I use this on an almost daily basis now. My Lips look pink and I suffer from less flaky lips. It’s pretty magical.

6) Kate Volume Gel Mascara

I have yet to do a review on this mascara but I assure you, this mascara holds a curl, doesn’t flake, keeps lashes black and soft. It doesn’t smudge easily too which is very important in this hot climate.

7) Peripera Wonder Talk Lip Balm

Moisturising, adorable and well tinted lip balm. I love this. The packaging is too cute to miss!

8) Essence Stay with me long lasting lip gloss

U have to try this lip gloss. Super affordable and wonderful.

9) Rimmel Color Show Off Lipstick

My Ultimate choice for pigmented matte lip sticks. The color range is young and vibrant.

10) Dolly Wink False Eyelashes

Expensive but the best quality and most awesome looking lashes IMHO. No. 5 real nude is the absolute best looking and wearing bottom lashes.

whoa, after running through my list, I realised that my Japanese and Korean Cosmetics obsession has started from a really young age. Quality cosmetics is so important!

Lemme see, Nic Nic says that I have to list 7 things about myself too!

7 Things About Me!

1) I love chocolate. I am a serious chocoholic.

2) I love my iphone. I was one of those who resisted it when it initially came out but now I’m absolutely lost without it. Plus it takes really flattering shots with cool photo editing apps. I wish I looked like this when I roll out of bed !!

3) I like decorating. I find it therapeutic to buy home ware and fill a space up with it.

4) I lived in Munich in 2007. I stayed there for an entire year and travelled to Portugal, Rome, Paris, Istanbul and Prague. My favorite place in the world is Rome and I want to revisit again !!! The works of art, the pizza and the gelato is heaven for me.

5) I was a socially awkward kid. I didn’t like school from a young age and would take any opportunity to skip school. As such, I didn’t know how to get along with kids my age because I was constantly surrounded by older people at home. I said and did weird things as a child and didn’t know how to communicate with people. I felt rather isolated and out of place most of the time but my hubby really helped bring me out of my shell.

6) Fact no.5 leads to this fact. No guy I liked when I was young liked me back. I was a ugly child. Hahaha

7) Last but not least, for all you ugly ducklings out there, never fear, my hubby liked me for who I was and we’ve been together for almost 14 years now:) I followed my heart and it lead me to my soulmate :)

I hope you enjoyed this post guys! Thanks Nic Nic for the opportunity to share some crazy facts about myself and some of my must have cosmetics!

Love, BlovetBeauty

I look like I’m chewing off my finger but really I’m just trying to copy Hyuna’s trademark troublemaker pose:P Her looks and the way she moves in the Troublemaker MV makes her an absolute dead ringer for Lee Hyori. The beat is so catchy and thank goodness for Hyunseung’s vocals . Hyuna’s image was so spot on. Her makeup was very seductive and sex kittenish. She had bed hair, big soft curls and her outfits were tight, short and sexy. Well, she’s got to make up for her lack of vocal prowess!

I did 2 Troublemaker Inspired Looks. One was a lightly smokey rimmed eye look with sparkly pink lips and another was a more seductive look with heavier eyeliner and red tinted glossy lips. My hair did not want to corporate with me so I must apologise for the crazy hair.

Here’s the first look:

I’ve put a picture of all the makeup items I used for both looks. Essentially, I was also testing out a new sponsored Super + Beblesh Balm and eyeliner pen by skin79. I can’t wear bb creams but I used it for my t zone and under eyes in this look. I think the coverage is excellent and I will be putting up a review soon. I may not be able to wear bb creams due to my skin type but I understand that a lot of my readers love to use bb creams.

Things I used:

Essence Eyebrow Pencil and I LUV ROCK Glam Black Pencil Liner

Skin 79 Super BB Cream + Pen Liner

Maybelline Diamond Glow Eyeshadow in Grey Pink ( used the lightest shade for all over lid highlight)

Castledew ( Blacks and Browns to emphasis shadows) and Majolica Majorca Eyeshadow for added sparkle at inner corners of eyes

Hyuna’s second and more seductive look. Hyun seung’s makeup looked pretty flawless too. He definitely has some foundation or BB cream on and his eyes were well groomed and lightly rimmed. It matches well with Hyuna’s overall sex kitten image. For this look I merely enhanced the eyeliner and black eyeshadow as well as adding CLIO’s Red Lip Balm for a just been kissed look.

My right cheek is a little red cause I was over zealous with an exfoliator. Sigh. Thank goddness it didn’t scar! argh… I’m just waiting for my skin to heal and become less red.

Hope you have a great evening and a wonderful weekend!

Love BlovetBeauty

I shop pretty quickly nowadays and I happened to pick this hair wig up as a rather impulse buy. I was thinking it would be perfect to extend my hair and anyways it was synthetic, long and straight. It’s my first time trying on hair clip extensions so I was pretty excited to check it out!

There are some simple rules on how to take care of this hair wig extension piece. Don’t brush it roughly, no hot irons and no rough handling in general. I combed it very lightly with a hair brush and even then quite a bit of hair fell out.

I like the strands – soft and fine but really easy to tangle. I’m going to use this for my Hyuna Trouble Maker Inspired look.

I like the color of the hair piece and as you can see, it’s the lightest and longest one on my head. It’s 45cm long and I ‘m really itching to try the curly longer hair extension. Application is easy as there’s just 3 hair clips to attach on but I found it a little too big for my head. At 34 cm, I find it stretches a little too wide but I just tried my best to make it work.

I was watching some hair care advice online when it comes to hair wig clip ons and they usually advice not to keep on clipping this onto the same spot or it can lead to a bald spot!

Have you used any great clip on hair extensions???

Love, BlovetBeauty

Guess what? I met up with the very pretty Blair who was in town last week and we had a cute meet up. She’s tall, slim and super sweet which left me wondering why she doesn’t show her face more often on her blog. haha. I felt really short and midget like next to her.

Come back and visit soon dear, don’t worry I hearted out ur pretty face!

Moving on, I happened to be testing out the new Essence I ROCK Gloss Eye Pencil  when I met Ms Blair and yes it’s black as soot and it works quite well for such an affordable eye pencil. There are more expensive drugstore pencils that don’t even work half as well ! A quick word of caution though, this is a jet black kohl pencil so it’s best to use an eye primer and set it with black eye shadow. It will smudge on the under eye area but it’s quite manageable. Simply remove with a little foundation or concealor.

Essence Gloss Eye Pencil is truly a rich black that has a sheen to it and I would definitely recommend this to those of you who love MAC’s Feline or Smolder as it’s an affordable dupe. Feline smudges way more than this gloss eye pencil and is much harder to remove.

Another product I happened to be wearing while out with Blair for the first time was Revlon Just Bitten in Passion and I must say I don’t fancy it at all. It’s pretty new in Watsons and there’s a decent range of color but I still don’t like this particular product from them. ??

Why I don’t like it:

a) Revlon’s Just Bitten Lip Stain’s packaging is the worst thing ever. Upon opening the balm end, the entire lip balm section dislodged from middle section and the stain tube contained in the middle section fell out onto my marble floor. Horrific. A big hot mess.

I have butter fingers and the lip balm end of Revlon’s lip stain really brings out the worse in me. The lip balm end kind of sticks out when you open the tube. I’m used to lip balms being encased fully when you keep them but this one happens to be partially exposed. You have to be very careful when you close the it or it will end up like the picture below. I guarantee it.

I don’t have a before picture to show you the original packaging. Sorry! The point I am trying to make is that the lip balm end is an epic fail to me.

b) When I swatched it on my hand, it looked like a lovely sweet pink. On my lips it appeared really dark and almost candy apple like. I’m a little confused at the color difference.

c) It makes my lip color darker upon removal. I suspect it’s due to the fact that the stain is drying and causes the skin on my lips to be dry and scaly.

Why I like it:

a) The lasting power of the stain is terrific. It last  4-6 hours.

b) Application is easy.

I really wanted to like Revlon’s Just Bitten because it’s quite a neat lip stain/balm concept. I’m digging the whole lip stain trend at the moment because it means color without any sticky gloss on the lips. A pity the packaging isn’t up to standard and the lip balm end is a total fail – if it doesn’t fall out, it’s sure to break because it’s just jutting out. Overall, I won’t be repurchasing and I’m somewhat relieved that I got this on sale.

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On a hair front, I did dye my hair a strawberry blonde a month back because I do want lighter hair. I’m not a black hair sort of girl and my hair is rather dry and damaged from the bleach highlights and the dying. I have to slather argan oil,  LUSH’s Marilyn and hair oils on a regular basis just to smoothen it out. Arghh.. I love lighter hair but I hate the toil it takes on my long hair :P

Any other products you’d recommend for frequently dyed hair?

Happy Sunday Beauties!

Love, BlovetBeauty

Yes, I was obviously lured in by the cute packaging but I’ll always be a sucker like that. I’ve never tried canmake lashes before but I thought this might be a good first try  plus I really liked the idea of the lashes being thicker in the center and thinner  at the corners.

Firstly, the lash band is very rigid. This might be a good thing for beginners or those who have problems with soft lash bands but personally, I feel it could be a bit softer. Reason being that it does not conform to the shape of my lash line easily. That’s so strange. I’ve not had to work so hard to have any other falsies fit my lashes.

Secondly, I think these Canmake no.11 lashes are for the Gyaru, Japanese makeup style lovers or clubbers. I don’t think you could wear this to school, work or even out with friends unless you are one of the above mentioned. You need to have on full eye makeup to pull off these lashes and I personally think bottom lashes would give a definite doll or gyaru look too. Totally attention grabbing! 

Thirdly, it feels freaking heavy and a tad bit uncomfortable.

=I think the pictures speak for themselves ::

I hope this review was useful !

Happy Weekend!

Love, BlovetBeauty