Monday, November 27, 2017

[SWATCH + REVIEW + TIPS] : Maybelline Powder Mattes All Shades

3:00 PM
Hello gorgeous, how’s your day ?


How good your day is, this post is gonna make it even better! Today we’re gonna play with a lot of lipsticks in beautiful colors. Excited enough? Let’s start! 

Maybelline New York is one of well-known brand worldwide. Not only in make up base, also in some decorative part for daily use , especially for young girls like us, or perhaps woman with young spirits! Lately, the lipstick trend was like heavy-matte lipsticks which actually doesn’t feel comfortable at all, right? But due to following the trend we usually just wear it to look pretty and “kekinian”. 
Now, Maybelline has resolved this for us! Time to say good bye to heavy matte, with Maybelline The Powder Mattes series! The powder mattes is the first ultra weight matte lipstick from Maybelline New York for the perfect matte with ultra light feel on our lips (can you imagine how comfortable is this, to have matte lipstick but no dry lips?). They have 20 shades in this collection which can be divided into 4 parts based on their base colors. They’re Nude colors, orange-based, pink-based, and lastly red-based. They’re all ready to make our moments perfect! 
Here are the swatches of the 20 shades (yes i have them all!) 
[Nude colors collection] the colors all are very beautiful and well, I can say they’re kinda neutral. These colors won’t make you look pale even though they’re nude, so yeah I’m in love with these. We can use it for daily colors when going to campus or office, or just simple going out for shopping ;P 





[Orange based colors]


These ones comes out with bright colors, which reminds me of summer. It can make us look 




young and cheer full, so it’s very suitable for you who love Korean make up look. We can even try creating ombre lips with combining these colors! Super fun and cute. 
[pink based colors]


As a pink lover, well this one’s my fav above all. They’re all pink yet they’re all beautiful! Super excited on this collection, different level of pink and all of them still wearable for daily use or even going to events. The light one maybe better for daily use, and the darker ones can be used for special occasions like attending wedding events, gathering, etc. The good point is, this won’t make our lips dry. Love! 








[Red based colors]


This one , we can say is the bold collection amongst others. As for Indonesian people, usually they’re afraid of using bold colors as they think it will make them look “old”. But actually, that’s totally fine. Wearing bold lipstick is a choice we can make. We can even use this for daily wear to office and to occasions. Especially for bankers, they’ll super love this one. The front liners at bank use this kind of colors everyday, but they usually use the heavy matte lip cream to prevent too often of touch up. With this one, we can have matte lipstick, high pigmentation level, and of course lightweight feel and healthy lips at the same time! 

So how’s your opinion on these colors? After seeing these photos, have you feel in love with Maybelline The Powder Mattes? Stop right there! I still have a little surprise for you, we’re going to have a torture test on my lips! We’re going to try these lipsticks on my lips, how many layers can there be on my lips (compared to lip cream as well). 

Here’s I’m applying 3,7,15,20 layers of Maybelline The Powder Mattes, on these layers I can still feel very light even just like I’m wearing no lipsticks. Awesome! 





OK. Here’s the last layer I created, 25 layers of lipsticks! This is awesome, well, I feel a bit of lipstick on my lips. But hey, here’s 25 colors. Feels so different rather than using lip cream, which already feels heavy at first layer and even getting heavier on the next layers. This one, can be 25 layers. Lip cream? No-no. 5 Layers even already hard for my lips #safeourlips #ByeHeavyMatte. Prevent darkening lip color by using the light ones like this, since it won’t make our lips dry too. 
Well, my impression on these products are super good! They’re super affordable in price, so all of you girls can have this at home. Yet the coverage is still very good (it can cover my lips very well) and even if you want some intensity you can re-apply it). And for the ultra lightweight feel.... Well this is the first one having this sensation, light matte. Thumbs up for them! So what are you waiting for? Go get yours now at the stores! They’re available at Lazada, Maybelline counter in Matahari dept stores, drugstores, and other cosmetic stores.


Here’s the great news : now they have 26 colors available and of course with new affordable price. Get ready to be shocked through this post , Babellines.


As I’ve said before, this Powder Mattes Series was launched by Maybelline, a brand new innovation in lipstick industries where we can wear an ultra lightweight matte lipstick, and even more we can use hundreds of layers! #ZhenBang there are different color base for those 20 colors that already launched months ago. Now, Maybelline launch another color collection to complete the 26 colors collection of their matte lipstick and of course fulfill our wishes.

Maybe some of you feels like “I already have pink, red, or orange lipsticks”. But these 6 colors, I can say, have something different. They are :

Almond Pink (Hero product - I still don’t get it, is it only available at hero or what?) this one suits a chic and fresh look, such as going to school or university everyday. Casual outfit will be a great match. 
Honey Cherry - As for this one, I believe will be good for both everyday look and also ombre lips if we combine this one with the nude colors. 
Raw Choco - OMG It’s chocolate and everybody loves chocolate! This light chocolate suits bold eye makeup, to make it look elegant. Also available for hangout look, but you need to be careful not to look pale.
Rosewood Red - This one, I can say suits mature look at its best. High intensity of bold color, makes the woman use this lipstick look mature and elegant at the same time. Candle light dinner will be great timing to use this.
Toasted Brown - Another brown color, this one comes in lighter color. Honestly, this is the first time I see a lipstick color like this. Awesome and innovative! Well, maybe we can use this to special occasion or combine this color with others. 
Walnut - One of a unique color as well, this dark choco color suits special occasion too like party at night. Ready to try this on?

Can you see how good their colors? My fav one.. Well I can’t choose any of them because I love them all. Feels like I want to have all of these colors, to complete my maybelline lipstick matte collection (and of course complete my day too). Thanks to Maybelline, one of drugstore’s most affordable product, now they’re doing repricing on the product Maybelline The Powder Mattes. Now it’s available for only IDR 55.000, so we can take them all to home! Really, it’s only around 50k IDR and I can say, this is super affordable. Considering there are lots of more expensive lipsticks out there. 

[TIPS] Cara Memakai Lipstik | How to use lipstick
Other than sharing the euphoria of having all the matte lipstick collection from Maybelline, I proudly present tips on how to create Korean ombre lips using Maybelline Powder Mattes lipstick! Here’s what you need : two different color (as contrast as possible). Usually the first one is the most nude color you have, then the second one will be something bright or bold to create the inner color. As for me, my favorite color is “barely there” to create an ombre lips combination. It’s a pink-based color but it has super soft touch. The next one I love to use is Pink shot, or Honey Cherry. These are bright and bold colors that can be used to create inner bitten lips color. These choices are for those of you (including me) who loves pink. 

If you don’t wanna use pink-based color like me, well sometimes we get bored and need some creative ideas, right? You can also use chocolate-based color but still looking chic as well! For example you can combine both from the newest collection, raw cocoa for the soft color all over your lips and then combine it with Rosewood Red for the inner part. Voila, you’ll get Korean Ombre Lips that feels super light, and less touch up also! Such a perfect idea to start the day, right? If you have any idea on color option or ombre lips style, please kindly let me know through the comment section so I can also try them too!



Don’t worry about the ultra lightweight feels on our lips and intensity of their color, it’s still the main feature of this product. As for the packaging and other aspects still remain the same. So yeah, if you ask me if I recommend this lipstick, my answer also remain the same. I still highly recommend this product. Affordable, wearable, and also comfortable. What are you waiting for? Grab them fast now!
See you girls on my next post!


Sunday, November 26, 2017

[REVIEW & SWATCHES] : Mustika Puteri Lip Licious

11:00 AM
Hello gorgeous, happy sunday!
Do you love lip products? Lip cream perhaps? Well, wearing lip cream everyday may break your lips. It only applies for heavy matte or dead matte product. How about this one? We'll see then, how's the product claim and performance on my lips. Here's to a natural-look lip cream that's very suitable for daily use.

This collection named Mustika Puteri Lip Licious, which was made in collaboration with Nanda Arsynta (Beauty Vlogger) and they're limited edition. OMG I love limited edition stuff <3. As for this project, KBBV (Komunitas Beauty Blogger and Vlogger) collaborating with Mustika Puteri to create a blogger competition for KBBV's members. Thanks to them, I get the chance to try this product as well as joining the blogger competition. *wish me luck!*

Let's get to the packaging first. Before we get to the product, here's what I want to share. The box is super gorgeous and I love it so much. You know I'm such a pink freak, right? Yet they gave the product in a pink box with golden touch, Mustika Puteri, you guys are the best! *kisses and hugs* then when I open the box, there are four color of the limited edition Lip Licious.


Packaging
For the packaging, I think they really suits young girls as it's very cute. Its a petite bottle (well because it's different from other brands that usually use a tall container) and has the brand label on the top. The cute part is, the shape of liquid inside the bottle, seems like it's a lipstick. They think of the packaging really well! Also, I love the size of this product. It comes very handy, only a size of my forefinger. So we can take it wherever and whenever we go, even it suits in small bags or clutch. They put the shade number and name on the under part of the bottle, unfortunately there's no ingredients details. The good thing is, they write the expiration date. I always wanted every ingredients details on the product I tried, actually. 
The applicator brush itself, a bit short (since the bottle is also small) but it's even easier to apply the product onto my lips. 



Product Claim
- Contains Vitamin E and moisturizer from natural ingredients
- Easily applied (smooth texture) with pigmented and bold color
- Won't make lips dry and crack
- Matte and long lasting (up to 6 hours)
- Lightweight on lips and not stingy scent
- Kissproof
- Won't darken your lips (this one's very important)

Shades and Swatches
There are four shades of them : 

01 - Cotton Candy
02 - Caramel Apple
03 - Pink Lollipop 
04- Soda Pink 

The two shades (03&04) are pink based, as for the other two (01&02) are chocolate based. Those names represents sweet candy (which everyone love it) and they have soft vanilla scent on them. Here's the swatches on my lips:





What do you think? Well, I'm falling in love with these colors. They're super gorgeous and suits me really well, right? They're bright yet so beautiful on my face. I can even wear them every single day, going to campus (or maybe school?), or work. Even to hangout with friends, it suits too! 

When I apply them onto my lips, it feels smooth and moisturizing as well. The color covered my lips only in one swipe, and the color popped out. Unlike other heavy matte lip cream, even though this one's also a matte lipcream yet it feels lightweight on my lips and I still comfortable wearing it. When I drink or eat, it doesn't transfer at all (haven't tried kissing someone tho HAHA) but I tried kissing a tissue and my hand, yet it doesn't transfer. It takes a while waiting for the cream drying but it's worth the while as after it dry then it sets and doesn't transfer anymore. Of course when I eat something oily like Chinese food or fried stuff, some of the lipcream will rip off. It's not a problem at all since I can take it when I go and can just reapply it onto my lips. 

Score : 4.5/5 (still need to think of showing the ingredients on packaging)
Recommend : YES. 

Where to buy 
DANDANstore & Online (Online Shop DANDAN, Shoppe DANDAN, Tokopedia, Go-Mart)
Size 4.4 ml
Price IDR 55.000
Paraben & Benzophenone Free






Wednesday, November 22, 2017

[MAKE UP COLLABORATION] : Party Make Up for Beautiesquad's 1st Anniversary

8:40 PM
Hellaw gorgeous, welcome!
Do you miss my make up posts? It's been a while since I'm sharing my latest make up post, and I've been sharing more of product review and events I attended (you girls know I'm working hard, huh?) So today, I'm gonna post about make up look (like finaleh) , since it's a very special occasion. 

Have you girls know Beautiesquad? It's a beauty blogger community, based in Indonesia. We all came from different province but meet through whatsapp and facebook group. Created one year ago, we had a long long journey from the beginning with no-name community until now, where some bloggers and brands already acknowledge this community. Not an easy journey tho, every community has its ups and downs, their own problems, and so on. But we need to overcome all those journey, to grow to be better. So yeah here we are, one year is still very short age, but we're ready to welcome even more exciting journeys ahead! 

I'm saying this one's special because this post was dedicated to Beautiesquad first anniversary. We're celebrating it by doing a make up collaboration (we usually do this collaboration once a month, but this month's special theme is our first anniversary). Apparently there are lots of participants *yeay* with each unique make up look and it's super exciting to see all of them! So I'm just telling you girls mine. Ready for it?


Products I'm using :
- Votre Peau Vitamin C Serum
- Spa essentia day lotion
- The Body Shop Day Cream
- Catrice Liquid Concealer
- Make Over Contour Compact Powder (I'm using the light one to set my whole face)
- Morphe 35u Palette
- Maybelline the loaded bolds shade white (as the eye base)
- Silverswan eyelashes (Blanchard)
- Japanese brand eyelienr (I got it at some cheap store at Japan - the packaging said it was tattoo eyeliner)
- Maybelline the powder mattes for lipstick (shade orange shot and nude illusion)
- Amaranthine highlighter


Well, you girls must be curious what comes to my mind while I created this look? To be honest, I'm kinda last minute person. I didn't realized it was already so near to the deadline and I need to work, I only have very short time to create a look for this collaboration (been busy with all my work at office and skripsweet and take care of my clothing line @mapleyourday as well as my beauty studio @cloudstudio_id) so yeah my brain can't work really well....... But fortunately I still got to manage finished this look (thank God). 

So the story behind this look is, I always love playing with pink and never got bored with it. So I started right after I got home from work and then just grab some of my make up stuff. The first thing that crossed my mind was : USE PINK. OK. To held our own birthday party (well, mine perhaps?) I will always want a touch of pink. Never thought will be this intense of pink tho ;p but yeah I started with pink eyes (wanted to create a hello eyes with pink theme but it ends up everything covered with my lashes since my eyes and lid are super narrow lol) so yeah I didn't gave up, and tried to find another place to put some "pink touch". So I decided to put some pink color on my eyebrows and some contouring using darker color of pink. 

I really love using pink for those two parts, idk what you girls think of this (please write down your opinion on comments below) but nothing's gonna change my love for this #GeorgeBensonFans. Feels like need some touch of sparkle and shine, so I decided to put some "accessories" like that sparkle, the one that glued onto my left part of face, under my eyes. Idk what to call it but that looks super pretty, right? 

Again and again, not feeling enough with those look so I thought of creating something different on my lips (here I was inspired by my beautiful friend, Stevie Wong) so I recreated her lipstick style using Maybelline the powder mattes for my lips with those two different colors. Well, it looks good on me too! (thanks Stev hihi ), started with nude pink and shocking pink color but doesn't seem right (I couldn't really tell the difference of those colors since my face are already all in pink) so I decided to change the color into red, and again doesn't seem right because the color doesn't fit me. Lastly, I tried with orange which made me looks super fresh yet unique. 

So here's my friend's look, go check her blog to know story behind it! 
Filia Devi



The main idea of this look is, 
"Be what you are, this is the first step becoming better than you are."
-Julius Charles Hare-

So, happy first anniversary my beloved community, Beautiesquad! Long journey awaits <3

Sunday, November 19, 2017

[EVENT + REVIEW] : Dear Me, Personalized Local Lip Cream

8:49 PM
hello Gorgeous, How's your weekend? Must be fun, right? 
Mine too, super fun weekend because I played with a new local lipstick! Are you girls curious? Let's jump right in!



Local product is being one of the most favorite stuff here in Indonesia. Of course, we're proud of the locals even though the quality and formulas are different each other. Today, I wanna introduce you a brand new local lip cream that's very fresh from the oven, because I'm attending the first launching ever of Dear Me. I'm so happy since I'm one of the first person who tried this product. The event was held by Beautyjournal by Sociolla and of course, Dear Me. It took place at Pand'or, South Jakarta. 



As always, the event started with the opening from our beautiful MC. Then Mbak Mira, chief editor of Beauty Journal greet us. She talked a little bit about lipstick and her journey with lipstick and lip cream, as well as her wish to the next trends. 

Then we continue with Ms Nikita as the brand director of Dear Me. She talked a bit about Dear Me and the collections. FYI, Dear Me for their first collection has eight colors which represents each personal. The reason behind those colors, she said, when she's strolling around mall and shopping she overheard some girls talking about the products "OMG this color is so me, I love this!" "That's very you, beautiful." So they chose the concept of personalization because the color is very special, which they sure it can fit to every woman in Indonesia. 




People here, always afraid to go out of their safe color. As for nude, when the color is too pale, can make them look sick. As for red, when they choose the wrong color it can be too bright or too dark. So, Ms Nikita and her team thought meaning of a lip cream to every woman is very personal and close to our heart, as wherever we go we'll always take them. 

Continue with the next special guest, we have Rissa (@lippielust) and what's even more exciting is, she's sitting right beside me! OMG She's so beautiful and super humble and kind. Here's what her opinion of next year's trend : Still working with liquid lipstick, but different style. People will seek more to comfort matte lips, yet moving on from natural bitten lips ombre to bold colored ombre lips. Can't wait for it!



After some talks with those three beautiful girls, we move on to the next activity, creating a homemade lip balm. As we all know, using lipstick or lipcream everyday might affect our lips, so we better use lip balm as well to keep our lips moisturized. The ingredients are : Beeswax, Jojoba oil, Vitamin E and VCO (virgin coconut oil). They're all then combined (while we're cooking them), the pharmacy practice from UI said we can add vanilla extract to have a relaxing aromatic and color from Dear Me lip cream as well. Then we poured them into lipbalm jar, of course had a lot of fun decorating the jar!

Here's what I got from the event :


[goodie bag with customized pin! so detail, of course with three colors of my choice and other stuff]





[the packaging]
Dear Me has a very simple yet unique packaging. The box is full of lip marks (which is their signature logo) and polkadots everywhere. They complete the box with each shades name and their colors. Of course they don't forget to put the ingredients so the users can know what's inside it. 



[Dear Anna]
I chose this because it reminds me of my best friend, Hanna (I often call her Anna) and I feel like this suits her the best! Definitely gonna buy one for her hihi. This is from nude collection, and it doesn't look pale at all, it even looks super fresh!


[Dear Ella] It reminds me of my sister, which she's very cheerful and brave. Well, the team picked the right color! This red-based lip cream is very suitable for those women who are brave.




[Dear Jenny] Well, you girls already know why I chose this , right? YEP. I feel like this one was made for me HAHA. (FYI, When they're discussing the shade they love at the event I feel like everybody's calling my name lol). This one has purple based color, so it kinda look bold and dark at the same time. It can be used for the combination with simple eye make up, and perfect for night events, I guess. I love this soooo much and definitely gonna wear this often. 


Price : IDR 89.000 
Rate : 5/5

Sorry for the spamming pics (I can't chose one because I love them all)
Here's my honest review : Since they made this from natural ingredients, it feels super moisturizing. Even they're matte lip cream it doesn't feel like other brand's. It protects our lips from being dry and dead (just like dead fish lol). It feels super comfortable and made me confident to show my true self. The texture itself very creamy so we can wear this even faster (you know the morning rush, right? Wake up late every morning and super quick makeup time). The best part is the scent - they have a very interesting chocolate scent that can even last for 4 hours or more. WOW. I can wear this without brushing my teeth! EUWH, just kidding ;P


That's all the fun from this weekend I wanna share, special thanks to Beauty Journal, Sociolla, and Dear Me for having me at this event. See you on next post!