[Kolaborasi yang Tertinggal] Katy Perry 'Dark Horse' Inspired Makeup

This post was supposed to be a part of an arabian themed makeup collaboration, but... something happened in the process, so I submitted another look for that collaboration, and this creation of mine was left abandonned. Too bad, remembering it took me 4 hours to create this. This is not such an easy one!

I meant to re create Katy Perry makeup in her Dark Horse video, but again, something went wrong in the process, I couldn't imitate it pretty well. And out of desperation, adjusting with my rookie ability, I improvised a lot. I mean, really like... A lot.

In the end, after attempting 3 consecutive times, I came up with this:

Yeah, the hair. I told you I improvised a lot. LOLs.

Considering the hard attempt, it was a miracle I still manage to provide you a pictorial. Check this out!

How to redo the eye makeup:

1. Draw your eyebrows and apply eyeshadow base.
2. Apply yellow eyeshadow on the inner and lower corner.
3. Continue with orange shade.
4. Using and an angled brush, apply two purple lines on your outter corner, like I did in the picture. This will work as an outline, so no need to be so careful.
5. Draw an outline using the same tool and eyeshadow color.
6. Fill it with the same purple eyeshadow. Erase the mistake with a q-tip.
7. Using white eyeshadow, fill the gap on your outter corner.
8. Retouch again using purple eyeshadow and an angled brush.
9. Blend the colors all together, then draw eyeliner on your upper eye lid. Exagerate the tear duct to achieve longer looking eyes.
10. Do the same thing with your lower lash bed and water line. Make a small wing downward on the inner corner.
11. I'm not very good in drawing eyeliner, so I retouched the lower eyeliner by dabbing black eyeshadow with an angled brush.
12. Highlight your brow bone with silver eyeshadow.
13. Apply mascara and glue your falsies. Falsies is a must. And you are done!

Note: if you already came up witn something much easier steps than I did, you are very welcome, dear.

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And as for the rest of the entire face, I didn't provide you with a pictorial. But this is more or less what I did that day:

• Do your skin care routines.
• Do your eye makeup first like in the pictorial above.
• Apply face foundation and set it with a face powder.
• Contour your nose and cheek bones.
• For the lips, draw an outline first with a brown pencil, then set it with a nude colored lip gloss. Here I use a very pigmented lip gloss that looks like a lipstick.

Products I abused:

• Face:
  • Revlon Photoready Perfecting Primer
  • Revlon Photoready Concealer (light)
  • La Tulipe Cover Foundation (natural)
  • Maybelline Clear Smooth Face Powder (light)
  • Revlon Blusher (pink peony)
  • Make Over Countour Kit
• Eyes:
  • Viva White Eyebrow Pencil (brown)
  • EH Proof 10 Eyeshadow Primer
  • Coastal Scents 120 Original Pallet 1 (yellow, orange, black, silver, purple)
  • Mizzu Eyeliner Pen (black)
  • Artistry Automatic Eyeliner (black)
  • NYX JEP (milk)
  • Maybelline The Falsies Mascara (black)
  • Baby Color Candy Rainbow Softlenses (gray)
  • Unbranded falsies
• Lips:
  • Viva White Eyebrow Pencil (brown) used as lip liner
  • NYX Ultra Shine Lip Gloss (natural)

Looks in detail:

Picture spamming!

Okay, did my trial Katy Perry enough?

Nevermind. Forget I ever wrote that...

Review: Viva White Chic on Lips Moisture Balm (Choco Dreamer)

Lagi pengen ngebahas lip balm Viva nih. Mungkin belum banyak yang tahu kalo akhir2 ini Viva ngeluarin lip balm. Yo wis, langsung aja deh, lagi bingung juga nulis kata pembukaannya. Heheheh...

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Kemasan 

Nemu ini pas lagi jalan di Giant Supermarket. Langsung aja comot. Kalo gak salah, lip balm ini ada 4 varian deh. Cuman lupa apa aja. Aku ambil yang ini karena, pertama, aku suka bau coklat. Kedua, aku liat embel2 deep moisturizing nya itu. Lagian, yang namanya coklat, seperti halnya vanila, identik sama produk-produk yang diformulasikan khusus untuk kulit yang super duper kering. Biasanya sih gitu. Naaah, bibirku kan lagi kering berdarah-darah kayak vampir, jadi kayaknya cocok iniiii.

Ini daftar komposisi dan logo MUI nya. Btw, kamu baca ga ada tulisan "terapi cokelat"? Nah, itu dia salah satu alasan kenapa aku pengen beli ini... Huehehehehe kayaknya ngebayanginnya asik banget. Dimakan aja enak, apalagi buat terapi.

Kayak gini bro penampakan tube nya. Standar lah, sekilas mirip tube nya baby lips Maybelline atau lip balm puter pada umumnya. Design nya lumayan oke. Kalo gak teliti banget baca ada tulisan Viva di pojokan situ tuuuh, mungkin gak bakal ngenalin kalo ini produk Viva. Bukannya nyela ye, cuman kelemahan Viva itu ada di kemasan. Wakakakak.

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swatches and performance

Bullet nya setelah diputer dikit, warna coklat. Langsung kecium deh tuh aroma duren coklat. Hmmm, nyam nyam. Btw, kamu gak usah kuatir kalo ngerasa muternya kebanyakan, karena bulletnya itu bisa kok diputer masuk lagi ke dalem. Aku cerita gini soalnya ada beberapa produk yang gak bakalan bisa masuk lagi kalo muternya kebanyakan.

Saking sheer nya ini lip balm, kayaknya aku kudu ngasih tanda panah deh. Noh noh noh yang ditunjukin itu adalah swatch nya. Keliatan ga? Ada sedikiiiit banget warna coklat peach gitu bo. Kan biasanya lip balm warnanya pink atau kemerahan.

Aku sering banget gigitin bibir, apalagi kalo pas maen BULLY lagi seru-serunya, jadi sering luka. Lagian mank dasarnya bibirku gampang kering. Ini gambar pas dioles di bibir. Gak keliatan banget sih bedanya, tapi lumayan setelah dibiarin beberapa saat di bibir sampe meresap, bibirku jadi gak keliatan pecah banget. Dan baunya itu asliiii nyaman banget, gak kayak Vaseline Petroleum Jelly ku yang gak ada baunya, jadi gak asik terapinya.

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So far, aku suka banget sama lip balm ini. Seneng banget bisa dapet produk lokal yang fungsinya lumayan oke. Untuk hasil yang optimal, aku olesin ini sebelum tidur tebel-tebel dan diulangi lagi prosesnya setiap kali bibir mulai berasa kering setiap hari. So, for now, this cute little thing jadi kayak barang wajib di tas aku. Gapapa dah gak pake lipstik, yang penting bibir adem. 

Dan satu lagi nih, bau coklat nya yang enak banget itu bisa jadi lagu nina bobo kalo pas dipake malem. Jadi kalo malem kan bibir diolesin lip balm ini tuh, terus aku colek dikiiit aja Vanilla Body Butter TBS di tangan. Usap-usap, terus tidur deh sambil ditemenin sensasi bau coklat dan vanilla. Menyenangkan sekali hehehehe...

Mari kita hakimi bersama lip balm ini:

• Halal
• Warnanya transparan, sedikit peach, tapi hampir ga keliatan
• Bau coklat, nyam...
• Melembabkan dan merawat bibir
• Gampang didapet, aku belinya di Giant
• Harga lupa, sekitar IDR 10K, ga sampe malah

That is all for today, thank you for reading. Please leave your thoughts or opinions on the comment bar below ^^

Alleria Makeup Artist First Birthday Giveaway

Hi, my friends!

On this post, I'm gonna recreate some of the makeup play done by my friend Marthalina Tesya regarding her 1st bloggiversary alleriamakeupartist.blogspot.com. You can find out more about the event here.

Btw, do you realize I changed my page look into a more simple one?

Makeup recreation is a mandatory requirement for beauty blogger participants, so without further ado, I have made two looks among the not-so-mainstream looks she had done.

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GEISHA

This look is sooo beautiful. ^^

Some of the flower drawings, in details. I'm not a very good drawer, especially on the face. Drawing your face kinda makes me feel dizzy, literally! So bear with these pics:

Abused tools:

• Face
  • Kryolan TV Paint Stick (White)
  • Marcks Face Powder (White)
  • Coastal Scents 120 Pallet Eyeshadow Original 1 (for the flower)
  • Mizzu Eyeliner Pen (Black) to draw the flowe
• Eyes
  • Viva Eyebrow Pencil (Black)
  • Maybelline Hyper Gloss Eyeliner (Black)
  • Unbranded falsies
  • Baby Color Rainbow Softlens (gray)
• Lips
• Revlon Lipliner (Red)
• Maybelline Color Show Lipstick (Red My Lips/202)

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immagination doll

This is the kind of makeup I've always wanted to do, you know, that openned mouth doll! I have to brag that this look was done in just half an hour. LOLs.

And here are the drawings in detail:

Abused tools:

• Face 
  • La Tulipe Cover Foundation (Natural)
  • Viva Face Powder (Natural)
  • Viva Body Painting (black) to draw cracked lines
  • NYX Single Eyeshadow (Black and Brown) 
  • Coastal Scents 120 Pallet Eyeshadow Original 1 (as blusher)
• Eyes
  • NYX Retractable Pencil (green, blue, white) as eyeshadow base
  • Revlon Lipliner (Red) as eyeshadow base
  • Coastal Scents 120 Pallet Eyeshadow Original 1
  • Viva Eyebrow Pencil (Black)
  • Maybelline Hypergloss Liquid Liner (Black)
  • Unbranded falsies
  • Baby Color Rainbow (grey)
• Lips
  • Revlon Lipliner (Red)
  • Maybeline Color Show Lipstick (Red My Lips/202)
  • NYX JEP (Milk)
  • Viva Body Painting (Black)

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Orright, have you joined yet?! What are you waiting for, go click the link I wrote above and find out the prizes.

See you!

Review: Etude House Color Lips-Fit (RD301 & PK003)

I cannot do not want to have Etude House products. LOLs. Confused with my statement? Well, for me EH products are cutely packaged, innovative, and just like any other Korean products, some of EH items are good dupes for high end brands with more reasonable prices. (I'm talking about online shop prices, tho'!).

But since the EH Cotton Fit BB cream is a big dissapointment for me (they cost me pimples!) I have to be extra carefull when purchasing their products. So I bought the stuff that won't touch most of my face: eye and lip products. So far, this trick works well.

So for those of you not sure what kind of lip colors these are, they are liquid lip color. Just to simplify the product name, since EH is the champion for creating ones with confusing meanings. Seriously, their product names are confusing. Baby Choux Base, Conditioning Cream, Nymph Aura Volumer, etc... Hello?

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packaging

They have boxes by the way, but no extra plastic seal on the bottles, so there's no exact way to find out whether they are used already or not. And, they are cute. The bottles are made of plastic and so are the caps, and they're pretty bulky. There's a glimpse of chameleon sparks on those white caps.

My shades are RD301 (Red) and PK003 (Pink). The box colors are basically pink, but the top part colors represent each shade.

As written on the box:

This is a revolutionary liquid type lipstick that moistly glides onto lips with its vivid color and finishes off with a weightless powdery texture.

The words powdery texture kinda reminds me of the texture of NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream that creamy when first applied and turned into matte once it sunk into your lips.

Directions of use:

1. Shake well before use.
2. Apply smoothly with tip. Lightly dab onto center of lips for gradation. Delicately apply for full cover.
3. Apply a layer of Color Lips Fit WH901* after color for moist gloss.

 *WH901 is Color Lips-Fit in clear shade, or a lipgloss to be exact. 

And this side of the box is the only one I'll capture. The rest are written in Hangul.

The applicators are bended with a wide flat surface.

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Swatches and performance

I took these swatches in just one time swipe and the colors show up pretty well. They are so bright. Judging from these, I assume they are as bright as neon colors. The formula is oil based and there's a strong fruity scent.

When I wore this on my lips, they are creamy at first and look wet just like the swatches on my wrist. But it will turn to matte gradually. So moisturizing and even scrubbing on the first place is recommended, especially for those who have dried lips like mine.

My bare lips, in one of their worst conditions. Dried, chapped, and bleeding easily. I got this because I forgot to wear moisturizer before going to sleep for two days in a row. Maklum, udah umur...

PK003

Applied as both gradient lips and full lips. The color somehow doesn't compliment my skintone really well. It is actually a bright sunny pink and makes my pale face look even worse. And that bright shade also makes my dried lips look worse. Oh, that matte formula... Wrong choice of color. But when I wore this on my healthy lips and added a bit of peach lipgloss, it looked so much better.

RD301

The formula is still drying and that neon shade is a bit disturbing to me, but this one look a lot better on me. It even able to camouflage my chapped lips. I prefer this one better I guess. Errr... This one is a red with a blue undertone perhaps, but with a very bright look. Btw, I only need a drop of the liquid to cover my whole lips.

So far, these lip color are not one of my favourite. I like them, but not so much that I'll buy other shades. Their bright and neon shades are a bit too hard to pull off. I have to add a bit lip gloss, or spread the liquid with my finger to make it look more wearable. I don't know, maybe it's because of my skintone? Btw, if you want to apply this full lips, don't dab this with applicator to your whole lips. Simply put a small amount on the inner center of your lips then gently spread them with your finger. Do not overdo since the liquid is highly pigmented.

Talking about the staying power, PK003 is medium, but the RD301 is great. Maybe because of the bold color, that it will stain your lips afterwards. So when I wear the RD301, my lips look even more red after I had my meal.

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Kesimpulanku sih lipstik ini bikin bibir kering, jadi harus pake lip balm dulu sebelumnya. Kalo ngomongin warna, jatohnya itu di mukaku jadi aneh, karena warnanya itu terang seperti neon, harus ditambah lip gloss atau tepuk2 dulu pake jari supaya jatohnya jadi agak wearable lah gitu, gak terlalu aneh banget. Apa mungkin aneh karena warna kulitku ya, meskipun terang, tapi tetep aja kulit orang endonesa yg kecoklatan, kalo orang Korea kan rata2 kulitnya putih semu pink gitu, pasti cocok aja kali pake warna-warna kayak gini. Jadi buat kulit gelap, emmm, janganlah, aneh jadinya.

Oh ya, sedikit tips, kalo mau pake full lips, jangan dioles ke seluruh bibir. Ntar jadinya terlalu dobleh banget. Oles aja di tengah bibir trus disebar ke seluruh bibir pake jari, cakep deh. Jadi jangan terlalu napsu ngolesnya, soalnya lip color ini pigmented banget.

Lipstik ini juga awet banget nempelnya. Yang PK003 sih standar lah, abis makan minum langsung pudar dikit, tapi yang RD301 tetep okeh. Malah habis makan, bibirku malah keliatan jadi merah alami gitu, hehehe.

Verdicts:

• Bright neon colors
• Best for fair skin, not redommended for medium or dark skin
• Creamy at frist applied but will turn to matte gradually
• Kinda reminds me of NYX SLMC
• Dry my lips
• Highly pigmented
• Great staying power, especially RD301
• Price: around IDR 110K each (USD 11)

Ratings would be.... 2.75 out of 5.

Thank you for reading. See you soon!

Review: Revlon Colorstay Lipliner (Red & Nude)

I haven't done any of lipliner product, have I? That's because I just own it lately. Back then, I used my eyebrow pencil as lip liner, but this time I finally managed to have the real deal. I chose Revlon. And there was no reason why. It's just a random idea. 

Well, actually I bought the red first and been using it for eyeshadow and eyebrow pencil. I've been wanting to have a very good red eyeshadow from Sugarpill, but the price is just way beyond my budget. So, I thought, why don't I use a lipliner. They are matte and red as well. And when I set that red lip liner with my Coastal Scents red eyeshadow, turned out the color changed into a very nice chili shade.

The Nude one was a brand new so it was still wrapped in black plastic.

Once you open the plastic, this is what they'll look like. Each cap represents the color inside.

My shades. Red and Nude.

This is what the bullet look like. When it's brand new, it is pointy as the Nude shade. But after abusive use by me for quite some time, the tip will change shape into a more rounded one, like the Red. But Please note that any retractable pencil is easily broken if you push too hard, and this also happened to these pencils. I broke that red pencil many many times when I tried to draw my eyebrow with it.

Swatches on my hand. They are true red and beautiful nude brown. I must say I'm a bit dissapointed with the brown, when I swatched it at the counter, somehow, the shade looked like a nice nude pink. Maybe because of the lighting? I don't know. It wasn't exactly the color I was looking for, although it is actually a nice brown shade. I rubbed these swatches from my hand afterwards but the shade still stayed in place. Forgot to take the picture, though. I must say, their staying power is amazing.

I used them as lip liner and as lipstick. Although the color on my lips are not intense, but it can boost up your lipstick color intensity and staying power. 

Thes two pictures were my lips with lipliner and lipstick. I must say that wearing lipliner can make a huge difference. Your lip line will look more defined and, rather than wearing a lip concealer, it is a good lipstick base to make the shade more pop out.

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Make lipstik dengan dan tanpa lipliner itu ternyata beda banget deh hasilnya. Kalo tanpa lipliner emang sih kesannya lebih kasual, tapi ada resiko lipstik bleber karena salah coret hehehe. Dengan make lipliner, kita keliatan banget dandannya tapi hasil lipstiknya lebih rapi dan bisa juga jadi base lipstik yang bikin warna asli lipstiknya jadi lebih keluar. Ini menurutku lebih bagus daripada pake concealer bibir yang belom tentu cocok buat semua orang. (Pake concealer bibir di aku malah bikin warna lipstik jadi lebih muda). Oh ya, buat yang ngga puas sama bentuk bibirnya, pengen dibentuk biar lebih tipis atau lebih dobleh, bisa banget make lipliner boooo. Heheheh.

Walaupun bagus, pensil dengn model puter2 gini rentan banget patah. Belom pernah aku nemu pensil puter yang ga gampang patah, mau merk apa aja pasti rentan deh. Jadi nekennya jangan pake tenaga kuli yah!

This is just a comparison between application with and without lipliner. But too bad I forgot to give you example of a nude lipstick.

Lipstick used:

• Maybelline Color Show Lipstick (Red My Lips)
• Beautystyle Lipstick (Sweet Earth)

That's all for now. I don't leave you with my verdict like usual, but if you have any query, please leave a comment below. Thank you for reading!

ps.: Price IDR 60K each (USD 5-6)

Review: Maybelline Color Show Lipstick (Red My Lips #202)

Assalaamu'alaykum,

How's your fasting, dear Muslim friends? For me, until this post was published, I haven't done any of my fasting yet since I'm in my period. Hiks... too bad. Usually if have my period at the beginning of Ramadhan like this, I won't be able to do my Ied prayer. My last one was in 2008 and haven't done any Ied prayer since then. I never get the chance. Hopefully this year will be different. Aamiin.

On fasting, I usually got my face pale and wearing a chilie red lipstick will be a great compliment to cover that dull look. Since I lost my old Wardah red lipstick, I decided to buy a new one. This is what I could find when searching through the drugstore.


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PACKAGING

This Maybelline Color Show Lipstick has a similar packaging with that legendary Watershine series, only the color is a dark silver with red lining in the middle. It's wrapped in plastic for security.

Anyway, if you tear that plastic, this is all you'll get. A plain tube. Which I really don't mind. I like this kind of classic lipstick packaging, easy to be opened and closed, with a slim tube.

This is my shade. 202 or Red My Lips. Kinda gambling with the color since I picked it without swatching. But judging from the sticker color, the shade was a true red, I hoped.

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SWATCHES & PERFORMANCE

Just like the tube, the bullet shape is a classic pointed shape which is an advantage for drawing more detailed line, especially on the cupid's bow. But it was a bit discouraging when I saw the bullet inside. Turned out the shade was not a pure red just like I expected. Or at least, that was what I thought.

When I swatched this once, I thought yeah just I pressumed, I picked the wrong color, but when I swiped it gradually, the color changed into a pretty chili red color, just like I wanted.

My bare lips, and my applied lips in both lighting, indoor and outdoor. I don't know why the color looked so dull in outdoor picture, but believe me, that indoor picture was the actual color of this lipstick. The texture is creamy and a bit glossy... just a bit. 

Warning ya, ini lipstik menor warnanya. At least, itu menurutku.

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Here are some pictures of my half face. Somehow I just can't stop myself from posting these.

The delinquent lips. LOLs.

Conclusion:

I'm not a great fan of Maybelline lipstick since the texture is a bit drying on my lips. Overtime, I'll usually get that chapped look on the inside of my inner lips when using all of Maybelline lipsticks so I prefer Revlon. But I don't know why I kept on buying these. Maybe because Maybelline is easier to be found, both in offline and online stores. While, Revlon is more exclusive I think.

The intensity was a great one. I don't know is it because of the bold color I chose, or that all of Color Show series are this intense. 

The staying power is actually medium. The product faded after I took a meal and this one stains your coffee cup since it's creamy textured. And just like any other bold lipstick, this one stains your lips, so I guess it'd still be okay if you don't do the retouch once the product was faded.

Verdicts:

• Bold chili shade
• Creamy texture
• Glossy look but not to much
• Medium staying power and highly pigmented
• A bit drying, at least on my lips
• Price: IDR 35K to 40K (USD 3-4)

And this is how the color works on my face:

I barely post my whole face when reviewing a product, but I just wanna show you how I do my home makeup. Seriously, I also do my makeup even when I don't have to go out. 

Kalo ada yang bilang aku kecentilan, plis deh... masa iya ke mall dandan tapi di rumah kucel. Kasian dong suami. Dandanlah biar pun tipis-tipis ^_^

Abused tools that day:

• Viva Compact Powder (natural)
• Viva Eyebrow Pencil (brown)
• Maybelline Color Show Lipstick (202) err... this one was applied for review purposes only. I don't adore red lipticks as home makeup. LOLs.

See you again and happy fasting!