NEW! Esprique Blend Dimensional Eyes & Mellow Forming Rouge

It's awesome whenever I get free Isetan vouchers!

This time, I redeemed an eyeshadow palette and lipstick from Esprique's latest makeup collection!

The black glossy packaging is sleek and classy

Blend Dimensional Eyes A-4 (Shiny), $39

I am really into neutral shades recently. Browns, beiges and nudes sound good to me! Exactly why I picked out the Blend Dimensional Eyes in A-4 (Shiny). The Blend Dimensional Eyes come in 2 ranges, the 'Shiny' range and the 'Deep' range. I guess the names are pretty self explanatory :)

Left to right: champagne, white, greyish pink, medium brown

The colors are more to frosty, but shimmery at the same time. They are not as brown/ beige as you see in the 1st and 3rd photos. There is this 'dusty' quality to the colors, especially the 2 colors from the right of the swatch photos (greyish pink & medium brown).

The finish is not intense at all, quite sheer in fact. The medium brown color could be layered to create more depth, but definitely not dark enough to use as eyeliner. I tried using the palette without eyeliner, and I looked pretty sleepy the whole day! LOL! Black eyeliner is a must for this palette. 

Texture is good and easy to apply. Shades could be applied evenly easily. 

Palette comes with an useful plastic sheet with application pointers

Mellow Forming Rouge RO610 (Glow), $39

I love this lipstick range!! It comes in 2 categories as well, the 'Glow' range and the 'Color' range. The colors for the 1st range are lighter, whereas those in the latter range are more intense.

The texture is very much like Lavshuca's Moist Melting rouge, just even softer. The lipstick texture is like snow, and color glides on effortlessly. It's also very very moisturising. However, due to its meltingly soft texture, I am quite sure I will reach the end of the tube rather quickly.

Natural lip color

After

Color wise, RO610 is a nudy pink. Nothing intense, just really plump looking lips after application. This shade will go super well with smoky eyes. I love this! If only I had more vouchers, I would collect more of these!

Tutorial: Esprique Precious Dual Gradation Eyes 2011 Spring Collection in D-4 (for Gentle & Natural Looking Eyes)

Finally =) I have a tutorial ready for sharing!

Esprique Precious Dual Gradation Eyes in D-4, HKD240

Strong white light

From left to right: C color- light pink, D color- deeper pink, A color- light grey, B color- dark grey, eye base- white

Colors are applied over the white eye base in the palette. This is the first time I don't find an eye base in an eyeshadow palette redundant - because the eye base is very shimmery and brightens up my lids beautifully.

For this tutorial, I followed the instructions given at the back of the palette. I also read the pamphlet of this collection. The Chinese description from the pamphlet is "自然温柔的印象". I like this palette because I can create both natural or smoky looks with the colors.

FINISHED LOOK: Gentle & Natural Looking Eyes

The pink used at the bottom lash line gives the eyes a romantic and gentle look

THE STEPS:

1. Apply the white eye base all over your eyelids.

2. Apply the light grey all over your crease. Make sure you apply way over the line of the crease.

3. Apply the dark grey to your upper lash line. Use a rounder brush to create a thicker line.

4. Using circular motions, apply more dark grey to the outer corner of upper eyelids.

5. Brush on the light pink to the entire lower lash line.

6. Apply the deeper pink to centre of the lower lash line to create romantic, gentle looking eyes.

7. Line your upper lash line with a brown eyeliner (instead of black, for a softer look). Also line about 1/5 of the lower waterline. Do not line the inner corner and the area where you had applied the deeper pink.

8. Draw white eyeliner to the rest of the lower waterline.

9. Apply black/ brown mascara.

ALL DONE!

And so... what did i wear today...?

Oversized shirt, patterned leggings, red bag, red flats

Look at my leggings - I LOVE them! From Bossini.... kids... (Hong Kong) hahahaa =D

M&M leggings - Extremely trendy when matched well

Hope you liked this tutorial!

Review on Esprique Precious New Heart Graphical Mascara in BK001

The new Esprique range is finally in Singapore! There are 8 new lipsticks altogether, a lipgloss and a new mascara. You can read more about the new range here. As I have lashes that are limpy and refuse to curl or stay curled most of the time, getting a good mascara is really important to me! So it is not a surprise that I didn't have second thoughts about grabbing this new mascara right away!

Pics first!

A "princess" feel sort of packaging

A unique "S" shaped brush, with a round tip to apply product to the lower lashes (and for reaching the shortest lashes)



I simply love how my eyes look!

Top view

The formula contains fibres for lengthening and I must say the fibres can do a very good job of it!. The top view of my lashes speaks for itself! I applied 2 coats of Majolica Marjoca's mascara base before applying 3 coats of the black mascara here. The 1st coat wasn't that impressive as the formula is not the very black sort of formula, more to just black. For the 2nd coat I was able to add a bit of volume. I waited for the mascara to become semi-dry before I applied the 3rd coat to the tips of my lashes to lengthen them. It worked out well and my lashes didn't droop after all the layering.

Another thing I like about this mascara so far is the round tip that I use to apply to the lower lashes. It was relatively easy to do so without any mess.

So far I like what I see, I will have to wear this for a few days to see whether there will be any "drooping" or smudging!

I bought this at $39. For a limited period of time, for every Heart Graphical Mascara you buy, you get a free eyelash curler which looks really cute!

Able to curl decently, but I still prefer my Jill Stuart eyelash curler

How to create the Laneige Mystic Veil Look

I remember I was extremely attracted to this Laneige promo poster when I came across it on Rouge Deluxe. I was determined to buy the eyeshadow palette as soon as it comes out in the stores. When I did test it out at the Raffles City Robinsons counter, I was disappointed that the shadow is quite sheer and the colour is not as intense as shown on the model in the poster. I then decided to try create a similar look using products I already had instead of using the palette. Although the result was not 100% the same, I would say it was pretty good!

Here are the products I used to create the look:

From left to right, top to bottom: Ardell false lashes in Sweeties Black, Bobbi Brown Long-wear Gel Eyeliner in 1 Black Ink, Laneige Mystic Veil Blusher, Cezanne Eye Colour N in 23, Kanebo Kate Diamond Cut Eyes in GN-1, YSL Mascara Volume Effet Faux Cils in Noir Radical, Majolica Marjoca Curl, curl toward the sky mascara base, Esprique Precious Glamorous Glossy Eyes in PU10, Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion, Heroine Make Eyelash Fixer, YSL Rouge Volupte in 1, Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited in 940M

16 Steps:


1. Take the darker purple of Esprique Precious Glamorous Glossy Eyes in PU10.

2. After priming your eye, use your finger to apply the cream eyeshadow at the outer crease of your eye. Use light sweeping motions. If you want the purple to be more intense, apply more of the product, layer by layer. Here I apply 2 layers.

3. Then take the lighter purple from the same Esprique cream eyeshadow.


4. Apply the colour at the inner crease of your eye.

5. Using an eyeshadow brush, sweep the pale pink shade from the Cezanne palette over the inner crease, on top of the light purple cream shadow. You can use any pale pink shade you have.

6. Using an eyeliner brush, line your lower eye with the dark purple cream shadow.


7. Line the lower inner corner of eye with the pale pink Cezanne eyeshadow.


8. Using a large brush, apply any shimmery white eyeshadow at your brow bow area. Here I use the white eyeshadow from my Kate palette.

9. Line your eyes in black. The key here is that you must also line your upper and lower waterline to create the look of fuller lashes. I recommend using a good gel eyeliner as the black will then be more intense. I use the Bobbi Brown's gel eyeliner here.

10. Apply mascara base and black mascara. Apply to your lower lashes as well. You do not need curl your lashes that much here.


11. Apply your false lash as close to your natural lash line as possible.


12. The false lash is quite natural isn't it?


13. Curl your lashes lightly to join your real lash and false lash together.


14. Smile. Apply blusher to the apples of your cheeks.


15. Using the YSL lipstick, apply the colour to your lips.


16. Since I find the colour a bit pale, I apply the Shu Uemura lipstick to the centre of my lips so that the colour will not be so light.

FINISHED!

Hope you have enjoyed this look!