Clarins Beauty Flash Balm and Welcome Kit

After hearing all the rave over the Clarins Beauty Flash balm, I got very very curious but it is rather expensive to shell out $70 to try.  I got the $20 Beauty voucher from Tangs and accumulated some points on the Tangs card so thought I can give it a shot.  M also redeemed his credit card points so I got this free!!!  

  I was pleasantly surprised by the welcome kit given for newly joined members.  The SA gave me the new double serum for 7 days of application (looks like it can possibly stretch to 14) and 10 satchets of their best-selling products.  I haven't been hanging out at the beauty counters after years of buying my stuff at the warehouse sales so I'm rather happy with this purchase.  

  I'm trying out the balm as I writing this.  The makeup still look fresh after 3 hours of wear.  I shall see how it perform later this evening at the wedding dinner.

Crazy doll lady look for Halloween

I've been feeling rather inspired by the halloween makeup this year.  Some were beautifully done, some cute, and some downright scary!  I love them all!  With no party to attend though, what should I do with making up?  Well, you only live once and only young once, I did this makeup after a long day.  It was done in under 30mins and the pictures took another 1 hour to take and process!  I was in a hurry to get this done cos the dude at the back was getting rather disturbed by me!

  I watsapped the pics to a few friends to test-run it uploading.  Glad to hear positive feedback and someone said, "ewwww!" Oh well, can't please everyone.  Next year, I shall be better equipped and do a better job at this!

Mini MAC haul

Ruffie alerted me to a MAC sale on thu and we made our way there for the 2nd day of the sale. The lighter foundations and brushes were snapped up on the first day, I heard. It's ok, I'm only aiming for some lip products and this should keep damages to the minimal.
Here's the haul:
2 x Iced Delights Lip and Nail set (Rocking and Drama)
1 Eye pencil in indigo
1 sheen supreme lipstick in Korean Candy
1 Lipglass in Curvaceous
1 nail varnish in Al Fredo (ello yellow!)
All S$10 each!

 

L to R: Curvaceous, Korean Candy, Kanga Rouge, Hang-up

  The iphone cam managed to capture a colour-true image of the swatches of he lipsticks.

Curvaceous is easy to wear on its own as well as over another nude lip colour.

Korean candy is orangey red but not over the top orange as it is sheer and buildable.  

Kanga Rouge is a deep berry colour which applies evenly and smoothly without much bleeding at the edges.

Hang-up is a blue-tone red, almost fuschia. (By now, I have given up taking lip swatch using the iphone cam as its just can't capture the red properly)

Seed cards from Cargo Plant Love

Have you tried growing things from seed cards?  I haven't and this is the first!  I got Cargo Plant love lipsticks for a friend and myself online over a year ago.  The Plantlove range from Cargo is free from parabens, phthalates,synthetic fragrance, synthetic dyes and petro-chemicals.  The lipsticks are named after celebrities and the colours are quite pretty.  I've got a hot red (Maria) and something alot milder for friend (forgot the name of the colour).  One of reasons I got them, other than the fact that it's on sale, is that the packaging is eco-friendly and has wildflowers seeds embedded.  I finally got down to planting the seeds after I decided to pull out the bryophyllum which is becoming too much for me to handle.  I also planted Pangea's boxes which have basil seed embedded. I didn't manage to take pictures of Pangea's boxes or notes printed on the non-plant-able  cardboard cos hubs threw them away.

The pot with Plantlove has already sprouted while those with Pangea has only a few sprouted between the 2 pots planted.  I'm not sure if all the seedlings are from the seed cards as the soil was recycled from a big pot of bitter herb (good for sorethroat) that I uprooted some months ago (yes, I'm a plant killer).  I'm hoping that they are and I'm very curious to see how the wildflowers will turn out.  More so, I want some basil for my pesto!