Review : Kate Spring/Summer Collection 2013 ; Goldish Eyes Collection with 24k Real Gold!

Last week I attended Kate Makeup Workshop in Pavilion and one of the highlight of the event is the latest Kate Spring/Summer 2013 Collection. 

It was conducted in Platinum Room, Level 7, Seventh Heaven, Pavilion KL.

Kate Malaysia invited Mikiya Hirai is a Japanese Makeup Artist to conduct the workshop.

Lucky we got translator :)

Isabelle was the model for the makeup demonstration. This is her BEFORE picture.

Below are the products that Mr. Mikiya used on Isabelle during the makeup demonstration. He would be creating Day & Night look.

Mr. Mikiya used Freshel Whitening UV Gel (RM67) after he removed Isabelle's face. According to Mr. Mikiya, this Freshel UV Whitening has 5 functions i.e Lotion, Essence, Emulsion, Cream and UV Makeup Base. Since it has SPH 26 PA++, it can be used in the morning only. For night, use Whitening Gel instead.

Kanebo Freshel Mineral BB Cream Pore Cover (RM59) , this is something new to me. It's a BB Cream at the same can work to help pore cover. I really like this because I do think my pores looked smaller and face is smoother after using this! Glad to find that the shade is alright on me too :D

After that Mr. Mikiya used Kate Powderless Liquid for Cover (RM79). I remembered Mr Mikaya was saying the liquid foundation will turn into powder in 15 seconds and surely it really turn into powder when I applied on my skin! No need to use loose powder after using this :D I quite like how smooth it feels on my skin :) 

Mr. Mikiya then used Kate Cover Concealer for Cover on Isabella, the texture is pretty creamy, well this is not my type of favourite texture for concealer. 

I tried Kate Eye Shadow Base for the first time, although this is cream in texture...I only need to use a little bit and I love how it smoothen out the creases on my eye lids and actually help to enhance the pigmentation of the eye shadow! 

Let's check out the highlight of the workshop, which is the Goldish Eyes Collection under the Kate Spring/Summer 2013 Collection. I remembered Mr Mikiya told us that in this Goldish Eyes Collection, each palette contains  of two unique gold pearl powders ; i.e Real Gold Pearl, a pure gold pearl powder with 0.1% 24k REAL gold, and Nuance Gold Pearl, a bright pearl powder with a hint of gold. Yes you read it correctly, REAL GOLD... how luxury is it to apply real gold on eyes right... !

There are a total of 4 Goldish Eyes palettes and each palette, you can see the word "GOLD" is embedded on top of the eyeshadows , which means those 2 colours have "real gold" in it. 

Below are the swatch for the Goldish Eyes Collection under the Kate Spring/Summer 2013 Collection. Each priced at RM59.

   

GD-1 is my personal favourite, I like the overall combination of colours of gold, brown and dark brown. 

Overall the collection colours looked very natural and with the goldish shimmer it would give a glamorous and sophisticated finishing! And these kinda of natural colour are really easy to apply & suit all skin tone. However I do think the eyeshadow texture is quite powdery to apply and colour looked really light in reality.. and in order to let the colour looked more pigmented, the eyeshadow base is definitely a must here.

This Kate Shiny Eyelid Liner is part of the  new launch in the Spring/Summer Collection 2013 too! Very easy to use & the shine is not too overwhelming. Perfect to use at the lower eyelid to make the eyes looked more dolly!

Kate also have Mascara base, Volume Gel Mascara & New Lash Extension Mascara (which is the middle one) RM59. I heard that the curved fibers can give 5mm lenghtening effect to our existing lash! 

Others Kate products that Mr Mikiya used on Isabelle.

The day look at Mr Mikiya created on Isabelle 

The night look (party) version. 

For night look, Mr Mikiya said shading is important to make the face feature looked sharp. He showed that the shading stars from the cheek bone all the way up to the side forehead. 

And now is my turn to try on the makeup! 

Naked face - a compulsory Before picture

p/s: Got to take with flash because the light in the room is quite dim :(

Well I followed exactly the tutorial in the booklet given in creating the Goldish Eyes using GD-1 palette.

My after picture

How do you like my makeover which I did on myself :D 

 Close up on the eyes makeup I did. The goldish shimmer is fine and shimmering and it must be because of the pure gold ingredients in it I think

 Look, can you see the BLING shimmering on my eyes!  

Must be the gold bling bling I have on my eyes that brings me luck..because during the workshop I won a set of Kate Goldish after answering correctly during the Q&A session! Yay!

 A picture of myself with Mr. Mikiya Hirai. He was really friendly and keep checking on my makeup when I was doing mine. And he nodded and said... good ! *happy* 

Me & Farah Hany, one of readers whom I invited along to the event...I knew her few years back and now she is now a web designer in Nuffnang office :D 

Looking at my picture, I quite like the Kanebo Freshel Mineral BB Cream Pore Cover & Powderless Liquid for Cover because my face looked pretty flawless & fresh here! 

So what is your favourite pick from the Kate Spring/Summer Collection 2013?

For more info, visit https://www.facebook.com/katemalaysia

EOTD : Rainbow Eyes Makeup with Make Up For Ever

Yesterday I got some time to kill while waiting for an event to start, so Sephora KLCC was the perfect place to loiter and to check out some stuffs. While doing my beauty rounds, I looked at the mirror & thought that my makeup looked so plain. Then I remembered that morning I was in the rush to go out and just simply did natural brown makeup.

This is my "rainbow eyes" after playing with the colours !

And I am feeling so good because been some time I have not really play with colours because I always have to do quick makeup before I got to out out in the morning :)  

I always wanted to try Make Up For Ever Aqua cream and since all SAs were so busy serving customers, I went on try out Aqua Cream colours to "brighten up" my look. Those marked in stars is the colours that I picked up; i.e Pink Beige, Warm Beige and Intense Blue for their existing collection! 

I also picked up some of the colours from their latest Aqua Summer Collection ; i.e Delicate Pastel Green & Deep Iridescent Mauve! The green is so pretty...!!!! 

The Aqua Cream is an ultra-pigmented, long-lasting waterproof cream. Highly concentrated in mother-of-pearl pigments, it provides an immediate color intensity with a luminous finish. Its long-lasting formula will not crease or smudge under the most extreme conditions.

Oh  I love love love these Aqua cream, so easy to use...and seriously wanted to buy all those colours that I used! There is no real technique and I just use my finger to it glide it through.... so easy because the texture is so smooth...even I was applying on top on my existing eye colour. The Aqua cream colour is vibrant and really long lasting! Each Makeup Forever Aqua cream selling at RM 95 

Aqua Eyes is a waterproof liner pencil. Highly pigmented, its unique formula adheres to the eyelids and doesn't run or fade even under the most extreme conditions. Its fluid, creamy texture glides onto the skin and doesn't irritate the eye contour.

I also used Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes too! Picked up Gold, Majorelle Blue and Turquoise! This eyeliner is creamy, glides on smoothly and the colours are so pigmented! It stay on the whole night without smudging or anything....and this is really making me falling in love with colour eyeliner! Each Makeup For Ever Aqua Eyes is selling at RM 64 (if not mistaken). 

I applied Warm Beige Aqua cream all over my eyelid and from inner of my eyes applied pink beige.then applied a little bit of Delicate Pastel Green & Deep Iridescent Mauve as I applied outward. At the corner of the eyes I applied Intense blue Aqua cream.

At the first half of my upper lid on the lash line, I used Turquoise Eyes pencil eyeliner and finish it off with Majorelle Blue. To enhance the look I used Aqua Liner in Gold on my waterline. 

Note: In the morning, I am using Lunasol Skin Modeling Water Liquid Foundation OC 03, Jane Iredale Pressed Mineral Powder in Warm Sienna, Lavshuca Melting Eyes OR-1 palette, K-Palette Zero Kuma Concealer 01, Nars Orgasm Blusher and Maybelline Cat Eyes Colossal Mascara.

To finish off the look, I simply picked up a nude pinkish lipstick from Laura Mercier & applied Benefit Sugarbomb Blusher :)

Do you like my rainbow eyes makeup ? 

Should I do this more often?

p/s: Maybe I should dig out those pigment and colourful eyeshadow to play with...one of these day! 

Being a plus size is not a problem anymore, thanks to Dorothy Perkins wearing those pretty dress is not a dream but reality!

Trying hard to pose like model ...success or not?

I love wearing dresses and many have asked where I always get my dress right ? 

Do you know...being a plus size is so so so difficult, because we can only admire from far those beautiful dresses. I used to always asked myself WHY is there no pretty & fitting plus size clothes for us? I used to think plus size  fat people only can wear loose & baggy clothing or squeeze into those clothing and feeling not comfortable at all... because there is no fitting clothes for plus size! And I used to hate to dress up.. because always feeling ugly, down and not confident at all!

I used to hate taking pictures of full length picture because those clothes that I wear are so ugly but now I want to show to people what I wear because those dresses that I wore now.. is so beautiful! I came across Dorothy Perkins many years ago and since then I never look back!

All that above is old stories after I found my saviour!

Dorothy Perkins has been around for over 90 years and is a firm favourite on the British high-street if you don't know! They offer sizes from 6 - 22 and thanks to Dorothy Perkins... finding the right size clothing is never been a problem for me anymore!

So it is no secret that Dorothy Perkins is my favourite fashion brand and to be honest I got to be honest more than 90% of my clothes in my wardrobe are from them! And I am looking forward to dress up myself every single day!

Usually I shop in their store and every week I will visit the store to see what is new, but ever since Dorothy Perkins offers online shopping for Malaysian (http://my.dorothyperkins.com) since last year November, serious shopping has never been so easy! 

Ah this is love at first sight, seriously! Well I lost count how many lace dresses I have at home, never mind... lace dresses is so addictive! I never own a lime colour dress, so this would be my first one! 

Found this black petal sleeve dress at 50% off! Must grab because one can never go wrong with LBD !

Hehe my total purchase RM259 and yeh I got a free standard delivery for spending RM249 (or else delivery fee of RM50 is quite dear!)

It took around 2 weeks for my order to arrived via registered post. It was carefully packed & I received the clothes in good condition :) Thumbs up! 

Even the dresses come with the hanger & plastic!

My favourite brand!

The Little Black Dress fit me perfectly! Material is 97% cotton, so very comfy!

From a plain black dress, I match it with red belt & carry a red clutch... and now I'm ready to go for a party! 

Oh don't forget to match it with your favourite red lipstick. Here I'm wearing Maybelline Colour Sensational in Red Porcelain lipstick!                   

Here comes the Lime Lace Dress! Was really happy the quality & look came exactly like how it looked in the website! Ah Dorothy Perkins never fails me! 

I love how the black belt sash defines my waistline and gives illusion the waist looked smaller than it is.. looked like got S shape . Also ah.. notice how my big arm is being covered by slightly by the mini sleeve :D 

The zipper at the back! 

Unexpectedly lime color actually can match my skin tone color quite well! Notice the lace leaf motif ... <3

The thing about this dress is that not only it looked elegant for a night out but it is so easy to wear, i.e no need to match it with additional accessories like belt, necklace etc....well just ready to go with my Lewre green heel... 

Ah which dress do you think look better on me? 

Honestly being a plus size not a problem anymore ever since I discovered Dorothy Perkins years ago! And  now dressing up is one of my hobbies one and always I m looking forward to shop for a new dress!

While hunting for more new dresses I saw the new Kardashian Kollection and this Ombre mini dress caught my attention!

Check out http://my.dorothyperkins.com 

When I think of Brown color....

When I think of BROWN COLOR...

I can't help to wonder who can resist this brownish thing called CHOCOLATE ? 

So Yummy yet so SINFUL!

Whether it is hot or rainy days, a cup of hot chocolate or ice cream definitely keep our tummy WARM & COMFORTABLE!  

Got to be honest, while it is nice to have either red, blonde and pink hair... all this color go out of trend quite fast and it is not easy to match with the clothing you wear! Brown hair is really a TIMELESS & ELEGANT color, never go out of season for sure and complement very well with our Asian skin tone! 

With that in mind, Samsung launched Note II in Amber Brown, such a pretty calm & elegant color to carry...how thoughtful!

And do you know, having a personality color brown means you are honest, down-to-earth and wholesome, salt of the earth people with both feet planted firmly on the ground. Unlike other bright color they hunger for attention, brown is a calm color!

All of us will agree that while white color looked nice but once it is dirty it looks disgusting! But for brown color, it hides all the imperfections and appear perfect in our eyes!

Watch this video, the story is so sweet!

Oh btw, this Samsung Note 2 in Amber Brown is a limited edition and hurry up and check out it at your nearest Samsung outlet before it is gone! It is still selling at RM2299!

For more info , visit Samsung website here