December 01, 2018

Jaclyn Hill x Morphe Vault | Dark Magic Palette Review and Swatches

When I first saw Jaclyn Hill's Vault collection on trendmood's Instagram, I was like OMGGG I need it in my life! The colours in the Dark Magic and Bling Boss palette were right up my alley since I don't own anything like that in my collection and I loved her first palette with Morphe. But BOYYY the mattes swatch horribly! It's not the same quality as her first palette. I'm not going to waste any time and jump right into it.

LOOOOK, it swatches so dry and chalky! I definitely did receive a "faulty" one and it sucks to say I'm not the only person since Morphe had quality inconsistency in their batches. However, the customer service was actually really nice and sent me a replacement palette.

Potion (the army green shade) is the most problematic one, no matter how much you blend it, the shadow clings onto areas making your eyeshadow patchy af. It looks disgusting right?

My Dark Magic Look:

Here is the look I came up with. I applied the shadow on a clean eye with no primer, i've heard the P Louise Base is amazing for making these shadows blend nicely. The shadows weren't so bad once I started layering the darker colours, it's still patchy but not as noticeable. The shimmers in the palette are stunning though, I would only reach for this palette for the shade Power Cut, the rest of the shadows are very ehhh.

I wouldn't recommend this palette, it's the worst performing palette I own. Even though the price point is good, the shadows are not the usual morphe quality.  Drugstore makeup nowadays is offering better quality than this, it's such a shame because the colours are so unique.

Have you tried any of the vault palettes? Did you love or hate the palette?

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November 17, 2018

MY CIRCLE LENS COLLECTION! - I.FAIRY SIBERIAN | LensVillage Influencer Collection 30% Off!

I'm super excited to announce and it's so bizarre to say this but I HAVE A CIRCLE LENS COLLAB COLLECTION WITH LENSVILLAGE, ohhhhhh maaaaaa guudddd. ANDDD you can get 30% off my favourite circle lenses! <3

Lens Village has teamed up with 5 influencers to make a circle lenses collection and ya girl is one of them! I chose the i.Fairy Siberian series for you guys because there was a period where I was obsessed with these and I wore it like almost every single day. You can scroll through my insta to know that I'm not lying. I like lenses that lighten my eyes, yet looks natural and is long wear. 

I wear my lenses for really long, usually for 10 hours or more. I know it's bad for the eyes but these are super comfortable and don't dry out my eyes. I tend to forget that I'm actually wearing them until someone compliments them. I like that these make your eyes pop with a noticeable colour. Normally I go for grey lenses instead of blue, but in some lighting these look grey, so you get the best of both worlds. You can read my full review of them here. 

Discount Code!

My code only works for the Siberian line - there’s blue, hazel and grey! Blue has prescription options, while hazel and grey are only available in plano. You get can get 30% off them using “30MISHCHEUNGX” on lensvillage.com. So it would be $16.80 instead of $24!

If this doesn’t tickle your pickle, Lens Village also has 4 other lens series in the influencer collection. 🤗💕 I hope you guys enjoy my choice of lenses for you and the generous discount treat! ^.<

The discount sadly ends on 18th or 19th November so be quick!

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November 16, 2018

THERE'S FAKES ALREADY! Huda Beauty New Nude Palette | REAL vs FAKE #2

Huda Beauty's latest palette - New Nude launched on the 1st of November, just over two weeks ago and there are fake palettes quickly distributing around the market already! It's scary how quickly they can manufacture counterfeits and what's even scarier is there isn't one fake palette but three! There's probably more but I'll show you the ones i've found, let's get right into comparing the real with the fakes. 

► Packaging

REAL: The box packaging is white, the font is nude pink with gold outlines. As for the eyeshadow packaging, it's printed with a matte finish, "Nude" reflects halo when it catches direct light and the Huda Beauty logo is also embossed like the rest of her rest palettes. The font colour for the Huda logo is gold on the orignal palette.

FAKE: The box packaging is silver with a shiny halo reflect. The font is also much smaller than the original. The eyeshadow packaging is printed in a shiny finish and it also reflects halo on the whole cover, not only on the word nude. The font colour for the word "Nude" isn't nude pink like the original, it's straight up halo silver. As for the Huda logo, the font is a different colour to the original - Huda is in white and Beauty is in gold.

► Eyeshadow Shades

Source: Huda Beauty Instagram

REAL: The original has stunning shimmers with large foil like pieces, pressed glitters, mattes and a concealer. The colour theme is centred around cool toned pinky mauves.

FAKE 1: This is the first one of the fake palettes, I would say they got the colours pretty close! It's only a little tad more vibrant. If the palette was all matte, it would be quite hard to differentiate the real from the fake. We know this one is a fake because the glitter and shimmer shades are completely off, I guess Huda's textured shadows are hard to replicate and using basic shimmers help to cut the cost down.

FAKE 2: The colours in this palette is pretty close too! It's slightly pinkier and the shimmers are more reflective than the previous palette. I think this manufacture actually did a good job. By the photo, "Concealed" doesn't seem to be a concealer and looks more like a matte shadow. 

FAKE 3: The last of fake palettes I've found and the worst replica of them all! This one doesn't have a concealer and has mustard yellow shade instead. The colours are very off from the original, the colours are more saturated and not ashy. They've used glitter for the foil like shadows and shimmers for the pressed glitter. The packaging inside of the palette has a shiny finish, whereas the original is matte.

They all have something that helps you to easily spot it's not legitimate.

Please be careful when purchasing makeup online on sites like eBay, if you are not buying from the official retailer's websites or their stockholders! If you can, always ask the seller if they still have the proof of purchase or if they could take photos of the palette inside so you can see what you're clearly getting. x

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November 11, 2018

KOREAN NUCLEAR FIRE SPICY x2 NOODLE CHALLENGE! 🔥

I thought it would be fun to do the x2 Spicy fire noodles challenge and boy was I WRONG. It's actually so much worse than the original first one! I hella don't recommend you to do it but if you would like to have the pleasure of watching me suffer for views then here you go!

I wish I was a happy as I looked in this picture lol but I hope you guys enjoy it!

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November 11, 2018

REAL vs FAKE #1 | Norvina Palette Anastasia Beverly Hills

With the makeup industry exploding and society defining their success by owning branded luxury goods, more and more counterfeit makeup hit the market. Many people want branded goods (or lookalikes) but without paying the high cost. It's said, "For the price of an authentic lipstick, you can purchase four lookalikes." 

Although I personally wouldn't use fake makeup, I do love seeing comparisons between the real deal and the fake one because sometimes they look shockingly similar! So I want to start a new blog series where I dig the internet for images of genuine products and their counterfeit sister, i'm going to start the series with one of my favourite brands - Anastasia! 

► Packaging

REAL: The Anastasia printing is slightly raised on the cardboard packaging. The palette has the classic ABH suede material and the colour is a medium cool toned lilac.

FAKE: On the cardboard packaging, the Anastasia printing looks flat, it doesn't have that raised embossed print effect. Probably to cut the cost. The gold is also more yellow and a tad darker. The Norvina font is also slightly bolder. As for the palette packaging, you can see the colour is completely different from the original one, it's a deeper royal purple colour. 

► Shadows

REAL: The metallic shadows are gorgeous and have a really nice foil like reflet. The colours look cool toned and pastel. There are 7 metallics and 7 mattes.

FAKE: Well well well, as you can see the colours are very drastically different, this is probably one of the worst knock-offs I've seen because it's so obviously different. The shades are pinker rather than purple, it's warm-toned and the metallics are done in a lacklustre shimmer formula. I think the fake Wild Child looks similar but everything else is off. They've even spelt Soul as Sovl.

I think if someone were to look at a fake Norvina palette before purchasing it, they would be easily able to spot it's not legit. They might get fooled by the darker packaging but there's no way someone would fall for the different shades.

What makeup would you like to see upcoming in this series? 

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