FOTD: Monotone Makeup

As usual, boring FOTD You just can’t expect a dramatic smokey, party ready eyes from me. Or rainbow colored, gemstone inspired eye designs. Wortel is about subtle, brightening looks that are appropriate for office or date

Anyway, I’ve always been interested in simple monotone makeup, but even more so lately since I catching up on Grey’s Anatomy. Lexie Grey has such a clean, fresh look I love it! Plus, Bobbi has been campaigning about 5-minutes morning routine with her new eye cream and tinted eye brightener pen. Sounds great for lazy ass like me who almost always wake up late

Yesterday I went for rosy complexion. Since I have neutral/cool skin, pinks and roses work very well on me. You may want to use other tone, like something creams and peaches for example? Anything which brightens the overall look

Rosy, Daily Makeup

Face:

Illamasqua Satin Primer SPF20 blended with fingers after sunscreen has sinked in.

Skinfood Mushroom BB Cream SPF20/PA+ in #1, first stippled with fingers then I gave a once over with a cosmetic sponge to ensure smooth finish.

Bobbi Brown Corrector in Light Peach under eyes, patted with ring finger. Layer up as necessary, then gently buffed with cosmetic sponge.

NARS Loose Powder in Snow, patted with a flocking puff. I always put a mesh sifter on top of the powder, to ensure the sponge won’t pick up too much powder.

MUFE HD Loose Powder, patted lightly with a flocking puff then buffed with Everyday Minerals Long Handled Kabuki brush.

Eyes:

Skinfood Vitamin Shadow #4, a cool toned pale pink color, on my lids. Packed it up with E.L.F Eyeshadow Brush.

Lined waterline with Stila Kajal Liner in Rose Quartz.

Curled my lashes with Koji #70 Eyelash Curler, then followed with Majolica Majorca Lash Expander Frame Plus Mascara.

Stila Brow Set in Medium is brushed on my brows using MAC #208 Angled Brow Brush.

Cheeks/Highlights:

NARS Mata Hari dabbed on the apple of cheek using MAC #187 Duo Fiber Brush.

Stila Pretty Pink, the highlighter part (it’s champagne-pink in color), is lightly brushed on my nose bridge and chin using MAC #168 Large Angled Contour Brush.

That’s it! It’s certainly not a 5-minutes routine since I have terrible skin (acne scars, dark circles and all), and I have bald brows….I have to be extra careful in placing the products. It takes me about 15 minutes instead But overall I’m satisfied with the result; as it fulfills my goal to have brighter, fresh, evidently-made-up-but-not-too-much face

*Yes, I dyed my hair reddish dark brown…but the red vanished in a week time and left me with brown only.

Haul: February 2010

Sorry for the no updates. Fell into yet another food poisoning episode Anywway, here it is. Super tiny, all drugstore haul for February

Mini February 2010 Haul

MUJI foundation sponge, 30pcs.

The Face Shop flocking sponge.

Kiss Me Heroine Make Volume & Curl, plus the Long & Curl version as well. These came in highly recommended by a mascara goddess friend of mine, and I’m glad I follow her advice. I *heart* both!

KATE Super Sharp Liner N in….the blackest one. It’s indeed sharp. Too sharp! Tried to use it for tightlining but it’s not that impressive. Will still give it more tries though!

Koji Eyelash Curler #70. Bought it because of recommendation by fuzkittie. She loves lashes, and she loves her Koji curler. So I gave it a try and it indeed works well

That’s all! Short month, small haul On a side note…I’m trying to figure out my new Lumix ZS-3 digicam. It’s a CNY gift, but I just tried it out now *points at the above haul pic* since my father won’t let it go for a quite some time I don’t think the pic quality is that much better than my usual pics…and the usual pics are taken with a camera phone! Duh…I have bad hands, will need more shoots to figure it out!