My foundation / contour routine from special occasions

Hi y'all! Today I wanna show you guys my foundation, contour/ highlight routine for special occasions. 

I don't normally do this everyday because it's a long process. And it takes up a lot of time. I don't have that much to spend since I just had a baby 6 months ago and she's literally like a koala bear always wanted with mommy. Not that I complain, I love it actually. But this is how I do my makeup when I do have time. 

Let me warn you, my skin color is hideously pale. And I didn't really made my eye look good since we're focusing on the foundation highlight and contour.

You guys know the step, wash, moisturize prep and prime your skin. And this is what I look like after that. 

I did my brows already coz I look like an alien if I don't. Lol. Next step is foundation. Any foundation you guys have. And then we do all the contouring and highlighting. I used a dark foundation stick from Sonia Kashuk. And for highlight I used the maybeline age rewind concealer in pale light. 

Contouring: my forehead, sides of my nose, top of my lip, hollows of my cheeks, eyelid, jaw line, sides of my chin. 

Highlight: nose, forehead, triangle shape under my eye, top of my lips, chin, under the contour on my cheeks. 

Then we blend everything using my beauty blender. I blended the highlight first then the contour and here's what it looks like half face blended half not.

I like to use cream blush as a base for my blush too here I used makeup forever hd cream blush. 

The I blended it with my elf stippling brush which you can get from target for $3 

I set everything with a translucent powder, add more powder bronzer, blush, highlight, did my eyes, no lashes. And put on some lipsticks and here's the finish look. 

 

Products I used.

Bronzer: Mac matte bronzer

Highlight: Becca moonstone 

Blush: Mac well dressed 

Eyeshadow: tarte

Eyebrows: anastasia brow whiz in soft brown

Mascara: maybeline pumped 

Lip liner : essence rose

Lipstick: milani nude cream

Lipgloss: nyx butter gold in eclair

Setting spray: urban decay all nighter

I hope you guys like it! Xoxo 

P.s excuse my background this was just a spur of the moment blog!👅👅

Bite beauty high pigment lip pencil holiday set

Wow! I know weird intro in a blog. But this is literally my first reaction when I saw and swatched these bite beauty high pigmented lip pencil holiday set. First off let's talk about the price. $25.00 and you get 4 deluxe sample of their lip pencil  0.05oz or 1.48g each. 

The container it's stored in is as big as the altoids tin can and has a huge mirror on it that I really like. The packaging of this set is perfect for the holidays. It's not cheap looking and something that you can use to store other stuff too. 

The colors of the lip pencils are perfect for the holiday season. I have a feeling that I'll be grabbing these lippies for the next few months. These lippies really live up to its name high pigmented because they really are. 

Here are the swatches 

From left to right: pomegranate is a rich red color. Winterberry if I'm not mistaken is a limited edition color especially made for this set which is obviously a berry color. Sable is also another limited edition that is a pinky nude, perfect for any skin color. Last but not the least is the infamous rhubarb- the Kylie Jenner lip color. It's described as the rose color. 

This set is a great way to try on the bite beauty products. for the price and quality of these products I think it's worth it. The only downside is, they don't sell this set online anymore. Sorry ladies. I feel sorry for myself too. I should have bought a back up and gifts for my sisters in law. But the good thing is, you can buy the full siE of pomegranate and rhubarb. And I'm telling you guys, it's worth it. You won't regret buying it.

Til next time. Xoxo.

Skin care routine

Today I am blogging about my skin care routine. Now, this might sound like I'm boasting but really I'm not. I had my ups and downs with my skin too but nothing too drastic. I've never had a facial in my life. Ever. I'll have pimples but not a big one. I'll have the most 2 in a month and then it'll be gone in a week.  

During my teenage years (ugh! It hurts to say that! Lol.) I've never really had a problem. I don't even use any skin care product. I just wash my face with water that's it. Mainly because I don't really wear any makeup at all during those years. Not even a lip balm. I started wearing makeup at the age of 21. I know I'm a late bloomer. I remember when I was working in an airline as a cabin crew, I always get scolded for not wearing any makeup. Sometimes what I would do is wear a tinted lip balm during check in time and then wipe it off once I get inside the plane. That's how much I hated makeup. 

Then I moved to an international airline and lived abroad. My tropical loving skin was not use to the blazing summer and unpredictably cold weather of the middle heat. It was extremely hot during the summer and extremely cold during the winter. Plus being in other countries you'll never know what climate they have. That's when I started having a couple of blemishes here and there. 

Aside from the weather, like I said I was a late bloomer, that's when I also started going out staying up till wee hours. Drinking. And smoking. Hey I was raised by a conservative parents so I can't really do any of that back home. If I go out, you'll see my big brothers following me around. Lol. 

When I was working all the people I worked with are smoking. Not kidding their mouths were like chimneys. I always smell their second hand smoke. Plus the depression of being away from my family. It got me and I started smoking too. That's also the time I decided to start taking care of my skin.

I started with Nivea anti aging skin moisturizer since I was smoking. Toner, cleanser everything to keep my skin flawless. Now I skipped the toner. Just facial wash, an anti aging serum (coz I'm 30 already), an eye cream and a hydrating moisturizer coz my skin is so dry. 

These are the products I use.

First of, a start by washing my face morning and night with my simple moisturizing facial wash. I like this because it has vitamins in it, a skin loving ingredients and fragrance and dye free. I've been using this for a year now, so far so good. I never got a single blemish on my skin. 

After washing my face, of course I have to dry it and then apply my caudalie serum. It's an anti wrinkle defense serum which we all know we should be using once we hit our late twenties. Gotta look young for the hubby right? This was given to me by my sister in law who's working at sephora. This was her gratis and since she's young like 24. And pregnant, she can't use this. I've been using this for a week now and I don't know if it's just my imagination or if this stuff really works but my skin feels tight and my pores, though I never really had big pores, it looks like I have applied a skin primer or the porefessional from benefit. Not kidding!

I have a crazy eye bag and dark circles and dry skin under my eye. It's like hereditary. I was born with a bag. Lol. But this stuff really works. This was retailed for $27 and I like it, it really keeps my bags hydrated. Oh you guys know what I mean.

 

Last but not the least, my Mac studio moisture cream. I had a sample back then of another Mac moisturizer and it was the studio complete, that's what I really wanted to buy but stupid moi, I got this instead which turns out to be good too, keeps my skin hydrated. No more flaky, super dry skin. I can finally apply my makeup without cringing. 

Well, that's all of my skin care routine. Very affordable, no crazy expensive equipment. I think the number one reason why I don't get any blemishes anymore is that I stopped smoking and drinking and I'm not a bird anymore. I drink lots and lots of water now. 

Share your skin care routine. Post it on ig! Xoxo