Review: Revlon Lip Butter in Peach Parfait

From the moment I read about the Revlon Lip Butters online, I've been wanting them. Bad.

And dear Kahani was kind enough to help me haul four shades back from Hong Kong when she was back over the Chinese New Year holidays. No prizes for guessing which of the four I've been playing with the most.

Lovelies, meet Peach Parfait.

Review: Silky Girl Hi-Definition Mascara

"Oh, wow," my sister commented during a night out. "Love your lashes. What are you using? DiorShow?"

"Nope. Silky Girl."

"No $hit. Really?!"

Move over, Maybelline. Silky Girl is becoming my new go-to for budget mascaras. While I have never tried Lash Prism (some of my friends recommend it quite highly though), the other Silky Girl offerings are pretty good too. First there was Double Intense and now, Hi-Definition Mascara.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Hello lovelies!

With the Chinese (or Lunar) New Year just around the corner, it's been busybusybusy all the way for me. And so soon after Christmas too.

(In case you're wondering about the picture, it's the year of the dragon this time round!)

So here's wishing all of you who are celebrating, a very Happy Chinese New Year! Hope this year will be a great year for you, and may it bring you closer to the things that mean the most to you in life.

Us So Loverly girls will be taking next week off to be with our families and friends (Kahani will be back from Hong Kong!), but expect us back the following week!

Love,
Syen, Kahani & Eli

PS: Psst! You might wanna read on for some honeylicious news.

New Year, New Changes

We So Loverly girls can never stay put for long. Since the blog started, Kahani has moved from Europe to Kuala Lumpur and now to Hong Kong. Syen has been our rock in KL but look at the places she has travelled to! Greece, Hong Kong, United States...

Me? I started blogging from Australia before leaving to tramp around Borneo.

And now its time to announce another move. As of February, I will be back in Australia to pursue my Masters! I am excited to be going back to Sydney but am bummed to leave my family and friends. It has been one farewell meal after another for the past week (on Monday, it was breakfast, lunch AND dinner) and I am close to exploding out of my jeans.

Stuff I am looking forward to in Sydney? My genius Neutrogena eye makeup remover, Natural Instinct body washes, being able to go back to my curly girl routine, Priceline... Hmm, anything I have missed?

Sydney, here I come!

Endless chocolate

So Syen's told you that she's reconverted me back to cream shadows (although, with a few fallacies. I. do. NOT. squawk! Or say oh my 'gawd' *glares at Syen). Why "reconverted"? I used to love Benefit's Cream Shadow Liner D'Liners you see.. but they dry up. Not cool when they'r so pricey to start with. But now drugstores have started coming up with decent cream shadows, it seemed like a good time to try again and so far I have to say I'm totally impressed with L'Oreal's Color Infallible eyeshadows.

They've been compared to Armani Eyes to kill in the sense that the surface looks alike, and they're not so much cream shadows as densely packed pigments suspended in a base that lets you spread, blend and then it dries down to a long-lasting finish. Thing is, I can't confirm that for myself as I dont' think I'll EVER spend HKD300 on a single cream shadow (the price of Armani Eyes to Kill). Not for myself anyway. 

The colour I picked up from L'Oreal is 'Endless Chocolate' and it applies well with hair and flat synthetic brushes and fingers. I find for maximum shiny and intense pigment, synthetic's the way to go. But for smoking out and blending go with brushes and fingers.

The shade's a rich neutral brown with gold shimmer and it is lovely. Sorry about the swatch below, I just can't seem to swatch well.

On the eyes, it lasts all day without smudging. Particularly with an eye shadow blended in - although you don't really need to. It's a multidimensional shade so you can get away with just using it on the eyes. Darker around the eyes as a liner and blending it out on the lid. 

The other shades haven't tempted me, but both Syen and I are on the watch for a Bronze Taupe we hear's out there. We both wants it!

Conclusion

This is a top flight cream shadow on par with many high-priced ones and certainly worth is slightly higher drugstore price. It retails for HKD$89 here and I wait for L'Oreal counters to go on sale - so I picked this one up at a 15% discount. Score!

Favourite Things: Make Up For Ever Aqua Creams. They rock.

If you're one who's into cream shadows, chances are, you'd definitely heard of Make Up For Ever (MUFE)'s Aqua Creams. Their reputation within the beauty blogging world is, frankly, quite legendary.

And so when I decided to head the way of the cream shadows, of course I had to try these.

Things I Did Over Christmas Week

Happy New Year, All! It's a brand new year and I am sure that some of you have made a heap of New Year Resolutions. Me? I didn't bother this year round. Just had too many things to do last week which included...

1.   I finally visited Sephora. I know, I totally fail as a beauty blogger. Sephora has been open for yonks but I never got around to visiting it until last week. In my defense, I am usually tending to other things on my trips back to Kuala Lumpur.

It is great to see brands like Urban Decay, Too Faced and Soap & Glory finally here on Malaysian shores. Sephora Cosmetics looks pretty interesting too. I didn't buy anything so don't ask me about that!

I do wish that Sephora didn't bother opening counters for stuff like Clinique, Lancome and Dior. Why not use the space to bring in brands like NARS instead? I much prefer going to departmental stores to buy my Clinique and Dior. At least I get proper one-on-one attention from the sales assistants, samples and points on my department store card..