MAC x Maleficent Summer 2014 Collection

Hi everyone! This entry is kinda special because I have discovered my love for Maleficent thanks to the newly released "Maleficent" movie by Disney starring Angelina Jolie as the protagonist. 

The 2014 movie is actually told from Maleficent's point of view and how she came to curse Princess Aurora with the famous curse such that she becomes Sleeping Beauty.

To really up the hype for the movie, I actually saw this nail art tutorial on Youtube and recreated this look the day before watching the movie. Actually I was just bored and thought the tutorial was easy enough to recreate la #sadsociallife

Please check out her channel, I really love her nail designs! :)

And yes, I did manage to recreate most of the look save for the nails on my right hand because drawing the horns with my main hand was so tough I had to redo it twice :x #noskill #newbie

I didn't really make the horns as nice as Janelle in the Youtube tutorial but for a noob like me, it's quite a huge feat already la lol.

So without further ado, my Maleficent nails drawn by yours truly :D 

Angelina Jolie was on the cover of 8 Days that week. I subscribe to the magazine via their app because buying the physical copy is so wasteful. I throw them away into the recycling bin after reading actually.

Left hand with the My Dark Magic Mineralize Eye Shadow from the MAC Venomous Villains Collection in 2012 starring of course the cartoon version of Maleficent.

Right hand was much more simpler (polka dots for the middle finger!) pictured here with Revenge is Sweet Lipglass from the same MAC collection as the eyeshadow above.

Now onto the main objective of this entry - reviews and swatches of the items I bought from the MAC x Maleficent collection in conjunction with the release of the movie above.

The vinyl figurines you see here are from Funko Pop which Hidaya got me addicted to lol. The movie edition of Aurora and Maleficent are new releases and I told her to just grab it for me once they were in stock. Thank you Mas Hila :D :D :D (jangan membunuh saya ya! hoho.) You can purchase them at Simply Toys at Plaza Singapura level 7 opposite the cinema box office :)

Here's what I bought from the collection:

1. Natural Beauty Powder, USD$33.00

2. Anthurium Pro Longwear Lipglass, USD$22.00

3. Nail Lacquer in Flaming Rose, USD$17.50/SGD$24.00

I purchased the nail lacquer in the MAC Cosmetic stores locally because obviously nail lacquers cannot be shipped internationally but the other 2 items were part of my huge MAC haul with the Sharon & Kelly Osbourne Collections which if I have time I will do reviews on. They have not landed on our sunny shores yet. I hope they don't because I am tempted to get the eyeshadow quad from the Sharon collection but I am on a self-imposed makeup ban till September lol. Which kinda got broken last weekend because I caved into the YSL Fall 2014 collection FML

Ok, enough chit chat really!

Swatches :)

The nail lacquer in Flaming Rose is a true red polish and the bottle is adorned with the Maleficent wings that is on all the items released in this collection. I only purchased this colour because the other colours released looked..... plain oops! Black and beige, really MAC? I just got this for collection purposes. The packaging is really to die for! >_<

Swatches on my nails in natural daylight

Indoor lighting

Here I applied 2 coats of the polish with a top coat. I find that if you really wanna be really careful about it, you can achieve an opaque colour with one coat but I like to pile on the polish to even out things a little. Under indoor lighting, the colour shifts to a dark red (not as bright as it seems pictured in the first nail swatch pic).

Wear time was typical of most nail polishes - it lasted about 4 days before the major chipping appeared. A huge chunk just fell off this morning as I'm typing this entry lol.

Next up, the Pro Longwear Lipglass in Anthurium. Oh, be still my heart!

This is a true red that applies opaque and evenly on the lips. However, as with all lip products, you really need to exfoliate well because this really picks up on the uneven surface of your lips if not applied on clean lips.

Formula wise, it is not sticky upon application but it does fade off after I drank my cuppa this morning! So boo for that *reapply diligently*.

Applicator

I don't have much experience with prolong wear lipglasses nor normal lipglasses from MAC but this applicator is slightly flat on both sides and I find that this allows me to apply the product more evenly onto my lips.

Hand swatch

And last but not least, the Natural Beauty Powder.

I had initially wanted to pass on this because this just looks like a normal powder to me. But look at that casing!!! LOL, yup that's right, suckered in by the packaging *waves white flag to MAC*.

The powder is really a peachy, skin toned colour powder. I was unable to get a good swatch of it on my arm because the powder just blended in so you get my drift here right? Anyway, I used it all over my face as a finishing powder (you can it for anything - blush, highlighter, bronzer ya dah ya dah) and it didn't really have good oil control. I was shiny in about....2 hours? And I would only recommend this for fairer skin tones to use.

Well, that's all folks for the Maleficent products from MAC. I'm really excited for the Simpsons collaboration for Fall. Autumnal collections are popping up left and right now (in August wtf!!!) so.... pray hope I don't spend as much I did for the Summer collections D:

Till then, adios folks!

YSL Spring 2014 Nail Polish No. 49 Rouge Pablo (Swatches/Review)

So I was at TANGS on CNY Eve with Jacelyn because I had to get a NARS Satin Lip Pencil for my cousin in Indonesia and she wanted to get some stuff there too (Curse you TANGS membership card! LOL).

And we dropped by the YSL counter because I was tempted to get the new Gloss Volupte 01 but it was out of stock  as well as GLoss Volupte 49 :(

But I remembered the nail polish from the Spring collection was mad pretty so I asked the BA for it and it was in stock! *\o/*

She applied one coat for me on my nails to try and I immediately said "Please give me a new one!"

The polish was so opaque after one coater and so CNY appropriate hahaha!

Went home and immediately applied it to 'huat' for the new year :)

Pictured here is one coat of the polish without top coat

Application was very smooth, the brush of the polish was some what similar to Dior's (wide and sturdy brush ftw) which is my favourite type of nail polish brush.
I decided against putting a second coat on it and just went to dig out a gold glitter in clear base polish to add some gold colour for even better luck while I'm playing 'ban luck' over the first couple of days of CNY hehe.
Applied them on the tips of my nails and finished off with my Seche Vite top coat for a glossy finish.

Don't you just think it's a very gorgeous colour? :)

It's already a week since I did my nails with this colour and it hasn't faced any major chipping, just the usual wear and tear around the sides of my nails.

Add points for long lasting nail polish! Good job YSL!

I also picked up the YSL limited edition eye palette for Spring 2014 because I couldn't resist - too pretty already! Will do a review once I manage to find an occasion to play with it.

YSL Beaute counters are located at TANGS Orchard and their flagship boutique is located at ION Orchard. 

They are really fast becoming one of my favourite high end beauty brands (first love still Chanel but can fight la lol).

Went for the TANGS 12% rebate sale a few days back and came home with 4 new lip products from YSL.

Hope to play with them sooooooooooon! 

Ok talk again soon, bye! :)

Dior Summer Mix 2013 Dior Vernis #658 Capeline & YSL Spring 2013 La Lacque Couture Tie & Dye Pop Coat #2

When I popped by the Dior counter on my birthday at Takashimaya, I fell in love with the new Dior Summer Mix 2013 nail polishes! /inserts emoticon of face with hearts as eyes/

As I progress on with my addiction to all beauty related things, I've found myself gearing toward the higher ended brands such as Chanel and Dior etc in terms of makeup items and nail lacquers.

You have no idea how happy I was to find them at DFS when I left for Taiwan!

The bf had to literally drag me out of DFS to catch our plane else I'd probably buy up the entire store lol.

So I did purchase 2 nail polishes from the Dior Summer 2013 collection and here's one of them.

Dior Vernis #658 Capeline is a really summery colour - pink & coral all mixed together!

It reminds me of watermelon actually which every review I've read said it as well lol.

See, very summery ain't it? I mean what's summer without watermelon?!

2 coats of Capeline and no top coat

OPI Big Apple Red + Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear in Set The Stage

Hey all :) I painted my nails yesterday after sooooooooo long!

Ok a couple of weeks at least because my nails were very brittle after I removed my previous nail colour and I wanted to condition them even though they were in a very cui state D: ('cui' means bad condition in Singlish lol!)

My toenails are in even worse shape hence still letting them recover to their former glory haha!

I trimmed my nails down to the bare minimum because my nails were breaking and all.

Usually do that only when my nails started to crack about once every 2-3 months and I knew I couldn't prolong the length of the nails anymore.

So had to go 'naked' literally with my nails for 2 weeks and that's like very rare for me because I love my polishes!

Couldn't tahan ('tahan' means endure in Singlish) it yesterday and decided to paint them even though they are very short right now.

Went with a simple and bright red colour - OPI Big Apple Red NL N25 - because red is my favourite colour!

Layered Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear in Set The Stage because I wanted to layer some glitter over the red colour.

This glitter polish is one of the few Sally Hansen polishes I own and is a polish with large and small gold glitter in a clear base.

Very pretty although more glitter would have been better!

Had to literally 'fish' out the glitter to pack onto my nails else the glitter wouldn't show up.

Nail 'ingredients'

Final outcome:

 

2 coats of red and..... alot of glitter which I had trouble taking it out of the bottle lol

This OPI polish is one of my favourite reds and goes on smoothly.

I had no trouble putting it onto my nails and could have made do with 1 coat but I'm the sort who likes to put on a minimum of 2 coats just to be safe haha!

OCD la, cannot help it.

Base coat from Poshe, top coat from Seche Vite.

Ok that's all folks, till the next manicure adventure!