Flo's January 2014 Favourites

Hi everyone! The first month of the new year flew by faster than I expected. Can’t believe we’re already into the first week of February D: Where did all the days go~ Anyway, I’ve a few products that I’ve been reaching out more than ever for the month of January and I’d like to share them with you! Here we go…

1. Covergirl Outlast Stay Fabulous 3-in-1 Foundation in Classic Ivory

I’ve been wanting to get this foundation for the LONGEST time, and Pea brought it back for me from the US <3 And of course, it didn’t disappoint at all. At first I was pretty hesitant about it. Even though all the reviews online/on youtube were 90% positive, I’m not a fan of matte finish foundations, that’s why I prefer BB creams cause of their dewy finish. But, this foundation is just amazing:

1) The coverage is great, I can get a medium-full coverage with just one layer, then I will put extra layer on areas where I need more coverage.

2) It has a matte finish yet it doesn’t highlight my dry patches, it also didn’t make my face flat! 

3) I was pretty doubtful about its staying power as well cause Singapore is crazy humid, but this has proven to not budge throughout the day. One of the best staying power I’ve seen in a foundation (And this is drugstore!!! Extra love for that!)

2. Urban Decay NAKED 3 Palette

Another big great love of mine. My birthday present from Pea ♡

If you see my #fotds (I post daily on my dayre), you can tell how much and how often I reach out for this palette! I was away for a weekend and I literally was missing my Naked 3 colours. Talk about crazy and overly attached!!

My favourite colours are: Dust, Buzz, Nooner and Factory.

Dust is a very difficult colour to work with because of the high glitter content and fallouts, but it is too pretty. I can never say no to pale pink glitter can I? It’s especially gorgeous on the inner corners/first half of the eyelid. You can try using an eyelid primer/any cream products so that the glitter sticks better to your eyelids :) 

Buzz is a bright pinky purple colour and I usually use it as my main lid colour. It’s the perfect pop of pink for my eyes.

I really didn’t expect Nooner to look good on my skin tone. I thought it was pretty intimidating when I first saw the colour. But as soon as I put it on, I fell in love <3 It's the best blending colour ever!

Factory works well as my outer corners colour! It is not too harsh and I feel like I don’t even need to spend extra time to blend out any harsh edges with this cuz it just blends out so nicely on its own! 

The rest of the colours are super pretty too, and very easy to work with for daily wear. Heck I even wear them to school! Haha. 

3. Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner in Intense Black

I’ve been using Dollywink Liquid Liner in Black for the longest time. In fact, that’s one of the most used items in my make-up collection. I have about 6 empties and 2 new ones. 

However, I recently saw this on Ingrid's (missglamorazzi on youtube) video and was tempted to try! Went to Sephora and they were having a sale for the whole set of Stila Liquid Liners (Colours included: Full sized Intense Black, mini sized Brown, Green and Navy Blue) - it was fate and I bought it. 

It runs pretty watery when I first used it, in fact now sometimes it is still liquidy upon application, so you’d need to wait a few seconds for it to dry before opening your eyes or you will have prints on your upper lids haha. But the main point is that it. really. stays. all. day. I thought my Dollywink was already a HG, but this one is really good too! The tip is more stiff than Dollywink so it'll be easier to work with for liquid liner beginners as compared to Dollywink.

My eyelids are oil factories and I always get smudges/prints on my lower lids by the end of the day. However this one stayed on pretty damn well! I didn’t have any problems with it at all :D

4. Catrice Long Lasting Eye Pencil Waterproof in 010 New Kids on The Black

This thing is amazing. As I’ve said, tight lining never worked on me because of my oily lids and I guess the shape of my eyes also made tight lining even harder to last. But I really hate seeing the flesh in between my lashes!!!! >:O

Bought this a month ago just for fun cuz it was really cheap and I couldn’t rub it off my hand after I tested it on. And I was surprised to find that when I put it on my upper lash lines, it doesn’t smudge!!! After the whole day, it has super limited smudges which can easily be wiped off AND my upper lash line is still lined! Can you imagine how happy I was to be able to find something that works for tight lining AND only costs S$4.90??? Definitely a super good steal. Plus they have other colours as well that I like to line my lower lash lines with :)

A little tip to make sure this lasts is to add some black eyeshadow on top of it.

5. Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Dollface

I got this as one of my birthday presents as well! Hehe~ Same old story, I’ve been waiting patiently for Tarte to arrive in Singapore cuz I’ve been eyeing their blushes :) But when they came, I decided to get the foundation instead. Lex got this for me, and this is my fav shade out of the whole lot cause it is a bright pink colour - my go to blush colour!

You know how some blushes are just either way TOO pigmented that a slight swipe makes you look like a China doll and some have NO pigmentation at all no matter how many layers you put you still can’t have any flush? This is just nice. Like, a little sweep will not make you look crazy yet too many layers won’t either. Am I making sense? You need to try it to get what I mean!!

I also love love love the packaging. It just looks so.. Classy? Haha. I don’t know how to describe it but it fits super nicely on my hand and I just really like how it looks!

GIMME MORE~

6. Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm in Pink Blossom

I’ve had this for close to 2 years maybe and I stopped using it the last year cause… I have too many other lip balms/lipsticks/lip glosses to use. But one day, my lips were cracking like crazy and I wasn’t able to use my lipsticks, I was really pale then as well so I decided to whip this out and boy…… The colour is ultra gorgeous!!! 

I was in shock ok. It’s a soft pink colour that can very well be one of my MLBB shades. The rest is history. This is now back in my bag as a staple lip colour. It makes me happy, cause no matter what eye colour/blush colour I have on my face, this matches perfectly :)

7. Urban Decay Revolution Lipstick in Venom

If you read my previous posts, you’d have known I was dying to get this colour. But I couldn’t really bear to spend so much on a lipstick colour that I know I won’t wear out more than twice in a month!!! Lex got this for me as well, and I love it:

1) It is very, very moisturising. I can have it on the whole day and won’t have my lips cracked at the end of the day. 

2) It is super, duper pigmented. One swipe is enough for the colour to show!! That’s why this range works really well for crazy bright colours like the reds, hot pinks and dark plums :)

3) The colours available are all so nice. Seriously if I had to choose, I won’t know how many I’ll go home with cuz I definitely can’t pick just one to bring home??

4) The packaging. Heavy duty, shiny and just so pretty. I love it!

8. Revlon Colorburst Matte Balm in Standout

THIS IS THE PERFECT RED LIPSTICK. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE???

I love this, wrote an entire review raving about it here. Nuff said :)

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My #fotd using all my January favourites, except the two bright lip products:

Watching Monthly Favourites videos is one of my favourite things to do cuz I get to see so many new products that people actually enjoy using. And when I actually get to try them and see how good they really are, I get super excited and happy! I'd wanna share and rave how good they are to everyone else so that we all can look good together hehe~

I hope you will enjoy these posts as much as we did sharing our favourite products with you! Do let us know what are some of your favourite products that we can try as well ^.^

Love,

Flo♡