Tagged...aw, thanks. :D

I got this award from Soapaholic. Thanks so much! :) You're so sweet to have given this to me. I was always jealous of the people who made so many friends on blogs and the like...never really thought I'd make any as well, but wow. I'm so happy I decided to try and blog.

The rules are:

1. Take your award here

2. Put the logo on your post

3. Link the person who awarded you

4. Nominate at least 7 other bloggers

5. Add the links of those bloggers on yours

6. Leave a message for your nominees

I nominate:

Gia, Noi, Crystal, Catherine, Sarah, Donnarence, Saimese, Cheysser

I know some of you girls have been tagged already, but oh well. :)

Tagged, and Haul! :D

Rules: Take a picture of yourself RIGHT now. No primping or preparing. Just snap a picture. Load the picture onto your blog. Tag some people to play.

Whit tagged me for this. Sorry you have to see me like this, ladies. Hehe. This is me on my bed after getting home from school and hauling.

I don't normally wear makeup to school, just sunblock.

No makeup. Eep!

I tag:

Gia, Noi, Cheysser, Crystal

Anyway, today I was mostly distracted in class. It was Gia's fault, telling me that there were OPI polishes available at Rustan's Gateway. :/ Lol! So I went to Gateway and ended up checking out Farmer's Plaza first, because I remembered that Noi found LA Colors stuff there. I ended up picking up three nail polishes there--Solar Gold, Red Carnation and Party pink. On my way home I passed by Watson's, mostly because I was looking for sifter jars but I couldn't find any...and then I realized that I needed moisturizer. I ended up getting more than I needed. Lol!

Top row L-R: St. Ives' Mineral Clay Firming Masque, Garnier Light eye roll-on, Celeteque waterbased/oil free moisturizer

Bottom row L-R: L.A. Colors NP in Party pink, solar gold and red carnation

Swatches:

I was going to do my nails in party pink, but I got frustrated cause I kept knocking my hands into things and ruining my drying nails. Pff. So just painted my nails in colorless NP. :/

Short post today, hehe. Still letting my face rest from makeup because I'm in the middle of another one of my big breakouts. Sigh.  Tonight I'll start back on my usual skin regimen, and hopefully tomorrow I'll be back on track. :) I think I'll be going to bed early tonight, I know my skin needs it.

Playing around and tagging!

I was bored today, so I was just playing around with eyeshadow. I decided not to do a full face because I'm letting my face rest from all the stuff I've been putting on it, so all I've had on today was moisturizer.

I had loads of fun playing with e/s! I used my PAC palette and MAC's Bagatelle..as primer and base I used Art Deco eyeshadow base and Elianto Shimmer e/s in Ivory (applied wet). For the highlight I used my Coastal Scents 28 neutral palette. I don't know if you can see it, but the highlight e/s has a pretty green irridescence.

You know, I realized that for me Art Deco works much better than UDPP... I mean it's easier to apply, no drying time, blending is easier, e/s practically has no fallout, lasts all day without creasing and oiling up!

Please ignore the rest of my oily un-made up face (what you can see, anyway). And my brows, omg! So messy, but I do not want to overpluck. 

I got inspired by a picture of the sunset for this. :)

No flash

Flash!

Moving on, I got tagged by lipgloss86 for the 8 Things survey. So....here it is! Lol.

8 Things I Look Forward To

1. Makeup Masala Mini-haul
2. Stupidly enough, history class on Monday
3. The next time my allowance comes
4. Seeing my college bestie on the 7th
5. One of my friends to reply to my e-mail
6. Seeing entries for our Beijing Opera contest!
7. Having money to buy either Konad stuff or nail art pens
8. Getting money somehow

8 Things I did Yesterday
1. Brought my aunt to the airport with my mom
2. Begged to go to MOA
3. Checked out the MAC counter there (and bought the foundation when I swore I would not buy anything!!)
4. Played around with makeup (and failed)
5. Ate at KFC with mom
6. Ghost Whisperer marathon with mom
7. Blogged
8. Ate leftover KFC for dinner

8 Things I Wish I Could Do
1. Makeup, professionally
2. Move either to the US, UK or Australia
3. Graduate college
4. Study makeup
5. Shop everyday <-- Ditto! 6. Lose weight and stay at my goal weight 7. Go out on a date...never have! Lol I am pathetic. 8. Do project 10 pan too. 

8 Shows I Watch
1. House
2. Cold Case
3. Law and Order
4. CSI
5. Numb3rs
6. Prison Break
7. Desperate Housewives
8. Ghost Whisperer

and the list goes onnnnn....

I tag these 8 bloggers
1. Gia
2. Everyone else who wants to do this! I'm not sure who has been tagged and who hasn't yet.

Bought stuff and made a mistake + QUESTIONS

Hello blogger ladies! How are you today/tonight? :)

So today my aunt left to go back home to the US. I miss her already, it's so quiet here without her. She's quite fun, and I'm a bit sad now. 

Anyway, after we brought her to the airport, we passed by MOA (Mall of Asia) because I asked my mom if we could. We are rarely ever in the area so I decided it to ask her..and she said yes! I mostly asked because I heard there was a MAC counter there. I originally intended just to get my skin swatched to see what shade I was...and I ended up buying MAC studio fix powder foundation. x.x

MY MOOLAH! Its goooone. :(

YES, ladies, this is the start of my search for my HG foundation.

As it turns out I'm NC35. I love that it is the perfect shade for me, but maaaaybe I shoulda bought the liquid foundation for better coverage. That's mistake number one. XD But I like that it's light and feels like nothing on my face. Not too good a coverage though. I just have to get rid of my acne scars and I'll be set--so girls, I NEED your help! What's a good way to do that? Cheap, too.

I took a few pictures because I did my makeup today just so I could see how well the foundation would fare with my oiliness and the weather. Too bad it was kind of not so hot today and I didn't sweat so I didn't get to test it on that, but with the oilies...

Just applied. LOOK AT THE FLASH PICTURE. MY SKIN IS THE EXACT SAME SHADE AS MY NECK. Usually I had a problem with that. But I have found my shade!!

After a couple of hours, top pic without flash, bottom pic with flash. You can see the oiliness there, with the sheen...but without the flash (top pic) it looks pretty matte. I tried oil blotting papers with it and it works quite well, but takes some of the powder away. Tomorrow I'm going to try dusting mineral finishing powder over it to see if that works better.

I don't think this is my HG foundation, but this will be my foundation for a while. At least a year or I finish it because no way am I going to spend so much freaking money again in a long time. Right now I owe my mom and friend at least 3000php total. Oy vey! Hahaha~

SO I'm doing the 10 pan thing...so I can pay everyone back and save up (I will do this after I get the TFS primer/pore minimizer thing). Anyone else doing this challenge? How have you done with it so far?

I really really enjoyed being at the MAC counter though. I did not look through half the things there because it made my heart hurt having so many things around that I could not afford... Sniffle. How I wish I had money! Or at least a way to make money. I was around soo sooo much high end makeup my pocket ached. We left right after we went to the MAC counter because my wallet = empty. Eek! Oh, would you believe that on the way home we got caught up in the labor day rallies? Sigh sigh.

Anyway, tonight I was rubbing off my makeup (my aunt gave me the Meaningful Beauty by Cindy Crawford set) and I got it all off, I THOUGHT, but I started using my toner and there was so much left there!! So, stupidly, I started washing my face again. Used my usual products instead (holy moly MAC is HARD to get off!), and there was still some stuff on the cotton ball I was using with the toner...but by then my face ached and felt so dry that I just let that go and put my usual face stuff on it, plus the night treatment from Meaningful Beauty. I was so rough on my skin tonight. :( I feel so bad.

My skin is itching, and I think it's because the stuff I use (minus the MB stuff) is really drying it out. But it's what my dermatologist gave me and she didn't give me any moisturizer to use with it...but I think I'll start using moisturizer. My under eye is so dry.. CRAZY dry, that it looks like I have wrinkles. I hate that! I have a problem with my face, like some parts (around the eyebrows in the inner parts of it, under eyes...) are SO dry, and everything else is OILY! Does anyone else have this problem? How do you deal with it? [ETA, I use moisturizer in the day...I know I should at NIGHT but I don't know if it'd mess with the acne treatment I'm using. :/]

Sorry this post is so full of questions, loves. I hope you can help and if you take time out to, thank you! :)

How did you spend your day today? I've been watching Ghost Whisperer with my mom the whole day...now she's sleeping. Hehe.

Don't forget about our contest!

Thank you, package, and Konad

Wow, I can't believe it. I've only been blogging for a month (a little bit more maybe) and already I've met so many friends, learned so many things, got so many sweet encouraging comments and good advice.

So let me just say to all the people whose blogs I read and to all my dear readers,

Anyway, moving on, today I got home to find that Noi's package finally arrived. She was so nice, sending me the sample of UDPP that she got for free along with the stuff that she bought. She also included something else--and I swear it's like she reads minds!

So pretty! I love the card stock that she wrapped the (bubblewrapped) stuff in. And the sticker! 

And the contents:

Citre Shine anti-frizz spray laminator. THANK YOU for this, Noi, my hair has been so frizzy lately and I'm just needing something for my hair. This is perfect, I'll use it with my serum. :)

And of course the UDPP sample, 2.66mL. My first ever Urban Decay anything!

Again, thank you so much, Noia. :) I can't wait until I can send you something (and believe me it will be soon! ^_^).

So on my previous post, I mentioned that I was stuck as school when I really wanted to go to the parlor with my mom and aunt instead. Well turns out I got to go anyway--my aunt and mom were there from 12pm to 8pm (I got there at 6). I got to get a facial done...and my nails done! Can you believe I found a place where they do nail stamping? The moment I saw a Konad polish I was like. O_O!! I gotta get that done. Heheh, so now I have got pretty nails~

See?

Butterflies.

As usual, polish chipped almost immediately. But that's just because I really am just so rough with my hands. I need to find a good long-wearing polish that won't chip so fast on me. 

Gia told me that there are Konad stamping sets available here. My initial reaction was "OMFG REALLY?!?" because she told me that it was pretty affordable for the basic set. I asked her to accompany me to the place...so we'll see how that goes. :)

Also... here's a completely unrelated disgusting story that happened to me today.

I was on the jeep home, and this guy that sat beside me just had the most HORRIBLE B.O. I think he realized that I could hardly breathe (well, I had my hand covering my nose), and I think he either got annoyed or has a weird thing about people smelling his funky B.O. because he kept holding onto the hand railing on the ceiling of the jeep, thus of course making the odor more...strong, I guess? Gosh, I really wanted to tell him to please stop sticking to me and practically rubbing his armpit to my face (I was next to him) but I just bent over and looked somewhere else so that the smell wouldn't be that bad.

Have you had bad experiences like that while taking public transportation? :/

Don't forget to check out our Beijing Opera contest! Please join. :)

Wouldn't you rather...

Spend the afternoon in the parlor getting hooked up for free instead of staying at uni from 7am - 6pm? Especially when you have nothing to do from 12pm-4:30pm. Sigh... I missed a day in the parlor with my mom and aunt for this! Stupid make-up classes. My prof annoys me a bit... absent 7 days then demanding our time to make up for what we missed while he was gone.

So instead of my regular daily 7am to 12pm daily sched, today and tomorrow I'll be here 7am-6pm. Same goes for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next week. Thankfully May 1 is Labor Day so I have no classes and I can recover. Sigh!

Sorry girls, this is why I have not been able to post. That and I've been busy, and/or had nothing to post about! Lol.

In other news, yesterday I skipped class to go watch the taping of a local morning talk show, Ruffa and Ai with my mom, aunt and two friends. It was fun, seeing their bloopers and stuff, but the taping took quite a while, running from 1PM to 3:30PM for a one-hour show, had it been live. Lol. It's okay though...pros - longer time seeing the artists, cons - it's quite boring since I'm not into the local showbiz scene.

We got to see Angel Locsin and Diether Ocampo though, of course aside from Ruffa and Ai-Ai. I don't know what other people think, but personally...well, my mom and I think that there's sort of a gap between the two of them. Since, you know. Ai-Ai is more for the masses than Ruffa (who spent all her idle time texting and/or reading magazines...she even called her PA to get her magazine for her when it was only five feet away from her! lol).

All in all it was a pleasant experience, except I had a huge hunger headache afterwards since we got to the studio at 11:30 and thus skipped lunch.

Sorry about the non-makeup post...but I promise a makeup-related post tomorrow, or later tonight.

Have a good day/night ladies!

A favor and a reminder

Please vote for me on Whit's Spice Girls contest! I am Danger Spice. The poll is on the side bar.

http://whitzmakeuptipz.blogspot.com/

Also, don't forget to check out the contest Gia and I are running! Check out the post below.