Make-up Review: Benefit's You go, Gals Sample Kit

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Another review with a brand that only come across my blog for only once, to me, the brand benefit is quite on the expensive side. Although I've seen a lot of good reviews about this brand, does not mean that I am impressed unless I try it out myself. So, in Jakarta, I checked out their Sephora and bought the face sample kit.

So, I'm going to basically give a short and somewhat quick reviews of these samples as I only receive 3 tiny tubes

"That Gal" Face Primer

This is a pink-tone primer with a little shimmer running through the creamy texture, it applies like a lotion, it sits above your skin without feeling heavy and such, for my light-medium skin, this is quite an invitation to my makeup collection as I find it brightens my complexion without making my face too in-your-face glittery.

Although it doesn't fill in the pores, it does held up well without touching up, I can get away 4 hours without setting it with powder.  

"Porefessional" Primer

This is a nude silicon cream that fills the pore, it really works well to blur out any fine lines and pores, I am amaze with this product, it holds my makeup much better than That Gal primer, it can handle 8 hours of makeup without fading my foundation, much impressed, I might buy the full version every now and then as I find this quite expensive. Although, I still love my Holika Holika Silky Veil Primer.

"Girl Meets Pearl" Highlighter

This is a pearly, golden pink highlighter, I really love this and I am addicted to this highlighter, I am lucky that I find out that with my skintone, I can match any highlighter tones. Golden, warm, pink, cool or neutral, my skin can handle it! I wish it does the same with lipstick :(

So anyways, I really love to use this mainly above my cheeks and the bridge of my nose for that effortless sculpted nose.

Out of the 3 samples, I'd definitely repurchase Porefessional Primer.

Sample Review: Skin79 Bronze BB Cream

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As you can see from previous post. I raved about how I wanted to try this product out, but never want to put out just because of its price tag of $50+ for a 40g? Although the price is reasonable for the amount of product and you know Skin79 is a brand that hardly disappoints you when it comes to BB Cream.

Luckily, I did go back to Skin79 store just to ask if they already have the sample for this BB Cream and they just re-stocked the sample. I've been using it a few days and here's my review for this sample.

The texture itself is quite creamy, easy to blend and doesn't have any problem with applying it on your skin. I had dry patches while wearing it and I'm glad that it doesn't accentuates it. The product itself has a nice, light coverage, just enough to even out your skintone which is wonderful.

It settles into a semi-matte finish, I can get away without putting loose powder and still manage to get 3 hours of use before my T-Zone gets shiny. Though if I do set it, it'll last a little longer.

It is such a lovely product but I do have something that bugs me about the product. It's the color, it's way too dark for me, it seems matching when I was at the store, but it turns out, it matches my skin when I was so tanned. I did mix this BB Cream with other light BB Creams and it did help. It doesn't oxidize so it's a good thing.

I think I'll skip this BB Cream, thankfully I didn't make a decision to buy the $50-something BB Cream. 

Sample Review : The Faceshop's Hydro Splash BB Cream

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A sample review from The Faceshop's BB Cream sample. I was a little worried to try this out as Hydro Splash means that it might be moisturizing or a little too moisturizing, but I decided to go ahead and wear this out after a few weeks that this sample has been in my stash.

I am very surprised that the sample is very generous as I've actually managed to use up about 8 applications from this. At first I was glad that the color of this BB Cream is very dark, I might finally found a BB Cream that suits my skintone, but too bad, the color is actually lighter than light as I proceed to blend this into my skin, which blends nicely.

It settles into my skin nicely with a light to medium coverage, it also reduces the appearance of my pores and fine line. Which is actually a big bonus. Would I ever buy the full-size version? Maybe, as much as this BB Cream impresses me, it doesn't give me a very good impression that I would run out to buy this and I do have a lot more BB Creams to go through.

Sample Review : Laneige Glossy Lipstick

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I have been a very bad blogger! Happy 2013 everybody, I don't really have the mojo to write up the favorites of 2012 or even to sum up my 2012, but Alhamdulillah I am still alive to this day.

A friend gave me this lipstick sample and there's actually two of them, so I just put it onto one of my unused contact lens case and just depot it there. 

So I received four different lipstick sample housed in this old-fashion candy packaging, those chocolate candies in the 90's, I hope to find it in shops cuz I'm feeling a little bit nostalgic. LOL.

It comes onto this little aluminium packaging, which is very inflexible and also a little too cheap for a brand like Laneige, even Missha houses their samples on a luxurious-looking palettes. Also, once opened, it won't be able to be close. Hence, depotted them onto a sterilized contact lens. 

In the swatch, I've forgotten to actually put on a heavier swatch, sorry, but from right to left, Glam Nude, Secret Red, Delicious Pink and Plum Pink.

The colors are pigmented but I love the fact that the colors are a little sheer at the same time, as I never actually wore red a lot, so this is the stepping stone I need to wear a bright but sheer red to pass, cuz sometimes it's already on my mindset that red is for women in their 30s and 40s, lol.

But anyways, Laneige's lipstick is actually nice to use, they last for 2-3 hours only, so I made sure I wear a liptint/stain underneath because re-applying them is just bothersome, sometimes. LOL. But it is moisturizing and gives a glossy effect without the glitter, but I think I can make do this lipsticks with Silkygirl's Gloss lipsticks as they seemed to be similar.

Sample Review : Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream

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So another Missha sample that I've tried and it's the famous M Perfect Cover BB Cream. A lot has made this the cult BB Cream that gives great coverage, long-lasting and some other claims. I've tried this yonks ago and this is me reviewing it now, such a procrastinator, but don't worry! My reviews is as legit as it can be, because I even wrote down on a memo how I get on with this BB Cream.

And I've got the shade No.23, I find this a little too light for me, but I can mix it with a darker foundation to create the perfect match for my skin. But I did use this alone without foundation and I found that it is able to oxidize to a shade slightly matching to my skintone. I really don't mind though because no one's gonna be differentiating my neck and face because of my hijab, so no one can really see my true skintone :p

Ahem, as far as coverage goes, I would say medium as I really have prominent blemishes which I blame myself for, it would be a miracle if any foundation or BB Creams are able to give a full coverage on my blemish-prone skin. As far as it goes, I can go for 8 hours without touch-up. I am very impressed with the performance of this BB Cream, I think it might stump my favorite Hot Pink BB Cream but I'd definitely won't be buying the full-size until I've finished at least 3-4 BB Creams from my stash. So a great product in my book.

Sample Review : Missha M Boomer

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I think it would be nice to add in a sample review, as mostly reviewing a product sample that might have little amount of products that would yield to an inaccurate review. But yet, this is what I think on first impressions which is basically important for me to like the samples or not.

I got this sample from my friend who doesn't even like samples, so she gave it away to me. This was from Missha's official opening in Brunei. I used it during my semester break and I got around to actually post this now. LOL. But don't worry, I still remember the bits and bobs of the primer as this stands out from the rest of the samples that I've used.

This primer is different from what I'd like to use, a white emulsion with shimmers but when blended it will give you a brightened look without the glitter/shimmer being so obvious.

The texture is quite thin and thus easily blends into the skin. What I like about this is just the smell, the performance for me isn't so good. Although doesn't give a silicone-y feel to it, it still gives a smooth canvas to work on. However, this doesn't last me for more than 4 hours. It slips off and ruined my makeup by the end of the day. I have to admit, I was on a heavy-duty shopping that time, that I even climb up the stairs from the ground floor to the sixth floor. Yes, I can't believe I did that. So I was sweating, this would be where the primer is tested, does it still puts my makeup where it is or does it run off with all the sweats. Well, it runs off and it doesn't look nice on me when it does.

Purchase the full size? Nope, there's better primers than Missha's BB Boomer.