Beauty Bought: Throughout the year, from United Kingdom

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This would probably give me a reason to create a very long post because I've just hauled, I don't know, $150 worth of goodies and it's by far a lot for me to handle but don't worry, the purchases was made between September 2012 to May 2013, I've just received it now from my bestfriend of which I've abused her address for shipping some UK products I want to try to avoid hefty shipping fees. 

I thought I only made just so little purchases, but when she gave me all of my packages, I was pretty much overwhelmed and realized with regret of how much I really spend. But nevertheless, most of the stuff that I bought below, safe to say that I'm refraining myself from trying out each one as I might just give some of it away.

This is the whole purchases I've made throughout her time in the UK. It was so overwhelmingly a LOT! I'll go through the hauls by brands down below. 

Brand: Missha

My bestfriend went for a holiday in Korea, so I didn't want to miss the opportunity to actually ask her to buy me some of the stuffs that are too expensive here. She got me the Missha's Perfect Cover BB Cream for just $10 where as if I buy it in Brunei, the cheapest I could get is $35, so it's not such a bad deal. She bought one for herself too but it wasn't suitable for her sensitive skin, so she gave me her big 50ml BB Cream.

Also, the tints are $5 each and if I were to buy it in Brunei, it would cost me $26, so I'm saving up a lot of money! I really love these tints and my collection of these tints are complete! I have all four of them now! Yahoo!

Brand: It's Skin

I've heard good news about the serums, so I asked my bestfriend to buy two of which is more suitable to what I need, I'm currently using the green one though, which is suitable for excessive sebum secretion, I don't know if I'm glad to purchase it because as time goes on my skin has reverted into normal skin so I hardly have breakouts and excessive sebum secretion. But oh well, let's see how it goes.

Also, I don't think I need more lipbalms because I have so many that I still haven't opened, but I just can't help it, I love macarons and this is perfect for me! It smells like grapes too!

Brand: Sleek Makeup

I bought this when I still wanted to try Sleek Makeup, but I did try some of their palettes a few months ago and I was a little bit disappointed with the Au Naturel that I don't even want to buy more of it. So this is the last purchase I will make from Sleek Makeup. I hope.

Brand: W7

W7 is a brand that I'm very intrigue with as it produces makeup that are dupes of higher ends makeup such as Benefit and NYX. The Mega Matte Lip cream is actually similar with the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream. The packaging, the smell and I can tell by just applying once that the performance is pretty much the same. I wonder if they were manufactured in the same factory.

Africa blush is beautiful! I will post up a more detailed review on it soon!

Brand: Benefit

My first Benefit product, when I received this, I was afraid that it would be too dark on me as I chose the No.3 color, I am always confused about my skintone as sometimes it can lean on light-medium or just medium. But I'm currently testing this, so far, I am still impressed.

Brand: Maybelline

I know I can get Maybelline's stuff here in Brunei but that tint is not available in Brunei and I don't really want to buy a $20 mascara where I can get $10 mascara in UK, I don't mind waiting for these because I still have tons of cheap mascara that works well with my current need. I know Maybelline's mascaras are known to be dramatic, but I really love me defined lashes that is nice for an everyday look. So I might just use this for special events.

Brand: Sunkissed Cosmetic

I don't even know why I wanted to purchase this, it's not like I need MORE neutral palettes, but they were from 123beauty.co.uk and it was dirt cheap with free shipping, so I can't really say no to that. I haven't try this, I'm not sure if I want to keep this or just give it away.

Brand: Technic

A palette that seems so similar to Sleek palettes in terms of packaging and even size! I bought three of their palettes, but I gave one away to my beloved Bruneian blogger-bestfriend, Nisnis from Frugal or Perfection so you can follow her if you want to know about the other palette.

Brand: Body Collection

I am a palette hoarder, what more can I say! :P

Brand: Real Technique

It was mostly raved in the beauty blogging world, it won't hurt to buy something that I really need to try out their brushes.

Samples: It's Skin and L'oreal

Well, samples, I'm not sure when I'll be using these but I'll try to use the L'oreal CC cream samples as I'm very excited to use it.

So that was my haul from UK, it's a lot I know, I don't know if I'm allowed to buy more eyeshadow palettes now as I seem to own more that I can use. I will post the reviews on these stuff after I've finished reviewing other backlog posts that I can't seem to finish. LOL!

Make-up Review : Sleek Sunset Palette

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It's been such a long time since I haven't put up a post in here, I'm sorry! I was very busy and when I do have free time, I always like to procrastinate. LOL! So anyways, I am still in backlog of posts. So maybe on hauls that I made last month and this month, I'll just put it together in one post. InshaAllah.

So another review on the Sleek palette that my bestfriend bought me which is the Sunset Palette. This is something that I pretty much adore more than the Au Naturel Palette as I am currently into bright colors.

This one has a plastic film but it doesn't have the names of the shadow, which is weird, I guess I got a dud on the plastic film. Anyways, all these colors are so bright and my favorite would've been the red and orange shadow, just because I have been lemming for those spectrum of colors, believe me, I don't know how to make a red wearable, but I made it work, but I didn't took a picture of it, well, maybe next time. LOL.

So for all of these shades, they are basically shimmery with a satin feel to it, except for the black. They don't really have much fall outs which is a good thing. They are very pigmented without a primer, though I love to use it with a primer because I just feel safer that way lol.

I really love this for a bright makeup look, but I won't see myself using this everyday, unfortunately. I love this palette so much though!

Make-up Review : Sleek Au Naturel Palette

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Let's have a drumroll for my first ever review for a brand that I've been lusting over... *drumrolls*

Sleek Makeup!!

So anyways, I have absolutely been obsessed with eyeshadow palettes and Sleek, however, caters to all of my obsessions. It's a little bit hard to obtain anything from Sleek as it is actually a UK brand.

It is more expensive than MUA but still on the affordable side. I was gutted that they didn't carry on with their waffle prints because I think that's what makes them special and more wanted. Now that they've turned to the usual pressed look, I guess there's not much anticipation to them anymore, I would've lusted over ALL OF THEIR PALETTES but then, I don't feel so excited anymore of wanting to collect them, maybe I will collect their blush palettes as I do love me some blush palettes. I currently don't have any blush palettes, lol.

Anyways, this is the Sleek Au Naturel palette, one of the neutral palettes they offered. I lost the plastic film so I won't be able to label all of the colours. The swatches seems unpromising but they do have lovely colours though the matte finish shadows are a bit of a let down, the darker mattes are pigmented enough but they are just hard for me to blend. The shimmery shadows, which are just 4 of them, they apply like a dream. They blend nicely.

The lighter matte shadows aren't so pigmented, but it can be build up, I like to use the lighter matte shadows as an overall lid colours. And I do use the dark brown matte colour as my eyebrow filler and it does make a great job as an eyebrow filler, I hardly draw my brows, I usually fill in my brows on where there are a few sparse spots.

This is a nice palette to have though I pretty much prefer my MUA palettes than these but overall a good palette. I might just want to try out the Storm or Original palette.

In My Bag : Just hanging out with my friend

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I actually have this routine where I would hang out almost every week at my friend's house to just hang out and talk shop. We decided that last week that we should just hang out in the morning and go out to have a drink at Taurean Cafe.

I didn't bother to wear makeup early in the day, so I brought some of them with me. So with the makeup bag I won from SprinkleRain, I put in some of the stuffs that I wanted to use that day.

What I brought:

- A facial cleanser

- Clean & Clear SPF Moisturizer

- Lipice lipbalm

- 17 BB Magic Cream

- Maybelline AngelFit Concealer

- Essence's I Love Stage Eyeshadow Base

- A few eye brushes

- Sleek's Au Naturel Palette

- Essence Styling Brow Powder

- Essence's Gel Eyeliner

- 17 Vava Voom Waterproof mascara

- NYX Xtreme Lip Cream in Spicy

I'm still trying out the BB Cream, I'm liking it so far. Though it it still a little light for me but I can still make do using my foundation powder darker which is actually slightly darker than my skintone to balance out the whole look. 

So to all the products that I haven't review, expect them soon, because I am still trying some of them out.

Want-it Wishlist : Sleek Makeup

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With myself in a spending ban, I had nothing to do but to actually drool and window-shop at these online stores. So beware of these kind of posts as I think this is just one of the withdrawal symptoms of not shopping, LOL, joking! I won't say that I'm addictive to shopping, but I just miss them, I can't wait for January to come and shop for more products. I still have lots to review and I realized I have a few bits of mascara that I never get to review, so I'm going to start on that later on.

So today we have a brand from UK, Sleek Cosmetics. I swear UK is a very dangerous country for me to enter, as I'd be in a shopping frenzy. They always have these crazy ideas and great products with great qualities, so I would always definitely be lured into wanting to try it.

The picture above is their Blush By 3 palettes, I love anything in a palette as I find them to be storage-friendly and I'm not into single compacts that could clutter my makeup storage. I actually purchased the Blush By 3 palette in Lace but somehow got lost in translation, so I currently don't have it. I might purchase it again soon, if they do have discounted sales. 

 And also, oh the lovely palettes that are the cults in the beauty world. Out of all of this palettes, I would go for the Oh So Special palette (center, above) and the Storm palette (center, below). The eyeshadow palette are almost like collectibles, I'd definitely collect these if I already gun down a job, but for now, I would settle on just purchasing the two that I've mentioned. But hopefully, I'd win in a giveaway so I'd definitely don't have to repurchase, InshaAllah hehe :D

A tinted lipbalm for everyday use, need I saw more? LOL.

Also, I'd like to try out the foundation testers, but I might purchase the liquid foundation though as I'm not a big fan of creme foundations, but I might be able to use these as concealers or even bronzing?