What I wore for Halloween

Here's the face I wore on Halloween. My face was probably the worst canvass ever, but Ate Lara of NARS at Rustan's Shangri-La painted it up and made some nice free hand art. Products used were all NARS except Stila eye liners for the design and Pur 4-in-1 Pressed Mineral Make Up. Loved Stila's smudge stick waterproof eyeliner in silverdollar. Really nice in person!

Too bad I forgot to take a photo right after it was done, and in better light. My lips looked amazing, with a silvery metallic lip liner all over and a sheer pink lipgloss. My eyelids hosted some neutral shades and as usual, cult-fave Orgasm was dusted on my cheeks.

I'll be making another post on my unplanned hiatus the last two weeks or so. I'll be back to regular programming, hopefully.

A Pair of Eyeliner Swatches...

For my dear friend Zanti of http://zantiwanti.tumblr.com/ :D

Maybelline Impact Express Smooth Felt Liner in Black

Prestige Total Intensity Eyeliner in Deepest Black

Close up without flash

L- Maybelline Impact Express Smooth Felt Liner

R - (unsharpened!) Prestige Total Intensity Eyeliner

Not close up with flash :D

L- Maybelline Impact Express Smooth Felt Liner

R - (unsharpened!) Prestige Total Intensity Eyeliner

Now that I look at the swatches beside each other, Prestige looks more matte while Maybelline gives off a subtle shine. Maybe because Prestige is such a creamy pencil liner while Maybelline's Impact Express is a liquid liner. (Doh. haha) Good good color payoff for both liners! And as long as you let them set properly, they are practically budge-proof! Very long wearing especially if your have non-oily lids. They're both easy to use to make them peepers pop, I love them both!

Zanti, pick your poison! (Or first poison, haha) Just my two cents worth of blabbering, hahaha.

Maybelline Impact Express Smooth Felt Liner was around PHP 400 me thinks...

Prestige Total Intensity Eyeliner was PHP 325 last January

Spa from your Kitchen: Tea

What exactly do you do with the teabags after you let them steep? Throw them away? Well, don't! You can use them as tiny, aromatic compresses for some minor aches and pains. Just zap them in the microwave for a few seconds, and voila! Just make sure that you don't make them too hot; always check them first before you slap them on any part of your body. And squeeze out the excess moisture before you microwave them too, so you don't end up with hot, runny teabags on your body.

I used Lipton Green Tea, which I made into an unsweetened iced tea. I nuked the tea bag and pressed it onto a bump I had. 

If you have two teabags, you can leave them in the refrigerator for about an hour, or in the freezer for about 5 minutes or less. Then, put them on your eyes for a relaxing cool compress that depuffs  overworked peepers. Relaxing teas such as chamomile may work better then others at making you forget your problems, even for just a few minutes. Again, don't forget to squeeze out the excess moisture.

So there you go, two at-home spa uses for your teabags! Of course, you can use fresh, new ones, but do try to reuse old teabags. And throw them into your compost pits after you use them!