Urban Decay Moonstone palette Space Cowboy on Asian skin tone

 

From different angle

When the light doesn’t hit, their base color shows 

my face become glitter face

 Bought this on shopee for RM220.38 (after using coupon) and shipped from Korea, cuz Urban Decay is no longer available in Sephora Malaysia! So sad. Anyway… it’s my first time having a UD product in my makeup collection. I was so excited about it.

When I first tried, applying with finger and brush, to my horror the fallout is crazy. My cheeks were snowed with glitter sparkle from the shadows. Fortunately the palette comes with all night setting spray gift. After wetting my brush, dip the shadow and pay onto eyelid it solves the problem. If not I would be terribly disappointed. It’s it’s the most expensive palette in my collection right now :O 

And yea I bought it because of the hype especially in the China Chinese community 小红书 hhh

However I am actually amaze at the formula feeling so smooth yet super sparkle. It really has it uniqueness compare to my other glittery sparkling shadow. If the fallout issue cannot be solve I probably have to sell t lol. But now I’m happy with it in my collection. Worth it, just that u need to wet your brush for safer application from making your cheeks into a disco ball lol.

Eyeshadows that I want to Pan in 2024

In this year, I managed to finished up some products but too bad I didn't record down in my blog :(

Although recently I purchased new makeups :OOO especially eyeshadowsss.... BUT, I'm doing some changes to my makeup routine in car, not to mentioned I have been really enjoying makeup a lot. Switching items into my weekly makeup bag depending on my mood and what I feel like doing.

Regardless I will occasionally change my choice of eyeshadow, however I do feel I have the chance to hit pan or expand pan of these shadows shown. Some are coastal scent eyeshadow, some are depotted zoeva eyeshadow. But I renamed most of them since I don't remember their original name much :P, and it's fun to rename the shadow and giving them a personality.

(Fusion Blanc) Joy: Is quite powdery but pigment ok, use it for contouring and eyeshadow base.

White Wish: Well pressed and use as eye base.

(colourpop) Glass Bull: Slight duo chrome but wearable in daily makeup all over the lid

(coastal scent) Timeless Taupe: Pigment so-so, slight powdery, use to contour my jawline and deepen eye makeup. Don't fit much as eyebrow shade as it fades at the end of day.

(zoeva) brown olive: A bit powdery, but very pigmented and stays on thru the day as my eyebrow shade. My fav eyeshadow for eyebrow so far! sometimes use it as subtle eyeliner shade

(blanc fusion) Sweet Linger: A warm-neutral bronze shimmer that I sometimes use as single-eyeshadow-day, all over the lid, it's beautiful and stays put all day on my oily eyelid <3

(Zoeva) Affair- Very light pink-beige shimmer for aegoshal or center of eyelid, can be used as subtle face highlight. But powdery and gone in the wind when I finished work lol. Not a fav. Maybe consider mixing into other eyeshadow or just be patience with it.

(zoeva) Rocky- Well pressed, simple everyday crease shade for simple makeup day.

(zoeva) Sun star- Nice light gold shimmer, but have to use it carefully or else will be too obvious on my eye.
 

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My recent makeup purchase:

In this month, there's 12.12 sale in shopee, and I can't stop my hand :X

what I bought?

Flower Knows MAKEUP!!!

I got the strawberry macaroon eyeshadow palette because I wanted to try pastel...

Shepherd Girl because that GREEN!!! omg XD

and

a Mermaid Blusher 02 with the blue blusher in it.

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and a black eyeliner because I don't have :B

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Overall I spent: RM88.61+RM 56.08+ RM12.98= RM 157.67 

Well, it's still cheaper than that UD Moonstone palette? =w="

Recent Purchase, Eyeshadow, highlighter and other category

 

I'm too lazy to explain my eyeshadows at this stage, so I'm just gonna count as they are shown in image.

I'm also aware that I'm not so much into depotting makeup anymore like I was in the past. I would appreciate nicely how things as they are and not buying makeup that doesn't have aesthetic lol.

1. Coastal Scent Large Magnetic Palette
2. 100% Pure Palette
3. Etude House Kisses Pallete
4. Blue customizable palellte Etude House
5. Tarte Large Magnetic Palette
6. Tarte Small Magnetic Palette
7. Anatasia Subculture
8. Illamaqua Magnetic DIY palette 
9. Oden's Eye Seatalk 
10. Tartelette Bloom
11. Huda beauty NUDe Light
12. PUR palette
13. Canmake #1
14. Canmake #2
15. Majorica#1
16. Majorica #2
17. Majorica #3
18. Random Magnetic Palette
19. UD Moondust (coming soon)

Dang, that's a lot of eyeshadow

Category that I'm not so worried: 

• 1 x Contour
• 1 x Eye Primer
• 2 x Bling Eyeshadow Stick
• 3 x Eyebrow pencil
• 2 x Liquid Glitter
• 2 x Mascara
• 1 x Liquid Eyeliner

swatch of colour that I don't think I could use as highlighter

Highlighter, included some single eyeshadow that I think can be use as highligher too>

11 that are good for everyday use, + 5 from becca palette that is "alright"

And I went crazy last month and bought a in a lot new eyeshadow palette

1. Etude kisses RM15
2. Huda RM70
3. Seatalk RM150
4. Etude Winnie the pooh RM18.5

Total: RM 254.50

Also, when I find out UD Moondust Holiday Palette can be bought in Shopee, I couldn't resist it :XXX

spent RM 220.83 on it. Hope it's worth the price! 

super total: RM 474.33

Hope this would be the last purchase of this year lol T w T

Categorizing My Eyeshadows #1 2023

 Recently I have been eyeing at some eyeshadow palettes... or maybe not just "some":

-Too Faced Sweet Peach palette: I really wanna know what it's like to smell like peach...since I reaclly like peach scented stuff, like hand creams as such...

-Huda Beauty Light Nude eyeshadow palette: There're some really beautiful duo chromes in there, I wanna shades that are not brown but also wearable

-Nars Afterglow palette: I think I only want it because the packaging is nice hahahah, can't tell if the colours were amazing not.

-Natasha Denona mini palette: Saw a lot people selling on carousell and I thought is a good chance to try these hype eyeshadow for cheaper price! ; w ; Should I take the jump???? Oh man.

-Laneige/ Lunasol/ High end 4 pan Eyeshadow Palette: Reason being also wanna try how it's like to use high end products! However reason I didn't take the jump yet because I'm rationally thinking if I will like those shade :( , or is it worth it?? 

-Shu Uemura Eyeshadow: Reason only being a lot people are selling it for cheap and some packaging are super cute!!!! I'm a real sucker for nice packaging makeup :O I can't find much reviews about them so I don't dare to buy yet...and most shades looks normal to me. It's only because of the nice packaging....

Innisfree Magnetic Palette: Because I like cute small palette 3: grawwwwww

And purchases I made today:

-Etude house Look at my eyes palette in Carousel, RM18.50: It already comes with 4 shades, reason I bought is because I'm sort of into quads lately and I felt would be nice to have a small compact with mirror and cute design! Although it's not like I don't have a customization quad palette. I have 2 big ones, 1 medium and 2 small (Illamasqua that I DIY and Tarte Magnetic Palette that is slowly wearing out due to using everyday. and the glitter packaging is slowly crease and breaking down ; (

-Etude House Kisses Eyeshadow in Milk Chocolate, Shopee, RM15 : I thought the packaging was cute and is on clearance, why not give it a try? It's quite cheap anyway. I might even able to turn into a magnetic palette with those 4 pan design. Tho I also think I'm crazy to dismantle a new nice palette lol.

Colourful shadows: That I only use as accent or barely use. Mostly are Medium to Dark shade. I'm thinking to get UCANBE Mint Pastel shadow to play with

-3 Yellow +2 in Subculture 

-4 Matte Red/ Orange, 2 Shimmer

-2 Purple + 2 in my NARS palette

-5 blue, 1 green and 1 red. I don't really have a lot green shadow, those that I have were in Anastasia Subculture palette but I used those as liner mostly.

Goals: No more buying yellow,orange, red and blue accent palette

Reddish, Maroon, Orangy Brown, Peachy Tone. 9pcs

No more buying warm tone based palette!

Bronzy, Goldish Shade: 10

I do use these kind of colours a lot but it's still a lot to finish tbh, if I'm consistent I can use up a colour per year to to half.

Matte Crease and Base all over lid colours: 12

In general I will be able to finish half to one shadow per year, I think. Will have to keep track my progress next year and see how :333 I'm trying to be consistent so I can finish one pan at lease since they all look the same on the eyes.

Eyebrow, Outer Eye, Liner and contouring shades: 9

Colours that I use to draw my eyebrows usually. Since they are very dark and pigmented, mostly. And I don't use grey on my eyes anyway...Last I finish my Lily Lolo black eyeshadow probably in 2 years time. So 2 years would be what took me to finish a single eyeshadow of this type.

My Blush Collection 2023

 

 Total blush I have: 25....! o A O (blush in palette is counted individually) ...omg!

and yet occasionally I thought about buying blush =w=" There are some changes in my collection. Such as:

-My sis took my Tarte blush and she enjoyed so... I guess it's ok although I haven't really used much tho ;[ 

-The kiko blush I had the packing rubber become sticky and it was too dark shade anyway, so I use it as pigment for my painting.

-My friend gave me her Jill Straut blush because it broken, but I repressed it and used it =W= I love the packaging tho

-The Canmake blush from my sis was scattered too, and I actually hit pan on my Honeybee Gardens blush, so I repressed into it and DIY a blush from other blush, especially the VISEART blush palette they are too dark.... T a T

Seeing I have so much blush maybe I shouldn't buy anymore :X

Fingers Crossed!

Can I pan these eyeshadows?

Panned a black eyeshadow from lily look palette as eyebrow 

Some progress took in March this year

I finished this shadow!

Some progress 

I also finished this powder 

 

My current eyeshadow palette. Occasionally I switch the colours 

Car Park lighting

With flash light from camera to see the actual shadow lol

Although I finished some products this year, I mean eyeshadow and my The Balm setting powder, but I haven’t record in my blog for a long time. It made me feels like I haven’t made progress although I actually did! Anyway since around this mid-year I have been consistently doing my makeup in car after I reach my workplace. Occasionally I do get too tired to do it but most time I weirdly feel awake after I do my makeup even when am tired. It’s like magic. Maybe it’s because I massaged my face with makeup making the blood circulation better? Haha 

Anyhow, my makeup is work appropriate of course, and that means it would be sort of nude type makeup but sometimes I would add more sparkle but usually I do the same or smiler type of makeup everyday. Set the essence eye base with a flesh tone shadow, add a bit of light brown to crease, then some shimmer , pearly satin shadow all over the lid. I think I have made quite a dip in those shadow, 2 of the brown were used to contour so they probably will hit pan if I’m consistent enough. My only complaint is I can’t tell how my finished makeup look like in car cuz the lighting is very bad in the parking lot in early morning. The amount used were all based on experience and practice. I really prefer to do in a nice lighting but I want privacy when am doing makeup too, so doing in office is not an option for me.

I’m ranting and worrying about panning the shadows reason being I wanted to buy a lot of palettes, namely: Flowerknows! Their packaging is so pretty. Nars afterglow ! So pretty as well. Am a sucker for nice packaging. To faced sweet peach palette. Saw it on carousel and I have really wanted to try for a long time… and Huda Beauty light nude cuz the duochrome  were prettyyyyy

And… that will be 4 palettes! Is a lot?! But I probably buying them as collection too while using, am trying to see how long I can hold back from buying them, however if tomorrow is the end of the world, will I still buy them? I also wanna go to Japan and travel not to mention, and I probably will spend more on beauty products there? Lol just dreaming about it hhaha 

Base Makeup Inventory Update 2023

 It has been a while since I did any makeup inventory, the reason I suddenly feel the urge to do it again it's because I've started to spending quite a bit on makeup again. But I think that my purchase are now more mature than I first started getting into makeup. Some were bought simply of the packaging as collective while using it. Some are bought after doing extensive research with high recommendations.

Face Setting Powder- 3  [Coty AirSpun, Snow Beauty Powder, Srichand (Thailand Makeup that I bought when travelling there)]

Overall I'm satisfied with all these powder except maybe the Coty smell is a bit strong but it doesn't linger so it's ok. But all of them has a lot powder in it, it probably take me years to finish up all.

Powder Foundation- 2 [Inika and Astalift, this gets cakey easily so I use it very sparingly (gifted by my friend)] 

Powder Concealer - 2  [Lilylolo] 

Liquid Foundation- 2 [Maybelline and a Mix of Innisfree Tone up base]

The Pink Tube BB Cream is at it's end. Hope to finish or straight declutter this year end, since it has been very well used, but I won't repurchase it. It does pile up a bit around my T zone. 

Primer- 3+1 mini [Allie, Cezanne, benefit porefessional , and Sofina] 

                 For the Sofina I've been using consistent so hoping can try to pan it this year end.

Liquid Concealer- 3 [Maybelline, Rimmel, peripera]

I think I purchase the liquid concealer and maybelline foundation earlier this year but it kinda feels like has been forever! Anyway, I think it's a good amount and I don't really want them to grow anymore unless it's powder products since you can keep them for long.

So here's my goal:

31 Dec 2023

 Finish or declutter the BB cream + HOPEFULLY finish Sofina Primer ;it's not a bad primer btw but there's so much to try out! haha 

31 Dec 2024

Finish up Peripera Concealer and Benefit Porefessional since both is a mini, I think given a year should be more than enough! The benefit porefessional is an OK product for me. It does smooth out the skin surface but I prefer something that slightly brighten the complexation with SPF since Malaysia is a very hot country.

My other thoughts on my makeup purchase: I think I bought the maybelline foundation too dark a bit. and the concealer is too close to my skin tone, that's why I bought the rimmel in light and I quite like it. I received the innisfree tone up liquid as gift with purchase in carousell, initially I got no use for it, but afterwards I realize I could try to mix with the Maybelline foundation and it works, so that was AWESOME. it become something like a skin tint but puurrrfect shade. 

So am pretty contempt with what I had for my base makeup now, except am tempted to collect the shiseido snow beauty powder compact cuz they are so pretty!

Catrice Nail Polish- Fascinating Grace

 

Brought this around last year and I really like this polish. It's opaque in 2 coats and dries fast since it's glitter metallic polish. This shade is a bit more champagne gold, kinda nude gold if u will.

under indoor light

so simple, classy and pretty!!

outdoor light

Canmake Melty Luminous Rouge T03

 I had to admit Malaysia has too much temptation when comes to makeup, especially when you have Shopee in your phone. I was looking to check Cezanne face base price in compare to Watson's deal. In my surprise I found this Canmake lipstick that is near expiry on sale for only RM 5! I has been eyeing to try this lipstick but well, they can be a bit pricey in store, And to be honest expiry makeup is not much an issue unless they gone bad with oily smell. After looking for a few review I finally took the leap and try it.

I got in the shade T03, T means it would leave a tint. It's quite a slight bright coral-orangey-red tone. But not to the point of fluorescent. 

Left: One swipe swatch //heavy swatch 

Right: After wash with hand soap, leftover tint

(taken under morning sunlight)

Looks pretty nice for daily use ^ w ^ It show pigment, but more on translucent type lip product

(taken under morning sunlight)

It has a heart emboss on the tip however due to the balmy, soft texture of the lipstick it's gone around 2 uses lol. If you like moisturizing lipstick this would be a great choice. It's fragrance free too, which is my favorite, cause I don't like sweet scented lip product.

TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL- Rodin shading [Classic]

Recently I have purchased too cool for school, Art Class by Rodin shading in classic tone.

It comes with 9.5g, bought it on SHOPEE for RM32.50 

There are three shades in this contour powder, am more of a light-medium skin tone. The lightest shade doesn’t really show on my skin as shown above. So I usually use it to set my eye primer and maybe use to even my eyelid. The middle tone is perfect for contouring my nose bridge.

 

Left : after contour

Right: before contour 

It’s quite subtle overall and I know it has been quite popular in the market for a long time, after trying it I would say it’s a good purchase but would like to try their second shade that is more cool tone… so I can be “too cool for school” too😂 

before

after

(shading mainly cheekbone and chin)

Since it’s not crazy pigmented so beginners don’t have to worry too much about getting it messed up.

I haven't tried much contour powders so don't' have much comment on it. But overall feels ok to use.