NEW : Shiseido Maquillage Dramatic Series Spring/Summer 2015 Collection

I created my Shiseido Maquillage Ladylike look with their latest Dramatic Melting Series Spring/Summer 2015 Collection

Recently Shiseido Maquillage revealed their latest Spring/Summer 2015 collection where they introduced the Dramatic series which consists of Dramatic Melting Rouge - a new series of lipsticks, the Dramatic Mood Veil - a set of blusher and highlighter combined into a palette, and the Dramatic Mood Potion -a fragrance for body and hair, and a limited edition True Eye Shadow.

Shiseido Maquillage is entering a new stage, they introduced a new ambassador that carry that new fresh ladylike look i.e Kiko Mizuhara. 

Maquillage aims to bring fun and enjoyment to the makeup experience, to awaken the true beauty that lies within all women. The brand wants all women to relish makeup and fashion – and not just wear it out of pure necessity. Feminine and elegant with a touch of sexiness. Innocent yet refined and mysteriously seductive. “Ladylike” beauty is the new mood for new Maquillage, embodied by the one and only, Kiko Mizuhara, model, actress and singer.

 Shiseido Maquillage Dramatic Melting Rouge - RM90/each

Juicy, luscious lasting lips made with luxurious beauty oil, the new Shiseido Maquillage Dramatic Melting Rouge infuses your lips with sensuality from the moment it is applied.

This lipstick is specially formulated with “beauty oil” that brings excellent skincare benefits to your lips. Combined with Shiseido-exclusive “phase separation technology” that is formulated with functional ingredients in optimal balance to give excellent shine and color, the Dramatic Melting Rouge brings the highest level of luxury to lips.

With the Dramatic Melting Rouge, lips are wrapped in a beautiful color layer with a rich brilliance, and dry, chapped lips are moisturized. Condensed, lustrous coating film repairs lips with vertical lines while its beautiful finish lasts without creasing and fading.

The Dramatic Melting Rouge’s gorgeous yet refined packaging also further enhances the richness of the product. The concept behind the packaging is “Dramatic Glamour”, with its bejewelled surface with pink gold called “Precious Grid”. This signature design, as part of the new look of the Shiseido Maquillage, aims to awaken a woman’s beauty and make her shine, to ignite a spark in every woman’s everyday life.

The new series of lipsticks are available in 10 shades.

Shiseido Maquillage Dramatic Melting Rouge swatch

Which shade you prefer ?

I tried 2 colours RD 526 and RD425, both are very creamy, pigmented and give a very nice shiny on the lips. I really like how the beauty oil ingredient in the lipstick keep the lips supple and soft. 

Shiseido MAQuillAGE Dramatic Mood Veil - RM141

Achieve lustrous rosy glow with the new Shiseido Maquillage Dramatic Mood Veil. This powdery cheek/face color comes with 5 colors and 5 textures that is able to enhance your beautiful facial features and expressions. This long lasting face color fits perfectly on skin even with facial movements while retaining the initial lustrous and dull-free finish.

 

Shiseido Maquillage Dramatic Mood Veil also comes with a specially designed dual-end brush with sponge that allows easy application. The brush consist of a combination of firm and soft fibers that picks up powder very well, allowing shading to be done easily and quickly. The dome-shaped sponge, on the other hand, is soft, and allows precise application of color and completing a gradation finish without requiring any special techniques. This powder is available in two colors and is refillable. 

Shiseido Maquillage True Eye Shadow – Limited Edition RM150

Shiseido Maquillage presents a set of limited edition True Eye Shadow this season that shows off a combination of 5 colors that accentuate the pupils. This trendy color combination is able to produce a meltingly soft light that blends well in to the skin with lasting clear colors. It is able to increase the impression made by eyes by 110%*.

The Shiseido Maquillage Dramatic Mood Potion (RM106) is an oil-based fragrance for body and hair designed to provide moisture for the skin and luster for the hair while exuding an elegant fragrance. This fragrance of white floral and rose blend depicts cleanliness and an elegant sweetness. This luxurious thick oil can be applied not only on the wrist but also to the arms, décolleté and at hair ends.

Out of so many products, I love Shiseido Maquillage Dramatic Melting Rouge lipstick very much because it glides smoothly, pigmented and super moisturizing and I'm carrying it everyday in my bag! You should check out this at Shiseido's counters nationwide!

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BCL BFF Makeup Party

Last Sunday I had the opportunity to learn 2 Japanese makeup look (Cool Beauty & Japanese Idol look) from Takeru Hiro san using BCL products with my BFF aka my sis Jem :D 

 BCL is a Japanese cosmetics brand and the name BCL is the short form for Beauty Creative Lab. BCL is suitable for fashionable young, working adults who wants to look good. And this is the first time I tried out their products and I am pretty excited to try out as my friend has told be before that their eyebrow and eyeliner is quite nice. 

According to him Cool Beauty look are more defined and mature, and it has the characteristics of sharp eyebrow, black eyeliner, volume & curl mascara as opposed to Japanese Idol look that give supernatural look with soft eyebrow,  brown eyeliner, volume mascara and plus one point focus (either lips of cheek)

Allow me to share with you my opinion on the BCL products that I had tried in the workshop

Clear Last Pore Cover Face Powder

Very light coverage but it does cover a bit of my pores and brighten up the face.

 Browlash EX W Eyebrow Pencil & Liquid

 Comes in Natural Brown and Grayish Brown shade

For people who want to have quick touch up with define finishing on their eyebrow, this would be a good one.

Browlash EX W Eyebrow Gel Eyeliner & Powder is a new product coming in to Malaysia.

Comes with 2 shade; Natural Brow and Light Brown. 

Finally we have lighter colour eyebrow colour and this powder eyebrow would give a more natural finishing to our brow. My hair colour is pretty light so I have been looking for the correct eyebrow shade to match my hair colour and this 2 shade that they bring in is even lighter than the one I had back home.

 Makemania is also a brand under BCL and this is Makemania Data Gradation Tip Shadow, basically eyeshadow in a pencil form

 Bronze Brown and Light brown shade

This is super easy to use, just glide through and blend using brush or finger. Colours is shimmering but very pigmented. This is great to use on the go and small to carry in our handbag.  We were told that this is called magic pen because this can use as eyebrow, eyeliner and eyeshadow. 

Of all the products I tried, this is my favourite Brow Lash Ex Water Strong Liner. The name on the product might sound misleading because this is actually a liquid eyeliner and not a another eyebrow product. Browlash is just another range name (just like Makemania) under BCL.

The colour is deep black, very intense.. I like! The unique thing about this eyeliner is that this is waterproof but yet can be removed using warm water! 

The brush head had the shape like a marker pen, the brush is soft yet firm.

Over the years from the makeup workshop I attended, I picked up a very important tips that help me when I apply eyeliner or eyehadow which is  to always to brush a little bit of loose powder on our eyelid (or if you had your eyeshadow on then it's fine) to create a clean canvas before applying eyeliner/eyebrow colour so that they will stay and will not smudge. 

Same goes to our eyebrow, I used to have problem drawing my eyebrow using eyebrow pencil then I came to realised that sometimes our eyebrow is damp (from sweat etc) so the eyebrow colour does not stick on our eyebrow hair. Hence brushing a thin layer of loose powder before applying would let the powder to absorb all the sweat etc before the eyebrow colour can  easily 'stick" stick on the eyebrow hair.

 Browlash Ex Perfect Macara & Eyeliners is a new product in BCL that recently available in Sasa. Anyone tried this before ? I'm sure this cute pink packaging caught our attention right?

This is a volumised mascara with shimmering brown eyeliner is the tools to create the Japanese idol look. 

 Brow Lash EX Volume Up Fiber Mascara in Black

I tried this I think this give me more lengthening effect

Takeru Hiro san also brought 2 very nice blusher from BCL unfortunately it's not available in Malaysia yet.

Model before & After 

Love her eye makeup!

 These are the products use to create my look .

Before & After look.

A very simple natural look using BCL products, as you can see it's very natural finishing to enhance our existing feature. I bought the eyeliner from the event and shall put on a review if I got time.

I had fun learning makeup with BCL with my BBF aka my little sister, thanks BCL Malaysia! It had been a while we attend workshop together because she is so busy working!

 Group pictures with all the happy looking participants!

BCL products are currently available in all SASA Malaysia. For more information,visit 

https://www.facebook.com/BclMalaysia

Review & Swatch : Make Up For Ever AQUA 2014 Collection

People often asked me do you makeup when you go for your holiday... 

My answer : Of course ... I definitely want to look good in my pictures! 

Wait, what about summer beach holiday? 

Is our normal waterproof good enough to withstand the summer heat and water splashing ?

To be honest not really. Because some of them are waterproof not smudge proof  and some are long lasting but are not waterproof..(sigh!). And if we go to the beach with that, the chances of having melted makeup with smudges are pretty high (if you are not careful!). Knowing that I would be soaking under the sun the whole day and out at the seas ...I on;t know what makeup to bring to Boracay.

And just happened a week before I went to Boracay, I was invited to Make Up For Ever AQUA Collection 2014 launch where they introduced new AQUA Smoky Extravagant (waterproof version), AQUA Liners (new colours), AQUA Lip (new colours) and Mist & Fix (new formulation) to the existing Aqua family this summer.

I was thrilled because I have been hearing so much about them and finally I am able to be introduced to this range properly. 

I was told that Make Up For Ever AQUA collection is 100% waterproof, 100% smudge proof, 100% Crease Proof and they are used by Olympics athletes and models for underwater shooting. So let see the  new products in details before I tell you if they really work! 

Make Up For Ever Face & Body Liquid Make Up (if not mistaken RM150)  is not something new. But to me this is something new is because I never came across waterproof liquid foundation! Had yet to try it out myself but today told me even though it looks watery and sheer when you do swatching but the finishing is pretty matte and coverage is pretty high. I might need to go and check out this

Make Up For Ever Aqua Lip : RM80 / 1.2g

This Summer, Make Up For Ever introduced  5 new AQUA LIP shades that gives sherbet tinted lips. The Aqua Lip kiss stays perfectly synced with the Aqua Rouge ultra long wearing waterproof lipstick shades. Its precise tip hugs the contour of the lips to correct or intensify the look depending on the desired effect. Its smooth, creamy texture never dries out the lips and stays perfect for hours on end. Available in 20 shades.

The five new AQUA LIP colours for this AQUA 2014 collections are  

21C Cool Candy Pink
22C Tender Pink
23C Apricot Pink
24C Vintage Coral
25C Orange Red

I have tried spraying water on the swatches and rubbing it hard to smudge but unsuccessful. 

Now I can tell you yes Make Up For Ever Aqua Lips is 100% waterproof and 100% smudge-proof !

Make Up For Ever AQUA Liner : RM95 / 1.7ml

AQUA Liner is the ideal ally for high-precision doe-eyes. This summer 4 new shades have been added to the 15-color palette.

Its foam-tip applicator makes it easy for you to draw a smooth, perfect line as it follows every curve of your eyelids.

The 4 new MUFE AQUA Liner shades for this summer are:-

19 Diamond Pearly Pink
18 Diamond Blue
2 Diamond Black
17 Diamond Grey

Make Up For Ever Aqua Rouge - RM100 / (2.5ml on each side)

Aqua Rouge is a 2 step product as it comes in a double-ended packaging consisting in 2 bottles connected by a black metallic ring. One side gives matte, high-coverage color and another end clear glossy finishing. Aqua Rouge is extremely stable and long lasting. 

Available in 12 colors, each shade of Aqua Rouge corresponds to a shade of Aqua Lip and latest shade for this summer is #03 Light Rosewood.

From my swatch, though the colour looks a bit dark but it looks quite nicely on my lips.

Mist & Fix - RM115/ 125ml (Comes in 30ml travel size also)

Mist & Fix is now pumped up with new O2 formula! Light and comfortable, it seals and improves the holding power of makeup while moisturizing the skin. The new O2 Skin Complex improves oxygenation of the skin cells. After the spray, your complexion is enhanced with with healthy glow and makeup is more long lasting!

This light and comfortable mist seals the makeup and keeps it in place by coating the skin with a weightless and invisible film. The mist provides a continuous protection for the makeup and skin against external attacks (pollution, temperature variations...) by creating a colorless and imperceptible shield made from active hydrating ingredients. Best of all this is ALCOHOL FREE! One of my favourite product under this collection

Jason Ooi ,Education & Artistry Executive for Make Up For Ever Malaysia did a live demo on the model for the Mist & Fix!

Do note that this should be the last step of makeup, spray after you have done your makeup to set and seal the makeup. Remember to hold Mist & Fix an arm's length away from face and spray and allow time to dry.

Jason sprayed lots of water on the model's face to demo to us that AQUA range is really waterproof


After model wipe dry her face, her eyes make up still looks clean !

Make Up For Ever Smoky Extravagant Mascara (Waterproof) - RM100/7ml

After the success of Make Up For Ever Smoky Extravagant Mascara, MUFE introduced a waterproof version for this summer collection. It intensifies eyes with dramatic impact that attracts attention from afar and shows precise and defined lashes up close.

 Its « ergo-conic » brush allows for ultra-precise, intuitive application. Generously coated with just the right amount of mascara, the brush’s soft fibers lift each lash individually. The clump free texture glides on easily, sheathes and coats the lashes for spectacular volume and length. 

Personally I have tried it out and I love this mascara!!!

Looks how it separates my eyelashes nicely defined and give the extra lengthening effect! Am happy to confirm that it felt lightweight on my eyes and it's waterproof and smudge proof too! 

Model final close up look

As the AQUA makeup range is really waterproof, I was recommended to use Sens'eyes to remove my swatches. OMG totally fall in love with this because it melts the makeup immediately and removing it is so easy peasy! Besides this is a alcohol free product!  If I remembered well., this is about RM85. I am planning to get this next!

I brought the whole Make Up For Ever I love AQUA collection to Boracay to try out so that I could give you a proper review here.

That's me at Willy Rock in Station 1 of Boracay.. my makeup looks so nice because it stay on nicely, thanks to  Make Up For Ever Mist & Fix which is freaking awesome and this is a must have for our hot & humid weather! 

A close up look.

Looks how my makeup stay on nicely after a long day exploring the island.

Remember to keep the base clean, for eg your lips free from lip balm so that it would stay longer. And for your face it got to be free from your skincare to make sure your foundation can stay on the skin properly... this is usually for models shooting under water. However I could never skip my moisturizer and sunblock for sure! 

My look after swimming in the sea, can you see the AQUA Liner and AQUA Rouge stay on so nicely! Amazing!

Personally I think Make Up For Ever AQUA series live up to the hype! It's really pigmented and easy to apply. And people with oily eyelid would appreciate the water.

My favourite product from Make Up Forever AQUA 2014 collection would be the AQUA Liner, AQUA Lips, Mist & Fix and Smoky Extravagant Waterproof Mascara !  If you ask to recommend which is the MUST try, it would be either the Smoky Extravagant Waterproof Mascara or Mist & Fix! 

Make Up For Ever AQUA 2014 collection is already available in Sephora Malaysia nationwide which includes Sephora KLCC, Sephora Starhill, Sephora Paradigm Mall, Sephora Sunway Pyramid, Sephora Nu Sentral and Sephora Gurney Paragon. 

For more information, visit 

http://www.makeupforever.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/Makeupforevermy