Review : M.A.C Quite Cute Collection Swatches

I know I am a bit late in posting this, but nevertheless this is a a really cute collection that no girl can resist not to look it! When I was invited to the media launch of M.A.C Quite Cute Collection for Spring 2011, I was thrilled to find how cute & colorful this collection is!

The whole collection of M.A.C Cute Collection, all about soft pastel & fun color!

We are given a scratch card, where we scratch and find the matching symbol and that item will be our door gift.

The cute badges as the door gift!

I got a crystal with a bunch of cute badges. Happy!

Not only that, there is a M.A.C Quite Cute Toy Machine at the launching, where we need to "fish" either the M.A.C Crystal toy or M.A.C Cute toy. Thanks to Kelly, while I'm busy doing the swatch.. she fish and got a toy for me!



Waitress in cute pink attire!

M.A.C served colorful & yummy refreshment to match with the collection theme.

The M.A.C Quite Cute collection on display.

I will do swatch for all the products except the mascara and eyeliner .

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This is a M.A.C Quite Cute Collection Cutie Eye Shadow x 4 palette - RM140

Comes in 4 pastel colors in a palette.

Description of each color

Goody Goody Gum Drop - Light white pink (satin)
Boycrazy - Pale lavender with silver pearl (lustre)
Moshi Moshi! - Pale white green gold (frost)
Azuki Bean - Mid-tone dirty violet (frost)

The colors are quite pigmented and fine. Personally I think this color combination in the palette is quite common.

M.AC Quite Cute Collection Mineralize Blush in - RM100

Description: Lavender with pearly magenta heart

M.AC Quite Cute Collection Mineralize Blush in Miss Behave - RM100

Description: Beige with pearly mint green heart

M.AC Quite Cute Collection Mineralize Blush in Giggly - RM100

Description: Light pink with pearly plum heart

M.AC Quite Cute Collection Lipstick - RM65

Description

Playing Koi - Creamy white peach pink (satin)
Quite Cute - Creamy bright whitened lavender (cremesheen)
Saint Germain - Clean pastel pink (amplified)
Candy Yum-Yum - Matte neon pink (matte)
Play Time - Creamy intense violet (cremesheen)

The lipstick are creamy, smooth and very pigmented.

M.AC Quite Cute Collection Plushglass - RM80



Description
Bubble Tea - Creamy pale nude
Fashion Fanatic - Creamy pale pink
Girl ♥ Boy - Bright light blue pink
I ♥ U - Creamy mid-tone purple

M.AC Quite Cute Collection Plushglass - RM62

Description

Naked Liner - Light neutral
In Synch - Bright yellow pink
Boldly Bare - Dirty red brown

M.AC Quite Cute Collection Nail Lacquer - RM42

Description

Little Girl Type - Creamy pale lavender
Ice Cream Cake - Creamy blue pink
Mischievous Mint - Creamy pale blue mint



M.A.C Quite Cute Collection LASH #7 Lash - RM45

Apart from these, there are another 3 items under this collection.

Penultimate Eye Liner Rapidblack in True black - RM70
Loud Lash Mascara in Noisy Black in Black - RM61
Zoom Lash Mascara Zoom Black in Rich Black - RM61

2 M.A.C artist created 2 looks using the collections on the models.

These models came in cute pink bunny ears!

A close look on the model's skirt, look there are little toys hanging from her skirt !!

OMG SO CUTEEE!!!

1st model close up look

1st model close up look

My makeover close up look

I particularly love the M.A.C Quite Cute Collection Quite Cute Lipstick , which is the violet colour based lipstick. Not only it dont't look weird on me, I think look kinda outstanding from the normal red, pink and nude lipstick.

M.A.C Quite Cute Collection available internationally from April 2011 at all M.A.C counters. For more information visit www.maccosmetics.com.my and www.maccosmetics.com

Result of my Mother's Day Giveaway with Garnier

Congratulations to the names below, each of you won one bottle of 250ml Garnier Body Nutri Repair from my Mother's Day Giveaway with Garnier.

Angelin Ng
Cynthia Loh
Trendydiana Siew
Tiffany Tai
Siew Li
Serene Lee
Pauline Tan
Wendy Pua
Nicole Levina
Sheereen Sow
Ju Li
Ellis Liew

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Where’s My Mama campaign launch by The Body Shop and TRAFFIC South East Asia

What is Where's my mama campaign ?

It's a campaign that launched by The Body Shop together with TRAFFIC Southeast Asia in April 2011 to create awareness where young animals are orphaned when their mothers are captured or slaughtered for illegal wildlife trade. Many young are also taken from the wild and end up in the illegal trade because someone ( might be anyone of you out there) wants a cute pet. This campaign was to draw attention to the animals in the wild that are in need of protection.

According to activists' estimates, this trade generates profits of a whopping 500 million dollars a year! This is why The Body Shop Malaysia is taking a stand against this cruel, yet money making business.

What IF

Today you are a baby/child and someone took your mother away?

-You the baby might be die of hunger or left without any protection.

OR

Today you are a mother, and someone took away (i.e kidnapped) your child ?

-You might go crazy searching for your child and probably die of sorrow.

So this is what happening to the wild animals!

This campaign features orang utan , tiger and bear, all of which are affected by this aspect of illegal wildlife trade.

Sadly Malaysia is the hub of for this illegal wildlife trade.



Malaysia's only bear species, the Malayan sun bear, is the smallest of the world's eight bear species. And they are in trouble. Adult bears are illegally hunted for their gall bladder, their meat and body parts. Orphaned cubs are defenseless, as they rely entirely on their mother for the first two years of their life – when the mother is killed, the cubs perish (usually die of hunger). Sadly, often the cubs are also captured for the pet trade or to be put on display in zoos.

Adult tigers are hunted and snared to feed the demand for tiger parts, leaving cubs to fend for themselves. Of the nine subspecies, only six survive today. Less than a century ago more than 100,000 tigers roamed Asia's forests but today, largely due to poaching to supply the demand for their parts used in traditional medicines and as trophies, only approximately 3000 survive. And sadly the poaching continues.

For each Orang utan found in trade, an estimated two to four others die (mean 50% of survival)! Some experts place the figure as high as eight. There are two species of orang utan - the Sumatran and the Bornean, both of which are in serious trouble. Trade in young animals as pets, coupled with huge levels of habitat loss have pushes Asia's only great apes to the brink of extinction.

The representative showed us some news report that some selfish people who illegally kept this wildlife at their home when their actual home is at the forests, and most importantly away from their family.

Not only illegal wildlife trade is affecting not only the wildlife's life but it is affecting the country.

An estimated 80 % of the world's population are said to rely for primary health care on traditional medicines.

And one of the main reasons, there is a demand in illegal wildlife trade, is that there is a high demand in fashion.

The wildlife (eg snake) have to die because you wanted a snake skin handbag!

Remember each of us can play a part to stop this illegal wildlife trade!

No one wants to lose their mama neither the baby wildlife wants to lose their mama.

So please think before you buy!

Report when we discover an illegal wildlife trade.

Call Wildlife Crime Hotline at 019-356 4194

The hotline is managed by the Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers, a coalition of wildlife conservation bodies in Malaysia, which includes TRAFFIC Southeast Asia.



The Body Shop will also carry the campaign message on its recycled paper bags and ask the public to report illegal wildlife trade to a wildlife crime hotline. The campaign posters in its 58 stores in Peninsular Malaysia. An estimated half a million people walk into these stores every month.


For more information, visit The Body Shop website ( http://thebodyshop.com.my/) and facebook (http://www.facebook.com/TheBodyShopMalaysia)

And visit TRAFFIC Southern Asia at http://www.traffic.org/southeast-asia/

Review : Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto Mascara

This is the latest mascara from Maybelline where it promises to make your lashes as sexy as your legs when wearing your favorite pair of stilettos.

It claims that with just 1 coat it covers 360 degrees of each lash ensuring longer, sleeker, sharper, shapelier and unquestionably seductive lashes.

This Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto combines their exclusive Stretch and Set brush to a unique formula enriched with Pro-Vitamin B5 and silk protein which deliver staggering length and outstanding shine. It promises that each lash will be lengthened by 71%.

From the picture, the brush is thin and long. This mascara comes coated with light black fiber that wraps around the brush.

Front view

My Review

Packaging : I like the long sleek packaging in black and red , comes very handy.

Result : I curled my eyelashes first before applying the mascara using the zigzag method . It was easy to apply as the mascara fiber is very fine and formula is not too dry or wet.

It definitely makes my lashes look longer & separated. I like this mascara's fibers because it does not make my lashes look longer without feeling/looking heavy because the fiber is light. And because of that my eyes are comfortable & no extra noticeable weight of the fiber can be felt on my eyes. More importantly this fiber mascara does not flake and stay put throughout the day and fiber does not get into my eyes.

The only downside is that it provides no volume at all to my eyelashes. But as stated in the above introduction, this is a mascara for people who want their lashes to look longer.

Removal of this mascara is easy with my favourite Kose Sofymo White Cleansing Oil or Biore Cleansing Oil-in-Cotton .

Side view

From the picture, you can see how much length (at least 50% longer) was added to my lashes. Yet my lashes feel light and look naturally curled up. Here I applied a total of 2-3 coat of mascara on my eyelashes.

My whole look

I like how noticeably my eyelashes look longer here and now this mascara is one of my favourite! And this Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto Mascara is definitely a must mascara for Asian eyes where we have short & thick eyelashes !

Pros : Provide at least 50% extra length to lashes, fiber are fine and ultra-light, mascara does not flakes nor clump and fiber don't get into eyes, smudge and waterproof, mascara is easy to be removed with makeup removal, price is reasonable.

Cons : None (except it don't provide volume to your lashes)

Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto Mascara is now available at all major retailers and pharmacies priced at RM32.90 starting June 2011