Review: ARTISTRY Products (Part 1)

A couple of days ago a friend of mine texted me inviting me to try out a facial treatment using products she has recently fallen head over heels in love with.  The interesting thing about this facial is the Qua Sha or Gua Sha massage technique used in the final stages of the treatment.  It's been years since I went for a facial (I like to do it myself at home with masks and what not) so I decided to give it a try and at the same time get the opportunity to check the products.

Check out my friend, Fara's, post on Qua Sha and ARTISTRY here.

ARTISTRY is sold via Amway here in Malaysia and is one of the Top 5 selling prestige brands globally (the other 4 being Estee Lauder, Lancome, Clinique and Shiseido). The brand believes that Beauty is their reason for being, Women are the soul or their brand and Science is the foundation of everything they do.

The brand is quite low key I must say despite being amongst the top ranked brands in the market.  I am very much familiar with the other 4 brands mentioned above and am personally a fan of all of them in one way or another.  However, I decided to give the session a go and a full review of the treatment will be in Part 2 of this post.  Below is my general outtake on the products that were used during last night's session.

Look: Blue Eyes, Red Lips..

Last night I decided to give the Mars Limited Edition Midnight Candy Bar make up inspired look another try.  This time I though I'd move the red from the eyes to my lips.  The look didn't come out the way I wanted it to but after toning it down, I came ended up with this look which I feel suits me much better.  I'll post a photo of the look that didn't work out at the end of the post. :)

In warm light

Review: Make Up Removers

It's been awhile since my last post and I humbly apologize.  Anyways, I'll do my best to put up more stuff here as much as I can.  I haven't had time to make any videos at the moment (plus I have a bit of a flu so I sound nasally and awkward what with the sniffing and what not).

I'll be reviewing a few make up removers that I've tried so far and which has proven effective and which had been less impressive.  Most of the products below are eye make up removers because I've been on a quest to find a good one for myself to get rid of those super stubborn waterproof mascaras and eyeliner.

Absence on Blissful Belle

I deeply apologize for my lack of updates.  I've been pretty tied down with family, work and my latest project - Aurora by elixelle - my blogshop (ships internationally too!).

Anyways, I've received a whole bunch of my elf orders and am very excited to share it with all of you.  I'll be doing a favourites video soon (I hope) and a few review/haul videos.  I will be redoing my one or two of my videos to give a better quality output to you guys.  I just don't feel comfortable with the quality of it at the moment.

At the moment I'm still in the process of redecorating my room so it's still in a mess and I can't shoot videos there yet.  I'll be busy still going outstation and what not the next few weeks so I expect to get something up here and on my YouTube channel after that.

Thanks for your patience.

Review: essence of | BEAUTY Deluxe Duo Set

I saw these brushes in makeup videos by Michelle Phan and DulceCandy87 and thought to my self, those would be great to use as travel brushes.

These essence of BEAUTY brushes are available from CVS (similar to Guardian or Watsons) but for us in Malaysia, we can get these either via eBay or spree-ers.  I'll be doing sprees soon so do let me know what kind of products (clothes & cosmetics/beauty products) from the US would you be interested in.

elf Studio Haul and Review

There are generally mixed opinions when it comes to elf products.  Especially due to their insanely low and affordable price tags, it is assumed that the products aren't as good as higher end brands (or at least more expensive brands).  But I've noticed that some YouTube makeup gurus have no qualms about using elf products.

Latest from elf is their Studio line.  I personally didn't find the regular elf products attractive and the brushes on their website didn't look enticing enough to make me want to get them.  Their falsies however I might consider getting.  They're only USD1 each!