Some of you might be wondering what are differences between, lip balms, lip butters, and lip conditioners.  I was asking that very same question myself for a while now and so I did a little bit of research.

The word "Balm" by definition is a soothing, healing, and comforting agent.  A Lip Balm is a medicated wax-like substance applied to the lips in order to relieve dry or chapped lips.

Lip Butters are similar to lip balms in terms of packaging but is made with softer consistency. It is not medicated.  Ingredients wise, lip butters have much more butter or oil ratio which makes it even more moisturizing and long lasting. However, it feels a bit heavier than regular lip balms do.

A Lip Conditioner or Lip gloss has more oil content and thus give that high shine.  Usually lip glosses don't stay long on lips as compared to lip balms because of more oil in them. However, you can get the benefits of a lip balm and a lip butter together with a hint of color and shine in a gloss.

After months and months of waiting. The MAC Cosmetics "Hey Sailor" Collection finally arrived here in Cebu City, Philippines.  The Event was held last June 30, 2012. So, I apologize for this delayed post. ^_^



Most of the products were actually sold within just a few minutes after they started selling. This was supposed to be half empty, but I asked one of the MAC Makeup artist to fill it up with their samples again so that I could take pictures of the collection. (the price for being extremely late ^_^)

As you can see in the photo above, that's supposed to be full, but they ran out of the other bronzers quickly.  You can check the complete list of products as well as swatches from the MAC Hey Sailor Collection at Temptalia.com.

Ever since I learned how to use false eyelashes I've been hooked into buying all sorts of falsies.  I don't use them regularly but I set them aside for my clients.  It's fun to try out different types of false eyelashes, since this is the only way I get to test and know which lashes work best for clients.

I love these two false eyelashes from The Face Shop especially the one the left.  I just like how my lashes look so full with just a flick on the sides with the XLH variant.  Even though these are synthetic, I like how thin the band is.  In addition to that, I like the Face Shop lash adhesive that comes with each pair.  I originally wanted to purchase the full size lash glue/adhesive from the Face Shop, but it's always out of stock.  Thus, I keep repurchasing their eyelashes since it comes with a glue which is the same quality as the full sized one. This retails for only Php 115.00 pesos.


I was literally all smiles when I saw this pair of lashes. It's the first pair I bought that came with a set of lower lashes.  I've never used false lower eyelashes before since they are really hard to find. So, I'm really excited to try this.  I bought this at Fooda Super Market here in Cebu, I'm not sure where else to find this. It retails for only Php 40.00 pesos.

I'm not sure if you ladies remembered, but a few years ago around 2008 the Brush Guard was released. It was such a craze on youtube that almost all beauty gurus had them.  A few months ago while I as looking for disposable mascara wands, I accidentally found this cosmetic brush guard from a Hong Kong based seller on ebay.ph as I was perusing through different beauty tools.


While the original Brush Guard costs about $5.00 per pack which contains only 5 to 8 pieces of brush covers, this cost only $1.00 at ebay and it has free shipping. There's a catch though, since it is from Hong Kong, it takes a long time for it to arrive. I got mine after 60 days of waiting.


What I like about this is that, it's a continues roll of 1 meter plastic mesh which you can cut to whatever size you want.  Thus, you can make about 10 to12 brush guard strips for only a dollar (about 43 pesos).  This has a medium size width, so it can fit most of my makeup brushes.




As you can see in the photos above I cut the mesh to different sizes depending on the size of brush. I hope this would give our local online entrepreneurs an idea to also sell this on their shop, so that we won't have to wait 2 months for this to arrive. ^_^

I've never used the original brush guards, but I'm quite happy with this. Share your experiences if you've used them. Until next time.

Cheerios!

Been loving so many bath products for the past several months and just found my favorites. Some of them are stuff that I just picked out on a whim and some were given as gifts.

After being released last year 2011, I've read and seen raves about these eyeshadow singles from Wet n Wild. So, I wanted to try these out for the longest time and now I finally got my hands on some of them.

So I got lucky again...LOL! I won this beautiful Vegan brushes from Sigma when they had a contest a few months back for Sigma Affiliates.  I have been using these brushes ever since I got my hands on it.