Make Up For Ever HD Finishing Powder Review ; How to prevent white cast disaster

Recently, my Youtube's subscription page is filled with this topic : 

Angelina Jolie showed up at her husband, Brad Pitt's new movie 'Normal Heart' premier with these white casts all over her face, and neck.  Mean people been making fun that it was cocaine and stuff 

A close up photo. It was truly a disaster, wasn't it?

Reading through the comment box and found out that the white cast was caused by this make up product called HD powder, by Make Up For Ever, a very huge cosmetic company with their well-known professional products.
I was shocked! I actually have this HD finishing powder I just got it not long ago, about a week back.  And I've been loving it so much! So far, it worked perfectly fine on me. It gives my makeup a smooth finish and sets it to last all day !  I didn't have anything bad to say about the powder until I saw the photos above .

I was worried and wanted to return it to Sephora, but they said they didn't have the returning policy, plus, I lost my receipt already ..T.T      Wells guess theres nothing I can do to make them to accept my return.  So I did a lot of research online about preventing the appearance of white cast and fortunately, I've got exactly what I needed to know. And now I'm gonna share with ya'll confused dolls, yo yo yo check it out

Now let me review the powder first :

Without letting us down, the packaging is sleek and very high-end looking.

I got this one in big size (8.5g  0.3oz  rm145) while they actually have it in travel size (4g  0.14oz  rm80)

My cousin, whom currently working for Sephora been raving about it and telling me how amazingly it works and what kind of wonder it does.  I was like 'yeaaaa, whos better to trust than my cousin?!'  so I went for the big one, it was also because that powder is something that I'd use every single day .

I have oily combination skin, my T zone gets really oily at time while my cheeks are dry.

I was worried that it couldn't work on my entire face and I can only apply on particular area like T zone because the products description says it controls oil, gives your skin a matte finish . 

Will it be too much if I apply on my cheeks and crack them?

Surprisingly, no!   My cheeks loveeeeeee them.   And everyone that I had forced to make them touch my cheek, did,  too. Lolol I just love love love love how smooth my face is after I put it on and can't stop touching it. #SelfObsession 

You can tell the powder is colorless or what do we call it, translucent.

It is so finely milled and the powder is light weighted.

It is easily blend and a little can cover my whole face already so I believe this one can go a long way.

So my routine is that I will only put it on after my blusher, bronzer, my lips, everythings on.

As it is truly translucent and doesn't affect a thing, gah just gotta love the texture!

Oh, one thing that I don't like about this powder, it gets messy easily! It goes everywhere even when I am just dapping lightly with my brush. There is no way to dispense the product without creating a mess!

What do I think :

I really really love this powder I'm more like obsessed!  It makes my face so smooth and when I touch it, it actually feels like pearl lol!   It gives my makeup a matte finish and sets it to last all day, makes my pores go invisible, my skin looks really velvety and gorgeous!  I adore this product so much I can't put it in words.
Ignore the fact that it causes white casts under flashlight, this is how much I loved it! 

Is the powder worth the money ?

Thou it is really pricey and not the kind of makeup product I'd usually go for, but it's worth it.  Hey, I mean think about it, finishing powder is smtg that sets everything in place, your eye makeup, blusher, bronzer, and make them all last a long day. You wouldn't want it gets all smudge or cracks up or fade away while you are halfway working, or shopping.  When the price is high, it has to be the quality or good ingredients that make it. 

I always believe in this, especially after I got conned with fake Naked 2 palette. 

You get what you pay for. Always.

And cosmetics are not toys, no playing. It is stuff that you put on your face, you can cut the cost on your clothes on your bags or shoes, you can never cut it on cosmetic. You know the bad ones can cause breakouts,  clog pores and stuff.  I been through there, which is why I keep on telling everyone around,  quality is everything.

Oops, taking it way too far. 

Now I'm gonna share with you the little tricks that I found to prevent the white casts :

#1 Don't take photos with fucking flashlight (duh!)

#2 Don't wear it at nights (pfff, means you've wasted money on thing tht has to be selectively used?)

#3  Make sure your face is moisturized, prime it perfectly with primer, the hydrating one. My choice is Laura Mercier Hydrating Primer (which I'll be blogging about soon)  tht I got on the same day, both of them work really well tgt which I'm really thrilled about. No primer? No problem. Make sure you have your moisturizer on will do the trick but my advice is for you to go get primer bcos srsly it plays such an important role in your whole makeup look.

#4 Apply the powder with big fluffy brush that evens out the powder, make sure it doesn't get struck at one particular area especially under your eyes , remember, just dap it on lightly will do the trick.

#5  Use makeup setting spray after the powder,  my choice is Urban Decay Chill Cooling & Hydrating Make Up Setting Spray. Urban Decay has various choices of makeup spray, go for the hydrating one! It will definitely help!

Last thing before I sign off, to share this with you guys,
My favorite youtube guru making a comparison out of both Make Up For Ever finishing powder.
To prove to you, that the white cast is real

Thanks for reading guise xx hope my tips help 

Solone Fantasy Wonderland Eyeshadow Kit

Can't rave enough how in love I am with Solone Fantasy Wonderland Eyeshadow Kit!

Been using the kit a month for now and it has became my daily essential palette. 

Fortunately, I received this palette by the time I lost my bag (which I blogged here),  sad to realize that my makeup porch was in that bag as well! Which means I basically lost my basic cosmetics that I have to use daily. Big thanks to my sponsor for sending me in time! ♥ much coincidence, they're such mind-reader.

PS : thou the product is sponsored, that does't affect my opinions & reviews on it

I've already heard of Solone before receiving this. It is a big Taiwan cosmetic brand  that emphasis on colorful looks. All their products have cute packaging with high quality material, such as this kit, it was a metal case. I personally prefer metal case way more than the paper boxes & plastic ones, plus the size the petites, just right for me to throw it in my bag and bring it everywhere weeeee. ♥ 

I was like aww when I tore the parcel off (yep I did it)

Why do they have to make everything so cute! What's with all the balloon, ice cream & stuff!

About Solone :

"  Solone's brand name is comprised of three brand elements: So Colourful, Love and New Age. Solone's product range includes eye makeup, facial cosmetics, nail polish and accessories such as make-up brushes and many more. Makeup can not only make people feel good and confident about themselves but it is also capable of inspiring people to pursuit beauty and enjoy their life.

Solone wish to bring people the most popular and the finest quality makeup and moon possible. Solone spirit of the brand is rooted in Taiwan but Solone is also actively moving towards internationalization, expanding markets overseas, in hopes to let the world be able to see the best of beauty brands from Taiwan. "

Product description :

- A wonderful development on eyeshadow kit, 8 attractive colors featuring  base, lid and liner shades to flatter all skin tones. 

- From a soft matte  to shimmer and metallic, you can work out 18 different variety of  looks.  

- Each color can be use alone or combined to create gradient and smoky eyes effect.

- You can create any look for any occasions be it every day makeup or smokey eyes for that special date with Solone Fantasy Wonderland Eyeshadow Kit. 

- Small and light case fit prefectly in your bag. 

Color swatches indoor & outdoor. 

Apparently the eyeshadow kit can be used both day and night without having to worry that your eyes won't pop.

In fact, each color is very pigmented even the lightest bases color (from right) is very shimmering, sometimes I just use it alone to brighten my eyes, at days where I didn't get enough sleep the night before and have puffy eyes.

Ahhhh my chubby cheeks 

According to my own experience, the eyeshadow lasts pretty long even thou I did not put any eyeshdow base / primer beforehand. The color stays still after a long night of partying, doesn't smudge easily, as long as you don't rub your eyes which I guess everyone knows that hahaha. 

Trust me, you can create more than 20 looks with this eyeshadow kit. From office use, college use, to midnight chilling, clubbing nights. It works perfectly fine and has high flexibility for every occasions!  Hey I actually bring it everywhere with me :p 

Followings are some example looks that I found on the Internet ;O

Omg so gonna try them all! 

What do I think : 

This is the best eyeshadow kit to go for if you're looking for inexpensive eyeshadow palette. Quality of this kit is unbelievably high with a price like that. Some other palettes I found in the market do not perform as well as this one and they actually cost more than this!  Thats the thing I hate the most about TV commercial hahaha. Solone doesn't spend much on TV commercial I believe, which is why most people have not heard about it yet. Soon in the near future I bet they're gonna be big! I mean when people find out how good they can do.   The color is very pigmented, long-lasting, easy to mix and match to create plenty looks . The packaging is adorable and light-weighted, it has like no weights at all ! It's something that I'll repurchase when this one finishes up. Ahhhh.

Sadly, you can't see Solone products everywhere in Malaysia .

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 but, 

You can shop it here @  Natta Cosme

I honestly do not know how long can I use it until hahaha. It's just so worth the money la TT

Something you will not regret purchasing.

My baby ♥

Working experience #3

My third semester is bout to end and no, I did not spent it slacking around, rotting home all day being lifeless.

As usual, I got myself a part time job, I worked for exactly a month!

No rest, no fuss.  For a lazy ass girl like me, I didn't even mutter a single word to complain about this job

It was the best damn job I've ever gotten so far!!  Cos.. it allowed me to put on make up nicely every day!

Taa daaaaaaa ~

Yours truly in transformation 

Wells.   It was a internationally well-known make up store. 

Won't be revealing the name but I guess if you're a girl you would have guessed by now!

:O

I wasn't a staff there nor will be. I actually just replaced a staff of theirs who took a long leave to go give birth.

I was just a part time gurl. Mehhhhh

But I honestly learned a lot working there. And I am sharing them!    Also rants.  

#1  Most amazing colleagues & the bitter-sweet behind of the sales industry 

Hahahaha I know what most people think,  the store's staffs are unfriendly.

When I first told my friends I was going to work there, they be like 

'Wth! Later you become arrogant like them you dont talk to me anymore'

Aw man.  People had been getting wrong impressions of them. I mean my former colleagues

In fact, they're the best.  Ours (or theirs)  supervisor brief them almost every single day to remind them to be nice to the customers, smile and be friendly, also I can see them always trying their best to make that happen.

But in the industry of services, things don't go the way they were planned.

Who knows when are you going to meet an idiotic customer whom totally rude and obnoxious?

Of course, we would still be nice bcos customers are always right!  I geddit I geddit.

But after half an hour, our smiles get tired and your dramas haven't end yet.

People get tired.   Maybe except for some people and their self-created lil dramas, that shit is never ending        And I guarantee you all of us girls never got enough hours of sleep that require our brains to function properly the next morning hahahaha. Soemtimes we just staring at each other and getting impressed by how tired one another is, raving how regret we stayed up for nothing    #girlsbeinggirls

The funniest thing is,  the foods we craved for everyday and the noisiness when we all got together

This conversation happens everyday 

Colleague A  : Eh 我想要吃 ice cream

Me : 我要我要我要 !

A : OK我去買

B : 去哪裡!  買什麼!

A : Ice cream 啦 你要嗎?

B : 不要啦 昨天才吃，  等下4點我去買Pizza 你要嗎

Me : 我要我要我要 !

C : 不要買料我打包給你們料   

A : 那個放著先   等下餓料才吃

-.-

And the fods changes everyday and I'm really amazed by how many foods we could think of.

I put on so much weights!! I have the body of an elephant now I'm not even kidding TT 

Had so many amazing girly moments with them was memorable.

I don't have a sister and always imagine what its like to have one.

So.... this is it?     

Insert an irrelevant selfie of me so you don't drown in words 

#2 Knowledge about cosmetic & skin care products 

Not kidding yo!  Just name anything from the store and I can immediately tell you what is that for 

Cosmetics I used on my face every day are all from the store, I've already tried everything!

Literally.everything.  

I am sharing some of my favorites. As well as tips if you were to go shopping  :)

Best face primer  -  The Balm (other brands are quite sticky so it's a no from me)

Best concealer - Time Balm from The Balm (perfect!)

Best liquid foundation - The Balm (great coverage) / Cyber Colors (hydrating)

Best blusher  - The Balm Boy's Series  (I just fucking love this brand and think they're underrated)

Best bronzer - The Balm Hot Mama

Best brows pencil - BCL liquid brow pencil 

Best creamy eyeliner - Canmake creamy eyeliner (thick and damn pigmented)

Best lipstick - Revlon Color Balm (so far my fav! Moisturizing cos my lips are really dry)

Best finish powder - Cyber Colors (give you a smooth finish with slightly shimmering texture)

Ahhhhhhh honestly can't share enough! I need to describe them more.

Btws, as I lost most of my cosmetic, very clumsy of me actually put all my cosmetics in the bag that I lost .

 I'm going on a cosmetic shopping soon.  I'll see what turns out to be really good and write some proper reviews of them.  Since I have not been doing review, miss it! Hopefully I'll have more time to update this space as a new semester kicks start.

Wait, I've been getting quite a lot of requests for my make up tutorial  ;//

Ok tbh I don't think I can do that. Most of the time my make up is just me throwing on random things on my face follow my mood of the day, I have no skills. You might wanna check out these youtube gurus they're my favs!

http://www.youtube.com/user/zoella

http://www.youtube.com/user/clothesencounters

http://www.youtube.com/user/Macbarbie07
http://www.youtube.com/jaclynhills

They're really amazing thou I'm a girl I swear I have this hugeeeeeee Internet crush on them!

As for my make up tutorial, hmm,   I'll see how it goes, maybe till I get a new camera ok TT

#3  I was never a racist, till I started working there ..


For my own safety purpose, I am not revealing what race that is.
I scare people hood me with helment you know, gangster man, dont siao siao.
I'll leave you guessing since I'm just ranting anyway.

Like I said, I WAS never a racist girl, I actually have quite a lot of friends from different races, and we're all good. No misunderstandings no conflicts.

To make this part clearer, I'm gonna name the race I hate as X.
When I first started working,  I don't feel anything wrong with providing them service.  But I swear to you, 10 out of 10 of them told me 'just looking around'  Alright, nothing wrong with looking around, everybody does.   Till they started using ALL of our testers.  Eh lehma? Even lipstick they want to put like 3 layers of colors from 3 different brands. You need so cheapskate or not.    PLUS,  THEY NEVER BOUGHT ANYTHING FROM THE STORE. NEVER.  I even saw the same girl twice or thrice a week, every once ina while, I knew she was going to be there, use all the testers of cosmetics, from face primer to lipstick, till using out fragrances' testers to end this 'makeover' of theirs.  I'm assuming they were going for dates, came to the mall earlier with care face, shamelessly walked into the store and used all the testers. EEW IS YOUR SURNAME GELI?   I worked there for a month, I honestly never seen anything from race X purchases anything more than rm30. Z.   I'm not implying that I hate poor people BUT I definitely cannot stand people that have no shame and keep taking advantages, you could have just bought the stuff back home and use it, you come back like this twice a week you have no fucking shame??

Not only cosmetics,  they use the fragrances like they own the fucking damn place.
Every time, they just walked in, avoided eye contact with us, quickly spray the perfume on their body, for maybe like 5-7 press on the button, lehma you want die in the perfume is it?  And they would walk away their fastest speed before we get to walk over there to ask what we could help them with. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Very very very geli ok.   I know I know, you have the right to use the tester but what makes you the owner of this place, just walk in and use all you want?  According to the rule, when the customers want to try the perfumes, we have to spray on this cute little piece of paper for them.   Bcos most of the scent of perfumes will change when they're sprayed out for a while, then we would like names of the perfume on that paper for customers for reference purpose.  TESTERS NOT FOR U TO USE AS YOUR OWN ONE LA  ma de.

Sorry but  from this experience of mine, I literally look down on everyone from race X.
I know you can't judge the entire race for the behavior of one person, BUT WHEN  EVERYONE I SAW FROM THAT FUCKING RACE ACTED ALL THE SAME?? GO FUCK YOURSELVES AH OK.  No wonder so many people say race X sucks now I know exactly why, no more defending for you.



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o.o again, I think I accidentally talked too much. Gon go back to reading now sons.
Thanks for reading tata!