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For those who didn’t get their hands on THE loot bag, you are of course, allowed to grin in envy…

from Micabella

from Blusche Minerals

from Ellana Mineral Cosmetics

And because my in a snap, Sophie and Tin lurved my mom, she got these too:

She finally found her perfect match and HG foundation! Now I know why she gets away wiv my Monave Saturnina! Oh she also took home a sample of the Monave e/s that caught her peepers first out of the whole lot: TURQUIOSE!

And because I got lucky too:

YOU MUST GET SABOTAGE!!!
It’s the PERFECT gunmetal shade!!!

I have mixed feelings that the weekend’s finally over. Am uber-happy cause of course, work and stress is finally over for my friendly suppliers and friends but very sad cause am back in my real work desk and it looks no where close to this:

B&M’s booth come day 2

For those who missed going there, you also missed taking this loot bag home for free:

~PhP500 worth of samples!

I will be posting a separate entry on what the loot bag contains and more quick stories on the weekend shebangs. I’ll leave you now with my day 2 loot snap:

2 tube tops from The Dressing Room - PhP300 each
Bijoux De Lou Love Spinner necklace - PhP1150
+ my MMU loot bag (thanks, Ate Sandra!)

It’s not in anyway massive but they will definitely remind me of the weekend I spent with my “boothmates” and MMU zone neighbors.

(part of a massive lot of) Monave eye shadows
brought to us by Beauty and Minerals

I have lotsa stories for you lurves but am just oh so TIRED! Me needs some sleep to be functional tomorrow. It was nice seeing you all wiv these peepers:

OHMYGAWD!!!! My lidwash shape’s not even For those who saw me in person, was it that obvious?!?! :s

FOUNDATION: Monave Loose Mineral Concealer-Foundation in SATURNINA
SETTING POWDER: Monave ANGEL
HIGHLIGHT: Monave GOLD BRICK
CREASE COLOR: Monave DESERT SUN
LINERS: Monave MERMAID
MASCARA: MAC Splashproof Lash in BLACKSPLASH
BROWS: TFS Automatic eye brow pencil in BROWN

I LURVE MY CHARM BRUSHES!!!! (This rave deserves an all caps!)

After a rough day of massive blogging, road testing, and airbrushing, I had to actually pull up a face for our office dinner. My officemates don’t exactly see me in my full FOTD gala so wth, let’s show them how we play!

Before I lined my inner rims

Soft

Hard

I just wanted to show you how my hair actually cooperated last night

damnnn I should really lay off on the caffeine and get real sleep

Oh and I did, yes, bother to actually spot conceal because the concealer brush is just GREATTTT! I used the following:

FOUNDATION: Monave Loose Mineral Concealer-Foundation in SATURNINA
–> I used the flat top brush and oh my goodness! It’s the perfect brush for just brushing on heavily pigmented foundations like Monave!
SETTING POWDER: Monave ANGEL
–> I lightly brused on this using the kabuki brush and yummmm! So soft and no itching!
CHEEKS: Valerie Beauty in MALIBU
–> This and the duo fiber brush are just made for each other!
HIGHLIGHT: MAC e/s in RICEPAPER
–> Totally works like my favorite all shaders (the one from Prestige and MAC 252)!
CREASE COLOR: MAC pigment in COPPERIZED (base), MAD Minerals in ENVY & BE Glimmer in TRUE GOLD (blended in the inner eye area)
–> Charm’s crease brush is the perfect size for my crease! Bloody amazing I tell you!
LINERS: MAC pigment in COCOMOTION (gold), MAD Minerals in SPRUCE (green)
–> To line my lower rims, I used the angled brush. I still have to get used to lining my own eyes wiv the eye liner brush but the one by Charm makes things easier cause it’s hard enough to prevent me from making awkward lines!
MASCARA: MAC Splashproof Lash in BLACKSPLASH
BROWS: TFS Automatic eye brow pencil in BROWN

LIPS: MAC l/s in COSMO and Fasio Full Glossy Lips in HONEY BEIGE

If you do not have these brushes just yet, please grab yourselves the entire kit! You just do not know what you’re missing out ’til you try it yourself!

Once upon a time, I had long (ok ok in the photo below, mid length) hair. Long, silky soft, brown hair:

In a friend’s house party. June 2006.

I have always been so frustrated how heavy my hair is such that it takes me a LOT of volumizing products just to give it a lift that will last me at least half day. Can you imagine how much damage it gets from all the product build up and styling? My frustration in turn requires me to head to the salon every other week to get deep repair and conditioning treatments. My favorite back then is the uber popular and highly acclaimed KERASTASE MASQUE OLÉO-RELAX. I love how it can actually seep through my thick strands in an hour’s sitting (washing and cool blow drying time included). What I absolutely hate about it is that it costs me a fortune to get my hair done! >:(

Fast forward 5 months later, the Beautynomist makes a spanking discovery! And yes, you can say that I ran to the nearest drugstore and got myself a tub! I must have consumed about 5 tubs from November last year til early February of this year when I decided to cut my hair short. Really short.

Sporting short hair does give you a license to not give your hair TLC. In fact, I think my hair requires more lurve when it’s short rather than the opposite. I used the Sunsilk Damage Repair Intensive Conditioner still under this circumstance although I felt it was too heavy for my short hair. This lead me to go back to Kerastase but to a different treatment called KERASTASE CRÈME RICHESSE. Save for the difficulty of pronouncing the last word, it was my perfect cup of tea last summer since I’ve been seen in my bikinis every two weeks. It’s light in texture but definitely gives enough moisture and sun protection.

A couple of months ago, Unilever whips out another hair treatment that once again, I gave in an road tested. It’s simply called Cream Silk Precision Repair Treatment. The product is designed to be a weekly therapy for damaged hair. I’ve always had mixed feelings about Cream Silk as their conditioners are really light, correct? I gave this one a chance since it might just do the heavy moisturizing trick with a light after feeling.

OMG. Yes, it did the “heavy moisturizing trick with a light after feeling.”

After a long grueling story telling, may I indulge you in photos of my favorite “save” hair treatments?

My fave DIY hair treatments sold for about 250 each!

The Cream Silk treatment’s lighter in consistency even in the tub
(too bad I wasn’t able to capture it!)