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What happens when the make-up master and an amazing photographer collaborate:

shu uemura, the master of make-up, and acclaimed Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa, realize a fantastic collaboration for the 2008 Holiday season that captures a woman’s unlimited possibility for beauty. Explosive vivid colors for the eyes, lips and nails, combined with one-of-a-kind packaging bring distinctive looks and artistic beauty to the most festive time of year! This holiday season, enjoy the world of shu uemura as designed through the eyes of Mika Ninagawa.

I hope you’re all seated and hanging on to your wallets as you read on.

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I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new Tibetan oxhorn bangle from the Bohemian Nation Trading Corp.*! I got it last Thursday night for only Php 325!

Under fluorescent light + flash

FOUNDATION: ARTDECO Rich Treatment Foundation in 15
SETTING POWDER: MUFE HD Powder
LINER: MAC Powerpoint in ENGRAVED
LIPS: MAC Lipstick in SO SCARLET

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the color of my hair in that photo! I bounced the flash on my hot pink walls and that’s the color I got! I should take this photo to my colorist, no?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the finish of ARTDECO Rich Treatment Foundation (Php 1200 at SM Makati)! I’ve been using this for two weeks now and am telling you, this is one of the best liquid foundations I’ve ever tried! Highly comparable to DiorSkin Forever Extreme Wear Flawless Makeup. It feels too light to touch after setting with finishing powder, I swear you’ll even forget you have something on your face.

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Good Saturday afternoon mi lurves! I just finished doing my nails for this family gathering tonight in celebration of my lola’s birthday. It’s just a small family affair at her house but as the only girl in my dad’s side of the family, I have both the responsibility and the right to look (extra) pretty. My lola hates it when my hair’s all over my face (which reminds me I need to get my bangs trimmed before we go to their house) and my nails’re unkempt or topped with dark polish.

Sigh. I just removed my plum polish (sniff, sniff) and switched to this next to nothing frosty shade from Sally Hansen’s Hard As Nails line called GLAZED SAND:

Under the Sun

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On top of this bad job, Julie (the manicurist) was even cleaning the nails of my left hand while seated next to my right hand! How hard is it to move two sidesteps just so your client doesn’t have to cross and stretch her arms from one side to another? Sigh. Php 168 wasted.

If I didn’t really, really, really push it to its limits, I think it will live up to its seven day promise (thanks to its Bioactive Glass content):

Saturday morning, after 3 straight days of dish washing and hand washing the laundry

Since am pretty lazy to polish up, I just removed it (I think it’s pretty obvious that am in the middle of some kitchen work, eh? ):

YAY! I don’t see any traces of yellowing. Do you?