Concert is Getting Nearer!

And I would like to say thank you to these items in the past.  The Schwing Eyeliner of The Balm, I've sold it.  That TBS Nature's Minerals foundation has been used up 'til the last sprinkle (horray!).  So thank you, thank you, lovelies, for you have been there with me through ups and downs. :)

I still have the Honey Shea Butter and use it as a clear mascara, anyway.

It's a photoshoot from my last year's orchestra preconcert.  Now I'm preparing for another concert! With no eyeliner and mascara! Yiiha! Bye, creepy noir-eye-make-up-cleansing at night in sleepy condition!  

Horray, Halfway There!

Recently trying to empty this small bottle! Hahaha.  Thankfully it's around  40% to go.  Yippie, yippie! Anyway, I've reviewed the cherry tint months ago: here. 

After a while, I can say, this stuff is quite amazing. If you're converting from dangerous chemicals, Innisfree's a nice choice.  Not one hundred percent organic, but still better! :D 

One of my breakfast.  Random veggies stir-fried rice.  

Me wearing Schwing black eye liner from TheBalm (here's the review). It's a photo from 2014, if I'm not mistaken. As far as I can remember, my lips was wrapped with 100% Pure lip and cheek tint in Peach Glow. :) 

How's your holiday and Hari Raya, folks? Had a good one, you all! :) 

Let's reduce, refuse, reuse, recycle! 

My Stack of Stuff

Bonjour, People! How's your day? 

Well, I have a good day--so far--since it's still in the midday. 

Anyway, I want to share my, uhm, tiny problem I have here. What problem? This!

That? No, it's those.  It's plural. There's a development in my toiletries amount.  I don't know what is the trigger... Hahaha. But these are so many, still, for my standard! If you want to see my previous collection, see this and that. 

The picture above shows all I have except brushes, eyelash curler, sponges, et cetera.  Oh, and nail polishes aren't included.  I have 3 bottles of that. 

So, after seeing previous collection posts, what do you think? Yes. I have way too many products.  I have collected so many things during a year. Now let's take a look at each group carefully: 

thankfully, everyone have different function. so it's not very ineffective. but that foundation, I already keep it for 4 years!

the scrub is a souvenir from my cousin, the solid perfume is now 2 years old, and that deodorant is not used oftenly.

nah. here's the most doubling part! i have 2 hand cream tubes--one from my friend (the apple one), 1 body butter, 1 body oil, and a tin of honey-shea butter! i thought it's okay to have 3-4 products to moisturize, in case i need them in separated moments (butter for night, oil for day--for example), but in fact, no. i give up.

i rarely have my eyes area painted--but i have this much things around.  ah, what did i do? anyone wants to adopt my stuff? i never touch the tosca eyeliner and mascara! LOL.

other treatment: hair mist, face vitamin creams, nose pack, bentonite clay.

and these lippies, fellas. i can't use them all the time! now i try to use my lip butter religiously first as a start.

Now this is what I think about them: 

Maybe you have the answer for me? Or you have a similar product with me and would love to tell me about it? ;) 

Happy Tuesday, lovelies! :* 

Something Retro

Something Retro by ningnangningnung featuring Bare Escentuals

Red polka dot dress
ladyvlondon.com

Ulster Weavers brown purse
$25 - ulsterweavers.com

TheBalm pin up eye makeup
modcloth.com

Bare Escentuals makeup primer
$24 - johnlewis.com

An Exhibition

Two years behind in my journey of finding the best beauty stuff, I made this post about my toiletries collection. 

I also painted my karas puhun and use it as a storage for those bottles, cans, jars, et cetera.

I'm changing a lot these past months.  I do a little spending ban, gain more wisdom, and thankfully I do simplify my body and skin care routine.  So I spend more on make up and other decorative stuff I need.  And happily, I have found my holy grail shower gel and body lotion manufacturer: Nicole's Natural.  LOL. 

I will be boring somehow, someday, but I love their products.  And once I fall in love with something, I'm faithful.  I discovered that I'm not seeking more and more body care stack.  All I think about is to use up everything I already got at home, and refilling my Nicole's Natural bottles.  After trying their lines, I end up planning to refill only one shower gel and one body lotion from one same line, the Romancing Rose.  My Mom and I love it.

Okay, by the way, I was talking about my wooden box, isn't it? If you clicked the karas puhun link above, you'll see my empty box. FYI, now the box is stuffed:

What do you think? :D I love that my toiletries collection is more monochrome and simple now.  But, hey, where's my make up?

They're here in a customized box! :D

handcrafted ;)

I pasted grass-like paper on the base to give a green effect, plus to remind me to stay green! Not all in the place is a truly green product, but I will try to restock it with greener products along the way.  :) 

Uhm, yes, I also have a separated reused box for my make up brushes and other tiny particles:

once, it's a Vanity Trove box, I modified the coverage ;)

I only have brushes from 3 brands (click to read my story with them): The Body Shop, 100% Pure, and Ecotools.  I have around 7 brushes and only use 4 of them repeatedly.  Another brushes in my house are painting brushes for different paints.  Aclyric, oil, poster colour... okay, out of topic, People! Those two sponge and puff are even more jobless here.  Haven't find the function yet.

That's all I have! Actually there are soap bars, but I keep it in the other place.  And nail polishes, these are my colourful multifunctional paints...yes I convert them into art tools.  Oh, those are alumunium tealight candle holders actually.  I don't want to trash them out so I made microsize-matter's container.  Painted them all with my nail polishes. :p

I have nail polishes from Innisfree, Skinfood, and Etude House.  The best one comes from Innisfree.  My Skinfood has weird colour on my nails, and the EH's texture is too sticky to be true.  The metallic blue is actually a gift from my Mom. 

Before we close today's exhibition, let's read the typography work I made with only 2 devices: Sharpie Permanent Marker and Playcolor 2 on recycled paper grabbed from an empty schedule book. 

have a Wise Wednesday! :)

I Got Schwinged!

Dear February,
I purchased two make up products this month.  Two packages wrapped in cute gift paper in one week. :)
Feel thankful.
But I'll stop! LOL.  I have to make sure that I'll shop again next month, not in February.

Anyway, you've known I got Innisfree Eco Fruit Tint.
Now I already have theBalm 'Schwing' Black Liquid Eyeliner.  Yep, I found it in dashgirlonline, a ready stock online shop, for IDR 150.000.  Well, I hope it's authentic anyway, but I think it's authentic. :D

(real swatch above...on the eyelids)

I've been eyeing this eyeliner since last year.  It's matte, they said, and the felt tip makes application easier.

Oh, uhm, don't forget the American-comic-style packaging decoration.  So catchy and pretty.  I guess theBalm is famous for their interesting packaging.  Don't you think so?

And hey, theBalm is cruelty-free, paraben-free.  They also have a concern with...pugs! Yes, pug, the cutest-weirdest-sweetest dog in the world.  I love pug! They are lovable. <3

That's me with the winged eye! :p

I would love to announce that I love this eyeliner! It's my first liquid eyeliner I bought. But I guess this is my first and last purchase.  Later, I want to find a greener-cleaner one.  :)

The application is quite easy.  Applicator is pointy, flexible, and since it's not a brush which can be tricky by being messy, it's more proper and clean.
Result on skin: matte black! Say it...hitam pekat in Indonesian.  I don't like glossy black eyeliner.  I better use metallic colour liners instead.  Norak, norak sekalian!

It dries fast after you draw the line.  But it's not waterproof.  Please note that.  Once you clean it, it's clean even only with water...smudgy clean and, hello, Panda!  Nah, you have to use a cleanser (such as: natural plant oil) to make sure you aren't becoming a panda.  :p 
And, I don't recommend watching sad movie while using this liner.  In case you can't stay calm and start rubbing your teary eyes. 

The most important part...content! :D
  
Ingredients of the liquid:
Water, alcohol denat, glycerin, pullulan, disodium coco-glucoside citrate, hectorite, xanthan gum, citric acid, sodium hydroxide, sodium dehydroacetate, iron oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), ferric ammonium ferrocyanide (CI 77510)

(taken from HERE)

Not the most awesome list, but not bad, for my standard. :)

C'est tout pour aujourd'hui.
Happy Tuesday! :D