The difference between felt-tip eyeliners and gel eyeliners is its precision. Felt-tip eyeliners fall under the category of liquid eyeliners, but the main difference between the two is the stiff brush tip of felt-tip liners. Instead of the soft brush head of conventional liquid eyeliners, felt-tip eyeliners are very much like pens or markers. In fact, they’re even sometimes called felt-tip eyeliner pens thanks to the short stiff tip at the end.

I, thus, found the Kate Eyeliner FR highly intriguing. You know how the one make up tip that pros always give regarding applying eyeliner is to keep the line as close to lashes as possible? Well, the Kate Eyeliner FR lets you get close to your natural lash line and more.

The three pronged tip of the Kate Eyeliner FR is very unique and when I first saw it, I wondered what sort of effect it was designed to give. Turns out instead of needing to draw a continuous line like you normally would with eyeliner, this Kate eyeliner was designed to fill in the spaces between your lashes. It’s as simple dotting the felt-tip pen across your eyelid and making sure the tips of the eyeliner go between your lashes.

Because the eyeliner fills up the spaces between your natural lashes and is very fine, it looks like you have naturally defined eyes thanks to thick lashes, perfect for those who prefer nothing over the top. Furthermore, because the lining effect is so subtle with the Kate Eyeliner FR, if you’re one who always had a problem with drawing bottom eyeliner, you will certainly marvel at your new found skill of perfect eyelining when you dot the eyeliner on your bottom lids.

The arrival of Chinese New Year signals the arrival of Spring time in the Chinese Lunar calendar. The best thing about Chinese New Year is getting all dressed up in new clothes and going visiting. Instead of rocking a red look this year, I went with a soft romantic face of the day complete with flowers to welcome Spring.

Face
MAC Prep and Prime Foundation Primer
Bobbi Brown Tinted Eye Brightener in Med to Dark Bisque
MAC Studio Fix Foundation
NARS Orgasm Blush

Eyes
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Urban Decay NAKED Eye Shadow Palette
Kate Gel Eyeliner
Tokidoki Perfetto Eyeliner
H&M Eye Pencil in White
Maybelline Define-a-Lash Pulse Perfection Vibration mascara

Lips
Maquillage lipstick in BR302

She made the rings specially for me and sent them all the way from Down Under, Australia! Who would have thought that you could meet such awesome people thru blogging. <3 If you're interested, she's selling the cute rings on her blog.

Anyway here’s the breakdown for this Candy Coloured Easter face of the day:

Face
M.A.C Studio Fix foundation
NARS Orgasm blush (review HERE)
M.A.C Accentuate Sculpt sculpt and shape powder

Eyes
M.A.C Paint Pot in Rubenesque
Silk Mineral mineral eyeshadow in Coral Sparks
Majolica Majorca eyeshadow in GR750
Kate Gel Eyeliner in Black
Benefit Bad Gal Lash mascara
Pink glitter mascara

Lips
e.l.f Luscious Liquid Lipstick in Baby Lip

8.30pm to 9.30pm (local time)

About 9 hours before it’s Earth Hour! Counting down to when we all turn off our lights to help save the environment.

Do your little bit by turning off non-essential lights for just one hour today. But that’s not all you can do, you can turn off your air-conditioner and use the fan to show how much you care. Even better plan a block party with some friends and enjoy the natural evening breeze Mother Nature has to offer!

Turning off these appliances will help to conserve the Earth’s natural resources, reduce your carbon footprint and lead to a cleaner, healthier environment for our future. You are just one person but YOU can change the world by taking action.

It’s all in the name of going green. As for me, here’s my pledge to going green: a green Face of the Day!

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Face of the Day

Face:
Anna Sui fluid foundation
NARS Bronzer in Casino

Eyes:
Majolic Majorca eyeshadow palette in GR750
Too Faced Smokey Eye palette in Fashion Smoke
NARS eyeshadow duo in Pandora
Kate Gel Eyeliner (read review HERE)

Lips:
Maquillage lipstick in BR302

“One must be the change one wishes to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi

I’ll tell you what happened.

I walked into Sephora hoping just to chill and look at the pretty colours that deck the shelves of the various makeup brands one fine and dandy day; I had no intention of shopping for anything. And then, I realised that Pop Beauty was having a 50% off their eyeshadow wallets. Okay… Breathe, I said to my already excited little heart. Let’s go see if they’re worth checking out.

Lo and behold, they were p r e t t y awesome.

For a 24 colour eyeshadow wallet (they’re called wallets cause they’re flat and long and well, duh, like real wallets) whose original price was $65, $32.50 was a pretty good price for that number of eyeshadows. And convenience came in the form of the wallet which had everything – eyeshadows, blushes and lipsticks sans foundation. Imagine going out in the day without makeup and having a last minute meeting scheduled for the afternoon. What do you whip out? Your makeup wallet of course. Just slap on some lipstick, blush and maybe some eyeshadow if you have time. Sounds really inviting to a lazy bugger like me.

“Okay, let’s think about it”, I told myself. Afterall I really had no intention of buying anything and wasnt going to go on a spur of the moment shopping spree. Whilst walking around and browsing the pink shelves of the Too Faced counter, the salesgirl approached and whipped this out.

HOLY COW!

Smokey eyes in a beautiful black and purple packaging! And check out the gothic font.

It was hard to resist. I can feel my inner goth rock chick slowly creeping out.

So I succumbed. I bought it.

There were three different types of smokey eye colours (9 colours in total) in the palette: day smoke, classic smoke and classic smoke. Perfect for use in all different occasions.

Had my brother’s 21st dinner party last night and I decided to break out the palette. So here’s my face of the day with the Classic Smoke from the palette.

Isnt it gorgeous!?

The colours really stand out on camera and is soooo pigmented.

Face of the day

Face:
Everyday Minerals mineral foundation in Olive Golden Medium (my holy grail!)
Benefit Dandelion blush

Eyes:
Too Faced classic smoke in Smokey Eye palette
Kate Gel Eyeliner
Beauty Buffet eyebrow pencil
Maybelline XXL Waterproof mascara
L’oreal Voluminous mascara

Lips:
Maybelline Fruity Jelly lipgloss

Get the look here.

The past 2 weeks have been exhausting although my temporary workload didnt require me to be on my feet as I normally would. Im actually glad that post Chinese New Year festivities, I resume duties back in school. Under-stimulated is an understatement. The 6 week break off from school, however, gave me the chance to bond very well with my colleagues over buffet lunches in the office. Anyhoos, with a new classroom structure for school next week, but retaining the same teacher with the same routines, Im looking forward to working closely with the team and ensuring a positive and fluent environment in the classroom.

On to a less boring topic, our superb project is really manifesting itself, though of course, there are the little nitty bitty details that need to be ironed out. And the impending long weekend is certainly a welcome relief from the whirlwind madness of everything, although I seriously doubt many of us will be getting much rest during the first 2 days of the Lunar New Year.

The opportunity to go out despite all that, means I get to experiment with make up again as I have been recently! YAY! My most recent attempt was for the vPost Nuffnang Christmas Party. I did kinda do my makeup for it in a bit of a rush, but was nonetheless pretty satisfied with the final results. I might need a stronger mid-colour. Oh and did I mention I won an OSIM uSurf for my scrapbooking efforts in the Most Promising Blog Journalist contest.

FIRST PRIZE BABY!

Anyway, as I was saying, the Soccer Player makeup I put on for the night.

Eyes
Inner colour: Artistry Eye Colour Palette in Discreet
Outer colour: Victoria Secret Beauty Rush Luminous Shadow in In the Mink
Kate Gel Eyeliner in Black

Do up the rest of your face the usual way and viola!

The face of a real soccer player may not necessarily always look like that. Haha.