Review: Sigma Sigmax HD Synthetic Face Kit

I heard alot of raved on this product on YouTube and blogs so I had to get my hands on this.  lol

 It comes with a really simple and nice packaging and inside, it has a pamphlet which describes the brushes that you picked up. Also, the brushes comes with a protector to it and I think it's really thoughtful of them to come up with such an awesome idea for the packaging. This set comes with the F80(Flat Top Kabuki), F82( Round Top Kabuki) and also the F84( Angled Top Kabuki) 


*Please pardon my dirty brushes. I just used them this morning and I really had the urged to blog about them now. lol*

F80- I personally use this as a foundation stippling brush and because of its denseness, I found that it didn't eats up my foundation at all. If you are a brush user, you will know that when you use a brush and dip it with liquid foundation, you will always ended up pumping out more of the products than if you are using your fingers to apply. I used to raved on Mac's 187 brush but now that I have this, I find myself reaching for this most of the time. I also use it as a blush brush as I personally like to pounce on my blusher and I think this brush do the best job in that. 

F82- This brush is more precise and I like to use this to conceal and powder my face especially under my eye area and also around the nose which I find these two areas are quite hard to reach using other brushes. And because it is really dense, it could picked up just the right amount of product to apply on the face.*love*

F84- Could be used both for blush and contour but I seldom use this as a blush brush because I prefer the F80 more when I do my blush. I use this mainly to contour because literally, the angled shape helps me to locate the area better without messing up the other parts of my face. I didn't contour that often, only on certain occasions, which explains the very clean brush.teehee 

Overall: This is the first time I've tried on brushes that are of this good quality.They are really soft and super dense. I'm not even kidding. I know Coastal Scents has one like this too but I didn't get the chance to try on that one yet hence I can't really compared with those.This Sigma Sigmax brushes could be used with cream, powder as well as liquid products. The brushes itself feels really sturdy and well constructed. I've washed mine probably for three times now but I don't find any bristles that falls apart while washing which is really amazing. 


The only problem with these brushes that most of the people face would probably is that they take a longer time to dry when you clean them. However, I actually don't find this to be a problem to me at all because I live in country that is summer 365days so my brushes tends to be dry pretty fast lol.

If you do not want to own three of them,  I do highly recommend the F80 or at least the F82 brush, but the F84 is really awesome for contour work. I'm really impressed by the great quality of Sigma brushes and I think it is really affordable than Mac. This set retails at USD42 and you can log on to their website www.sigmabeauty.com for more selection of brushes. 


They sell both individuals as well as complete kit brushes so its quite convenient because you will be able to find almost every brushes that you need whether it is complete sets or maybe eye, face or lips' individual brushes. They also comes with different pretty colors to choose from the brush kit and the Make Me Crazy kit really really caught my eyes. lolz.Hmm, we'll see about it :p


So that's it. I hope its informative enough for you to decide whether to picked this up or not but this is definitely a hit for me.


Rate: 5 out of 5


Disclaimer: I'm not being paid to write this. All the products reviewed are from my honest opinion and I pay for the products myself. 

Rock and Republic

Can anybody tell me where I could still find these blushers? 

I think I'm gonna go insane soon 

I want it so freaking bad 

Hautelook doesn't have the blushers anymore

And its driving me crazy!!

:(

DIY White Fungus Serum/ Mask

Hey guys, training is over for me. yippie. And now I'm just slacking around at home lol. Hence, I decided to try doing this DIY white fungus serum/ mask/ exfoliator that I saw the other day.


 I always do DIY toners, scrub, bla bla bla but this is the first time my attempt on DIY serum lol.I was actually inspired by Queenie to do this. 

White fungus is said to have the functions of brightening, hydrating and it has healing properties that could calm acne prone skin. If your skin is quite sensitive, I suggest you to try at the back of your hands first before doing this :)

Lets begin:

I couldn't really find a big petals white fungus, so I bought the one which are already cut. Do buy the ones which are yellow in color as the white ones are bleached and is really bad for the skin.

Put it in a warm water for about 30minutes to clear out the impurities. Squeeze and  keep changing the water until water becomes clear.

no no to yellow water

clear water means clean.yay

Separate the fungus from the hard base.

You should have something like this.

Prepare a pot and add water in it.

 I prefer having more of its benefits in the water hence I put the fungus to cook in 1/3 pot of water. Cook till the fungus in the water is boiled then let it simmer for about an hour.

Next, separate the fungus and the water 

The water is our precious serum!! :)

Let it cooled down for a bit.

At the meantime, the base that we have we can use it as a natural exfoliator. 

BEWARE!!! 

What you are about to see is yours truly naked face. LOL

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Buff the base around the face like so, around your cheek, your forehead,chin and don't forget your nose. Its good for acneprone skin as it could combats irritation. Wash off and pat dry.

The leftover of base could be also used to scrub your body and you can pop it back into the fridge and it should have a lifespan of a week.

Back to the cooled down serum. We should prepare some clean containers to put our serum. 

Also, prepare a dropper for easier transfer of the serum. You could use spoon or any other tools as well, but I think using droppers will make it less messy :)

There we have it!! Our own homemade natural serum!! 

Remember to put them in the fridge as it has no preservatives. This will also have a life span of a week

It also could be use as a mask. 

For Face Mask

Just pop a paper mask into the serum

Haha pardon my stupid face. nyek

For Eye mask

Cut half of a cotton pad

Cut into a half crescent moon shape

Tada! Red Riding Mask muahahahhaa

For Lip Mask 

Sorry kinda scary I know lol

Beauty comes from inside out. The leftover? Just pop in some brown sugar and you are ready to get a healthy white fungus soup. Its full with collagen and consuming it for the long run could reduce fine lines and also wrinkles.

nom nom nnom

Well, that's it. After posting so many ugly pictures of mine, I shall post a more cuter and nicer picture to end this post bleh. 

Have a nice day 

Love,

Jess

Hauls

So these were some of the things I bought recently. I know I went MIA-ed for a bit, hence, here am I nao.lol
Bear in mind that some of these are still new and some I had used them already. See how much I abandoned my blog.lol. So this is it.

Products from back left to right:
- Neutrogena Fine Fairness Lotion
- Neutrogena Fine Fairness Brightening Serum
- Shiseido Aqualabel White Up Lotion
- Bioderma Laboratoire Dermatologique
- Korea Nano Clean Towel 
- Stage Picture Perfect Foundation in 04 Doll
- Stage Wondergloss Lipgloss in 11 Aphrodite
- Stage Wondergloss Ligploss in 06 Diana
- Stage Wonderlust Lipstick in 02 Judy
- Stage Creme Camouflage in 05 Sand
- OPI Katy Perry Collection in Black Shatter
- Biore UV Aqua Rich 
- Dayla 2in1 Eyeliner and Eyebrow pencil in Black


That's it.haha. I know its a small haul but I thought you guys might be interested to see what I picked up recently. I hope you enjoy this post, until next time.

Adios 

Urban Decay Naked Pallete

My friend help me to picked up something in Sephora Singapore the other day, the naked pallete.awwww I'm beginning to fall in love with this. The color is of neutral color and this is so my type. You can do almost any look with this.Awesome.

left handside

right handside

However, they did not produce the eyeliner in this pallete anymore as it is very time consuming. It comes with a brush which looks like this

I still haven't use this yet and I guess I will do a review and swatches of this when I had free time. Hectic work style is condemning me. Haha. But I guess this is quite old stuff where everybody should already seen the color or probably had already own one of this. 


They keep out of stock in Singapore so I couldn't have a hand on it for quite some time and I was overjoyed when Sephora Sg posted that it has this arrive the other day. lol


Do stay tune for the next review and swatches. Until next time

lovelovelove xoxo

Lipgloss fans

Saw something really tempting a few days back...

Sooo my theme lol

Guess I'm gonna picked this up soon *wink wink*

Review: Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream

To be honest, I don't really like to wear bb cream because it gives too much promises in just a bottle. I'm a person where I think every product should work individually. Just like shampoo and conditioner in a bottle, which I really hate, as one will works well and the other will not. The same things goes to bb cream where moisturizers,concealers,foundations,sunscreen all is being lump-sum together. I know its really convenient and all, but to me, I don't like it and I'm very skeptical with what bb cream could do.

However, I heard alot of people raved on the Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream so the other day when my sister went to Korea, she picked up one for me to try. It comes with only two shades which are number 21 light beige and number 23 which is the natural beige. Hence, I chooses 23 as I am more to a natural color. The Missha BBcream is said to heal visible wrinkles and blemishes and prevents skin aging through effective whitening and anti-wrinkle properties. It has spf 42 pa+++ which I think its the highest spf level that I found in a bb cream. 

Coverage: It is kinda thick consistency but it has very good coverage and could easily blend into the skin. Half a pump is already sufficient for the whole face. The only thing about this bb cream is that it has scent to it so people who are haters for scented bb cream should probably avoid this.


My opinion: To me, I don't think this does its job. Plus, it oxides on me like crazy. I look super dark in the afternoon with this product. Also, my t zone tends to get really oily too. I try to set it with a translucent powder, but it is still the same. 

Packaging: For the 50ml tube, it has like a pump to it which I think its really convenient as you just pump out the amount that you need and you could travel with this easily without worrying you would pump out the product as the pump is secured by a cap.

I'm not sure about the price though but I guess its roughly about MYR 80. I'm not really sure why people love this so much but I personally dislike this. Although it could easily absorb but I still feels there is something on my face which I really hate this feeling.lol But as I said, every individuals is different and this is a totally missed for me.

Rate: 2 out of 5