etude house travel set preview

Now you know how i love travel set and i always hunting from them :). currently i've been trying skin food travel set and i'm almost finish with skin food set, now it's time for.. etude house!! This is what i got :

i have 4 of them..

moisturizing & peeling skincare kit (moistfull series)

aqua cure travel kit

aloe moistfull kit

and the latest from etude house.. skin mal:gam trial kit

so..have you tried any of this line? it's still cold season here and the weather is dry. which one i should try firt??

shopping & haul review : Zinati

Around a month ago i spotted this new store in the city, named zinati. from outside so obvious that it's a one stop shopping for beauty products. so last week when i had a chance i visited it. From the plastic bag i got, it seems like it's a branch store from jeddah. maybe it's like watson but in middle east. well, i was excited enought to see the various range of beauty products from shampoo, shop, make up, beauty tools, beauty bags.. all that stuff, from brand all around the world. and i was happy to see some familiar brand like l'oreal and garnier. Yup. it's hard to find l'oreal products here. only in one or other 2 places i know. the cosmetic part is also interesting, although i don't recognize the brand.

anyway.. now i'll just show you stuff i bought there;

stretchmark cream - body scrub - body wash - garnier eye roll on

right now i'm using this 2 garnier eye roll on.. i will try to use it for a month then write a review.

so.. that's it for my short haul review..

skin care travel set review : skin food royal honey

yeaaayyy another travel set skin care from one of my fav brand!! who doesn't love this kind of cute travel set? well this one is royal honey, i think it's one of their new product in the beginning of 2012? or maybe end of 2011? i'm not sure. hehe. anyway, to brief you a little bit about this line, this is information from skinfood website :

Royal black honey :
Royal black honey is natural raw black honey from south asian forest, one of the UNESCO world heritage sites. Royal black honey enriched with a myriad of nutrients that are amazingly good for the skin.

This range consist lot more of products, not just that 4 i got. Well, the one i got is the toner, essense, emulsion and cream. there are still more, which are the eye cream, mask, mist, massage gel, ampoule, and more... yup. even they have a make up line from this royal honey.. interesting right.

well, let's just get started to my review of this line.
first is the toner,

The toner is clear, and the texture is not watery liquid like skin food fresh apple toner that i just tried. it's more like a very very light gel. From skin food toner, i could say that the texture is between fresh apple toner and gold caviar toner. there is no overwhelming scent from this toner. i couldn't smell any honey scent or other sweet scent, just a soft cosmetic scent i can't describe. The toner itself freshen up my skin without that burning feeling or sting, which i like, and it also didn't dry my skin. double like. so yup, i like this toner.

the essence

Now the essence, when i first squeezed out from the tube, i was surprised by its watery runny gel texture. i thought it would be something like a thick cream. oooppps thank God i didn't squeezed too much. The texture, colour and scent of this really reminded me of skin food honey lip treatment, only this one is not sticky when i applied it to the skin. it absorbed nicely, and smell a little bit like honey, well only a hint, and the artificial one. not real honey. Actually i like this essence, how it absorb nicely and prepared my skin for the next step, and it added more moisturiser when i used it before emulsion and cream.

emulsion

For the emulsion, the colour is white and the texture is quite thick for an emulsion. comparing to other skin food emulsion i've tried, it's thicker than fresh apple and peach sake emulsion, but not as thick as ancient rice emulsion. There is this soft scent with a hint of honey, the scent is not strong. The emulsion itself did a great job in term or moisturizing. it moisturized my skin during the day. even when the royal honey cream finished first, i used this emulsion for a night too and it's also good. But if you have oily skin you might find it a little bit too rich for a day light, you might find this not giving your skin matte. in some days that not very dry here, i found my nose area really oily when using this emulsion.well, if you have oily skin i think you should gor for peach sake or fresh apple range anyway. But since it's winter here and my skin tend to be drier, this one is good for me.

Las but not least is the cream..

it comes in this cute small plastic jar.

it's hard to take a photo of the cream. it's transparent thick gel. wait..it's way thicker to be called as a gel. in fact i think it's more like a light balm. the texture remind me of vaseline gel only this one is thinner. once applied to my skin, i could feel straight away how rich it was. in fact it may need few minutes to fully absorbed. definetely not recommended for a day used, only for night. so yup, i used it as a night cream.
the cream gave me more than enough moisturiser for these winter nights, so it's recommended for those with dry skin or winter time. i do think it could be too rich for a hot summer night.

Overall, i like this royal honey line, and i'm interested to try the honey glow starter from this range. anyone tried the glow starter? pls tell me.
as you can see from my review, i do like this line and so far no break out, no negative effect, using this for more than a week, it maintain my face moisturised, no bumps or redness, dry flakes.. i just wish that i could try more to see how the result for long term use.
This line is the line that i'm considered to buy the full bottle if one day i need a full set of skin care. but for now i need to try the sampe of skin food platinum grape first, and then the new skin food watery berry line.

online shopping haul from riebutik

First of all, happy new year everyone! my first post this year would be my haul from 2012, korean cosmetics that i ordered from riebutik.
This is a very late haul post!! in fact i just realised that  didn't post my last haul in riebutik until today when i just wanted to place another order with riebutik! anyway this haul was from 2012 i think august? lol so lateee

so what i bought and the price :
skin food omija whitening tea bag toner Rp.190.000
skin food omija whitening emulsion Rp.190.000
skin food steam milk mask cream Rp.124.000
skin food creamy smoky crayon #3 brown Rp.36.000
etude house wonder pore freshner Rp.100.000
Baviphat sugar girl all skin collagen primer Rp.63.000

so.. that's my last haul from riebutik..i wrote a review of baviphat sugar girl all skin collagen on december.

MY 2012 Favourite

yeaaayyy it's the last day of 2012.. and as i promised you for my last post this year.. it would be all the favourite products i've tried this year. So let's get started...
note : all the pictures in this post taken from google images

favourite cleansing product :

etude house cleansing dream cleansing water

I like this cleansing water because it cleans well, both make up and dirt, and it didn't give any sticky feeling or oil resude after, like some cleansing lotion or cream, and it didn't make my skin dry. i think i'm convert to cleansing water because of this. on my next haul i already ordered some other cleansing water.

favourite toner :

Holika holika egg cooling toner

This toner satisfied me because not just it is refrehshing but also moisturising yet not sticky. and not to mention the cute packaging! haha

favourite cream/emulsion

Tony moly ice queen multi play cream

This is really a multi cream. first, ok i admit, beside the packaging, the scent it lovely. but what makes it my favourite this year is also the function as a moisturising cream, the texture melted into the skin easily and kept my skin moisturised during dan and night. it's good to use as primer in the morning before bb cream, as an extra moisturising cream in the afternoon and even during the night.

favourite mask/scrub/peeling

Tony moly kiss kiss lip scrub

My first lip scrub. where i've been all this time that i didn't use or try lip scrub before? it's really usefull specially sometimes i have dry chapy lips. from now on lip scrub would be in my list and in my routine.

Baviphat pearl brightening gommage cream

This is a peeling cream. The formula is super thick and easy to scrub off. what i like from this is the extra moisturised feeling i got after using this product. it's also made my skin smoother after using this.

favourite bb cream

holika holika aqua petit jelly BB

I like this because it feels light on the skin, gave me natural look and it has good moisturising properties. what makes me like it more is when i tried using it with the sponge aplicator that comes with the product. it gave me smooth and flawless finish. nicee..

Favourite primer:

Baviphat all skin collagen primer

finally i found another fav primer. You can read my previous post to see how i looove this primer. it gave me smooth silky skin and also  it didn't dry my skin..nice and glowy finish.

Favourite make up products:

etude house line nuance duo

i'm too lazy to put eye make up for daily look. normally i just use eye liner. it's been more than 2 years that powder eye shadows were not in my make up bag. so this kind of duo function eye shadow and liner is a solution for me. it's easy to apply, and the result also quite good and natural. in fact i just ordered another color for this!

skin food choco powder eyebrow pencil

My fav and to go eye brow pencil. the colour is just perfect and natural, and the pencil is smooth, easy to apply.

Baviphat make up eraser

my saviour to save me from a disaster, specially eye liner.. sometimes i smudged or made a mistake in using liquid or gel eye liner, and this one helped me to easily correct or erase the mistake.

Revlon lip butter

this lip butter is so popular this year i guess. and i regreted not to buy more colours. i just bought one to try and i like it.. i will definetely but more.

favourite hair product:

L'oreal hair spa

hair spa product that you can found in most beauty salon, and you can ask for the treatment. no time to go to salon regularly? just buy this!! it smells niiiiceee and made my hair smoother, not tangled but of course i have to use it often to get good result.

So.. that's it everyone!! that's my fav for this year, and this would be my last post this year. Tomorrow is a new day, a new year.. Happy new year everyone.. wishing you all the best and wonderful coming year

Face primer review : Baviphat Sugar girl all skin collagen primer

Sooooo.... it's almost the end of 2012.. This could be my last review post this year.. Next day i'm just gonna write about my favourite products of 2012, so this could be the last review this year. Did i save the best for last? lol yeah indeed.. maybe not the best but one of my favourite.

I've been searching for a primer that gave me smooth surface before putting my make up, and normally that type of primer comes in gel texture, not cream. I wanted something like revlon beyond solution primer. i liked it a lot, the revlon one at the end it tend to dry my face. But i liked it and finished it anyway. Then my previouse primer products since i was into korean cosmetics was Missha M BB boomer and Nature republic ice jelly primer. Both was a good primer base but didn't satisfied me since i wanted the silky smooth effect from a primer.

On my blogger comment box, one of my beauty blogger, frozen blossoms suggested me this primer, Baviphat sugar girl all skin collagen primer. You can read her review here. So on my next pre order, i ordered this one.

I like the tube packaging. This one looks like a color paint isn't it.. specially the cap.

I didn't know that there's english description on Baviphat packaging now. Last time (last year i think) i ordered baviphat product it was still all in korean.
from the packaging :
Baviphat sugar girl all skin collagen primer
silky primer covers pores and wrinkles smoothly with collagen.
how to use :
Appy proper amount evenly onface after skin care.
colume 30 ml

Color and texture :

it's a transparent gel. Once i applied it on my face, it gave me this smooth surface i wanted. Yeaayyy!!!

it smoothen my pores, my skin, and prepared my face for the next step.

Together with bb cream on top, it gave me smooth flawless face, and even though i went out under the sun, sweat, in and out stores, when i came back home my face still looked good, not dull.

and it also didn't dry out my skin. another yeayyy!!!oh, and it's cheap toooo!!! compare to other primer that's rp.100.000 or above, this one below that price.

did i say sound to excited? in conclusion, i love this primer and will continue using it till the last drop. In fact because of this primer i'm sooo tempted to try the bb cream from this sugar girl line.

face mask review : Ovale cucumber mask

When was the last time i was using local brand face mask? uh oh.. i'm still using local brand make up (caring colors from martha tilaar, sari ayu lipstick, etc) but for face mask? it's been a loooong time.. well, it's about time to know and try the local brand right. So when i saw this on the supermarket, i chose 2 varians of Ovale facial mask; cucumber and lemon. This time i will review the cucumber first.

Too bad i threw away the sheet after finish this mask so i can't write you the description on the back of the packaging. This cucumber variant targeted for smooth, fresh and firm, it is written there "for matte looking face"

The texture is thick and creamy, reminds me of a hair creambath creamy texture, in fact the smell also remind me of hair creambath i've tried (can't remember which one).

This is how it looks like if you spread on your face.
how to use :
apply to clean, dry face and neck, avoiding eyes and lips area. Leave dry for 10-15 minutes. rinse off with warm water thoroughly.

So this is a wash off type mask, and the type of mask that will get dry in your face and make your face tight and stiff that you can't talk during the application of the mask. It's been more than 2 years i've been using korean type wash off mask, that most of them didn't give me this tightening and stiff effect, so it's kind of funny to experience this kind of mask again. And one more uncomfortable thing is that it really hurt my eyes. Although i didn't apply near my eyes, but still this mask somehow hurted my eyed (pedih pedih gitu deh). During the applicatin it didn't give me itchy feeling, only tight and stiff.

The result?
so after 10-15 minutes i rinsed it off, and yes, it's easier with warm water because it's a little bit sticky, the only result i could see was my face became whiter instantly. woa... i noticed it straight away how whiter and brighter.. but of course, only temporarily effect. I didn't feel extra moisturised or firm that i like (or hoped) from a mask effect, you know, that effect that makes you keep touching your face to feel the firm, smooth and moisturised face after mask. So if you want instant fresh, whiter and brighter looking skin, you can try this one.

For me, i will not repurchase this one but i don't mind trying the other variant from this ovale mask. maybe the cucumber is jut not for me. i;ll try and see the lemon one if it's better for me.