Category Archives: MakeUp

Review: Faith in Face Truly Waterly Cleansing Water

Hello everyone! I’m back again after my 1 month-ish hiatus, I’ve been traveling ( west coast, So Cal to be specific yayay!) Look forward to a brief video on my travels and snipbits of what my cali life was like in future posts.

But for now that I’m back and here to review one of the more awesome-er products that I got in my new BNTbeauty box!

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I’ll be reviewing Truly Waterly Cleansing Water by Faith in Face a Korean company that was established in 2009 and focuses on more natural beauty. A brand better known for their amazing facial masks!

Their pink and retro packaging immediately caught my eye because of their similarity to the UK brand, Soap and Glory. But what really impressed me wasn’t their cute packaging but the actual product itself.

It’s a toner AND a make up remover that claimed to even remove waterproof make up. As a lazy girl 50% of the time I love the idea of the 2-in-1 product and I was ready to put it to the test.

In the photos I’m wearing:

  • Stila’s – Stay All Day Waterproof liquid Eyeliner (personal favorite for all day stay with zero smudging)
  • The Balm’s – Nudetude palette for a soft brown smokey eye
  • Benefit’s – They’re Real! Mascara
  • Laura Mercier’s – Caviar Stick in Seashell

So for my test I’m wearing a pretty solid everyday eye look featuring one of the best if not the best waterproof, smudge-proof eyeliners I’ve ever used. Let the testing begin.

Step 1: cute pose
Step 2: Gently yet firmly remove make up
Step 3: Be surprised at results
Step 4: Enjoy

Needless to really say, I’m very VERY impressed with this product. SO PLEASED.

The 2-in-1 product removed all my eye make up without smudging, irritation, and without any effort. I’m a convert.

It has a light scent, very faint and is as the bottle says, watery. Perfect refreshing non-greasy after feel.

I used to regularly use Lancome’s Bi-Facil Eye Make Up Remover (4.2oz, $28) because I couldn’t use anything else to get rid of all my more stubborn make up but now Faith in Face’s Truly Waterly Cleansing Water has completely changed my daily cleansing routine.

It has made my routine faster (yay, 2-in-1 products!), and as a bonus, cheaper. Which is nice.

 

I’m giving this product a 10/10 on the Doris scale.

I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone looking for a new cleanser.

You can find this magical product on Yesstyle for $17.90 (10.14oz).

 

This product was given to me to review as a BNTgirl but has a 100% my thoughts in it ❤

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YSL – baby doll KISS & BLUSH in Orange Fougueux (04)

Alo alo bonjour guys.Welcome back, I’ve been on a bit of a break, LIKE A THIRTEEN DAY BREAK SINCE MY LAST POST OMGGGG.

Yeah, I was a bit pooped out after just doing posts every other day so I decided to take a mini breather. Anywhoo I’m back now and soon, I’ll be doing another youtube tutorial, because I got a new camera to play with. GOTTA TEST THIS BABY OUT.

Anyways….

Today I’ll be excitedly reviewing YSL’s baby doll KISS&BLUSH lip/cheek stain. YAY ORANGE SUMMER COLORS and SUPER YAY TWO IN ONE MAKE UP ITEMS.
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As you can see it’s a cute super cute orange shade perfect for summer.

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It features a doe tipped brush making it easy to apply overall, as the tip is great for outlining/fine details and the fatter part of the brush it perfect for fast applying.

Unlike some cheek and lip products which are only good for one or the other, I can proudly say I love using this on my cheeks too! Although it took 2-3 tries my first time, I got used to applying the “right” amount giving myself a great cheek glow. I’ll do a quick and easy tutorial soon (on blushes in general)!

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Oh baby, that moment when you apply just the right amount of blush and on the right area of the cheek. MY CHEEKS LOOK SUPER CONTOURED WITHOUT CONTOURING YEAAAAA!

MY EYELINER IS SO THIN YEAAAAA! Yeah, sorry guys I’m only this excited because you’re the only ones who will see this, I didn’t go out that day when my make up was almost perfect.

PROS:

  • beautiful color
  • easy to apply
  • smells good (peachy scent)

CONS:

  • does not last all day (bummers, but I keep it in my bag!)
  • really easy to apply too much to the cheeks (I suggest using natural lighting, DONT PUT THIS ON IN A DARK ROOM)
  • it’s $40 (but if it makes you feel better it’s a LIP and CHEEK product! *chants * 2-in-1!)

Overall I’d give this product a 9.5/10. I really wanted a orange lip/cheek color this summer and this satisfies me so much. SO MUCH. I’m going to buy a few more shades.

I’ll see you guys soon, thanks for reading. ❤

 

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Review – Leaders Vita Bright Skin Renewal Mask

Hello again guys! I’m back and I’m reviewing the best for last. My favorite mask I got out of the bunch from BntNews as a BNTgirl. I got four masks by Leaders and this by far was my favorite. Simply because it smelled great and still delivered the same quality of mask that I wanted. vitabright1 leadersbright2 It promised to brighten the skin and even skin tone. Bonus: it smells like peaches and awesomeness. I’m basically a peach fanatic anything peach and I’ll basically love it. It gave me dewy skin that made my outing with my friends in Toronto picture perfect because my skin looked radiant all day.   leadersbright3 Tl;dr 10/10 I will be repurchasing this. I love this. This product was given to me to review as a BNTgirl but has a 100% my thoughts in it ❤ Check out the other BNT Girls: Joanne, Kine, Carina, Bella. bntgirls badge

Review – Helen Park Jalousian Anti-Wrinkle Cream

  Happy July 4th everyone! MURICA MURICA MURICA! How are you guys spending your Friday? I’ll be in Philadelphia city of freedom/ brotherhood.   helenpark1 Today I’ll be reviewing Helen Park Jalousian Anti wrinkle cream! It comes in a cute circle container and it’s lightly fragranced inside. It has the consistency of a lighter cream so it’s more easily absorbed into the skin. Apparently it’s quite a popular Korean for older women, hence the anti wrinkle cream. But I lack wrinkles at this young age of 20 so I can’t really tell you about its effectiveness on wrinkly skin. But perhaps it can be used to prevent wrinkles too. Who knows?! Even without the anti wrinkle, I find this cream to be a nice cream. It’s really nice and light so it’s perfect for the summer when I don’t feel like putting anything heavy onto my face! helenpark4 helenpark3 helenpark2   Overall I rate this product a 7/10. I wouldn’t necessarily buy it for myself but maybe give it to my mother, which I did after I trialed this product on my face. This product was given to me to review as a BNTgirl but has a 100% my thoughts in it ❤ Check out the other BNT Girls: Joanne, Kine, Carina, Bella. bntgirls badge

Review – myPu Hyalu Water Volume Snail Gel Cream

HAPPY THOUGHTS! ❤ Today I’ll be reviewing myPu Hyalu Water Volume Snail Gel Cream as the title indicated. mypusnail1 mypusnail2 *** warning I’ll be heavily biased in this review to hate it solely because it’s a snail gel cream.

So first thing that’d you notice is that it’s a snail cream which was all the rage in Korea a few months ago, and the trend has continued to even today. But I hate snails. I hate their weird eyes, I hate their weird snail secreted trails. But I occasionally enjoying nom-ing on them.

Overall though, I hate their living selves. I find them so gross. So so gross. But I digress.

It’s a multifunction cream with skin whitening + anti wrinkle properties. The whitening will help make your skin look brighter. It contains 70% snail secretion filtrate, and it’s made without alcohol so it’s definitely hydrating. On my skin it’s a thicker gel cream, as you’d expect with a gel made with snail secretions. It’s light purfumed, and it easily soaks into the skin.

Overall I find this to be a decent moisturizer but I think my overall hatred of snails has killed this product for me. So I’ll be giving this a 5.5/10. But at $10 on ebay, it’s not a bad moisturizer. So if you don’t have a fear of snails and instead an interest of snails. I’d recommend you try it out! This product was given to me to review as a BNTgirl but has a 100% my thoughts in it ❤ Check out the other BNT Girls: Joanne, Kine, Carina, Bella. bntgirls badge

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My skin care routine plus some tips (◕w◕ア

Alrighty so I’m just going to do a mini post on my skin care routine/ my skin care tips because I’ve been recently doing a lot of skin care posts. I figured I might as well show my readers what I do usually on a every day basis (minus the mask, I do that once a week or before a special occasion SUCH AS A DATE IF I HAD ONE.)

  1. Eyes – Lancome Bi-Facial Eye Make up Remover (everyday when I wear mascara)
  2. Makeup – Biore daily deep pore cleansing wipes (extra bonus: FOR DEM PORES, everyday if I wear make up)
  3. Scrub – MBD Egg White Gommage peeling (2-3 time a week)
  4. Mask – Leaders Aquaringer Skin Clinic Mask (once a week)
  5. Serum – iSOi – Bulgarian Rose Blemish Serum (morning and night)
  6. Cream – BRTC Aqua Rush Cream (morning and night)
  7. Diet – EAT HEALTHY FOR BETTER SKIN (every moment of your life)
  8. SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP (try to get 8, I try for 10 hours in the summer #yolo)

I find that for the easiest removal of the toughest make up i.e eyeliner/mascara is easiest with a dual liquid type eye make up remover (meaning that when it’s undisturbed you’ll see two layers of liquids in the container) it removes eye make up gently and without any harshness. The reason why I don’t just use my make up wipe to do my entire face is because it never gets ALL of my eye make up off and the skin around the eyes are more sensitive.

For scrubs and masks, I wouldn’t say they’re absolutely vital to a skin care routine but you know they’re nice to have on the side. Sort of like fries, fries are always nice to have on the side. JK I NEED FRIES. Scrubs/masks are a added bonus, think “treat yo self” and I think it’s pretty much like a spa day in your own home.

Serums are also a treat yo self skin every day kind of thing. So also nice to have but not really a necessity unless you have a skin care problem which is treated by a serum.

Creams are vital. How vital you may ask, well they’re like how much I need ice cream in the summer. Constant cravings. Creams help me fight against my constant random dry patches and let me go through the day/night knowing my skin is kept moisturized!

Though to be real, I’d put an emphasis on the last two mostly, a healthy diet and sleep can do wonders on your skin. I know personally when I’m back in the student grind I lose my shiny egg white like skin because of a diet of apple crisps + fries and like 3-5 hours of sleep.  But you know if you don’t have good skin, you can always fake it with concealer or take extra care of your skin with eye creams, and creams in general. Heavy usage on conceal if necessary.

When I’m really lazy all I need is some concealer under the egg bags and then some brows and my go to “whatever” look is complete. tl;dr eyemake up remover + cream + sleep + food =  awesome skin everything to me seems like a extra bonus Thanks for reading, see you guys again soon! YSL baby doll kiss + blush first impressions soon! ❤

Review – BRTC AQUA RUSH CREAM

Bonjour, alo! I’m back!!! And today I’ll be reviewing my actual cream favorite from my BNT box of goodies; BRTC AQUA RUSH CREAM! (yayay) WP_20140627_008   Sorry for the relatively poor quality photo (I’m testing out the lumia 920 I got from windows, yay). The cream is suppose to be a part of a line of skin care products of it’s name/brand. BRTC’s more popular product from the series is it’s BB cream and understandably why (hint: it’s cream is amazing itself)! Screenshot 2014-06-28 23.01.02 So I was pretty excited when I first saw this, it’s a solid glass container and it feels like quality stuff, not any of that plastic bs. It has a light perfumed cream scent (akin to any face moisturizer, think olay or sauve) anddddd a incredibly soothing texture. It’s a moisture cream that works AMAZINGLY against my combination skin. I HAD some dry patches of skin and this just worked some voodoo magic on my skin because after 2 days my dry skin was no more! Unfortunately I still have to worry about my oily skin. But since it’s summer, my skin has been both oily (from the sweat and stuff) and dry because of the AC. I apply it every morning and night, in the morning I apply it before my BB cream/normal everyday make up. At night I apply it after washing my face and right before bed. MOISTURIZEEEEEE! P1160844 P1160848 I’ll give this product a 9.5/10. I’ll be using this religiously till it runs out and then I’ll have to start pondering about purchasing it! But it’s quite a expensive cream you can purchase it here for $35 CAD or here for $45 USD This product was given to me to review as a BNTgirl but has a 100% my thoughts in it ❤ Check out the other BNT Girls: Joanne, Kine, Carina, Bella. bntgirls badge  

Review – My Beauty Diary Egg White Gommage Peeling Mask

Three words, MY BEAUTY DIARY! I’m pretty excited because this is my first MBD product ever! I’ve heard their masks are amazing, so I’ll be reviewing their wash/scrub mask! It was even featured on “Get it Beauty” which basically features the best of Korean (it’s Taiwanese ) products. P1160830 Since this isn’t really a mask or a peel off facial item the whole process was a bit confusing at first (especially since all the Korean sites would be in Korean), so I’m going to write a clear step by step of how to use this. It’s more of a facial scrub which you would usually use 2-3 times a week, before this I used Suki’s exfoliate foaming cleanser which is really similar to this product except suki’s base is a sugar scrub. So treat it as such. Steps:

  1. Wet face.
  2. Put a small amount onto fingers.
  3. Massage into skin and watch it foam. (optional: leave it on for 20 minutes for extra hydration)
  4. Wash face and feel fresh.

As you massage it into your skin it softens up and it becomes a nice fluffy scrub. It’ll definitely scrub away your dead skin cells and leave your skin hydrated as promised.   P1160881 P1160886 P1160895 So as you can see, I definitely felt fresh after. Smoooooooooooooth and soft skin.

Even G.NA recommends it, for more information on that you can check BNT’s own post on it here.

It’s a nice scrub so I’m going to give it a 8/10.

You can purchase it here for $27 which is about the same price as I usually pay for my facial scrubs here in the US, so if you want to try a pretty good scrub that’s Korean I suggest you trust G.NA- wait and me too a bit. ❤

This product was given to me to review as a BNTgirl but has a 100% my thoughts in it ❤

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Review – LEADERS Aquaringer skin clinic mask

Bonjour! Comment ça va guyz (how are you doing?) I’m back today with another awesome mask from leaders! And after all the HQ masks I quite like this one since the smell is much lessened and this one and it immediately calmed my red zones (and my one pimple) and made my skin all beautiful and stuff in only 20 minutes! P1160905   So on the label it says the mask effect is to “intensively hydrate dry skin leaving bright and youthful skin.” And boy does it. maskgif So so so pleased with this mask. That satisfying peeling sensation. P1160925 P1160932   As you can see my skin looks pretty great, my pimple was much more red before, yes that pimple on my forehead. While it’s still there it’s not as noticeable so yay! So if you’re into the dewy fresh skin, give this a try!

I give this mask my full blessing a 10/10. I would definitely recommend this to all my friends (IF I HAD ANY NEAR ME).

Anyways you can buy this here for $5 for 2 masks or here for $23 for a box (10 masks). So it’s about $2.3/mask which is a pretty great value as I usually buy masks for around the same price without the same effects.

This product was given to me to review as a BNTgirl but has a 100% my thoughts in it ❤

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Review – DAYCELL Dr. Vita VITA C

Ahhh summer, nothing better than going outside and getting that vitamin D from sunlight (amiright? amiright?!).

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Apparently not, next level is actually infusing vitamins into your skin for a even brighter complexion!

I’ll be reviewing DAYCELL Dr. Vita VITA C (vitamin C) cream today.

It’s suppose to;

  •  Melanin control,Whitening care
  •  Anti-Aging
  •  Vitamin&mineral have dark skin bright
  •  Pure Vitamin C 10% Cream Basis

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So that’s what the cream looks like. According to the directions, I’m suppose to use it after my daily face routine (moisturizer, toner & etc). When I didn’t do those steps beforehand I’d break out a bit (near the apples of my cheek which were weird because I never break out there).

But after I did do my usual routine before the cream I noticed that my skin was more “brightened” and radiant.

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Here’s my face after all my usual face routine (serum and moisturizer) and afterwards the DAYCELL Dr. Vita C.

Though it’s a minimal brightening effect it’s nice.

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That’s me after all my make up, I think the cream has given my cheeks a lifting brightening effect.

So overall I think it’s a nice citrus-y scent cream, but to spend $26 on it? Mehhh.

So I’ll give this a 6.5/10 it’s a cool gimmicky product (I think for older skins probably). But if you want a Vitamin C booster cream that’s relatively cheaper than it’s competitors such as Perricone MD’s Vitamin C Ester 15 $120 I’d say to give it a shot!

This product was given to me to review as a BNTgirl but has a 100% my thoughts in it ❤

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