This is What the Sun had Done to Me

I got tanned easily, it's yay for some and nay for me. I don't like my tanned skin, because it makes me look like i didn't take a bath for the whole day hahaha... It's just my personal taste, no offense to those that love tanned skin. I find it exotic on some people, but not for me sadly T-T

If i went home, to my hometown Lake Toba even less than one week, i got tanned. And apparently summer also got me tanned, even though it's quite windy. Well... don't say i didn't take my daily bath. I DID, TWICE a day :D

Lots of report and some tiny tiny haulage from my trip will be uploaded soon, my friend borrowed my camera, because he has some pictures in it. So i have to be patient.

Here's just some look on  my tanned skin that my friend sent via Blackberry Messenger to me few days ago.

Face :
Clean and Clear moisturizer
Inez liquid foundie in beige
Fanbo TWC in gaharu

Cheek :
NYC bronzer

Lips :
MUFE liquid lip

Eyes :
Aubeau e/s base
Sariayu 25th anniversary palette in teal, black, silver, and white
Pixy liquid e/l
Maybelline VE Mascara

See? Even in a very hot summer weather (more than 30 degress) Indonesian cosmetic brands still doing its job well, mind the lighting please :D
*the picture was taken after the concert on the last briefing before heading to KBRI in Vienna*

Heldenplatz Square - Dedicated to Napoleon's victory (where we held our last concert)

pic : courtesy of google

Report of my Absence

Hola dear ladies, how are you guys doing? Still fantabulous, i believe!!!

Miss blogging so much, and of course FD and FOTD, and hauling T-T
I've been neglecting my blog for months (June and July), and to start again kinda confuse, i think i get behing everybody in everything. But will catch up soon, PROMISE.

So, here's my story (excuse to be exact :p).. Me and my team (The Singers Chamber Choir) got picked to compete in Italy for the Seghizzi 50th, Internazionale Di Canto Corale. It's one of the oldest competition in Europe which make the competition is prestigious and to compete, we must send our vocal sample and the judges gonna audition us. So long story come short, we got picked among of hundreds choir that applied from all over the world to compete there. And beside Iran, we are the only contestant that represent ASIA.

It's not easy, we need like approx. IDR 900.000.000 for this competition and got only 3 month to do the fund raising. Believe me, it's not EASY at all. But Thank God, we made it. And thanks to our sponsor and family we can go and compete there.

The result? PROUD OF THESE AWARDS!!!! Check on it yourself, once again.. Indonesia is known for the beautiful voices not for violation only. proud to sing "Indonesian Anthem" there... One of the best moment in my life.

Singing "Yamko Rambe Yamko" with correography

My dear Chorister, we've been singing for 11 years and still going strong

Don't wanna bored you ladies with the details, but we got invited to have 2 concert in Vienna as well.

So the whole trip was, Indonesia - Singapore - Turky - Venice - Gorizzia - Slovenia - Deutch-Wargram - Vienna.

One FOTD on our last concert in Vienna - In Baju Bodo

 Don't ask for the haulage, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO SHOP!!! (Crying Out Loud, it's summer sale everywhere T-T).

Link for one video (our dear friends from Peninsula Choir upload it, thanks :) )
Yamko Rambe Yamko

Daily Natural Look

I've been neglecting my skin care ritual lately, and it did show the un-wanted result. My face is full of white heads and pimples, so i didn't wear too much product on my face. And i did like how i look like, not pale but simple natural make up. 

With Maybelline bb cream, Marcks loose powder in creme, and Nyx natural cream blush on, mascara and eyeliner and lipgloss. I'm set.

outdoor no flash

indoor no flash

outdoor no flash - just me, posing :D

I've found a new way to wear my cream blush on, and this is my favourite way to wear it since. I know probably all of you know it already but it's not a sin sharing it with you again rite :p

First : I dipped my brush to my cream blush, and with tap it to my cheek while i'm smiling so i got the perfect apple of the cheek.
Second : I blend it carefully both sides
Third : Then, i applied my powder (in this case i always use loose powder, but did tried with TWC and the result is doing just fine also, gives a hint of glowy cheek)

My cheek, hope the picture is clear enough for you guys to see. I'll catch you guys later. Bubye....

How I Remove My Make Up - Travelling

Hey ladies, i noticed there are new followers. Welcome and stay FANTABULOUS, will check and follow you back.. And thank you for following my blog, can't wait to read your thoughts.

Btw, i did a post about How I Remove My Make Up - Daily Basis and since i'm a lazy person :p i got several way to clean my face, this post is gonna about how i remove my make up when i'm travelling.

Usually, I packed a lot of things. Make up remover, organizer to keep my facial cotton clean (i prefer cotton to tissues) which is heavy. And currently i switch to easier way, make up remover in tissues. on budget situation Neutrogena had it, and lots of beauty guru used it and loved it not to mention there's several high end brand like MAC and so on *sigh*. But since i lived in Indonesia, and kinda hard to get it (unless you got someone buy it for u when they're going abroad - custom purchased ; or ordered it online- which took forever to arrived plus the shipping cost BLAH..) and i searched for easier and cheaper method. Beauty on Budget!!!

After read reviews and did some survey on local hypermarket, i finally made a decision to Mitu.
First Mitu only has finesse which has cucumber, aloe vera, and chammomile extract to purifies skin, it has 10 sheets. Second is SHIKADA, it's the sister of finesse and currently launched, ingredients is the same but extra sheets (30 sheets).

Ingredients (both are the same) 

Purified water, Glyserine, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Aloe Vera extract, Cucumber extract, Chammomile extract, Ethyl alcohol, DL panthenol, Fragrance, Phenoxyethanol, Methyl paraben, Ethyl paraben, Propyl paraben, Disodium EDTA.

It claims that :

• gently cleanses
• refreshes
• removes make-up, even waterproof mascara 

For normal to oily skin.

Love :
Easy breezy, just take one towelette and i usually used one side for overall face, and the other side is for eye make up ( the picture is for swatches only) so it made you not wasting on several towelettes while cleansing.
Available Locally and CHEAP - i found mine at Carrefour, for IDR 3.345 / approx $4 approx. $ 0.39 (finesse) and IDR 8.765 / approx. $9 approx. $1.04 (SHIKADA)
( thank you Mrs. Reza Boer for the correction *smooch* )
Not contain oily material (not like other cleansing wipes, i prefer it this way)
Compact size, you can simply put it inside your clutch bag :D


Hate :
The flip is a bit annoying, if you don't close it well it may drying your towelettes faster than you thought.
After used, yes i feel refresh but it STINGS a bit, which is not happening if i used my ALMAY eye makeup remover.
Too perfumey for my taste, but nothing offensive tho'
Have to work extra hard to remove my Maybelline waterproof mascara, but other mascara is doing just fine.

Repurchase :
Oh so YES darling :D

Hope you find this post informative and helpful. Looking forward to exchange tips from you ladies, on how you remove your make ups while travelling.

LA COLORS Glittering Starlet Eyeshadow

Eyeshadow, like shoes... who can't get enough of it? 

This is my first trial on buying glitter eyeshadow (because sometimes my clients asked for glittery thingy for party) and so far i not love nor hate this product. 

LA COLORS Glittering Starlet Eyeshadow comes in 8 different palette, each palette was named not numbered, they're Audrey, Elizabeth, Maryin, Ginger, Bette, Jean, Claudette, Ingrid. 
I got 2 palette of this series, Bette and Claudette. Bette is a nice summer color and Claudette is a bit "cold" tones in dark grey-green-red-black-orange. Too bad, Claudette was having an accident on the delivery, she cracked and fall into pieces and dust T-T. So i'm not gonna be able to use them.

But don't worry Bette is doing fine, and here she is..

on my bare hand, not using any primer or base

Picture captured by Canon iXus 150 with flash and no flash (AWB,Macro) setting.

On to review, well... not much to say since this is not their best seller. I've watch many beauty guru's that recommend LA Colors Baked Eyeshadow instead, and that's on my next wish list >.<

Pro's
Glittery (exactly like the name)
Not chalky and powdery
Staying power is awesome (i used aubeau eye shadow base with this palette)
Cheap (10 colors for $2.75, of course i pay more to get it to my door step, i lived in another side of the world)

Con's
The glitter fall out dude! Which is a big turn off, i have to be extra careful when using this (lots of loose powder before applying and an amazing fan brush to clean the fall out) which according to me it's TIME CONSUMING.
Too much for everyday wear, glitter stuff makes your face looks oily in humid area, trust me :)

Repurchase
NO

Inez Satin Smooth Liquid Foundation Swatch and Review (shade beige)

This is a long postponed post, answering my fellow blogger request.. Here it is ladies, hope your curiosity will slow down a bit, but don't blame me if you immediately want to grab it hahaha...

I got three shade of them, and what matches me most is their darker shade which is beige. Kinda funny how they named their foundation, not really match with other's brand. Beige 10 is the darker shade, Ivory 09 is quite light yellowish tone, Natural 01 is more darker than ivory but the tone a bit pinkish. I would say, this is quite a nice foundation due to it's price less than $4 (approx IDR 30.000- IDR 40.000 depends on where you get it, it's cheaper on cosmetic store than on counter).

I used this several times already and did like the result, wear it on humid weather like when i was in Jakarta, wear it on Air Conditioned room, and outdoor, so far they're not dissapoint me at all. But for you that have oily skin, better used primer before.

Swatches outdoor with no flash, captured with Canon iXus 150 with AWB, Macro, No Flash setting.

Pro's 

Cheap

Available Locally

Staying power depends on your skin (on combination skin did well, oily skin use primer)

Easy to blend 

Texture is nice not too thick but not too watery

Coverage medium to full

Con's

Only got three shade (but i mixed it sometimes, to get a nice shade for clients and it worked well) 

HATE the packaging 

Repurchase 

YES

FOTD using this foundation is on this post

Brushes Collection

Pink Collection
Look at those pink brushes, still waiting for the pink bent eyeliner brush to complete the collection tho'. Then i'm all set (had to hahaha)...
L-R : Coastal Scent (CS) stippling brush for cream or liquid foundation | Kabuki Brush from Make Up Tool for setting compact powder/TWC or loose powder| Pink Tapered from Make Up Tool for highlight and shading | CS misc. eye brushes (large tapered, eyeshadow, pencil).

Black Collection
These are the brushes to do the clients make up, i love all of these. They're not pricey but they did the job well and after several times of cleansing they're still good and the bristles did not reform from the original shape.
L-R : Elf Powder brush | Elf Stippling Brush (i did wait for 2 month to get this, sold out everytime, but the wait was worth it :D) | Tammia foundation brush - i used this for liquid and cream foundation and love the result | unbranded angeled brush - for blush on | Masami Shouko (MS) big shadder - didn't know the function but i used this sometimes to soften the harsh line when do the nose shading | MS large blending brush | MS small blending brush | MS smokey eyes brush | unbranded synthetic brush | Sigma E30 travel set pencil brush (i got this from Make Up Brush when she opens a spree, too bad i didn't get the eye shadow brush hiks.. | CS small contour brush | CS nose shading brush | unbranded angeled brush | unbranded synthetic dual eye shadow and eye liner brush - the eye liner brush, i used it sometime to smudge the eye liner also | unbranded

Other Favourite Misc. Brushes
These is other brushes that i often use.
L-R : The Body Shop all over face brush - i used this to blend the blush on and shading | Ecotools powder brush | Ecotools eyeliner brush | Unbranded brush - i used this to apply my cream blush on | unbranded angeled eye brow brush - my favourite to do my eye brows | unbranded dual brush for mascara, eyebrows and smudge brush | unbranded small brush - i used this for inner corner | Elf angeled brush | Elf eyeshadow brush | Elf blending brush

This is the closer look of the brush that i used to apply the cream blush on. Trust me it did the job very well. Love this brush.

I decided to do this post, because when i blogwalking the first thing i wanna see is the brush collection hahaha.. so i figured this would be a Fun post for everybody, hope i was right.
Have a nice day ladies and keep FANTABULOUS. Cheers... XOXO