Celebrity Looks : Keira Knightley

Hey girls!! Today, we'll start something new!

Mimicking celebrities' looks and makeups!
Well.. to start off the series.. we will try and get the Keira Knightley Look.
ps. Our final photo has been retouched to match the background, lighting and her hair.. cuz the model doesn't have long hair :)
The makeup is genuine though :D

So, before we start.. we have to understand Keira's most prominent features.
Just 2 important notes, that's all :
1. Thick and full eyebrows
2. Heavy under eye makeup

If you see the photo above... that's actually her most prominent features and makeup artists love to play these 2 features up.. while keeping her face and lips as bare as possible.

Now that we know her secret.. we will try and create her look!

First, apply foundation as usual.

After that, use concealers on these parts of your face... your eye area.. the area between your cheek and nose .. and finally your lower lip line.
Remember to apply more concealer on your eyebag area as we are going to go heavy in that area with a dark color, you don't wanna look punched :D

After that, pencil in your brow.
The important thing is not to drag the tail(ends) too long or too far down.
Fill up the higher parts and lower parts to make it thicker and fuller.
Use a soft brown coloured brow pencil.

After that, use a darker shade of brow pencil and fill in these parts(in the blue area) with feathery strokes.. as if you are drawing in extra strands of hair.

Now, comes the eye makeup.
1. Fill your brow bone area with a white matte pigment
2. Apply shimmery white pigment to the corner of your tear ducts
3. Apply a brown pigment on your upper lids.. blend well. Now apply them on your lower lids as well.. This is the important part remember?
4. Use a dark brown/black colored pigment and apply at the outer corner of your upper and lower lids. Remember to blend well
5. Use the shimmery white and dab on the inner half of your upper eyelid. When you open your eyes, you will see that your crease is more defined at the inner corner of the eye (like in figure 6)
6. Use your eyeliner and line your upper lash line. After that, line your lower lid. DON'T line the full length instead line the CENTER part only..

Curl your lashes..
Use the kinda mascara which has a white end and a black end.
The white base gives more volume and length to the lashes before you apply the black one.
Coat your top and bottom lashes heavily with the white base if your lashes are thin and sparse.. Otherwise, just do it the usual way.
Finish up with the black mascara.
Stick on a false eyelash on the upper lash line!

For your lips.. Smudge a nude lipliner all over your lips to soften the colour of your lips.
Use a very pale orangey pink lip gloss/lipstick over your lips.

Finally, finish up with blusher.. a pale pink colour will do!

Have fun trying out!!

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Many Ways of Wearing Scarves

We all love scarves.. especially when we wanna go somewhere cold like and still wear that dress or sleeveless shirt.

There are plenty of ways on how to wear them.. It is all based on creativity and styles we copy from other people who wears them.

It can be an accessory for aesthetic sake or when the weather suddenly turned hot and you don't want to stuff your scarf into your bag which is full of your what-zits and what-nots.. hehe

It can also stand out when worn fashionably with the right colour matching.
Like above, the blue rhymes well with the model's golden locks. The other clothes are all grey tones which draws the focus to the scarf and the hair.

A colourful scarf can suit the hair well (especially when you have a bad hair day).

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Japanese Makeup Brand: Jill Stuart Autumn Collection

Jill Stuart is one of Japan's top selling cosmetic line..It is often compared with Anna Sui in terms of product quality and also packaging design. I think there are some singapore online shops that sell Jill Stuart cosmetics if you are interested.. :D

Anyway.. this is her Fall Collection:

I dunno why but I find cosmetics like Stila, Benefit and Jill Stuart.. those Victorian Feminine design... their pallete is always on the sweet pinkish side..
Seriously.. how many shades of pink can there be in the world!!
Pink with yellow base... or red base.. or purple base.. or brown base.. maybe over 300 shades.. but these type of pallete are very consumer friendly.. easy to use, easy to mix and match and the result most probably are good too!


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Makeup Looks : School Girl

We all love the days when our skin is baby smooth and looking good without makeup.
For schoolgirls in Malaysia, they are not allowed to have makeup on their face but I remembered from my schooling days... EVERYONE is using lipbalm or lipgloss. They buffed their nails and have all sorts of cool remedies just to look a little better than their friends!

Today, we show you how you can cheat(if you are a school girl) without getting caught and for graduates.. we show you how you can get back your look during your schooling days.

1. For schoolgirls, you can skip this part.
Graduates, listen up!

Laura Mercier Camouflage
Apply concealer to these areas :
Side of your nose, around your lips, eyebags, eyelids and pimples if any

Shu Uemura Loose Powder
Schoolgirls start here:
After the concealer, pat on some loose powder over your face.

Shu Uemura Seal Brown Brow Pencil
Fill in the sparse areas of your brows.. try to refrain from having a strong outline.
For SchoolGirls.. you can skip this part if your brows are thick, but for those who have sparse brows... try to fill in only the empty areas.

Benefit's Benetint
This product is really good. The results are very natural and can be used for your cheek and lips as well.
Draw some lines across your cheeks and blend with your fingertips.
It looks very natural and gives your cheeks a very subtle blush.
After that dot abit on your lips and blend it in.. This gives some color to the lips in case it is pale or discolored.

After that, apply Lip Ice Sheer Colour over your lips.. it is a lip balm that enhances the redness of your lips!

Tada!!! A very neutral and bare look!
Great remedy for schoolgirls too!

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Online Boutique : Chamber of Babylon

As yall know, Chamber of Babylon had been helping us with makeup for a few of our articles.. such as these :


Well, they have an extensive knowledge of makeup and their online boutique have products ranging from lashes to nail art goodies..
Other than that, their blog have tutorials on makeup and nail art as well!!
Cool huh!!

Well.. we are gonna feature one of their posts today :

How to apply false lashes by Chamber of Babylon

I know many of them already know how to apply false lashes but few of my beloved girls requested a post on how to apply false lashes. So here it is.

This is the new lashes that I will be selling, COB 001-003


1. First, measure the lash according to the size of your eye or length that you desire.




2. Then trim them.


3. Curl your lashes.


4. Apply lash glue on the lash bone.
*tips: leave it for a while till your glue is half dried before applying. This will make your glue stickier and easier to stick on your lids.


5. Start by adjusting your false lash at middle of the eye, hold it still for a few second before proceeding to do the same on the inner corner of your eye.


6. once you make sure that both the sides are in the required position, hold the end of the false lash to the outter corner of your eye and give a genlte pressure to your eyelid so that the false lash stay in place


7. Before the glue is fully dry, lightly push the lash upwards to make it curl.





8. Gently push your lash downwards and upwards to make sure that it sticks firmly on your lids.


9. Done with applying the lash.



10. Apply eyeliner on top of your false lash to make the lash bone least obvious.


11. Apply mascara so that your real lash will attached with the false lash.


12.This time curl you real and false lash together. (Be very careful, make sure your false lash doesn't come out, if not you will have to start over again)


13. Finished with lower liner and TADA!~ DONE~

Well check their boutique out here!!!!

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Getting Double Eyelids is Scary!!

LOL.. i saw this in a japanese website recently..
The result is really really cool but it looks damn painful...
What are your thoughts?

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Basic MakeUp Series V : Blush Blush!

Last week, we talked about shading your brows.. we are going to move on to the next step today by talking about how to apply blusher on your cheeks based on your cheek bone shape.


First of all, you should find out if your cheekbones are high or not.

High and plump cheeks

Flat cheeks

The best choice is naturally the 2nd one but not all of us is blessed with beauty.. so makeup is here to help us redeem ourselves.

For high and plump cheeks..your blusher can be applied like this :

You can apply to the apple of your cheek.. just smile and apply right on to your cheeks... simple as a pimple.

You will look roughly like this..


For people with flat cheeks.. you have to apply DIAGONALLY, slanting from your sideburns towards the tip of ur nose..
but don't go all the way. just halfway will do.

Something like this..

Here it is!
We are using Make Up Store's blusher :
Blush : Glam Rose

Next up: How to have kissable lips

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Japanese Short Bob Hairstyle

Soft perm is the craze nowadays.. with heavy fringe and wispy strays of hair to suggest a light volume.
This kinda hairstyle seems easy enough with a touch of the right kind of wax.

Notice the Side Profile.. the fringe is parted from the center of the top.
This hotspot is the trick of getting ANY japanese hairstyle.
If you try to part your hair like this, you may find that some hair from that area is much much longer than your fringe due to the way your hairstylist cuts them.
So, just chop them off according to the length of your fringe or the next time you visit your saloon, ask your hairstylist to part your hair from the hotspot.

When your fringe is parted from there, it is very easy to tease volume into your fringe by backcombing or using wax.

Other than that, a big curler can help achieve this style by lightly curling the ends of your hair.
Remember to dye your hair a flat shade of brown though!

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Latest Trend : Shimmer near the Tear Ducts

Seems like nowadays, the look is to have shimmer applied to areas near your eye tear ducts and dark eyeshadow applied to the outer corners of your eyes.
The advantages of this technique is to bring life to your tired eyes while making them seems longer and bigger as well.
Eyeshadow applied to the eyebags area are in the trend as well.

Apply Shimmer to these areas!

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