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10 Mascaras I Am Throwing Away For The New Year

January 6, 2012 by Bun Bun 23 Comments

I’m ashamed.

The title of this post was initially ‘10 Makeup Products I Am Throwing Out For The New Year’, instead of one solely for mascaras. But as I rummaged through my mascara drawer, I easily grabbed 10 mascara tubes that have long been abandoned or have expired.

I’m a hoarder, as is my entire family, so my mum has such a hard time clearing out stuff during the annual house clean-up that we Chinese call ‘da sao chu’.

Decluttering can start anytime, from a month before Chinese New Year, to probably a week, depending on how much clutter you have and/or want to get rid of. People practise it due to the belief that cleaning sweeps away all the negative luck of the preceding year and invites good luck for the new year.

The first day of Chinese Lunar New Year 2012 falls on 23 January this year. It usually falls in late January or February as can be seen here, so 23 January is a little early which means I have to start cleaning up my messy table, wardbrobe and other territories soon!

Getting rid of old mascaras is a great start, isn’t it? =)

So here are the 10 mascaras I’m throwing out to welcome the new year!

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Maybelline Volum’ Express The Falsies Waterproof Mascara, What Took You So Long To Come To Singapore?

December 7, 2011 by Bun Bun 15 Comments

I saw the Maybelline Volum’ Express The Falsies Mascara on our shelves only about a few weeks ago. Why did it take so long to reach our shores?? GAH!!

My volumizing mascara has already been raved, tested, loved, and done with about a good 6 months ago. I bought it online and did a review of the Maybelline Volum’ Express The Falsies Waterproof Mascara in March 2011.

If I reviewed it in March, this mascara must have been launched eons ago and tested by people in the US way before March.

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My Current Holy Grail Mascara – Lancome Oscillation Vibrating Infinite Powermascara

September 21, 2011 by Bun Bun 10 Comments

Different products really do work very differently for everyone.

When I was doing research on the Lancome Oscillation Vibrating Infinite Powermascara to see if people love this mascara as much as I do, I chanced upon many, many negative reviews about this mascara.

The Lancome Oscillation Vibrating Infinite PowerMascara is one of the best mascaras I have ever used, yet I see people on MUA slaughtering it with the most terrible of opinions based on personal experience.

When I read through the negative things said about the Lancome mascara, I immediately associated those remarks with other less outstanding mascaras, like the Estee Lauder Sumptuous Waterproof Bold Volume Lifting Mascara (which many people like, but didn’t work for me) – unable to hold a curl, or the Pop Beauty mascara – thick, gooey, clumpy, or other mascaras that failed to make it to the back of my memory.

But certainly not the Lancome Oscillation Vibrating Infinite Powermascara! This is definitely Holy Grail. I have been using it dilligently almost every day since I got it 2 months ago.

Gimmicky Vibration or Real Lash Booster?

I don’t know about you, but I get such a real kick out of putting something vibrating at my lashes. Terrifying at first, yes, but there is very little possibility that you will end up electrocuting yourself and poking your eyes with the vibrating mascara wand.

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The Estee Lauder Sumptuous Waterproof Bold Volume Lifting Mascara is Good Only if You Don’t Apply Too Many Layers

September 15, 2011 by Bun Bun 7 Comments

This mascara makes no less than three well-loved claims:

Claim #1: Waterproof
Claim #2: Volume
Claim #3: Lifting

So does the Estee Lauder Sumptuous Waterproof Bold Volume Lifting Mascara live up to all its claims? Let’s see!

Lovely Metal Casing

When I first had the cool metal mascara tube in my hands, I imagined it’d be what Sunny’s (from the movie iRobot) girlfriend would be using. Sexy and futuristic, perhaps all our mascara tubes would look something like that in the future, or for that matter, everything makeup.

I don’t know why movies always depict the future as all shiny and metallic. It looks all sophisticated and high-tech, but at the same time, soul-less and homogeneous.

Ah! I digressed! Haha. But so yes, in the sea of black mascara tubes like the Rimmel Glam Eyes Waterproof Mascara, Anna Sui Super Black Volume Up Mascara, and Lancome Oscillation Vibrating Infinite Mascara, this Estee Lauder mascara stands out shiny well.

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10 Mistakes Made By the Makeup Coach at the Majolica Majorca Makeup Workshop

August 14, 2011 by Bun Bun 21 Comments

Kai and I

My girl friend, Kai, invited me to be her plus-one for a Majolica Majorca Makeup Workshop that she won a contest for. I think it’s some kind exclusive arrangement with a blogshop she frequents.

I love attending courses related to beauty, there’re just so fun to be part of – you get to play with products, learn new stuff, meet new people, and get to be 100% girly.

But the best thing about it is when you can share all the above with a girl friend, in addition to freeflow giggling, laughing at the coach’s bad jokes, catching up with one another and just basking in each other’s company.

The focus of this post is not so much about Majolica Majorca’s new collection launch, rather, it is about the quality (actually, lack of) of the makeup ‘coach’ employed to represent the brand and its products.

Inarticulation, mispronouncement of product names, and bad command of the English language aside, the ‘coach’ did a pretty bad job teaching the basics of makeup.

Let’s call this ‘coach’ Mr CMI (Cannot-Make-It).

During class and on the train ride home, I jotted down the mistakes or things Mr CMI should not have said and done, or could have done better. It was a list that easily extended to 2 pages of my notebook; I had a hard time selecting which ones to include in this post.

Here are the 10 things Mr CMI did that really irked me.

(I did not take pictures of the model because I thought it’d be rude to do that without her permission. I also did not include pictures of Mr CMI in this post because… it’s just not a nice thing to do.)

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10 Mascaras I Am Throwing Away For The New Year

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