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10 Mascaras I Am Throwing Away For The New Year

January 6, 2012 by Bun Bun 24 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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Native American Inspired Look for Makeup Geek Weekly Challenge

November 11, 2011 by Bun Bun 12 Comments

MakeupGeek has had her Weekly Challenge going on for ages, but I’ve never participated. I used to look at the submissions and thought “Wow, are these people all makeup artists?? I could never do that.”

That was the time when my eye makeup was all but eyeliner and mascara. And I didn’t have bunbunmakeuptips.com to constantly push myself to explore new makeup products and looks.

I don’t know what sparked my interest this time. I don’t even know anything much about the culture and history of Native Americans. But I send in something this time, and had tremendous fun creating it!

So I went to google for pictures for inspiration. Found many, but they didn’t quite attract me.

Until I saw this:

I love the contrast of Obama’s formal black suit against the tribal war chief’s colorful head dress.

And so I did this!


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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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Makeup Look Tutorial for Tightlining Tips Post

September 13, 2011 by Bun Bun Leave a Comment

Heyya! =)

This is a tutorial for the makeup look shown in the previous Tips for Tightlining Tutorial.

You will need the following:

Face
Face Primer – Murad Oil-Control Mattifier SPF 15
Foundation – Lancome Maqui Blanc Miracle SPF 26/PA ++ BO-01
Concealer – Sonia Kashuk Hidden Agenda Concealer Palette
Power – NARS Loose Powder Flesh

Cheeks
Contouring Powder – MAC Gold-Go-Lightly
Blush – MAC Pink Swoon
Highlighter – MAC Beauty Powder Too Chic

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My Travel Makeup Essentials For A Seven Day Trip To Taiwan

July 24, 2011 by Bun Bun 12 Comments

Besides beauty product reviews and makeup tutorials, I love reading posts about beauty bloggers sharing with their readers on ‘What’s in my purse’, ‘My top 5 beauty products’, ‘Makeup essentials for a trip’, you know, lists of favorites.

I’d just returned from a trip to Taiwan when I read Leesha’s post on what she brought on a trip. So that inspired me to write mine too! The picture above is also a Taiwan Tourism Logo inspired-picture! Must not copy exactly though, copyright issues! XD

I actually meant to get this post up long ago. Like reeeeeeaaaaalllllyyyy long ago. 5 months? It somehow got buried under and I cleanly forgot about it. But it’s a good thing though, since now I would have reviewed more products than I did 4 months ago.

Some of the products mentioned in this post I may have stopped using by the time of writing – like mascara which must not be used for more than 6 months, and others which I may have found better alternatives. It’s been 4 months, things get used up and there’s always a new contender! =)

Now let’s get started!

Here are what I brought with me on my seven days Taiwan trip!

I just HAD to bring that many makeup items. And I haven’t even started on the tools yet!

I really tried to cut down, but these are my travel makeup essentials! XD

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