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Review: Love From Bobo – MAC Makeup Base, Skin Enhancer & Foundations Samples

Sometime in May I met up with a long time friend which I haven’t seen for years. The reason behind the meet up is to collect my Suria Meriang Staff Sales invitation cards from her. We went for lunch and chatted quite a bit catching up with each other on what’s happening around our life. In the chat of course I asked all that I wanted to ask about MAC, feedback to her how scary it is MAC outlet looks like from the outside LOL.

I’m quite interested to try MAC makeup base and liquid foundation. However I don’t buy stuff if I never tested it on the skin before so Bobo took out 4 small glass bottles and started to fill in some for me to take home to try. This is what I was given.

Bobo stored the glass bottles in 2 separate pillow box. Cute.

 

Here’s the mini glass bottles. I never knew we could request for samples like that. Oh well maybe we’re not offered before =P

From left to right: Prep + Prime Skin Base Visage, Prep + Prime Fortified Skin Enhancer (Adjust), Select SPF 15 Foundation NC20 & Studio Fix Fluid SPF 15 NC25.

Estée Lauder Estée Lauder Staff Sale MAC Warehouse Sales

Suria Meriang Staff Sale 2012 Haul

It is true when people call this the mother of all sales. I called this the QUEEN of all sales!

I was too excited to sleep early so I stayed awake till 12am watching a Malay sitcom movie; Peluang Kedua. Maybe I had coffee earlier so I’m still not sleepy. Which is weird as normally no matter coffee or no coffee I’d be sleepy. Must be the anxiety as I spent the whole night worrying how the crowd would be, to double check if I have the invitation card ready etc etc.

The next day I woke up a 4am. I think I slept briefly at 1am and dreamt of ghost omg. Had a cup of coffee, bath, pat on some skin care, powder and I left my house 5am. I drove to the venue using Cheras way. That route will bring me directly to the hotel. I reached on my target time which is 5.30am. I thought the crowd would be acceptable but once I exited the lift, there it is. I heard the noisiness and I prayed the queue line wouldn’t be until the lift. As I turned in, I saw the queue line. I quickly called my partner that day who’s a reader’s sister (Chin Ching) and she’s also on the way. As I talk to her on the phone I tried to locate the ending of the line. I couldn’t see it. Then I spot it and quickly walked over. It wasn’t too bad. I was in the middle of second lane. My partner arrived and we chatted while waiting to go in. We were handed plastic bags around 6.30am. At the same time another guy is collecting the invitation card. We hoped they let us in around 7am but nothing happen. By the time 7.30am the queue line is up till the front door so we were let in. I think I finished shopping around 8.30am. But I make my second rounds, third, forth until I was bored and really really sure that I have nothing else to buy and I proceed to check out.

Here’s my haul of RM1,480. I grabbed so much lesser than 99% of the crowd there but yet the damage is huge. The purchase limit for each person is RM2,000. I’m gonna let go certain stuff in the set(s) so do look out for a blog sales!

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Review: MAC Brush Cleanser

Last Friday ago I dropped by MAC Mid Valley to purchase a bottle of MAC Brush Cleanser 235ml for RM45. I’ve been wanting to buy this to clean my brushes daily after each use. Deep cleaning with brush shampoo etc etc is too time consuming for everyday use.

As it is near to Christmas, my small lil purchase is wrapped in a mirror-silver shopping bag. I’m amazed that MAC have the initiative to came up with such a nice shopping bag in conjunction with Christmas and they even include another gift wrapper (not pictured) inside the shopping bag!

MAC Brush Cleanser 235ml – RM45

Info from Mac Cosmetics.com
This one product will clean, disinfect and condition the brush fibers so that brushes will last longer. It is convenient to use and is specifically designed to extend the life of high quality brushes. Brush Cleanser leaves your brushes smelling fresh and clean, and helps shorten their drying time.

The bottle is nothing fancy. After all it’s just RM45 and it’s a brush cleanser. Don’t expect anything fancy although it’s MAC ya. Based on what I read from other reviewer is that this used to be RM35. I guess there’s a RM10 price increase.

The dispenser nozzle is something like a shampoo bottle’s. Just one push and pour! But I do experience content leaking by the time I reached home. I took out the product and saw a lot of water stain which is already dried on the outside of the box. There’s also traces of the cleanser on the bottle body. Luckily for the thick box otherwise the content would be all over my car seat.

The instruction on how to use is not properly indicated on the box and on the bottle. What I was told is to just dispense the cleanser onto paper towel and run the brush throughly on the cleanser.

Here’s a simple pictorial on how to clean my dirty brush with this brush cleanser.

Step 1: Pour the content out onto a piece of paper towel.

Step 2: Prepare your dirty brushes!

Step 3: Run the brush throughly onto the brush cleanser.

Step 4: Immediately the cleanser grabbed all the residue from the brush. Continue to do this till it’s totally clean.

Step 5: Pour more cleanser if necessary and continue to swipe your brush on the cleanser.

DONE! Now your brush is clean and fluffy!

Lastly, reshape and lay your brush flat for it to dry.

This brush cleanser works like magic! It’s not drying and there’s no awful alcohol smell on the brush. My brush came out more fluffier than before cleansing. It only take about 5 minutes to air dry. I must say it really deep clean and doesn’t look like it’s an instant brush cleanser at all. I would definitely repurchase this. This will be my permanent instant brush cleanser!

Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored review. I bought the product on my own.

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Lil MAC and Stila Haul

Another 2 parcel arrived yesterday =)

First parcel is my lil MAC Limited Edition Adoring Carmine purchase.

I found a yellow envelope with handwritten “Thank You” on it.

Inside I found another Thank You note and my haul is in a cute Hello Kitty bag.

A closer view on the cute bag.

MAC Adoring Carmine Lipstick in Soft Spot & Lipglass in My Dear. These two is from Adoring Carmine #3 set [Neutral Lips]. I skip Real Treasure lipstick as it’s kinda dark for me.

The labels…

The lipstick is not as dark as the picture. I failed to capture the real colour. It’s actually quite light.

The colour is kinda like a light pink. Almost transparent I would say.

Swatches for both my purchase!

MAC Adoring Carmine lipstick smell is similar to cocoa butter and it’s not drying to the lips. I like it very much. The lipglass colour payoff is better and shinny. It’s sticky but not till the extend where you can’t wait to take it off. Quite moisturizing though. The smell is also like cocoa butter. However the downside is you’d get a white line on your inner lips almost immediately.

My second lil haul is Stila!

Stila Duo Eyeshadow in Tatiana & Single Eyeshadow in Kitten.

A casing is also included.

It’s not a problem if you don’t have the casing as the eyeshadow comes in a plastic holder. Both shadow is powder shadow. Light pink is with a few shimmer (I mean really a few) while purple is a dead powder colour.

Label on the back of the plastic holder is removable easily. You can stick it to your casing. And I did!

This is how the casing looks like. The black thing you see is actually magnet! I think the hole is for you to poke in if you want to remove the eyeshadow out.

Eyeshadow safely transfered to the new casing. I’m quite surprise the duo is not stuck together. It’s actually on separate pan.

Here’s the swatches. Colour payoff is bad. I have to swipe a few times for this swatch.

Stila Single Eyeshadow in Kitten. Bought this as a highlight and base for eyeshadow.

The casing is actually a metal casing.

Label at the back.

It’s a silky and shimmering skin tone shadow and colour payoff is superb!

I wore the duo eyeshadow today and I had problem applying as the colour payoff is just bad. My RM5 Daiso eyeshadow is way better than this. After a few hours the eyeshadow is not there anymore lol.