Makeup For Office: A quick look!

When you are a part of an inter-community marriage, important decisions like what to cook for dinner is never easy! *sarcasm*. Mine as you all know is one, my guy is a Punjabi and I am mixed bred Manipuri and Bengali. Food habits across these three states are as different as chalk and cheese and well the discussion over what to eat isn't as straight forward! But for our love for each other (ahem!), my food habits are turning Punjabi and well my guy is stuck somewhere between a Bengali and Manipuri! LOL! Why do I say so? Well for starters I prefer roti or parathas for dinner while he wants to have rice else he remains hungry all night! hahaha! Another instance would be last night, when he wanted to have fish (maachh bhaja bengali style) and I wanted to have "chhole"... hahahahaha. So what did we finally do? We cooked both! LOL :D

Why do I bring this all up on a Monday morning afternoon you ask? Well that's because when these important dinner decisions are taken at 10:00 pm at night, the dinner is ready by 11:00 pm and we eventually finish with our dinner and an episode of Dexter by 1:00 am and then I decide to wash my hair at 1:30 am and we are finally in bed by 2:15 am, the dawning Monday morning is a scramble to reach office on time. And if you know me well, I never leave home without make-up. All the more reason I write this post and show my quick make-up look that I do for such rush-rush mornings :)

So here goes...

Products Used:

Face

Nothing!

Eyes

1. MAC Painterly Paint Pot

2. Faces Long Wear Pencil in Turquoise Blue

3. Maybelline Gel Liner

4. Colorbar Waterproof Liquid Liner

5. Maxfactor False Lash Effect Mascara

Cheeks

1. Colorbar Blush in Plum Brown

Lips

1. Colorbar Velvet Matte Lipstick in Creme Cup1 + MAC Touch

Hope you guys liked the look :)

What is your quick office/College Look?

EOTD & TUTORIAL: Yellow Brown Smoky Eyes Look

I don't know if it happens to you guys but it sure does to me. What? LOL... The time when I get used to a particular thing and I just cannot let go of it :) Well yes it happens to the best of us but I guess it happens to me a tad bit more than most of you can even imagine! Why does this happen to me I cannot fathom but then yes you will now say that I am blabbering away to glory :P ha ha! So before I get carried away a bit more, let me tell you guys that what I am talking about is the fact that I get stuck not only to particular products but also to specific EOTDs and LOTDs... Yes! I am a habitual EOTD repeater in real life! Ha! There I said it! :D

So anyways, today I am posting a tutorial on the summery smoky look that I am nowadays sporting with anything and everything :) It's a very pretty and versatile (you bet!) EOTD using golden yellow and brown and well it just makes my eyes look so bright and full of life :) So here goes...

But first here's a sneak peak at my EOTD :) Tell me guys how much you like it :)

Yellow Brown Smoky Eyes

STEPS

1. Primed lids with Faces Eye-shadow Base and then buffed with some loose 

    powder/compact.

2. Taking a bit of yellow eye shadow from my Faces Brilliants Palette using a flat fluffy 

    eye shadow brush again from Faces, I applied the shadow on my eye lids in a 

    "pat-pat" motion.

Yellow from Faces Brilliants Palette

Applying the yellow shadow using a Faces Flat Fluffy brush

3. Next using my Faces Blending Brush number 106, I picked up some Colorbar eye 

    shadow called Spicy Brown, which is a warm brown shade and applied it on my 

    crease, blending the yellow and brown shadows in a to and fro motion from the inner    

    corner of the eye to the outer.

Colorbar Eye-shadow in Spicy Brown

Applying the Colorbar Eye-shadow in the crease using Faces Brush 106

   

4. Taking a highlighter shade like MAC Nylon, I applied it on my brow bone in order to 

    bring focus to my eyes.

5. Now, I lined my eyes with Maybelline's Gel Liner (waterline+upper lashline) and 

    finished off with some mascara. I have used Maxfactor's False Lash Effect Mascara 

    here.

Maybelline Eye Studio Gel Liner

6. This look can generally be paired with either a nude lippy or a red lippy and 

    sometimes even a coral lippy :)

7. On my cheeks, I have used NYX cream blush in Golden on the cheekbone and 

    Colorbar powder blush in Plum Brown on the hollows of my cheeks.

All the products used

Final Look!

 

The products used for this look are as follows:

Face:

1. Colorbar Spot Correction Concealer

Eyes:

1. Faces Eye-shadow base

2. Faces Brilliants Eye-shadow Palette

3. Colorbar Eye shadow in Spicy Brown (review here)

4. Maybelline Gel Eye-liner (review here)

5. Maxfactor False Lash Effect Mascara

Lips:

1. Colorbar Velvet Matte Lipstick in Hot Hot Hot (review here)

Cheeks:

1. NYX Cream Blush in Golden

2. Colorbar blush in Plum Brown (review here)

Hope you guys like the look and find the tutorial helpful :) Do give me comments and share your opinions!

REVIEW & LOTD: Colorbar Blush in Plum Brown

Faces and Colorbar are my favorite brands off late and hence it becomes my "duty" to try out most of their products and review them for you guys.. See how much I love you people :) LOL... My latest obsession and favorite is the Colorbar Blush in Plum Brown and if I need to describe it in one word I would say "HG material". Ok that's two!

I have honestly been pretty wary of blushes especially since they need a lot of practice to master and well I just don't like the idea of being the clown of the party :D But out of the lot of 6 blushes that I own I must say that this is my favorite powder blush and NYX's Golden is my favorite creme blush. Yup I'll be reviewing that soon too :) So anyways coming back to the subject of today's review, let me put it in a sentence that this blush is definitely my HG blush and I would be lying if I dont accede to the fact that this is the only powder blush that I use nowadays :D

Colorbar has yet again outdone itself with this product and I am all the more sure of my current favorite choice :)

Image of the Product

Colorbar Blush in Plum Brown

 

With mirror and a brush

LOTD

Oooohsss and Aaahhhhss!

1. A very flattering shade for everyone with a medium or say Indian skin tone :)

2. The product is very finely milled and extremely smooth and convenient to apply.

3. Does not cause any reactions, allergies or breakouts!

4. It comes in the signature Colorbar packaging that consists of two compartments and a mirror. The top compartment contains the product and the lower compartment has the brush and the mirror. I love this packaging :D

5. Surprisingly, the tiny brush that comes with the blush isn't actually useless... It is pretty decent and well can come in handy especially if you are on the go and dont want to carry a proper blush brush :D Yay for that!

6. I have extremely dry skin and this does not dry me out much maybe because I moisturize like crazy. Not that it wont suit oily skinned girls cause I have read rave reviews about this product from oily skinned beauties as well :)

7. Very comfortable to the pocket. 

Ouches!

1.  Very limited shades in this range :(

2. Colorbar plans to increase the prices of its products from next month!

Price

It costs INR 250/-

Repurchase?

Yes definitely! It is my HG blush like I said before :)

Would I recommend it?

Oh you bet! I am recommending it to everyone and keeping it as a part of my giveaway that will be coming up soon :)

Overall Rating

9/10