The Lipstick Bandits Wish You A Happy Sparkly New Year!

Paris B 42 Comments

Ladies, we are just a few days to the end of 2011! Sqeee!! 😀

The Lipstick Bandits have come up with some ideas for creating a festive lip this year end so if you have a New Year do to attend and haven’t planned your look, we have ideas for you! 🙂 I decided to take things down to the drugstore (or pharmacy as we call it 😉 ) and source you an affordable Holiday combination. I realize not many people dare wear the red lipstick outside of special occasions and less so a sparkly lip so finding something affordable is a good thing 🙂

sparkly lipstick for the holiday season

We were tasked by the Lipstick Bandit Head Honcho to wear a red or berry red (to be honest, I only read red hence my choice :P) and a sparkly overlay, the more sparkly or glittery the better. Unfortunately, sparkly and glittery aren’t quite in my lip vocabulary and I did want something affordable so I trawled the pharmacy until I came on this by ZA which I’m afraid has to do.

The choices I picked were the Revlon Colour Burst lipstick in True Red and the ZA Plumper Lip Gloss in 06 Whitelights. Here we go 🙂Continue Reading

Might the ZA Cosmetics Impact Lash Mascara Volume be an affordable solution to a pricey mascara problem?

Paris B 40 Comments

Remember how I crowed with glee about finding my “Perfect Mascara” from Shiseido and then howled with despair at the cost it would cost me to upkeep that perfect lash? Ah guess what? I found a reasonable replacement in the ZA Cosmetics Impact Lash Mascara! It might interest you to note also that ZA Cosmetics is one of Shiseido’s sub-brands too so that might explain something 🙂 That said, I tried the ZA Cutie Curl mascara many years ago. I binned it quite quickly. Hated that one 😛

za cosmetics impact lash mascara volume

I’d been trialing this mascara for quite a while now to be very sure about how I felt about it. It comes in a typical mascara tube with a light pink and black colour scheme. I can’t be too sure about this but I think ZA has in fact re-branded themselves quite recently, turning their brand colours to pink when it was blue before. I had never quite paid much attention to this brand for various reasons. Mainly because it just never caught my attention! But I just last week bought a sparkly lipgloss from them so I’m keen to see how that will fare 🙂

But today its about this Impact Lash Mascara in the Volume formula and what I think of it.

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Budget makeup: I only have RM200 for makeup – Part 1

Paris B 10 Comments

I had a reader email me once to ask me how to buy makeup if she only had RM200 to RM250 to spend on makeup. Well, the point to note here is that good or at least decent makeup doesn’t have to be expensive. You can get some items that are of pretty decent quality at the pharmacy or drugstore and once applied, no one will be any wiser. I’m not kidding!

The nice thing about budget makeup is that it is cheap and often go on sale. So, if you are in the need of a pick-me-up and don’t want to blow a lot of money, just pop along to a pharmacy and pick up a lipstick. You’d be surprised at how much a new lipstick can do to brighten up your day.

I will be doing my personal recommendations for budget makeup over 2 parts so it doesn’t get too long. These brands I mention are easily found in most pharmacies including Guardian, Watson’s, Caring etc and if you have a Sasa, look in there too.

I will start with the Face – foundation and blush.

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