Product Review: Matte Suede Creamy Liquid Lipstick from Orkid Cosmetics

Recent matte liquid lipstick hype is burning hot and wild and I couldn't escape from it too. I especially love these liquid lipstick from Orkid Cosmetics, they are matte, they are creamy for smooth application, the colours were intense, I can't help but trying to put these on my lips for every occasion and every outing every time!

Got 4 different colours at once!
Thank you Orkid Cosmetics and Butterfly Project

I can't help but feeling like my makeup was on fleek everytime I put these on, this is so "Instagram Baddie" that I would've wanted to become occasionally! Maybe for some of you, you might be having chapped and dry lips all the time so here are some application tips for your "Instagram baddie lips" look:

• Smooth lips is like a perfect white canvas for ourself to paint on. So to ensure your lips aren't dry and chapped, make sure your body have enough daily water intake (dehydration might lead to dry lips) and lips exfoliation are done regularly. My easiest way to exfoliate lips WITHOUT lip scrub is: I brush my lips while I brush my teeth, twice a day. It kinda exfoliates my lips by brushing away those dead skin cells and improve lips blood circulation so my lips look fresh everyday!
• Apply Vaseline or coconut oil on lips before sleep. They will moisture lips throughout the night and lips look smooth the next morning.
• Apply thinnest layer as possible. The more you layered liquid lipstick on your lips, the easier your lips looks cracking and flaking. But with Orkid Cosmetics liquid lipstick, one layer is enough for my lips to look good!
• Concealer is your good friend! After applying liquid lipstick, if they aren't looking crisp and clear, use concealer and angled brush to drew the perimeter of your lips, making them look as sharp as you can. 

So after some tips and tricks, it's time for me to show you the swatches of these matte suede liquid lipsticks:

Top to bottom:
Turnt
Vibes
Blush
Mars

Sorry but this gotta make the ugliest lipstick swatches I've made! Hahahahahah
This is my first time and I have no idea how you guys make it so perfect, any tips regarding this?
Swatches from wrist towards elbow:
Turnt
Vibes
Blush
Mars

Can you tell which are my fav? I personally like beige/brownish tone nude colour when it come to liquid lipstick, or something that is very very strong like black, blue, dark purple and holographic (I keep wanting a holographic liquid lipstick but I can't find any at Malaysia! Somebody produce it already!) Nude tones are for the casual and strong tones are for random occasions such as attending event or party. 

After looking at my kinda "wtf" arm swatches (lolololol) let's move on to better photos of me and these four liquid lipstick:

Turnt

Vibes

Blush

Mars

First and foremost, I wanna say that they do not, I repeat, DO NOT dry out lips like some matte lipstick does. This vegan and halal formulated matte creamy liquid lipsticks are suitable for literally everyone, even those who often have very dry and chapped lips. My friend find it moisture her lips instead drying out, not to mention the long lasting colours as well.



Here's a short video of me applying these four new colour matte suede creamy lipstick from Orkid Cosmetics:

Another awesome reason to support these lippies because these lippies are made fresh right at the heart of Malaysia, 100% pure Malaysian born and bred brand and products, and these high quality babies only cost RM39/tube! Did I hear them right??????



So head over Orkid Cosmetics website: https://www.orkidcosmetics.com/ to find out more colour of your choice and I'ma rock favourite colour on tonight!


For more information:

Orkid Cosmetics Facebook Page

email: hello@orkidcosmetics.com

Whatsapp: +6010 421 6681

Wonder Woman Inspired Makeup by W.Lab Pocket Shadow Palette

Have you seen Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman? OH-MY-GOD my each and every breathe was taken away by her cute and innocent gestures as well as her bravery, courageous act and strong belief in bringing peace to the human race. Everything she presented on the big screen sets a very high standard on upcoming female superhero lead. 

So I decided to do a Wonder Woman inspired makeup video by using the products I have received on Butterfly Project's 4th Birthday Party (read blog post here). It was difficult to create a makeup that looks effortlessly flawless on Gal Gadot, but I did tried my best and it was fun to do makeup video of such. 

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The eyeshadow palette I used in the video above is W.Lab's Pocket Shadow Palette. My eyes were in heart emojis when I saw this baby in the birthday bag. It contains 10 matte and glitter brown shades that's perfect for my everyday looks.

Perfect size for stay-at-home and travel makeup routine

Look at 'em glitter and tones

Swatches on my yellowish pale skintone
one swipe for each tone, have I told you how much I love them glitter?

So here are all the makeup products I've used to achieve this Wonder Woman inspired look:

• Face:

-Foundation: 3CE Glossing Waterful Foundation in Natural Ivory

-Concealer: I'm Meme Concealer in Vanilla 

• Eyes: 

Eyeshadow:

-W.Lab Pocket Shadow Palette in Calendula, Sunflower, Freesia

-Fasio Eyeshadow Palette for darker brown shade

-W.Lab Pocket Shadow Palette in Acasia for highlight

Eyebrow:

-Etude House Drawing Eye Brow in Gray Brown

Eyeliners:
-Estee Lauder Double Wear Eye Pencil in Onyx

-Kiss Me Heroine Make Smooth Liquid Eyeliner

Mascara: 

-Maybelline in Big Eyes Mascara

• Contour & Highlight:

-MAC Nutcracker Sweet Copper Face Compact

• Lips:

-Orkid Cosmetics in Turnt

-dab highlight from MAC Nutcracker Sweet Copper Face Compact in middle area of lips

and voila!

I love this glowy, healthy makeup look, makeup look as such does empowers me from within and I appear to be more confident and strong, just like how Gal Gadot brings the positive impact in a worldwide scale that we can be pretty, funny, empathic, kind and justice if we believe in ourselves. I'm now looking forward to see her performance in Justice League!

Please do leave comment and tell me what do you think about my looks, as well as comments on my makeup video. Each and every of your comment and support is what drives to do better as well as enjoy doing it! Thank you~!

Happy 4th Birthday Butterfly Project Malaysia

If my blog were to count by years/days, this is will be my 12th/11th years of blog writing. It wasn't all-so-fancy when I think about it, blog writing definitely needs patience, perseverance and support and I am so glad that during my early blog writing years, I met the mamasan of Malaysian bloggers - Tammy. 

Honestly, I've never seen someone with so much passion when it comes to writing blog and sharing experiences and good deals she came across in her everyday life. I met her in SaSa blogger gatherings 8 or 9 years ago and I'm glad this friendship has been going on for so long and things has become bigger for her as she's one of the person-in-charge in Althea Korea and also the founder of Malaysian fashion/beauty blogger community - Butterfly Project. 

This year marks the 4th year of Butterfly Project, a lot of bloggers missed out the first celebration so Tammy decided to throw another party for bloggers to celebrate this wonderful event and she's the one paying for the party. Can you find someone who has so much passion and love when it comes to blogging and the love to see this industry grow? Honestly I can't, she really is the one and only mamasan for this industry, if it's not for seeing her going through her life's ups and downs and still insist in doing what she love + creating opportunities for bloggers, I might have gave up blogging some time ago. 

Upon receiving the invite to the party and saw the dress code was pastel, I seriously can't think of anything to wear as nowadays I'm more to monochromatic/casual style. Pastel is really not my thing lolololol so I decided to fully utilise my butterfly washi tape and use them to decorate my plainly drew makeup. 

Last minute working on the decoration. Event started at 3pm I'm cutting these butterflies out at cafe beside from 2:30p.m. with shivering hands because I'm too excited. *breathes heavily*

Beautifully decorated venue

There's no birthday party without cake and this cake is major love which later on it became a photo prop to all the bloggers. Jean almost drop it on the floor LOL!

Name cards and stickers for decoration purpose!
Perfect for crafty person like me yay!

TADAAA~! Our birthday bag sponsored by so many brands!
Not our birthday but we get presents! And so many of it! What sorcery is this Butterfly Project!

Here's what we have received inside the birthday bag!!! Totally OH-EM-GEE!!!

One of many Tammy's good traits is when she gives, she give whole-heartedly that you're the one being shy to receive. And this round, thanks to her and the whole Althea team, each and every blogger who attended the party received a birthday bag full of surprise goodies so that we have more things to blog about. I cannot tell you how much I love the products and I've already prepared a few separate blog posts to review them so stay tuned!

Here's a list of what we have received and thanks to all these generous sponsors who loaded the birthday bag with love and joy for each of us: 

• Wanderlust Things Unicorn Face Makeup Brush
• W.Lab Pocket Shadow Palette
• Orkid Cosmetics Liquid Lipsticks
• 1028 Bigs Eyes Magnifier Mascara
• Dolly Wink LiquidEyeliner
• Mamonde Liquid Eyeliner and Hydro Mist 
• Neesya Cleansing Set
• Hadabisei Moisturizing Face Mask
• Clinelle UV Defense
• Clinelle Hot Body Shaper Cream
• Adidas Climacool Shower Gel and Deodorant
• Pax Moly Aloe Vera Soothing Gel
• Photobook Malaysia book and 4R prints

I guessed you would've know which few are my favourites as I've already started using them and posted in my instagram/insta story. Will do more reviews of these products so be sure you follow my Instagram account as well. 

Last but not least, G&G Studiobooth for beautiful photobooth decorations and photo print outs as memorabilia! The printed photos with Jean and Zihang is definitely going into my journal already.

The one and only photo that features me and makeup lol. Thanks Jean!
I've won a NYX makeup goodie bag too for best makeup XD

After seeing all these for a community birthday, can you find someone who has so much passion and love when it comes to blogging and the love to see this industry grow? Honestly I can't, Tammy really is the one and only mamasan for this industry, if it's not for seeing her going through her life's ups and downs and still insist in doing what she love + creating opportunities for bloggers, I might have gave up blogging some time ago. 

Seeing Butterfly Project going stronger and stronger, with more younger bloggers joining and senior bloggers like me and Jean staying around, this community is a platform to support each other in blogging industry especially when there are people who wanna exploit and use bloggers as free advertising marketing strategy. Community like Butterfly Project and people like Tammy teaches us that we bloggers do have our own worth and never, ever do anything for free, even bloggers need to eat and live life and there's no free lunch in this world right?



I hope I can continue be invited to the 5th, 6th, 7th and so on birthday of Butterfly Project and continue to be a part of this wonderful community.




For more information:

The Butterfly Project Official Facebook Page