KISS Mineral Makeup Bloggers Workshop

Link up by Fatin and Faceworks Clinic, Me, Jean and Lisa got invited to an intimate blogger workshop by KISS Mineral Makeup x Faceworks Clinic not long ago. It was a quite amazing discovery that there's something about make-up and mineral make-up that I wasn't aware of. Of course, am gonna share what I learned that day here with you all today.

KISS Mineral Make-up, the 100% mineral make-up that you can find in Malaysia
Recommended by doctors and professionals.

Make-up has become my daily, or ALMOST daily routine that I have to practice, and everybody knows how conventional make-up products are doing harm to our skin each day. Eventhough we protect our skin with skincare products and also make-up base, make-up products loaded with all sorts of chemicals are made into tiny particles nowadays so that the make-up will stay fit all day. It is not a good sign as these small particles will clogged up our skin's pores and did harm more than good.





There are so many so-called mineralized make-up nowadays available in the market, but they are still not 100% mineral make-up like KISS that Faceworks Clinic is promoting, hence it is not as beneficial as 100% mineral make-up is. Although just recent years that mineralized make-up is becoming more and more popular in the market, but the fact is mineral make-up is already been used by one of the most beautiful empress of all time - Cleopatra back in her glorious Egyptian days. Yes, we're talking about thousands years back.

in case you don't know, this is how Cleopatra's make-up is.
And yes, she's using all minerals to do her make-up back in those days.

Priscilla, she's the person in charge of the KISS Mineral Make-up

Just a small portion and generally showing what are the products of KISS Mineral Make-up

Like I mentioned before, mineral make-up isn't something new in the market. In fact, mineral make-up has been used for thousand and thousand of years back in the Cleopatra era. The Egyptians discovered the benefits of minerals, hence they use them to cover their face, which slowly evolve into something we call "Make-up" today.



The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans used mineral as make-up, such as black kohl and green malachite were used by Egyptians while Greeks and Romans use chalk, honey and iron oxide. These "Earth Colour" are all natural, made of minerals from the ground on earth. These minerals can prevent eye diseases, protecting skin from climate changes and also some minerals are known for cooling effect on the skin after application. KISS Mineral Make-up are here to bring the brand's users back to what mineral make-up is for - protect our skin instead of doing harm to it.

With Lisa, ready to try KISS now!

Here I am, gonna try the 100% au-naturale make-up products. First thing first, remove the light make-up I've done on the day itself:

Using KISS Advanced Vita-C Milky Cleanser
I love this cleanser so much, it smells like orange.

Before we start our own, Priscilla is going to demo on Dr. Marr of Faceworks Clinic of how to use the products, and we just have to follow the steps.

Cleansing time!

Love how the cleansing milk can easily cleanse off my make-up.

Remember: before apply any make-up products, give your skin enough hydration to protect it, and of course, don't forget to slab on tons of...

Sunblock!

Make-up base done!
Is time to make-up~!

Priscilla is applying foundation on Dr. Marr.

Did you know that 100% mineral make-up doesn't have any other form other than powder? Because it contains 100% pure mineral and it won't clog up the pores of our skin like how conventional make-up products in liquid/cream form does. Using 100% mineral make-up is like putting on a layer of mineral mask on face instead of having the make-up products entering our pores and goes into the skin's epidermis layer and end up going into the blood stream.





I'm shocked with the amount of foundation powder needed for my face:

This little!??

Yes, is that little for a very light and basic foundation. If you feel like you wanted your make-up to be more heavy, put on another and another layer on your own preference.

Brush the foundation on, in circle mode.

For those dark eye circles and red spots, you can use a smaller tip brush, dip some powder and brush on the area you wanna cover more. It really amaze me such light weight powder can cover up my face and at the same time, leaving me feeling fresh and free. My face are totally oil free until late night that day. Love the feeling how my skin feels after applying KISS foundation powder.

While I'm brushing on the foundation powder, Priscilla is doing some magic.

One of the most harmful make-up product a woman can be using is lipstick. Imagine all the chemicals we consume into our body that will just stay inside our body until it's fully loaded, and in the end, our organs and body system starts to breakdown, especially our kidneys. It's very scary isn't? I'm not really a lipstick fan, but I do aware how harmful these can be to my body.



Some of the lips problem, such as crack, discolouration, dry, sensitive, can be due to the environment and also the lip products we're using. KISS make-up's lipstick are recommended by doctor to their patients who love to make-up so that they can use the lipstick at the same time protect their lips. What Priscilla was doing is to turn KISS mineral make-up, can turn their blush powder into gloss, just add the blush colour to vaseline and voila, you can have the same colour tone of blusher and lip gloss!

it's all about matching cheek colour and lips.

These are KISS mineral make-up's blusher, highlight and eyeshadow.

Just like normal eyeshadow we apply, KISS's eyeshadow works perfectly fine on my skin. I love how the colour changes for each layer I apply on, and their colours are oh-so-fine-looking with the glitters. Their eyeshadows can be done in two ways, the dry, powdery way or the wet cotton bud way. The difference is so huge for both ways:

While the upper stroke is the dry way, the lower stroke which colour appears to be more vibrant is drawn using wet cotton bud. 

If you want to, you can also add the powder of eyeshadow into clear nail lacquer, you can create your own nail polish colour which matches with your eyes. Uber cool right?

Not to mention, eyeliner is a must in my make-up dictionary and this eyeliner is so easy to draw.
Plus they are REAL black kohl eyeliner and non-smudging as well!

Look at what ONE lipstick can appear as a few different tones when apply to different skin tone.
This is how unique KISS make-up is!

The best seller of KISS mineral make-up: Lip Plumper
Instantly plumps up your lips, gorgeous looking kissable lips in just seconds!

Voila~! Make-up done using KISS 100% mineral make-up.

Everything is so light-weighted, there's zero burden on my skin that day! Imagine I wore the make-up from 2pm until midnight, and there's no smudge, withstand my sweat (because I went to Dash Berlin concert with the make-up) and long-lasting! KISS mineral make-up makes my look so smooth and also protect the skin with no chemical damage done to it.

A great workshop indeed with these gorgeous ladies
From left, Fatin, Jean and Lisa.

Last but not least, with Dr. Marr and Priscilla.

KISS mineral make-up is recommended by doctors for girls who have sensitive skin, and it is available at Faceworks Clinic located at Starhill Gallery, Pamper Floor, unit S16. Do check out their website for more information you wish to know:

www.kissmineral.com
www.faceworks-clinic.com

K-Palette Beauty Workshop

Thank you for the arrangement of Mandom Corp. and Manoah Consulting, 20 beauty bloggers including me get to learn some REAL Japanese make-up tips which is in trend now! Took part in the K-Palette Beauty Workshop last weekend and learned some in-trend Japanese make-up tips which was taught to us by a 15 years experienced of professional make-up artist who flew all the way from Japan to Malaysia, such a great learning opportunity and I can't wait to share all these to you.

Good Morning, K-Palette!

Went to the beauty workshop with Jean, and both of us were sick. *cough cough* Luckily the last two seats were at the back as we both are like two big walking bacterias which take turns to cough throughout the whole event that I feel so embarassed for attending the workshop under a bad condition. Gomen-nasai!!!

Two sick cats
Can we both turn to Japanese-ish good looking girls?

Although am still feeling sick, but whenever I get in touch with tons and tons of make-up, I immediately become wide awake. Get to experience all the awesome products from K-Palette chased away all the unwell feeling in me.

Oooh la~la~ Tons of good stuff waiting for me to explore!

First of all, an opening remarks by the director of K-Palette who flew all the way from Japan to Malaysia:

Mr. Kinoshita

Here comes the superstar of the day - Ms. Inagaki and her translator Mr. Suzuki.

It's quite fun to have all the friendly Japanese around. Suzuki-san's translation sometimes made us burst in laughter as well. Such a fun environment for us to learn and enjoy. Inagaki-san's 15 years of make-up experience made her a good tutor as well. She understands well about the needs of Asian women's skin and also make-up habit, which I felt very connected with all the things she said.

Let's start the make-up process!

As usual, before you start the make-up process, it is a MUST to complete your skincare routine to ensure your skin are hydrated and moisturized so that your make-up will stay fit all day! That is one of the key point to have longer lasting make-up look from day till night. So don't be lazy to put on those toner, lotions, moisturizer and sunblock!





This is my first time trying the products from K-Palette, and I must say that I am impressed by their awesomeness! Their 0(Zero) Tema BB Cream light up my face instantly and their 0(Zero) Kuma Concealer comes in 3 shades to cater for different type of eye's dark circle needs. Both of these base make-up products made perfect fit to my skin, they are very light weighted and oil controlling, love it!!!

From top to bottom: Tone 1 , 2 and 3
Tone 1: Suitable for all types of dark circles
Tone 2: Tad bit yellowish, for brownish/reddish type of dark circles
Tone 3: Tad bit orangey, for blue-ish/green-ish type of dark circles

While we're putting on 0 Tema BB Cream and conceal our dark eye circles, Inagaki-san drew two faces which indicates the cool type face and the cute type face.

Which is you?
I'm the cool type face.

Tadaaa~ Basic foundation make done!
Using 0 Zero Tema BB Cream and 0 Zero Kuma concealer.
They did miracles!

Inagaki-san define each of us what type of face we are, and which type of make-up we're suitable for. Although I'm cool type face, but it is also possible for me to do cute type of make-up once in a while, for the suitable occasion. Feeling a bit kawaii recently, don't really wanna look cool. lol. So let's define the make-up by drawing le eyebrows! It is such an important step in defining a girl's make-up don't you think so?

First time using K-Palette Lasting 2 Way Eyebrow.

Comes with two type of tips, easy to draw and the define the eyebrows at certain area.
Loving the powder brush!

For girls with cute face type, your eyebrows should be shorter, and for girls with cool face type like mine, the eyebrow can be longer. I prefer draw my eyebrows in thicker shape nowadays and I don't know why. I guess my drawing skill change from time to time. lol.

See! Eyebrow make a lot of difference to one's feature.

After I drew my eyebrow, I feel kinda heart itchy to try on their eyebrow mascara, so while waiting for Inagaki-san to check and help draw other's eyebrows, I try and brush the eyebrow mascara onto my already drew brows, and it was a mistake! Put on way too many eyebrow mascara that they clumped together and my eyebrow looks dead and fake. Gotta remove my eyebrow make-up and do it all over again. LOL!





A lesson for being hand itchy did something extra, and also made me realize how much I like the Lasting 2Way Eyebrow, so easy to draw and define my eyebrow shape in just seconds, I can draw layers and layers without my eyebrow looks like Crayon Shin-Chan's. Love!!!!





I can see that K-Palette really focus on eye make-up as they have tons of products cater for eye make-up needs. Next we're gonna do is drawing eyeliner, which is my favourite part during a make-up process. As usual, cool type face have to draw the line longer as for cute type face, shorter. Yes, am gonna use that number one best selling eyeliner in Japan - K-Palette Real Lasting Eyeliner 1Day Tattoo!

1Day Tattoo, gonna use both eyeliner and eye pencil.

Let's draw cat eye~!

Cat eyeliner done!

After trying out the eyeliner, I'm convinced why it is the number 1 selling eyeliner in Japan - Because it is so easy to use and non-smudge plus stay the whole day!!! Can feel it is easy to glide through my eye lines when I draw using the eyeliner, its tip is sharp and of course, non-smudging for the whole day! Plus it can be remove using warm water, long-lasting stay but easy removal, sounds like heaven!

The next boom that K-Palette is bringing into Malaysia market, is this:

Real Lasting Tears Tank 1Day Tattoo
For highlighting eyebags

If you don't know, that eyebag make-up is the IN thing in Japan and Korea make-up trend now Now NOW!!! Everybody wants eyebag make-up, and the watery eye effect that eyebag make-up creates is so good that I bet all the guys wouldn't bully you for a single second!

The creamy and highlighting effect of the Tears Tank 1Day Tattoo is really good!

Normally, when I wanna do the eyebag make-up, I have to use highlight powder or white/beige eyeshadows and apply them on my eyebags. Of course it is quite inconvenient and sometimes the powder of the eyeshadows will drop into my eyes during the application process, it was a painful process to get it out from my eyes and irritates my eye so much. Now with the Tears Tank 1Day Tattoo, highlighting my eyebags is just an easy peasy process.

Let's do this!

How's the highlighting effect?
I love it!!! 

After applying the Tears Tank 1Day Tattoo and 1Day Lash Perm Mascara, my look of the day is pretty much done! K-Palette's 1Day Lash Perm mascara really lengthens and curled my eyelashes without using eyelash curler! Both me and Jean were amazed by how it lengthens and curled my eyelashes, especially my lower eyelashes that looks so long and dolly after apply.

Now, we're two Gorgeous sick cats. Hahaha.

It was a really fun workshop learning from Inagaki-san and get to lay my hands on all the K-Palette's best selling products. Feels so much better after the workshop, maybe it's because I feel the confidence is coming back with my make-up done face. That's why, being pretty is not just about looks, but to boost our inner self-esteem that bring us positive attitude towards life!

Meow~!!

Thank you Mandom Corp., K-Palette and Manoah Consulting for organizing this wonderful beauty workshop that brought tons of fun and confidence back in me. Such a perfect start for a beautiful Sunday! Time to catwalk out the building and conquer the world!!! MEOW~!!!

Last but not least, group pic time with Mr. Kinoshita, Ms. Inagaki and Mr. Suzuki!
(Thank you Jolie for this photo!)

Pureology - Save Water. Give Water Campaign 2013

There's always a story behind every successful brand, and I've never heard one as beautiful as Pureology's brand story that it touches me so much and made me believe that there are always love and kindness in this world that we are unaware of, and we SHOULD aware of.

In conjunction with year 2013's World Water Day, Pureology has announced its innovational campaign which is called Save Water. Give Water Campaign 2013. A series of campaign activities and efforts will be launch and the benefit made will be contribute for the communities who are in needs. 

Water conservation is the biggest initiation for Pureology worldwide yearly since year 1998 and the brand has been partnered with Green Cross International (GCI) to sponsor and help the children and women in Ghana to enjoy safe drinking water and proper sanitation. It is real saddening that when some of us wasted all those precious clean water running from our tap without a lil bit guiltiness, children in Ghana have to walk miles and miles away from home to the nearest rivers just to get water for their daily use. 

Pureology is a pioneer in sustainability among all L'Oréal brands ever since L'Oréal corporation set its ambitious goals for waste, water and CO2 reductions. Sustainability is all about preserving the natural resources, the environment, benefiting communities and generating positive profits. L'Oréal Corporations has a heritage of environmental consciousness, using green botanicals and 100% vegan formulas since its inception. It is no longer about traditional marketing trend, but the future of business strategy.

In year 2012, Pureology has re-launch its new packaging renovation with breakthrough formulas and production method to reduce water usage at company level but they didn't just stop there. This year, Pureology has leveled up their effort in their sustainability endeavors and which consists two support strategies:

Launch of the Limited Edition Hydrate

Whenever a consumer purchase products from this stunning collection, one Euro will go to the Green Cross International clean water program as part of the fundraising efforts. The vibrant artwork on those Limited Edition Hydrate packaging is actually a compilation of drawings by school children at the Makango School in Northern Ghana.

The compilation drawings on the packaging and merchandise for this Limited Edition Hydrate range shampoo and conditioner touches the hearts of consumer. 

Opening remarks 

A video clip were showed to all the guests before the presentation of Pureology and seriously, the children and women in Ghana is living a hard life without clean water and personal hygiene is at its worst that it breaks my heart. In fact, 800 million people all over the world doesn't have access to clean drinking water and more than 1 billion people are lack of proper sanitation. At times like this I am thankful for being born as Malaysian, at least I have access to clean water and drinking water as well as proper sanitation system that others sees as a privilege in life.






"I sincerely appeal to people everywhere to come to our aid, because we really need their support to make a difference in my region. People are suffering and I pray that they will come to our aid."These words are said with tears by Sharifatu Yassif, a 21 years old assistant teacher from the Makango School in Northern Ghana. My heart breaks at the same time when she cried, hoping that more people in the world realize the difficulties they are in and hoping for help that can improve their lives. It was such a relief to know that Pureology is playing an important role and giving help to the children and women in Ghana and now they have access to clean water without walking miles afar.

Awesome product presentation from Pureology Malaysia Team

Pureology caters for every type of hair needs and care for the hair color that you into taking care of. Its 100% vegan formula are made with plant extracts and its AntiFadeComplex includes essential antioxidants to defend against colour-fading free radicals  + full spectrum of UVA/UVB helps our colour-treated hair to stay vibrant as if we just step out of salon. All ranges of shampoo of Pureology are ZeroSulfate shampoos which are formulated naturally with ingredients such as coconut, corn and sugar which gently cleanse our hair scalp but at the same time maximize the colour retention of our coloured hair.





The founder of Pureology Jim Markham created the brand on behalf of his beloved friend, who is a cancer patient but still loves to make herself pretty by dying her hair. The harmful ingredients in conventional shampoo made her suffer and there's where Jim Markham started to create Pureology, a ZeroSulfate shampoo which uses natural ingredients to protect coloured hair and also, protects our natural hair colour away from the damage.

There's no excuse for not supporting Pureology
Such a good brand for hair colour protection at the same time contribute to the Green Cross International.

With my girls at the Pureology Save Water Campaign 2013.
Tammy, Fatin and Lisa

With Jojo Stuys and Ning Baizura who graced the event with their appearance.

Thank you to the L'Oreal Malaysia and Pureology team who organized this event, to once again reminds of how grateful we Malaysian should be to have unlimited supply of clean water to our house everyday, to have clean drinking water without having to suffer and walk just to get a bucket of water. Please be thankful of what we have and cherish them while they're still available. Save water, and give a bit of your support to those who are in need!

Water Saving is the IN thing!
Don't forget to do it everyday, for a longer sustainability for us, and the next generation.

Get yourself a bottle of Pureology shampoo and conditioner to experience the Sulfate-Free hair washing and long lasting hair colour with radiant shine. Available at selected hair salons.  

Juice Beauty

The haze is getting serious lately that the poor air condition we're having here is making me sick. Except drink more water to replenish and hydrate our body all the time, fresh juice is another solution too to boost our body immune system. 

Received a very delicate box from Tammy, courtesy of OnlyBeauty that I have no idea what awesome products are inside and it is from Juice Beauty.

The Organic Solution

People nowadays are so concern about what they eat or drink so that they can improve their health through their lifestyle and eliminate all the harmful pesticides from entering their body. Beauty lovers can too, by using organic beauty products. Juice Beauty are made with certified organic ingredients, allow consumers to enjoy the benefit of beauty products made of high quality organic ingredients without the worry of unhealthy ingredients usage.




Our skin absorb 64% of beauty products we place on it, so instead of using products which made from harmful ingredients, use products made with organic ingredients. Juice Beauty organic products gives better age defying and blemish clearing results than conventional products. Their clinical validation result showed up to 87% reduction of free radical scavenging on skin's surface. Time to say goodbye to wrinkles and sunspots!

Juice Beauty is so good that I can drink it.

Time to reveal what are in the cute Juice Beauty box:

Cleansing gel, oil free moisturizer, blemish clearing serum and stem cellular repair moisturizer.

Come to think of it, Juice Beauty is the first organic beauty products that I get in touch with, and I'm glad that I get to know more about Juice Beauty through OnlyBeauty. They have the highest percentage of organic ingredients juice base. Every drop I use will be feed to my skin with powerful antioxidants, nutrients, vitamins, minerals and more! And that also includes jojoba, aloe, grapeseed, organic shea and 30 more organic juices which made Juice Beauty products contains very high level of goodness that are feed to my skin.

Juice Beauty Cleansing Gel - Antioxidant Cherry Juice.

Today would like to show you the Cleansing Gel of Juice Beauty. Another thing I've been worry about is will these healthy beauty products smells bad, as if it smells like medicine or something that isn't appealing. NOT AT ALL I TELL YOU! I like the smell of their beauty products, it's very natural and full of cherry goodness. 

The cleansing gel is very lightweight and non-greasy at all, not in a very thick form, but easy enough to apply all over my face and start cleansing. Not much foam, but easy to rinse off from skin and therapeutic as well as the aroma lingers on skin surface. I can feel my skin is clean and feeling refreshing, not even slightly feel of tensed skin at all after cleansing, which proves that my skin is cleaned but moisturized at the same time, not over-dry and able to restore the balance of my skin condition.

Juice Beauty's Antioxidant Cherry Juice Cleansing Gel is now one of my favourite cleansing gel after I found out that my skin absorb what I apply on, even during cleansing. The cleansing gel is gentle but still cleanse my skin thoroughly even after I removed my make-up. I strongly recommend this cleansing gel to all those organic beauty lovers who are reading this! 

Care for your health while looking fabulous, Juice Beauty is the organic solution for beauty lovers skincare regime. For more products info about Juice Beauty, you can always refer to OnlyBeauty's website to know more, or visit Juice Beauty Official Website. 

Juice Beauty Cleansing Gel
Your organic solution!