Anggie Lian

Sparkling Holiday, and the Gloss in Love

November, the 'shortest' month of the year, will come to an end. Is it me only, but I always feel November goes so fast. In a blink of an eye, here comes the 20th of November. It scares me, but at the same time I become excited. Because it means long holiday is nearby!!

Talking about this holiday, every thing should be in Christmas color. Who doesn't dream of White Christmas?! Even though I'm not a Christian, I'm the one who admires White Christmas. Winter, snow, plus Christmas seems so magical for me. Here, I stole a pic from google that I think describe how delightful the White Christmas.

taken from: gowanuslounge.com

People say Winter sucks. Can't bear the coldness. However, I still hope that God will allow me someday to experience the White Christmas. I'm just in love with the color of silver, white, and red combined. Therefore, I made an FOTD, inspired by this Christmas color.

This makeup is simple. As long as it looks kinda pale but still sparkling, it's enough. For lips, I wear my Lancôme Gloss in Love. I usually don't wear lipgloss, because I think it's too glossy for a matte lover like me. But, for this look, bright matte color will look too much, while nude color will look so pale. Then, I try to wear this lipgloss to avoid the dullness. The gloss is kinda similar with the sparkling theme I wear on my eye-make. Well, the result turns out good. I love the color of my lips.

Lancôme Gloss in Love in Scarlett Starlette.

The packaging is very luxurious, sweet, and cute. There's a small button to be clicked to open the lid. The applicator was made curved to be accustomed to our lip shape. See how much effort for designing this product.

This lipgloss has lovely color. It comes out natural, sweet, and shiny. It's a really perfect match to complete our holiday look.

Lancôme Gloss in Love, I'm in love! Happy holiday!

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Beauty

Take Me to Brazil from BH Cosmetics

I finally have an eyeshadow palette that consists of many colors. Yayy!

I'd been thinking of buying eyeshadow palette since...two years ago maybe 0.o. But everyone and also my own mind kept telling I don't need that, I'm not a makeup artist, it would be such a waste, and bla..bla..bla. However, my heart (which actually another side of my mind) kept wanting it. I sometimes found my self browsing cosmetics site shop, staring at the eyeshadow palettes. I said, I wanted that NYX 112 eyeshadow palette, ooh and this Coastal Scents is also good, and then Sleek one is better, and then MUA, and then, one day, I just saw Promise Phan posted this eyeshadow palette, Take Me to Brazil from BH Cosmetics.....and I bought it.

The reason why I decided to buy this palette: first, because it's pretty affordable, I got it for about IDR 250,000; and second, because the colors are unique and I haven't had those colors before (except the blue ones and the black & white), and third, I don't know why, maybe, because fate. It's just like I didn't think too much back then.

Here it is, 'Take Me to Brazil'

This palette consists of 30 different colors of eyeshadow. It has Brazilian theme, that's why BH cosmetics places fantastic colors in it, inspired by Brazilian parade. So many blue, green, and yellow colors. This also has black and white colors, which I didn't realize it before until the package came to my hand.

The packaging is simple but still catchy. No brush included, but at least, it has mirror in it.

Oh hi, my face!

When I tried to make swatches, I was surprised the colors can come out perfectly. It has good pigmentation. Not really pigmented, but it's good, seriously. Check this swatch!

LOLOL! No kidding though! I, first, tried it on my cousin's cheeks. He was willing to do that, even he added some by himself, and I was pretty excited seeing the colors on his cheeks.

The REAL swatches from top to bottom row, from left to right:

All colors in the third row are my favorites! And the shimmery ones in the last row are also good. I love this palette. Now I can create more look with this product.

Why I look so pale here?!

There's a rainbow below my eyes, by the way.

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Beauty

Shu Uemura Beauty Bloggers Gathering

Shu Uemura invited beauty bloggers to introduce their new product that finally had come to this country, Indonesia. I was really lucky to get the invitation and meet fellow beauty bloggers. The gathering was held at Seribu Rasa restaurant, at Lotte Shopping Avenue. That was my second time being there. I rarely go to mall, especially the ones at Kuningan.

Back to the event. So what is the new product of Shu Uemura?

It's The Lightbulb Liquid Foundation. It is said to be able to glow under any light. Women, nowadays, love natural glowing skin. But sometimes, when we goes to the area that is too dark or too bright, it makes our skin looks dull even though we already applied foundation. So, Shu Uemura tried to solve this problem by creating the foundation that makes the skin can glow under any light.

The Lightbulb Foundation also comes with the Lightbulb Sponge, the white one in the pic above. Pat the foundation on our face by using the larger side of the sponge, and for below eyes area and around nose area, use the pointed side instead. The sponge is easy to hold because of the shrunk shape at the center.

In Indonesia, the Lightbulb Liquid Foundation comes in different eight shades. Here are the 'Eight Shades of Foundation'.

There was the demo product, showing us how we're supposed to do makeup; from the basic skincare until a complete look with natural makeup.

For the glowing effect, Shu Uemura already has these steps to achieve that.

First, by using Tsuya Skin Youthful Radiance Generator. We never want wrinkles and dry skin. This Tsuya skin helps us to re-activate our skin's youth power, make it flawlessly even, and smooth, soft as petal, plumped, toned, and has translucent glowing. (excerpted from: www.shuuemura.com)

Second step, use Tsuya Skin UV Under Base Youthful Radiant Mousse. The UV Under Base from Shu Uemura has been the No.1 makeup base in Asia. This Tsuya Skin UV Under Base makes our skin looks dewy and youthful, ready for the makeup.

The third step is finally the foundation. Apply this with sponge for the best result and don't forget to pick the shade that matches the skin tone. Mine is 754 Medium Beige.

The last step is to set it with the powder. Loose powder will make the makeup last longer, especially in humid weather.

After skin had been ready, we went to primp another part of face; eyes, cheeks, lips, of course by using Shu Uemura products. This is my work bench, by the way. Hahahahaha.

I used Shu Uemura drawing pencil for eye liner. I just learned to make no gap between eyes and eye line, we need to draw our inner part of the eye using pencil eye liner. It will create natural deep-looking eyes without that ugly clear gap between our lashes and eyeball. LOL!

And apply eyeshadow, blush on, and lipstick in soft colors.

All colors I chose must have orange tone. Hahahaha. I love orange, it looks fresh on me.

On progress:

And after:

Pose with the new Lightbulb Foundation

After we all were done with our makeup, it was time to have lunch. Seribu Rasa serves traditional food, and they all taste so yummy. My favorite is the black pepper prawn. :9

Then, we visited the counter. I love the design, so colorful.

Bloggers love to take pictures. This is the prove. Once we got to the counter, all were ready to get the best picture of everything we saw. Hahahaha

This one grabbed most of our attention. Shu Lash!

The lashes were displayed on cute teddies. Not only the teddies who made me squealing in excitement, all the lashes themselves were already cute and unique.

Thanks to Shu Uemura Indonesia for such a great event. I really learned a lot. And super thanks for the Lightbulb foundation. Will definitely recommend this foundation. This is a genius invention, in my opinion, and I really love the sponge so much because it will give the very good result in applying foundation. Oh, this Lightbulb foundation comes with its sponge, it means when we purchase this foundation, we also get the sponge. Worth it.

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Beauty

L'oreal Professionnel 'Runway Hair Parade', Jakarta Fashion Week 2014

From October 19th to 25th, the biggest fashion event in Indonesia was held. It was Jakarta Fashion Week 2014 that was held at Senayan City Mall, Jakarta.

Fashion event is not only about outfits. Of course look is an important thing to be noted. Makeup and hairdo are things that support models' performance on runway shows. This year, the official product of backstage hairstylists in Jakarta Fashion Week is Tecni.art from L'oreal Professionnel. Along with the first day of Jakarta Fashion Week 2014, L'oreal Professionnel launched their new Tecni.art product called Super Dust.

Thanks to Indonesian Beauty Blogger who has given me chance to see the 'Runway Hair Parade' by L'oreal Professionnel. At there, I could see hair show and demo product using the new Super Dust that was done by five top backstage hairstylists of Jakarta Fashion Week 2013. They are Dorris from Sibel Salon, Batam; Fenny from Lie Kuang Salon, Semarang; Indah from Irwan Team Hair Design; Iwan from Iwan Salon, Bandung; and Jeffry Welly from Rudi Hadisuwarno School.

Tecni.art itself is a series of styling products that launched by L'oreal Professionnel. One of them is the new Super Dust that come in powder form. It offers three different runway look that may become the inspiration; Power Volume for messy hair, Super Matt for dry and matt effect that is suitable for short hair, and Instant Look for 60's hairstyle such as faux bob.

Collaborated with Hunting Fields for the 'Lucidity' outifts, here are the models with their runway hairstyle:

I also visited L'oreal Professionnel Hair Lounge. It was always crowded because everyone want to know more about the products. In addition, we could get hair-styling inside.