I'm always interested to try a product that has brightening effect, because I am a fan of bright skin, even weirder, I'm a fan of pale skin. This, I think, is a matter of personal taste. Don't relate this with racism or other issues, because it's really up to people if they like white skin or dark skin; tanned skin, yellow skin, even alien skin (oh come on, it's not The Sims). But what important is...choose the safest way to achieve your favorite color. Me, myself, is not really pale, even kinda tanned a bit because of my outdoor activities, but I'm not and won't be interested in buying instant whitening nor inject something to my body with some substances in order to make my skin paler. Nope. Too risky.

Why I talked about bright/white skin?! Because this post will be about a review of one product from Dr. Jart+, called V7 Beauty Balm. V7 is actually a series of products that has whitening and anti-wrinkle effect, and V7 Beauty Balm is one of it. There are also toner, serum, emulsion, and spot treatment. Plus, it contains seven vitamins. That's why they are named V7. Oh! This maybe the safest way to get white skin.

I've attended the launching of V7 and already posted here. You may go to that post to see the detail of V7.

V7 Beauty Balm is...well, you know it by 'BB Cream', BB for Beauty Balm. And as we all can see from the package, it offers perfect protection from UV/UB, seven vitamins complex, and natural looking coverage.

Perfect Protection From UV/UB

This Beauty Balm has SPF 30 / PA++, which is ideal for everyday sun protection. Worry not if the sun will burn face, because this beauty balm will protect it.

Seven Vitamins Complex

V7 Beauty Balm is a multi-functional BB Cream. Not only for coverage, this also nourishes skin with its 7 vitamins; A, B3, B5, C, E, F, and H.

Natural Looking Coverage

It will hide the imperfection without looking cakey.

My impression after several times applying this BB Cream to my face is...I like it! First, because it gives good coverage. Not too shiny, too dewy, but matte. Natural!

Left: Before, Right: After

It hides my dark circle, acne scars, dark spots, and gives a really natural result. It lasts long too, not become cakey after hours wearing this.

Second reason why I like it is the fragrance. It smells so good and really relaxing. It doesn't smell like usual BB cream, instead, it smells like a skincare cream with nice scent. I don't know maybe it's kinda like fruit scent or something. The fragrance is not too strong. That's a good point.

And the third reason, the shade is really suit my taste. It really give brighter skin as a result. Here's the swatch:

The contra I have maybe also the same like the point 3 of reason why I like it, which is the shade. It may only suitable for pale to fair skin. Even I like white skin so much, I don't dare applying this too much to my face. I just use a bit of it, even less amount than I usually use other BB cream. My swatch pics explain everything. My hand has darker color than my face. So it give a very clear difference between the area I use and the area I don't use this BB cream.

That's my review of Dr.Jart+ V7 Beauty Balm. Drop the comment to share your opinion. Thanks!

When I was searching pictures for my Gradient Lips Tutorial, this picture appeared on Google search:

My reaction was just like.....dat freckles ♥. Since that day, I've wondered how I look like with freckles. I think it's cute to have freckles on face, especially on nose area. On instagram, many people with freckles on their face wear makeup, and no lie, freckles make the colors popped up. It's really nice if freckles is combined with vivid colors, or even unusual colors, not only pink, orange, and red, but lime or yellow.

And then, days ago, I saw this on youtube:

Haruka Kurebayashi made a tutorial to be a Blythe Doll, that also has cute freckles. The colors used there were orange and pink. I love her eye-make there.What a coincidence! Because I really wanna make that look so much. Well, actually my reaction was how dare you steal my unpublished idea?! LOL :P

Okay! Enough for today. Oh nope..some more..

I know the freckle doesn't look perfect, because I cannot make precise spots with just the brown eyeshadow I used. Wah~ I think I need that Dolly Wink eyeliner *stroking my wallet*

Well, maybe, let me thank first to the duo, Systrom and Krieger, for creating instagram. Because nowadays, it has been my best friend. It has been my no 1 entertainment social media. I have a lot of fun there. I love to stalk cool people and find some inspirations, maybe.

For this post, as you've seen from the title, it is the look I created, inspired by Ruby Gloom a.k.a Ruby Chen. I knew her from instagram. Yaa you know, I stalked cool people and it lead me to another cool people, and it lead to another one, until I finally found Ruby Gloom and started to be her follower. She comes from Hongkong. She is a model, DJ, a fashion editor, and an official alien (that's what she said). Check her instagram @rubyrubygloom.

Her style may into punk and also goth, but I actually don't like to address someone with such typical terms like that. I love to call her style with rubygloom's style. Okay, just forget about punk goth I've mentioned.

Credits to her instagram account.

I fall in love with her style; her outfit, her makeup, especially her eye-make. Then I decided to make one look, inspired by her signature makeup.

I hope you all note it that it is an inspired look, not makeup transformation. So I modified some, not really transformed into Ruby Gloom. And, here it is:

I made the lips to be more dolly, because I realized my lips' shape is really different from her, and I lost my concealer at that time (meh!), so I just made it like that.

Then, in the mid of photoshoot, I dropped one of my bottom falsies, and it's nowhere to be found. So I just pulled off another one, so the left eye and the right eye will be balance, and the photoshoot continued:

LOL! Hope you like this post! Happy Sunday!

On September 14th, beauty bloggers were invited to Lancôme Hypnôse Palette Launching at Kota Kasablanka, Jakarta. The main agenda that day was introducing the new pallette launched by Lancôme, which name I already mentioned in the title.

Lancôme Hypnôse Palette offers three different looks to be achieved; Hypnôse Star Eyes, Hypnôse Doll Eyes, and Hypnôse Drama Eyes. That's why the invitees must come dressed as one of the looks to match the theme of that day's event.

The new palettes come in twelve different color variants to choose. 

DR is for drama look, ST is for star look, and DO is for doll look. You can see that Drama and Star contain sexy smokey colors, while Doll is more colorful one, the colors look cute and cheerful as a doll.

The palette also comes in a kit with two brushes inside. The specialty of this kit: it is designed for every women whether she is busy or not, she'll be able to wear this eyeshadow anytime and anywhere. Because, even  if the palette is flipped down, the brushes and the eyeshadow won't fall off. So, although we apply makeup in a rush, anytime and anywhere, we can achieve hypnotizing look with this perfect eyeshadow. And moreover, this eyeshadow is really pigmented.

The main event on that day was the demo product. Three makeup artists and three models were ready on the stage. Each model represented each look of the Lancôme Hypnôse Palette. The one with black dress was the Star, the cute pink dressed model was the Doll, and the stunning model with the blue dress was the Drama.

The models really hypnotized the audience, because of the looks created by the new Lancôme Hypnôse Palette, and also the role they played. Look! The Doll was always smiling, she looked like a Barbie doll. The Star looked elegant. And the Drama looked like a real drama queen. Hahahaha

Tadaaa! Etude House Color Pop Tint in Sunny Pop

I bought it moooontttthsss ago. And now, this becomes my favorite lip color to be worn to create gradient lips. Read the post here.

This Color Pop Tint claims to have such a cute pop color to our lips. Pop means bright here. It's available in five different colors: #1 Fashion Pop, #2 Sunny Pop, #3 Vita Pop, #4 Coral Pop, #5 Swing Pop. I chose the #2 Sunny Pop because I'm always a fan of red-orange color.

This is the applicator.

Nothing special, just usual applicator.

And this is the swatch on my hand:

And on my lips:

Pretty color, isn't it?! The color really pops out. Not as orange as I expected, though, but it will appear great if we apply concealer first.

That's all! Bye!