Review - Beauty Box Urban Lips Manhattan

Hello gorgeous! How are you today? Hope that you had a great weekend and all charged up to thrive on the upcoming week. I had a pretty lazy weekend and I blame for the weather, the gloomy rainy weather which made me just wanna curl up in my bed. I was not feeling well too last weekend but nothing serious though, I guess just a bug messing with my throat. I feel all better now after boosting my body with a lot of liquid and vitamins. So now, I’m ready to give you my review on a spanking brand new lipstick in town, BeautyBox Urban Lips Lipstick. Beauty Box just launched this last month and you can find it on your nearest Beauty Box counter or on Sociolla website.

Beauty Box Urban Lips is a locally made lipstick by Beauty Box. I got mine from Sociolla as one of the gifts for winning the Sociolla Halloween Spooktacular make up competition last week. I was so excited to find this lipstick between the other items in the box because I saw the pictures of Urban Lips launching from the other beauty blogger and I have a crush on its colors! They look really good on the lips and the colors are so vibrant. Without question, this lipstick is definitely the first one from the others that I will review on my blog.

Beauty Box Urban Lips comes in 11 shades from nude to deep red shade. The shade names are inspired from focal points in New York and London because Urban Lips wants to bring the big cities vibes to the users, which are vibrant, sophisticated, and fabulous. My Urban Lips comes in shade Manhattan, a red shade with neutral undertone. 

The coolest part of the lipstick is the box packaging. I adore those city landmarks silhouette! It looks so edgy and chic. The bullet is chubbier than the other lipsticks that I own, and shorter too. The texture when you apply the lipstick is a bit creamy but not long after the application on the lips, the finish look is matte. It doesn’t feel velvety matte like Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited Lipstick, but I like Urban Lips too because it doesn’t make my lips dry. The color is pigmented but did not leave deep tint on your lips after it fades away. It stayed put beautifully on my lips for 4-5 hours without eating. 

The thing with red lipstick is they tend to bleed out to your outer lines of lips sometimes especially after you eat, drink, or talk a lot. I’m so happy to tell you that Urban Lips doesn’t bleed out on my lips. Maybe due to its matte texture too. 

Now, we get to the sad part. My Urban Lips lipstick came in a beauty box sent by Sociolla. When I opened the lipstick, everything is good, no damage on the lipstick. But then, just exactly when I pressed the lipstick to apply it to my lips, the bullet fell down! It broke on the base of the lipstick and fell down to my vanity table. I picked it up and tried to mend it but to no avail *crying in the corner*. The lipstick bullet couldn’t hold it together again. I really don’t know what happened and it is such an unfortunate thing. I got this lipstick as a gift but yet still disappointed that the lipstick is broken now. I would be even more disappointed if I purchased it on my own. But I’m not blaming anybody here, I just want to express my sadness towards what happened because I really like the lipstick. I wonder if it also happened to someone else too.

I still put the bullet in the case, but now I could only apply the lipstick using my lip brush. I could not carry the lipstick everywhere in my make up pouch because it means I have to carry my lip brush along too. And when you’re outside the house, I think it’s a bit of hassle if you have to reapply your lipstick using lip brush.

Well, that’s the end of my review. Overall, this is a good lipstick, long wear, and the color is lovely. Are you ready to rock your city girl vibe? Have you tried them? Let me know what you think about Beauty Box Urban Lips.

Stay tune on my blog for other products review that I got from Sociolla.

Cheers,

Stef

Unboxing - Sociolla Pink Beauty Box (Spooktacular Halloween Makeup Prize)

Hello gorgeous!!

It's unboxing time!! This time is a present that I got from Sociolla from winning their Spooktacular Halloween Makeup Competition. I was over the moon knowing that my Porcelain Doll makeup won the competition.Yes, I won! For the first time in my life, I won a makeup competition. Yeayyy!! 

Sociolla sent me this Pink Beauty Box as a prize. I always love their pink boxes. Did you know now I have 3 pink boxes. I collect them all to keep my stuffs. 

So, what's in the box?
Bioderma Sensibio Starter Kit
Beauty Box Urban Lips Lipstick in Manhattan
Masami Shouko Angled Eye Shadow Brush
Prestige Makeup Eraser Pen
Rtsy Silk False Lashes in Antoinette
GlamGlow ThirstyMud Sample

Most of them are exactly the beauty products that I've been wanting to try, such as Beauty Box Urban Lips, Rtsy falsies, and GlamGlow Thirsty Mud. Please stay tune on my blog for the reviews. I never heard about Prestige brand though. Let me check google for more information on that brand.

If you are looking for a beauty online shopping website, you better check Sociolla out. Wide product range and now they even carry Marc Jacobs Beauty! Thank you Sociolla for choosing me as one of your winners. I had so much fun joining your makeup competition. Wishing you the best in business :) 

Cheers,

Stef

Event - Clozette Indonesia Blogger Babes Asia Female Blogger Gathering

Hello gorgeous people! Today I would like to share with you about my experience joining Clozette Indonesia seminar. In this event, Clozette Indonesia working together with Blogger Babes and giving us the most exciting female blogger gathering of the year.

Blogger babes..Hmmm.. What is Blogger Babes? 

Taken from their website; www.bloggerbabes.com.

“Blogger Babes is a community of driven female bloggers seeking solutions and support to successfully navigate the highly competitive arena of online curation and blogging. Our members gravitate toward lifestyle topics, such as the fashion, beauty, food, travel, DIY/decor and parenting niches. We provide education, sponsored campaigns, networking events, and business coaching and support services.”

So basically, Blogger Babes is a platform where all woman bloggers around the world could find the support they need to share and improve their blogging skills and network to become a top blogger. And at this event, Blogger Babes also happened to announce their partnership with Clozette Indonesia to launch Blogger Babes Asia.

The event started with the opening from Mr. Rolly Pane, the CEO of Clozette Indonesia. He explains what is Clozette Indonesia and what are the things you can get by registering as a member of Clozette aka becoming a Clozetter. Clozette Indonesia is a place where women can discover complete fashion and beauty content. There are several sections in Clozette that you can explore which are Fashion, Beauty, Hijab, Tutorial, and Article. They even have ClozetteShoppe and Find Similar features that will definitely give you plenty of choices in shopping and that’s exactly what a woman needs, right? Curious? Go and check Clozette Indonesia website at www.clozette.co.id

In this seminar we were all very lucky to be able to meet one of the founders of Blogger Babes, Heidi Nazaruddin.

Heidi Nazaruddin is a former high-flying CEO of a Nasdaq-listed technology company who left a successful corporate life to pursue her passion for writing. She started blogging since 2008 and you can find her writings on TheAmbitionista.com, a fashion blog for working woman.

Heidi kindly shared a lot of blogging tips on how to improve your blog and turn your passion for writing into business. She also explained the importance of branding your blog and how to be consistent in everything you do in the internet, starting from your blog design, the content, and your personality and writing style. All of those things need to be in line so you and your blog are able to stand out and people will recognize you easily. So, make sure at first you already really sure about what you are going to blog and who you are. For example, if you want to make a beauty blog then make sure the design of your blog looks like a beauty blog instead of a food blog. Put a lipstick picture instead of cupcakes.

Heidi also said that for a new blogger, use your first year to fill your blog with good content. Eventually, the business proposal will come along later. Without a good content, no one would want to cooperate with you. The reason they want to cooperate with you is to help them develop their business. If you can’t provide a blog that can attract a lot of readers or viewers then you will go nowhere.

The key is to be consistent and discipline on working on your blog. Don’t be lazy to write. If needed, create a writing schedule and push yourself to post something on the blog. But don’t just post anything random or unqualified content just for the sake of posting. Quality over quantity, ladies.

We also enjoyed the talkshow with Fifi Alvianto and Diana Rikasari. Two top bloggers from Indonesia that also shared their experiences as a blogger to us. 

Fifi shared how she overcomes the writer’s block in blogging. When it happened, she usually will go out to meet friends, spend time with her family, basically, just go out from the house and let her mind find inspiration by itself from the things that she sees or hears from the outing.  

Diana, who is well known by her quirky fashion style shared on what to post on your blog. She said that her blog is like her diary, so she will write on her blog almost every day even though it’s already late night. When you don’t know what to write, just post good pictures or quotes that can sparks inspiration for your readers.

All of them also shared their memorable memories working with their respective clients. The story of their ups and downs gave me a lot of encouragement and inspiration to work harder in giving the best on my blog.

After the talk show, lunch is served and we got the chance to mingle around with the other bloggers and also the opportunity to play on The Body Shop Indonesia, Diva, and Slim Fit booth that sponsored the event. 

I really enjoyed being there on Clozette Meet Up because it gave me a lot of new things to learn that I could use to improve my blogging skills. Even though I started my blog in 2013, I did not write frequently in it until the beginning of this year. There is still a lot for me to learn on how to provide a good content in my blog. Heidi gave us a last surprise by saying that we could download Blogger Babes E-book called Pitch It! for free. The e-book contains tips and tricks on how to manage your blog and how to sell your blog well. I already skimped through the e-book and find it really good because the book gives you the step by step on how to develop your blog into business. 

The Goodies inside the black Clozette Paperbag

Thank you Clozette Indonesia for the invitation and hopefully you can make more interesting and motivating workshop like this in the future.

Cheers,

Stef

Birthday Giveaway - SKII Skincare Set

Hello gorgeous!
November is my birthday month and it has been a while since my last giveaway, so here we go, a birthday giveaway for you :)
I will give away one set of SKII skincare as shown in the picture for one winner.

How to join:
1. Follow my IG (stefaniecarolina) and Twitter (poshandplush)
2. Like and Repost this picture, tag me and use #PoshPlushBirthdayGiveaway
3. Tag 3 of your friends
4. You just need to repost one time
5. The winner will be picked randomly
6. Open for Indonesian resident only
7. Giveaway will be closed on Nov 10th 23.59 pm

The winner will be announced on Nov 11th. Good luck!! 

Cheers,

Stef

Halloween Look - Porcelain Doll (Pretty, Broken, and Hollow Eyed)

Hello everybody! It’s me again here.. back with my Halloween Look part II. 

This time, I try to recreate a porcelain doll from pretty one to hollow eyed doll. Porcelain doll sometimes gives me a creep with their big eyes and well their eyes basically. I was inspired by BJD dolls too. BJD stands for Ball Jointed Dolls. The dolls are very beautifully made with human like appearance. I was trying to achieve that kind of look, but of course the plan on my mind and my makeup ability is not synchronized. So, this is the best porcelain doll look that I can make so far. It’s my first time creating it too, so I don’t have any comparison actually hahaha..

Sooo gorgeous!! Pic from here

My hollow eyed look inspired by Lex from Madeyewlook. Check her youtube account, you can find other tutorials from creepy one to cute one such as emoji makeups. She’s awesome!  

Before all that makeup magic

I spent 3 hours for creating this look, a lot longer than the previous vampire makeup. Simply because at first, I don’t know what to do hahaha.. So after finished putting on my base makeup, I was like uhmmmm, what should I do next? I watched doll makeup tutorials but I was really nervous that I’m going to make a mistake and ruin my whole look, so I literally just stopped and stared at my reflections on the mirror. I tried to watch some makeup tutorials again to help me gain my confident back and started to work on the look.

Same as the previous post, I will not give a tutorial on the look because my makeup technique is down beyond par the others and still need a lot of improvement. But, I will give you some important notes that could help you create this look. I did photoshopped my face a little bit which is removing all my moles to achieve the porcelain skin. But the other parts are real makeup, no photoshopped or even beauty camera.

Sssshhh!! Don't tell anyone that I will come to play

 

• Primer before makeup. Porcelain doll has porcelain skin which is smooth and poreless. A pore perfecting primer to cover your pores will be an excellent choice for this look.

• Thin or natural eyebrows. A gentle stroke with your eyebrow pencil to define your eyebrows. A porcelain doll should look delicate not fierce.

• White eyeliner to make your eyes look bigger.

• Take out your fabulous lush falsies to play. This time, we go big. Upper lashes and lower lashes should have falsies to achieve that dolly eyes.

• Go crazy with your circle lens too. The bigger the better.

• Shading and highlighting is always on the game. Contour your nose, philtrum (upper lips area), and chin.

• A rosy lips and cheeks to complement the look

Now, some points for making the creepier porcelain doll look.

• Practice your crack drawing before hand to make sure your cracks look real. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, a cotton bud with makeup remover can always solve the problem. I use liquid eyeliner to create the cracks.

• Cover your lips with foundation and use black eyeshadow to make a dark gradient lips. If its not dark enough, add black eyeliner on your inner lips.

• To create sunken eyes, swipe black eyeshadow around the hollow of your eyes. Don’t forget to blend it well.

• To create hollow eyed, use your black eyeliner all over your eyelid and lower eyes with the guidance of that hollow part of your eyes. Blend it with black eyeshadow to create an illusion that your eyes are hollow.

• Took off your all your falsies when you take picture of the hollow eyed look because errr no eyes means no falsies, rite?

Products that I used:

Benefit The Porefessional Primer

Shu Uemura Lightbulb Foundation shade 764

PAC Creamy Foundation in White

Beauty Story Luminous Primer

Shu Uemura Eyebrow Pencil Hard Formula in Seal Brown

Etude House Color My Brow shade No. 4 Natural Brown

Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner in Zero
Urban Decay Naked On The Run Palette shade Fix (to contour) and Dare (for the eyes)
Urban Decay Eyeshadow Perversion (black color)
Eyeko Eye Do Liquid Eyeliner
Make Over Eyeliner Pencil in White Techno
Etude House Cookie Blusher in Marshmallow Pink
Colourpop Lippiestix in Fetch
Make Up Forever Artist Plexi Gloss No.201
No brand falsies that I bought in Bangkok
Kawaii Angel Circle Lens in Gray (bought from Kawai Gankyu)
Kimiko Wig in Coffee Brown (bought from Pinokobeauty)

That’s all I guess. I had so much fun creating this look and my sister helped take pictures of me. I supposed it’s not that scary when it’s daytime but I don’t think I will do it on night time hahahaha..

Creepy Dolls can have fun too ;)

Which Halloween makeup that you like more? The vampire look or this porcelain doll look?

Are you ready for Halloween now?? Cannot wait for next Halloween to create more fun and creepy look.

Cheers,

Stef

Halloween Makeup - Vampire Look

Helloooo again gorgeous!
As you all know, October is Halloween month anddd Halloween is an event where once in a year all the makeup artist go full throttle and all out in squeezing their each drop of creativity to look spooky, scary, or even magnificent. I love browsing through Instagram; using #halloweenmakeup #halloweenmakeupideas #halloweenmakeupinspiration #halloweenmakeuplook and looking at all those amazing makeup.  

This Halloween, I finally collect my courage to do a Halloween makeup look. I never dare to make one before because I thought that I will never be able to do those things (especially the ones with special effects and all). But then I really wanted to do something different on my blog other than just reviewing products, so I took the chance and just do it. 

The look I created is a vampire look. I chose this because it's the infamous Halloween look that has been done by many people in the world, so I could get as many references aka tutorials as I could. I love watching those tutorials because it amazes me how those makeup artists or makeup gurus able to transform their faces into something totally different by just using makeup. You should’ve seen my face reaction when I watched those Halloween tutorials. I was like woowww.. ooohhh… aahhhh.. being awed by their skills painting their faces :D 

One tutorial that particularly inspired me is from Michelle Phan's. It's an old video from 6 years ago where she did a tutorial about a seductive vampire look. Click here for the video link
I will not giving you a Halloween makeup tutorial in this post, but only going to describe what I did when I did my makeup, so it’s more into the basics that you need to remember if you wanted to make similar look. Ok, let’s start now.

• Prep your skin with your usual skincare routine. Make sure that your skin is toned and moisturized before you put any makeup on.

• Vampire skin is pale and smooth. Remember to use a primer (a pore perfecting primer) before you apply foundation to achieve that poreless and smooth vampire look. As for the pale shade, use a foundation that is 2-3 times lighter than your usual shade. I mixed my foundation with a white foundation cream to get a lighter shade. Apply the foundation onto your neck too to avoid looking like you’re wearing a mask.

• Don’t forget to shade and highlight your face. Vampires usually have defined cheekbones, jaws, and nose bridges.

• No blush needed. Have you ever saw Edward Cullen cheeks flushed??

• Black eyeliner is a must. Period.

• No false lashes unless you are trying to be a vampire doll or vampire Barbie.

• Fangs are optional. With or without you will still look pretty *smooch* 

 

Products that I used are the following:

Benefit The Porefessional Primer
Shu Uemura Lightbulb Foundation shade 764
PAC Creamy Foundation in White
Urban Decay Book of Shadows Vol III shade Rockstar and Last Call
Urban Decay Naked On The Run Palette shade Fix (to contour) and Dare (for the eyes)
Stila Chocolate Palette (using the dark brown color for the eyes)
Shu Uemura Eyebrow Pencil Hard Formula 9 in Seal Brown
Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner in Zero
Dior Diorshow Waterproof Mascara
IOPE Colorfit Lipstick No.18 Classic Red (I mixed it with the black eyeliner to achieve a darker red on the lips)
Kawaii Angel Circle Lens in Gray

As this is my first attempt on doing a Halloween makeup, so please forgive me if there are a lot of flaws here and there. I should’ve worn a lighter shade of lens to really give a good contrast on the eyes makeup because that’s actually is all about for this look. But I supposed this lens will do too. I did not contour my face bolder and as a result, my face is not defined and chiseled enough. But nevertheless, I had a great time creating this look and having fun with it. 

This vampire look is pretty easy to make and I think is very versatile too. You can tone it down a notch and it can become your going-on-a-party smokey eye kind of look. 

I’m actually preparing another Halloween look for this year and hopefully I can post it on time here on my blog. The clue? It involved a wig and another circle lens. I hope you enjoy reading this post and get inspired to do Halloween makeup too. What is your Halloween makeup this year? Who is your favorite makeup artist or your favorite Halloween makeup look this year? If you did a Halloween makeup, please say Hi to me on my IG and I will check on yours.

Cheers,

Stef