Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner Review

After trying endless pencil eyeliners that just didn't live up to my expectations, I recently went back to my Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner. With summer just around the corner, I thought that it would be a great idea to review this eyeliner. After all, we wouldn't want the heat from the hot summer sun to melt off our eyeliner that we took our precious time to apply.
Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner in Black.

Product Description - Soft Flex Comfort Technology Eyeliner glides on smoothly adding drama and definition to your eyes. Waterproof formula won’t smear, smudge or fade for up to 16 hours.
Pros: Affordable, rich dark color, glides on smoothly, long lasting
Cons: A little difficult to remove

Packaging: ★★★☆☆ - The eyeliner comes in a slim, black plastic pen like tube with a pull off lid. It comes with 0.01 oz twist dispenser stick with a pull out sharpener on the end.

Color: ★★★★☆ - The color payoff for this eyeliner is pretty good. It's pretty black. It does not fade after long hours of wear time. I don't have to go over the eyeliner several times to deepen the color.

Application: ★★★★☆ - The eyeliner is fairly easy to apply. It glides smoothly on my lids & waterline, even though, it feels rather firm. You can apply thick or thin lines. It's not the most creamiest eyeliner, though.

Lasting power: ★★★★☆ - It last me all day. (8-12 hours) I do need touch ups if I wear it on my waterline near the outer corners. However, when I wear this eyeliner on my upper & lower lash line, there is no problem with the product smudging off.

Conclusion: ★★★★☆ - This eyeliner doesn't really smudge, fade, or irritate my eyes. There seems to be a good amount of product since it last me a long time. Maybe about 3-6 months. It doesn't come off after I have taken a shower or washed my face, so I have to remove it with some make up remover. When I'm too tired, I end up sleeping with the eyeliner on & it still stay on my eyes the next day. It's a pretty good eyeliner for the price.

Revlon ColorStay Eyeliner Swatches.

This product retails for $5-$8 USD at any drug store. Available in 8 shades.

Paul Mitchell - Graduation

Today is my sister's graduation day. Although she couldn't attend her graduation ceremony due to work, so I will be dedicating this post to her. She is now officially a licensed cosmetologist. Congrats on passing your stateboard exam, baby girl! ;)
Here are some photos of her on stage modeling for one of her hair shows.
Jenna's POP Hair Show.
Back view of her hair. (fake tattoo on her arm, haha)
Strike a pose!
Her eyes are amazing!
If you would like to follow her on instagram, her username is jennabayy since I don't have one, haha. She would greatly appreciate it! She has amazing style!
I will be back shortly. There are many post to come. Bye bye for now!

My Birthday Weekend

My birthday was last week. (April 10) I didn't really do anything, literally. I just stayed home, haha. I did manage to do sort of a birthday celebration during the same week though. Here are some picture that I compiled of my birthday weekend to keep this post from becoming lengthy. I also went through some parks, but I'll share those photos in the next post.

Birthday Make Up

For my make up, I went with neutral eye shadow tones. I drew on my bottom eyelashes on with liquid eyeliner because I didn't like any of the eye lashes that I had, haha.

-Make Up Products-

Eyes: - Urban Decay Primer Potion - - Rimmel White Eyeliner - - Lancome Color Design Palette - - La Colors Palette in Dreamy - - Revlon Color Stay Pencil Eyeliner in Black - - Elf Liquid Eyeliner in Black - - Candy Walk The Line Liquid Eyeliner in Black - - Eyelashes by Kiss -
Face: - Elf Brightening Eye Concealer - - Maybelline Mineral Power in Light - - Stilla Blush -
Lips: - Light layer of Revlon Butters in Strawberry Shortcake -

Birthday Outfit

I didn't dress super fancy. I just wore a dress because they are so comfy. I'm also wearing a wig because I didn't want to apply heat to my hair. D:

-Outfit-

- Shoes: Guess - - Necklace: Made by me - - Pink Bow Cuff: Unknown - - Pearl Bow Earrings: Unknown - - Cover Sweater: Hollister - - Dress: Guess -
I got my pretty purple umbrella at the Laos New Years. ^_^

Vietnamese Cuisine

My loved ones & I went to a Vietnamese restaurant. I love Vietnamese food because of all the fresh ingredients. It's super refreshing!
From left to right:

• Grilled Pork & rice with veggies
  The name is pretty self explanatory, haha. It is usually served over broken rice with some type of sauce.
• Bird's Nest
  I think that's what it's called. The dish consist of a lot of veggies: bok choy, snap peas, carrots, & broccoli. A few meats: shrimp, crab, & chicken. All the ingredients are topped on with noodles that are crunchy. It will become soft when you mix it in with the sauce. I prefer mine crunchy though.
• Sweet & Sour type of soup
  I had mine served with fish. (Tilapia) I think fish goes the best with this type of dish. The dish consist of: (tomatoes, okra, bean sprouts, celery, pineapple, & some herb.)
• Vietnamese Salad
  I dished out this salad just to take a picture, haha.
• Rare Beef Salad
  This type of salad is served with very thinly sliced rare beef that is topped on lettuce, tomatoes, & onions. You pour on this special sauce & the salad works it's magic. (very delicious!)
• Vietnamese Styled Salad
  I'll just call it that because I'm not sure of the exact name for it. It's a very refreshing & tasty salad. It consist of pork, shrimp, dried jellyfish (weird, but I ate it anyways, haha.) & loads of fresh herbs & veggies (pickled daikon & carrots, celery, cucumber) topped off with some peanuts.
• Grilled Pork & rice with veggies
  This dish again except you can get it served with the bone in, which is my favorite way. ^_^

Orange & Pink Spring Nails

I finally did my nails, which usually happens about 3-5 times during a year. I want to try & do them more often though. The colors look more like summer, but I don't own any pastel nail polish colors. I used heart gems to turn them into flowers. :D

-Nail Products-

- Sally Hansen top & base coat - - Sinful Colors in Courtney Orange - - Verity in Golden Pink - - California Nail Gems -

Purple Wired Necklace

I made this necklace mainly out of wire & beads. The design was somewhat difficult for me to come up with, but I'm pretty happy with the outcome.
That's all for now. Bonjour! x0x0x

Happy Easter

Happy Easter my little bunnies. ^_^
I just wanted to share a make up look that I did last year for an Easter photo shoot. Since it's Easter today, I thought that it would be a great time to showcase some more of my work. The make up look I did is very bright & colorful. It actually reminds me of spring, haha.
I also changed my header/banner for my blog, as you can see. I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to make the new header. Well, it isn't exactly new because I made it last year, haha. I just wanted something different for now. It's not as colorful as it use to be. I also made some roll over navigation bars. :D It feels like spring cleaning, except for my blog, haha. Well, I actually did do some spring cleaning today. Anyways, I hope you all had a great Easter for those of you who celebrate it.

I'm kind of in a hurry so I'll end it here. Once again, Have a Happy Easter! x0x0x

Flowers Blooming, Birds Chirping, & Bunnies Hopping

Yay! It's April. The arrival of spring! Although it began last month where I live. The weather here mostly feels like summer all year round but that doesn't stop me from enjoying the spring time season. I love all the goodies spring has to offer, such as the flowers blooming, the grass reviving, birds chirping, & bunnies hopping, haha. Spring just makes me think of a colorful landscape. It's very uplifting, hehe. Anyways, here are some pictures of me with a make up look I did, inspired by the season, spring.
Who knew that my backyard could look this beautiful? O.o I look as if I'm in a dream, hehe.
I don't dress that nicely because I'm lazy & like comfortable clothing, haha. Here it goes anyways.
..:::What I am wearing:::..
- Shirt - Ross - Jeans - Bullhead/Pacsun - Shoes - Guess - Headband/Earrings/Bracelets - Crafted by me
Pastel colors for the flowers. Green for the trees & grass. :D Well, I kinda made my eye make up dramatic because I have been feeling creative lately , haha.

..::Products used for my make up:::..
Eyes: - Elf Primer - - Rimmel White Eyeliner - - Little Black Beauty Book by Elf - - Elf Liquid Eyeliner in Black - - Revlon Color Stay Pencil Eyeliner in Black - - Eyelashes by Kiss -
Face: - Elf Brightening Eye Concealer - - Stilla Blush -
Lips: - Soft Lips in Vanilla -
Hmm.. My cheekbones are pretty prominent here.
Lastly, I just wanted to share a drawing that I'm currently trying to finish up. I need to draw some details onto her kimono & do some shading. :D I was told that I look like this picture that I drew by numerous ppl. O.o Well, it wasn't intended to look like me, haha. Unconscious self portrait? hehe, jk.
That's all for now. Hope you enjoy! x0x0x

My Make Up Storage

Hello my lovelies.

Sorry that I have been absent for a little while. I haven't been on as much. My eyes just can't bare any kind of lighting lately. I have no idea why I've become so sensitive to light. Anyways, I just wanted to share some organizers that I bought recently. So, I guess this will kind of be a make up storage post.

I wanted to find a way to help better organize some of my beauty products so I ending up buying two cosmetic organizers from Tj Maxx by Glam Girl. They were super cheap. I loved how sleek they looked. The way the slots were divided was perfect for what I planned to place inside of them.

I like the fact that these organizers are clear. They can easily match anything & you can see everything that's stored inside of them. The many divided slots are really useful so different kinds of make up won't collide with one another. It seems pretty durable. I haven't had any problems for the past 2 months that I have used them. It hasn't scratched or cracked. It looks the same way it did when I first purchased it. The organizers make it so easy for me to reach for things when I need them without the fuss.

I've seen similar cosmetic organizers like these at Target, but I've never bought one from there. So, I'm not too sure of the quality or price of them there. They probably are just as good because honestly, they look & feel the same, haha.

I store my other make up products in 3 clear compartment storage drawers on my book shelf because I find that less dust builds up around that area. One of the storage drawer has 5 sets of compartments & the other two have 3 sets of compartments. These storage drawers have worked well for me because I don't have or buy as much make up as it appears, haha. It so easy for me to access them when I get ready for the day. I also ended up placing the two cosmetic organizers on the 3rd shelf, right under where I keep the storage drawers, but it's not shown in the picture. I'm loving how organized everything is.

This organizer was only $12! :D
I wanted to store stuff that I use frequently on these organizers, but I ended up added old & new beauty products that I had just to fill up all the space, haha. This one is nice for lipsticks. As you can see how nicely lipsticks can be displayed on this organizer. Other products can fit where the lipstick slots are.
Close up. I was able to fit 37 make up products in this one. There's still room for more.
This organizer is a lot bigger than the previous one. It was $20. It has a list of names where certain beauty products can be stored, but we'll never mind that.
I can fit so much more make up products in this organizer than in the previous one. I was able to fit some of my elf palettes in the back left row.
Some of my brushes can have a little side of their own.
Close up of the bottom right.
Left side.
Quad palettes fit in this row so well.
I was able to fit to fit 67 products in this one. There is still space for more! I rather have it a little bit loosely packed though.

How do you store your make up?

ELF Make Up Haul

This Valentine's Day I ordered some make up products from Eyeslipsface.com. This was my first time ordering off from their site. I usually pick up little things I see here & there from their line when I visit my local Target. They had a Valentine's Day special on their site where they offered you free shipping. Shipping sure did add up quite a bit before I entered in the code that they provided. It would have cost me 30+ dollars without the code. Everything I got was a little bit under $25. Most of what I picked out was from their Studio Line. Their stuff is pretty inexpensive but most of their eye shadows that I have used are pretty good quality & pigmented as well. It took about a week for my package to arrive. It came in a bubble wrapped envelope. Nothing was damaged which I'm pretty thankful for. So here are the products.
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A close up of all the products.
I pick out this little black beauty book in the cool collection. They also had this beauty book in the warm collection but it seem to have too many different shades of browns for me. I really enjoy fun & bright colors.
This is what it looks like without all the paper & plastic covering. It's quite small, about the same size as the palms of my hands. I'm sure I can get a lot of use out of it & it will last awhile.
All the colors are so pretty.
I'm a fan of liquid eyeliners so I like to try out all different kinds of eyeliners.
It comes with a black, silver, & gold shade as you can see. I think it's a holiday special. I don't quite recall.
I got the Elf tinted moisturizer in Porcelain.
I haven't really tried out too many liquid foundations since I'm not a fan of liquid types of make up on my face. I thought since this is like a moisturizer with a tint of color to help even out my skin tone on those bad skin days, it might be okay for my skin to breath through.
I got this blush in the shade Tickled Pink.
The color seems to exactly match the shade of my arms when I swatched it. O.o It's suppose to be a sheer blush but I guess it's still build-able. We'll see how it goes.
I love blush because sometimes I just look really pale & I need a bit of color to bring some life back into my face, haha.
I got this Elf Radiance Enhancer in the shade Spotlight.
I like that dewy/glowy looking effect so I wanted to give this product a go.
I'm not really fond of the way they package the product. You have to click it up to get the product out. It seems kinda wasteful to me because a lot of product emerges out.
I got this Elf Lip Balm in the shade Peach.
I got a tinted lip balm because I prefer lip balms over lipsticks. It has a little bit of spf, extra bonus!
It looks more orange rather than a peach color, but it applies on pretty lightly since it's not a lipstick.
Lastly, I got this Elf mineral powder brush. I got this brush for blush. It seems like it's too small for mineral make up anyways.
If you would like me to do a review on any of the products listed above, I'd be gladly to do so. :)

Have you tried out E.l.f Products before & how was your experience?