Holiday Season

These are the days when the rain starts to pour down to earth, the wind breeze blew your face softly and the smell from the morning dew awakens your joyous spirit. As romantic as it sounds but these are also the days when you go to and from work accompanied by ridiculous traffic, occasional flood are seen on most of the road in town and where you have to maneuver your step very carefully from the water pond on the sidewalk.

This is the holiday season!

Since I’m not celebrating Christmas I wouldn’t get pressies, but there’s no wrong in giving yourself pressies for the celebration of a great one year journey as we’ll be leaving 2006 behind soon and welcomes 2007.

Among thousands other things, here are my (make up) wish list for this holiday season:

1. Smashbox - All Access Beauty Must Haves

The set includes my most wanted item Photo Finish Foundation Primer mini and Brow Tech Trio, in addition it also have Cream Eyeliner in black, Soft Lights in Tint for highlighter, Eyeshadow trio in Smashbox.com (gold shimmer, soft pink shimmer, and rich chocolate) and Lipgloss in 35 mm (shimmering peachy copper). Plus a cream eyeliner brush and angled brow. Definitely value for money!

2. Smashbox - Beauty A-Go-Go Palette & Brush Kit

Packed with ten eyeshadow colors in gold shimmer, ivory sheen, champagne shimmer, charcoal sheen, rich gold shimmer, taupe shimmer, plum with gold glitter, and matte black, and four lip glosses with 3 rosy/nude combination and 1 berry color which I really want to try. And ... like other palette it have extra 2 higlithers which in my opinion are not that important. How many higlighters does a girl need anyway?

3. Bare Escentuals - Get Started Kit - Medium Beige/Medium

I'm dyin to try this brand coz one of my CC friends said that it is her HG foundation & powder. I'm kinda hesitant though, cause she also said that its abit tricky applying a mineral foundation. Your skin has to be super fresh, not too dry and not too oily either. BE cosmetics are made of pure crushed minerals from the earth so its friendly to your skin, I wouldn’t expect any breakout from their product. The tagline said it’s makeup so pure you can sleep in it … LOL! However pure they are … I would try not to sleep with my make up on, it’s not good to your skin.

The package comes with 2 shades of foundation so that you can mix them to ensure your perfect match, bareVitamins Skin Rev-er Upper that acts as a primer, Mineral Veil for a translucent finishing touch and Warmth All Over Face Color which I supposed will act as a bronzer. They also provide you with flawless application brush (kinda looked like a normal brush to me), full coverage kabuki brush (ex kinda brush) and maximum coverage concealer brush. The last brush I’m v interested with, cause applying mineral concealer is as tricky as the foundation, you have to dust lightly but also have to cover the area really well.

4. Urban Decay - Urban Ammo Eye Palette

Nothing special, just another eyeshadow palette with 10 (interesting) shades, they are:Smog (deep coppery bronze), Maui Wowie (sandy sheen), Mildew (shimmering metallic green), Shattered (bright iridescent aquamarine), Oil Slick (black with rainbow glitter), Polyester Bride (sheer white shimmer), Last Call (iridescent plummy purple), Grifter (sparkling pale purple), Chopper (shimmering fawn with glitter), and Sin (light shimmering champagne).

5. Too Faced - The Jewelry Box

Another combination palette for face, eye, cheeks, and lips. Nothing really interesting about the color, it's just that it have everything you need in one package. Eyeshadows, lipglosses, powder, blush, highlighter, eyeliner cake ... you name it!