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I was a little late in accepting this sponsored item for review. A week after I was asked to review this product (but did not yet reply), I saw this product in a supermarket and instantly wanted to have it!

Just look at it:

First of all, I absolutely love that it dispenses foam! This completely saves you the trouble of having to lather up the soap in your hands before cleansing your face.

Japanese ladies put in a lot of effort to generate consistent, fluffy foam because this helps them to clean their face better with finer bubbles, as well as cushion stress from their hands rubbing against their faces.

Thus, ideal foam is consistent, dense, smooth and bouncy, and has very small bubbles!

Just check out this image (provided by Bioré):

If you think this is just a digital trick, it's not! Here are some photos I took:

This is just one pump of the Bioré Marshmallow Whip Facial Wash; in these photos they weren't even threatening to drip!

Amazing, isn't it? This shows how ultra fine, fluffy and dense this foam is. The texture of the Marshmallow foam helps you to clean your face better as the size of the bubbles are smaller than your pores. In addition, the Bioré Marshmallow Whip is enriched with collagen, which helps to moisturize your face as you clean it!

I love the scent of this facial wash. I can't quite describe it, but it has a very pleasant and subtle fruity scent that isn't overbearing. My face feels clean and smooth after using this product, but not squeaky clean (if you know what I mean). But that's fine, because I don't quite like the squeaky clean feeling because that makes me feel as though moisture has been stripped from my skin. So this is just right! I also love that it has a pump stopper thing (i have no idea what that's called) at the neck of the bottle---this may not be important to many of you but to me it's very useful because I'm going to be travelling overseas soon and I definitely want to bring this facial wash along with me! The pump stopper helps to ensure that the contents of the bottle won't spill out in my luggage :D

I think this product is great to pack along when you're travelling because it saves you a lot of trouble--you don't have to lather up your facial wash!

Here's your chance to win attractive prizes from Bioré!

Go to www.marshmallow.com.sg and play the Bioré Marshmallow game!

Here are my scores! Quite lousy, to be honest. I saw someone who had over 700 points! I definitely won't be one of the Top 10 players :( But you should definitely try!

Bioré Marshmallow Whip Facial Wash is priced at S$13.90 and can be found at major supermarkets and retail stores.

Thanks for reading!

Someone asked me a few weeks back to do this tutorial, so here it is! Please note, however, that I myself find it difficult to conceal my dark circles entirely. To me, they still look bad after I conceal them. But here's just how I do it.

I'm sorry that the first picture always has to be really shocking. But since we're going step-by-step, the first picture obviously has to be one of me without any makeup on, so that you'll be able to see the difference later.

The first thing to do would be to use a salmon toned concealer to eliminate your dark circles. Basically to counter the bluish/purplish undertone under your eyes, you need a salmon toned concealer. I hope this explains it better:

Basically, opposite colours cancel out each other. Similarly, if you would like to reduce redness in your skin, you could use a green concealer for that.

So back to salmon concealer: My choice of concealer is the one by Skin Food, because it's affordable and it works! You could, of course, go out and buy yourself a nice Bobbi Brown corrector. She has tons of shades and you're bound to find one to suit you just nice. I don't want to spend that kind of money on concealer so I make do with Skin Food. :)

You could use a brush, but I prefer using my ring finger because it's convenient and quick. Remember, when dealing with your eye area, always be gentle and try your hardest not to tug on your skin. You don't want premature wrinkles and saggy skin there!!

Hopefully you can see the difference here...

Next, after eliminating the blue/purple undertones, I use a regular concealer over the salmon concealer. Be sure to blend in your salmon one properly first! You don't want any creasing..

Here's how it looks, compared with just using the salmon concealer alone.

In the picture below, I know it almost looks like reverse panda eyes, but I assure you, I'm gonna fix it! This is just how it'll look after the concealer. One problem is also because the Stage concealer is a tad too light for me. But I still use it anyway because I believe in blending!! Haha.

We're gonna set our concealer now!

You can use any loose powder that you wish, make sure it's not some lousy cheap brand though, otherwise the loose powder particles most likely wouldn't be as fine as you want them to be.

Get some powder on your brush, and then tap off the excess!

And this is how I look after concealing my dark circles. I know my eyebags are still very visible, but you can't conceal eyebags. It's like trying to conceal your nose. It's convex. How on earth can you do that? Of course, after this, you can go ahead and conceal whatever else you want to conceal on your face, and then put on foundation. If you're using liquid foundation, I'd suggest concealing AFTER your foundation, BEFORE setting your face. Same goes for BB cream! I think that day all I did was dust loose powder over my face. That's good enough for me, usually.

With flash and a full face of makeup! I don't wear so much makeup nowadays.. This was for a shoot. And this was on the same day, just in case you're wondering why this picture is here. Haha.

I hope this mini tutorial was helpful to whoever who requested for it, and also to whoever's reading! :D Thanks for reading :) Of course, I'm not an expert so if you see anything that I'm not doing right, please feel free to let me know. I'd like to know too!

I received the latest Hada Labo Retinol Lotion from The Sample Store last month, but I've been testing it out daily so I didn't want to rush a review and blog about it so soon. It's been about slightly more than a month since I've used this product and I use it day and night after washing and drying my face.

I was super excited when I received this product, mainly because I loved (and still do) their other lotion I received last year. See my review of the other lotion here: http://mcgorgeous.onsugar.com/Review-Hada-Labo-Super-Hyaluronic-Acid-Hydrating-Face-Wash-Lotion-9110876

So the first thing I did was to do a comparison of the 2 lotions!

Click on the image below to enlarge.

Difference between the Retinol Lifting + Firming Lotion and the SHA Hydrating Lotion:

- The Retinol lotion is slightly heavier and stickier; SHA lotion is lighter and less viscose (more fluid), this is evident in the picture below

Similarities:

- Both can be applied the same way, by applying on palms and then patting onto your skin until absorbed

- Both leave my skin feeling soft and supple and subtly moisturized

I, being a very lazy girl, don't really like wearing moisturizer (on top of other reasons) so this is all I use to moisturize my face in the morning. I have normal skin, but I find that my cheeks still can get a little dry sometimes, so if you have dry skin, you may want to apply a moisturizer on top of this product.

Regular use of this lotion is supposed to improve elasticity, radiance and give a more youthful appearance to the skin. It also claims to significantly smooth fine lines and wrinkles, leaving skin feeling soft, supple and revitalized. I haven't used this product long enough to say that my fine lines and wrinkles have been smoothened out, but I can definitely testify to the part about having your skin feeling soft, supple and revitalized!

I find that this product is also a good pick-me-up for my skin in the morning.

The 3 anti-aging ingredients in this product are:

1. Retinol Vitamin A -to reduce fine lines and wrinkles

2. Collagen -to improve skin's elasticity

3. Super Hyaluronic Acid ***major ingredient in hydration!!

The use of this lotion helps to prepare the skin to fully receive the benefits of other Retinol products too.

All in all, I really like this product and recommend it!!

I also recommend the Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Lotion and if you want to try it out without spending any money, fret not!

Redeem your Hada Labo SHA lotion samples here: http://www.facebook.com/hadalabosg?sk=app_151292538267800 or http://www.facebook.com/hadalabosg

BÉBÉ POSHÉ Event Launch was organized by BÉBÉ POSHÉ SG (Beaute Inn Pte Ltd).

Bébé Poshé is a makeup brand created by 4 Taiwanese socialites (some supermodels + 1 famous makeup artist). The event launch was held at Lawry's Prime Ribs at Mandarin Gallery, pictures below!

Here, the emcee was introducing the different products to us and she's holding up one of the 4 false lashes that Bébé Poshé carries.

Next, local makeup artist Melissa Yeo did a half-face makeup demo on one of the beauty bloggers. To begin, she started by applying the Bébé creme. I have pictures of every step but that would be too many pictures to put in this entry so the next picture shows half her face already done!

With her eyes closed

Eyes open:

Can you see the difference between the left and right side of her face?

Bébé Poshé products!

Bébé Poshé lashes. I used the first one if I recall correctly.

I love the posh packaging!

Especially for the lipsticks. So sleek and cute!

We then had a makeup challenge where they gave us 20 minutes to doll up using their products and this was what I came up with:

To be honest I did a lousy and boring job :( . But the difference between this and my usual makeup regime is that here I applied falsies! For the liner I used their gel liner and I really like it. It feels wetter than regular gel liners so that makes it easier to glide on. I was really hoping it'd be included in the goodie bag! But it wasn't :( Read on to see what I received in the goodie bag! :)

A close up of the lashes :) I also lined my lower lash line with the purple pencil liner, which I hope you can see in this picture.....

After the makeover, we each got to go up onstage and let the professional photographer take a picture of us.

We also took a polaroid each! Can you spot me? :D

That's Gin on the left, I'm always happy to bump into her at events!

Picture with Melissa :)

And here's the contents of my goodie bag:

L-R: Dazzling Eye Pencil, MUAH Lipgloss, Supervolume Waterproof Mascara, and Sexy Brow Shaper.

The Sexy Brow Shaper is my favourite product from the goodie bag, followed by the mascara. If you want to try out something from this brand, I recommend these 2 products! What I love about the brow shaper is that it comes with 2 shades, the one on the left is to lighten your brows and the one on the right is to darken them. I always start with the dark powder because I like my brows to look dark and defined. But sometimes I go overboard while filling in my brows and here's where the light powder comes in very useful. Before coming across this product, it was so difficult to lighten my brows after accidentally drawing them too dark and harsh. It was literally impossible to lighten them after I darkened them without using a makeup remover. So I love this so much!

Go to www.bebeposhe.com.sg to see their whole collection of products and also 'Like' them on facebook!

Like BÉBÉ POSHÉ SG facebook to play the incredible memory game & win $80 worth of BÉBÉ POSHÉ of your choice!

http://www.facebook.com/bebeposhesg?sk=app_226623044034268

Thanks for reading!

I was invited by The Sample Store and Sunsilk to an event hosted at Ben & Jerry's at Vivocity last month!

Here's the official press release from Sunsilk:

Sunsilk co-created different ranges of shampoo with different hair experts, and the range that the bloggers were given to try was co-created by Yuko Yamashita, a hair expert from Japan.

I was really excited about the goodie bag in particular! They were really generous with us and gave us the entire range of the Silky Smooth & Manageable series, more than one set, in fact! ;)

I used this range for about a week now, and I love how smooth and silky my hair feels after I use it.  You should really give it a try if you aren't already using it! It smells really good too and one thing I really love about it is that the scent lingers on for hours after I use it. Even after a day my hair still smells of the shampoo! :D

Since the venue was at Ben & Jerry's, we each got to eat an item on the menu of our choice! I got a brownie with mango and lemon sorbet on top. We were alllowed to go behind the counter and decorate it too, but I couldn't be bothered to do that cuz I'm not really into sprinkles or any ice cream topping, for that matter. I wouldn't have minded having fruit toppings but they didn't have it so I had my brownie and ice cream bare! It looks boring but it was really nice :D I looooooooooooooove sorbet.

Some pictures at the event:

That's Gin btw!

Thanks for reading!