makeup

I’ve always liked May. It’s almost like summer, but cooler. It starts with a holiday. It brings us strawberries. And pollen. Plenty of pollen. If you’re allergic, you wish you could jump directly to autumn! Hay fever is the worst. I don’t have it, but the bf does and he sneezes and spits no stop […]

Do you hate to wait for nail polishes to dry? I SO do. That’s why I almost only use Mavala nail polishes these days. I paint them on, and a couple of minutes later, I can get on with my life. But most nail polishes can take 5 to 10 minutes, if not more to dry. […]

I hate doing my nails. I can’t keep my hands still for the 5 minutes or so it takes nail polish to dry and it inevitably gets chipped. If, for some kind of miracle, my manicure survives the first 10 minutes, it still chips like crazy after a couple of days. I’m that hard on […]

I’ve always loved makeup. As a little girl, I’d sit and watch fascinated, as my mom applied bright red polish on her nails. Then, I’d beg her to do paint mine pink (my fave colour even then). That was all the makeup I was allowed to wear. I had a makeup kit for children, but […]

Back in high school, one of my friends decided to try tightlining. I had never heard of it then, but she swore it’d make her eyes more defined and her lashes look longer and fuller. That was the idea. But when she gave it a go, she just stabbed herself in the eye with the pencil. […]

Are you Team Cream or Team Powder? Blush, that is. I’m Team Powder, but more out of habit than anything else. Every time I use a cream blush, I can’t help but wonder why I don’t more often. I love the natural flush it gives my cheeks. But, come the next day, powder blushes drive […]