Hihiii! What makes you happy? For me it's food and seeing the money I spend on makeup not go to waste! I get especially happy when purchasing products that are multi-functional too! Brought to you by The Butterfly Project Malaysia X 1028 Visual Therapy, I have today is two simple makeup looks (a day to night transition look) you guys could re-create using only products from 1 brand!
Before hopping into the tutorial, let me just share with ya'll a little bit about 1028 Visual Therapy. First things first, this brand is from Taiwan. I've never used any makeup brands from Taiwan before, so this is exciting. The brand formulates their products to suit the Asian skin and contour. 1028 also focuses on creating 'Skincare Cosmetics'. AKA. Cosmetics that are infused with skincare essence to treat our skin while using the makeup product. Now that we know the brand slightly better, let's get started with the tutorial.
Being someone that is barely able to call it a day before 2AM, my skin definitely ain't gonna look healthy. If I had to fake a fresh looking face within 5 minutes after maximizing my sleeping hours, this first look I'm sharing will be my go-to basic makeup face.
First things first, fill in the brows. Here I'm using 1028 Visual Therapy's Longwear Eyebrow Definer pencil in 02 Dark Brown (RM39.90) The formula of this eyebrow pencil was really creamy and easy to work with. Because of it's creamy formula, a little goes a long way and the spoolie brush is able to blend the product very easily. If you were to make any mistakes, slight clean up was also a piece of cake with just tissue and not even makeup remover.
Here's a swatch of the Longwear eyebrow definer pencil
Next we're moving onto eyeshadow. The one I have here is 1028's Macaron eyes eyeshadow kit. It's retailing for RM69.90. This is a sweetly packaged palette filled with 6 shimmer eyeshadows inspired from the sweet meringue-ish confection from France - Macarons.
The shades include 1 warm tone brown shadow, 1 darker cool tone brown shadow, 1 peachy shadow, 1 light pink shade, 1 champagne/pearl shade, 1 metallic-ish pale pink shade. For RM69.90, I do think the pans are pretty large :o
Here are some swatches under natural window lighting, but do take note that these swatches are all three layers of product as I was testing to see how far the pigmentation goes. Although the pigmentation of these eyeshadows are build-able, I do think that they require some patience to work with because the Macaron eyes palette isn't as pigmented as compared to their Mont Blanc Eyeshadow Kit and Brownie Eyeshadow Kit. (I swatched them at Wastsons, so I know haha)
Decided to snap a photo of these swatches with flash as well for you guys.
First, take this cool light pink shade.
apply it all over your lid with your finger tip
Taking the peachy shade...
I'm combining two steps here for the "Outer V" of your eye. First, apply the peachy shade from above to the outer half of your eyelid. Then taking the light pink shade from earlier, apply it to the outer half of your bottom lash line.
Taking the pearl eye shadow shade
Apply a small amount to the inner corner of your eyes just to highlight.
Taking the eyebrow pencil again
Draw a thin line as close to your upper lash line. This will make your eyes look slightly larger! Your eye look is now complete! Moving onto the face.
From all the midnight oil burning nights, I don't exactly have a healthy looking skin. I also have uneven redness across certain areas of my face. Which is why to fake a quick and healthier skin, BB Cushions have become one of my favourite beauty inventions. Here today I'm trying out 1028 Visual Therapy's Unseen Mesh Compact BB Cushion. (RM99.90) First apply your usual primer, then only the BB Cushion. Oh and in case you're wondering why BB Cushions are now introducing this mesh filter, it's actually to ensure a fresh and clean application. (Thank you Ulta)
Here we have a left and right comparison of the BB cushion! Super impressed with how well it had hid the redness on my skin. If you look closely, you could even see how much it had covered my dark under eye circles. Another good thing about this BB Cushion is that it comes with SPF 30 PA+++ to protect you from UV rays. Do take note though, this BB cushion might be a little drying for some.
Covered up the other side as well. From the looks of it, you could say that this is a medium to high coverage BB cushion.
After applying the BB Cushion, you'll need to set it with powder. This super cute baby pink with polka dots thingy is their Ultimate Oil-Control Powder (RM29.90) As you can tell, its a pretty tiny and cute pressed powder. Though I must say, the matte finish it gave my skin looked super nice! I don't know why either, although I have my usual Benefit Porefessional + That Gal primer underneath (ok maybe 2 brand tutorial la), this powder was actually able to further minimize the appearance of my pores! In case you're wondering, this powder does give about 5% of extra coverage?
If you have read about my "allergy blog post", and saw me talking about me being allergic to "pressed powder foundations" yes I did get a number of breakouts the next morning *sobs* And yes, I kinda only realized that I was allergic to pressed powder foundations the entire time after using this. Basically I started counting the number of times I had multiple breakouts overnight and noticed each time it happened, it's always after using pressed powders haih. No matter which brand, still break out one haih.
I was particularly sad this time because I really loved this setting powder and I really want to keep using it haih. Especially for touch ups, this size is so convenient to bring around in my hand bag.
Also, just to assure you that it's my skin and not the powder, my mom had tested this powder and got 0 breakouts the next day.Why la I can't use pressed powder foundations T_T She finds the size so convenient for travel and touch-ups she even brought it along with her trip. (basically claiming it already HAHAHA)
Also, just to assure you that it's my skin and not the powder, my mom had tested this powder and got 0 breakouts the next day.
After setting your foundation, that's it. All you have to do to complete the go-to basic makeup look is apply any lipstick of your choice. I went for a lighter sweet pink lip.
This simple and quick look is perfect for those that just wants to fake a "refreshed face" in the morning within a short amount of time.
In the day, what I want is an effortless simple and natural no-makeup makeup look, in the night though I'd want to spice things up a little. So with these three products all from 1028 Visual Therapy, let me show you my take on "night mode" of my day makeup.
We'll now be touching the two darker brown shades in the palette now. The coloured dots indicate the colours used for the step by step explanation right after this.
I started with the warm brown shade first. (pink dot, follow pink highlight on top right pic) Applying that shade on the outer V of my eyes then blending it into the outer half of my crease. Then taking the cool tone brown (green dot, follow green highlight on top right pic), I applied it to the outer V of my eyes as well, just that this time I was using the cool tone brown for more of an eyeliner effect.
Close-up of the shadow
Next up, this is their Infinity Longwear Black Eyeliner (RM59.90) What I liked about this eyeliner is the sharp tip, the grip of it and also how easy to get a smooth black line from it. The eyeliner does not "bleed" into the fine lines on my hand either when I'm swatching it.
I'm definitely going to be repurchasing this eyeliner soon because I've been constantly using this eyeliner for something else.
I drew a slightly longer wing compared to my usual go-to short wing and also drew some dots on the outer half of my bottom lash line to "fake more lashes"
Once I was done with eyeliner. (kind of) It's time for mascara!
Here we have is 1028 Visual Therapy's Miracle Extension Mascara (RM59.90) This mascara claims to lengthen, moisturize, and strengthen your eye lashes. Although this mascara did lengthen my eye lashes, personally I prefer their Big Eyes Mascara for lengthening better. If you're interested to find out more about that mascara, I've done a review for it HERE. :)
Curl your lashes
Here's a pic before mascara
Here's one after. After applying mascara, I would usually give it one last curl.
Going back to the lightest pearl shade in the Macaron palette
I need some highlight bling on my cheek bone.
End eye look
Now time for some vain selfies. Can you see that highlight glowing! I'm still impressed how I've never really had to buy highlighters because I have so so many shimmery pearl eyeshadows.
So I kinda felt that the eyeliner here could've went a little bit thicker...
So I thickened the eyeliner slightly at the end and extended the wing a bit too.
Here's my final final night makeup look. I'm someone that likes to keep my makeup as simple as possible even if it's for a night look. So if you're like that too, this look might be perfect for you to try out.
Here's another look I tried out on another day with the exact same products. However, instead of developing the look from the "fake-natural-day-makeup", I started from the two brown shades. Skipping the soft pink lip, I went for a bright red one instead.
This sums up my Day to Night transition makeup tutorial using only products from 1028 Visual Therapy (excluding the lipstick). If you're interested in their products, they're available at Watsons :)
When I reached the eyeliner, I mentioned that I needed to get a new one asap because I was using it for something else, remember? Here you have it, my "something else" I've mentioned earlier how my visual therapy is food and seeing the money I spent on makeup not go to waste, how multi-functional products are my absolute love!
However, because I'm a dumbo that has no idea which pen on the shelves is a brush pen, one day in class I've started doodling with my eyeliner. In which it got pretty addictive to the point where I have now started doodling with this liquid eyeliner each time I'm bored or hungry. (don't worry, I still have backup eyeliners lying around the room) So look, if you can't find a pen, make sure you have an eyeliner in your bag at all times! They're multi-functional and in fact, doodling with eyeliner and swatching eye shadows on paper kinda inspired something for my final year project :D (I'm kidding guys, please get a brush pen, it's cheaper lol. I just really wanted to draw with eye liner and see how it goes on paper, but seriously though, it's addictive. Don't be like Candace.)
Updated post with brow pencil swatches! :)
* This post is sponsored. A collaboration between the Butterfly Project Malaysia and 1028 Visual Therapy *
O_O very detailed post!
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