Happy Holidays Everyone

It's been a while!!! How is everyone doing? I hope all of you are healthy and happy! Please have a safe and happy Christmas & New Years with your family, friends & loved ones! :)

I'm going home for Christmas & am EXTREMELY excited!! Because I didn't get to spend any of the holidays with my family last year. :( So this year it means a lot to me that I get to see them! :)

In other news, I haven't posted anything beauty related in a while! My camera is messed up and I don't know why! Maybe I just need to get a new one, even though the camera I own now isn't very old!

Once I am able to take pictures, I will share with you guys what I have been up to!

But for now, take care and stay safe if you're traveling! :)

SKL

ELF Haul & Review

Hello, Everyone!

So I checked the mail today and my ELF package arrived! OH I WAS SO EXCITED HEHE!

Here are the goods :) :

1. Back to School Beauty Encyclopedia- Bright Eyes
2. Shimmer palette
3. Cream eyeshadow in Eggplant
4. Cream eyeshadow in Bronzed
5. Eyeshadow palette in Luxe
6. Facial Whip in Persimmon
7. Facial whip in Golden Peach
8. Mineral eyeshadow in Golden
9. Mineral Eyeshadow Primer

I bought everything for $18.45! :D I bought these while they were having the 50% off all Eyes. I wish You could combine coupons because I wanted free shipping as well haha :P

Pictures :D! :

I LOVE this cute little palette! You know, ELF cosmetics reminds me a lot of 100 yen japanese cosmetics. Anyone agree? haha Sorry about the lighting. It's been getting darker earlier now! But I promise you, this is super pretty :) I LOVE the red. It's very pigmented. The dark brown right next to it isn't as pigmented for some reason. To me, this palette reminds me of fall, mainly because of the red. :) If you want me to do swatches on my skin, just let me know. I didn't want to for lack of good lighting.

I LOVE this shimmer palette! This is also in natural lighting. At first, I didn't think it'd be that great, but I LOVE the texture! It's super slick, like it's very moist feeling, and has good pigmentation. ^^ New love* hehe It came with a VERY tiny brush that's practically useless. HAHA But it's cute as well. This is a good palette for every day use, but I also think you could easily use it for night looks as well to highlight any part of your face.

Okay, I like this beauty book, but some of the colors SUCK. The first color in the top left corner is chalky. UGH. It irritated me trying to use it. It's just like chalk. You don't get any color on your skin. 

I have the same situation with the color right next to it. No pigmentation, just chalky. =_=

The grayish color in the bottom left corner is super hard! haha It's like cement! haha oh jeez...

Other than those three colors, the others are silky and have nice pigmentation. The eyeliner pencil is good, but hard to wash off.

At least I only paid $2.50 for this hahaha I can't really complain you know because I didn't spend much on it :P 

I like these cream shadows! The left is Bronzed, the right one is Eggplant. So cute! :)

I cave in and did swatches on my hand:

The texture is the same as the shimmer palette. Love this too!! ^^

Facial whips in golden peach and persimmon. I was so excited about these the most!

Okay, So I had problems with the persimmon colored one! When I tried to squeeze some of it to my hand, it squirted a bunch of water out! It's still full of water. I tried shaking it up and it didn't do anything. It still squirts out water. Not cool..but the golden peach was the one I wanted to most anyway. I LOVE golds :) I tried the golden peach one earlier today. It's really good for highlighting any areas of your face. I used it to highlight the inner corners of my eyes. It was very pretty! I was thinking maybe you could use it on your brow bone or C area for a night look. ;)

Mineral loose shadow in Golden. Told you I love gold ;D

Uhm, I took a picture of this on my hand with flash, and it was the same color as my skin, just shiny. heh So, I'll wait on taking a picture of that in natural lighting.

Last thing I bought was the Mineral Eyeshadow Primer

The primer has this funky smell to it, that's the first thing I noticed. It blends well and feels light. Very nice ^^ I didn't test it with eyeshadow yet! gomen ne~ maybe ashita! >_< I'll try it with my make up tomorrow morning and see how it goes. :)

So, what do I think about ELf overall? It's a good brand and inexpensive. I like it, I think the products are really good quality for such a cheap price. And it seems like they always have some sort of sale going on so you can definitely get the products for a lot cheaper online. I'm not a big fan of cream shadows, because of past experiences with them, but I LOVE the cream shadows and the shimmer cream palette. They are the best quality cream palettes I ever used. :) Usually when I buy a cream palette they dry up super fast and end up gunky, hopefully this doesn't happen with these products. If it does I will definitely update about that haha. ;) Also, I wouldn't recommend buying the beauty book. HAHA I think that just made me angry hahaha. I mean, it's good if you are just starting to use make up and just need to practice. It's alright in that case, but other than that, I would not recommend it. 

If you have any questions, please comment! :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Inspired Look

SO! I was bored last night and decided to do another look! :) This time Edward Scissorhands! I told myself if I had to be something for Halloween it would be Edward! :) Please watch the movie if you have not!

Image I used:

I spent two while hours staring at this image while painting my face haha It was SO fun to do though!

HAHAHA 

Too bad I couldn't conceal my eyebrows. I was frustrated with that because I don't own any concealer. LOL You can see the image of Edward on my laptop in the right bottom corner. huhu

I didn't mess up my hair enough! I didn't feel like it, but once I did it didn't stay messy LOL weird?

AND I DIDN'T ADD ANY SCARS! I kept forgetting to do that! And eventually just forgot completely and took the pictures LOL. 

What I used:

Top Row:

Wet in Wild lip stick in Amethyst

Elizabeth Arden (EA) cheek blush (just the one on the left) 

EA eyeshadows (the purple one in the first row on the bottom) and the black/charcoal 

(in the second row in the middle)

Wet n Wild Silk finish Contouring palette. I used the middle color for around my eyes.

Bottom Row:

Sonia Kashuk concealer brush and eyeshadow brush

EA eyeliner

EA lip liner

ICING palette (I only used the white in the top right corner to paint my face) 

And a little cup with a little bit of water in it

Photos from Photobooth:

Creep :P

That's it! I hope you guys like it! lol I sadly did not have an outfit to go along with this look! So I just threw on something black just for pictures sake. LOL Oh well..I'm probably not going anywhere for Halloween due to the fact I have work, but it's alright. I still had fun with this look haha. ;)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN* <3

HELLO!

SO! I'm new to this site! Hello Everyone! I'm SKL (my initials) You can call me Sarah or whatever you like. I don't really care, haha :P Well, I might as well tell you guys a little about me. :)

I'm from Japan and I miss it very very much. I'm currently living in California and I like it! It's nice, I'm still surrounded by asians! hahaha!! I love make-up. That's the majority of what I will be talking about in this blog~ huhu ;)
And that's it!

Well, I did just receive this package of stuff I bought today! After work, I checked my mail & received two packages! ooooohh SO EXCITED!! lol ;D So, I'm currently deciding whether to do a review on the make-up I bought or not tonight..We'll see. :)

<3 Chu*