Review: NYX Slide on Pencil Jet Black & Purple Blaze

Hello everybody...

I'm sorry that I have been away from blogging world this few months. I have no excuses for that. My bad... :( 

For the side note, I will give you special exciting announcement at the end of this post, so please read it through :)

But for now,  I'm back with a new review of my current favorite pencil eyeliner. Once again, it is from my favorite brand, NYX.

I was actually in need of purchasing new pencil eyeliner, that's why I decided to try NYX Slide on Pencil. This product was actually released two years ago and I've heard so many good reviews about it, that's why I was certain to pick this product as my new buddy in my makeup collection.

Product Description (by NYX Cosmetics)

The formula is waterproof, doesn’t smear or smudge, and provides extreme color. It’s like a liquid eye liner in a pencil without the mess. There are 18 shades offered, and these retail for $8.

My thoughts

Overall, I would say that I'm loving this pencil eyeliner so much and never forget to bring it along inside my makeup pouch.  As what NYX has claimed, it  glides on the skin very easily. All you need is just one swipe and it perfectly pigmented. I normally wear it on my waterline and it has minimal smudging compare to other brands I've tried before. For getting them off at once is also require a good makeup remover. So, I definitely agree that they are actually waterproof.

I actually got two shades of them, Jet Black and Purple Blaze. 

Jet Black is a deep matte black, and Purple Blaze is a shimmery purple shade. Jet Black is a kind of must have pencil eyeliner, meanwhile Purple Blaze is more on fun side. Here are the swatches:

Top: Purple Blaze
Bottom: Jet Black

PROS:

• Regarding the price, this product is definitely a steal. As you might heard from other review that these pencils are the closest dupe to Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Pencil. Honestly I've never tried the Urban Decay one, but considering that comparison, this product is worth the hype
• They are very easy to use, and offer 18 beautiful and vibrant shades selections you might have seen
• If you in need of waterproof eyeliner, this pencil is absolutely a go
• It might smudge a little bit, especially if you have oily eyelids. You might need a few minutes to let it set
• The color is very creamy and pigmented
• This pencil can be sharpened using any regular size eye pencil sharpener

So far, I don't have any cons for the product. I'd give a thumbs up for NYX Slide on Pencil and definitely recommend it to you all. Please let me know in the comment below if you ever tried this pencil liner and how you think about it. I also open for any good pencil liner recommendation from you. 

Last but not least, the exciting announcement I mentioned earlier is that currently I'm running a small clothing business with my friend. If you are interested to check it out, you might see our FB page Iconic Boutique or IG: @shopaticonic

And special for you my lovely readers, we offer you our HOLIDAY SALE PROMO, an additional 5% OFF for clothing purchases by mentioning the code CLASSYJEZZIE to our CS. The code is applicable for order until 31 December 2013. For any further information, you might contact us via LINE: iconic.boutique

Hope you all have a great day and Holy Christmas celebration ahead <3

Amour,

Review: NYX Felt Tip Eye Liner

Hi everyone ^^

To repay back my lack of post recently, here is another review of my favorite NYX products. I remember I was raving about how I like NYX Liquid Black Eyeliner in my previous post, please click if you would like to read the review. Recently, I tried their pen marker eyeliner and surprisingly I fall in love with this too <3. Yeah, in this post I'll talk all about NYX Felt Tip Eye Liner. 

Product Description 

(info from NYX official website) 

NYX Felt Tip Eye Liner eye marker creates a smudge-proof, budge-proof and waterproof line that lives up to its description as a “one-day tattoo.” The eye liner marker releases the ideal amount of ink for decidedly dramatic peepers. Available in 3 mysterious shades: Extreme black, Jet black, and Dark brown

Ingredients

Water, Acrylates Copolymer, Butylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Aminomethyl Propanol, Laureth-21, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Hydrolyzed Conchiorin Protein, Perilla Ocymoides Extract,Propylparaben, Aloe Barbadensis Extract, Methylparaben. May contain: Neheneth-30, Alcohol, Sodium Polyaspartate, Ethylparaben, Disodium Edta, Ferric Ammonium Ferrocyanide, Iron Oxides, D&C Black.

Pros

• It is super easy and practical to use, because it basically looks like lining and drawing with a normal pen marker. 
• The tip is super fine and sharp that makes really easy to create a precise line, either thin or thicker. 
• I got mine in the Jet Black shade and it is a deep dark black. I don't really know much for the difference shade between Jet Black and Extreme Black. But for me, the Jet Black one already has a perfect black consistency.
• The formula is pretty inky. It also glides on smoothly with no pulling or tugging. It dries pretty quick too once you applied it on the eyelids.
• It doesn't smudge and stays on pretty long.
• Affordable price. I got it around 7.00US$ or Rp 95.000. You might purchase it at Cherry Culture or Enchanté Yourlittlesecret

Cons

• I'm really pleased because this eyeliner is waterproof, like they claimed. However, it does a bit tricky to remove the line thoroughly. Either you need a better make up remover or you need to rubbing it for few times. Therefore, it is also better to create nice line on your eyelids from the beginning rather than to remove and repeat. 
• I heard some complaints that this product itself dry pretty fast, and you could not use the liner anymore. Probably some of you might experience the same thing.  Personally, I have no problems with that up to now. I just make sure that I use this eyeliner pretty often and never forget to close the cap properly once I'm done using it. I guess it is the same case if you have normal pen marker at home, you might find it dry if you never use it for long time or the cap was opened for some time.  

Overall thought

I know that NYX Felt Tip Eye Liner is not the only marker liner available in the market. But overall I'm always pleased with NYX products and can't resist to try this product particularly. Despite the tricky removal process, I love this eyeliner. It has no smudge, waterproof, lasts all day, easy to use, nice consistency, and pretty affordable. I really like to use this particular eyeliner to create wing liner or cat eye look because its precision tip. I definitely will repurchase this felt tip eyeliner and recommend you all to try, especially for a make up beginner.

Have you tried this pen marker eyeliner? Do you have any other recommendation of felt tip liner??

Lastly, HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! Wishing you all love, peace, and happiness!! <3

Amour,

Review: NYX Pumpkin Pie Round Lipstick

Dear lovelies,

Today's post will be my first review about lipstick. Honestly I don't wear lipstick on my daily basis. But if I do, I tend to pick more nude and natural shades. Therefore, today I will share one of my nude lipstick from NYX. Yes, NYX again!! Hahaha.. because as you know, I just can't get enough of NYX products ^^

It is NYX Round Lipstick- Pumpkin Pie (LSS630). I have actually picked up other shades too and generally impress with NYX's Round Lipsticks due to price, color selections, and color payoff. I have also noticed that Pumpkin Pie has particularly snatched everyone's heart for nude choices. So, I was so happy when I finally picked it up.

Packaging

It comes in a small and convenient black tube with the shade name is written on top of the cap. The base of the lipstick shows the color/shade you get.  This is really effective because you don't have to open the cap to see the actual shade. 

Ingredients

Bees wax, Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) wax, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelila) wax, Ceresin, Microcrystaline Wax, Polyethylene, Octyldodeanol, Polyisobutene, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Diisostearyl Malate, Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate, Isostearyl Isostearate. bis-Diglyceryl Polyacyladipade-2, Tocopheryl Acetate, B.H.A., Fragrance. MAY CONTAIN: Mica (CI77019), Titanium Dioxide (CI77891), Iron Oxide Red (CI77491), Iron Oxide Yellow (CI77492), Iron Oxide Black (CI77499), D&C Red No. 6 (CI15850), D&C Red No. 7 (CI15850), D&C Red No. 28 (CI145410), D&C Red No. 36 (CI12085), FD&C Yellow No. 5 Al Lake (CI19140), FD&C Blue No. 1 Al Lake (CI42090).

Color, Texture and Pigmentation

Pumpkin Pie is a peachy nude color. It has semi matte finish which looks natural and wearable for anytime. The pigmentation is rather light with one swipe, and you really had to layer it on to build up the color. But I'm totally like it because I don't need to worry if the color will look tacky on my lips. The texture is creamy and smooth but slightly dry and doesn't moisturize enough. I must apply lip balm before put this lipstick on to avoid dry lips with crack.  The wear time was also quite good - two (2) to three (3) hours depending on how much you are eating/drinking/talking during that time.

Price

Considering the price and the color selection, I couldn't resist to pick some shades from them. It retails around IDR 47,000 or USD 4.00.

Overall thoughts

Before I continue, a little heads up for you that actually each of NYX Round Lipstick has slightly different texture. I bought other two shades and they are not as dry as Pumpkin Pie. I have no idea if in this case I unluckily got the bad quality one. Another concern is that most of NYX Round Lipstick tend to be easy to melt due to the heat. If it happened to get your lipstick start to melt/break, put it immediately in the refrigerator for few minutes to avoid further breaks. 

Other than that, Pumpkin Pie shade is really beautiful and natural. The application is very smooth, creamy, and buildable. Not forget to mention, that the price is not expensive at all. 

Lastly, I'd recommend using this particular lipstick on top of lip balm and maybe clear lip gloss to seal it and make it work a lot better. And after all, I would still buy this again just for the price and colour.

Let me know which shades of NYX Round Lipsticks that you adore the most??!!

Amour,

Review: NYX Velvet Rope 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette The Runway Collection

Hi everyone ;)

This will be my initial post in 2013 ^^  I hope you all had a fantastic New Year celebration. I personally had a wonderful gathering with my family and relatives on New Year's Eve. And on that day, I was actually wearing the beauty product I'm going to talk about today. 

Yup, it is an eyeshadow palette! and from NYX!! Again.. ^^
(as some of you might know, I literally have such an obsession to NYX products)

I'd say that this palette is definitely out of my comfort zone. For eyeshadow, I normally tend to wear softer and more earthy shade. But since it was New Year celebration, I thought it will be fun to try a new look that I don't usually wear. That's why I grabbed NYX  10 Color Eyeshadow Palette The Runway Collection in Velvet Rope as my choice of palette.

In terms of the packaging, it exactly has the same sleek and black as the other NYX 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette, such as Haute Model or Romance. It comes with a large mirror and one two sided sponge tip applicator, which I don't normally use since I prefer to use my make up brushes.

If you are a purple lover make up, you will love Velvet Rope shades. Same as other NYX palettes from The Runway Collection, it has 10 shades to choose from, and 6 of those shades mostly have purple undertones. Below are a little description of each shades:

Left to right (top row):

1. Dark purple with satin finish and glitters
2. Indigo blue with satin finish
3. Purple-ish pink with satin finish
4. Medium dark violet with blue undertone and satin finish
5. Medium black with glitters and shimmers

Left to right (bottom row):

6. Shimmery dark purple with a slight pink luster
7. Shimmery medium pink
8. Dark purple with blue undertone and satin finish
9. Satin black
10. Pearly white shimmers with glitters and pink undertone

I have done some swatches for your reference. And for the record, the swatches below were done without using a primer. I believe the colors will appear more intense with a primer. But for me personally, the shade works  well on my skin even with no primer. 

Swatches of top row

Swatches of bottom row

Likes:
- Sleek and easy to carry around
- The shades themselves swatch pretty true to color
- Pigmented and blendable
- Affordable price with different variety of gorgeous shimmer and matte shades

Dislikes:
- The glitter may cause a bit of fall out, but not much

I'd recommend this eyeshadow palette for someone who likes experimenting with color eyeshadow. I remember during Spring time last year this color is really coming in its way.

I have seen pictures of celebrities rocking purple eyeshadow. I know that some women are still turned off by the thought of wearing purple eyeshadow. If applied incorrectly, it could appear tacky. My suggestion is try mixing your purple eyeshadow with other sheer colors, such as gold or bronze tones. Purple is meant to be playful, so just play with the color and it definitely could transform your eyes in countless way.

If you haven't read my other reviews of NYX The Runway Collection 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette, you might check it here. Thank you for stopping by and let me know if you also like experimenting with purple eyeshadows.

Amour,  

Review: NYX 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette The Runway Collection - Romance

Happy September everyone :) 

I can't believe days gone by so fast and it's already September x_x

As I did mention it about two months ago, I managed to get  the other NYX The Runway 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette in Romance. These days, I like to play exclusively with the colors from this palette. So without further ado, let's go ahead to the product review!!

As the other NYX 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette, this palette also came in sleek yet sturdy black packaging with a full size mirror. Like I mentioned at my previous post, it is a perfect size palette to travel with.  

My favorite look:

- 4th from left (top row); brown taupe-y color over the lids
- 1st from left (bottom row); rusty orange color on crease
- 2nd from left (bottom row); bronze color on outer 
- 5th from left (bottom row); nude color as highlight

Considering the name is Romance, don't expect it have bold and strong colors like Haute Model version. Romance is a nice neutral palette. The colors are indeed meant to be soft and sweet. Besides, it has the perfect amount of shimmer to make my eyes pop. I feel they look well on any skin tone and simply wearable. 

DOWNSIDES:

The texture and pigmentation are great. However comparing to Haute Model, I'd probably say that some shades of this palette were a bit chalky, especially the white one. Most of the colors are quite sheer, but you always can build up the color. If you usually wear eyeshadow primer underneath the eyeshadow, it actually make the color more visible. I don't normally use eyeshadow primer, therefore the swatches picture hardly picking up the color. Apologize for that :(

Believe it or not, I have been using this palette almost everyday. So far, this is my favorite neutral palette. I might get the Caviar and Bubbles version at some point since I heard so many people raves about that particular one. I'll definitely write a review as soon as I managed to get one ;)

If you haven't read my previous post about NYX The Runway 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette in Haute Model version, please click here.

Have you ever tried this palette?? And what do you think??

Amour,

Review: NYX Liquid Black Liner Collection Noir

I have been all about NYX recently since my friend introduced me to this brand. NYX offers a lot of good quality products yet in affordable price. That's why don't be too surprised if I picked up and did review most of NYX products. After testing my new NYX Liquid Black Liner from Collection Noir for more than a month, I discovered that this product has been my most favorite eyeliner for this month. Absolutely love it!!! <3

Without further ado, let's see what do I like about this product:

1. The thin brush with a precision tip

NYX Liquid Black Liner comes with a fairly thin brush, perfect to draw a precise line, especially for a winged liner lover. Basically with this eyeliner, you could have either super thin line or build it up into thicker line, just as you prefer. It also glides smoothly during application. As you saw in the image, the wand is a little bit long. I feel it's much easier to control with a shorter wand. 

2. The eyeliner formulation

NYX Liquid Black Liner is the only liquid eyeliner as part of NYX Collection Noir, and only available in jet black shade. Not forget to mention, I love the formulation of this liquid liner. It is not too watery or too thick either, just has the perfect opaque black consistency.  

3. Long-lasting wearing

Although this product is not stated as waterproof eyeliner, I would define it as a long wearing liquid eyeliner. I have quite dry skin and it last perfectly on me around 8 hours of wear. Even if you have oily skin, I saw many reviews that it actually still lasted quite long hours. In the matter of smudge-proof, I tried to rub it when I did the swatch on my hand, and it evidently didn't smudge. 

Below is some snaps of the result:

So, if you are looking for the must-have black liquid eyeliner in affordable price, I definitely recommend NYX Liquid Black Liner from Collection Noir. If you want to have one, you might pre-order it online through Enchanté Yourlittlesecret.

Have you ever tried this liquid liner or other any NYX Eyeliner?? What do you think of them??

Amour,

Review: NYX 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette The Runway Collection- Haute Model

Hi lovelies...

I'd admit that I've caught by NYX brand lately. I love how affordable NYX cosmetic is, yet offers great quality. I just got their Runway Collection 10 color Eyeshadow Palette in the "Haute Model", and "Romance" from Enchanté Yourlittlesecret. I bought quite a lot of my beauty necessities there, since it's a trusted beauty online shop and owned by my best friend. So, I'd suggest you all to check their Facebook account by clicking the name above.

This time, I'll start with my review of the " Haute Model " palette first, since I was really excited to do the color swatch from this palette.

It comes with a compact box 

Top row (left to right): Deep olive green, dark plum, light frosty pink, dark forest green, medium charcoal silver

Bottom row (left to right): Dark indigo, medium brown with gold glitters, dark silver, dark shimmery silver w/ blue undertone, light shimmery teal

My Final Verdict:

OMG.. I love how fun this palette with those variety of shades; all the colors are beautiful, soft, shimmery and smokey, and the pigmentation is truly great. I used the dark shimmery silver w/ blue undertone shade on my lids, both dark and medium silver in my crease and the light pink on my brow bone a week ago, and was amazed by its staying power. 
Other thing that I love is the packaging. It's black, simple, small, sleek, easy to carry around, and comes with a full mirror. It looks like a professional eyeshadow palette in mini size. I absolutely recommend this palette, especially for anyone is looking for soft smokey color. 

The only downside for me is when you swatch the dark indigo color (1st left -  bottom row) looks kinda similar to the dark shimmery silver w/ blue undertone color (2nd to last right - bottom row) from a far, since both shades pick up more blue undertone. However, when you get close to the dark shimmery silver with blue undertone, you actually just get notice of the slightly silver shade. 

In my perspective, for under Rp. 150.000, this eyeshadow palette is totally a steal. Without spending a fortune, you could feel a really good quality eyeshadow palette. If you would like to buy this particular palette, I definitely recommend it, but make sure you are drawn to the colors beforehand.

Have any of you tried NYX 10 color Eyeshadow Palette before?? If you do, which one is your favorite??

Amour, 

Review: NYX - One Night in Morocco Matte Smokey Look Palette

Hello everyone XD

It has  been a while after my previous post. This time I would like to do a review of one of my recent favorite make up palette, NYX One Night in Morocco Matte Smokey Look. 

   

This palette consists of 8 shades of eyeshadow, an eyeshadow base, and 4 shades of lip colors. I actually wish that it comes with the applicators as well, so I don't need to bring separate applicator container. After all, I was pleased to find this palette when I was in need to put one in my carrying makeup case. The size basically could fit in everything, like your bag or makeup cases. 

   

Left to right: white-light grey-black-dark grey
2nd row: nude shimmery-dark brown-medium brown-khaki

As you can see, this palette basically hold great range of basic neutral shades. It is definitely a handy touching-up palette. I'm mostly impressed by the eyeshadow since they are pigmented and do blend very well. On the other hand, the primer/ eyeshadow base is standard, nothing really fancy about this. I'm also not typical person who always apply eyeshadow base/ primer  during my makeup routine. The only complaint is the darker color shadow tends to fall off to the eyeshadow base. I wish they put the eyeshadow base at the bottom part.

For the lip colors, they are alright. I don't hate them, but also not love them. The shades are lovely but for me the texture is too dry and make it hard to show up. However, I guess it's still fine if you use it for touching up purpose. 

Overall, I would recommend this for you who are looking for affordable carrying eyeshadow palette, especially for smokey look. It's also a great make up palette for beginners, where you could get different shades of neutral eyeshadows at once. 

I also would like to know what you guys think of this palette. If you have tried it, please leave me some comment below. And...that's all for now and talk to you all soon <3

Amour,