Beauty Guide : Class #1 Blush, Bronzer & Highlight 101.

So.....This is my FIRST Beauty Guide post, it's All About Blushes, Bronzers & Highlighting!
I hope that you'll find it somewhat helpful & I hope that I can basically brief you through the different product's consistency along with colour selection! Just to basically give you an idea of what it is, what it does along with how to pick the right ones!

Also don't forget to comment your feedbacks/requests down below and I'll try my best to fulfill them!
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1) Blushes

It's essential for different skintones to reach for the blushes that will show blushing effect, to add that hint of colour to your face.

Starting off with SKIN TONES, i'll subdivide them into 3 simple groups - FAIR, MEDIUM & DARK.

NARS Orgasm Blush

i) Fair Skin

If you have a fair skin tone, you can basically opt for any blushes ranging from pale pink, peach to somewhat mauve/dusty pink. Even the blush that has not much of a pigmentation will work on you as your skin is basically like a plain white canvas.

My personal fav would be Nars Orgasm, Nars Deep Throat & Maybelline's Cheeky Glow in Wooden Rose.

ii) Medium  

If you have medium, you can experiment with pinks but peaches would look great on you. Be careful of the undertone at this point. If you have above a fair skintone, find a blush that suits your undertone. If you have cool skin, find a cool blush. You can see by observing if the blush color (usually pinks) have a bluish tinge to it. Pink peaches like NARS Orgasm are great for medium skin tones because they are a balance of both.

Dark

If you have dark skin, go for bolder blushes with a higher pigmentation with colors such as peaches and reds (lightly applied). Ebony skin should stay away from cool pinks to prevent an ashy tone. The general rule of thumb is to match your undertone to the undertone of your blush.

Picking the Right Bronzer/Contour

Your bronzer can be used as a contour powder. Generally, any shade  1 or 2 shades darker than your original skin color can be used as a contour powder. So that includes mineral foundations, compacts, etc or even cream foundation if done well. However, the tricky part is finding a good shade of brown. Basically, if you are using the bronzer as an all over bronzer, find something that does not have an orange tone to it. You don’t want to look like fake tan.

Fair to Medium – If you have fair to medium skin, you can experiment with BOTH matte and shimmery bronzers.

Dark – If you have dark skin, I would recommend a shimmery bronzer! It'll accentuates your feature even more VA-VA-VOOM!

Bahama Mama Bronzer by theBalm Cosmetics.

Contour 

Now if you are using a bronzer as a contour, the best contour powder has a grey tone to it as you are mimicking the colour of shadows which are primarily grey. So you will want to find a bronzer that has a grey colour, is very matte and not orange. ( As that tends to make you look dirty..)

Highlighter

There are so many kinds of highlighters in the market, in variety of consistency! 
Ranging from powder (compacted), pigments, cream, fluid even in stick forms!!
Highlighters ALSO have their undertones to corresponds with YOUR SKIN's undertone to work its best! HOWEVER, it really isn't necessary to go by the books. For Beginners, if you want to play it safe TRY something that has a champagne undertone. It really doesn't matter if the highlighter is SOLID or LIQUID! I promise it's easy!

PLUS, you can ALSO highlight your face with only CONCEALER. HOW? EASY.
Simply go with a neutralizing concealer OR pick a concealer that's 1 shade lighter than your face.

Here's a easy trick for highlighting your face with highlighters!

Simply place the highlighter on places where light hits your face – such as nose bridge, cheek bones, tip of your chin and brow arch.

Becca Champagne Pop

My personal favourite is Nars Copacabana Multiple Stick & theBalm's Mary Lou Manimizer (LOVE) oh! don't forget the BEST HIGHLIGHTER EVER --- Becca's Opal & Champagne Pop!





p/s: Reviews coming soon!!!


















AnnleyC

Saluté,

*if you can see the colour of the drink, it's actually pink!!! It's 7up Cherry! Discovered it in the Cold Storage store ❤️* MAJOR LOVE!!!!

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Apparently I have yet to be active on my blog for the past few months, all blames goes to my laptop that totally gave me up & stop functioning the way it used to / supposed to 😔

Anyhow, here I am again gonna give you guys a few updates throughout the months. >>> I'm more active on Instagram, if you happen to like my posts please DO follow me on Instagram by searching my ID : annleyc

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So then, around the mid September my Year 2 Semester 1's final examinations was held & it ended around the first week of October. 

How do I feel during exams? One word ----- HECTIC !! 

As of course I never prepare myself well enough & I even misread the exam schedule *cries* !

Had to answer my Parasitology 2 theory paper all based on my shallow memory 😢

& also at last I handed in 5 out of 7 my practical reports at the very end... *not a good habit I know*

Either way, I was blessed by God. Despite all the chaos & laziness that I personally posses, I was blessed with 3.72GPA which is good enough for a last timer like me *BRIGHT BRIGHT SMILE*

:D

And I worked during my semester break throughout the whole October (literally). 

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27th of November , I'm back to class. Fresh start of year 2 sem 2. Literally my sem 4 out of 6! YAY! Another step closer to the edge! 

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By the way, I've recently purchase a few holy grail lipsticks from Marc Jacobs, MAC & NARS for the first time! Let me know if you'd like to know more about them! ❤️❤️❤️

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xoxo,

AnnleyC 💋. 

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March.

It's March, the month of my 2nd Semester's Final Examination.

Which means, it's the month of struggles, stress, frustration & whatever you name it. Where as, due to stress our health might be on red light as well. For example, pimple/acne problem (yes, I've 'BOLD' it cause I know a lot of you would have the same issue!) , weight gained/ loss due to appetite & etc. 

Thus, I'm here to share some of my favourites whenever I'm in stress. 

A) Regarding to Skin Condition 

-this is what I will always do. 

1) Figure out your major breakout area. Whether it's due to stress, or your unhealthy diet.

 

2) Reduce junk food & soft drinks such as potato chips! Instead, substitute it with homemade fries, & tea!

3) Exercise. It'll boost up your metabolism & detoxification occurs in your body as you sweat ♥️.

As for myself, I have really enlarged pores around my nose area because I neglected important parts of my skin regiment - Toning & Moisturising. 

I was a lucky girl when I was gifted with a toner that is not selling in Malaysia. The Thayers Natural Remedies Astringment Peach Witch Hazel Toner!

Taa-daa! ✨✨✨✨✨

So hereby, I would love to thank @a_secretwhisper (Instagram) upon all the wonderful & marvelous gift that she gave me. 

Such a effective & wonderful toner, it minimises pores in just a few minutes & it has a pleasant yummy smell of peaches 🍑💕

& this is what I always do. Damp the cotton pad with the toner & layer around the needed area while revising or watching tv 😏✌️

Excuse my selfie, I know it's odd & whatever you name it. 

Just hoping the best for my final exams! Wish me luck ♥️❤️.

xoxo,

AnnleyC. 💋

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Let's pray for MH370 plane & every one of the passengers. 

God bless 🙏.

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2nd Semester,

2nd semester of my Diploma program is coming to an end very soon.

In fact, the final examinations of 2nd semester is next week. & I can't believe that this post would be actually the first post in 2014.

Guess that I've been quite busy, oh and March has been such an unlucky month for me. My out-of-the-era's iPhone 4 had to be reset to factory settings due to some complications while updating the iOS 7.0.6. As it was stuck on the recovery screen.

& due to even more complications I could no longer back up my phone to my laptop before nonsense happened. Well, yeah. I pretty much lost everything in my phone ;( 

Anyways, precious memories remains in my mind ❤️ I was grateful to see how supportive my friends and family are. 

Oh, and we shall #PrayForMH370

Let's put our hands together & pray that everyone of them will be reunited with their family members who have been waiting for their return, God Bless MH370.

Love & Blessings,

AnnleyC.

thoughts.

Had a late-night-thought last two days ago. 

So I used some applications in my phone and get this quoted picture done.it's not actually a picture, but yeah.

It was my september's late-night-thought. Hoping it'll just be another crazy thoughts of mine, instead of reality. 

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Annley, 

xx

L A Z Y S U N D A Y

Selfie Sunday, 

Had laksa & otak-otak as berbuka. 

Major satisfaction!

Tomorrow's Monday, what else can I say with my partially complete practical reports. Sigh!

Adios, weekends.

Loves, Annley.

xx

Olla

; top from Topshop, bottom from ZARA.;

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Mid semester test is right around the corner & also mid semester/summer break!!!!!!

Cheers people, finally some break time for me to relax. 

I'm still stuck with all the practical lab reports at the moment, wish me luck peeps. xoxo

P/S: changed my hair color into a burgundy tone with mummy's help, I'm a happy kid! 

regards from a diploma student, 

much love. 

my alienated-aqua-eyed day

obviously i didnt blog about the pool party.

lost the videos, so it'll take some time to blog about it.

anyways, life's cool.

like a ship sailing on coral seashore.

yeah, feel that.

rocking da boat like a blardy sickening people.

hell yeah, pretty much crapping now.

what-to-do?

knowing that im so not the only who have problems.

everyone has problems,

so i cant give so much damn about my problems,

and misunderstandings of me and about, or maybe it's true that spreads out like virus & bacteria within the air.

YAYERS.

i'm so cool.

asdfghjkl.qwertyuiop.zxcvbnm.

me gusta.

dolce gusta.

tell me when can i vita dolce?

in such a moderato pace?
but i won't lost my faith, and hopes.
even if they're all FAKE.
i have to stay strong, stay up.

for the best of my mummy and lil bro.

viva la vida.

viva la juicy.

vita dolce.

vissi d'arte,

vissi d'amore,

vivere per la vita.

vivo per me.

siate coraggiosi, siate forti.

is the only thing i can do now.

lastly, i wanna thank all of you. I've had two wonderful week, and weekends. Even if it's just temporary, and it has already ended now. I'll cherish everything you guys have taught me, i'll try my best to achieve and bring out the best in me.

或许分开是另一种领悟。



CA.

Perasaan

demi memperbaiki dan membetulkan bahasa malaysia saya,
inilah kali pertamanya saya blog menggunakan BM!

YAY,

dan juga, kali ini, saya akan lepaskan genggaman saya.
saya akan lepaskan dia, kesayanganku.
saya hanya mahu apa yang terbaik untuk dia.
Oleh itu, saya tidak mahu dia hidup dalam sengsara, biar saya menerima akan semua dosa and derita.

Tuhan akan maafkan dia,
dan juga saya.

Namun, saya akan menyimpan perasaanku terhadap dia.
Saya akan buktikan kepada dia, bahawa betapa banyak akan dan boleh saya buat :)

Saya janji, saya tidak akan menganggu kehidupan kamu lagi.
Selama 8bulan yang akan datang, saya akan hidup dengan penuh semangat.
Saya akan mendoakan kamu,
saya akan simpan semua-semuanya perkataan yang tidak lagi perlu diucapkan di dalam hatiku.
sudah pun tidak penting

Malahan, apa-apa perasaan yang saya ada sudah tidak lagi bermakna.
Semua itu tidak penting lagi, kini saya harus mempelajari mengatasi masalah tapi bukan menipu diri lalu melarikan diri. Belajar Annley, belajar.

Lupakanlah semua ini,
Ingatilah segala ilmu.
Hargailah masa,
Memanfaatkanlah apa-apa yang dikurniakan oleh Tuhan.

dengan sepenuh jiwaku,

Annley.C

if only...

sometimes i despite myself too,
just like what they said, i'm a b*tch.

probably i really am one.
i don't know.
the way i speak or act might just be too harsh for them.
as they don't know what environment that i grew up in.

a family,
like it's not.

sometimes i tell myself,
Annley, if only you can be better.
if only you're not this Annley in a way.
if only you're more polite.
if only you're better in comforting people,

things might be better.

to me, i felt like i was in the game like SAW.
and i'm so not good with games.

is it right to set someone you love and care free,
but got yourself locked up in a cage?

i don't know.
my future is really plain black, but i do know the ending of my life.
which is .. DEATH.

maybe we humans are born to make this world a better place as God wants to.
but seriously, think what have we done.

pollution, disease, war, causing so many innocent life gone, vanished.
is that their destiny? to die in war? sickness?
or is it US people that actually executed them in another way?

we're born and knowing that we will die, one day, eventually.
Yet, we don't really know how to appreciate life.
we're still afraid when that day comes.
and we won't stop asking WHY, WHY and WHY.

until the end of the time, many people still don't know why.
but i guess i already did.

If the pain hurts so much, i'll endure it.
If this is all i have, i'd give it all.
If this is what i'll pay for, i'd pay for the price.

i'll appreciate all the Yesterday(s) and all the memories we had.
even if you don't, not anymore.
They'll be my drive to keep me alive.
i won't give up, i won't seal up my future.

I AM NOT A REGRET.

they say

they say love hurts whether it's right or wrong.

some said that it's the most wonderful feeling that God gave us,

some said they'd rather they never love anyone.

so tell me, what's the definition of it?
Sacrifice? Tolerate? Cruel? Game?

but to me, no matter how hard it is, i'll guard my love for my only one.
that's me,

self-shot / camwhore

plain vain but nothing else much,
hooray!

Happy Chinese New Year!!

* the new year look, Red lips.
this is a warm red colour,

p/s: for more red lips information, i recommend MichellePhan's video!

THIS ! MichellePhan's Perfect Red Lips tutorial :)