Benefits of Rose Water

Rose Water

After reviewing some articles online and doing my own personal research on Rose Water...

nothing but goodness comes out of this remarkable gift from nature.

Here are some Pros

ANTI-AGING

• With a pH level of 5.5, rose water helps balance out the disruption by bringing your skin's pH level back to normal. Normal  pH level of our skin falls in between 4.5 - 6.2, making it slightly acidic (a good level of acidity).  What we don't want is your skin to be neither too alkaline nor too acidic.  Rose water will tone the skin and help restore the pH level of your skin.
• Has Anti-Oxidant properties that help strengthen skin cells and regenerate skin tissue.
• Removes dead skin cells
• It is a great moisturizer for your skin.  Hydrates and revitalizes, it helps nourish your skin and enhance its quality.
• Gets rid of dark circles and puffiness around the eyes.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

• Anti-Bacterial properties help calm and sooth redness, pimple and scars.
• Anti-Inflammatory properties that can help reduce the redness of irritated skin, dermatitis and eczema.
• Cooling properties help soothe and heal sunburn; treat heat from rash.
• Great for hair!  Treat mild scalp inflammation and get rid of dandruff.
• Great for eyes!  Protects from redness caused by dust, pollutant; helps soothe and heal from inflammation of the eye caused by harmful ingredients of makeup and beauty products.
• Great for after waxing!  Help soothe the skin from waxing.

HOW TO USE ROSE WATER

FACE

1. No Makeup -----  simply soak cotton pad with rose water and gently wipe face to cleanse.  Not only this step is cleansing your face, but it is also toning your face at the same time, balancing the pH level.  Then, moisturize.
2. With Makeup -----  soak cotton pads (1 or 2 pads) with rose water and gently wipe your face removing excess makeup.  Do not worry if you're not wiping off the makeup completely, so do not over-wipe. Use more cotton pads with rose water if necessary.  Next, wash your face using your regular facial cleanser.  Dry face with towel.  Spray your face entirely with rose water to balance out the pH level of your face.  Then, moisturize.

EYES

1. Soak 2 cotton balls with rose water and place one over each eye for 15 minutes.
2. Some sites also recommend to use rose water as eye drops, apparently it is safe to use as so.  However, I have not tried this myself so I cannot tell you if this helps.  Please do your own research and consult a professional should you decide to use it as an eye drop.

DAILY USAGE

1. I like to keep a bottle of rose water on my bathroom counter to soak cotton pads for my daily skincare routine.  
2. I also like to fill up my mist bottle with rose water to keep it handy on my bathroom counter and another one in my fridge!  Whenever I feel like spritzing my face with some cold chilled rose water, I can do so.  Helps hydrate my skin throughout the day, feeling refreshed.  Great for over the makeup. The chilled rose water mist after cleansing your face will help tighten up and close up the pores.
3. Don't be shy to spray your face several times a day with rose water!  I have come to love doing this and have realized it is "never too much misting"!  

WARNING!

And yes!  All great things must always come with at least one warning!

But wait!  On a good note, it is NOT related to the actual rose water....but sadly to certain manufacturer of the rose water.

PLEASE CHECK THE INGREDIENTS LIST BEFORE PURCHASING ROSE WATER!!!

Yes, unfortunately some companies have added artificial preservatives in order to enhance the longevity of the product.

Keep ingredients simple!
When purchasing, review the ingredients list, and make sure the expiration date is good as well.  It is only normal for natural products to expire!  

Inspirational Quote: "Faith"

" Fear is how you lose your life...

a little bit at a time...

What we give to fear,

we take away from...

faith"

- from "the first phone call from heaven"

a novel by Mitch Albom

Asian Eye Makeup: Angular? or Round? Which one is you?

Angular = Edgy / Sultry / Sexy / Glamour / Mysterious

Round = Soft / Cute / Feminine / Playful / Shy

♥︎Which one do you like?♥︎

Asian Eyes

One thing is for sure...is that you cannot do Caucasian eye makeup on an asian.

We do not have double lined lids / crease, therefore, contouring as you would do on creases does not work on our eyes.

What works best is smokey / blending from bottom to top

And smokey doesn't necessary mean dark colours.  It can be soft pastels, bright colours as much as contouring neutral tones.  The key thing is to blend.  Blend from the lash line towards the top, concentrating on the outer edge of the eyes.  Blend, blend and blend.  Blending is so important because our lids are exposed, meaning they do not hide inside the crease once the eyes are opened. :)

Once you got that right, then playing with the shape is all up to you and how you feel!

Wanna do round shaped smokey?

or

Wanna rock the angular shape?

Depending on the shape, it can play up your style and your mood.

♥︎Have fun!♥︎

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From my ipsy glam bag I got this month, I used this penny coloured loose eyeshadow.  The info and the link is in my previous blog post.

The colour is....BAM!

Straight on, no joke!  It is pigmented like you wouldn't believe!

Straight from the pot to the brush to the lids, the colour is pure, intense and solid.

Love the colour and the intensity!

My brows are filled using this brow pencil by Marcelle.  The colour is a nice ashy brown.  It's like a waxy crayon so it repels water and lasts longer.

For my lashes, I added falsies from Ardell.  It's their Edgy collection with accented edges.

The falsies are topped with black mascara from Makeup Forever.

♥︎ xo ♥︎

My March ipsy Glam Bag! Floral Fantasy is the theme this month :)

♥︎  Floral Fantasy ♥︎

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Here's the makeup pouch this month:

floral, blue and cute :)

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Mineral Eyeshadow in Lucky Penny by Marsk

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★Eye Makeup with this shiny coopery colour coming soon on my blog!★

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 Soy Renewal Creme Oil with Argan Oil by Healthy Sexy Hair

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Pore no More Anti-Aging Mattifying Lotion by Dr.Brandt

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Butter Lipstick in Little Susie by NYX 

(click here)

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Ivory Lace Highlighter by Chella

(click here)

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There you have it!

Time to go play with them all :)

I've already played with the eye shadow, and mm-mmm!

Let me tell you one thing...

It's pigmented like you wouldn't believe!!!

Stay-tuned for the eye makeup!

xo

#ipsy #ipsyglambag #makeup #makeupartist #montreal #japanese #asianmakeup #floralfantasy #march

Eye Makeup: Happy Saint-Patrick's Day!

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Saint-Patrick's Day inspired eye makeup

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I used this pure intense green of all greens by Inglot.

Not sure what the colour is called...no indication of its name on the back.

Very true to its pigment when applied on skin.  I do love Inglot eyeshadows, though they do fall onto my cheeks during application. 

So, when you use their eyeshadows, just make sure to finish the eye makeup before you apply your foundation :)

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 My eyebrows are filled with this waterproof slanted brow pencil by Marcelle.

I love this natural ashy tone.  This goes well with those with light coloured eyebrows.

The pencil part is like a crayon...waxy texture,  but soft so it is easy to apply.

It's flat enough and slanted, so the application is smooth, lines are defined and is

easy to shape your brows with.

I opted for this lighter ashy tone to tone down my black-haired brows for this look to help make the green eye makeup pop :)

         

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The gold sparkles were added using this Marcelle Lux Diamond Liquid Liner.

It has a very fine tip applicator so you can create the finest line if you'd like.

For this look, I simply layered it over my lid.  It was a thick coat but didn't bleed out and the application was smooth.  It did take a little longer to dry due to its thickness (my bad!) but once dried, it was solid!  No sparkles fell or rubbed off onto my fingers when I touched it.

So pretty :) ♥︎

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♥︎ I LOVE Kiss Falsies! ♥︎ I may have mentioned it before in my posts...but I must say it over and over...! :)

I LOVE KISS FALSIES!

I use them for all of my Brides.  They are made with natural hair, so easy to apply, light, soft and bendable and yet great for several applications.  Lashes comes in varieties of lengths, volume and shapes.  Love love love♥︎

I used this one for this look.  I wanted the length but not volume.  I wanted to show off the sparkled part of my lids through the lashes :)

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I topped the falsies with this Makeup For Ever Mascara in black.  I didn't apply a lot though!  Again, I didn't want to add too much volume on the lashes. 

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The applicator is well....um....interesting?  (lack of a better word!)

Must be great for some...but not for my asian eyes!  It's so big!  Felt awkward and so hard to apply!

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On my cheeks for contouring and adding some extra sun-kissed touch all over my face, I added this matte bronzer by Annabelle.  Annabelle is a sister-line of Marcelle.

♥︎Both proudly made from here, Montreal♥︎

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For my lips for this look, I wanted a soft neutral touch that is not too pink, not too beige with a creamy texture and no shimmer, no matte.

I chose this one and it looks great!

It is a Marcelle lipstick in Attitude #702.

I like the fact that it has no taste! And no particular smell!

I am uber sensitive to smell...and when it comes to lipstick, I am even more so than anything!  I can easily get nauseous and even worse, get migraines from bad smelling lipsticks and ones with too much fragrance. 

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Happy Saint-Patrick's Day!  Another great reason to drink :)

lol

Hopefully it's more than that!  Like hang out with friends and family, spending some fun times together :)  Enjoy!

xo

#saintpatricksday #eyemakeup #stpattymakeup #marcellecosmetics #ipsy #annabellecosmetics #tomokoloco

No More Mess! - Garnier BB Cream

Please!! ...No more MESS!!

Eeeeeehh...sob...I love you but ... why?!

aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!

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Okey, alright, let's calm down!

I apologize for MY messy behaviour :)

So, is it just with mine...or do others also have this Garnier BB Cream and have to deal with the same issue?

Does yours...ooze out like this?

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You have to shake the tube just before each use, but by doing so, the liquid oozes out into the cap.

You, then, have to slowly turn the cap off hoping that it won't explode, run down your fingers and get it all over the bathroom counter...

So much oozes out that I don't even have to squeeze some onto my fingers...

I just wipe enough amount I need off of the tip of the tube onto my fingers and use that on my face.  And even then, there are still so much left on the tip and inside the cap.

♥︎Ladies and gents!♥︎

♥︎Young and old!♥︎

♥︎And everyone else in between!♥︎

I HAVE FOUND A SOLUTION!

♥︎Step one♥︎

Clean off as much as you can using a wet cloth, tissue paper, paper towel, q-tips...

whatever you need to clean that excess off!

♥︎Step Two♥︎

Get a sticker gem of your choice that is small enough to fit inside the cap.

I got this one from the Dollar store.

In Quebec, we have a chain called Dollorama and you can purchase this pack of gazillion sticker gems.

And look! ♥︎

One fits right inside the cap!

The key here,  is you have to have a gem that is not flat.  It has to be raised a bit in order to block the hole.

The problem with this BB Cream packaging is that there is a fine gap between the cap and the hole.  So this gem will fill in that gap, blocking the hole, thus preventing the cream to ooze out after each use:)

How easy was that!!

Now, if you do not have any gems or find any at your local dollar store or craft store...

I have not tried this yet, but essentially you can use whatever to "fill in that gap".

Some ideas I can suggest are...

sticky-tack, playdoh, thick foam tape or paper, paper towel...whatever you choose to use, simply cut them or shape them into the right size and place it inside the cap!

Hope this helps! ♥︎

xo

#garnierbbcream #messypackaging #solutiontoyourproblem #makeup #ilovegarnier #stickergem #tomokoloco

My February Ipsy Glam Bag! ♥︎

What's in my February Ipsy Glam bag! :)

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Here's a blush cheek powder in Cosmopolitan by Model Co.

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Lip gloss in Anguilla by Cargo

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Large angled face brush #504 by Luxie Beauty

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Powder Eyeshadow in Pearl Fizz by Rob Scheppy for 'Tini beauty

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UH OH!  Mine came like this!

It was wrapped in a small bubble wrap packaging and still...

bummer! :(

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And lastly,...

a cute 'lil ipsy pouch :)

I can't wait to try them out!

Yes, a little disappointed with the eye shadow...

but meh...I can still use it :)

Or, I may try to reassemble the powder with the alcohol trick...?

Overall, very excited :)

I think I'm most excited about the brush! ♥︎