Foundations Tricks and get the look :)

Types Of Foundation Available
Liquid Foundation: Offers light to medium coverage. Available in moisturizing formulas with a satin finish for dry skin or oil-free versions with a matte finish for oily skins.

Cream Foundation: Offers light to medium coverage, slightly heavier than a liquid. Great for dry skin. Avoid using if you have oily or combination skin.

Stick: Foundation sticks also double as concealers. The new gel or powder finish formulas are not as heavy or greasy as the older "pancake" formulas.

Dual-finish compact formulas (liquid to powder or cream to powder): Medium coverage Great for combination skin, but should be avoided by those with excessively dry skin or who need heavier coverage. Can tend to dry out your face.

Tinted moisturizer: Can be used under foundation or alone for minimal to no coverage. Almost like a liquid bronzer.

Mineral Powder Foundation: Offers light to full coverage. Comes in every shade and tone imaginable. VERY easy and fast to apply. Longer lasting than most foundations. Controls oil and most are waterproof with a natural SPF!

Found some great tips around and thought it would be cool to get it to continue to adds on!!!

Before applying any liquid or powder foundation, make sure you clean your face first. Use a gentle face cleanser to remove any dirt. This will help your foundation glide on smoothly and stay on longer.

The middle finger is generally your weakest digit; use that finger tip to gently pat liquid foundation on the blemish or dark spot. If you don't like the idea of getting makeup on your finger tips, then use a facial sponge to gently apply liquid foundation. Wait until liquid foundation is dry before using a makeup brush to apply a foundation powder, like Fresh Finish Loose Powder, evenly over your skin. The powder foundation helps set the liquid foundation and allows it to stay on longer. For a natural look and when your skin is behaving like it should–Mix 1 part foundation to 1 – 2 parts moisturizer (based on the amount of coverage you need). Ta-dah! You have instant tinted moisturizer! I usually just wear moisturizer and sunscreen with light powder on top while it's wet.

Sometimes it is helpful to add a small amount of oil-free face moisturizer, like Clarifying Moisture Balance, to your foundation, especially if you are trying to cover a red spot on your skin. The added moisture helps calm skin.

People has used those gross gunk that accumulates at the rim of your foundation bottle? It’s the concentrated version of your perfect color-matched foundation – it’s your customized concealer – for FREE! Use a small concealer brush to apply your concentrated foundation to blemishes after you’ve applied your foundation. Let it sit for a bit, then blend out the edges, and finally, set with a translucent powder.) I don't usually use this but I have tried it and it works out pretty well. It doesn't work too well when your skin is dry though. So use a good amount of moisturizer before hand. Tip: Wipe off the old gunk (it’s probably too thick and dark at this point). Within a day or two, you will have a new layer of concentrated foundation around the bottle rim to work with.

This is definitely something that I do on a daily basis. I like to blend a little bit of glitter when it's a night look. If you have a liquid foundation and a loose mineral eyeshadow (preferably in a light, iridescent shade), you have a highlighter. Sculpt cheekbones and define brows by mixing a few pinches of loose mineral eye shadow into your liquid foundation. Play with it until you get the right luminosity and consistency. Free liquid highlighter! Now, use a couple of dabs on your cheekbones, under your brow, or on your decolletage for a healthy glow. Hint: It’s also an inexpensive way to disguise marks and bruises on legs and arms.

When I want a true color lips with drugstore makeup. I apply a layer of foundations on my lips. Applying foundation to your eyelids and on your lips (yes, directly on your mouth) to neutralize underlying shades works magics; so I never get why people use concealers. Set with a translucent powder and you’ve got a beautiful, clean canvas! Your red lips will pop, your colorful eye shadows will be more vibrant and your overall look will be polished and professional – not to mention, it will last much longer!

Fow now let's play with a new makeup tutorial

My Contouring and Highlight Routine

What is contouring and Highlight?

Contouring is the act of using dark or light colors to make features recede or become prominent, respectively and with highlight it brings the areas forward and draws attention to that part of the face. Contouring recedes the areas. Contouring gives your face shape and depth. You can alter your face shape with highlight and contouring tricks. It adds definition, structure, and dimension to your: face, decollate, abdomen, or any part of the body that needs definition. There are several ways to contour.


Your tools will depend on the method you choose. You could use: Concealer or liquid highlighter (2 – 3 shades lighter than skin tone) there's plenty of new palette available for that, a synthetic foundation brush, a smaller synthetic concealer brush, aloose powder brush (to set foundation), matte bronzer or powder 2-3 shades darker than skin tone, highlighting powder,  or a makeup sponge. Using Kim  Kardashian as an example here. Her strong, exaggerated features provide the perfect canvas for showcasing the dramatic effects of contouring. I find that a good powder bronzer and highlighter do the job on a day-to-day basis. For a more dramatic camera-ready look, I like to layer the contours – cream/liquid foundation contours, setting powder, then bronzer and highlighter contours. To bring areas of your face forward, emphasizing them, do the opposite to contouring and use a highlighter a bit lighter than your skin color. The areas you want to do this to are the top of the cheek bones, and the center of your eyelids. When it comes to your lips, dab a lighter lip shade or illuminating cream just in the middle of them to really bring them out.  I found a great highlight and contour for all faces photo on line that I've tried out and wanted to share with you guys.

Round face is fuller and usually stays younger looking longer than the other face shapes. It's shorter, fairly wide, with full cheeks and a rounded chin. Highlight your forehead, underneath the eyes just on top of the cheekbones, and the center of your chin to draw attention to the center of your face.Contour your temples, cheeks, and jawline with a bronzer or powder or cream that is one or two levels darker than your skin tone to create the appearance of an oval face. Make sure you blend, blend, blend. Check the darker colors to make sure you do not have harsh lines, do not use anything that is too dark for your skin.

Long face shaped face has high cheekbones, a high, deep forehead and a strong, sharp, chiseled jawline. Never highlight or contour your face. This will only make your face look longer. Brush a bit of bronzer or dark color foundation across your chin to help shorten its length. Apply blush on the apples of your cheeks. This will help widen and shorten your face. When applying your blush, start closer in on the apples of the cheeks and brush outward across the face.

Pear Face shaped face is narrow at the temples and forehead and wider at the cheeks and jawline. Highlight your forehead to create the illusion of width, and highlight underneath the eyes on top of the cheekbones and the tip of your.

Now that you've gotten the basis lets get to the real video work
This is how it looks to do it on others.

Video for doing on yourself will be up soon!!!

Wadda Day... PHEW --atleast I have videos

Talk about tiredness overdose. I went to spend time with my grandpa in the hospital. I should've slept to prepare myself for this. 4 hours of sleep and my mom pull my butt up around 9 to tell me to go see grandpa. I thought hey.. it'll be quick but I'm stuck here for 10 hours now. Thank god I have my laptop or else I'll really die. I got some more work done since I've uploaded all the video clips to my laptop already. All I got to do now is just work at it when I'm free then up we go again. Hair video is up and running for the prom. Should I upload the makeup also or should I do a V-log upload tonight since it's a Wednesday. I think I'll upload the V-log since it has many giveaway update. So much to do and so little time. My schedule is all askew due to change in schedule.

Here's the closet update in vietnamese. I'll do the full room tour in the english version when I have time to record. This one is for my first ever Vietnamese version of the closet for teatouchs2.

Just a few more hours I'll get to go home, eat, and rest. And perhaps I'll get more packing done since that day is coming up. I'm not as excited for the trip since my boyfriend isn't singing anymore. But the thought of being with him for a week is pretty nice. Especially with the beach. I guess we don't have to have a night life just focus more on tourism and couple times. Currently saving the bridal long last makeup tutorial. I'm not sure if I'll do the contour video now since it's included in this one. That is if people want an in dept version of the video I guess we can do that. Not sure what I'll do just yet.  I snap at my boyfriend yet again today.. gosh my mood swings. Well I think I'm just cranky from the hunger and  fatigue. I got instagram on my phone now.. yay?

Here it is guys!! the two video of the v-log...

Prom and wedding preps and video haul????

So I woke up today with a runny nose. WTF? I was training so hard to sing at this wedding and I have a cold. JESUS F!KC. Whatever. I feel like sh!t. Sigh. Atleast the girls looks so pretty for the prom. Video blog of it will be up soon. I'm really thinking about doing a live show but I feel so crappy that it's hard to entertain. I finally got all my makeup and everything done. Still hungry and angry for some reason. I got a lot done though.  For now enjoy part 3 of the haul "DRESSES".

 The wedding was a blast. IT ended at midnight which is awesome and on time. WE danced the night away. I met a few other singers but the best has got to be my baby. Spent the night quietly in Lincoln the next day I recorded well tried to record but never finish my first song collaboration with him. He said I did well there's a few note I still have to hit to make it perfect but the over drinking the night before didn't help my voice out much. We left around 9 for a group bowling event. After bowling it was off home for a good night rest. Again at Midnight. So much drama today but I can't talk about it much. I'm still trying to get things done. So much work. So little time. But I'm trying guys. Summer is approaching and there's so much to do for school in the fall. Sigh. Family has been a big burden and overly dramatic. With my grandpa in the hospital it didn't make dad any more of a pain on my butt. I hate it when you're the good child and you're the one being bullied. Yet the shitty child gets their ways. And when you tries to be the same way as the other child your parents freaks out on you. That outta teach you to be a good kid. Once you're a good kid that image never change and you are just forever trying to break away and doing your own thing or living your own life. I feel so tired when it comes to family. I really do just want to move away. Maybe then I'll start to love and miss them more. I use to miss them when I lived far away from home. And I use to enjoy coming home in the weekend here and there. But now I just hate being here. It feels so traps at times. (Venting a bit-sorry). Duyen's wedding is on it's way we went to buy things today. I save them over 140$ ^_^ what a save!!!! So far but it will be much more if that coupons keeps up. I hope it comes before the coupons expires. 

I have this feelings like you gotta give up something to have something else. It's really hard to keep both things at a time. I don't want to burden others but I feel like I'm loosing my best friend to fake peoples she's around. I'm not gonna stop her from hanging out with people that we both once didn't like but people change and I hope this isn't a permanent thing and like a fake phase it will all go away. I do not like the crowd that we once tries to stay away from. I will still continue to let her do her own thing and just hang out with my boyfriend for a while. But I keep to my moral. I don't like the group of people she is with and though I won't start problem. I'll also won't hang out as much as I can. If I don't like a person I can't pretend to do so or fake a smile on. I literally will let that fact be known so that they don't waste their time faking their friendship with me. For now as a friend I can only let her do her thing and when she's ready or tired of those "so called friends" she'll come to me.  I do notice the lack of hangouts, clubbing, drinking and chilling time together. But that's okay. I trust or friendship so much more for now let's worry about the wedding.

Expectations when will it ends?

The thing about expectations is that they never go away and they adds up everyday weighing you down and making it harder to rise to where you actually belong. Think about it; As a child your parents expect you to behave and be a good kid. As you grow up, your parents expects you to matures and be a good person. When you fall in love your lover expects you to love them faithfully and wholeheartedly. When you're a best friend you are expected to be there forever and ever. When you are an employee you're expected to be on time, dependable, and the list goes on.. Throughout life those around you and yourself expects higher of you or better of you. But when was the last time they pat you in the back and let you know. You are doing just fine. I'm going to be the first to pat you in the back and tell you... you are doing okay. One step at a time is better than being afraid to move forward. I have lived with constant pressure and burdensome expectations for the past 21 years of my life. I was trap in that forever listening and unable to make my own choice and decisions of my life. Until I sat down and look at my life. I suggest you write down what you like and dislike about your life; what you want to do and not want to do through out; differentiated the different between letting your parents living their life through yours or you actually breaking free and live your life as your own. We only get to live once. We can live it how our parents and other wants us to or we can live it how we want to. When was the last time you did what you wanted? How about today? I'm not expecting you to change your mind after one post. I'm not expecting you to see life as I see it. I'm simply remind you that life is so short. It feels shorter and shorter for me each days for some odd reason. It's very hard to understand it I know and I might sound insane but one day that clock of yours will ticks and clicks and it all becomes so clear and you will be left dumbfounded and you'll want to kick yourself in the head for being so blind to what is so clear. Has anyone ever expected you to be happy? Happy with your life, your wants, desire, needs, and most of all.. Happy with your own decision. No matter what life has ahead for me. I know life will fall into place and it will be what I wanted because everything I do now.. is base on what I want to do in the first place.

And with that.. cheers my beautiful reader. You only live once.. so why think twice. The first thought that pops into your mind is where your heart wants to be... Your mind tends to talks yourself out of it afterward. So let it be that you have no more thoughts when you wake up in the morning. Then you would be in a bliss because you then has no regret, no wants, no desire, no expectations... so you now have no disappointment, worries, sadness, but you do have... your life and the simple freedom of being you.

My first thought today.. I woke up next to the man no one else thought I could get. I kiss his lips and went back to sleep. Okay so I took a few more peeks at his beautiful features kissed him again and then went to sleep. My life isn't perfect but in the same time. I'm happy with everything and being happy is the freedom only you can give yourself.

5:39 P.M thoughts
Onto the news of how this thought came to be. I was working on my video and I felt happy actually taking a request of a viewer. They wished I would talk more on my video. I could brush it off and just continue making more since my next 3 is done already. But then I sat back and told myself. What is the rush? One day at a time for now. I have many years to do other things. One things at a time and breath. I took a sip of my coffee and went back to revising and re-doing the video project. Thanks for the reminder and no I won't let a little bit of hate ruin my beautiful weekend. Not now... not ever. Happy trailing my readers.  Back to work. I still have to decide what to wear to the club tomorrow night after the wedding.

Having it or not having it thought --Putting it out there

I love it when you hate on me for having things you don't. I love it more when you show me that you hate on me because of that. You can think of many reasons to excuse the fact that you are jealous out of your freaking mind and unable to comprehend the fact that you are just actually jealous. How are you jealous? Well to start out with. If you didn't like me; why are you my fake friend on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, ect... ? Why stalk my videos and sites just to feel shitty about yourself? Don't tell me you're bored because I don't remember a time I took times out of my lovely day to stalk you anonymously because I was bored. No darling "was bored" "need something to laugh at" "need entertainments" are no longer legit reasonings to stalk someone. The power of hate must have driven you to insanity or it could be that the power of jealousy has already consume and swallow you alive as an individual. I'm here calm and chill just reading your pathetic reasons and very erm uninteresting as well as uneducated come back.

I already win as a person because I'm able to be myself and live my life the way I want to. Free. Something you should experience for yourself instead of living in that cage that you put up yourself. Free yourself from your own shallow thoughts, hateful ways, and jealous behaviors. It's okay to admit that I'm not there yet but I will be someday. Hell I can tell you now that even when I'm not there yet.. I'm living life as I am. Why? Because unlike you.. I was raised to work hard to get what I want instead of sitting there and criticize other for what you; yourself are unable of doing. What you're doing now is sad and a waste of your own time.

Why would I take the time out of my beautiful days to write to you? That's simple. This is my blog. I actually belong here. I'm a blogger. I'm suppose to write, vent, blog, live and share my life via online with the world. You don't have to be a part of it if you don't want to... but for me. I'm too use to be being under the spot light instead of watching from the shadow. I'm too use to being picked first when they chose a team mate instead of people fight to keep you off their team. Have fun sitting on the sideline watching as myself and the rest of the world and my readers who are like myself. Not afraid to shine in our own lights. But the offer is open. We aren't shallow people. We do know how to forgive the enemy... even if we remember their full name.

Want nice things? Work for it. If you can't afford it now; you'll get it later. Want it but want god to drop it out of the sky.. the only that drop from the sky is bird shit... good luck catching those white. Haters that want to continues to hate...Shut the freak up and watch as others that can soar and myself who isn't afraid to fly, take flight. Hasta La vista bitches. Woah.. just so you know... how the view of our arses?  For now?? Enjoy the new hauls video part 2

Onto the good news. Got my nails done but it was a fail. I don't like the color so I'll go out to change it tomorrow. Sigh. I might go to lincoln so that will be an issue. Vivian prom is this saturday and so is the wedding. I got the stuff all picked out. We plan to club at Re-Hab this Saturday. YAY!!!! Yes after the wedding -sushi- and the club. I miss my hubby.

Laptop&Accessories Haul ^_^!

Just wanted to share with you a few things that hubby got me from the denver trip and also for my b-day. He's the best isn't he?? I'm still trying to get use to the lap top with all the double clicking and ctrl to do almost everything. I hate it to be honest. It's so hard to figure out. It does work really well and I don't fear virus. I do like the fact that my phone is register to it so if anyone does steal it I can locate it with GPS. LOL. I should actually connect his to my laptop instead of mine so I can track him down. KEEKEKEKEK shhh.. nah I trust the man. Well I hope you like the haul and yes one of these earring came from shopping from that trip so I will also host a traveler giveaway also- and plus the tumblr follower "RING" giveaway- The boyfriend tag "couple t's" giveaway - on top of that my birthday giveaway. I'm doing it all in one. The four giveaway for the month of April!!!!!! So tune in for the new video as well as the blogs for bonus contest.

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How to get fuller lips with makeup and OOTD

People often says a fuller lips is always prettier. I honestly don't see the reasoning behind it. To me soft lips is the key to everything and I actually thinks A. Jolie is not that attractive. I hate her lips. However I do love red lips.. or popping color lips. However for those that do love the thick lips looks. I've found a routine that I usually do when I want to bring out my lips online and well. I thought I would share it. I'm usually a pink girl so it's very daring and out of my comfort zone to try red or any shade darker than hot pink. But I went outside my comfort zone and tried it out. Thanks for watching and check out the new video and blog tutorial on how to get fully lips.
Decided to do an OOTD and Hair look.

Step 1: Prep

I moisturize my lips regularly so I'm not sure if you do or do not. If yours a little rough, use an exfoliating lip balm (it has little beads in it for it to work) or apply some Vaseline to damp lips. I recommend using a soft-bristled toothbrush to rub off flaky dry skin. Make sure you don’t have too much Chapstick on or else your lip products won’t adhere as well depend on drugstore or name brand.

Step 2 – Conceal

Using a sponge or foundation brush, apply a thin layer of your regular concealer over your entire mouth. I just use what's left from my face foundation to lightly cover it so it gets off red/pink but not pale. You can if you like but I have naturally light lips so I don't need much to bring it out. Doing this will help blur the rim of your lips and will also help act as a primer to keep the lipstick on longer (if you're not using 14 hours lipstick or waterproof lipstick that is). 

Step 3: Identify

Using a nude-ish lip liner or any liner close to your skin color and identify the highest points of your lips. Dot lip liner slightly outside your natural lip line. This will help you keep your lip liner even when it’s time to line your mouth. I can automatically draw it on perfectly because I do it on a daily basis. 

Step 4: Line

Using feathery strokes, line lips – using the dots you already created as a guide.

Step 5: Fill

Again, using gentle strokes, use lip liner to fill in the lip. The point is to erase your natural lip line and blend it into the new rim you have created.

Step 6: Lipstick

Apply a matte or satin lipstick over the lip liner. Matte and satin lip colors tend to adhere better than glossier/shinier ones. You may also choose to use a lip stain instead of a lipstick. I use higher end true to color lipstick by Lancome so I don't really worry too much over the matte or satin lipsticks. I do suggest investing some money into your cosmetics because like my mom always says: YOU PAY WHAT YOU GET...

Step 7: Lip Gloss

Apply lip gloss over lipstick. Make sure not to take the lip gloss too close to the edges of your lips. Lip gloss can slip, making it looks messy.

VOILA!!!

While we are in the subjects of lips. Here's something cute I found on facebook. 

What is a KiSS ? 

In view of GEOMETRY: (mathematics) KISS is the shortest distance between 2 lips 

ECONOMICS: KISS is the thing for which demand is always higher then supply

Physics: The process of charging a body 

Computer: Kiss is way through which two bodies transfer data without any data cable. 

Chemistry: Type of bonding between two bodies to make them reactant 

Biology: Starting process for the production of new generation!!



A little update: 4/17/12


Time to get a new bottle. Sigh. You've served me well!!!



Oh well moving on to my new obsession. My guilty obsession. Though I love chanel to death do us parts. I'm cheating on it with Gucci. Yes guilty as charged and I love it just as much.



I woke up today from a nightmare. Sigh. So many since my arrival to home. I've gotten used to staying by his side that I feel lost without his presence around me. This addictions is new to me. The feeling of wanting to be around someone at all times. The wedding is coming up soon. I can't wait for this Saturday. I have to make a trip to Horseshoe and catch Chi Mai since I need her contact information for this new promoter. I have to record a few haul today so wish me luck in getting it done because we all know how hard of a worker I've been lately.. (hah even I laugh at this sarcasm). The only place I want to be right now is in his arms. Oh well. Saturday. You better get your butt here soon. Love...