What I love most about Youtube, is that whenever I want to learn something, it’s like a google for videos. I love makeup videos!

Here’s a video from Youtube on how you can fully utilize your MAC 136 brush, and try to sculpt your face by contouring ( making some features recede ) and highlighting ( making features pop out ).

What’s your personal trick, and what brush do you use for contouring? I’m still on the fence on which to get!

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Video : How To Contour Using the MAC 136 Brush

So, one day, I finally found an old hair blower, and tried “heating” my eyelash curler. Well, let’s just say that I learned my lesson the hard way, thank God I’m still in one piece! No, no, nothing serious happened. Haha.

Anyway, here are my three tips from my experience

1. Heat the eyelash curler no more than three seconds.
You don’t want a very very very very steaming, heated eyelash curler to fry your lashes, do you?
2. Let it cool down a bit – maybe wait for it to be just a bit more than warm, but tolerable.
3. If your lashes are short, don’t do it the usual way in such that you curl your lashes near the roots of your lashes. Again, wait for the curler to cool down a bit – maybe blow some air to it, and carefully curl – not too close.

In fairness, it sure worked for me! My “curled” lashes held for the rest of the day, and I shall be doing this more often! I hope this helped!

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Beauty Gizmo 101 : Heating the Eyelash Curler

I am dead envious of my mom’s fine hair that her hair is effortlessly “rebonded” and so easy to maintain, as opposed to mine that I have to “flat-out” everytime before I get out of the house.I am also a person on the go, that means that I want really quick fix-me-ups. I’d love to use the hair dryer everytime, but I haven’t had any luck in making it work for me just the way I want it ( I am planning on seriously trying to learn about it. ). For twice in a row, I’ve had my hair rebonded in a salon for a wash-and-dry, low maintenance hair that I loved. But as it wore off, I actually felt a little bit lazy to go to the salon again, and I haven’t had much time lately, too.

The hair iron is the best bet for flattening out my poofy hair, because it’s much easier to use than the hair dryer, but the thing is, I have to let my hair completely dry before using it, or it’d be such a disaster. I don’t find Wet to Dry Straightening Irons all appealing because I’m scared my wet hair would be burned with the immediate heat of the iron, as we know that hair is most vulnerable when wet. ( Even if they give us assurances, I still don’t like the idea! )

Here are some tips to make hair iron work best with your hair:

* First, make sure that hair is at is moisturized best. Hair irons dry your hair no matter what and it doesn’t hurt to seal your hair with more moisture as you condition it more, and have some intensive conditioning weekly or twice a week.
* Make sure that your hair is dry before you use the hair iron. Hair strands are most vulnerable when wet and you wouldn’t want to have hair breakage because of using the hair iron.
* Use a heat-activated conditioner or styling product before using the hair iron. Much better if you let it dry a bit before you use the hair iron too.
* Let the hair iron glide and not dwell/stay too much on one area for a long time – it just might burn the hair. Just let the hair iron glide down in slow motion.
* As much as possible get tourmaline technology or at least ceramic hair irons. They are more forgiving to the hair.

Well , more tips anyone? I’d love to hear from you!

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Working With The Good ‘Ol Hair Iron

It’s the question everyone’s been asking me about – for alot of girls have been frustrated with the technique of applying eyeliner.

Eyeliners are heaven sent, simply because they make the lashes look thicker, and they define, and bring more attention to the eyes. Girls who have small eyes like me, would benefit using eyeliner as it brings more attention and depth to the eyes. I love eyeliner – I don’t think I can go party without it! There are two makeup brushes that can be used for applying eyeliner – that’s the pointed eyeliner brush, and the angled brow liner brush.

Let’s all watch Michelle Phan’s video on how to apply eyeliner. Simply fantastic. This is the best vid I’ve watched so far for applying eyeliner. Well-explained, visually.

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How To Apply Eyeliner, Flawlessly.

 Now, how about giving it a shot?

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Applying Lip Makeup Using Makeup Brushes