Conversion

Oh wow.

I think I became a MAC convert! Here's what happened...

Due to my patheticallly creased Asian eyes, I have trouble wearing eyeliner because it just smudges and leaves me with racoon eyes before I even leave the house in the morning. After trying endless eyeliners, everything from YoungBlood, Revlon, Annabelle... right up to high-end brands like Shiseido, Lancome, and Chanel's famous crayon kohl, I still couldn't have smudge-free pencil eyeliners. I hesitated and hesitated and finally decide to try a liquid liner. Now, I've had really horrible experiences with liquid liners before. The past summer, I picked up a bottle of Lancome traceur at the airport, thinking that it will give me a nice, fluid, long-lasting line in the Beijing heat. Well, it probably would have, if I learned to apply it the right way. Instead of having beautifully lined eyes, I got the shittiest, most surreal experience in eyeliner application. Ever. My hand was shaky, my lids were going crazy on me, and the line was so freaking far from my lashline I might as well have drawn on my eyebrows. That's right. That's how horrible I was at liquid lining. I ended up using half of this liner to draw on my arm to practise my lines. At the end of the summer, I completely gave up and gave this to my cousin, who was also a label-whore.

So yesterday, Nicole and I were strolling around downtown in the snow, licking our gelato cones and she was oggling hot guys on Robson and I was oggling hot girls. I remembered there was a MAC store somewhere on Robson and we headed towards it. I practically dragged Nicole into MAC, and I beelined for the LiquidLast liners. I was smitten with all the beautiful colours, and there was a turquoise colour that matched my Ports dress 100%. However, I remained calm and asked the MA to swatch some black liner on my hand. While waiting for it to dry, I checked out the Metal-X liners and the Curiositease stuff. When the liner dried, I started my experiment. I rubbed and rubbed and rubbed. Nothing happened, the liner was still intact. Then, I wet a cotton pad with some water and rubbed again. The liner was still intact. I then commented to the MA on how long-lasting this liner was. The MA looked as if I'm crazy because she spent the last ten minutes or so explaining the long-lasting-ness of this liner. I bought the liner in black and started a profile with MAC.

After two rounds of dishwashing and washing my hair, the liner was still intact. Amazing. I removed the liner before bed using my eye make-up remover and it came of easily. How amazing. I went to bed with the excitement of being able to try out the liner in the morning.

I woke up ten minutes earlier than usual to apply make-up because I was afraid I would make a mistake with the liquid liner and have to start again. To my surprise, the liner was fairly easy to use. I don't know if it was because I had more practise since summer or because I drew a guideline with a kohl pencil first. Either way, the liner went on beautifully. I dipped my liner twice and got both of my eyes lined pretty dramatically. I think the little tube will last me awhile. I went to school, went shopping with my mom after school, didn't come home until 9pm, and even then, my liner was still perfectly intact. However, I'll still go back and get the turquoise one, because I know I will be wearing my Ports dress this holiday season.

As for the rest of the haul in downtown yesterday, it wasn't alot. I bought a Lise Watier glitter liner, in "Opale", this white shimmery gilittery colour. Sunnie has the blue/gray one, and Joey has the same one. I think Lise Watier is such a talented Canadian designer, much better than Alfred Sung. The quality is quite comparable to the Metal-X glitter liners but more colour choices and the colours are more "normal". Sadly, the prices are about the same too. My bank card wasn't happy about that.

I also decided to buy a Miss Sixty bag as Xiu's Christmas present. I think it suits her, but I don't think she has any idea what Miss Sixty is. Her mom is the biggest label whore ever, and dresses her in Armani and Abercrombie all the time, and she has no idea what she's wearing. I consulted my mother on which colour I should get, and it's a tie between black and green. Green is definitely more vibrant... and black suits Xiu better, because she's emo like that. But afterall, it's a Miss Sixty bag, and vibrant colours compliments Miss Sixty designs the best. I don't know yet... suggestions, anyone? I'll pick up the bag this weekend. I hope they still have it! If they don't, I'm really fucked, because I have no idea what to get her otherwise.

I was also eyeing Anna Sui products yesterday. I got totally hooked onto Anna Sui after buying their Ring Rouge and their limited edition nail set before summer. I have to blame PP for getting me into Anna Sui, and being a nail whore in general. I've lost a great shopping buddy after PP went to Toronto for university. Nicole and I were both eyeing the Anna Sui mirror yesterday, but I decided not to buy it because it was too big to fit into my portable make-up bag and too small to use in the house. It's so adorable though! One of the reasons I like Anna Sui is because of their lolita-ness.

Now I'm sitting on my bed blogging, because I'm such a procrastinator. I have a huge English essay tomorrow, and I'm doing a half-assed job, and a socials presentation tomorrow that I'm going to wing. At the same time, I'm attempting to give part of my attention to my gf, who is being the weird-ass artist that she is and talking to me about COWism. Wtf. I have no visual art creativity whatsoever. It's so pathetic. And to think I interned in the summer at the biggest advertising firm in Japan (and possibly one of the largest in the world) doing product campaign design!

Anyway, as I was saying, I'm procrastinating with a big glass of fruit juice and Crabtree & Evelyn stuff sprawled on my bed from the holiday shopping today. I have to wrap them all... because mother wants to give them out as "mini-pressies" for her friends' offsprings. My mom refused to let me buy Ugg boots because she thought they were ugly! How are Ugg boots ugly?! My mom thought they were named "Ugg" because they were "ugly"... Is that a Chinglish thing or what is it? Because I'm not getting the drift... I happen to think Ugg boots are stylish and comfy! I mean, I am a FOB and all, and Ugg boots do clash with my FOB/Honger/Jap/Chinese street fashion style. But stillllllllll! I want want want Uggs!

Finish the essay and straight to bed I go... It's been a long day!