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Pony Effect is one Kbeauty brand that you should be on the lookout for. If you are not aware, Pony is a well known makeup artist in the Kbeauty world. She has her own youtube channel (with over 2 mil subscribers) where she post makeup tutorials. If you're interested in learning korean makeup looks, I highly recommend to check out her channel! Since discovering her beauty channel, I got really interested in giving her makeup line a go.

Hermo has been the place for me to shop when it comes to Kbeauty products and I'm not surprised that they carry Pony Effect's product. Here for this haul, I've got my hands on Pony Effect Conceptual Eyes Quad in Be Romantic, Poney Effect Nail Lacquer in Sugar Cube and Pony Effect Pebble Blender.

I really love the packaging on Pony's products - you can never go wrong with rose gold packaging!

Pony Effect Nail Lacquer in Sugar Cube is a pretty pink that is neither to light nor too dark. It's just the perfect pick-me-up-pink that I've been looking for. On first application it can be quite sheer but two coats would build it up perfectly.

Pony Effects Pebble Blender is a beauty blender of the kind. It's soft enough for application and it works better when slightly damp. I actually prefer this over Too Cool for School Marshmallow Puff which I did a review (3 years ago) and spoiler alert I was impressed by it. Now that I've branched out to explore more on different brands of beauty blender, Pony Effects Pebble Blender is the one that I reach for. I'm in need to try out other brands of beauty blender, hit me up with some suggestion on which brands are good. Anyways, I really like that this beauty blender is soft on the skin and that when applying foundation in a tapping motion I feel that it blends the foundation into the skin pretty flawlessly. On the downside when using a beauty sponge to blend in the foundation you would be using a little bit more product compared to blending with the fingers or with a brush.

Elegantly designed, the quad palette comes with a magnetic enclosing and a mirror which always come in handy when travelling with the palette. Pony Effects Conceptual Eyes Quad in Be Romantic is a quad palette with 4 different eye shadow shades that are more towards the neutral with undertones of red and salmon colors. If you're going for a sweet pinkish look, I feel that this is the one palette that has it all. The palette comes with two shimmery tones with is the shade Love Me and Moment and two matte shade which are Roses and Doom.

Love Me - A light beige color with pinkish undertone and hints of glitter for the shimmery effect.
Roses - A salmon color that is matte.
Moment - A bronze shade with a slight salmon undertone and hints of glitter for the shimmery effect.
Doom - A light maroon color with purple undertones and is matte.

The two shimmery shades (Love me and Moment) both applies smoothly upon swatching and there was a slight fallout due to the glitters. The matte shades (Roses and Doom) however on the other hand, swatched abit chalky - which I do not like when it comes to eyeshadow -but swatching it on for the second time, it became to build up and blends easily.

The one color that I was really excited about after I did the first swatch was the shade Moment. Bronze color is always my favorite color when it comes to eyeshadow. The easiest color to apply when it comes to everyday look. Overall I would say this palette is an A-OK one.

L-R (Top) - Love Me - Roses

L-R (Bottom) - Moment - Doom

L-R : Moment - Doom - Love Me - Roses

What other Pony Effects product that you have tried and tested? Was it Yay or Nay?

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Disclaimer:- All the products seen above is purchased with my own money or gifted and is not sponsored unless stated otherwise. This review is intended to share information with my readers and are my own opinion.

I got to start this post with - I truly have been the worst blogger. I have not been posting consistently, post are being too sporadic and looking back at my previous post - there were too similar with each other. July has been a month where I took some time to look back through all my previous post and reflect on what changes that needs to take place. I believe that there are more that I could improve on. But a plan has been put in place (technically in my mind) and waiting to be executed. I am dedicated to bringing more consistent and engaging content. Thus, to start off with, a July favorites post is in order.

Beauty favourites

Skincare

1. Khiel's Midnight Recovery Eye Cream

Few months back, I tried a small sample of this eye cream and really enjoyed using it. Only when I did a little traveling this month that I manage to get a hold of the full size from Duty Free. Since being back into my daily night time routine, I remembered why I enjoyed it. It helps to reduce puffiness, minimizes the fine lines, reduces dark eyes circles as well as keeping my eyes hydrated. The blend of the essential oils helps to keep my nerves calm and ready for a goodnight sleep. A definite worthy mention as a favorites!

Makeup

1. Shu Eumura eyebrow pencil

For the first time, I got my brows professionally done. The makeup artist used this eyebrow pencil on me and it was really easy to use. So I decided that I needed to retire my Nyx eyebrow cake palette and venture out more onto different brow products. I have been using this since then and I truly have been loving it. The pencil is sharpened into a specific shape that works really well to fill in your brows. The pigmentation is just the right amount of consistency and a fair hand when filling in the brows is the best. It's smudge proof and last all day. If I were to choose to only do one part of my makeup, it would be my brows!

3. Nyx blusher in PB06 Peach

I have been gravitating to this blusher throughout this entire month, and it literally lives in my makeup bag. Together with Real Techniques multipurpose brush, these duo is just perfect. A swirl of the brush and a light sweep onto the cheeks gives a really natural flush to the look. A solid natural blush color that is suitable for an everyday look.

4. Rimmel Lasting Finish Lip Pencil in 014 Wild Clover

As I gravitate to a more natural makeup look this pencil has been a good compliment. A tint of color to the lips is the cherry on top. Wild Clover is a nice muave color. Filling in the lips and blending it out with my fingers gives it a nice natural lip color.

Non beauty

1. Harry Potter and the cursed child

I felt that this is worth a mention as a favorites for this month, even though it came out on 31st July. I have been waiting patiently for the release for the entire month and I'm over the moon when I manage to get hold of a copy. I finished this throughout a 4-days read and it's a love hate relationship. I am happy that there's another Harry Potter book, but there are some plot holes that I wish it to be more elaborated, and some scenes don't make sense. I might just reserve my thoughts to a full length review.

What are your favorites this month?

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It's been a while since I last talk about my skincare routine. Here's the post, back in 2014. It is of course an appropriate time to finally do an updated skincare routine as I have completely switched up all my skincare products - to an almost complete Korean beauty brand.

I got to admit, those days of binge watching K-Dramas has got the influence on me. I can't get over how Koreans can have such clear, smooth, radiant looking skin. They must have been looking after their skin religiously. So with that thought, I have manage to streamline my skincare with added extra steps into my routine.

Most of my products are from Innisfree, just cause they are a brand that is actually affordable and I do believe that their products deliver the results. I mostly used their sheet mask and genuinely enjoy using it. I have not actually tried out any of their skincare range before until this routine. So, here's what I have been using for the past 2 months..

Step 1: Face Wash - Innisfree Bija Trouble Facial Foam

Innisfree has a range of skincare that targets on blemish prone skin which is the Bija Trouble range. This face wash does foam up abit when lathering and it has a slight cooling sensation. It doesn't leave my skin feeling tight or gives a tingling feel, but rather it feels refreshing after using it. It's definitely a gentle face wash.

Step 2: Toner - Innisfree Bija Trouble Skin

Follow up with a Toner to balance out the PH level and give my skin another round of wipe down as well.

Step 3: Serum - Innisfree Green Tea Seed Serum

This step is a new addition to my routine. I've not actually used many serums before this, and the Green Tea Seed Serum is one of the bestsellers in Innisfree. I thought to give it a try and I think I'm actually loving this. It gives the skin an extra boost of moisture and actually makes my skin feel much smoother without irritating my breakouts. One pump is suffice to cover my face.

Step 4: Spot correcting - Khiel's Blemish Control Daily Skin-Clearing Treatment

As my skin is pimple prone, my routine wouldn't be complete without a spot correcting treatment. If you should know, I have always loved using Lush's Grease Lightning but it's just quite hard to get hold of it here as there is not one local Lush store in Malaysia. So I gave it a try for Khiel's Belmish Control and have been applying it daily over the troubled spots. It helps in minimizing and controlling the redness, but it takes some time to treat the spots.

Step 5: Moisturizer - Khiel's Ultra Facial Oil-Free Gel Cream / Laniege Water Bank Essence

I've got two different moisturizer, one for day and the other for night. I use Khiel's Ultra Facial Oil-Free Gel Cream for the day, as I know I will be layering up my skin with makeup, so this will keep my skin sebum under control. During the night, the Laneige Water Bank Essence will bring an extra boost of moisture and helps with skin repairing plus I wake up with a smoother and softer skin in the morning.

Step 6: Sunscreen - Khiel's Ultra Light UV Defense / Murad Oil Free Sunscreen

I seldom incorporate a sunscreen into my routine and only have been relying on my foundation for SPF, which I know it is actually not enough. So I have added this step into the routine as well.

Step 7: Mist - Innisfree Aloe Revital Skin Mist

To top things off, I finish the routine with a little spray of a mist to freshen up and prep the skin for makeup. I have in hand is a sample of the Innisfree Aloe Revital Skin Mist which I enjoyed using it so much that I ended up getting the full sized mist.

The past couple of months with this routine has totally changed my skin for the better, besides the occasional (hormonal) breakout, my skin has been really good. Supple and soft. Realistically I do skip the full night time routine once in a while - with just leaving it at step 1, cause there are just times when you feel like you've had enough of the day and so ready for bed the moment you reach home.

What's your current skincare routine?

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What better way to start off the first post of 2016 with one of my MAIN GOAL in mind, which is to set aside more time to read. Reading has been one of my hobbies since young and I have read a fair share of books during my student years, but since starting off into the adulthood, I have been reading much less than I used to.

I haven't been setting aside enough of time to finish a good amount of books. So this year, I want to be proactive into igniting my reading habits.

First step into being proactive is to set an amount of books that I would want to accomplish this year. I took the liberty of joining the Goodreads reading challenge for the first time.

For those of you who don't know about Goodreads, it's a community site that talks all and everything about books. You can literally find all kinds of books, be it upcoming new books for the month/year, bestsellers, books by genre, reviews from other readers to a community of people who loves to talk just anything about books.

Goodreads has an ongoing yearly reading challenge that you can join once you have set up an account. Thus for my 2016 reading challenge, I've set a goal of reading 20 books. It's not alot, considering that there are people who aim to read 100 books in a year! That amount is just somewhat unrealistic for me to aim. So I think 20 would be sufficient for a start! Let's jut see how it goes.

I have inserted my 2016 Goodreads reading challenge on the sidebar for you to catch up on my progress.

Secondly, is to grab a pen and paper and start writing down a list of books to read. First thing on my list is to reread the Harry Potter series! It's been a long time since I've reread the entire series, so this year I should do just that. I also have a number of books that has been sitting on my shelf waiting for me to read them, so I might just add them to the list as well.

Lastly, just pick up a book and start reading, dreaming, learning and see more of the world.

Currently reading....

Happy weekend peeps! Here's a little teaser of a couple of up coming post. Have a great week ahead while I get busy conjuring these new posts. 😊👍 #bbloggers #beautyblogger #bookstagram #innisfreemalaysia #이니스프리 #bloggers #malaysianbeautyblogger #malaysianblogger #theminiaturist #jessieburton

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