About two months ago, I posted a picture on Instagram asking what other glasses wearers do when wearing foundation. I normally wear glasses, and I find it so annoying to wear foundation with glasses because the foundation goes on the glasses, which is so gross to me!
Fortunately, I don’t wear foundation everyday so it’s not a struggle I have to deal with daily. Why do I mention this? Well, I recently tried the Urban Decay All Nighter Long-Lasting Setting Spray. Does it help prevent foundation smudge on glasses?
I received this sample size from my friend. Naturally, I was very excited to try it because I am a huge fan of Urban Decay products!
After putting on my foundation, I spray this arms length from my face, with my eyes closed (which protects your eyes from stinging and sets your eye makeup too). Initially, there is a slight alcohol smell that disappears pretty quick. It feels as if I’m spraying water on my face, and I always think that my makeup is coming off before the spray dries.
I really like how weightless this feels. Once it dries and the alcohol smell disappears, I always forget I’m wearing it because it’s so comfortable on my skin. It doesn’t feel dry or heavy at all!
I spent a day out shopping and then took a nap. Usually, my makeup is a bit smudged after I wake up (Yes, I know it’s bad to sleep with makeup on but I rarely do it, I just forgot this time!), but I was really surprised that all my makeup remained intact. That was when I remembered I had used this setting spray! Needless to say, I was already quite impressed for my first use.
After a few more uses, I have really come to love this setting spray and it is definitely going to become a staple for special occasions, or when I will be out longer than usual and have no time to touch up my makeup.
The BEST part?! It doesn’t leave ANY foundation smudges on my glasses! I just spray this on, and don’t have to worry about ANY part of my makeup smudging, caking, or fading away.
It is a bit pricey at $38 CAD, which is why I would save this for special occasions only. But I highly recommend trying this!
Received as a present from friend. Opinions are own.
I’ve been looking for a matte shadow palette for awhile, and this one just spoke to me. I was in love at first swatch. The colours were incredibly pigmented, and felt velvety soft on my skin. I am a HUGE fan of the Kat Von D tattoo liner and I also love the everlasting liquid lipstick line, so naturally, it is time to progress into the KVD eye territory!
The top, light pink is the base. The brown is to define, while the orange one is to contour. Lastly, the white one has the slightest shimmer and is used for highlighting. I’ve never contoured my eyes before, so this should be interesting!
We went to Shanghai Elan, a restaurant inside Crystal Mall. You can also either enter the restaurant through Crystal Mall or outside along Kingsway. It is located at the end of the Crystal Mall section known as ‘Computer Alley’ – city famous for cell phone & computer repairs!
Chicken w/ spicy sauce ($8.50): Our appetizer chicken came chilled in a spicy peanut chili sauce. It was pretty delicious and had a nice kick to it, meanwhile the sesame and onion garnish topped it off nicely.
Shanghai rice cake w/ meat & veggies: Sorry, couldn’t find the price of this online. The rice cake was chewy and moist. This dish could have had a bit more flavour to it, but it wasn’t bad.
Shanghai fried thick noodle w/ shredded pork and soy sauce ($10.50): Mmm, how I love Shanghai fried thick noodle!
Sweet and sour spareribs with vinegar ($14.50): I’m not a fan of spareribs, so I didn’t really like it much. The sauce wasn’t that memorable and I found the meat itself to be very bland.
Hot & sour soup ($10.50): I was very excited to try this as I love hot & sour soup. However, the soup was very bland and wasn’t that spicy. It should have been called a sour soup instead of hot and sour. On the upside, the soup had a generous amount of ingredients inside.
Shanghai style juicy pork bun w/ crab meat ($9.50): This dish was underwhelming as well. Nothing special, it tasted like the frozen ones that you can buy at the grocery market. The inside had a bit of crab meat inside, but the crab meat had a slightly frozen taste and did not taste fresh.
Marinated beef w/ pancake ($6.50): Perhaps the only dish that I didn’t find ‘meh’. This was delicious! The outside ‘pancake’ was thick, but the outside was flaky and crunchy. On the inside, the marinated beef came with cucumber, other veggies, and hoisin sauce. We liked this dish so much that we ended up ordering another.
Green tea float, $6.99: Essentially a green tea ice cream smoothie. Yes, it was as good as it sounded, judging from how Cheese was raving about it. I would have tried it too, but that’s just asking for death when you are extremely lactose intolerant.
Rice cake with bean flour & apple sauce: I wanted something sweet that day, which is usual for me because I would take savoury over sweets usually. Sadly, my options were limited seeing that I can’t have dairy, so I settled for the rice cake from the recommendation of the server.
Strawberry sorbet, $4.99: I wanted to order this, but was afraid there was dairy. Luckily, Macaroni ordered this and confirmed that there wasn’t any dairy, so I was able to try it. It was so delicious that I ended up ordering one myself (especially since i was in a sweets mode and my rice cake ended up being surprisingly salty). It reminded me of the strawberry slush at Milk and Sugar. I found it to be a bit chunky and not blended enough, but it was still full of fresh, delicious strawberry flavour.
For this tag, I chose ten products that he is supposed to describe what the purpose is! Let’s get this post started!
Josie Maran coconut watercolour cheek gelee: “Cheek geleeeeeeh…..? Gelleeeeeeeh? I’m going to say blush for your cheeks.”
Urban Decay makeup setting spray: “Setting spray… is this like primer? It helps the makeup settle and not come off.”
Dolly Wink liquid eyeliner: “Eyeliner. It’s used to line your eyes to make your eyes look bigger.”
Stila stay all day 10-1 illuminating beauty balm: “Uhh… bronzer? It gives you that dewy effect. Dewy means shiny looking.”
Maybelline mineral powder: “Isn’t this foundation? This is the dry powder, I don’t know. What’s the difference between wet and dry again… uh… the dry foundation sits on the surface more and is for oily skin.”