Gotta Love: Max Factor Facefinity All Day Primer

Hello Guys!  Quick intro since I've been away from this blog for soooo long, I've gone makeup crazy over the past couple of months and got a "few" items to include in my collection.  I've had several quick reviews over my Instagram account (@kmcunanan), and hopefully, I'll be able to do better reviews over this blog.

Enough intro and more writing!  First stop is primer.  I've never been big on primers to be honest.  The only face primer that I've tried is Benefit's Porefessional.  However, due to long hours in the office (~10 hours) I needed something to make my makeup last longer.  So trusting my favorite beauty guru, Sharon Farrell, I bought the Max Factor Facefinity All Day Primer.  Video of her favorite primers here.

First thing that I would like to comment on is, even if this is supposed to be a drugstore product, it is still quite expensive.  I think it retails for 995 pesos for a 30 ml and I bought it from the beauty section of SM Makati.  Packaging is quite nice.  It comes with in glass bottle with a pump that locks when rotated. 

The actual product is white, although it did not have any effect in terms of color on my face.  It is pretty easy to apply; I just use my fingers to work it in.  I use about 1 and a half pumps to cover my entire face with this primer.  It also has SPF 20.  That's a huge plus!  I still have to test though if it will cause any flashback.

I've been using this primer for about two weeks now and I can say I am really impressed.  Performance is true to it's name.  My makeup did last all through my long work days and it did not budge.  Although I can't say that it mattifies the face that much and prevents oiliness.  My tzone will still get oily though I noticed that it will take a much longer time for the oil to show up and I feel like blotting already as compared to not applying any primer on this area at all.  All in all, it's still a pretty good product and worth trying out.

What other primers should you think I try out?  Please leave a comment below :)

Hey There!

Hey Guys!  I haven't done any posts here for almost a year now.  So much things happened to me in the past year and I can't even imagine how I went through all of those experiences.  Some experiences are quite bad and emotionally challenging, but, most of the time, days went by that are good and things are looking up for me.

I'm not sure why I felt the urge to visit my blog again.  Maybe it's because I'm looking for something else to do while waiting for my download to finish.  Haha!  But hey, I've discovered a lot of things in this past year that I feel like sharing again to the whole wide world (well to anyone who might stumble upon this blog, and for that I thank you for reading and going through my posts).  It's been years since I first started writing as a product of boredom, and also because I wanted something to look back to when I'm older.  Well yes, I'm older now, four years older since I started this blog.  How time flies.

Looking back at my old posts, some make me go ewwww as to why I posted those (omg those old OOTDs!  waaah! ewww to the highest level! hahaha!).  For now, I'm not really sure if I'll be able to sustain this blog again, or if I would like to focus on a specific topic to write about.  Let's just see what the next days would bring.  Tata for now!

Gotta Love: Happy Skin Makeup Remover

Hello Guys!  OMG, I missed blogging so much!  I've recently found inspiration to write again and hopefully this would continue.  I can't believe it's almost been a year since my last post.  

Anyway, enough intro and more chitchat.  As my family and friends know, I super love Happy Skin Cosmetics.  I go gaga over their products and I make sure I always keep up to date with the different products that they launch.  I'm also guilty of entering their online contests.  Hahaha!

The product that I am going to review today is Happy Skin's Make a Clean Sweep Revitalizing Micellar Make Up Cleanser (whew, that's a long name).  Honestly, I couldn't care less about make up removers before.  I just use a baby wipe or go straight in the shower to wash my face.  I initially bought this product because of the brand.  Little did I know that this will change my cleansing routine for the better.  

First thing I liked about this product is it's water based.  It does not feel sticky after use.  And since it's soap-free, I don't have to rinse it immediately.  The next thing I like about it is that it comes with a pump that dispenses the liquid in foam form.  It easily controls the amount of product and I'll tell ya, a little goes a long way.  I only needed about 4-5 pumps to soak the cotton pad and remove all of my make up.  I've bought this bottle around August last year and I still have about 1/4 left. 

Using make up cleanser helped make my skin look a whole lot better.  I think that because of this extra step, I have fewer and smaller breakouts as compared to before.  I super recommend this especially for girls who wear makeup everyday.  I'll definitely gonna purchase this product again!

More on my night time routine in my next posts!  See yah!