sigma premium travel kit - classy in silver

this is kind of overdue but i wasn't very motivated to get down to blogging about it because it was somewhat a disappointment for me. anyway, here is my sigma haul!

comes in a nice box with lots of pamphlets.

my free gift.. which is quite nice.

i got it in the mail before christmas but i waited till christmas day to open it! haha.. because as some of you know i was kind of trapped at home during the holidays so this was one of the highlights for me.

when i first opened the black mesh bag and took it out, i was already a little disappointed because the bag didn't feel like very high quality. from all the reviews i've seen on youtube about sigma, i always had the impression that their products were very good quality. i wasn't expecting top quality as well since sigma brushes are much cheaper, relative to mac ones but they ended up falling short of my expectation a bit.

dajie owns several sigma brushes and i thought they were pretty nice. when i got mine, the first thing i notice was...

which was mostly why i was disappointed with the brush kit. dajie bought her sigma brushes a couple of years back and back then, they were made in U.S.A! i guess now sigma is expanding too quickly because of all the hype and marketing on youtube, they've outsourced their factories. the brushes are still good, bristles are as soft as i imagined them to be. but the engraving on the brushes are horrid! there's hardly any consistency in the print and that's sad because my brushes look like a mess even though they are supposedly from the same kit.

i had the intention to get the sigmax round top kabuki and a few other things from sigma but after this purchase, i'm reconsidering. i'm not trashing the brand or anything, the brushes are still great for an affordable price. it's just that i am paying for the brand and i'm just anal like that. apparently there's another cheaper alternative to sigma brushes that i've been hearing about and it is sadona lace. they are obviously not as commercialized as sigma but maybe they will get there some day.

let's wait till thanksgiving this year. i will probably not be able to resist the black friday sale and just order more stuff from them anyway. (:

urban decay naked 2 palette

so the long-awaited sequel to the naked palette is finally here! naked 2 officially launched in singapore at sephora ION on saturday from 3pm to 5pm and i'm very happy to say that i am now the proud owner of the naked 2!! it retails for SGD$80, which i'm not very pleased about, but i guess it's still worth it since i wanted it so badly.

the naked 2 came with a lip junkie(in naked) instead of a primer potion.

not forgetting the double-ended brush inside.

there are 5 brand new shades but half-baked is repeated in this palette. and my favourite thing about it is that it comes with foxy and blackout which are awesome matte shades for highlighting and doing a smokey eye respectively. the packaging is also different but i don't know if it's better or not. it's definitely more durable because it comes in a metal tin but i feel that the original packaging looks more chic. however, that's just my opinion.

comparing the original naked and the naked 2...

i know it looks very similar to most people but they are really two very different palettes. i personally prefer the naked 2 because the colours are more taupe-ish and neutral, basically the colours are lighter. the original naked palette is great for darker smokey eye looks which i do not always wear, hence my greater love for the naked 2.

i will say now that i am an urban decay fan.. because i own the naked palette, the naked 2 palette and their 15th anniversary palette. you'll probably think i'm crazy but i really really love my collection! (:

back to perth-day 6

morning of day 6... today was a nice day, because it's going to be a very chillax one. so to start off, i suggested going to subiaco for breakfast!

our seat.

forgot the name of this dish but it was amazing!

mushrooms with feta cheese on toast.

pow ordered a slice of the cake earlier..

the pretty one with the flower on it.

(:

after breakfast we made our way to the little blue house. but just as we were about to get out of the car, it started raining! ):

so "change of plans" we thought.. we sat in the car and talked abit. and then suddenly the rain stopped. so yayy!! off to the blue house we went.

you can see the dark clouds passing by.

bye little blue house.

rest of the day was more shopping. the plan was to just visit the suburbs.. so good for me. dinner tonight was took bae kee with the jean and dudy. chuxuan and yvonne came along too.

spicy seafood soup...

with crab!

we had dinner early so there was still time to catch some last-minute last night suburb shopping. of course i wanted to go! so pow and i drove to garden city to walk around until the shops closed. we kind of felt bad for not staying longer during dinner, so we got the gang out again for supper..

new san churro outlet at northbridge.

the gang... eijean, yvonne, chuxuan, dudy and ashley.

churros fiesta.. comes with 18 churros and 6 dip cups. (:

i love san churros. if i had the money, i'll franchise it over to singapore. sure earn like crazy one! but anw, here's my little haul update. (i know, i know, it's terrible that i'm buying so much)