Poreless and oil free face by Ellana Minerals

I haven't been doing make up for others for a quite a while now, that's why I a bit doubtful when my soon to be married friend asked me to do her make up for her prenup photo shoot. She was the very reason I started scouting for reliable ammo's. I was a bit worried about 2 factors : it'll be done outdoors and shoot starts at 3 pm on a summer time of the year like this. I've done my research and I've acquired the much raved about items in the beauty blog-sphere,now it's time to put them to test. 

From my previous article I mentioned that I asked for sample for a fairer skin type from Ellana Minerals when I bought a loose mineral powder and a primer. This where I used the freebies I got from Theresa and her friend for my friend's face as she's wayyy fairer than me. The guy who gave me the samples told me that sample are good for one session. I thought he was just exaggerating or something but during the make up session I was amazed how powerful a little amount of each little bag can do to one's face. I used their Lets make it last face primers, HD primers (for shine free proof look) powdered concealer and loose mineral foundation for the face ,Etude for eye primers, eye shadows used are mixed of brown and almost black hue from my very limited set of eye palettes and Maybelline for the red lipstick. 

This  how they look like @start of the shoot

@around 5:30-6:00Pm-ish

I don't know about you but they're faces both seemed shine free to me :) . All I can see is the spark and love in this couple's eyes. And this photos were taken  at the 3rd-4th hour since the start of the shoot.

I was still able to do some lipstick retouch here and amazingly there's no need for a foundation retouch, I just handed her some tissue and some blotting paper, the summer heat is somehow kicking in at this point but her face still looks naturally lovely.

 I wasn't able to do retouch at this point, I've been up for about 24 hrs officially and I'm too tired to bring my make up kit with us @ the location so I just left them in the car which was parked pretty far ( at the point anything more than 10 steps seemed too far..lol)

@around 9:30 to almost 10pm 

All these photos are taken by Mr Paulo Legaspi, to see his work just click on his name or manually paste this link to URL : http://www.pauloclegaspi.com.

In search of the most effective and affordable eye primer

I've been reading a lot of good reviews about these items so I decided it's about time for me to put them to test. Initially went to SM AURA last  Sunday to purchase just most raved and talked about Ellana minerals, specifically their eye primer. When I arrived at the Samsung Hall I went straight to their booth and asked for the primer, unfortunately i was advised that they're no longer selling eye primer and they offered me the face primer instead and their mineral loose foundation.The lady (i forgot her name) tried the hazelnut loose foundation on my face and it natural on me so I purchased  it :).

     

      

                                                       They also gave me freebies! 

They give me 2 coz i asked for a sample for a friend who's fairer than me. The primer cost me php450 and the loose foundation  for php 460.

Since i wasn't able to get an eye primer , which was originally what i need, i went to look for the next best option i saw from the blogs by other make up enthusiast. I ended up with Etude's proof 10 eye primer which only costs me Php298. 

   

                    Proof 10 works amazing when i tried it at the shop                                 

I haven't tried these new purchases, I will post a separate article once I've used all of it.