I'm subscribed to a handful of makeup artists on youtube; two of which being Pony and Lisa Eldridge. When I found out they were releasing their own goods, I was incredibly excited and purchased them right away. So today I'm going to share pictures of some of the products from the line "Pony Effect" and the book "Face Paint: The Story of Makeup". We'll start with Pony Effect. I bought two lipsticks (Vibrant Club & Expensive Dinner) and a Noble Brunch set which came in a vibrant pink and purple box. There was a black ribbon initially attached to the pink outer case, but I forgot to take a picture of it. Underneath the pink outer case was a reflective and very sturdy silver box. The Noble Brunch set came with an eyeshadow palette, contour palette, four nail polishes, and the lipstick Noble Brunch. The eyeshadow and contour palettes with the clear protective sheets on top. Eyeshadow swatches taken in natural lighting. I couldn't get a good photo of the contour palette so there are no swatches for that one :( Lipsticks (From left: Noble Brunch, Expensive Dinner, Vibrant Club) Nail Polishes (From left: Be Imagination, Party Fever, Illusion Glass, Sensual Seduction) Lipstick swatches in natural lighting. Vibrant club is a darker red with plum undertones. I looove these lipsticks, I feel like these swatches don't do them justice. Nail polish swatches in natural lighting. I have no excuse for the terrible application, so I will just apologize for the hot mess lol. My favorite colors are Be Imagination and Illusion Glass. Everything together! I didn't want my reflection to show up in the mirrors so I held up a pillow while I took the picture. Here I'm wearing Vibrant Club on my lips. Band-aid on my face because I had a scab. I'm happy with all the products so far! The contour palette gives me subtle shading and highlight without making me orange or ashy. The lipsticks are very pigmented and stay on fairly well as well. I wore Vibrant Club to a wedding but it didn't really wear off much when I was eating and drinking; it barely left a stain on my glass. Of course when I wiped my mouth or something, it slightly faded, but that's normal. As for the eyeshadows, I think some of them could have been a little more pigmented, but I may have to try different application techniques. The glittery shadows Just 10 seconds and All That Glam also have a bit of fallout, but it's the typical amount that most glittery shadows have. I don't have anything to say about the nail polishes since I haven't had a chance to wear them out yet. But yeah, everything is good so far and I've been using Pony Effect frequently ever since I got it. If Pony releases more products I'll definitely purchase them ❤. I bought all the items from Gmarket and it took about a week to arrive, but if you live in South Korea you can get them at the official site Pony Effect. Now onto Face Paint! "Face Paint: The Story of Makeup" is a book that goes over the history of makeup, its trends, meanings, and includes trivia information as well as lots of lovely pictures. It was something I liked to read at night before I go to sleep. But the book made me view makeup in a new angle since its contents were not simply application tutorials but stories of its origin (it also gave me ideas for character designs haha). If you're interested in the background of makeup you might want to consider picking this up!
I bought my copy on amazon, but you can also purchase it from Barnes & Nobles.
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While I was at anime expo this year, I preordered the limited edition bundle for Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance. The bundle came with a game disc, art book, soundtrack cd, figure, and poster. All the goodies together. The front and back of the box that everything came in. The game case which comes with reversible cover art. The art book inside of the box. The soundtrack cd and the figure of Usalia. The poster of Seraphina and Usalia. That's all of it! With all the extra things it came with, I'm glad I bought this bundle ´∀ ` So far I've only played up to chapter 3 of the game, but I'm having lots of fun. I also like the English voice for Killia??? But I didn't like some of the other English voice acting so I ended up setting the voices to Japanese >> Now for something unrelated to Disgaea.
A while back I had played Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky. The game was mostly relaxing and enjoyable to playthrough with exception to a few bosses that kept healing themselves (that was sort of frustrating lol). Anyways, after completing the game I became very interested in purchasing the art book. So here it is! (I actually bought this in the summer, but forgot to mention it). The book is almost completely comprised of art (it has 144 pages and it's at least 90% art). It contains character designs, cutscenes, concept art of characters and monsters, backgrounds, and a couple other content. But overall, the whole thing is pretty gorgeous. I attended AX on days 0-4 and roomed with four other people (dokitude and her husband, harvestbuddy and his brother). Dokitude was Tifa from FFVII, HB was Heide Knight from Dark Souls II, and I was the prince from Prince of Persia (2008). I had planned on cosplaying two days, but HB and I ended up dressing up only on Friday. I visited the NIS booth and pre-ordered Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (I think I might cosplay the main character Kilia in the future ' v '). They were also holding a scavenger hunt so I decided to participate. Here's a picture of the promotional display they had set up: Disgaea art is always so pretty //huff Here are the goods I received from the pre-order and scavenger hunt. Here's some of the other merch I got at con! I visited the Crusaders Quest booth and got a t-shirt and in-game rewards cards. I've been addicted to the game for awhile so it was really nice to see them at the con. I have to say... Crusaders Quest's pixel art is super adorable ; A ; . I wouldn't mind cosplaying Giparang in the future too. AX definitely sparked/resparked some cosplay ideas. When I was in artist alley, I picked up Haikyuu!! stickers from melly and spicybara's table. I also commissioned a picture of my OC from jialingpan. She finished so quickly though?! I was thrilled when I saw the completed piece and I'm planning on framing it in my room haha. Besides those two items, the rest of my purchases were from the exhibit hall. I played Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime a long time ago so I wanted to get the glass cup featuring the slimes. The cup also came with a coaster that makes sounds when you set something down on it (I haven't put batteries in yet so idk what it sounds like). Lastly, I bought two cat dolls and a bunch of small charms of Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. While I was in the exhibit hall, I also visited one of the otome game booths. I took a picture at their backdrop and downloaded one of their games on my phone. The art for Blood in Roses+ caught my eye so of course I had to try it out. All in all, con was pretty fun. Here are pictures of my cosplay. I plan to do a shoot in a desert or canyon so I'll have more photos up later. But omfg I put the scar on the wrong side of my face. So ashamed. I'll have to make sure to get it right when I'm doing the shoot orz.
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