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Hello, Angels!

Today I’m back with another product review. This time, ahem, I’m going to review two K-beauty products! It’s been quite a while right since the last time I reviewed Korean products eh? I got these babies from Stylekorean Try Me program. Do you know that this program is very popular between K-beauty e-commerces nowadays? Click here to find out more about this “Try Me”!

Here are the products that I got ~ I got 16 Brand Eye Magazine and Heimish Bulgarian Rose Water Hydrogel Patch. These two items are for the eyes. It’s very nice of Stylekorean to match a cute decorative product with the happening skincare item! Okay, so without further ado – let’s start with the review of this cute little palette first!

16 Brand Eye Magazine #Everyday

Origin: South Korea

Price: $20 (now on sale!!)

Where to Buy: Stylekorean

So, in case you don’t know, 16 Brand is a sister brand of the famous Chosungah! The company builds a cute and hip Korean image for this brand, and all their products are characterized by eye-catching and colorful design to capture teens and young adults’ heart. I think the concept for each product are well-thought and well-executed too – just like this Eye Magazine, don’t ya think? This product has 4 different variants, and mine is #Everyday.

The outer box is of the size of A6 paper. Dominated with soft pastel colors and minimalist wording layout, the design really resembles real magazine cover – especially with the picture of two Korean cuties posing with the mini eye shadow palette.

the inside part of this eye magazine. really cute!

The actual eye shadow palette is so small and compact. This duo is housed in a nice, sturdy clear plastic case. No mirrors inside, but there is an applicator inside. I personally don’t think the mini brush super useful though, but it’s indeed super cute! The bristles are made of synthetic hair and feel quite soft even though the hair is quite dense. This flat top brush, however, is too big for my eyes ☹ It’s still lovely to use the brush horizontally, but I can’t use it vertically to create gradient color effect as how it’s originally meant to do.

In terms of formula, these shadows are very nice. They’re soft and easy to blend. The pigmentation is good, not striking in one go but it’s buildable. The thing that I love the most from these shadows are the glitter inside, it’s so pretty and blingy!

I wear the orange color on 2/3 of my lid, and the dark brown on the outer V.

super lovely, right? see how cute the glitter from these eye shadows are!

Next, I’m going to be talking about Heimish Bulgarian Rose Hydrogel Eye Patch 😉 This is the product that I really want to try, so I’m excited that I also got this in my mail.

Heimish Bulgarian Rose Hydrogel Eye Patch

Origin: South Korea

Price: $22 (now on sale for $15!!)

Where to Buy: Stylekorean

The packaging of Heimish product is always so sleek and pretty. It’s a simple pink box with a touch of metallic copper dots on top. Inside, the 60 pieces hydrogel eye patches are housed in a white, slim jar with nice pink lid. Inside, there is an additional thick plastic lid to prevent the patches from drying out. A spoon-like spatula is also provided, sitting nicely on top of the inner lid.

glitters! and the patches are pink...too cute.

As mentioned earlier, this product has 60 pieces (36 pairs) of pink, glittery hydrogel eye patches soaked in serum. These cute patches give cooling and moisturizing effect immediately after you put it on. I love hydrogel material far better than regular cotton because hydrogel masks/patches take longer time to dry. Even when you forget to take them off overnight (sorry, my memory is as bad as hamster’s sometimes), they won’t leave your undereye skin feel dry or tight. Anyway, these patches can also liquify and turn into serum if you put them inside hot water, but I never try this method though. At first I didn’t believe it, but I do feel that the patches are thinner after being used so possibly that’s the amount of serum that has been absorbed into my skin 😉

For the claim, I do think that after each use there’s an improvement in my undereye area. They’re going to be brighter and plumped, more moisturized. These hydrogel patches really do help to depuff the eye bags and brighten up dark circles, but the effect is rather temporary than permanent, lasting around 4 to 5 hours only. For long-term brightening effect, I still have to try and finish like perhaps around 2-3 jars before I can start commenting about it. But overall, if you’re lazy to apply eye cream like me and looking for a product that’s very convenient & more hygienic than eye creams (rather than dipping your fingers into the cream), I really really recommend you this product!

I really recommend this product for you to try, trust me it's worth your money and it makes you save lots of time rather than applying eye cream!

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Okay, that’s all about these two cute K-Beauty products! If you want to buy them, simply go to Stylekorean and get them now! Stalk Stylekorean for more information here:

Website: www.stylekorean.com

Instagram: @stylekorean_id

Until next time, Angels! Hope you found this review helpful. Anyway. A lot of NEW lipsticks reviews are coming up very soon, so please stay tuned to my blog 😉

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It’s Friday now, so it also marks the time for another eye shadow palette review 😉 Today, I have something other than Beauty Creations, but it’s still a brand that sells super cute dupe palettes with tons of shimmer & metallic shadows inside: Prolux Cosmetics! To be honest, I never heard of this brand before but when I saw it on Iva Beaute’s Shopee Timeline I was like “OKAY BUY NOW WHY SO CUTE!”. I mean, how could you resist this beautiful, semi-holographic packaging right…

So, without further ado, let’s get into my in-depth review!

PRODUCT INFO

Prolux Cosmetics Inspire Palette

Brand: Prolux

Origin: USA (Made in China)

Price: Rp 98.000,-

Where to buy: @ivabeaute.id (Indonesia),

So far as I browsed through the internet, currently Prolux Cosmetics doesn’t have its official website/e-commerce so you have to shop their products on the spot at the offline store located in Vernon, California. Prolux only use social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to promote the brand, but new customers may need an official site that contains loads of information of Prolux’s products to browse through before buying, right? I was also pretty sceptical when I found no official site on Google, but thank God I braved out and bought the product anyway – because I’m pretty impressed by them!

First, I’m not going to talk much about the packaging because it’s what got me into buying this product – and few others, ahem – in the first place. The Inspire Palette that I got here is a part of their “Holographic Palette Series” (anyway I made this name up because they have no information about this line, so yeah…). This palette comes in slim, sturdy cardboard packaging with pretty good magnetic closure. By the way, I took these photos in natural lighting, that’s why the holographic effect didn’t show up beautifully.

Nothing to complain, everything about the packaging is absolutely extra. Now, let’s get into the shadows. This palette is housing 15 eye shadows with different finishes: matte, shimmer, metallic…even the foiled one! I’m totally in love with pink-berry shadows here as I never have berry-themed palette before.

When we talk about pigmentation and color payoff, most of them are bomb upon swatching – except for the two darker matte shades. However, when it comes to texture, these shadows are quite gritty. Especially for the shimmer & metallic shades, they would clump a little bit when picked with brush. When you use finger to apply them on the lid, apparently the color would come out more vibrant and easier to be packed on, but eventually the surface of the eye shadow on the pan would turn a little bit hard and “crusty” ☹ So, even though it’s harder to pick and pack the color using brush, I’ll still use brush anyway.

To be honest, I do find some colors that are quite hard to blend as well, especially Sweet. Yes, they’re pigmented and the color payoff is amazing with or without eye primer/concealer, but they also require a lot more effort to be seamlessly blended into another shade. Earlier I complained about the mattes being not really good when swatched, but the mattes in this palette are actually amazing to blend and work with on the lid! By the way, these shadows also have subtle powdery cosmetic smell to it.

Here come the swatches, and let’s talk about each shade:

Buddy – a matte cream. Perfect color to highlight the browbone or to set the concealer if I’m making a cut-crease look.

Level – a shimmery, medium pink-brown. Lovely color, one of my favorite shade in this palette!

K – a matte dark brown. Blotchy and uneven upon swatching but works really well on the lid. Pigmentation is not that good, but definitely buildable.

Bistro – a satin medium warm brown. Easy to blend, has lovely soft texture.

Forever – a frosty medium pink. Great pigmentation!

Sweet – a satin hot pink. Super cute color, sadly it’s really hard to work with and almost impossible to blend this baby. This shade will also look patchy on the lid even when you gently tap and build the color, so you need to practice and play with this shade a lot before actually using it in your look. Doable, but not for beginners! ☹

Blessed – a highly pigmented, shimmery dark brick red. Sadly, this color is also a little hard to work with as it takes quite awhile to build the color on the lid. Blessed is one of the shadows with kinda wet and gritty texture that I mentioned earlier. If you use brush to apply, some part of it will ball up into pigmented powder chunks which are quite hard to be evenly blended using brush.

Just – a shimmery wine red. The characteristic of this shade is pretty much the same with Blessed. One of my fave shades in this palette.

Fuego – a foiled orange red. SUPER . GORGEOUS . Fuego definitely is my most favorite shade in this palette! This shade even has less glitter fallout than the foiled shadow in my favorite Beauty Creations palette. Thumbs up!

Bare – an icy cream shade with a tinge of pink. Another lovely shimmer to work with.

Missy – a frosty pink shade. Super gorgeous color, despite how it looks boring on pan! (I’m not a pink person when it comes to eye makeup, but seriously this shade is lovely.) I found that this shade is best applied with finger.

Baby Girl – a shimmery baby pink shade. Just a tinge cooler and pinker than Bare. It’s cute as an inner corner highlight 😉

Cray – a shimmery, medium warm pink. Great pigmentation, lovely texture and easy to blend.

Temper – a shimmery brick red, just a tad warmer than Blessed. A tad easier to work with as well!

Macaroon – a matte magenta. Patchy upon swatching, but it’s super easy to work with on the lid. Super soft texture, super blendable. Minimum fallout.

Next, here’s some looks that I’ve created using this palette:

I create an easy brown-pink look here, using Level, Sweet, and a touch of Bare in the center of the lid.

Second, I create a Barbie-inspired pink eye makeup using Missy, Cray, and Sweet. I played with Sweet like almost everytime I create a look using this Inspire palette to get used to its texture and formula – because dang, it’s such a pretty color rite? Sad that it’s quite hard and takes a long time to blend!

Last but not least, I created a glam cut-crease look using Buddy, Macaroon, and Blessed. I’m currently obsessed with shimmery outer V lately and Blessed is really doing a great job there!

Score

Last Words?

To be honest, I really love the shadows in this Inspire palette by Prolux. Would I recommend it? Yes, if you’re so into eye shadow palettes and wanting to have lots of awesome shimmery, glittery shadows in your collection – plus you don’t mind to spend a little more time blending and packing the color on the lid. The shimmer & metallics are awesome in terms of pigmentation and staying power, but blending the shades are gonna be such a hassle. I prefer tapping method to apply these shadows, after that I’d blend a little bit before start adding the color again. With the mattes, yup they look not really promising at first but when it comes to blending, they’re really lovely to work with. Using eye primer underneath helps a lot in terms of making the mattes appear more vibrant on the lid.

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I got this palette only from @ivabeaute.id, the only Indonesian seller that sells Prolux products! Not only Prolux, Iva Beaute also sells other interesting, drugstore products from indie brands so if you’re curious and love trying new products, definitely check their page now:

Website: www.ivabeaute.com

Instagram: @ivabeaute.id

Shopee: beautycallindo

That’s my in-depth review for this palette, if you have any questions, comments, or tutorial requests please don’t hesitate to let me know by commenting down below! I will do my best to do it for you 😊

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