Hello my dear readers!
I made a video for you guys just to say hi personally… I am a dork and don’t do well being in front of the camera so please excuse the lameness… But it’s all right, laugh all you want, life is short 
Basically Kittymao Beauty is going to be 100% super honest (maybe a little too honest!) with product reviews and I’ll be posting about tips and trends about beauty and make up… How to wear a red lip, how to do a perfect wing eyeliner.. Make up for Asians because there is not enough of that around! I can’t promise pictures of myself but I’ll definitely try to get a friend haha! Video tutorials? I’ll consider that if I get enough demand!
Today on my (poor) face I tried out the above mentioned products:
Lime Crime Makeup Candy Eyed Eyeshadow Helper
MAC Zoom Fast Black Lash Mascara
Glamour Doll Eyes Eyeshadow in Dirty Jeans and Aqua Foil
Chanel Vitalumiere Hydra Moist Radiance Emulsion Compact Foundation
Lime Crime Makeup Candy Eyed Eyeshadow Helper
As I mentioned in the video, I’ve heard a lot regarding Lime Crime and their repackaging of mica and the quality of their lipstick, but when I saw this product on Modcloth.com (where I shop often 
) and all the other reviews, I had to give it a go. Despite hating to deal with loose eyeshadow (and mineral ones), I have this stupid tendency to buy and hoard them, and then when I try to use them, they just fall all over the place EXCEPT on the place where I want them to go. I didn’t even like to use the famous Mac Vanilla pigment on my clients because it was *that* annoying. So back to the product. It arrived with the sides slightly separated from the container like so:
It looks a little like it has dried up but it still has a creamy consistency and you don’t have to use a lot. The cover does not screw into a completely tight position, so that is a little iffy. Who designed it? It’s cute, yes, but can you imagine if your Urban Decay Primer Potion had a cap that won’t stay on properly!
I managed to get around 8 hours and counting of wear time with some minimal creasing with this and my Glamour Doll Eyes eyeshadow that I will be reviewing also in this post. 8 hours for loose shadow on me is not too shabby as I have very oily eyelids, and I was surprised that my eyeliner (Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes pencil eyeliner) did not smudge today! It usually does give me the panda look, so I believe this primer had something to do with it. Will I update on this product? You bet I’m going to be putting Lime Crime to the test!! Stay tuned to this blog for more news on this primer!
MAC Zoom Fast Black Lash Mascara
I actually like this mascara and will be wearing it often.. What a surprise. The brush, being a little bitty as you can see, helps you reach tiny lashes in the corners of your eyes with no problem at all. Prone to a clumping a little but nothing you can’t brush out with a lash comb (stop being lazy!) and personally? I dig the slightly clumpy look. I didn’t even curl my lashes when I used this and it pretty much curled it for me on application. My dad actually asked if I was wearing false lashes, hahaha!!! I’m surprised, really. MAC does not usually do good mascaras, although I did heard good stuff about their Haute and Naughty Lash. Which I will review in future since it’s in my basket of goodies.
Glamour Doll Eyes
GDE is an indie make up company that makes mineral loose eyeshadows that are very vibrant with great colour payoff. Here’s my attempt at making swatches (forgive me- I am new to making swatches but here are two ’tilts’ of my hand to show you, especially in Dirty Jeans, the golden shimmer and the blue base. It is simply gorgeous on and both colours complement each other amazingly! Use Dirty Jeans on the lid, but don’t bring it too far up, of course(!), and then Aqua Foil on the outer corners… And there you have, an super easy colour combo. Just add highlights to brow bone, and inner corner of eye and you are set!!
Chanel Vitalumiere Hydra Moist Radiance Emulsion Compact Foundation
This is not really a foundation for the weakhearted, or the ones who are running short on time. You really have to take the time to blend this into your skin to avoid having it look like it’s just sitting there looking like a hot mess. I totally recommend a stippling brush, or what some would call a skunk brush.
I found coverage to be very buildable, if you stipple it on and not use the useless sponge that is just going to waste your dearly expensive foundation. Pounce your stippling brush on your skin, very gently blend in soft circles and voila! A very lovely finish 
Dab your brush again on places you need more coverage, and the end result is not a cakey mess!. I do have to warn you that this foundation, as its name suggests, will give you this ‘moist radiance’ look that not everyone is fond of, and that would be a slightly dewy look that not even setting with a dusting of powder can totally eradicate (unless you really do pile that powder on, which I do not recommend because cream + powder = D: ). You may run the trouble of looking terrible if you have to be running errands outdoors in the heat, so I’d say to keep this one to cool weather or outings to places with air-conditioning
Here’s the end of my first huge post as a beauty blog, huzzah! Have you tried any of those products? Let me know what you think! In my next post I will be reviewing my favourite lip colour so far of 2012, my favourite lip colour of 2011, and the new-in-the-market Shu Uemura Whitefficient Intense Whitening Essence (spoiler: it’s not worth it!) and also the new Shu Uemura Creamy Dome Blusher from their Celestial Garden S/S ’12 collection (this one, I love and was wearing in the vid above, but because of my shitty lighting I doubt you can see it!).