Showing posts with label Beauty News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beauty News. Show all posts

11 Feb 2021

By Terry VIP Expert Palette Paris Mon Amour Review & Swatches


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It's Spring time and Valentine's season! This year 2020, coinciding with the most lovely season of the year, BY TERRY released another one of their popular limited edition eyeshadow palette, named By Terry VIP Expert Palette Paris Mon Amour.

By Terry Paris Mon Amour Review by Singapore Beauty Blogger
By Terry transports us to Paris with this limited edition palette

The   VIP Expert Palette in Paris Mon Amour contains a total of 10 shades, with a mix of mattes, satin with a couple of slightly more glittery shades. This comprehensive combination of  warmer & neutral shades make it convenient  for layering. Colors include (from top to bottom):

  • Matte light beige
  • Satin cool brown
  • Shimmer baby pink
  • Shimmery soft peach coral
  • Dusty matte brown
  • Dark bronze shimmer
  • Metallic sparkle gold 
  • Shimmery wine plum
  • Shimmery sandy taupe
  • Matte ivory 

8 Feb 2021

Join my #FVTribe today!

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Happy 2021!

In a post-pandemic world, what has changed for you?

Many things have changed for me : some major, some small, and most, emotional.

I wish I can chat with you face to face. I wish I can personally say thank you to all of you who have supported Faithy Vanity Table in any way, all through these 6 years.

This February, Faithy Vanity Table celebrates its 6th blog anniversary

It's been a wild ride! I'd always beat myself up for not blogging more. I want to create more writings because writing is my first love, but my time/resources are limited and my attention span on the blog tapered off, shifting my focus more on building a presence on Instagram as the years glided past... 

I think most of you know at the same time, I was  in teaching, juggling between multiple small businesses and passion projects, volunteering at mental health sites (online & local), and FVT has always been just a side hustle - one that takes up a significant part of my time.

But this year 2021, THINGS WILL CHANGE.

Faithy Vanity Table will be revamped. Not just a website design change.

FVT WILL GET BIGGER AND BETTER.

Faithy Vanity Table pivots to another site that welcomes more
likeminded individuals!

If you have heard of BuyMeACoffee.com, you already know the idea behind the site is for creators to share their passion and creations, and the site is an extremely user-friendly one where communities engage and creators are able to receive appreciation for their efforts via their fans' monetary support. In other words, you can donate to your favourite creators over at buymeacoffee.com to support their work.

No, I am not advertising for their website. I am a real happy user because the platform is going to benefit both you and I! And I invite you to see what I am up to over there. 


Your time is precious, so I want to give you a brief heads up of what to expect when you follow me over to the other side.

✔ You get invited to join an exclusive V.I.P. Membership Club that I created for you and for my supporters. You and I are gonna be tight over there. 👊

 ✔ You will see fresh new content that you have NEVER seen me doing before.

✔ You will receive LOADS OF FREEBIES (far exceeding the value of your membership fees) when you decide to join my VIP Club!

✔ You have an opportunity to contribute to my craft and help me sustain Faithy Vanity Table.

✔ You will get to meet and speak to the real me, either LIVE on screen or in person!

ONCE YOU JOIN MY #FVTribe V.I.P Membership Club ($50/year), you immediately receive:

💢 Downloadable ebook "DIY Skincare: Your Stay Home Guide to Healthy, Glowing Skin" (U.P : US$18)
💢 Instant access to all locked membership-only articles & reports (worth more than $500/year)
💢 LIVE 1-1 coaching session with me with a topic of your choice, on Zoom. (worth $70)
💢FREE GIFT of health/beauty products worth $50, couriered to your doorstep (on your birthday month)

I promise you, #NOFILTER over there. It is a SAFELOCKED SPACE (opened to my supporters only) where I share my most honest thoughts about everything like how a friend does. Topics include but not limited to beauty & health, wellness & mental health, love & relationships, unspoken truths about social media community, SG media industry, airline industry; we can even chat about politics, philosophy, religion if you'll let me! 😂 But okay, mainly Beauty, Health & Wellness related topics.

💝What's more, by supporting me, you are also supporting Samaritans of Singapore ! 10% of all sales proceeds will be donated to SOS! This is a way of demonstrating my devotion to the cause of raising mental health awareness in Singapore. I also signed up to be an ad-hoc volunteer there, sign up if you are keen here!

4 Jun 2018

Review of COCO & EVE Like A Virgin Super Nourishing Coconut & Fig Hair Masque

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Review of COCO & EVE Like A Virgin Super Nourishing Coconut & Fig Hair Masque Singapore

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My hair journey these recent years has been somewhat a crazy one - from browns to ash shades, vibrant colours such as pink & purple, and the daily flat iron and hot-curling, I am pretty lucky that I even have a full head of tresses right now!

Constantly on the lookout of a good homecare hair masque, the first time I spotted COCO & EVE was on Instagram. I was immediately drawn to the colours & design of the packaging! It was only a couple of weeks ago that I finally had the opportunity to test out the product on myself, and boy, I quickly grabbed it!
Review of COCO & EVE Like A Virgin Super Nourishing Coconut & Fig Hair Masque Singapore

The brand came to the UK late 2017 and has already won over plenty of beauty fans. Founded in Bali, the masque was created to get your hair back to its purest a.k.a virgin state, with only the best ingredients.

Best selling points : completely free from sulphates and parabens, gluten-free, cruelty-free and 100% vegan and is made using 5 key ingredients: coconut, fig, shea butter, argan oil and linseed.

23 Dec 2017

IOMA PARIS MA CRÈME Review

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Personalised skincare isn't something new, but have you heard of a tailored-made face cream with 40 257 possible formulas and out of these, ONE is uniquely yours?

Introducing a pioneering French luxury skin care label, at the forefront of technology, and boasts of being the first and only skincare brand to prove the effectiveness of each of its products at the end of each treatment, on every woman using them - IOMA PARIS.

1 Sept 2017

Milan Travel Tips & Shopping Itinerary under 48 hours + My Personal Updates for 2nd half of 2017

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It has been too long since I wrote anything personal...and I kind of miss connecting with my readers like this, so here comes a post to tell you what I had been and will be up to, for the second half of 2017!

3Day Milan Trip


I followed my partner on his flight to Milan last month (For those who are new here, my hubby is an airline pilot.). We had 3 free days in Milan; as it was a last minute decision for me to join him, I actually didn't prepare a proper travel itinerary. Honestly, even if I do have time to plan a scheduled trip in advance, I wouldn't do it. I am all about #YOLO, you know. Haha! Readers who read my previous trips' notes will know I am quite spontaneous, and well... probably a bit messy.


Shopping in Milan

If you're short of time and have only 48 hours or so, I suggest you banish the thought of sightseeing or taking day trips at all. 

JUST . FOCUS . ON. SHOPPING .

Milan is THE capital of fashion & shopping. Sure... New York, London, Paris, Tokyo have been nominated as fashion capitals as well; but in my humble opinion, MILAN IS KING (Of Fashion) and everyone else is at most, just a Queen. Okay, maybe Paris is on par.

Shops are all over the city and walking streets are longer, busier and more colourful than other cities. This can be a bane if you are short of time coz you will get distracted = waste precious hours.

So, where do you go shopping if you only have 48 hours or less?

22 Mar 2017

Review of The Body Shop Drops Of Light™ Pure Healthy Brightening Eye Cream and Pure Healthy Brightening Serum

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Review of The Body Shop Drops Of Light Pure Healthy Brightening Eye Cream and Pure Healthy Brightening Serum

Following the success of the highly-raved Drops of Youth  range, The Body Shop introduces Drops of Light   skincare range for users looking for fairer & more radiant skin. This March, there has been a new addition of Pure Healthy Brightening Eye Cream to the Drops of Light  skincare line.

Review of The Body Shop Drops Of Light Pure Healthy Brightening Eye Cream and Pure Healthy Brightening Serum

Review of The Body Shop Drops Of Light Pure Healthy Brightening Eye Cream and Pure Healthy Brightening Serum

Drops of Light™ Pure Healthy Brightening Range  has multi- functions to support healthy skin and is formulated to suit all skin types, even sensitive skin. Combining the natural goodness of Red Algae Extract harvested from the North Atlantic, plus the power of Vitamin C - one of the most potent skin antioxidants, this range of products targets sensitive skin that needs help in brightening and moisture. 

I tested out the Drops Of Light Pure Healthy Brightening Eye Cream and Pure Healthy Brightening Serum for a week and am now pleased to share my results.

I usually do not review skin care products which I tested on my skin for less than 2 weeks, simply because results don't show. But guess what, I was totally surprised by the results of  The Body Shop ™  this time round...


2 Mar 2017

Equitance Skincare Review and Giveaway

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"Clear", "Bright", "Radiant" - these are some words that never fails to capture my attention. In my voracious quest for the best brightening skincare regime, I find myself always coming back to Japanese beauty brands.


Equitance™ is a luxury skincare brand founded in Japan 18 years ago. With a focus on inner & outer beauty, they have successfully combined both Eastern & Western research and practices to produce effective skincare products, especially in the department of brightening & radiance. We haven't heard of it in Singapore quite yet, but in both the U.S. and Japan, Equitancebagged home several awards & accolades and had been featured in the press for over the years. Its collagen drink alone broke 30 million in sales. 


To read more about the company’s history and product information, click HERE.

Sunstar Singapore recently launched Equitance in Singapore, and I was blessed with the opportunity to review their “First Ever in Japan – Effective Whitening Mechanism with Linoleic Acid” brightening skincare range. Happy to share the results on my skin, later in this post! Read on!


Besides linoleic acid, the entire outer skincare range also contains shell ginger extract and cherry blossom leaf extract. 

15 Jan 2017

Quick Personal Updates - More Travel, Beauty, Lifestyle posts upcoming in 2017!

Hello from New York, Times Square!


It's the third week of 2017, and I realised I haven't greet you lovelies properly. Happy New Year, Everyone! May the new year bring forth more abundance and goodness to you who's reading this!

Just some quick updates of what's going on with me and with Faithy Vanity Table for this upcoming first quarter of the year....

New Year Trip to New York City

As you probably already knew (if you're on my Instagram/Facebook), I kick-started 2017 with a trip to New York City. Experienced the first snow storm of my life and man...it was freezing my pants off but the scenery was really beautiful!


Also made a day trip to Brooklyn to take some pretty shots. More photos and New York travel information & tips will be posted on the blog soon-ish! (After I take care of some blog backlogs.)

Holiday Haul from New York

These are my fashion & beauty haul from the trip. I didn't pick up a lot of beauty products simply because Singapore has them at cheaper or equivalent prices. Our Singapore currency is weaker than the U.S., so the same stuff in Sephora Singapore are likely to be cheaper than in US.

From the above pic, you can gather than I chose mostly stuff that has yet to launched in Singapore Sephora. I will be selecting some to review before they are available for sale in Singapore - hope this helps you with your purchasing decisions! Let me know your product requests. ;)

I definitely will be doing more detailed reviews on Too Faced Sweet Peach Collection and Guerlain Happy Glow Spring 2017 since they are confirmed to be launched in Singapore. In fact, Guerlain has already launched and my review will be up on the next blog post!

28 Nov 2016

Beauty News: GUINOT launches Hydraderm Cellular Energy skincare machine + Review of Hydradermie Youth Treatment

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Guinot Singapore facial review
I still fondly remember when I was a student in my late teens/early twenties, I used to treat myself to facials at beauty salons along Orchard Road when I have extra bucks to spare. There were a few big brand names of salon-brand facials that I wished I could afford long-term packages for back then because they were proven effective; and one of those was the French beauty brand Guinot.

Fast forward some years, I was ecstatic when I heard about a new innovation developed by Guinot's President & CEO, Jean-Daniel Mondin - Hydradermie, a machine that serves as an alternative to aesthetic medicine by providing quick, painless and affordable treatments. 

Facelift, botox, fillers-like skin, with no side effects and no pain? YES PLEASE!!

14 Oct 2016

Vote for Clozette Beauty Awards 2016 and WIN PRIZES!

Want to get some inspo on which are the top beauty products good for your skin? Check out Clozette Beauty Awards! Vote for your favourites and stand a chance to bag home some branded pouches and other mystery prizes.

Click to  vote: http://www.clozette.co/clozette-beauty-awards-2016/home


This year, I am one of the 50 beauty judges on the panel.

Show your support for your favourite beauty products. Good luck!

15 Sept 2016

Confessions of a Blogger (1): Bitchiest, Funniest, Jaw-dropping Remarks Overheard at Media Events


Hi lovelies!

Thanks to my insomnia (again), I finished re-reading all of my previous blog posts and realised that I have been too focused on beauty product reviews recently and kinda lost some personal touch on this blog?

As you probably already knew, I started this blog due to passion in all things beautiful. And it will pain me (not to mention, cause me further insomnia) should I one day lose my initial fervour. Keeping things real yet diplomatic (and sometimes entertaining. Haha.) will be my lifelong pursuit…both in life and on this blog. Heh.  

#I_Sompa #ISwearOnMyTOMFORDLipstick



However, today I want to write about something more light-hearted (and slightly juicy). Having been in the bloggersphere/social media industry for slightly less than two years, I am very thankful to be blessed with many socialising opportunities at media events such as new product launches, blogger parties, fashion shows, makeup/makeover events, etc. Rubbing shoulders with celebrities, popular media & online personalities, CEOs/founders of huge beauty companies – all of this wasn’t part of the reason why I started the blog, but I guessed I lucked out to be regularly experiencing these via blogging. (In my past work industries, the professional profiles I met are mostly academics, politicians, lawyers, aviators and business owners. Well, let’s save those old-school stories for another time.)


Being part of the social media scene has definitely opened my eyes wider. There are just so many interesting sights & sounds to share with you guys…which I did of course - on Snapchat and Instagram Stories. BUT…what you haven’t heard are some of the most hilarious jokes, rudest remarks, super entertaining banter overheard at events. Many of those were generously targeted at me during conversations. Some were unfortunately thrown at other people.

I hope they didn’t take it too hard, like how I did...NOT.
(LOL. Actually I just didn’t know how to feel and what to make of it. *shrugs)


Disclaimer: No malicious intent for sharing this. Purely for entertainment purposes only.


Funny, Bitchy Remarks and Eye-rolling Situations at Media Events

13 Aug 2016

Amazing Makeup Under S$20 - Review of Palladio Velvet Matte + First Impressions of other Palladio Picks

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Every girl deserves to be pretty; quality makeup should be made accessible to everyone.

That is my fundamental belief.

Although I am an avid collector of luxury makeup as well, I still believe the market needs more affordable and high quality makeup... so everyone can look & feel beautiful, anytime. In my quest for cheap & good makeup, I have met certain beauty brands that did not disappoint. However, these are only a handful...and sometimes even "drugstore" beauty products cost more than $25 for a single item.

PALLADIO BEAUTY SINGAPORE 
Palladio is a US drugstore brand that retails at Ulta - a large chain of beauty stores in USA. Palladio is unique for infusing its cosmetics with botanical herbs and vitamins. This year 2016, Palladio Singapore officially launches at Guardian Singapore.

Their products are marked at incredible prices, not exceeding SGD20 for any one item.

I am thrilled to share some of my favourite picks from the brand, starting with their very popular...

6 Aug 2016

New Orbis Boutique Opening + Review of Orbis =U White Series

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Review of Orbis Skincare Singapore
Review of Orbis Skincare Singapore

If you have been following my Instagram page, you'd have been informed of the opening specials of Orbis at their newest boutique, located at Takashimaya Shopping Centre. 

For those who are new to Orbis, this is a Japanese beauty brand that is eco-friendly, simple, effective and advocates a holistic approach to beauty & wellness. It is also the first to create 100% oil-free skincare products, based on their fundamental belief that by cutting out oil, skin can release its vital power. Sounds like god-send to oily/combination skin? I would think so.


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I was at the opening of the new store at Takashimaya last month, and was so happy to bag home some skincare and makeup loots.

8 Jun 2016

Ready for Summer with Laneige! Review of Laneige All Day Anti-Pollution Defensor, Mask and NEW Water Bank Cream.


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 Review of Laneige All Day Anti-Pollution Defensor, Mask and NEW Water Bank Cream.

Summer is round the corner! In Singapore, it is all-year round summer. Not cool, literally. And these days, we are talking about a good 30-33 degrees blazing heat.

This Spring/Summer, Laneige has got you covered. 

11 Apr 2016

Vely Vely IM Custom Coloring Browcara Review

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BNT April '16 Box is a simple one with two products from Vely Vely. You might be wondering what brand is that... My curiosity was piqued too when I heard this brand for the first time.

Vely Vely is a Korean cosmetic brand by an online fashion store IMVELY. It's pretty much like Style Nanda/ 3CE concept, just that Vely Vely has yet to reach the level of popularity for its overseas market. I'm placing my bets on this brand that it will soon be though. And I will tell you why later.

5 Apr 2016

Korea Label ver. Chongsungah 22 Brand Launch and 1st Impressions!

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Korea's popular makeup label, ver. Chosungah 22 recently held their brand launch in Artisteaq Mandarin Gallery, Singapore. Thanks to Sasa Singapore, beauty lovers can finally access this vibrant & wacky brand without paying hefty shipping fees.

For those who haven't heard of ver. Chosungah 22 yet, this brand was founded by a very influential pioneer South's Korea makeup artist named Chosungah who has shaped Korean makeup trends into what it is today. Having worked with so many top Korean pop stars and celebrities, she still goes by her motto: "Makeup should be  simple and fun" And this spirit has seeped into her makeup line.


Had a lot of fun with my girlies (our Singapore beauty influencers) learning makeup tips through a makeup demo by the Korean makeup artists.

29 Jan 2016

Review of Que Origin Shower.Bath + FREE Samples giveaway!

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Health & beauty - Which will you choose?

What if you can choose BOTH? :)

Skin is the largest organ of the body, so we need to take good care of it (I know many of us do neglect it sometimes, guilty-as-charged.) As the skin absorbs the good & bad and eventually all of that goes into our body, therefore we also must take heed of the ingredients that we apply onto our skin, agree?

That's why organic bodycare products are something I personally feel everyone must invest in, regardless of gender; regardless of whether you are into beauty products or not.
THIS IS YOUR HEALTH!!




I am very pleased that recently I was introduced to a new local Singapore bodycare brand - Que Origin. 

Que Origin is a completely new brand started from scratch aiming to provide nourishing body care. The first product to kick start this brand is their Shower Bath which can be used as both body wash and bubble bath. It is formulated with natural oil, infused with botanical extracts and scented with only natural essential oils from Australia. Numerous harmful chemicals have been excluded, and that could make the process of formulation a challenge, but Que Origin did it!

Furthermore, the essential oils they used were carefully selected from Australia and transport them to Korea facilities with GMP for manufacturing. Thus making sure that each and every bottle was made with purest ingredients in an advance facility.

1 Jan 2016

[Beauty News] Chanel 2016 Spring Makeup Collection - LA Sunrise

Chanel 2016 Spring Makeup Collection - LA Sunrise



Illusion D’Ombre eye shadows - 118 Moonlight Pink,126 Grifith Green and 122 Ocean Light.

Les 4 Ombres  202 Tisse Camelia palette

Stylo Yeux Waterproof - 924 Fervent Blue, 925 Pacific Green and 926 Purple Choc.

Nourishing mascara base

Sunkiss Ribbon Blush 

Rouge Coco Shines - 114 Shipshape, 116 Mighty and 118 Energy

5 Nov 2015

[Beauty News] Givenchy launches Christmas '15 collection – LES NUANCES GLACÉES

Seasons Greetings! It's the time of the year, where all good tidings and all pretty, blingy things happen! 

Avid makeup collectors in Singapore will be pleased to know that Givenchy is launching their beautiful Christmas makeup collection LES NUANCES GLACÉES in November 2015.


There are four items in this collection: eyeshadow palette, lipstick, mascara and liquid eyeliner.