My 2013 Beauty Favorites! ♥

Happy New Year beautiful readers! 

Here is the list of my 2013 beauty favorites that I kept using non stop last year. :)

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I have some skin care favorites that really suits my skin type, which is dry to combination skin. Mostly, I have been loving Celeteque DermoScience skin care products especially their Hydration line.



First is the Celeteque Hydration Gentle Exfoliating Facial Wash with Dual Vitamin Nourishing Beads. This product removed the dryness in my face especially the dry patches going on on my cheek area. I don't know what exactly the beads are doing but I think it helped turn my super dry skin to a normal type one. This is definitely my all time favorite facial wash. I always go back to this when I try different facial washes.



Next, is the Kiehl's Rare Earth Pore Refining Tonic. Well, I have visible pores on my nose and in the inner part of my cheeks that I hate so I tried this product. At first, when you apply it with a cotton I felt a little tingle on my nose area where I feel that my pores are closing up.


For moisturizing my face, the only moisturizer that suits my skin type best is the Celeteque Hydration Facial Moisturizer with Triple Moisturizing System. It doesn't make me feel like a grease ball, not like other moisturizer in the market. It is a gel type, which is also suitable for normal, combination and oily skin.


100% Aloe Vera Gel is somewhat hard to find here in the Philippines until I found out that Landmark offers Banana Boat Soothing Aloe After Sun Gel. It is not 100% Aloe Vera Gel but it is affordable so it's a plus. It helps soothing and cooling my skin when I went out on the sun. It is also a good makeup base and I also used this in my DIY setting spray.

Hydrating is important for dry skin type, so I further moisturize my skin with the Apollo Pure Petroleum Jelly Protectant. I use this around my eyes because I have dryness there and also to my lips at night before I go to sleep. Then when I wake up, I have a baby smooth skin.





For makeup products, I have not really a lot but here are they:

The Face Shop Power Perfection BB Cream. The first and the best BB cream I have ever tried, and I tried a lot. This lives up to the name BB cream well since it made my skin hydrated and still makes my skin looking nice even when I am not wearing it anymore. The downside of it is that it doesn't have much shades available but it does oxidize.


One of the best foundation I've tried is the L'Oreal True Match Super Buildable Foundation in N4. First is that it have a wide range of shades and they have shades with cool, warm and neautral undertone. It is also a foundation that you can sheer down or build up to full coverage. Also, some makeup artists use this foundation and swear by this. Further more, it is somewhat affordable since it is a drugstore makeup.

Hands down, this product can make you look flawless, it is the Maybelline All-in-One Shine Free Cake Powder in Sand Beige. I sometimes use it to set my foundation or BB cream, sometimes I use it alone and it always look nice. The only thing is that it look somewhat cakey, duh it is a cake foundation. Another downside is that it doesn't have much shade. Their darkest one is still too light for me but still I love it.


I can say that I am a concealaholic. I don't have acne marks or something but I love to conceal my under eye area to remove my dark circles. This Elianto Creamy Concealer in Natural does its job of hiding that area. It is creamy and thick that really does its job of concealing the imperfections.


If I have to pick just one makeup favorite for the year it is definitely the Benefit Hoola Bronzer. It is just available in one shade but it suits all skin tones since it is very buildable. I always use this since I got it, which is was in March 2013, and I still have half of it left. I just love this product and I hope I can find a much affordable bronzer that can do the job like this one.


I started filling up my eyebrows early last year and I kept using the E.L.F. Eyebrow Kit since it has a wax and a powder, and also a tiny eyeliner brush that comes with the kit. Moreover, it is much affordable than other eyebrow kit and it looks sophisticated than other affordable kits. I just love it and it does it job quite well for a drugstore brand.



I am not a fan of makeup kits but I love the Revlon Colors in Bloom Makeup Palette. It is not that heavy, it has a sophisticated packaging with a large mirror, it has 5 super lustrous lipsticks, 5 color stay 12-hour eye shadows and 2 powder blushes. All of those are very much pigmented, and it comes with a brush too.



I love the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils and 2 of my favorites are Milk and Dark Brown. I use the white one on my lower waterline to make my eyes look bigger and more awake and I also use it as an eye shadow base to make the color of the eye shadow that I am putting on to pop. The dark brown one is more versatile as I can use it to fill in my brows, contour my nose, crease and face, and I also use i as an eye shadow base as well.


The best mascara I tried last year is the Benefit They're Real Mascara. It is not waterproof though but it gives out great results! My lashes are not that long bu it really makes my lashes looking like falsies that even my family and friends asked me if it is real. I just love it.



I keep it neutral when it come to my everyday or go to lip color. One of my favorite is the MAC Amplified Lipstick in Fast Play. It is just my lips but better color of lipstick. It glides on my lips smoothly, it is easy to apply, doesn't bleed, doesn't chap my lips, but it doesn't really last long on my lips.



Another lipstick that I loved was the NYX Round Lipstick in B52. It's not really a better than my lips color but it is a pinkish one and it made me look a little bit younger and sweet. It glides on smoothly as well but the scent of it somewhat disturbs me but it is tolerable. This was my everyday lipstick when I was still in college.


As for brushes, I love the Artist Studio Brushes for the year 2013. First and foremost, they are so affordable for less than PhP150 for face brushes and less than PhP50 for eye brushes. The only thing is, they are only affordable at Landmark, which are at Makati and Trinoma only. I love them because they're affordable and they really do their jobs very well. I have them for a year now and they don't have hair falls even after deep cleaning them. I highly recommend these brushes if you are in a budget.



I have perfume or cologne favorites to for the year 2013!

My everyday scent early half of the year of 2013 is the Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Scent Spray. I am not a fan of green tea in general but I super love this scent and even my classmates bought one for themselves.


The body mist I used when I was in High School and the one I got back to on the second half of the year 2013 is the Victoria Secret Love Spell Fragrance Mist. Almost every girl love this scent and this has been the scent I am known for.


The perfume I wear when I have a special event or something like that is the Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy La Fleur. My mom gave me the gift set of the Viva La Juicy and I love this one. It gone now and I wish to have the full size one. It is a floral scent, which is not smells like for old people. It is suitable for teens and older women just fine.




That is about it with the beauty products that I loved last year. I hope you love it and got some information as if I did a short review for every product.

Thank you for reading!

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