Shu Uemura Nobara foundation review

I bought home the Shu Uemura foundation which makes me a super happy girl.

The NOBARA Foundation is a cream foundation in a horrible plastic container

I also bought the sponge because usually the company make the sponge just to go well on its own product

So here you go:

NOBARA Crema foundation:

The pros:

high coverage, natural look
no need for powder on top
wedding artist favourite (oh yes! oh yes!, it was the bride-zilla shopping mode)

The Cons:

horrible plastic container that you have no option to put in a normal compact case (shu uemura don’t even do the compact case for this)
this horrible version is going to be discontinued, and replace by the stick version

Stick version is good right?
Not for your money. The plastic container version holds 13g, but the stick version holds only 10g. THey charge you the same.

Price:

I got 10% off so I’m a happy bunny

the NOBARA foundation: 22.90 GBP
the sponge: 3.51 GBP

To the photos review (which says a truth better than me)








the best example of how never trust SA to fit your shade under a big big light..

even though I have Jamilla next to me when I test this.. see how different it is to my normal skin tone.

this is at least 5 shades lighter.. anyway you can see how it compares to my original naked skin





Shu Uemura VS Maybelline Mineral Liquid foundation (754 shade to 03 Sand)

unfortunately the skin tone mishap continues. But it still match my face colour in general. Look at my hand, it matches the tone on my face

I find that the Maybelline Mineral Liquid foundation matches with a bit of yellow tone.

But look at the eyes area, Shu Uemura obviously have better concealing powder than Maybelline, it hides the eye bags without using concealer




Shu Uemura VS Angelfit Liquid foundation (743 vs W7)

If you look at the area where the word ‘Angelfit printed’ you can see the red tone is not very well covered by Angelfit.

Both does not contain SPF so you need to apply sunscreen, and Primer to hide the red tone

Shu Uemura wins on coverage, again compare the eye area and you’ll see Shu covers better




Shu Uemura VS Revlon color stay (754 vs 310)

Now moving to European brand of foundation and even you can’t see it clearly from photos, it does give you pink tone
So for me it needs some kind of whiter powder to mix in and match my skintone.
Coverage wise is nearly the same as Shu, just Shu wins on providing yellow tone foundation





Shu Uemura vs Lancome Color Ideal (754 VS 03)

Finally, the very expensive lancome foundation, again with a bit of red tone once you compare it with Shu

i seriously hated this foundation coz it is just not quite right. Does it cover my spot? no
does it cover my eye bag? no
does it match my tone? no
and why it is so expensive?

So Shu won because of my hate towards Lancome color Ideal

I am going to try their liquid foundation next, perhaps after x’mas to see how well it fits. Stay tuned!

FOTD: Guerlain Palette and dao

Long time no see (my face on the blog)

I have finally found the ultimate way doing FOTD without buying a new camera..

I found a tripod at home so I manage to do it by setting up a mini studio at home. hehe... hence it rather nice quality photos

Except I need to do Manual focus on the camera (focus on an object in a distance, focus it, set it and change into manual focus mode)

But hey.. finally get a photo that I want..

This face is onlu make use of the Guerlain Palette which I received. Natural is the word Natural is my WORD!

i particular like the lippies colour (it went on very nicely) and the mascara which came with it (I think it is even better than my MM)

The eye shadow is pinky natural, and have 5 shades to choose from

I use my Nanoce BB cream.. the foundation I use on the run.. but you can see it is rather coarse on my face compare to my foundation which went on smoothly

So Dao is making his special appearance again! Hello Dao!!




One last thing..

Happy birthday S.
this is your last birthday being Single.. next year. You’ll be a married man haha

My current makeup HG

I thought I’ll do a quick post of what I use generally.

I think I’m very basic on makeup.


So from Top to bottom, left to right

Top row from the left:
Shiseido Maquillage Face Creator No. 11 (Recommended by Fuz, bought from gooddealer)
Benefit Boi-ing No. 2 and Laneige concealer no.3
MM Lash Wing Expander
Eye curler – err. Can’t remember where I get it, some random ones from Sasa (around 2 GBP)
Ettusais Day Defense powder - great for oil control, no more blotting!
L’egere BB cream – soo long lasting, great stuff!
Vaseline Rosy Lips – give a little tint to my lips and keep it moisturised for a long time
MM Liquid Eyeliner – waterproof smudge proof. One of the best I ever tried
Body Shop Vitamin E SPF15 Lippies – do not go out without SPF…

Thanks for all the ladies who left a comment and message or email me about CP. It is a surprise coz I didn’t know there are more than 10 readers out there. Haha!



Dao dao is very naughty recently, he’s on a biting mode and he has bitten me on my bum, my thighs, hands and arms of course. Maybe he knows that I’m leaving him for 1.5 months so he is not very happy.

I only used the makeup I listed here on the same photo. If you remember this is the photo I did on the same day when Jamilla tagged me.

FOTD: University photoshoot

Hi girls! I think I have been hiding my face for too long and finally I am told I need to show up. My professor asked me to do a quick photo for my personal website in my university. After going through like thousands of photos, there's none I can choose so I ask S to took a photo of me.

Just to let you know, I didn't have dao dao in the photo he's just too clingy and kept climbing up on the table and distracting the shoot. So I carried him a bit to take these photos.

As you can see on my face, I'm having a foundation problem. I'm not sure is it because of my face being in acen and redness, I think I am having difficulty to put powder on. It just highlight my pores and I have nothing I can do about it. I can only put just BB cream (thin layer) and that's all. Even concealer help to enlarge my pores a bit.

I just switch into Lancome Hydra Zen and it seems to calm with the redness (and no new acne) so I'm happy. I got the Lancome when I bought the Pearl cleanser around 1 month ago. it is 15ml and it'll keep me going for 1 month.
Vichy? If anyone wants to try Vichy Aqualia Light (Rich), there's a brand new tube used once for swap...

FOTD:

Face:
L'egere Water Drop BB cream
Ettusais Day Defense Powder No.3

Eyes:
Lancome Hypnose Mascara
Lunasol 10th Anniversary Eye Palette
MM Liquid Eyeliner

Cheerk/contour:
Shiseido Maquillage No.11

Lips:
Mary Quant Peach/Salmon Lippies
Shiru Peach Lipgloss