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About Nicole Tay

Nicole set up this makeup blog 2 years after she was introduced into the world of makeup. She started learning makeup through numerous youtube beauty tutorials and the continued viewership has drawn her into becoming an active member of the beauty community online. Beside all things makeup, she is also passionate about entrepreneurship. Exposed to startups when she briefly lived in Silicon Valley & while interning in a medical startup, she is motivated to start something up in the future. She currently resides in Singapore.

Posts by Nicole Tay:

Top cruelty free, natural skincare for acne prone skin

As a makeup lover, I am always camouflaged under nasty ingredients like parabens, mineral oil and talc. While I am trying to move away from these additives, natural makeup has yet to monopolize my entire makeup section, I am quite ashamed of th

at. BUT hopefully in future, I can move my entire collection to purely natural and cruelty free makeup (I love animals, so this is more important to me).

Anyway, I started with my skincare regime, and really love these selections. Most of the items I will be talking about are highly affordable. Because people are always asking me where to get these items, I will be linking where to get them, some of the links will contain a ref code, but it is up to you whether you want to use it or not. I do like to say that my reviews are 100% honest.

Nubian Heritage, African Black Soap Bar

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SOHO Brushes Review + Giveaway

If you have been spotting a new line of sleek looking brushes in your local CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, or Target, the could be the new SOHO Professional Line. I’ve been trying out 5 of their brush lin

e for the past month and think I have a good impression of them to give a review. This professional line provides stylish yet, ergonomic handles. Do look out for out Facebook page as we will be giving out this set of 5 brushes. 

Contour Blush Brush

This is one of my favorite out of the 5 I’ve tried. I love the angled slant, and it picks up powder very well. As compared to my other blush brushes, the size is just great for my cheeks.  It’s not as dense as the Ecotools brush, but I like it that way for my more pigmented blushes. It is soft, and not prickly.

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Birchbox July 2012

I’m so excited because I finally signed up for Birchbox. I made a point this month to sign up because the July box was a collaboration with Glamour magazine (which is my favorite magazine). Unfortunately, I did not get the Glamour box :( . Anyway,

I’m happy with what was in my box, so let’s see what I got…

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Facekitt is Expanding to the UK

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Facekitt is expanding! We will be adding a section

for UK beauty bloggers/readers! This will include all the brands (high end and drugstore) available to beauty addicts in the UK (thought not necessarily made there!). This section will include reviews on items available in the UK, tutorials, tips and anything else that will fall under the UK beauty hat. If you are currently located in the UK, and is interested into becoming a writer for facekitt head down to read more.

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Is the Solone eyeliner truly the best eyeliner in Taiwan?

On the outside, the packaging doesn’t look ostentatious enough for me to pick them up in a store, but Solone Eyeliner Pencil was coined by Fashion Guide Taiwan as the Best Eyeliner Pencil. Did this really live up to my expectation

s? While I will not be doing a Avril Lavigne cry test, I’ll be putting these inkers to my usual scrutiny and give you a verdict by the end of the post.

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Cruelty Free Styling Cream

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Hey girlies,

after a good

response from my “Top Cruelty Free Skincare for Acne Prone Skin“, I thought most of you gals would be interested with this one! If you want to define or prolong your curls, while making sure it’s cruelty free, you might want to give this product a holla!

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THE BALM Shady Lady Eye Shadow Palette Vol. 1 (Cheetah) + Dupes (Image intensive)

Bought the Shady Lady Set a fortnight ago, and I’ve been loving it! Although the liners are not as pigmented as their Nude’Tude, I think it’s overall a very nice palette. Very suitable for smokey looks. I’ve learned to love all the colors, even th

ough most people would think that this is such a uncoordinated palette. Precisely because the sponteniety of colors, they encourage me to try out different colors combinations (I had been a nude color lover). I love this as much as any Naked Original or Naked 2 Palette.

Anyway, pictures are very swatch heavy, but enjoy!

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