Hi Everyone, 🙂
Hope you guys have been good. A few of you know that I went to Singapore for shopping holiday. It’s such a crazy shopping destination that you’ll never be satisfied of your shopping and you’d always want to buy more and more. But thankfully I went with my hubby who kept reminding me about our finances. :rotfl: So I did a decent shopping.
Tourists get a tax refund at the airport so I re-used that money to buy more stuff at duty free shops and in air plane. All in all excellent trip, every last penny spent, need to work harder to earn some money now. 😛
Anyway, here is the haul- Makeup forever, Bobbi Brown, Shu Uemura, Sephora, Amazing Cosmetics, Dior, Burt Bee’s, Nars and Benefit. There was Urban Decay also but I already have 24/7 pencils (gift from a lovely friend) . I just didn’t like the ey shadow palettes and regarding Urban Decay Primer Potion, I think My MAC Paint Pot does a fab job so I didn’t find it reasonable to purchase the primer potion. But I really loved how invisible it gets one you apply it.
Benefit Sugar Bomb: I had an option to choose either Coralista or Sugar Bomb. On application both looked quite similar, just that Coralista was more Coral than Sugar bomb. And by now I already have quite a few coral check colours so I picked up Sugar Bomb. It’s quite sheer and buildable.
Purchased at : Sephora, ION Orchard Road, Singapore
I loved the pretty triangles. Geeeeeee…
Dior Addict High Colour Lipstick Charmed Pink : Actually I was picking up a lipstick from benefit but Sephora was out of stock of that shade so I picked up the exact shade from the Dior Lipstick. Honestly I just picked this lipstick simply because hubby loved it so much on me. 🙂
Purchased at : Sephora, ION Orchard Road, Singapore
Charmed Pink is a bright pink colour. Goes on sheer and the shade is bright pink colour with a hint of coral in it.
Shu Umeura Lash Curler: Need I say anything here? 😉
Purchased at : Shu Umeura Store, ION Orchard Road, Singapore
Makeup Forever HD Blush # 6:
It’s a bright orange-coral colour. You just need a teeny weeny bit to get a nice flush on your cheeks.
Makeup Forever Aqua Cream: No 5 and No 15:
No 5 is a mid tone brown colour with silvery sheen to it.
No 15 is a peachy pink colour with golden sheen to it.
Purchased at : Sephora, ION Orchard Road, Singapore
Bobbi Brown Pastel Eye Shadow Palette :
It’s a 7 colour pastel palette : Ivory, Baby Pink, Champagne Quartz, Platinum, Paced Blue, Rockstar and Mahogany.
I purchased it in airplane. They give you a shopping guide and you may buy stuff there and then. The only drawback is that you don’t get to see the real product. Price wise it’s the same. I didn’t see this palette anywhere in shops so I think it’s travel exclusive.
Bobbi Brown Shimmer Palette : I never purchsaed Colorbar or The Body Shop Shimmer bricks because I always wanted on from Bobbi Brown. There were there options available in this- Bronze, Nectar (coral) and Ros (Pink. I thought I’d be able to us the Bronze on the most.
Purchased at : Sephora, ION Orchard Road, Singapore
Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge for Lips and Cheeks : Cabo Coral
It’s a cream blush + lipstick. I didn’t buy it initially and kept it as a last purchase if I’d be left with any money at the end of the trip. Bobbi Brown in general is painfully expensive so I wanted to keep Bobbi Brown’s stuff on hold. I bought it from my tax refund money at the airport.
Bobbi Brown Long Lasting Gel Liner – Cavier Ink : It’s a blackish brown colour gel liner. Again purchased it at the airport with the tax refund money.
Nars Orgasm Blush : I didn’t find Nars anywhere in Singapore, not even at the airport. We had a two and a half hour transit at the Bangkok airport so while roaming around we discovered the Nars outlet. I didn’t want anything else other than the Orgasm blush. 😛 It’s a peachy pink colour with a golden sheen to it.
I got a $40 voucher free at Sephora, Singapore so I purchased the Amazing Concealer. it is considered as one of the best concealer in the world. There were 7 shades available in this. I bought it in the shade Dark Tan.
Burt Bee’s Lip Balm: I bought this on Aarthi’s recommendation and totally loving it. 🙂
Sephora Shampoo : Got it for free
Guardian Face Masks : Bought these two face masks. Just wanted to give them a try. 🙂
And a few beauty books :
The World’s Best Kept Beauty Secrets:
Ask Beauty :
Makeup Your Mind Francois Nars
So that was it. Other than this we purchased Mac Book and a Men’s Electric Shaver. Waiting for the next month’s bills now. 😛
Btw Smash Box Cosmetics are available at Delhi International Airport.
WOW this just redefines haul 😀
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Hey Rati……….what a great haul………….are there some more leafs remaining in your cheque book 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 . Only “electric shaver” for Eno kumar???????
Yeah, he wasn’t buying that even so I was feeling super guilty. Forced him to buy it. 😛
No cheque leaves left. Have got strict instructions on no shopping months. :silly:
I had about NARS orgasm a lot…got to see it now 😛 😛 😛 😛
bTW, we would all like you to print the entire pages of “ask beauty” here, possible????? 😛 😛
:rotfl: Why did you think I bought it? 😛
Seems like you broke the bank, Rati! Enjoy your products! And hey, I’m curious about the Mac Book, since I’m in the market for one. Which one is it & what were the damages?
Damages? didn’t get you? It costed me around Rs 8000-10000 less in Singapore than India. That’s the reason i purchased it. i bought the regular MAC book because I wanted it for basic purposes only.
Damages as in how much you paid for it 🙂
Great haul, how about a FOTD? asap!! 😉
Emjay I also purchased the windows MAC option so it costed me around Rs 62,000 If I would have purchased it from India, it would have costed me around 70,000.
hi rati….
i got confused whether to scream …wow..what a great haul or to go green with jealousy again….. 😀 but all in all evry penny well spent….now eager to see swatches of all the products…..and few more recommendations….now i knw what to save ur money for wen u go abroad…. 😛
Shilpa,
I will def write about the saving money thing when you go abroad. i wouldn’t have been able to purchase so much had we not planned the trip properly. Saved a lot of money that ways. Except the MAC book we didn’t use a credit card even once and finished our trip in the money that we took with us. 🙂
and yes one more thing i want to ask..whts so special about shu umera lash curler….???
Actually haven’t used too many lash curlers but this one is def better than my 20 rs wala lash curler. loll!!
It curls my lashes perfectly. The best thing is that it fits in my lid so properly as if it’s tailor made for my eyes only so that gives a great control and gives a perfect curl to my lashes. Actually both MAC and Inglot lash curlers are also good, I just had to have Shu Uemura one. 🙂
hi rati…
i knw its a little stupid but wen ever i use lash curler it gives my lashes a 90 degree bend rather than giving my lashes a soft curl in entirety…..u guessed right i did purchsed that cheap vega eyelash curler to get some practice before investing in a high end curler…..i guess i am using my curler wrong way…can u do a post fr a lash curler along with some brand recommendations …..
Actually Shilpa, it’s the lash curler that makes a difference. I also purchased the cheaper one for practising but now I realize that it used to curl my lashes exactly the way you mentioned -90 degree. Over the period of time I made it work for myself but I think a good lash curler does make a difference. Even body shop has lash curler in the range of 200 or something. You may get that, it works pretty well. 🙂
hi rati liking the Bobbi Brown Pastel Eye Shadow n Shimmer Palette , these are looking awesome.. 😀
Thank you, Sush. How have you been? 🙂
Hey Welcome backkkkk…. 😀 😀 😀
We missssed you!!!!!! :-* :-* :-*
Awesssome haul as I knew it was gonna be!! 😀 😀
Hope you enjoyed it a lot…. Waiting for the personal review I requested.. 😉 😉 😉
Yeah, going to write about the personal review. Kept a keen eye on it. 🙂
Thank you. :))
yummmmy haul, it was a treat for my eyes 🙂 i hope you had fun shopping 😛
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he he I did have a ball. 😛
I was kinda disappointed with sugar bomb to be honest. Its not as pretty as it looks in the box 🙁 i regret not getting coralista
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oooppsss!! Actually I have got enough coral sin my collection so I liked the sheerness of it. 🙂 Let’s see. 🙂
Only one word…AWESOME….I am sure you will love NARS orgasm…its an absolute darling….btw could you do lip swatch for the Dior lipcolor…I am really looking for a nice pink lippie.
Also how does Sugarbomb compare to NARS orgasm ? I have NARS, so I am thinking whether I can pass on Sugarbomb ????
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I’ll do the swatches in a day or two , Maddy. Just a little jet lagged . 🙂
Nars Orgasm has a very high golden sheen to it. Nars is more pigmented than Sugarbomb. Colorwise they look quite similar. Can’t actually say if you can pass it . 🙂
Hey rati wanted to see some piccys of u n sanjiv da at singapour… i mean pls add some crazy n romantic piccy of both of u…. pls… 😀 :-)) 🙂
he he 😛 We barely took pics there. 😛 We were so busy looking around and stuff. 😛
🙁 :-/
Wow..
That was a yummy haul Rati 🙂
Never knew you were on a vacay. Hope you had a lovely trip..I mean other than shopping..
Was about to mail you today asking where you disappeared..hehe
actually it was a quick plan. Didn’t really plan it as such. So kind of disappeared. 😛
how have you been?:)
Oh okies..
Then probably you may not have able to get to Malaysia na?
Btw, I’m fine sweetie..Can u mail me your number?
I’ll send you my number. 🙂
No didn’t go to Malaysia. 🙂
:dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: that abt sums it up!!! :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: hehehehe am gonna get into my dhoom 2 garb and go after rati’s haul…… :rotfl: u need to hire security star style now 😀 :laugh:
he he he 😛
First Emotion ~~~ drooling over pics
:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
Second Emotion ~~~ Oh my god somany
:dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed: :dazed:
Third Emotion ~~~ Jealousy
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Finally …. :worship: :worship: “Rati ” :worship: :worship:
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Those are a lot of emotions. :rotfl:
Amazing Cosmetics concealer is truly awesome 🙂 its in “definite buy wish list”
Yes the concealer is fantastic. I bought the smaller tube , they have a bigger one as well. 🙂
Oh wow! Super haul! can’t want for the money saving article 🙂 and review articles (esp for sugarbomb and makeup forever blush).
Reviews coming soon, Ame. 🙂
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!
And the “Orgasm”….
err blush 😉
I say MUFE HD Blush and Bobbi Brown Rouge – YAY!!
have u tried the TBS Lash curler? they are pretty good too.
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I tried my friend’s lash curler. It was good. Jut wanted Shu Uemura so bought it. 😛
And urmmmm orgasm…the blush is fab. 😛
i am unable to say anything!
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wow awesome haul..seems like you had loadzz of fun shopping 😛
I did have fun shopping. 🙂
I love every single thing you’ve purchased.. It’s nice that you planned your trip so well 🙂 Awesome haul
Thank you, Priya. :))
wowwwwwwwwwwwww rati i am just speechless that is what we call a HAUL or THE HAUL
big hug for u for coming back it was like ( i really wonder and crossing fingers everything should be okay )
loved ur haul and hey we so much have in common …
love to see our common taste sweetie
welcome back and do post ur vac, pics 🙂
Glad to know that we have similar tastes. Everything is fine, thank you. 🙂
wonderful haul Rati, I luv the pics on nars orgasm blush, soo cute :cute: . i am waiting for your review already and the amazing concealer looks really amazing 😉
will do the review soon. Actually can’t wait myself he he 😛
ahh… lovely haul…. so happy for you !! :-*
thank you. HOw are you? 🙂
Heheheee…super excited just seeing your haul…will come back and comment and drool properly later…busy busy… :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* missed you.
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Oh u became wingeee 😀
he he … I gave a good thought before using it. Found nothing better. :rotfl: You’ve been busy on Saturday? ?:-)
🙁 is one day when my car-wale hubbyji is free to drive me around the city…so decided to go to the bank. Didnt realize its half day today .. so finally just did veggie shopping and came 🙁
Aww!!! but you got to move around with your car wale hubby ji. 😀 Now that doesn’t sound very good. :giggle: :giggle:
:evilgrin: all s’pore air has spoilt you…you go stand in the balcony and take deep breath to soak in good ole delhi..
oh crap!! I came back here and suddenly I could feel my skin going worse. 😛 God!! you have to see the skin of girls there. Was feeling J how much greenery and no pollution they have in Singapore. :alien:
Awwwwwwwwwwww, Rati, so that’s where you went travelling!! So lucky. I LOVE everything, esp. the Make Up Forever liquid blush, it looks amazing. What is ION in Singapore? Is it a mall, and do you get all the make up brands there?
Sabrina, yup Ion is a huge mall in Singapore. you get most brands there. Also there are 2-3 malls around Ion and you’ll get most stuff there.
Oh, forgot to ask, where did you do make up shopping in Bangkok?
Airport, Duty free shops. 🙂
OK thanks Rati.
Massive Haul 🙂 🙂 🙂 …I did a major haul of stuff not available in India, when I went to Malaysia a couple of years back….The Kuala Lumpur airport stocks great stuff too! Now, wanna see the MUFE blush on you 🙂 Let me know how you find the amazing cosmetics concealer 🙂 I have been lemming for it for quite sometime 😉
I will show it to you soon. :)) It’s gorgeous. 🙂
I tried it at the store and loved it completely . Let’s see how it goes.
Yup I know….its too good. And I know some people find the place boring kind in a way, but I could happily live there all my life. I love that kind of a boring clean place 😀 😀
:rotfl: I was telling exactly the same thing to Sanjeev. He started telling me about the finances.. 🙄
If you work and live there its good na…or so I always felt…keep telling hubby we should shift there 😀 Wonder why my hubby says I nag ?:-) ?:-) ?:-)
he he I was giving the same logic. 😀 Yeah you do nag.. :giggle: :giggle:
Hmm… I doubt that an Indian can enjoy living in Singapore for long. The place, which feels like a concrete-jungle, is so tightly controlled that it has an Orwellian feel of the novel 1984. Rati and I rarely saw anyone laugh out loud. People are too soft-spoken, too-timid and devoid of passion. Although, to be honest, this my impression of only three days and I can be wrong.
It is a beautiful city by all means but one that I would like to visit again and again but not prefer to stay in.
A lot of people say that Sanjeev..but it reminded me so much of neatly maintained army cantts so I guess am biased..I could stay there happily.
:knife: :knife: :reallyangry:
please use these products in upcoming posts (need i say that!)
i am very intrigued to know how orgasm looks on our skin tone because i almost ordered it.
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I will do tat for sure, Rima. :)) How have you been? 🙂 HD was telling me you chit chatted. 🙂
yeah we chitted and chatted quite a bit, then i had to go out so we disconnected the call. it was lovely talking to her! she kept insisting that we visit bombay.
i really wanna go 🙁
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same here but you can go anytime no. Take a smally vacation. :))
i’m definitely planning something (since the past three years) :silly:
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Hey Rati!
Welcome back! I was wondering why there hadn’t been a post from you in a while, and you definitely came back with a big bang. Just looking at these beauties is such a treat, I can’t even imagine how fab it must be to own them 😛
Seems like you had a fun time…thanks for sharing it with us!
had a blast. :)) Actually now you see that a lot of posts are coming up. 😛
hey, you found the amazing cosmectics concealer in SINGAPORE?! where where where
Sephora, Ion, Orchard Road.
Hello there,
First i would like to congratulate on the wonderful blog and above all its writers. You girls surely Rock!! though i was not a make up aficionado I just became one and so immensely love to read this blog, that i found by accident wandering on the net and can not stop reading, just addicting…
I am a non-indian (as i consider myself a local not a foreigner 🙂 living in this wonderful country for nearly 5 years, now in Bangalore mostly, also married to a handsome ‘pakka marwari’ that made me more Desi than i would ever have imagined 😀
What I am trying to say here is that the review of easily available, well known in the national market and even national brands of on drugstore products, that communicates to our reality (money wise speaking :D) is just something that swept me away and i am not easily impressed 😛
As the first post i read was Rathi’s and how she fell in love with make up i thought i would give her my first comment ever 🙂
I loooooooooooved so much your singaporean haul Rathi,that it made my eyes shine *.* Please review them soon we are all very anxious 😀
Hi Deborah,
welcome to IMBB. 🙂 Glad you are finding the place useful. I am not surpized that your hubby has turned you more desi than you would have imagined. Marwaris are very close knit community so they are good at moulding people their way. lol!! Had very close marwari friends during college days.Miss all the bhujias, suparis and churnas now. 🙂
DO stay around. Will do the reviews soon. 🙂
Hey Rati. Happy to see you back here. Just had a nap after my baby showers today and thought should chk out the blog before I sleep again 🙂 Great Haul and good that you enjoyed your trip.:) Also happy that you like the lip balm 🙂
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Congratulations, Aarthi. May you have a golu molu baby. :-*
Wow! Thats an awesome haul!!! Way to go girl! Heyy but what about some other stuff that you bought? did you buy anything alse apart from make up stuff at all?! hehe… i know this is a make up blog but wud loooove to see what else you shopped for… 🙂
Actually no. Just bought some books, macbook and an electric shave apart from makeup. 😛 Really didn’t want to buy anything else. May be on my next trip. loll!!
SIgh~~ Yeah i know~ I am from Delhi n now i miss it sooooo much! Got married n settled in chennai now! 😥
WoW! You really are a true Make-up lover!!! I cannot resist buying clothes n shoes when i visit SGP!!! Esp the charles n keith there have such awesome stuff… n great discounts too.. hey n you shud hv stayed back in bangkok a coupla days n done some shopping there too! But then again… maybe you can even make another trip to bangkok again! 😛
In fact you know what, you shud make it a girls trip… trust me its sooooo much fun.. once me n my gal pals had gone together n its awesome… shopping by the day.. dancing n partying n flirting by the night… 😉 😛 :chic:
he he.. we have charles and keith here so I didn’t buy anything. we do have a lot of brands here in delhi so my main “target ” was makeup. 😛 i went crazy there.loll!!
Totally AWESOME haul as I had expected it to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waiting to see swatches of each n every thing 😉 specially sugarbomb!!! Rashmi said I shud get it for myself :-))
And now I am gng to catch up on all the posts !!
he he … I liked sugar bomb a lot. It’s a pretty coraly colour. Would look good on you. Swatches coming asap. 🙂
did u gt my msg?
nahin …:(
arre….sent again..check now
I spent all the time on all my trips to SGP sight seeing, photographing and eating the local food…!
Did you shop in Bangkok?
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he he.. no bangkok was only a two and a half hour transit. Discovered nars at the airport so bought the orgasm blush., that’s it. 🙂
Bangkok is a shopper’s paradise… 🙂 i went crazy shopping there… had to buy an extra suitcase… not a bag mind you, a suitcase!
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lolll!!! Guess must plan a trip to bangkok also now. 😛
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee .. Rati thats one MASSIVE haul .. I ‘m so intrigued by the product now !!
Please review Amazing concealer ..NARS Orgasm ..n do tell if its even remotely similar to Colorbar peachy rose .. I think they are quite similar .. maybe “peachy rose” lean little toward coral .. doesn’t it ?
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And yeah, Nars one has more goldeny touch to it. Using it almost every day so that’s the first review coming from the haul.
Amazing concealer is fab. It’s pretty much at part with my studio finish concealer. 🙂
Rati, so this was the surprise ……what a great haul!!!sorry i was late in seeing this, missed IMBB very badly for few days last week.. 🙁
Awww!! That’s okay. Hope you are doing fine. 🙂
Huh! No belan for her!!!! :reallyangry: :reallyangry:
Shyna…hope you had a great Onam 🙂
Onam was good Radhika and hectic too this time…my bro-in law’s wedding on Sep 12th so busy with the shopping plus busy@office…not getting time for anything 😥
Oh I like the busy with shopping part 😀
Busy with shopping is always good. 😛
Yes in fact i loved being busy with shopping this time..rather than being busy with cooking for onam like past many years—-this time ordered ready made onam sadya…thank god!! 😉
You think I have a Belan shop ahem… just like you. :evilgrin:
Readymade Onam sadya is the best 😀 And I love the ada pradaman…yummmmmmmmmmm.
To be frank, Radhika, i don like sadya much except for the ada pradhaman…feeling ashamed to tell that being a malayali nair i dont like onam sadya but that is the truth…
Hehehehee…me too no like the sadya…is a bit too heavy for me..and I have to finish eating it so I get the pradaman 😀 😀 Me thinking only the crazy mallus land up on IMBB.
Ha ha very true!!!am happy i find similar people here…my mom used to say am a real specimen when i say i hate sadya!!Btw radhika which is your native place and where are you settled now?
Tell your mom you are finding other specimens too 😀 😀 My parents are from Palakkad (mom) and Ottapalam (dad), but we have never stayed much in Kerala – always on Bharat darshan with dad. Finally settled in Bangalore 🙂
Oh !! my bro is settled in bglre-i visit often since i love the place…again for shopping of course!! 😉
Is there any SEPHORA STORE in THAILAND?
Please let me know ASAP thanks 🙂