ROGUE LOOKS

House of LUX opened its doors at SM Makati’s Beauty Hall last February 2 to start a movement called #LUXnights. It’s a new way for every empowered women to indulge themselves after a long hard productive day. 

So instead of the usual retail therapy or a spa day, why not treat yourself at the comfort of your own home? Together with LUX Brand Ambassador Solenn Heusaff and the LUX team, we’ll show you just how to do that. 

(Nicole Andersson, Solenn Heusaff and Apples Aberin)

Nicole Andersson hosted the event, and she and Solenn started to chat about their busy days and how they relax at the end of the night. 

Being a multi-talented girl as she is, Solenn is a model, an actress, an artist and is also a singer. She has photo shoots most of the time, two upcoming film releases, an upcoming concert, she paints during her free time, and on top of that, she’s planning her wedding! 

I mean c’mon, how does she stay so fresh and beautiful with all that work? Her secret? She indulge herself by bathing with perfume. She reveals she bathes with her favorite LUX Body Wash in Soft Touch every night before she goes to sleep. Catch Solenn’s #LUXnights video through this link: http://tinyurl.com/LUXnights 

She then did a mini demo of how to properly use the body wash so you can maximize the no. of washes per bottle. Together with the help of Philippines’ top model, Kelsey Merritt and Unilever PR Head, Apples Aberin, every girls in the event experienced how to #BatheWithLUX 

(With Nicole Andersson) 

(With Kelsey Merritt. How to be like you haha) 

(With bride-to-be Solenn Heusaff. Such a gorgeous, fun lady!) 

LUX has four different scents for you to choose from, such as their signature, “Magical Spell”, Solenn’s favorite, “Soft Touch”, “White Impress” and everything we dream of having, “Love Forever”. 

After choosing your favorite scent, you can now indulge following this ritual. 

A coin sized amount is all you need! A little goes a long way. 

Rub. It releases the fragrance better. 

Time to relax and massage. 

I personally tried it during the demo, and I immediately fell in love with the body wash. It left my skin so soft and feeling clean! 

I can’t believe a product so affordable can resemble the same effect as that of a luxurious spa. You too, can try #LUXnights 

The LUX Perfumed Body wash is only PHP55 and the LUX Perfumed bar is only PHP39! 

To know more about #LUXnights, visit www.houseoflux.com.ph 

I had so much fun at the event! I was able to meet all these beautiful empowering ladies! 

 (With blogger Ana Gonzales. Thanks for inviting me Ana!) 

(With blogger, vlogger and fellow I Am Meg finalist, Yuki Tansengco. So glad to finally caught up with this inspiring girl.) 

 (With blogger, Clozette ambassador, colleague Monica Trina. Thank you for bringing me along to this event. To more events together!)

(With new found friends!)

LUX is also giving away some #LUXnights kits! Visit their facebook to know more: https://www.facebook.com/luxphilippines

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#HappinessMakeover
A beauty and style makeover with blogger Tricia Gosingtian, skin care brand POND’s Philippines and makeup brand Happy Skin Cosmetics.

Make-up video tutorial of this look on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/2jHYTv3iTbQ

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(Photo from top - bottom)
1. Base
Jazzy Collections Compact cream foundation, L'oreal Paris True match foundation in G3, Maybelline New York Clear smooth shine-free foundation, Revlon Photoready Two way power foundation in 005

2. Eyelids
Jazzy Collections eyeshadow in DES-11, Revlon Photoready Eyeshadow pallete in 530

3. Eyes
Maxfactor Wild mega volume mascara, Maybelline New York Master liner in BK-1, Revlon Photoready Intense eyeliner + brightener, Bobbie Retractable eyebrow pencil + brush, BYS Smudgeproof waterproof eyeliner

4. Lips
Jazzy Collections Matte lipstick in LPC-05, BYS lipstick in L12, Revlon Colorstay moisture stain in 010, Maybelline New York Watershine lipstick in R21

The Face Shop skin care and make-up goodies!
White Seed Skin Whitening Essence, Toning Cream, and Cushion Screen Cell Foundation that comes in this cute cardboard chained purse!
Will do a review on my blog soon!

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#thefaceshop #kimsoohyun #suzy #makeup #skincare

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October 10, 2014
The Face Shop,SM Megamall

(Choies top and pants; Hype this on lookbook here.)

It was the last day of competition for The Face Shop TOP GIRL 2014 search. Top 5 contestants was chosen among 2,000+ applicants nationwide!
A photo shoot and a video product promotional were the challenges for the top 5. And performances on both was used to determine who the TOP 3 would be.
I got lucky ‘cause I made i to TOP 3, a final interview was done and ultimately the winner was chosen!
Unfortunately, I didn’t win but it was fun and very overwhelming while it lasted! Maybe I can join again next year if you’ll continue to support me.
Annyeong!

Hey guys! I made it to the TOP 6 of SM Face Search! VOTE for me so I can win!
To vote go to this link: http://apps.facebook.com/smfacesearch/vote
Link in my BIO!
Thank you for all the support!

#makeup #dollglam #smfacesearch #watson #sm

After almost 3 years of growing out my natural hair color, staying away from hair dye because of my terrible bleached hair history: my hair was too damaged for any color after. (You can read more here and here.) I finally had the chance to color my hair again!

It was a good excuse because it was for a shoot, and I don’t have to pay for anything. I will let you know more about that soon. But you have probably seen some BTS photos on my instagram already.

I went to the new Studio Fix at the glorious Century City Mall in Makati. Everything about the place was chic.

They let you wear this robes before they start on anything. A must for me since I get too cold easily. Looks like I’m about to go to a spa right?

After shampooing and conditioning my hair, they started applying the color.

About the color, I don’t know what shade exactly. Since its for a shoot, I just trusted them with what color they think will suit me. Mike, the senior hair stylist told me that any hair color would suit me cause I’m fair. I believed him cause he’s the genius behind Mond Gutierrez’s lustrous silver hair.

They lightened my hair first, not with bleach but an organic hair lightener, which explains the ORANGE roots in this picture.

After lightening my hair, they applied an ash brown color.

All throughout the visit, I had hot coffee with me, I think I finished two cups! My trip to the salon took about 5 hours. The coloring was fast but what really took most of time was drying and straightening cause my hair was that damn thick and curly, haha!

It didn’t bother me though, they have fast free WIFI so I can play from my Spotify playlist, and I had this Shailene Woodley magazine cover with me! Her interview and spread inside changed my life. Ugghh she’s too perfect. I think I’ll go watch TFIOS again for the nth time.

After waiting, ta-da! Softer lighter hair! I swear it’s the best my hair has been and color didn’t damage my hair. I luhhh it so much!

They also had my hair straight cut so its shorter now. It looks like and instant hair ad! Bye bye flyaway layers!

Thanks Studio Fix by Alex Carbonell and Cynos for my hair transformation!

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Test shoot for Watsons/ SM Beauty Campaign.
Photographer: Ron Mendoza of Studio 100
Art Direction: Kat Ferrer of One Mega Group
Makeup: Cherry Pacheco
Hair: Muriel Vega Perez
Model, post-processing: Me

So blessed and happy to be #HanaShampoo #NoFilterBeauty Ambassador for MEGA!

Read my feature on @megastyleph website: http://megastyle.ph/nofilterbeauty/nofilterbeauty-ambassador-ruth-jimenez/

So last month, I was lucky to be a part of a Personality Development workshop that includes a make-up session with the past winner of Cosmetologie Philippines 2012, Miss Grace Liao.

She taught us basic guidelines about makeup from different skin types, brushes and products. But since she’s a professional, she teaches makeup by how professionals do it. And I assure you, the way she does makeup is how celebrities’ make-up artists do it too.

Here’s some of her products:

These are just few of her items, because I think she brought 3 luggage of make-up with her

That’s me doing my own make-up while listening to Ms. Grace’s instruction.

We were asked to do our own makeup, by following her and looking at how she does it step by step to her model at the front. She also supervises how we do it and we also get to use her make-up. That’s the reason she brought a lot, yes?

Now this is how the makeup turned out:

That’s me with Ms. Grace by the way.

In the after photos, the make-up is already retouched by Ms. Grace, but the finished product that I did was very close. I’m really shocked too that I created a beautiful makeup but just goes to show how high quality brushes can extremely improve one’s makeup.

My make-up skills had improved tremendously after the workshop. But I don’t have much money to buy the high end brands we used during our session with Ms. Grace, so I asked her for some cheaper alternatives. And this is what I bought and is now my make-up routine:

After my skin care routine (that would be another blog entry), I prep my face with Olay natural white fairness cream, any moisturizer will do, then for my undereyes, I use Garnier brightening eye roll on. And for the primer, I use Maybelline baby skin pore eraser.

(Splurge alternative: Smashbox primer)

After prepping, it’s time for foundation. I use Revlon colorstay liquid foundation in 110 ivory and Revlon colorstay 2-way foundation in 07 Medium Beige.

After applying foundation you need to conceal. Liquid concealer for under eyes and Cream concealer for blemishes.

Then set it with rice powder.

These are the brushes I use from L-R: Kabuki brush for setting, Foundation brush for liquid foundation/cream concealers, Oblique brush for contour/blush and Eyeshadow brush

After the skin base, we’re going to focus on the eyes. I do my eyebrows using marrionaud oblique brush and spoolie duo. My eyebrow palette is in2it eyebrows in ER01.

After the brows, I’ll do the lids. I apply the eyeshadow I want, then I line it with Maybelline gel liner in black using the same Marrionaud brush.

Then apply sparkly brown liner or eyeshadow stick to the bottom lid. I use Etude House bling bling eye stick in #10 Bear. The darkest brown.

Then apply mascara on the top and bottom lashes and apply falsies. A girl like me really need falsies because I have these short sparse lashes.

Then apply your favorite blush and lipstick in the same color tone. Like if you’re wearing peach, use peach lipstick, and so on and so forth.

Just to show you a picture on how I look like when I do my own make-up, here’s a photo.

I also did my own hair and makeup for MEG magazine’s 15th anniversary, If you want to see my look click here.

Will update my make-up routine soon and will do another blog post about skin care.

When it comes to beauty, I always look up to the famous celebs and models. But when it comes to hair, It’s Tricia Gosingtian that I look up too.

Why? Because we pretty much have the same hair history. (Okay I admit, I stalk a lot.) That’s why I was so thrilled when I read her post about how she maintains her ever shiny and pretty colored hair.

She uses this:

(Photo by Tricia G)

Lucido-L Treatment Oil in 2 variants - one for permed hair and one for straight hair.

If I were to choose, I would use the Lucido-L Hair Make Supplement Treatment Oil. Cause growing up, ever since I was in high school, I’ve always been having my hair rebonded, It’s only now that I decided to stop having it undergone these damaging procedures.

I was born with naturally curly hair, which is famous for its frizz and dryness. So It would be a life-saver if the Lucido-L treatment oil would help tame my frizz and would moisturize my hair.

(Photo by Tricia G)

The other product featured was the Lucido-L Hair Make Supplement Styling Milk

On casual days, I do let my hair rest and I just let it be curly. But on special occasions, I need my hair to look silky straight.

So I think the Lucido-L Hair Make Supplement Styling Milk would be perfect for me

This is how my hair looks like when it has been blow dried and straightened by an iron. Imagine the damage! The top half looks pretty shiny but the bottom half looks damaged and dry.

I never really had my hair ombre-d. The bottom part was actually what’s left from my bleached, rebonded and colored hair.

(Year 2011. Back when I had may hair bleached.)

(After I had my hair bleached, I had it colored to ash blonde.)

(This was my hair before all the bleaching and coloring happened.)

So you can really see the change that happened to my hair after it was bleached and colored. I am fully aware how unhealthy bleaching is, and how dry and frizzy my hair is now.

I’ve tried so many thing to bring back my hair to life, like serums, mousse, treatment masks, but I haven’t use a product that has cause dramatic improvement.

I really want to try the Lucido-L hair care treatment! I know it’s super effective because Japanese models have the best colored hair. And I trust Tricia so much. Hope I win!

Hi there! Just want to share you guys my hair resolution this 2013. I started trying to be “all natural” and accepting my natural features, especially my naturally curly hair.

Growing up as a kid, I have very curly hair that I inherited from my mom. My hair was thick, dark brown and curly. As I go to high school, I hated my hair. I remember it being too thick and super curly. So I decided to have it rebonded, and I haven’t stopped going to the salon like every 6 months or every year to have it rebonded, straightened or relaxed. (If you’re like me you’ll probably know the difference between the three.) Having my hair burned and dried to it’s fullest, I followed the “korean” hair trend and I decided to get my hair bleached and dyed. Which just made my hair worse, it became so fine it just breaks all the time, and the split-ends won’t just end. Until last year, when I decided to stop having my hair treated and just to let the curls and my natural hair colors to grow out.

But damaging my hair didn’t stop. I become fond of heat styling that I used flat irons and curling iron almost everyday without using any heat protection. That ended this year because I decided to get my hair healthier and I want to tell you guys how I did it!

As you can see from this HD photo, my hair is not something to be proud of. The ends looks really weak and there’s no sign of healthy at all. This hair has already been straightened then curled, so imagine what it looks like if I haven’t done anything to it. It will be way worse than this!

I researched ways to make my hair healthier again and here’s what I found.

1. You only shampoo your scalp and the top of your hair. Forget the middle parts and the ends. You do this only every other day or if you feel that your hair is getting greasy. Because the more you wet your hair, the dryer it gets. So don’t go skipping washing out those chlorine from a day of swimming. (I personally use L'oreal smooth intense shampoo for frizzy and rebellious hair, I also recommend Dove hair damage therapy shampoo in intense repair and nourishing oil care. Or you can go as organic as possible)

2. You use conditioner starting only from the middle parts to the end. If you need to get your hair wet and you think you don’t need shampooing yet, just condition. Condition also on days when you feel that your hair is already dry and unhealthy on the ends. (I use L'oreal smooth intense conditioner, or you can also use Dove Intense repair and nourishing oil conditioners, check for harmful chemicals like Sodium Lauryl Sulfate because it dries out your hair)

3. I use L'oreal Smooth intense daily rinse out treatment daily. But I don’t use it if I’m using conditioner. I will use it if I’m going to style my hair right after shower. I use conditioner when I’m going to use Dove intense repair over night treatment (which will be number 5) So I don’t use conditioner and the daily rinse out treatment on the same day. I know it sounds confusing but so :) (When my bottle runs out, I’ll try Cream Silk perfection hair treatment or Tresemme’s. Just so I could compare)

4. I use L'oreal Smooth intense anti-frizz serum before I blow dry my hair and before I apply my mousse. Or if I think my hair needs a boost of shine and “tame” when it is already dry. Like a leave-on. 

5. Dove intense repair overnight treatment is a miracle to me. I have used it twice in a row, (but the package only says almost once a week) and it has done so much already. My hair is smoother, shinier, healthier and my curls are bouncier, tamed and much more defined. I recommend you all to try this product and see the difference!

So you may be confused why do I use two hair treatments. If I will blow dry my hair, I will use L'oreal’s daily rinse out treatment. Then put serum, then mousse. If I will just let my hair rest, I will use L'oreal conditioner then this Dove damage treatment. But if I will not use the Dove damage treatment, I will not use conditioner, I will use the daily rinse out treatment. :)

6. The finesse curl defining mouse has also given so much change and improvement to my hair. It made my curls tamed, my hair is shinier and softer than ever!

After I followed this routine for only one week, I’ve seen a huge amount of change! This is what my hair looks like now after I had it moussed and blow dried with a diffuser. Yes! No straightener or curler involved!

My hair might look like a bit dry because of the grainy-ness of the photo. But it really is smoother now, and I only used blow dryer to have this hair. Will post better photos soon, and if you have any questions just comment below. I would love to answer it, or if you have more tips, please do help me! :)