It was 2 months ago that I opened up two new mascara to use. First is the Marc Jacobs Omega Lash. You see, I like mascara that is thick, slightly dry, gives me volume and length. This one? Does nothing. So I rummage through my medium-size Sephora at home and happily took out the Laura Mercier Extra Lash Sculpting Mascara from 2016 Holiday Collection. Now, this one I love. It’s volumizing, it’s lengthen my lashes making them looking va va voom. I left it untouched for a week to let the formula dry out a bit and it’s perfect. Love it until one rainy day. I became a panda. That few drops of rain on my lashes melt the mascara so it was all over my lid when I blinked. Besides the fact that it’s not waterproof, there’s nothing else I hate about the mascara. So I was itching to open up another brand new mascara and this Maybelline The Falsies Push Up Angel was on my vanity table for the longest time. It came together with the entire set of The Loaded Bolds lipstick, for which you already know I love

When I first twist up the cap, I looked at brush and I had 3 things going through my mind at that moment. (1) I’m glad it’s not a big fat rubbery spiky brush, (2) heck the brush is a comb and it’s tiny, and (3) come to think of it I may finally found a mascara for the top and bottom lashes! I didn’t have good experience with similar mascara brush in the past. Yes I was skeptical. But when I used it for the first time, OH MY GOD. The Falsies Push Up Angel has quickly climb its way to be my favourite mascara at the moment!

I’m glad that Maybelline sent me this one, which is a waterproof version instead of the non-waterproof version. I only use nothing but waterproof mascara. I know it’s harder to remove. Wait, let me rephrase. It’s a pain in the b*tt to remove and the formulation tend to be a little more heavier hence bringing them lashes droopy.

Don’t judge a book by its cover they say. True in this case. The “push-up wing” brush may seems a little small and intimidating BUT it packs a bunch to the lashes. This little fella is able to give volume, lift and coat each individual lashes from the root to the tip. This IS the cili padi of mascara. I was expecting droopy lashes 5 minutes after the application but nope. My lashes stays perky the entire time. I find that doing the typical zig-zap motion helps to prevent the lashes from clumping, as opposed to my typical twist and blink method. That method works better for normal brush mascara. Another thing I need to note here is that I had infection on my right eye for the longest time and this mascara didn’t irritate my eye further, which is a good news

I never found a bottom lash mascara that is able to give the kind of volume I preferred until this The Falsies Push Up Angel mascara came along. We Asians has lesser and shorter lower lashes but hey, that’s not a problem with this mascara.

As for the removal, I’m happy to say that this is a breeze to remove. Just remember to always use a bi-phase eye makeup remover and you should be fine.

Will I ever repurchase? Well, yes! I find that my tube now is a little dry and I should be repurchasing another one. This one doesn’t require any second thinking or any long reconsideration because it is seriously good and the price point of below RM40 is fairly affordable to me. You do need to toss away your mascara after 6 months.

Disclaimer: Product was sent to me for review consideration. This doesn’t affect my judgement in the review in any way.

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I received a rather very surprised parcel one fine day just as I was reversing my car out and it was from Maybelline. I was a curious cat, ripping the courier plastic off to see what Maybelline sent me and I am not prepared for this. 12 pieces of brand new The Loaded Bolds lipsticks that was just released. All 12 new shades! With funky shades that I’ve been eyeing! Surprised, yes. Excited, hella yes!

At one glance I thought these Maybelline The Loaded Bolds lipstick are a matte lipstick. I have no idea why I think so. Maybe because every lipstick that was released to the market are either matte or liquid lipstick lol. Hey, I have no complain. You know how much I love my matte lipstick . In fact, The Loaded Bolds is a creamy lipstick that offers vibrant and full-spectrum shades as seem from my Instagram post here, here, and a look I did yesterday.

There are 3 beautiful reds. I don’t usually lean towards red or often you would hear me say red are beautiful. In this case, it is exceptional. The reds are really gorgeous. Two of them looked similar but has slightly different tone of red when swatched. One of course is like Ferrari red. Striking.

There are two pinks and both are complete opposite. One a fuchsia pink (left), super gorgeous and I wear it out all the time and one a deeper fuchsia pink-alike that almost looks like a red from the tube itself.

The deeper tones in the range will be the favourite of many. I should have put the purple in the “bold” category below but I do kind of consider it as something deep. Whenever I wear the purple out, I get tons of people asking me what purple and from which lipstick brand that I was wearing. It is extremely flattering on me for some reason. All purple does lol. I personally like purple and I was glad that purple turns out good on me . There is also a dark chocolate shade (right) that is a rare find and is absolutely as beautiful as the name sound. I cannot wait to wear this shade out today!

Then there is the bold, special shades. This is my favourite category of all, which is why I like The Loaded Bolds range that much. As I said earlier, the purple should be in this category. I don’t know what has gotten into me that day that I put it in the  deeper tone bunch lol. I have been eyeing on the blue ever since I saw it at the drugstore. How often do you see a blue lipstick in the market? Not often, I can tell you that. This is also a lipstick that everyone has been eyeing too as the price range doesn’t break the bank. The white is intimidating. I don’t know what to do with it. One day I figured out what it is for. You can use it to tone down a shade or for days when you need to do a custom creative look, halloween or not. And of course if you have a white, a blue, and a purple, there must be a black. Yeap. A black lipstick ya’all!! Same as the white, the black can be used to make a shade darker. Or if you prefer, to wear it on it’s own. No one is judging. I certainly won’t

Yesterday I did this look with the blue lipstick – 04 Audacious Blue. I’ve been dying to play with the blue since I got my hands on it. This is a bold lipstick shade so either apply a lip liner in advance for easy application or use a lip brush. I chose lip brush as I don’t have a blue lip liner. Application is stressful. The more stress I get, the more mess I make. I learnt not to use finger to smudge away mistake even if it’s just a little bit as the skin would turn grey LOL. I must admit. It takes a lot of patience just so there was no mistake as it is a bold shade.

This shade however is less opaque than every other shade in the range. You will see it from the swatches below. I had to go over again and again to get a full opacity coverage. Applying directly from the tube gives a better thick coverage than lip brush. I also notice that the lipstick is kind of soft. The bullet tend to lean over to the side of the casing, creating lines of dent. I can hear my heart broke into pieces the minute I saw it.

And here are all of the Maybelline The Loaded Bolds lipstick swatches.

The white and the blue is the most non-opaque of all. The baby pink however surprised me. It is so pretty and quite opaque. Price wise, it is cheaper than I thought at RM29.90 a piece. Sometimes you may spot some discount and good deals making the lipstick at RM24+ a piece only . Although I would prefer a matte lipstick, these goes on creamy but doesn’t look glossy or slip throughout the day. A few friends commented saying they thought I had matte lipstick on. I kind of like the finishing, not glossy-looking, velvety soft and comfortable.

Disclaimer: Product was sent to me for review consideration. This doesn’t affect my judgement in the review in any way.

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If you have been following Street Love long enough you will know that I love buying American products even before I am a beauty blogger. Now that I am one, I secretly like to source for American makeup products that are not available in Malaysia. There is something about owning products which no one or less people own that makes it even more special. Watching lots of Youtube videos does not help. It makes me crave for even more new makeup releases, hoping one fine day these brands will hit Malaysia market.

I for one is not into sprees or pre-orders. I know that is the only way to get my hands on American products but homegirl has zero patient for that . I had several chat with my ex-school mate who is currently residing in the States and so far I have yet to place my order because I was worried about the shipping. Everytime my friends bought American products directly, I ask them and they refuse to tell me how they got it ship to Malaysia. You know what? You will not expect that greediness from me because I am all about sharing the good stuff with everyone. Follow my Instagram Stories whenever I go shopping and you will know lol. My DM will be buzzing non-stop!

Now back to how I shop at Walgreens and get it ship to me in Malaysia. I Insta Story my Walgreens shopping 2 weeks ago and that got a lot of people DM-ing me asking me how. I did not want to say much that time because I want to go through the entire process first before getting everyone on the bandwagon. So my reply to everyone who asked was “you need a forwarding company”. I think they get it. They just do not know how or who to go for. Just like me before this. My secret? myMallBox.com!

Most of the beauty brand do ship directly to Malaysia but not drugstore such as Target, Ulta, Walgreens or Walmart. So most people from every other part of the world uses a forwarding company. Before I decided to use myMallBox, I read through the entire website and glance through their plan comparison versus other companies. It is very clear to me that myMallBox is the right choice. It is almost free to use the service. The only payment I will be paying is the shipping fee.

Being a noob and a first timer, I have no idea how all this third party forwarding company works. Lucky for me myMallBox does include a step-by-step self-explanatory pictorial on how the company works.

In conclusion, myMallBox serves a few purpose – to provide you with a US address, to help you to buy whatever you want (optional), as a warehouse, to consolidate your parcels and as a shipper. For me, I uses myMallBox as my ‘invisible’ US address, and to ship the parcel to me. As soon as I registered for an account with myMallBox, I was provided with a US address, which was listed on the top right in my account. All I need to do is to fill that into the online store as shipping address.

As I was doing my research on myMallBox, I was curious with their shipping rate. I really like how simple and yet helpful the website is because whatever I can think of to find out, it is clearly stated in the website. Shipping rate, for example is crucial for me. Buying a drugstore makeup is cheap no doubt but a high shipping rate can elevate the value making the purchase not worth it at all. I use the Shipping Rate calculator in the website to help me to gauge roughly how much the shipping rate would be.

Here is the best part. When I click “Calculate”, I was brought to a page where every available shipping option are listed out for me, together with the rate, shipping duration and excerpt description on the shipping option. It also clearly stated whether the option is trackable or non-trackable. Being able to track a parcel is important unless you have never encounter lost parcel before then I guess you are not bothered with it.

I had a hard time choosing where to shop. It is either this store has 4 out of 5 items I want or 2 out of 5 items I want. Finally I went with Walgreens because I wanted the Wet n Wild Mega Cushion Highlighter. In order to get a standard 1 – 3 days free shipping to my US address, I round up my total purchase to US$35. True enough, my parcel reached my US address within the stated shipping duration and I received a happy email from myMallBox telling me that my parcel has reached them!

Immediately, I logged into my myMallBox account and I see my package listed in my account. I select the parcel and clicked “Repack”.

Wrong move! I am supposed to select and click “Add To Cart”. I panicked a little bit because I could not find the cancel option or button anywhere. I quickly email myMallBox customer service and received a reply the next day that my request to repack has been cancelled. Phew!

So now I see another order in my account lol.

This time I make sure I select it and click Add To Cart directly. In my Cart, I saw all available shipping option and the rate listed out as an option for me to select. I knew there and then I have to go with DHL Express because I have had wonderful experience with them for all my iHerb haul. Furthermore the rates are not much different so why not, eh?

If you ask me if it is too expensive to go with DHL Express. The answer is a yes and no. It really depends on what you buy and the urgency of your purchase. The area I stay is considered a small town and based on my US haul experiences previously since 20 years ago, 9 out of 10 of my parcel are either lost or stolen. So I dare not take non-trackable parcel risk again. And if you get everything you want in one shot it would be worth it. I am just trying out the service so I only make a small purchase this time around

Checking out is pretty much a step-by-step guided process. If you have Paypal it is so much easier to pay for anything online.

Within a minute I was done!

It was a Sunday morning when I complete the transaction and my parcel was sent out the next day. As usual, myMallBox sent me an email notifying me that they had already process and ship out my parcel. DHL Express tracking number were also provided in the email and the parcel tracking begins immediately.

My small Walgreens haul. Small but extremely happy to get my hands on these. All this is made possible thanks to package forwarding company like myMallBox.com.

– Milani Conceal + Perfect 2-in-1 Foundation+ Concealer (02 Natural & 03 Light Beige) – $9.99 each
– Maybelline Fit Me! Matte + Poreless Foundation (230 Natural Buff) – $7.99. Got this for free with Buy 2 Free 1 promo
– Wet n Wild Mega Cushion Highlight (Who’s That Pearl) – $5.99 each
– Wet n Wild MegaLast Liquid Catsuit Matte Lipstick (Rebel Rose) – $4.99

That, is how I managed to shop at Walgreens and get it shipped to me in Malaysia. I paid no extra fee or charges by using myMallBox except for the courier fee and the product, of course. Basically to shop online in the USA, you need a US address. myMallBox provides me with an address, kept my parcel, consolidate if I have more than 1 parcel and help me to ship it down to me. My dream to buy anything from the US came true! There will be more haul to come now that I know how to do it and how easy it is.

Do check out myMallBox.com and start your American dream shopping!

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The Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circles Treatment Concealer is a concealer which I have been eyeing and been wanting to buy for years. It is THE concealer that has gotten so many ravings from all over the world. Everyone said this is the best affordable drugstore concealer. Everytime I saw an online seller listed it, I wanted to buy so badly. I didn’t because of the price. I cannot justify paying RM45 – RM55 for a Maybelline concealer. That, and the fact that I have so many other concealer at home.

A friend on Instagram, doodletoodle posted a photo on one fine Friday afternoon when I was at Coffee Bean having lunch. I clicked on the photo to read the description and voila! The Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circles Treatment Concealer is finally here! After finishing my lunch, I went one floor down to Aeon Wellness (where doodletoodle spotted the concealer) to check on it. True enough, I saw just two shades available – 120 Light and 130 Medium, as doodletoodle said on her Instagram and I grabbed the lightest shade available – 120 Light on the shelf. I even went to Guardian and Watsons to check and there was none. Yet.

Now, the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circles Treatment Concealer has a long mouthful confusing product name on earth! From the name itself, it indicates that this is an anti-aging concealer + dark circle covering concealer + a treatment concealer, whatever the treatment means. Weird enough, I have always know that this is quite a full coverage concealer but then I read from Instagram that this is a light coverage concealer. Then I know why some people think that way. You see, everything has got to do with the micro-corrector applicator. Yeap! That is what Maybelline refer the sponge applicator to as. I have a love-hate feeling with the applicator. When the concealer is brand new, it does not soak up product too much hence it also does not dispense a heavy coat of product on the under eyes. Hence the light coverage. When the applicator is used up like the photo below, trust me. This is a full coverage concealer. If you feel disappointed after the first use thinking this is not as full coverage as mentioned on online reviews, try using it for a few more rounds. As the product soaked up on the sponge more, it will give you a fuller coverage.

Back to the super confusing long mouthful product name. In short, this concealer is a super-concentrated concealer that are infused with Goji Berry and Haloxyl™ (no idea what is that) to help instantly erase dark circles and fine lines. I find that it does help with covering dark circles but not fine lines. If you do not set this concealer with the right powder, creasing will still happen to you. Till now I still have not found the right powder for this concealer.

Application on another hand is very easy and convenient with the micro-corrector applicator. My concealer as usual works as my under eyes concealer and my face highlighter. I even tried using this concealer to cover some acne spots and it works just as well. This concealer sets quite fast so I would suggest to blend away immediate right after application otherwise it will turn heavy and cakey for the under eyes.

To blend, sometimes I like to use my beauty blender. On most days where I am too lazy to wet my beauty blender, I prefer a flat foundation brush to dab and blend. Beauty blender tend to remove a bit product away and also too “wet” for my under eyes as powder tend to crease easily. That is why I still prefer a flat foundation brush for the under eyes.

Is this concealer worth the hype? If you are in need of a concealer then yes. I bought it mainly to satisfy my itch of owning one and also to see if this live up to the hype. No doubt it is one of the best concealer around but sadly this creases on my under eyes. Coverage wise, it is superb! I have no complain on that. For RM34.90 per concealer, this is one concealer worth to try. I am so happy that Maybelline Malaysia priced this concealer at an affordable price mark. Now let’s bring in the Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation, okay Maybelline Malaysia?

Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored review. I bought the product on my own.

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