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As I mentioned in one of my past posts (here), recently, I had a huge haul from Etude House's Festive Sale and 50% Great Sale.

(Actually, on top of that, I have even more hauls from Etude House...)



I finally had the time to do actually get back to my haul (they are still in the plastic bag) and open them.



From my haul, I've decided to swatch the Miss Tangerine collection!


My three purchases of this collection are Miss Tangerine VIP girl Dear Darling Lips in OR205, Miss Tangerine LUCIDarling Fantastic Rouge in #12, and Miss Tangerine Sweet Shower Lips in #1 Shiny Pink Shower.

Firstly! Let's review the packaging! (And by packaging I mean box.)






I'm a huuuuge sucker of pretty packaging, and Etude House really impresses me with their cutesy-girly style. The Miss Tangerine collection is really refreshing as, obviously from its name, it sports a warm, peachy-orange theme. The Tangerine word on the box is in a scarf or bandana style, and around it are... orange berries? I think those are meant to be tangerines, but I wouldn't know.
The overall theme still remains cutesy and isn't too shocking, despite the orangey-ness of it (for me anyway).

For me, I've never actually seen an orange lipstick. Etude is the first to promote such a lip colour. When I first saw the Miss Tangerine collection, I pretty much went "OMG who would wear that???"
Reality is ironic.
Either way, I've stuck to less orange toned lip colours in this collection.


Moving on to the swatches!




Miss Tangerine VIP girl Dear Darling Lips in OR205

This colour is a milky peach. In a way I think it is safe to describe it as... a pastel nude?







Miss Tangerine LUCIDarling Fantastic Rouge in #12

Surprisingly, this was a bright, slightly cool pink. I was expecting a warmer colour since that was the vibe I got from the collection.






Miss Tangerine Sweet Shower Lips in #1 Shiny Pink Shower
When I swatched this, the first thing that came into my mind was "Gee this is pretty sheer." The second thing was "Did my lip colour just melt and disintegrate on my hand?" (You can actually see that the swatch is gloopy.)
I'm not too sure if I swatched too hard, or if the product is really meant to be so soft, or if I was just unlucky. (Since this IS a discontinued product after all... It pretty much is old.)
Also, Sweet Shower Lips is glittery and shimmers.



Overall, VIP girl Dear Darling Lips OR205 is the most orange colour amongst my purchases for this collection, LUCIDarling Fantastic Rouge #12 is the pinkest and Sweet Shower Lips #1 Shiny Pink Shower is the most sheer.
Despite my initial thoughts about the Sweet Shower Lips, I think it might be intentional, and that it would be an extremely moisturising product for the lips. However, the glitter or shimmers are pretty noticeable, and this could either be a good thing or a bad thing...

Well, I guess I'll only know when I actually try them out.

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So with a new year comes a new blog!

After 4 years of not blogging, this is actually pretty awkward. But I will try my best.

I'll start off with my Etude House haul.

Etude House Singapore posted that the Etude House Festive Sale (booth at Raffles Xchange) and Etude's 50% Great Sale (in-store) were on. So obviously, being the "kawaii-factor" fan I am, I had to go down and take a look, right?

I will confess, I was a little disappointed when I saw the products on offer at the Festive Sale. It was a warehouse clearance sale. Though I had mentally prepared myself that there wouldn't be any new products, I definitely wasn't expecting to see only discontinued items such as the Dear Darling Lips and the Petite Darling Nails.

The other thing that hit me was that these items are now discontinued.

Considering that I wasn't too into the Korean-wave when it hit, I only just noticed the Dear Darling Lips line at this Festive Sale. And now it's discontinued?

QAQ

And I have been secretly stocking up a stash of Petite Darling Nails Matte. Yet I never noticed that they were taken off the shelves.

I'm a horrible fan.

But the booth wasn't too bad, since items sold are "exclusive" *cough* and extremely cheap. (Prices ranged from S$1 - 10. Pretty awesome if you ask me.)

On the other hand, Etude's 50% Great Sale was even more disappointing. Only selected items were for sale. And, as you can probably guess, these selected items were also clearance items. Worse still, it was only one shelf worth of products.

Seriously Etude?

Nonetheless, since it was a crazy at-least-50%-off sale, I treated myself to a huge haul.

From Left to Right;
Miss Tangerine Sweet Shower Lips, Miss Tangerine VIP girl Dear Darling Lips, VIP girl Dear Darling Lips, Dream On Base, SHINI Star Lip Balm, WONDER PORE Soda Capsule, Aloha Two Two Kiss, LUCIDarling Fantastic Rouge, Petite Darling Nails Matte
Hope to review some of these products soon!

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wendy is a fictional character created by the author. she represents the author's desire to forever remain a child. this blog records the journey through the "grown-up" world.
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