Giveaway Alert! Dream Makeup - Sigma Essential Brush Kit Giveaway

Helloooo! I joined Dream Makeup's Sigma giveaway! They're giving away a Sigma Essential Brush Kit (of winner's choice)! AWESOME.

I chose the Blue Bunny kit. WANT. WANT. WANT! Please, please, please, be mine!!!

*fingers crossed*

Link to the giveaway: http://dreammakeup-blog.blogspot.com/2012/12/sigma-beauty-essential-brush-kit.html

Barbie Mariposa-Inspired Look Trial 1

Hey guys! I watched Barbie Mariposa (again) yesterday and found Mariposa's look really pretty. So I tried to recreate it. 

Here's what I ended up with. It's not exactly the same as Mariposa's. I was just actually testing out the eyeshadow colors I'd be using and the technique. 

Note: Photos are enhanced (using Picasa). Obvious naman eh, di ba? :) I originally planned on just posting this on Instagram since this was just a trial look. Figured I'd post it here on my personal blog, too :)

I need to bring the purple eyeshadow into the inner crease and line my upper lash line just a bit more thickly. I barely lined it this time. I think I should also soften the outer corner.

I'll post the complete look on my beauty blog soon :)

I smell a giveaway

Hey there! Last night, I noticed that my beauty blog's Facebook page finally got 200 likes. YEEEY! A huuuuuge THANKS to everyone who clicked the Like button! 

And the other day, I also noticed that my beauty blog now had 350 readers. Again, super THANKS to everyone who are subscribed to the said blog in any way! 

Love you all! Thank you so much for reading my posts! I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

To show my appreciation to everyone who reads and supports my blog, I am going to hold a giveaway. Please stay tuned for that and check my beauty blog regularly for updates. 

<3

Dead, no more!

Oh, hey there! Hi, hello, my name is Aya! If you read my beauty blog (*here*), then you probably know me as "Codename Aya." Yeah, that's kinda like my screen name.

But anyway, as I've mentioned, I have a beauty blog and in that blog I talk about beauty, makeup, skin care and sometimes (just sometimes) fashion. If you enjoy blog posts about product reviews, hauls, tutorials and all that kind of stuff, or if you're the type of person who doesn't want to spend a lot of money just for makeup and whatnot, then head on over to my beauty blog! See you there!

Anyway, enough with the commercial. What's up with this new blog, you may ask? Well this "new" blog is not actually new. This blog was created by me more than a year ago but it died after a couple of months. It was known as "30 Days of Summer" back then because I created this blog to document my thesis-filled summer, one day at a time. My goal that time was to be able to finish my thesis in 30 days, just in time for summer graduation. Read *this* post to know the whole story. That's why if you look back at my "previous" posts, you'll see lots of chemistry-ish terms and rants. But if you check, I never got to write my 30th-day post. And you can guess why. :( Yeah, so that's how this blog died.

What a really sad ending for a blog, eh? But can you blame me for not wanting to look at it since? Of course I didn't want to remember the bitter and frustrating past. I didn't even have the guts to give the blog some kind of closure. Haha! That's how bad of a blogger I was. 

But now everything's changed. I am reviving this good ol' blog of mine... I gave it a whole new look. And a new name to go with the new look, too, of course! Basically, this blog will serve as my other outlet... you know, like where I can write anything I want about anything I want. I just don't wanna "contaminate" my beauty blog with posts that aren't actually related to beauty (contaminate... my, what a chem-ish term O_O).

Sooooooooo that's the story of how this blog died and how it is coming back to life again. Hope to see you again here soon :)