December 19, 2018

Love Island Georgia Inspired Christmas Dinner Outfit | I SAW IT FIRST




The party season is coming up and i'm channeling my inner Love Island style this year! Love Island's Georgia actually wore a white version of this dress and a black sleeveless version but the ones she had were from Pretty Little Thing. Mine one is from I Saw It First, they're amazing with their sales and usually have 30-50% off.


The dress is a completely different style to what I would usually go for, the color and high neck cut gives off an elegant princess vibe. It actually makes me feel like a mini Christmas dress, I should complete this look by wrapping some tinsel or fairy lights around me. This dress would be cute for those Christmas cheese boards sessions and dinner parties!

What style are you going for this holiday season?

Outfit:

Dusky Pink High Neck Crochet Mini Dress - I SAW IT FIRST

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December 01, 2018

Jaclyn Hill x Morphe Vault | Dark Magic Palette Review and Swatches


When I first saw Jaclyn Hill's Vault collection on trendmood's Instagram, I was like OMGGG I need it in my life! The colours in the Dark Magic and Bling Boss palette were right up my alley since I don't own anything like that in my collection and I loved her first palette with Morphe. But BOYYY the mattes swatch horribly! It's not the same quality as her first palette. I'm not going to waste any time and jump right into it.



LOOOOK, it swatches so dry and chalky! I definitely did receive a "faulty" one and it sucks to say I'm not the only person since Morphe had quality inconsistency in their batches. However, the customer service was actually really nice and sent me a replacement palette.


Potion (the army green shade) is the most problematic one, no matter how much you blend it, the shadow clings onto areas making your eyeshadow patchy af. It looks disgusting right?

My Dark Magic Look:



Here is the look I came up with. I applied the shadow on a clean eye with no primer, i've heard the P Louise Base is amazing for making these shadows blend nicely. The shadows weren't so bad once I started layering the darker colours, it's still patchy but not as noticeable. The shimmers in the palette are stunning though, I would only reach for this palette for the shade Power Cut, the rest of the shadows are very ehhh.

I wouldn't recommend this palette, it's the worst performing palette I own. Even though the price point is good, the shadows are not the usual morphe quality.  Drugstore makeup nowadays is offering better quality than this, it's such a shame because the colours are so unique.

Have you tried any of the vault palettes? Did you love or hate the palette?
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November 17, 2018

MY CIRCLE LENS COLLECTION! - I.FAIRY SIBERIAN | LensVillage Influencer Collection 30% Off!


I'm super excited to announce and it's so bizarre to say this but I HAVE A CIRCLE LENS COLLAB COLLECTION WITH LENSVILLAGE, ohhhhhh maaaaaa guudddd. ANDDD you can get 30% off my favourite circle lenses! <3


Lens Village has teamed up with 5 influencers to make a circle lenses collection and ya girl is one of them! I chose the i.Fairy Siberian series for you guys because there was a period where I was obsessed with these and I wore it like almost every single day. You can scroll through my insta to know that I'm not lying. I like lenses that lighten my eyes, yet looks natural and is long wear. 

I wear my lenses for really long, usually for 10 hours or more. I know it's bad for the eyes but these are super comfortable and don't dry out my eyes. I tend to forget that I'm actually wearing them until someone compliments them. I like that these make your eyes pop with a noticeable colour. Normally I go for grey lenses instead of blue, but in some lighting these look grey, so you get the best of both worlds. You can read my full review of them here. 



Discount Code!



My code only works for the Siberian line - there’s blue, hazel and grey! Blue has prescription options, while hazel and grey are only available in plano. You get can get 30% off them using “30MISHCHEUNGX” on lensvillage.com. So it would be $16.80 instead of $24!


If this doesn’t tickle your pickle, Lens Village also has 4 other lens series in the influencer collection. 🤗💕 I hope you guys enjoy my choice of lenses for you and the generous discount treat! ^.<

The discount sadly ends on 18th or 19th November so be quick!
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November 16, 2018

THERE'S FAKES ALREADY! Huda Beauty New Nude Palette | REAL vs FAKE #2


Huda Beauty's latest palette - New Nude launched on the 1st of November, just over two weeks ago and there are fake palettes quickly distributing around the market already! It's scary how quickly they can manufacture counterfeits and what's even scarier is there isn't one fake palette but three! There's probably more but I'll show you the ones i've found, let's get right into comparing the real with the fakes. 

► Packaging


REAL: The box packaging is white, the font is nude pink with gold outlines. As for the eyeshadow packaging, it's printed with a matte finish, "Nude" reflects halo when it catches direct light and the Huda Beauty logo is also embossed like the rest of her rest palettes. The font colour for the Huda logo is gold on the orignal palette.


FAKE: The box packaging is silver with a shiny halo reflect. The font is also much smaller than the original. The eyeshadow packaging is printed in a shiny finish and it also reflects halo on the whole cover, not only on the word nude. The font colour for the word "Nude" isn't nude pink like the original, it's straight up halo silver. As for the Huda logo, the font is a different colour to the original - Huda is in white and Beauty is in gold.

► Eyeshadow Shades

Source: Huda Beauty Instagram

REAL: The original has stunning shimmers with large foil like pieces, pressed glitters, mattes and a concealer. The colour theme is centred around cool toned pinky mauves.


FAKE 1: This is the first one of the fake palettes, I would say they got the colours pretty close! It's only a little tad more vibrant. If the palette was all matte, it would be quite hard to differentiate the real from the fake. We know this one is a fake because the glitter and shimmer shades are completely off, I guess Huda's textured shadows are hard to replicate and using basic shimmers help to cut the cost down.


FAKE 2: The colours in this palette is pretty close too! It's slightly pinkier and the shimmers are more reflective than the previous palette. I think this manufacture actually did a good job. By the photo, "Concealed" doesn't seem to be a concealer and looks more like a matte shadow. 


FAKE 3: The last of fake palettes I've found and the worst replica of them all! This one doesn't have a concealer and has mustard yellow shade instead. The colours are very off from the original, the colours are more saturated and not ashy. They've used glitter for the foil like shadows and shimmers for the pressed glitter. The packaging inside of the palette has a shiny finish, whereas the original is matte.

They all have something that helps you to easily spot it's not legitimate.

Please be careful when purchasing makeup online on sites like eBay, if you are not buying from the official retailer's websites or their stockholders! If you can, always ask the seller if they still have the proof of purchase or if they could take photos of the palette inside so you can see what you're clearly getting. x
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November 11, 2018

KOREAN NUCLEAR FIRE SPICY x2 NOODLE CHALLENGE! 🔥



I thought it would be fun to do the x2 Spicy fire noodles challenge and boy was I WRONG. It's actually so much worse than the original first one! I hella don't recommend you to do it but if you would like to have the pleasure of watching me suffer for views then here you go!


I wish I was a happy as I looked in this picture lol but I hope you guys enjoy it!


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November 11, 2018

REAL vs FAKE #1 | Norvina Palette Anastasia Beverly Hills


With the makeup industry exploding and society defining their success by owning branded luxury goods, more and more counterfeit makeup hit the market. Many people want branded goods (or lookalikes) but without paying the high cost. It's said, "For the price of an authentic lipstick, you can purchase four lookalikes." 

Although I personally wouldn't use fake makeup, I do love seeing comparisons between the real deal and the fake one because sometimes they look shockingly similar! So I want to start a new blog series where I dig the internet for images of genuine products and their counterfeit sister, i'm going to start the series with one of my favourite brands - Anastasia! 

► Packaging


REAL: The Anastasia printing is slightly raised on the cardboard packaging. The palette has the classic ABH suede material and the colour is a medium cool toned lilac.


FAKE: On the cardboard packaging, the Anastasia printing looks flat, it doesn't have that raised embossed print effect. Probably to cut the cost. The gold is also more yellow and a tad darker. The Norvina font is also slightly bolder. As for the palette packaging, you can see the colour is completely different from the original one, it's a deeper royal purple colour. 

► Shadows



REAL: The metallic shadows are gorgeous and have a really nice foil like reflet. The colours look cool toned and pastel. There are 7 metallics and 7 mattes.


FAKE: Well well well, as you can see the colours are very drastically different, this is probably one of the worst knock-offs I've seen because it's so obviously different. The shades are pinker rather than purple, it's warm-toned and the metallics are done in a lacklustre shimmer formula. I think the fake Wild Child looks similar but everything else is off. They've even spelt Soul as Sovl.

I think if someone were to look at a fake Norvina palette before purchasing it, they would be easily able to spot it's not legit. They might get fooled by the darker packaging but there's no way someone would fall for the different shades.

What makeup would you like to see upcoming in this series? 
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November 03, 2018

Goodbye MishCheungX, Hello Michelle Cheungg


If you've been following for my blog a while, you would know it has been called MishCheungX for 5 years+. I'm finally changing it to Michelle Cheungg.

From www.mishcheungx.com to www.michellecheungg.com - I decided to take the plunge and change it, knowing that it would affect by traffic DRASTICALLY for a good while (cries). I wasn't happy with the username I came up with when I was 15, is anyone ever happy with their teenager name? Whenever I went to blogging and network events, people would think my blog was "Miss" and not "Mish", so it was difficult for people to note down and it was always easily mistaken. :(

Before I shortened my name to Mish, but now I'm keeping it and I'm making my surname longer. There's an extra g at the end because Michelle Cheung is such a common Asian name that someone else has taken it! Also because michellecheung.com cost £1350+ lmaoooo, sorry I'm too broke to be paying that amount just for an URL. So in a way, I was forced to put the extra g or extra something!

I hope you guys will keep reading my blog (share it would your friends, family, your next door neighbour, your cat, I'm kidding but I'm not kidding)! It's still going to be the same and I want to go hardcore on it to bring you guys good content again, as I know I wasn't updating it this year sadly because of how hectic my last year of university was. BUT IM BACK, BACK AGAIN. (AND BETTER THAN EVERRR).

Here's to a new chapter of my blog and to welcome new beginning! <3 *cheers*
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October 31, 2018

🎃 CARVE MIMIKYU WITH A DRAMATIC BIMBO! 👻 | Pokemon Pumpkin Challenge



Hey, lovelies! It's been a while since I've filmed a video so I thought it'll make a comeback with something fun and chill. I always do a Halloween makeup look for Instagram but I've come to terms that I'm actually terrible with makeup videos (trust me i've tried so many times filming makeup tutorials and I hated the results! :C) So I did what I'm good at instead, arty farsty stuff! I want to film more Youtube videos so let me know what videos you would like to see in the future! <3
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October 26, 2018

Prezzybox Event | Jingle Mingle 2018 With Eltoria and Wild Olive in Birmingham


I've recently moved back to Birmingham after graduating uni, so I've been working hard getting my butt back on the blogging scene. PrezzyBox were super lovely and invited me to their annual Jingle Mingle event, what an exciting way start my blogging journey again! And it's so lovely to have them host their event in Birmingham; last year it was held in Nottingham.




Upon arrival, the Prezzybox team were super welcoming and greeted us with some bubbles. The room was filled with Pinterest style gifts, I would be one happy bunny if someone gifted me something from PrezzyBox, look how cute they are!


If you love your drinkies like me, this Cocktail Neon Effect Sign is a must. I've been eyeing it throughout the night haha. After looking at all the gift displays, we went to have some nibbles and mingled with the other Bloggers. There were bloggers and YouTubers that travelled all the way from Blackpool, Brighton, London etc I was pretty shook and it was so lovely to meet people from everywhere.

Motivational Talks from Zak Edwards and Eltoria



The night followed with a motivational talk from the PrezzyBox creator and MD, Zak Edwards. Before he started Prezzybox, he hated his 9-5 and wanted to do something fun. It was very inspiring and humbling to learn about how he built up the company from an idea, the struggles and the work he put in to get the company where it is today. The key take away from the talk was to do something fun and chase after your dreams. He's such a funny guy and I adore that he tries to support smaller UK businesses and creators, now that he has this successful company.



We also had a talk from Youtuber Eltoria, also known as the beauty advent calendar unboxing girl. She told us about her Youtube journey, gave us social media tips and how to find a niche in the market to dominate. My god, she's even more stunning in real life and she's like the same person in her videos, very bubbly and friendly.

Wild Olive Bath Melt Workshop


This was my favourite part of the night! I did a workshop with the all-natural bath and body brand Wild Olive. Mine didn't turn out looking as good as the ones on display, but hey I tried and it was really fun!


The amazing Lauren showed us how to pipe their popular Bath Melts, if I recall correctly she said that you can make 200 or more an hour, they're all handmade! The Bath Melt is made with cocoa butter to give you an indulgent experience and to moisturize your skin nicely. 


Mine turn out literally like a unicorn poop because I went overboard with the decorations lol, I put loads of biodegradable glitter and unicorn soaps into them. They may be poop but at least they're magical. They also gifted me their Clementine and Prosecco Shower Smoothie, i'm super excited to try it out because it smells sooo divine. All their products are vegan, handmade, kind to your skin and the environment. 


I missed their photography flat lay workshop because I got carried away talking, typical me. But me and Ting did take loads of Instagram boomerangs and photos at their mini photobooth. 

The event was so fun, it had us snapping the night away. Thank you so much to PrezzyBox for hosting this! It would be great to see you again next year. <3

If you want to see for yourself what went down at Jingle Mingle, then here is a little quick video:



Does any of the PrezzyBox gifts tickle your pickle? 
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October 21, 2018

Hyuna Reveals Her Real Weight! | KPop Idol Weights 2018


On October 20th, HyunA posted a picture of her on the weighing scales. Sharing her current weight of 43.1kg to everyone. People were confused as to why she decided to post her weight on social media. At the first people thought she was promoting skinniness and weight loss, due to the pressure of the KPop industry being really strict with idol's dieting and weights. But people actually misunderstood her; she later responded in the comments that she gained this weight through healthy eating and exercise. 


She also said that "Unnie eat lots of delicious food!"

HyunA is trying to show her healthy weight gain as a positive movement. During her Bubble Pop era, she weighed 39kg, so she has managed to get back to her usual weight.

Fans have also said this is a sign of her having 100% control of her body back after leaving CUBE entertainment.

I think her trying to promote gaining healthy weight is much needed for Korea's standard of beauty, not everyone has to fit into a box and change is needed. What do you think?
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October 20, 2018

ATTACK ON ZOMBIE | Halloween 2018 Makeup


To be honest, this makeup look turned out completely different to how I envisioned it. I was going for something like an "in real life yet comic book like" zombie look. I mixed in too much red paint so the result is like a mix an of Titan (hence the name I gave this look) and a zombie. For those of yous asking for Halloween costume/makeup ideas that aren't generic then here you go. 

I used Makeup Revolution Pro Mischeif Matte Eyesdhow Palette and  SFX Paint Palette to create this look. 

The look is super easy to do and only took me one hour!  (Even though it could pass off as a 1 or 2 more) So it's also great for a last minute look. :) Affordable, easy and non-generic look completed. 

What do you think? ^^ Is it scary enough? 
If you recreate this look please tag me on Instagram @michellecheungg to show me!
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