SNOW TIME!

Yay, it's finally snow season and I'm leaving at 4am so that we can get the first lifts that open! Going to get as many runs in as possible!
In the meantime, I'll leave you a pic with me and my imaginary snow gear 
SHIZUKA♥

Easy Step-By-Step Natural Smokey Eye Tutorial

Hey everyone! 
Here's my first attempt at a step-by-step eye makeup tutorial. I'll most likely start off with still images first and then progress onto videos in the future. I need to work out how to edit videos, upload, talk to the camera while applying makeup etc! Not sure how well it would turn out at this point.

So if you follow me on twitter, you might've seen me tweet about doing this post but it actually took longer than expected and once I finished taking photos and edited it to make a step by step look, I was too tired to take product photos. To be honest, I had no idea how to put this post together. And I guess I still don't exactly know what works best so any feedback is welcomed.

Hope you enjoy my first tut! This is a look I do all the time when I'm lacking creativity, tired or in a rush. I'm sure many of you have a staple look, well I guess this is mine hehe.

Hope the font isn't too light to read. Will definitely make it darker next time!

Below are the products I used for this look. MAJORITY of the products are by SHISEIDO and don't blame me, I use to work at Shiseido for 2.5yrs so I'm bound to use their products right hehe. Next time I'll use lots of other brands to make things more exciting. This is just what I used but there are so many similar shades out there so use what you have :) And they are not in order. I've numbered items so it's easier to explain, that is all.
*PRODUCTS*

1. Shiseido Concealer Stick in medium #2 - Love this to cover dark circles and my blemishes.

2. Shiseido Eyelash Curler - I still use the old one, it now comes in a slightly different shape and is black instead of silver. Fits my eyeshape really well so def going to keep using it till I can't any longer haha.

3. Shiseido Eyeliner Pencil in black #1 - This is the discontinued one that I still have. Love that it's an intense black and no smudging.

4. Shiseido Felt Pen Liner - Not from the global Shiseido range. I picked this up in a conbini (Japanese convenience store) for the cheapest price, and it's just so easy to use. When I went back to Japan to stock up, I couldn't find it any more :(

5. No brand eyebrow pencil - Picked up from a conbini as well, the brand name has rubbed off, so no info on this one!

6. Shiseido Hydro Powder Eyeshadow in H2 Whitelights - It's a cream texture eventhough the name is powder lol and I use it everyday on its own or under powder shadows.

7. Prestige Intense Black Volume Mascara in blackest black - Got this at the MBBE swap :) I am in love with the intense black and the lengthening & volumizing.

8. Shiseido Mascara Base - This really helps to separate, volumize, lengthen and protect lashes so I love it. Makes removing eye makeup harder though. 

9. Shiseido Luminizing Satin Eye Colour Trio in GY901 - The girls at work knew this was my fave trio because I wore it pretty much everyday. It's a really nice palette to work with. I LOVE the white shimmer colour in there. I use it to highlihgt my brow bone and inner corners of the eyes. Great for blending shades in too.

10. Shiseido Luminizing Satin Eye Colour in BK915 - An intense single black colour that I love to work with. Helps dramatise any look!

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Here's many more posts with the same makeup lol! So you can really see that I use this look often.

Hoping you enjoyed reading this post. It's different to what I usually blog about and def not good at it but I tried haha. I have so many future blog posts in mind and already taken photos for it so I'm planning on writing up some entries and drafting them so I can schedule them:)
Thank you for reading~
SHIZUKA♥

Working At Shiseido (Australia)

I'm Back!! 

Hi everyone, thank you so much for all your support even when I was hardly updating!!

If you read my previous post, you'd  know that I recently resigned from my job. My final week was probably one of the busiest and most tiring.

So I've complained a lot and whinged here & there on my blog/twitter but I've never really put it out there that I worked at Shiseido. I purposely didn't to avoid stalkers LOL nah not really, more so that product reviews or opinions wouldn't be biased but now that I've resigned and have absolutely nothing to do with it, I feel open talking about it! Close friends or people I've met would've known & you may have realised a lot of the makeup I wore was from Shiseido haha, so now you know why:)

I joined Shiseido in the beginning of December 2008 and finished up 2 July 11 so basically I was there for two and a half years and definitely enjoyed it, learned a lot, experienced things I'd never think of and also made many new friendships. The job helped me grow my confidence and skills. I still really do love the company and products. 

After 3 months of working as a part timer on a smaller counter, I received a surprising proposal from my managers to become a specialist, which is basically a position that includes facials, makeup events, recruitment events, workshops and a whole lot more. This to me, sounded rather exciting and back then I was after more hours so with a guaranteed 20hrs a week minimum I thought I should give it a go.

Why I left: Some problems I faced with this new position was that it meant I had no permanent location, I'd have to travel to places near & far and I'd get my changing rosters every Friday of the week. And who knew the minimum 20hrs/week meant you get close to or more than 50hrs/week at times LOL. After working week-by-week for close to 3 yrs, not knowing when and where I'd be the following week got really tiring. I could never make plans with family, friends or my bf and it was physically tiring due to my team being short staffed too. These weren't the only reasons. There was a whole chunk more to why I decided to leave but I think I'd bore your brains out so I'll finish it off here:)

I'm going to add a few images now so that later on, I can reminisce the good & bad times at Shseido:)

I was lucky enough to take part of the backstage team and do the contestant's makeup at Miss Melbourne Chinese Pageant in 2009 and 2010. It's hosted by TVBA, which I believe is a Hong Kong TV show. By far the most exciting event I got to be involved with. I got to watch backstage at a beauty pageant!~ In 2009 location shoot was at Mornington Peninsula hot springs and in 2010 it was in Ballarat & Geelong beach. I remember it was freezing on both occasions and felt so sorry for these poor girls posing in close to nothing!

Oh got to add a pic of me receiving my "Omotenashi of The Year" award haha! Omotenashi is a Japanese word that describes many english words such as customer service, passion, respect, hospitality etc. Shiseido really pride their Japanese ways of customer service and in training we are taught "The Way of Tea". Unfortunately there may be a gap in level of service when compared to Japanese Beauty Consultants but we still try our best hehe. But anyway I was overwhelmed to receive this award and it meant a lot to me:) There's one of the gorgeous ladies giving me a kiss on the cheek to congradulate me  

Along with the "Omotenashi of The Year" certificate I received, I was also presented with Tiffany&Co vouchers♥♥

Here, we have our National Events & Training Manager preparing her presentations for one of our Modern Beauty Workshops. This was held at one of the gorgeous houses in Toorak. We've also done other workshops at the Japanese Consul's house also in Toorak, HSBC office for their VIP clients and also ANZ VIP clients at the Crown Spa. Was a really great experience once again!

Here's an article about the workshop at the Japanese Consul's house. Can you find me :) I'm next to my manager in the white top hehe.

Here's Ken Matsuda our National Makeup Artist for our National Shiseido Studio Event. I worked alongside him to help out the customer learn, write down and draw all the products used, explain, take photos of her etc.

A lot of my time was spent doing facials too. Shiseido offer a few different relaxation massages and here's a peek into the beauty room. My final week I did facials that were 1.5 hour appointments and I worked 9:30-8:30 from Tues-Sat so that's why I was so busy & exhausted. 

This was at the ANZ Workshop for their VIP clients. It was held in the Crown Spa room! I used to work at Crown so it brought back a lot of memories too.

And lastly, here's me on a normal counter coverage shift. I had to blur my friend out as requested. This was the old counter, it's now polished into a much more beautiful counter!

So I hope you enjoyed reading about what I have been doing as my job!
I enjoyed writing about it actually haha. I'm sorry if it doesn't make much sense or blabbered on too much. Haven't written in a while to be honest haha.
 I resigned without a next job secured but I don't regret my decision, I am crazy happy with everything right now. I plan to take a long break but that will guarantee me to run out of money so will start looking soon lol!
Thanks for reading!!
SHIZUKA♥