Before anything, a 'Look Feature' is somewhat like a quick LOTD.

For LOTDs I normally try to show the 'full package' from an eye close up to a full faced look. A Look Feature on the other hand is a quick look at how some products like blushes, lipsticks wear with a full face. In a way it's a review/showcase for products of it's genre because I personally find it difficult to pin the word review on a blush, so.... just letting you all know!

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Alrightey, so here's a look at the Shu Uemura Creamy Dome Cheek from their 2012 Spring Summer Collection, Celestial Garden.

The shade I have on hand is Sunlight Peach.

It is also available in a pinkish shade, Fairy Pink which I do not own but here are swatches of both if you have missed it earlier.

The idea of the Creamy Dome Cheek is a glide-on cream product that blends very well to a powdery smooth finish (at least from my observation). It's meant to be a soft hint of color, very faint and 'airy' instead of a bold attention catching shade.

With that in mind, here are the cheek swatches. I started off using it like how you would a cream product, after liquid foundation and before setting.

Starting with gliding the product on (directly from the dome itself).

Once blended out, a very soft hint of orange flush remains. It kind of looks like how my cheeks flush after a short jog.

Even though I used a translucent powder, the blush effect does get muted after setting my liquid foundation.

In person it's a light hint of color but on camera it's barely there. If anything I would say you can choose to use the Creamy Dome Cheek as a base color and continue with using a normal powdered blush over. In any case that your powdered blush fades throughout the day, the cream cheek product will still stay on, keeping a light flush on your cheeks.

In my case I really wanted the color to show so I went ahead and used the Creamy Dome Cheek on top of my setting powder. Instead of gliding it on, this time around I used my fingers to dab the product and blend it on.

Still a fairly soft shade but that's the idea of this product.

After about 5 hours of wear, here's how it looks. (Foundation I have on is MUFE HD & Lumiere Invisiveil to set)

I think the best way to use this or the people who might appreciate it most would be those who don't bother with foundation be it if you don't fancy it or have good skin. This soft blush would be great to use directly on the skin for a quick natural flush and because of it's smooth powdery finish, there is no need to go that extra step to set it.

These days I don't bother using this under my setting powder and go straight to dabbing it over when I'm using it. While it's not the boldest of the bunch I appreciate a soft blush now and then when I want to keep my face more neutral yet not dead and blush-less.

The Celestial Garden collection is now available at Shu Uemura counters in Singapore and the Creamy Dome Cheek retails for S$39 for 8.5g of product.

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And slightly off the Shu Uemura Creamy Dome Cheek feature but if anyone happens to be wondering, that blue-ish glint on my lids is the work of CLIO's Eye Love You Pencil in Night Navy.

I have taken a liking to tracing it lightly above and over the liner on my upper lid because it lends a nice touch to plain ole neutrals. It wears very well through the day too, no setting required.

Thanks for reading!

Disclosure:
Products were provided to me for review consideration.
I am not affiliated to them and all opinions expressed are my own.

Since I ended 2011 with a semi-rambly post, I shall start 2012 with one as well! Just keeping it... uniformed, you know? heh.

The rambly bit would most likely be the second half of this entry but for the first half I'm going to share 2 non makeup related hauls I made in the last couple of days in 2011. I would have posted them up there and then but the festivities and other posts got the better of me.

The first haul was an unintentional post xmas sale purchase, which I did tweet about. It was an innocent visit to the mall for dinner and a new pair of heels came home with me.

I got this for two main reasons
1. because I don't have a pair that's closed all around (most of my heels are strapped)
2. I don't have a nude-ish pair of heels.

Okay, fine 3 reasons. They were reaaaally cheap at S$19.

The fact that this is super comfy with a decent height to them is what sold it for me. Looks-wise, it's just a plain brown pair that I think could come in handy in some situations.The gold 'studs' rimming it add a nice touch too.

No shots of me wearing this yet because, as you know, I do prefer my sneakers over heels. Heels are nice to have since you don't know when you'll need them!

The next purchase was derived from a tweet where I was whining about my iPhone battery dying out me in just a day. Since I was toying on the idea of getting a portable charger already I was so glad to finally pick one up from ahbengshop.sg

How twitter got into the equation is because Evon (a fellow blogger pal) who co-owns ahbengshop saw my tweet and informed me of this battery pack before they put it online. Sneak peak right there!

But it's on the website now so here's a link!

It was really timely that I picked up this battery pack too because I needed my phone to survive the countdown to 2012 and this made that happen.

I celebrated the count down at the Siloso Beach Party and by 11pm (2011) I only had 20% left. That's somewhat a nightmare with all the tweeting, photo taking and whatnot to be done so thankfully this battery pack charged it back up to 80% and lasted till the next day.

Since I mentioned the Beach Party and fireworks...

A little shout out to the Shu Uemura Smooth Fit Fluid Foundation for still looking good in that hot hot heat! Some credit to the Cezanne Powder Foundation that I used to set with.

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Now the second portion, 2012 resolutions!

I normally don't bother making resolutions because the things we list down often are things we should do anyway but this year I thought I would give it another go! I'm listing down some beauty resolutions that I know I should do but haven't been doing.

• Using sunscreen!
  Super important thing to do especially as we age our skin gets more vulnerable to the sun rays so this is a habit I must adopt!
• Masking regularly, at least once a week!
  I was never very disciplined with this and often masked once a month or even worst, once every two months! I'm resolved to try and make it a weekly affair!
• Joggin/Exercising regularly!
  I cannot even start counting the number of people who have asked me to start jogging again. It's good for the health and fitness so no matter how much I dislike running, I do aim to be more active in 2012! From a vain point of view, toning up would be nice. Aside from running, boyfriend and I are getting some inline skates to make rollerblading another weekend hobby!

I know these points are probably the most basic and simple of all but I'm no good at keeping resolutions so I decided to start small, on ones I can definitely hold to.

What are some of your 2012 Resolutions?
Be it beauty-wise or life-wise.

Thanks for reading!