Face Slimming Tool: Gold T Bar

This may be one of my weird beauty product and it is famous in Japan and Taiwan. Surprise...surprise. FACIAL SLIMMING PRODUCT!

This is a 24K face massaging tool. Using nanometer technology to help massage your face by vibrating 6000 times a minute which provides enough stimulation to the facial muscles for firming effects and by firming I meant skin tightening and lifting. It ALSO claims to provide skin whitening benefit. Do not take my words for it if you can't see any whitening effects as I cannot attest to it, too. 

It helps to reduce wrinkles around the eyes and forehead. If you suffer from sagging cheeks, water retention and puffiness it does the magic and the result will be shown immediately upon using it. Did I mention it also help in facial blood circulation too? 

It is waterproof and operate by one AA battery, of course battery is not included when you purchase this vibrator. Just undress the "switch" and penetrate it with the battery and it will work (NC17).

It's pretty easy to use however I would suggest to use it only after your skincare routine as it too helps the skin to absorb more products. Do put on a tad more face moisturizer as it helps it to glide on smoothly without any tagging. 

Hold the tool near the bottom to get maximum effects. You should not use any force while gliding it across the cheek. Normally I like to use it at night before I put on facial mask to end things, of course you can use it while you are in shower as it's waterproof.  

First, place it on the forehead and glides it towards your hairline. This is to omit heavy and furrow brow lines.

Second, place it at the side and glides it towards the hairline moving in a diagonally upwards motion. Say BYE to crow's feet. 

Third, I like to let it sits under my eye for 10 - 20 seconds to minus out my eye bag.

Fourth, place it next to the nose and glides it towards the hairline moving in curve upward motion as shown by the arrow as I don't need any sunken cheeks.

Fifth, place it at the smile line and do the same motion as step four or you can let it sit for a good 10 second before massaging.

Sixth, place it at your jowl and glides it in an upward motion towards the center of the ear.

    

Seventh, place it under assume turkey chin and glide in a downwards direction. 

Always massage from the top to the bottom as it too helps with the blood circulation towards the heart. I did took a before and after but I am going to show you people one side of my face, first.

They are both left side of my gorgeous face but I flipped my "before" photo to match the "after". I can immediately tell that I have a less visible eye bag and smile line and side of my face looks a tad slimmer. I too have a much sharper jowl.

I massaged each set for 20 times and of course you can do more. However I must warn you that it feels so ticklish due to the vibration. If you are confuse about how to massage your face don't worry and just remember this method, massage everything in an UPWARD diagonally motion towards the hairline/ear and hold that ending position for a couple of second and continue. 

After using it, clean it with a kleenex and store it in your drawer, very simple. I do hope you will find joy in using it!

You can get it here at S$10 excluding shipping fees. 

I will make a video about it when I bought a new hard disk...because my old one went crazy and my current laptop doesn't have enough space.

Do You Know Your Colours? | Colour Theory

Do read my previous post on Knowing Your Undertone before reading this.

Colour theory in short is color mixing and the visual impacts of color combinations. An artist/designers should understand the basics of colour theory in order to know how colors work with each other, and how one colour will influence another by placing it next to each other or even how the color will result in when you mix them together.

Sir Isaac Newton is the founder of Colour Wheel. He then split the sunlight into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet which is what we now known as the rainbow. He then joined the two ends of the colour together and it show a natural progression of colours.

There are many different kinds of colour wheel in the market and the one I'm showing you (down below) is the most basic colour wheel you can find online.

Primary colours are the ONLY three colors that cannot be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colours are derived from these three colours.

Primary Colours: Red, Yellow, Blue

Secondary colours is by combining two of the primary colours.

Secondary Colours: Green, Violet, Orange

Yellow + Blue = Green

Blue + Red = Violet

Red + Yellow = Orange

Tertiary Colours: One primary colour combine with one adjacent secondary colour.

Yellow + Orange = Yellow-Orange

Red + Orange = Red-Orange

Red + Violet = Red-Violet

Yellow + Green = Yellow-Green

Blue + Green = Blue-Green

Blue + Violet = Blue-Violet

Now we all know these are the colours spectrum from the colour wheel and we too learned about Warm and Cool undertone in the previous post. Do you know there are warm and cool colours in colour wheel too?

Warm Colours: Red-Violet, Red, Red-Orange, Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow,

Cool Colours: Violet, Blue-Violet, Blue, Blue-Green, Green,  Yellow-Green

The color wheel can be divided into warm and cool colours. By understanding the differences of warm and cool colors, it will help you better in foundation/concealer colour matching if you are a makeup artist.

Warm colours are over whelming, vivid, bold and popping colours.

Cool colours are calm, soothing, laid-back and cold.

Any colours can be of warm and cool tone. For example, if a red lipstick that has a blue base, it's a cool red. If it has an orange base, it's a warm red. Whichever colour that has more of a blue, they will always be a cool tone colour and whichever colour that has more of a yellow is a warm tone colour.

Ever heard of Complementary Colours?

Colours that are opposite of each other on a colour wheel is known as complementary colours. They bring each other out making a visual contrast, thus both colours appear stronger against each other.

If you have a blue eyes, using yellow based gold eyeshadows will make it stand out even more.

If you have green eyes, purple eyeshadows will be your best friend. It will complement your eyes and bring the attention to it.

Complementary colours is not only useful in choosing the right shades of shadows, it also helps to counter act against the colour you do not want to see it on your skin. It is known as Colour Correcting in make up artistry. As opposite colours helps to bring out a strong visual contrast it too helps to cancel each other out.

For example, green concealer works best to cover up blemishes. Orange concealer works best to cover the dark circles. Purple concealer is able to cancel out any yellow undertone and that will makes you look brighter.

Monochromatic color schemes are made up of different tones, shades and tints within one colour.

Tints: Adding white to a colour

Tones: Adding gray to a colour

Shades: Adding black to a colour

Ingot Cosmetics is using the method of monochromatic system to sell their eyeshadows.

Analogous colours uses colours that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. One color is used as a dominant color while the other two are used to enrich the scheme. The analogous scheme is similar to the monochromatic, but offers more nuances.

 

Triadic Colour is another type of colour scheme. It uses three colours equally spaced around the color wheel. To put it simply, draw a triangle in the middle of the wheel and use the colours that the three points of the triangle land on.

The triadic scheme is not as contrasting as the complementary scheme, but it looks more balanced and harmonious.

Last but not least, Tetradic colour. It sound complicated but it's just two sets of complementary colours. It works the same as triadic colour instead of a triangle, you should draw a rectangle instead. The only way to use this scheme is to choose one dominant colour and subdue the other three.

Do understand that Color Theory analyzes only the relationships of colors; it does not take color lightness and saturation into account.

I too suggest you to check out Adobe Kuler. They are like your online colour wheel however it's still handy to own a physical colour wheel in your kit.

Do you know that if you spin your colour wheel fast enough it will appears white? Because all the colours of the rainbow make up visible light.