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A lot of things changed over the pandemic lockdowns. New business sprung up in our neighborhood alone, new brands are also up...and a whole lot more. Now, I may not be able to travel yet to other places (except on November 7 and 8, soon!) but there's plenty here in the city, Cagayan de Oro City, I was born and raised in to check out and play local tourist in somehow while I'm still here.
Anyone that followed this blog from day 1---even when this was still on LiveJournal---know its owner (me...?) is hugely into supporting local brands other than local homegrown tea cafes or houses (Chingkeetea...and I swear I working on the 2nd part for the last one. It's just sitting in my drafts yet but it'll be ready to go live here soon as I've done some tweaking of it) to name a few. This blog has not changed and it never will.
Today, we'll be putting a local beauty or cosmetics brand that my bff, Michi, has gotten me into via a mini mall in Pabayo-Hayes Sts. here, Zea Picks. The mini mall has just opened and CDO locals should check their offerings out. They have a ton of fun stuff for girls who love accessories, make-up, fragrances, and more. Clothes, too. They carry clothes from the big Chinese brand, Shein. Those who aren't too into shopping for clothes on their site or app can just get Shein clothing and accessories in store at Zea Picks mini mall instead.
Side note: I'm not into Shein. Something about how they do business puts me off. I don't have it in me to support anything of theirs, to be honest, so... You won't see me buying Shein stuff any time soon. Zalora Philippines is still my shopping online mecca go-to along with local brands on Lazada and Shopee PH. Shop local, folks! Our local sellers and makers deserve our money, time, support, and more. Shein is pretty shady and screams mega CAPITALIST!! to me but of course, it's a China/PRC thing to be just that when it comes to businesses like this.
Zea Picks mini mall's floor space is tiny. It's about the size of probably just one tiny store space in Ayala Centrio mall like N.Cat's. But even if it's the case, they carry a lot of fun stuff from local sellers and makers here in Cagayan de Oro City and beyond. One such brand they carry that I'm going to talk about in this blog entry is Positive Kalyca or PK! They're available on Shopee PH on the second link.
I have been downsizing the contents of my makeup bag to-go and I use multi-use tints more than anything else (if you followed my skin care and beauty posts here, you'd know) so it's only right I get into this local brand. I'm not entirely sure of the history of this brand. I think the owner is from the city I attended graduate school in Literary Studies in, Dumaguete City, and I suspect she may even be from the same university I was in at the time, Silliman University. It's just my best guess from what I could gather from the brand's instagram, Positive Kalyca (PK) page. I'm not entirely sure if the owner's a born and raised kagay-anon like me or a transplant to here from somewhere else. I might have met her a few times, though, or just once at a bazaar that ran from September 16-ish or 15 to 18 just recently in Lim Ketkai Center's rotunda (the middle part of the mall) here. I checked that bazaar out to see what I could get for friends and walked out with about two multi-use tints that are pretty new to the line or brand and 1 highlighter I've been using more of lately. I got into Positive Kalyca or PK through bff Michi and her inviting me to check their stuff out on Zea Picks mini mall some three weeks to a month ago and I've been hooked since. At least I don't have to go far and spend so much on shipping fees now just to get makeup and skincare stuff because we have this among others now here.
Here are some things from this brand that I'm into lately:
Their PK lip oil luster in Latte! The bff wanted to try the Dalgona one but I noticed it didn't really ink or stain much so Latte it was for the two of us. We got 2 of these, one for each of us, at the regular price of 1 that's 150 Php (roughly 3 USD when converted) during the 9.9 (September 9) sale at Zea Picks mini mall! It was such a good, GOOD deal, of course!
Rather than using the PK lip oil luster in Latte on the lips as it should be, I'm using this one for contouring. Hah. I'm not really into lip products, to be honest, but somehow, most I find in stores like this are for the lips and most people I love (my extended family and some friends) abroad just looovvvee sending me lip stuff to try and make good use of. (I need more face makeup and skin care, please, more than lip stuff...and thanks.) I'm normally more of a tinted lip balm or just lip pencil/crayon girl. I'm not a huge fan of heavy makeup, colors on the lips on most days but I understand this is something most women are into because it's the easiest to apply when in a hurry to go out and with very little time to put color into their faces. Using the PK lip oil luster in Latte as a contour is just so me, though, I think?
Unfortunately, this is not available on their PK Shopee PH page. You can check out their Instagram and Facebook pages, though, if you're interested on or curious about where to get Positive Kalyca (PK) stuff around here in CDO and beyond.
to check out:
These two PK highlighters at 69 Php a pop (a piece) in a lighter and darker shade I constantly have in my makeup bag to-go now. I use the darker shade as both a contour and a highlighter when I get lazy with applying makeup. The one in the lighter shade, for me, is something I use with the summer tint (it's about orangey but I like it sooo much!) from another local brand I have started liking over this year's Higala-ay Cagayan de Oro City fiesta, Oh My Organic (OMO). I'll blog about this brand some other time, probably once I've tried their other tints. I wish they would add more colors to this one, though, soon. I'm due to check out more multi-use tints and stuff from them soon, too, anyway. Meanwhile, you can check out some Oh My Organic (OMO) products on Woodcrafts and All Good Stuff on here on Shopee PH.
These two on the photo above may be newer shades you can get in store at Zea Picks mini mall or wherever they have displays in the malls here in CDO or anywhere else they are at in Dumaguete City and more. Some older ones like the PK shimmer highlighter is on Shopee PH. The PK radiance highlighter is there, too. I'm somewhat curious about these two myself so I may or may not check them out and get them at Zea Picks mini mall the soonest when I have the chance to go there again for stuff.
My latest buy from Positive Kalyca (PK) is the premium chili tint in Anaheim. It's not available on the Shopee site but I found this one---possibly newly launched---at the bazaar back around September 17 (my personal...I mean, birthday) at the middle of Lim Ketkai Center, ground floor. It's only 99 Php per tube, too!
I didn't do a lot of self-treating while I was at the said bazaar that day but I did get stuff for some good friends so there's that. I treated myself to some food instead before going home so that's how my personal day, birthday went this year. It was alright.
Here're how their display booth or table at the bazaar I went to looked like:
They also sold some stickers, yes, and I got 3 of these since I do like me some stickers and other stationeries myself. I'm as much a paper, stationery addict as I am into good, affordable, and very accessible makeup and skincare. Haha.
What made me curious about PK's Premium chili tint in Anaheim is its pigmentation and shade. It seems to be a cross of nude and red for me. Nude red? Red nude? I don't know. I'm not a fan of red and I rarely use anything red on the lips, the cheeks, and the eyelids but this shade of red that's almost nude-ish is definitely up my alley as a fan of nudes, instead! Seriously. Nudes rule over reds although the latter can be sexy on anyone...women, and more.
I have yet to open and try this one but since I'm not done with my tube of the PK lip oil luster in Latte and the highlighters yet (I got an additional darker shade of the highlighter in the second photo above from this bazaar, btw) and I still have plenty of reds for the lips and more in my makeup bag to-go and others from family, loved ones abroad... It's going to take a while before I can open this new one I got from the Lim Ketkai Center, center bazaar back in September 17. Yes, I wrote/mentioned center twice. Haha. I felt like I just had to.
....the local makeup hoarder that I'm becoming lately, however, I'm thinking about getting another tube of this I can take to wherever I'm going on November 7 with me rn. I hope Zea Picks mini mall carries this one there now, too.
It's about...less than 3 months to December 2022 and there are bound to be more bazaars in the malls here and possibly everywhere in the Philippines were I (we) am (are) to come so do check those out if you'd like to look into local offerings here and there like this one, Positive Kalyca (PK). As for those like me who are in Cagayan de Oro City here, you can check out Zea Picks mini mall for this brand or makeup line and more if you're not into big malls like I am. Crowds make me anxious these days especially with Miss Rona still around and coughing up newer variants that seem to be deadlier than the ones before them. I promise their products won't break your bank, deplete your savings, and you also get to support local small business at the same time by checking their stuff out there.
I use a combination of makeup lines/brands here from mostly local and it looks like the colors are barely even there so I'm not entirely sure if I have been doing my almost daily makeup right on this one. I lately use a combination of the multi-use tint in Summer from Oh My Organic, Human Heart Nature's Perfect Flush lip and cheek cream tint in Rosy (my personal favorite from their makeup line, of course! Right up there with the tinted lip balm in rosewood now. It's also got new packaging and a new name, Blush & Bloom, that's really cute! very feminine and nice!), and highlighters and the lip oil luster in Latte from Positive Kalyca (PK).
Almost bare-looking here aside, I'm all for and am quite obsessed with how light multi-use tints are and easily washable they are. You can definitely retouch them very easily when you're out but at the same time, it saves you the trouble of using micellar waters or makeup removers when you're at home from engagements, the office, or a day or night out with the girls and more. These things may not be very pigmented enough to cover up and conceal some skin imperfections here and there but that's exactly why we try to be more religious (I do but I keep failing anyhow) with skin care and maybe the occasional trip to the dermatologist if we can afford it or if this is very easily accessible to us.
I'm not entirely fond of having to lug around with me a face full of heavy makeup so this is the bestest thing for me, barely-there make-up. Multi-use tints. All the fun stuff in varied liquid and powdery consistencies and more to apply to the face for quick coloring! It's also, I think, the best for those who want some color while at the beach or the pool. They're very islander girly things to have for everywhere and yep, very much a must have for 365 days of summer in a tropical country like our (my) own Philippines!
Nude, barely there face colors? Locally (and in this case, very, veeerrry locally made) made cosmetics/makeup? Count me in! Expect me to be behind Positive Kalyca (PK) all the way from now on :) I'm adding it to my list of favorite local cosmetics, makeup, and skin care brands right up there with Human Heart Nature and the others I've featured on and off here.
Right up next after this post will be on Oh My Organic's tints I have yet to try out of their Summer one that I like a lot. I just need some more research on this and try out the other tints outside of Summer. It would be awesome if they put out more shades of their tints aside from the four seasons: summer, spring, fall, and winter...or, I think, it was sultry? and be around the same as how many Colourette PH has put out of their signature Colourtints because I would be so down to these very local lines/brands having wider ranges of multi-use tints. For Colourette PH, if you are here in Philippines as I am, feel free to shop their fun stuff on the Colourette PH Lazada flagshi store here.
I'm currently thinking about Colourette PH's nude Colourtints (and there are a lot of this. seriously. it's Colourette PH!) and Coloursnaps in Beachy and Waves. Both are only 279 Php a piece on their official site's shop, btw. And yes, I have a thing for summery stuff, yes. You can very easily tell with how I got easily tempted to get Oh My Organic's summer multi-use tint when I found it in the display they had on the ground floor of Ayala Centrio mall when we scoped this one out during the Higala-ay fiesta this year. Just very recently, actually. I'm just holding off on Colourette Ph purchases because I still have a lot of other more local to here in Cagayan de Oro City and the bisaya/cebuano region in general's makeup, cosmetics purchases to finish. Haha. Hah. These purchases will just end up cluttering my room more, my vanity, actually, and I may end up having to get or buy and use more makeup bags I can alternate for trips out here and there and I don't really want that. I'll try Colourette PH stuff some other time. Possibly when I've finished all the others I have rn.
Colourette PH had a buy 2 for the price of 1 promo on Colourtints some time around October 10 (the 10.10 sale) but I didn't bite because I still had stuff from Positive Kalyca (PK), Oh My Organic (OMO), and Dear Self Beauty (DSF) so yep, I'm tabling trying stuff from this brand/makeup line out until later. I definitely know the things I want and need from Colourette PH as I do with BLK's new fun stuff so you can bet I'll stock up on stuff from them sooner or later and I'll be reviewing those here, too. Kind of. I didn't really get the hype of Colourette PH stuff until I read tweets from its CEO and founder and found her really likeable on twitter, social media in general so yes, this brand of makeup/beauty products have my (eternal) support, too! Colourette PH, too, hits all my love and obsession with nude shades. Seriously. I'm officially a stan...fan.
I'm also only talking about multi-use tints in this post because for these brands' skincare stuff...I still am more into Human Heart Nature's and they kind of overlap so I don't really bother mentioning or even checking those out as much as I do their makeup lines or products. It's kind of overkill if I also blog on that in a makeup or beauty post like this. Plus, I also have different preferences when it comes to skin care. My beauty and makeup go-to brands or lines are totally different from my go-to skin care ones. That's just how I roll in real life. Yes.
Here's to more skincare, beauty, cosmetics, and makeup posts in 2022! Expect more to come in 2023, of course. Heh.
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