Fleur de Cendre

Pink NOTD; Bear NOTD, Rabbit NOTD, FREE Contact lenses

2012-01-27T01:06:00.008+08:00

The fireworks display is crazy this year. Either the price of fire crackers were on sale or everyone is a little too happy welcoming the Dragon into the year. None stop fire works for 30 minutes, that's a lot of money burnt.

Our house has a fantastic view of all the fire works from most angle so I ain't complaining much. Not too sure how many dogs died of a heart attack with all the noise from the fire works though.

Started work on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year and we had to wear pink coloured T-shirts as we were doing a roadshow in Gurney Plaza. Coincidentally, Elisa gave me her Lavshuca eye shadow in PK-1.

So I had pink eye shadows to play with for the New Year. Pink still remains one of my most hated colours though. For my eyes I mean. It just makes me look as if its swollen. I'll probably use it to fool my doctor next time I get lazy... kidding!

I used MAC Let's Skate as base then the lightest pink, medium pink and the crazy hot pink. A little bit of MAC Typographic and called it a day. Add falsies and I'm pretty much done.

I didn't want to be too over done in pink. I'm not trying to compete with Barney or Barbie.

Bear Bear's NOTD

Decided to have Bear painted nails for the New Year, It wasn't too hard but my hands were a little shaky from the lack of coffee *sigh*

Since someone requested for a nail tutorial the last time I did my Froggy NOTD, I decided to do a tutorial for my Bear NOTD.

Pictures should be self explanatory right? RIGHT? A circle here, a circle there, a dot here, a dot there and voila, you have got yourself a bear!

Tutorial: FAIL!

Anyway, I cheated, It's much easier to use acrylic paint to paint your nails that nail polish so I'm confident anyone can do this too.

I'm a little smarter than the average Joe so.. I did housework; cleaned my room etc and spoilt all my nails. I R teh smartz!

Citadel's *ahem* acrylic nail colours. You can get these from your boyfriend if they happen to play Warhammer. If they don't just head to Game Forge over at Prima Tanjung, Penang to get it and ask boy friend to pay for it. Kidding :D

Colours I used:

Skull White
Chaos Black
Bleached Bone
Blood Red
Snakebite Leather

Ugly rabbits. No tutorial for this one. Who wants ugly rabbits on their nails. Blah!

Oh, I'm giving away my old contact lenses for FREE to anyone. But there's just two catch. Haaaa~ one: my power is -10.00

I believe it's rare to even find anyone with power as high as mine considering the fact that this power is never sold out. Nyahahaha!

I was in a rush to do my iLasik and forgotten that I still had a total of 4 pairs of contact lenses left. I have two with me. One in gray and one in blue. I threw the rest away as the date of expiry was 2011.

Two: Prove to me that your prescription is the same as mine and these are as good as yours. I'll pay for postage too! Unfortunately, my red packets wasn't too good this year so free shipping within Malaysia only.

Although this lenses can be worn for a year, I suggest you throw them away after no more than 3 months. Chances of them finding a new home is a little slim considering my 'blindness'... *sigh*

Froggy NOTD; Promise Phan inspired look: Kate Middleton - FAILED!

2012-01-15T21:21:00.006+08:00

Edited my post to make it less work ranty. Here's the NOTD that I did;

Since it's the 2nd time I did this, it took me a mere 10 minutes to complete everything. I had fun and looking at it makes me happy seeing 10 little froggies smiling back at me with their wonky dotted eyes. Heee~

Talking about wonky eyes..

Left to right: In door lighting; the "gimme all yer money" look
Excuse the smudged look, my make up is over 10 hours old.

Bought some contacts - again. This time it was from Blincon Sweetie range in Blue. I wanted something natural and not the Blue-enough-to-scare-grandparents-Blue. Not that I have any grandparents to scare.

It was very comfortable and did not feel drying so that a huge plus for me. It didn't give me the headache feeling that I get when I wore the contact lenses I brought from the night market.

I was told that 16mm lenses were not certified nor approved by our health department. I hope I am not misquoting or misinformed. It would seem the colours from 16mm seeps out after a while.

Promise Phan inspired: Kate Middleton

After watching Promise Phan on YouTube and the wonders of contouring, who wouldn't be tempted to try it out? Considering I got the typical flat face. Okay okay, I might not look like I ran into a wall but still it's not prominent in any way.

So I grab my concealer palette and got to work creating rail way tracks on the side on the nose.

Once the rail way track is completed, blend everything in with your fingers. If the shadows are still too damned obvious, use a little foundation to further blend everything. FYI, I applied the shadows on my cheeks a little too low.

No crease? Got eyeliner? Problem solved! Pffft, why spend RM2,000 in creating double eyelids. Promise Phan used black liquid eyeliner and I used brown instead. She has double eyelids to begin with, so it was merely enhancing it but for me it was more on the creating from scratch.

By this time, you can pretty much tell I look NOTHING like Kate Middleton. I just couldn't get the eyes right. Kate Middleton inspired? Gone with the wind. From here on, it's just a normal EOTD/FOTD.

Apply silver cream eye shadow on my lids on enhance my lids (below the brown eyeliner and below eyes) and then apply black eyeliner, apply false eye lashes. Apply a little brown eyeshadow below my eyes below the silver eye liner.

Apply peachy pinkish lipstick, some gloss, blusher and it's done. Oh don't forget to darken the eyebrows. I initially darken it quite a bit to make them look like Kate's.

Please don't bother telling me I look nothing like Kate. I'm really not that delusional.

Ash: How's the eye make up?
Jiun: Makes your eyes looks dollish and big
Ash: !!!
*wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

NOTD, Origins GinZing, Green and Gold EOTD

2012-01-05T21:44:00.012+08:00

Wow, what a shock to see all the lovely and super sweet comments on my last post. I don't usually get so many comments for posts without pictures. LOL. But thank you all very very much from the bottom of my heart!

Let me just start off with some NOTDs I did before and for Christmas 2011.

Been out of ideas for a while now. Decided to use my latest Konad stamp and just stamp some snowflakes on them and call it a day. Unfortunately since I didn't use the Konad nail polish; I used Elianto's white instead after painting the top coat on, the white became very light and can barely be seen. Oh well.

For Christmas, I was inspired by my colleague's nails and decided to imitate hers. She got hers done in a salon and el cheapo me can't pay RM150 for manicure so...

Stuck a snowflake sticker on it cause I can't draw snowflakes to save my life

I watched some YouTube video online and noticed how most of them seem to have dry and wrinkled eyelids. It was obviously because it was zoomed in but I must admit that it really scare me so off I go to look for an eye cream. After my last Olay Total Effect which was to be No Effect, I switched to Origins Ginzing.

Origins Ginzing states to visibly diminish dark circles, bags and puffiness around the eyes. Sounds superb to me. I've been using it for about 3 weeks and will let you know. According to Elisa, you don't know how well an eye cream works till you finish the bottle. *gulp* sounds like a bloody long time to me. Review will not be so soon. For as of now, no effect yet.

As I get older, I tend to stay home for most of the festive occasions. Mostly because I'm in no mood to jostle elbows with a sea of rowdy strangers and because of the traffic jam. The traffic in Penang has been horrendous with plenty of people from outstation all coming home for the festive seasons jamming every nook and corner.

Every eating outlet (good or bad) is totally packed with people queuing for food. There are absolutely no parking spaces anywhere. It's frustrating to even go out and get stuck behind stupid drivers who can't seem to make up their mind where they want to go. Penang is a small island, we don't have four lane roads, at best, we have two. So imagine. UGH!

Enough rant, here's what Pinky Doodle Doo got me for Christmas

Whee, a total of 9 tubes of Crabtree and Evelyn hand creams. I love them cause I can put them in my handbag and carry them everywhere. I tend to use hand creams after washing my hands so you can imagine how fast I can finish one.

also

MAC lipglosses. She knew I love MAC so she headed over, pondered between a red lipstick or these and got these instead. Thank you Pinky Doodle DOO! I Love Yoooo!

and also

Blooming Tea. It's been on the market for some time now. You get some withered ball of something, add hot water and watch as the flower blooms in your tea pot. The flower didn't look anything amazing like a real flower but it tasted pretty darn good.

Tasted like a flowery English Breakfast

Lazy Ash's EOTD of the month

Gold and Green

Started - as usual with my office make up. Apply some eye shadow base, then applied Kryolan Satin Powder in Gold all over lids, then using MAC's eye shadow from Intriguing Scarlet: 6 Warm Eyes in Warm Heat on the middle lids.

Apply Grand Entrance on the out V and a little below the eyes. Add eyeliner and falsies and you're done, Yay!

A close up

To me, no matter how badly your eye make up looks, when you add on a nice pair of false eyelashes, everything automatically looks better. As long as the other person stands a few feet away of course :P

If you're wondering why I tend to take just half of my face, its probably because I only did one half; I screw up the other half or;

I need a really good eye cream for my right eye...

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

2012-01-01T14:12:00.003+08:00

I humble, sincerely, grovel on my knee would like to apologize for the lack of post. Psst.. Not to worry, I have just sent the names of my readers to Biore for their free samples.

2011 was a pretty good year for me I guessed. Not too bad happened (Thank God) and everything went fine and dandy. Didn't win any jackpot and became an instant millionaire but I'm happy. I'm a little sad to see it go and be a year older in 2012.

Changed jobs but didn't change my boyfriend, went to placed I never went before; Hong Kong and Macau. Learnt that soon, another friend of mine is getting married and I'm super happy and excited for her.

Will post up some FOTD and NOTD once I get home, other than that, hope everyone had fun!

Biore Makeup Remover for Eye & Lip

2011-12-08T23:16:00.008+08:00

*Sponsored

Biore and I go back a long way, all the way back to when I was a pimply teenager. Fast forward and I am now a pimply woman. *LMAO* Some things never change.

I remember buying their oil control facial cleanser back when I was 12 and was really upset when they discontinued it.

If there's one thing I really love love love about Biore is their make up removers. ( Unfortunately there is a lack of love in the hair dye and sun block department) I started with the Makeup wipes then the Biore Perfect Oil and now, the Makeup remover for eye and lip.

The Makeup remover for eye and lip was actually sent to me by the Biore team. A BIG thank you to Caryn especially since my original package went missing in the mail.

Despite that, I'm going to be unbiased with my review. It's my name on the line, not Biore's so here goes.

I have tried a number of oil/water/whatever based facial cleansers for a long time, considering that I started using make up at 15 years old. Before Biore launched the make up removers, I was using ZA oil cleanser which I found that could remove heavy make up without much problem. Later on, due to being stingy, I bought a 'Korean brand' water based make up remover which as some might have guesses made me kneel on the floor screaming, ' MY EYES! OH GOD MY EYES!'

The main concern for a facial cleanser is no different from anyone, it had better remove medium to heavy make up, does not leave sticky residue and for me - the price is an important factor. (Yes, my middle name is el cheapo, nice to meet cha)

So let's see how well it works

Removed everyday make up without much scrubbing - check

No oily residue - check

Removes pain in the behind mascara without cursing - check

Doesn't require half bottle used to remove make up - check!

Amount used for whole face. Occasionally I do add extra for the super hard to remove mascara and do an additional wipe just to make sure I got everything off.

Pooh! Everyday make up is nothing. Lets try it on a day when I use super heavy make up. Add a horrible amount of eyeliner (which is something I use every single day) and happily drew on some whiskers.

It takes off this much from just ONE swipe. Not bad! Especially since I was using Bobbi Brown gel eyeliner underneath the brown liquid eyeliner.

*peeps over shoulders*

Sir Knows-Nothing: It looks like poo!!

Ash: .... *facepalm*

Me likey~ !!

Biore makeup remover for Eyes and Lips comes in 130ml bottles priced at RM29.90 (Could have swore that Watson is having a sale and it's cheaper than that right now). It is available exclusively at AEON, Wellness, Caring Pharmacy, Guardian, Watsons and Jusco

If you would like to try out the Biore makeup remover for Eyes and Lips yourself, all you have to do is be a follower to my blog, answer this question and I'll pick 30 people to receive the samples. Easy breezy~

Question: What is your favourite Biore product and why?

(There is no right and wrong answer, don't sweat it)

Leave your email, name and answer and you will be contacted via email.

Unfortunately, this is open only to Malaysians with valid addresses only. =_=;; (I am actually a little unsure how many Malaysian readers I have and dare say - not a lot *snort*)

The first 30 Malaysia readers who answer and complete the criteria will win a sample pack of Biore Makeup remover for Eye & Lip (18ml)

This freebie ends on 31st December 2011.

A short Holiday to KL; Hello Kitty stuffs etc, Kutsuwa key chain making kit, Etude House nail polish, Konad M59, Hada Labo

2011-12-05T23:31:00.006+08:00

52 hour week ended up being just a dream; starting this month it will go up to about 55 hours on some weeks. *sigh*

Anyway, Sir Terrible Memory had to go down to Kuala Lumpur for his CFA exam so I happily tagged along for the ride. It was a relaxing 3 days with no phone calls, endless shopping and eating. A much needed break for me. Unfortunately for Sir Terrible Memory it was a stressful week/month leading up to his exam.

*Fingers crossed*

My face is still on a rampage and they don't seem to be going away. At my wits end, I decided to switch to Hada Labo from my usual skin care. My skin seems to be having hydration problem since I noticed that it has been excreting lots of sebum. Thankfully, after just 2 days, it has shown signs of improving. It might also have something to do with me switching over to a better make up remover too. I've started using the Biore Make up remover for eyes and lips (Review coming up next!)

With no Sir Terrible Memory by my side to control my spending, I ended up spending my money on knick knacks. *sniff sniff* I bought earrings for my sister, Soap& Glory body butter for mom and lots of cookies for family from Mark&Spencer (All distributed the moment I set foot in my house)

On my last trip to Singapore, I saw the red Hello Kitty lunch Bag and love it so much, unfortunately, it spoilt and I found the exact same on in KL. I happily bought 2. Along with the Hello Kitty mouse pad and Hello Kitty plastic bag.

Tadaaaa, the cute Hello Kitty plastic bag. I have no doubt, Penang's Daiso should have it soon but I couldn't resist. I also bought a weird looking hair bow hair clip. AHAHA!

I still have curly hair so it looks very odd on me. Not to mention the fake hair is super duper shiny; kinda like the girls in the shampoo commercials. But it's so cheap, it's hard to resist. I guess I could use it with one of my wigs.

Other than that, bought some over priced hair accessories from Sunway Pyramid Asian Avenue *kicked myself a few times after that* a Konad stamp M59 from some small shops in there for RM13

Sorry for the bad picture. I have taking pictures that has a reflective surface.

And even stopped by Etude House (as if we don't have one in Penang) and bought two nail colours with 30% discount. PK003 is a colour I can no longer find in the Penang Etude House. They don't seem to be restocking that much now and most of the nail colours are gone. BOOO!

Oh, I also got a size too big Hello Kitty T-shirt from Uniqlo. It was the only size left and I really wanted it. *sigh* Stupid me, should have checked another outlet first before being in a rush to buy this. But still, thank you Sir Terrible Memory!

And after all that, I finally got the Kutsuwa keychain making kit from Kinokuniya at KLCC. Whee! I been watching RRCherryPie on YouTube for a while now and his video inspires me. I am really happy I finally got my hands on it *rubs hands gleefully*

I actually just want the mold. The cookie mold is all that I wanted.. *wipe drool from mouth* All instruction are in Japanese and lucky me; the only word I can read is ... the full stop! Seriously. But it can't be that hard right? I mean, I watch RRCherryPie done this a dozen times! Instructions, distructions, who needs them?

Uhh.. then again. Thankfully, Sir Terrible Memory reads Japanese so I still have something to fall back on and when all fails - I have someone to blame! AHAHAHAAA!

*rubs hands gleefully while going.. OH HO HO HO HO HOOOOOO~*

Pimples galore, Bloops of goo Hello Kitty NOTD, Revlon Colorsilk in Brown Black, everyday EOTD

2011-11-22T21:26:00.005+08:00

Working over 52 hours a week has finally taken it's toll. Especially on my face, not to mention ever since I permed my hair, I've been applying hair gel to it almost daily only to have uncontrollable pimples arriving by the Airbus A380.

Everything I use is of literally no use. So instead of scaring everyone off their dinner, laptops, computers. I'll just post up pictures of my NOTD.

Don't ask me about it, it really didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. I wanted flowers on the white background. My flowers looked like a bloop of goo, so I made lots of bloops of goo.

I have no idea why it looks dirty here. It looked fine to me in real life. Either my eyes aren't that great or the camera's dirty. Bleh!

Brainless rant

After all the hype about Liese Bubble Hair dye. I finally decide to give my 2 cents about it. Note that everyone's hair is different and what I say might not be accurate.

A while back, I dyed my hair with Liese Casis Berry. (link here) I found it super easy and super quick to do, a BIG plus for me. The colours were vibrant as Elisa has mentioned. She did warn me that the colours will come out lighter than on the box she she chose me a slightly darker colour.

I wrote on my blog then that my hair felt coarser after that and weeks after the dye job, my hair dried up - badly. Soon after the colours faded, I had straw like hair and it was horrendous. I then had to dye my hair using Loreal Casting Creme Gloss(?). I guess the series I took wasn't 'strong' enough cause it couldn't cover the Liese Casis Berry. After just a month, the colours faded and soon after I had a 3 tone hair. Great - NOT!

After all this months of hair and face disaster, I finally snapped and went to Watsons to purchase Revlon's ColorSilk in Brown Black and dyed it back to natural.

No more gelling hair so my curls are a mess, not to mention I tied my hair up the entire day and only let it down to take the picture

Brown Black? Liesssss, it's black black. Not that I am complaining. Yes yes, I look a little craze in the picture on the right. Well, I never said I was pretty. AHAHAHAA! My colleague took a look at me and said, "Uhh, don't worry we'll get use to it, just give us 5 days. 5 working days" LOL!

Don't get me wrong, I like Liese products but I guess this is just a miss for me.

A colleague told me that Liese was selling for only RM28+ over in Pacific Shopping Mall. I also found Sunshine supermarket at Penang Times Square selling them for only RM33 when Watsons was selling them for RM38.

Went to Watson yesterday to get some Biore Facial Wipes and saw that they were going for RM35 now!

Well since I am already posting up crazed looking pictures of myself why not post up one to make everyone save money by losing their appetites.

Lookie ma, no makeup!

It's a pity it wasn't a clear shot. Not to mention, the pimples got worst after that.
Most amazing thing? Sir Stingy took a look at me and waved his hands pooh-pooh when I was depressed and said, "Pimples will go away, it doesn't bother me."

This was taken while my pimples wasn't in full force yet. I used MAC paint pot in Let's Skate, Bobbi Brown's Mahogany e/s and gel eyeliner. Yes, this is my everyday work look. I am lazy. It doesn't change.

Thank you Elyn! *muaks muaks muaks*

MAC Lets Skate; NOTD Inspired by Hwannie

2011-11-08T00:03:00.004+08:00

I'm not too sure what I got myself into now that I'm working alternate Saturdays and Sundays. I'm tired!

Anyway during one of the working Sundays, MAC was doing a roadshow at Gurney Plaza. After my shift, I went to nosy around and saw.. MAC Let's Skate and fell in love. It's been a while and despite just spending a good RM155 on a foundation less than a week ago, I bought this.

I know I'm suppose to feel guilty but looking at this makes me feel happy. It must be the sparkles.

Sorry Clara!

I also bought an eye lash glue since the one Elyn gave me 2 years ago has died on me. It smells funky and is no longer sticky so with a heavy heart, I had to let it go. Thank you Elyn! Thank you Glue. You both gave me happy memories! *sniff*

Edit: OMG! I totally forgot that the glue Elyn gave me beheaded itself and this was actually given to me by the super sweet and really gorgeous Clara of DlbChin (link here) I'm really embarrassed by the mistake though.. *sniff sniff*

And as if I have not been spending badly, I found a new toy. 3 weeks later, I bowed to temptation and got it. After doing price comparison between MagicBoo and Beautility, I got mine from MagicBoo in Perangin Mall. Acrylic Powder.

I also got the acrylic liquid. I was expecting it to smell like nail polish remover so I opened the bottle and took a sniff. I think my nose hair fell out after that.

It smelled so goddamned bad that I rather drive my car behind a garbage truck with the windows rolled down!!

I tried to play around with it but I didn't have the proper brush and doing my nails while holding my breath is no fun cause after a while your hands starts shaking.

So I scrap the entire idea and just watch YouTube for inspiration. I LOVE Hwannie's nails. She has such great ideas so I decided to copy her's with a little twist of my own.

So anyway I have not forgotten about the Bella's wedding look as well as Leah Dizon's look. Sorry it took so long tho..

Also I'll take a snap of the RMK's liquid foundation soon :D

NOTD: Tuxedo nails; RMK liquid foundation

2011-11-03T23:28:00.001+08:00

Saw this a while back and I really liked the design, it seems fun and easy to do. I copied the design down into my little notebook and never forgot about it since. I wanted to do something for Halloween but orange with black polka dots later, I realised that seeing that many polka dots on my nails disturbs me.

So Tuxedos it is. I meant to do the ring finger differently - a lady in a red dress with a string of pearls on her "neck" but I forgot so ah the heck with it. It wasn't very neat because the black is actually GW Paints and not nail polish. It has a matte finish so I had to coat it with top coat to make it shiny and nice.

Items used:
GW paint in Chaos Black
GW paint in Blood Red
Elianto top coat
Elianto white nail polish
Stage base coat

Just to rant, I hate Stage base coat cause it stinks to high heavens. I hate Elianto's pink coloured base coat (the expensive one) cause it takes a bloody long time to dry and even after a while and if and when it does dry it remains sticky.

Thinking of getting a better top and base coat without having to go rob the bank. /sigh

E called me on her way to KL to ask if I still wanted the RMK liquid foundation. I happily said yes. Thankfully I just gotten my pay check or it would have been a no.

RM155?! What happen to the good old days when the most expensive foundation you ever heard of only cost RM120? Long gone!

I wasn't sure of my colour so I told E I wanted the lightest yellow base shade. I remember checking the internet and it was 101 or something. When I got it, I got a heart attack. It wasn't a shade I was expecting. It looked quite dark and yellow. Thankfully, the colour blended in nicely. Ahhh, now my face and neck is the same colour. For once anyway :P

The texture is very light and gel/water base type and blends easily. While others ended up with dewy looking skin, I ended up with a matte face. Oh well, not a big issue and it can be considered good in some ways.

Definitely need a base to go with this and the colour doesn't change to a different funky shade. Niceeeee.

Coverage is buildable. So far so good. Will post up pictures later

Hello Kitty nails; In2it lash conditioner, Vintage Rose nails, Maybelline Baby Lips

2011-10-19T23:40:00.009+08:00

Yesss, nail infection gone and NOTD's back! I gave my nails a much needed one month break and now the fun begins again. Or so I hope. I cheered myself up during my torturous sore throat period by watching YouTube and came across this. It was just too cute and I had to try it.

Items used:
Elianto Top Coat
Elianto White
GW Paints in Blood Red*
GW Paints in Bad Moon Yellow*
GW Paints in Chaos Black *

*These aren't really meant for nails. They are actually acrylic paints for WarHammer models but they are non toxic.

Hewwoo Kitty!

They didn't turn out perfect but it makes me smile looking at them. Hee! Painting my right hand was a pain in the *toot* though but Thank God for all the trainings I've had.

But just a day before the Hello Kitty, I was inspired to do a Vintage Rose NOTD. The results? I couldn't wait to wash this off fast enough. The OPI I'm In-dia Mood for Love turned out a little dull and I didn't manage to pull this off. BAH!

Bah! Bah! Bah!

Bored + Watsons = Not good combi. I start buying nonsense. One of the things I got during one of my trips to Watson was the In2it Lash Conditioner Mascara. It contains moisturising ingredient and keratin to help strengthen eye lashes and also assist in setting lashes. All this for a mere RM12.50. [USD$1 = RM3]

But anyway during my lapse of better judgment and got sold into the advertisement, I bought it and I am interested to see if this was any good, after all my Fasio Eye Lash Base was finishing.

Please follow instructions. On my first day, I curled my lashes then applied this and in just a few minutes, my lashed drooped down and looked as if I didn't even bother to curl it. On the second day, I curled my lashed, applied the lash conditioner and curled it again. The effect was much much better. The curls stayed the entire day.

Before and after

It doesn't volumise as much as I would like but for RM12.50 it's not bad at all but I can't give all the credit to the Lash Conditioner since I am using Maybelline's Volum' Express Cat Eyes Mascara. My love for Maybelline is for the mascara ONLY.

*Stares at picture*

Lookie, I look as if I got big, boogly, gold fish eyes. o.O Interesting.

*points points*

A while back, Tahira from A look In a Creative Mind drew this for me and I LOVE the picture of the unicorn so much that when I spotted a stall in a Chinese Art Exhibition making small glass figurines, I specially requested for a unicorn.

My little Pony, My little Pony~ La la la laa la la laaaa~

I speak no Mandarin and the 'si-fu' (He's from China) spoke no English. It was a classic case of chicken talking to a duck. There was a lot of hand waving and broken Mandarin till my colleague stepped in to help translate.

I requested for a white unicorn with pink mane and blue eyes. Merely two days later, my unicorn died. Either that or it became an ordinary horse. It toppled off my hand bag and into the floor. The tail went one way and the body the other.

My poor unicorn!

I sat down on the floor and started crying. In the end, I super glued everything back again. AHAHA! And it looked fine and dandy except for the little chip on the ear :P

Oh and how's the Maybelline's Baby Lips? After one week, my lips does feel more moisturised. It feels much smoother and I don't wake up with dry lips even when I forget to apply it the night before.

It smells nice and doesn't taste funky. It's also feel lightweight, it doesn't feel as if you have something on. It doesn't stay on your lips too long, disappearing within 15 minutes or so.

Then again, while I was using Lip Smackers, my lips feels pretty good too. *scratch head* So erm, moral of story is, it doesn't matter the brand but if you use your lip balm diligently, you'll get nice smooth lips anyway (?).

Anyone else writing a review for this? I suck..

Oops, sorry!

2011-10-17T22:57:00.001+08:00

Granduncle/ Grandpa passed away last Thursday night and we cremated his body today. Been a little busy and I'm down with sore throat and fever - AGAIN!

ARGhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Finger Infection; Maybelline's Baby Lips

2011-10-09T19:47:00.003+08:00

I apologise for the lack of post, it has not been a good 2 weeks for me. Out of no where an entire army of pimples came barging in and decided to stay with me for a good long vacation and refuses to go away.

Also, there was a lack of NOTD because me being a smarty pants tore my cuticles and left an open wound on my finger which then got infected. Nothing you guys wanna see. It hurt for a good 2 weeks before it turned purple and swell like a sausage. Out of desperation, I messed with it till the green pus came exploding out. Ugh right? Now, imagine my reaction?

On my last trip to Singapore, I saw Maybelline's Baby Lips at Watsons but being stingy, I decided to come back to Penang to get it hoping it'll be cheaper. I ended up waiting for a good 3 months before it arrived selling at the same price as Singapore after the exchange rate conversion. FML!

I wasn't sure if the lip balm was tinted or not so to remain safe, I got one named soothing cherry. Upon opening it, it turned out to be colourless (D'oh). UGHHH NOOOO. I no like cherry! Anyway the lip balm promises 8 hour moisture and rejuvenate lips in ONE week. I'm going to put this for the test.

Ever since I started my new job, I've been applying the Lip Smackers' Cotton Candy lip gloss I won from Bunny's Giveaway a while back every day religiously. My lips are in pretty good condition now so let's see how Maybelline does.

Another thing I got from Watsons was the Rose Fairy hydrating facial toner and lotion. Not sure how good it works or will works but knowing that it's a in house brand, it'll probably be mediocre. I'm not biased but I've tried a couple of in house stuffs from Watsons and they range from really bad to bad to average.

The only reason I bought them was because I really liked the bottles. They reminded me of the little traveling size bottles from Anna Sui. At 50% off I decided that I could just throw away the content and just use the bottles. Then again, the rose smells really good. The toner reminds me of rose water. Hmmm~

EDIT: The toner smells funky when you pour it out on your hands. Pour is a good word to describe it since there's no stopper. The lotion is really oily. Me no likey...

Bunny's suggestion: Lady Gaga; My Poodle hair

2011-09-27T21:31:00.007+08:00

As usual, every once a while when common sense leaves me for a holiday, I do the stupidest things. This time, I permed my hair. I have permed my hair a couple of years ago and hated it, so what on earth made me think I'll like it this time? I have absolutely no idea.

Maybe I imagine that the hair will turn out looking something out of the latest Popteen magazine, instead it somewhat came off the dog grooming brochure. All said and done, I'll have to live with it till it straightens again. In about 3 months or so if I'm lucky.

Ohh how I cried...
Btw, I forgot to gel this, it's usually curlier

I guarantee you that my next hair style will be short, straight and black.

I needed ideas and suggestions for an EOTD and you gave them, Thank you Lisa, Bunny and Rola (just click on their names for the link) for the great ideas! Instead of picking one, I decided to try out all three as they were all interesting. Something I would not have picked or thought of myself.

So coming up soon will be:

A Leah Dizon look
A bridal look of Bella from Twilight Breaking Dawn

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... How about the lady gaga look? That will be really really interesting!! the one with the eyeliner under neaththe eye oneeee~!!! lol am i making sense??" ♥Bunny♥

Picture from good old Google

Bunny, I hope I picked the right picture cause I ended up google-ing Lady Gaga eyeliner under eyes and got this. LMAO

Lazy Ash hardly takes off her leftover make up for an EOTD. Left over of the day from office. Sir Terrible Memory was hogging my laptop so I wasn't able to take a good long look at Lady Gaga. Yeshu, I blame you, Sir TM!

Dug thru my make up box and whipped out a long forgotten liquid eyeliner from Elianto that was due to go for a long vacation via dustbin. Bottom liner took me nearly 7 tries before I was somewhat satisfied. One good or is it bad thing about the liquid eyeliner that I could easily rub it off with a wet wipe and do it all over again when I did a mistake.

Once I started looking like a slightly more prettier version of Ronald McDonald, I covered my eyebrows with concealer and add my foundation. I did a mistake of grabbing my 'usually saved for ghostly pale' foundation and slapped it on. I came off looking a little too pale for this look.

Add false eyelashes and draw a mole the size of Texas. It never meant to be Texas, my hand slipped *excuses excuses* and add on red lippies. Added Bourjois chocolate bronzer on cheeks, highlighted, clean up messy eyeliner and call it a day.

To be truthful, I wanted to add some gold and silver sparkling eyeliner for the lines. No way on earth am I gonna stick those rhinestones on one by one. It'll take me all year!

Lo and behold, my gold eyeliner has long caked up, clumped up and died. It went to the places where all eye liners go when they die - Dustbin.

Thus it put an end to my attempts.

So Bunny, here you go, a subtle Lady Gaga + Ronald McD look that you wanted but didn't turn out the way you envisioned.

Suggestions, suggestions

2011-09-21T00:32:00.002+08:00

If there's any look that you saw in a magazine or even YouTube that you would like to see me attempt, please let me know. I've been wanting to do some EOTDs but brain is overworked, underpaid and has gone on strike!

Thanks!

P.s: Please note that the look will probably come out looking nothing like the picture/video/whatever. But it'll still be fun to see what I can come up with, right? Right?! RIGHT???

Poodle hairstyle; NOTD Music sheets; Elyn's gifts

2011-09-12T22:38:00.009+08:00

Ahh, what is there to write? Except that I have a hair style that only Poodles would love. Like seriously. No, I'm not in the mood to post up pictures of my hair right now. Perhaps later. I wept sorrowfully on my bed upon returning from the hair dresser.

There was a serious miscommunication between me and my hair dresser with each of us having a different picture in our head. And to think, I endured and kept my hair to shoulder length to get this hair and now all I want to do is dunk my head in a tub till it straightens.

The words, 'I trust you' is now haunting me.

Work started since last Tuesday. I don't want to complain so I'll skip that part or 500 pages won't be enough for me. Elyn's package arrived! What a surprise. Came home from work and there it was, a HUGE parcel with my name written on it with a note to make me burst out laughing.

In it, there was a bag of sweets, filled with green tea sweets and delicious with sticky, chewy plum fillings. Elyn, you shame me. I sent you 2 sweets and you sent me a bag full T.T I was so ashamed!

There was also crackers, sweets, cookie shaped picks and a bottle of L'Occitane Fleur de Cerisier body lotion. Why must you send me such expensive gifts? Didn't I say I'll pay for the lotion? Stop being difficult and give meeeee your account numberrrr~

P.s: I've been trying for days to upload the pictures to no avail. Something wrong somewhere. Had to use photobucket o.O

NOTD - Music sheets

Well, I guess if there's one way to cheat during a music exam. If you're suppose to memorize the notes, just stamp them on your nails :P

But normally, they'll just make you play and tone deaf people like me won't go far even with the notes stamped on my nails.

Used:
BYS white
Stage Cosmetics base coat
Elianto Top Coat
Elianto Black
Konad M73

NOTD; Lovely lens Contact lenses

2011-09-05T15:25:00.006+08:00

It's going to be a while before I will be posting up any EOTD in good lighting. I'm starting work tomorrow and I'm nervous as hell. Its not excitement but pure nerves.

So with my last remaining hours slowly ticking away, I will be doing two short reviews and a NOTD

Impulse buy at the afternoon market in Straits Quay. It's a little like my Anna Sui's loose powder box. I thought it'll make a nice dressing table decor.

Out of curiosity but partly because I noted this was one of the cheapest make up removers in Watson, I decided to try it out. I compared it between our usual ZA oil make up remover and Biore but this one was cheaper and had more ml.

Of course, me being me, missed out the word, WATER. Perfect Cleansing WATER. Had a mini panic attack but done is done.

It takes me about two pumps to fully remove all make up. Using ZA or Biore only takes me half or one pump. So while it might be cheaper, this will be finishing faster.

What I like about it is the feeling of our skin being really clean after using the cleansing water. There is no oily residue or the feeling of anything on our skin. It also cleans pretty well for a 'water' type of remover (surprisingly)

Beware of the liquid getting in your eyes though. It's potent enough to render you to your knees while screaming, 'MY EYES, MY EYES! OH GOD, my eyes!' Yes, it's that good.

A while back, Sir Stingy and I went to the Tuesday night market at the Tanjung Bungah Market and while browsing around saw that they sold contact lenses. Instint and common sense tells us to buy it from a proper shop and not some dodgy night market.

Of course, I lack the usual common sense and bowed to temptation. Different stalls sells it at a different price but it's all the same thing. I bought mine at RM20. I didn't buy these for long term usage but mostly for EOTD and FOTD so I'm hoping they'll be okay.

I didn't dare to wear it till I did some research. The sellers all assure me it was made in Korea. Hah! That's exactly what they said about the fake MAC cosmetics as well. That it is made in Korea under license. Righto, I may occasionally lack common sense and lapse in good judgment but I do have an IQ higher than 20.

It would seem that where ever it came from, it was re-packed in Malaysia. I bought the lenses in gray but it's more black than gray. I forgot to check the diameter of the lenses and it was a 16.oMM. I don't have big eyes but at 16.0MM, it's enough to make me look Junon-ish in real life. My usual ones are only 13.8MM

NOTD -

Making use of the Konad I purchased. Trying out different colour combination to see what works and what doesn't.

Elianto Egg
Elianto White
Elianto Top coat
Stage cosmetics base coat
Konad plate in M73

Revisted: CoastalScents brushes

2011-09-01T23:03:00.006+08:00

Back in 2008, I bought a couple of brushes from Coastal Scents. I got the Pink Kabuki brush, Pink Duo Fiber Powder Stippling, Angle Blush Brush and the Deluxe Buffer brush. Back then, there was a craze thanks to a few make up gurus on YouTube raving about them.

3 years later and owning more brushes now, I come to realize how much I hated those brushes.
I first got the Pink Kabuki brush, Pink Duo Fiber Powder Stippling in June of that year. They were very soft and I had good impression on them. I washed the brushes with some mild shampoo as usual and that's when the "fun" began.

The Pink Duo Fiber Powder Stippling brush bled like crazy, staining the entire white part permanently gray. Till now. I do not own another stippling brush thus I cannot compare how stippling brushes are suppose to work and the effects. Right now, I think this is junk.

I've always wanted a kabuki brush. The name itself sounds so cool. Nowadays, I use this to put on my mineral foundation. The colour never bled, thank God but just after a few washes, it started shedding like crazy.

Before people start pointing their finger at me thinking it's my funky washing skill or funky shampoo, please take note that I use either Daiso's brush cleaning detergent or Johnson and Johnson's baby shampoo. Also, I have no shedding problems with my other brushes, it's just these.

Every time I use this, I have to literally start spitting out hair from my mouth and then pick up the other scattered hair from my face.

Next batch

Left to Right: Angle Blush Brush, Flawless Face Chisel Blush Brush, The Deluxe Buffer Brush

In August 2008, I got the Angle Blush brush and the Deluxe Buffer brush. The hair on the brush is somewhat coarse and not as fine as the Kabuki brush. Out of all these brushes, the only one I still use is the Angle Blush brush which I use to contour my face on my non-lazy days. It's also my only angle Blush brush so I don't have much of a choice.

I really need to start getting more brushes and better ones. *sigh*

The deluxe buffer brush is a total FAIL! It's the first one I ditched. It sheds like no tomorrow and because the hair is fine, it gets into your eyes and when it sticks to your face, it really sticks and it's hard to pick it off. Hate hate hate!

Well, lesson learnt.

Hungry Bear and Cat

2011-08-30T11:33:00.004+08:00

Yay! I'm happy to announce that Hungry Bear And Cat is now officially up. Hungry Bear and Cat is a joint effort between Sir Terrible Memory and I on Penang food

More reviews will be coming up shortly, feel free to drop by

Thank you!

BEAR

http://hungrybearandcat.blogspot.com

Rose Rose I love you~; NOTD; NYX Lipsticks

2011-08-25T14:49:00.005+08:00

Rose, Rose I love you with an aching heart.
What is your future, now we have to part?
Standing on the jetty as the steamer moves away,
Flower of Malaya, I cannot stay.

-Rose Rose I Love you, Frankie Laine, 1940

I'm starting to gather that perhaps I might have a little problem with Roses.

This is only a small part of my rose collection

I love them a little too much. Only the scent though. It's weird considering I'm not much of a fan of the actual Rose. I prefer lilies; Casablanca and Calla lily are a favourite but I can't stand their smell.

Haul of the day

It's not even lunch time and I have exhausted my wallet. Queen E (Elisa) managed to get some Raspberry mask from The Face Shop for only RM60 instead of the usual RM99. So yay! All hail, QE!

Bought the much needed white nail polish from Elianto again since my old one is drying up along with L'Occitane solid Rose perfume *cough*. Talk about impulse buy along with other unmentionables.

Also, the lipstick from NYX that I wanted so badly finally came; Orange Soda and Strawberry Milk. The swatches from online showed Orange Soda to be a beautiful light orangey-peach. And it is.

I love this seller, the package came in less than 2 days after paying for it. For ONCE, a seller that is prompt. I don't haggle, I don't demand a lot, I just want my packages to come on time for God's sakes!

Then again, just knowing my luck...

I have paid for broken lipsticks thanks to our wonderful postal service. The package came resembling something people have stepped on.

The lipsticks broke and so did my heart. I waited over a month for them!

I knew I couldn't trust Samy Vellu when he loudly promised Pos Laju's (translation: Fast Post) slogan to be "Send tomorrow, arrive today". Yes he actually said that, but what I think he meant was send today, arrive tomorrow. Then again, fast in one thing, arriving in one piece is another.

Well, the colour turned out weird on me anyway so..

I was expecting Strawberry Milk to be funky on me, I didn't fit the MAC Saint Germaine or whatever so I was expecting it but I had a lot of hope on Orange Soda. In the end, Orange Soda looked weirder on me that Strawberry Milk. I'm gonna go hide under my blanket now, thank you very much.

On a happier note, I finally bought some Konad stamp plates after debating with myself for over 3 months.

NOTD - Uhh.. Swirly Cherry Blossoms or something

Sorry, I didn't clean the side of my nails yet.

NOTD; Black Lace with Pink Stripes

2011-08-16T02:52:00.003+08:00

NOTD of the week

Black Lace with Pink Stripes

Note that the name is always fancier than the nails. It was actually an inspiration from a video I saw on YouTube. She even had the Eiffel tower painted on the wedding finger. As you can see, I accidentally painted stripes on my ring finger. I painted the Eiffel tower too but it looked too much like a badly written "A" that I washed it off and replaced it with a rhinestone with silver little balls and call it done out of sheer laziness.

Since the little silver balls came in a chain rather an individual, they were a pain to glue on. I ended up using super glue to glue the damned thing on to kingdom come. Decided I'll worry about getting them off later.

Headed over to Queensbay Mall with Pinky Doodle Doo and friends and bought a pair of black tights for Elisa from Daiso. Pinky bought me a pair a couple of days ago and it was surprisingly good quality. Not bad for RM5 right? They come in black, charcoal, navy, brown and purple.

See, they are thick - just the way I like them. While I was there, I spotted the house slippers from Forever 21. Aren't they just so cute? There was only 2 pairs left when I was there and I wasn't sure if M was my size. Thankfully they were.

Mouse! Or is it Mice?

Girly recently went to the USA for an international singing competition in which she got a bronze. Yay! Congrats Girly. I'm so proud!

Before she headed over, I asked her to get me a couple of items from L'Occitane. She came home with them and saved me a total of RM100. Thanks to shipping the items in L'Occitane are cut throat over here.

The Almond Milk Concentrate sells at US$4o excluding tax which amounts up to roughly RM120. In Malaysia, the very same items sells for RM203 which is roughly US$67 *sigh*

How do I like this?

I LOVE this. If it wasn't for the price, this would be the ONLY body lotion/cream I'll use till the day I die.
I like the scent, it smells a little of vanilla and very sweet smelling. Perhaps some might find this a little too sweet. It works wonders and make the skin super soft. Hmmmm~
The Body Shop lotions comes no where close and even the Crabtree and Evelyn La Source loses out to this. Anyone else going to the US?

FOTD - As Sir Thinks-He-Knows-Alot requested

2011-08-11T23:55:00.008+08:00

After reading the list of Japanese favourite products 2011 from Ekimura, I immediately gave MAC a call 10 minutes before their closing time to check if they still have MAC Siss lipstick. The MAC Siss lipstick ranked 1st in the magazine and I want it it so badly. I was worried after reading in some forums that it has been discontinued.

Chris answered the call and a few seconds later confirmed that they had it. Whee! Early the next day. Sir Thinks-He-Knows-Alot aka Sir Terrible Memory, took me to Gurney Plaza to try the colour.

His comment, "You look like you ate some chocolate and forgot to wipe mouth." Uhh, thanks dear. I tried Creme D'Nude instead and after a moment, Sir Thinks-He-Knows-Alot commented that I just un-made myself.

Black black eyes

According to Sir Thinks-He-Knows-Alot, women should have red lips, it is unnatural to have brown/chocolate coloured lips. (MAC Siss was the colour of McDonald's chocolate ice cream cone on me - not the sundae, cone). In his (narrow) eyes, women should all have pale skin, black black eyes (eye makeup) and red lips.

I debated with Sir Thinks-He-Knows-Alot that we usually focus on just ONE feature. You can't do the eyes AND the lips. People wouldn't know where to look at! He just happily said, " Oh, but if you do the eyes AND the lips, it will make your look balance and everything will look good." Left me a little speechless.

For someone who can't tell between a lip balm and a lipstick, he sure talks a lot.

But I decided to make his wish come true... in a way to educate him.

Pale skin
Black black eyes
Red Lips

Got it! Things needed;

ELF eye primer
Elianto Whitening Fresh Foundation Stick
The Face Shop Phytogenic make up base in Green
La Pensee eyebrow palette
Botanics eyeshadows
MAC Typographic
Silkygirl Yin and Yang
MAC Kohl pencil in black
NYX jumbo pencil in Black Bean

Apply ELF primer all over eyes and then NYX Black Bean as base. Smear it all over till it's somewhat a shape you want. I brought it up higher than usual to emphasize the 'black black eyes'.

Layer Silkygirl Yang on top of NYX Black Bean and pat on it so there's little fall out. Use Botanic eyeshadow in pale gold to highlight the brow bone and clean up. MAC Typographic is used blend the harsh line gone.

Line waterline with MAC Kohl pencil. Apply falsies.

Apply TFS Phytogenic base all over face to reduce the redness and make yourself paler than usual.

Elianto Whitening Fresh Foundation Stick next.

Left to right: With lip gloss, without lipgloss

The sun is now out and I slowly roast in my own room. Make up starts melting. Quickly sets face with Anna Sui loose powder or whatever was within hands grab.

Line lips with Revlon lip liner, fill in with Secret Pouty Shine Lipstick in Wild Rose and MAC Cult of Cherry lip gloss

Make up continue melting, need pictures quick!

Put on wig, camewhore, hide behind window when dad walked pass. Camwhore a little more. Make up melted beyond help. Gave up.

To Sir Thinks-He-Knows-Alot:
Another request with black eyeshadow and I'll draw your face with my eyeliner while you sleep!

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P.s: Thanks to all the comments, Sir Thinks-He-Knows-Alot now struts around with a super-sized head happily quoting the rest of you..

But thanks for the comment, it was nice to know I didn't look crazy or freaky or worst XD

Ughh..

Haunted room at the Ritz Carlton, KL?

2011-08-05T17:20:00.008+08:00

I'm watching you

Headed down to Kl with Elisa and Kern minus boyfriends. We arrived at our hotel, The Ritz Carlton a little over 8pm. Had a quick dinner at Jalan Alor and we decided to call it a night. Long gone we the days when we stayed up all night going clubbing and gossiping.

At about 10 plus, as I stepped out of the shower, I saw words written on the mirror opposite the shower. I went closer to inspect it and read the words as 'I'm watching you'.

I swear my heart thumped loudly in my chest. I reasoned with myself then that perhaps Elisa wrote it as a joke as she was the last one to use the bathroom. It's not Elisa's style but she can be unpredictable. If it wasn't her then refer to the Asian way of dealing with the supernatural.

Lesson number one; Ignore and Lesson number two; Never show fear.

I deliberately took my time and after all's done, strolled out of the bathroom. Elisa went in and not wanting to miss the moment, I followed her into the bathroom and confronted her.

A: Were you the one who wrote on the mirror?
E: *Eyes goes big* Fuck! What are you talking about? Fuuuuck *while running out of bathroom*
A: ... (okay, not her)

After explaining, she rushed back into the bathroom to try to read the words. She later accuse me of being extremely calm but had a glint in my eyes when I confronted her. She doubted me for a full 1 second before remembering that this is the Hungry Ghost Month.

We stuck to the Lesson number one till we checked out the next day.

Itsy Bitsy Haul
My main reason for the butt aching 4 hour drive was because I wanted the RMK Liquid Foundation since there is no RMK counters in Penang. In the end, I forgot to buy it. I hate myself.

Thank you Sir Terrible Memory!

I was looking for the Marc by Marc Jacob Bow ring but it was sold out and this caught my eyes. The Marc by Marc Jacob Bianca Bow Necklace.

The sales lady told me it was the last one and after a close inspection saw that there was a crystal missing. Seeing that I've lost interest, the sales lady hurriedly went to the store room to check and brought this one out.

The previous one not only had a crystal missing but the little tag on the bottom as well. Sheesh. I'm glad I didn't get the first one.

I got Soap & Glory's Scrub your nose in it from Sephora for RM36. I need a good face scrub and so far, I'm liking it. It has a minty smell and cooling effect. The face feels much cleaner and smoother after a good scrub. I used this on my entire face rather than concentrating on the T-Zone since I have lots of white heads on the cheek area as well. Bleh!

Daiso's Blusher that I have drooling for ages. At only RM5, the colour is very pigmented and gives a very rosy flush. Too much and you'll look like you got baboon's ass for cheeks. Colours unfortunately doesn't last too well. Made in China...

Other than that, I got 2 other dresses for only RM30 each and we went on our merry way home.

NOTW
Be prepared for ugly pictures

Clouds & Rainbows inspired nails by Cutepolish (YouTube)

Fairly easy to paint but not very noticeable and the red was a little over-powering(?)

Half Moon Nails - Red & White

I should have left it here *sobs*

Stick on paper reinforcements on nails and paint. I'm normally never this messy but this came out looking so bad it's unacceptable!

Washed it off and endured another round of foul smelling nausea inducing nail polish.

Not the best but will have to do for now. Eech!

Farah asked me how often I do my nails. I usually do my nails every 1 - 2 weeks but I cut my nails just about that often too. I prefer shorter nails now.

While shopping in Gurney, I got suckered into trying out the Tsuya Tsuya Angel Eyes Lash Treatment. They were promoting the Mircoz Lash Treatment but strangely used the Tsuya Tsuya brand on me. Odd.

It's basically just little black fibers that sticks to your mascara and helps makes your lashes look thicker. It was selling at RM79.

I was worried about the tiny fibers falling into my eyes and irritating it but the lady assured me it was 100% natural and can even be eaten.

Since I already have mascara on, she wet it with a cotton wool, applied more mascara on me and applied the fiber.

How do I like it? Me no likey. Sorry! Me no like the price, me no like the effect. It lengthen my eye lashes but to me, it just also emphasized how little lashes I have. It's also very time consuming. If anything, I'll stick to the Flamingo Mascara given to me by Dlbchin. :D

Inspired Look: LIGYARU's gyaru

2011-07-25T15:54:00.005+08:00

It's been a while since the last FOTD or whatever. I was inspired by a western gyaru I saw on YouTube under LIGYARU (click on the name for her blog). Her looks are much more intense with over the top wigs and exaggerated make up and very unlike Ekimura's gyaru style which is very subtle and very pretty. It intrigues me because despite the two different looks, I love them both. I'm drawn to Lady Li's eyes and just had to try it out.

For this FOTD, I'm going to post the end pictures only. The process of doing the eyes were long and very very scary. Even for me.

Well Bunny, here ya go, full faced pictures as requested :D

How it started and how it all ended

I had to erase off my eyebrows and make them appear again but in a different colour. I did this by using my ELF eye primer to cover them up and then dabbed light brown eyeshadow on them. Seeing how it didn't work, I opted to use my lip liner. Since I only have ONE lip liner and it wasn't a suitable colour, I went back to dabbing eye shadow colour.

As much as I loved Lady Li's gyaru look, I just wasn't able to duplicate the exact look. Then again, I never did an exact look of anyone before. This is my interpretation and done mostly to see how it would look on me and at the same time still be me.

Took the pictures near my window, I'm a little glad that it wasn't too hot today and I didn't look completely washed out.

Ah well, was never gyaru looking in the first place. Too damned lazy anyway.

Liese Hair dye in Cassis Berry; NOTW: Cuppie cake nails

2011-07-22T00:56:00.012+08:00

On the way to dinner in Bt. Ferringhi

Ooo, the merciless sun! Its too hot to do any FOTD/EOTD lately. Even putting on everyday make up has become a challenge since my foundation and concealer melts off before I finish my entire face. I've taken to putting on my foundation last to no avail.

Out of sheer boredom, I dyed my hair today. Had Elisa pick out a colour for me and she mentioned something about me needing some colour so she picked Liese's Cassis Berry. I must admit that I was a little apprehensive about the colour choice but she has better taste than me and I absolutely trust her.

The before pictures
Pic one: normal florescent lighting
Pic two: Natural sunlight

My roots isn't too bad yet but the weather was hot and I had nothing to do. The instruction on YouTube seems easy enough.

So what do I think of it?

PROS
Very simple to use and I don't need my mom's help to dye my hair.
The colour turned out very vibrant.

CONS
The smell of ammonia was super strong! While colouring the side of my head, the smell was enough to sting my eyes. Since I'm such a smart pants, I did it in my room while the curtains down and closed door. I gagged!

With my head full of foam, I managed to smear it on my waster paper basket, curtains, wooden divider and sink top. I R GENIUS!

ARGH! I've been shot!
Ooo, If I have left it, I would have had cool looking Elvis Presley-like sideburns!

The weather was so hot that while waiting for my hair to take in the colour, the foam became runny and ran down my chin. If I had a beard, it would be red too.

Most of the other reviewers mention that they had smoother softer hair after the dying it but I didn't feel that way. It's sightly coarser than usual. Then again, I do have super soft and straight hair to begin with.

The after pictures
Pic one: normal florescent lighting
Pic two: Natural sunlight

Uhh, just in case you think I'm boasting, note that super soft = super limp. My hair has absolutely zero volume. My hairdressers ask me if I straighten my hair which I do not and it upsets me. If I wanted super straight hair (which I don't) the next day, all I do is I wash it, comb it and go sleep. I rather have wavy, volume hair. Hell, I don't care if I have Dolly Parton like hair! *sniff sniff*

Pictures taken near the window

NOTD

Saw this on YouTube and just had to try it. Wish I didn't. The frosting on the "cupcakes" looked a little retarded since JH's white acrylic paint has dried up and became lumpy. I made it even worst when I paint big fat cherries on them and hated it! Covered everything up with white and from lumpy became clumpy.

Never in my life have I had 5 different coloured nails so I found this refreshing. Wish I had a lighter yellow or mint colour nail colour tho. It would have looked better. *sigh* But will make do :D

It's my birthday and I'll argue if I want to! NOTW; red black frenchie, floral pattern, Dolly Wink liquid eyeliner

2011-07-17T23:43:00.007+08:00

It's been a while since my last post. My birthday came and went and everything's been quiet. A little too quiet.

Yes, I'm officially in my 'late' twenties now. No longer 'early' or 'mid'. It's strange knowing that after this, the years are gonna roll by and before I know it I would have hit 30. I've always wondered where I'll be and what I will be doing when I turn 30. Now, it's just a couple of years away and I'm still no where.

Thank you Pinky Doodle Doo!!

A day before my birthday was the Clubhouse's annual Drunk Fest: Tequila Night. Was not planning to drink but spent the night and morning hugging toilet bowls, wash basins, plastic bags and waste paper basket. What a way to start.

Me and Tequila are not friends. Never were, never will be. Period

Later the evening, I treated my family to our favourite japanese restaurant: Isaribi Tei.

My promise to myself this year was to look pretty for my birthday unlike my previous birthday which had me looking all tired and haggard. I dressed up, looked nice, smell nice, etc and ... argued with the boss of the restaurant /facepalm

Isaribi Tei is as well known for the affordable and nice japanese cuisine as it is for the extremely rude boss. We never had a problem till that night. It left me a little pissed and I guess me and JH's weekly meal there instead will be a monthly thing instead.

JH gave me a choice between a bag, a laptop or a watch. I picked a watch.

Liquid Eyeliner

I guess you know when to retire your liquid eyeliner when the consistency of the eyeliner becomes diluted and uneven. Behold.

When I first got this, I loved it to bits. It started off so promising - dark and beautiful. Read here. And now, it gone and died-ed on me. *sniff sniff*

Luckily about 4 months ago, I purchased the Dolly Wink black eyeliner from Sasa. There was raves about how good and fantastic they were so out of curiosity I got them. I'm happy to say I have no regrets at all. I do wonder if it'll turn gray and diluted on me later tho.

No problem washing this off since I use oil cleansers.

The liner is easy to use and can be used to draw both thick and think lines without problems. The only thing that I would like to point out is that it strangely smudges on me despite me using UDPP as base. I don't expect anyone else to have this problem since it's more of a mono lid problem. *shrugs*

In life, I hardly, close to never experience creasing problem but I smudge all the *toot toot toot bleeeep* time.

I really liked how the gray pigment (eyeshadow) in this look. Believe it or not, I gotten the pigment roughly 3-4 years ago and this is the first time it worked. This time, I used UDPP as eye base. So what was I using before this?

Minus the falsies

The lady who sold me the pigments was really popular seller in a forum I frequent and besides pigments, she also sells eye base which she claimed made the pigments waterproof. I happily purchased the eye base. To cut things really short. We later found out the eye base was actually Vaseline from Watsons. One reason why my pigments didn't stay on my lids, colours came out horrible, muddy and it does the David Copperfield ie: Disappears. I shelf the pigments till now.

Dug up an old lip gloss of mine and slather it on

NOTW

For my birthday I painted the usual OPI Off with her Red and once it started chipping, I used black to do a sort of frenchie.

Yuck, the red at the base looks awful after a week

Then I came across Tiffany-Kim's blog and saw this:

Fell in love with it and was so eager to try it. I have a strange love for floral patterns. Bags, clothes, rose scented perfumes etc. I'm quite sure I probably remind some of you of your grandma T.T *sniffs*

Nope, didn't turn out so well. Re-did this as the stripes I made looked awful! My light green has dried up and I ended using the Maybeline Lickety Split for the leaves.

Of course, knowing my luck, I accidentally knocked over the bottle and it fell on my favourite pajamas, giving me a suspicious looking GREEN period-like stain.

FML!

Angry Birds

My first ever angry bird. Made it for Jobie's belated birthday but Pinky Doodle Doo nabbed it. Sorry for the blurry pics, it's not easy taking a snap shot of something on your thumb.

Hate hate hate working with white. Just about anything can stain the white. ARGH!

NOLW; Plaids + Minnie Mouse inspired, Bourjois delice de Poudre

2011-06-28T00:30:00.006+08:00

I've been sleeping my days away. The weather is so freaking hot. Some parts of the world might be flooding but Penang has turned into a toaster oven. It cooks you slowly, not allowing us a swift death.

It's too hot to go out, it's too hot to sleep yet it's too hot to do anything except wriggle in your sweat soaked bed dreaming of McDonald's chocolate sundae.

NOLW- Nail of Last Week

Saw the design on Youtube and had a grand idea to do plaids on my nails. Too grand. It failed. Partly because my super thin long thin nail brush has curled into a "C" and I couldn't make thin lines with it anymore.

10 minutes later, everything was washed off and on to the next big idea.

Minnie Mouse inspired nails

To be truthful, I've always been a fan of Donald/ Daisy Duck more than Mickey and Minnie but I love the idea. The dots I made were a little too small, I think it would have looked better with bigger dots. Oh well.

Graduated from strange looking waffles to strange looking macaroons. Yay! I'm been thinking of sending some to friends but I wonder if they'll be insulted with something this badly made?

The missing macaroon finally rejoins the group

JH's younger brother has returned from the UK for a short break. I must admit that I frequently trouble him by asking to buy me this and that. There has not been a trip that he has returned without a list of what I want. He never complained, what a nice guy.

This time it was for the Bourjois Delice de Poudre bronzing powder in 51. Saw this a while ago but couldn't figure out where to get it. It is only available everywhere except Malaysia. As usual. And even if it reached Malaysia, it would probably cost a bomb no thanks to the tax. As usual.

51 is the lightest shade they had. JH asked me what it was for and I explained with a flurry of hand actions that it was a bronzing powder and is used for contouring the face and making it look slimmer.

Truth be told, I.do.not.know.how.to.use.it.

There will be no How to contour face tutorial because I have absolutely no idea how to pull it off. Sure I know where the bronzer goes and all but everything I do makes me look dirty. Well, the bronzer is a good 16.5g so there will be a lot of attempts in the near future.

Yana's sister has a review on this; Read it here

Got the Maquillage Design Face Colours (refill) in #20 for cheap. I have no idea what the heck this was for since I can't read a word of the instruction (It was in Japanese and JH is not around) but I ended up mixing all the colour together and using it as blusher. AHA! Surprisingly it turned out quite pretty, It has a very subtle natural blush colour that makes my cheeks looks healthy and smooth. OoOoooo.. me likey!

If anyone could even tell me how to use this, I will be grateful >.<

Bought the Bobbi Brown Basic Eye Palette for mom. I know she loves browns and I thought she would love this. Unfortunately mom is more of the reddish brown kinda person. Excuse me while I go bang my head on the wall.

I have had my Shimmering Nudes palette for a while now and the colours are too similar to the Basic Palette for me to keep.

It cost me a pretty penny too. *sniff*

Miniature clay items

2011-06-19T23:01:00.007+08:00

Having a hobby is always good, it keeps my sanity and gives me something to look forward to and do. I've been making small miniatures food items and turning them into hand phone charms for friends.

Rant
It is not entirely without some heartache along the way. I ordered the clay online and got some old clay from them. They require a lot of kneading to make them workable. I ended up crying in frustration the first time I used them and complained via email.

Thank god, they do have very good customer service. They denied sending me old clay, offer refund and gave me lots of tips to knead the clay. I need the clay and sending the clay back means I have to spend extra on shipping and begin all over again searching for the clay. I decided to perhaps the clay was indeed fine and it's just me. Thank him for everything and went off happy only to see someone on YouTube with the same clay that didn't even require her to knead very much. &^%$#@!!

/ end rant

Oh well..

I may not be able to sew to save my life like some people can but I do enjoy making small miniature food items. I'm no genius but it's relaxing and fun. These are from my first batch, they were clumsily made but made with lots of love as well.

*Note: Some might have heard this before but buttons I've sewn on shirts comes with a 99 year guarantee never to come off. *snort* The one meter long thread might have something to do with it though.

I am not a pro, I am not a pro, I am not a pro...

Lately, I've gone and made a couple of plates as well. JH recommended me the Royal Copenhagen (click on the link here) for design inspiration. I sincerely I don't get my *toot* sued for using their designs as inspiration but their Blue Fluted Mega collection were very pretty. I might not be able to own any of their collection in this lifetime but those of can, feel free to browse their online shop.

P.s: I'm not making the plates to sell. It's just for fun.

Royal Copenhagen inspired plates (except the one in the middle of course)
They are roughly the size of the Malaysian 10 cents

The designs were a total pain in the *toot toot toot* to paint on something this small. I might look easy but I nearly went cross eyed painting them. I failed 3 times before deciding to stick to this design. It's clean, clear and crisp with not too much funky lines. Hats off to those who paint miniatures for a living.

I recently made a Battenberg Cake, I used toy clay mixed with acrylic paint for this and prove to be a mistake. They dry too fast and too many of them spoilt by not sticking together (brown-pink part). I also realized the plates I made were too small. They nicely fit ONE Batterberg cake or ONE macaroon.

Excuse me while I go pull my hair out. I thought this was suppose to be relaxing..

Lancome: A Love Affair Inspired

2011-06-07T00:23:00.011+08:00

It's been a while since I did an inspired look.

I bought a local 'fashion' magazine a couple of days ago for RM1 (a February 2011, second hand of course, couldn't resist the price!), it's been over 4 years since my last issue. Gone were the interesting articles replaced by hundreds of 'heard-that-done-that tips', useless bedroom advices, gazillions of ads of expensive products. Then again, that's how to make money right?

Inaccurate report. Marilyn Monroe has always been known for her hourglass figure. The magazine stated she was a 36" 23" 25"(?!), Uhh.. where's the hourglass in that? A more accurate vital stats for Ms Monroe would have been 35" 22" 35" according to Fatnutritionist.com. BOOO! But I'm guessing it's a typo on their part.

One make up look however caught my eyes. It was for Valentine's Day using Lancome's Ultra Lavande Collection.

Unfortunately, I thought it was horrible. It was suppose to be sort of a Rocker chick theme with the caption, 'Rock it!'. Then again, what do I know? I'm a simple blogger with a big mouth and no make up cert. D'oh!

So I decided to do this look and see how it turns out.

First, take a nice big close up picture of it. Stare at it for an hour. End of one hour - It still looks awful. Wonders if JH will bring me out for a nice Valentine Dinner if I wear this out or will he stay home and cook me instant noodles.

Remembers she is no make up artist for any big magazines. Sets to work. For this look, I will be using dupes and whatever I find at the bottom of the dressing table.

Face and Eyes: Mac Typographic, Nylon, Nice N Vice PP (Paintpot), Black track PP, Cash Flow PP, Christian Dior palette, La Pensee eyebrow palette, Botanics eyeshadow in 'no name'.

Cheeks and Lips: MAC Triple Fusion Mineralized Skinfinish, Elizabeth Arden Pink Champagne lip gloss

Camera acting wonky. Most pics turns out blur. I already had one some mineral powder and mascara from morning. Out of sheer laziness, I just added my ELF primer. Then added MAC Cash Flow PP to eyelids.

Drew the cat eye shape with an eyeliner brush using MAC Nice N Vice PP. Searched high and low for a gold eyeshadow. Uses MAC Nylon as last resort to place on top of the MAC Cash Flow PP.

*Note: I absolutely hate using expensive products for looks such as this since I know it's only last for 10 minutes but I have no other similar colours to this look. ARGH ^%$#@!

Use the Christian Dior Palette's purples to set the MAC Nice N Vice PP. Use MAC Blacktrack PP as eyeliner and to line waterline.

*Note: The Christian Dior palette was "inherited" from my mother. We've had it since I was 11 years old. That's a good 16 years ago! I remember it because I got caught and beaten by mom for playing around with her make up. I used the bright green eye shadow to dot my entire face. Heh!

15 years later, it's mine :D

Dust the Botanic's eye shadow below the brow bone, define the crease with MAC Typographic, pile on some old foundation lying around, contour nose with La Pensee eyebrow palette (who would have thought an eyebrow palette from the 100 yen shop could turn out so useful. AKAKAKA!)

For cheeks, the girl in the magazine seems to have a gold colour blusher. I ended up using the MAC Triple Fusion's gold, the one right at the bottom but I guess my blush brush had a little left over. Oops. Apply lip gloss and we're done. So lets see how it looks.

Hmm, looks okay I guess - For a photo shoot. I would need a little too many tequilas before I have the guts to wear this out. Excuse the one sided pictures. I only did half my face for this look.

Then again, if JH gives the thumbs up, I might just be wearing this out...I think.

EDIT: JH gave the thumbs up, I think he needs his glasses changed.

Disclaimer: Please do not SUE me. I have no money to give you. Most of my make up is above 5 years old and is mostly donated anyway.

NOTDs and Singapore haul; Gelato Pique, Kiss me Heavy Rotation lipstick

2011-06-04T18:00:00.006+08:00

NOTD

Freshly painted without topcoat. Sides not cleaned yet.

Saw this from MissKatv Beauty Straight Forwards and fell in love! I love it, it was one look I wanted to try out despite it being 4am in the morning.

Used:

Stage's base coat
Elianto's top coat
Elianto's baby blue
OPI Off with her Red
Etude House PK011
Maybelline's Lickety Split from a gazillion years ago.

My previous NOTD

Used:

MAC Cream Seasonal
Elianto's black
Stage's base coat
Elianto's top coat

NOTD from God Knows When (Probably before Macau trip)

Inspiration: The Longchamp Dentelle

FAIL!

Something I need to try again. This time, I need my Konad stamp to get better lace motif.

Haul from Singapore trip

*snort* If you can even call this a haul.

Bag #1 from MORE magazine. There were lots of choices from Kinokuniya and me and JH went thru most of them to find the biggest. After the mistake I made with the last bag I got from Hong Kong (the bag turned out tiny) , this time I made sure that the bag was of a decent size.

Bag's brand was Gelato Pique (click to see their website)

Bag #2 A Hello Kitty reusable bag. LOL. Yes I got el cheapo bags. The Hello Kitty bag was so cute I had to get it. All stuffs above was from Daiso for S$2 each (RM5).

Air clay for RM5? Unbelievable, I got mine for RM13.

Mini stamps and a stamp pad in pastel purple from Kinokuniya

The last purchase I did before leaving Singapore. A Kiss me Heavy Rotation Lipstick in #4 Cinnamon Pink. There was 4 colour available but no testers.

Watsons - S$16.50 (RM40.45)

The colour was very pigmentated and can cover my natural lip colour in just one swipe. The texture is thick and creamy. No funky smell but colour itself is a little odd on me. It also sinks into our lines and emphasizes them and can look chalky without lip gloss on.

This is NOT something to use without lip gloss on. I paired it with my NYX lip gloss in whipped and it looks perfect!

Natural; 2 coats without gloss

I hope it comes to Malaysia soon so I can buy more!

Trip to Singapore; Universal Studios, Lion King Musical etc

2011-06-03T03:04:00.019+08:00

*Picture overload and long boring text. If you notice an inconsistency with the picture size, two camera was used. One lousy one, one good one. No prize for guessing who the lousy one belongs to.

This is probably the best holiday I had with JH! The weather was good, eat a lot, got myself 2 bags, ride roller coasters and eat like the world is gonna end. Oh wait, it supposedly did. *sniff* It's sad to know it ended without me ever fulling my quest to own a Nespresso machine, Hello Kitty waffle maker or taste a macaroon.

What a sad life I had.

*Ahem*

I changed for about S$150 (RM350+) for the trip. I know, it's little. Very little. Especially to Singapore. Hmm, maybe I should start writing guide books;

'How to travel with an almost non existent budget/cash/money by Ashley Tan'

When shopping, best to have:

1) a credit card
2) a boy friend

Either one is good, but in my case, I didn't shop a lot, bought a few things, paid for transportation and food and was within budget. No credit card swiped too. Whee!

Then again, I only kept in budget only because JH sponsored the flight tickets and paid for most of the food, taxi rides, Universal studio tickets, Lion King musical tickets and etc. I know, I know. I felt guilty about him spending that much so for the first two days I tried to pay for most of the food. Wasn't much but I did my best...

Thank you JH!

JH insisted that since the Lion King musical was in town, we had to go take a look. I've never attended a musical before so to me it was 'Uhh okay, what's so great about a musical?'. The tickets cost a bomb at S$165 (RM403) per person. I mean, I've already watched the cartoon. Not to mention, JH has already watched in the UK. He insisted it was a once in a life time kinda thing and he wanted me to experience it. (How sweet! Muaks!) He happily bought the tickets and away we go.

What?! No other pictures? No camera allowed once it starts

I must admit, I was very impressed. He was right, it was a once in a life time kinda show. I was in love with the props; How the scene change from one to another. I would love to catch Les Miserables next. If only!

We went to Universal Studios on our second day in Singapore. It was a lot smaller than the ones else where but I was still impressed.

We apparently arrived at a very good time. I think everyone who came earlier than us all went to watch the Waterworld so the place was almost empty and no queue to any of the rides! Including Battlestar Galatica! WOOOOO!!

Ignore the model. This was the best shot of the BSG

That was the first ride we went for. We opted for the Human side first since it was supposedly less scary. We had front row seats. I must admit tho, after the first few seconds of shock, it actually felt like sitting in Elisa's/ Pinky Doodle Doo's car with their maniac driving. I'm serious! So while JH screamed like a little girl next to me I calmly finished the ride feeling a little jaded.

LOL!

There was NO queue for the Cylon side as well. Again, we opted for front row seats. I was a little more apprehensive about this because unlike the Human side, Cylon had us strapping to our individual seat and our feet dangling out. So you can see exactly how high you are and what you have underneath you, which is literally nothing. There was more kick too; a cobra, a corkscrew, upside down etc.

Left to right: Old Hollywood, Madagascar

I still remember as we went up and then plummet down, I could see that we were 14 storeys high and there was nothing but a pool underneath us - I screamed like a baby.

Far Far Away; Shrek's castle

There was a part in the ride as you are descending, you see part of "white cement" that you're heading straight at. A quick calculation tells that doesn't seem right. We're too low, we're going to crash into the white patch on the ground. Panic! Turns out the "white patch" was a hole in the ground covered with mist. Sheesh. Scare the bejeezus out of me. I swear if I grow any white hair, it's probably because of that ride.

The second time we rode that thing just before we head for home, I amused myself by listening to everyone's scream. Ahhh~ Schadenfreude.

Next ride after BSG was Revenge of the Mummy. Seeing there was no queue, we rushed in without a clue what ride it was. It turned out to be another roller coaster ride - In the dark! Not for the claustrophobic though.

A few debated whether riding a roller coaster in the dark was scarier or one that you can see. JH mentioned that in the dark, you don't know how deep the plunge is or what is head or a ride in the dark in scarier. For me, a roller coaster where you can see absolutely how high you are and what is coming up next is much scarier. What do you guys think?

After all the twirling about, we went for lunch. We were expecting the food to be overpriced and bad but suprise suprise! It was good and affordable.

Interior; It was empty when we arrived and full when we went out

We ended up in Luig's NY Pizza Parlour.

JH had the New York pepperoni pizza and I had the lasagna. YUM! Never been to New York, didn't know their pizza was that huge.

Designer Fashion Houses in Far Far Away

Explored the rest of the place, went for the new Madagascar ride and it was boring beyond words. Walked around, whine about feet, limped. Look for shelter in the rain. BSG down for maintenance. Limped. explore. Watch Waterworld, was impressed. Ride BSG. Go home.

Didn't buy an souvenir, but I did get something back. Sore feet!

After all the rides, we did nothing else in Singapore but shopped for JH's stuff and eat.

We went to Tanglin Club's Tavern for dinner and had oysters, onion soup and prime beef, lava chocolate cafe and apple pie. The beef was beyond a doubt the best beef I had in my 27 years of life. JH likes his beef medium rare, I usually prefer mine medium. Since we were sharing, I let him have it his way. We ordered the gentleman's cut. A 380g of beef, YUM!

Was busy enjoying my food that I totally forgot to take pictures.

Had a little Strawberry Shortcake for take away.

Oh you pretty little thing~

Dinner with JH's friends in Saboten Japanese Restaurant.

The pictures looks great but the food is mostly fried and pork. Not a fan of either.

Katsu Curry Loin Set with free miso coup, Ice cream and cabbage salad.

No sharing allowed so JH had something light, a fried pork sandwich.

Ash: Doesn't cabbages makes us fart?
JH: Yea but not to worry, you fart a lot anyway
*Friends laugh*
Ash: ...
ha..haa..haaa..ha

Just to clarify, I do fart, I don't deny but only of an average amount. Something JH later admitted. Thanks for making me the butt of the joke. Sheesh!

Just before we left Singapore, we had Freshness Burger, a rival of the Mos burger (my all time must- eat-when-in-Singapore favourite)

Large green tea; JH's burger (forgot the name)

My bacon omelette Burger and YW's Classic burger.

JH liked mine better and I liked his better so we ended up switching burgers. In the end it was while JH and his friend raved about Freshness burger, I'll stick to my Mos burger.

Freshness Burgers are made to order and the best part is being able to customise your own sets; drinks and side orders for -S$2 of the total bill. Freshness burger is bigger in size compared to Mos burger.

Doo doo doo Singapore!

2011-05-26T06:57:00.001+08:00

Gone to Singapore, be back in a few days to reply comments, take care!

Missha Perfect Cover BB cream; Elianto's Eggshell

2011-05-15T10:39:00.009+08:00

About 2 weeks ago, after a long day at work, came home to find a small parcel for me. I was a little confused as I don't remember ordering anything, saw the address and it was from Yana with a small jar of Laura Mercier silk creme foundation. Talk about giving me a lot, it was more than enough for over 4 applications! Whoa! Thank you Yana!

It was slighter tanner than my usual foundations but I happily used it anyway, I just used a little loose powder over it and no one realised the shade was slightly tan. JH even commented I look pretty.

JH's complimenting style

Okay
Nice
Pretty

Pretty is the best he can come up with so pretty is good :D

The Laura Mercier foundation was good, I loved it! It was lightweight and goes on silky smooth and had good coverage! I didn't even have to use a concealer under my eyes. Best part, it didn't break me out. My skin has been a little finicky lately, any foundation that goes on top, it makes a scene by popping out a pimple.

Unfortunately, the price wasn't all that pretty at RM153 a tube. It has been years since I paid RM120 for an Estee Lauder Ingenious Foundation (Discontinued 2006-2007) and RM153 is a little hard to come out from my pocket. Perhaps someday,

Pinky doodle doo went to Singapore and a light bulb went up above my head. Asked her to buy me the Missha Perfect Cover BB cream 30ml since I've heard good reviews for it so why not?

If I can't get the Laura Mercier this should be a good substitute, right? Pinky called back and told me they didn't have the 30ml, they had either the 20ml or 50ml. So she bought me the 50ml one. I nearly died. I knew it was somewhere about S$45.

I check online and saw online sellers selling the 50ml for RM55. I nearly cried. In my head, I could hear my mom saying, ' Penny wise, Pound foolish'.

I'm a fool *sobs*

I comforted my self saying that at least I KNOW it's real Missha and sweet Pinky doodle doo kindly paid for half. Awww~

So how was Missha? Was it as great or as bad as everyone mentioned?

Well, to each his own. It comes out of the tube in a worrying grayish colour but thankfully #21 fits me well. It's not crazily sticky, has pretty good coverage but is a little thick. So far, I like it! Say bye bye to all pores.

The colour did not oxidise on me like how some people experienced but oil control? Non existent for me. I look like I fell face first into a barrel or oil. Okay okay, maybe it's not that bad but after 3-4hours, my nose rivals Rudolph in terms of 'shinning-ness'. I finally got to use my Crabtree and Evelyn blotters I bought 4 years ago. Whee!

Breakouts? Can't say for now, it's too close to my 'time of the month' so I was getting pimples. Not sure if it was from the BB cream or the usual cycle. BAH!

We'll soon find out. You can read Sincerely Mimi for a comparison between Skin79 and Missha Perfect Cover.

In the end, I still like the Laura Mercier better so.. someday one day during a really big sale :P

One of the rare days when my right hand is painted nicer than my left. I'm right handed.
Colour: Eggshell

Saw this from SugarSpiceandwhatnots and fell in love with the colour. Made a mental note to self to check out Elianto a little more often now.

Hello Kitty Pancakes

2011-05-11T21:45:00.004+08:00

Remember a while back I bought an el cheapo Hello Kitty "frying pan". Ta-daa.. after it stared at me for a couple of weeks, I decided to make some pancakes with it.

Awwww.. lookit how my first pancake turned out! Hello Kitty with a moustache.. NEXT! Hello Kitty with pimples. GROSS! NEXT! Hello Kitty with half face burned..NEXT! Oh wait, I give up. I'm not a quitter (but I know when I'm licked) it's not not a pancake day for me. I was missing milk anyway. We had milk actually, expired ones. I didn't use those of course. I had to do without milk. And what is pancake without milk?!

Was thinking that maybe Sue was right, maybe they were strictly for eggs or something. So I washed up and lo and behold. El cheapo could not have described them better. After 3 pancakes...

I was using a WOODEN spoon to flip the pan cake too. Righto...now all the pan is good for is ala Left for Dead 2 style. Smacking zombies and deflecting bullets.

P.s: I hard to never waste food but I threw the 3 pancakes away. I wouldn't have fed it to my dog.

I suck!

Lacy NOTD; Blue EOTD

2011-05-04T00:01:00.005+08:00

Lacy NOTD

Bought the lacy stickers a while back online. Wanted it in black but they were out of it so I ended up with this. It wasn't enough for all 10 fingers. BOO!

A pity this NOTD didn't even last me 2 days. The Stage cosmetics base/top coat is good as a base coat. It wasn't strong enough to hold the stickers down and ended up with the stickers peeling every time I scratch myself. I'll stick to good old Elianto top coat for now. It has never failed me so far. Get the RM5 one, the RM10 topcoat sucks chicken ass since it can't seem to dry.

RE: Straits Quay Flea Market

JH: There's a flea market in Straits Quay on Labour Day. Want to go?
Ash: Yay! You like flea, I like market. Let's go!

Browsed around and spotted a vintage 1970's costume jewellery pendant (I know my spelling can be a little 'off' but we studied British English and not American English)

For something kept for the past 40 years, it still looks so pretty so I drooled and JH forked over the cash. Funny he happily offered to pay but dragged me off from a counter selling Melliesh and Candy Doll cosmetics by the hair. HMPH!

Blue EOTD

I think age finally caught up to me. I've been using less and less make up. I'm now down to sunblock, Sweet scents mineral powder I bought from Sue 3 years ago(?), blusher and mascara to work. Extra minutes to snooze is always good in my book.

Authentic Arabic make up

The reason for this look was because my colleague Jen, asked me why I don't bring my make up all the way up to my brows ala Arabic make up. Uh, for one, I don't have perfect features like them to carry it off. I noted that some people are able to carry it off but unfortunately, I'm not one of them. I have a lot of space between eyes and brows; to bring it all the way up makes it too dramatic for me and if executed badly, I look like I got punched in eye.

Observe but kindly note that this was meant to be an experiment, I have no base on and the colours are a little dull.

Bare except for Stila's Wheat and mascara. Add colours. Usually this is the most I'll put for the top part. This is as high as I dare to bring it.

Normal and brought higher ala Arabic make up.

Of course for Arabic make up, they won't just use blue. Their colours are usually bright, shimmery and contoured beautifully.

Line your eyes like you life depends on it; add falsies and here's the look. In the end, I really doubt I have the balls to use this technique with different colours all mixed in and think I can get away with it.

RMK!

2011-04-25T23:00:00.005+08:00

A while back, our company decided to do a corporate video with a local celebrity as our ambassador. I was picked to be the [ke-ler-fare] in other words - an extra. I was her so called friend who accompanies her everywhere in the video. A side kick, a shadow, a busy body etc.

So anyway, the star has absolutely gorgeous skin. So dewy and smooth that it makes you want to reach your hands out and...and...feel it! Rub your sweaty hands on her porcelain skin and see if it's real or something.

I happen to ask her which foundation she was using and she mentioned it was from the brand RMK. It was then the choir of angels flew out and sang, "Hallelujah". I knew I MUST have that foundation too.

Unfortunately, it cost a bomb and even worst, we do not have a RMK counter in Penang. This sucks chicken ass.

That leaves me no choice but to search online. No such luck. Chance upon someone selling a brand new 15ml RMK make up base for cheap so I decided to buy it and try instead. The person (who will not be named because I don't like sellers who gives ONE word replies) also has a pre-loved blusher for sale for really cheap too.

When I tried to swatch it on my hands the colours hardly shows but when I used my brush, swirl it around and applied. I looked like someone drew on me with an orange highlighter pen. It was really bright orange.

I had to tone it down with lots of buffing and powder. After that, it looks really natural. Yay!

A few days later, I read Yana's blog on her #1 favourite foundation - The Laura Mercier Silk Cream Foundation which is also Make Up Geek's Top 10 Foundations.

One word. ARGHH!

Two very expensive foundations. Decisions decisions...

Learning a new language; Viola de Gamba and Harpsichord; NOTD

2011-04-25T21:23:00.003+08:00

I must admit that I've been very distracted lately - lots of things to worry about but at the same time lots of things to look forward to. In about a month's time, there will probably be more post that usual.

A while back, I wrote in my 2010 resolution that I decided to pick up a new language. I was debating between Chinese Mandarin and Japanese. Being a Chinese (Malaysian Chinese to be exact) people has always looked down on me because I cannot speak Chinese. Sure I can speak my own dialect but it means nothing if I can't speak Mandarin and the amount of Chinese speaks seems to be increasing.

Not to mention almost every stranger I meet speaks to me in Mandarin. I suspect it has something to do with my extremely 'Mainland Chinese' face. So picking up Chinese would be the most logical move.

My colleague Jen is actually a Mandarin teacher. Lucky right? Er.. after a few lessons, I suspect she given up on me.

So far, I can say, 'Where is the toilet?' and 'I am hungry'.

I can't seem to get the pronunciation right. I turned to JH for help instead. A while later, he too mentioned that perhaps it was better for me to try Japanese instead since I can actually pronounce the words better.

Before my Japanese colleague left, she used to teach me and Jen simple conversational Japanese so that we could pick up her calls and tell her callers she wasn't in the office. Wait! Why do I suddenly feel like a monkey?

After she left, JH ended up helping me since he speaks Japanese as well. Jen lend me her Japanese language phrasebook so slowly but surely *fingers crossed*

April 16, I tagged along with JH and family to a recital. Never been to one. This was to a Viola de Gamba and a Harpsichord Recital. What on earth is a Harpsichord?

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.
-Wikipedia

It has a very unique sound that is a little hard to describe but easily identified. It does not sound like a piano but rather an organ cross with something or another.

Anyway the venue had poor acoustic and a big block of a man was blocking my view of everything. Not that I need to see it but it would have been nice to see something other than my own shadow on the man's back.

*toot toot tot!*

NOTD

I did a white cat before this so I thought why not a black one. Was debating whether to draw the mouth or not. In the end I did and it looks a little odd.

Faced with two packets of diamante, nail glue and boredom.

Ash: What do you think?
JH: Orange is not your colour.
Ash: *&^%$#@!

Alicia's Dare to Wear Charity Challenge

2011-04-11T22:23:00.009+08:00

After seeing Pepper doing a ganguro look for FunnyFaceBeauty.com, I was curious. What is this Charity Challenge thingie?

Basically it is a challenge to all her subscribers to recreate a make up look inspired by non other than Japan.

I have decided to use my 'Dare to Wear' challenge to dare all of you to help raise money for Japan via The Canadian Red Cross. For every person who takes my dare to wear challenge, my family will be donating $10 in their honour (ie. 100 people = $1000 for Japan).

- Alicia

Hell, I paint my face silly for free all this while so to do a challenge and the $10 gets donated to Japan sounds good to me.

Unless you live in a hole, you'll pretty much know what happened to Japan. One disaster after another but it makes me glad to see that people from around the world are scrambling to lend a hand. I'm personally not too worried. I have strong faith that Japan will rise again and fast. They were never the type to give up to begin with.

Original Storm Trooper's pic is from here

Over in Penang, there has been many charity drives and jumble sales to raise money for Japan. The last one Pinky Doodle Doo, JH and I attended was at Straits Quay. It was funny to see Star Wars' Storm Trooper going around with a donation box though.

JH and I is also doing our best to support our favourite Japanese restaurant, Isaribi Tei. Despite the owner saying that business was not affected in an interview, we could tell it has been affected badly due to the radiation scare. We would hate to see it close down despite the fact that he called my colleague 'stupido' for asking for separate bills once..

Since I've done ganguro before I decided to try something different. I decided to try a geisha inspired look. Note the inspired; I did not end up looking anything like one. It took me 2 tries and it still failed. *sigh*

I used Elianto's white foundation. Don't bother looking for it. 1) It's been discontinued since the dawn of time. 2) It's oily and sucks chicken ass. It's extremely difficult to layer without smearing everything - literally. Powdering it is a feat of it's own.

Trust me when I say I lost a chunk of hair because of this. Once you look like you fell into a sack of flour. You're ready for the next step.

Pray no one walks into your room and sees you looking like this. If they do, 'Tell them you're doing an Edward Cullen look'. They might just believe you and leave you alone.

Apply pink eyeshadow to lids, a little gold as well, line eyes with eye liner. Wing it to elongate your eyes to give you the "Asian" look. Fill in eyebrows.

Despite looking dead, you want to look like the healthy dead. Add blusher, a little will suffice. Paint lips red. I didn't wanted to add the false eyelashes because I knew it would change the shape of my eyes to something more 'rounded' but because I was not blessed and born with lots of eyelashes, I had to put some on anyway. I put them only from the middle to the end to retain my eye shape.

In the end, I think I will audition for the next Pontianak film or something. ARGH!

Next! Must.never.give.up! *grunt*

Since the geisha's white make up was a *toot toot toot* to achieve, I decided to go tan. From Edward Cullen to over baked lobster.

I did my eyes first rather than my face make up. It's easier to wipe the fallouts. Using my 15 colour pro concealer, I painted my face with the 2nd darkest shade. I swear to God, even my mom would not recognize me.

I've always thought that people who has tan skin was a lucky bunch since acne scars and all are easily covered. How wrong I was. I have a bad break out recently and even all the make up could hardly cover the scars and bumps.

I'm still sane. I found the eye lashes freaky too.

NOTD of the week

Thanks Don!

Stage cosmetics; Le pliage

2011-04-04T21:52:00.005+08:00

I'm still debating with myself whether Pepper from FLECKS is a cruel person. After reading her posts that Stage Cosmetics was having a fantastic sale and her reviews, I rushed off to Stage cosmetics myself. Happily spent a good amount of time and only went home with JH threatening to leave me there by myself. (JH, You know you did! Don't deny!)

I didn't get an insane amount of cosmetics this round but I did promise myself to go back and get more. AAHAHAHAHA! With or without you JH!

They are RM12 for a reason. This is the reason. It's nearing expiry.

Based on Pepper's review on the foundation, I had to get them too and I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised. It had good texture and coverage. I got it in 02 Take 1. 01 Take 1 was pinkier and this was more yellowish. I know for a fact that yellow based foundations fit me better than pink base.

I was initially worried about the coverage as the MUA mentioned that the coverage was a little sheer. Uh...okay. It's actually medium to build able. When applied, it's a little shimmery but after blending. Everything looks great and I love it!

Besides that I got an eye primer for Pinky Doodle Doo, a moisture lipstick for my mom that she likes and asked me to buy more of. Aye Aye Ma'am! Then the nail polish remover that I have yet to use and one nail polish in Delicate. It's a pale pink/peach slight shimmery colour. Definitely something I see myself using often.

However, there is no swatch of the nail colour for a good reason. After applying 3 coats of it, I realize it couldn't cover my fingernail's discolouration. I don't blame the nail colour but my nails were so yellow that lighter colours can no longer cover them. This is shocking. I've decided to not paint my nail for as long as I can to give them time to grow out. *sigh*
Too many years of abuse. My nails has not be NOT coloured for the past few years. Imagine that.

My only complains was that the lighting in the shop was horrendous. Everything was under soft yellow light. Don't get me wrong but under soft yellow lights, everything looks good. Your skin looks good, your foundation fits you, your eyeshadow soft and even etc etc. Under normal lights, you look like you fell into someone's birthday cake. Enough said.

Picture stolen from Sue of MyBeautyFeeds

I ended up swatching everything and placing my hand under the shelves white lighting to get an accurate colour which got tiring after a while. The white light was places behind the shelves where there is a small gap between the top and bottom shelves.

Edited 07/04: The MUA are unfriendly until you buy something. Seriously. Until you put something in your basket, will they give you a smile. Worst they hardly speak English.

In the end, I thank you Pepper for letting us know about the sale. :D

Mom's bday is coming soon and since JH's little brother was coming back from the UK for Spring break, I decided to get the Longchamp Le pliage bag for mom. It's much cheaper there. I can't afford to get it here in Malaysia or from Singapore where it's suppose to be even cheaper than Malaysia.

After thinking long and hard, I decide to eat grass and get one for myself too. I'm keeping the Le Pliage M in Navy for myself. Heeee~ I know this bag is definitely not for everyone but somehow I ended falling for it. Weird. So I got two bags from UK for the price of ONE in Malaysia.

Oh, I finally found you, you damned elusive, YOU!

Went to 1st Avenue and spotted a Hello Kitty shop and went in. Ta daa, the last one too. I suspect the so-called Hello Kitty shop imports everything from China and not Japan. So these are not authentic Hello Kitty stuffs, me thinks.

I spotted the pan from far but as I went near, the sales person's boyfriend picked it up, insulted the pan, 'What is this for? Eggs? What good is this, how useless. .. bla bla'. I was too embarrassed to go pick it up so I pretended to browse around. Before I could reach it, another customer picked it up, insulted it, put it down and by then, I grabbed the pan, walked to cashier, paid and walked straight out. GAH!

Pancakes, you idiots! Pancakes! Imagine cute little Hello Kitty pancakes! Cooking eggs on it will barely bring out Hello Kitty's face but with pancakes you can see it's Hello Kitty! Morons.

Ah well, one man's junk is another man's treasure. :P

Now to remind JH to buy me the Hello Kitty Toaster and Waffle Maker I saw on Ebay as a wedding gift. WHEN and IF, I get married. To him or someone else anyway.

Hand writing tag; Prizes from Yana's giveaway

2011-03-24T21:16:00.004+08:00

Uh, hands quicker than brains and thus the blunder on Q2

A while back, Yana tagged me for a Hand Writing tag. Was planning to tag Bunny but she was quicker than me and she ended up tagging me instead. Thank you guys! I actually like the idea of looking at people's handwriting. It might sound weird but it does tell you a little bit more about them :P

Rules: Get a piece of paper and write the answers to the following questions:
1. What's your name/your blogger name?
2. What's your blog's name/URL?
3. Write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
4. Favorite quote?
5. Your Favorite song?
6. Your favorite band/singers?
7. Anything else you want to say?
8. Tag three to five other people.

I don't have the best handwriting. I frequently, I can't stress enough on the word frequently, my test papers, essay books etc will come back with the sentence, 'Please write bigger' on it. To me, smaller hand writing = less paper wasted, less ink wasted.

Also, if you write really small, your mom can't read your diary unless she finds her glasses first. AHAHA! Kidding, my mom don't read my diary and my last diary dates back to 1996.

I could have probably guessed Bunny's handwriting if I was given a bunch to sort out. It's as cute as herself with lots of super cute emoticons, hearts and a certain Bunny flair. And it's neat too!! Me likey. Ganbatte ne on your uni life!

I work with doctors due to the nature of my work and trust me, I go to a corner, take a couple of minute to decipher what they wrote, scratch head, ask nurse, nurse scratch head, and together we brain storm.

So I was surprise to see Yana's neat handwriting. You go Yana! Keep at it! The nurses and all will love you since they actually understand what you wrote! No one will go home with the wrong medicine too! Aww, then again, I adore you anyway whether I can read your handwriting or not. *hugs*

I received Yana's prizes from her last giveway today. Woo-hoo! Came home to find a parcel waiting for me on my bed. The Natio's face mask is one of her favourite and I love clay masks.

In the parcel was also a pair of earrings she bought from Hong Kong. Can someone please knock me on the head? Why and how I manage to miss out buying accessories in HK is beyond me. Seriously. Then again, probably all the itching and scratching occupied most of my mind.

The earring was beautiful! Very elegant. I definitely see myself wearing it to dinners. It's a pity a petal broke though, but I'm gonna super glue it together again.

Ooo, the chocolates! Daim is one of my all time favourite chocolates. I love the sticky hard caramel inside the chocolate and trust me, we once had this in the office and I remember eating most of it. Too addictive or maybe I'm just greedy.

Thank you Yana! I know you've been thru a lot lately and I hope you'll feel better soon. You have all our support and love. Take care and take a break when you can.

P.s: I want beautiful doctors walking about in our hospital too. No fair!

Oh and I didn't do Q8. Almost everyone I know has already been tagged. I.R.Sadz. So whoever who's not done this yet, please do, then let me know and I'll go be a busybody at your blog.

Gifts from amazing people online: Tahira aka TJ

2011-03-24T20:43:00.009+08:00

When I started my blog back in 2008, never in a million years did I thought that I'll meet so many amazing people online.

They've showered me with love, support, gifts and so many kind words.

I still remember the first time I saw Elyn from SERENDIPITY. My best friend Elisa introduced us and our friendship remains till today. She's unpredictable, unbelievably wise, funny and has a BIG HUGE heart. She read my blog on my bad breakout and before I know it, lug all her barang-barang (things), crossed the Penang Bridge to come all the way to my house to give me a facial. She ended up giving my mom and Pinky Doodle Doo a facial too.

It was also about the same time I met Tahira. Tahira from A Look in a Creative Mind.
She wasn't kidding on the creative part, that's for sure. Over time, Tahira's art became even more amazing. Her drawing never fails to impress me and the ideas that she has. But its her colouring skills that blows me away. I'm left gasping as I take in all the colours she uses for her drawings. They are alive!

Pictures from Tahira's blog. Used without permission =_=
Sorry TJ

I'm a HUGE fan of hers. Both of her work and her as a person. She sincerely cares for people and the list goes on and on. In a nutshell, she's someone I truly care for despite never meeting her in real life. Someday when she's famous and all, I'll be so proud to tell people I know her.

Back in late February, just when I've hit a real low point in life (To those who have my FB might have a clue) A mail came for me from Holland.

It took me by surprise and made me cry. It's been a while since I communicated with her and here she is, drawing me a lovely card filled with love and ... ME!

TJ,

I know I'm a lousy friend as I didn't reply you when you became worried if the mail went missing but thank you for being patient with me. I'm still sorting out my mess and I admit that you card gives me a sense of calmness and inspiration. I still stare at the colours used in the background and it's just so beautiful. TJ, my gorgeous TJ, you are one heck of an artist. I love you very much!

P.s: Your card attracts alot of attention. Everyone who comes into my room automatically goes for it and start whining about wanting a friend like you. LMAO!

Other works from TJ

MAC Studio Fix; Froggy NOTD

2011-03-18T21:38:00.009+08:00

I didn't realize how long I have not updated. Too many things been going on in real life. Arguments, break up, regrets and such. Thankfully everything's finally stable again and I don't feel like jumping off Penang Bridge anytime soon.

Because my pay is so low, I'm consistently on a make up ban, it is really starting to get to me. There is so many things I would like to do; treating loved ones out for dinner, giving my parents more money every month, buying things that I like without breaking a sweat and all but that is just not possible with my current pay. It's depressing.

I work in a not-for-profit organization and thus my pay is what it is but when I broke down crying because I didn't have enough to eat middle of the month (my own fault tho, I went a little koo-koo and bought a few dresses after not buying for so long) I felt like I really needed to switch jobs a.s.a.p. I have an offer but fingers crossed.

To cheer me up, JH bought me the MAC Studio Fix that I have been eying since middle of last year. Whee! I am so so happy! Thank you dear!

The Reflects Pearl is super pretty in real life! So sparkly

Chris (Elyn's friend and the person I always buy from) even gave me a nice bag and some samples. The cleansing oil and two glitter from the Wonder Woman collection. I was over the moon!

I wanted the Studio Fix because I needed the coverage. I don't have flawless skin and lately I'm starting to break out again. I suspect it's because I was using my MUFE Camouflage concealer and ZA powder for a week. My skin isn't use to make up anymore after using BB cream for so long so I had to switch back to BB cream.

The powder is a nice touch after my BB cream and makes everything nice and matte.

JH even bought me the Canmake lower eyelash that I was looking at. Personally I wouldn't have gotten it despite how much I wanted it because it was just too pricy for me. Luckily there was a 15% off :D

Sparkly~

NOTD:

I ordered some 'blings' online a while ago and decided to play around with some. I did this on my ring finger and left the rest plain tho.

A couple of days ago, I saw a comment from Emvely who did a super cute Frog inspired nail art. Frog Nail for you? (Click on link to see the original version) That nail art inspired me so much that I wanted to give it a try.

I wanted a variety of other 'animals' on my nails besides the frog; A bunny, cat, hello kitty etc.
It turned out...messy. And horrible. And embarrassing. I asked JH if they looked like animals and he replied, ' They look like demons'.

I wasn't too sure if I ought to strangle him or what but after taking a picture of it, I cleaned everything off except the rabbit.

The second time around, at least the cat looks like a cat and not a "demon". It was less messier since I used JH's acrylic paints. I'm a convert. Never again will I use nail polish to do any nail arts. It's a total pain in the *toot*

Still not perfect but it was fun! Whee!

Hollywood Celebrity Inspired Makeup Look

2011-02-28T23:54:00.009+08:00

A while back I got tagged by the beautiful Yana from ShazreeyanaShukri to do a Inspired Makeup look. I admit I was definitely interested but I didn't know who to choose. I LOVE Angelina Jolie and Yana did a great job with an Angelina Jolie inspired look.

After a week, I happily did my version of the Inspired Makeup look, uploaded it and all and then saw the Hollywood Celebrity part. OH GOOD GOD! *bangs head of keyboard*

I did a Celebrity Makeup look alright but not Hollywood's. I ended up with a Hamasaki Ayumi Inspired makeup look. So Yana, my apologies but now you know that I'm not the brightest banana in the bunch. Oh wait, banana comes in combs not bunches. Ah nevermind.

Ahh, you gorgeous thing, you!

I'm not exactly a fan of Ayumi. Her screechy voice makes my fingers fumble for the remote after 3 minutes or so. But she is perfect. She's utterly gorgeous. If there was one thing I could ask God. I'll ask for the name of her plastic surgeon. It's either that or why He created mosquitoes. *shrugs*

I'm more of a fan of Amuro Namie or Utada Hikaru. If there's one thing I noticed, it's bloody hard to find Ayumi with lots of eye make up. Either that or I'm not as good with Google as I thought. She mostly emphasize on her eyes and how HUGE they are.

Oh another thing, keep in mind this is an INSPIRED LOOK. Note the inspired. I am not claiming I look anything remotely like her etc. If I did, I would be digging my nose and my bank account would still be getting fatter. For now, I can dig all I want but my bank account is going nowhere.

So here goes.

I started off with my office make up; eyeliner and a little glittery eye shadow. Apply dark brown. Apply alot.

Panda look is IN. Ok, not really but just wanted to show you how much brown was used and blended with nude eye shadow. Draw eyeliner on both upper and lower lash line.

Use a liquid eyeliner to line over your pencil eyeliner and wing it! Then add false eyelashes like you're gonna die. Your eyes should look something like that. Dust off fall outs, apply foundations like a mad person, add some light pink blusher and light light lipgloss.

And there you have it. It was actually really easy to do this look, no fancy colours, no fancy super blending. Just brown and black. Two foolproof colour. I must admit that my aim wasn't really to look like a photo copy of Ayumi but rather to make the eyes look bigger. To the people who knows me, they will tell you how small my eyes are in real life.

Now hold your breath, open your eyes as big as you can and snap as many pictures as your lungs can hold out. Excellent!

Wig is hot. My hair is in a mess, I badly need a haircut and I'm too poor to go for a haircut. Dang it! So anyway, here you have it. My not-so Hamasaki Ayumi inspired look. Ahahahaaaaa~

Blue and Gold EOTD

2011-02-22T21:43:00.004+08:00

Tuesdays are are World of Warcraft's maintenance day. It's also me and JH's movie day but since we watched the King's Speech yesterday, I sat in front of mirror and did funny faces at myself. It's a habit of mine to make stupid faces at myself everytime I see the mirror; I can't help myself and it makes me laugh.

I'm also hoping to take a short break from WoW after some *ahem* majorly embarrassing incident. No, no one died. Oh wait, yes they did! I somehow managed to cause the entire group to wipe. Wipe here as in to die, not the car washing, dish washing, glass wiping wipe. It wasn't entirely my fault but a big chunk of it was since I'm one of the healers. *sigh*

Long story short, I cried on the desk and slink off to the bedroom to sob somemore. No one curse or yelled but the guilt! Oh the guilt! Later the night, I dreamt the members of the guild signed a petition to get me booted from the guild.

It's weird to cry over a game but the embarrassment was too great. I'm still new to the game, having played for a mere 5 months but I do consider myself a good healer. I'm great (if I do say so myself) in heroic dungeons but in the raid, oh God!

Enough of being whinny, after so long, I decided to do an EOTD. In one of my most hated colour - GOLD. I love it hanging on my body but I can't stand it on my eyelids. I used Pinky Doodle Doo's 120 colour palette for this look since mine doesn't come with gold.

The colours are beautiful and vibrant but it's also very chalky. Be prepared for fallouts.

I don't have an explanation as to why I repeatedly use the colours I hate the most or know that I don't fit other than curiosity. I really lazy so I didn't bother washing off my eyeliner. Pile a gold colour base on it. Mine is from The Body Shop and expired with the dinosaurs. Don't ask.

My initial look was to have a "golden" eyelid. Gold on my yellow skin? Hello, jaundice! No go. The only thing that ran thru my mind was that I was screwed this time. I didn't have any make up wipes with me and my dad was sitting outside. I didn't wanted to show him how odd I look with all the gold eyeshadow.

So I had to add a little blue and then medium blue.

Draw my eyeliner ala Cleopatra (toned down version), dust my eyebrows and I'm almost done. Applied MAC Vera-vicious on cheeks and took a step back, snapped a shot and laughed. I really looked like those typical Chinese Opera actors getting ready for the show with my slit eyes. The eyes!

Put on your falsies, put on your wig and ta daaa! Usually for EOTD I don't apply make up on my neck. I do that everyday but for EOTDs I'm a little to lazy too. I'm wearing my pajamas so I had to cover that with a scarf.

I need inspiration!

My Hong Kong Trip

2011-02-12T11:11:00.015+08:00

It was erm.. okay. Hong Kong is a great place for cosmetics, branded bags and food. Unfortunately, my budget was a measly RM650. Imagine that. I think I deserve some kind of award for going to HK with that little money. Like seriously. With that kinda budget you could probably tell that I didn't get any mind blowing cosmetic hauls or any branded bag.

What's the one thing me and JH's grandpa have in common? We both have roads named after us! Except mine's in HK. AHAHAHAHAGAAAA!!! *cough cough*

Air ticket was another RM700 for me but JH paid for the hotel which was right in Tsim Sha Tsui so that was great. The rooms were clean, a little musty smelling but no complains! The transportation system was fantastic. It was the thing I loved best about HK. Not the cheapest but it was worth it. The buses and the MTRs - super convenient. It also helps that JH really did his homework before the trip and we knew exactly where to go, how to get there and which bus or MTR to take despite never being there.

Tadaaa, you like it? You like it??

We stayed in a little hotel right next to the Chungking Mansion. The view is best described as never before seen! You can probably guess that we kept our window blinds down for the remainder of the trip.

The Spring Moon was too posh for me to take out my camera and snap so here you go, scones from the Mermaid Bakery. Not the best...

The food! I never eaten Dim Sum so good in my entire life. Now that I've tasted it, I know that what I've been having is almost crap in comparison!

My aunt was kind enough to take us to The Peninsular's Spring Moon. It's roughly about HK$50 (RM22+) per dish of 4 little items. We has 9 dishes and it was mind blowing. To me, that was the highlight of our entire trip.

Picture from google; I've always remembered him for his seaweed eyebrows..

It's a place frequently frequent by HK movie stars. But we only saw two that day. An old Lau Ching Wan and his Miss HK wife.

No younger, single and preferably male movie star there unfortunately. Not that I could recognize anyone anyway. The only reason I recognize this guy was because he used to star in comedies when I was younger which was pretty much the only time I saw Cantonese movies on tv.

Kiss me Heavy Rotation Enamel; MUJI concealer, small OralLab lipbalms, Perfumeria lip balms and some weird lip gloss I got on impulse..

The only thing I got from Sasa was the Kiss me Heavy Rotation Enamel in #2. It was only selling for HK$49 (RM21) and our good old Watson here is selling it for RM39.90 or RM35.90 on offer. I bought my old one for RM39.90. Ouch!

Bonjour was selling them for HK$49each!

Bought little chap sticks for HK$4.90 each and Perfumia Gal lip balms that I've been using for the past 5 years that has been long discontinued back home for HK$35 each.

Saw plenty of Dolly Wink eyelashes for hell alot cheaper than Malaysia. They were like going at almost half of what Malaysia was selling. Maybe RM40+? I didn't buy any. Not with JH's laser eyes on me.

On our 2nd last day of shopping, JH bought me a Coach wallet; A small bag I bought that came with a magazine. It was on offer at HK$45

Wish I could buy more gifts home but transportation and food has already took a chunk of monies from me.

To save, we ate at Food Courts in department stores. Yes yes that's pathetic right? Got an earful from my manager who went a week before me. She recommended to eat at the little restaurant all along Tsim Sha Tsui because they're famous. The prices was horrendous though. It was a good HK$50 (RM22+) for a plate of fried rice. In Malaysia a plate of fried rice is at most RM5? *cough* Being poor, I opted in eat in food courts instead.

Although manager recommended eating there, she hated HK food. She said it tasted bad. We, on the other hand, loved it to bits. The food in the department stores were actually REALLY good. The meat; pork, beef was so tender it was heavenly. It cost us HK$32 - HK$35 for a HUGE bowl with free drink. We share one bowl because it was so huge I couldn't finish it on my own.

The weather was not so kind; it was chilly and very cold. Occasionally dipping below 10 degrees Celsius. Something I'm not able to handle. I don't have any fancy winter clothing because I've never been to anywhere during Winter. HK was my first.

JH's mom was fantastic; she borrowed me her jackets, gloves, cashmere sweater to keep me warm so that I don't have to buy any. My anemia was a problem especially when my hands couldn't generate any heat despite rubbing them or anything. The gloves couldn't help, keeping them in my pocket didn't either. They were almost always frozen. Which I use to bully JH by touching him unexpectedly.

I developed severe skin allergy because my skin dried up and cracked and little red bumps appeared and they were super itchy. I scratched like a monkey every where I went. I used my Egyptian Magic cream but it turned out useless. I think my skin couldn't absorb it well.

Meet Stitt, the one on the HK$500 note and Stephen, the one that got shot at during the war..

We went to the HSBC tower to go meet Stephen and Stitt. They are really famous, so famous that you'll find Stitt on HK$500 notes. They are the two majestic lions in front of the HSBC towers. JH said that we'll get lucky if we rub their front paw. Not too sure if that's true but the paws does seem more worn out. I rubbed. After looking left and right and doing it as discreetly as I could.

A more magnificent view of Stephen, our lucky lucky lions!

I must admit that thru out the entire HK trip, me and JH were lucky. We had fantastic luck with transportation and we avoided two major mishaps that could have cost us a LOT of money.

A piggy bank competition and these are the winners; My favourite "Lion"

Once, on our way to catch a boat to Macau, I remembered our passports. We ran all the way back. I thank God that we remembered before buying the ticket and spending an hour on the speedboat to Macau only to get kicked back at the Immigrations. I didn't have a single identification on me. No ID, No driver license, nil.

Another favourite, and to think these were made by primary school kids!

2nd, was when we bought our tickets back to HK and the display stated that it was a 8:00PM ride. The tickets we bought was for 7.30PM. We had less than 3 minutes to get on board and I didn't realize. JH saw the time and asked me to run. I ran. I didn't ask why but I just ran and we made it just on time.

For some strange reason, I was reminded of Bunny when I saw the Bling Pig.

We headed to The Peak later that night and according to the guide book we were to take Bus 15 that will take us to the tram station. Or we could walk, its just 10 minutes away. We boarded the bus and paid HK$9.80 each. I complained about the price since it was for less than 5 minute bus ride. 5 minutes turned 20 minutes then turned half an hour. We were halfway up the mountain when we realize we boarded a bus that takes us directly to the Peak. Lucky!

Some fancy place we saw while walking to the Ferry. It looks fantastic at night! Like some fairytale mansion

Like every tourist do, we headed up to the roof of one of the malls to catch a glimpse of HK at night. It was HK$25 and not very worth it. When the wind blew, it was 0 Celcius and my teeth sent out SOS in moorse codes.

Then again, it was VERY pretty but we spent less than 10 minutes up there. We ate at a nearby restaurant while watching the horrendous queue of people waiting for the tram. It was about over 100 people queuing in the bloody cold! We wondered if they knew about the bus service. Again, we took the bus down and there was probably less than 6 people on board. Took us directly to the Ferry service and we walked a few minutes to the hotel.

To come, MACAU!

ROTD

2011-02-09T01:14:00.006+08:00

I am not trying to offend anyone, this is just my honest opinion.

If there's one thing I hate, I hate answering emails about Limb Lengthening (Don't ask me why I'm answering them >.<) ;

"Hi I am 22 year old male currently standing at 169 cm. I would like to know the procedures in limb lengthening"

"hi my age is 27, i am 168 cm and i hoping to be about 174-176 cm"

"i'm 24. still a student. i have tried many methods to increase my height but nothing really works. recently i found out at limb lengthening surgery.
i am thinking of going for it. about the side effects i don't really mind as my goal now is to increase my height. my height now is 150 and i want to know how much can i grow taller with this surgery "

My fingers itch to tell them all to go borrow Elton John's platform shoes or even the Spice Girls'. They are great for stomping on grapes too. If they liked designer brands, the Vivienne Westwood ones are 9 inches and famous for Naomi Campbell falling off them. If all else fails, there's always the torture rack in the Tower of London.

I know I am not the shortest nor am I the tallest and I probably won't be able to understand how it feels being short. To me being tall means you look better in gowns and hey, no one will ever look down on you :D, being short on the other hands means you'll be forever young and you're automatically considered 'cute'. Being in between means you're neither here nor there. Gowns are not always pulled off and you're too much of a giant to be considered small and cute. Sheesh.

Hell, now I've always wanted to be atleast 170cm and strut around looking "down" on people but that is so not going to happen unless I'm wearing high heels or my friends are standing in a hole.

Then again thinking back, if I was ever given a choice, I wouldn't mind being petite. I will happily wear the cutest little dresses you've ever seen with frills and laces. Not always together I mean.

It's not that I have a problem with people trying to be tall but by breaking your bones and being wheelchair bound for 6 months to a year is. It's okay if the person has one leg shorter than the other but if you have perfectly healthy legs and you consider doing it because you want to be 3-4 inches taller, it makes me think either you're too rich and too vain.

If any of you have broken your legs/ hands before, if you remember the pain then and then think of doing it on purpose. And paying lots of money to do it. And being a nuisance to everyone (in more ways than one)

Limb lengthening procedure is not a one off thingie, there's no do it today, go home tomorrow. It's a 6 months or more long procedure and can cost up to USD60,000 in some places (China is cheaper) which includes multiple surgeries. As any surgeries, there are risk that comes with it. Risk as the legs will not grow at the same length again, infection, damaged nerves and blood vessels and even fat embolism that can result in death.

I've read some forums that some people are extremely happy with the end results and have no regrets doing it. Well, good for them. Really.

There are always things that we're unhappy about, some things can be changed, some can't or at least it's a little harder to. Or a lot more expensive anyway. My way of living is to make do with what God has given me.

If Life throws lemons at you, make lemonade. You can always add some cut peaches into it, a small decorative paper umbrellas, add more ice and turn it into ice blended lemonade, add soda water to the lemonade..

It's tempting to throw it back and tell Life to make its own lemonade but I'll probably just ask all my friends to go stand in a hole.

Tia Amelia

2011-02-02T18:13:00.005+08:00

'Rub a dub dub,

Thanks for the grub'
- Shen

Phew, I'm full. Mom's Vietnamese styled prawns are delishious! And she's not even Vietnamese :P Hope everyone had a good Reunion dinner.

Before the Hong Kong post, I decided to upload some pictures I've been meaning to post up. One of them being about a Made in Malaysia 'almost miracle cream' everyone's raving about. Everyone meaning the cafeteria ladies at work. After searching high and low, I finally found a seller online and happily bought it.

It took the lady ONE week to post it to me. I have absolutely no idea why I even bother to pay for express post when registered post would have been faster. Her excuse, I didn't state which product I wanted despite that it was stated clearly in my order mail.

Nevermind. So anyway, the cream promises fairer skin without peeling, lightening pigmentation, healing pimples and the sorts. Sounds too good to be true for a mere RM24.50(5ml)? You bet it is. For me anyway.

I tested this out for a good 2 weeks before deciding to call it quits. It smells a little funky in the sense that it smells like some cream you get from the hospital. Not necessarily in a good way. Smells.. plasticky?

Plasticky or not, after 2 week, this is the end result;

Bewarned!

I don't have fantastic looking skin, never did. When I was 12 years old, you probably can't find a spot in my face that doesn't have a pimple. LMAO! That's one reason, a pimple or two doesn't bother me.

Being 26 years old, my pimples have come under control and it's not a problem now but after using Tia Amelia, tiny pimples grew by the busload. It was like a rave party! It doesn't have a head for me to squeeze anything out and it was a little painful.

Despite that I was hoping my skin would adjust to it and continued on, it doesn't seem to be doing anything for me - I quited. My pigmentation never lightened anyway.

Before all the haters out there do the happy dance, know that my skin is back to normal. I know what works for me skin and to get it back under control, I use back what I was previously using.

Oh, the old Daiso Charcoal mask I bought a year or so ago broke, if you're wondering how...

Never knew it could do that, not that I mind since the mask did no shitz. It was just a black coloured mask that couldn't dry and pulling it off could make you pee in your pants type.

After effect was having a red face from all the peeling. Nothing else.

It is just RM5 though. Hee....

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God dammit, I wouldn't have even paid RM2 for it!!

Hong Kong! Hong Kong!

2011-01-25T09:01:00.003+08:00

OMG, I'm a total idiot. I wanted to join Bunny's Beauty or Cutie and I forgot the dateline. Was busy packing for my Hong Kong trip and wanted to do the post last night. Unfortunately, JH rolled about and whined so we had to leave to his house. I ended up missing the dateline by a day! Dang it!

JH.. you..you..ARGHHHHHHH.. *loss hair*

Anyway it's been a while since I last did any haul/ reviews/rants/ whatever. I apologise, work has been hectic with colleagues/ bosses resigning and having to cover more workload till new help comes. I R Octopus!

Not to mention I was busy getting money changed, getting packed, stressing, growing pimples, looking haggard kinda thing. I recently tried some new, made in Malaysia face cream that was getting HOT reviews and ended up having pimples for my hard work so all is bad.

For the next one week, I won't be around but I wish everyone well and hopefully I'll come home with some nice things to show. I have some pictures of my pimples right now but I doubt you guys wanna see it.

HK here I comeeeeeeeeeeee~

Inspired look: Pixiwoo's 80's bright yellow with define crease; Pinky's surprise

2011-01-14T00:31:00.003+08:00

Hmm, never knew my sister's that sneaky. Gave me a call in the middle of work and asked if I've bought any Chinese New Year clothes. After saying no, she made plans to go shopping together and all. When I reached home, found a little package from her. :D

Tadaaaa, a top from Forever 21 and a matching necklace that she searched high and low for. Aww.. Thank you Pinky Doodle Doo!!

Out of boredom, decided to check out if there was any interesting make up tutorials and there was one from Pixiwoo. A 80's bright yellow with define crease. Yellow? Yuck. Crease? None. Considering that I actually tried it shows how bored I was.

I've been having troubles sleeping lately due to my sinus problem. It's been a month and it has not gotten any better and I rely heavily on my nasal spray. Both nostrils gets blocked at night and there are nights when I wake up in the middle of the night because I couldn't breath.

It's starting to show under my eyes. I didn't realise how bad my dark circles till I saw the shots to the EOTD. I initially thought I accidentally smeared some brown shadow under my eyes but when I tried removing it with make up remover, it doesn't move.

But anyway, apply yellow. (D'oh) Then taking dark brownish colour, draw the crease. Make sure that when you're 'winging' it, the line is sharp. Mine isn't very sharp since I used the wrong brush but it looks better when it's sharp. Line under the eyes with the brown.

Yea, my explanation sucks. Good thing I don't write manuals on how to operate Tv or something. There's probably just one line in the entire paper.

"Press ON button"

I find that it's easier to 'wing' your eyes by lining under your eyes first then following the natural curve of your eyes, just bring it up. Becareful though, when you're drawing your crease line, don't just follow your natural crease since both of our eyes aren't the same shape. Line with black eyeliner.

Since the dark circle is a little disturbing, I put foundation under my eyes. I don't remember when was the last time I had them but now that they're here. Please go away!

It didn't photograph that well but after the look, I'm genuinely surprised how pretty it actually looks in real life. I definitely want to re-do this look, gather my guts and go out with this. With sharper and more define crease of course.

Ps.: I checked out the prices of some make up courses. Remind me to go rob the bank first if I ever want to learn. Sheesh! And their make up was only mediocre. I rather pay the money to Elyn and learn from her.

Reviews: Skin Food Red Bean BB Cream, Revlon Soft Nude lippie, Mustika Ratu Masker Bengkoang

2011-01-10T19:10:00.010+08:00

I often mentioned that I'm not a fussy eater and I usually wallop up everything but the one thing I cannot stand are beans and peas. Kidney beans and green peas are the only thing that I will literally spit out each and every one. Was never a fan of Green, red and whatever beans.

The Skin Food BB cream was something I ended drooling for when I saw my sister buying this for her friend in Singapore. I didn't get it till a while later though. Had to get the approval of my "sponsor".

It's been about one weeks since I started using it and so far no breakouts, Thank God. The strange thing was when my sister was buying it in QueensBay Mall and I was with her, the coverage seems thicker but when I got mine in Gurney Plaza, I found out the coverage is sheer. My eyes are staring to play tricks on me!

Not sure is there's an eye problem or is it that the QBM tester was older and started to cake up. Eech!

I was told the Red Bean BB was more on hydrating meaning it's good for people with dry skin. I have oily but dehydrated skin, so what now? I'm confused. But "neediness" got the better of me and I ended up getting it. I reasoned that my BB cream was finishing - It was a lie!

The SF Red Bean BB cream is indeed a little tad oilier. My face is shine-y by 10 hours. Coverage is sheer but build-able. Unfortunately, I fear the more you apply, the oilier it might get. If you have good complexion, this is good for a little glow and coverage. If you need better coverage, you'll need your concealer.

I powder my face after using it and it's actually okay for me. I don't powder my face if I use my Etude House Precious Mineral though. It's a lot thicker and can be cakey if not careful.

I'll continue using it since my skin is getting better now and I'm starting to prefer sheerer coverage and letting my skin show more.

Got a RM10 Parkson voucher and was wondering what to buy when I remembered this. It's been a while but it's still 'Oh so pwetty' to me. Had a slight heart attack when I saw Parkson selling this for RM39 and only 10% off. Ouch! Watson was selling this for only RM32!

After thinking about it, I used the voucher to buy it anyway. *sigh* No more lipsticks for me till next year. Or lipglosses for that matter.

Right to left: Revlon Soft nude; With NYX Sugar Pie

One of the best buys I had for 2010 was Mustika Ratu's Masker Bangkoang! Believe it or not. I initially bought this for RM3.50 and since they recently won some Best Items of 2010 the price has jumped to RM5!

Excuse me while I let out a string of curses! I should have stocked it! Bloody Hell!

Each packet is good for 3 uses!

Mustika Ratu is an Indonesian product. If you're looking for whitening mask. This wins hands down down down! The mask is good! It might smell a little funky if you're not used to traditional herb-y smell.

I got to know about it when I saw my Indonesian colleague's face looking glowing and nice. She gave me a packet to try and I fell in love.

Before that, I search for them online and damn they were expensive, worst, I couldn't find any reviews. It was a plunge I never regretted. I bought the tube of mask this time instead of the packet ones because I wanted to try it out. It contained the Air Mawar (Rose water) and Olive oil meaning we don't have to mix it ourselves and make a mess of everything. In the end, it's no where as good as the packet one. The packet mask has little rough pumice(?) in it to scrub your face with but the tube mask was smooth.

If you decide to try this and not like it, don't blame me. This is just my opinion and I never said I was always right :D

RM15

Last buy of 2010. Contact lenses. This was a total 'Want' and not 'Need'. Sigh. A guilt buy but I promised myself, this is going to last me as long as it possibly can. The i-Dreamy in Grey. It's really dark Grey and natural thanks to the outter black ring. Bought this cheap for RM30 + RM3.50 (shipping) and I got them here.

I don't usually supply links because one way or another I always have problems with the sellers. Defected good, sellers that don't deliver on time, lousy customer service etc but this was the very few times that I had absolutely no problems.

I don't demand a lot, I don't bargain BUT I do ask alot of questions and when I pay for next day delivery, I wanted it delivered out and reach my house in a maximum of 2 days. If I wanted to wait, I would have taken the cheaper postage. If there was a reason you cannot deliver. Tell me. Don't keep me waiting like an idiot.

My make up look for Girly and Hock Yew's wedding, 26th December 2010.

It was a garden wedding so I wore something simple and non fussy. Whee!

What's in my make up bag?

2011-01-02T13:31:00.002+08:00

As if anyone wants to know...

But I will show it anyway! AHAHAHA! For some, you might have the idea that I cart my entire make up collection in my hand bag but that's really not the case. I have a snatch thief phobia and carry only what I can afford to lose. *touch wood* (All snatch thieves belong in hell and ought to die a terrible death slash end rant)

To be truthful, I don't touch up at all after I leave the house. I don't have the need to powder my nose and reline my eyeliner. I do apply gloss but that's about it. But in case that I need to, I have my Crabtree and Evelyn facial blotters than I bought a gazillion years ago that has never been used. My old trusty Benefit Boeing concealer, ZA powder, the Enamel Heavy Rotation lip gloss, Elianto balm, a Estee Lauder eyeliner and my Ettusais eyeliner for bottom eyelids. I noticed that Ettusais eyeliner last better for lower lids since it's drier and waterproof. It's not that nice to use for upper eyelids since it's drier and you need to tug and pull.

Once it was one, now there is twos...

I have no luck with concealers. They all break up with me after a while. To date, I've broken a total of four concealers, three MUFE Camouflage Cream and one Benefit's. *sniff*

Not shown are the usual, sanitary pads and dental floss. :D

What is in your bag?

Cookies NOTD; Phuket 2010

2011-01-02T12:58:00.009+08:00

You know what's better than holidays? Surprise holidays! Malaysia won some football match after 10 years and the PM decides that the next day (31st December 2010) to be a public holiday. Wow, for once in my life, I love football!

NOTD

Nothing new here, still a scrooge and doing my own nails. Pinky Doodle Doo sponsored the rubber 3D bought in Queensbay Mall.

You wouldn't believe how much top coat I had to use

Phuket 2010

Was sick as hell when I arrived, had cough and very bad sinus problem. How bad? I didn't realize it was this bad. For everynight for the next 5 days, both nostrils were completely blocked. Go me!

On our first night there, we had our dinner in a restaurant called 'Raya' and it was delicious. We had crab noodles with plenty of crabs! YUM!

To be truthful, I couldn't really taste half the things thanks to my messed up taste buds but whatever I could taste was gooood. I forgotten the names of the two dishes below but the one on the left was yum yum while the fried 'Petai' (Parkia speciosa aka Stink Beans) that my manager loves so much was err.. only eaten by her and her alone.

Picture left to right: Forgotten the dish name; Stinky Beans

Eating Petai is very good for health. Seriously.

Petai contains three natural sugars -sucrose, fructose and glucose. Combined with fiber, petai gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proved that just two servings of petai provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder petai is the number one fruit with the worlds leading athletes. But energy isnt the only way petai can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Benefits of eating Petai

It helps with depression, anemia, PMS, blood pressue, brain power, constipation, heartburn, hangover, morning sickness, nerves, mosquito bite.

Looking at the list, it's like wow! This ought to be sold at all hospitals and pharmacies, right? There's just one tiny downfall to Petai. The smell is second to none. Your fart, breath, urine will have the wonderful aroma Eau de Petai for a while..

Parkia speciosa (petai, bitter bean, sataw, twisted cluster bean, yongchaa, yongchaak or kampai, zawngṭah or stink bean) is a plant of the genus Parkia in the family Fabaceae. It bears long, flat edible beans with bright green seeds the size and shape of plump almonds which have a rather peculiar smell, characterised by some as being similar to that added to methane gas.
- wikipedia

I mean, I had blocked nose, even if I fart, I can't smell it but I swear it might just kill my manager off so I refrained from eating it... for her sake XD

Argh didn't mean to dedicate so much space to one dish but moving on, we had prawns! So anyway for the next five days, me and my manager were the perfect little girls (actually not so little but..) we slept early, woke up early and visited hospitals. Many many hospitals.

Not for MY sake anyway. We stopped at the Phuket International Hospital and they were selling small little teddy bears for kids living with HIV. For 100baht each, we could either donate the bears and hang them on the tree (both money and bear will be given to the patient) or take the bear home.

Donated in both me and JH's name. My effort, JH's money. AHAHAHAHA!

I decided to make the donation and hang the bear on the tree. I wasn't suppose to remove the clear plastic but I didn't know. I hope the kid who receives it won't mind a gray,dusty, dirty bear. I'm so sorry!!

Merry merry Christmas!

I felt a little sad on returning, not because of anything but the hospitals there were fabulous looking compared to ours here. Sure we're cheaper and all but their hospitals are almost like big shopping malls. Theirs smells of coffee from the little cafes, our smells of disinfectants. Their share holders sure pumped in alot of monies. *twiddle thumbs*

Giveaway winner!

2010-12-23T15:04:00.004+08:00

To elaborate more on my extremely small giveaway; it was a way to thank the 118 people that followed me all these times. Thru all my up and downs, my silliness and all. Thank you!

I'm so sorry for the late post. I know my small giveaway ended on the 20th December but it's only now that I had time to sort through the enteries. (Not that there was alot, NYAHAHA) I apologies to the few anonymous comments (about 5 me thinks) that posted because of a filter than I've downloaded I am unable to read anonymous comments. Much much apologies if you sent your entries in and I was unable to read them.

To cut everything short, yes I'm still sick and yes there is a winner!!

The result was base on some random randomizer and the winner it picked was:

Yana!

Congrats Yana. Sorry I didn't post up some cool YouTube video like what Bunny did. I'm still YouTube illiterate to be truthful. Your prize is a 2000 pages long essay on Ashley's Greatness. Yes yes, be amazed and be make sure you read all of it. *kidding*

Anyway I'll contact you via email for your address.

And to all that joined, a BIGGIE thank you and yeshu, some answers were really sweet and funny!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Fast Post: Giveaway

2010-12-12T23:46:00.006+08:00

I'll be away to Phuket, Thailand for about a week so there will be no updates. I'm as sick as sick can be with fever (37.7 - 84.4 Celcius) the past two days and sore throat and cough. Biggie love to JH for taking care of me. Unfortunately the trip cannot be delayed as I have to be there in Phuket for some conference.

I've been talking about having a small (please please note the small) giveaway since July and it's been postponed till now. I feel really guilty about it since JH chipped in a little for some of the gifts. So while I'm gone, for the 118 reader I have (not all is active) is eligible to participate in this little giveaway. Yay!

All you have to do to have a shot at my little goody bag is post below your name, email address ( ladylala[alias]hohoho[dot]com) and complete this short sentence.

If Ashley was a colour, what colour would she be and why? Haha, something to think about!

Don't worry about your post not showing up or anything, I'll come back do the approving. Posts that shows up then are are in the running. I'll be truthful and say that I only got literally a handful of readers so chances are pretty good.

I'll post up a picture of the giveaway later, for now. Just imagine an odd item here and there, an autograph picture of me and a 1000 pages essay telling you how GREAT I am. AHAHAHAHAH!!

Kidding, anyway, do keep in mind it's really just an odd bit here and there k. Nothing too fancy as it might reduce me to eating grass.

I'm serious! Been having salad at the cafeteria cause it's the most affordable thing to eat there. Not to mention the only thing edible there...

Entries closes on the 20th December midnight. So it's just about one week which should be alright since I don't have that much readers. :D

P.s: It's not an essay competition, the question is just to make your life miserable XD, doesn't count and the randomizer will in the end choose the winner.

Make up tutorial on How to look Fake; Eyebrow embroidery

2010-12-08T13:21:00.009+08:00

Make up tutorial on How to look Fake :D

My usual office look; Slap on a ton of foundation

Firstly, you bow before my Fakeness Greatness!

After you're done with that, you slap on your foundation like the world is going to end and only people with flawless skin is going to be saved.

Then, you put on your brightest eyeshadow you can find, in case they need to find you and it's pitch black. They will locate you by your eyeshadow. (Dang, I should have used Yellow then, nvm)

Compliment the above colour by using Purple, Purple always looks nice with Blues. You don't want to be tooo bright least they get blinded before reaching you.

You should look like this. If you don't. You need more eyeshadow. Remember people, if they can't see you, they can't save you! Add blusher, MAC Don't be Shy. That's right, don't be shy with the blusher! Add more, more MORE!

Add falsies to fan fire...if needed. Torch lights are much preferred.

Apply lipstick. In my case, I used MAC Too Fab and apply lip gloss. Red would be overkill, we wouldn't want that now would we? :D

To complete my look, I put on my pale blond wig. This shall now be my everyday office look!

Yays, I feelz pretties!

Don't like my look? Here, lemme give you a nice big kisssss... To be truthful, I can't my eyes off my fake mole. It's.. so.. BIG! Dang, should have drawn it smaller :P

I posted the picture on the right because I found it hilarious! Have you ever seen a RECTANGULAR mole?!?! I can't stop laughing! Dang, my shaky hands.

That's all folks, how to look amazingly fake to go with your fabulous fake attitude :D

p.s: This FOTD is not meant to offend anyone. It's just to poke fun at myself

Eyebrow Embroidery - DONE

I have no intentions to post up more pic on my eyebrows but since Bunny asked for a full face, I had no choice but to comply. Bunny is one of my favourite bloggers out there and a great friend and I guess it's be educational for those interested so you know what the hell you're going in for.

When I saw the request, it was also the last day (Day 8) and the peeling has already started. All I needed to do was to wipe the dried up part off. I was in a rush to go JH's house for the night and it was one of those 'god damned awful days' when you look like a freaking mess.

One week of endless teasing, being told I look like shit (Yes someone told me that) just got me really tired and other problems at work. But anyway, horrible is horrible. It was either this picture or not picture. So Bunny, here you go

I actually thought I look hobo-ish. AHAHAHAA! Not insulting anyone.

It was harder to remove than I remembered so picture two was taken the next day. And yes, me no have flawless even toned skin. It was all a lie!!! Not that I've ever mentioned I have even skin tone :P

All done, finally! One whole agonizing week. The thing is that the eyebrow colour came off looking funny in the pictures no matter what. It looked grey-ish or something as if I've accidentally cover my eyebrow with foundation.

In real life, the eyebrows are fantastic. Everyone loves it and I've gotten tons of compliments. I'm loving it. The colour gradation from light to dark and the 3D effect.

The difference between normal embroidery and 3D effect is that you can see the strokes of 'hair' in the 3D. It's supposedly to look more natural.

If you're interested, just give Beauty Concept a call at 04-8999688.
Normal embroidery is RM350
3D is RM400

No, I'm not getting paid to do this, I wish but Felicia has been doing my eyebrows for the past 11 years and I love her to death because her skills are really good.

ROTD: I'ma Barbie girl, in a Barbie world, life in plastic, it's fantastic!

2010-11-30T23:43:00.004+08:00

Sorry, it's been a while and unfortunately this post ain't about roses and rainbows. Just needed to get something off my chest.

Been down sick with viral infection - AGAIN! And didn't take any MC and went on working since there was too many work to do. My brain has been exhausted and I've on a short memory status. Been forgetting things like an old lady.

There's a lady (late thirties) who's quite well respected in my workplace that bothers me a little. Nothing all too serious but it seems that she often make subtle hints to me and everyone how she doesn't approve of me or the way I look or behave. I don't expect to go anywhere and win a bloody popularity contest here. All I want to do is get along with everyone, get our job done and go home.

The first few months of working in my new job; she started hinting to me how I should not act fake and how she and her husband (she married early) are comfortable with each other and how not fake they are.

Problem is, I am who I am. Like I said, I'm not here to win a popularity contest, there's no reason for me or anyone for that matter (in my opinion) to act fake. This is me. I talk in a girlish voice, I grin and tell stupid jokes, I nod my head respectfully and smile even when I'm scolded etc.

Elisa did mention that people who doesn't know me will cleverly 'assume' that I act fake. People who's with me for a while, knows that that is just me. Thinking that time will prove her wrong eventually, I let this comment slip.

How long can a fake person keep up in a relationship? I'm curious. If I were that horribly fake and manage to keep it up for 13 months and see my bf everyday, I deserve an Oscar!!

The face. In this case, MY face. People take one look at me and also assumes that they know me their entire lifetime and how they don't need to even talk to me to know me. They assume that I do not know any hardship, is unable to handle anything important, can't work, can't hold a job for 6 months, a flower pot. Will wilt under sun, will never eat in hawker centres and only eats expensive food stuff and all, can't hold secrets, gossipy. It's incredible how long the list goes.

I admit I'm not perfect. I'm far from it. I have a list of faults probably that long too but it's none of the above. I had live by myself in a strange place with no fan, no lights, no furniture eating nothing by instant noodles for dinner every night for 2 months. I have been thru shit and more, I can hold a job for 6 months and more. I like umbrellas because I have pigmentation problem, I dislike gossip, I'm a fantastic secret holder. I eat anywhere and almost anything.

But anyway, as of late, she's hinting to me how she disapproves of the way I look. In her words, she's okay with girls dressing sexy but doesn't approve of things like colouring the hair. How she like au natural. Good for her. Also if my hair was under a scarf, I wouldn't bother to do anything to it too.

I don't wear sexy but I consistently colour my hair, recently hair my eyebrows embroidered, wear make up (mascara and occasionally falsies) and in other words - Look fake.

She never says anything like that to my other colleague that colours their hair in light browns and stuffs. Weird..

Ta daaaa, move over Barbie! I'm here to stay!

Now all I need is double eyelids, a boob job, some lip fillers, blond hair, blue contacts and I'm all set. I don't know about you guys, but I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of 550cc for my boobies...

Now to get my Ken, my pink convertible, my pink palace and the RM10k needed for my boob job...

Sponsors anyone?