NOTD: Christmas theme, Etude House lip plumper, hair cut

It's been a while since I did anything fancy with my nails, an apology to Shenay for not posting up the promises NOTD. After a failed attempt, I gave up and decided that the technique was pretty much the same as all my other polka dotted NOTDs, only difference was the colour. The colour used was from the Etude House VIP collection. I think the VIP collection only had 3-4 colours in their collection, shouldn't be hard to find.

Finished!

The yellow used above is also from the Etude House VIP collection. Had yellow french tips for a week before getting really bored in GameForge and started using the acrylic paints to paint my nails.

If you ask me why a Christmas theme in the middle of a heat wave or why I'm like 3 months late? I have no idea. It all started with a ginger bread man, then a Christmas pudding (which everyone mistakes it as a muffin), a Christmas tree, snowman and a candy cane.

Halfway through

Total time painting them on, 20 minutes. Thus you can see that they ain't perfect and since I had no bloody idea or plan. Talking about Etude, headed there last week to replenish my almost finish Etude House Precious Mineral. My all time favourite BB cream.

Did the happy dance when I saw that they had 20% off and JH bought them for me. Best part, the lip plumper that I have been eying for over a year had 50% off. I happily bought that at RM16. Finally I have you, baby! Unfortunately as I held it to JH's face in happiness, he shot me down by saying; "Wow, it made with so many chemicals" and burst my happy bubble.

^%$#@!


Pardon the pale lips

Never mind, I'm still loving it! It has a slightly minty flavour and tingles when applied. It's on the thick and sticky side but I'm liking it because of the minty smell.

Finally had my hair cut. It was starting to get annoying and it was long enough for me to tie with a rubber band. That's one sign that I badly need a haircut. I didn't realize how short it was towards the back till everything was done and I was handed the mirror. Nothing you can do then right? No amount of rolling on the floor demanding your hair to be longer is going to make it any longer.

Muh hair, my thin eyebrows *sniff*

Anyway hair is hair, as long as I'm not shedding and going bald. I'm fine. Somewhat *whistles innocently*

Oh the picture of the eye is not for EOTD sakes, it to show how clean it is after threading. After a banana leaf lunch on Friday (half day) my colleagues and I went to have our eyebrows threaded. It's so freaking clean!

The bad part was that my eyebrow became really thin, which I somewhat hate even after telling the girl I want mine thicker. *sigh* Some people don't take request at all.

Thankfully it was only RM5.

Last but not least, much love to Bunny for the award. *muaks*

ROTD: *sigh*

I'm officially quitting a 'certain' political party. I give up! Don't want no porn star as our president.

Apparently the three way fight for party president was between a triad leader, a porn star and a lone wolf. And the porn star won. *sigh* I guess he must have either:

1) Bribed everyone who voted for him with a free copy of him in 'action'
2) Threaten to release another sequel or prequel if people didn't vote for him

People who votes for him has absolutely no qualms about making a mockery of our their already troubled party. Then again, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, no matter how stupid. Fine, let the stupid be with the stupid. None of my business.


Ps.: Don't sue me. I have no money, only a big mouth. <-- oh wait, this came out sounding wrong

Suitcase of memories... NOT!

One of my make up drawers has been stuck for some time now and it was only today that I decided to try to fix it and see what the problem is. It's problem was that it was too full so I had to sort some stuff out.

After some rummaging through, an almost brand new Maybelline foundation caught my eyes. Oh la la~ Maybelline Clear Smooth Gel Foundation? And it was a good 85-90% full! But wait a minute, why would I have bought a Maybelline foundation? I hate Maybelline!

Then I remembered. I bought it with Elisa during its FIRST launching in Penang. If you're thinking, "Hey, I thought it launches eons ago." Damn right you are. I couldn't remember the date till the numbers on the top caught my eyes.

2003

That's a good seven years ago and its in my drawer all these while sitting pretty. ARGHHHH. I'm so disgusted! Now I remember what happened. I bought it, used it, hated it. The end.

The coverage was sheer and it didn't cover the pimply me. *sigh* This sparked a frenzy in me to search and destroy..err I mean throw old stuff away. A few minutes later, I came across another.

A Loreal foundation stick. My old favourite. Damn it was good. I remember keeping this one for memory sakes. The coverage was good, easy to apply but was a little pricy at RM35+. If you're going "Huh? How is that pricy? Foundations nowadays cost RM50 and above" that's cause I was 15 and poor. D'oh.

That makes it even older than the Maybelline *slaps forehead* That's a good 11 years old. Uhh, why is Hermits Herman's My Sentimental Friend playing in my head?

So won't you please play a song
A sentimental song
For my sentimental friend over there.

We've been so long apart
Make it go right to the heart
Of my sentimental friend over there.
Bring the tears to her eyes
Help to make her realize
The love we had was just beyond compare.
And then if the time is right
Maybe I'll hold her tight

Hmm, other interesting thing I found in my drawer was this; Birthday Waterproof Surgical Lash Adhesive. I bought this during my trip to Hadyai, Thailand. I saw this being sold in some forums for RM8 I think, not too sure. I bought mine at RM2.50.

Oh la la, who can resist an eyelash glue for only RM2.50? Literally USD .76 cents . Note the word "Surgical Evelash Adhesive". Surgical? Honey, don't kid yourself, this thing can't even stick a stamp on an envelope.

Lousy &^%$#@! You get what you pay for. Then again, if I get what I pay for, this thing ought to pay me cause it does no shit and waste MY time and effort. BOOOOOO!!

That bring me to the next item on the list.

Note the blue eyelash glue called DON

Its really similar looking to the DUO eyelash adhesive. I bought DON from Sasa at RM12.90 a while back. It's actually my first eye lash glue before Elyn gave me the DUO for my birthday. DON waterproof eyelash adhesive is the total opposite of the Birthday eyelash adhesive.

If you don't pull, tug and in the process pull put a few eyelashes, it'll probably stay there till 2011.

That thing sticks like no tomorrow and you can be damn sure, it'll stay till tomorrow. To some, you might think that's good but to me, it's a major pain in the behind. You can't remove the glue from the eyelashes afterwards. It spoils the lashes after a while and hell, after a few times, you don't need the glue, your falsies will still stick from just the leftovers.

This is good is you're probably going swimming but don't take my word for it. And if you do decide to buy it, I am not to be held responsible for anything. Namely, the number of bald patches where your lashes use to be.

Miss Eylure Falsies + Nail polish from Hell

On the 18, me and JH went to Gurney P today to watch Alice in Wonderland but there was no more tickets, disappointed, we bought the show for tomorrow and went browsing around.

*Edit: The movie was good I guess, knowing how crazily in love with Alice in Wonderland since young but the story is both a combi of the first and second book and the Red Queen and Queen of Hearts became the same person. I kept expecting Alice to be crowned as the new Red Queen but that didn't happen in the movie :P

But anyway since I was really disappointed with not being able to watch the movie that day, JH cheered me up by buying eye falsies. Yay!

I've always wondered how these kind of eyelashes would look on me, I've been constantly buying my falsies from the night market and The Face Shop and I've always bought the same old same old. I wanted to try something different so I got these.

They were surprisingly very natural on me. *D'oh* It was the kind of lashes I could wear to work without people noticing. The only down part is that they are pre-glued. It's good in a way and bad in some. Good cause I can wear them there and then without having any glue with me, bad cause after one use, it's really not sticky anymore. The extra strip of glue they came with is good as long as you don't mess them up by accidentally touching them and such.

I ended using my usual glue to glue them on after 2 uses.

Left to right: Not placed correctky; Ah much better

The eye lash that started everything. I've been eyeing this for the longest time but wasn't willing to fork out RM12.90 for a pair. Yeshu, I'm poor and stingy. While we were in Sasa in KL, Pinky Doodle Doo got these for me.

*I LUB YOU LONG LONG Pinky*

XD

The totally reminded me of the my ultimate favourite pair of falsies from Red Cherry *Thanks Elyn, I LUB you long long too* I've been trying to order Red Cherry lashes for over 2 months now but not having any luck. Just when I thought I got lucky, I found that the person was charging USD50 for postage alone. I nearly freaked and died. At USD50 I could have cleaned out the eyelashes corner in The Face Shop.

I was so disappointed then that I spend days mulling over the facts that I lived in a God forsaken place called Malaysia.. kidding. It's not that bad here just seriously in need of more cosmetic counters.

That aside, JH found them too dramatic but they were so soft and after my Red Cherry pair, this just became my 2nd favourite. Will be back to get more when I hit the lottery.

A while back I went for a RM12 somewhat of a pedicure and saw them using this brand of nail colour. I've never seen such a 'blinged' nail polish before. It was literally a disco ball filled with glitters. It turned my eyes all sparkly and how I drooled.

In the end I opted for an OPI red but I couldn't forget how beautifully 'blinged' the nail polish was so I searched high and low for it. While in KL, I found it! Bought it without a second though, painted my nails, enjoyed a few days of very super shiny 'blinged' nails and then I realized...

They were nail polish from HELL! Almost anyway. Washing them off was a super major pain in the *toot* Yes, from years of experience I knew glitters were a *toot* to wash off but this one takes the cake. I scrubbed and scrubbed. Took me a quarter bottle of nail polish remover, lots of cotton wool and cursing along the way.

I doubt I'll be using this for a long time to come, unless I paint my feet with them then go for a pedicure and wait for them to remove it *whistles innocently*

ROTD: 2 faced

Oh, oh, twisted and deceitful
All those 2 faced people
Taking me for some kind of fool.
Oh, oh, pretending to be so nice
Let me give you my advice
I don’t need you, ooh...

Friends in disguise
Dressed up in lies
It’s a knack that you’re playing.
Oh, oh, first you recognize me
Then you criticize me
What’s going on?

Stop your bit*hing
’cos you’re so sad
Bit*hing behind my back
Honey, I don’t need that
So kick it to the curb because
I heard you’re 2 faced
Trying to get in my face
Worked too hard to make mistakes
So stop your bit*hing on me.

Oh, oh, they’re so narrow minded,
Truth is so one sided
They’re just counterfeit.
Oh, oh, hot and cold you’re blowing,
Sheep in wolves clothing
Who are you trying to kid-id?

2 faced people are so shallow
Put your self in my place
Oh, oh, the fairy tells you’re spinning
Sounding so convincing
But I’m at a loss so...

Poison words are spoken
My faith in you is broken
But I’ll make it on my own.

Stop this hypocrisy
You’re criticizing me
Cos I don’t wanna be
With 2 faced people, yeah

She’s probably talking about us behind our backs right now.
Yeah she probably is, she’s like that.
Yeah she’s two faced, (yeah, bit*hy)
I’ll never trust anything she says again...
*laughs*

-2 Faced, Louise

A dedication to a "certain" Princess who finds complaining and bitching about friends her
only fulfilling thing in life. My only advise to her is to stop looking down on people and
I'm sure she'll have more friends and her phone might actually start ringing. 

ROTD: The little green man

..turn out to be a fat little boy. But anyway, we have a clue as to the mystery of the guy with the green wee wee. Time will either prove us right or wrong. And it will also be in time that the 'person' gets his ass bitten by karma. *crackles*

Gone to KL

Magic The Gathering is having a tourny in Cititel hotel, Kuala Lumpur and we're down to support a few friends who's joining..

@Shenay
Sorry, NOTD was delayed and due to my haste, the NOTD turned WNTD (What NOT to do) Will probably post up later in the week. No fancy nails allowed at work T.T

BRTC Blemish Serum, Acne Aid, Cherry Blossoms NOTD (failed)

Wow, it's been one whole week since I last updated. What a lazy bum I've become. Life just ain't all that happening, I doubt anyone would want to know how many emails I replied at work, what I had for lunch, how many times I went to toilet, how many times I fell asleep in the office (which is none actually, I'm a good girl, unlike a certain sleepy head)

E asked me to join twitter. Considering how un-happening my life currently is, all I would probably tweet is:

3.11PM: I farted
3.12pm: I farted again
3.13pm: Oops I did it again
3.14pm: Oh Em Gee!!! my colleague fainted for no reason..

and so forth and no, I won't be joining twitter for now.

A while back, was it Bunny who asked me about pimples and stuff that I never answered. I never answered cause I was going thru my own war with them, one that I was losing. How am I suppose to give advise when I can't handle my own?

While browsing in Watsons I came across the BRTC Blemish Serum selling for RM59.90. Very tempting. Very very tempting. Took me a day to decide whether I could afford it and if I should get them. Went home to check reviews for it.

Hmph, finding out how big the Mekong river catfish is alot easier than finding any reviews for this item. Imagine that. So am I suppose to fork out that much dough and test it myself? Not that I have a lot of choice. Another reason being, I wanted to stop JH from commenting that I smell like a koala bear every time I put on Tea Tree Oil to sleep.

He has started calling me, "Bear, bear". That can't be a good sign right? Then again, bears has claws right?

So tadaa, carefully removed the bottle from the box and happily examine it only to find that it too has a faint scent of Tea Tree Oil.

&^%$#@ and a &^%$#@!. You &^%$#@@. Now gimme my ^$$#@!!
Not going to be translated

The bottle is made from glass and shatters easily (D'oh) so be extra careful with it. I've been avoiding putting it on table edges or any places where I can accidentally knock it over. I told JH that it's going to last me for at least a year so RM59.90 ain't too bad. On my first day of using it, I realize that this thing ain't going to last me a year. I'll be super lucky if this thing even last me for half a year. I'm putting it at four months max.

The texture is watery and very sticky. Apply on face and rub it all in. Thankfully the stickiness does goes away or you can stick some notes on my forehead and it'll probably stay there.

I've only been using it for a couple of nights but my face has indeed healed a very tiny bit. The pimples dried up, Yay!

Anyway, while browsing thru Watsons during lunch a few days later *ahem* Don't ask why I'm always at Watsons. My colleagues and I were talking about dermatologist when Gayle pointed out a bar of soap that her dermatologist has previously recommended. The Ance Aid.

I grabbed it. My pimples has made me that desperate. If someone was to tell me that rubbing my face with carrots would heal them, I would probably try it but anyway, happily paid my RM14.90 and went home to try it.

I expected the soap to be like Mior. Drying and then more drying. When I tried it on, I was surprised to find it nothing like Mior. It's creamy, lathers well and doesn't make the face feel tight afterwards. Nice. I have no regrets buying this. With the combi of BRTC Blemish Serum and this, my face is getting much much better. Slowly, one step at a time.

*Does happy dance*

I cut it into smaller pieces so the soap won't melt into one goopy mess and spoilt before I get to fully use up the bar of soap.

I wanted to do a Hello Kitty nail design as Shop n Chomp requested for but after the face shape became something like a messed up pancake, I gave up and quickly rubbed it off. In desperation to cover up a ugly white spot on the thumb, I grabbed Padios's Citadel foundation paints. Paints usually used to paint models like below to paint cherry blossoms.. or cherry blossoms look alikes.

Warhammer 40k Orks taken from here; GW Citadel foundation paints

As usual, I used the Etude House pink as a base then rummage thru for any brown branch like colour, draw a few branches which turn out too freaking fat. Then topped it up with JH's Games workshop white paint. What else could I do?

God, those branches are awfully fat..

Oh and my pathetic self has finally gotten a new handphone. Not the one I planned or anything but since it was a gift, I was over the moon.

JH quietly sneaked into my room and left it there while waiting for me to get out from the shower. Awwwww.. I appreciate it since he knew how badly I needed a phone and how my T9 dictionary has died on me. Sms is now a breeze.

*Muaks*

Ps.:
@Shenay: Saw your comment dear for one of my previous NOTD. Gimme a day k and I'll do it, I've washed off my old nail colour just for you.

Chinese Valentine Day

Background picture is from www.petertan.com

The 28th February is the 15th day after Chinese New Year is also the Chinese Valentine Day. So it's obvious I'll visit the two loves of my life. No it's not MAC and the Candy shop but JH and Elisa. I would have happily visited TJ and Elyn if I could too but TJ is too far and Elyn is still probably busy with her new house, which I'm hoping to get the address for.

E's new work place looks great and everything seems to be looking up for her. All her problems have started to untangle and she's looking happier than she's been for a while. As for JH and I, we went around searching for my belated V-Day pressie. We still didn't manage to find it but dinner up in Bt. Ferringhi was delish! JH couldn't sit still after hearing some recommendations from Leanne during our QueenBay Mall outing with the group. The price was alright for Italian food and the atmosphere was pretty romantic but parking was a *toot


Background picture is from www.petertan.com

After dinner, JH offered to bring me to throw oranges at Gurney but the traffic jam was horrendous so I decided to just skip that. Afterall I've already found the love of mi life :D atleast that's what I tell him. Truth be told, it's because I forgot to buy a watermelon and spray paint it orange.

Mission: Disguise watermelon as orange.

Why?: So I'll have the biggest orange in the whole of Penang and which guy can miss that?! (unless they are blind)

[Insert delusional laughter]

For those who doesn't know, Chap Goh Meh (15th Night) is a night when single females would throw oranges into the sea in hopes of finding love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chap_Goh_Meh

http://www.penang-vacations.com/chap-goh-meh.html

I'm not entirely too sure but I think long ago, they used to throw plain oranges into the sea, but now adays, girls would write their name and phone numbers on the oranges before throwing so that the guy whom pick up the orange would know whose orange it was. Anyway the best part is, I doubt they can even pronounce my name so they probably won't call. MUAHAHAH! And since the name Ashley is unisex and the only person they would know with this name is the footballer Ashley Cole, they'll probably think I'm a guy *sigh*

Anyway GameForge has been organizing FNM, Friday Night Magic for some time now. Before you think we all sit in a circle, hold hands and have a seance, or have some magic show, (Hocus Pocus, Hudoo Pudoo, do the things I tell you to doooo) let me clarify that FNM is actually Magic: The Gathering Friday Night drafting and last Friday was my FIRST Magic drafting.

Was nervous as hell since I am the noobest of the noobest so I asked for Bouncer's help. Bouncer is a guy, all magic players would love to kill cause of his God's Hands. He's able to pick up the best packs in a box and is able to tell which packs has a bad rare or even a foil. How he does it is beyond me, or any of us. He's a nice guy nevertheless. For that night, he was my partner in crime.

I ended with a green/white deck and the thing is that I was suppose to learn from Bouncer but everything happened so fast but before I knew it, the game was over and I came in 3rd with Bouncer's help.

I lost one game to Rom's mono black deck. T.T Booo!