A love package from Dblchin; Looking in to Etude House BB cream

Yana (she's a real beauty :D ) smsed me during work to ask me when what post did I sent her package out with. She bought some of my remaining NYX stuffs (Thank you for the support!) and I had happily posted it to her last Tuesday. It was a express post so it should arrive the next day. But nearly one week later and it had not reached her? My face tuned blue, then white and then my blood shot up to my head as I cursed and swore at our post office's lousy service. I feared that they had lost the package and then I will have to start killing people.

Tried checking the tracking number but as usual our lousy internet connection decided to be super slow that time and day. I can't tell you how much hair I lost over it. Was busy panicking and sms-ing Yana back and forth. For someone who lost a package, she was surprisingly very calm but luckily in the end, she actually headed over to her post office and found the parcel waiting for her there. No notice, no phone calls etc.

THANK YOU POS MALAYSIA! - NOT!

Now give me my hair back, dammit!

EDIT: Thank you Yana for the wonderful post on me, you're such a sweet girl that I would really love to meet up and have coffee with one day. You're so beautiful that I do really enjoy looking at your pictures XD, keep up the fantastic job you're doing with your blog k!

Came home all relieved and then spotted a parcel for me on the table from Singapore. It's not often that I get pressies other than from Tahira or Elyn.

Happy happy, joy joy! *does the rabbit dance*

It turned out from non other than my favourite Singaporean blogger, Dblchin. She had previously left a comment to let her know should I ever need another tube of eye glue after mine beheaded itself. After mulling for a couple of days, I shamelessly told her yes. I know, I know, I'm shameless!! Shameless, poor and desperate.

I've been keeping an eye on her blog for a while now and I liked the way she seems real, down to earth and not afraid to laugh at herself type. I admit that I tend to subscribe to blogs like that. I really love the bloggers that is not afraid to show the real them and is just generally being themselves.

That being said, my first thought when I saw the parcel was , 'Wow, that's a LOT of bubble wrap for just an eyelash glue.' As soon as I unwrapped it;

Two false eyelashes from Daiso, the DUO glue and the flamingo mascara along with a hand written note with my name on it. It's really times like this that I love my name. Never really liked my name all this while cause the only time people call me was when I was in trouble. Seriously.

My first and foremost instinct when someone shouts my name is to get a panic attack. So the easiest and fastest way to get on my bad side is just to stand pretty far and scream my name. To stand pretty far is to discourage me from taking off my shoes and throwing it at them. Yes yes, I'm the jumpy type.

After using the DON glue and then losing even more of my real eyelashes, I am reduced to using the eyelash glue that comes FREE with every purchase of The Face Shop's eyelashes. They are actually pretty good. I'm so glad I kept them from a gazillion years ago!

The creepy part was this though; I kinda went all big eyed when I saw the mascara cause I was just contemplating whether to get it or not the night before. I found an old thread in the forum on the mascara and it seems really good. In the end, my piggy bank won. Decided to just drool and not get them. And la dee da! The very next day, it's in my house! It's magic, I tell ya!

A biggie thank you to Dblchin for the early Christmas XD!

Operation for the day, patient: Etude House precious mineral BB cream.

Yes yes, my curiosity never cease, wanted to know how the inside of a super flatten BB cream tube looks like. I've always liked the Etude house precious mineral despite the bad reviews. It usually get a pretty bad rating because of the lack of shades and that it comes in fair and even fairer. Occasionally it can be too fair even for me but the oil control is good and coverage is pretty good.

Does this remind you of dried cuttlefish?

*snip snip* Hmm, not too bad. It wasn't like the Skin Food Aloe Vera tube where I had a LOT of BB cream stuck on the sides. This had about 3x usage on the bottom and that's about it.

Not too bad at all. Hygienic and not too wasteful.

Inspired Look: Bunny's scene girls!

A while back in July, Bunny did one look that I really liked and it got stuck in my head. I wanted to try the look but I couldn't because I just did my i-lasik and there was a NO make up rule for a week. The Scene Girls! (click here for Bunny's version)

Now that all is fine and dandy, the coast clear; parents went out for a function, Pinky Doodle Doo lost in her own world and JH is in Game Forge and has probably forgotten even my name. I decided to finally try the look. It definitely did not turn out as nice as Bunny's and I don't have Bunny's guts to wear this out just in case people mistake me as a hooker. In Malaysia, if you wear "too much" make up, you'll be automatically branded a hooker. Don't ask me, I didn't come up with the rules.

I'm using a different palette from Bunny. I'm using the no brand 88 colours palette in Yellow and what I think is Turquoise Blue.

Have I scare you yet?

If it wasn't for this palette, I would not have the colour yellow in my entire make up kit. Yellow = not my favourite colour. Anyway paint the yellow on up all the way to the crease. The yellow turned out really light in RL, applied like mad and it looked so ..little. Took a snap shot and I changed my mind. Use turquoise blue, place it above where your crease suppose to be, in my case, I placed it where my eye socket meets eyeball place. Does that even make sense?

Using my favourite Etude House Eyebrow brush, I put on my eyeliner. Yes, you read correctly, eyeBROW, not eyeliner. I hate their eyeliner brush, the pink colour one. It's fine if you don't use as much eyeliner as me but as a monolid, I need a lot!. The eyebrow brush is soft yet firm and doesn't scratch or rough. My perfect eyeliner brush. Hee hee.

Eyeliner and falsies always makes everything nice

Lookie, after a holiday, my lost falsies decided to come home. I found it on the floor one fine day. I knew you'll come back!

A STBY (Sucks to be you) moment. My NYX Narcissus.. in two! *sigh* It finally decided to detached itself from the base.

So anyway tadaaa.. my Bunny inspired look. Not exactly my look but I'm happy to have atleast given it a try.

No, I didn't get a cramp on my neck, was trying my hardest, arms all tangled to try to take a picture to compare my arms and my face. My arms are very tanned due to my love for singlets. Wasn't much of a T-shirt person till recently. People take one look at my arms and decide that my make up is an inch thick due to the difference in colour.

There was once, a loud mouth friend who's mouth is faster than his brains commented that I was like those Taiwanese show personalities; our make up was equally as thick. He was actually comparing me to a transgender. Uhh.. Ouch!

That being said, it bothered me for a while but I realized that despite what he says, she says, my arms aren't going to magically turn fairer in days/ weeks and everyone will always have something 'smart' to say. Too fair, too tanned, too skinny, too fat. We'll never be perfect in the eyes of others.

As long as I am loved by the people that I love, everyone else can "go fly kite" cause I don't give two flying *toots* to what idiots thinks.

ROTD: I hate day trips

Serious ROTD

It's seriously been a stressful weekend for me. Me and Sir Terrible Memory went to his friend's wedding in Sungai Petani, Kedah and while I do sincerely like the couple very much, I did not enjoy the trip at all. It was a mess. Too many, 'Please tell who and who this' and as you know when people pass too many messages around, somewhere along the line is going to get lost and people are going to get misinformed. The guy that was suppose to keep Sir TM informed, forgot so many details, his wedding would be one I rather skip and not go. No offense to anyone.

We rushed down from Penang to SP around 9pm on Friday, we were suppose to start the journey by 7pm+ but as usual, there will always be people who can't tell the time or is not bothered to be punctual. We call it, the Malaysian timing as people tend to be always late and it annoys the shit out of me. It's as if, they don't even have enough respect for us to bother being punctual. Thanks!

We rushed from Penang to Sungai Petani (45 minutes) and the back to Penang (45 minutes) the next morning and then back to Sungai Petani (45 minutes) again in the afternoon for the 'fetch the bride'. Then on Sunday, we drove the the borders (45 minutes) and into Thailand (one hour or more) in a van. Here's where the interesting part starts.

For one, Sir Terrible Memory lived up to his name and left my favourite sunglasses in the van. When I realize that my sunglasses was not in my bag and my gut feeling telling me it was gone and I was never going to find it again, I ended up crying loudly in the side walk of Hadyai. I had never been more disappointed or as angry with him as I was that day. We ended up spending our evening waiting under the thunderstorm drenched from head to toe to find out if my sunglasses was still in the van. Of course, it wasn't. Truthful people don't exist anymore, D'oh.

I cried like an idiot and didn't bother to cover the mess of my face all the way back to the car. Not to mention, I ate some bad food, was having diarrhea and was down with a terrible migraine. Yay me! Didn't I mention before that I FUCKING HATE DAY TRIPS?

I was still stressed from all the driving and then some "unneccessary" driving, my hair was coming off in chunks, the weather is freaking hot, his friends can't plan to saves their life, believe it or not, we spent over 2 hours getting to Thailand and we only manage to walk around for less than 2 hours by ourselves and spent a good chunk of it waiting for people to gather cause there was always people going M.I.A , on top of all that I have to go to work on Monday and this week is suppose to be a crazy week at work and then all this.

I bought 2 sunblocks from boots at 250baht each and cashew nuts for my parents. That is all.

I enjoyed the trip as much as I enjoyed my time at our General Hospital pulling out my wisdom tooth. Given a choice, I rather have my wisdom tooth, yes all four of them, pulled out all over again than to go for that stupid trip.

*The on the trip from Thailand (1 hour or more) to the borders, back to Sungai Petani (45 minutes) and then back to Penang (45 minutes) all in a day. Can I get my medal now?

*45 minutes if you're driving at 110-140km/h, and our way back to SP, the customs queue was as long as the queue if LV decides to have a 50% sales on all items. Imagine.

I acknowledge that people forgets things all the time and that Sir Terrible Memory has been trying hard to make it up to me. I really love him for that *sigh* At least we have some nice pictures to show for the trip.

Two of my favourite parts of the wedding was the flower arrangements. Very sweet and pretty. The flower corsage was another favourite, they used fake flowers instead of the real things and with our heat, humidity, the real stuff would have died-ed, wilted and turned brown, the fakies remained pretty :D

Don't worry Sir TM, me still love you

I stood at the bottom of the stage and oogled up at the pretty cake. Gold, Lacey and flowery. Me likey; Me and Sir TM during the dinner. I must have eaten off all my lipstick by then.

Dessert, little cubes of creamy ice cream, my first time seeing these and definitely liked. Except for the few weird flavours.

Inspired look: Michelle Phan's Tim Burton look

While I was searching for contact lenses and comparing water contents I came across Michelle Phan aka RiceBunny's make up tutorial. I've watched her tutorial a gazillion and one years before but one of her recent tutorials really caught my eyes. It was a Tim Burton inspired look. It was a smokey eye look; sultry, seductive, gothic all mixed in one.

I took one look at it and really wanted to try it but in the video, she used a bruised plum purple and I wasn't too sure if I could pull it off. In the end, I decided 'Ah what the hell, you only live once!' not to mention, I'm safe in my own room.

As usual, I'm too lazy to remove my entire make up and start all over again so I just pile on. My office look has been very very simple lately anyway so it doesn't make much of a difference. Apply a little eye base and then here comes the bruised plum purple. Since by now, it's a few days after seeing the video, I really didn't remember the actual steps. I know she used brown somewhere..*sweatdrops* but lets just skip that since I didn't remember where.

I place the purple according to where my "crease" is suppose to be. Press into eye sockets to make sure. Atleast I think that's what I'm suppose to do.

Apply black like no tomorrow! Do it! NOW! Kidding, but apply lots of black all along your lids covering most of the horrible purple along the way (Yay for me!) Apply the black under your eyes as well, apply it like you you are sleep deprived and have not heard of coffee before.

You: Want some coffee?
Me: Huh? Kofi? No, it's okay, you can keep him..

*Kofi Annan is is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations

Next, apply some beige-y eye shadow near your brow bones and blend everything to together so there's no harsh line. All eye shadow used is from the 88 colour palette. Then apply your foundation. In the video, Michelle recommends going for a foundation a few shades lighter for the pale look.

Pale? For all pale looks, I tend to use my Elianto Fresh Whitening Foundation stick. Yes yes, it's not very "fresh", it has actually expired. But then again, expiry date is only a suggestion, right? XD

Before you start screaming at me to throw the damned thing away, note that I only use it for FOTDs and I wash my face after like half an hour or so. No pimples so far *hugs on tightly to her wooden desk* Touch wood! Line water line with black eyeliner.

I wanted to use my The Face Shop's falsies (Picture two above) but me being me; dropped one side of the lashes and lost it! RAWR! *toot toot toot toot tooooot!*

For lips, I used NYX round lippie in Circe + NYX Mega shine lip gloss in Sugar Pie. Doesn't the name makes you wanna sing?

Oooooooooooooooh!
Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch
You know that I love you
I can't help myself
I love you and nobody else

- Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch, Temptations

My first time taking an FOTD picture with Sir Terrible Memory, he wasn't too happy with the pictures but he always looks fine to me anyway *pulls his cheeks*

My hair's a little messy cause it was still wet when the whole look was done. Angie once asked for a full FOTD instead of a half-faced FOTD. I must apologise if most of my previous FOTD was half -faced, it was because either I screw up on one side or I didn't do the other side. To be truthful, another reason being that I have a very bad eye bag on my right eye which is super obvious whenever I smile, it ruins a lot of shots and annoys the *toot* outta me.

No falsies

Biore Cleansing Oil - In cotton wipes; Deja Vu Lash Knockout mascara

I've been eying this for a while now, especially the cleansing oil but in the end, I always end up buying my usual ZA Cleansing Oil due to the fear of it being yucky, sticky and hard to wash off. About two years ago, Watson came out with it's very own in house brand cleansing oil. Cost quite a bit and I found out that I love it as much as I love eating our cafeteria food which I bloody hell avoid whenever I can. Everytime I think of our cafeteria food, I cringe and makes a face. Automatically.

The Watsons cleansing oil was oil all right, cooking oil would probably be easier to wash off than that. It left an oily residue that no amount of washing or scrubbing can get off. I'm serious. It adheres to your face like paper to glue. If anyone was actually bought that thing, please let me know, I would like to hear your thoughts on it. But anyway, I no longer see it selling in Watsons. It was in a yellow see thru bottle.

I ended up having the guts to buy the Biore one only because of two people, Bunny and ShuAddict.

Bunny (click here for her hilarious review) reminded me how much I loved cleansing wipes and how I absolutely hate lugging my make up remove about whenever I stay over at JH's house. Not to mention, it spilled on my bag the last trip!! *&^%$. The only reason I stopped buying wipes was because I couldn't find a good one, they promise you the stars and the moon only to find out that they remove nothing.

ShuAddict (click here) did a review on this and piped my curiosity and I decide, 'Ah what the heck, lets try it!' I went to so many Guardian to get the RM9.88 for two but I couldn't find them. I ended up getting them in Watsons for RM6 *sniff*

A small sealed packet inside the plastic packet. Seals nicely *mumbles*unlike a certain lousy brand that can't re-seal after you open them.. Will definitely be buying more of these when I go traveling (if I ever go anywhere) In fact I love them so much that I headed over to Guardian to get the bigger box. Sir Terrible Memory, being my gallant prince paid for them. Thankies love! It's so nice to have people help out during difficult times. I really do appreciate it!

How do I love/hate it? AHH, I LOVEEE IT! It does as it says and removes everything without the greasy and sticky feeling. Even the P.I.T.A Maybelline Magnum is washed off with minimum scrubbing. *hops around* No funky smell and absolutely no regrets. It's a little expensive though. RM6 for 10 wipes (RM0.60 each). The 48 wipes is a little cheaper at RM22 (RM0.46 each)

Pinky Doodle doo aka my sister, sponsored me next item. A DejaVu mascara - Lash Knockout which I never knew existed till she gave them to me. She couldn't decide if she needed a volumizing or lengthening mascara more and ended up buying this. The only thing I ever buy from Sasa is false eyelashes, even then its seldom. Pinky loves things from Sasa so I'm guessing she got this during her, "I am bored, I must go buy something" time. Lucky me! *grins*

Bad smudgy picture :D

I'm liking the old/normal DejaVu mascara better. The more you apply doesn't seem to work much. The above picture is after apply 2 coats of it. I definitely see the volumising effect but nothing else. Lengthening is almost zero. Then again, it didn't promise any lengthening effect. It's definitely easy to remove but then again, I used my usual oil cleanser so everything comes off one way or another. No messy residue left though.

One reason why I smudge so bad in the above picture is because I used the Victoria Secret Very Sexy Gel eyeliner duo. I had bad experience with it the first time about a year ago and tried to use it again and it's still as bad. Smudges terribly, not much lasting power, goes MIA in a few hours, turns grey etc.

Daytrip to Cameron Highlands

BOH Tea Centre

After many weeks of discussion, err.. okay and whining, JH and I finally found some time to head up to Cameron Highlands on one cloudy Saturday. We left at 8.30am to arrive at Cameron Highlands, Pahang close to 11am where we had our breakfast at the BOH Tea Centre, Sungei Palas. I think by now, most Malaysian would have atleast visited this place once in their life. I have not. It was to be my first trip there and I was all happy-dappy. The weather was perfect as it was sunny and the breeze was absolutely lovely at 24 degrees Celcius, (Penang is roughly about 34 degrees Celcius).

Apple pie, Scwoneeeee~

Since we both skipped breakfast we had our first meal there at the BOH Tea Centre. I had apple pie and JH had his scone. Both the apple pie and scone was good, unfortunately the scone wasn't as yummy as the ones in David Brown in Penang Hill. We had our tea and a short walk later we left for a simple lunch at a restaurant.

My Prince in shiny armor, Sir Terrible Memory serving me my tea :D

It's so like us to bring 2 cameras there and promptly forget to take any pictures after the first meal. It's both frustrating and embarrassing, we never seem to have any pictures to show. Sheesh, that also shows that both JH and I have "excellent" memories.

The View from below; View while drinking our tea

To recap, we had our "breakfast" at 11am, lunch at 12pm and desert at 1pm. We headed to Raju's Strawberry Hill cafe(?) where they served FAT strawberries drowned in chocolate sauce and cream. It was absolutely delicious, I had the waffles instead. JH doesn't like cream so that gives me extra. YUM!

The meal would have been perfect if it wasn't for a little kid crying bloody Mary and throwing the most 'amazing' tantrum in the history of mankind. I kid you not. It was..."amazing". We couldn't help but stare. It wasn't much of rolling about the floor kicking his feet in the air sort but it was the screaming. My english is not very good, is there another... STRONGER word for screaming? Yelling doesn't seem to justify the sound that came out from that kid's mouth. I mean, we could literally hear him from miles away. Someone should stuff a dirty sock into his mouth. Kids should only cry like that at parent's funeral and no where else.

Bought a bit of tea and left shortly after

*Ahem* I digress. We went to the market to buy some super fresh vegetables and a few bunches of roses (RM2.50 a bunch) and left on our merry way. So it was 3 hours going there, 3 hours eating and walking, 3 hours going back, a short nap and a 8 course dinner at Jade Palace with JH's parents = Tired and a little too full. Urgh.

Took us days to recover from all that. NO MORE daytrips! No! Nevar!

Total spent on Cameron Highlands = RM50 and below. Budget still intact! Woo-Hoo, thanks Sir Terrible Memory for the kind sponsorship.