All The Things I Can't Live Without...

Hello people!

As promised, here are the links to the photo albums on my FaceBook. I specially made them public so that you all will be able to view them, but do let me know if the link are not working alright? This will save me A LOT of work by not uploading them on Onsugar (that wll take ages).

New York City Day 1

A group of NTU undergraduates, me and another 3 buddies, took a 24-hour flight from our little red dot over to the Big Apple. Snap shots of the flight (inflight food!) and our first impression of USA and Times Square.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150275458406569.322682.55465...

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New York City Day 2

The day when we went to the Harry Potter exhibition (no photos allowed unfortunately) and strolled around downtown Manhattan, until when we finally arrived at the Empire State building.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150280692791569.324153.55465...

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New York Day 3

Then, we headed for the largest departmental store there, Macy's and the famous Central Park the next day!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150280734051569.324168.55465...

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New York Day 4

We paid a visit to the Rockefeller and Cornell Universities (very good academic institutes) before heading down to the Statue of Liberty. And that is how I got the display picture on my FB profile, ho ho ho!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150287562501569.325998.55465...

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Day 6 and 7, as well as the pictures I took aboard the Adirondack locomotive I took from New York to Montreal will be up next. Enjoy these for the time being~

A thousand apologies for being MIA for so long, lovely people! I've been busy visiting places, eating, shopping, then getting from New York to Canada and finally settling down for school here in Montreal.

I've been away from home for.. hmm, almost a month now. Things are awesome here, Montreal is a lovely place to be in! Of course I found the time to upload loads of pictures onto my FaceBook, but I guess only the onsugarettes who are on my friend list can vew them. I'll try posting the FB link on a separate post later.

Without further ado, let's show you all what I bought while I was in the Big Apple for 1 week!

Yeah, that's all the stuff and I crammed it all in that Sephora carrier. It may not look a lot, but it burnt a big hole in my wallet!

First up, mascaras!

I bought all the mascaras that I've heard so much hype about and isn't available in SG. From left to right, that's the Maybelline One By One, The Falsies Flared and 2 Covergirl Lashblast. The mascaras averaged about US$7-8 each, which isn't expensive considering how much mascaras cost in SG.

Then I got some Milani stuff!

Actually I wanted to get way more, but I either couldn't find the items I wanted or the lack of money in my wallet prevented me from doing so. I got 3 of their baked blushes (Luminoso, Rose D'oro and Bellissimo Bronze) and 1 Liquif'eye liner in "Black" (ha ha, how predictable!).

My Wet N Wild purchases more than made up for my inadequate loot on Milani. I went crazy on the brand!

Aside from that single gel eyeliner, which I've heard SOOO many good things about, the rest are their eyeshadows.

I got 3 trios, which only differ by a bit given the fact that they belong to the same colour family; it is practical for me to buy these though, since these are the colours I will reach out for more frequently.

And I managed to fulfill my aim of getting a "Comfort Zone" back-up! Together with the "Blue Had Me At Hello" and the two famous 6-pan palettes, "Vanity" and "Lust". I'm still aiming to get the "Petal Pusher" palette though, maybe when I return to New York in December...

Then along came my Sephora haul. Seriously, I spent money like I drink water when I'm in the Sephora's in USA, seeing how I don't purchase much from our local branches.

Another mission accomplished, and that it getting my Naked palette (like finally)! I was at Times Square's Sephora on the day they launched the Urban Decay Book of Shadows IV, and I was this close to getting it...but after seeing how much I had left in my wallet, I decided to be practical (come on, the colours weren't that fantastic; the packaging the shadows were in were another story though).

I bought the sample set of liquid tints from Benefit, a travel size tube of Laura Mercier's tinted moisturizer and a makeup set from LORAC, which came like this (but I threw the packaging away):

The set includes a baked eyeshadow trio which I love using (the quality and pigmentation is simply amazing), a mascara (3D lashes or something), a marker type liquid eyeliner which I also adore (it's even better than the Japanese one that I own, quality is fantastic), a blush (beautiful matte mauve shade) and a lipgloss. All for US$39, super reasonable can?

Aside from that, I got my first MAC fluidline from New York too. It's in the shade "Avenue" from the MAC Me Over collection that recently launched.

I was still in NYC when it launched so I popped by a MAC boutique and swatched all the goodies from the collection. I was really tempted to get one of the lipsticks and the much-hyped-about "Stunner" blush... but nah! Budget budget!!! This gel liner was US$16~ after taxes btw, which is so much cheaper than the price in SG.

I got some necessities too, nothing much to say about these items. There's the teeth bleaching gel, Mario Badescu's silver powder (freaking cheap here in the states), a bottle of Seche Vite and a small tube of Queen Helene's Mint Julep mask to try.

Last but not least, how can I not try Lush when there are so many Lush shops here?

So I got me some "Big" shampoo and some "Porridge" bar soap. The friendly sales girl threw in a sample of the "Veganese" hair conditioner for me to try out with the shampoo, good customer service I must say!

So that's my haul from New York. Don't fret, I bought even more cosmetics here in Canada! I'll be sharing them with you guys soon. Also, I'll be tryin out the FB photobook links, not sure if they will work here. It's better to view them via FB cos there's so many pictures, it's impossible for me to upload them onto Onsugar, ha ha!

Anyway, thanks for reading, you guys take care in SG! I'll write again soon~

[Picture-heavy post]

My university clique and I made a trip to the SG flyer last Friday, as both a group activity and a farewell to me. There was suppose to be 7 of us, but one of the girls couldn't go. Anyway, we were all SG Flyer virgins except for my guy friend, Terry, so there's no need to mention that we were super excited for it. Plus, we got the tickets at S$10 each only!

Let's hand the talking over to the pictures!

4 of us girlies waiting at the MRT station for the others to arrive.

And as soon as everyone was present, we started walking towards the flyer. There's Marina Bay Sands in the background!

It was the perfect day for the outing, with crisp blue skies.

The foodcourt at the Flyer, which is modeled after the 1970's vibe and the famous streets in SG. The food is obviously overpriced.

My friend, Terry, waiting for us while we went to the ladies.

After which, we took the escalator up to the floor with the carriages. I love this escalator, it's so Tron-like!

Walking along the cyber space-themed corridor to the Flyer!

In one of the exhibition halls right before the entrance to the carriages.

Here comes the carriage!

And all 6 of us onboard safely!

The view from the Flyer is awesome! You can see everything from up there...

... like the pier, and the eco trees at Marina Barrage..

..the expressway...

..Marina Bay Sands...

and even the Merlion, hah!

Here are a few shots of us:

(flabby arms D:)

(obviously I was being an idiot in the background)

(and Terry looks like he's got a broken neck here)

We caught this guy and his family waving and snapping pictures at us in the next carriage! So cute!

After the Flyer, we went for dinner and decided to head to the Esplanade to chill out.

There were some blue funky lightings there, so we kinda played around with them and ended up with some creepy Juon-esque pictures!

Then we headed over to the centrestage to watch a B Boy Dance Battle!

And we ended the night with some goodies from Max Brenner and a long chat session. From left to right is the Dark Chocolate Soup, the Mexican Spicy Hot Chocolate drink (we thought it tasted like curry chicken, not good) and the Apple Tart.

We ordered the Chocolate Souffle too!

But out of all the chocolatey stuff, I love the apple tart the most! It was dayumz~

Ha ha, sorry for the pic spam but the outing was so enjoyable that I wanted to share it with you guys. Hope you found this post interesting and helpful if you're thinking of visiting the SG Flyer!

Picture-heavy post

This tutorial was heavily hinted for by Charlene - yes, I finally got down to it, dear friend. :) And since I'm such a noob at making videos, I could only do picture tutorials. I think this was rather crudely done too at that, but hopefully you'll still be able to recreate this look after following through the steps.

This was the look that was requested for:

This is the end result of this tutorial:

It's slightly different, cos I included a few more steps. When I did the former look, I was actually rushing for work so I didn't add in much colour. The outer-V in this look is more accentuated and coloured in. Enjoy!

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This is me without any makeup on, except for some concealer and Kose's Tinted Makeup Base. Plain jane.

Before everything else:

We're gonna be using the shading technique for this eye look. What it means is that the highlight and contour of the eye will only involve pencils and lots of blending, similar to sketching in real life. I really can't remember where I learnt that from, but I saw the method online once and I loved how simple and effective it is.

I'm using my UD 24/7 Eye pencil in "Zero" (really short pathetic stub) and my Essence Metallic Eye Pencil in "White Divine". Any black and white eyeliner will do, preferably those that can be smudged out. "Zero" is too oily for my waterlines, but perfect for shading.

Onto the application proper (click on the image to enlarge it):

Up until step 6, you should get something like this:

Then taking a fluffy e/s brush and the e.l.f. Eye Transformer palette, select the blue shade. We're going to be using it all over the lid; this shade in this palette is crucial for the blurple-to-light blue iridescent effect, once it goes over the shading.

And you'll end up with something like this:

This was where I stopped for my previous look, and you can too. Just top it off with eyeliner and mascara, and you're good to go. However, I'm going to bump it up a notch since I have more time on my hands now.

(P.S. I really dislike calling the dip in our eye socket "the crease". Cos it's anatomically wrong for most of us Asians. Our crease is our double eyelid, which doesn't coincide with our eye socket at all. The westerners call their socket "the crease" just because they have more pronounced double eyelids and it coincides with their eye sockets.)

You will get this, after accentuating the outer-V and eye socket:

Almost done! All you need to do is to draw a winged liner, preferably with a liquid eyeliner pen...

... like so. Remember to allow the wing to follow the cut-crease that you made.

And fill in your brows and put on mascara (defined brows are important for this look). The eye makeup is done!

Put on some orange-coral blusher along your cheekbones, and some natural pink lipstick and the look is complete!

Hope it wasn't too confusing for a first-time tutorial. Hah, who am I kidding..? But I feel satisfied bringing this to you, so thank you very much for viewing it!

I think I kinda fit along side Jones and Verlyn. As in we're the morphing hairstyle trio, ha ha ha! Seriously, I've seen them change their hairstyles so many times (never got sick of it, cos they always look good), and lately I've noticed myself doing so too.

I went for a hair cut finally, after 5 months of walking around with an assymmetrical mop atop my head. I went to find Shirleen at Marina Square's Chapter 2 this time, after seeing Ru's gorgeous haircut. It's also because my regular hair stylist, James at Century Square's Storm, retired! Oh my god, you should have seen my stunned face when I heard that.

Anyway, if you've seen my previous post on the Stila smudge pot, that's my hair before. And this is my hair after:

Yeah, granted it's still assymmetrical... But it's an assymmetrical BOB now! That's something different. I can't remember when was the last time I went so short or had a bob. Think it was at least 5 years ago.

The left side:

The right side:

And the back:

Gah, the first picture gives away the whole hairstyle! Shirleen was okay, she gave me some tips on how to work my (very fine and thin) hair. What I enjoyed most was the hair wash! Oh gosh. It was can-die shiok! The shampoo girl and I got into this deep converstion about education, so she kept scrubbing and massaging my head and, it was etherael! Plus the shampoo she used was minty, so my head was all cool and menthol and scrubbed, hah!

After the hair cut, I was kinda shocked at how airy and naked my neck felt, but I'm grateful now cos the weather is crapping hot! On the other hand, when it comes to winter in Montreal.... Brrrr! So not looking forward to it! Bring on the scarves, baby~

My dad likes the hair cut though. The first thing he blurted out when he saw me was "Wahhh, Cheryl! Why you so sexy?!" LOLOLOLOL.

Anyway, let's wrap up this post with 2 animal pictures. I caught Mocha sleeping on the printer in my room; she refused to look at the camera when I tried to camwhore with her.

Bluhh, whatever. Ha ha, thaks for reading though! :D