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

After 5 pm today, the 20th of May 2011, I'll be a free man! YESSSSSSS!!!

Ha ha, I'm going ballistic with excitement just as I'm typing away merrily on my laptop at 2 in the morning~ It's gonna be my last graded paper in NTU, marking the end of my 3rd year and the launch of an exciting 4th year!

Why did I say that? Well, many an exciting things are gonna happen, i.e. I'll be starting on my honours thesis, aka Final Year Project at the 2nd half of my 4th year. That means I'll be attached to some research company/professor and seriously doing some research.

But the more exciting thing would be this:

(lol at that stupid ID pic of me, I look spastic. xD)

Yep, I'll be based in Montreal, Canada for 4 whole months. To complete the first half of my 4th year; instead of doing it in NTU, I'll be doing it in McGill University. Plus, I'll be leaving a few weeks before school starts to go to New York for sight seeing (so tentatively I won't be in SG for 5 months).

What it means to me: SHOPPING.

MASSIVE. COSMETICS. CLOTHING. HAULS.

I'm gonna be so broke...

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But anyway, things aside, here's part 2 of my 150160-followers giveaway!

Prizes to be won:

The winner gets the whole bunch of goodies.

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How to join:

Step 1: Just leave a comment behind on anything you wanna tell me. I would very much like to hear about things to do/see/buy in Canada, for those who has been there. Or any tips on living/going to a temperate country? If not, just a comment on this blog, e.g. what's good, what's bad, will do. :D

Step 2: Leave your email and name behind too, so that I can contact you if you win.

Example:

Name: Cheryl

Email: xxx@lah.com

You have to haul "Wet n Wild" stuff like crazy in Walmart!

Rules:

1) Everyone is allowed to enter 3 times a day.

2) Please leave a different comment if you enter on a different day. It's ok to repeat the comment thrice for that day, but if you join the next day, try to talk about something else ok?

3) The winner will be randomly selected through random.org.

4) Must be a follower of my blog.

5) Opened to readers in Singapore only.

6) Prizes will be given, hopefully, through a meet-up. If not, I'll post it via normal mail.

7) It's not compulsory to re-post this on your blog, but I'll definitely appreciate a little mention. ;)

Dateline:

29th May 2011, 11:59 p.m.

The best of luck to everyone, I'll definitely be looking forward to seeing all the comments! And again, thanks to all who have been following my blog and reading my posts~

Hello everyone!

Despite me being right smack in the middle of my exams, I've decided to hold a giveaway to celebrate having 150 (well, 154 now) followers! Actually I prepared this giveaway a long time ago, but I just got derailed with other stuff. What I'm trying to say is that the follower count doesn't matter to me much, but I just want to show my appreciation to everyone who reads this blog! Thank you, xie xie, terima kasih, danke, merci, kamsahamnida, arigatou gouzaimasu!

And I'm gonna make it interesting by holding a little contest for it, he he he!

So after mugging for a good half of today, I joined my family for dinner at Tampines One and I took the opportunity to do a quick LOTD. Or more like Eye-Of-The-Day, since I really didn't do much for my face (just MSF for highlight, no foundation/concealer whatsoever).

This is how i normally look like when I'm mugging. *sian look on face* Sans makeup of course.

The eyes:

... (please ignore the accidental booby cleavage)...

I haven't done any rusty-red eye makeup for quite some time, so I whipped out my Nyx e/s in "Jazzy Bronze" for a super duper fast, 5 minute smokey eye. Look like I kena zeng in the eye?

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But anyway, here's the contest:

Guess what mascara I was using in today's LOTD!

Contest has been closed, cos Purrbliss has guessed it correctly (and in very good time too~)! Winner will be contacted in a bit. :D Thanks for joining everyone!

It's not a bad mascara, and here's some more pics of me having it on.

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Prizes to be won:

Yep, it's quite a lot of stuff! Not expensive branded cosmetics but good quality nonetheless. All were purchased by me after I spent a long time racking my brain for good stuff to give you guys! :D

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How to join:

Step 1: Simple, just guess what mascara I was using and leave your answer as a comment behind!

Step 2: Leave your email and name behind too, so that I can contact you if you win. :)

Step 3: Important! Everyone is only allowed one guess a day. This contest will be opened for 7 days, so you'll get 7 guesses all together.

Rules:

1) Contest will be opened to the mentioned dateline below, or as soon as someone has guessed the correct answer. Don't worry, I'll start giving clues if I don't see any correct answers coming up.

2) Should there be no correct answers, a random person who entered this contest will be picked through random.org. So if you join for all 7 days, it means you get a higher chance of winning.

3) Must be a follower of my blog.

4) Opened to readers in Singapore only.

5) Prizes will be given, hopefully, through a meet-up. If not, I'll post it via normal mail.

6) It's not compulsory to re-post this on your blog, but I'll definitely appreciate a little mention. ;)

What is the dateline?

15th May 2011, 11:59 pm

That's all for now, good luck with the guessing everyone! And once again, thanks for joining this contest and being my follower.

Warning: Pic spam post! :D

I was inspired to do this look after watching Michelle Phan's newly uploaded makeup video yesterday night.

She created this look to celebrate Japan's upcoming spring in April and the beauty of the soon-to-be blooming sakura flowers. Aside from it looking all girly and pretty, it struck a chord on my heartstrings as she specially dedicated it to the disaster-stricken Japan (no pun intended) and is going to donate $1000 to the Red Cross if she hits 1 million views.

Please just pop over, spare her 5 minutes of your time, and watch this beautiful makeup video. It'd be great if she could hit a million views on it soon! Anyway, besides that, I really love this look, as it's one of her prettier and more workable looks. I love the backdrop of the sakura tree, I love the song that was playing (Mika Nakashima's "Sakurairo Maukoro", a classic), and I love the nuance behind this vid.

If only Japan could spare some time, you know with all the nuclear radiation trouble and tsunami survivors and all, to admire spring and their very own sakura flowers. Which, I hope are still able to bloom splendidly despite the 2 giant disasters. I think it'll give the people of Japan great encouragement if the flowers still bloomed despite how bleak their future may seem.

So anyway, here's my take on the look:

Close-up of the eye makeup:

Okay, granted I didn't have the best products with me because I left half of my makeup stash at my dorm, so I made do with whatever I had. There's no good gold e/s here (in fact, I don't have any good gold e/s ;__;) so you can't really see the gold, but it's there, transiting between the white and pink.

Full-face pics:

Products used

Eyes: 1) UDPP   2) L'oreal Timeless Green Quad (white highlight shade)   3) e.l.f. Studio Blush in "Fuchsia Fusion" for the pink   4) e.l.f. Studio Shimmer palette, as a cream base to make the colours pop   5) Daiso e/s palettes, for the gold transition shade and the dark purple for contouring at the outer V   6) Silkygirl Funky Eyeliner in Purple   7) Silkygirl Lash Prism in Purple   8) Sasatinnie Shocking Volume Mascara (still goddamn clumpy)   9) Stage Pencil Camouflage in "Creme Brulee"

Face: 1) Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation   2) Random reddish-pink blush (grabbed it from my mom :D)   3) Daiso palette, used the white highlighter shade to highlight my nose and cheekbones

Lips: Nyx Mega Shine Lipgloss in "Candy Shop"

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More pic spam, har har har!!!

And some candid shots...

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I want to leave this as a final note to this post:

And salute to the brave workers still trying their best to prevent any further nuclear disaster!

Japan, strive on!!! Gambatte kudasai!!! All our prayers are with you. Thanks for viewing~

So after last week's neutrals, we had to do purple EOTDs last week! Well, it was suppose to go along with pink blush and pink lipstick but I stayed away from the pink lips cos it's too Barbie-esque. So here are 3 LOTDs that I did, with a mini breakdown for each one.

LOTD #1

This was the LOTD featured in my hairstyling entry.

For this look, I did the basic colours with my 88 palette (just realized that I really don't have blue-based purples in my entire cosmetic stash! D:) and then went to the store to sweep some MUFE Aqua Cream #18 onto the lids. It's a very light, sparkly blue-toned purple and it looks super sweet when used on its own. You can probably see that I didn't blend it out very well - that's because I was hiding from my supervisor and trying to touch up at the same time, a difficult task indeed! The blush I had on was Stereo Rose! It's super pretty and coral-ly!!!

LOTD #2

For this look, I used Urban Decay's Deluxe e/s in "Ransom" on top of my basic colours (which will forever be form my 88 palette). "Ransom" is a gorgeous deep blue-toned purple and the pigmentation is awesome! It totally changes the whole look of my eye makeup - I was initially sporting a rusty red-purple look and it changed to a nice royal purple after that. I think my blusher here was Petticoat, can't really remember but I've been using my MSFs everyday.

LOTD #3

Oooh, I think this would have to be my favourite LOTD, cos of the purple eyeliner! I totally dig purple eyeliners now!!! :D It's my Silkygirl Funky Eyelights eyelner, btw, ha ha~

For this look, I took extra steps to glam it up a bit. Instead of black eyeliner, I went with the purple and I also used Stage cosmetics' pencil concealer on my waterline - it works wonderfully, there's a nice contrast between the purple eyeliner on my lower lash line, my lashes and my nude waterline. And on my lids, I brushed on some Urban Decay Starlights purple e/s, which has very long lasting and super sparkly glitters. For the tear duct and inner corners, I lined them with Silkygirl's Funky Eyelights in Silver. Lastly, I was using Petticoat as my blusher.

So the same purple theme, the same basic colours but 3 variations and 3 different looks. I quite enjoyed this theme, I must say, and as my term at Sephora is drawing to a close soon, I think I'll miss doing up all these fancy eye makeup. Ha ha! Can't wait to have some good rest at home though, the job's tiring!

Hope you enjoyed this post, I'll be posting some more stuff up soon! Cheers~

Okay, so in my previous post I was happily bashing Dejavu's mascara and how I've stopped using it. And now, I've found my temporary replacement!

It's Silkygirl's Lash Prism~ I know a few onsugarettes (Diana from adorebeauty and Mya from heavenlygorgeous)  have already raved about the product but whenever I swatched it in Watsons, I'm not really impressed by it. However, this time there was an exception.

I got these...

... at S$9.00 for 2 pieces! Like how cheap is that?!?

Seriously, this is enough reason to go down to the John Little Expo sale this time round. It's more or less the same as the previous sales but this! So totally worth it!! And they're having Lioele (Korean BB cream brand) products on sale too, which is a first!!! (See, I can't stop using exclamation marks). Ohh, and not forgetting, the Silkygirl lip glosses and duo eye shadows are going for 3 for S$9 and 2 for S$9 respectively, if I'm not wrong.

In the end, I got 4 tubes, LOL! I know, mascara overload but it's sooo cheap and sooo worth it! 2 dark browns, 1 purple and 1 blue (cos they ran out of black). I've already opened 1 brown and 1 purple and kept the other 2 as back-ups. One advice to remember when (mass) buying sale items is always to check the manufacturing date. I saw that my purple piece was actually manufactured more than 2 years back and when I opened it, surely as predicted, it was all dried up and clumpy. So I went back to do an exchange and the manager kindly did it for me without any questions. John Little service = thumbs up from me~

That said, I've been using the dark brown piece for the whole of this week and it's a huge improvement to the Dejavu Knockout mascara. Unsightly pics for proof!

Me without any makeup on my off day, the left is with the mascara and the right without.

Can see the big difference right? The mascara both volumizes and lengthens quite nicely, but it will start clumping after the 3 - 4 coats. However, the clumping is not as bad is Dejavu's though. And the best thing? It comes off easily with my L'oreal eye makeup remover! I'm so pleased with that bit - every night when I remove my makeup after a hard day of work, I'll be gushing to myself how easily it removes with my other eye makeup. To hell with warm water/cold water/no water/whatever removal!!! I don't need all that unnecessary technology, old school is the way to go, bahhh! xP

Thanks for reading, I'll be updating on some Sephora stuff later!

Item: SilkyGirl Double Intense Waterproof Mascara

Brush Close-up

On-eyelash shots

Price: S$14.90

-I got it at John Little for S$10.50 after a 30% discount. You can also get it cheap when Watsons is having its 20% storewide discount, or on special offer weeks e.g. 1 week back it was going for S$9.90.

Pro:

1) It significantly lengthens and separates lashes.

2) The black pigmentation is impressively intense (double intense, gotta live up to its name yarh?). Because of this, if your lashes are sparse, they will really stand out after application.

3) Personally, I feel it is extremely suitable for my lower lashes because of the intense black pigmentation and the shorter bristles at one end of the brush.

4) Reasonably easy to remove. A definite plus point after using Marjorca Majolica's (unremovable) mascaras. :)

5) Cheap!

Con:

1) It doesn't really volumize. There are times when I apply many coats to get thicker lashes, and it seems to work.. only to...

2) Clump a little. Yeah, if you wanna volumize your lashes with this mascara, you gotta risk a little clumping.

3) Not really waterproof. Yeah, I tried - I bathed with it, I cried with it (school causes meltdowns sometimes) and I purposely sprayed water on it before. The mascara doesn't dissolve but it seems to slip off my lashes. Kinda like a casing, it comes off in weird, black mascara worms... if that even makes sense .__.

4) AND the worst con! It doesn't hold a curl at all. I curled my lashes and layered the mascara on, only to find them flopping down a minute later. I haven't yet come across a mascara that can hold a curl with asian eyelashes, except for the permanent-for-a-lifetime Marjoca mascaras.

Rating: 3.8 / 5 (I've decided to change the rating from 3.5 to 3.8, cos I really like its intense pigmentation and it works brilliant for my lower lashes :D)

Would I buy it again? Err, there are many other mascaras I'm itching to try for now. Not a must-have. :)

Hope this review helped, thanks for reading~