Tuesday, July 4, 2017

7 Days To A Brand New You

One week, 7 days, what can I achieve? Time flies by before anyone notice and it's July already! Look back to the previous six months of year 2017, I should feel embarassed that there's not much I've achieved for the past half year. So I'ma make up to it and start this 7 Days Law of Attraction to-do-list and see what unfolds in my life:



  • Day ONE: Think of what to manifest

This should be something small and easy to achieve, but it has to be something that you really want and compatible for the plan of your life. Once it's done, it will light you up from the inside and make you feel passionate for the rest of the week, e.g: strike up a new friendship, use RM100 to buy that dress you've been eyeing, say yes to a social gathering and etc. 

Think carefully of what you want, then write down in a piece of post it note and stick it somewhere you can see everyday. It will remind you the positivity to manifest in your life. 

Changing hair colour or hairstyle can spice things up in life, that's what I like to do when my lifestyle has become stagnant







  • Day TWO: Affirmations
Come up with a set of affirmations that are linked with this week's goal, such as: I'm going to look up the hair colour chart and choose the colour I like most or I'm gonna try on that dress I've been eyeing. At the same time, tell people about your goals, but choose them wisely as the should be positive and have an encouraging mindset towards what your goal is. Friends like this will help us channel our positive energy into our goals and enhanced our belief in the ability to manifest what we want. 


THIS BUNCH!
Although they like to burn each other, but when it comes to low self-esteem or life problems, they are the ones that stood me up and assured me I'm worthy of anything! Thank you guys!








  • Day THREE: Practice clear visualization
Imagine a clear, vivid visual of what you will like to manifest: you imagine yourself in new hair colour, in that new dress, having a great time with friends etc. To enhance the visualization, create a mood/vision board. Add any words, pictures, materials that feels right and represents your goal. 


art pieces I like from the Collective | Individuals at Urbanscapes 2017





  • Day FOUR: Act "as if"
It sounds tricky but in order to work towards goal in life is to act "as if" you already owned it. If you were to buy that dress, act as if you already own that dress and feels confident in it. Keep believing that the things that you want is coming, never ever tell yourself otherwise. 





  • Day FIVE: Make a gratitude list

Think of the things you already have that is similar to the goal in your life such as that pretty dress you bought last season and got everyone complimented. Focus on the feelings of gratitude evoked from having those things in life. 

This list-making activity focuses on the manifestation potential that you already know you have and channeled the energy and attention into what your goal is and will definitely give it a good boost of confidence. 

Looking at my journal makes me happy because I can keep track of what I've achieved so far and it gave me a confidence boost to what's coming in my life




  • Day SIX: Look for opportunities
Opportunities are all around us, when we channel our focus into achieving a certain goal in life, an open-minded approach towards our search and inspiration will open up our eyes to certain method that we did not realize it was there all along. If you're looking for and earning an extra RM50-RM100/per day, you'll probably start to notice side jobs such being an uber driver or such will help you achieved your target. Opportunities and chances are all around us, even in unlikely places, we just have to keep our options, eyes and mind open. 





  • Day SEVEN: Share your result
On the final day, write down your result in your journal, on a piece of paper or even on your facebook status. Look back your experience and see if there's anything you could've done better and if you've done mistakes. Mistakes are life's greatest teacher and they are golden opportunities to learn and improve ourselves from time to time. So don't be afraid of making mistakes. 







I've made quite some mistakes when it comes to choosing skincare products that aren't suitable to my skin. I have quite confusing combination skin type so it is hard to find skincare that can take care my whole face without jeopardise certain skin area. 



At the same time I wanted to slow down ageing as fast as I could, so when NUTOX came out with a 7 day programme, I'm IN! Without paraben, colourant and mineral oil, this whole set of NUTOX skincare set really change my skin to a better condition after 7 days.



From left to right:
Cleansing Foam, Moisturising Lotion and Advanced Serum Concentrate


  • Cleansing Foam: 
I love how foamy this cleansing foam is. It cleans my pores thoroughly without leaving any signs of dirts and residues on my skin. I can immediately notice my skin has brighten up after wash, smoother and finer as well. (Hence now my face and neck has become two different tone T_T)

  • Moisturizing Lotion:
Ultra right, non greasy and easy absorption, this moisturizing lotion makes my skin feels supple and refreshing on every application. With SPF25PA++, I can now protect my skin from harmful UV rays too even when I'm at home. 

  • Advanced Serum Concentrate:
This newly formulated lightweight serum speeds up my skin's restoration and rejuvenation due to its tons of hyaluronic acid in it, my skin feels moisturised and yet bouncy when touch. I like the smooth, fine feeling of skin whenever I apply this serum on my face. 





After the basic 1-2-3 skincare step, here comes to complete the day and night facial care routine with the day cream and night cream:



Anti Ageing Day Cream 


Infused with birdnest collagen and botanical extracts, it rebuilds the bonding effect of my skin between collagen and elastin, leaving my skin firmer with lifting effect after each application. It is non greasy and easy to absorb, my skin tone looks more even and lines are smoothen too.






Night Repair Cream


This night repair cream is packed with goodies from the day cream, and it has a more moisturizing effect, that my skin feels nourished and moisturized till the next morning even though I'm sleeping in an airconditioned room. It also improved my skin tone and complexion with its micro-circulation content, my skin looks fair and less yellowish for now. 




I made a short video to show you how I usually apply my skincare routine, using whole set of NUTOX skincare products:





7 days to a brand new you from inside and outside isn't something impossible, if you put your mind into it, you'll be amaze by how much potential you have in it, and that's what I like about NUTOX skincare products - the potential of stay young and fair isn't a dream anymore. 




Saturday, July 1, 2017

Une Bonne Soirée at Posh Nail Spa, TTDI

Soirée means a casual gathering with friends,  delicious food, chit chat and a great time spent together in French. If on top of delicious food, there's wine, manicure or pedicure session with your girlfriends, there's nothing can top that seriously. 








Thanks for Butterfly Project's invitation to the Butterfly Soirée at Posh Nail Spa, me, Jean, Zihang and some bloggers had an awesome girls gathering where there are wine served by Wine Talk Malaysia, magnificent desserts served by La Rose Noire and of course venue + manicure and pedicure session sponsored by Posh Nail Spa.









this awesome Eiffel Tower dessert tray got everyone going "I WANT THIS"




each and every bite is heavenly~




I've visited Posh Nail Spa for a few times and they've refurbished and rebrand into a more elegant classic style. It feels awesome to see brands that you've known all along grows along with you and so does Butterfly Project. Although some of the blogger who were invited to the event were the ones I've never meet before, but I know the community is growing bigger and bigger and that's a healthy sign of a community. 


The elegant classic interior style of the rebranded Posh Nail Spa is major love!
I remember how they used to be all pink and girly. 




I love these nail designs, created by Rachel from Posh Nail Spa
Especially the marble ones!




Eye-gasm!





Let's start this soirée shall we!




Girls talk, wine, desserts, pedicure
This is life!




The color I chose for my pedicure is stardust grey
So in love with that colour, it goes well with my style




Mes Amies
Thanks for such a lovely afternoon 




It's been a while since I went to a all-girls gathering, we drink Moscato from Tenimenti Ca'Bianca from Italy, eat French desserts, glam up our nails, and gossip like nobody's business. Now I know how does it feels to be rich tai tais. lolololol. So if you were into organizing a gathering like this, do feel free to contact these people:



Manicure Pedicure:
Posh! Nail Spa @ TTDI
31, Lorong Dato Sulaiman 7, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur.
http://www.poshnailspa.my/

Desserts:
La Rose Noire
https://www.facebook.com/La-Rose-Noire-128923640478150/

Wine:
Wine Talk Malaysia
https://winetalk.com.my/


Thank you Butterfly Project for such a wonderful event.


Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Wonder Woman Inspired Makeup by W.Lab Pocket Shadow Palette

Have you seen Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman? OH-MY-GOD my each and every breathe was taken away by her cute and innocent gestures as well as her bravery, courageous act and strong belief in bringing peace to the human race. Everything she presented on the big screen sets a very high standard on upcoming female superhero lead. 



So I decided to do a Wonder Woman inspired makeup video by using the products I have received on Butterfly Project's 4th Birthday Party (read blog post here). It was difficult to create a makeup that looks effortlessly flawless on Gal Gadot, but I did tried my best and it was fun to do makeup video of such. 



(Click Play!)





The eyeshadow palette I used in the video above is W.Lab's Pocket Shadow Palette. My eyes were in heart emojis when I saw this baby in the birthday bag. It contains 10 matte and glitter brown shades that's perfect for my everyday looks.




Perfect size for stay-at-home and travel makeup routine






Look at 'em glitter and tones





Swatches on my yellowish pale skintone
one swipe for each tone, have I told you how much I love them glitter?


So here are all the makeup products I've used to achieve this Wonder Woman inspired look:
  • Face:
-Foundation: 3CE Glossing Waterful Foundation in Natural Ivory
-Concealer: I'm Meme Concealer in Vanilla 

  • Eyes: 
Eyeshadow:
-W.Lab Pocket Shadow Palette in Calendula, Sunflower, Freesia
-Fasio Eyeshadow Palette for darker brown shade
-W.Lab Pocket Shadow Palette in Acasia for highlight

Eyebrow:
-Etude House Drawing Eye Brow in Gray Brown

Eyeliners:
-Estee Lauder Double Wear Eye Pencil in Onyx
-Kiss Me Heroine Make Smooth Liquid Eyeliner

Mascara: 
-Maybelline in Big Eyes Mascara

  • Contour & Highlight:
-MAC Nutcracker Sweet Copper Face Compact

  • Lips:
-Orkid Cosmetics in Turnt
-dab highlight from MAC Nutcracker Sweet Copper Face Compact in middle area of lips




and voila!







I love this glowy, healthy makeup look, makeup look as such does empowers me from within and I appear to be more confident and strong, just like how Gal Gadot brings the positive impact in a worldwide scale that we can be pretty, funny, empathic, kind and justice if we believe in ourselves. I'm now looking forward to see her performance in Justice League!



Please do leave comment and tell me what do you think about my looks, as well as comments on my makeup video. Each and every of your comment and support is what drives to do better as well as enjoy doing it! Thank you~!



Monday, June 19, 2017

Happy 4th Birthday Butterfly Project Malaysia

If my blog were to count by years/days, this is will be my 12th/11th years of blog writing. It wasn't all-so-fancy when I think about it, blog writing definitely needs patience, perseverance and support and I am so glad that during my early blog writing years, I met the mamasan of Malaysian bloggers - Tammy



Honestly, I've never seen someone with so much passion when it comes to writing blog and sharing experiences and good deals she came across in her everyday life. I met her in SaSa blogger gatherings 8 or 9 years ago and I'm glad this friendship has been going on for so long and things has become bigger for her as she's one of the person-in-charge in Althea Korea and also the founder of Malaysian fashion/beauty blogger community - Butterfly Project. 



This year marks the 4th year of Butterfly Project, a lot of bloggers missed out the first celebration so Tammy decided to throw another party for bloggers to celebrate this wonderful event and she's the one paying for the party. Can you find someone who has so much passion and love when it comes to blogging and the love to see this industry grow? Honestly I can't, she really is the one and only mamasan for this industry, if it's not for seeing her going through her life's ups and downs and still insist in doing what she love + creating opportunities for bloggers, I might have gave up blogging some time ago. 



Upon receiving the invite to the party and saw the dress code was pastel, I seriously can't think of anything to wear as nowadays I'm more to monochromatic/casual style. Pastel is really not my thing lolololol so I decided to fully utilise my butterfly washi tape and use them to decorate my plainly drew makeup. 



Last minute working on the decoration. Event started at 3pm I'm cutting these butterflies out at cafe beside from 2:30p.m. with shivering hands because I'm too excited. *breathes heavily*





Beautifully decorated venue





There's no birthday party without cake and this cake is major love which later on it became a photo prop to all the bloggers. Jean almost drop it on the floor LOL!





Name cards and stickers for decoration purpose!
Perfect for crafty person like me yay!





TADAAA~! Our birthday bag sponsored by so many brands!
Not our birthday but we get presents! And so many of it! What sorcery is this Butterfly Project!




Here's what we have received inside the birthday bag!!! Totally OH-EM-GEE!!!

One of many Tammy's good traits is when she gives, she give whole-heartedly that you're the one being shy to receive. And this round, thanks to her and the whole Althea team, each and every blogger who attended the party received a birthday bag full of surprise goodies so that we have more things to blog about. I cannot tell you how much I love the products and I've already prepared a few separate blog posts to review them so stay tuned!


Here's a list of what we have received and thanks to all these generous sponsors who loaded the birthday bag with love and joy for each of us: 
  • Wanderlust Things Unicorn Face Makeup Brush
  • W.Lab Pocket Shadow Palette
  • Orkid Cosmetics Liquid Lipsticks
  • 1028 Bigs Eyes Magnifier Mascara
  • Dolly Wink LiquidEyeliner
  • Mamonde Liquid Eyeliner and Hydro Mist 
  • Neesya Cleansing Set
  • Hadabisei Moisturizing Face Mask
  • Clinelle UV Defense
  • Clinelle Hot Body Shaper Cream
  • Adidas Climacool Shower Gel and Deodorant
  • Pax Moly Aloe Vera Soothing Gel
  • Photobook Malaysia book and 4R prints


I guessed you would've know which few are my favourites as I've already started using them and posted in my instagram/insta story. Will do more reviews of these products so be sure you follow my Instagram account as well. 



Last but not least, G&G Studiobooth for beautiful photobooth decorations and photo print outs as memorabilia! The printed photos with Jean and Zihang is definitely going into my journal already.





The one and only photo that features me and makeup lol. Thanks Jean!
I've won a NYX makeup goodie bag too for best makeup XD




After seeing all these for a community birthday, can you find someone who has so much passion and love when it comes to blogging and the love to see this industry grow? Honestly I can't, Tammy really is the one and only mamasan for this industry, if it's not for seeing her going through her life's ups and downs and still insist in doing what she love + creating opportunities for bloggers, I might have gave up blogging some time ago. 




Seeing Butterfly Project going stronger and stronger, with more younger bloggers joining and senior bloggers like me and Jean staying around, this community is a platform to support each other in blogging industry especially when there are people who wanna exploit and use bloggers as free advertising marketing strategy. Community like Butterfly Project and people like Tammy teaches us that we bloggers do have our own worth and never, ever do anything for free, even bloggers need to eat and live life and there's no free lunch in this world right?



I hope I can continue be invited to the 5th, 6th, 7th and so on birthday of Butterfly Project and continue to be a part of this wonderful community.




For more information:

The Butterfly Project Official Facebook Page







Friday, June 2, 2017

Product Review: Heme Transparent Puff

I'm into beauty and makeup routine since my secondary school days, I'm not really good at it but somewhat experienced I guess? lol. One of my biggest fear is to clean my brushes and makeup applicator. They do take forever to become 100% dry and it really pissed me off when there's emergency situation that I need to use my brushes. 



Then there comes the sponge blender that revolutionized the makeup applicator industry. You can find it in every youtube/instagram makeup tutorial video. It is quite amazing as it is soft, skin remain unharmed, reachable at difficult angles of face such as the nose wing edges but still, it absorb my foundation way too much and to take care of its cleanliness is the same fuss as makeup brush. 



Till lately, God of Makeup has answered my prayer for easily maintain makeup applicator and some genius in Taiwan has released this:
Heme Baby Q Transparent Puff




This super cute silicon baby is super soft, jelly-like texture gives skin feather-like touch. Not to mention it doesn't absorb my foundation AT ALL, so each and every cent spent on it goes a very long way! Plus it gives this evenly spread and lightweight finishing whenever I apply foundation with it, the radiant sheen look is suitable for everyday makeup.





Airbrushed and flawless look achievable with this!




This transparent puff should definitely win the most eco-friendly makeup applicator award. Apply cleanser on it, lather and rinse then you're done. I clean it everytime after I did my makeup, talk about hygiene of makeup applicator, nothing can beat this smiley happy thing.



Not so lazy to clean my makeup applicator anymore



And I heard it can last for 10 years?! Imagine without having to look for makeup brush/applicator for a decade. It's clean, easy to carry around, gentle to skin and eco-friendly, this cute lil fella is gonna stay with me for a long long time.