Thursday, December 17, 2009
I've read some posts by other bloggers on their makeup routine and I'm so tempted to do one also! Haha. So here I'm, sharing with you girls my weekly makeup routine.
Yah you read it right, I only makeup once a week when I'm out in town with dar or when I'm attending special functions. When meeting my friends, I'll only have light makeup on and no makeup for me when I'm in school. I always feel that less is more and piling on makeup 7 days a week will definitely do more harm than good for your skin! Let your skin breathe! Besides, I also feel that we girls should have more confidence in ourselves and not conceal our facial flaws with makeup all the time. I don't have perfect skin but nonetheless, I'm trying to be comfortable with how I look without makeup.
Ok, so here's some of the products that I'm currently using:
From left - right: ZA 2 way cake, Maybelline blusher in strawberry, In2it eyeshadow in pug, Fairy Drops mascara, Majolica Majorca mascara, Maxigrade black eyeliner, La Roche Posay Toleriane Fluid and Shiseido eyelash curler. If you notice, I don't use expensive brands like Clinque, M.A.C or Bobbi Brown because I don't find it worth to splurge so much on makeup. I rather invest the money on good skincare products as I believe makeup will only look beautiful with good skin.
So after cleansing my face, I'll prep my skin with LRP Toleriane Fluid. It's a non-oily, non-sticky, water-based moisturiser which is extremely good for my combination skin. I've got oily T-zone but dry cheeks. I don't use any makeup base or BB cream because I think these products will clog pores and besides the ZA 2 way cake is enough coverage for me.
While waiting for the moisturiser to set in, I'll do my eyes first. I'll apply the eyeshadow with the lighter shade first then darker shade. I love In2it eyeshadows because they are the only brand of eyeshadow that will not fade on my oily eye lids. And I use the brown shade only. Tried other colours before but somehow they all looked weird on me.
After eyeshadow, I'll apply the eyeliner. I'm currently using Maxigrade which I just bought in HK. It's not too bad, glide on easily and doesn't smudge. I've tried Canmake, Maybelline and MM eyeliners before but they are not as good in my opinion. By the way, I use only liquid eyeliner, not the crayon or pencil types. And I've a weird habbit of drawing my eyes. I know the correct way of lining your eyes is to close your eyes first then draw. But for me, I can only draw the line with my eyes open! Haha.
Next, it's apply mascara time! I took quite some time to figure out how to apply mascara but now that I've master it, it's a breeze to apply mascara and in fact mascara is a must to open up listless eyes! I'll curl my eyelashes first with eyelash-curler, then apply mascara from the bottom of my lash to the top in a zig-zag manner. It needs a lot of practice and initially you are bound to get lots of smudges but it will definitely get better with practice. 2 coats of mascara is sufficient for me, anymore my lashes will droop downwards! I alternate between Fairydrops and MM mascara. I've tried Maybelline and Loreal mascaras before but sadly they don't work for me. I still prefer Japanese brands.
When I'm done with my eyes, I'll apply the ZA 2 way cake on all areas of my face. I'm using shade 22. Personally, I think that ZA's foundation is very good. In fact, I've been using it for years! The coverage is good I would say, but if I have any pimples, I'll still conceal with concealer first before applying the 2 way cake just in case.
The last step: apply blusher! I'll smile and apply blusher onto my cheekbones. I prefer a subtle colour like light pink or orangey-pink. I hate seeing girls applying so much blusher until they look like wayang dolls. I love my Maybelline blusher as the colour is just right for me!
In case you are wondering about lipstick or lipgloss, I don't use them at all as I've naturally red lips. I just apply Burt's Bee lipbalm if my lips are chapped or a bit of Loreal lipgloss when I've to attend special functions like wedding.
So that's all for my makeup routine. I take about half an hour to apply makeup each time, and I pick up all my makeup tips from magazines or simply through trial and error. Like I've always said, practice will make perfect! Happy makeup-ing Babes :)
Posted by 2gether_4eva at 9:03 AM
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Bumped into Bee Leng otside Shaw House when we were camwhoring! Haha. But luckily she didn't catch us in the act. She's a tutor at NIE too and she's teaching a module that I'm taking: Ed Pysch I, but too bad she's not my tutor!
Us (Dar just cut his hair, it's super short):
Had dinner at Plaza Sing's Xin Wang HK Cafe. I had my favourite century egg porridge while dar tried fried hor fun. Had siew mai also, but their siew mai not very nice as it's prawn meat instead of pork.
While waiting for the food to come, we got bored and start to take 喜怒哀乐pics. I think dar can potray these emotions better cos he has a rubber face! Haha.
Can't really remember what we did after dinner. I think is just some light window shopping before we head home to continue to pack our luggage and turn in early as we have to be at the airport at freaking 4am the next day!
Will blog again tomorrow. I still got another entry to blog before HK trip. Stay tuned :)
Posted by 2gether_4eva at 9:03 AM
Monday, December 07, 2009
Posted by 2gether_4eva at 6:18 AM
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Overall, the food is not bad. I won't mind coming here again to try other food on the menu. But price wise, they are definitely more expensive than MOF. A bowl of ramen cost $14.90 as compared to $9.90 for MOF. And they serve food very slowly! I waited until my neck is long for the fried rice to come. In short, I still prefer MOF.
Forced dar to camwhore with me even though I still look like a red-eyed rabbit, my eyes are obviously very much smaller than normal right? All thanks to my MIL ...
After dinner, we went to Taka Mango but I didn't see the pair of jeans that I like at Taka so we went back to Ion Mango. Walked the outside pavement and I can't help but be memerised by the christmas decor outisde Ion! Very chio! Out come the camera again :)
Super chio christmas tree!
In comparison, Wisma's decor look so low-budget!
Taka's tree is still da best!
Finally bought my Mango jeans at $69. What a steal! But as usual it's too long for shortie me so off to my mum's for alteration. It's home sweet home after that and many thanks to dar for accompanying me to and fro Taka and Ion just to buy jeans! It's a miracle that he didn't flare up! Haha.
Gonna end here now to play Pet Society on FB! I'm so hooked on this game. I know the craze started very long time ago but I'm always slower than other people mah. Oh and I must apologise to Sylvia for ignoring her on FB. Please pardon me Sylvia, as I'm always too engrossed in playing with my pet to reply you. I cannot do 2 things at the same time!
Posted by 2gether_4eva at 5:08 PM
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Our 3rd attempt at cooking:
Last saturday we went CityPlaza to buy new stocks for Madabtshopping then went to Bugis for our weekly pator session. The huge white christmas tree at the fountain area looks really chio, but too bad we didn't stay to see it lit up at night:
Had an early dinner at Food Junction to satisfy my cravings for omelette noodles with sausages! We used to eat this everytime we go Food Junction but somehow after awhile we stopped going to Food Junction. So I'm dying to eat this again. But pity the noodles were a tad too salty for my liking that day, they added too much salt lah!
Window-shopped for awhile before heading to Illuma to catch 'A Christmas Carol'. Hubby bought the 3D version tickets, so we were given a pair of goggles to wear in order to see the special 3D effect. Hubby seems to enjoy the movie alot but I don't find it nice at all! I've never read the book before (Charles Dickson's classic) so I don't know about the plot. I saw the trailer on Nuffnang and thought is some feel-good Christmas movie, that's why I pester hubby to bring me watch. What a disappointment and a waste of ticket money! And I must say that the main character Scrooge is really ugly and the Ghost of Christmas Future is the scariest.
Headed home after the movie. Our camwhore pics, love the blue backdrop outside Watson's:
I'm looking forward to the long weekend! I've programs lined up already! Haha. Will be doing shopping with my project mates at Vivo tomorrow, joining mummy and going over to my auntie's house for a sumptuous spread on friday evening and patoring with hubby on saturday. We need to change money for our coming HK trip and see if there's anything to buy for the trip. Hubby had booked the Disneyland tixs but I've yet to plan itinerary. Uh oh! And hopefully next week can meet up with Su, Jez & Ponni over dinner. Hope everyone have a good weekend. Byee :)
Posted by 2gether_4eva at 9:39 AM
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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Posted by 2gether_4eva at 3:23 PM
Friday, November 20, 2009
As compared to last year when my MIL was away in Shanghai, we've managed the household chores better this time round. I still remember that my MIL gave us a thrashing when she was back from Shanghai last year after she saw the truckload full of clothes that the lazybones us didn't bother to wash while she was away. But this time round, we cleaned the house, washed the clothes and even cook 3 meals all by ourselves! Quite an achievement for both of us since we were quite pampered by our parents since young!
So after having lunch, we went orchard as I wanted to see the christmas light-up! Took pics with the cute teddybear christmas tree at Taka:
And of course must take pics of the awesome Taka christmas tree! Super tall and super chio!
A pity that it started to drizzle after a while and we didn't manage to take pics of all the chirstmas decor. Here's some that we took before the rain:
I love the super fat santa claus :)
Had dinner at Crystal Jade as dar wanted to eat chinese food. He finally got sick of Japanese food! Haha. Ordered fried rice, my favourite century egg lean meat porridge and char siew:
My cutie hubby:
After dinner, we did some window shopping and went to collect my Hush Puppies membership card from Centrepoint. I've been waiting for the card for so long before they finally called me to say that it's ready!
Camwhore a little before leaving for home:
I wanna go orchard again to see the lights and do some christmas shopping! Wondering what to get for dar this year? I'm running out of ideas!!
Shall end here now to go for my shower. Have to be down at dhoby ghaut mrt later in the afternoon to do some community service work. And I've been sick for almost a week! Hope that I can recover soon and I want my voice back! It's a torture not being able to talk for such a chatterbox like me :(