My Birthday Celebration ~ Night Out!

17 August 2012. Yet another year to declare I'm another year older.

This year, I did not expect any extraordinary birthday celebration but just a quiet and heartwarming time with my family. I didn't even expect to go out at all till Dear told me my god-brother wants me to go down to their usual pub to celebrate my birthday. Ever since I gave birth to Amelia, my trips to pubs had greatly reduced. So, I agreed!

I also took the initiative to gathered my BFFs for a dinner after work, before I joined my god-brother at the pub. Knowing I would be going out, I had to doll up myself, ya? In all honesty, I did not put on too much war-paint but just emphasised on my eyes.

It wasn't really a pre-birthday dinner per se but I appreciated Cindy and Javier for turning up as they originally wanted to stayed at home due to their son's tuition. We had an enjoyable dinner at Joyee's favourite steamboat restaurant though she suffered a mild car accident just that evening. The men simply couldn't stand our topics as we mainly discussed about LUXURY BAGS! After the dinner, we headed to the pub without my BFFs as they needed to work on the next day.

It was really great to be able to meet up with my pub friends gang from time to time, especially when they remembered my birthday every single year! My god-brother, Fabian even managed to summon my next good friend, Larry to come along even though he always have a hectic travelling schedule! Come to think of it, from Network at Chinatown, to Mongkok at Tanjong Pagar, and now S Club, we have known one another for almost 6-7 years. Frankly, to be able to still keep in close contact for so many years whom we known from a pub, it is considerably amazing.

Alright, back to my birthday celebration night out. It is a standard practice in the gang that whenever someone's birthday is here, birthday song will be sung and most importantly, a yard of beer will be delivered right to your face. Naturally, I'd gotten a yard of beer on my hands cos it's a night out for ME!

Me with a yard of beer. I was also wearing my new top from Taobao that night. Oh yes, and that's Larry behind me in the photo, photobombing. :D

When most of them helped me clear the yard till it was left till the bottom (the round base...and the most lethal), I had to drink it up all by myself. The owner of S Club, whom we knew very well too (he's the one in the top-left photo with me in the photo below) saw me drinking up only the base, he 不甘愿 and asked me to drink more. I told him jokingly that I'd drink any alcohol he brought to me and I regret it the moment he came back. Why? Cos when I thought he would have brought a glass of liquor on the rock, he brought along another yard of beer to me, demanding me to drink it all by MYSELF! Blamed me on my silly mouth and promise, I had no choice but to finish 1 whole yard myself. Come to think of it, I think I'm the only one he brought 2 yards on someone's birthday...多有面子啊!

开心不忘娱乐. While we were happily enjoying ourselves at S Club, I also took photos with most of my gang ( some just hate the camera!), making more sentimental footprints down my memory lane.

I heart them so much, the friendship's most definitely gonna be a lifetime thingy. Who says friends whom we made from nightlife won't be longlasting?

Last but not the least, I gotta thank my Dear for spending my birthday night out with me and our pub gang!

My birthday most certainly didn't end with this. More birthday celebration posts coming up next! ^^

 

Travelling Extravaganza - Seoul

This is, I believe to be the last travelling extravaganza I'd have until a few good months before I'll get to travel again *cross fingers*.

Though my eye was still under recovery then, I applied nail lacquers for the trip for vanity's sake and also to console myself not to keep thinking of my condition. With that, I took Color Club's Otherworldly from my nail lacquer stash & applied them onto my nails.

Seriously, I've bought it more than 3 months ago but I had no idea why I did not use it till now. Perhaps I was hoping the blue and the glitter will elevate my mood somehow. Nonetheless, the application for Otherworldly is very smooth and I only used 2 coats for this.

Being one who love Seoul, this trip wasn't very enjoyable to me due to one and annoying reason - my eye. As mentioned in my previous blog post 'Eye Infection Gone Bad', my eye's condition had gone terribly bad during my trip there. I was really thankful to my partners in Seoul who took such good care of me & even offered to bring me to an eye specialist just to get my eye checked. Without them, I'd have freaked out in a foreign land!

话说回来...although I did not truly enjoy my trip (physically), I did manage to do some retail therapy there, heh. My shopping desire in Seoul was pretty objective - Hair accessories, anti-dust caps if any and foot masks (since I'm allergic to most korean skincare products). My most extensive loot? Definitely the iPhone anti-dust caps and hair accessories! I basically had a serious overhaul on these 2!

iPhone anti-dust caps!
Some are giveaways, some for self-keeping of cos!

Hair accessories overhaul!
Some on the right were for my girl, the rest...MINE!

Honestly, I bought more than those...but somehow, due to my eye, I wasn't in the best of mood to take a lot of pictures and thus, these 2 were the only ones I took when I was in Seoul. When I came back from Seoul, I was literally focused on seeking a cure for my eye and didn't think of taking any other loot I've brought back from Seoul anymore. Am truly sorry I couldn't share the joy of Seoul's shopping haul for this time.

Let me get my eye fully recovered and I'm sure I'll be able to tune my mood back to normal & blog with more energy again!

Concealer Overkill Haul

Did an overkill haul on The Body Shop's Tea Tree Concealer just cos they offered me a 30% discount on total purchase when my membership had expired just days before.

Well, what to do when their concealers really do the magic of concealing the spots on my face? :D
To see the effect, you can read on my earlier post on the review the Apothéke's colour corrector.

Looks like these amount of restock can last me for a few months, hehe!

Review: A Miracle an Apothéke Colour Corrector creates!

Was chatting with my colleague one day & she raised the problem of having a hard time concealing red spots on her face. Then, I suddenly recalled another colleague of mine complimenting on the colour corrector I uses to reduce redness on my face and thus recommended to her. This inspired me to do up a review on this product since I've been using it for more than 6 months and working great on me. Good things must share! :D

First of all, let me introduce you the Mineral Colour Corrector from Apothéke.    

They come in small & big sizes!

Ingredients: Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxifr, Magnesium Stearate, Kaolin Clay, Rice Powder, Mica, Iron oxides, Allantoin

They are all mineral ingredients which contain no chemicals and thus won't harm your skin.

Next, let me show you how miracle this corrector can be. As much as I do not wish to show all of you my bare and scarred face, I had to do so to show the result of this corrector. :(

My scarred face :(

To use the corrector, you can choose to use a concealer brush, or you can use a compact sponge like I did. This corrector is powder-based.

It's greenish and powder-based.

I used a compact sponge instead of concealer brush.

Dap just a bit of the corrector powder onto your brush/sponge and apply at the area of your face where the redness are. DO NOT RUB against your face but pat it slowly against your face. As I said, it's greenish in colour so do not expect it to look just like a concealer where it will blend with your skin colour, IT WON'T. It's meant to reduce the redness on your face ONLY.

When done, the redness on your face should be pretty much reduced and look like this:

If you noticed, you can still see some redness even after the corrector has been applied. Well, it's normal. This colour corrector does not act as a concealer so do not expect it to be one. I have to be thankful enough that it reduces my redness greatly! After your preferred concealer has been applied, it should look like this (I applied my mineral foundation from Apothéke on it too):

There! There are almost no redness shown on my face after that! It's like a miracle!

This colour corrector works a wonder on me and that's why I felt that I should post just what kind of wonder it worked on me. Been using both its foundation powder, mineral veil and colour corrector since last December and I have no regrets since. It literally nursed my damaged skin back to shape (my acne issue was really bad quite a while ago) with its mineral ingredients mainly Kaolin Clay & I really love these products to bits! 

Pop over to Apothéke if you think you wish to reduce most of the redness on your face which is bothering you greatly. :)

*Disclaimer: This is NOT an advertorial. The above content and review is purely written on my own accord and not in any manner, paid nor requested by the company of the reviewed product to do so. Review is 100% based on my own experience with the product only.

New Hairstyle, New Hair Color!

I dyed my hair...again! Decided to try a new color from Liese since it has been months i held on to my current hair color. And you know what? I did that on New Year's Day itself, lol! So much for New Year activity...blah.

I also cut my hair recently to an even shorter length but unfortunately, my dear hairdresser cut my fringe a bit too short already. :( And so, i have no choice but to do this ~ shuffle all my fringe to make it look like it's short bangs until my fringe grows longer >.<. Not bad ya? Still got a chance to salvage my impossibly ugly short fringe, keke.

A bit far but I quite like this pose of mine, LOL!

Tada, so this is the end result after i color-ed and cut my hair (Thanks Joyee for snapping this shot!). I know it may be a little too far to observe the hair color but me thinks it's pretty nice color ^^.

I am wondering what other colors I can try from Liese next time. So far, I've tried Mashmallow Brown, Glossy Brown, Chiffon Beige and Sweet Apricot (latest color - my previous hair color). Any suggestions? Feel like trying Ash Brown next, hehehe.

Mineral Makeup Review - Apothéke

It has been more than a week since i started using Mineral Makeup from Apothéke and so far, it’s working quite well for me.

How well was it working for me then? Hmm…I will say, my face doesn’t itch that much anymore, i feel my face breathing more freely now and not to mention my face is less oily, even after long hours!

This photo was taken 5hrs after i set my mineral makeup on it - the foundation & mineral veil, both loose powders. I did not re-touch up my face at all after my 1st application in the morning so you can see the difference! Previously when i was using L’oreal makeups, i will often get oily skin all over my face after a few hours and now, i worry less for my face in terms of oil surfacing, hehe :)

TIP!~ Don't apply more than 2 layers of mineral veil powder after your foundation/makeup is done! It is meant to be a finishing powder and it does not have skin tone colours, thus, if you apply too many layers, you will see a PALE or damn thick face of yourself. Trust me....我是过来人! Just a mere 1 or 2 brushful over your face will set a matte glow over your face & you will look just as pretty as ever!

However, they are loose powders, therefore, my face tend to turn a little cakey if i happened to sweat (which i often did, i sweat a lot). I should say the mineral veil powder  doesn’t stick onto your skin easily unless there’s a base like foundation primer to help it last. And so, i am now pondering over which Primer to buy….speaking about saving up…duh…Maybe for now, i try NOT to sweat? LOL!!!!!!

LOVES~ Its foundation loose powder! It's very simple and straight-forward. If you want more coverage, a.k.a more thick look on your face, just apply more layers of foundation powder over your face. If you wish to look natural (more for work), just 2 layers should do the job ^^.

Now that i am more or less used to applying loose powders on my face, and i quite like this mineral powders, i’ve decided to order the full size container of the foundation and mineral veil. If you are interested, do drop by http://apothekesg.wordpress.com/

Let’s hope my skin will recover to its original condition with the help of more healthier makeup and skincare products!