Red Juicy Lips

I was inspired, after watching Xiaxue's Angelababy-inspired lips video here, to rock red lips myself.

Here is my own take on achieving red juicy lips. 

Lipliner  : RIMMEL Exaggerate Full Colour Lip Liner 063 Eastend Snob (very nude pinky mauve)

Lipstick : MAYBELLINE Moisture Extreme Lip Color 97 Roseberry (berry red - cool-toned shade)

Lipgloss : NYX Mega Shine Gloss Perfect Red (perfect red, indeed!)

Taken without flash (natural sunlight through window :D)

NOTW : Nails of the Week!

Some nail designs I have been up to this past week. :)

Base :  DAISO Nail Treatment Gel and RIMMEL Stronger Base Coat

Top  : SECHE VITE Dry Fast Top Coat

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Nail Polish in Lightening (yellow)
Sally Hansen Insta Dri Nail Polish in Night Flight(blue black for dots)

Barry M Nail Paint in #030 Limited Edition (pink violet)
Barry M Nail Paint in Black Nail Effects (black shatter/crackle)

Barry M Nail Paint in #030 Limited Edition (pink violet)
Stage Cosmetics Nail Color in  05 Luscious (rose pink)
Stage Cosmetics Nail Color in  11 Drama (chocolate brown)
Sally Hansen Insta Dri Nail Polish in Lightening (yellow flower)
Sally Hansen Insta Dri Nail Polish in Night Flight(blue black for diagonal line)

Blogging Challenge - 13 April - 'M'

M for MAKEUP.

Easy-peasy.

Blogging Challenge - 12 April - 'L'

Do you know the expression 'LAME'...?

When you call someone 'LAME' or reply someone by saying 'Gosh, you're so LAME'...

But, how do you define what 'LAME' means? Well, what does it REALLY mean?

You definitely cannot find this definition of 'LAME' via Thesaurus.com because here is the first definition of the word 'LAME'.

Main Entry:	lame
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	unable to walk properly

But, the Urban Dictionary defines 'LAME' as... just plain stupid, unoriginal.


So, which do you prefer to be called?

For me, neither!!! :P

Blogging Challenge - 11 April - 'K'

K. I ran out of ideas today. Really. 

How about... K for KARDASHIAN!!!

Hahahaha!

Do you know who the Kardashians are? :P

If you do, do you like them?

If you don't, please do a Google search on them! Hahaha!

I personally think that they are a very pretty-looking family. As in beautiful. Great skin and very nice hair too. BUT, this does not mean I like how this family runs. If you watch the family's reality show, you would know what I mean. :)

Pretty, right? Hahahaha!

Blogging Challenge - 10 April - 'J'

J for JUICE.

Fruit juice to be exact!

My favorite juices are : apple, orange, carrot, watermelon, honeydew and great hog plum.

"WHAT IS A GREAT HOG PLUM?", you might ask.

Full article here --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondias_dulcis

More information here --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/papilio/248180018/

Anyways, a great hog plum is also known as the ambarella fruit (buah kedondong in malay).

It is a little sour fruit that is usually eaten with sweet shrimp paste.

Or, the fruit could be pulped and made into juice - and that's the way I like it better!

Here are some pictures (credits to the rightful owners of these pictures).

The Ambarella fruit tree

The Ambarella fruit up-close and personal
(looks so green and good!)

Pickled Ambarella
(it is really sour on its on so people enjoy the pickled fruit
more than the fresh fruit itself)

So, I hope you guys learned something new today. 

AMBARELLA (just UMBRELLA really), also known as the GREAT HOG PLUM!

Blogging Challenge - 9 April - 'I'

INCEPTION.

Have you guys seen this movie? I think it totally rocks. The idea/concept of the show is so cool! Awesome, dude. Go watch it. Well, I mean, go get an ORIGINAL DVD and watch it. The movie was out last year. Till then...

Blogging Challenge - 8 April - 'H'

HAPPINESS. 

What makes you happy? Money? Love? Food?

And how do you measure happiness? 

If money makes you happy, does that mean : 

A lot of money = a lot of happiness = very very happy

A little bit of money = still happy but not that happy

?????????????????????????????????????????????

OR

If food makes you happy, does that mean by eating a lot equals a very happy you?

Wikipedia referenced "HAPPINESS" from this site stating : 

HAPPINESS is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

Well, I am not very happy today. Reason being : An unknown person, who by the looks of it is very happy, just made another person's day an unhappy one which results in me being unhappy as well. Here's the story:

I was parked behind a VIVA, waiting in the car for a friend to pack dinner. In front of the VIVA was a pretty narrow empty space. Along comes a BMW wanting to park at the narrow empty space. The driver does a left-hand-side parking - shifts into reverse, zooms into the space and pushing the VIVA back. It was a SUPER loud bang and imagine the impact there was for the VIVA, parked there, to being pushed towards the back - where I was. The driver of the BMW was so ignorant - he could not care less if there was damaged done to the VIVA. He happily parked his car and did not bother to get down from his BMW. Instead, he wound down his window and was totally relaxed with his two dogs as if nothing had happened. Just. Like. That. He did not even care about the witnesses around to say that he was in the wrong. If he ever was confronted, he would probably just take some cash out, give it to the VIVA driver and leave. Such a person, I believe, is happy for all the wrong reasons. 

Why is there such a person in this world? Please tell me. I am unhappy. And agitated. I.Want.To.Slap.Him. I have been thinking. What if I was the VIVA owner? What would I have done? What would YOU have done?

NOTD 03

Base :  DAISO Nail Treatment Gel 

Color:  Stage Cosmetics 05 Gorgeous

Top:    -nil-

Blogging Challenge - 7 April - 'G'

♫♫♫ GUERLAIN! GUERLAIN! GUERLAIN! ♫♫♫

So this ♫ means that I am singing. Yes, I am singing the word Guerlain in tune to my happiness and excitement!

May I present to you : Guerlain Meteorites Illuminating Pearl - a super beautiful, super pricey, totally gorgeous makeup item. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. This is going to be my birthday gift from my Meshuga buddies this year! THANK YOU DARLINGS.

Let us indulge in this awesome pictures together.

 

I. Can't. Wait. To. Hold. You. 

☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻

Blogging Challenge - 6 April - 'F'

F for FRIENDS. I want to sincerely dedicate this post to all my friends. School friends. Church friends. Work friends. Just friends. ALL FRIENDS. 

Dearest Meshuga friends (you know who you are), thank you for everything! You guys have been my closest, most encouraging peeps in my life and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything. Friends forever! I love you all!

To everyone else, do not take your friends for granted. They are the next best thing to family. :)

♥♥♥XOXO♥♥♥

Blogging Challenge - 5 April - 'E'

E for ENTERTAINMENT. Wanna know what entertainment I have been indulging in lately?

1) The Vampire Diaries

2) Plants vs Zombies

3) Hellcats

4) CSI : NY (Season 7)

5) Godiva dark chocolate pearls

6) Twitter

7) Thesis writing

Well the last one not so much but what am I to do. It's part of my life so better let it entertain that drain the life outta me. 

I do hope to get makeup posts up soon. I have been inspiration-less these past few days in terms of makeup. Sad me.

Till then...

Blogging Challenge - 4 April - 'D'

D for DEAD. 

Hahahaha! I am running out of ideas for this challenge. Oh DEAR me. I am sorry, faithful readers. Today's post is a total DISASTER. I hope to get more informative posts up! 

Doo doo doo doo doo....

Blogging Challenge - 3 April - 'C'

Today's alphabet is - C.

C for CELLNIQUE. Have you guys heard of this brand before? When I first did, I thought it was just trying to be the next CLINIQUE - kind of a copycat if you look at the name, right? Anyways, I first discovered this brand of high-end skincare line about 18 months ago from My Women Stuff and I eventually got a sample of the brand's infamous Skin Action Sebum Gel. I fell in love with it right after and have purchased three full-sized bottles since. One bottle will last me about six months with two applications daily.

What this Sebum Gel does is, it reduces blackheads/whiteheads significantly and by significantly I mean... A LOT! I cannot go a day without putting this on my face. It is an essential in my skincare routine. I do not have before and after pictures to show you (sorry about that) so I guess you guys have to take my word for it! :P But please do read reviews and see pictures on other blogs because the Skin Action Sebum Gel really really does work! 

I do want to try other products from this brand but it's pretty pricey for me at the moment so I guess that will have to wait. Have you guys tried CELLNIQUE before? What's good and what's not?

By the way, CELLNIQUE did not pay me to do this!!! It's just part of the blogging challenge that I decided to talk about it. 

Till then...

Blogging Challenge - 2 April - 'B'

Today's alphabet is - 'B'.

'B' for BIRTHDAY, of course! It's my birthday today! Hip Hip Hooray!

After receiving the birthday wishes via Facebook wall posts and mobile text messages, I can very well say that I FEEL THE LOVE! I have family and friends who care. So, THANK YOU EVERYONE.

'B' is also for BARRY M. My good buddy, Min just got back from the UK and she helped me purchase two bottles of Barry M Nail Paint - one is the black Nail Effects and the other is a limited edition color #030. 

So the current trend for nails is the crackle/shatter/effects nails. What you do is to paint the crackle/shatter/effects polish on top of a base color and it will crackle/shatter/effects up to give a pretty funky nail look. I am not explaining it very well. Haha! Just check out the pictures below.

Totally cool, right? I actually recorded a video but Blogger won't upload it. :( I will probably host in on YouTube and attach a link here. :)

Anyways, I will C you tomorrow for another post. *winks* Till then...

Blogging Challenge - 1 April - 'A'

I read about this Blogging Challenge and I am up for it! It gives me the drive to want to blog as often as I can. With this challenge, I will put up one new post everyday (except Sundays), using the 26 letters of the alphabet. SO, LETS GET STARTED!

Today's alphabet is - A.

A for ANNA - a very good buddy of mine! She blogs too so please do check her blog out! Super lame and hilarious! Will certainly brighten up anyone's day!

So yes, today is A-for-ANNA day. :D