Lancome Teint Miracle in PO-03 Review

A quick summary of the Teint Miracle Foundation:

LANCÔME REINVENTS BARE SKIN PERFECTION AURA-INSIDE™ TECHNOLOGY,
NATURAL LIGHT CREATOR

Works on both surface and internal radiance,
when traditional foundations only play on surface radiance.

• Hydrates skin for up to 18 hours!
• Minimises the appearance of uneven skin tone, for a unified and radiant complexion.
• SPF 16 for daily protection against ultra-violet rays.
• Dermatologically tested formula: suitable for all skin types, even sensitive.
• Non-oily, non-comedogenic.

Comes in a 30ml bottle and retails in Singapore for $66
Though this foundation has been launched in late 2010,
I haven’t had the chance to try it since i was using my Chanel vitalumiere then.

I’m a MAC NC25. The SA recommended me the PO-03 and the O-03.
Choose the PO over the O as the the PO has a pinkish tone that didn’t make me look so sallow.
Those who are looking to cover their red spots on face should go for the O one.
However, this doesn’t pose much problem to be as I would still use concealer over my problematic areas.

So, radiance over coverage
So, here’s a FOTD:

What i used:
-Clarins UV plus day screen protector SPF40PA+++
-Lancome teint miracle in PO-03
-Estee Lauder double wear concealer in light
-Chanel Pressed Powder
-MAC blusher in breathe of plum

It really holds on well! Doesn’t crease even after 12 hours of wearing.
This is definitely staying on my make up desk.

Greetings! Happy 2012!

Happy new year to all of you!
Thank you for still sticking around this place. Haven’t been updating much!
Nevertheless, still want to thank you if you’re still reading this space.

These are some of the new products i’ve purchased lately.

From top left: Origins Starting Over (SGD $63), Estee Lauder Double wear concealer (SGD $34),
Urban decay primer potion (SGD $33), Kose cleansing oil (SGD $35),
Lancome teint miracle foundation (SGD $66)

Loving the lancome teint miracle, i’m using it in PO-03.
It definitely gives of a dewy look, FOTD soon if i have a chance!
Not that i’m abandoning my chanel vitalumiere aqua, i’m just keeping it for
light make up days….

oh, i’ve have removed my braces as well!
But its a pain to have to wear retainers…

Kose has always been my HG oil cleanser, this is my third bottle already!
As for concealer wise, chanel’s vitalumiere hasn’t been giving me coverage.
So why not give estee lauder a try! ^^
That’s all for now, have a great year ahead!

Jane Eyre (2011)

If you loved the film ‘Pride and Prejudice’ or ‘Becoming Jane’
You’ll definitely love this too!

Its a really sad story, definitely triggers your tear ducts.

Awwww much…

Hello Kitty Collagen Facial Wash

This is mad cute! Couldn’t resist getting this therefore.
Retails at SGD12.90 at Watsons.
This is the collagen one! They have others too like…

This is the apple gommage exfoliating wash

This is the Acne wash one



This is the normal cleansing one

Ok, back to the collagen cleanser, according to the introduction,

Argh, so pissed! Can’t seem to rotate the picture.
Anyway, its made in japan and suitable for all skin types.
Choose this because it has collagen! Skin feels abit dry these days so,
i thought that this could help.

Anyway, back to my review. This smells really pleasant,
like some kind of apple, fruity fragrance.
One small pea size goes a long way, works up a thick lather.
After washing, my face feels squeaky clean. like eekk eekk.
Will use it more often and see how it goes.
But most likely won’t be getting it again :/

Recently rearranged my make up boxes…

Argh! wanted to show some pictures of me with my
MAC blusher in breath of plum,
but wordpress simply isn’t cooperating with me.
or maybe its my internet connection. :/
Its been two weeks and starhub’s fibre optic team has yet to
schedule an installation date >:(
Angsty much

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Shall try again!

ok much better when using safari instead of chrome!
Oh, btw, got my wisdom teeth out. All four! This was about 5 days after.

This was a day before the surgery. Hmm,
I hope i have a sharper face after the surgery.

anyway, both pictures using:
-Ginvera bb cream
-Ettusais quick fix powder
-Mac blusher in breathe me plum

Warehouse haul & China Glaze in Anniversary II

These are my haul from a recent warehouse sale.
Top left, in clockwise direction: NYX eyeshadow in rootbeer,
China glaze nail polish in anniversary II,
OPI Start to finish, base/top coat,
NYX eyeliner in silver glitter,
MAC sheertone blush in breath of plum.

China glaze in II
Very nude, and soft orangey tone.
Its easy to go on, but the brush wise, I’d still prefer OPI’s.
you can visit their site http://www.chinaglaze.com
They have videos on doing marble nails and leopard print nails.

Anyway, I foresee that I wouldn’t be using these soon.
Gotta finish up on my OPI basecoat.
Seldom wear eyeshadow these days as well.
The blusher however, shall use it soon, will do a FOTD if i do.

Here’s another photo of me with:
Ginvera green tea bb cream,
Ettusais quickfix powder,
shu uemura blusher in peach 44!

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MAC OS X LION 10.7

My two cents worth on the OS X Lion,
so many raves, cons about it. But i’m glad i got it.
(Retails for US$29.99)

According to the mac store, its has about 250 new features
But the prominent ones to me are:

✚ launchpad
✚ mission control
✚ surfing net in fullscreen mode
✚ ability to relaunch close apps before shut down
✚ Faster boot up time
✚ More organised photobooth
✚ Running parallel desktops
✚ Preview of document in spotlight
✚ Airdrop control

I’m sure all these useful features are enough to buy you over.
However, there are somethings that still needs some
‘getting used too’

-’Natural’ scrolling direction of trackpad.
In the snow leopard, when you scroll up a page, u drag down
Now, when you wanted to scroll up you literally push up.

But no worries! If you’re not used to it, just go to
System preference > trackpad > Scroll & zoom

 Deselect the option of ‘scroll direction: natural’
and viola! the old scrolling direction comes back.

Another thing that I’m really not used to,
although I’ve already close my apps,
if the reopen windows when logging back in is checked,
all your applications that you have quit will still reopen.
Its rather annoying sometimes. Its not literally, oh i shut down in this state,
when i on it, it returns.
It opens the apps that I’ve already closed!!

To solve this, go to System preference > General

Under number of recent items: the minimum you can go is 5.
which means it will open the last 5 things you were doing!!
So, uncheck the ‘restore windows when quitting and reopening apps’
the problem will be solved.

These are the two big issues that i dislike about the new lion.
Maybe it still needs to go through some updates to stabilise it.
Other than that, I really dislike the fact that now my photobooth pictures,
are store in the photobooth pictures folder which i can’t access if i want
to upload the picture to sites like wordpress.
I have to drag and drop them to the desktop.

The photobooth has some cool news templates too.
Like ‘love struck’ where you get hearts around the head.
cute max. I hope this post helps to solve some issues for fellow mac users!

On a sidenote, the download from the app store takes around 45 mins on a 10mbps.
Installation of the lion on the other hand takes around 30 mins.

Ginvera bb cream review

Recently tried the Ginvera BB cream!
I must admit, i’m not a fan of bb cream but i love trying them,
bio essence, maybelline, TFS, etude house, I’ve tried them all!
So i couldn’t resist getting this as Watson’s was having 20% off.
(U.P. SGD$16.90)

According to the brand, there are so many benefits to it!
♥ Moisturises & nourishes
♥ Brightening & even out skin tone
♥ Protection against harmful UV rays
♥ SPF30 PA++

It claims to have green tea in it, but I don’t really smell it,
smell is a great factor for me when it comes to deciding what product to use.
Weird smell really stops me from using products,
but this smells rather pleasant.

 This was after close to 12 hours of wear,
the coverage is pretty good, what i have on is merely
-Ginvera BB cream
-Ettusais pressed powder
-Shu Uemura Blusher in peach 44

However, this is not really suitable for long wear,
cause it makes the face kinda oily after sometime.
But its good for my dry skin. moisturises it and stops flakiness!
Just have to take the effort to blot.
In my opinion, its really a great bb cream to bring for short trips.
sunblock + good coverage + moisturising
Price is a positive point, you won’t be afraid of losing it.
I must emphasis, although what comes out of the tube looks
dull and dark colour, it actually lightens up when applied to the face!
thumbs up ^^

Vaseline triple white SPF24 triple lightening lotion

I’ve never been a fan of body lotions,
but as time pass i’ve notice that my skin gets drier.
So, it is a must to use moisturiser to keep our skin moisturised!

Here’s my collection of body lotion:

From left: Nivea night whitening body milk 400ml
Vaseline healthy white SPF24 triple lightening lotion 350 ml
Vaseline total moisture 200ml

The lastest addition being the middle one,
As it claims to have a triple whitening effect spf24
with UVA and UVB protection lotion for fair and even toned skin.
and it moisturises too! Sounds like a good deal.
Comes in 350ml and 200ml bottles.
Retails for $9.70 for the 350ml at watsons.

I’ve tried before applying sunscreen on my body before i head out.
but after i shower, i will still feel the sunscreen on my skin.
So, i stopped using sunscreen until i found this.
It goes on fairly easily, and its quickly absorbed into the skin.
However, when it comes in contact with water,
you’d feel like there’s soap on your skin.
Well, i guess it is because of the moisturising factor.
It also contains vitamin B3 to give some love to your skin.

This is good if you’re looking for a moisturiser with SPF to use in the day.
It is value for money and easy to use.
The only cons i can think of is probably the nozzle,
once you open, you cannot turn it to off. so you must accidentally press on it.

All three of them are manufactured in thailand,
and have shelf life of 30 months.
I used the healthy white in the day,
night whitening body milk at night,
total moisture when my skin is really dry,

How to put personalised ringtone into iphone?

With so many iphone users around, you won’t want to have the same ringtone as others!
But personalising your ringtone on your iphone doesn’t seem that easy.
You can’t just go to the music file on your phone and ‘set as ringtone’.
Hence, I’ve decided to come up with this tutorial to make things easy for us!
You don’t need any software, all you need is itunes!

1) Plug in your iphone and connect to itunes

2) In your itunes, select a song (have a back up copy on your desktop to be safe)
I have selected Lady Gaga’s ‘The edge of glory’

3) Right click on file and go to get info

4) Under get info, in the options tab, there is a start time and stop time,
simply select which portion of the song you want.
(note: do not put 1.02 as time if 1 is your minute, use 1:02)
and select ok. When you double click on song to play,
it should be playing only the portion that you have indicated.

5) Right click on file in tunes again and select create AAC version.
This version, under the timing section you can see how long it is.

6) drag and drop the file to your desktop / ringtones folder,
delete it from your itunes


7) Change file extension from m4a to m4r
If you double click on the file, it will be imported into your itunes,
i don’t do that because i don’t want the file to be playing,
when i’m shuffling my itunes playlist

8) Sync your iphone with the ringtones you want.
Itunes detects the m4r files as ringtones.

9) In your iphone, under settings, ringtones.
you can select your personal ringtone now!

QED!

koji spring heart eyelashes no. 6

Koji spring heart eyelashes, no. 6
Retails at watsons for $7.90

koji is the same brand that brings in dolly wink lashes.
Really want to try out the dolly wink eyelash glue.
but i seldom put on falsies these days,
today i’m gonna try out a au natural look, with just,
foundation and falsies.

A close up of the eyelashes,
very natural looking, shall try out whether its easy to use
and do a proper review soon

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So i have worn the lashes for a mere 5 hours.
The lashes are really easy to wear because the lashbone
is really soft, so it fits nicely however you shape them to be.

They look really natural! and for the glue wise,
its really tacky but easy to remove when you need to remove it.
Its good!