forlic_pjann gave me a great idea what should i write about before flying off to Bangkok(yes, I am heading off tomorrow morning. can’t wait to shop till i drop & thanks frolic for giving me the idea!). It’s the time of the year where we have to cramp our brains to figure out what’s the suitable presents for our loved ones. But I guess when it comes to friends, soul sisters, bioligical sisters & mum, we sure can count on the LE sets that are being created by leading cosmetics brands for this festive season as gifts.

I do believe in giving others gifts that we personally like it ourselves(the same goes to how you treat others. if you want someone to treat you pretty well, then you must do the same as well!). Therefore, I will normally give things I personally like to my loved ones(except that I DO NOT give cosmetics to my father, my brother, my boyfriend & my boy friends. But I do give them skincare as gifts sometimes). So yes, I am gonna start off with limited editions cosmetics from leading cosmetic brands(sit tight ladies!).

First up is YSL Gold Celebration Palette Star Glow at rm183. I tried to find infos on it, but I failed(sorry girls! But will try to find more soon…).

Here’s one of my personal favourite….Lancome Glossy Charms Bracelet Ultra Shiny Hydrating Lip Gloss at RM95(phew….thank god I managed to pronounce it nicely after a few tries). It is said to have a delicious combination of 3 delicate, fresh and light shades with irresistible flavours. These 3 Juicy Tubes secretly leave a halo of light on your lips for glamorous makeup and a delicious mouth. What’s more, it can be used as a bracelet around your wrist of it can be used as an accessory to your bag or even belt!

Next up is Benefit Valley of the Stars priced at RM145. It is a mini kit with to keep you shining like a star all night long(this definitely fulfill your dream of becoming a beauty queen)for party. The set includes Moon Beam which acts as warm golden luminizer for face, High Beam as soft pink luminizer for face, Her Glossiness lip gloss which gives a sheer pink shimmer onto your lips & soft shimmering eyeshadows in tequila gold and snow white.

And yes, my favourite one, Dior Pretty Charms which is priced at RM170. It is adorned by Swarovski crystals with padlocks that has matching lipstick & lipgloss. This will definitely make the owner feels like a pwwwwinnnnncesssss(or might be a queen…that is if you want to).

Stila Holiday Deluxe Palette (some might say it as Stila Night Flower Deluxe Palette which confuses me a lot as till now, I still don’t know whether they are the same of different) priced at RM130 is a great investment as gift as it contains four eyeshadows, one lip colour, one lip glaze & one cheek colour. The pretty floral decorated compact includes a mirror for easy application and touch-ups on the go.

& yes, to all the MAC fans out there, MAC launched the dress set few weeks ago in KL! I do not think that I need to elaborate any further about MAC dress set as I know there are already a lot of MAC fans here. Anyway, here’s the pic:

New Flame and Florabundance Lipglass; and Spring Bean, Wonderstruck and Instant Gold Lustreglass

Fine China, Courting Rose and Magnetique Lipglass; and Opal and Pinkarat Lustreglass

Jellicious, Who’s That Lady, Saplicious, and Jellybabe

Pink Bronze, Vanilla, Tan, Old Gold, and Chartreuse

Frozen White, Naval Blue, Violet, Dark Soul and Pinked Mauve

Lucky Jade, Silverbleu, Shimmersand and Royal Hue

Do take note that everything is in cocktail-sized. Don’t ever dream on having full-sized(that is unless when you’re willing to pay more). So yup…that’s all for today. Will be back on Monday to blog more on Special Editions/Limited Editions cosmetics ie. Clinique colour surge special pack, mac viva glam 6 & etc for this festive season(wooohooo! Christmas….hohoho!) provided that no one is blogging bout the special stuffs while I am not here(don’t anyone dare to touch my holy topic *evil laughters*)

Btw, thanks for those who commented on my post! I am proud to be the 1st to start it off. But of couse, there won’t be a last post here(I hope).

One more thing, pictures of MAC dress set is courtesy of sweechen.

Adios girls! Bangkok, here I come!

Christmas is here. If you are bummed for ideas of what to buy.. read on.

Well, since Gap has newly open their door to consumers of KL-ites, in none other than One Utama, why no get some Christmas shopping there. I’ve chosen here a belt and an inspired red tee… well, we may not find it in OU’s store, but let’s hope.

This is dress-down for after Christmas party.

Next, Benefit cosmetics for her. Seen here is Benetint cheek tint, which can double as lip tint too. A rosy glow for the Christmas party date. You can also get a SPF lip balm – fool proof gift.

You gotta have sparkly stuff for Christmas - Tous watch. Style and wearability, doubles as a charm bracelet too.

If casual is your theme, don’t forget these chunky watches.

It’s an official trend, find them at One U, or try here and here.

For techies, don’t run from this blog. There is fabulous stuff I have selected here.

K800i from Sony Ericson – 3.2 megapixel camera, talk about photoblog.

And ipod nano (red), great color for getting Christmas-y. Plus it can be laser engraved with the owner’s name.

Well, here is a short list, but in fact there are lots and lots of items to get for Christmas, too many for me to list out, like the James Morrison cd, ipod casing, key pouch,.. in fact I off to shopping now! But… Tell me what you want and will buy for Christmas.

You’d think at my age I’d take better care of my skin. No, I’m not gonna tell you how old I am but let’s say I’m nearing an age where I don’t wanna tell people my age.

Which is now.

But anyways, as I was saying, you’d think I’d take better care of my skin, which means I don’t. I’m very lazy. I’m not blessed with perfect skin but I’ve never had any real problems with it so therein lies my excuse. Besides, I’m very lazy.

So I finally made an appointment to go for my first facial in 3 years. 3 years I repeat, cos lying down for an hour or so is too much hard work and have I mentioned that I’m lazy? And I finally went last Saturday for the appointment. Gawd, I dunno why I didn’t do it before. It was fab! Ok la, it wasn’t as fab as miraculously losing 4 lbs when you step on the scales in the morning but it came a good 4th or 5th in my fab scenarios.

As you babes know, they make you strip down to your undies and you hafta wear a long bedsheet elasticised like a tube only 100 times uglier.

Which leads me to the question of why? Why are robes in facial salons so hideously blah? Can’t they make them out of some super groovy material? I don’t mind the way it’s cut cos that’s the most convienient to slip on & off but come on facial-salon-robe-supplier-people, get with the program and get me some Pucci like prints or something! Hmmmm, maybe I’ll make my own robe thingy and bring it with me next time.

After the beautician aka Toturer With Loving Hands has lead me to the room, asked me to lie down on the bed and tucked me in with a blanket, she then proceeds to cleanse my grotty face. First with just plain milk cleanser, then with milk cleanser mixed with a scrub cos those dead cells need to be taught a lesson. At first I’m quite chatty cos I just had a latte downstairs and am so not sleepy. Besides, I know what’s coming up next so no point sleeping so early on in the facial.

“How long have you been working here” - I really didn’t care.

“Is my skin ok?” - Cared somewhat.

“Is my skin dry?” - Cared more.

“Do I have any fine lines?” - Cared alot.

2 Yrs, Yes, Yes and Not Yet.

Answers weren’t that short la but I’ll spare you the details. Then came the steaming. Yes the steaming.

Good gawd, I hate the steaming. I have a sinus problem so the steaming stuffs up my nose something chronic.

“You ok? Not too hot?”

“Ja, I’b dokay”

Cos I’m determined that every bit of my 3 yrs of crap that’s been building up in the pores of my face comes out later. 10 minutes, 10 minutes of hot steam stuffing up my nostrils and me turning my head from side to side gasping for air! Plus it was hot in that damn blanket.

FINALLY, TWLH comes back in.

Yeeehaaa, extraction time! No, I’m not some sort of sadist but to me this is the part that counts most in the whole facial process. No pain, no gain, mantra crap. She starts with my nose.

“Tahan abit ya? Long time no facial, got alot to take out wor.”

Damn sakit I tell you!

Eyes start tearing all.

Jaws start clenching all.

She moves on to my cheeks, next my forehead. Then she spots two oil seeds under my eyes.

“This one going to hurt more abit ah.”

She pokes it with something freaking sharp and squeezes crap out. More tears start falling down my cheeks. Padan muka. Who ask you not to go to facial for so long.

“Ok habis oredi.”

Tears start falling down my cheeks. Tears of joy.

TWLH wipes my face with some sort of toner and then uses some sort of machine with some sort of attachment, runs it over my face, to have some sort of effect.

Don’t quite like that machine.

She then rubs my face with aromatherapy oil which smells divine and lulls me to sleep with a massage on my face, neck, shoulders and back. Mmmmmm, finally I can relax. She stops to mix up something up, then slathers on this cold goo on my face which felt lovely. After slapping on the first layer of the mask with a brush, she puts on what feels like a netting gauze of sorts on my face and then slaps on a second layer of the cooling mask on the netting. It felt really nice and I was slowly drifting off to sleep.

Then TWLH spoilt it all by cleaning her bowl and whatever it is at the sink behind.

Pft.

I really don’t need to hear banging of bowls and utensils. Ok la, it was exactly clanging and all that noisy but still it irritated me. And if that wasn’t all, the damn pipes was making annoying gurgling sounds. Hurry up la, finish cleaning already, I wanna doze off!

Finally, peace & quiet …. snore snore snore.

“Miss, Miss ah, I’m going to clean you face now ok.”

She cleans off the wonderfully-cooling-sleep-inducing mask and then uses this machine that sprays what I hope isn’t just plain water on to my face. I don’t know why a machine is needed. Can’t she just put the whatever-water-it-is into a spray bottle and spray on my face? Maybe that’s why these damn facials cost so much. Use unnecessary machines all.

BUT, this last machine she uses is my favourite, it’s some really cold metal thing that she uses to glide all over my face. Best gila! It’s like putting a spoon in the fridge then gliding that all over the face. Only difference is that chunks of skin doesn’t come off the face la. Ewww, that’d be nasty. After which, TWLH massages in moisturiser and taaaa-daaaaaaa facial is over!

Won’t bore you with the consultation afterwards. Needless to say though, I was well pleased with my 70 mins of pampering. My skin looked helluva lot clearer. Liked it so much that I’m going back in 3 weeks time for another facial and to sign up a whole package.

We Malaysians do love our packages don’t we? Got package ah? Cheaper to buy package what. Don’t have package ah? Wah, you all should make package la, then more people come.

I’m probably not gonna write another blog on facials. This one was the one off cos so excited mah, 1st facial in 3 years all. BUT, if they come out with some new fandangled machine that totally rocks, then expect another long-winded encouter with TWLH!

’til next time, slater Babes.

Peace & Long Life

Hello, everyone!

I am very glad indeed to be the first one to write in this blog. Hmm…what should I write about then? I am actually very clueless of how I should start this blog off with as I am new to blogging. Okay. That was a big fat lie from me. I started blogging since the year 2004(when I was 16 & it makes me 18 this year. I am kinda old huh?). What I used to blog about before this was just silly lil things that happened in my life. But blogging keeps me in track on how much I have grown & what I did in my life. So, to those that have yet to have a blog, get one started now! You’ll be surprised & amazed by those things in your record.

So yeah, this is a fashion blog & I am supposed to write something that has got to do with fashion right? Wait a sec…did I mention that I am a fashion disaster? To be honest, I have no sense of fashion at all. I was often teased by my friends to be the one that is so ‘outstanding’ from the rest & how ‘good’ my taste is when it comes to choosing clothes for myself & for my friends as presents. But does that stops me from doing what I want to do(that is writing here of course)? No, it doesn’t. This is where I could learn how to make myself presentable. It’s not that I want to be a fashion slave. But, you know…to at least make a few guys turn their heads & look at me twice when I walk pass. Is it too much to ask for? I certainly don’t think so cause EVERY girl deserves that. Agree with me(don’t you dare to say you don’t! Muahaha…)?

When it comes to make up, I am a complete disaster as well. I guess disaster is really my middle name after all. I started to learn the skill of putting on make up at the age of 17 when I got to know this particular guy(to be exact, my bf) as he was curious why on earth I do not put on make ups like any other girl. Silly as it to many of you, we went on to fight over this matter & I started to put on make up just to please him. Little did I know that I am actually falling in love with make ups. No, even though I am falling in love with make ups, I still couldn’t master this art to perfection. Was I too dumb for it? Maybe…who knows? Only time & expert would tell whether I am really too dumb fo it or just purely because I do not take in the right advise & apply to my already-way-too-volcanic-face.

Many of you would be wondering why a disaster like me would be in here writing about fashion when there are so many fashionistas out there & why on earth did Fred approved me? I am not here to pretend to that I know so much about fashion, makeups & everything girly. I am here so that everyone that is reading now would learn from my small lil mistakes & don’t follow my footsteps to be a fashionista(I sure hope that I am one) fashion disaster.

Oh yes….have I mentioned that I am
Andrienne?