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Cat Inspired Makeup and Hairdo for Halloween.
Monday, October 13, 2014 | 8:30 AM | 1 comments

Hey darlings! Honestly speaking, I've never experienced dressing up for Halloween in my entire life and I guess this year isn't an exception, but in spirit of occasion, I decided to share with you guys my all time favourite cat-inspired makeup and hairdo - Suitable for both, short and long hair.


First, wash and condition your hair - Not only is it important to keep you hair fresh and tamed, but you'd want your tresses to smell good! Unless... you don't? :p I've been using the Sunsilk Co-creations (Nourishing soft) shampoo and conditioner for the longest time.

Before you begin, all you'd need are two fuzzy wires (you can choose any colour or something close to your hair colour), two hair ties (optional) and 4 bobby pins. For the fuzzy wires, I got a packet of 15 (15mm in thickness and 30 cm in length) from Art Friend for around $5.00

Trim it to your desired length and make sure it's neither too long nor too short.


Next up, blow-dry your hair, brush through thoroughly to prevent any knots. Start by sectioning your hair into two! At this point, you can choose to apply some hairspray to hold your hair in, but I'm skipping that step in this case. As my fringe is relatively long, I'm using the front part of my hair to create this look. If you've short bangs, an alternative would be to grab your hair from the middle portion instead.


Once you're satisfied with the parting, place the wire on that portion of hair and fasten it with a bobby pin. You can use more if you wish.


Part one side of the two sections into 3 and start braiding! If you've no idea how to braid watch how to do so (here)




You can first secure it with a hair tie or just pin it down right away like I did. The lazy people's method hahaha. Lastly, just bend it accordingly and make sure that the ends are as pointy as possible! Repeat the same for the other side. :D


Here are just some simple steps to the makeup!
  1. Apply your usual make up (foundation, powder, brows)
  2. Put on some black/brown eyeshadow on the outer corners of your eyelids, white on the inner-corners and underline your bottom lash-line with purple eyeshadow.
  3. Draw on your eyeliner as per-normal first, followed by your crease, extending the outer-end upwards to create an exaggerated wing and the inner-end down to the inner-corner of your eye.
  4. Draw on your cat whiskers!
  5. Create an inverted triangle on the tip of your nose, first by outlining it, then shading the inner portion.
  6. Apply red lipstick/liptint.
  7. Outline the shape of your lips with black eyeliner.
  8. Don't forget your coloured contact lenses if you want your eyes to stand out!

The liquid eyeliner I'm using here is from 1028 Magic - Really long lasting and it's waterproof with sharp and soft tips. Get something similar to this with a fine tip so that it makes it a lot easier to draw the lines.

Eyeshadow - Naked palette 1 and 3. Virgin, Blackout and Darkside.

Liptint - Benefit cosmetics.

Contacts lens - "Magic Brown" from Maxi Eyes.


TADA! You're done! :)





Hope it's not too complicated. Happy Halloween in advance :) Comment in the comments section and tell me what hairstyle and makeup you'd be doing for this Halloween!

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Everyday Makeup N' Hair Routine
Sunday, March 9, 2014 | 8:00 PM | 4 comments


Was really bored the other day and thought to myself, "Why not take this time to do an updated makeup routine." Well, I'm not sure if any of you guys remembered, but I did one about 2-3 years back... Terrible quality and I was so bad with makeup back then. Honestly, I'm still pretty bad at putting on eyeshadow until today. God! I don't know why.

Thus, I hardly put on eyeshadow unless I happen to feel experimental that day. Which, kinda happened during the making of the video.

For some reason, despite the number of makeup tutorials I watch... I just suck at all the blending blablabla. Guess I'm just not talented in the field of makeup.

Whatever, I still love putting it on and feeling a little prettier.

For those of you who wish to learn how I've been doing my brows, you could watch this too! Will be going for my brow resurrection touchup soon... Kinda all faded away after months.

Nothing really complicated for an everyday usage, so I guess this caters to those of you who are inexperience in putting on makeup!

You can click on the play button below or log on to my youtube channel to check out my other videos!



Anyway, this was filmed about a week back, before I cut and dyed my current hair!


Sunblock: Bioré UV Aqua Rich Watery Essence Sunscreen - SGD$18.90
Foundation: MAC Face & Body Foundation (N3) - SGD$58
Liquid Concealer:  MAC Pro Longwear Concealer (Matte Finish) (NW20) - SGD$25
Eyebrow Pencil: Silkygirl Hi-Definition Brow Liner (Black) - SGD$12.90
Cream Concealer: MAC Studio Finish SPF 35 Concealer (NW20) - SGD$28
Eyeshadow: NAKED Palette 1 - SGD$78, available at Sephora
Gel eyeliner: Red Earth Vivid Line Gel Eyeliner ~ SGD$22, available at SASA.
Mascara: Maybelline Great Lash Lots of Lashes (Very black) - AU$10.99
Pencil Eyeliner: Silkygirl 2-in-1 Eyeliner (Black) - SGD$7
Blusher - TOPSHOP Cream blusher (Head over heels) - SGD$13
Lipstick: MAC Matte Lipstick (Russian Red) - SGD$28

The rest of the items can either be purchased at Watsons or most supermarkets!




Hair spray: Gatsby Moving Lock Extra Hard ~ SGD$18. 



Hope you guys learnt something, or at least enjoyed watching!

P/s I know you guys hate my voice, hahaha so pardon me for not doing voiceover this time. X

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Tame your hair
Friday, February 7, 2014 | 6:47 PM | 1 comments

Previously in one of my blog posts, I mentioned about my severe hair loss and suggested a method as to how you could solve that problem (here), and I thought I'd share a little tip with you guys on how to tame frizzy hair today!

As most of you would know through personal experience or the people around you, it's rather tough to avoid getting your hair damaged if you constantly dye, bleach and heat your hair. And in my case, I've done all three... Not just once, but an uncountable number of times. Well, you can roughly imagine how bad the condition of my hair is at the moment.

It saddens me a little whenever I look back on the past and recall how I used to have thick and healthy hair. Would totally use all possible adjectives in the vocabulary to describe how good it used to be, but god damn it, it's like a stack of hay now anyway.

Anyway, it kinda bothered me and took me forever before I decided to do something about it. Many would suggest to go for treatment, which indeed, is a good idea. However, I'm obviously not that industrious and was desperately searching for alternatives - Guess what? I've finally figured out how to get smooth-looking hair throughout the day in just one simple step!!! *Jumps for joy*

(Do read till the end for something really special!)

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Make up using drugstore products!
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 | 8:28 PM | 1 comments

Sharper looking face?



Poutier/Fuller-looking lips?


Bigger eyes?


Hehe, today I'm gonna show you how to achieve all of these in one post using inexpensive products that you can easily find at local drugstores!


I realized apart from my first (failed) makeup tutorial I had on my Youtube page, I have never really incorporated that many drugstore products in my other makeup tutorials. 

SO... For the benefit of those who really wants to try out make up for the very first time, or those who prefers drugstore products over pricey, Sephora make up... Here's a video and post specially dedicated to you!



Well, as usual, this is just a post to elaborate further on the many other things I couldn't squeeze in, in my video.

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Start off with a clean canvas. Cleanse your face and make sure it's squeaky clean before you apply any make up; Keeping your face clean can be of vital importance, cos after smacking on all em' make up, you wouldn't wanna clog your pores! Fyi, that will lead to breakouts eventually.


Normally, would you prefer cream or Liquid Foundation? Well, that depends on how much coverage you're looking at! Cream - Thicker, but matte. Liquid - Lighter, and dewy.

However, in this case, I'm gonna use the BB Watergel for a lightweight finish to keep the overall-look really natural.


BB creams are the best when you just need a slight tinge of colour on your face. You wouldn't want anything that covers up your natural skin too much.



Since applying BB cream can cause your face to look a little too glow-y sometimes, this next step can be crucial to some (optional) - Lightly pat on some powder to keep your face looking matte. (No shine) 


Can't go wrong with these two basic colours - Pink and Coral.

I chose to use the Coral blush (02 I'm so Energetic) for this look, as it blends better with my skin tone, and could easily be a substitute for a bronzer as well. 


Applying Bronzer doesn't only help to give an illusion of smaller-looking face, but it helps your features appear more prominent, as well as to give your face a healthier glow.


Anyway, don't mind my really bad skin-condition at the moment, haven't really been sleeping well and have been facing a lot of stress lately in all ways possible. 



So everyone thinks that I've perfect skin, but I honestly don't. Guess I've never taken a picture this close before, that's why most of you fail to notice the zillions of big, visible pores I have on my skin, due to the bad skin problems I used to face. :(


I actually considered getting the Benefit's Porefessional balm previously, but I thought it was rather costly, and I just didn't wanna spend that extra money on something I wasn't sure was gonna work anyway.

Who knew? Maybelline actually came up with their own Pore Eraser under their Baby skin line!!! I was overjoyed when I saw it! I'm not really sure which is better, cos I've yet to try Benefit's, but as of now... I think Maybelline won my heart, cos it really worked! And for all I know, it's definitely way cheaper.


It's transparent, (Great, because you wouldn't wanna parts of your face to have a different colour) and has this melts quickly into your skin upon application, with a powdery-finish.


Warm them between your fingers and apply it directly to your skin.



Notice the HUGE difference? I really like its consistency, and how it managed to minimize the visibility of my huge pores, making my face look smoother and softer.

I guess it's clear that this is my fav product among everything!



This master liner comes in three colours, (Black, white and brown) and I've used the black one to tight-line my waterline before I put on my mascara. This helps my lashes to appear fuller.


People have this misconception that putting on false lashes will make your eyes look "bigger", actually all it does is to intensify your eye make up, and gives you rapunzel-long lashes.

In fact, mascara helps to open up your eyes more and a trick to achieve super long and thick lashes?

Use two different mascaras!


I applied the Rocket mascara first, for volume, and since it is clump-free.


Followed by the Magnum Cat-eyes mascara for length. I only applied one coat each in my video because I wanted to keep it "natural," like they usually say, "a little goes a long way," but go ahead and apply more coats to witness a bigger difference!


Eyeliners are probably the ones that make the greatest difference when it comes to shaping your eyes.


The HyperSharp Liner, glides on easily without much effort and this helps a lot when it comes to shaping my eyes. I hate those eyeliners that you've to literally drag and tug your eyelids, ouch!

And I love how there isn't too much "product" at one go. You know how some liquid eyeliners are so watery, making it so hard to keep your line thin!   


As mentioned earlier on about the Masterline pencil liner, here's the white one!



White liners can be a little too heavy if you place them on your entire waterline, so underlining half-way through from the inner-corners would be enough.

Notice how it really brightens up and gives my eyes that extra "pop?"



Here's a clearer view on the lipsitck's details which I've used in the video! Only realized it was inverted while IW as editing my video.


They have a wide variety of colours for you to choose from too!


Three of my fav shades!


You don't necessarily need a red lipstick to give you that edgy look sometimes as well!


I think I've mentioned this before, but whatever - Lipsticks can really make a huge difference to your final look because a wrong choice of lipstick can cause your entire make up to look really heavy.

Since I went pretty light for my eyes, I could've gone with a bolder lipstick, but it's all about looking "natural" in this tutorial!





These are the current products I can't leave my house without putting in my makeup pouch now!


Most of the items here are below the price of 20, and you can easily find them at any supermarkets or drugstores such as Watsons and Guardian!

You might wanna check out their page (here) for more details! ;)


Hope these tips helped! Good luck.

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