they wanna have a fab-less february

"Give me nice makeup, fine accessories and heart/adrenaline pumping books and I shall be goody-good"

Bai beauties! Rock your inner you ;D

watched it pour as I touch your face

I know I haven't write about books a lot. The only ones that I can think of are the Harry Potter series, Twilight series..oh no, scratch that. I think I haven't mentioned Twilight except for the movies in this blog. Hmm let's see what else. A couple of random things- Eat Pray Love and Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert, Say You're One of Them and a book gift from my English lecturer.

But I do enjoy good reads once in a while. I especially love series, but except for the two earlier mentioned above, I haven't been hooked on any series off late. I particularly like action packed or motivational books with some storyline, even some horror ones. I try to steer away from chick lit reads as romance reading is not my cup of tea. Not yet, actually. But if there is any stereotype around on any books, the good ones of course, I'll be sure to jump right into it.

I share this taste for books with my second sister, who has read probably half of Jodi Piccoult. She's currently reading a novel called "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" that will be featured as a movie soon starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. Judging from the pages left of the book that she has gone through reading in just two days, I can say that I can't wait to read it next. Besides, I like to read books especially if they turn out cool enough to be filmed, right before they make it into movie adaptations, having read The Kite Runner (and also A Thousand Splendid Sun), Eat Pray Love, The Lovely Bones and My Sister's Keeper. Sad to say that I knew most of Nicholas Spark's hard work through the movies though. I just can't stand books with only romance storyline in it.

Which is why, after weeks of reading reviews and watching the trailer, I'm hooked on the Hunger Games trilogy

:)

It's written by Suzanne Collins and there's three books altogether in the series. I've just finished The Hunger Games, this morning and while I'm very tempted to give out my own review (or overview as it likely to be), I am very much keen to keep it on the low side so as to not to spoil the movie that's going to show up later probably in March....

...but Oh My God did I love this book? I DO! The first book is enough to get me itching to read the second one as quickly as possible which I intend to do right after I finish this post.

All I can say is, if I must at least for Book 1, this is a story of a group of kids having to play in a game where in order to win, one must survive the other and in the end, there need to be only one survivor amongst all. It's set in the future, where everything is technologically advanced and survival comes neck in neck with what little morality and humanity there are left. The adventures in the game really draws me in.

I think I have rant on this book all over twitter and facebook to the point of embarrassment. I say this once in blogger and I shall stop here. For the upcoming movie, here is a little trailer of the first book, The Hunger Games

my baby Jans

January is nearing the end and it seems almost rude to ignore this month without blogging about my two FAVORITE beauty product. It's kind of different as it's not makeup related, only to do with skin and body care, but I must tell you this, I have never before been more excited about my favorites than the ones I have for this month.



Milk that is good for the skin. Eh, no. This is no milk carton, but a milkshake cleanser in its absolutely cutest form. This is from the Oslee brand, Oslee Peeling Milkshake Cleanser, another Asian type product that like their many others, put 100% effort on the packaging. I was up the Guardian aisle wanting to buy the Sukin product, an Australian brand to try out since I ran out of my Himalaya cleanser (I'm not a fan of this cleanser btw. It doesn't lather easily and it runs out fast) but then this pink bottle caught my attention.


What did I tell ya? Ain't it a beauty?

It's a peeling type of cleanser, which I'm not sure about but after a week of use, I have to say that it is not abrasive at all. Peeling type of cleanser supposed to be good for your pores as it cleans out the dirt, as the case may be if you favour peeling type of masks. And eventhough peeling suggests that some layer of your skin will be removed and all, this doesn't quite feel like the case here as though dry skin I have, I still feels like it gives out moisture as well. It's a creamy white consistency with some gentle pink exfoliator inside, called the Rosehip Peeling Seeds. It doesn't lather into a foam either but I have to say it's better than the Himalaya one.

This one was quite on the pricey side, with it being around RM50+. But so far, so good for the cleanser. And it's quite packaging, who can resist? I may go and get the other products from this line too if I'm interested.

Next is my absolute fave, the Vaseline Total Moisture Cocoa Glow


I know that my skin need constant moisture, but even then I have been very reluctant to spend on body lotion. Even my Garnier one for dry skin is still half the bottle. But when I say the new lotion line from the Vaseline ad, I knew I had to have this particular one; the cocoa flavor. I'm not a fan of flowery scents, thus I don't like heavy scented perfumes. My type of good smell choice has been musk, vanilla, cocoa and coconut. I know, weird right. But it was a dream come true when I saw this from Vaseline. Even then I had a very strong reason (more like and excuse) to buy it.

I scrouged Watsons and Guardians for this particular lotion, but all was almost gone except for the usual oat and aloe vera one, I think. You could say that this one up here is a hot commodity of it's own. But pick it up I did, after three Watsons trip I guess. And boy did I apply it every few hours. Mak said that it smells exactly like her cooking chocolate. Exactly, I thought.

all my days in secret

Etude House Golden Ratio Face Glam highlighter, Maybelline falsies Volume Express mascara, Silkygirl Lash Curler, Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto, Maybelline Color Sensational 215 in Totally Toffee, NYX lipstick in Milan, Etude House Fantastic Lucidarling Fantastic Rouge, The Faceshop Lovely Tint in #11, Etude House eyeshadow in Milk Cocoa BR01, Color Basical bluch in #3, Loreal Super Liner Instant Impact Felt Tip Liner in black, Essesnce long lasting black pencil in #01 Black Fever

The stuffs I got from before my Evidence test in November up till now. I remembered it well because it started with me longing for the Face Glam highligther from Etude House only to find out today when I bought my most recent purchases of the cheek tint, the eyeshadow and the Etude House lipctick, that the highlighter has landed on the hot sale items. Boy if only I could wait a bit longer...

I haven't had much used out of the highlighter, strangely enough. I was content in using my cheapo Elianto powdery one, wanting to run out of it as fast as I could. But I can tell you taht this Face Glam is good. I've been told that the pink one is for the fair toned skin whilst the gold one, the one I bought here is for the medium to darker skin tones. Why I got this one instead is because the pink one really looks like it's researved for Snow White alike, and we all know I'm nearing to become Pochahontas these days :/

I bought three different mascaras because I was just too stubborn to replace my Loreal Ultra Volume Collagen, not with so many other choices out there. I've only just used the Falsies mascara and two other mascaras that I'm trying to finish off in my stash so, most likely they'll be a mascara review part II coming up.

I love the Color Sensational lipstick from Maybelline that I just bought. I was strucked by the design and the fact taht I've been waiting for it to come to Malaysia already that I didn't care at that time of what shade I'm getting. Luckily my senses led me to take a safe, toffee color instead of a plumish red or I wouldn't have too much use out of it. It smells divine too, most lipsticks don't smell divine. I was particularly lucky to find the NYX lipstick too, having loved it but not dared to buy it online. I got this one off Times Square and mauve color of Milan was as safe as I could get out of my shriek that day.

I bought the Color Basical blush because it was Malaysian made (had a separate post on this product previously) and because the color reminds me a lot of the likes of Sendayu Tinggi, which I wouldn't buy because of the vibranty of it. But this one was an okay hot peach with gold specks on it. The only eyeshadow that I bought from Etude House was a greenish gold one and I'm not completely dure whether I like this new packaging of their eyeshadows. But if they can open more easily than the older ones (which I have to pry my nails open in it) then I shall say no more.

My spot on the lip and cheek tint was foreseeable, as I'm in love with tints right now. This one is a fair resemble of my previous Nature Republic so we'll see how that compares. As for the liners, I've only used the Loreal Felt Tip. Now, my case with felt tip liner has not been on good grounds. I find them easily smuged away with shadows and even the blackest of them could fade easily. But i havem't had a chance to try the Asian ones yet, which I'mn excited to- so next on the list would be the Heavy Rotation or Dollywink felt tip liner.

Why do I feel out of breath? Bai all!

gnaw on the claw

I know today is like, page 26 of 366 already but heck with it, I'm going to go on make this post already as it would not take more than half a page of this blog.

The merry introduction should be read in a Southern America slang, ye folks. Blame the mass that I'm currently reading.

Anyhow, onto my Best of 2011. What I find excruciatingly exciting to blog about, beauty-wise during the span of 365 (was it really 365? I wrote 366 above because that's what I seen people writing all over twitter) GAH.

It seems like not much, which is 75% of the truth, but the real deal is, I've started exploring makeup, like really exploring them sometime in the beginning of 2010. I was paddling my way through heaps of products to try out and went on full force buying them, that's why my blog have covered so much about them ever since- it was really exciting and fun to me, to be able to test and see whether I like certain products thus transformed this blog into an opinionated site. But as I went through the year and right into the end of 2011, I have been more focused on what I like about makeup, sticking to old favorites and venturing only to find better alternatives if the ones I have doesn't do me justice (as you will see, in the case of mascaras). My collection has not subdue, rather I have put myself into a little pause button ;

"Wait- do I really want that? I gotta make some research first,"

The bottomline here- don't be judging the minimal amount of favorites I have. Again, read with the same American accent as described.

Super+ BB Cream, Cleansing oil Express, Soup & Glory trick and Treatment Concealer, Nature Republic Stain Girl's Tint, Etude House Proof 10 Aqua Tint, Etude House Touch! Touch! Shadow Liner, Nature Republic cream eyeshadow in descriptions I can't pronounced.

All the products mentioned about I have blogged about, if not individually. I have a separate blog posts just for the BB Cream and the Cleansing Oil which I absolutely LOVE TO DEATH and have used diligently for half of the year 2011. The concealer I bought and used everyday since I got it, just because I lacked good concealers and not until my Topshop one showed up that I began to switched using the later and occasionally coming back to the former. Needless to say, its 'mazing for moi.

One thing I noticed had changed beginning of 2011 is the fact that I started wearing cream eyeshadows instead of the powder ones. It's a good change and gives me the sleek and creamy look to the eyes. Probably because I took fascination in MAC paintpoints but up to this point, I haven't bought one. I know for a fact that Maybelline came up with a Color Tattoo line that's supposed to mimick the paintpots and I've been waiting- patiently- for them to arrive in Malaysia, which I'm sure wouldn't happen in another 2 months, perhaps? Trying to be optimistic yet realistic here.

And please don't look at me like that- I know I've promised an eye makeup routine and I'm dangerously lagging on it *facepalm*



The next thing which seems to be in line with me converting to cream eyeshadows is that I used lip and cheek tints most of the year. Partly because I realized that I had the two tubes from early of the year and worried that they might be of waste, slap them onto the cheeks and turns out heavenly. Forget the last metaphoric exclamation. It just feels nice. It makes the cheeks look flushed enough without the cakey-ness of powder blushers.


If you can see the glowing effect and shimmy-shimmy of my tints. Ignore the white and gold Edward Cullen lightning parting the middle.

I'm really happy that at the end of 2011, I didn't go all too gaga over makeups, so I can finally settle down and use the stack that I have. You'll see in the next post the amount of makeup that I've gotten my hands into, and that is probably 1/3 less compared to the years before. I guess I have my LLB to thank for that, it keeps me in vain with papers instead of vanity itself.

Which is cool with me. Bai all!

hold it, hold your horses

I hope it's not too late to wish everyone a Happy New Year and may 2012 bring more happiness in your book.


My 2011 has served me great. I didn't have any resolutions before nor do I ever have, but I was glad for the things that rolled in my life in that significant year and that has changed me into who I am, right now. I hope, Insyallah, that I will continue holding the same values, principle and outset in life that has slowly came around in time.


2012 must be awesome.