Blithe

Nail Happy!

Met up with lovely Melva from Nail Vibe for lunch, and she passed me the polishes i’ve ordered from her.

L-R:
China Glaze Ruby Pumps, OPI Midnight Ride, CG Fairy Dust, CG C-c-courage, OPI Otherwise Engaged, Seche Quick Dry Base Coat, OPI Pink in hearts II. Got the Avoplex cuticle oil too and passed it to Mum.

(She let me try out Ruby Pumps, and it’s uber chio and sparkly a red… unfortunately i’m not a fan of bright reds. This bottle’s for Pris.)

Here’s a fast swatch of my orders:

Fairy Dust, Fairy Dust over Otherwise Engaged, C-c-courage.

Fairy dust is one of the most gorgeous colors i’ve ever seen. As a topcoat. No huge shiny glitters/flakes, but attention grabbing enough. I couldn’t stop admiring my nails after I applied it once. I love using it over shades I’ve grown tired of. Reflects green, blue, red… as per pic above! Well i think the BB’s image quality isn’t as good as the LX3 but it sure captured it well here.

C-c-c-ourage looks absolutely stunning. It was a rich shade of purple which wasn’t too light for my liking, and full of shimmer! Love! Only thing is that when it dries it seems to feel a little semi matte to me. Neverthemind though, just apply top coat, and all’s shiny and dandy.

Seche’s base coat works really fast.

I have Otherwise Engaged on my nails now, and they look very sweet. And unique. As Scrangie describes it, there’s a “blue flash” in it and it shows when you tilt your fingernails in different angles. Very lovely shade. Sheer, but 2 coats will give you better coverage. If you’re going french with this, 3 coats will do the trick nicely! : D

Get your nail loots from www.nailvibe.com now! Fast, efficient and friendly! : )

New Hair Color

Well, I loved my blue hair, but only the dark color rather than the faded blue. It fades really fast. And it was time to get rid of the blue, as it was making me look old > : | Plus the mum (and April) was nagging at me to change color.

I wanted to go back to japanese girl brown. BUT! Errr… Because my hair was bleached here and there…. it wasn’ easy to solve so things took a different turn after 3 stylists had a meeting behind my back.

They decided on purple for the front, i insisted on brown for the middle and we settled for red at the back *heh* Couldn’t resist doing it for the new year and to match my cheongsam.

Red at the back. Taken with my BB so it looks really pink instead. -_-.

Tadah! The purple was too dark so it doesn’t really show, most likely be brighter after a few washes.

Oh yeah i got bangs too.

Quite happy with the service, they really really had a looooooooong meeting discussing how to do my hair cos there were just so many colors and weird problems (prev dye job, prev prev dye job etc).

Kudos to Dickson & Priscillia from Chapter 2 Plaza Sing! <3

RWS: Hard Rock Hotel

Short pic review.

Took the bus in, once you alight, there’s only one way in and this is what greets you. ($2, use your ezlink card!)

Finding our way to Hard Rock Hotel….

Tunnel all the way through and you will see this when you exit Festive Grand Hotel~

To the room – Nicely deco-ed out in purple. Very cosy color!

The awesome Simmons bed. Wah best bed ever. Comfy like mad. <3
If you're holding a party, be glad to know that there's a day bed (the pic above this), the king sized bed and a pull out bed below!

Vanity area. Awesome mirror!

Very next morning, took a pic of the lovely pool. NICELY DESIGNED!!!! You see an area with lighter blue? That’s the part of the pool with sand – nice touch, but makes the pool look dirty – It isn’t really dirty la though. Jaccuzi area in the middle. Beach volleyball court at the side.

Breakfast! Erm I gotta say, it isn’t really all that fantastic. A friend working in HRH said they’ll improve the food and services bit by bit – there wasn’t even room service. : /

VS! The shop is really, really small though. Smaller than the hotel room i got : / Stuff there’s really exp. Prob cheaper and easier to hit the website and do online shopping.

The best purchase from VS ever. Most wu hua lah!! At 50SGD i got a lot of colors (didnt bother to count) for eyeshadows and lips, mini everything – mascara, lip liner, eyeliner, blush, foundation and brushes! (check out the full review over here at makeupforlife)

The lip glosses at the side were 13SGD each. I saw 7 on the price tag and i thought it was 7SGD but it was really 7 USD. -_-….

Lift was damn chio and bright – gave me a lil of a headache but it’s gorgeous.

Parents/bro and gf came over the next day to take over the room : D~

Yang and i ; )

If you’re thinking of staying there, festive rates are 275 till CNY I think. Got my room from www.asiatravel.com. Rates will resume 450 after all attractions open if i’m not wrong (yes i went there when nothing was open!)

If you are really gonna stay there, and you don’t have a car…. Please, buy some food over. I was hungry, and the nearest 7-11 was at Hotel Michael and it’s not 7-11, it’s 9-9. -_-”

All in all, I had a nice stay over there but i think it’ll rock more if the attractions were opened! Then again the hotel prices will rise and I think it would be simply too much to pay that price when we live pretty near Sentosa anyway.

Japan ‘09/’10 – Osaka

Osaka Photolog. Actually most are already in my FB, and you’ve probably seen them if you’re in my FB.

Freaking pic intensive post.

View from plane, arriving in Narita Airport.

Transiting to Osaka…

Warfare Planning. No la just finding out way out of the station to the hotel. Transiting and changing trains were a torture and pain in the ass cos of the huge luggages we were lugging : (

Having late late late dinner. 三菜一湯！

Couldn’t resist when i saw that huge bottle of Mayo. Yang doing a Hijikata-san from Gintama!

Gigglos in Osaka.

Toyoko Inn, Osaka. Much better than the shitty hotel we stayed in Tokyo!

Us!

Ippudo for lunch. Nice!

Some random girl i approached for directions. She was smoking and riding a bicycle. Okay fine she stopped to smoke and was still on the bicycle.

More below the cut

Fujifilm Instax Mania

Ever since i hauled 3 boxes (of 10’s) of films back from Japan, I’ve kindda been snapping too much. So…. a little pic post.

Veron, Francis, The sheep & I with chopper’s hat hauled back from .co.jp.
(I’ve just very recently picked up One Piece, after the movie in .co.jp. Much to my annoyance some books are missing so I’m waiting for Kino’s 20% off to haul the comics back.)

Noel & Adrina from Looque : )

And before i get filled with questions, i bought my lao pok Fujifilm Instax 7S (They are not Polaroids – though they work in the same way and have been commonly called the wrong name – even by me) from Japan during my previous previous trip there, for like 3980 yen. Cheap eh? The newer, slightly smaller (really only slightly) 25S costs about 8950 yen? The Hello Kitty one with just one small little kitty on top of the cam costs like 9850 yen. Phwoar. Kitty power.

The films are about 12.90 in SG, and you can find them easily online going for $11 ~ onwards for plain ones, and 17.90 (retail store) for cartoon ones. Just google for them or find them on ebay. Easy peasy search.

The Final Dash

The competition will be over in less than 16 hours!!!!!
It ends exactly at 12mn tonight.

I’ve over taken the competition, but it’s by such a close margin!

Would love to have more support – help me rally for fans, please? : D *blinks*

FRESHLOOK.EVONNE FAN PAGE!

2 Lucky fans will stand to win a pair of Freshlook Contact lenses each, sponsored by www.wee-mart.com and CibaVision!

I will be announcing the 1st pair’s winner later in the evening, which is sponsored by Wee Mart! : )

P.S. And also, thanks to EDMW-ers for all the support! <3

Asakusa, Japan

Asakusa’s famous temple is a must visit place if that’s your first time to Japan. Charms, interesting shops selling lotsa stuff.. And not forgetting that you can walk from Ueno to Asakusa and there’s a toyshop in Ueno for you to stop by (Yamashiro)!

Here’s some of my fave pics from the trip to Asakusa.

Bored at the train station while waiting, so whipped out the 50D and the wireless remote trigger since I didn’t want anyone left out…

And we arrive at the entrance of the temple! 雷門!

The girls by Francis.

If you get a bad lot, tie it here. That’s mine in focus.

And this, has to be my favourite shot. <3 I love him.

And that’s all for now – I’m too tired!

Latest Project: Feet Press

I love the simplicity of it all, and I was soooooooo glad that the client (Jacki) agrees with me. It was really sheer luck that I found these awesome free stock photos that conveyed what I wanted them to feel for starters – the rest can be photographed and edited on his end. : )

I love happy clients. They make a happy me!

Good places to change your money

1. Mustafa (http://www.mustafa.com.sg/forex.asp)
2. Raffles One (http://www.raffles1.net/currency.asp)
3. The Arcade (Raffles place), 1st floor & 2nd floor.

The best rates around town already! (Urhhhhhh okay at least for Yen to me.) : D~

Tadaima~ I’m back!

And this is almost all the stuff we brought back to Singapore from Japan.

That is a queen sized bed btw. /faints