Update

I've been very much away, on a long break away from blogging. Well, I've been busy with...almost nothing. FYP's over, report submission and oral presentation are done deals, and what's left of my undergraduate life is just two exam papers. I've been spending the past two weeks quite easily and lazily, waking up during lunch time and watching TV off the Internet. Life's been good (albeit a little empty).

First obsession in quite some time - my onions. I've started growing onions a couple days back and I can't seem to be patient about it! Not gonna lie, but I take a look at them every few hours for a couple of days now, eager to see tiny shoots coming out of them. Nothing has really changed except for the mould growing on them.

Another obsession worthy inclusion in my life is Spotify. If you haven't heard of it, please go do yourself good and download this magical app on your computer and iPhone. Finally, legal music streaming has taken over. This could spell the end of illegal downloads! However, not everything is up on Spotify though.

A couple of coffee places I've been to recently are SOHO Coffee and Kooka Cafe. Both are quaint little places with comfortable dim lightning and interesting furnishing.

Well, its high time I start studying for literally, my finals. Booyah.

RIMMEL Lycra PRO Nail polish in 416 NIGHT FLIGHT

Not too long ago, I bought a Rimmel christmas pack from Watson's and it came with this Lycra PRO nail colour in 416 Night Flight. 

It is a dark royal purple and has no shimmer or glitter particles in it. It boasts a "mistake free application" due to the "maxi brush" and it really lived up to its name. Application was so easy and basically mistake free! 

The formulation was quite thick but good – one coat can get you an opaque colour. It dries really quickly as well, leaving a shiny finish. Longevity-wise, I'm sure it can live through a week without any major chipping if you're not using your fingers to do much manual work.  

I'm unsure about the retail price in Watson's but asos.com sells Rimmel nail polishes between S$6 - S$10. 

Why can't all nail polish brands come with this brush?!

Review: PALTY Bubble foaming hair dye - NAMACHOCO WAFFLE

After a couple of years of ditching the DIY hair dyes, I came back to it once more. I've never had a real great experience with DIY hair dye before to be honest. It was either too brown for my liking, or did not have a real effect. The latter was the case of my most recent attempt, with the DIY PALTY Bubble foaming hair dye. Foaming hair dyes are all the craze right now with the easy and fun application, which makes it more than a novelty factor.

I was looking for a dark chocolate brown to even out my hair colour (I've not dyed my hair for more than half a year), nothing too extravagant. There were many brands that were competing across the shelves and the Palty ones stood out to me as being firstly, Japanese (or Asian), it had a middle-price range, and it foams.

I purchased the dye at S$16.20 at Watson's. 

Here is a closer look at the Palty foaming hair dye in NAMACHOCO WAFFLE. The foam was fairly easy to create and apply. Unlike its beautylabo counterpart with a lid to shake the solution (to form the foam), the Palty one only had a cup and a paddle with many holes in it to whip it up to a foam. I wouldn't say it is terribly troublesome or difficult, in fact it was very quick and quite fun.

Put on your gloves, pour the developing liquid (bottle) into the cup and squeeze in the whole of the colour tube as well. Use the paddle to stir the mixture and it quickly becomes foam. Do it until it reaches the line in the inside of the cup. When it has hit the mark, you're ready to dye! I sectioned my hair into 2 - 3 parts and started dying. After 20-30 minutes, I rinsed everything out. The smell of ammonia did not hit me until the product was on my head and was fairly tolerable compared to some other brands that I have tried. 

Here are the results:

To be honest, I'm not so much impressed. The colour was subtle but did not resemble much to the one on the box. I did make sure every part of my hair is covered and massaged the dye in as much as I could. The lower areas of my hair that were already coloured were still lighter than the rest, but the difference is much more gradual (thank goodness). As with hair dye, the colour changes after a week or so. If there is any difference in colour, I'll be sure to update!

Oh yes, one plus point. I LOVE the leave in conditioner that comes with the dye (yellow sachet). LOVE. Why don't they sell it separately? 

<3

HL

Reuse!: old liquid liner brush as gel liner brush!

I recently finished using the heroine make liquid eyeliner (faster than dolly wink because the it leaked) and thought of so thing to do with it. The fine yet sturdy brush tip was great in drawing straight lines thick or thin and I thought, why not reuse the brush tip for gel liner?

Gel liners can be quite a fuss to use. The product dries relatively quickly on your brushes and it clumps and get really stiff! You often find yourself running out of brushes to use very quickly even though you did wipe of the access product off it!! A pen brush could add to the number of gel liner brushes you have.

I have tried applying my heavy rotation gel liner with the pen and it works quite well. The next time you finished a liquid liner pen, why not use it for gel?

Cheers,
HL

What's Up This Week #2

So besides the fanatic writing of our FYP paper, the team and I went just across borders to Johor Bahru, Malaysia on Monday for a short getaway. It was quite a funny and tiring day as things went from Yay! to Nay! rather quickly. We didn't venture out much (because I was quite apprehensive aka scared about leaving the comforts of City Square) and things went downhill after we realized that the Bak Kut Teh we wanted to go eat, closed at 5pm. City Square gets pretty boring pretty quickly, and the bulk of money we  I spent was on food.

Bad things aside, I had a great fun time hanging out with my buddies and not thinking about work! ><


HL <3