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Empties | Q1 2014

After taking nearly a month's break from blogging, let us just jump right in with a 3 months worth of empties, shall we? Let's keep the rating, ranking system simple for now.  Holy-grail enters my...

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Retail Therapy | When Burberry Fails Me

It was near the end of the Year of the Snake.  One chilly but fair afternoon, Honor and I went beauty browsing (and shopping).  Our target was pretty clear, she wanted 1 (or 3) Lunasol lipsticks; and I...

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Shop Her Stash | MAC Haul

Do not ask me how and why.  I managed to help my friend clear her stash by buying the above from her at around half price.  My stash do not need any growth except in the downsize department, so I...

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MAC Matte Lipstick | All Fired Up

I figure after tuning the brightness (and white balance) of these pictures, the colour doesn't look right.  Therefore, don't trust my pictures 100%.  I'd say, just take about 60% for the colour.  It is...

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Glamabox | March April 2014

I was out of town when the March box was delivered therefore I received that after the April box arrived.  Haven't tried most of these yet, but figure it won't hurt to do a quick Un-Boxing type post...

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Empties | April 2014 (& Travel Edition Fail)

Right after our Italian honeymoon-pilgrimage-vacation, my SD card decided it is time to retire.  It simply stopped working, not allowing camera or computers to read or write it.  Not only are our...

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Maternity Update | First Trimester Passed

12 weeks, before we went to ItalyRight now I'm in my 21st week, i.e. 20W+.  When I was planning this blog post I thought I could have it published around 14W... It just didn't happen as I wished but...

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iHerb Haul | Bath Salt Frenzy

These are two iHerb orders.  In both orders I picked up items for my family and friends as gifts, and taking that as an excuse I bought myself quite a lot of stuff.  The first picture is a rather...

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Maternity Update | It's a Boy!

Last Friday when I'm about 21 week pregnant, we went in to have the anomaly ultrasound scan (also called morphology scan).  Basically it is me sitting there for 20 minutes with belly being rolled over...

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The Italian Beauty Haul

Although my SD card is out of order, my haul came back with me.  Most of the heavy stuff we brought back are beauty related with several pieces of clothing (mainly because Milan was unexpectedly sunny...

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Hit Pan #10 | Hera HD Powder Pact

Out of the ten hit pan posts I've done, powder foundation tops the chart.  This is the fifth compact foundation to be featured!  Despite owning dozens of liquid foundation, bb creams and such, my most...

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Empties | Mask-full May 2014

This month, my cousin and I had a little Empties Competition, kind-of.  We both own too many beauty products, and one thing we desperately like to do is to buy more and newer ones.  The prime purpose...

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iHerb Haul | Honeysuckle, Stretch Mark Prevention and (more) Real Techniques

I may or may not be addicted to iHerb... It doesn't help with my suspected addiction when family & friends request me to help them make purchases.  Around mid-May there's a 20% off Real Techniques...

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Maternity Update | Bed Rest was Not Fun

Last week was a turmoil. Coming back from Seoul, our delicious vacation - above only shows about one-third of what we ate in four days - followed by several days meeting family and shopping, I went in...

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Back in Stock | Guess Which I Got?

I've been eyeing two new-to-me brands for their eyeshadows for a while.  Not that I need any more eyeshadows in my life, but I'm always vulnerable to be tempted by good neutrals (and colourfuls).  What...

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(Another) Korean Beauty Haul

(Do we look like Chanel Illusion d'Ombre and MAC eye shadows?)Sprays and mistsMr. A and I revisited Seoul, after 3 years, for 4 days, at the beginning of June - you'd know this if you follow me on...

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Maternity Update | Stretch Mark Phobia

It's been, surprisingly, 5 weeks since my last update!  This past month I've been evolving from a human into a Koala-phant, and began my real battle against stretch mark...Update~How far along? 30...

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Benefit They're Real Push Up Liner Dupe Alert | Fasio Edge Power Gel Liner

three consecutive lines with one 'turn' amount of product The week Benefit launched their Push Up Liner in HK, Honor and I rushed to Lane Crawford and checked that out.  To our dismay, it is not as...

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FOTD Friday | Visee, By Terry, Fasio

I haven't been applying make up properly mainly due to the extremely high temperature and humidity, and also because my face has grown into a funny inflated round shape I'm not very fond of making-up....

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June & July Empties 2014 | Part 1 of 2

For some reason - mainly my obsession over procrastination - the pile of beauty trash kept piling up since my last empties, and no one (i.e. me) went to tackle it... When I finally dig these out and...

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