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Ahhh… so this is how Korean ladies achieve their flawless-looking complexion? A silky fluid foundation infused with moisturizing properties; it spreads smoothly and seems to absorb into your skin immediately upon application.
A great plus about this foundation is how it gave me a 3D sort of healthy look, as though a fine velvet cloth of natural light was veiled over my face. Many other foundations tend to look dull and flat.
No makeup, some ruddy and red areas
Even and glowing 3D skin
Also quite impressive was Liole 3D Foundation’s ability to cover red spots and even out skin tone without being heavy, sticky or thick.
A glassy, pearly coat to go over your lipstick. Adds a touch of glamour and intrigue… Great for a night out or special event!
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·Glassy, shiny effect on my lips that glistens nicely without looking too artificial
·Some glosses, you hardly see any color after applying, which makes me feel like it’s a real waste of money. Here, the color is rich and noticeable like a lipstick.
·Lips are kept moisturized
·I really hate having a sticky feeling on my lips!. Haha and I know most guys find it gross to kiss you when you have too much gunk on your smackers. The fluid gel texture of these lipglosses feels pleasantly light and comfortable.
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LIOELE Aroma Soft Peeling Gel
This is a gommage type of peeling gel - gommage is French for “to erase”. Gommage has actually in fact been around for a long, long time!
Rather than use harsh exfoliators and scrubs that can over-strip the skin leaving it inflamed and aggressed, this type of peeling exfoliator has a gentle, non-abrasive formulation that softly removes dead skin cells and dirt in pores. It contains enzymes to break dead skin cells down first too. It is especially good for sensitive skins.
How to use?
1.Apply in a thin layer,let sit to dry for a few minutes.
2. Slowly and gently remove by massaging. As the skin is rubbed, the Aroma Soft Peeling Gel will roll off and pick up the dead skin cells on the outer layer of the skin in the process.
3. After: My face feels brightened and smoothed, delicate skin is not harmed!
Mmmm :)
SLEEPING PACKS infuse skin with an intensive supply of moisture during sleep. It should be the last step in your skincare regime, around 2-3 times a week.
Especially for those prone to dry skin : if you live in cold countries or sleep in air- conditioned rooms every night like I do!
LIOELE Waterdrop Pack
This sleeping pack literally bursts with waterdrops when you apply it into your skin! Look!
I haven’t seen or felt anything like this before.
The featherlight texture is cooling yet it’s immense hydration is immediately felt.
Very nice!
LIOELE Mineral Seaweed Pack
Harness the power of the organic ocean... It contains rich mineral seaweed ingredients which help neutralize dry skin and oily skin, keeping it always silky and moist.
Botanical plankton helps to purify skin, keeping it elastic, silky and moisturized. Seawood also helps control sebum and tighten pores.
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ELISHACOY Cacao Greentea Age Fitness Mask
Elishacoy makes products with natural and botanical ingredients.
It is well known that cocoa in dark chocolate and green tea both have high anti-oxidant potentials.
This tub of heavenly goodness contains not only both of those, it also has black grain and kava extracts to provide moisture and nutrition, plus Hyaluronic acid to rejunevate and revitalize skin!
With the spatula, apply a generous layer over face before bedtime.
Hurhur. Do I look like the Paul Frank monkey on my top?
Beware: Smell is incredibly chocolicious, you’ll have to smack yourself to not start rubbing the brown stuff off with your fingers and eating it. It was like having dessert on your face and tragically, you couldn’t have it!
After 20 mins and the mask has set, I washed it off and my skin felt and looked amazing. It’s a close fight, but this one is probably my favorite out of all I tried.
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-Lavender Aroma Foam Cleanser
-REBORN Wrinkle-Free Hand Cream
Spending months in the freezing New York winter can really dry your skin up. Sad to say, I neglectedto moisturize an important part of my body that we use all the time – My hands :( They looked… urgh, old and ugly with fine lines all over.
But after a few days of using REBORN Hand Cream, the skin on my hands did miraculously seem to be reborn, it was softer and younger looking! I like that it is not overly greasy which can feel icky.
I glanced through the ingredients and saw that REBORN contains Adenosine – an ingredient studies have shown to be effective in alleviating wrinkles. See example of study here
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I will be setting up shop this Saturday at Flea Carnival @Marina Barrage. Come check out my new and gently used clothes, shoes, bags and accessories for sale. All you girls who always email about my style and wardrobe, don't miss this!
Join in the fun and get a store for yourself! This is a great chance to clear out your stuff just in time for Chinese New Year spring cleaning :) Stores are going fast so don't say I didn't warn you...
Marina Barrage is an awesomely huge location with 360-degree views of Marina bay, the cityscape, Esplanade, hotels and the Singapore Flyer. If you are not making use of the shuttle bus service, make your own way to 8 Marina Gardens Drive S(018951).
Fees are $65 and include 2 tables + 2 chairs.
They welcome all sorts of vendors: fashion, nail parlors, food, magicians, fortune readers etc. It's a Flea Carnival after all!
Rain or Shine event: we will be sheltered, so no worries about bad weather.
The familiarity of a bedroom once your everything and now all too empty..
My parents had cleared out many of my things, it was altogether an overwhelming mournful loss yet strangely liberating; A blank slate... to start anew.. free yourself of the junk and baggage weighing you down.
Can't help it but I am sort of missing my New York bedroom and apartment already. Perhaps knowing that home will be forever here, invites taking some sense of disregard and for grantedness. Whereas... that humble abode I called home for an ephemeral cherished time, is so faraway, out of my grasp, only a memory... soon to embrace another's all. It was cozy and warm and the lazy soft couches were nonpareil. It surrounded me during solitary nights, it was like family. Boxes stacked and clearing it out, etched little cuts into a reluctant heart.
Big tub of D24 durians awaited me in my kitchen upon my homecoming! Thank you Mummy & Daddy! Who can resist that heavenly, aromatic, luscious flesh? :D
Just in time for my little sister's birthday. We got all dressed up with somewhere to go for a nice dinner. Somewhere that is one of my favorite restaurants, one we went to on my own birthday a few years back.
CHINA CLUB
a member's only private enclave located in the heart of the CBD, with 52nd level floor to-ceiling panaromic views of the Singapore skyline.
Antique furniture painstakingly sourced from China stand accompanied by artworks like calligraphy scrolls by Chinese political leaders Sun Yat Sen, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-Shek.
The interior decoration is steeped in strong, authentic Chinese tradition. This juxtaposition of the elegant new and ornate old heightens the grandeur and unusual atmosphere of the club, which in no way feels over-done or kitschy. Imagine dining surrounded by rosewood lattices carved with Chinese motifs and banquettes in luxuriously sumptuous fabrics, silk lanterns hanging above. There are special pavilion rooms that evoke the intimacy of traditional private boxes of the opera house.
China Club serves traditional Chinese food ranging from classic home cooking to exotic haute cuisine.
Birthday girl must eat birthday buns!
Peking duck.. mmm...
Fish, crab meat and egg to be mixed together into a delicious innovative dish. My fave of the night!
Duck meat from the Peking duck
Lobster noodles
Up till today she hasn't opened my present.... procrastinator...!
That same weekend, I also celebrated my cousin's big day :)
Nostalgia hits the soul: First time stepping foot into an ACS campus again after a gazillion years. Remind me again, why were so many of us secondary school girls gaga for them ACS boys? Lol.
Weddings are such a delight. Makes me imagine what my own will be like. I already have some ideas... Who wants to take my hand! ;o)
The gorgeous bride..... when I saw her I thought to myself, it is so true that a woman looks her most beautiful and happy on her wedding day.
Had tears in my eyes to see my cousin tie the knot. He was like one of 2 elder brothers to me while we spent our childhood growing up together, now we are all really all grown up! Was very happy for him that he found happiness with a smart, pretty and kind life partner.
The pastor touched on what is one of the most famous, and most necessary, verses in the Bible. It is impossible for us to fulfill this type of unconditional love perfectly... but if we look to the cross we know it does exist perfectly in Him.. and through grace we too can love our best.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7,13 is a teaching that everyone, Christian or not, can learn from.
May the newlyweds always keep this close to their hearts and have a wonderful life ahead together!
Love is patient, True love is unconditional, that is, it does not depend on the attributes or lack thereof of the person loved, therefore, it is willing to give as much time necessary, and as much space as necessary for that person to grow.
love is kind and is not jealous; Love seeks to give others something of benefit for their welfare, and consequently, rejoices not envies when they do benefit.
love does not brag and is not arrogant, To lift one's self up in reference to others leaves no room for graceful love.
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, To act inappropriately, shamefully (morally, especially in the area of sexual purity) is not in accordance with true love. Love never seeks it's own gratificaiton but rather the interests of others.
is not provoked, Selfishness seeks to manipulate others by stimulating certain selfish emotions. Love will not do this to others, nor will it let it happen to itself.
does not take into account a wrong suffered, Forgiveness. Let it go. Bitterness is the acid. You are the container. Get rid of it or it will kill you.
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; Love does not somehow gloss over things that are going to be hurtful. True love originates from the truth.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. If love really is unconditional, it will hold any weight, face any doubt, persist through hopelessness, and last any trial
Love never fails... If it did, would it be love?
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. Someday, faith will not be needed, for we will see God. Hope will not be needed, for when everything is fulfilled, there is no need for hope. But love, yes, to it there will be no end. If it did, it wouldn't be love.
-bibe-guide-online.com
Getting ready for the wedding banquet later on at night.
My other "brother" cousin, his lovely wife and super adorable baby Kayla!!! gagaga!
Beaming blushing bride
Yaaaaaammmmmmmm Senggg!!!
Uh oh... my relatives tell me I'm "next in line" in the family. Pressure, help!
At what age would you ideally want to walk down the aisle?
A melancholic last day in the city before I bade farewell and hopped on a flight home to the other side of the world...
The subway rumbles on. Life goes on.
It whizzes by cracked tiles and nameless faces. The blur of the outside infinity fades into mental oblivion. Why not, it's all in here, you & me. The determined acceleration momentarily suspends those little crystal drops... We are moving and moving but can't we stay still? Nonetheless they haplessly, inevitably fall.
My baby bunny wabbit that stayed.... [ m is s y o u s o ]
Correction. It's see you, not goodbye. I will be back. Before you know it. Clap your hands and whisper my name, I'll be there. (a little)Absence makes the heart grow fonder! Love all of you in the Big Apple. x
Spanish civillization in the New World began in Santo Domingo's 12 block Zona Colonial.
History comes alive here. Strolling through its narrow streets, one can easily imagine what this place was like when Christopher Columbus walked the cobblestones, Jack Sparrow look-a-likes sailed in and out, and colonists were busy settling homes - This old city is the home to many "firsts" in the New World. Little wonder then it was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1990.
The capital is named after Saint Dominic.
Columbus first arrived in 1492, to the land he named Hispaniola, which is now also part of Haiti. Parque Colon (Columbus Park). You'll find many tourists milling around or sitting on benches, relaxing and feeding the pigeons. This is usually where an exploration of the Zone starts, since tour guides gather around here waiting for customers.
In the center of Parque Colon one can see the huge statue of Christopher Columbus or "Cristobal Colon". The bronze statue dates back from 1897 and is the work of French sculptor Gilbert. It shows a native Taino woman writing - she was apparently the first to learn Spanish. Does anyone know what her name was?
I felt that the monument in glorifying Columbus, reminded me instead of the grim atrocities European colonialists committed against native people in the quest for land and riches.
Ruins of the first hospital
DR's national bird - the Cigua Palmera or Palmchat. We spotted a lovey-dovey pair in their cozy little hole of a shack!
The City Hall
This is one of the various spots where the seminal "Godfather II" was filmed. The scene was set in Cuba!
It's illegal for Americans to travel there, so Santo Domingo was used as a stand-in for Havana in many shots
Another "Godfather" street. I'm tempted to watch the movie again to spot it!
Plaza de Espana. Cafes and restaurants line one end of the plaza. On the other side you find...
.....Alcazar de Clon. The castle of Don Diego Colon, Columbus's son. Built in 1517, the Renaissance-style structure also has strong Moorish and Gothic influences. The interior of the 22 rooms retain many original furnishings and give a real glimpse into life back then. Bedroom
Kitchen
Study. The painting is a potrait of both Columbuses, father and son.
On the royal balcony.
Calle Las Damas Translated into "Street of the Ladies". This wide road was named after the elegant ladies of the court who, in Spanish tradition, promenaded in the evening. Senorita Alba takes a stroll down Calle Las Damas!
A sundial from 1753. How we take clocks for granted these days!
Monasterio de San Franciso Constructed between 1512 - 1544, this was the San Francisco Monastery containing the church, convent, and hospital of the Franciscan order.
The first French Quarters
Casa del Cordon Built in 1503, this is the western hemisphere's oldest surviving stone house.
Zona Colonial is also a popular choice for wedding photos, we were lucky to see a couple in the midst of their shoot :) Horse and carriage rides are readily available for about $20 an hour.
Why are there no faces on these Dominican dolls? The blankness symbolizes the melting-pot of different ethnicities and races that Dominicans emcompass. No one type of face will do justice.
Our tour guide! He explains a grafitti drawing on a wall: "Your mama fed you milk when you were young, not drugs." Great idea for the Narcotics Bureau's next campaign.
Something funny I found: Someone wants to take a ride on her.... I mean his bike ;)
Till the next DR adventure post.... Que tengas un buen día!
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