Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:40
I had no intention to blog today, but the seaweed mask from FaceShop really worked like WOW that I decided to just share it here. Who knows, it might be suitable for you too.
Yes, Seaweed is its name, and as its name implies, it is GREEN in colour. Therefore after applying it all over your face, you pratically look very much like a goblin. Or an elf (not the LOTR handsome elves of course). So if you are green-o-phobic, be prepared. Here is how it looks, picture taken from www.thefaceshop.com :
If you read the description behind it says "smoothes uneven skin for a finer complexion". If you walk into FaceShop itself it says "tightens pores and control excess sebum production". Both claims are justified in one way or another, I can show you how.
During application the smooth texture of this mask helps your finger glide through your skin with an even dispersal of the product. It is written on the tube to leave the product on your face for 10-15 minutes, but from my experience, about 5 minutes is sufficient. This is because as it starts drying up, you will feel a gentle tug on your skin, and this is when it starts to "tighten pores and control excess sebum production". I am born with paranoia so after about 5 minutes I will wash it away, for fear that the gentle tug might evolve into some deep wrinkles.
Then again, I have normal type skin, just not radiant nor clear, and the mask is targetted at combination skin types. I bought this mask for it's clarifying and pore tightening purposes (I have big holes as pores), so I usually will keep it on my face for a period shorter than the recommended period. With this in mind, if you have slightly larger pores or you have excess sebum production problem, you might want to stick with the recommended 10-15 minutes.
The key to know when to wash it away is just to wait for just two-three more minutes after you feel the tug on your face. That should suffice. After all, you want it to tighten your pores, not creasing your face.
One thing I like to do is to stare at my reflection in the mirror right after I wash the green layer off (with lukewarm water). I know, the Narcissus in me at work again. But Narcissus has to be of decent looks to begin with, for he to fall in love with his own reflection, right? My reflection this morning after use was one with an evidently brighter face and a nose with less visible blackheads. The pores near the nose area were still faintly visible of course. You can't expect all the pores and blackheads to be all gone after one use, can you!
Also, as testified by a few of my friends, myself included, it leaves the skin feeling supple and tender after use. For me, I usually follow up with a thin layer of moisturizer to seal it up.
As you can see, it lives up to what it claims. It does even out your skin tone, brightens up your face, and minimizes the visibility of your pores, as it removes your blackheads. What more can you ask for, from a tube this small and a price this reasonable! Of course, everybody's skin is different and the same product may not work the same way on every skin. I'm saying it works for me, and I hope it works for you too (:
Other than this mask, FaceShop sells okay nailpolishes at super cheap price too. Their nailpolishes are considered quite decent for the price of 2.50, so I termed it "okay". They do not streak, they dry fast, and they are easy to apply, because of their thin and smooth texture, very unlike some in the market which are so thick that it becomes difficult to maneuver. But because of its thin texture, more often than not you find yourself having to apply at least two coats for a more complete coverage, and some may not like it because of this. I have no problems with building up the coats because this also makes room for creativity by mixing the colours - or switching the colour sequence to create a different shade. So I will stick by FaceShop nail polishes for my little nail experiments.
And yes, as you might have realized earlier in this post, I do see myself as a FaceShop whore. But I do not get my toners from them because most of their toners contain alcohol which I'm trying to stay away from, and so should you (:
Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:51
A good ol' friend asked me one day, in a very concerned tone, "Are you OKAY? Is everything alright? Your blog music, your post and your nick..."
Of course, of course, now when I look at this devastating combination of song and words, it can well be perceived as a harbinger of doom. In spite of this, I am very, perfectly fine, maybe just a couple of milimetres short of being over the moon. So don't worry you girl (: But thanks though. At least I know, if one day I'm truly devastated, someone half a world away would still know first hand! (Okay, that was just a hypothetical situation you folks.)
A slight disappointment still lingers whenever I think of the hard disk I had to say goodbye to. To say the crowd at convention hall yesterday was crazy is but a very, very gross understatement. It was way more than crazy. It's as if the entire Singapore population was fitted within the walls of Suntec. BlackRabbit joked about Suntec's building foundation being put to the test, and by any minute it would just collapse under the weight of the crowd. Seriously, when I saw the massive collection of moving heads before I alighted 97, my stomach instantly bore butterflies.
Imagine you had to queue to even take the escalator.Imagine level one of convention hall so full of people that you can barely inch around - and I mean INCH, really to move an INCH.
It sure did feel like you were in the congested streets of Shanghai. Although I have never been to Shanghai.
In disappointment we headed to Marina Square, and saw this:
He was REAL. It's a feat how he could stay there in that pose, motionless. The only movement you could see was the slight heaving of his chest as he breathed. Even so, you've got to stare at him really hard to catch that. Here's a close up on his face.
Disappointment aside, I was really satisfied at the heavenly (but grossly overpriced) black sesame paste I had. At least, that was something.
Dinner with the girls was predictable. Man, I guess we've known one another for SO so long. And boy, we are all gonna turn 21 this year. THE year, woohoo!
When our drinks came, we were so in awe with the "mug" Evon got for her drink, because both Tiff and mine were skinny. Here's what the "mug" looked like:
And here is what it means by 小巫见大巫:
Next time I am there, I am so gonna order that. It's value for money you people!
As they always say, 一山还有一山高, and it is SO DAMN TRUE. We were still marvelling at that big 'mug' Evon got for her drink, when I turned my head a little and saw something HUMONGOUS. Not forgetting of course, the gasp that followed.
At another table, THIS was what they got:
And that almost concludes my Saturday day-out. And how can I NOT show you my BlackRabbit, in his most classic face:
Friday, March 13, 2009 22:46
I've been a bad girl today. A bad girl is a girl who skips school for no good valid reason, which was exactly what I did today.
IT Show at Suntec proved itself to be a crowd magnet. The crowd size never seemed to shrink during the whole period when I was there. Don't these people need to
work? And there were quite a couple of times when I got stuck in between two strangers, thanks to that fat and wide shoulder bag of mine. So embarrassing it was to even recall the situation.
Was it premonition, or what? At dinner time there was this wave of emotion which swept over my head. What it was I could not figure, but it carried more of a sense of foreboding.
But now I know what it is. And by knowing how far my stupidity had carried me away from convenience, from comfort, I have this sudden shudder when this reality smacks right onto my forehead. Disappointed I was, no doubt, I should probably pull up my socks and guard against any further damage.
I was so full of myself last time. It didn't bother even the slightest, but now each and every hair is standing upright on their roots.
I. May. Move. Out.Out where? With this looming recession and gloomy economic forecast, how am I going to get the money, I wonder.
My life has recently been marred with failures. Everything that happened happened just like the worst case scenario I've envisioned.
Why, Murphy, do you just love me so much!!Just like the crystals I made. Everything looked so promising and good, until the point when I weighed and WHALA! Nearly 50% of my yield, GONE. And as for my other ugly looking crystals, WELLDONE. The impurities were so much such that my yield was just a little more than 100%.
I'm trying to find something that happened recently that proves to be a success, and the only blessing I can think of, is BlackRabbit. And every other thing is just, FAILURE.
Lo and behold, the crystals I was initially proud of which turned to be only a mere 50% yield in the end.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 22:20
It suddenly struck me how certain words of mine can be so impactful, cause some unexpected trauma in others which subsequently invokes a sense of guilt in me.
What goes around comes back around. My, and I'm getting tired of this old antique way of saying "Yeah serves you right." People since time immemorial have tried to be politically correct and be as 'nice' as possible, even when it comes to sarcasm.
Indeed, the pen has proven himself more mighty than the sword. War of words, and words killed more than swords have ever done.
But sometimes you really can't impress all ideas you have into others' brains. Some are bound to get the wrong idea, and majority of the some who get the wrong idea, harp on the misunderstood version of your claim, and jump into inferences or worse, conclusions. Then after a whole round of joy ride, you realized your claims have been falsely interpreted, yet it will be too late for salvation.
Harm. Has. Been. Done.
I overheard someone said this:
"You can't keep shrugging off responsibility when you find people getting the wrong impression of you, because it is what you show or tell people that defines your image in them. If people keep misunderstanding you and your intentions, you must reflect on yourself and your ways of handling things. If it's just one person who misjudged you, fine. If it's everybody, you'd better do something."I never meant to hurt the way it might now hurt.
I guess I should now be more cautious over the words that leak through that lips of mine.
Sunday, March 08, 2009 09:17
Hello world! It seems like forever that I've been missing from the blogosphere. My academic stuffs are really attention demanding and time consuming, which explain why I've been gone for thus long. But fear not (or rather, WATCH OUT), the craziest bitch in town is back.
Over this one month of post-vacuum, what really happened was really, NOTHING. Yes, nothing. Nothing big happened, nothing dramatic happened, so nothing worth blogging happened.
Then there were the stunning news of a professor who was stabbed at his back, a student who fell to his death and another guy who was found dead in his room. Boy, these must have sent waves of trauma to students studying in the same campus. Let us all help pray for the families of the deceased and those going through such trying times.
