Back at the launch of Confetti, Dr. Hauschka was kind enough to send us a range of skin care products to try out! It was more or less the same range of products that were in the giant Dr. Hauschka prize pack in our launch giveaway.
Because it is a complete set of skin care products, this is going to be a very very long skin care review.
In this review, the following products will be covered from the start of the skin care routine to the end:
Cleansing Milk (Lait de Toilette)
Cleansing Cream (Creme Purifiante)
Facial Toner (Lotion Tonifiante)
Rose Day Cream Light (Creme Legere de Rose)
Melissa Day Cream (Creme de Jour a la Melisse)
Rejuvenating Mask (Masque Revitalisant)
Cleansing Clay Mask
Pure Care Cover Stick – 02
At the end of the post is a list of the products again, but in the order I rated everything from most to least liked
Tonight I went across town (Ellerslie -> Forrest Hill) which is like an hour drive, to have dinner with my high school friends!
The host today held a dinner event before, but i missed that one. I think I was in Canada? Anyway, everyone said her cooking is AH-MAZING so we kept pestering her to hold another eveent, and today it finally happened!!
There were several friends I haven't seen in many months, and some that I spent New Years eve playing drinking games with. We rarely get to meet up during the study semester since everyone is doing different degrees, and are super busy *ahem procrastinating* so we try to make the most of summer vacation!
Our lovely host made many Taiwanese based dishes, but she put a spin on everything and it was super nice! I got to deep fry the chicken, and the parsley, garlic, and apparently ginger too (I don't eat ginger) were so good! We agreed that next time, half the deep frying will be of parsley LOL
The Feast
We only had 9 people, but there was so much food!! Thankfully there wasn't much left over, though our host is now sorted for sugary drinks and snacks for the next fortnight hehe~ (she told us not to bring food, so we ended up having a huge variety of drinks to choose from)
We also had really nice 'tofu tiramisu' omg. First time in my life I felt healthy eating a dessert!! It was made with the soft jelly tofu blended instead of using mascarpone, and it tasted really good!! It is of course a tiny bit firmer than a cheese/egg mix, but the flavour and texture (on the most part) were not compromised in the least. I will hopefully be half-trying it this weekend as I still have a sachet of mascarpone in the fridge ><;
This weekend, I aim to upload at least 1 review on Confetti, which of course I will link from here too. If I slack off now I bet there will be nothing done when uni starts! Not to mention... I miss putting on gyaru makeup!
edit: the post for this shoot is now on Confetti! Read it here!
The day before yesterday I decided that in honor of the new year, I must have a photoshoot to change out my profile photos!
But come yesterday, I had no motivation after crawling out of bed at midday, and proceeded to spend the next 5 hours online looking for blog posts, images, videos, ANYTHING of people's lucky bags this year.
I really want to know all the prints that were available in this year's meta bag!! and I want to know what's in my D.I.A fukubukuro, but I must be patient for that ><
Anyway, so I finally started preparing for my shoot just before dinner, and a kind friend came by and lent me his tripod. My tripod is super noob, the head can't rotate so if I use it for my camera it's suuuper inconvenient. Plus I only have one tripod so it's like- how do I share it between my ring light and my camera? lol. The life of a blogger eh ^^;
Thanks to the second tripod, I had a pretty good setup last night:
cruddy phone meitu camera quality *sigh*
I've now started looking through the images from the shoot (yay!) so here is a preview for the meantime:
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Sorry about mini photo, need it resized and online for something ~.~
I looked for inspiration on pinterest two nights ago, but on the day I just didn't feel like going with any of them, so i sorta just started doing my makeup... then found this old dress from year 13 (senior) ball... and then chose my wig, and everything else followed from there xD
It was a lot of fun playing around with my makeup as I hadn't really touched them since...since my last photoshoot with Ken Bufton? That was back in early December! I really wanted to use the ready made bling stickers because it would save me so much trouble, but I have no idea where I've put them...
Hopefully I didn't lose them? lol that would be awkward.
Looking at the photos now, it seems a bit Luka (vocaloid) inspired? I sent one of the photos to Tenshi-nee as preview, and she said it reminds her of Just Be Friends haha. It would be fun to cos Luka someday!
Personally, for Luka I like the PV for Answer most~ Plus the "singing" is much better mixed and sounds more natural.
My wifey has hinted that my set is very matching, which is a big phew, but I'm really curious what the skirt print is!? I really hope its the rose one on top! Love roses so much >w<
However she has also hinted that the prints are very different from the images....so it's very likely my print is not on the website @_@ I'm happy that it will be a new print, but also anxious since I have no idea what it's like!! ><
But really, when it's Metamorphose, I bet all of them look great ❤
In preparation, I am ordering some lolita shoes (finally) from taobao. They're gonna be a horror to ship but I cannot taint a Meta outfit with non-lolita shoes! ><
Also, wifey has said that Tenshi-nee will come with the first half of my presents so I guess I get other stuff too!? I feel so spoilt!!! eep!!
Today, being the 2nd of Jan is the big fukubukuro grab!
I am super super thankful that セーラ (link to her instagram) of my gyarusa (Hana Emi Dolls) happens to be going for the notoriously difficult to obtain D.I.A fukubag this year and is grabbing me one too!
I kid you not, I spent the whole morning blogging, but actually I was stalking fb to see if セーラ succeeded ><;
I owe her big time! Esp since she had to drag herself out of bed at 3am for the fukubukuros! ><
Japanese gyarus are so crazy lol, I don't think NZ people would do stuff like that if we had fukubukuro.
Though granted, Black Friday in the states is pretty insane too...
Anyway, I will know if she manages to snag Ma*rs items and the D.I.A belt I wanted tonight, but she's still shopping right now. I was just too excited and had to post this first hahaha
This will be the year. I will stock up my wardrobe with brand gyaru and lolita, and next year I will travel to Japan and return all the favors!
Late last year, I had the privilege of modelling for the portfolio of a professional photographer- Ken Bufton.
It was the first time I had modelled for an industry professional and veteran, so I was really excited for the experience!!
Truthfully, I was very worried beforehand about messing up, or being too slow, or doing something wrong. And in fact I did forget to bring a petticoat for my lolita inspired outfit on the day…
But somehow the photos of that outfit look better than they probably would have if I did have the petticoat, so I was very relieved ^^;
I also had no blouse that I could fit at the time. Tenshi-nee and wifey made me a blouse to go with the pink sakura skirt (both made from scratch!), but I’m now too fat to fit it LOL.
Tangent: there is, however, a blouse in the Metamorphose Lucky Bag they bought for my birthday in Dec though! Hopefully I can fit that one! ><
Back to the shoot-
For the photoshoot, I did my hair (lol, straightened it. Wish I used a wig instead), and makeup, and Ken was the photographer. It was easier than I thought to work without an assistant!
We took the photos at Auckland Domain. It was just the middle of spring, so all the flowers were blooming and the weather was wonderful!
As it is NZ though, we did have a couple minutes of rain. But it was over pretty quick ^^
These are my favourite snaps from the day (no photoshopping by me, since I’m mega chubby on Ken’s website anyway T_T)-
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Hiya!
Today I am posting the long-awaited GEO eyescream review! This series consist of (brown)Chocomousse, (hazel) Vanilla Brown, and (gray) Rayray Gray lenses.
The lenses were sent to us by GEO coloured lenses in October *last year* during exam period, so we never got around to doing a full photoshoot for them ><
We considered leaving this review until Cora got back from Europe so that we could do a full shoot, but it’s just too far off ><
So yup, this review is just going to come from visually impaired me today!
GEO Eyes Cream series yay! Bottles are so kawaii~~
TBH when I first heard about these lenses, i expected some dreamy swirly super big and dolly lenses. And when I got the lenses, my first thought was “oh wow, they’re actually really natural…*insert disappointment*”
It’s actually been quite a while since i really splurged on GEO lenses, since I’ve been really after the OTT colors and super large lenses that don’t look natural at all. It’s actually quite nice to try these for a change!
I usually make 3 resolutions, so that if I break one then at least I haven’t broken everything for the whole year lol.
But through the past year, I’ve come to realise that you don’t get nearly as much out of the experience, if you don’t put as much on the line.
So this year, I will just have one new year’s resolution:
be more thoughtful, and speak my mind
Sometimes, I think it’s easier to leave things unsaid. But oftentimes, because of the things unsaid, myself, or someone else is misunderstood. I want to try giving the choice to other people to decide what they want to do with the knowledge of something, rather than withholding it from them, and essentially deciding for them.
And yes i cheated by putting two resolutions into one lol.
On the 23rd when we went to Honeysuckle Lane, I only had my phone to take photos with.
My mom was not satisfied with the phone camera quality. She HAD to take a proper photo with the blown up Santa this year or else-…
So today after a nice dinner with some family friends, we sped out the door to view more lights. Can I just say… lol.
First we went to the church nearby- Northcross church started doing a little drive through Bethlehem town dress-up last year, and this year it was super busy!
It’s really nice to see people getting into the xmas spirit and light-viewing at 10pm, but I’m really hoing they’ll make it ‘walk-in only’ next year. Not only was the traffic horrible, and I couldn’t take proper photos, but all those cars just crawling slowly is really bad for the environment!!
Anyway, here are a few photos from Northcross’ Bethlehem:
So last night, my mom was super motivated to go out (instead of staying home watching the telly drinking wine), so we decided to go for a walk down my wifey’s road (Honeysuckle Lane) to see their Christmas lights.
Honeysuckle Lane is pretty well known on the shore for being the most cheerfully decorated road during xmas, but this year several households seem to have withdrawn from the annual tradition :/
I kinda miss the house that used to even open their garage to display some religious scenes :’(
So my mom and I went to Honeysuckle, decided after a short walk that it wasn’t quite festive enough.
So we drove back home, put on makeup, did our hair, changed clothes, got all dolled up and went to THE best xmas deco-ed street in Auckland, if not the whole of New Zealand- Franklin Road, Ponsonby.
Today (better be) a post spam, to catch up on at least some of the backlogged posts this year!!
I’d feel so bad if I let them run into the new year lol…
Anyway, my birthday was on the 5th, so I had a little dinner in Nov to celebrate with my friends that were going overseas. This bigger 21st party, I decided to hold with two high school friends ( P & T as captioned in the photos) since we’re all born in December and our friend circles are like, 90% the same lol #antisocialme
We had a simple barbeque in my back yard, and it was all just very chill *thank goodness*
The decoration was (truthfully) pretty last minute, but I think it looked really good with all the colors and stuff hehe. Super happy with a childish and playfully decorated 21st birthday ❤
We decided not to get catering, and made everything ourselves :3
Big thank you to all our friends that helped out on the day! And also E for the photos! ❤❤❤
GEO Eyes Cream series yay! Bottles are so kawaii~~
