it's not enough to see it, you must feel it in your heart

A week back, when I was going through my ups and downs of the final examination, I did went and got myself into a bit of a retail therapy. However I think that I've made some immense damage along the way, and ended up with quite more than I can handle at the moment, to be frank. Funny really, when at times I would take about an hour the least to make up my mind to see if I had really, really wanted a product. I guess I had enough of time racking my brain inside the Examination Hall and to stress further displeases me in the moment.

So without further ado---

My secret love affair would like to say HI!

Maybelline Clear Smooth BB Silk Two Way Cake Powder in 02 Nude Beige, Vinyl Gloss Mirror Shine Lipgloss in 111 Demure, Rimmel London Glam Eyes Lash Flirt Mascara in 001 Kohl Black, AVON True Color Eyeshadow Quad in Blushed Raisin, Smooth Minerals AVON blusher in Blushed, Smooth Minerals AVON Eyeshadow in Midnight Mauve, IN2it Waterproof Blush Set in 03 Affinity, AVON Ultra Moisture Rich Sheer Lipstick in C02 Sheer Pink, AVON Simply Pretty ColorBliss Lipstick in Fresh Melon, AVON Simply Pretty ColorBliss Lipstick in Mystic Beige.

I first bought all the AVON stuffs back home because it was a while since I last peeped into their store. The pamplets that they gave me were more than enough to paper my bedroom wall! So I went to AVON, knowing that their mineral lines were to come out an I got the blusher and the mineral pigments. So far I haven't used the blusher but I have really wanted to find pigments. I know they could be quite messy at times, believe me I have chucked out about four to five pigment jars from Elianto because as far as they have great colors and I like them a lot, I really couldn't handle the messiness. Furthermore, I'm not really big into eyeshadows so I was really, really picky about them. I wanted for the ones I have to be the ones that I love and would use often with ease. This one from AVON would be less messy as it is safely secured in a tight jar with small opening to dip our brush into the pigments and get it on the eyes without hassle. Midnight Mauve is a deep purple color with a bit of a brown undertone. The blusher looks like a plum color, so I think these two matches.

The other eyeshadows I have is the quad from AVON, which I have wanted for a while now. I haven't tried them properly yet but when playing around, I noticed how smooth and silky they felt on my eyes, not hard at all to blend. The four colors that came in it were neutrals as well and are named, from upper left to lower right, brule-rose nude-raisin-plum. Brule and Rose Nude are matte finished whereas Raisin and Plum are shimmer finished. I personally like the matte finishes for a neutral look and the shimmers if you want some dimensions to your lids, which I rarely go for. The lipsticks from AVON are ones I am all too familiar with, they always have either sheer or frost finishs. I like the frost better (Mystic Beige and Fresh Melon are frost colors) as I find they go on the lips smoothly. I've tried both and they are especially creamy while being frost, the mystic beige color really does wash my face out as it was too nude.

I got myself another mascara, this time from Rimmel and of course, I haven't worn it yet as I'm still good with my recent purchase mascaras from Loreal and Majolica Majorca. The Vinyl Lipgloss is one that I have always wanted as I know how opaque it would be and you could wear it alone without a lipstick and still get the color on your lips. I went for the baby pink that they have, and this one paired with the Sheer Pink from AVON would be a perfect combo.

The blusher from In2it is a three tone, brown-to-coral blusher. At first I thought it would be creative to use it as an eyeshadow trio as well but it was too chalky for the eyes that the colors didn't blend well enough. However, it did make a good blusher. Out of all purchases, I've worn this one multiple times already and the color was very pretty, it even stays on half the day, which I don't know about you but I always seem to have problems about my blusher dissapearing! Lastly, I bought the Two Way Cake BB Powder from Maybelline. I did want to try some BB Creams but I'm sceptical to start with Maybelline. I don't know, but I have the feeling that the Korean or Japanese brands making BB Creams get it better than US/UK products. I wanted to try some Lioelle BB Cream if I could find one. Also, I am the type of girl who loves full coverage makeup, and I'm quite scared that I can't have that in BB Creams. I'm not playing- my skin is not some kind of Kawaii girls wearing Harajuku style shirts. But I am almost willing to give it a try. Oh well, about 60%. I'll convert if I can be 100% sure that there is one out there that can give me just the one thing that I can't let go of --> full coverage =)

Let us all pray that this is the last purchase of makeup for a while (excluding the next one, which is from...SEPHORA!)

Bai. Sayang semua.

not a makeup post entry: the things I do to become a lawyer

...seems far from there yet.

I knew I would write very less during this two semesters of my third year as a law student (and already I'm dreading the damage it would cost to this site when I entered into my final year, hopefully) This whole two semesters for me, aside from studying, has been about completing my Thesis, or well known for us here as Project Paper. I know before entering the third year that it would have been very easy to score in it if you're constantly working your butt off on it. Seriously, from all the talks, I thought it would be an easy feat. But no, boy no. Not only do some of us have to endure physical pain just to get it done, but people like me, who I think would be classed in the average people-completing-their-work category, it has already been a suicidal mission from the very beginning. Seriously if I were to look back, from all the classes, tutorials and projects that had been my regular busy schedule for this past two and a half years, I wouldn't be able to tell how I managed to complete my thesis. And complete it I did. Of course, in the best form that I could give, because the supervisors here won't even accept a just-get-it-done kind of work. If you are not capable of answering your authorities, the 13800 words of thesis won't even see the back of your supervisor's door. T.T

This is a pre-edited version of the Thesis, bare without its proper cover and binding.

And of course, after a whole year of work, and we did pass it up, we have approximately a week and a few days of brief solitude, which after that, came our much dreaded, once-in-a-year final examination ;


I dropped any other elective subjects for this year, thought I could finish them in my final year because the thesis was talking too much of my time and I knew I couldn't cope up with it. So I stuck to the 4 major courses: Equity, Will and Trust, Jurisprudence, Partnership and Company Law and Public International Law. The papers, once faced with them, were not nearly as bad for me as compared to the preparations and studying beforehand. Maybe I was used to this semester's working on the brink of things that I refused to be succumbed to any post-examination what-ifs and looking back for answers. I decided to let it be- even before I started my first paper. And true enough, mindset does play a role. After answering each four of the papers, I felt free like a bird with enough shits. Each time was satisfying.


I finished my last paper on Thursday, which was two days ago, and my post-examination freedom and celebration consist of the following weekends, and on Monday next week, I'll see myself in High Court Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur, starting on my first day of Attachment program;

Some work-related stuffs beginning Monday until 6 weeks after.

Well for some very obvious reasons, I must say that I detest the thought of having to start working so early, right after our examination. But it would be so much of a hassle not to really, on a brighter note, I'll have a fully uninterrupted holiday after that. But for next Monday, I'm just going to buckle up and face it, like I did my previous thesis and examination. Hopefully it's for the best, and I'm able to have fun as well as being serious in court. I was hoping that some of the practices would lift up my half-empty bottle of spirit. I needed the extra nourishment over the seemingly dry interest that I have right now. And crucial it is, as Malaysia as well as the International's political issues are getting juicier. I need to get back on track in the legal lane.


But of course, what fun would the legal lane be without the necessary sidetrack of regular beauty and makeup doses? :)

what are words when they are only for good times then they don't?

Seorang sahabat pernah bertanya pada Nabi Muhammad S.A.W;

"Siapa yang lebih berhak menerima cinta dan jagaan saya di dunia ini?,"
"Ibu kamu"
"Selepas itu siapa lagi?,"
"Ibu kamu"
"Selepas itu siapa lagi,"
"Ibu kamu"
"Dan selepas itu?,"
"Selepas itu ayah kamu,"

is it the look in my eyes that made you stay?

Hye all :) As promised, I'm going to present to you my line of fave eye liners. All of them are from the drugstores, I always like finding gems which are reachable. And though I must admit I have never tried high ends eye liner before, as far as these ones go, I have been really satisfied (in a way or another, which I shall tell here)

Maybelime 2-IN-1 Impact Shadow Liner Eyestudio, AVON G01 Blackest Black, Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Pen, Maybeline Eyestudio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner, L'oreal Paris Super Liner Intense, Lingmei Eyeliner, Rimmel London Exxagerate Eyeliner, In2it Eyeliner, Maybeline Expert Liner Waterproff Liquid Eyeliner

I used the Maybeline and Avon eye crayons for my waterline, I like the one's from Maybeline best but AVON works just as good too. Maybe because the Maybeline gives out a smudged smoky effect to the eyes. And with mascara for the bottom lashes, it gives out a slighly bearable Taylor Momsen-ish look which I adore. The Revlon Colorstay as I've stated before, I hate. I can still get over its price and reputation if it didn't hurt my eye so much. Similarly, the Maybeline Gel Liner has rarely seen the light of its days as I am much a liquid liner kind of girl. I hope this would cease though, I really wanted to get into the whole "24 hours long on the eye" look that gel could give.

The L'oreal Super Liner Intense I've talked about. Can't get over the gold packaging though and its easy application. But throughout the day, I've noticed that it does comes of and rubbed into the crease. Usually that will bug me big time, but I"m making an exception this time I guess. The Lingmei eyeliner I bought from a local makeup artist back home in Penang, and it is by far, in my opinion, the blackest eyeliner I have ever seen, it literally scares me LOL. Sometimes I used this just to winged out my eyeliner because it would look very dark and black then.

The Maybeline Expert Liner is an okay product. Nothing much to be said, except that it works just the same as the others. I would be so bold to say that this doesn't work as easy, but not as bad as the Revlon Colorstay though. The Rimmel Exxagerate Liner I haven't used.

My fave-and as I said, the ones I've been tubes after tubes of-is the In2it Eyeliner.

I don't know what sold, the fact that it is very cheap for the professional work it offers or the fact that I know my very close friends used this too and it was just too sentimental for me to let go. I'd say I am a bit of the both.

And to show my love for it, I have bought them in different colors as well. There is a new shade of brown available with the regular black, I am thinking of getting those. In2it always has the best offers for their eyeliners, and if you watch carefully, they have different range and type of eyeliners as well, quite ambitious for a drugstore brand but nothing short of the best. For me, it's like a little bit of every good sides of the eyeliners that I owned in my collection.

Hope you have fun. Bye all!

the rise of the Elegance

L'OREAL Paris Ultra-Volume Collagene, Majolica Majorca Lash Beautifying Mascara Frame Plus, Rimmel London Exaggerate Eye Liner, Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick Creme in #628 Peach Me

My reason purchases have been these babies up here. The two mascaras I have solid justifications to buying. Its been months since my last mascara and I needed to purchase some more. As much as I love my Maybeline Mascaras, I've been really wanting to try out some new ones out there and other brands I have been wanting for ages. And those are the ones I would mention first here :)


The first instance I bought the Ultra Volume Collagene, I know I'm going to love it. I like what I see it does to Eva Longoria's lashes. And when I tried it on, it really does the same darn thing! *excited* Do you know those sticky glossy Maybeline's ad that says their mascaras can give you "lashes which you never thought you would have"? Well, I personally think that L'OREAL could definetely top that up! I'd say, if you're all for separating your lashes beautifully, this mascara would do it. And it doesn't clump as well, which I know I'm fussy about my mascaras being that way. The downside of this mascara is that it doesn't really thicken your lashes and make you look like you have black false eyelashes. It merely separates and volumises your lashes. I find myself have to use a second mascara (this time, Maybeline's Cats Eyes) to do the job and in the end, I'll have the lashes that I desire. But sometimes, if all you wanted was a thin eyeliner and busy looking lashes for the subtle look, this mascara will be just fine. Purchased it for RM44.90 from original price RM49-ish.

The Lash Beautifying Mascara from Majolica Majorca I have read good reviews about. I remembered when this brand was first introduce in Malaysia, the spokesperson said that from a review, if people had to have one product from this brand, it needs to be its mascara. Only, I am not sure which that she referred to as they are other two or three mascaras from the line. But as far as I'm concern, I've been liking this mascara. It has lots of fibre in it that helps strengthen your lashes and keep them looking dolly-only healthier. I was completely sold by the packaging though. It was a clear win in my book. I think I'd purchase it for RM40-ish, definetely around the same price range as the L'OREAL's.

Next is the Exaggerating Eye Liner :) I know I have purchased an eyeliner not too long ago from L'OREAL (see below), but this one I've been really wanting for ages. But as I said, I have no specific reason why i bought this, I merely wanted it in my collection. I haven't used it yet, but it sure does look promising.


The Revlon lipstick is what I'm most excited about, I haven't been able to part from it ever since I bought it. I have always love Revlon for their lipsticks and this color just suits me. Really subtle and moisturising, considering that it is a creme formula. I'll be sporting this color for a month or so if I don't find anything exciting in stores anymore.


Looking forward to see Spring Collections! As far as I know, Maybeline has come out with vibrant colors of lipsticks, I've seen it to be too sparkly for my liking but maybe that's just me. Even Silkygirl came out with new range of lipsticks, can't wait to try them out. Also, In2it came out with this cool balled mascara, and Maybeline came out with the Pulse Vibrating Mascara (about time it reached Malaysia, really). So look out, beauties! I love you!

Bye all =)