My Review : Maybelline Clear Smooth All In One Powder

I recently purchased Maybelline Clear Smooth All In One Powder, coz they claim to give goodness to my face with these features:

All Day Shine Control. UV Protection. Fairer Skin. Conceals. Long Wear. Smoothes. Evens

Printed behind the packaging with my comment

1. Shine Control - Blend of water and sebum repellent powders keep skin matte and wonderfully  fresh throughout the day.    me: Definitely NOT throughout the day. I'll give it max 3 hours, then you'll start having those oily feeling again. But fair la, I don't believe there is any powder that can actually last THROUGHOUT the day.


2. High UV Protection - SPF 25, among the highest in sun protection shields from skin darkening and PA++ for added protection. - me : I dunno how true is it, but i trust them la...  


3. Instant Fairness - Infused with pro Vitamin C it instantly makes skin look fairer and more natural.  me: guess its the coloring that makes skin look fairer, not the Vitamin C ?  


4. Imperfections Blend Away - Ultra fine powders and coated pigments effortlessly cover spots for fair and even skin. me: Not bad. Quite even and smooth looking  


5. Long Lasting - Breathable and lightweight, makeup stays true and even throughout the wear.  me : agree its lightweight, but same as point 1 - so touch up required after like 3 hours 


6. Visibly Smooth Complexion - Silky soft texture glides to visibly even out skins surface for a smooth complexion.  me: Agree!   


7. Conceal Blemishes - Blemishes are instantly concealed traceless. Skin looks flawless. me: i dun have much blemishes, so i can't comment. I have problem with acne scars, which usually powder cannot cover.  


8. Tone Perfecting - Developed for South East Asian skin tone, each shade blends effortlessly all over for a natural non-cakey finish.    me: quite happy with my selection on the tone and yup, non-cakey is plus point!  I tested it over the back of my hand, they have like over 8 color tones, if not mistaken. No point telling you my color, coz everyone is just different...:) 


So, from the above, did I sound happy with this buy ? 


Nnnop! It all went well until after a week of use, this is what happened to it: 

I happily opened this up one morning, and found that the middle part of the powder just "sunken in"...WHAT!? I never drop this powder i swear! This is the compact I keep only at home, for home use before I go out....Guess now, even if i wanted to, I can't bring it out larh! 


I wondered what caused it then, but since i'm too lazy to run downstairs to get my other powder in my bag, i simply continue to use it...then slowly the answer revealed itself : Underneath the upper layer of the powder, is HOLLOW. Like...sinking sand, Its super messy now with flakes and chucks of powder all around... guess i have to just let it go... 


I like the product, but have got no confidence the next one i buy will not have the same problem.... 

Just my luck i guess!

LAZY BEE, LAZY ME...

Been a while....

Have a sudden thought of this blog of mine, and started reading my post back in Aug 2010 about my new house reno. Time for some updates...

Recently celebrated our first year anniversary of our new home sweet home...Time flies pass...like a BEE! ZUmph! Here's what happened to me in between then and now...

Sept 2010 - we moved in to our new house, and I - loved the STORE ROOM. Its like the heaven for all not to be seen stuffs! Kitchen is great now, lots of space...Masterbed room is purple - just the way i wanted it to be. And yes, bigger space for Wii!

Nov 2010 - Brought Bryan to Hong Kong....OH such great holiday!

Dec 2010 - The usual one week honeymoon for hubby and me, while Bryan enjoys his annual balik kampung trip

Jan 2010 - Bryan officially in Primary School... oh my....grown up dy....

Feb 2010 - Chinese New Year..all time best holiday every year. Eat...sleep..mahjong...Parents and Howie went to Korea....i'll wait for tat time for me to come :)

Mar 2010 - Singapore trip for Bryan

Aug 2010 - HOrrible trip to A'famosa Melaka. No second chance...Sorry. Only thing i earned is having to taste dear friend Dawn's brownie. I'm still experimenting, once successful then hopefully i'll remember to share :P

Sep 2010 - I traded my Wii set and bought Xbox 360 Kinect! Awwwww!!!! No regret so far...

Oct 2010 (now) - Bryan is having is exams and will end in 2 days. Stress more on mummy, I must say. Can't wait for tat to be over then again, our favourite fun time :) PLanning for Universal Studios and hope plans will go well....

Recaps of what happened on me till date... not too much...but we did have things going on! I love life!

Nothing is perfect....

Hubby and I bought a new house in Puchong, and have been undergoing the renovation since April 2010 till now, and its' 11 Aug today....I can't wait for everything to be done!

Reason I opened this up and started writing again, is becoz i wanna document down some ups and downs we had with the whole process. So here goes...

The very first thing we confirmed - is the main gate and grilles. Error. Stupid error. This is becoz we then later decided to change the design of our front door, thus, the wrought iron grilles for the front door was a total waste. We decided on the change sometime end June, and we are told the works are all ready.
Lesson learnt : Don't confirm fixtures and fittings before the solid work is confirmed, like 101%...

Over this process I have also learnt that I (ME, yes!) have actually quite a good balance point! I can tell that some walls, or flat surface are not even with just one look. Well...ok, maybe alot people can do that, but the fact is, HUBBY Can't see wat I see! - We got it confirm by the contractors, and after measuring it was around 2-3 cm tilted....so i was right. A few places had me checking, it not fun. Lesson learnt : The contractors does not precisely use the level tool ?

Another horrid experience - mr air cond piping man. That fella took like almost 4 months, to do piping for 6 aircond points. Poor hubby had to call and call and call him. We got this guy's contact coz he came to fix an aircond at my brothers. We thought he was honest and good. Lesson learnt : Don't judge a person you know less than 24 hours.

I'm not finished with this aircond stuff. Coz this guy did such a bad job on the piping, we decided to get another one to do the installation. We simply can't wait another 4 months for him to install our 6 airconds. So, another guy came to do the installation, arranged by our dear aircond supplier, our dear friend. 2 more bad news came, the aircond in the hall and dining is not aligned. Another "level" issue. Then, there is gas leak at our hall aircond. I almost fainted. Sure enough, i can see that both are not level, although just around 1-2 inches difference. The leakage was rectified later. All i can say is tat I am keeping my finger's crossed.

Our dear carpenter then drilled TWO holes thru our consealed COPPER pipe while installing the cabinet underneath the sink in our bathroom. After explanation from our contractor cum plumber - its very obvious that the pipe is at tat location. Duh @_@! Clever man then hack a bigger hole off the tiles, causing bigger mistake coz now that area will NOT be covered by the cabinet later. FANTASTIC, and I thought he was doing a good job coz the rest looked so good...Lesson learnt : (correcting the previous one!) Don't judge a person you know less than 36 hours. Perhaps better, Don't judge!

To save money, we decided to engage separately...the one doing the constructions, the one doing paint, the one doing grilles...the one doing the electricity stuffs....er, you get wat i mean. So, now i get some stain at my kitchen top, and i don't know who is responsible for it! Lesson learnt: If you can, just engage with ONE contractor. Then you put all the blame on him. :) Anyway, our contractor said he can try removing the stain, no promise. So, again, i am keeping my finger's crossed.

Hmmm...enough complaining, or i will never stop. I guess nothing is perfect?

A friend told me to think of 10 things I am thankful off, whenever I am down. I wanna try listing them here, so when I am sad, I can just open this up and read it over and over again....

1. I'm thankful for such great loving parents for their love, guidance and support.
2. I'm thankful for such loving and understanding husband whom i laugh with everyday.
3. I'm thankful for such beautiful son whom has brighten my life tremendously.
4. I'm thankful for having such great and loving parent in-laws.
5. I'm thankful for being blessed with so many great family and friends whom are always there for me.
6. I'm thankful for the food we eat, the clothes we wear, we air we breathe...the joy we shared.
7. I'm thankful for the job i have, for the income i earn.
8. I'm thankful for the fantastic colleagues I have, to work and chat with every working day.
9. I'm thankful for this planet to have internet, facebook and youtube.
10. I'm thankful, that you are reading this now... :)

Cheers!

I WANNA WATCH A MOVIE!!!

HELLO! Well, thanks to "ah-heng", whom just reminded me that I've not been updating my blog for quite some time.

I've been busy lately.....With?! Haha...watching movies and Hong Kong series...sleeping late almost everyday, so, naturally got not much mood to blog coz to tired.

"FAKE" DVDs is now back in market like - real business ler. Almost every row of shops in near by house got one of these shops. Damn GENG! Mostly selling like RM 8 each, buy 5 free 1. I go to one that sells 3 for 20. Same price per disc, but at least I don need to have to buy 6 disc in one shot. HAhA!

Seen alot of movies, cannot recall the titles liao...There is this HK movie which I think is good, HOWEVER, only to realise its a copycat of another English movie - Cellular. I've never seen Cellular before, but will watch just for the fun to compare.

I'm also currently following one HK drama - Rosy Business - 巾幗梟雄. NICE! Cannot go indepth about this show, coz its too long a story to tell, and i'm just still too lazy.

I MUST CATCH UP SLEEP!

STILL, above all - I WANNA GO TO THE CINEMA! I'm so so so.....wishing to go watch Night at the Museum....should I? Have to bring along little Bryan, but not sure if this is something he will enjoy? Haih.....I'll SLEEP and THINK tonite.

ZzZzzzzzzz.................

Plus One Shabu Shabu

Saturday - We rarely go out Saturday for dinner, but yesterday, Hubby excitingly tells me that he plans to bring us go try the Plus One Shabu Shabu in One U. Yeay...outing on a Saturday nite! Knowing my boy wouldnt enjoy, I prepared him dinner first before we go out...and well...LUCKY LEH! U know why?!

OK, before that, Plus One Shabu Shabu is a newly opened steamboat restaurant chain, brought in by "hong-kies" la. Very similar to this popular Shabu Shabu in Bandar Puteri, Puchong, you get to have one individual pot to yourself. I guess the one significant different is the variety of soup base you get to choose from - and interesting ones too! I saw from their website that its located at the "previous" World of Fengshui, so, we found it pretty fast. (funny how World of Fengshui is closed, OR relocated - i dunno...I tot fengshui shop should have good biz coz they should have GOOD FENGSHUI ?! :P)

Anyway, the restaurant seems cozy and I liked the size of the table - big enuf to hold all the dishes. We were seated very quickly by a nice lady, 4 seater table. Although they have alot of selection, we managed to make up our minds rather fast also. Then I noticed this counter, full of different sauces. Nice nice...

The food were served very fast. But our good dinner turned bad soon after. The induction cooker hubby is using...turned off by itself. A waiter then helped swap to the next cooker on hubby's side of the table. Makan abit, then same thing happened. Then another waiter came to change the cooker to the previous side...makan abit, the same thing happened again! Hubby had to keep swapping between two sides of the cooker, while I have to stand up a few times for the waiter to access under the table to do something with the plugs. Wah...all mood off!

They changed our tables after one hour of tortured dinner...ok, new table...yeay! NO YEAY! I choosed my side and started eating, then soon, we heard the beeping sound of cooker turning off AGAIN! WAT THE HECK! Hubby madly changed to three other cooker on the table, but end up having the same problem....TALK ABOUT BAD LUCK! Mine no problem wor!

We started dinner like 7.15 and finished eating like 9.15. Two hours! The captain and waiters all already very pai seh dy....coz they can't find any other solutions for us.

I can hardly recall if the food is good or not...most of the time we are irritated by the beeping sound and having to stop coz the soup isnt boiling....bad dinner rite. Well, we were given special 20% off our bill as to compensate our bad time....Worth it or not? No lo........we still pay and did not really enjoy it.....:(

~when i read...its like...MEi....NU.......

~see how i say my boy won't be interested...? As soon as we sit down, he started asking to play games using my mobile

~hubby choosing wat to eat

~wide range of sauce to choose from

~chilis from HK ? no lah....

~jug of water-cress and honey

~my choice of soup - preserved eggs with chinese parsley broth

~hubby choosed Pork Bone with Corn Broth

~four seasons - shrimp ball, pork ball, fish ball and sotong ball

~rib eye steak

~i cannot decide which type of mushroom i want, so, i ordered MIXED. :)

~we ordered Tong Hou, but they say no more. So, changed to Yau Mak. Regret, coz alot of other dishes comes with it..like the mixed mushrooms.

~there! most of our dinner arrived very quickly.

Oh ya...I forgot about tis! They are having this promo, so, if your bill is over RM 50, you can order either fish, prawn or crab for RM 1 only. We got this.

~our Saturday dinner cost RM 79.80 - AFTER 20% discount from the bad time we had through-out. Ok, at least ada compensation. :)

My 2009 Target - FOUND.

OK, previously I mentioned about how I envy people having the "POWER" to read chinese books...So, I want to overcome that ENVY and DO IT!

It was my day off (4 days work week started)....so, I went for my usual hair-cut at the usual salon...I wasn't in a hurry and my hair-stylist, Karen had a quiet day also, we ended chatting for a good 3 hours... We talked about everything...sisters, families, husbands, food...and one we wouldn't avoid, our children. So she showed me a bunch of books she bought, well all in CHINESE of coz...on parenting and early childhood education. Karen nicely read some to me, some in summary....oh...I was overwhelmed with so many philosophys on parenting that we could easily apply to our daily life and bringing up our children. It was that second I have decided - I WANNA DO IT.

Bryan, at 5 is already a very challenging part of my life. Sometimes I don't know how, or WHAT is the best way I should teach him, correct him, overall bringing him up to be a good person. I've once tried looking for parenting books in English, and came to realised there isn't very much choices available. Furthermore, mostly written by Westerners, like that one book that I purchased - and turned out not as applicable to our culture. I'm not saying we should read Parenting BOoks to be a good parent, but sometimes we need to find some guides, or ways others had applied which, you know, may be better than how we choose to react to something.

Karen recommended this book by a chinese author from China - Lu Quen (hope i get this correct :P ) - Hao Fu Mu, Hao Hai Zhi (Good parents, Good Child). I went straight to the bookshop in Summit, but already sold out. But this book I bought is also written by the same author and also about parenting - SO - I didnt had my "new year resolutions" before, and I guess its not too late now...only April mah! THere, my resolution for 2009 - to finish this book which is in CHINESE. I managed 2 pages so far, with the help from hubby. I should get a dictionary soon...that translates chinese to english...GOT AH? i dunno.

Well people, Wish me LUCK!

~the book cover

~i skipped prefix and started here. See the things i scribbled on it, my struggle with one page...:)

Wan Wan Ju

"Homework" has now become a routine for my boy. I'm still adapting to the fact that the education level now is so much different! At his age, I've just started kindergarten and learning alphabets, but now, they are already making words from alphabets.

Anyway, I'm not a chinese educated person and found much disadvantages for not knowing how to read chinese. I've picked up alot of characters by self-learning thru reading song lyrics, but its limited. I envy people having the "power" to read Chinese papers and books. Not all type of books we can find in English rite!

Well...with that I have insisted that my boy MUST learn chinese. I've already enrolled him for Primary one in a Chinese school in Puchong...hopefully will get lah!

His kindi has already started him with Chinese, but i somehow not sure the teacher is good leh! I mean, when he brings back his homework, then when he wanna form that chinese character, the strokes is wrong. Dunno if he has forgotten, or really DUNNO. Well, now standard still low, so i can help, but later in primary, he will need his daddy help lo. Lucky daddy knows chinese!

~this is happy homework face...."NOT" usual. hahah

~smile diminishes....keke

~not very nice, but ok for his age lah!

I Miss Hong KONG!!!

I blame Facebook...! :)

Today i viewed a fren's photo of his recent trip to Hong Kong...i think for his honeymoon....Brought back all the fanfastic memory of my visit there last year....I WANNA GO AGAIN!!!

Hong Kong is such a great place to go, great food, nice weather, nice people, the convinience of travel...you name it. Another girl fren of mine will be going there end of this year for her honeymoon also....wah..envy envy!

I initially planned to bring Bryan there for the Disneyland, but in view of the current economic recession...all plans have to be delayed. I'm now on a 4 days work week, so, less pay means i have to be careful in my spending...haih....hope the situation goes well soon soon soon!

Anyway, I'll be dreaming of Hong Kong today....

Hubby and I have this dream to visit Japan....but i miss Hong Kong....if you were me, and have the budget to go, would u choose to go Japan or Hong Kong again?! hahahha!

Pasta Zanmai - Midvalley Megamall

Another meet up session for me and my girls...this round we went for Pasta Zanmai in Midvalley..... WOW! I SUKA! Kekek...

They serve...erm..itallian food-Jap style. There...i think that pretty much how I can describe it la. Too bad I didnt bring along my camera, so, I took photos just using my mobile....and turns out, of coz, NOT good. But i still wanna post it up here, just to record it down here in my "journal"... :)

The menu is very interesting, coz alot of pictures.... I love it when each food they serve comes with a photo...u know wat to expect - although most of the times, wat is served is less nicer than what we expect to get. But hor, remember this common phrase - FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY. :P

Dessert Menu lagi interesting. I wish I could order all ! Show u the dessert and drinks menu first...Nice hor!


~my selection!

Surprisingly, I think we didnt take too much time to choose wat we wanted to eat. We ordered a mash potato salad - something like our appetizer - just one for four of us. But its enuf to kick us up. I loved the texture and its creammy taste. Then, each of us ordered a pasta - SET comes with a miso soup and salad. Topping up our main course is a pizza - we choose scallop pizza. Oh ya, DRINKs...is a Jug of Ice Fruit Tea. Loved it.

~the real deal. Cream sauce pasta with jap mushrooms with hot spring egg (half-boiled egg lo) Picture more mushrooms rite!

~Yen and Yvonne's deal - Unagi.

~Bee ordered salmon sashimi pasta with sesame seed. That's Bee's hand crushing those sesames....Fun meal :)

~the end product.

~our drinks - ICE FRUIT TEA in a JUG. just enuf for four of us. Well...no one complaint not enuf la...

~scallop pizza

DESSERT TIME! :) We actually choosed two desserts to share, one CHOCO BANANA and one GREEN TEA TIRAMISU. Maybe very late liao, no more green tea tiramisu wor...so, cancel la. End up sharing just one dessert - Choco Banana PARFAIT.

~the picture of the Choco Banana in the menu.........

.....VS REAL PRODUCT. hahah ...very different rite. BUT still nice la....Its layers of banana, oreos, corn-flakes, ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate fudge. I give it a 10/10!

The next day, I went on to search the word PARFAIT... just to know actually HOW to pronounce it, and wat the hell it meant! Ladies....for you...:

Par-fait (pronounced : pahr-fey) is a French word meaning "perfect."

Meaning : a dessert of ice cream and fruit or ice cream and syrup in alternate layers, often topped with whipped cream and served in a tall, narrow, short-stemmed glass.

There....now next time we know how to say it OUT LOUD! Hahah...

And oh....Thanks to Bee and Yvonne for the treat! (speaking on behalf of Yen also) :)

See u guys soon!!! MUAKS!