Nails

This is not a sponsored post, but Ira, the owner of Nail Talk by Ira Chan (also known as For Your Nails Only) needed a nail model to complete her assignment so the nail art was done free. I only paid for the normal service.

Here's the link to her blog, facebook and instagram

Here's the design on her blog, fb page and instagram:

So here's the design, taken from my phone a few days after I did my nails:

I super love the french tip done in black and white, and the ribbons! :) so pretty, and I can never draw that by myself.

Anyway just a shout out, if you like the design or want to see more of her designs (and I swear they are super nice), do drop by her blog, facebook or instagram. :)

Pre-Christmas post

Christmas is coming! Didn't make any handmade Christmas cards this year because I'm packing my room and all after moving back from hostel and also coming back from the family trip. Haven't had time to go shopping for presents, but I did get some when I was in Australia (which kind of doubles up as a gift for Christmas and something from South Australia). Oops.

Have to meet my supervisor for FYP sometime on the week of Christmas since he caught a flu when I came back. Oh wells. Hopefully my FYP goes alright.

Anyway, my nails for Christmas:

Got my nails gone for Christmas at For Your Nails Only. She did another version of my nails, reversing the colours, for another of her clients here. Ok I admit the thumbs are a bit out of place but we both ran out of ideas and didn't want reindeer again, so I suggested presents. Ok, this is a splurge, but for some reason I really wanted to do nail art for Christmas since I didn't really do my nails for Christmas before.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

Sephora Haul - Nov 2013 (2) - 20% off all purchases for members from 28 Nov 2013 to 30 Nov 2013

So basically although I'm in the middle of exams, I couldn't resist the 20% off for Sephora White Card members discount from 28 Nov till 30 Nov, so I went down to Spehora to grab some items. I initially wanted to get only two items, and I ended up getting four (while waiting for my friend to appear). And am tempted to blog about it so I shall before I go back to study. The emailer:

My second Sephora Haul in a month. That's bad.

Anyway,

1. Burt's Bees Lip Balm - Ultra Conditioning (with Kokum Butter) (SGD$8 after discount SGD$6.40)

So since it's the Christmas season, they had a cute packaging:

So here's the product itself:

It's a clear lip balm, and I bought it for my own use mainly when I go on my South Australia trip. I'm wearing it now, and it seems a bit heavy. Maybe I got excited and applied too much, but will review this again when I come back from South Australia (which probably would be around end December). But at $8.00, this would make a great gift. They had other "properties" and "flavors" too, with different packaging, all equally cute.

2. Sephora Retractable Foundation Brush (SGD$27 after discount SGD$21.60)

Both my sister and I wanted a foundation brush, so I decided to invest is a good quality one. This is my first splurge on a brush. Hope it turns out good!

3. Benefit's How to Look the Best at Everything kit in Medium (SGD$50, after discount SGD$40)

I bought this because my sister wanted a concealer, and she wanted a Kate brand one (which Sephora doesn't have). But since Sephora has concealers and it was on 20%, I decided to go crazy and bought her a kit. It opens up similar to the Priming with the Stars kit I got the other time at Sephora (previous post here), but it contains different items:

So it contains:
1. Porefessional
2. Hello Flawless Brightening Makeup with SPF 25 PA++ in Honey
3. boi-ing (concealer in two shades)
4. Hello Flawless Powder

4.Urban Decay Naked Skin Beauty Balm (travel size) (SGD$22 after discount SGD$17.60)

Didn't initially wanted to get this, but since it was travel size with SPF 20 and it listed a few properties, I decided I should get it. And I think it's a new product, or so its website says.

So the box says:
- Hydrates instantly and over time
- Primes for beautiful makeup that lasts
- Protect with SPF20 and contains Pehpa(R)-Protect to help inhibit DNA damage
- Perfects to instantly even out skin tone and minimize pores, line, wrinkles and redness
- Treats with Vitasource(TM) and dGlyage(R) to firm skin, improve elasticity and provide measurable anti-aging benefits.

This is a splurge for me, since I would never spend so much money on makeup knowing that I seldom doll up. Intending to bring this on my South Australia trip. Will do a blog post hopefully before my trip on which beauty items I will be bringing along with me. Excited to try this out!

FREE SAMPLE: Hello Flawless Products by Benefit

Was a bit disappointed that this was the sample since I already got a benefit kit with one of the product inside... But nevertheless, it's a free sample!!!

Ok, that's all folks. Back to studying!

[Edited, because I didn't want to create another post:]

Decided to post a picture of my nails because one of the picture shows my thumb with a stud. So, here is my current nails (for studying):

In case you are interested, I got them done for SGD$47 (gelish) at For Your Nails Only, my favorite nail saloon thus far. Though now I actually seldom do my nails since I got my own gelish equipment. But once in a while, well... :)

The beginning of the last year as a student in NUS + NAILS! + rant about laptop

So two weeks have gone by since the start of the semester. This semester marks my second last semester with NUS, which means my last year with NUS as an undergraduate.

I have really mixed feelings about it. On one side, I'll be going out to work soon, meaning I can be financially independent. On the other side, stress from work will start to set in, I'll have less time to meet up with friends, and I have no idea what I really want to do yet. Yes, I have a rough idea on what to do, but what I REALLY want to be doing... is a blur. Though so I shall seek God for help that he'll guide me to go to the path where he has intended for me to go.

Anyway, I started school struggling to recover from my illness. My flat-mate is nice, she offered me manuka honey for my cough.

So the first two weeks of school has been... hectic. So much more hectic than the previous sems. Then again, it's the final year, so how can it not? Projects are pouring in on top of final year project. I've got so much to learn. Fortran code, physics of my FYP and design project, how to use solidworks, etc... which are all outside of the technical aspects in the modules. Oh wells.

Though so I did have some 'fun'. Rebonded (and cut) my hair, and went out for an outing (to ice skate) with the church dancers. And yea, the 'muumy' thing kinda stuck and I've "unoffically" gained a son that called me 'mummee' (pun on my surname). More or less because he was the first person to start calling my mummy and the rest 'responded' with messages based on our partnering during the dance. And probably the least important factor (or might not even be a factor at all) is that he's my direct junior from NY Dance.

On another note, I started school with blue and pink nails! <3

I did my nails at For Your Nails Only. It's located in Bishan and is close to my house. <3. Been there for more than a year now, and since my second visit everytime I visit there for manicure is to do gel manicures, with or without design. She has at least 3 gel polish brands. Three reasons why I keep going back:

1. Her price is one of the cheapest around for gel manicures
2. Artistic and Harmony chips very fast on my nails (the record, 2 days later I saw a fairly large chip, going by the fact that Harmony markets its polishes to last for up to 3 weeks with no chipping). She's one of those who carries other brands while majority of the salons around only have Harmony and/or Artistic.
3. She's very very friendly. :)

Some other nail designs that she did for me that I like:

This particular set of nails, I wore for my 21st birthday party. Still in love with the design. :)

This green set of nails, I wore it during my exam period last semester. Still loving it. :)

So anyway, it's late, and I'm sleepy. I shall head off to bed now. No wait, I still need to transfer my data from my lappy to the hard disk. This laptop's been giving me problems since Day 1 I got it back from the second servicing, but something tells me it's going to crash really soon. I was kind of cheated into getting this laptop. So since I started on it...

Well, I got this laptop from the matriculation fair, where it was said to have reduced prices for laptops for students. So yea, I dun have the brochure with me anymore, but for this laptop that I have (Fujitsu S Series Model SH760), it wrote that the original price was $5k plus. The price it was being sold at was somewhere along the range of $2200 plus. So I called my mum and she said Fujitsu is a good brand to get so I got it. And guess what, it crashed on my twice within the first year because of the same hard disk problem, both times one week before some assignment was due. Then the battery life went down drastically from 6 hours life to now less than 2 hours. And after the second servicing, the display driver would always stop working on me (if the display driver doesn't malfunction at least once per week, I would think that something is wrong). Then I realised that the laptops that the school sells are not manufactured in Japan, but instead from China. How I found out? I needed to reinstall the system for another Fujitsu that I bought from the school, and the notifications thereafter come out in TRADITIONAL chinese. Not even simplified.

Ok. I should stop ranting, and get hopefully do something useful. Till then. :)