#1 : Me-Nail
10:57:00 PM
You know
the expression “don’t judge the book by its cover”? Well, it certainly is true
enough for me, at least for quite a big portion of me. People take one look at
me and they’d instantly label me as this spoilt, high maintenance girl, even
worse, a dumb air-headed blonde. I am spoilt i guess (hey! Don’t blame me.
Blame my parents and then my guy for always spoiling me silly. If they don’t
mind spoiling me why should you? Bugger off!), and i am high maintenance as a
girlfriend/wife. But i am not high-maintenance when it comes to my looks. I
know most people are 100% sure i am the kind of girl who spend most of my time
in hair salons, spas, nail salons, blah blah blah. (and i am effing smart. I
actually was one of the top students in my high school and university, and i
have proof. *defensive*)
Trust me,
you couldn’t be more wrong. I hate going to hair salons (that’s why i prefer
most of my hair cutting/dyeing/etc at home. Me and #Undecided kinda have this
personal hairdresser, LOL. Mr. N, we miss you!), i cannot stand waiting for
hours in hair salons, i will never step foot in a spa. I did once. And it
scarred me for life. The stupid therapist actually cut a chunk off my finger-okay
i might be exaggerating this-when manicuring my nails (back then no special
nail spas are around yet, you do your nails at a regular spa. This is YEARS
ago, like 12 years ago. I was a stupid teenager, i didn’t know better) Blood
spurted out of my finger, i promptly passed out. And yes, i blame my sister in
law, CL, for bringing me to the stupid spa (Grrrr). And then, like i was not in enough agony, i
was dragged into the massage room. OMG. I effing hate massages!!! I can never
understand why people would pay to have people knead their bodies like a
friggin’ dough. It HURTS. And when they start applying scrubs all over you and
scrub away, OMG... i swear i almost peed on my (paper) panties. And kicked the
therapist in the face.
So, yeah..
i was extremely traumatized. And it took me YEARS to finally stepped foot in a
nail spa. And then my cousin L opened her own nail spa so of course i have to
show some support (she is my closest cousin. We’re like always super close
since we were little. Our birthdays are only two months apart but for some
reason she always insists that i am older than her. And whenever she introduces
me to her friends she’ll quiz them “who’s older?” and they always answer “she
is” and then she’ll throw a tantrum. She just never learn. LOL!)
This brings us to one of my favourite (in no particular order ya, i feel like Ryan Seacrest now LOL) : #1 Me-Nail.
I don’t go
to nail spas a lot, but when i do of course i prefer to go to Me-Nail, not only
because the lady boss is my own cousin, but also because they do a very good
job, the therapists are professional (they never wound me! It’s my biggest fear
after last time) and friendly (of course, i’d bitch to the lady boss if they
aren’t! LOL), there are plenty of choices of colours and nail arts (and they
only use top notch nail polishes like OPI, China Glaze, etc), also their prices
are very pocket-friendly! On most of other nail spas a simple manicure will
cost you more than IDR 100.000 (some more than IDR 200.000, crazy), but here a
manicure (with polish) only costs IDR 65.000. (of course nail colouring without
manicure are even cheaper) a pedicure is only IDR 75.000.
Lately i’ve
been obsessed with gel manicure, on which they are having a promotion on, IDR
150.000 only! Gel manicures are fab! You can use your hands freely right after,
even type on your BBM right away! Regular manicure will be destroyed if you
type on your BBM right away zzzz. And they lasts for ages (up to 3 weeks, but my nails grow super fast, just
like my hair, almost two times faster than regular people’s so my nails are
crazy long after 2.5 weeks and needs to be redo) and doesn’t chip! Wow!!! I
only had them once and i will be getting another one before my year-end trip to
Bali (can’t waittt! Holidayyy). Removing gel polishes are a pain, and i have to
stick with the nail color for a long time (i really love to change my nail
polish a lot, and i have like... A LOT of nail polishes :( what do you expect anyway? Don’t
ask me how many, i never dared to count them, i hope it’s not reaching a
hundred), and it might weakened your nails if you keep on using them so i
prefer to put on gel polishes on special occasions, i’d put them on before
every holiday!
Anyway,
this time i went with a very close friend of mine, LL.
LL is
actually 4 years older than me, surprised? You should be. She’s so tiny n cute
people mistaken her for someone 10 years younger than her actual age haha (well
i am not tiny at all but people mistaken me for a much younger person too,FML).
The most annoying encounter we had by looking so much younger than our actual
ages? Once we went to Coffee Bean and i tried using my guy’s credit card
(because using Mega credit card you’ll get a lot of discount right, no discount
will be hell for me) and the cashier patronisingly told us “we need the owner
of the credit card to sign the bill! This is your dad’s, right???”. FOL. Apparently
we do not look old enough to have credit cards. Sad.
Anyway, LL
never had a gel-manicure before and she’s going to Hong Kong for a family vacay
on the 8th, so i suggested her to try the gel-manicure, i am very
sure her manicure (and pedicure) will still be intact once she return from HK!
As for me, i’m just accompanying her and getting a regular manicure. I will try
to come more regularly for manicures since i hate excessive skins on my fingers
and rough cuticles and regular manicures will take care of that. (it still
scares the hell out of me when they are cutting and cleaning the cuticles
though, i probably will never get over it FML).
Oh, one
more information on LL, she’s a fellow shopaholic. She’s just as bad as me. I
dare say she’s worse, because she purchase much more expensive stuffs than me
(i’m too stingy) and in bulk. So, it consoles me watching her shop, i’d feel
better about my own shopping afterward. Please do not stop, LL!!! ROFL! We went
to Singapore together three years ago and it was, UGLY. You cannot let two
crazy shopaholic on a loose, you know that! #Undecided is my personal bodyguard when it comes to shopping,
meaning she feels responsible to stop me from shopping too much. But whenever
LL is around i think #Undecided thinks it’s a lost cause hahahaha!
LL loves
PINK like me (i don’t think any of my bffs likes pink, so sad, so when i first
met LL online five years ago it was like finding a soul sista hahahaha), she
loves cute stuffs just as bad as me..
and i first got to know her by buying stuffs from her (she used to have
an online shop, and later also an offline one) and she also bought stuffs from
me (i also used to have an online and offline shops). It’s like a never ending
cycle between the two of us hahahaha. And she loves travelling too! I cannot
wait to go on another holiday with you, LL!
And since
we’re such cheeky girls who loves to be matchy-matchy and theme-obsessed, we
both decided to get our nails done with colours true to the holiday season (LL was not feeling well so we chose not to get nail arts since that would take a lot more time to do)
Christmas is coming soon so LL got a
very expensive looking red gel polishes both for her hands and foot, and i got
myself festive looking rich gold nails with pretty gold glitters (add IDR
15.000 for glitters). Look at our pretty nails!
They are actually much prettier in real life -____- sorry lah my camera sucks
Photo-bombed by my impatient little boy hahahaha
So
if you guys are interested in getting pretty nails you should drop by Me-Nail!They are located at Tunjungan Plaza I, 3rd floor, it's nearbythe elevator so you cannot miss it! These are their website and contacts :
Facebook ID : Me-Nail Shop https://www.facebook.com/menail.shop?fref=ts
Twitter : @menail1
Website : http://www.menailshop.com/
Don’t forget
to pay them a visit!
Another
picture me and LL took, just because we’re such cam-whores. LOL (Also to show you that we are Pink addicts :p)
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