Pink and Undecided: February 2015

Shades of Red

Haiii :D!

Hm... Not sure if the title is inspired by Fifty Shades of Gray. Probably, coz i'm pretty annoyed that it's not going to show in Indonesia (not that i expect it to. Pffffftttt). I know the world is divided in two, those who love Fifty Shades of Gray and those who detest it and think it's the worst book ever written. I happen to be the former. It's not Harry Potter or Twilight (or even Mortal Instruments), but i enjoyed the books a lot. Well, the second and last, i really hated Christian in the first book. Talking about this makes me feel like rereading them, which is a problem because i don't own any! #Undecided lent them to me on our book swaps (hey, it's been ages since the last time we did that!). *Sigh*.

Anyway, this post got nothing to do with Fifty Shades of Gray, it's actually my Chinese New Year's outfits! Since they were all red... I thought the title is fitting haha.

Errrr yeah, the first and second outfit's just a little bit different (i just changed top and added belt). I'll explain later! First, let's take a look of my (again, simple and done in a hurry-which is the only type of makeup i do lately :p) FOTD/MOTD :

I didn't even wear mascara *LOL*. We're just celebrating with family and go to some relatives' anyway, no need too much makeup okay!

Here is the list of products used :

1. Garnier Miracle Skin Perfector All in One Moisturizer with BB Finish

2. Clinique All About Eyes Concealer

3. SilkyGirl Pure Fresh Oil Control 2 Way Foundation in 01 Fair

4. Daiso (Ellefar Color) Pearl In Eyeshadow A : Natural Brown (only used the lightest and darkest color)

5. Mai Doll Black Liquid Eyeliner

6. Etude House Peach Cheek Blusher in #4 Smile Peach (that doesn't show on my skin AT ALL so i added no 7 on top)

7. Teen Teen 3D Powder Blusher

8. Esprique Precious Double Shine Powder

9. Maybelline Lip Smooth Color & Care Tinted Lip Balm in Cranberry Jam

The only expensive thing i wore on my face that day was my concealer and finishing powder (that i only used to highlight my nose bridge, as usual) :p

My fave selfie that day with the (then) brand new rabbit pouch (from Daiso!)

Now let's talk about my first outfit!

My parents decided to buy these holiday tee (if those in four seasoned countries have Christmas sweaters, we have Chinese New Year tees hahaha) in bulk for the entire family (well, except my mum who NEVER wear tees. Unless someone died and she has to wear plain white tee *LOL*) as ~~uniform~~ family tee

So for convenience sake i decided to wear a two piece instead of my usual red dress (coz i want to change out of the tee when everybody else do)

Unfortunately for some reason my dad decided to buy "one size fit all" L size *___*. They were super tight on the guys and super loose on the ladies. It was 2-3 sizes too big for me and i looked like i was wearing my hunny's tee to sleep (which i usually do). I decided to tuck it in to make it less frumpy :p

We all just wore it mainly for photo taking and then took them off again (because everybody's wearing nice clothes that they want to show off haha)-i wore it as a house tee immediately hahaha. Since i don't have a lot of (new) red tops, i had to settle for this plain sabrina cut top i found somewhere in my forgotten stash *LOL*.

Decided to take a "Syahrini" shot by posing in front of my sis' Mercedes *LOLOLOLOL*. Never mind those people in the back...

I have no idea why but even though we go to L's house every year (her grandma's our eldest living relative in our extended family in Surabaya so we have to go to her place), we always managed to get lost. Except that hunny didn't (but the other cars all did) so we arrived much earlier and i decided to have a little photo shoot hehehe. Unfortunately the wind was strong and blew my skirt unattractively so i only have very little photos that are uploadable :(


Like this zzzz. Looks like i have a gigantic butt and hips in this pic (i don't) LOL. But i like the pose so... Anyway, here's the outfit details : Plain Sabrina Red Top : Online Braided Belt : Jakarta Midi Flare Skirt : Michie House, MKG (Jakarta) Shoes : Bugis Junction, Singapore Bag : Forever 21

I bought that bag when it was on a flash sale last December (40% off, when i returned to Forever 21 two weeks later the price's back to normal already) and since it's the only bag in my pile of new bags that seems to go with my outfits, i decided it should be my Chinese New Year 2015's bag *LOL*. I've been wanting a formal, office lady looking bag lately for some (unexplainable) reasons-and i think this bag's very OL! It's also HUGE but with that kind of handle i cannot bring too many things (although i can store a lot of things) without making my arms hurts so it kinda defeat the purpose *LOL*.

Like all very traditional Chinese people, i only wear genuine gold jewelries on CNY but decided that my Valentine's gift Furla leather wrap bracelet is posh enough to be worn that day hahaha

One of my biggest fears in shopping category is buying a piece that i already have (because i shop so much i have difficulties remembering what i've already bought or not, and since i have very specific taste, i tend to gravitate towards the same thing!)-and yeppp. It finally happened *___*. I was (and still am, actually) OBSESSED with these structured flare midi skirts and i decided to buy this taffeta skirt in many colors. Somehow i THOUGHT i didn't buy the black one (impossible, now that i think about it! I love black!), so when i saw a similar skirt in Magnolia a few weeks ago, i bought it *____*. Then when i was rummaging through my Jakarta haul stash to find this skirt, i saw the black one *THE HORROR!!!*. Thankfully L who was looking for a CNY outfit (at the last minutes, as usual) wanted the skirt and asked me to sell it to her! Yay!!!

That's why we were so matchy matchy on CNY hahaha

Btw, when i posted my CNY photos on my IG, some of them were barefooted like this photo above and some pervert with foot fetish left a comment asking us to stamp on him with our foot and then he'll lick our.... WTF. Some people are sick.

Anyway! Moving on to outfit #3 that i changed into for dinner in my sis' place. It was very casual (the hostess were in sleeping wear? LOL) but i decided to wear one of my more casual (but still not very casual. I am simply not a casual person i guess) dresses because it's red and i don't really break out my red dresses unless it's CNY *LOL*.

I am not the kind of girl who washes her face if the day's not ended yet so i still had my makeup on, just refreshened them up a bit *LOL*-oh and changed my lip color to NYX Round Lipstick in LSS 507 Tangerine

I wore this bright red dress that is plain, loose and very comfortable-and yet i was still overdressed *LOL*

That fun bright pink (and purple, i forgot to snap a close up pic of them!) flat shoes were gifts from L for my bday... Two years ago WTF. And yes, i never wore them before *LOL*. Btw L, it's one size too big... :p


Outfit List : Bright Red Dress : Online Bow Skinny Belt : Can't remember. Pretty sure it's from another dress Shoes : gift from L (Marie Claire)

No, i didn't bother changing my bag. I still wear it until today coz i'm lazy like that *LOL*.

That's all for today, folks! Hope you enjoyed this post! Oh, i also want to remind you that tomorrow's the last day to enter my All About Fashion Giveaway, so if you're keen on winning one of three sets with total value more than IDR 1.000.000, do join in ASAP!

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#Pink's Family's Chinese New Year's Eve 2015

2015

Haii haiii :D!

Finally got time to sit down and prepping the pics of our family Chinese New Year, thanks to hunny who suddenly got sick sometime in the dawn last Monday and make me stuck at home for two whole days (he is my driver, and i am his nurse *LOL*). It's boring as heck but i get to do a lot of things that i've been postponing like prepping photos for blog posts, writing product reviews, taking photos of my haul and even a bit of organizing haha.

Say hello to my big family!

Yes, we flagged down some random stranger to help us snap this pic. Thank you, kind stranger! You took such a nice one too!

I can't believe it's the third Chinese New Year eve that i blog about already ^^. Time sure flies, a bit too fast for my liking! If you read my blog post about our family's CNY eve last year then you'd be very familiar with the place where we're celebrating this year.

Yep, Pavillion at J.W. Mariott. AGAIN.

LOL. CL and i petitioned for having the dinner at home (CL because she's too lazy to find a dress for eating out, and me because i'm not a big fan of buffet or Chinese food so both options are not very appealing for me. Well, buffet's still better than Chinese food -____-) but younger people's opinions worth naught *LOL* and here we are again! (next year i'll fight harder, i'm bored of Pavillion already huhuhu)

I was snapping pic of the surrounding, it just happens that my dad was coming to our table as i snapped haha

There's a station right behind our table too

My favorite station

Grill! The steak was the best dish of the night IMO

LOL at my hunny's face

Cute... but i wasn't interested. I don't like salmon much and in a puff? Eh, no. The only puff i like is chicken curry puff. Preferably from Old Chang Kee, please :p.

Seafood station, CW's fave station. I think she and her family went through 10kgs of prawns by themselves hahaha

Errr.. Chinese station. I think it was yong tau fu kind of thing

Peking Duck station

Hunny said that this woman who manned (or womanned?) the station wore her latex glove so loosely and she was not careful with it either that she cut off the tips of her gloves *LOLOLOL*. I did hear him warning her, he told me "I don't want to eat latex glove bits!!!".

Cheese and bread station

My three crazy nephews went ape nutz in the ice cream section

My eldest nephew CV. He looks exactly the same since babyhood *LOL*. I cannot believe he's almost 20. It's insane!!!

CV and KD also going ape nutz at the dessert station

Sushi and sashimi station that were stationed behind our table, so close that i totally oversee it and forgot to have any T.T

Tall and wispy Au haha

Since hunny and i sat opposite KC and CL, they were the lucky ones who got their photos taken the most that night hahaha.

Some of the stuffs we had (totally forgot to snap pics of the steaks, which were my fave... I guess i was too busy shoving them down my throat...)

The carrot cake was my fave

The food were very so-so IMO. Not the biggest fan of prawns (i prefer crabs haha) which is like the highlight of the buffet so i only had one... The steak as i mentioned, were quite nice. The dessert also quite nice. The rest were super MEH. I ate so little i felt like demanding my IDR 400.000++ back *LOLOLOL*.

Our table. This was supposedly a candid pic but CL's always camera ready hahaha

KC who ate the Peking Duck like a rabbit nomming a carrot

Sparkling wine courtesy of CW (and CL)

Cheers!

Hunny and i (and some random unintentional photo-bombers)

Blurry wefie with my niece BB taken with my Ipad haha

While we were chatting and taking selfies, KC suddenly said "Look at CW. She only looks classy, but look at her eating rambak like a pirate."

LOLOLOL, yep, she definitely treat her rambak like a cig

CW loves rambak (a local snack-it's crackers like), and what do you know-rambak is made from COW HIDE. She might be a multi billionaire, but her taste's very errr... suburban (village?) *LOL*.

CL must be very delighted about how skinny i made her look in this pic #imawesome

Did i ever mention that KC is a bit nuts? #sillybro

Ahem. LOLOLOLOLOL. Very R(A)

Was CL about to bite into an apple? Nope, it's actually a pepper. She said that Koreans like to eat peppers like they eat apple and wonder how that tastes, so i took one from the buffet table and she actually did eat it *forcing people around her to also take a bite* and said that it's yummy. I happen to like pepper, but i am not interested in eating them by themselves as a snack!

LOL at KD's startled expression

Hunny got the biggest rambak!

After dinner was done, we hang around at the prettily decorated lobby and took lots of pics!

Even the ever-so-serious KW got the narcissistic bug! Ehm, we may've caused that dragon to fell down. A few times

Test photo hehe

One mo with da fam

Then while KC was sitting on the... I think it was the concierge (not so sure) table, i was about to take a wefie with him but these people barge in and we ended up taking a "making a reservation" pic.