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Me-Nail's at Kartini is the Best Bazaar at Ciputra World! (SPONSORED)

Hey guys!

Have you followed my Instagram? Because that's where i update and share news, promotions and other things (you know, like what i wear and eat hahaha) first ^^. If you have, then you'd probably saw my post about Me-Nail's taking part in a exhibition/bazaar this week?

Sorry for the gloomy tone, this was taken by my Ipad and seriously, the lighting in Ciputra World's exhibition section's not all that great for photography! Plus Surabaya's been raining the WHOLE day, it was so crazy. Totally feels very gloomy haha

They are taking a part in Ciputra World's "Kartini is the Best" exhibition at the Rotunda Hall (3rd floor, their booth's located in front of Excelso btw)

If you're residing in Surabaya, you should really drop by their booth because (say thanks to me, i was the one who came up with the idea *LOL*) if you snap a pic with their booth

Like i did here. And yeah, it's kinda blur, L's a really bad photographer *LOLOLOL*

Upload it in your Instagram, follow and mention their Instagram @Menail_shop and use the hashtag #snappicmenailciputraworld - then you can redeem a free gift from them right away (just show your Instagram to them to check if you've followed all the rules) :

Like this!

Anyway, let's take a better look at their booth, shall we?

You can buy products here

These are the services available in this exhibition

Get an IDR 100.000 voucher if you sign up to their One Dat Nail Workshop in the exhibition! (the workshop will not be conducted in the exhibition, don't worry!)

I was really stressed up about my over grown gel manicures and especially the crazy long nail extensions so I got to get them removed there

For some reasons, L kept on snapping my "semi candid" pictures when i was pulling the weirdest expressions zzzz

The nailist working on my nails

Working with the soak-off. It was a total pain getting rid of the 3d Nail Art because it was so thick T.T

Then to show you what you can do with the free gifts from Me-Nail, they used them on my manicure ^^

Painting my nails with a pale baby pink nail polish

They used Morgan Taylor nail polish in La Dolce Vita

Then the nailist started slicing off the fimo L picked for me, this was the very first time i am using fimo on my nails so i was really interested because one stick of fimo can produce lots and lots of pieces so i get to bring the rest back and try to use them myself at home so i had to pay full attention haha

L picked a very cute violet butterfly fimo for me, she really knows her cousin's taste well doesn't she?

Applying the fimo and adding a bit of nail art because the nailist said it'd be prettier with a branch so that the butterfly's actually perching on something haha, great attention to details for sure!

The uber cute result (it was just halfway done and already so cute!), oh they also used another fimo in ribbon shape for variation

Then the nailist cut off some water nail decals

It was a bit tricky to use, you have to remove the plastic layer, dip it in water, take the sticker (but it's more like a print than a sticker) off from the wet paper

And place it on the nail

Voila!

Slight variation on my left hand (knot hair tie courtesy of Lulla)

All pastelly, glittery, fluttery result! So perfect for my personal style :D!

You can also ask them to do this with your free gift, but obviously you'd have to pay for the manicure and nail art haha.

My friend LL also joined us later :

Here she is showing the nailist her pic taken in the booth

And she got her free gift right away (this was taken with my Ipad, that's why the color's so pale hehe)

In this exhibition, Me-Nail's "sister" company/colleague Bangkok Beauty also has a booth :

They also have a special offer, get IDR 200.000 for treatment packages!

And you can also buy genuine Thai body products here!

I want to thank Me-Nail for having me (and for the uber cute manicure) and for my dear cousin who picked me up and drove me home safely hahaha. Me-Nail and Bangkok Beauty would be there until 12th April, come and say hi!

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A Date with Oline :D

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Hellow, everybody!

Like i mentioned on a previous (two) entry, i went out with my little blogger fellow, Oline, on one Sunday afternoon :D.

One of the many many pictures of us that you will see in this entry :P

Had lots of fun *gossip time, teehee!* and finding out new ridiculous facts, like how Oline was actually one of my NEPHEW's schoolmate back in primary school (and they went to the same high school for a year before he moved into Papua) *___*. It was so weird and shocking, i mean... how am i hanging out with my nephew's peers!!!! LOL. But it's safe to say, Oline is one of the most mature 17 year olds that i've ever known, and she's a great company! Btw, calling it a date's actually a bit misleading because my hunny (well of course, you know i don't drive!) and Baby Boy (and his nanny) tagged along-but Baby Boy spent majority of the time at the arcade while hunny went and wandered around by himself, so it was an almost date lah hahahaha.

Oh anyway, i also mentioned sometime ago that hunny bought a new Samsung NX 300 (or someting like that, you don't expect me to know a gadget's type, right??) that i still haven't show you yet (it's featured in one of my outfit post that got pushed to the back becoz i have other things to blog about, like this one :p)-and he brought it out for a spin so naturally i made him snap lots of pictures of us! And i refused to believe that my poor little pink Sony camera (that #Undecided christened Pinko) is such a lowly camera compared to this thing that costs him about 3x of my Sony! So i compiled a little side by side comparison and let you be the judge :p!

Left-Pinky Sony, Right-NX300

I personally thinks my little Sony still produces prettier pictures, but that's probably because we have not mastered the handle of the NX-300? I mean, going from a point and shoot pocket camera to a semi DSLR overnight? Will take a bit more getting used to. Especially for a dinosaur like me.

Btw, i do realize i look like a giant next to teeny tiny little Oline, i think she's like 15 cm shorter than me? And she was wearing little heels while i obvi, stuck to my flats. This me and G all over again, where's #Undecided when i need her height to balance everything hahaha.

And before we move on, what beauty bloggers would get together and not take selcas? Oline and i agreed that nobody can take our pictures better than ourselves *LOL*, selfie FTW!

Then we stumbled into pretty Christmas decors and of corz, more pics!

Another side by side comparison, left-Sony, right-NX-300

Since Oline's so tiny, i feel like i'm taking a pic with my two kids hahahaha. She's even smaller than my niece BB (i think. Or maybe they're about the same height, but BB's almost always on a very high heels...)

Pretty Christmas tree taken by my hubby, he's getting better with his new toy i think hahahah

And TP has such pretty Christmas decorations now, i am impressed!

And here's that day's damage :

It's not as bad as it seems, those Kiehl ones were free gifts!

The only thing i actually bought (other than a sort of "stocking-filler-for-a-bday-pressie" if there is such a thing, in Daiso, where Oline also bought the only thing for the day-aromateraphy diffuser that didn't really work hahaha) in TP that day : scarf (for our HK trip of course, you know i only own one scarf -also from Payless-that i totally abused in our whole Europe trip) from Payless, on a 40% off (paid IDR 59.000 for it). Here's also where i learned that Oline's shoes size is 35-which is around the same as Baby Boy's-and she often buy kids shoes hahahaha :D, i'd say lucky her! Lots of cute and cheap (er) girl shoes out there!

Like i also mentioned in previous post, our main reason to go to TP that day was to join Kiehl's donation program, where you can donate your used books (as total bookworms, hunny and i had quite a few to give away) or toys and you'll get a rather generous thank you gift (a deluxe sample+3 sachet samples each). I think Kiehl's forever running these fun and meaningful programs and i'm always happy to join in the merriment! Thanks to Shasha's tip, or else i wouldn't even know that such a program even existed!

Having said that, i do have some open criticism for Kiehl's management, they seem to have some problems passing through the information for their programs to their branches or in this case, their customers! Shasha told me she saw the twit (or was it FB) about this program starting around 8 and actually went there with the books and all, only to be turned down by their BAs, who informed her that the program only going to run on the 14th and 15th. Weird, should've put more accurate information up as to not confuse people, IMHO! Also when i tweeted to their account asking how many books i should bring (because i do not want to bring less than i should, right?), and they didn't bother replying me until about two days later, AFTER the program's over. What's the point then? LOL (and FYI, turned out you can bring one book and they'd still accept it and give you the gift, how incredibly generous!).

Regardless, i still think this is a wonderful program, i'm looking forward for this kind of program from Kiehl's (and any other brand) where you get to shoot two birds with one stone. You get to do something nice and you even get a gift! Wonderful!

Here are what hunny and i get. I think they have different products for male and female since Oline's exactly the same as mine

Orange Flower & Lychee Skin-Softening Body Lotion (65ml)

Rare Earth Deep Pore Daily Cleanser (30 ml)

Clearly Corrective White Skin Brightening Exfoliator (sachets)

Nashi Blossom & Pink Grapefruit Skin Softening Body Lotion. I'm super happy that we got some body lotions because my hunny's skin in a very scary condition right now (it's getting to a point that everything's peeling and red and super bumpy!)-i first thought it was the soap or body products he's been using (which is weird because he's currently using the ones that usually works really well on him, yet it's not showing any signs of improving!), but now we conclude it must be Surabaya's rapid decline in temperature's making his previously already troublesome skin went even more cuckoo. Anyway, i sneakily slathered a LOT of Kiehl's body lotion tester in some desperate attempt to see if it would help his skin in anyway while waiting for the BA to prepare the gift, and we're super surprised that his skin actually softened and improved at least 50% when we reached home! Damn him and his skin, would we have to buy Kiehl's body lotion from now on *choked* zzz.

Facial Fuel Transformer

And Midnight Recovery Concentrate that gave me hell when i tried to snap its picture and i lost patience so here's the blurry picture of it. I tried so many times!!!

And these...

We actually stopped by at GC where Katherin was (apparently other than the many professions of hers that i know of, she also teaches piano!) supervising her students who are competing on a piano competition because our order from Cherryculture.com had arrived and i couldn't wait to get my hands on them! Oh, Kath2 also has a cosmetics and clothing online shop on FB (where she tortures me daily with pictures of beautiful stuffs! Damn!). Kath2 also passed some stuffs that her and Oline's friends (they told me this new group formed since the Collection event haha) ordered (Poor Oline only ordered ONE concealer and it was lost in the mail somehow!) and we met up for a bit with them later in TP to pass the stuffs to them. They immediately played with their new toys and in the process, managed to add more and more stuffs in my ever-growing wishlist FML. Like the Jordana Twist & Shine which i plan to get in every color sometime in the future *FML again*. Well, at least i already have one color down i guess...

The stuffs i ordered from Cherry Culture (it was when they were having a 20% off discount). I also ordered a top (which Kat2 managed to forget to bring *LOL*) and more stuffs from Ulta that haven't arrived yet

Milani Illuminating Face Powder in Beauty's Touch. I always admire this beautiful thing whenever i saw it various blogs and always wanted one, so when i saw it on sale in Cherry Culture, i just knew it was time to make it mine...

Jordana Twist & Shine in 04 Candied Coral. You know how crazy i am over chubby stick-style lippies like this! I have a growing collection and when i heard one of the girls said that it's better than Revlon (and half the price, well more than three quarter actually), i decided i'm gonna add more colors on my collection from this brand zzz

While the Sleek one's actually Oline's. She seems to be a lot crazier than me that she stocks up on the same make ups (!!!), and she's selling some of her spares that she doesn't need

I've always wanted Sleek's products, especially their trio blush on (and their eye shadow palettes and pout paints, the list goes on)-so when i saw Oline selling her brand new one at IDR 145.000 (most online shops sells it at IDR 180.000, some even go as crazy as IDR 250.000!!!), i snap it up FTL!

Sleek Makeup Blush by 3 in Lace. It's a lot more vibrant IRL i dunno why my camera picked the color up so pale! Guess i need to learn to operate that damn NX-300 afterall!

It's so pretty and Kat2's had a crazy cheap Sleek make up PO (it's already closed now, sorry!) that i... *ahem* ordered another one in Sweet Cheeks (hey, it was only IDR 140.000 for both the blush and eyeshadow palette, it's a good thing i only ordered one, i really really was tempted to order the eyeshadow palettes in Snapshot and Candy as well...)

And that's it! Not so bad at all right! Me and Oline really behaved ourselves in TP that day, so proud of ourselves *LOL*. Before i go, must show you my OOTD first :p.

Hmmm yeah, i do feel like i have millions of this kind of striped dress *LOL*, it's super comfy and easy to wear though and there's a little twist in this one!

Black and White Lamb Sleeved Skater Dress : Online, Red Obi : from my mum (i think she bought it in Mangga Dua)

The criss cross back!

I like a pop of color to wear with my monochromatic outfits and i almost always seem to pair them with reds somehow, so boring! Add a little strawberry hairpin as well

FOTD, my bangs' getting long again it's getting super annoying!!! But it managed to kinda concealed my crumbly eyeliner-Maybelline's Hyper Gloss liquid eyeliner is SO not waterproof! I have a leaky eye (the usual stuff) again that day, and half of my left cat liner was cut off because of that! ZZZ

Oh, you'd see in our earlier pictures that i wore a glossy red bag, it was one of my favorite bags actually (i used to wear it nonstop for a while, i've been searching high and low for a glossy red bag and i finally found it and couldn't be happier!) but then since i have so so many bags, i kinda forgot about this one in the nooks and crannies of my massive wardrobe, then i remembered about it when i planned to wear a red bag so i decided to bring the old gal (it really was old) for a spin and guess what... It crumbled like crazy LOLOLOL.

So embarrassing, thankfully i'm not so easily embarrassed when it comes to crumbling things, i guess i am used to it already WTF. Usually it's my shoes that crumbles (after being stored for far too long) and in fact i was a bit worried that my zebra and red lips flats (that i last wore in July or something) would crumbles, but it was the bag that bit the dust. Oh well, at least i did get a very good use out of that bag, unlike the shoes (that i usually wore once or twice haha) before. Needless to say, a red glossy bag is on the top of my shopping list now.

Toodles!

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