Pink and Undecided: skin79

New Week, New Haul (Post) :p

Hi my lovelies!

So i delusionally was convinced that i do not have too many hauls after April, until i went through the photo folders -___-. Damn wrong. Still many to cover *sigh*. So i won't be retiring my Weekly Haul Posts in the near future *double sigh*. You guys seems to really enjoy seeing me lost control though judging by the number of hits my haul posts got *dirty stares*. Hmph! Anyway! Retail therapy really makes me feel great anyway *LOL*.

This week's haul post is still covering my shopping in April >.<...

First package was an online buy :

Black Velvet and faux leather strips with metal squares from Rosemary Online

Maybe some of you remember that i ordered it when i got my first paycheck? I don't remember how much this was, it wasn't expensive though, IDR 200.000? Around that lah (oh, i was right! I just checked at their FB hahaha)

Next stuffs are some Garnier products i asked my mum to buy for me when she went to Singapore (well, it was like a month and a half before we went to Singapore but, i just couldn't wait). Please note that in April Garnier BB cream hadn't arrive in Indonesia yet! I've been wanting Garnier's BB cream since it first came out (probably like a year ago or so) but never gotten around to get it, but my craving worsened because around that time period, lots of Singaporean bloggers raved (well, it was probably an advert, but whenever Xia Xue post beauty stuffs, i would instantly want it desperately, yes in case you dunno yet, i ADORE Xia Xue) about this BB cream so i just had to had it!

But of course, like always. Whenever i want something so badly until i asked people to help me buy them overseas, they became readily available in Indonesia like, within a month or so *glum*. So MADDENING! Andd what's worse is Garnier BB cream's like, dirt cheap here GRRRRRR. Weirdly enough, lots of Indonesian bloggers' reviews rates this BB cream badly, while Singaporean and Malaysian bloggers seems to have nothing but praises for this BB cream. Seriously weird. It's not unheard of that the same products that's manufactured in different countries could differ in performance though, so i probably gonna get myself one locally and compare their performances.

I also asked my mum to buy a few more Garnier products that i don't think is available yet (so far) in Indonesia.

Garnier Miracle Skin Perfector (i just googled the Indonesian version, and it seems to be slightly different than this one that i got. I wonder (and hope) if they really are different? Sometimes brands release different variants of the same thing in other countries afterall)

Garnier PureActive 2in1 Tinted Spot Roll-On, my DHC treatment concealer's almost run out so i was frantically searching for a replacement. I do not want a regular concealer that won't help cure the spot (they'd worsened the spot because they'd clog the pore even more, that's what i believe anyway), it must be one that specifically help to treat the spot. I think QiuQiu introduced this product in her blog (if i remember correctly). While i can always repurchase the (hideously expensive) DHC concealer, i always want to try new products now and this one's a lot lighter on the price department so i thought i'd give it a try

Garnier BB Eye Roll-on (a back up for my under eye concealer hehe)

I was also still gathering stuffs for my Europe trip back then and i was scrambling to find a solid perfume that i can bring into the airplane's cabin (because we're going on a four days worth of journey, back and forth! I cannot survive without any sort of fragrance please!). I then remembered seeing Tony Moly's super cute solid perfume so i visited their booth in Matahari (no time to join PO and i don't think perfumes and bath and body products are necessarily cheaper online than at the counter, different than the make up) and got this :

Tony Moly Hello Bunny Perfume Bar in #3 Dodo Rose

It was a toss between this one or the Green Tea one (surprising because i hate green teas) but L said the green on smelt of wet wipes -_____- (but then again she hated all of the smells, she just hate perfumes in general lah, she prefers sour armpit smells i guess LOLOLOL FHL) and i forever love rose scents so i got this one lah. I am not a fan of solid perfumes though, but i won't talk too much about it now because i am going to make a review of it seperately

I also needed feminine wipes for the plane rides, and we went to one of the supermarkets we frequent (either Carrefour or Hypermart), then i saw some new variants of Citra Body Lotion, i love Citra (even though my mum would get a heart attack if she knows i'm using them because according to her, only mbak2 would use them, or we can use them but for massages only) and i cannot resist any new variants!

I also bought some travel sized skin cares, BB cream and facial wash so i won't have to tote full sized items :

Got them all from Chic-Princessa, my go-to online shop for cheap and complete ready stock items

Skin79 BB Miniature Set. I only brought two of them to Europe, the hot pink and golden one but ended up only finishing the hot pink one! One travel sized BB cream is enough for two weeks of everyday usage! So far i've finished the hot pink, golden (on the SG/JB/Jakarta/Bandung trip) and halfway through the peach colored one (used them on our Taiwan trip). Will be doing a review on them too, but i can tell you one thing : they are pretty awesome!

Etude House Collagen Moistfull Skin Care Kit that i didn't even made a dent on most of them even though i've used it on every trip i went on except the (AWESOME) eye cream that's long finished. I intended to use them on hunny as well, but you know, trips are always so tiring and i ended up forgetting to 90% of the time *LOL*

I would probably write a review on them as well

Samples and It's Skin Mini Bebe Creamy Wash in Banana

Yes, i was madly attracted to its super duper cute packaging!

It's GREAT! And it smelled so yummyyyyy *bananaholic*, will also review this lah hehe

If i remember correctly, i was in Hypermart (or was it Carrefour..) and saw SariAyu on sale, and since i've been loving SariAyu a lot lately but haven't had my hands on any of their lip products (because i definitely don't need them, of course that doesn't mean i don't want them! Beauty junkies must be able to relate to this misery!) so i caved...

SAriAyu Liquid Lip Color Double Action in Merak Kasmaran 02

There's nothing new here, i don't remember the price *LOL*. But i think it was originally around IDR 35.000 and i paid less than IDR 30.000 because it was on a 20% off

I'm done with beauty stuffs! Moving on to fashion items :

Black Scarf from Payless

If you've read my Europe trip diary series you'd see me wearing this almost everyday. Dun remember the price either, it was less than IDR 139.000 (the numbers 89.000, 99.000, 119.000 popped into my head, you know i can go on saying random numbers whenever i am trying to remember the exact price of an item...)

I love Colorbox to death but i almost never buy anything from them on a normal price. This purple cropped glittery top was on a 50% off so it was buy-worthy :p, must be a lot less than IDR 100.000 for me to purchase any top from them, This one was IDR 85.000 after discount

The last but not least item :

Electric Blue Body Con Tube Dress with details on the hips

This was the original price

And it was reduced to this! The dress was pretty enough to wear to parties and it fits like a glove (okay i lied, it was really loose on the chest area like always pffffftttt, i can always wear a heavily padded bra though!) so i didn't think twice and snatched it! Super cheap for a Zara dress, yes?

L tried on the same dress, but since we have a polar opposite body shape and style (even though we're roughly the same size, we just gather fats on very different parts of our bodies ZZZ), anything that looks good on me, she can never pull off (we've tried on the same clothes countless of times and most of the time the fancier ones turns out this way. Not basic and simple ones that would look good on anybody, clearly) and vice versa (like she can wear any sleeveless top and not look scary because her arms are much smaller than mine, but she cannot wear tummy hugging stuffs because her tummy is less than flat, you know what i mean) so she didn't get the dress.

Annddddd, that's all for today, folk! Did i tempt you to shop some more? Please do, so i won't feel too guilty for continue on spending!

Toodles!

#Pink (who's in dire need of a fringe trim)

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Unboxing : My First Lola Box

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Hi guys...

How's your Saturday night? I was having fun with hunny and Baby Boy and then we went to BCA ATM, the drive thru one nearby GM, and when hunny inserted my card into the slot... Nothing happened for the longest time, and suddenly... The screen went blank!!! WTF!!! *sobs hysterically* Whyyy does this kind of thing keeps on happening to us???

Same thing happened twice when we tried to deposit money into our accounts using automatic money deposit machine (i hate you, BCA!!!), and now this happened!!! WHYYYYY!!!! I feel so bad to the online shop that i was about to transfer the money to zzz now i have to wait until Monday to take care of this stupid problem zzzz. I hope the owner doesn't think i'm a "order and run" kind of customer zzzz.

Anyway, i'm taking a break from my European tour series to blog about my third Beauty Box : Lola Box. This box was actually the first beauty box service that announced their arrivals (or should i say, existence? Because they were created and founded here so technically they didn't arrive, did they??) in Indonesia, i totally thought it would be Indonesia's very first beauty box but somehow their launching got cut by Beauty Treats and Vanity Box *LOL*.

Their box subscription finally opened last month (if i remember correctly), their first box was not available for general public, instead they sent their boxes for some lucky bloggers and Indonesian celebrities (as a part of creating a hype for their services). I saw some of those lucky beauty bloggers posted their unboxing of Lola Box's first box and it was pretty impressive, i decided to subscribed right away.

First of all, one thing i dislike about their system was because it was so much more complicated and confusing compared to other beauty boxes available in Indonesia so far. You needed to "wait in line" until your profile got approved by their customer service and only then you can finally subscribed. I believe my waiting number was like 10.000 something *LOL*. That kinda annoyed me, i mean.. I hadn't had to wait just to subscribe to any other beauty boxes. That's why i think i immediately subscribed to their service for three months instead of one like how i did with any other beauty box.

Now that i think about it, was it their strategy? To make people feel like it's so hard to get the boxes that it made the box seems so much more appealing (because so many people were "lining up"-virtually-to get them so it must be good right) and therefore would choose to subscribe to more than one month at one go? If it was, their strategy worked, at least to me. LOL.

Anyway, i noticed on twitter since a couple of days ago people began tweeting about their Lola Box, and i almost got myself crazy with excitement and impatience to receive mine! Yes, apparently i am still very into this whole beauty box thing *LOL*, even if it's the third box i've got so far. That's why i was so happy when my employee BBM-ed me telling me that my Lola Box finally arrived this afternoon, YAY!!!

Here's a peek :

Very exciting contents!!! But first thing first!

I was taken aback a little bit when i saw the size of the box because it seemed to be significantly smaller than the other boxes but i didn't see it as a bad thing and tried not to judge it, after all its what's inside the box that matters, not the box containing it, isn't it?

Inside the fugly white box (that reminded me of cheap bread's box *LOL*) there's a prettier, orange striped box :

It really was the smallest box i've got out of the three beauty boxes i've subscribed too, i should've taken a picture of the three to compare but i was too excited to blog about this that it totally didn't cross my mind *LOL*, maybe next time.

To be brutally honest, the box was the least pretty one out of the three, and it's made of a simple carton while the others were harder and of a higher quality materials. It's also the simplest in term of design, while Beauty Treats came with a magnetic type of box and Vanity Trove with a pulled-drawer type, this box is very simple like an ordinary box that you simply remove the lid to open it.

Unlike the other boxes, Lola Box contents would be the same for every subscriber. Instead of finding it to be a flaw, i actually like that better! This way everybody would get the same things and nobody would feel envious of what the others are receiving (like how i felt with the other boxes :(... i preferred so many other things that was available than what i actually received in my boxes. I think it's better if you don't see that there could be another option of what we might receive therefore you couldn't be disappointed that you get another version, am i making any sense? Sometimes seeing the options are worse than having no options at all *LOL* that's human nature i guess).

There was a little card with greetings from Lola Box and on the other side was the list of items you're getting in this month's box. I think the theme of this month's box' Hello Sunshine, like how it's written in the card.

The list

The theme explains the color of the box (and the wrapping paper+ribbon inside), wonder if the color would change every month? That would be interesting! I love that kind of details!

Very sun-shiny and made me super happy to look at it, even happier when i unwrapped it!

Here're the stuffs inside :

My first reaction? Ahhh, lots of interesting stuffs! I loved it at the first glance! And finally!!! A make up thingy *sobs*, the first time i got a proper make up item out of all three boxes!!!

Let's see the items one by one, shall we! *excited*

Masami Shouko Black Cleansing Sponge : that's the only thing i was unhappy with in this box *LOL*! First of all, i don't use cleansing sponge (i'm so thowing it into a birthday parcel i'm preparing for O *LOL*, O reads my blogs apparently, i hope you'll find this extra piece useful, O!) and second of all, i already got the exact same thing in my Beauty Treats. But that's the only thing i dislike out of all the things inside the box, which is the least number of things i dislike compared to the other boxes! Next to it is : Masami Shouko Black Velour Puff with Handle : this will always comes handy! I love to stock on powder puffs (because i prefer to buy refill powders, i hardly ever buy the compact case *LOL don't really see the point anyway) and would definitely be using this, so thumbs up for the powder puff!

Skin 79 Hot Pink BB Cream with SPF 25++. I actually brought this for my European tour and loved it! I almost finished it and already categorized it into a "to repeat" BB cream so i am very happy to receive it! Plus it came in travel size (exactly like the one i have) instead of sachet (like the BB cream sample i got from Vanity Trove zzz) so it's a good size for trying out a product (sachet samples are zzz... Like, you cannot judge a product with one or two applications, right!). I used mine for more than two weeks and it's not completely finished yet, i think this size could be used to almost three weeks! (and i used them very liberally!) Another thumbs up!

Clarins UV+HP11 SPF 40 Teint and White Plus Total Luminescent Serum (3ml each). Also pretty happy to get these two, Clarins is a very prestigious brand and i believe these two would be pretty stellar products.

Make Over Eyeliner Pencil Brown Latte (full size). So happy to receive this! Not only because it's a make up product (i'm one of those who are much happier to get make up products rather than skin cares!) but also because i've been wanting to try something (anything) from this brand. I also don't mind if beauty boxes features more local branded items (like this). Someone like me would actually be less familiar with local brands (than imported ones) and am less unlikely to purchase local products, so if beauty boxes features local brands more then we'd get more familiar with local brands and more likely to purchase them (if we like them) in the future. Let's support Indonesian brands!

The Face Shop Special Gift Set : Clean Face Mild Toner and Clean Face Mild Lotion (5ml each), love The Face Shop and would be happy to try these two. Another high score for Lola Box!

The last but not least item :

Air-Lift Toothpaste. Some bloggers aren't too keen on getting toothpaste in their beauty box, i personally didn't mind though. It's highly useable (because you brush your teeth everyday right so it's very useful lah!) and the size would come in handy to bring for traveling (but maybe not if you're traveling for two weeks like my European tour *LOL*), i'm so bringing it with me for our JB-Singapore trip next month! It smells really refreshing and minty, as soon as i opened my box their fragrance already greeted my nostrils haha.

In conclusion : i'm extremely happy with Lola Box! I dunno if i'm biased (coz i'm super happy to get that Make Over eyeliner *easy* LOL, my second fave item is the BB cream!) because they gave us make up (seriously, beauty boxes, WE WANT MORE MAKE UP PRODUCTS!!!) or whatever, but it's dangerously leaning to be my fave beauty box! For now i think it's a tie with Beauty Treats (who gave so much amazing stuffs with such a low price) for now, cannot wait to see the second box so i can maybe choose my fave *LOL*.

I also don't think i'd continue subscribing to Vanity Trove since their box's more expensive than Lola or BT and the items they featured also seems very similar to these two. If i like Lola's next box then i'd renew my subscription for another 3 months or more!

How about you? Anyone else subscribed to Lola Box? How do you like your May box?