Pink and Undecided: sleek makeup

Shopping Queen is Back!

But then again she never really left, did she? LOL.

How was your weekend? Mine was pretty nice even though i felt (and still do) a bit like a zombie (tired and a bit sleepy all the time, this also explained why i went missing from this blog for the entire weekend-which is almost unheard of), but i still had lots of fun. Spent everyday in different malls since Friday *LOL* hence more shopping that prompted this title :p. At least i didn't shop at all in Sunday, went to watch Wolf of Wall Street with #Undecided (and our hubbies) instead. It was good, funny in the most ridiculous (a bit crazy really) way. I think we enjoyed it more than our hubbies. Plus the jokes were not always the most obviously funny ones, you know clever lines and all? #Undecided and i laughed like two maniacs... to a very quiet (and seemingly confused) cinema. The jokes kinda got lost in translation, so i'd advise you to skip the translation and LISTEN to the dialogue instead, it'd be 1000x funnier.

Anyway, this is actually another haul post (i'm sure you didn't expect anything else from that title), but i seem to go through the phase of being too lazy to do my weekly haul and post my old hauls (which are severely long overdue) AGAIN, and skip to a newer haul (but being an OCD that i am, i'm pretty sure i'd still cover those old hauls anyway, just not sometime soon *LOL*) altogether. But there's a little story behind this time's haul...

I actually went out with my cousin L on one of our usual girly day out (it's been postponed quite a few times, since December actually. It's nothing new when you're dealing with L of course, i didn't even believe that we were really going to go before she BBM-ed me telling me that she's picking me up in about an hour, that's when i began to get ready), haven't been hanging out with her a lot lately so i kinda missed her. As usual, when i go shopping with her... I kinda ended up with more of the "branded" items *sigh* (because in Indonesia high street brands are considered "branded" if you know what i mean...

Some beauty boxes also arrived that day so i ended up with even more stuffs. I just chucked everything together for this pic but will do unboxing entries separately.

Actually L's main goal for this shopping date was to find outfits for his hubby for their little's son's upcoming birthday party which has a pretty cute theme (she's even having a themed-dress tailored, which is pretty suprising because we're talking about boyish L here-she also meant to look for shoes to fit this dress), but again as usual she managed to not get anything from her list and bought totally unrelated stuffs altogether (like clothes for herself *LOL*).

First we went to Next to look for stuffs for her hubby (and apparently a loose sleeveless top for herself, which we found hundreds of that day but nothing suits her taste, typical) but she left with nothing and i did with something *double sigh*

This crazy cute bear beanie! It was IDR 157.000 something after double discount (it was on sale already but i got even more discount for using HSBC credit card)

Now, i mentioned this plenty of times-i am NOT a hat person. Most hats look ridiculous on me and i only had two hats (one that i wore to SG/JB last May/June and another beanie that i bought in Amsterdam to wear on the snowy mountain of Switzerland!), but weirdly the crazier designed (mostly cartoon type. Or the ones with crazy pointy ears or whatever) suits me *ZZZ*. I showed this hat to Rosemary and she said she didn't know if she should laugh or what *LOL*. #Undecided and G thinks it's super cute though (i do too obvi) and i think i should be able to pull it off in Hong Kong (with their crazy fashionable people and all) *off in about two weeks, excited!!!!*

Then we also went to Zara (used to frequent Mango more but their prices seems to switch and now Mango became crazy expensive even on sales-totally weird because most of their clothes are now made in INDONESIA!-Zara's sale are becoming more and more affordable) and i... Unexpectedly (but unsurprisingly) got some stuffs...

This super thick knitted cardi. They were having crazy sales on their thick jumpers/cardis, but most of them were a bit furry and i HATE those type (always gets in my eyes and mouth because they shed like bunnies. Well, do bunnies shed though?) but i was kinda determined to find something thick (because i don't own enough, i even had to borrow coats from my sister on for my European tour) since we seem to travel to colder countries more now. This one was so pretty when worn i couldn't NOT get it. Plus the original price was IDR 799.000 and i got it for IDR 269.900. A total steal or what?

And a super slouchy, roomy (so oversized even this S size totally engulfed me), comfortable and CUTE long sleeved tee. For IDR 129.900 i didn't think too much about getting it

I stopped myself after getting two (even though i could get at least 10 more if let myself, of course), L got herself a very cool blue Burberry-patterned chiffon jumper. Sometime after coffee (and L *who's currently having a sorethoat-which she claimed to be her first EVER her whole life. How could anyone never get a sorethroat for her entire 30 years??? I mean... I get it every few months at least* had late lunch mixed with a great dose of moaning and whimpering) i remembered G's info about Bling's sale!

They have sections that went for IDR 19.900 each (normal price up to IDR 109.000 or so, madness!)

I got them all for IDR 19.900/each, a total steal!

Huge owls earrings

And swallow ones. Clearly the theme for my earrings shopping was birds...

1 statement ring

And a daintier, star shaped one :D

I also finally were able to pick up this red bag from Urban Outfitter (it's Fossil's) that i've been eyeing for a while but when i finally took the plunge (it was pretty pricey, IDR 2.050.000 but you can pay it in installment, which made it justifiable for me :p) it was sold out in the stores (the red ones, which is the most striking one. The blue and orange ones were still available) but the employee in TP (the ones in GM just said "We don't have it" and ignore us immediately) actually went and look for it in their online store, found one in stock at their warehouse and ordered it for us. I waited for a VERY long time since their first promised arrival date (the date was pushed back a few times afterward) for various reason, the latest one being their warehouse was flooded in Jakarta (which is a very legit reason, but if they ordered it immediately after i gave them the down-payment, Jakarta wouldn't even be flooded yet!) zzzz. But alas, it's finally here and it's well before Chinese New Year (when i have every intention of wearing it).

My mum pays for this btw :p

And here's my OOTD for that girly day out, i am going through a casual-but-still-girly outfits now (which CW called "my sleeping wear phase" i guess). I actually bought a huge bulks of these clothes a few years ago (but never worn them yet, obvi) because i love them so much (and they were so cheap, so so so cheap zzz) but i kinda forgotten about them in my massive "brand new clothes" cupboards and only been wearing them pretty much non-stop lately.

My new uniform : Super loose top (they always ended up being very off shoulder somehow, that means i'm very slopey right?) with casual mini skirt

Loose Top : Cotton On (it was SGD 2 or so, and it was when SGD was so much cheaper, so it was like IDR 14.000 WTF. I got it in every color, i have like...6). Striped Army Green Skirt : Cotton On (also crazy cheap. Maybe like, SGD 3)

I love pockety skirts. I have another one in orange :p

Easy and casual enough for a shopping day. Can be taken off in a flash so i wasn't annoyed when i had to try things on..

OH! I also want to update you about Lola Box (precisely about their January Box)! After posting the unboxing review of their January Box, Lola Box sent me this e-mail with subject : Apology letter.

Dear Mindy,

Thank you for the review of the January Lolabox. We are very sorry that you have received two items in previous boxes already and it was not supposed to happen. We checked our system and you were assigned to a different box variation - it was a human mistake on our end and we sincerely wish to apologize. You will receive a small 'sorry-gift' from us in the next couple of days.

Again we really sorry for what happened and thank you for the support and loyalty up to this very moment.

Apologies,

Cynthia Chaerunnisa
Co-Founder

I find it to be very sweet and thoughtful that they went to all the trouble to explain that to me (i know most beauty boxes wouldn't even bother to), and i stood by my words that Lola Box has the best CS for local beauty boxes, they are always attentive, polite and makes me feel VALUED. This little package arrived last Friday :

They sent me (a full size) Elianto nail polish in S04

I'm pretty impressed (though they claimed that they made a mistake, they DID send me a box already and even though some of the products were repeated, they were still perfectly good stuffs-even if the box looked quite empty in general) and totally cemented my faith in them (at least in their CS hahaha).

Like i said, i decided to chuck my newest beauty hauls (the ones that i got more or less around the same time) here :

As you know from this haul, i suddenly had the urge to order Oriflame (out of nostalgia) and Sophie Martin stuffs. And ever since that, the BCs (who are G's colleagues. G's totally like my supplier, the non-profitted one hahaha) seems to target me *SIGH* and keep on shoving new catalogs my way (Big fish! Big Fish! Probably what they see me as now).

More stuffs from Sophie Martin

Celebration Eau de Parfum. I have absolutely no idea how this would've smell like but the packaging (and cheap price) was enough for me to say "Screw it!" and go for it anyway. I can always use it as a room spray if i'm not keen on the scent...

Party Girl body mist, also no idea how it'd smell like, completely sold by the shimmering body mist idea. LOL.

Got this for free (for purchasing the Party Girl body mist). Will come in handy since i alway seem to lose my hair ties..

Duo Phase Make Up Remover. Just because i always run out of them (so stocking is always a neccessity), and being a beauty blogger mess with your brain-whenever you see a product that you USE from brands you've never tried that particular product from-or maybe if a new variant's available-you just automatically want it.

And Oriflame of course

Pure Skin Hide & Treat. Because i am a sucker for foundi/concealer that promise you to keep acne at bay/would treat your acne so it'd be safe to wear without fearing it'd break you out. Oh, and it was on promotion

Pear & Nectarine Eye Gel. Because it sounds delicious (and on promo)

Power Shine Juicy Lip Gloss. Just throw in the words "Limited Edition" and "Special Price" in one sentence and you'd get me hooked. Got it in Peach Cocktail because i do not have enough orange-ish lip products (it's fast growing though)

I also ordered some stuffs from Kat2 *again* :

Yes, my second Blush By 3 because it was too-cheap-to-be-true. paid IDR 140.000 for this most online shops sell them at IDR 165.000 at least

Got it in Sweet Cheeks this time (SO PRETTY!!!!) and i will not stop until i have every variant. I was gonna order the eye shadow palette too but i'm gonna spread it out a little. That's my current manicure btw, painted my nails some metallic blue polish from Collection (of course review can be expected)

I also gave up and ordered one Peripera Love Fairy Tint Glow Stick because Kat got an "insider" (actually another beauty blogger who lives in Korea and got back to Indonesia for a holiday) so it was on a special price. Got it for IDR 96.000 when most online shops sells it at least 20.000 more expensive.

Got it in #1, it is so pretty i immediately regret buying only 1 *___*. Another thing crossed from this wishlist

The biggest box (Demalogica Overnight Skin Rescue set) was a free gift from Kat2, how very generous of her!

I also decided to use that Ishine voucher from VT again for the lipsticks last Saturday because Buy 1 Get 1 means one lippie was only IDR 37.500 (they retailed for IDR 75.000 each, just ignore the price tag that stated IDR 95.000, i dunno what's up with that) and it was too good of a deal to pass on. In the end i used almost every voucher in that book (see my previous haul here) save for the powder (not cheap enough) and eyeliner (have too much eyeliners already. And also not cheap enough)

Like i said earlier, i do not have enough orange-tinged lip products. With three new ones in this entry alone, i should probably slow down though

09 Rose Corail, a bright orange-red

And 03 Rose Carnation, orange-ish pink

Also visited Guardian (our must-visit store LOL, such aunty/uncle) because i needed to stock up on Sweet Dreams (insomnia gets better after our evening yoga sessions. Did we ever tell you we have an instructor over to #Undecided's place twice a week now? #Undecided's totally hilarious on every classes-she has too long limbs and a bit creaky hahahah. Anyway, some nights are still rough so i just want to be prepared if the stupid insomnia decided to strike at any time).

Hunny and i are smitten over these Orginal Source shower gels (newly available in Guardian, showed up sometime around this last month), we bought a few of the bigger sized ones (and because my haul posts are so random in terms of time frame now, i haven't even covered them *LOL*) earlier this month (i am such a weird OCD person, i wouldn't let him use them yet because i want him to use up the older stocks firsts, but he smuggled and tried them all out already and he loved them. I am not so happy about him de-virginate our no-longer-brand-new shower gels of course), and then hunny spotted these tiny sized ones and insisted on buying them "to bring to Hong Kong". Yeah right. We have like, 20 of these tiny travel sized shower gels waiting to be used. But how can i resist such cute (and yummy smelling) shower gel, only IDR 10.000 each (50ml)?

Definitely our new fave (a good thing that they are super affordable too), to-die-for smelling shower gel!

Original Source in British Strawberry Shower

and Original Source Black Mint Shower Hair & Body (for men. But i will give it a try too :p)

I will collect every single variant they have soon, it's a promise! LOL. Speaking of Guardian, they are having this Buy 1 Get 1 promotion on selected Silky Girl products, since i still do not have the grape and cherry variant of the Pop Soda Lip Jelly, i wanted to get them *naturally*. Unfortunately they have this *kinda stupid, frankly* policy that you have to buy the exact same variant. Now, who would buy two grape lip jellies??? Not me! Grrrr. I mean, i understand if you have to buy 2 of the same variants when it comes to like, medicine of whatever. But decorative make up products? It definitely doesn't work that way!

Anyway, i have a new obsession now when it comes to beauty! I've just recently (last Friday actually) got my hair re-touched (and 20 cm chopped off my hair. It's definitely not short but it's the shortest i've gotten in the past few years!) and am very blonde (not bleached blonde, mind you) right now. I've been having this hair color for years but only NOW i realize how starkingly BLACK my eyebrows are. I kinda freaked (out of nowhere), eyebrow pencils and powders doesn't work for them (because they are very thick and jet black) so i hope an eyebrow mascara will suffice! I've ordered them from Chic-Princessa, waiting for it to arrive now...I guess freaking out about how mis-matched my eyebrow and hair are is another "perk" of being a beauty blogger and reading too many beauty blogs... *i've been sighing a lot in this entry, so here's another one SIGH!*.

Chinese New Year's coming soon! I'm pretty excited *and feeling broke at the same time*!

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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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