Pink and Undecided: christmas

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, you guys!!!!!

My church doesn't celebrate Chrismas so we don't so to church or whatever on Chrismases, but i don't want to miss out on all the fun so i decided to dress up in true Christmas style to go out and took lots of fun photos hahaha.

Thanks to Beauty Camera, i managed to slim the hell out of my hands and arms #sensitivespots

So yea, basically this is just a glorified outfit, makeup and nail post to be honest with ya!

My Christmas outfit, red is a must-of course. Maybe i should take a break and wear green next year...

I actually plan to wear an even more casual outfit, a red tee with white tutu (okay, so tutu is not exactly casual, but when you pair them with casual tee and sneakers they become rather casual i think :p) but as you know, i buy lots of my clothes from cheap local online shops, and true to cheap tee nature-the seam was off before i even put it on -___-. I totally thought the hole was pockets *WTF* and went on to put it one before realizing i had a huge hole at the side of my tee zzzzzzzz. Time was running out (we're watching a movie... Errr, we actually spent Christmas watching Ip Man-which is not very Christmassy at all, of course hahaha) so i just grabbed this (new) red dress from one of my new clothes piles (or should i say, mountains).

Okay lah, this one's okay too, casual enough no?

Still having my period, puffy as marshmallow *sad*

I recently purchased this cat face pillow (mainly for camwhoring purposes), again it's the cheap, replica one hahahaha but it looks okay in photos (which is all that matters, considering the reason i got it in the first place)

Had fun being silly, hunny didn't make any comment so i was encouraged *LOL* (he likes to tell me that i'm nuts, which is not very encouraging at all no-so i prefer silence. Annoyed silence *coz he hates my complaints hahaha*, but still better than being told that i'm crazy :p)

Look how happy i was hahaha. Had to auto edit all the photos because indoor at evenings=not very bright photos at all. If i have friends with me, i'd take pictures at the mall hahaha, but since i was with hunny (and later with L and her hubby) only... Sigh. Next year imma arrange an outing with my blogger/vlogger friends for photo purposes #determined

Decided to not be lazy with makeup and actually wear mascara and multiple eyeshadow colors hahaha.

FOTD/MOTD

I usually associate festivities with silver glitters, but since it's Christmas... Somehow gold is more appropriate?

List of products used :

1. Mizon Snail Repair BB Cream

2. Oxy Face Powder

3. Clinique All About Eyes Concealer 4. DHC Medicated Acne Care Concealer 5. Sariayu Martha Tilaar Eyeshadow Set in Merak Kasmaran

6. Maybelline Green Mono Eyeshadow

7. Turquoise Eyeshadow from Australis Makeup Palette 8. Mai Doll Brown and Black Liquid Eyeliner 7. Collection No Clumps Mascara in Extra Black

8. Maybelline Fashion Brow 24 HR Coloring Mascara in Rusty Browne

9. Canmake Loose Cheek Blush On in 01

10. Oriflame Tender Care

11. Maybelline Color Show Lipstick in 201 Downtown Red

12. Simply Stay compact powder for nose contouring 13. Esprique Precious Double Shine Face Powder

Last year i got annoying comments due to my green eyeshadow, hopefully this year i won't get any more of those *LOL*. FYI, i wear any color that i want, i don't care if it's "not suitable for my small eyes" or whatever. Life is too short to care so much about that kind of sh*t, if i want to wear loud colors all over my face-what do you care? Don't like, don't look!

But the most fabulous of all are.... MY NAILS!

How pretty???? Made by the one and only Kiki Coroline, of course!

I have been resting my nails (which became brittle after months and months of nonstop gel nail art) for a bit, but now fabulous nails are back! Hahaha. The Christmas socks nail jewels are sponsored by Me-Nail-they have all kinds of nail jewels available!

Pressies on my thumbs :D

I've been asked many times how much nail arts with Kiki would cost... Well, since i'm sponsored, i didn't really know-plus it's depending on the style you ask for, and how many rhinestones/3D accessories/nail jewels are used so prices definitely varies. But for this particular design, it costs IDR 325.000-that's not as bad as i thought it would be hahaha. Gel nail arts can last up to a month (!!!) and Kiki's top notch quality's making her work worth every penny. Plus she's using high quality products (and mostly Swarovski crystals) that cost her a fortune really!

Btw, we're planning to have a giveaway to give out nail arts worth IDR 750.000 (!!!) soon, anyone interested?

Okay, back to my outfit please!

I bought that bobble Santa headband purposefully to take photos of course, got it from Scoop! After this all Christmas stuffs would be on sale, i should stock up for next year #sokiasu #suchaunty :p

My cute bag is from Brera (it's an Italian brand, i think), bought it from Blibli at 70% off, from 1mill to less than 300k. STEAL!!!


Outfit details : Santa Headband : Scoop Red Dress with Black Lace collar : Online Bronze Flats : Odioli Bracelet : Online Bag : Brera

We wanted to go to the mall earlier to errrr... Take photos hahaha. But i was so sleepy that i took an unplanned nap and then got carried away playing with makeups hahaha. We also wanted to check out this new cafe called Common Grounds-which we did, but it was very rushed *sigh* since the movie's staring soon.

No edit at the lighting (i slimmed down my arms a bit coz they were just too huge zzz), it's so ideal for photoshoot hahaha

Sorry ah, i spent an hour applying my makeup (i think. I didn't actually keep tab haha) so must make my time spent worth it, no?

Taken with hunny's Samsung G-Note 3. Look at my tiny glass of iced coffee latte. Smallest latte i've ever had, with normal latte price too -___- *unhappy*

Borrowed hunny's phone to camwhore

Oops

Can't get enough of my nails

Nom nom nom (just realized that i put the headband backward zzz)

I look so gluttonous in that pic, but i wasn't hungry at all hahaha. A little note about Common Ground : i love the decor and ambience, but prices are way too high (spent almost IDR 200k for two tiny glasses of coffee and that burger to share)-the burger was okay (love the bun) but the meat's not thoroughly cooked so it got very... Haish how come the only word that comes to my head is "jelat" which is Singlish *LOL*. Let's just say that it made me nauseated after a few bites hahaha.

And the coffee... OMG the coffee... Almost IDR 50K per (tiny) glass-i'd rather drink Starbucks/The Coffee Bean -___-. I mean, it's not that it's bad or anything, it's so-so, but for 50K it's ridiculously small! All my life, iced latte (even hot latte) are always served in tall glasses-and at most cafes they'd cost less than that (just 10K less, but with much bigger portion). Seriously Common Ground, let's have a common sense here (pun fully intended), i really believe that if you plan to stay, you need to increase the size of your drinks serves (at least the cold coffee ones).

Needless to say... I'm not very enthu about revisiting, but maybe i would when i need to take sponsored photos *LOL*, but i'd never order cold coffee anymore, it's just so not worth it -___-.

Anyway, CW and her kids ambushed us, i really wanted to take an outfit photo at the white tiled wall but i was too embarrassed so i was happy to drag BB to pose with me hahaha.

Then we rushed to the cinema coz the movie's almost starting. Will talk more about the movie on my usual monthly movies review, but it's very recommended la. As my hunny puts it "Ip Man's always good" LOL. I, for once, agree with him!

I already posted this on my IG, but imma feature it here too... A sweet, tiny Christmas gift from hunny :

Just because he's sweet and he knows how much i adore kawaii things+Sailor Moon will always be my hero (okay, not Usagi per se. But the whole thing la. My fave's Sailor Neptune!)

I definitely had a great Christmas (and Christmas eve... which we spent eating suki with my 'rents followed with some shopping for moi-i got stuffs for our up and coming winter holiday in January!) even though it's hardly very Christmassy hahaha. Hope y'all had a great one too!!!

Happy Holiday!

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What I Got for Christmas?

bath and body cares

Okay, not really *LOL*.

Hello, hello!

Sorry ah, productivity plummeted a lot this month in this blog *LOL*, too busy doing nothing :p. Anyway, you know i don't (and never) celebrate Christmas, so naturally we do not have any gift-giving session last Christmas (now that i think about it we don't have any gift-giving culture at all except for birthdays. I mean, even on wedding we tend to include cards telling people to give us cash instead *LOLOLOL*. Kiasu Asian) but i was so jealous reading all of those "What I Got for Christmas" blog entries so i decided to make one too. Sort of.

So, what i included in this entry are actually stuffs that i got AROUND Christmas, all of them were from hunny *FHL* but we did call it my "Christmas gifts" from him, because *ahem* i pretty much demand gifts from him for every occasion. I'd be pestering him for a Chinese New Year (and of course, Valentine's Day :p) gift soon enough hahahaha. Just treat this as a more special haul post okay...

My absolute love, Victoria Secrets stuffs!

Even the paper bag makes me giddy with excitement *dork*!

Most important one : Angel perfume set

Since i was whining non-stop for wanting Victoria Secret perfumes (but couldn't justify the price and the fact that i have more than 15 brand new perfumes waiting to be used zzzz ), hunny forced me to pick one as the "main Christmas Gift" (LOL, seriously, he said that! I didn't make that up) but i kept on cancelling because i thought we're going to Hong Kong in less than 2 months and i'd most probably be shopping like a mad woman then, but when we found out that they're having a 30% off on most items (BAD news : Now the discount's 40% off! But fortunately none of the stuffs that i got back then are still available now, yay! Hehehe) i decided it was the right time to get this Angel perfume set.

Original price was IDR 999.000 (faints), hunny got it for IDR 654.000 or something

To be 100% honest, i actually liked a few of their other perfumes' scents better (Bombshell's probably my fave but i have every intention to collect every single one of them) but i am so so so in love with Angel's bottle!

SO PWETTYYYY!!!!!! I cannot stand winged things, i just gotta have them all! One of my most coveted items of all time : a winged high-top sneakers hahaha

And as hunny was paying for the set, i noticed a woman asking the cashier the price of a huge gift set containing 3 (smaller sized) body mists and 3 body lotions, heard the cashier (if you ever went to Victoria Secret's store in GM, you'd know most of their stuffs doesn't have their price tag on and the shop assistants were mostly kinda stupid and not helpful at all. When i spotted the 30% off sale at first hunny went and asked a male SA which items were on sale and he was like "Oh, only these two perfumes" when in fact almost everything was on sale! GRRRR. The cashiers are a lot more helpful (and friendly) so skip yourself some headache if you have any questions and go to the cashier directly!) answered IDR 194.000 and my eyes almost popped out of their sockets!

I mean... IDR 194.000 for 6 items (albeit not the biggest sized ones) was FANTASTIC! So i hurriedly went to gift set section and found this :

This was IDR 146.000!!!! Pure Day Dream Gift Set

The body mist was full (biggest) size and the other two were probably smaller, but still!!! Super cheap!!! Usually it'd cost you IDR 379.000 in the mix and match section (where you can get 3 items : body mist, shower gel and body lotion) for three, which means one item should be around IDR 126.000 (give or take), so this is a pretty fantastic offer! (EDIT : According to #Undecided *who's been using the body mist from this line for a while, i own a few VS fragrances already but not from this line so i wasn't familiar with the sizing*, the body mist WASN'T the biggest size either! Still, for around IDR 48.000 a piece-i stand by my opinion that this is still a fantastic set!)

And comes with such a cute packaging as well

I read on how some UK/USA bloggers wrote that they felt naughty buying gift sets for themselves, but as i do not have anyone to give pressie to (and i'm sure most of those women who also went cray cray at VS' gift set sections at GM also buying for themselves too) i never felt that buying gift sets for myself's anything but normal :p. They are always such a good value for money and super special too! So i do find holiday season to be a great time to hunt for gift sets and stock up :p.

Anyway, i didn't even know how it smelt and just grabbed it because it was so cheap (and promptly told everybody-which caused the havoc around my friends and beauty bloggers i often interact with hahahaha)! Not only that, i found myself regretting only getting ONE set so i *sigh* decided to go back there the next day with #Undecided and check out what other *similar* set they have (this kind of trio set are also sold out in VS store in GM now), there's only one more variant available (and i already knew the scent because #Undecided and her hubby *yes! Really!* use it and i like it) and what do you think? I got it immediately (and good thing too, since they are no longer available now!) :p. #Undecided also picked up the same set.

Love Spell Gift Set

Decided to include the stuffs i got from The Body Shop :p

The reason why we even go to TBS again was because i wanted to use that IDR 100.000 voucher i got from exchanging my points (always exchange your points around holiday season when they accept half of the usual points for the same voucher!) before they expires, and then i saw them having a Buy 2 Get 1 promotion on their mini gift sets, being the kiasu that i am-of course i decided to get them to get even more value for my money (because i didn't have anything specific to get there anyway)-what's better? The cashier offered us to redeem our BCA credit card points, and the bill went from almost IDR 400.000 to IDR 57.000! LOL. Happiness overload!!

Strawberry Body Butter+Shower Gel+Shower Puff Set

Cranberry Joy Body Butter+Shower Gel+Shower Puff Set. It was a bit more expensive than the strawberry one even though they contained the same variant of things and with the same size. Maybe because it's the limited edition that only makes appearance during holiday season?

Peach Body+Lip Butter Set

Then i also got some tees from Stradivarius (i wanted to buy almost everything there *LOL*, but of course i didn't :p. I need more spaceeee).

Love the tees!

I almost always pick up tees in Stradivarius because i really love their super soft material (but #Undecided doesn't like that type of cloth because it sticks to your body and it'd accentuate her tummy-which is her only problem area but my ONLY non-problematic area FML) and also super affordable (even cheaper on sale), their sweaters, dresses, jackets, leggings and skirts were also tempting but still quite pricey after discount and nothing really screamed out to me so i decided to skip them. I think everything that i got this time was under IDR 139.000 each!

I am mad about cropped top lately!

Yep, another cropped top. Even better because its got my fave 3/4 sleeves

The thing that made me returned to Stradivarius on the first place (i saw it before with #Undecided but didn't buy it), so kawaii no???

I found myself getting more and more giraffe illustrated items, and if you're a fellow Running Man fan : no, it's not because i like Lee Kwang Soo okay. In fact, if you've been a loyal reader of this blog then you should know that i LOVE the tiger/commander/Jong Kook Oppa *drool on cue* since i pretty much repeat that in almost every opportunity :P. But i gotta admit, giraffe make a cuter illustration than a fierce tiger :p.

Got this large tote bag from Hush Puppies (special price, IDR 249.000) because it reminded me of Tory Burch bag (i always wanted one because i liked the logo *LOL*, but i don't think i'd spend a lot of money on this kind of bag whereas i also don't want to get the fakes) :p

Best bargain : got this bag on a special price too. Original price was like IDR 400.000 (no, seriously. Who'd have buy it on its original price???? I mean, i don't think it was from a famous brand at alll!) and i got it from IDR 79.000. Heheh. Sorry, i was too lazy to get it out of the plastic wrap, i'm sure you'll see it soon on my outfit posts

And what's this?

Cutest Pony Bag EVER!!!!

As a self-proclaimed Gyaru Mama and a lolita wannabe at heart, i've always been attracted to those crazy cute Japanese biscuit or candy bags i saw lots of J-Inspired fashion bloggers toting in their blogs, but i resisted because : 1. I am way too old to wear them and 2. I live in Indonesia that people would definitely stare , and 3. I might give my super conservative sister a heart attack. But when i saw this to-die-for pastel lilac maned Pony bag (and i just read from one of my fave creative fashion blogger, Lovely Sara that the family this shade, or what they called Radiant Orchid is color of the year for 2014. Again, i always believe i have this ability to in a way "sense" what color would be "in" long before it's actually stated. I've been using a lot of this shade before i even read the blog post about it! Call me "color trend psychic" please! But then again, pastel lilac is 2nd all time favorite color after pink), i just can't say no!!!

The last item would be a pretty weird thing to include on a supposedly Christmassy list :

Risa Sawaswati's third book : Sunyaruri

Why is it weird to include it in a Christmassy list? In case you've never heard of Risa before, she's a writer/singer with a sort of paranormal ability, as in she can see and communicate with no-longer-living-people and even make friends with them. She wrote about her friendship and encounters with those entities in three books (Danur, Maddah and Sunyaruri. I heard they're a trilogy so i don't think she will write about the same "people" in her next book?). I collected all three books and pretty much "fell in love" with her from book one. As a hardcore horror fan, i would say her books aren't scary at all, in fact she calls what she's doing "humanizing" those creatures (that we call ghosts), but i do love how she wave the stories as well as how she's telling the stories.

She's also a vocalist to a horror themed band called Sarasvati . Truth is i first found out about her from Twitter, there was a time in local Twitter scene when lots of "Twit-celebs" twits ghost stories every Tuesday night (because Indonesian believe that the night before Friday's the scariest, most mystical time when all the ghosts comes out hehe) and it was linked back to her. I read about her band and how they bring "kuntilanak" (one of the scariest local ghosts hehe, you know... the stereotype Asian female ghosts with long, flowing hair dressed in white) to their shows and how they burn incense before their performances that adds to the scary image of their band. All and all, my total cup of tea!!! LOL. If you're a horror buff like me (or not, even if you're just a nerd who loves to read, again-just like me) and wants to read good stories, head to her blog here. You might just fall in love with her writing like i did and want to get her books as well!

And that's all of the stuffs i'm gonna show you this time round! Will come back with more hauls soon hahaha. Now you must bear a few self-absorbed pics of me with my "Christmas Gifts"!