My Beauty Wishlist 1

I feel like adding my make-up kit lately and I’m sooo into online shopping these days..
Suddenly I got a good news from a friend that, Watsons in China is on sale up to 60%! Whoa, that’s a REAL BARGAIN. Not skipping this opportunity, I ask my friend to buy me some products, only if they are really discounted at 60% off! LoL…

Cleansing products:
1. Kanebo Kracie Cleansing Oil


2. Kanebo Naïve Oil


3. Kose Cleansing Oil


All products are from Japan, since their brand is quite well-known and I saw their prices are quite cheap (compared to other product lines in the same brand).


Sunscreen:

Kose Fasio Sunscreen SPF 50++ PA+++
This product line is quite cheap as seen in sasa.com.


Decorative make-up:
1. Koji eyeliner pencil waterproof:
I’ve been using this pencil liner, I got this from my friend who went to HK last Xmas Holiday. This is totally a HOLY GRAIL!! Cheap product with high quality! <3 it!!


2. Kanebo Lavshuca blusher:
I found this on super SALE @ sasa.com, not sure whether it’s also on sale at watsons. But if the price is under 200k, I think it’d be a cool product to buy!


3. Skin79 Diamond BB line “Star Glow Ball Powder”
This product is the cutest temptation!! I’ve been watching this product for a while and really into this product because of the ball powder. This product is a blush and also a highlighter. I found it on sale at the website (only W.10k=Rp 100k). I’m really hoping that it’s also on sale at watsons, otherwise, the price is quite expensive (W.25k=Rp250k)! (sigh!)


4. Majolica Majorca Spice Blush
I found this blush cheap on bobodave.com. But since I’m not buying from international web, I have to be patient to wait for other chances :p. I’m attracted to this powder blush since the last time I got a make-over from Make Up Store. The make-up artist applied a mineral blush (which is powdery) on my cheek, and I was really satisfied with the result. So, I hope, this powder blush can give me the same result as the Make Up Store did.

Skin79 Hotpink Edition

This is my recent haul from this online shopping. This Package arrived on Wednesday, 11 March 2009, so it's earlier than expected ^^. I'm glad to receive it, as i got some extra samples (though i just ordered 1 piece of compact powder). So, i've tried the pact and the BB cream. Thus i want to review these two items here.


My Skin tone: ivory (quite fair with yellow undertone).
Skin Type: Normal to dry skin, non-problematic skin.

Product brand: Skin 79
Product name: Hotpink BB pact SPF 30 PA++
Nett weight: 15gr.
My Rating: ****

The package of this powder is not really appealing to me, however the shocking-pink color might be attractive to some people (yes, the colour is quite cute). This powder is attached with a mirror, standard powder puff (with a light fragrance), and clear plastic cover to put the puff on.

This powder is not a two-way cake powder and only comes in one shade only (it's quite fair). It's claimed to give a sheer coverage to skin, which I feel is indeed yes. The powder is also slightly fragrant, just like the puff.

That day, i just apply my emulsion & BB cream hotpink as the base of my make-up. I left the sunscreen behind, because i think the sun protection from BB cream (SPF 25) and BB pact (SPF 30) is enough. With a light application, the powder could give me a brighter and even skin tone. When i touched my skin right after application, i felt my skin was moisturized enough. It didn't look cakey nor oxidize after a couple hours (note that i was going through a HOT journey on the bus and sweat was all over my face!).


After 12 hours, the powder still stayed (although it faded a bit, but i could still see the that it still covered my skin good enough). However, when i looked closely to my nose, i saw some brown spots clogged my pores (which never happened to my previous powder, i believe). I'm not sure whether the spots was caused by the powder or the BB cream, but as it didn't really bother me, i still rate it 4*. Yes, I'm quite satisfied.


Product Name: Hotpink BB cream SPF 25
I got this product as a free sample. It comes in a cute small tube, also with a shocking-pink colour. This BB cream also comes in one shade only and it's claimed to have 3 functions: whitening, UV protecting (SPF 25 PA++) and wrinkle free. This cream also has a light fragrance.

The texture of this cream is light and very blendable. That's why, it gives sheerer coverage than Dodo Club BB cream. What i like about this BB cream is that it could help moisturizing my skin.

My "going-to-church" LooK

Tonite, i put on some make-up before going to church..
This is my appearance right after the make-up session.



The keys to my look:
1. The Skin Food Bean Moist Emulsion
2. Dodo Club BB cream
3. Etude Moist Finish Pact #2
4. VOV Baby Cheek #3 (strawberry soothing)
5. Japanese Brand Eyeshadow (i dont even know the brand, it's just written in japanese): bought it from Sasa HK for only HK$ 15. hehe
6. Viva Eyebrow pencil.
7. Revlon Colorstay Liquid eyeliner in black.

And this is how i look after 3 hours. Not so much different, aye?? Unfortunately, my cam is not really good in capturing my eye make-up, so i cant possibly take a closer look for my EOTD (eyes of the day).



Anyway, i really love my EOTD, coz i used my new eyeshadow-blending brush from Masami Shouko. This really made my eyeshadow colours blend well, regardless i just used some cheapy Japanese-drugstore-brand eyeshadow from Sasa HK. Here is the picture of my "magic wands" and eyeshadow of the nite.



The other brush is my blush-brush. This one is also Masami Shouko's, which i think, can apply my blush really good. I'm satisfied of Masami Shouko's brushes and looking forward to buy a foundation brush soon. ^^

Make Up Store Make-over ^.^

Last week, i went to Make Up Store (MUS) shop @ EX to get a 'private beauty class". But apparently, they just did a make-over to me with detailed explanations about their products (yeah, it was more like a promotion, sigh!) Anyway, some products are indeed extraordinary, while else are just so-so. Here, i'm going to share only some products that are highly-recommended (by me). ^^

First, let's see my total look, all by Make Up Store products.


So, these are the products that gave me this look:
1. MUS skin serum for Dry skin: the texture is in the middle of water & oil, non-fragranced and easy to absorb. A very small drop for my entire face.
2. Liquid Foundation (also for dry skin): it was applied with foundie brush. It blended well to my skin-tone. There was also a small drop of the foundie brought to my face. I saw it just gave me a sheer look. Well, i dunt need to be highly-covered anyway :p.
3. Loose powder (in "milk" shade): It was applied with a powder brush, so it didn't caked up on my face. The powder is very light and non-perfumed (but it was slightly scented like a flour anyway). I'd say, you can see the difference when you touch the powder by your finger. It feels very smooth.
4. Mineral Blush: the powdery mineral blush is shimmery (the shimmer is very light/microfine textured). It gives me complete natural glowing look. I really love the effect it gave me.
5. Lipstick & lipgloss (in "wobble"): i felt the lipstick was smooth and moisturizing. The lipgloss made the gloss just perfect!! (unfortunately in this pic, the lipstick & lipgloss have been faded, since it was taken after i reached home T_T)
6. Eyeliner (in 'white'): it was applied to my waterline, so it gave me a fresher & wider eyes.

At the first hour i had this make up on, i didn't feel any difference with my casual make up brands (etude, Dodo club, palgantong, etc). However, after 2-3 hours, i started to notice the glow they gave to my face. When i touched my skin, i didn't feel the powder, but i merely felt my face was naturally moisturized like a baby's skin. The glow from the shimmery blush just made my face even better. i definitely L.O.V.E this make up!!

The products which i used, but i didn't review:
1. MUS Microshadow
2. MUS Gel eyeliner
3. MUS mascara (highly non-recommended item)
4. MUS Concealer (to cover my under-eye)
5. MUS cleansing water & MUS treatment toner: cleansing ritual before make-up
6. MUS Cake eyebrow

My iPod NaNocHroMaTiC ^^

I'm very grateful dat i got this gadget from my lecturer. His name is Thomas Apitzch, he's from Germany and teaches me Writing for PR at school. I do contribute a column for his web: http://www.fim-jakarta.com/ , tagged as XLR and filed under XLR Asian Movie Review. I write movie & drama reviews for this web. That's why, you can find some of my reviews there.. hoho

Anyway, about getting this iPod, i was lucky (and blessed, of course) dat i got the chance to do a test drive for a week on this gadget. Afterward, i had to write a review on it. So here is my review:

Ariesa’s iPod Test Drive

“Santa Claus, Santa Claus, I want an iPod for this Christmas”. And finally my wish was granted on January 5, 2009. It took a while for the iPod to land on my hand, maybe because of the shipping process from The North Pole or, let’s forget it and go straight to my review.

When I clutched the iPod in my grip, I suddenly thought, “No wonder everybody is drooling for this gadget. It is very cute, yet handy and sophisticated”. I am glad that the iPod was green as, according to a leading fashion magazine, the color is truly hot this year. The keypad was very soft. You can simply touch and turn your finger on it to move the cursor. It was very sensitive, so there was a keypad lock provided at the top.

After I had reached home, I straightly went to connect the iPod to my PC. When it is connected to PC, the battery is charged automatically. So you don’t need to spend more hours to shut it down and charge. Frankly speaking, I was unacquainted to this gadget. But I have downloaded an iTunes before, so the songs in my music library could be uploaded immediately, as the music format was already matched to the iTunes format. When I want to download another song, I can download from 4shared website for free. Then the newly downloaded songs will be automatically added to iTunes.

However, I met a problem when trying to add videos to iTunes. The video format could not be automatically converted by just drag-and-drop it to iTunes library. Then I went to google “iPod video converter” and thank God, there were some freewares that I could download. I downloaded Videora iPod Converter. On the web, they have various softwares for any kind of iPod, which could be downloaded for free. But, if you find it useful, you can make a donation for the web, only if you want to. Well, that is quite fair, in my opinion. Anyway with this Videora software, I just need to select any video (with any format) and convert it in a click. The conversion period does not take long and the newly converted video would be sent to iTunes right away. I found it very easy to do.

As I continued with podcast, I signed up for an iTunes store account. I had to be very selective when choosing any podcasts to download ever since, otherwise I would be charged for purchasing something.

I was quite confused about podcast thingy, and tried to do research by googling (I found the explanation on the Apple web not very helping to understand). Then I googled for a Chinese podcast and found Chinesepod website. Unluckily, the podcast subscription was not available in Indonesia iTunes Store. However, I could still download any episode of the podcast. So I downloaded one episode about “Australian People’s Love of Sport”. Unfortunately, the people who did the role play were very boring and seemed to be unnatural when conversing.

But if you move to US iTunes Store, you will find everything available there. It is very interesting because it has everything you need, from education, entertainment to news.


I subscribed to audio podcast, Newsweek on Air. I found two advantages by subscribing to this podcast: first, I can always be up to date with the headline news around the world, such as Gaza tragedy; second, I can become accustomed to listen to people speaking English with any accents, I believe it would be very helpful if I take English Proficiency Test like TOEFL or IELTS, especially for the listening section. In this Newsweek program, they have anchors and correspondents to report, give opinion and analysis from their point of view.


Since I love to exercise, I also subscribed to Ford Models Fitness podcast. I downloaded Kim Strother’s Progressive Abs Workout. The video podcast was very beneficial as it helped me to change my basic abs exercises to be tougher and more challenging. I usually bought exercise VCDs, but with this podcast, I can possibly save my budget as it is free to subscribe and download this podcast.

After getting the iPod synchronized, I immediately tested it. The voice from the earphone came smooth into my ears and I started to over enjoying that moment by singing my favorite song, which was being played. Apparently, some songs were broken and the iPod skipped them right away and played another ones.

Then I started to watch some videos on it. The color is bright and the resolution of the LCD is excellent. It is even better than watching on Youtube display. Even though the LCD is rather small, I could still read the English/Chinese subtitle. When I watched my Taiwanese film, it was subbed with Chinese characters only. I am not excellent in Chinese language, but if I can listen carefully and read the text at the same time, I will be able to understand. Thanks to the iPod which gave me distinct voice and video. This can obviously help me learning even mastering this language. However, I don’t think it is a good idea to watch serial movies on this iPod, as your eyes will get exhausted easily to look at such tiny screen. Moreover, your arms and hands will also get sore if you hold it for length of time. Anyway it is still very good if you just have a little spare time like 30mins to an hour to watch a movie on it.

There were some games provided in the iPod. But I did not really play it, because I am not a gamer. However, the games were quite easy to play. You just have to turn the iPod from one side to another, and the ball will follow your direction.

Finally, here are my conclusions for the review,
Pros:
1. The design of the iPod is handy and attractive, the color is very young and juicy.
2. The keypad is sensitive, so the provided key-lock is really useful.
3. iTunes program is easy to learn and operate, you can directly go to iTunes store in the same window.
4. Many iPod video converter softwares are available, even for free.
5. The podcasts in iTunes store (especially the US’s store) are various and helpful, you can have anything you need for free.
6. The voice is very distinct when playing both song and conversation.
7. The LCD color and resolution are excellent for both photo and video.
8. When watching video, you can still read the subtitle clearly.
9. The disk space is HUGE! 8Gb for sure!! That’s a lot of videos and music!!!
Cons:
1. You can not delete anything directly from the iPod, you have to go to iTunes first to delete or add anything.
2. You have to convert your video before it can be placed into iTunes and played.
3. The LCD is rather small, so it does not suitable for watching movies in a long time.

XiaoLing says "Hey" ^^

Hey there fellows,

Welcome to my blog. This is the place where i share some parts of my life (yes, some parts! not all! hehe) But, most likely i'd share the good part ones, so it can remind me those happy moments and wonderful things dat come into my life.

Before going to any other talks, i'm going to tell you random things about myself first ^.*

Name: Ariesa Lie/ 李 小 玲
Date of Birth: April 5, 1988
Place of Birth: Jakarta, Indonesia
Spoken languages: Indonesian (bahasa), English and Chinese (i'm going to start my French course by tomorrow ^^)
Hobbies:
- watching Asian dramas (esp. Taiwanese & Korean) with romance-comedy genre,
- shopping-shopping-and shopping XD,
- net-surfing,
- singing @ the Karaoke,
- eating snacks (i dun't really like "heavy" meal but i'm definitely insatiable for chips & chocolates xp),
- exercising (@ home) just to get in shape ^o^,

What i L.O.V.E:
1. SUSHI.. never gets enuf of it.. xP too bad dat i just can eat the ones without shrimp and i don't eat raw food..
2. Coffee with milk & sweets.. i also like mocha & caramel frappucino @ bucks ^.*
3. Chocolates : either dark or milk choc, i love them all!!! hohoho
4. Levi's pants-- i just love the cut which makes me feel sexy when wearing them..
5. Esprit watches-- the style is just simple and elegant, they just go with any of my outfits
6. Freebies-- Lucky is my middle name, and Jesus gives me blessings in every way.. I get freebies very often and their values are quite high: iPod nanochromatic, watches (Esprit, Puma, Tommy Hilfiger, elle), Levi's pants, cosmetics and Crocs shoes..
7. SUPER SALE-- shopping is my biggest guilty pleasure, especially when it comes to super sale-branded items ^o^
8. Korean Cosmetics-- Love the packaging and how it goes on my skin <3.. They look sheer and enhance my overall appearance. My fave brands are: Etude, VOV, The Skin Food.
9. Traveling-- to other countries, esp. the uptown area & theme parks.. Yes, i like cities, high buildings and the crowds
10. Foreign languages

So, i think that's enough for 'about me' section. Anyway, you're gonna find out soon the real me after you read my posts.

I hope you enjoy reading my blogs and not forget to leave any comments on my posts.

GBU v^.^v