Whats Up

It has been a very looooooooooooooooong time since I last wrote an entry !

Well.......... I have lost the interest to blog....... or too caught up with other things ..... and... nothing really interesting to write.

What have I been up to.

Nothing much.. going around dolling ladies up, did some makeup for Carrefour's catalog photo shooting, partying..  watching movies... looking at my cute lil cat ....

Currently, really hoping that the girl I deal with for Carrefour shooting gets my payment ready real soon... it has been a month since the job. How hard to just gives me my RM400+ ?

I have been struck with some bad lucks on gadgets.

1st, the LCD screen of my canon ixus 4.0 of 3 - 4 years died.

2nd, during 1 of our home cinema time, my hubby spilled beer onto the laptops I've always been using at home, and it died.

3rd, we fixed an old pc of ours to be used by me, but after few weeks, it died too, because of some rain water, the pc is near to the window, and we have forgotten to closed it during one rainy days.

Currently, I'm using another set of old pc, with a very noisy fan, so I'm getting noise pollution whenever I used it. I will just turn on the radio to kinda distract my mind away from that irritating noise.

I have bought myself a new camera, cheap and good I must say. Panasonic Lumix DH1. At very close range, it still produces very crisp image.

My lovely Miao Miao :D

Next up, would be to plan to get myself a new laptop. On a tight budget now, so........ I shall see how.

Another week to go, I will be celebrating my 1st Wedding Anniversary with my sweety ! Time flies ! I have a surprise for him too ! I told him I was shopping for his present the other day, Merdeka Day, and every where, the que to the parking area was INSANELY long........ therefore I did not buy it. Also he was being naughty that day, so I told him, maybe GOD is telling me he does not deserves the gift, and so he agrees himself too and wasn't expecting any.

So what gift I got him, anyway, despite GOD's telling me? His much needed sunglass. He needs to drive around under the bright hot sun alot, and he always told me he couldn't stand it, and he lost all his sunglasses (from his dad) due to his carelessness, so.... is time he gets one. He told me he likes Oakley and Police brand, and so I went to check out the products.

I was at Focus Point, and carefully selecting the designs from Oakley. Oakley has better warranty/repair service here and the designs are nicer compare to Police. I think I spent like 20minutes to decide on which 1 to get :P though exchange are allowed within a time frame since I told the sales girl I'm buying it for my husband.

The funny thing is, the 2 designs that I have narrowed down, 1 cost about RM810 and another about RM630, the RM810 comes with a casing, while the Rm630 only comes with a sunglass bag (those soft cloth type, in which case it also act as the cleaning cloth, as the lens is using special material which is best to clean with the bag provided). For items so expensive, shouldn't it comes with a casing and the cleaning cloth?

Anyway, I bought the RM630 Oakley sunglass which is a sporty type, because it has the rubber grip at the right places to prevent it from sliding due to sweat and which I think it would suit him more. Also it is within my budget :P Furthermore it is under the Limited Edition (if I didn't remember it wrongly), Live Strong line by Lance Armstrong, in which every sunglass sold, $20 is donated to his cancer foundation thing.

I hope he would take very good care of this sunglass and never loose it !

After our coming wedding anniversary, comes my birthday and our belated honeymoon trip to Krabi ! Can't wait. Sun Sea Beach Food Relaxation

That's about it.

Here's my latest pic for the day.... Merdeka Eve at Sanctuary... freaking hot after they revamped the whole place some time ago >_<

: : : My Back Needs A Break : : :

Wow ~ it's been a month since I last wrote.... Nothing inspires me to write :P

Well... since the last " My Little Glen" party.... went clubbing with MyBoy again last thursday.... yeap ~ after that such long period.. while in between he went to chill alone. Nothing interesting that night .... guys on  our table were a bit boring... or was I too intimidated? Probably... when I'm not high enough... I just don't dance much or laugh much.. haha..

When I was high enough.. a guy cheered with me from another table.... then after some time.. we sign language each other to something like this ... "u ok??" .... "yea... I'm good"... Then after a while .. I realise a cute guy with a cap.. with cute curly long hair.... jawline length.... was siting at our table ! His friend was just next to me... Probably they were too tired standing around and our table's stool has nobody sitting on it so....

After a while they went back to their own table just behind me.... and not long after that... the friend next to me tapped me on the shoulder, I turned around and he was cheering with his cup asking me to drink with him. Too bad... my wine was all finish...and our table was empty,coz the other friends finished all up and they have left actually.

So he gave me their cup of beer... and then he asked me to go drink with that cute guy ! hahaha....... the cute guy's friend ask us to bottoms up. So we did. Then the friend wanted to ask me to join their table and asked if I'm alone... but I told them I was with a friend.. and they ... "oh..ok .. is ok then.. " -__ - "

Why are guys such a pussy? I'm with a friend doesn't mean I can't join you............

So.. after that MyBoy came and said is time to go home...

I actually told him about the cute boy thing.... hahah...... I wonder.. why those guys always come approach me on the wrong time? When I'm damn high.. and can hardly made up what they are saying -__ -"

Ok.... clubbig aside.....

I woke up at 3am today.. get myself ready and headed to my studio to get ready for the makeup session for our 1st outdooor shooting for our Pre-Wedding Photography portfolio. I was drop dead tired and sleepy few hours ago before I took a nap. My back was drop dead tired and sore and it is asking for a holiday !

We went to FRIM (Forest Reserve Institute Malaysia) for the shooting.... and head back studio after that for some quick studio fun shot...

Our models.. Narges and Dawn. Thanks to the heaps for the hardwork !

haha.. a poser me for the record.... I felt tiny standing between them.. =p

: : : Cute Little Glen : : :

21 Jan 2010

What is the best thing being your own boss? You could club at any day of the week, especially weekday or even Sunday without having this thought in your head... "aw.... tomorrow have to go to work ! can't even stay late... " or "How am I suppose to wake up for work tomorrow?? geez ~ "

MyBoy told me few days ago, "You gonna makeup pretty pretty.. and I'm gonna bring you out and show you to the world" ... when he is tipsy.... so it kinda makes it a cute sight to see and listen to. :P He did brought me out, for clubbing at Sanctuary, The Curve.

It's been quite a while since we went clubbing together, mostly he went out to chill without me, and I will always be eager to hear what kinda funny or interesting story he has after that, even if it involves girls...I'm still very interested to know.. hahaha. So today, going out clubbing with him, I was hoping it could be fun.

It did turned out fun, and I got myself a cute little Glen.

We were there quite early, 11.30pm, but was surprised that the area infront the DJ's stage was quite packed, so we were at some corners behind, still good. Well, we were being ourselves, just drinking our wine, chilling, wasn't really dancing probably because the music doesn't really makes me wanna dance.

After a while, 2 girls came over to our table, they were talking to MyBoy, after that which I got to know that they met previously and the girls spotted him so just thought drop by to say Hi. Later on, they invited us over to their tables and that's when the fun began.

That table, had bottles of Glenmorangie, I think.... 4 - 5, of which about 4 were still unopened. Apparently, they were friends with this 1 dude, whom is quite rich and spoiled brad I suppose. MyBoy told me before that he would just suddenly breaking glasses in the club, or bottles of liquor, for fun ! While we were at that table, they ordered a few rounds of Fire Lamborghini, I took 2 sips. I couldn't really taste the alcohol, but I suppose it was quite high in percentage, coz after that.. I was pretty high.

Well, I'm still able to behave myself. While the girls were chatting MyBoy up, the guys were busy getting their hands on me. While I was just dancing with this A guy, his friend, B came over and pulled me away to dance with him... hugging me and stuff... and so... I just 'layan' (er.... in english.. I suppose means... simply entertain him? :P ). Mr. B is pretty high already... after a while he went somewhere... and then Mr. A back in the picture, and chatting me up, dancing, and hands all over.

On their table, they have 4 boxes, each contained 4 mini bottles of Glenmorangie, I ask Mr. A, what was that for? He doesn't know, it was so cute I wanted to open it and drink ! lol.......... In the end, I grabbed 1 of it.... in time before MyBoy said is time to leave...

That's my cute little prize, Glen. :P

: : : New Toy : : :

My 1st entry for 2010 ! I haven't being blogging a lot lately. Must be getting lazy to write ! haha.... or... nothing really exciting to write... or I don't get as excited to write what ever happens around me as I did when I started  blogging 5 years ago !

Anyway....my makeup business has been doing great for the start of 2010 ! All weekends have been booked for jobs and trials. I am happy with it. Gotta get more !

I will be getting new student for my makeup workshop next month ! Will be taught at my spanking new studio in Bandar Sungai Long ! Now, gotta tie up all the loose ends ~ the final touch for the shop.

Went to "Ho Ching Yuen" yesterday to grab some stuff at an awesome price ! Ho Ching Yuen is actually a place of haven for all fashion related stuff, this is where all wholesalers located ! From clothes, to shoes, to blings & accessories, to mannequin & shop fittings ! It is located near Pudu Jail, just behind the Fire Station along that road, I think is Jalan Hang Tuah. *I'm bad at remembering KL road names !

What did I get?

I was thinking about what stuff to hang my bridal gowns with, the portable bridal stand (with wheels so you can push it around) or a proper wall hanger that you see in fashion outlet. I saw 1 wall hanger, which is actually used for drying clothes in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 2 8ft bars at RM260, plus installation it would be around RM390.

The bridal stand at Pacific Artificial Model Trading Sdn Bhd in Ho Ching Yuen price at RM185 for 1, I need at least 2, so is RM370. However, after more browsing, I saw they also selling wall fixtures too, with brackets, steel bars etc. So I opted for that option. The wall fixtures for gown hanging only cost RM76 for 2 8ft bars, 6 brackets to hold the bar and 2 railings to hold the brackets on the wall !

Gown hanging problem, settled ! Now, mannequin to display a gown at the photography studio downstair (to create some awareness for passer-by, so that they know there's a place for gown rental / purchase ! ) I always thought mannequin would be quite expensive, from what my parents told me and Derrick, can cost up to 1k. However, after browsing through the collections at Pacific, I was amazed at how cheap it can go !

I have a mannequin from my big brother (he used to be in fashion industry ages ago), however, it has no arms ! I couldn't get only the arms at Pacific as it wasn't bought from them, and mannequin has many different sizes so it might not fit. So, I have to now figure out how to make my mannequin not look weird without arms when I display my gowns at my own studio ! I bought a simple yet nice mannequin at Pacific for RM185 ! I'm pretty happy with it and love it ! hahahaha....This would be used at Futagoza Studio.

Other than that, I also picked up some hangers for the gown, RM1.90 for a wooden hanger ! CHEAP ! Wanted to get the gown cover, however, it has to be custom order of minimum 300 pieces at RM20/pc ! *faint. have to pass ~ Then I picked up some jewelry display unit for necklaces too !

So, total damages for Mannequin, hangers (10pcs), jewelry display (3 unit), wall fixtures (10 items) was RM336 !

Well, before I move the mannequin over to the shop, I had some fun playing with it !

My new toy displaying my wedding gown ! After 4 months of hiding nicely in its cover, now take it out for shooting... haha.. next to it is me, wearing it during pre-wedding photo shoot.

Here, displaying the wedding dress I ordered online from China

Here I am, wearing it for a fun shooting.

Here, displaying my evening dress I wore during my wedding. This is also the dress I made for my makeup competition ! haha....

This is me in the evening dress during my wedding... Didn't take much photo of me in this dress from the front :P

: : : Shopping Spree : : :

Last Friday I wanted to drop by Ikea to return an item, but holly shit ! I couldn't even get into the car park ! A lot of cars were lining up to get into the car park ! Oh well ~ what to do, it was Hari Haji + School Holidays + Mega Sale, so I should have anticipated the insane amount of people flocking to the malls.

In the end, I went to 1 Utama. I can't really recall what I need to buy from there now, but I needed to get something. So what did I bought?

As I passed by Estee Lauder's counter, I was so tempted to buy their Blockbuster collection ! I just love these things ! hahaha.. I love to collect those luxury looking cosmetic bag/case, limited edition brushes, many colours in 1 case eyeshadows, blushers, lipstick etc etc. Plus, it is cheaper in this kinda all-in-one palette thing or package. I am thinking either to get the blockbuster collection (need to buy RM260/240 worth of products and entitled to buy that collection at RM260/240, which worth over 1000), or the lipgloss collection with a gold pouch or another eyeshadow palette collection with blusher brush + lipstick + lipgloss + nail colour + mascara + eyeliner pencil + a nice evening clutch !

This is the Blockbuster collection... it also comes with a nice mirror !! oh oh ~ and also Look-book telling you how to get that look ! If let say I were to buy the eyeshadow (single colour at maybe RM60) alone, the 15 eyeshadows in this collection already cost RM900 !! Makeup stuff overseas is so darn cheap ! It only cost $55 with any fragrance purchase!

The lipgloss collection....

Not only that ! I also caught my eyes on Bobbi Browns's Chrome palette ! With 10 eyeshadows, 4 lip colours and 2 brushes in a compact case, RM350 +. A bit pricey though. Bobbi's special palette is always on the pricey side. Example, 4 eyehadows pricing around RM180, while M.A.C's 6 eyeshadow palette in nice nice casing cost around the same ! I like M.A.C's special palette because of the casing and also their funky colour, while Bobbi's more for their very wearable colours, which most people will like.

Oh well ~ I ended up buying a few necklaces and a tiara for my business, at special rates ! Gotta go grab more of this costume jewelry sets, probably at this shop in Giant near my place at 50% off ! I also bought myself a smaller size concealer brush from Makeup Forever, pretty handy, good to use and cheap too (for branded).

Other than that I also spent big bucks over at Shu Uemura, which after that  I am entitled to go for their makeover + A4 portrait shots promotion and also a 7pcs skincare set.

So, how did their makeup artist at Shu Ueumra road show faired? Unique way of dolling me up (for my MUA), putting eyemakeup 1st then only the face foundation, which according to my MUA (Makeup Artist) is that she need not worry about all the mess she's gonna make while doing my eyes ( which mostly is the eyeshadow powder falling down on your cheeks/under your eyes, well I have seen FORD Model's MUA Johnny Lavoy did that too ). Which also equals to alot of removing the mess with remover and rubbing... not so good I guess... for Johnny Lavoy, he uses something special, like a under eye mask thingy to stick it under the girls eyes while doing eye makeup, and then peel it off when he's done and proceed with the foundation.

My MUA did an ok job for my eyebrows, which I need to inform her to draw closer to my nose so that it will make my eyes look closer, as I am naturally born with eyes that is a bit far apart, if not she could do something with the eyeliner, in chinese, we called it 'pull angle'... haha... which means extend the eyeliner further at inner corners. Hm..... I think other than myself and my makeup teacher knows what to do with my eyes to make them dazzling, I haven't come across any other MUA who can do that. Of course I only realise this after I learnt the art myself, otherwise, I would think what they did is nice :P I now know what is best. My eyes are my best features.

Overall, my MUA faired good. The photo below was her work... hair is by a hairstylist.

This is the ONLY decent photo I can get out of around 10 pics that the photographer took ! I don't know if the photographer was really interested to take nice photos or he just can't seem to spot the best angle of his client's features or the posture that he instructed me to pose were just bad, I think I could pose better on my own and look good in the photos ! I think this session was already over and done with in 5-10 minutes ! O_o"

Compared these photos to those that I took before at Estee Lauder's portrait road show, Estee Lauder's photography service was way better, there I could choose a lot more nice photos and I even want to have them in CD to keep. For this Shu Uemura's, I didn't even bother to do so.

Ok... portrait aside, now purchasing experience at Shu Uemura. I was dissapointed. I thought I wanted to try out their acclaimded Nobara stick foundation, therefore I had the sales advisor servicing me to help me choose the shades. You see, 1 thing which is not good about Shu Uemura's Malaysia website is...

No. 1 - it was always so outdated ! Now is already Dec 2009, and their 'What's New' stop at May'09 !

No.2 - their Nobara cream foundation already been changed into stick form, and the website still featuring the old packaging !

No. 3 - the way the foundation shades are arranged is odd. ok.. from right to left, it starts with lightest shade to darker shade and then suddenly continue with another lightest shade to the darker shade.  For those who are noob, they will think, what is this??? For me, I suppose they have shades for yellow undertone skin and pink understone skin, hence the way the shades are arranged, but still, I couldn't figure out which shade is for yellow undertone and which is for pink undertone, because there's no description about the shade's coding at all !

So, because of No.3 above, I couldn't equip myself with enough information about their foundation's shade before I head to the counter and choose the shade myself, therefore I need the help of their advisor. That's how it lead to my disappointed purchase experience. The advisor recommended me the wrong shade ! It looked fine when she tested on my hand, but it turn out too pale on my face.

Ok, so maybe I was on a bit of the wrong, since I know best how to test the foundation shade over the counter, but then, imagine I'm a total noob, what she did was wrong. She should have tested it some where near my jawline, to see if the colour different from my neck. Worst still, she recommended the wrong shade !

Since I only found the shade doesn't match me after I used it the next day, I can't return it now, I drop them a complaint over their website ! I couldn't find the contact us link in the website, so I thought I just drop the complaint at the US's site, after that only I found out that I can do that ONLY after I logged in as a member ! So does that means, non member can't drop feedback at the site? >_< Anyway, I shoot the same complaint via the Malaysia' site !

So now........ I shall wait and see how long will they take to respond to that, since they are so slow on the website.

As for the Nobara stick foundation? I can only used it as a eyebase or mix it with my usual liquid foundation or with a darker shade foundation for my customer -_-"

What I have learnt? I should have just brought my trusted L'oreal Perfect Match shade G2 foundation along and match it with the new foundation I'm gonna buy.