Valentine Survival...With Love

Happy belated Valentine's Day!! Hope your day was either special, fun, sweet, bearable, or no worse than ordinary, haha. At the least, I hope no one made you cry or broke your heart. Or made you feel bleh. Otherwise...I've got the quick cure for your lovesick blues! ;)

Inglot Goodies

So I kind of rushed over Inglot Cosmetics in my previous post...I meant to say that they only have a few flagship stores in the US (5 to be exact), although you can order online I believe as well as catch them at trade shows. However, I highly recommend checking them out in person if you can. Why? Keep reading, kekekeke.

My cute little Inglot bag

Sunday Fun Day and Inglot Cosmetics

Rainy Sunday this week but last Sunday was such a beautiful day, I had to take advantage of it and go with the flow. I met up with a friend at The Camp in Costa Mesa for lunch at Native Foods, a vegan cafe (yup, my vegetarian days are going so well I'm actually doing twice a week now).

2010 Beauty Favorites

I know we're nearing the end of January but I still wanted to do this. =) In my post for last year's favorites, I said I'd "focus more on skincare products and less on makeup," and I'm happy to say I did. As such, I don't have a lot of new makeup favs, but here are some products that I loved using and relied on in 2010.

SKINCARE
H2O Plus Urban Defense Green Tea Cleansing Milk
I love this! I have Iyah to thank for introducing me to it when she let all us girls try it at our HK sleepover. Immediately after using it, my face feels so soft and also looks brighter!

Girls, Vnecks, Hello Kitty, and Essie Mint

I met up with Iyah for some quick shopping since Iyah was in OC last week. Such an enabler!

My Secret Valentine

Happy belated Valentine's Day/Lunar New Year/Presidents' Day/whatever-else-you-want-it-to-be!!

I did a Secret Valentines exchange with the help of Kay, much like her Secret Santa because it was so much fun and such a great way to spread blogger love!! ♥ In fact, the girls are mostly from her gift exchange. Thank you to all of the following ladies who participated!

♥ Amy
♥ Betty
♥ Diana C.
♥ Erika
♥ Iyah
♥ Jamilla
♥ Lulu
♥ Kay
♥ Melissa
♥ Mika
♥ Sarah
♥ Songling
♥ Tammy
♥ Tia

And surprise, surprise....guess who my Secret Valentine turned out to be?!

Lush Twitter Mini Raffle Prize

Kind of old (really old), but Lush on Twitter was doing mini raffle giveaways last month and I won! (I was one of many lucky people to win since they did lots of mini giveaways.) Coming home to this in the mail box really made me smile.

Review: DHC Q10 Travel/Trial Set

Since I'd finished using the Boscia set and the season and weather changed from warmer summer to drier fall and winter, I'd moved on to the DHC Q10 Travel Set. I was fortunate to receive this from Kay, but you can also find it on the U.S. website. I finished this set just as 2009 came to an end.

Love in a Box from Make Me Blushhh

I got a love-filled box from Mona a few weeks ago. She and I share an addiction for hauling sheet masks and so she sent me tons to try! I took these pictures over a rainy/cloudy weekend, which is why the lighting isn't so good but I really wanted to use some of the masks right away.

love in a box (not pictured, box)

Review: VOV Daily Fresh Mini Pack Wash Off Packs (Part 2)

As promised, here is part 2 of my VOV Daily Fresh Mini Packs Wash Off Masks review (*whew* what a mouthful). From the website, it seems I've actually tried 7 of the 9 types! The only two I haven't tried are the Green Tea and Charcoal.

Review: VOV Daily Fresh Mini Pack Wash Off Packs (Part 1)

I've totally been MIA and will be pretty busy for the next month, so I'm sorry I haven't been around leaving comments but I do lurk around your blogs using my iPhone (another reason why I don't comment, I like to comment from my computer)!

Previously my dad was able to get me some VOV Daily Fresh packs when he was in Vietnam. Apparently it was no easy feat as he was in the big and crowded city (Ho Chi Minh if you're new school, Saigon if you're old school) and it was raining and the streets were flooded. He could only find these 7, which is fine with me 'cause it made for a nice trial period!

VOV in the Housssse!!

You like my cheesy post titles, I know. =P Guess what? I've implemented a VOV Daily Fresh mini pack schedule for myself! haha I know I have issues, because even though I have a lot of masks right now, I still want more!! But I've decided to exercise some self control and these Daily Fresh packs should hold me over the next 7 or so weeks. I'll keep track of my thoughts on each kind (I have 7 of the 9 types) and post once I've tried them all. =)

I went to the VOV website to see if I could find info on the mini packs, no luck since I can't read Korean and can't use a web translator for the site (damn Flash and images-instead-of-text word descriptions), but I saw a new Castledew eye shadow palette that caught my eye!

VOV Castledew DiaCut Eyes (Multi Type) in M 601 Platina Shinism

Random Buys

I've realized that I give my face a lot of love and care and have been somewhat neglecting the skin on my body, so I decided to go by the Lush store in Anaheim at the Garden Walk for a little body skincare treat. =)

Birthday Love From Bihada Diaries!!

So by now you know, I got quite a lot of birthday love...this one is from Kay!! She really did not need to send me anything as I'm still enjoying all the goodies she already spoiled me with from our previous swap, but she did! That sweet and thoughtful and generous girl!

ahhhhh lots of JDM goodies!

Sweet Swap with Sweetheart Kay!!

Suuuuuuuper late on posting this, so sowwies!! The lovely Kay of BihadaDiaries and I did a swap a few weeks ago and it was just love!!

Vroooommm!! Random Drive By Update!

Ever notice how I can be a bit random sometimes? haha

I got an incredibly generous package from the sweet and thoughtful Kay, it totally made my day! But I'll dedicate a post to it once I have pics ready. For now, if you're really curious, just watch the video on my YouTube or else be patient!

Here are some pics of me wearing Benefit's Creaseless Cream Shadow in Samba-dy Loves Me. Samba-dy Loves Me is a great shade! I was in a rush so for my eye makeup I only used that along with my MUFE Aqua Eyes in Pearly Brown 2L and of course curled my lashes and added mascara.

without flash

Swap with NingStar in Malaysia!!

HAHA I was suppose to post this last weekend or early this week...my bad! But here it is, the last part of the video I made. It was a little over YouTube's max time limit so I cut it into two videos.

A Lush Life...

My very first experience with Lush was probably about two years ago when I tried their Ocean Salt Cleanser at a friend's place, and I wasn't too impressed (but it was summer and at the time my face was sunburned). Since then, thanks mostly to the blogging Lush Queen wifey M, my curiosity has peaked sinceI would love for my beauty products to be not only good for me but also good for the earth. So I finally visited the closest Lush store and made some purchases from studying the website and also M's recommendations!

Here's a three minute video, haha...

Marry Me, M?

She makes me blushhh....ahhh she's so wifey material...some of you know her as that stylish pretty New York lady Mona...some know her as a swapper skank teehee...but I know her as my luvahhh!! ♥

She entices me to come to New York and revel in wild nights in the city and shopping sprees with her by sending me these thoughtfully selected goodies! Love delivered indeed!!