Sunday, 29 September 2013

Life Update - Where I've been and where I'm going!

HOWDY HO!

Alright, for all those who want to stone me, please feel free. I've been a HORRIBLE blogger/vlogger/youtuber! As I will mention in an up coming video, life has just been a complete whirlwind and I'm still trying to catch my breath! I honestly don't know where the past couple of months have been, and there have been no signs of it slowing down.

For all those who have been tweeting me/instagraming me - yes! I'm still alive! I'm not dead I promise! Thank you for all your concerns and for simply thinking about me, and I feel like I owe you all an explanation so here it is!

So the start of this long hiatus began with my birthday month - July. It was epic. During this time I had two trips planned (gold coast for AMSA, and then  adelaide and melbourne the following week), my birthday party to plan/organise, a huge assignment to do, and finally internship allocation/preferences. And all of this happened while I had Uni everyday!

What happened during August/September then? UNI! It was my final rotation here in Australia and I as I took a couple of weeks off to travel, I had to make it up. And finally, there are some upcoming changes/trips that I've had to prepare for keeping me very busy still!

So, what are these changes I'm talking about?

 1. I'm going to the UK! 
For those who don't know, I'm a final year medical student, and as part of this year we are required to do an elective clinical rotation overseas. I've chosen to go with my mate to the UK for 4 weeks and after that, we will be travelling Europe! My best mates from Darwin will also be meeting me in Athens after my clinical placement and then we will be travelling to Dublin, Barcelona and then Paris, where we will meet up for a topdeck tour going to Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium (not in that order), etc. It's my first time to go to the UK/Europe so I am excited beyond words! My placement will be located approx 30-40mins away from London, so on the weekends we plan on going to London/Bath/Brighton, etc. If you've ever been to the UK or live in the UK, please let me know whats the best way to go about transport! Also if anyone's been to Europe, do let me know how you loved it, where you went and any advice you have for first time travellers!

3. I'm graduating!
After my europe trip, I'll be flying back to Manila, before returning to Australia for my graduation. While this doesnt really seem to be a reason for keeping me busy right now, you will see in the following dot point why it has! 

2. I'm moving to Adelaide!
As I mentioned internship allocations were revealed late July and whilst I was really hoping for Brisbane, Adelaide was my 2nd choice. I'm pretty happy with the move as I'll finally be with family again who will be relocating to Adelaide also, but at the same time it sucks that I wont be with some of my closest mates to start our first day of internship. Not to mention having to make completely new friiends in Adelaide which I'm pretty apprehensive about...but I'm sure things will just work itself out. My biggest worry with this is the move - while trying to pack for the UK, I've also been trying to pack up most of my stuff so that when I come back I will not have that much to do. I'm still also trying to find a new place to live in in Adelaide, but luckily my brother is there right now and can help me out on this. It's just been crazy hectic, needless to say!
 
So there you go. That's my life store for the month of July/August/September. I know I've let you all down by being MIA these past weeks, but I promise you, it was for a good reason! Hope you'll all still forgive me and this gives you all a good idea of what's happened and what will be happening to me!

And before we part, here are just some photos of my trip for you to enjoy :D

Birthday Party:


Gold Coast


Adelaide to Melbourne Road trip


PHEW!!!! And that's about everything!!

 Sorry for the MANY MANY pics everyone, but I could not be bothered splitting it up into several different posts.

And for all the curious minds - no, my boyfriend is NOT in any of the photos I've posted! The asian guy I'm taking pictures with is my brother before anybody asks :)

 Lastly, don't forget to check my vlog channel & follow me on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter to stay updated with my travels!
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Covergirl 3-in-1 Outlast Stay Fabulous Foundation Review

Behold, the highly covetted, and much hyped foundation: Covergirl 3-in-1 Outlast Stay Fabulous Foundation




Foundation comparisons (L to R): Covergirl Outlast Stay fabulous foundation (Golden Tan), MAC Matchmaster Foundation (5.0), Mac Prolongwear Foundation (NC 40)





F.O.T.D:

Face:
Eyes
Lips


So that is what the foundation looked like on initial application. If you watched my review on it, then you would know what I think about this foundation however I'll do a recap for those who havent:

PROs:

+ cheap cheap cheap! At $20 RRP, this is a steal! Compared to the much dearer price of $39 for the Revlon, this literally craps all over revlon for the great quality at such a low price point!
+ Matte (currently a plus for me as my skin has been horrendous - however I feel like its almost a rarity to come across a nice oil-controlling matte foundation at the drugstore!)
+ Amazing blendibility. It's a much much thinner consistency than the revlon colorstay so I feel like for beginners, this will work to your advantage as it would make it easier to blend out and therefore reduce cake-yness!
+ Pump. nuff said.
+ Good colour selection (available overseas...)
+ Decent longevity. I believe the selling point of this is as a "longwearing" foundation formulation (hence outlast, stay fabulous) and it does do a decent job at staying in place and not disappearing. Mind you in the video I did say I noticed some oilyness happening, but when I actually touched my face i couldnt actually feel any oil! So whether that was just my highlighter, I dont know! But I think the longevity is good as a drugstore longwear formulation, however it certainly does not exceed other higher end brands.

CONs:

- Poor colour selection (in Australia...)
- Can be overly drying for normal/dry skin girls!
- I've heard it oxidises (nothing too drastic that I've noticed though)
- Ridiculously hyped up - but it's not like I can blame that on the foundation right?

Literally I'm racking my brains out trying to find cons for this foundation and I cant find any! It's really quite a good great foundation especially for being only $15 AUD from the drugstore! Well done Covergirl for keeping costs low, unlike a certain other braind *coughrevloncough*

Foundation after 8 hours (as if you didnt already have enough pics of my face right? LOL)


I swear to you, it looks sooo oily here but barely any oil transferred! It was crazy weird!



So thats it, no more pictures I swear!! haha. Hope you guys enjoyed that, and if you havent seen the video yet please do check it out. I show you how I put the foundation on and my first impressions!

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Spring/Summer Lookbook Pics!

Hi hi my fellow bloggers! Just wanted a recap of the outfits I featured in my latest lookbook. They're mostly screencaps of my video, but I thought it would be a nice little summary for those who enjoyed it and instead of re-watching the video, can just get the basic gist of the outfits here!

I have taken some better quality photos, but I thought instead of bombarding you with A MILLION PICTURES, I could just put them up over time!

If you have NO CLUE as to what I'm talking about, I've filmed a lookbook video of some of my spring/summer picks, and you can watch it here:

And here are the outfits summarised!

Look 1 - Transitioning from spring into summer!

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Look 2 - Different blazers, different outfits

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Look 3 - Brights from Night & Day

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And there you go! For details of where each item is from, check out the lookbook video. Also, for more high-quality images, stay tuned!

And lastly, if you liked the items, dont forget to SIGN UP FOR DAILYLOOK! That way, all of the items you see here can be made available to everyone, everywhere! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/DLSignUpjm and just use your email/facebook to become a member!

For more info, I've talked about it in my DailyLook Haul which you can watch here:



Alright, I think that's it for me. That's enough shameless plugging. haha! Thank you for all your continuous support everyone and I'm going to keep trying hard to keep new videos coming!

Thanks everyone!
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Saturday, 15 June 2013

My Go-to everyday makeup!


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Products Used:

5. Milani Brow fix in medium (as shadow in crease as well as brow colour)
7. Jordana Fabuliner in Black ( I dont mind this, but as soon as it hits water it runs soooo bad. So ok for everday, but not for nights out/long days/special occasions)


In an attempt to stay consistent with this blog, I've included a list of my everyday makeup below. If you roll-over the image you can see the labels of each. This has been my go-to makeup for the past 3 months (no joke) and I find that it's very uni/wok appropriate that provides slight smokiness but also only ENHANCING the features. It's all very neutral and you can +/- the MAC Paintpot in Quite Natural depending on how smokey you want it. Very often I actually just leave the lids plains (no shadow) and just contour my crease with the Milani brow fix in medium. As I mentioned in my March Favourites video, I love to use the Milani shadow eyez in champagne toast as an eyeliner on my waterline to break up the "matte-ness" of the eyelook, and I also bring it into the inner corners as a highlight. I love doing this in all my look as it just really opens up the eyes and brighten everything up! I love it. And for the price, the milani shadow pencil is a GREAT dupe to the Urban Decay 24hr pencil in Sin (I have that and BARELY use it - I actually PREFER the milani!)

It's a very very quick and easy everyday look, and usually doesnt even taken me 10 minutes. I will be doing a video on this soon, so stay tuned for that as well. But for now, this is the crux of the look and hopefully you guys check out the products I've shown!


And this is my makeup after a typical 8-5pm day! Pretty good right? 

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For those curious, this is the makeup I wore in my Romwe Unboxing Haul: 



Tutorial to come soon so watch this space! :)
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