Familiar ground

Hi ho, I meet my Blogger and Flickr account again after so long!

Well, I could have blogged more often if not for my photoshop not being on this macbook (now 2 years old). The free photo editor (gimp) has served me a good while but the interface was just user-unfriendly :(

I found out just minutes ago that PhotoScape has a new mac version - which is a savior! I used Photoscape eons ago with Windows and never really needed Photoshop besides shaping my face (oh yes, that little evil liquify tool) which I don't use now because I can't be bothered at this age to look good on screen. With all the instagram and dayre going on, I wonder who's still reading blogs. I just find that blogging on a laptop is easier (i hate touchscreen blogging) and dayre just isn't good for backtracking entries because it stays on mobile, and the entries are dated so you can't search it by title.

Dropped by yesterday to the Night Festival and was excited to check out the faces on the trees.. It was a rainy evening so my shoes were soaked in mud. Not the best place to be at, really. It started off at the area opposite Cathay (Handy Road?) with stalls of food (eg. Windowsill pies were there with a booth) and also $4 Ramlys. Couple of beer booths as well which sort of reminds me of the time I was in Vienna, for sorta wine fest! Gosh, I still can't find nice, sweet whites as the ones I had in Vienna ( somehow the brand Sterling came to mind).

These are 2 out of 4 less freaky ones (the other 2 looked pretty freaky, I told JS it looked like some halloween party we're at)

Pretty amazing how trees become canvases when light is shone on specific areas.

Also did a round of shopping and colored my hair to a darker shade.
It looks black now before it fades to a lighter shade of darker brown. I'm quite sick of going for hair sessions ( well I did rebonding/treatment/dye/treatment) and it took up so much time during weekends :'(
This should stop for another 3-4 months.


Quite happy with the shade! Lined my eyes with my newly purchased Dolly Wink liquid eyeliner in dark brown, smartly purchased with Dash (which JS & I signed up for and had $20 credit).
I just had to top up $8 for my eyeliner after my Koi BBT purchase!
Will do a review on the eyeliner after some use.

& for my craze over cushion foundation (and yes I'm still using them daily)

Here's my very own Hera UV Mist Cushion
I've probably used it for a couple of months now.

But I haven't used very much of it.

My thoughts on this product
- Great coverage, if not better than Iope.
- Cooling sensation as of what other CFs offer
- Sets in well and does not require much touchups in the day
- Matte texture
- Casing's much smaller and lighter than Iope's

The only reason why I am not reaching out to Hera as much is because my skin is still pretty dry now (I'm on Accutane) and this doesn't give me the moisture I very much need. However, I really like the entire packaging and will consider purchasing Iope refill just to fit this dainty looking case!

I've also read couple of articles on fake CFs so I do encourage that you read seller reviews if you choose to purchase online (like I do!) :)

And here I upload 2 videos that pretty much round up my Phuket trip in late June :)



My next travel's gonna be Hong Kong in October to meet friends and attend wedding, perhaps have some good old Hong Kong food (I haven't been there for close to a year)!

Till next Saturday - I'll probably do a weekly weekend update :)