Too many things?

Hey everybody, it's me again!

Do you have too many things you bought on impulse or things you can't fit anymore? Well, solution is either to give it away, or to donate it if you don't want to go through the hassle of selling!

I have a few places to recommend.

For donation of unwanted but stuff which are still usable, you can try the Salvation Army! They will sort out your items, and some of it will go to sale, to generate some income for their causes!

Image from meginsing.blogspot

On giving it away, you might want to pass them to your friends, relatives, colleagues, or to even strangers on facebook pages such as SGFREECYCLE or SGLADIESFREECYCLE. You might have to ask for approval before you can join their pages. One point to note is that the admin only admits you if your profile is real, meaning you have to use your real account! This works the other way round too... If you are in need of something, and you don't mind second hand stuff, you can try those pages... :D

If you don't mind the hassle of selling your stuff away, you can either sign up for a flea stall, or just sell it online at TEMPOMART or SGFLEA. Point to note is that tempomart and sgflea are mostly targeted at people wanting to buy new or lightly worn blogshop clothings. If you want to sell your stuff at sgflea, you must be a registered user at sgflea, and applications only open at certain timings! So stalk them, and wait for the admins to start accepting applications.

New Shoes

Hello everyone!
I just bought a pair of shoes from a neighbourhood shopping mall for my upcoming presentation!
This is how it looks like.

Want to guess how much it costs?! Only $15.90. Thought it was $19.90 as they did not indicate there was a discount. So I'm happy with my purchase. My feet are relatively small (size 35-36) so its quite hard to find fitting shoes for my petite feet. The first time I went to this shop, the sales assistant told me the smallest size is size 36. Luckily I went on another day to check if I could fit into size 36 with insoles, and another sales assistant said there was size 35. So I'm a happy girl.

Anyway, just to share, if the shoes that you are eyeing is too big, or your shoes expanded over time, you can buy insoles like these:

                                           Credits to a source on google
To put into these shoes to see if it is too big still. If the shoes are still big, perhaps you can try wearing stockings or lady socks like these:

Image found on google as well lol

to make the shoes fit better.

Insoles can be found almost everywhere! Cheap (but not so comfortable) ones can be found in places like Daiso, or neighbourhood shoe shops, and the more expensive ones can be found at like Bata or even higher end ones like Scholl. I think the Bata ones are of reasonable quality though.

The lady socks can be found at pasar malams at 3 for $5? That's the cheapest I have seen, but they are thin. My mom bought 3 for $10, and they are slightly thicker with anti-slip soles. :D

Facebook Blogshop Giveaways

Hello everybody!! It has been a loooooooooooooooooong time since I've blogged, and this time it's on giveaways!

Not mine, but some of the most popular blogshops are giving away apparels and/or vouchers! In case you've never seen them, the few blogshops that are having such giveaways are:

1. Vanity Youth
2. Gipsy Scarlet
3. The Closet Lover
4. The Design Closets
5. Neonmello

They do not require any purchases for you to participate! Most of the times, you just have to like and share their preview albums, and like their pages! However, some blogshops have seasonal giveaways, where the prizes are HUGEEEEEEEEEEEE (read: Urban Decay Eye Palettes!!!), or its a purchase and you get a chance thing, where the prizes are better than the apparels/vouchers giveaways.

So remember to take part!! P.S. I'm not paid to do this post, just wanted to share giveaways! :D

Oh, and Vanity Youth is giving away a COACH wristlet once they hit 500 likes! They are at 139 likes now~ So go like them now! :D

Review: Essence Sun Club Bronzing Powder

Haul #3 from the Essence Warehouse sale!

Bronzing Powder! I bought one because I wanted a highlighter to highlight my nose bridge, and this can double up as one to make my nose bridge appear higher! (Ang mo nose anybody?)

So this is how it looks like...

And this is how I plan to use it!

First, start with a clean face...

Then apply number 5 on the nose bridge! Blend on the nose bridge only, if not it will just make your nose look bigger, which I'm sure none of us wants. This step will make your nose bridge look higher.

Then apply number 3 at the corners of the nose, and blend upwards, to the sides of the nose bridge. This will make your nose look smaller. (Small and sharp nose!!! <3 )

And then if you want a smaller face, you can either apply number 1 or 4 on the perimeter of the face with your natural hair line! Don't do this step with the shape of your fringe if not it'll just look weird. :/ Remember to blend it up! If not it will make you look weird. :/

End product!

Anyways, alternatively, you can just blend numbers 1-5 together using a kabuki brush and apply like a blush to give you a golden complexion I guess... But I'm not too into this tanned look cos I think I look tanned enough even without this bronzer. XD

Quite satisfied with its intended purpose and I think it blends well on me. So I think I quite like it. :) I don't really like the shininess though. But luckily, it is not so obvious. :)

Review: Essence Ballerina Backstage nail polish

Haul #2 from the warehouse sale - Ballerina Backstage nail polish!

I really really think the packaging is so pretty! The cap even has lace prints on it! Really quite good for such cheap nail polishes! Oh, and this colour really made me think of ballerinas doing pirouette practices backstage before performances! Hmm, not sure why, but might be because of the leotard colour which is often pink, like this polish colour which I got.

Anyway, I digress... I got a pale pink colour from this collection, and I love it! (So does my mom cos she loves natural colours)

This is with one coat on...

And this is with 2-3 coats on.

One coat is definitely too sheer, and the natural colour of the nail can be seen. But with more coats, nail is opaque and I quite like that we can control the intensity quite well. :) Similar to the silver marble mania polish though, streaks can be seen (as in the picture with one coat on) if we're not careful... Or maybe I'm just not skilled enough. But no more streaks if more coats are applied! So I guess it doesn't really matter since no one is going out with 1 coat of this only!

Mini Pre-Christmas Celebration~

A little pre-Christmas celebration last evening at my maternal grandma's house cos I got a Crystal Jade Log Cake which looks like this!

I think it really looks quite pretty!

Besides the log cake, which I was looking most forward to (I love the rich and smooth chocolate log cake), we had another of my favourite food! The Pu Tien pa mee! I loveeeeeeeeeeeeee it. The soup was just so tasty. Yum. There were la la and prawn in the soup but I gave them to the boyfriend since I don't take them. :/ But the pa mee was damn nice.

Anyway, my aunt said my face grew rounder. :( Although she said I looked better now, I still feel quite horrified. :( Must be the fast food meals I've been having and me not exercising. :(! But fast food is just so convenient, and normal food in food courts are just so meh, and I won't know what to eat! Maybe should stay home more often and eat mom's bland but healthy and I won't need to think about what to eat!

Oh no, fat alr. :( Serves me right for laughing at my quite-fit-looking boyfriend for being fat, and having a round face. :(

Essence Warehouse Sale Haul!!!

My haul!!! I bought a total of 4 items, and I gave one of it away, so no reviews for that!

The one I gave away is a bright pink nail polish and I think it is mighty cool though I don't think I would dare to use such a bold colour. My friend had wanted a bright pink nail polish, so I got that nail polish for her even though I had not tried Essence's nail polish, but I feel mighty confident in the quality of the nail polish. :)

Anyway, from left to right! Natural pink colour from the Ballerina Backstage Collection, Silver from Marble Mania Collection, and Sun Club Bronzing Powder for Brunettes which I will explain how I intend to use as a highlighting powder instead in the next few posts!

When I was there I wanted to get a glittery brown nail polish from the Snow white collection, but the boyfriend said it will look weird, so I didn't get it. :( I also wanted to get the taupe nail polishes from the regular collection, but it only sold in bulk of 5, so I didn't get it either. :(

My favourite item is the silver nail polish from marble mania! Mainly because it makes pretty snowflakes on deco cards as well as it is perfect for the Christmas season! :)