Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Thicker than water


My sister texted me during class yesterday. It was the first time we actually had a decent conversation. Most of the time at home we show our love to each other through squabbling.

Don't get it wrong. I love my sister to bits and everything, but we're not the long-night-talks, shopping-buddies kind of siblings. But it was a nice feeling, being able to give her advice and such, something I should have done as an older sibling.

Feeling a little down these few days, am glad that at least I'm appreciated by someone.

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Friday, 7 October 2011

Make Up

My Mid-terms are finally over. So right now I am thrilled and totally excited because the week ahead is really going to be busy and fun. I refuse to think about how dreadful the papers and how I was really momentarily stunned by most of the questions. Right now all I have in sunshine and unicorns in my brain.

The weather today is really tempting me with just dating my bedsheets and marrying them.  I haven't done anything productive the entire day besides attempting to make sense of some chunk of words I emailed to my projectmate. Hopefully it looks like something decent that could pass off as my Economics assignment.

My floral skater skirt arrived in mail this morning. I ripped open the package, possessed. Mail makes me happy like that and online shopping triples that. I can't wait to wear it out. There is something about how the skirt flares open like an umbrella when I twirl it around. I feel like a pixie in them. I would love to wear that skirt out for a picnic but I guess tutorials will do fine. Hopefully I don't procrastinate and actually get down to taking pictures once I get Maddie to dorm.

Anyway, I found this picture of my make up tray floating around on my photo and while updating my iTunes it automatically got updated to iPhoto. So here is my post on my make up.

Top, Anti- Clockwise.

1) NARS Blusher in Gina- I got this when I was in Hong Kong last December. Its in the loveliest shade of amber. I had a hard time looking for it because I can't deal with pink blushers. They make me look like a Chinese vampire. It's my most important component of my make up because my face is practically colour-less (By that I mean I just look lifeless and brown all over. I sadly do not have apple cheeks)

2) Blusher Brush from The Body Shop- Got this because its animal-cruelty free! Plus the retracting function is great because otherwise my brushes would be splayed and hairless in a month.

3) The Magnum Volum' Express Mascara from Maybelline- I don't use mascara often because it really kills my eyelashes and makes me feel sleepy. I only put this on for formal dinners and such. Or when my mum nags me to put them on.

4) Jelly Tint from The Face Shop- I love buying lipgloss because they really look so lollipop-like and edible. But most of the time they remain in my basket at home because the colours don't suit me. I can't wear light lipgloss. I can't wear heavy red. So my colour is often purplish red. It smells really good, I want to eat it.

4) Eyeliner Longue Tenure in brown from Sephora- The brush is a lovely thin bundle at the end which is great because I like my eyeliner thin and barely visible. Its really really easy to control and I can wing it or drag it any way I feel like. I don't do black because it makes me look even fiercer than I already am, so I tend to opt for a more natural brown

5) Lip Ice Strawberry- I apply this before my lipgloss because my lips tend to chap really easily. I also realized that putting balm before the gloss makes the colour brighter and last longer.


I'm getting lazier with my make up though, most of the time I can't really be bothered/rushing late to class so I just make do with the blusher and gloss so I don't look like a zombie in class. Thank God for the end of term papers, my relationship with my books need to be put on hold for a bit.

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Thursday, 6 October 2011

Stone In The Apple


It's now my 8th week into university and I have neglected my little space in stoneintheapple. I have been too caught up with life in hall, making new friends, adjusting to the new curriculum that sometimes at the end of the day, I feel like time is passing too fast for me and details become blurred. I don't remember what I have doing the past week, the day before, or a few hours ago because everything is snowballing into this gigantic mess of memories that aren't sorted out.

Came across this incredibly lovely site on tumblr that is currently drawing out all the sentimental in me. So steppingflypaper is here to capture the number of tins of tuna I eat in a week, the foodporn I watch on telly and try to re-create, and of course, to rekindle my love for writing, to concretize my memories through photographs.

Finally, this space is also dedicated to a very important person in my life who is approximately 11027.8km away from me but still very very extremely close to my heart. Lim_zhi.qi, if you're reading this, I hope you find immense pleasure from reading about all fun/embarrassing/downright retarded things going on in my life. This is for you, love!