Beauty Life Room: September 2014

EOS, holy grail, lipbalm, lips, review, Skincare

EOS Smooth Sphere Lip Balm

9/29/2014

I know I know. This post is supposed to be a graduation post, but I really really want to share my newest HOLY GRAIL product with you. So the graduation post will be posted next.

Here I present you

the phenomenal EOS Smooth Sphere Lip Balm in Sweet Mint

It's described as " Smooth on the refreshing essence of sweet mint and give your lips the moisture they crave" on the website

So, what do I think about the brand EOS itself?

~~It's a lil bit unimportant so you might want to skip read this~~ I've heard EOS from a long time ago, when people raving so much their lip balm because of its goodness for our lips and the uber cute packaging. However, there were also many reviews whose didn't give a nice comment about it and mention that people overrated it. Result? It just dig out my curiosity even more >.< I wanted to try at that time, but it haven't available in Indonesia yet, even on Indonesia's online shop. So I just waiting. And waiting.... like years...wtf

EOS advertise its lip balm as 95% organic, 100% natural, paraben free, and petrolatum free. It COULDN'T be better *screaaam* It is also packed with antioxidant-rich vitamin E, soothing shea butter and jojoba oil. Not forgotten that it's gluten-free.

SOMEONE SLAP ME PLEASE. It's just sound unbelievable to have so many goodness in one product.

Here's the list for you whom very cautious with the ingredients:

Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil*, Beeswax (Cire D'abeille)*, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil*, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil*, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil*, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter)*, Stevia Rebaudiana Leaf/Stem Extract*, Tocopherol, Limonene**, Linalool**. *Organic. **Component of Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil*. Certified Organic by Oregon Tilth.

Move on, I didn't shop online for quite awhile because of my final thesis and I found this available at online shop months ago. I was hesitated to buy it for some reasons, but ended up buying it anyway. I bought it at a local online shop for IDR 85.000. You can get the original price at EOS website for $3.29 ONLY. Blame ~~yourself~~ ourselves to be born outside US :(

Honestly, it was not as small as I expected. It's actually pretty big to fit my ~~mini~~ hands.

I definitely LOVE the packaging. So different and cool.

EOS wrap the lip balm in a plastic wrapper and provide a strap-that-will-make-you-easier-to-peel-it. Sorry I don't know what's that called -_-

So I just peeled it :P

Twist off the top cap like instructed and...

VOILA!

HOW CUTE IS THAT, tell me!

Next, just slide slide slide on your lips and you will have this suuuuuuper smooth lips for hours. When I say hours, it means HOURS. For a super long time.

I actually took a photo of my before and after lips, but it looks ridiculous so I deleted it.

I'll be honest to you, I have a very dry and chapped lips since I was born

Okay, just kidding

Maybe not that long, but certainly since I was young. Since elementary school.

Every person who met me will always mention my chapped lips and told me to drink a lot of water and vitamin E.

BUT, I drink lots of water maybe more than you and many people I know. I could gulp more than 2 liters of water everyday and it's still dry. Even when I eat a lot of foods contain vitamin E, it's still like that.

Last choice that I have, put on a lip balm.

I hate putting something on my lips. I only put lipstick on special occasion and I usually rubbed it off right after the event end. I am so that not into lipstick, lip balm, lip gloss, lip butter, you name it.

It has been 1 year for my journey finding on the perfect lip balm. I've tried many brands including the well-known Sebamed, but it did nothing to my lips except moisture it for two hours before my lips completely back to its original condition.

AND FINALLY, I found this ah ma zing lip balm.

It moist my lips for at least 4 hours long. I can still feel the smoothness even after I eat and the best thing is that my lips condition is getting better day by day.

There are times when I forgot to bring this baby with me when I go out but I realize that my lip is not as bad as before! How cool is that! No chapped lips anymore and hello to smooth lips.

There is one thing I dislike about this product which is the smell. I thought that it would be a very mild mint flavor, but it turned out very strong.

So strong that even if you don't open the cap, you can still smell the flavor.

But who cares! I still love it ^^

Rate:

9.5/10

the goodness beats everything

Ok that's all for now and see you on my next post!

Don't forget to leave a comment on the box below for any questions and find me at my other social media provided in my profile.

BAI

Love, MS

daily cheese, Gel Polish, Graduation, Lie Kuang, Nail Art, Nail Color, O.P.I, review, Salon

Lie Kuang Salon Review - Gel Polish Nail Art

9/22/2014

Hello hello my sweetheart!

I had my graduation ceremony yesterday and have soooo many things to talk about

However, I'm gonna divide the story into several parts so that it won't be overload of photos in just one single post.

Nao I want to share with you my preparation before the D-Day!

I decided to had a manicure and make my nails looks decent for the ceremony. I actually can do it by myself, but no matter how I did it, it was never as perfect as the expert did. So for important days like this, I always entrust my nails to them. And they never fail me anyway

The bad news is, I forgot to charge my camera and it almost died around 7% only.

So I went to the salon with a broken heart, knowing that I wouldn't be able to fully share my experience at Lie Kuang Salon with you.

For you who haven't heard of Lie Kuang Salon, it's the most popular hair salon in Semarang for a couple of years now. Located not so far from the famous "Tugu Muda" (Tugu Muda is one of historical place in Semarang), the salon is always packed everyday every time. Looks like there are too many nonik nonik and tante tante in this little city :P

I couldn't find an appropriate photo of the salon, so no photo of the exterior nor interior sorry

Fyi, Lie Kuang himself have won several awards included "Asia Best of Cutting Edge Hairstylist" in Malaysia at Asia Bauhinia Hairdressing and Beauty Award and achieved the best rank at "Kerasatase Couture Styling 2014"

The salon, likewise, is the partner of Kerastase and L'oreal Professional in Semarang.

The Experience, I came around 2 PM according to my reservation (caution that you need to make a reservation beforehand). I need to wait for a while for my nail artist getting ready. They asked me what drink do I want to have like any other high class-expensive-popular hair salon in Jakarta and being seated after that.

About 5 minutes later, my nail artist came. Vania -her name- asked me what kind of nail art that I want. I chose to have a gel polish instead because it's very popular at the moment and people said that it can last for weeks. Vania agreed me and said that it can last for 3 weeks or more! HAPPY ME

She then brought all the O.P.I gel color for me to choose and I went with Silver with gradation glitter on top since my kebaya will be in electric blue.

The full process of nail color took me 1,5 hours and am SUPER SATISFIED with the result. She carefully shaped my nails, clean it, color it, and asked me if the glitter is enough. She put my hands under the UV light for many many times. What I love is that she colored my nails super carefully and left no polish residue on my skin *AMAZED*. She told me that I don't have any cuticles on my nails, but it's super dry T_T But you know what, at the end of the nail color process, she smeared nail oil on my nails (how many times I wrote 'on my nails' already wtf). How kind she was *touched* T_T

Finally some end photo results for you!

Here are some close up picture if you can't really see the texture

Sorry for the blur photos, though. I am using Sony NEX-3 and it's either the camera who couldn't do close up photo very well or it is just me who is bad at using the camera.

It has been 5 days since I color it and it's still as perfect as the first day!

Thank you Lie Kuang salon! Definitely will come back for more nail art service or hair cutting and treatment maybe ^^

Lie Kuang Salon

Jl. Saidan No. 5 Kauman, Semarang Tengah

Ph: +62 24 3511133

+62 24 3511166

DIY, hair color, review, Schwarzkopf

Schwarzkopf Freshlight Lemon Blonde Review

9/15/2014

My first blog post is up and I'm really excited to start this journey with you guys!

So, I've been discover this hair coloring brand for a while now. Well, actually Schwarzkopf Freshlight is the only brand I've ever use to color my hair ~~because I'm too poor to color my hair at salon and the other brands are expensive~~

I got this at a local Watsons in Semarang for buy one get one promo. TELL ME WHO CANNOT RESIST SALE.

The normal price in the market in Indonesia is around IDR 90.000 - 110.000 for the normal hair coloring type and IDR 120.000 - 130.000 for this foam color type. You can check out their complete colors available here (freshlight hair colour) and here (freshlight foam). With the buy one get one promo, I bought two of them for IDR 125.000. CHEAP OR NOT *screaamm~*

I got mine in Lemon Blond foam color

You can screaming now am I crazy or what. But, you see, my real hair color is charcoal-dark brownish color ~~is that even a word wtf~~. A very normal hair color for Asian, but definitely not a good benefit when you want to color your dark hair into something light.

I've read a lot of information that I can go 2-3 shades lighter than my desired hair color if I have no intention into bleaching. I've done home-coloring before and even if I go 2-3 shades lighter, it's still pretty dark. That's why I go extreme :P

Here's my before hair

That's my real hair color with the ~~previous~~ colored hair grew far from the roots. Fyi, my hair grow really fast. The last time I did the coloring was 4,5 months ago with Schwarzkopf normal Hair Colour in Passion Blond, yet it was already that long before now.

Move on, Schwarzkopf provide decent information on the box about the product itself. So you won't feel cheated if you decide to put this product into your basket

As you can see, there's the photo illustration about how the result will be depending on your hair color. So don't blame them if you want a very light color result, but your real hair color is dark brown or black in the first place. You won't achieve that color EXCEPT doing the bleaching first.

Still feel cheated? I'm wondering if you are the one who don't pay attention to the information box :P

And don't forget to do the allergic test first if you have a virgin hair or use this brand for the first time. You definitely don't want to damage your scalp, right ^^?

Open the box, and you will find these inside:

1. Instruction Sheet þ
2. Hair Color Cream þ
3. Developer þ
4. 1 sachet treatment product þ
5. Push pump þ
6. Gloves þ

All check and we can move to the process now! I used 2 boxes since I have a veery long hair, almost reach my butt. If your hair length is shorter than mine, I think 1 box is enough.

To remind you once again of my before hair just in case you forgot how does it looks like

It was uneven already and very ~~orenji~~ orangey(?) wtf. It looks more yellowish on the last photo though, depends on the lighting.

Coloring process:

1. Instruction sheet, VERY IMPORTANT. Realize that every hair color brands has their own policy, so read the instruction is a must must must.

I tried to open that circle thing on the box numerous times, but IT DIDN'T MOVE AN INCH. I gave up and decided to use my lovely table after-all.

SEE, I told you that every brand has different "how-to-process". I remember the popular brand -Liese- from Japan and several brands use the 'side-to-side' technique to mix the cream and developer. By side-to-side, I mean, move it slowly in horizontal motion until the bottle in a sleeping position. But in this case, you only need to move the bottle back and forth very slowly.

2. Pour the developer into the bottle, attach the push pump, mix it, get my gloves ready, and ~~shampooing~~ coloring my hair. Caution that you are not allowed to put the product directly into the scalp. Always pour it on your palm first.

3. Wait for 30-40 minutes as the instruction said. The best room temperature is between 20-25°C. If you are out of that temperature zone, better to leave the product longer on your hair.

4. TA-DAAA

More photos result :P This is under the same lighting with different camera effect, but the color is much closer to the real color when you see me in person :D Less redness and more into yellow base rather than orange. A little bit uneven, but I'm totally fine with it. Who knows I can make it looks like the popular Balayage *slap:/

(I wonder why it looks very uneven here, even though it's not that bad in real life)

Photos below were my hair 2days after. I styled it and haven't washed my hair. Pardon me for the gross salp :( my hair got oily very bery quickly

Under same lighting with different camera effect, I think this is how it'll looks like under the sun

PROS:

- Very easy! Just like doing your regular shampoo

- CHEAP if you got it for sale like mine MUAHAHA

- Easy to find. In Indonesia, you can find this product at Watsons, Guardian, Hypermart, Carrefour, Food Hall, and other supermarket

- The after treatment conditioner is actually pretty good! Make your hair smooth and less tangled. I also used my Vidal Sassoon coloring treatment on the first day thus the smoothness is doubled. But, I used the Schwarzkopf treatment conditioner the next hair-wash and it was still as smooth! Love love

- Plenty of product. It can afford until medium-long hair (around your waist) depends on the thickness of your hair. Mine is SUPER LONG and THICK *combo*

CONS:

- Very strong chemical. The smell was UH HUH I almost cannot stand the smell. I guess the foam color is a lot smelly rather than the normal hair colour by Schwarzkopf

- Pricey at normal price

Do I like it?

YES

Rate:

8/10

Minus 2 points for the smell. It is THAT strong :(

Would I repurchase?

Why not?

If you have further question don't hesitate to leave a comment on the box below or contact my personal social media on my profile.

OK BAI

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