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Chapped Lips?

2/26/2015

First of all,

Gong Xi Fa Chai everyone!

The hectic day is finally over so here I am finally able to sit down and write something for this long-dumped-blog.

My Chinese New Year this year is not so pleasant because I have been through a severe dry and cracked skin on my mouth and chin area for over a month now.

I had a hard time to speak and if I do, I really really was restraining myself for going rampage punching everyone because it was amazingly PAINFUL T____T

This is my first time experiencing something like this, but anyway I am not going to talk about that in this post. I will post it next because I just want to focus on chapped lips.

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I won't be all science here since I bet you all know what chapped lips is. Some of you might had it before and some of you might have it FOREVER like me *handshake*
There are many many methods to heal chapped lips from the convenient way to the complicated one (for sure you can't count how many are they. They are endless!)

Let me explain my lips condition first. They are overly dry, cracked, bleed, and painful. All year, all my life. I used to dislike lipstick not only because of the uncomfortable feeling on my lips, but also because they look ugly and accentuate my cracked lips even more. It was a nightmare, truly. People often told me "Hey, drink more water!" or "Eat orange and fruits!" Know what? I drink water more than you did and eat fruits! Yet they are still useless to heal my lips, not a bit.
I followed and did some methods that I found on the internet hence here are some tips that I think are most convenient and effective. 3 steps are enough, surprised?

1. Avoid Licking Lips

DO NOT lick your lips no matter what happens. It is a big no no! Or at least try to avoid licking it whenever you could remember. The expert says that saliva contains acid that help break down food. Those acids can irritate compromised lip skin. When you lick your lips, it may bring temporary reliefs. But as saliva evaporates, it dehydrates your skin further. I know that the temptation is really hard, but hang on! You will amaze how better your lips without licking them. I won over the temptation :D

2. No scrubbing, peeling, and biting off skin flakes (even exfoliate)

I KNOW! I don't judge you, but peeling and biting off the skin flakes are the hardest out of all the temptations. We know that those are bad yet we still did it *wink*
Picking (in this case, scrubbing; peeling; and biting off) at the already thin skin of the lips will obviously lead to bleeding and severe discomfort. This slows the healing process and irritates the skin further, such as infection or a cold sore.
If you have the urge to picking on it, immediately put on a lip balm instead.

While exfoliating chapped lips has been a big talk in the beauty world. Some of them agree and some of them disagree. The "agree" team said that exfoliate helps the healing process because we remove the unnecessary dead skin before healing treatment which makes the lips ready for the treatment. On the other sides, the "disagree" team said that this beauty practice isn't necessary for lips. The skin will replace its old cells at the right time. Exfoliation can make dry lips even more uncomfortable.

Now, which sides do you agree on?
I personally think that exfoliate should not be done when you have a chapped lips.
Exfoliating is super handful when your skin and lips is on perfect condition.
On chapped lips case, you don't have only dead skin cells but also the new skin layer (aka baby skin) underneath those cracked skin which also exposed to the surface.
Now, when you exfoliate your chapped skin, you also automatically exfoliate those baby skin that has just born on your lips. It is unavoidable! And... we know that exfoliating baby skin (new skin layer) is very harmful.
So I agree that we better not exfoliate an already dry lips. The time will do the job. Just compare it when you swim for hours and have a sun burn. Your skin might cracked and flake like a snake. We don't exfoliate it, right? Because it's painful and we know that all those dead skin cell will gone as the time goes. Same same. Makes sense?

Me, myself, also did the exfoliate for 3 times in 2 weeks, I guess. And it did nothing. My skin went even worse than they already are.
If you still don't believe and are going to exfoliate your chapped lips, it's not like I prohibit you from doing it. Just a suggestion that you may want to use a mild exfoliate to prevent endanger your lip skin.

3. Moisturizing and protecting with lip balm

Our lips need a shield to stay in shape. A balm provides a buffer between your delicate lip skin and the weather or indoor heating. Also, since skin heals better when it's kept moist, wearing an emollient balm or ointment is better than wearing a waxy stick treatment.
To conclude, the goal is to seal in moisture and get extra hydration with beneficial oils while that barrier will help seal deep cracks and splits from infections and irritation.

I was in love with my EOS lip balm when my skin was not so dry, but EOS help nothing when my skin went too far. Petrolatum is a common ingredients for nourish cracked lips. Castor seed oil, shea butter, sunflower seed oil, or squalane also did the same job. I did a research and decided to buy Kiehl's #1 lip balm. Glad I did! It has petrolatum on their first ingredients and followed by squalane.
I recommend you to try it and please note that it smells so bad. Lol. Have you ever smell Egyptian Magic Cream? They both smell almost the same. It has this "oily" smell like a frying oil. It was a challenge for me to resist from wiping it off because the smell was just too gross, but.... just bear with it! All your efforts will pay off ;D
(I also heard that Paw Paw Ointment is also good for cracked lips. Please correct me if I'm wrong)

That's all!
The healing time is different for everybody. Mine, personally, need about 3 weeks to healed completely. So don't give up! My lips now doesn't feel like my lips anymore because it's very smooth and the color is kinda baby pink which I've never ever had this kind of lips in my life before, but now I do!
Don't forget to keep your body hydrated by drinking lots of water, eat fruits and vegetables, re-apply your lip balm whenever your skin feels dry or almost dry, and toss out all the old lip balm or lippie product you have because they are bad for our lips.

Until next post,
XOXO

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Best of 2014

12/31/2014

Hello sunshine~

Today is 31st of December, the very end of 2014.

Hence this entry is made. Otherwise I will lay in my bed doing nothing and forgot that I have a blog that need to be updated. Ha ha ha...

*ehem*

okie..

I honestly very confused how to start this post.

There are just too many things happened in 2014' which kinda the starting point of my life. I am not going to write everything, but here are some biggest events in 2014.

First thing first, I was really glad that I could finish my college on time!

Who thought that me and my friends can survive this horrifying Uni pretty smoothly since our first comment at semester one was, "I don't think that I can finish this in 4 years"

But hey, I did it anyway, also with a grade that satisfying enough and could be proud of to my children later.

Lesson learnt, never underestimated your own ability :D

However the point is, being born with Asian culture, this is my time to get out of the house, building my own life and career, payback my parents for all they gave to me bits by bits.

Later on, I started this blog out of my boredom.

I must be lying if I say I don't care about the page views because I checked it everyday! Of course I am very happy when people are actually reading this crap blog of my muttering. I put a deep thought to almost every posts and never expected that my most popular post is Schwarzkopf one!

I wrote that super fast without any thought and Photoshop-ed it really fast too.

Just click click click and done and publish it o.o"

Maybe next time I should have done that again......

There are more going on, but those are too personal. I should keep it exclusively for me and family and close-friends.

Anyway, what kind of beauty blogger (~~can I call myself beauty blogger?~~) am I if I didn't list best products of the year! Now I present you mine :D

was intended to pick only one, but cannot decide so I pick everything I love :|

(the decision taken is based on what I used most for the year)

Makeup list:

Face Primer - Benefit POREfessional

Foundation - Laneige Snow Crystal Dual Foundation White Plus Renew

Under Eye Concealer - Tarte Maracuja Creaseless Concealer & Maybelline Fit Me

Concealer - Maybelline Fit Me

Powder - SK-II Loose Powder

Highlighter - YSL Touche e clat

Blusher - Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick & Tarte Amazonian Clay 12-hour Blush

Eye Primer - Urban Decay Primer Potion

Eyebrow - Dolly Wink Eyebrow Pencil

Eyeliner - K-Palette 1 Day Tattoo Eyeliner, Dolly Wink Pencil Eyecolor, & MAC Fluidline (in Blacktrack)

Contour - Benefit Hoola

Eyeshadow Palette - UD Naked 2

Makeup Palette - Benefit The Bronze of Champions

Eyelash Glue - Duo Eyelash Adhesive

Mascara - Benefit They're Real Mascara

Lipstick - Revlon Colorburst Matte & Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter

Nail Polish - OPI Nail Lacquer in Samoan Sand (my fave shade!!!)

aaaaand my signature perfume 2014 is Dior Addict 2

It is still my all time favorite *love*

Apparently there are some version of Dior Addict 2. I remembered the other bottles are in purple and orange which all nice, but my favorite is this pink bottle :D

Skincare List:

Makeup Remover - Bioderma Sensibio H2O & SK-II Cleansing Oil

Face Cleanser - Laneige Deep Pore Cleanser

Exfoliator - Himalaya Neem Scrub (Indonesia's brand and it works pretty good)

Essence - none other than SK-II Facial Treatment Essence :D

Toner - SK-II Facial Treatment Clear Lotion

Serum - SK-II Whitening Spot Specialist

Eye Cream - SK-II Advance Eye Treatment Film

Moisturizer - SK-II Cellumination Deep Surge & Josie Maran Argan Oil

Face Mask - SK-II Facial Treatment Mask, Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque, & Queen Helene Grape Seed Peel Off Masque

Sunscreen - Biore UV Aqua Rich SPF 50+ PA+++

Lol now you may realize that I am a SK-II addict.

My entire skincare used to be all SK-II product, but my skin is getting accustomed with their formula and I saw no progress in last 4 months.

Well, I already use them for 3 years so it didn't surprise me at all.

Now I am steadily change my skincare to another products and planning to go back to SK-II when I think my skin is ready for their product again :D

To wrap 2014, I am super super thankful for everything in the past year.

I learnt so much, I gained so much, so many emotion in this year.

Tell you, being a sentimental and making a resolution for a new year is not my thing. So, I expect nothing for 2015..
I never make a resolution because when I couldn't reach all of them, I'm likely will be disappointed. What I do every year is just dedicate myself to do best, get better, and be a better person.
This new year will be the same. Just!! Since my application for Australia Visa is in the process, I really wish that I could get the visa smoothly and fly there asap (because I need a job plus living and travelling to Aussie sounds great in my ear ^^).
Not forgotten that my biggest wish for 2015 is to eat healthily and lose some weight.
I realize that entering this stage of life (why I felt like an old lady -_-), my body's metabolism is getting slower. It's a choice between now or regret later because the losing weight process become harder.

Now, those all from me for 2014. I would like to hear your wish 2015 just leave a comment below.
I wish you a happy happy new year 2015.
May us do live better in this new year ^^
Good luck!

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King Foto Jakarta [Review]

10/10/2014

Sooooooo

If you read my latest post of graduation series,

you must have known that I've got one bad experience with King Foto Group whom done my graduation family shoot.

If you haven't, then please read it first so that you will get a clue what I'm talking about

Part 1 here

Part 2 here

Part 3 here

I have been thinking a lot whether to post this article or just keep it as mine.

Truthfully, I have no intention of spreading bad mouth about King Foto Group's fame. They are a pretty famous photography group company in Jakarta for their awesome ~~photoshop~~ photos done [or so I heard]

They are just so famous that I have a hard time deciding on this post.

I don't want to have any possible further problem just because of my post, but I thought it would be a waste if I don't share this with you guys.

I once thought of sending personal email to them. However, after considering a number of matters here, I decided that I am going to make this post.

Hence, my review here is totally my own opinion based on my experience at Pullman Central Park Grand Ballroom, September 20th 2014, during my graduation ceremony.

The story...

After the ceremony ended, I went to my parents seat around 1.00 PM.

I had lunch, snapping some photos, and then decided to do our family photo shoot first [I was planning to join my friends afterwards]

I settled up the bill at their booth and headed towards the bigger photo booth located almost at the end of the hallway.

n.b they have 2 different photo booths. The first one located just outside of the main entrance with 2 photographers, while the second located a little bit far away at the back with 3 photographers

I chose the second booth because they have more photographers, so I thought that it would be faster there.

and

HAHAHA

you can laugh me off of my stupidity later when you finish reading this post

This is the worse decision that I've made that day.

In short, I gave my 'proof of purchase' paper to the girl whom in charge as the host.

We waited for a little bit and my Mom decided to ask her how many people were before us, so that we will be able to know around what time then our turn was.

She said "more than 10 family"

She didn't gave us the exact number -_-

We waited

and waited

Almost 1 hour later

My feet was hurting because I wore a 10 cm heels. Without hesitant, I took off my heels and standing on my bare feet.

I just close my ears and eyes because people were staring at my ~~lower half~~ feet.

I didn't care about shame anymore.

Tnen, my friend who came after me, got her chance first. I thought that was strange.

My Mom got impatient and ask her once again

Aaaaaand guess what was her answer

NINE

That long awaiting and we are still at nine.

My Mom got mad

My Dad expression changed

and I got uneasy

I sensed something wrong and I decided to count this time.

More than 7 people came forward and had their shoot.

My Mom, again, ask her about our number.

And guess what once again

She said FOUR

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME

My Mom told me that there was a girl beside her shouted at King Foto PIC (person-in-charge)

Looks like she was angry because her family already waiting for 1 hour, but her paper was at the bottom. Meaning, she was in the last order

HELLO

Turns out that people from King Foto messed up the queuing number.

She just put the paper whichever she wants and called whoever on top.

NOW I get it.

There was nothing we can do, basically, so....we just waited.

Not so long, they finally called my name.

FIUHHH

I put my bag on the chair and we had our first photo taken.

After that, they need to use that chair, so that bag need to be relocated to other chair.

My Mom moved her bag and my Dad moved my flower.

I was too tired to move so I quietly standing still. The male-assistant of the photographer looked at me and ready to help me move my bag.

And you know what,

the photographer stopped him and told him

"harusnya bukan lu yang pindahin, tapi mereka!"

In English, that means "It shouldn't be you who move the bag, but they are!"

THAT photographer then said to me in a fake kindness, politely asking me to move my bag

I SNAPPED

Hey! I slept for 2 hours the night before and only 2.5 hours that night!

I was so tired of all the hassle and preparation, the flight, the driving, the ceremony, the waiting, and now you guys who was so UNPROFESSIONAL messed up the queuing number and made me wait endlessly.

I think you get a clue already how tired I was.

The photographer, which I don't know the name, was so arrogant and said those thing.

I worked in hospitality industry, which the main product offered is service.

I'm not a professional yet, but I know how important a service is.

Studying hospitality just make me sensitive about service now.

King Foto Group, which undoubtedly was also in service industry.

I find it such a big waste that you, whom already have a big name in this big city,

actually provide such an unpleasant service and bad manner of your team members.

I'm not asking for a King or Queen service provided to me.

But, I know that you already serve thousands of people and family out there. I also know you've already done this for my university in years.

I just don't get it that this kind of fault is still happens to you.

Well, one thing that made me snapped was the photographer actually.

I am well aware that people in service industry will always be a two-faces person.

BUT, as a professional, we should never show that negative side to our client.

And it's funny how that photographer SAID those words OUT LOUD in FRONT of me.

Get it? Get it?

After the photoshoot finished, I just went right away.
I didn't even smile and say thank you.
Something that I rarely did in my life.

Alright then, that's all from me.

Once again, I do not intend to spread bad mouth about King Foto Group.

But, if one member of yours is reading this now, please please please to be aware of such a thing. This is also for your own good, rite ^^

Now, readers, you can laugh me off as I said before.

BAI until next post

Love, MS

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Graduation: D-Day

10/07/2014

The D-Day, FINALLY ^^

Took me a long time to post this since my first writing of graduation series

Sorry :(

Just in case you haven't read the previous series, I'll attach the link for you

1st post, here

2nd post, here

So...

I felt guilty these days since I couldn't show you much of the room interior. I should have taken bunch of photos before.

I'm new as a blogger which lead me to the lack of take-many-photos-as-possible-for-my-blog feeling yet. There are a couple of times where I feel THAT feeling, but I was too lazy to do it. So I didn't do it -_-"

Pardon me *sigh*

To repay that, I decided to steal some photos from Google image to show you a glimpse of how the hotel, the room, and the ballroom looks like

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The hotel is the blue glass building behind the Carrefour sign, meanwhile 3 towers at the back is Central Park Residence.

Fyi, parking area for hotel guest is located in the same parking building for the mall. Guest's car parking area is at 4th and 5th floor, while grand ballroom parking area is at 12th floor above as long as I remember (please re-check that one if you're going there because I'm not sure myself since I parked my car at 5th floor)

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My room looks EXACTLY like that!

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Remember when I said that their grand ballroom is super big and currently the second biggest in Jakarta? I REALLY mean it.

Now I wonder how Mulia Grand Ballroom looks like :S

On to the next story

I went to bed that day at 2.00 AM. Really have no idea why I couldn't sleep.

I also went to bed super late the night before, so logically I should have been super tired and sleepy early. However, that was not what happen.

Only had 2.5 hours of slept, I woke up at 5.00 AM. The tiredness came after I woke up. Super regret it -_-

Well, I took a bath and prep my skin for the makeup.

My make up artist came exactly at 5.00 AM. I picked her up in the lobby and she compliment my kebaya during our way up! So happy ^^

My makeup started at 5.15-ish and finish almost at 7.00 AM.

I feel bad and sorry to my MUA because I think she had a hard time doing my eye makeup.

You know, typical asian eyes with small fatty eyelid wtf.

Mine took longer than expected. While my Mom finish her full makeup+hairdo in 1 hour only.

The makeup looked fierce at first, but the more I look at it the more I like it!

I went to my way to the ballroom, took some photos with my friends, and DANG! I love my makeup wtf. It looks even more better in photos.

Sorry for the bad photo quality and pardon my oily face (I actually have no idea whether that's my oily face or makeup problem). That was taken with my iPhone in a freaking dark lighting. So I need to edited it like crazy.

With my best of the best. She's very tall!

Caution that she wore a 5cm heels and I wore 10cm heels wtf. Such a difference

If you are interested to use my MUA service,

just open your instagram and search @fetherecia

She's young and talented as well!

With Fetherecia MUA

The almighty invitation card. Cannot enter at all without this and shouldn't be late even for two seconds. That's SGU for you :|

The procession went like the normal graduation in Indonesia. Took us 3 hours before the parents can finally had lunch. However, the students need to wait for batch photo session.
So after they tortured us for 3 hours of hunger (I couldn't have breakkie y'know >.<), they still didn't let us go after the ceremony was finished. My major was in the queuing number 9 until we finally free for after-event.

Fyi, the lunch was TERRIBLE. Never expected that coming from Pullman :(
We paid so much GIVE BACK OUR MONEY wtf

Well, I had some photo session with my friends of course. Here are the photos for you

The Girls

Another The Girls. Pretty failed this time

Mixed gender photo session.....and....super failed. HAHAHAHA

I honestly really laugh..

Really..

I'm not lying

Ok fine

Family from another bloodline

Full team minus 3 people

The ONLY PHOTO of me and my lecturer.
So sad that I couldn't took photos with other lecturers because of one incident that happened after the event and I'll tell you later why.
Fyi, he's old enough to be our grandpa, but he's still sooo energetic and funny lolol
Love you Sir!

The whole family! Included the lovely lecturers, our handsome rector from Deutschland, the Dean, and some persons that I don't really remember their position in the University but they are important people in the organization!

I asked my junior to help me took some photos of our batch with my camera, but he pressed green tint effect and couldn't put it back to normal mode.
So, it doesn't look really good, but hey! I edited it and it didn't turn out that bad actually ^^

Right? Right?

.
.

Ohkei, this is where the highlight of the whole day started.
Basically, me and my parents went to King Foto booth just outside the ballroom to get our photo taken. I already registered couple of weeks before the D-Day, btw.
Aaaaaaandddddd...... a super super bad incident happen and it totally ruin my day!
I'm gonna make a full review in a separate post.
But, to be fast, I had to wait 1.5 hours with a horrible service from King Foto.

Result?
I couldn't take photos with my friends in our kebaya nor lecturer and people I know!

Honestly, I was really UPSET and SAD.
Thank you King Foto!

Stay tunned if you want to know what happened that day.
I'll post it very soon!

Anyway

My friend, Cynthia, was still there waiting for me to finish *big hug*.
Well, I think that was because I requested her a day before to help me take a picture of my kebaya to be send to my designer.

Front design.
Am in LOVE with the jarik (the long skirt) and the color. She made my kebaya in peplum so that my big hip doesn't look that bad.

Back design.
The color looks lighter here, but actually it's deeper in real life.
High five for backless gown ^^. Also in love with the back design. That little ribbon really makes everything superb!

Just contact @felicitebyfc at instagram or facebook for an appointment of your dress.
She's super pretty and petite and lovely!

The only photo of me and my friend in kebaya T_T
~~I have more tbh, but what I mean is that I only have photos of me in kebaya with her only.Wtf please pardon my grammar~~

It was such a coincidence that my our kebaya color match each others! LOL

Just for you to know, I am not a pinky person. I love white and I adore blue color. But I also easily fascinated by pastel color, so I do love her kebaya even though it was pink.
WHO DOESN'T LOVE PASTEL COLOR BTW PLEASE

Fiuhhhhh

We're finally reach the end of the post.

Of course I do not forget the most important photos to be taken on that day! Here you go,

See that my makeup didn't fade out after hours of waiting and standing and sweating ;)

Mini family photo session to end this post!

OK BAI

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