Saturday, April 30, 2011

Sponsored Review: Hanamei Comforting Mask + Brightening Serum

I was recently sent some Hanamei® (www.hanamei.com) products to review and they are; Hanamei® Comforting Mask and Hanamei® Brightening Serum.

What is Hanamei®?
For most hair removal procedures including waxing, plucking and shaving, the undesirable can often be removed but not its side effects. Bumps, ingrown hair, darkening of the skin, inflammation and soreness are just some of the more common problems that your skin can suffer from.

Hanamei® is created specifically to care for your most intimate area especially after any hair removal therapies. Besides providing instant relief after waxing, Hanamei® also help keep delicate skin supple, smooth and fair over time.

Rich in pure Japanese botanical extracts, the Hanamei® Intimate Beauty Treatment range is gentle yet effective for everyday use, even on other areas like the underarms, elbows and kneecaps where skin is often rough and darkened.

What is Hanamei® made of?
Hanamei® is specially formulated with only natural Japanese plant ingredients. Each botanical extract is carefully chosen and blended together to care for your delicate skin. Free from alcohol, artificial preservatives and colourants, the Hanamei® Intimate Beauty Treatment range provides instant relief after any hair removal therapy and ensures that your skin stays healthy, smooth and fair naturally over time.

What are the Key Ingredients?
  • Sakura Extract moisturises and prevents rough skin.
  • Amurense Bark is anti-bacterial and reduces the likelihood of follicle and pore infection.
  • Artichoke Extract reduces inflammation of skin and helps minimise itchiness.
  • Organic Rosewater gently calms the emotional and physiological aspects of skin.
  • Aloe Vera Extract has a wound-healing effect and soothes the skin.
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Hanamei® Comforting Mask (7 days of continuous usage)
The Hanamei® Comforting Mask is specifically designed and formulated to provide instant relief and care for delicate skin in the bikini area that has undergone hair removal therapies.

Naturally fragranced with organic Rosewater, this 100% cotton mask is rich in skin-nourishing natural actives that are easily and quickly absorbed into skin, keeping your intimate areas supple and smooth.

Use the Hanamei® Comforting Mask to
  • Soothe and minimise skin sorenes
  • Reduce redness and skin irritation.
  • Protect skin against follicle and pore infection
Use a chilled Hanamei® Comforting Mask after waxing for instant relief! The mask helps
to reduce soreness and prevent inflammation.

Personal review on it:

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The mask is yellow in colour and has a slight smell to it. Very light smell, almost goes unnoticed. The shape of the mask is retangular with cut out stripes and it is very easy to be used around your delicate area.

I used the mask directly after shaving and it soothes the shaved skin and definitely feel much calmer and less itchy too. After 7 days of continuous usage of the mask, noticeable improvements that I notice is that the skin is much more hydrated, supple and smoother and all lesser ingrowns.

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Hanamei® Brightening Serum (4 weeks of continuous usage)
The Hanamei® Brightening Serum contains multiple botanical actives to minimise ingrown hair and lighten darkened skin caused by hair removal and micro-abrasion especially at the underarms, elbows and kneecaps.

Naturally fragranced with organic Rosewater, this serum is infused with skin-nourishing natural actives that are easily and quickly absorbed for more radiant, moisture-charged and beautiful skin.

Use the Hanamei® Brightening Serum to:
  • Maintain elasticity and resilience of skin
  • Minimise ingrown hair
  • Lighten the appearance of skin darkened by hair removal and micro-abrasion

The Hanamei® Brightening Serum can also be used on the underarms, elbows or kneecaps to lighten and smoothen out rough skin!

Personal review on it:
The serum is also yellow in colour and has a slight smell to it. Very light smell, almost goes unnoticed.

I used the serum directly after masking and it soothes the shaved skin and definitely feel much calmer and less itchy too. Noticeable improvements that I notice is that the skin is much more hydrated, supple and smoother and all lesser ingrowns. Also, the serum is much more richer than the mask and definitely works better than the mask.

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If you are interested to know more, visit Hanamei® website: (www.hanamei.com) or give them a call at 6343 0157. For more information or sales enquiry, please e-mail hanamei@ilypl.com

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

SPONSORED REVIEW: HOPE GIRL – SMUDGE NO MORE!

I was recently sent Hope Girl Under Eye Magic Cleaner to review.

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Ingredients list: here.

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Thoughts on the packaging: It has a stylish outlook with leopard prints all over a tube-like gold casing which reminds me of Helena Rubinstein mascara (picture: here) Product comes in a twist up tube form, which is great because no sharpening is required whatsoever.

How this product works is illustrated below.
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I decided to put the product to a test to see if it is what it claims.
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L-R: BEFORE (DAY TIME PICTURE) > IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THE EYE MAKEUP UNDER MY EYE (NIGHT TIME PICTURE) > AFTER (NIGHT TIME PICTURE)

Pardon the grainy night picture, I wore my makeup out for a day just to create real life eye smudges before testing the stick out at night. Most of my eye makeup have worn off too.

Thoughts on the product: Yes, it does what it claims, but I am not going to lie, it also does smudge my eye makeup a little. Also, not only it removes the smudges (the black line under eye), it also removes my under eye concealer. Quite disappointed that it smudges my eye makeup even more even though I followed the above instructions to roll it only in one direction.

Although it disappointed me a little with the smudging, it is definitely a nifty product to have in your makeup bag especially if you do smudge your eye makeup. It removes most of the smudges easily & effectively (even waterproof mascara & liners, tried & tested!) and you just need to do a little bit of touch up there after (like your under eye concealer) and you are pretty much done.

It definitely works better than Q tips / cotton buds because those tug my under eye area and smudges my eye makeup even more but this under eye magic cleaner did not tug my under eye area which is definitely a good thing.

If you are interested, it retails for SG$18.90 locally and it available for purchase at
1) BHG, Bugis
2) BHG, Clementi
3) SYY (#07-01/02 Liat Tower - Orchard Road)

For online purchase, please register at www.anoiv.com

If you are interested in other Hope Girl products, kindly join http://www.facebook.com/Anoiv.International as FaceBook fan to enjoy free gifts & samples, invitations to private sales & launches!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

FOTD: Bold, red lipstick

Did a look recently featuring a nude face with bold, red lipstick. Quite like how it turned out!

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I am using the red lipstick by Dior Rouge in 752 "Red Premiere". It's a deep red shade with a slight blue-ish undertone which is great for fairer complexions like myself. Dior rouge is generally very long-lasting & pigmented. Go give it a try!

Monday, April 18, 2011

Advert: StyleMyself


As you all would know by now... I LOVE ONLINE SHOPPING. I find online shopping really convenient and fuss-free. I'll be introducing a new online shopping website and it is called StyleMyself.

StyleMyself is not an ordinary online shopping website. It is an online shopping portal where online retailers gather and Stylemyself will organize and catalogue the images and details of products according to categories. In a nutshell, it is a platform for local fashion retailers to showcase their products more collectively.

I personally find this platform service very useful. How it works is that it carries a variety of different brands in their website and consumers will then have to click on the items that they fancy and a pop-up box will appear which will direct them to the retailer's store.

Consumers will definitely be spoilt for choice with the huge variety of brands that they offer. They offer the latest products by each retailer and basically, you do not need to visit a million and one local online stores just to pick out something that you fancy because this service basically list all the local online shopping stores under one roof. This platform service that is offered by Stylemyself definitely makes online shopping more convenient. Stylemyself is available for public viewing and no registration is required for browsing. You do not have to go through the hassle of registering an account with Stylemyself to shop!

To make shopping even more convenient, Stylemyself allows shoppers to shop on the go with their iPhone app!

The Stylemyself app is FREE and can be downloaded from the Apple store (http://itunes.apple.com/app/id402685775). If you are on your iPhone, just go to the App Store and type; "Stylemyself" in the search box to locate the app.

Features of this app:
1 . Fashion products are broken down to specific categories for ease of browsing.
2 . Notifies shoppers when they are physically near their favourite products or store.
3 . Browse for fashion products in pictures and also video format.
4. Dedicated to Singaporean fashionistas.

If you do not have an iPhone, you can receive the latest fashion trend and updates from Stylemyself by joining their Facebook page! (http://www.facebook.com/stylemyself)

You can find Stylemyself at:
Stylemyself's website - http://www.stylemyself.com/
Stylemyself's blog - http://stylemyself.posterous.com/
Stylemyself's FB page - http://www.facebook.com/stylemyself
Stylemyself's iPhone App -http://itunes.apple.com/app/id402685775

Happy shopping!

Friday, April 15, 2011

SPONSORED REVIEW: SUNPLAY SUPER BLOCK SPF130PA++ & SUNPLAY UV BODY MIST SPF80 PA++

I was recently sent 2 products from Sunplay (Sunplay Facebook page: here) to try out and they are;

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1. SUNPLAY SUPER BLOCK SPF130PA++ (#1 Uunscreen in Watsons)
2. SUNPLAY UV BODY MIST SPF80 PA++

I have tested them out for a week and here's my individual thoughts on them.

SUNPLAY SUPER BLOCK SPF130PA++ (#1 Uunscreen in Watsons)
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This sunblock/sunscreen has a SPF of 130! It has the highest available UVA & UVB protection in the current market. Apart for the really high SPF, it also has UV reflectant technology to reflect UV rays away. UV rays, as we all know, is harmful to the skin and is known to be the cause of skin cancer amongst others.

My thoughts on this sunscreen is that it is really light on the skin (it comes in a white, runny texture & it easily spreads and absorbs into the skin) and best of all, non greasy. I usually avoid using sunscreen as a makeup base because of its greasy texture and it makes my face really oily by midday. With this sunscreen, my face is totally matte for 12 hours (tried & tested) and it helps making my makeup stay on my face for much longer!

Here's a snapshot of my face taken at night. I was out the whole day. As you can see, although most of my makeup have somewhat wear off, my face still remains pretty matte.
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SUNPLAY UV BODY MIST SPF80 PA++
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The unique thing about this particular sunscreen/sunblock is that it is in a mist form. I have not tried sunscreen/sunblock in a mist form before and I was really excited to give this one a try! Because it is mist form in nature, it applies really evenly onto the whole body. Also, unlike the other sunscreen/sunblock out there, this particular one has a really nice refreshing citrus scent to it! To put it simply, it smells like a deodorant and it doesn't smell like a sunscreen/sunblock if you get what I mean.

Like its counterpart the SUNPLAY SUPER BLOCK SPF130PA++, it also goes on really light on the skin and it also has a high UVA & UVB protection. It is also water-resistant with up to 8 hours of protection outdoors.

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If you are interested to give these 2 products a try, samples are available for redemption at Sunplay Facebook Page: here. You would receive a travel size SUNPLAY SUPER BLOCK SPF130PA++ for free!

Sunday, April 10, 2011

FOREVER 21 BUYS

I recently opened a FOREVER 21 spree because I wanted to get a bunch of stuff from that site & also to save a bit on the shipping. Ordered via VPOST because FOREVER 21 no longer offer standard flat international shipping at USD35. So sad! I shipped my personal orders in a separate batch from the rest so that I will not be confused as to the calculations of shipping and stuff!

Here's the items that I got from FOREVER 21. Quite a huge haul this time, mostly essentials & basics.

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Knit Open Cardigan - Black

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Basic Slub Top - Cream

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Fab Signature Skinnies - Grey

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Basic Long Leggings - Black


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Smocked Short Sleeve Cardigan - Black

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Longline Basic Cami - Black & White

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Surplice Floral Dress - Mint/Mustard

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Embroidered Knit Dress - Olive

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Lace Trim Chiffon Top - Black

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Lace Trim Chiffon Cardigan - Black

That's about all for now! Happy shopping everyone! xx