Want to stay pretty? Exfoliate!!

Yes, you heard me. If you want to stay pretty, exfoliate! Ever since I got moved back to KK my acne gotten worse. So how did it started? Let me tell you from the beginning. Three years ago, I considered my skin to be good. Well, its not perfect and of course I have some visible pores and dry skin but not acne. It only popped out when is it the time of the month and also since then, I was using Hydrating Chia Seed range from the Face Shop. This range was my holy grail because I don't experience dry skin even though I don't really take care of my skin especially my busy week. When I say experiencing dry skin which mean my skin condition is already flaking, peeling and redness around my nose and mouth area. When I put on mask sheet, it hurt like til my tears are falling. That's how severe it is. At that time I rarely went to facial as well as doing exfoliation at home. 

After the break up, I went a little overboard purchasing anti-aging skincare products and that is how I started to breakout after using it a month or so. Still, I don't exfoliate unless I remember. During my time in Kuching the breakout was noticeable in my forehead area and 1 or 2 acne below my cheek. When I finally moved back to KK, acnes especially in the cheek area started to pop out after one another. Its spreading more and more. So like everyone else guilty of popping their acne, I did exactly the same thing and the sad thing is the acne is not healing after so many weeks. That is how I got concern and booked myself for facial. Went to few different beauty salon and all the beautician told me I have very clogged pores and dead skin and this is why most of my acne are found deep inside my skin.

What to do? Exfoliate. After a few facial treatment my acne were still popping out but the spreading of acne has gone down. While hoping my acne will get better by doing facial treatment,  I went to youtube to search for solution and that is how I decided to try out COSRX AHA Whitehead Power Liquid and BHA Blackhead Power Liquid. Adding these two serums into my routine, my acne is slowly gone and just left scars I have to take care. Beside that, I notice that my blackhead and whitehead reduce drastically. Thank god for COSRX.

Last time my skincare routine for day and night only involves the cleanser, toner, serum, moisturiser and sunscreen during the day. Now, this is my current skincare routine for day and night. :'( Yeap, my skin is revenging on me. To incorporate with my dry skin, this is how I mixed and match.

Day time: 3 --> 6 --> 12 --> 13 --> 14

Night time: 1 --> 2 & 9 --> 4 (once a week when the day I skip 7 or 8 ) --> 5 --> 10 -->
                    7/8 (alternates between them) --> 11

Every weekend: 15 or 16

My skin now is doing so far so good. Looking forward to the day with clear skin. Going to end this post here and take note that I'm not a beauty expert. I'm just sharing my experience and a reminder to myself to exfoliate. Exfoliate are important because our skin generate new ones every week. If we don't exfoliate, dead skin cells start to pile up on the surface of our skin resulting in excess oil and clogged pores. This is how all the gunk are trap inside which leads to acne blemishes. 

Officially Graduated

Last Monday flew back to Kuching to attend my graduation. Finally saying goodbye to uni life and saying hello to working life. Thinking back of three and half years of my degree life definitely is not an easy journey compared to my time in Diploma. Cried a lot, stress a lot, worried a lot and not to forget countless of sleepless nights. All of these torturing paid off on the day of receiving that scroll. I did it! 

Graduation cap and tickets

Selfie first :P

Me and Yee Ling wefie before entering the hall

with the parents and beloved sis

Thanks Fabian and Kelly for the flowers and gift. 

Sad to say that this is all I got for my graduation pics which I got it from others and my phone. The rest of the photos taken by my camera are all gone. *cry. Hopefully I'm able to recover it. 

2017 Goals and Resolutions

I know its a little late to post my 2017 goals and resolutions but hey, its better late than never. Here comes the goals and resolutions:

1. Travel more
2. Be healthy and eating clean? 
3. more workout
4. Find new hobbies
5. Improve Korean language
6. Improve photography skills
7. Earn more
8. Be positive and keep on finding inspirations 

Throwback to New Year countdown...

2017 February's Haul

I can't believe that it is already the month of February and it is also the first post of 2017. There are so many times that I thought to myself that I have to resume to blogging but I never did. There are few reasons why I didn't post for years now. Well, that's for another time. Finally I passed my degree and moved back KK. The only thing I need to do is to hunt for jobs! Still indecisive whether I should stay in KK or Singapore. Well, I still have time to think about it while waiting for my results transcript to arrive at my doorstep. Honestly speaking, officially entering to the working world is a scary thing. 

This month I have a great news to share. :) Now, hold your thoughts. Definitely its not about valentine related, its just a little beauty obsession haul. Apparently H2O+ at Imago's Parkson are closing store so there are having 30% to 50% off of all of their products. I been wanting to get a body scrub for myself due to my dry and sensitive skin. As my dermatologist insisted me that I must apply lotion day and night and getting a body scrub to exfoliate dead skin so that lotion can absorb better. As I was searching different brands of body scrub via Hermo, I came across H20+'s body scrub. So I went to Parkson at Imago to check that product out before purchasing online. Hermo and Parkson were selling the same price so might as well purchase it on the spot where I can save up delivery fee. That day (which I had forgotten which day it was), sales assistant was not in and came another Parkson's staff and I said I want to get the body scrub and she told me to come back on the 1st of February as all the product will be having sales. Isn't she nice? 

1st of February that day I asked my sis to drop to Imago as I said to myself, ONLY 1 item nothing else. Unfortunately that is not the case. I ended up getting myself a face mist and a cleanser cause it was such a great deal! All 3 items cost me less than RM150! Moving on, photo taking time to post on Instagram as well as improving my flatlay photography. Got to say, I'm proud of myself that my photo-taking skill has improved. 

SEA SALT BODY SCRUB - ELEMENTS KEEP IT FRESH FACE CLEANSER - OASIS HYDRATING MIST

The Sea Salt Body Scrub really makes my skin feeling smooth and moisturised after using it. 

So far this is my favourite face mist to keep my dry skin hydrated. I was trying this product at the store with half side of my face. The side with the mist, my face was so smooth and the side without the mist was rough. Quickly I asked for a bottle of it. 

As for the face cleanser, I haven't try it out yet. I'm still trying to finish up my Laneige's cleanser. Will give a review once I start using it. 

These are the free gifts they given me. *love

That's all for today's sharing til next time. :)

Taking Instagram to the next level

Hey everyone I'm finally back from Singapore and semester 2 has started a week ago. Yeap. This time I will not going to post about my Singapore trip cause one, I want to spent more of my me time, two, My so-called photographer is not available. She's busy doing her internship (My sister). Three, making myself at home like helping my aunt cooking, do laundry, groceries shopping, cycling in the park and etc. However, you guys can check out on my Instagram for some of my updates!

Speaking of Instagram, you all know that Instagram is the place where I find inspirations and motivations also the only active social media platform. Frankly speaking, I’m addicted to Instagram. Well, kind of. I’m not sure have you all aware that most of your popular instagrammers have consistent types of photos which they called theme/feed? Yeah, that really makes your Instagram account way cooler and hell yeah, I want it too. I want to have to feed as nice as theirs! Not to forget good quality pictures.

Here comes the boyfriend commenting me: “Why like to go Instagram show off? Why always like to follow people how they post? When people like your post happy la you…” I was like errr… That is not my purpose dude. For me, if they can produce such standard why can’t I? It’s more of ACHIEVING something and accomplishment. Every day we have goals to reach in our life. Same as goes to this. Even though is not something major but these are the little goals which keeps you feeling positive and motivated.

For now I'm trying to create a feed on Instagram. Well, I have to tell you, IT IS NOT easy to maintain. For example, like if you want to take picture of the places or cafes you went to, you know that all cafes have different themes. Some more to woody theme, some more to white space. Then how to maintain your feed if your feed are more to white space? Anyway, you get the idea what I’m trying to say. Conclusion, planning is important and taking extra length to shoot nice pic. I will work on that and achieve what I wanted. That's all for now. :D

Pinterest & Instagram Inspired Calendar

On a typical Thursday afternoon as I was searching and scrolling for calendar ideas on Pinterest , one of the post caught my eye. At that moment immediately I said to myself I want to do this! Its so pretty. That night, I called my boyfriend and Nicole to ask them how to cause initially I plan to do it in indesign. Thanks to both of them for their suggestion, I use illustrator to make this calendar. 

Calendar ideas I found on Pinterest

Basically it took me 2 days to complete this due to some pictures problem that I can't import into illustrator. Finally I solved the problem yesterday and now it's done.

Arranging the final work

Overlook of the calendar

Kinda proud of myself that I can make this calendar with only basic knowledge of illustrator through self learning.

Idea credit to: http://imbreannarose.com/our-paper-shop-a-sneak-peek/
Pictures used: Mine and amazing instagramers I followed

Favorite Apps

Hey there! How's life treating you? Can't believe its beginning of July and I'm on my 3rd week of winter semester. Taking a little bit of time to blog before finals is coming. This time I'm going share what is my favourite apps. Yeah, since I got my iphone 6, literally a happy girl and excited cause selfie and foodporn mood is back on track. Then came the thought of why not I do a favourite apps post. So here it is! Hope that this post will somehow helps you in finding the right app :D

First of all, this is what I have in my iPhone:

Err... sorry. Not much of a game person.

Apps that I can't live without:
WhatsApp 
Thank god Whatsapp exist! In my opinion, Whatsapp is much stable than Line and other similar apps. With Line, very often that I received text notifications but once to open the app the messages is not there. It took few minutes to load. Its been almost like 2 years I didn't use Line. So I'm not sure did the developer fix the problem. Although, there is one app I found it stable is Telegram. 

Instagram

This is the social networking app that I'm most active on. Not facebook nor twitter. This is where I get my info for food hunt places. One of the best places to share the artistic side of your photos and get inspired from others. 

Favourite apps:

Waze
Waze is such an amazing app that I found its better than Maps itself or even Google Maps. The good thing about this app is that you can report traffic conditions or accidents happen, police checking, speed trap and etc. The apps itself will also freeze your search when it detect your car is moving. Thumbs up to the developer for considering the safety of the drivers (us).

Pinterest
Pinterest!!!! Love this app to the max. This is the best place to find ideas and inspirations in EVERYTHING you can think of. From architecture to art to car and motorcycles to design to technology and etc.

Dropbox
The best place to store your files online and access wherever you are. Normally, I use it to backup my photos from my iphone because I feel that dropbox kinda sync faster than Google drive. In Google drive, I only store study related files like my lecture notes and assignments. Last time I used to store everything in dropbox. As you know, our life lives by and your picture getting more and more it kind of taking up all my spaces in dropbox. That is why I decided to use Google drive just to store my documents and stuff. Both works perfectly but I still prefer dropbox. 

Spotify
My Favourite platform to discover new musics and artist. Don't you bored with local stations keep playing the same old thing?  Spotify has a lot of indie songs which currency I'm in love with this genre. 

Top favourite PHOTOGRAPHY apps:

Camera
In taking picture, it is best to stick with the build-in camera in your phone cause the quality is better than using other photography app. This tip I read it in some article which I find it kinda true. After that, use any other photo editing app to edit the picture or filter it. 

PhotoWonder
PhotoWonder has a very nice filter which I like it very much. Some more it can take picture with the built in filters. Normally I use it for taking selfie.

It came with a beautify function too! :D

Top favourite photography editing apps:
VSCOcam
I started to use this app recently after I got my iPhone 6. I got to say this is an essential app for photography. You can forget the rest cause the app pretty much can do anything with it and of course there are some filters are require to buy but I think the free filters are good enough. Normally, I stick to contrast, brighten and adjusting highlight.

Some of the basic filters

Fuzel Collage

Since this app available on the app store, this is my favourite app to do photo collage and animations.

These are the types of collage ranging from simple to animated to free form and it comes with a different layout which I pay to unlock all of it. 

Beautiful fonts!

Frames...

Stickers....

and also you can play the Fuzel challenge to earn some credits 

Aviary
Aviary is pretty much no different with the other editing app, but the filters are quite awesome! 

 

Whitagram
This is the app that I always use to upload portrait and landscape photos onto instagram. 

Squaready
I use squareready just because of the blur background feature in this app. Haha. Normally I stick to whitagram.

That's sum up how I edit my pictures. Play with filters, brightness and contrast that will do. :)