at its thinnest, thinner than anywhere else on your face?
At just 0.3mm to 0.5mm, it is about 3-5 times thinner than skin elsewhere on your face, which is usually between 1mm to 1.6mm!!
That's why the skin coutour around the eye area needs all the help it can get!!
Not only is it the most fragile, it also also the most abused...
We put most of our makeup on the eye area and sometimes get a little too violent tugging out falsies or wiping away waterproof mascara...
We rub our eyes when they get itchy, tugging on the paper thin skin there...
And I'm most guilty of this...
I give my eyes no mercy at all whenever I'm awake, staring at my phone's bright sceen, the computer or TV... The stress gets to the eyes, causing constant blinking, dehydration etc.
When it comes to skincare solutions for our eye area, most of us are praying for a solution to the 5 most common problems:
Eeeeks!! Hate all these!!!!!!
Most of us just give up the constant combat, especially for dark eye circles, because it seems impossible to not have any of these!! But... applying concealer isn't really fixing the crux of the problem.
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I personally love the ultralight texture.
After application there is no stickiness or oily residue (I worry about causing milia seeds). It is super refreshing and feels so nice on the skin under my tired eyes, absorbing instantly, leaving a velvety silky finish.
After I come home from a long day wearing makeup, I realised that after cleansing and showering my skin, especially around the eyes, become super dry...
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Also, application is so easy...
On a clean face (obviously I have makeup on, this is for demo purposes), use the glass dropper to put some eye essence on your ring finger...
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Selasa, 18 Desember 2012
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As you all know I typically use false lashes to enhance my eyes. But fake lashes are, no matter what... fake.
So sometimes when I see girls with super pretty thick and long natural eyelashes, perhaps enhanced with only mascara, I feel so jealous!!
Kim Kardashian is particularly fond of flaunting hers -_- Show off!!
She has said many times that those are her real lashes!!
I also want!! I want to be one of these girls with *ahem* naturally luscious lashes framing my peepers!!
Therefore, sometimes when I'm in the mood I also forgo the stick-on lashes and go for mascara instead!! When that time comes, I'm always hunting for the best mascara to use.
I know a lot of girls don't bother to put too much eye makeup and fake lashes are too much for them. Mascara is also good for occasions like going to the pool or beach because fake lashes won't stay... and let's face it, swimming with fake lashes is just ridiculous.
When it comes to the best mascara, the brand that many people swear by is Maybelline!
After all, Maybelline *IS* the number 1 brand for mascara in Singapore!!
I remember all through my youth I've used Maybelline's mascaras... Anyone remember the one that is neon pink and green? I loved that! :D Now new to the Maybelline mascara family... Introducing...
The Volum' Express Falsies Mascara!!
People have different needs when it comes to the perfect mascara, some want volume, some want length... for others it is more important that the mascara is smudge-proof because they tear more.
Well, after trying the Falsies mascara, I must say that this new concortion is the all-in-one bombdiggity!!!
LENGTHENING!
VOLUMIZING!
WATER-PROOF!
RUB-PROOF!
SMUDGE-PROOF!
FLAKE-PROOF!
It is dream lashes in a bottle!!
Comes with a fanned out brush to catch even your finest little hairs... And look at those lengthening fibres!
Are you ready to see the before and after on me?
100% not photoshopped:
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TADAH!!!
Suddenly my eyes look much more alert than the sleepy and dull specimen on the left...
I only put 2 coats of mascara on and the difference is already so obvious.
Ohai!!
I may not have Kim K's Armenian hairy genes but I still look ok with my sparse Chinese lashes thanks to Falsies mascara!! :D
Wish I could transplant my arm hairs on my lash line. LOL
I love how when you close your eyes people can see that there are no fake lashes on... :)
But how mascara looks after you put it on is just the first hurdle...
As the day goes on can it last??
What I love about Falsies mascara is that even in Singapore's ultra humid weather the lashes remain curled instead of drooping after long wear!
Plus it is one of the few mascaras I've used that are truly flake-proof... I super hate it when mascara flakes on my face making it look like I have black spots all over... -_-
Eye itchy and you went to rub it?
Not to worry....
Watching a sad movie and it made you cry??
AND smudge-proof so you never end up looking like a panda!!!!!! I don't know how they did it but Falsies mascara kinda has an almost rubbery feel... Once it is on your lashes and solidified it just won't "melt" again!
Well if you don't believe me watch this video I did with Golden Tan (that's Michelle Chong in one of her funny personas), putting the Maybelline Volum' Express Falsies Mascara through a variety of torture tests!
Had a lot of fun filming this... Thank you Michelle Chong and team for taking care of me, Larry Yeo for my makeup and the Maybelline team for all the niceness that day!! Just FYI if you are wondering, I was about 3 months pregnant when this was filmed. I was still skinny-ish... :X
Can't believe I actually went swimming and inside a sauna with Falsies mascara and it survived!!
Ok one last photo before I go!!
Serious fierce look
If you want to give the Falsies Mascara a try, they are available at Watsons and most places that sell makeup... At an affordable $20.90!
Additionally if you want an even darker and more intense look for Xmas/NYE, you can now try out the limited edition Falsies Everlasting mascara! Available only during this Xmas season so remember to grab, fast!
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Just want to give my two cents on the recent Michael Palmer affair that has been dominating the headlines in Singapore lately.
In case you are not Singaporean or you are but somehow still do not know what happened, basically it is your classic story of a politician who decided to have an affair, the news got leaked out, and he resigns his post.
There are no sex tapes or naked cellphone photos accompanying this news (boring!) except some mushy smses discussing... fruit... but Singaporeans are still pretty excited about it. Our country is kinda boring.
Here's Michael Palmer with his mistress Laura Ong
The first thing that popped into my mind when I heard of this was... "Not again? Why can't politicians keep their penises in their pants when they have so much to lose?"
So I googled it and got some answers from various articles. The top answer to the Yahoo! Question of "Why do so many politicians have affairs?" is:
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
It is true that women are generally more attracted to men who are rich, good-looking or show leadership qualities. Being a politician possibly also means being good with words (or lies) and having a certain amount of charm. The average man might have perhaps 5 women trying to seduce him throughout his married life but if someone has 1,000 women fawning over him the chances of a successful seduction is much higher. Of course, not in all cases the homewrecker must have been the initiator, but I'm just saying it is hard to resist, say... Marilyn Monroe if she were coming after you. (Not that Laura Ong is anywhere near that standard)
Another reason could be that politicians are supposed to uphold extremely tight morals, including fidelity to their wives. Rarely do we hear of politicians who get divorced, probably coz they know it will negatively affect their image. So I suppose a lot of them stay on with an unhappy marriage, which is, again, more susceptible to infidelity.
Thirdly, it has also been said that the more someone knows they shouldn't do something, all the more it is fun and thrilling to them.
It may seem at this point that I am somehow on the side of the philandering politicians and finding excuses for them. Rest assured that I am not. Despite all the solid reasons listed above, the fact remains that although it may be harder for politicians to keep it in their pants, we expect MORE from our leaders.
We expect them to show more self control than the average man, be more loving and considerate towards the feelings of his wife and family than the average man, and to be SMARTER than the average man.
Yes, smarter. We don't need a dumbass to be making decisions for us and for our country.
These politicians KNOW very well the consequences to having an affair. They know they will lose everything - the career they worked so hard for, their precious public image built up over years, the trust of their voters and family.
They know that if they send a picture of their penis to their mistress the mistress can blackmail him and/or the penis photo can be sent to the media. They know the media will dig around and publicize every other shameful secret they have.
Plenty of precedence in history. And yet they still fuck around.
The ensuing scandals erase whatever good they have done previously, making them go down in history with all their dirty private sex secrets exposed as an adulterer. I don't know a single good thing Bill Clinton did when he was president but I do know he put a cigar in Monica Lewinsky's cheebye.
ANYONE can tell you it isn't worth it. What do you call a person who, despite knowing that fire burns, decides to put his head in it? Crazy.... Or stupid.
Michael Palmer doesn't seem crazy, so I'd say he is stupid. I won't vote for a stupid politician.
Which leads me to the next topic of discussion...
It is extremely surprising to me that a lot of people are saying he shouldn't have to resign. Are you kidding me?
Here are some of the reasons I've read:
1) His private life has nothing to do with his work life. 2) He just made an "honest mistake". 3) Cheating is not a crime
And this paragraph I got from Yawning Bread:
Right... Firstly, I'd like to say that being faithful to your wife hardly seems to be a "throttling moralistic standard".
70% of men did not cheat throughout their marriage, and to act like it is SOOOO much to expect of Michael Palmer to tell Laura Ong "Look, sorry, but I'm married and also being with you will be political suicide." - that is ridiculous. It isn't that hard, sorry.
Let's not forget that however throttling being monogamous is, Palmer was the one who agreed to it in the first place. Nobody forced him into it.
He could be a single man now and who he fucks is nobody's business, but he proposed, he signed an oath, and to turn back and say "Hey, this fucking one person thing is really throttling!"... That's his fucking problem. You don't want to have one vagina the rest of your life, don't sign on the dotted line. Regret it? Divorce your wife, THEN fuck around.
Nobody expects our politicians to be saints, but since when is being faithful considered... unachievable saintly behaviour?
The line has to be drawn somewhere, and if it is lower than adultery... well then let's also invite rapists, murderers and thieves to lead the country, lest we deprive ourselves of possible talent.
(There are leaders who have turned into rapists, murderers and thieves later on, but we generally do not elect them knowing so)
2) His private life has everything to do with his work life. While his actual work may have no relevance to whoever he is inserting his penis into, whether he likes it or not, he represents the PAP, our government.
Our government dictates a huge part of our societal laws. As a married woman and an expectant mother, yes I'd like to believe in the sanctity of marriage - one man and one woman (applicable also for homosexuals, but that's another topic altogether) for better or for worse till death do us part blah blah.
I'd also like to believe that my government upholds the same familial values and will have laws protecting me should I be a victim of my spouse's adultery.
I expect to see the same values reflected in who they choose to represent them in parliament.
To have an adulterer in the midst of my government... Sorry, I simply cannot accept. It would seem to me that the PAP finds adultery acceptable.
I know that if Palmer remained an MP he is 1% of 99% of monogamous people in the parliament, and it's not like he can suddenly approve a bill of polygamy for all Singaporean men or something, but I just find him repugnant and that feeling will extend to any political party he is in.
Besides, his actions (from his personal life) prove that he is a man who is weak-willed, lack self control, irresponsible, has rotten morals, and as I mentioned before, is stupid. I believe character has everything to do with what he votes for in parliament, don't you?
You may say that Michael Palmer probably will never cheat again so why can't he be forgiven? Which leads me to the next point.
3) It isn't an HONEST MISTAKE. An honest mistake is when you accidentally step on someone's foot in a crowded bus.
This affair has been going on for a while now. It is not like Oh Mr Palmer was not wearing pants one day and his penis accidentally went into Miss Ong's vagina when she was bending over to pick up a pen, oops.
No, he committed mistake after mistake, Monday after Monday... With no consideration for his wife and kid's feelings whatsoever.
Maybe, just maybe, his wife is a horrible person who is also cheating on him (not that this is a valid excuse, he should divorce her before cheating if that's the case) but what did his poor kid do to deserve this?
Sorry, this was done with selfish intent and purpose.
After the first time he had sex with Laura he must have told himself "Oh I've done such a horrible thing today!! Should I stop?" and somehow his answer was No, I should continue.
And he did... All the way he continued until he was caught, and if he weren't, he'd still be fucking Laura Ong next Monday.
So please men, don't say it's an honest mistake, trying perhaps to justify your own weakness and infidelity?
Count the amount of times you inserted your penis into a woman other than your wife... Considering you can stop after any amount of thrusts, THAT count is the total number of mistakes you made.
4) Michael Palmer resigned not because he was forced to but because he knew it was the strategic thing to do.
Just imagine if you were him, how thick-skinned would you have to be to stay on? All your colleagues will be gossiping about you, nobody will focus on any of your good work.
Nobody will vote for you anymore because someone who cannot even handle his family well should not try to handle the country. Staying on will only cost his party precious votes. Really, what choice does he have?
I've read people saying he being brave and honourable to resign. I agree it does take courage to admit a shameful mistake, and Michael Palmer's reaction is definitely more honourable than the last politician who had an affair, Yew Shin Leong, who is a coward, but let's not make him out to be some sort of hero, shall we?
A man should man up to his mistakes. He simply did what any PR agency would have advised him to.
I cannot believe that there are people who are on his side, and this is simply the most ridiculous thing I've read, via my facebook feed:
I'm guessing his wife is not one of the 4 people who liked this.
Are you fucking kidding me?
So now we are supposed to be sympathetic and empathizing to adulterers too? THEY HAVE RIGHTS?
No, what they had a RIGHT to is to NOT cheat!
Nobody took a gun to their head and forced them to have an affair!
Really, think about it, what do adulterers get when they cheat?
Sometimes, if the adulterer is male and rich and happens to have a scheming wife, she get a fair share of his estate, ie monetary rewards.
However, adultery isn't that easy to prove in court, and for the men whose wives cheated on them or for the wives of poorer men, sometimes the consequences for the adulterer is simply shame and embarrassment.
Most of the time the adulterer goes on to lead a new life with the homewrecker.
In the case of no divorce, the spouse is forced to forgive such a monumental mistake and continue trying to make the marriage work. Is this fair? They do something so cruel and selfish to their spouse whom they have made a promise to, and signed an oath on. Sometimes there are children involved. Other times they pass sexually transmitted diseases to their partners.
And now you are telling me we should not even bestow upon them the rightful shame and scorn they deserve because we shouldn't DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEM? FUCK YOU!
I can discriminate against them all I want because they made themselves into adulterers via conscious choice, it is not like they are born an adulterer now, are they??
Save your self-righteous anti-discrimination crap for the right people who deserve it, people who are discriminated based on something they cannot help, like gender, race, or disability - not for fucking adulterers for fuck's sake.
Disgusting.
I'm still cracking my brains thinking exactly what "rights" I'm supposed to be giving to Adulterers... The right to privacy perhaps since what happened in their family is their business?
Sorry, the Adulterer is the first to pull a third party into the picture and after that he lost his right to privacy when he decided to create such a scandal for everyone to see. It's like dancing naked in your backyard and yelling at people to not look at you.
Adulterers know exactly what they are getting themselves into when they have an affair. The same reason I agree with capital punishment - if you know the consequences and still do it, you deserve it.
Ok, everyone knows I like shiny stuff right? Right... That's why I'm always blinging any of my possessions that can be blinged with loads and loads of SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS!!
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The front and back of my blinged up blackberry bold 9900
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Here's one of the necklaces I made in about.... 15 minutes?
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Shiny crystal ball in my necklace made from SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS Beads
Rose peach SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS Sew-On Stone... It's a flat crystal meant to be for sewing on your clothes but with a bit of innovation it can also be part of your necklace.
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Typically when I give any attention to my haters at all, my readers will always tell me... "Why are you giving THEM attention? Shouldn't you be just paying attention to people to love you, like us?"
I do. I try my best to. I always try to reply nice people who @mention me on twitter and I appreciate all the love I get from so so many of you. Sometimes, just thinking about it makes me cry, and I have a big boxful of gifts and touching sincere handwritten letters from readers that I look at once in a while to just soak in all the blessings and adoration I've been bestowed upon by strangers. I am grateful to each and every one of you, I am.
But here's where the but comes in. It isn't easy to ignore the haters. It is easy to THINK it is, but hell it's super difficult. I wish there is a non-condescending way of saying this, but here it is - You won't understand unless you are famous.
If I had to come up with a statistic, I'd say that about 1,000 nice comments negates 5 bad comments. I can hear over and over again people commenting "Xiaxue is so pretty" (how is one supposed to reply to this?) but SOMEHOW, just one person saying "OMG saw Xiaxue is so ugly" will rile you up.
Why do I care if one person thinks I'm ugly? I don't think I'm ugly. Many people don't. So why is that one person's opinion somehow more significant than the rest?
I don't know how to explain this phenomenon and why it happens, but it is true and there is possibly a scientific name for it. You smart cookies tell me.
Let me tell you my exact thoughts when I read nice vs not nice comments:
Nice people x 10: "Saw Xiaxue today at Cineleisure, she is so skinny and pretty, just like her pictures! I love her hair!"
My thoughts:"Really not? That's so sweet of them but I think maybe they don't have high standards of what is considered pretty hahaha didn't they see my cankles? Ok lah maybe I'm pretty hehehe."
Nasty person x 1:"Saw Xiaxue today OMG SO UGLY PIMPLES ALL OVER AND SO FAT, DISGUSTING PLASTIC BITCH."
My thoughts:"FUCK YOU I DON'T HAVE PIMPLES AND I AM SO NOT FAT LET ME SEE HOW U LOOK OMG YOU ARE WAY FATTER AND UGLIER THAN ME HOW DARE YOU CRITICISE ME I MUST SHOW EVERYONE YOUR PICTURE."
Maybe it is the combination of rudeness from this person and the fact that he is not trying to butter you up making his opinion seem more "real" than others.
I don't feel sad when I read mean comments. So there is no point in telling me to cheer up or not believe the haters. I don't believe them and neither will I let the comments affect me in a sense that I wallow in self pity and think I am whatever they say I am. I am very self assured and thick skinned like that. :D
What I do feel is acute indignation and some annoyance. Sometimes, especially if it is an ugly person calling me ugly or a stupid person calling me stupid, I even feel a twinge of joy because it is so funny and ironic.
You may say that I am dumb because that is exactly what the hater wants, which is to upset me + get my attention and I gave them that. And you are right.
But I cannot help it. I need to vent, and mostly, the results of the vent gives me satisfaction and closure - because I get EXTRA love from nice people. And rest assured after 2 minutes I go about my own life and am happy-go-lucky until the next mean comment riles me up. Not all do by the way, only some.
But all in all, the statement "Ignore the haters" (usually followed by "they are just jealous") is wrong.
No, haters should NOT be ignored. They should be appreciated and loved. Why? Here are the reasons:
1) Revenge
Revenge is one of the strongest motivators there is. If you watched movies like Kill Bill, you will realise that revenge, or bestowing any form of unhappiness upon those you hate, can shape your entire life and let you achieve things you've never imagined you could.
Now I may not be able to destroy the lives of my haters (only a special select few) or actually kill them with the five point palm exploding heart technique, but I do my best to make them as unhappy as possible. How?
They say success is the best form of revenge.
What you must understand is this... Haters don't hate YOU per se.
They are not jealous, as claimed by so many people. Maybe some, but most aren't. Jealous means they wish they were you, but I can safely say a lot of my haters don't wish to be me, for they find me a pink haired midget. I am not yet that arrogant to presume everyone is "just jealous" of me.
No, what haters feel about you is a strong dislike for your SUCCESS.
They don't understand, in my case, how someone like me, so mediocre, so stupid, so untalented, can become a top blogger. They don't think I deserve to earn an easy living, or deserve the adoration from people who like me. They don't find me pretty, why do others?
Thus, they find that it is their life's goal to make sure everyone sees the "truth" about you and stop contributing to your success.
Would all the haters of Justin Bieber give two hoots about him if he is a teenage boy singing on youtube but never made it big? They won't. They just don't like this popularity.
So everytime I strive to achieve more in life, the haters' angry faceless faces are always at the back of my mind, and I am gloating, happy to see them unhappy as I get richer, more successful, more beautiful, more popular.
In fact, I'd say that they played a HUGE part in my blogging success.
Haters from the start told me I was stupid. I sat for the Mensa IQ test just to prove them wrong. Haters said I can never earn a living from blogging. I showed them I could, and what a great career it is. Haters said Mike will ditch me in a week, but we are still together, 7 years and counting, a baby in the making. Haters said my blog popularity will never last - but here they are, still reading as my visitor count increases per second.
And so that's how I say "FUCK YOU" to the haters, every single person who wished me ill, by showing them the more they say I couldn't do it the more I will.
Few things give me more satisfaction than achieving more in life than they could ever have, and when they insult me, I can go "I am Xiaxue, who are you?"
For that, I am grateful to them. Thank you for not believing in me, thank you for your motivation, thank you for giving me the sweet taste of revenge.
2) Love with the hate
While your haters are going on and on like a rabid dog, what happens? You get 3 camps of people:
- People who agree with the hater. See point 1) on how more of these are useful.
- People who disagree. You get extra love from people who like you defending you, and that's very nice when it happens!
- People who have no idea who you are and why you are stirring an interest in the hater. They go find out and decide for themselves. This adds to your increased publicity and they may decide they like you!
See? It's all good.
3) They give constructive feedback
and help you become a better person
HAHAHAHAHA NO THEY DON'T.
JUST KIDDING!!
Thought I'd give some politically correct answer about how we should listen to our haters? FUCK THAT. Haters are stupid and bitter and they wish the worst for you, never ever listen to their "advice" and change!!
They merely wish to mold everyone into default cookie cutter unoffensive sheep. Anything that you do that is out of the ordinary will get you haters.
Most of the time, exactly why they hate you is what makes you unique. For example, a common criticism of Lady Gaga would be that she dresses too slutty, but if she starts listening and dressing like a nun, she won't be who she is today at all!
So many of my haters dislike my strong controversial opinions, but I'm sure that's exactly what so many of you love about me as well, and I ain't gonna change that for sure.
And so today, in the spirit of loving my haters, I'd like to give special appreciation to a particularly persistent one.
For weeks now I've been seeing (presumably) the same hater post on different platforms about me. On tumblr, on facebook, and even creating a lovely account for me on instagram, making an effort to follow everyone I follow. LOL. Props for being so hardworking.
It's all the same picture, a print screen of my Garnier video compared to a photoshopped picture of me on my blog and saying how I have bad skin and am ugly and plastic.
She (I think it's a girl) also seems to think that just because Plasticzilla posted an email that someone sent to her claiming I created her hate site seems to constitute as proof that I did. Roll eyes, I also received an email from an "ex friend" of PZ, claiming she had drug fueled orgies with old men in Bali, does it mean it is true? It's almost laughable. Please, we all miss the genius that is Dawn Wayang but I am not the writer of that website! I do love whoever wrote it though!
Anyway, that's all fine and dandy right? Coz usually my haters leave their hate just on the internet, and it never translates to the real world... Until this!
Via Stomp:
My eyes censored by Stomp, who didn't seem to want
to give me extra publicity lol
This hater actually bothered to PRINT MY PICTURES, and proceeded to paste them on a toilet wall in Choa Chu Kang!!
Are you freaking kidding me???
Like she feels so strongly about me, that she bothered to waste very expensive printer ink on me and then, brought these papers out with her, went into a toilet, WITH TAPE, YELLOW TAPE, and pasted it on the wall.
And that, I suppose, made her day.
I don't feel angry or sad actually. I feel strangely very touched and happy.
Because love me or hate me, I feel very honoured that I evoke so much emotion in you that would drive you to put in so much effort for me. You know I love attention, so thank you for giving me so much of it.
This is the 1st time a hater ever sorta appeared in real life, and I feel like I'm finally famous. I AM SOMEBODY!! I am worthy to be printed on a toilet wall!!!
And moreover, the things she is so angry about are so silly!!
Like duh, EVERYBODY knows I photoshop my pictures and I'm plastic, I've just about said it a zillion times, so what's the POINT is spreading that I am??
And you know what is the most ironic?
For Garnier, they asked me to do one blog advertorial and one video for their Miracle Skin Perfector.
Here's the video, completely open on clicknetwork, and I have even tweeted to ask people to watch it, it is not like it is meant to be HIDDEN??
And so the hater took a screenshot and kept on saying I have bad skin, an ugly nose, and cockroach eye makeup... Ugly nose or makeup is subjective, but what I don't get is why keep harping on my bad skin?
I already clarified in the video that my skin is not usually so bad. You want to know why it was so pimply that day?
I was about 2 weeks pregnant at the point of this filming, and my body was adjusting to the new crazy amount of hormones. It also caused my skin to be very puffy and water retentive, thus the eyes that look kinda like I just cried.
Congratulations, you just insulted a pregnant woman, how very kind of you.
I'm not trying to find excuses, there many videos out there of me completely bare with no makeup, and I DO NOT have bad skin. I may have the occasional zit here and there, forgive me for being human, but usually it's still pretty clear.
This is my accompanying advert for Garnier, and even in the blog post I posted a few pictures of my unphotoshopped skin, saying it is bad recently.
So I've been completely honest.
Not sure if the hater is blind... Or?
But all this is irrelevant. EVEN if I have ultra bad skin in real life, so what?
This hater seems to think that I somehow deceived my clients and blog readers by photoshop and plastic surgery?
And that she is "exposing" me by somehow showing a video and picture of me that everyone who saw the ad already saw???
People who saw the video saw the bad skin, the ugly nose and cockroach makeup and STILL decided to buy the product, you think they are all blind and only you are enlightened?
WTF?? It's too illogical, I can't even.
(Btw the Garnier peeps loved both my video and advert, saying sales dramatically increased after that and they are thankful.)
She is so WEIRD!!!
I suppose she just feels very strongly that people who are plastic or photoshopped absolutely do not deserve to earn money from "endorsing" products????
But this phenomenon is happening everywhere in the world with most celebrities plastic in some way or another and magazines photoshopping their models to death, so why the anger with just me, especially when I'm the only person who actually admits to be plastic and photoshopped? Wth, help me out here, I'm genuinely confused.
In any case, I'm very happy because I know that I will continue earning from sponsorships and ads despite her best efforts to "spread the word", and I know this will cause her to be angry and upset. :D
She needs to understand... Clients don't come to me because I look exactly like my pretty photoshopped self with perfect skin, a perfect nose and perfect eye makeup.
They seek me because I write good advertorials, I have a good track record of being honest with my reviews, and mostly, because I attract eyeballs. And you, my dear hater, just made me more popular by letting more people know about me.
Now everyone visiting that toilet will want to go to my blog to see the photoshopped pictures and be amazed. Thank you so much!!
And thank you, also, for making my day by showing me how awesome my life is by seeing yours in contrast.
Really, right now I'm gonna sleep my gorgeous bedroom which has most of the renovations sponsored, while carassing my belly with my baby squirming inside. And I'd be dreaming of his fat cheeks and fat fists when he eventually comes into the world. All is good.
You, on the other hand, spent your day posting propaganda that won't work on a DISGUSTING public toilet wall. In Choa chu kang. Why so uncool the location, at least choose Orchard or something...
That's sad. So sad.
I'm afraid you don't know how sad that is, so I made you a chart, hope you like it.
Back in 1998, Furby was the IT toy, so super popular that kids everywhere were disappointed as Furbies flew off the shelves and they couldn't get their own! More than 40 million Furbies were sold and I remember I badly wanted one as they so resembled Gizmo, the cute gremlin from the Gremlins movie!
Plus, Furbies could talk and move!! So adorable! Till today, there are many toy collectors who still kept their Furbies and they are still functional!! Madness.
Time really flies - after 15 long years, Furby is back again!! I was invited to Furby 2012's official launch and haven't never owned a Furby before, I totally didn't know what to expect.
But after a runway show where the dancing Furbies were brought into the room, EVERYONE SQUEALED BECAUSE THEY WERE JUST BEYOND ADORABLE!!
The Furbies came in 6 different colours and all have distinct personalities depending on how you treat them!! They squirm around and their ears keep flipping back and forth as they speak Furbish, their own language... Really cute!!
Furby now comes with super expressive LED eyes - I've seen the eyes do all sorts of expressions from being in love (many hearts sparkling) to puking. lol
Yellow Furby here is a singer... Behold, for yes, Furbies now can react to YOUR music and they will sing and dance in tune!!! Technology, why you so amazing!!
White Furby is a sweet princess
This Red Furby has my favourite personality of the lot... She is a DIVA!! Really love how the Furby peeps decorated each Furby stage and accessories in accordance to Furby's personalities.
LOL we were all queuing up to snap a pic with the big celeb of the night!!
Other than playing music for your Furby, you can also pull its tail (careful, some of them don't like it), pet its head, tickle the tummy, shake it, turn it upside down or feed it with your finger.
Not only that, Furbies recognise their own kind!!
If you put Furbies together with its friends they will chatter non stop lol
When I left the event I got presented with my very own Furby... I chose white, and it is ginormous!!
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Just kidding, that's just the Furby standee.
But guess what? After the first 6 colours were introduced, 4 more colours came out, and I got an additional PINK Furby to make friends with my white one:
HEY FURBIES!!! They couldn't stop chatting and giggling with each other.
Can you guess what Pinkie is saying? Well, your Furby will speak loads of Furbish initially, and "kah may-may oo-nye" means "Me Love You". How do I know? There is a Furbish translator and dictionary! More about that later.
As you keep interacting with your Furby, Furby will learn to speak more and more English - from YOU!! So cool right?
I don't know why, but I guess my Furby somehow got my bimbo personality and kept saying "O. M. G" - I don't remember saying that to my Furby at all lol
So I was saying about the Furbish translator - yes there is an app specially for Furby!! Just search "furby" in the app story - you can get the Furby app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, for free.
I don't know HOW, but somehow my iPhone can interact with my Furby!! My Furby speaks, and the app translates!!
But this is not the fun part, the most fun part is feeding your Furby!!
You can create your own burger to feed Furby... Fries with a lollipop, fried egg and beef patty why not?
Or...
You can choose from the pantry a myriad of extremely odd foods to (force)feed Furby that you will never try yourself.
Old sock or burnt toast anyone?
What I screenshot here is not a complete list, there are MANY more interesting things you can feed Furby, and all you have to do? Select the food and just flick it out of the screen into Furby's mouth! LOL you can even feed your Furby your math homework or your old underwear!
Your Furby will chew and let you know whether it likes it or not (via the LED eyes). Different Furbies like different things.
I found it so hilarious that some of the items Furby actually spits back out, back into my iphone screen!
Like if you feed Furby a fortune cookie...
Furby spits out your fortune!! And it changes everytime. You can feed Furby the piece of paper again and Furby will unhappily eat it.
I fed my Furby a pufferfish.
He vomitted a puffed up pufferfish. And I fed him the puffed up pufferfish...
He literally vomitted vomit to me this time. And you guessed it... I fed him his own vomit.
He gave me a different kind of vomit. LOL!!!
Furby, why you so cute??
I love my Furbies!!!
Oh and in case you are wondering, Furbies don't "wake up" unless you play with them, so most of the time my Furbies are just sitting in the corner with their eyes closed, snoozing. Amazingly enough, I haven't had the need to change batteries yet.
Interested to get your own Furby or one for your kid?
Furbies retail at $119.90 at Toy R Us and major departmental stores, EpiCentre, EpicLife, Nubox, iStudio and selected electronic stores.
You can click HERE for more Furby fun or visit http://www.furby.com to select your favourite Furby colour out of the 10 available!
