Makeup : YAY or NAY?

Makeup. Who in the world doesn't know makeup and its magic? Magic that can turn someone's face to be better looking in just a blink of an eye. I am a makeup artist myself. I once learnt to do bridal makeup and hairstyling for 3 months at Puspita Martha under Martha Tilaar in Indonesia. It's quite interesting to learn something that can help people to boost their confident by "correcting" things. So basically there are 3 main parts of the face that is quite important in term of makeup :

- Eyes (eyeshadow, eyeliner, etc)
- Cheeks (blush on, bronzer)
- Lips (lipstick, lipgloss, liptint, etc)

For me, it's the best for people who wear makeup to keep it simple and basic rather than overdoing it and made themselves look like clowns or something. It's not halloween, peeps, no need to wear such a thick makeup.

Just a few tips: focus on one part of the face only to prevent "overdoing"
Example :

Focus on the lips

Focus on the cheeks

Focus on the eyes

...cause you don't want to overdo it like this

Anyway, remember to always remove your makeup before sleep and wash your face cause some chemicals contained by the makeup itself might harm your skin and block the pores whic sometimes caused pimples, acnes, and wrinkles. Lat but not least, I'm going to share few photos of oh-so-glam hollywood actress that you guys might know without their makeup c:

Mila Kunis

Katherine Heigl

Rose Byrne

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is one of the most well-known mystery novel writer, also one of my favorite. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English ccrime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such characters, for example Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Born to a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Christie served in a hospital during World War I, before marrying and starting a family in London. Although initially unsuccessful at getting her work published, in 1920, a press published her novel The Mysterious Affairs at Styles, featuring the character of Hercule Poirot. This launched her literary career.

Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the record for the longest initial run: it opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952 and as of 2012 is still running after more than 25,000 performances. For information, The Mousetrap is going to be held on Jubilee Hall, Singapore on Oct 4-Oct 13 2013 and I am going to attend it on Oct 13 2013. *yay me* 

I personally loveeeeeeeees reading mystery and detectives novel which is why I always adore Agatha Christie's novel, especially the one with Hercule Poirot in it. My all-time-favorites are The A.B.C Murders, And Then There Were None, Hickory Dickory Dock, and At Bertram's Hotel.

Poor thing I only brought one with me to Singapore :(

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Baby Steps

Have you ever reached a time when you really want to "move on" from your past, from your usual life? I have, and I am afraid to do that. Nobody said taking such a big step is easy. It is burdensome. We never know whether it is a good decision or not. Imagine taking such a risk to cut your long black hair and change its style to a short bob. 

What if it turns out to be bad?

But what if it actually makes me look better?

Same things happen to a point in our life. To be very honest, I was once a very fragile and sensitive girl. I took every words and hates seriously and they hurted me, they did. Same thing happen to me when people tell lies. I can remember every single lies people told to me. It did happen once in my relationship with a guy. I never knew he would lie to me about quite a huge thing until my very best friend told me. 

Can you imagine how does it feel to be stabbed? I can imagine it hurts quite a lot and I think that pretty much how I felt that day.

I cried for quite a long time after I decided to broke up with him, until my mom came and saw me tearing up. Such an embarrasement, I know. She said something that really changed me. 

"If a guy made you cry, then he didn't deserve you even a bit. Someone who is willing to give you all his heart won't hurt you or even lie to you, and I know that you will find him one day. Don't be such a crybaby, cheer up! You still got a long future waiting ahead."

Since that day, I really changed everything. I became a more open-minded individual, wiser and stronger in heart. I took a step to change my entire life, even if it's just some babysteps. If you are not strong enough to take a huge change in your life, then don't. Change a bit and a bit then by time you'll realised that those babysteps have created a giant big step on your life. You got to take risk for everything, right?

"Faith is taking the first step even when you 

don't see the whole staircase" - Martin Luther King, Jr

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Pasta Mania

Haven't blogged about foods and restaurants in a while and now I am back with Pastamania! *yay*
Pastamania is one of the most recommended one according to me personally since it got a lot of variety of pastas and tempting appetizers, not to mention that the prices are also reasonable. It is suitable for a casual lunch or dinner with friends without spending too much money. I went there twice already, the one that is located at Cathay Cineleisure and it has never been a disappointment (;

Beef Lasagna

Creamy Chicken Spaghetti

I actually ordered one more thing called Honey Garlic Chicken which is THE BOMB<3 but I forgot to take a photo of it since I am quite hungry and rushing so.......yeah.
Almost forgot! Pastamnia got several choices of pastas which you can choose by your own. Some of them that I remembered are spaghetti, fusilli, penne, and linguine. They also have delivery services and you can find more details about Pastamania here.

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JuxtaWHAT?

What is juxtapostion? What should I make for my final juxtapostion project for 3D?
They are questions that have been asked over and over again but no one's sure what the answers are.

NO ONE knows.

And the fact that next week is the assessment week makes me even more panic and stress.
I only know the fact that juxtaposition is about comparing 2 things that are very contrast to each other but at the same time, have something in common. Take water and glass as the example.
Water is liquid, glass is a solid thing. But the fact that both of them can be used as a mirror is something that make them a part of juxtaposition.

So one day I have this idea to make my juxtapostion project in form of a cake "made" of waist measurement tapes.

What's juxtaposition about them?

For me, waist measurement tape itself represent body size, represent someone who really care about their body weight and size - someone who's on diet. On the other side, cake can be catagorized as sweets which contain quite a lot of fats and sugar on it - which is the main reason why people actually gain weight.

What's the similarity then?

I also don't know HEHEHEHEHEHE

Praying for the best on the night.
Then I showed the lecturer my "cake".
*drumrolls*

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Got rejected.

I don't know anymore.

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Two Dimensional Earth

Reaching the end of the term already - YAY! - but then it means that I should rush and finish my final project which is a group project. The lecturer asked us to make an A0-sized art piece using techniques we learnt from week 1 until now.

So basically my group consist of :

- Erny

- Jiahui

- Weidong

- Me (of course)

We're bringing the sexy back

After discussing for quite a long time, we finally came up with an idea to make some sort of protest art (sounds cool?) along with this artpiece. 

So basically we decided to put a globe in the middle of our A0 with 4 buildings or monuments which are well-known and symbolized their countries. We chose Singapore with Merlion, Indonesia with Tugu Monas, Malaysia and its Petronas, also United Kingdom with its Big Ben. Based on the research that my group have done, those 3 countries (exluding Singapore) have the closest connection to Singapore and each other. As for the globe part, we dicided to use typography and paper collages to fill it up. 

Process of making the globe part

It consists of the words we use to "protest" 

Final result TADAAA!

Everything was perfect. Perfectly finished UNTIL the next day during the 2D fundamentals class. 

So this is what happened during the class...

"Cher (teacher), we finisihed the group project already!"

"Really? Let me see."

Teacher saw the A0

"This is good already (blablabla) BUT I DON'T THINK THE PAPER COLLAGE IS BLABLABLA." 

Summary : She basically asked us to redo the globe part.

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