Picture Perfect

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

One should feel beautiful, feel good, feel pretty and that's what the world will see. If you feel ugly, that's what people will see. Try to look as good as you can. There are ways to live in beauty without being obsessive about it.

Wearing makeup, for instance, if it helps you to increase your confidence, then why not? Here I have some tips to enhance your natural look, hope it helps!

For a healthy skin look:

Etude House Sweet Recipe Baby Choux Base

As I get my facial routine once in a month, it leaves redness on my skin. Usually, I'd just stay at home for three days because the redness is scary. Sometimes even after three days, the redness won't get away that easy, and neither CC cream nor BB cream can perfectly cover them.

It's like a pastel green colored that when it's blended perfectly, it'll cover the redness on your skin.
Not to mention, the SPF 25 PA++. What a bonus!

How I use it: After applying toner and emulsion to my skin. I apply this Baby Choux Base, blend it properly and follow it with a CC or BB cream.

Price: IDR 125k

FYI, this is actually the new packaging of Baby Choux Base, the old version came in a glass jar which was not travel-friendly and hygiene, I think. The reason Etude House changed the original packaging into a tube was because some batches in the glass jars would develop “grains” and it got lots of complains. Nevertheless, I think the jar one looks cute but it's inconvenient because you've got to use a spatula, right?

There are three shades available; Mint Choux for acne problem skin, Berry Choux for pale skin and Peach Choux for darker skin.

For perfect eyes look:

Etude House Color My Brows

I got my hair dyed, and I felt like it's kind of weird to have a black eyebrows (my natural hair color) with an ash brown hair colored. I did use a light brown brow kit from The Body Shop, but it still didn't cover my black eyebrows. I actually got my eyebrows bleached, but when the bleached hair starts to fade away, this eyebrow mascara or let's call it browcara always comes in handy. Therefore, I bought this in no. 4 Natural Brown which is the most matching color for me.

How I use it: After filling my eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil or kit, I brush two or three strokes the browcara to my eyebrows.

Price: IDR 75k

Good news, this browcara has five choice of colors to match your hair! A top make-up artist once said this, "Your hair color and eyebrows should not be a perfect match. A slight contrast is good." So, don't hesitate to try change your look even if you don't dye your hair. Because, it somehow can soften your look.

For fuller lips look:

Etude House Woo Baby Plumping Tint

What I love about this plumping tint is the menthol cooling sensation once you applied to your lips. It has a silicon tip and plumping effect to volume up your lips. This plumping tint leaves a natural glossy looking.

How I use it: Adjust amount of contents on the tip, start applying from inside to outside of lips naturally to make gradation. Sometimes I use this after using lipstick or liptint too.

Price: IDR 86k

This product contains Menthol that stimulates blood circulation on lips for fuller look and Meadow Foam Seed Oil with Peppermint Oil to let you have healthier lips.

Other products that I used:

Face:

• Etude House CC Cream in silky
• Etude House Nymph Aura Volumer in #4

Eyes:

• The Body Shop Brow & Liner Kit in #2
• Urban Decay NAKED Basics
• Mizzu Eyeliner Pen in brown
• Maybelline The Falsies Volum' Express

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Finally, the long wait has ended. The girls' comeback! Let's dance if you like this too. I love their makeup in here. I think I should learn how to make a winged eyeliner like that, yes? So tell me, my bumblebees, who is your bias? For me, it's too hard to choose one!

Girls' Generation - Mr. Mr.

And, who else got so excited when watching the Running Man with CNBLUE episode? These guys... Really.. Looking more and more handsome than ever. I've loved YongHwa since We Got Married episodes of him with SeoHyun SNSD, he was too sweet, right? Then I like JongHyun because he's the most good looking member. I mean, look at his pimples OMG! Then I like MinHyuk because he's so adorable as ChanYoung in The Heirs. While JungShin, I don't know, he's too skinny, that's what I notice about him :P
But, when I see their newest MV for the 5th mini album. They are all super good looking! And GAH. Jung YongHwa, why are you so handsome? :O Your voice is killing meh~

Don't chu wanna cuddle while listening to this song?

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Like A Star

So there's this Korean drama that I've been attached to for like 2 months!
It's My Love From Another Star or You Who Came From The Stars or 별에서 온 그대 or yeaah you name it. The drama currently airs every Wednesday & Thursday at 10PM (KST).

My first utmost reason to follow the drama! Couldn't resist his thick eyebrows and curled lips.

*fangirling too much*

I've been a fan of Kim SooHyun oppa since his drama Dream High and The Moon Embraces The Sun. He's too charming as a human, so it's a fit perfect role as an alien this time, yes? I'm planning to attend his upcoming fan meeting with my chinggu :D

Kim SooHyun for Esquire Korea March 2014 ♡

Wish me luck! I'm hoping for a seat just like when I attended JaeJoong's fan meet last November. I literally sat across from him ^^ *arrrghhh, dying!*

I've adored Jun JiHyun since I was in middle school, watching her movie My Sassy Girl. Gahhh! She's so adorable and pretty! I think she's the prettiest 30 something actress in South Korea. Well, if you haven't watched this drama yet, I suggest you to hurry watch it online!! It's the BEST 2013 K-drama, it's not that I didn't watch the other dramas in 2013, I do watch A LOT of Korean dramas that I feel my university and working life are pretty distractive because of it *sigh*.

Anyway, I'm going to show you my makeup inspired by the lead role, Cheon SongYi a.k.a the funniest lead role everrrr~!

Cheon SongYi always wears different lipstick in each episode, I can't tell exactly how many lipstick she has worn until the latest episode. But the most popular one is the YSL Rouge Pur Couture No. 52 Rosy Coral.

My most favorite scene. She rocks the pink lips!

There's even this piece of article:

One of the most notable beneficiaries is Yves-Saint Laurent, whose No. 52 lipstick barely made it onto the shelves before the customers grabbed it. Ever since Jun was seen wearing it, it sold out late January at the Yves-Saint Laurent cosmetic counter in Shinsegae Gangnam. The cosmetics counter sold 2,577 of the lipstick in the month of January, racking up sales of about 103 million won. Department stores across the country have run out of the product, and inventory at Yves Saint Laurent headquarters in France have also apparently run dry due to surging orders from Korea.

Crazy isn't it? Cheon SongYi is truly a nation goddess *_*

Here's the look that I created to achieve Cheon SongYi's natural beauty. Her skin is super healthy and milky. She doesn't use thick eyeshadow makeup nor a heavy eyeliner, her eyeshadow is a very natural color which mostly just a matte nude color. Overall, she enhances her looks at the lips and dewy face.

Here goes the makeup order;

For the face:

• Etude House Baby Choux Base in mint
• Etude House CC Cream in silky
• Etude House Cotton Fit  BB Cream in W13
• Etude House Nymph Aura Volumer in #4
• Wardah Blush On series A

Kindly anticipate for the Baby Choux Base review ^^ I use both of these as the base makeup.

I've used 2 tubes of Etude House CC Cream already, btw! I love it so much.

This time in order to achieve the dewy looking face,
I am mixing the Nymph Aura Volumer with my Cotton Fit BB cream to give an extended shine.

For the eye makeup:

• The Body Shop Eye Brow & Liner Kit in #2
• Urban Decay NAKED Basics
• Maybelline The Falsies Volum' Express

If you look closely to Cheon SongYi eyebrows, she doesn't do much with it. Although she has a light brown hair color, it seems like she doesn't bleach or use a brown shade eyebrow mascara. I'd love to do the same like her, but I recently got my eyebrows bleached...
For the eyeshadow, from the NAKED Basics, I'm using W.O.S & Naked2 at the lid, Crave at the upper waterline. Lastly, Foxy shade and Venus on the browbone.

For the lips:

• Oriflame Triple Core 3D Lipstick in coral pink
• Etude House Woo Baby Plumping Tint in pink

Using the Woo Baby Plumping Tint to coat the lipstick.

Review about this plumping tint on my upcoming blogpost. Stay tuned!

Here's how the lipstick looks like. It's messy 'cause I've used it a couple of times. 

It has 3 layers, that's why it's called Triple Core 3D, because its purpose is to give an illusion of fullness, shapeliness and amazing volume. It consists of an outer coral layer, white centre layer with shimmering particles and a lavender pink inner layer. What I dislike this lipstick is its shimmering particles that I found it's hard to remove the glitters even with makeup remover. *sigh*

Finally after applying all of the steps above, here is the final look:

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Aaaaand,
TADAAA!

Can't help that I don't have milky skin, I've got tanned since I came back from NYC.
And it's unbelievably hard for me to get my 'whiter' skin back -_-

I hope you like this post!
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Hope you all have a great week ahead!

For Alien and Hallyu Star team, brace yourself, four more days to the final episode!

Joowonie

It's gonna be me fan-girling! Excuse me for that :D

I started liking this guy ever since I watch his acting in 7th Grade Civil Servant. YES, it was not a long time ago. Then I started browsing about him, from his past dramas, activities and of course who he was.

So he started debuting as a musical actor. Ah, that's why he got a nice voice. I mean, a really good voice that you'll love it. I always find a baritone voice interesting, but his voice, not a baritone of course, yet I still love love loveeee it. He really has a good singing technique.

He is Moon Jun Won also known as Joo Won.

Joo Won in ELLE February 2013

Now to the reason why I really admire this guy. His acting skills! You really can feel the emotion with his acting, when he acts like a bad guy, he's really that bad guy, when he acts cute, you can't help but you wanted to pinch his cheeks. HAHA.

Then I watched him in Bridal Mask, which really brings me questions like, what kind of guy he is in real life, so I watched him in 1N2D; a variety show in Korea. It's so unbelievable he has a 180' different character. He's like a cute little boy in 1N2D, he's too cute, he he...

Here's a proof of him being so cute:

Well, though it doesn't have an English sub, I understand the video.

He said: "Jjinja shiro." meaning he really hates it. Hahaha...

Kindly watch it until the end of video where he dances the Gangnam Style. He is so funny!

Let me show you loads of his photoshoots:

CeCi November 2012

I love all of his shoots on Cosmopolitan!

With his co-star in Bridal Mask, Jin Se Yeon. Look at his expression :X

A video of him for CeCi Korea:

Why so adorable? X_X

His selca picture. Thank goodness he has his own Twitter and Via.Me account!

credits to the owner! He looks like T.O.P!

 7th Grade Civil Servant episode 5! Too many cuteness of him in the fifth episode, including his lightbulb moment :P

1N2D moment

isn't it too sad that even in a school, a student can turn into a sudden paparazzi :(

Anyway, here's a proof of how beautiful his voice is!

Joo Won covers Because I'm Stupid by SS501.

Not to mention, he also did sing for his drama Bridal Mask and Baker King, Kim Tak Goo.

Ah, that's it guys! Anyway, it's March already, I started this month with some online purchase. Is it only me but I find that online shopping (the trusted one of course) is very convenience. Agree or not? :P

Keep Marching on, people!!

My Favorite Sheet Masks

As much as I love wearing traditional mask and my Tomatox magic pack. Can't lie I love using sheet masks.

Why?

Because it's practical. I don't need to wash away, et cetera.

I use different kinds of mask sheet. Even so, before buying several, I'd ask the sales attendant, which kind of mask that would suit my skin type (oily sensitive-combination; acne prone skin)? I think it's more like routinely activity than a must for me. I wouldn't get troubled face if I didn't use any of these. It's just fun and relaxing to have some mask time while surfing the net, watching movies or sleeping if it is a sleeping mask. Haha! I use one of these masks every 3 days!

However, if I had a facial treatment, I would just use 1 mask sheet in a week because my skin would get extra sensitive by then! ;)

Now, I'm going to show you my FAVORITE mask sheets from different brands:

Real Nature Mung Bean Mask from The Face Shop

Price: IDR 19000

Reason: Because I have an oily combination acne prone skin, and the Mung bean a.k.a green beans are well known effective for clearing up blemishes on oily acne prone skin, so I really recommend this type of face mask. It can heal acne scars, or even lighten hyperpigmentation on skin. It smells fine for me too :)

Natural Pulp Essence Tea Tree Mask from TonyMoly

Price: IDR 19000 (as it can be seen at the barcode)

Reason: Clearly because it's tea tree! Tea tree oil is well known for it's anti-fungal, anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties. So yeah, that explains why ^^ And besides, this mask sheet has a lot of water essence in it, so it wouldn't easily dry (or a bit dry) even after 15mins of usage. Besides, it's very affordable, 'cause I'll have a 10% discount for every purchase of TM's skin care products :D

Real Mask Sheet Chestnut Shell Mask from Etude House

Price: I got this at IDR 68000 for 3!! (They're currently having discounts for so many items, so hurryyy!)

Reason: Well, it's said that this sheet mask formulated with REAL chestnut shell for exfoliant care. Whoa.. I wonder how a sheet mask can do exfoliant :P But I really really love the packaging (not only the outer appearance of it but the inner one!) They have a kind of film that helps you to unfold the mask, because the mask is very thin, and very soft. I mean it. It's super soft that I really find it interesting when applying the mask! HAHA! Too bad it easily absorbs my skin so the mask would be dry in 15-20 mins. *le sigh*

Lettuce and Cucumber Water Essence Mask from Skin Food

Price: I forgot :( It would probably be around IDR 50000.

Reason: This must be the best mask around all of the mask that I've reviewed just now. However because it's a little pricey, I don't always wear this mask. What I love about this mask is because of it's texture of the mask! It's not as soft as the Etude House's Real Mask collection, in fact it has a whole different texture, but trust me, you'll find it extra relaxing wearing this mask because it has a lot of water essence that it doesn't dry! I thought maybe I could wear it twice?? HAHA kidding! Why lettuce and cucumber? Ok, lemme explain, lettuce is good for oily skin, lettuce also works well to sooth irritated and sunburned skin. While cucumber; as cucumber and the skin share the same level of hydrogen, it becomes easier for cucumber to mask all the problem areas. It helps in soothing and softening your skin which can get you relaxed in no time. With so many useful ingredients in cucumber it can help you in treating so many skin problems.

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Talking about my recent life, I just finished my short semester so now I have a break from schoool! YEAAAY! Too bad, having a week off doesn't really entertain me, I just stay at home, watching K-dramas. AH! There are a lots of GOOD K-drama that currently airing in Korea! So I had like 4 dramas that I'd been following, but then I really got confused by myself so I eliminated one by one.

I watched Yawang/ Queen of Ambition (played by Kwon Sang Woo and Uknow Yunho. Geezzz! I like Soo Ae, I just hate hate really hate her character in this drama! You know when you just hate the lead female that it could make you so lazy to watch the drama, you just can't take it anymore even though you LOVE the lead male. Kwon Sang Woo is my FIRST favorite Korean actor. I started to love him when I watched Stairway To Heaven on my 3rd year of middle school hahaha! That I even follow a fan site of him, named "Sangwoo-jjang". LOL LOL :'D

Back to the topic, I finally eliminated Yawang from the list after watching the 4th episode. Nuff said, I just dislike the female lead.

Then I have 7th Grade Civil Servant. It airs on MBC every Wednesday and Thursday 21:55 KST replacing I Miss You (which played by Yoochun-ie oppa). This drama is too hilarious! Joo Won (the male lead) and Choi Kang Hee (the female lead) make a perfect couple. Firstly, I know Choi Kang Hee from Protect The Boss (which she plays this drama with Jaejoong-ie and Ji Sung), damn! Why is she always in the drama that involves good looking men. I mean, in 7th Grade Civil Servant, she also plays with 2PM's Chansung! Secondly, I couldn't wait for another Thursday ('cause the English subtitles would be available around Thursday night) to see Joo Won's aegyo! He really does a lot of aegyo in this movie. Unlike his character in Bridal Mask, he does too much cuteness in this drama, just like in his real life (if you follow 1N2D variety show). Seriously, how can you ignore him with all his cuteness?! KKK~!

And on SBS at the same day and time, we have That Winter, The Wind Blows; played by Zo In Sung and Song Hye Gyo! It has a really interesting plot of melodrama. I haven't cried till the 5th eps tho'. But seeing the plot and how fast they unravel things till this latest episode's upcoming preview. Well well, I ain't doing reviewing and stuff but Zo In Sung is so handsome. Could hardly resist! X_x

Again, on KBS2, IRIS 2! ARGH! This is too much! Jang Hyuk casts along with Lee Dae Hee. I love Jang Hyuk since his drama, Midas. Speaking of IRIS 2, whoever watch the first IRIS will anticipate this sequel, won't they? I. Just. Can't. Take. No. More. Nevertheless, watching 4 K-dramas at the same time is extremely challenging for me. And a drama like IRIS, might cause a burden for me because of its story.

I eventually eliminated IRIS 2 *BOO!* and just continuing watching 7th Grade Civil Servant and That Winter, The Wind Blows, just because I like Joo Won and Zo In Sung the most. LOLOL. Actually, Kwon Sang Woo but I dislike his character, his partner's character and the story!

So yeah, I'm pretty busy by myself because of these dramas. Hahaha!

Recently I rewarded myself with a new polaroid camera!! YOOHOOO! It's the new instax from Fujifilm, called Instax Mini 8. It comes in 5 different colors; pink, yellow, blue, white and black. All in pastel.

I adore pink colour, any kind of pink, be it a baby pink, hot pink, shocking pink :]

On the spot photo right after purchasing! This is a Hamicat Film.

Ya! Pororo! Porong porong!!

FYI, I use a Pororo theme song for my alarm. And it always successfully wakes me up every time it rings, kkk~

I wish they'd still sell the Pororo mini instax film. I literally can't find it anywhere :'( they said it was a limited edition one. If anyone of you knows where to buy one in Jakarta, or whether buying it online, kindly inform me. It's so unfair because they still sell the Instax Wide Pororo film :/

Another (unlogically-reasonable) reason why I bought this is because I wanted to capture my sister's wedding *in a few months* with the Wedding film!

That's it, readers! Gamsahabnida for reading until this far.

Disney Movie

Sometimes, I think I'm very Disney for my age. I'm 18 and I do love Disney movies, is that weird? Whatever. I like it. Enjoying every moment I watch it with my sister or friends or... alone.

Here's the list of Disney movies I recommend for you guys to watch:

• The Princess and The Frog
• Wall E
• A Christmas Carol
• Hannah Montana: The Movie
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• Camp Rock
• Princess Protection Program
• Tinker Bell 1 & 2
• Bolt
• Cinderella
• The Game Plan
• Old Dogs
• Enchanted
• Bedtime Stories
• Cars
• The Incredibles
• High School Musical 3
• Chicken Little
• Lilo and Stich
• Freaky Friday
• Cadet Kelly
• Up
• Ratatouille
• Alice in Wonderland

Yes, I haven't watched Chronicles of Narnia and Pirates of Caribbean but I'm so going to watch it as soon as possible!!!

Anyway, I was wondering is there any Camp Rock 2 on youtube and I found this;

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

Wooohoooooo! CAN'T WAIT! The sooner, the better! OMFG JOE JONAS!!!!

To watch the extended version, click this.

IAN SOMERHALDER DOES GQ!!

Yeah! I put all the uppercase for the title to express how excited I am!! Hope you feel the excitement!

some of the pages

And speaking of Ian Somerhalder, I'm waiting for the episode 19 of The Vampire Diaries which gonna come out this Friday. Here's my fave quote that I got from the eps 17. Damon's so sweet lately.

Elena: You can’t stop me, it’s Stefan we’re talking about here. You don’t understand.

Damon: (mocking) Oh I understand. I understand. He’s the reason you live, his love lifts you up were you belong. I get it.

Elena: Can you just not joke around for two seconds?

Damon: I can’t protect you, Elena. I don’t know how many vampires there are in there. (clicks fingers) That’s how long it takes you to get your head ripped off. I have to be able to get in and get out, I can’t be distracted with your safety. Or this will end up a bloodbath that none of us walk away from, including Stefan. I know, I get it, I understand.

No, you have to watch it by your own eyes. None of my words can describe how hot he is, how sweet his words when he speaks to Elena, how sexy he is, and how cute he is.

DAYUM!!!

And this is what Nina Dobrev actually said when she's interviewed by Seventeen Magazine,

We had a couple six-year-olds who came to a signing and actually thought that Ian Somerhalder [who plays Damon] was a vampire, and they were terrified of him. We had this one little girl go up to him, and she was really shy, and her mom was like, ‘She has something to tell you.’ And Ian leaned over and was like, ‘What is it, sweetheart?’, and the little girl says, ‘Try to be a good boy.’ And he was like, ‘Okay, sweetie…for you I’ll try.’

This is the part 3 from NYLON magazine interview February issue;

“The Black Eyed Peas at 7 in the morning…it makes you…well, blow your mind.” (LOL-ing at this part)

You can't even imagine how much I do want them to have a real date....

obviously this pict has made me so envious

Nina's way prettier than his real girlfriend (sorry)

oh yes, whoever you are, you're still the luckiest girl ever! are they still dating? anyone knows?

and here they are (the main casts of TVD) at the Paley Fest

Personally, this is the best tv show so far. Keep watching it! They just wrapped for the finale anyway.