The thing about learning to put on makeup is the fear you may be doing it wrong. Colours can enhance and make things interesting but colours take time to perfect and sometimes, you don’t have time. All you have is 10 minutes to get your face on and out the door. Or maybe you just don’t want to doll yourself up for the weekend or a casual outing, yet want to look polished.
Natural looking makeup, ladies, is what we’re looking for and here are some tips I gleaned from a short session with Clinique’s David Ooi who worked his magic on local celeb, Xandria Ooi. He promises you can do this in 5 minutes and have a natural “barely there” makeup look that will leave you looking yourself, but probably better 
I’ve tried it myself, and I promise you the tips work. The time taken will vary of course but you won’t cross the 10 minute barrier which is all sorts of wonderful! 
There are just 4 things you need, and 4 areas to concentrate on for that barely made up look. Ready? Here we go!
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I was planning to do a whole compilation post of all the nail polishes in the A-England The Legend collection. I just received them recently and have been meaning to showcase them. This is the new collection based on St. George and the Dragon and is, I promise you, one of the best I’ve known. The raves all up and down the interweb are well deserved and considering I’m a real nail polish bozo, you can take it from me – its an awesome collection.
However, I then realised a couple of things. Today is the last day of the Chinese New Year festivities – Chap Goh Meh as we call it here or the 15th day of the Lunar Month. According to chinese calculations, although we celebrated the Chinese New year on January 23rd, the actual 1st day of Spring or “Lap Chun” only came in on February 4th which is, if one is to be pedantic, the official start of the Dragon year. Technicalities aside, to celebrate both of these events, I bring you the A-England polish in Dragon!
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Some days, the stars align in ways I don’t even think about or understand. But when it does, magic happens!
Like when I walked into the Cole Haan store on a whim (I had some vouchers) and realised that there was a sale on and the sale was ending that very day!
Or like when my eyes fell on this pair of shoes from the sale rack.
It looked quite normal on the shelf, until I slipped it on my feet, looked into the mirror and was immediately transformed into a Princess!
Granted the only princesses I know are Disney princesses, but I felt like that moment when Cinderella’s fairy godmother waved her wand, chanted Bippity Boppity Boo! and turned her into a princess. It was like that, except without a fairy godmother, wand nor incantation 
I just kept staring in the mirror because I’d never seen a pair of shoes make my feet look so dainty and delicate before!
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I had been reading so much about the Revlon Colorburst Lip Butters on overseas blogs. The raves have been outstanding! These have been hailed from everything from the best lipsticks ever to the best tinted lip balms. Quite a large contrast there don’t you think?
Well ladies, the Revlon Lip Butters are finally here in Malaysia so we can work out for ourselves if they are really all that! I spotted these only at Watson’s pharmacies for now retailing at a pocket friendly RM25 each (I found out they are S$15.90 in Singapore – quite a bit more pricey after conversion!). I looked in a couple more pharmacies but didn’t see them – I’m told they are only officially due here in March 2012, so I guess Watson’s got a special preview or something
I have here 3 colours in different ends of the colour spectrum to try out. Barring the red one, the other 2 are quite a challenge but I intentionally picked up Strawberry Shortcake (pale pink) because I wanted to challenge myself to wear something out of my comfort zone!
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