My Small but Perfectly Formed Shopping Haul: I’m getting better at not going overboard!

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The first trip I made to Hong Kong, I came home with half a Sasa store. I’m kidding. Almost. 😛

With each subsequent trip I make, my shopping hauls get smaller and smaller but comprise products I already use, need or that I actually want. *gasp* I must be growing up! 😛

shopping haul

This time, I just picked up a couple of essentials in the Kose Softymo Cleansing Oil (I can’t believe my “essentials” come from Hong Kong 😛 ) and a couple more items I’d been wanting to have a go at. I know everyone loves snooping into others’ holiday shopping hauls but this is so small, its almost embarrassing.

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Lipstick Bandit on the loose! Raise a (NARS) Manhunt!

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Ladies,

I’m not one to advocate joining gangs – makes me want to don a baseball cap back to front and wear massive bling. But I have recently been invited to join one and like many gangs, its hard to say no especially when they are persistent 😉 They call themselves the Lipstick Bandits but the only thing this gang does is terrorize your wallet by making you WANT more and more lipsticks. Especially the red ones. The redder the better. I think I’ve found my niche 🙂

At the pestering urging of Rae, I was unwittingly happily co-opted into this lipstick loving gang. And like all not-so-secret societies, I needed to be initiated. Here is my initiation.

lipstick bandit

Me in a bandit-esque mask, rocking a red lipstick 🙂

A month ago, I’d have laughed and said “Pish! Me, do something creative with makeup? You gotta be kidding! I don’t have a creative bone in my body!” That’s what I told Rae the first time she asked. But then I celebrated a birthday recently and with age, as they say, you lose your wisdom 😛 Suddenly you think “There’s nothing I can’t do if I just put my mind to it!” And so when Rae sneakily (banditly?) asked again, I said yes. I did this, on the eve of turning a year older but looking back, not very much wiser 🙂

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A Peek at Le Metier de Beaute, Dolce & Gabbana, NARS and Giorgio Armani luxury beauties

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Last weekend, I met up with a reader, Lee and it turned into an epic 6 hour gab fest. It was quite amazing really, considering it was the first time we’d met (rather like a blind date 😛 ). I failed to notice the time and it was only when the restaurant we were in started seeing the dinner crowd come in, that we shifted our butts 😛 I think the staff were so relieved to see us go! Parking at Bangsar Village killed my poor wallet though so we’re going to have to meet elsewhere for our marathon sessions next time! 😛

selection of makeup goodies!

But what was significant about our meeting was that Lee very kindly lugged her traincase of beautiful high end makeup that we do not get here, so I could take a look at them! On that fateful day, my camera battery died. So what you have are mobile phone pictures, which she happily encouraged me to take and which I did… after I’d picked my jaw off the floor.

Here are some brands we only ever hear of without being able to see them first hand (at time of writing).

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Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gioia Fragrance – Joy in a bottle

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giorgio armani acqua di gioa perfume review

Gioia – Joy (Italian)

Acqua – Water

Acqua di Gioia – Water of Joy (?)

Either way, this is Giorgio Armani’s new fragrance for women which they are convinced will be a hit with most women. It was recently unveiled at the hill top restaurant of Neo Tapas in Kuala Lumpur.

Well, aren’t I right? Joy for me IS waking up to smell freshly brewed coffee. Something I don’t get very often but which I do get when I go home to coffee made only as Mom knows how to. Incidentally, after we mixed up our interpretations of joy and did a lucky dip, I got one that talked about coffee too! Coincidence or what? 🙂

Aqua di Gioa starts out fresh with top  notes of lemon and mint leaves, mellowing down to a floral scent of jasmine and brown sugar. What do you get? Hungry. Because I’m made to think of creme brulee every single time I wear this fragrance!
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