Marc Jacobs Beauty Review

It is without a doubt that the Marc Jacobs beauty range is one of the most-hyped and most-coveted this year, and I have received a handful of them to review courtesy of Sephora. Here’s a breezy, quick Marc Jacobs Beauty review. I’ve mentioned previously that the Marc Jacobs Genius Gel Super-Charged Foundation (RM 189) would […]

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Givenchy Prisme Libre

To be completely honest, I have only recently experimented with loose powder, with Givenchy’s Prisme Libre being my second jar. I have always stayed away from powders of any kind as I get shortness of breath whenever I’m exposed to them. Fortunately, none of that has happened when using loose powders. With loose powder, my […]

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Sakura

I consider myself to be a very lucky girl to be able to enjoy sakura two years in a row. We spent a considerable amount of time browsing the #sakura tag in Instagram, hoping someone in Osaka would have posted photos of fully blossomed sakura and geotagged the location. We just had go for hanami […]

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Owl Café

On our way back from Kuromon Market, we chanced upon Lucky Owl (¥1000 for an hour with a beverage). It didn’t take long for us to decide to pop in an owl café, and I especially wanted to check if my admission letter to Hogwarts was somehow misplaced. Little did we know, we were in […]

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Easy Blush Tutorial with a Figure 8

Remember how most magazine taught us to swirl our blushes onto the apples of our cheeks? Throw that out. I could never gotten my blush application right, until I dropped by Make Up For Ever’s Pro Boutique during one of their workshops and asked one of their makeup artists there. Make Up For Ever’s method […]

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Kuromon Market

Kuromon Market in Osaka is a must-visit for fresh produce food including seafood, sashimi, sushi, kobe beef, fugu (also known as the potentially deadly blowfish) etc. A lot of Japanese chefs and restaurateurs source their ingredients here, and it’s not hard to see why. Everything is fresh and big, so no skimping on quality here. […]

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