Fashion & Style Diary
This episode features a simple workout you can do at home to get your legs leaner and more toned – no gym membership required!
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While I generally love colours, I find that on days when I am feeling particularly not on top of the world, I tend to reach for bright items when getting dressed in the morning. I think it has a subtle psychological effect of lifting my mood!
If you prefer your blacks and white and want some monochrome outfit ideas, check out this previous post!
ChicPeek is a new online series featuring my personal fashion tips, tutorials, DIYs & fashionista friends. In the second part to this episode, I reveal more tricks to making your legs look longer. Subscribe to my channel here if you liked that!
Check out part 1 here if you missed it
There’s a reason why they say ‘diamonds are a girl’s best friend’! Check out this Christmas episode in conjunction with Tiffany & Co.!
With special thanks to Cha of Hair Story by C&C for the Audrey Hepburn-inspired updo, and to The Nail Status for the gellish manicure.
Hair Story by C&C: 313 Somerset, #04-21
The Nail Status: Far East Plaza #04-83 & #04-69
ChicPeek is a new online series featuring my personal fashion tips, tutorials, DIYs & fashionista friends. In this episode, I reveal some tricks to making your legs look longer. Look out for Part 2 next week!
New videos out every week, so remember to subscribe!
When I was about 13 or 14, my best friend and I decided we would be brave, and get our brows done for the first time. I remember going to this small salon in the east to get them tweezed – the pain was excruciating (or at least, it felt like that!) and the result…let’s just say it was the 90s and a time where the look called for long, over-shaped arches.
When I was about 17, I was introduced to threading by an Indian friend. She said it was faster and a lot less painful than getting them tweezed. Again, I found myself in a tiny salon, this time in Little India. The result was more natural and it was a lot more bearable. I never went back to tweezing after that.
So while I found a better solution to shaping my brows, I still had to fill in the gaps every morning with eye shadow. So I was pretty thrilled when Browhaus offered me the opportunity to undergo their Brow Resurrection Natural 2.5 – no more brow makeup for me, hopefully
While I was pretty excited, I must admit I was also a little apprehensive. I have asked many makeup artists before and all of them said the same thing – don’t do anything permanent to the eyebrows or the eyelashes as it looks unnatural. I was also afraid of the pain – my threshold for pain is pretty low. Convenience won though – I still decided to go ahead!
I went to the outlet at The Cathay, and was introduced to my Brow Specialist, Elisa.
Here’s a picture of us outside their Cathay outlet.
Elisa started off by cleaning my brows and removing all traces of makeup. We had a chat on my brows and the look I am hoping to achieve. She then spent quite a bit of time working on the most ideal shape for my brows and face shape, drawing in ‘hair’ strokes on my brows using a brow pencil – I was really impressed with her drawing skills! I couldn’t tell the difference between her strokes and my real brow hair!
We took awhile to decide on the right shape; she drew in a more graceful shape at the start (the right eye in the picture), but I asked her to try a thicker line which is more trendy (the left side). We finally decided to go with the original thinner line in case I needed to get used to the look, and she assured me that I could go a little thicker when doing the touch-up in a month’s time. The whole treatment only started when I was satisfied with my drawn brows.
She put numbing cream on and I waited about 20 minutes for it to set in. They gave me a pair of headphones too, so I could plug into music and relax. It not only didn’t hurt, I actually fell asleep during the procedure!
Super pleased with the results! This is how they looked right after the procedure:
And this is the ‘before’ picture, for comparison!
And specially for you dear readers, here’s a limited promotion!
Valid for first-time Brow Resurrection customers till 28th December 2013 only. Brow Resurrection Natural Trial will last up to 3 months. Touch up is available at $160.50. Available only at the following outlets – Browhaus Cathay, Dempsey (Beauty Emporium), Great World City, Holland Village, 112 Katong & Tampines 1 only.
You can call their call centre at 64712769 to make an appointment.
I generally love colour, but white and grey are my favourite neutrals, and figure a lot in my wardrobe. Black usually ends up bottom of my list, but I like how a monochrome colour palette means you can really go mad and play around with prints and textures.
Here, I started with grey and cream floral printed jeans paired with a silk, digital-print blouse. A chiffon white blazer with black details served as a nice outer to ground the look and pull it together. I picked gold and black accessories to brighten it up and add interest.
What are your favourite colours to wear?