2010-06-23

Transform your hair - like magic!

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(Super long entry with shitloads of very pretty girls' photos)

So happy!!

Essential is launching new products!! And this time, it is LEAVE-ON products for damaged hair...

Essential Hair Essences!!! Awesome!! I'm probably the biggest fan of hair serum there is. :D






There we have it: In pink... *drumroll*

NUANCE AIRY
Anti-frizz Serum




Contains:
High purity Honey Oil
Ultra Shine Essence
Wild Rose Essence

For all day smoothness and bounce!! Hair is shiny,
smooth and unfrizzy all day long!

And in orange:

RICH PREMIER
Nourishing Care Lotion




Contains:
High Purity Honey Oil
Ultra shine essence
Sunflower oil essence

For all day softness and manageability! Hair gets extra
nourishment and repair!



To celebrate awesome hair, Essential organised a Pretty Me hen's night party for me!!! I am technically married already lah but I haven't had my traditional Chinese wedding yet mah!

It will be a night where we get unapologetically superficial and vain and just go all the way out to have girly fun!

Manicures, makeovers, luxurious suites, photoshoots, butlers, you name it.

And so the night arrived.

When I first walked into the Klapsons (boutique hotel) suite, my jaw just DROPPED.

The amount of effort Essential put in for this was just SPECTACULAR. Seriously super touched!!



On the doorknob


Li Ching from Essential and Huiwen getting their sparkly.

The room decorated by professionals in EXTENSIVE fairy Essential stickers/murals...

Yummy food served by our own waiters/butlers... And pink champagne!



Shamelessly pink stuff strewn everywhere. The little pot on the right even had chupa chups and other candy!

*faints*



Pink and white angel wings everywhere!



The fluffy beds



MAKE UP COUNTER!!! Kanebo supplied us with their new range of Kate make up to use, and everything there is not even out in the market yet!

In the pic left to right: My friends Huiwen, Elaine and Kaykay






Sink area... Did you see they even shattered gold stars?! So Rachel berry!



Insanely gorgeous bathtub with all the Essential products floating serenely inside.



It gets better - the bathtub flashes rainbow colours!!!!!!!!! *faints again*



Huiwen (left) and Kiki getting a drink while you can kinda see Elaine and Elise at the back camwhoring with my ring light.



Kiki and Rykiel doing up their hair



And manicures for all the girls


AND WE START CAMWHORING AFTER PUTTING ON THE ESSENCES!!



Elaine, Elise and Kiki posing

Everyone is super happy with my "neoprint machine" coz you can see yourself in the swivel screen of my hugeass DSLR and use the remote to snap fucking chio shots!

Behold:



Elaine and I



Elaine and Elise



(from left) Me, Kiki, Rykiel and Kaykay!! They are all wearing their own cutesy headgear btw mad love for putting in so much effort!!

And btw if you are wondering why their hair all so chio, Kaykay Rykiel and Kiki were already using Essential products (not the essences lah coz essences haven't launch) since like long ago!! And they didn't find out from my advert lor (traitors never read my blog) but like from word of mouth. They never shared with me I could have had chio hair from even longer ago wtf.



I like this blurry shot coz Rykiel is photobombing me at the back!!



LOL accidental shot




xoxo



Even Sharon and Li Ching from Essential went to join in the fun!



Rykiel + Kiki, who is red-faced coz she drank the champagne LOL



Elaine + me + Elise



With Huiwen!! She missing in first few pics coz she took a zillion years to tong her hair






Minnie new addition



Tadah!! Thanks for awesome hair!! (it is still in the box coz Essential brought like seriously 30 bottles for us to use that day)



Think Huiwen's wings are like in the wrong place





After camwhoring so much we decided to get serious and do our hair in...


The BOUFFANT TIARA STYLE!!

If you have never heard of that it's coz I just came up with it.

Super duper easy one!!

It involves:



1) GOOD HAIR - which you can achieve by using the right products *ahem ie Essential*


2) TIARAS



I bought one for each of us. Very cheap lah $12.90 each at Far East's Chamelon!


3) BUMPITS



Also bought in Chamelon, $3.90 for like 4 pieces.


Bumpits are awesome coz you put it below the top layer of hair and you get a bouffant! Or a hair pouf as some of you might know. So that your hair becomes super dramatic!

But if you don't know how to use a bumpit or don't know how to get one, doesn't matter can just use a butterfly clip at the back of your half up-do to get the same bump. Behind cannot see in photos anyway!

And remember to use Essential Hair Essences so that hair doesn't get frizzy and has an extra super shine!


And so we start!!!





Doing Elaine's bumpit + tiara for her

And of course, we put loads of serum + lotion to make our hair extra smooth and shiny!!







Gotta say I love the Essences especially the serum!!

The effect of shiny-ness is immediate and I realised that until the next day my hair is STILL tame and sleek.

We were using the products both before and after the styling - I'd suggest putting lotion after drying your hair after a wash, and serum can be anytime, before or after styling. Hair shines all the way to the ends. :D

And they smell so nice too!





LOL Kiki's tiara dropped that's why we are all looking at her.



With Huiwen

Huiwen likes the lotion because her "hair is like super thick and the lotion makes (her) hair sleeker and easier to manage. Plus it's not oily!!"



And Elaine + Elise



And Kiki Rykiel and Kaykay!





On the bed!



Just me!!



Together!! Our hair is chioness!

THE PICURES ARE SO PRETTY!!


Loving our hair? That's coz the serum makes our hair immediately smoother and unfrizzy, while the lotion makes hair feel softer and easier to comb through!!

Just one application will last ALL FREAKING DAY which is way longer-lasting than other brands of serum. It is totally light weight too so all the goodness is absorbed into hair and it does not feel sticky or icky after application. :D

Of course, the last 15 cm of hair has to be healthy too otherwise it will still look dry and unkempt. So if you have damaged hair, remember to try out Essential's shampoo and treatment coz it is the only product in the market that takes extra special care of the last 15 cm!



CONTEST!!!!!!!!!!!!

Want to get super sleek hair and win prizes??

All you have to do is send in a photo of yourself (or with friends also can) recreating my Bouffant Tiara Style after you used Essential's new Hair essences!! You can pose with either product, but remember to show your hair ends!

Top 3 chosen winners get a $100 Topshop voucher and $70 Essential hamper!

And the Bouffant Tiara Style is so pretty I'm hoping it will go viral!! If more than 50 of you send in photos I'd post up a college of everyone on my blog.

GO GET PRETTY, GIRLS!!!

Send in your entry to essential@nuffnang.com. Please include your phone number in the email hor!




Thanks Essential for the lovely girls night out and great memories!!

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2010-06-16

The Mighty Pen

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Gotta say I love my job!! Nuffnang has been 'in the talks' with Olympus for a while now discussing sponsoring me the Olympus Pen EP1 DSLR camera... Which I've been eyeing on for a bit!!

And I just got it!!

The traditional DSLR is so bulky and UGLY but takes awesome photos compared to compacts. However, we girls are fragile and our bags are tiny and nobody likes an ugly camera!!

So a smart engineer decided, well, girls take the most photos coz they are so vain, and they deserve a good, small, pretty pro camera too... AND TADAH!!

Thus the micro four-thirds are formed!!

For those of you who don't know, these are smaller DSLRs with the same functionality as their bigger cousins, except that the "mirror" that's in traditional DSLRs are taken out to reduce its size (because honestly I think those are obselete - purely my opinion).

And of all the compact DSLRs in the market, the Olympus Pen series is definitely one of the prettiest... and in terms of overall size, the smallest!!





SEE SEE SEE!!

Can you believe this is a DSLR?! (Mine is so fugly and 10 times as heavy FML)

It comes with pretty accessories like coloured pouches and straps also!!

I can so imagine those girls who shop at like... Haji lane... using this camera coz it looks so vintage.



NOW TO PUT THE CAMERA TO THE TEST!!

First two default food photos:



My first time eating Truffle fries (crossroads cafe, outside Marriot hotel). Yummeh!



My fish and chips...

I LOVE the manual focus on this camera!! There is this black rim that you can twist to adjust which part of the picture you want it to focus on so the subject is always so clear and background blurry!! So that pictures look pro ;)

Another cool thing about the Olympus pen series is the ART FILTERS!!

Omg they are like damn awesome max!!!

Art filters:

Pop Art
Soft Focus
Pale and Light Colour
Light Tone
Grainy Film
Pinhole


And I'm about to show you all of them!

No photoshop on these photos:



Little road leading to my house - normal mode



Pinhole



Grainy film



Light tone



Pale and Light colour



Pop art!


Damn nice lah!!!! I especially LOVE pop art coz I love bright and happy photos!! I also like Pale and Light colour coz it sets this kinda dreamy + nostalgic + innocent kinda feel to the photos... Rawr!!

Erm I think I forgot to take a photo for soft focus but don't worry below got.



Gorgeous photo in pop art



Taken after the rain



And this is how it looks like normally!

To be frank I don't even know how to make this effect with photoshop lor. It's not just saturation. (Best part is I don't need to learn coz I can just use pop art MUAHAHAHA)





Love my linen skirt + Juicy slippers


Grabbed my furry puff for an impromptu photoshoot:





SO CUTE WANNA FAINT ALREADY





Aren't these pretty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love Nanolove so much *snuggles the fat belly* *kisses the pink paws*



iAuto



Pop Art! :D



Dinner at TCC



Love of my life



And his food. He said, "What is this? Papulon?". Me, "WHAT? NO HONEY IT'S PAPADUM! WTF!" I am very proud of his efforts.



Checked out T3's new slide. (Pop art)



Mike made me snap this photo. Go estimate my height yourselves. (pop art)



The slide. It's mad steep!! (pop art)



Him watching 2012 while I fiddle with the camera.


AND I TRY OUT BOKEH!!!!

It means, erm, like, taking chio out of focus lights!! Click HERE for deeper explanation of what it is lah.

I've always wanted to try it out but somehow felt my old cameras were not like artsy enough for it wtf.



Here's my sequinny dress



Here's the bokeh from it! :D:D

Quite ugly coz only silver colour but I tried!!




Chioer bokeh. Guess from where?




MY PHONE!! HAHAHA!

And I tried heart shaped bokeh!!! (Courtesy of this site)







SO CHIO!!!

Obviously it can be chioer than this lah but look at that rainbow heart on the third pic!!!! *melts*


And now for the REAL test - CAMWHORING SHOTS!!!!!!!

Obviously for girls (who are not butt ugly) camwhoring is the most important thing in a camera!! Best thing about the Pen is that it is not too heavy to snap shots of yourself with. All the below photos taken camwhoring style.



POP ART!!



SOFT FOCUS OMG SO DREAMY AND CHIO!! No photoshop on the colours at all!!



Pale and light colour



Light tone





How much do I love this photo?!





LOL a bit too bright but still so artsy fartsy!!



Pin hole!!


Omg and best of all for portrait shoots there is something called e-Portrait which automatically removes all your blemishes and zits wtfbbqqqqqqqqqqqq

IT IS MAGIC!




BEFORE



AFTER

Not I go and blur it ok, the camera do one!! And best of all it saves two versions so if you don't like the dreamy look you can opt for the original!! AWESOME MAX.

Since so chio I shall bombard you all with more photos of me in e-Portrait.







I CAN HAS MAGICAL GOOD SKIN!!


And you know what else?? THIS CAMERA ALSO RECORDS VIDEOS WITH ART FILTERS!!! IN HD!! *brains explode*


Erm so I recorded a video of myself asking frequently asked questions with the art filters:



(Credit: Inspired by Charlieissocoolike)


Pretty cool huh?! Sorry the quality is like a bit non-HD coz I saved it in low-res coz I am like movie-editing idiot.


ANYWAY!! Here's the part gian bng gian sai people are waiting for: WHAT YOU CAN WIN!



I'm gonna be at Vivocity, outside Forever 21
on 27th June, Sunday
1.30pm till 3.00pm


Giving a mini guided tour of how to use the Olympus EP1, as well as to take photos with readers!!

If you come, blog about the event, and send your Name, Contact no, Email, and Blog URL to Olympus@nuffnang.com, the most exciting post will win a Olympus FE4030 Digicam!!!






FE4030 digicam: WHY THE COLOURS SO CHIO ONE!!



If you are not free to come, doesn't matter!! An easier way to get a chance to win this camera is by VOTING FOR MY VIDEO!!!


Very simple one just go to THIS WEBSITE - and vote!!! So vote for me!!! Because I learnt how to use Windows Movie Maker for this blog post *sobs*

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