Review: Anna Sui Lip Stick G

I am always a big fan of lipstick, not so much of a lip balm or lipgloss girl. I just got this Anna Sui Lip Stick G no.351 last Friday. I would like to share my experience with you.

I almost thought it was batik pattern...lol

 ★ Features ★
The claimed features are down bellow;
● A romantic lipstick with a shooting star bullet
Yes, the tip of the lipstick is in a shape of a star bullet. Cute and unique. The sharp tip makes it easier to reach the side of the lips. Tho, I have to be careful so it won't stroke on outside of my lip.
● Translucent Color × Glittery, Phantasmagoric Shine!
● A translucent base to showcase the SHINE & GLOW of glitter
I thought this 2 points are similar. I failed to understand the differences.
● Long-lasting shine & fresh, juicy hydration!
This is appear to be true. I wore it for a day and it doesn't make my lip felt dry at all. Long lasting in its own way.

Cute inner packaging

Shooting Star bullet tip

Available Shades

Category	Feature	Opinion
Scent	No Scent	Prefer No Scent
Hydrating	Yes	Love this one
Long Lasting	Yes	during fasting, no eat/drink
Color	Translucent	Personally not into translucent color
Buy again		Yes, probably different shades

Price: Rp. 245.000
Where you can find it?

Jakarta : Seibu Grand Indonesia, Galeries Lafayette, Sogo Plaza Indonesia, Sogo Kelapa Gading Mall, Sogo Pondok Indah Mall, Sogo Kota Kasablanka Mall, Metro Taman Anggrek, Lotte Shopping Avenue, Glow Plaza Indonesia, Parkson St. Moritz.

Bandung: Sogo Pariz Van Java. 

Surabaya: Sogo Galaxi Mall, Sogo Tunjungan Plaza IV, Metro Ciputera World.

Bali : Centro Discovery, Glow Beachwalk.

Medan: Sogo Sun Plaza, Parkson Center Point

Disclaimer: Anna Sui Indonesia just sent me this lip stick to review. This is not sponsored review.

Review: Anna Sui La Vie de Boheme

Your Life, Your Passion,  Your Way

Anna Sui Indonesia has sent me one of their perfume product to review. Nope, they didn't pay me to review this product. So, I will let you know what I think about the product.

1. Packaging

I like the packaging (tho it is a bit too girly for some people). When you buy Anna Sui's product, you know you like girly feminine designs that has always been their design and decoration on their products. I am a girly girl, I love the color and designs they picked. It somehow shows a more adult feminine side from the choice of color and the pattern drawn on the packaging. They said the design is called Art Nouveau. Fancy!!!

2. Bottle

The bottle design is truly cute and feminine. Purple matte color for a bottle that shaped like Rose and butterfly lid in a bright gold color.

3. Ingredients

Perfumer, Philippe Romano from DRUM created this perfume from Turkish Rose, Sparkling Pear, Burgundy Berries and some warm woods element. Those names are absolutely fancy. I sprayed it a bit on my skin, I thought I only sprayed it a bit. But the smell was pretty strong. So it is the kind of perfume that you only need to spray a tad bit of it and it will goes along way. Kinda save money for the price they are selling it.

4. La Vie de Bohème in words

This perfume is targeted for Romantic yet Free Spirited Women. It carries a playful spring-summer scent. Portraying a fun yet mysterious character. Easy going yet strong and confident. It smells like a warm flower combined with the fruit scents from the Burgundy Berries. Personally I prefer a breeze of spring scent compare to a warm scent. Tho I don't mind the scent of this perfume either. This makes me feel elegantly feminine.

5. Test

I sprayed it on my clothes and the back of my neck. It stays for quite some time, like around 8 hours or so. Even after I took quick rinse because the weather was quite hot yesterday. I still smell like flower. I probably sprayed too much. Because at first the scent was almost too strong. I sprayed it 3 times on the skin. I guess one or twice here and there should be enough next time.

6. Price

It comes on several sizes and different prices.

75ml       =        Rp.887.000

50ml       =        Rp.690.000

30ml       =        Rp.505.000

Overview: 

I still prefer their La Nuit de Bohème EDT but I will go for this one too.

Review for: La Nuit De Bohéme EDT and EDP

Review: Moroccan Bath at Spa and Beyond

Groupon's Voucher Pic

My bestie texted me on Whatsapp telling me she found a good deal for spa treatment in Senopati area. She told me their description of Moroccan Bath sounds nice and appealing. So we decided to go there last Sunday.

Here is where you can find the link for the voucher Groupon

The owner of Spa and Beyond used to be a stewardess with a frequent flight to Morocco. She heard a lot about the bath and spa treatment there and after learned and experienced it herself, she decided to open one in here. 

All the ingredients they used here are originally coming from Morocco. I assume the owner's husband, who is a pilot with a frequent flight to Morocco, is the one who bought all the ingredients.

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bathrobe and one-time-only underwear

 They put me and my friend in the same room. So, we were about to elevate our friendship level to a more intimate one..lol

2 Massage beds with personal shower head attached to the bed

I took the red robe and picked the bed right next to the bathtub. I love their decoration. The room is pretty small but decent for 2 persons treatment. They also play nice relaxing musics that helps us concentrating on our spa experience. Obviously, we ignored that and instead started chitchatting about the recent gossip.

Equipments and Ingredients

The first thing they would do is asking you to get on your robe and moved to a steam room. There will be a small (one person only) steam box thingy. We were supposed to be steamed for 15 minutes. I gave up after 10 minutes. It was to hot for me. The lady said I have red mark on my skin because the steam was too hot for my (ehmmm) delicate skin.

2nd, they will put the black moroccan soap on your body and scrub it down. Then they will clean it up with warm water from the shower head.
3rd, they will rub volcanoes mud on your body and leave you to relax for about 10 minutes, so the mud will settled in nicely.
After they clean the mud, they put the expensive Argan oil right before they massage your body. I got tickled easily. The lady jumped with surprise when I almost kicked her when she tickled (massaged) my feet's palm.
The last treatment would be milk bath. The lady throw some milk powder onto a warm water on the bathtub. Wish they would use real milk in a liquid consistency or more generous amount of the powder at least. It was barely milky.

Eventually we even shared a bathtub relaxation, milk bath

I guess it will be a better experience if I was there with my newly wedded husband, instead of my best friend hehehe

I like the result when I get glistening and glowing moisturized skin. It doesn't leave me with any significant scent at all. Was hoping they will lit the flower candle that I saw earlier. Turned out it was just for decoration. I definitely would like some flowery or fruity after scent on my skin. 

The voucher that I bought was Rp.170.000 (originally Rp.560.000). Slightly too expensive for the original price. They did using a lot of imported products tho. Don't worry if you don't have the voucher because they have 50% promotion till June 2015.

Massage bed for other Spa Treatment

Overview;
Place: 8 (small but, clean, cute, and decent)
Service: 9 (polite and very helpful)
Treatment: 8
Price: 7 (slightly too expensive)

Bonus, picture of us after the treatment, sosialita sandal jepit

First Waxing Experience (Half Leg and Brazilian Wax)

One of my best friends has been pestering me about going to a Wax Parlour for 2 years. She told me how nice it made her feel after getting it waxed.

Finally yesterday I mustered up my courage and decided to go to one of those wax parlours in Jakarta. I chose to go to Pink Parlour as I already had their pamflet and it says they were nominated for some awards including 'The Best Painless Brazilian Wax'.

I wasn't planning to write a blog about it originally. So I didn't take decent pictures for the place.

Some of the pictures are taken from @pinkparlourid Instagram. Follow them to find out if they have a discount or deal.

I tried their half leg service first as it was my first experience with waxing. I need more time to prepare myself before the ultimate waxing job.

They used a blue hot gel (not sure what it was) and a clean strip. I assume it was sugar wax. It didn't feel hurt as much as I thought it would be. It felt like a zolt of electricity but a very tiny one. No biggies really.

Right for Pink Hard Wax and Left for Blue Gel Wax

You can see I took the wax like a champion. Not so hurt that I can still get some selfie :-p

Finishing..just clean up

One thing I love the most about my first experience is that they made the room very comfy and clean. Also I was pretty lucky because the mbak/beautician who worked on my waxing was really really nice and fun. She answered all my questions and worries about this treatment. She also explained everything and she was pretty talkactive that it distracted me from the pain. Her name is Mbak Yeni and if I go there again, I will definitely ask for her again.

She managed to convince me to get the Brazilian wax. We started with bikini wax in case it was too painful for me. But apparently the award was not a lie at all. It was indeed painless experience. I would not say it is not painful at all, but it wasn't so bad. It felt like a zolt of electricity again..slightly bigger than the one on my legs but not too bad at all.

The Pink Hard Wax they used for Brazilian Wax.

 This hot hard wax is proven to give you less painfull experience for Brazilian Wax. It has a strong grip but not too strong like sugar wax. Slightly feel warm down there but you will get used to it immediately. I am more surprised and startled each time than hurt.

Happy I managed to face my fear of waxing.

@pinkparlourid discount for January 2015 only

@pinkparlourid all the wax treatment type

@pinkparlourid all types of Brazilian or Bikini Wax

I would say I am very happy with my first waxing experience.

Also they have this amazing stamp promotion, for every 10k you spent there and you will get 1 stamp that you can redeem for any of the treatments.

They also have a package deal like pay 4 and get 1 or 4+1 which means you can pay 4 treatments in advance and each month you can cash it in for that specific treatment that you paid for and on the 5th month you will get it for free that is if you are a frequent waxer. It will save a lot of money on the long run.

You can find Pink Parlour in Pacific Place, Grand Indonesia, and Lippo Mall Kemang.

Good luck ladies!!! ♡♡♡

2014 My Favorites

It is December 2014 already!!! 2015 is coming up. Are you ready with your New Year Resolution?

I have never posted my Favorites on blog before, because I just started blogging this year. This will be my first and I will cover everything that I am crazy about during 2014. Some of these products you might already seen it in my previous post. The second part of this post is coming up soon.

Here they are, 15 of my favorites;

1. Smash Box: Vivid Violet
Gosh...I got a lot of compliments on this one. A random stranger in New Orleans, a friend (barely friend) on Facebook, some friends on real life, some friends on Path, boyfriend (the one who bought it for me).

2. LBD (Little Black Dress)
This year I bought 3 extra LBD. Got some from New Look, H&M, and Zalora. I already have more than enough now.

3. Nachos and Dips
Tried the authentic one in US and absolutely in love with it.

4. Flowery Pattern
I have more than 10 dresses/tops with flowery pattern.

5. Pancake
Ever since I got back from 2 weeks vacation to US, I have been crazy over Pancakes.

Monolog's Blueberry&Choco Chip Pancake

Huddle House Pancake

6. J.Co Chocolate Cronut

7. Wedding Dress
Since I will be a bride soon in 3 more months. Yeay!!! Ready to say bye to my fun 'single life'.

Dress Fitting in Huntsville, Alabama. Dress chosen by the Groom-To-Be

8. Leather shorts
Found this short in Forever 21 and I am Forever happy with this short. (For now)

9. My Compact EM Life Palette

10. Indian Foods
This year, I ate a lot...like a whole lot of Indian foods.

11. Wine
Usually not a big fan of wine, but this year I tried some pretty good Wines.

Riesling Kabinett, German Wine

12. Thrift Shopping
I adopted this habit on my last vacation to US

13. Boots
Yes yes yes Boots!!!

14. Beignet from Cafe Du Monde
Absolutely delicious, mouth watery, sugar heaven kinda food.

15.  Intercontinental Hotel
Had some memorable events here and memorable foods too.

Jimbaran Lounge 

Jimbaran Lounge

The Color for Your Lips

Don't you just love it when you see all that pretty colors?

Despite of being a beauty blogger, I am not as experienced or as good as most of beauty bloggers out there in terms of putting on cosmetic on my face. Mostly because I am kinda picky on stuffs and I am not good at art. Kudos to all the ladies (or not ladies) who put on make up on their face regularly. I am seriously bad at drawing eyebrows, eye shadow, highlighting, etc.

I am so bad at those stuffs that the only make up that I regularly wear/use will be lipstick. Who else agree with me that a single touch of lipstick can already heighten the feature of your face? Even if I am not good at putting on make up, but I can at the very least put on some color on my lips. That would already categorize as make up for me. That is why picking up a good color and a good quality of lipstick is such a big deal to me. I am a sucker for colorful, bright lipsticks.

I love this small size Vaselline Lip Balm. It is odorless and no color. It feels kinda sticky a bit. But I adore the result so much. I started put on this  lip balm every night before bed and every morning before put on some lipstick. I haven't had chap lips ever since. I forgot to put it on for a week. But still, it hasn't change much.

 This is Sephora's product. I forgot the price for this one. Bought it in Huntsville. So I assume it should be slightly cheaper than the one in Indonesia. I just try it today, not much to tell for now.

I loooooove this one.
Got it in Sephora, the brand is SmashBox, color Vivid Violet. I love the result on my lips, not too dark but not too light either. Got the perfect combination of dark/light color for my lips and definitely suitable for brown-ish skin like mine. Other reason to love this product is that it is moisturize my lips perfectly. You know, sometimes a product would tell us that they do have moisturizer or Vitamin E on their product but you ended up with chapped lips anyway. Yeah, this is not like that. I don't really need lip balm for this one. I tried it immediately after buying it and it was a windy autumn in Alabama. Yet, I got my lips moisturized with this gorgeous lipstick. Definitely wanna try more color from SmashBox now.

This one is L'oreal 262 (Fresh as Rose), pink rosy color. I used this one more often than the rest. The color is very appropriate for office, a date, girls day out, sunny day, etc.
Very important that this one also gives me the right amount of moisturizer with or without the lip balm.

I am still on the look for a very vibrant bright pink lipstick, a vibrant neon orange lipstick, a dark Alabama red lipstick, a dark purple lipstick, a vibrant bright red lipstick. So if you are currently using or if you know certain brands of lipstick that match my description also has moisturizer (a good one obviously), Do let me know!?

I will hunt for some more of this colorful lipstick.

Cheerios Ladies,

Suci Park