February 2016

Grabbed my girls and headed to Kilo at PACT at Orchard Central over the weekend! I would never have known it was here if not for it's gorgeous raw industrial chic interiors catching my eye on le social media, so luckily Sujin and E-main are super easy going and let me pick where to go!


The area was smaller than anticipated, but since we were kind late for lunch, it was completely empty and we could sit wherever we wanted (phew).

T-shirt Dress from Gap | Sandals from Zalora

Spent Valentine's Day hanging at Trishna's (again) because the poor girl was pining her boi / she lives super near by / we are free people / we had to book Vietnam stuff! Justin isn't big on the whole commercialism of Vday, which is why we "celebrated" a few days before. I've noticed how actually quite a few people seem to do as well to avoid the huge price hikes on Vday itself.

Anyway, I'm still a girl; and who doesn't love feeling special, so the saving grace for Valentine's Day itself was receiving these gorgeous Janice Wong chocolates from NARS (thanks again, Celeste!) Inspired by their newly launched Velvet Matte Skin Tint, I love how each individual chocolate was unique yet similar, and they all sat together in the box like a piece of art I couldn't bear to eat (BUT I DID - salted caramel, yum yum).

So yep, ended the day with my favourite boy hiding in his room and stuffing our faces with leftover popcorn chicken that we made for our Chinese New Year party but forgot to distribute to the guests (OR DID WE). If this isn't luv I don't know what is :3

I have had my fair share of NYX growing up, them having filling the gap in the cosmetic between quality and affordable cosmetics products when I was young and all experimental. There's something about the brand that's really vibrant, and I actually felt super at home here with my new look (in case you guys didn't notice, haha).

Anyway, popped by Sephora on Friday night with Hanya (my beauty guru of a friend) for the Re-launch of NYX cosmetics under the umbrella of the L'Oreal family (oh, just a small cosmetic group you may have heard about). Because of the relaunch, you can now find a way larger range of NYX products such as their Limited Edition products that were previously not available in Singapore. On top of that, you don't have to wait six months for your goodies as they will be launched simultaneously as the U.S.!

Some things that caught my eye - the Ombre Blush which seems like such a natural and obvious thing to do for blushes that you wonder why isn't everyone doing it; and their Pore Filler - I've been death staring my pores for the longest time so finding it in my goodie bag all seemed very timely. I have yet to try the Butter Lipstick on properly, which is one of their signatures and very highly rated online. Personally, it took a while to dry on my hand, but maybe it will be good for my constantly dry lips!

The brand new NYX is available in Sephora Singapore from February 2016 onwards!

Finally booked tickets for a value trip to around Vietnam with Trishna yesterday after much debating, worrying (mostly on my part) and overall deciding heck care we'll just do it since we are free-ish people! It's ironic how I haven't seen much of the neighbouring countries here in South East Asia since I've lived in Singapore my whole life. I do feel slightly paranoid about the safety of traveling around this region, and I have to remind myself that I did manage to travel all over Europe, many times by myself, sooooo I hope it'll be fine?

We'll be going on 1st March which is in just under a month so lots of planning to do - feel free to email me at monica_lie@hotmail.com if you're interested in a collaboration or feature! (For obvious reasons my pictures look tons better overseas, which is funny because you'd think I'd put more effort into my dressing when I am in the comforts of my own country - but nope).

Planning on keeping this a nice budget trip, any suggestions for food / activities / places to go?