Random MIA Updates

Oh wow! February has already slipped away from me this fast. I hope someone misses me in the blogsphere LOL... Kidding but really, nobody miss me?

Oh well, moving on. I was drown with work before, during and after Chinese New Year and with the festive around, I was busy catching up with family and friends. I didn't even rest that much during the holidays. Though it is very good to be home and spend really quality time with family and friends. I enjoyed my time being back at home.

I know I didn't blog last month and this month I start off with such boring entry but please do be patient. I do have lots to blog about. Is just that my blogging life can't really keep up with my real life. Sigh.

Another reason that I didn't blog much because it seems that my life is all over the place. I don't have any directions or goals to achieve this year compared to last year. It's like an pointless dead end. Last year I made really specific goals and I achieved most of them. Maybe because I'm tired of setting goals and trying very hard to achieve them? That my battery has run out? Or maybe I'm too hard on myself? But I can't be lay back this year, it will be wasted. I was having either blank thoughts or negative thoughts. That's why I didn't want to blog. I don't want to project negetivity out here.

I'm keeping my life back on track a bit now. So no worries but I still need goals or at least some direction to go through this year. Suggestions? It's late now, I just want to drop by and say hi. Till my next entry, nitez peeps!

Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.6

Results of FINE Hyaluron & Collagen

Today I have completed my can of FINE Hyaluron & Collagen! This will be a short and quick post because I'm not feeling very well but still want to share with you guys the result of me consuming exactly a month of collagen.

These are the changes I notice on my skin after consuming the collagen.

Better nails

Can you see how shiny my nails look? I didn't even need to paint any nail polish. My nails used to look quite dull and not shiny at all. Now it looks like a natural French Manicure :D

See the dots of scars which I got from my allergy. It actually look a lot worst 2 months ago (it used to be very red and looks like bee stinks) and I only start drinking collagen a month ago. So it shows how damn slow my scar recovery is. This picture was taken on the 3rd week of consuming collagen.

This picture is taken yesterday, the fifth week of consuming collagen is the third last day of drinking collagen. The dots of scars has lighten a lot! You can barely see some of it too. Yeah ^.^V My skin does not feel too sensitive either. Less redness and itchiness when they disagree with me.

Of course most of all how does my face look like now?! Fairer, very less acne, scar recovery level has gone up and most of ALL my skin is not flaky anymore! The acne scar on my chin has disappear too compare to a few weeks ago.

My skin colouration has turn better too. Notice the slight redness on my cheeks? Makes me look heather and younger looking *shy* 

Do you know what does this means? It means that my skin is finally have quite the right amount of hydration. When your skin has enough of H2O, your skin will repairs scars faster, your skin feels supple, clearer and firmer too.

If you have already read my Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Eye, you will notice even I have panda eyes but the fine lines are not so visible and honestly, I was not using any eye products for a month before two days ago. I'm not sure is it the collagen that could maintain the fine lines being not so visible or I already have good under eye skin? Nah... I guess I'll credit the collagen LOL

I shall continue drinking collagen to remain un-age *hopefully* Nights peeps! Need my beauty sleep, sleeping early is one of the beauty secret too ;)

Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Eye

Well, you know how much I like my Kiehl's Line Reducing and Eye-Brightening Concentrate and the results after using it, right?

Surprisingly, I have not purchase my second tube of it since last April. I wanted to try on other products and especially if you believe in living with samples #cheapskate Guess what? Other products does not come up as good as the Kiehl's one I have used.

Last Sunday I headed down to the branch at Pavillion to get my second tube. The moment I step in and I'm greeted with a very helpful and enthusiastic SA - Deric. He ask what am I looking for and I told him I wanted to get my second tube of the Line Reducing and Eye-Brightening Concentrate. However, he recommended me to use the Midnight Recovery Eye as he feels that my under eye condition needs this more.

Even the giraffe wants to have a try on the Midnight Recovery Eye  

Deric pointed out something that I didn't notice of my under eye which is the dark circles. It's not just dark, it's quite purple-ish which makes me look like someone has given me a punch. Purple-ish means that the blood circulation around the eye area is not circulating properly.

Purple-ish under eye

Wearing specs making the dark circles look worst

Puffy upper eye lids

Specs makes the puffiness look worst too

Another thing which I don't like about my eye is the upper lid puffiness. It's just makes my eyes look droopy, smaller, sleepy and hiding my double eyelid! Most of all, I wear specs all the time and the specs just amplifies   the dark circles and puffiness even more!

I still have my fine lines due to aging FOL! But they are still less visible because of the previous tube I used. So, I'm still quite happy with it. Of course, hopefully with the Midnight Recovery Eye to strengthen my skin barrier and reduce the fine lines too.

Deric also explains clearly how does this tube of goody is going to help my dark circles, fine lines and puffiness. As you know our body replenish or repair our cells during the night while we are sleeping. The Midnight Recovery Eye works it's magic to strengthen our cells to restore our youth for us at night. It enhanced microcirculation therefore, reduces puffiness ans strengthens capillaries thereby minimized dark circles.

In short, not just our under eye area, our skin as well is damage by UV rays, environment and aging during the day. When night falls with the help of the Midnight Recovery Eye, it repairs and help to reinforce the skin barrier to retain moisture. In long term usage, our skin becomes healthier and could protect itself from the damages during the day.

I also love the ingredients in the Midnight Recovery Eye and the smell of it. It's very relaxing, probably helps you to sleep better.

Picture credits to Kiehl's

Need I say more? I grab a tube of the Midnight Recovery Eye! 1 tube of goodness helping you to have younger looking eyes and repairs 3 of the most targeted problem of your eyes area ❤❤❤ max!

Before I leave the shop happily with my purchase, Deric is so sweet and nice. He gave me more samples that he thinks most suit my skin which I didn't even ask for samples! To think of it I feel a bit paiseh (shy). He even spent time to explain each of the samples and jointing down when and how I should use it. I will definitely come back more with Deric's professional service. 

Unlike the other day, I went to the Midvalley branch the SA was quite rude and unprofessional. Sorry, it's a bit off the topic but I feel when we shop especially for skin care. It's very important that the SA is helpful and professional. Knowing the products well and helping you get the right product is very important to us consumers. It was before Xmas and I was looking for a gift for the Xmas dinner party gift exchange. I was greeted when I walk in the shop but the moment I told the SA I'm looking for something RM50 or above as a gift. He straight away gave me a booklet to brush me off, telling me all gift sets are shown in it and the well wrapped gift sets are at front. I was quite pissed off, I just walk out the shop.

OK, back to Deric the good SA, these are the samples he has chosen for me. The samples with scrabble writings are what Deric jointed down for me. D = Day use, N = Night use. How thoughtful!

Midnight Recovery Concentrate (for skin), Might get this for my next purchase

Calendula Herbal-Extract Toner and Centella Recovery Skin-Salve

Deric has chosen the Toner because he feels that my skin needs more hydration and the other one is a moisturizer for sensitive skin.

BB Cream with Vitamin C

The BB Cream helps correct skin tone irregularities, it has Vitamin C and also SFP 50++. It comes in Light and Fair colour tone. Light is for more pinker skin tones.

So next time do drop by Pavillion branch and look for Deric if you need some good recommendations of the products you are looking for.

Watson's Beauty Haul

Went to Watson's to get some drugstore supplies over the weekend and I stumble upon some new beauty products that I thought of sharing with you guys. If you shop a lot in Watson's you will notice they have bring in a lot of good beauty and skin care products in and you just feel excited just shopping in there.

I bought Simple Bye Dark Circle Hydro Gel Masks (the pink panda box), Keratinology by Sunsilk (the box below) and Loreal EverStrong Overnight Hair Repair Treatment (the green bottle).

Simple Bye Dark Circle Hydro Gel Masks isn't the packaging box looks so cute? The eye masks itself is pink too!

It's from Taiwan and we do know most Taiwan beauty products have great reviews. It comes in 2 pairs, it has Marine Plasma Protein that cure dark circles, whitening and hydrates the eye skin area to reduce wrinkles and enhance skin elasticity. 

I have not known of this brand yet but the eye masks shelf, this is the 'selling fast' eye masks. It left 4 boxes of it, 2 of the Hydro ones and 2 of the collagen ones. I was checking it out and was thinking should I get the collagen one or the Hydro one and there's 2 girls standing beside me and just took the collagen one -___- No explanation needed, so I grab one box of the Hydro one to try.

The my surprise after using it, my eye area does whiten up a lot and my eye bags have reduce! Most important, you know sometimes how mask can be messy right? This one has a special gel plasma texture that ables to cover my eye area fully, no dripping, no over soak moisture sipping out while I'm wearing it. It just 'sticks' on my face holding up my eye bags firmly. 

Sorry but I forgot to take the before and after picture of me using it but it's good. Don't believe you try it yourself ;)

Keratinology by Sunsilk is a dual treatment shots for hair (duh!) I'm always a Sunsilk user and this will be their advance technology treatment for your hair. It has infuse Pico technology. What is Pico? 

Pico is this in Metric Prefixes

Picture is courtesy of Wikipedia. 

OKOK, in layman terms I shall describe it in a molecule diameter size.

Micro is this big |-----------|

Nano is this big |-------|

Pico is this small |--|

Pico is 1000 times smaller than Nano, so now you get the picture? It also means that your hair gets way too easy to absorb all the Keratin goodness into it.

I did try it 2 days ago and the absorption is true. Do you notice that when you are using your conditional or hair masks. When you rinse your hair you still can feel the smooth products get wash away, right? It means that your hair cannot fully absorb all of the products. With the Pico technology, it does absorb all of the products into your hair. When I rinse my hair, only tiny tiny tiny amount of the product is being wash away.

The treatment comes in 2 parts, you have to use Tube 1 after you wash your hair and rinse it. Tube 2 is a Leave On treatment to be apply to your damp hair. It feels soft, untangle and easy to manage after one use. I'm a happy girl XD

Btw, even it's the size of the tubes are small, you can use it more than one time depending the length of your hair. Remember DO NOT throw away the tip of the tube once you have peel it off. You can actually turn it around to close the tube.

After you peel off the tip of the tube it looks like a crown shape, you can turn it around and close up the tube for your next use. Smart?

Loreal EverStrong Overnight Hair Repair Treatment it's under their new range of Loreal Ever collection. They have EverStrong for damage hair, EverPure for coloured hair and EverSleek for anti-frizz hair.

I have been loving this collection a lot and have been using the EverPure and EverSleek hair mask religiously. For a drugstore product and drugstore price, giving a higher range result, it's definitely recommended.

EverPure (Pink tub), EverSleek (Orange tub)

I haven't use this overnight treatment yet but I do think it will be a good one too. It is to strengthen your hair while you sleep.It is suppose to use while your hair is dry. It has quick absorption that it doesn't leaves any residue on your pillow. I am replacing it as my hair serum. I have been using the Redken Anti-Frizz Hair Serum since I have started using hair serum..... it's like ever! It's not that the Redken one is not good but maybe it's time for a change?

UPDATE: I have tried the Loreal EverStrong Overnight Hair Repair Treatment and I am LOVING it! It is really the best one from the whole collection. I use it when I don't have much time for hair mask during my bath. I use it after I have wash my hair, it works on damp hair too. My hair feels soft and untangle, most of all it does not break easily too. It's like a leave in hair mask, not oily, leaving you good hair for the whole day.

Alright, this will be a bit off the topic but recently I'm a bit obsess in using Olive Body Bath. If you have follow me in Instagram, if you haven't, please follow me @anonymousmich I did posted a picture on my daily groom products and one of it is the Olive Body Bath. It's Imselene Olive Moisture Care Body Cleanser, it's from Korea. It's good but I can only find it in Stardust Studio in Fahrenheit 88. 

The 1.5L Imselene Olive Moisture Care Body Cleanser (green bottle)

I do have slightly dry feet and after I use the Olive body bath, no more dry feet. I'm hook with it since but it's pretty far to get just a bottle of body bath and I don't know where else do sell it. If anyone knows, please do tell me.

I have switch to the Body Shop Olive Shower Gel (picture above green bottle). The texture is richer compare to the Imselene one, thought I do like both of it. Price and size wise, the Imselene is more worth it.

Grilled Vegetables

Are you bored of eating steam vegetables, fried vegetables, boiled vegetables *yuck* so on and so on? Why not try grilling them?! It's easy! Btw, it's my first attempt of grilling vegetables and the result is successfully delicious *winks*

Ingredients:
Assorted vegetables of your choice, here I used mini Zucchini, Yellow Zucchini, Capsicums and mini carrots.
Olive Oil
Salt

Tips:
Cut every vegetables in equal sizes so that it's easier to grill them equally.

Well, you have to wash your vegetables first. I like to soak mine for 10 minutes and it's better to soak them in water and salt.

As I have mention, cut the vegetable in bite size equally. I marinate them in just Olive Oil and some salt, mixed them around and let it sit for awhile. Gives you time to prepare for your other food.

Obviously you need a grill to prepare this dish, you may start with the vegetables which need longer time getting cook. Flip them once awhile but not too often.

I find that the carrots takes the longest time to grill and the Yellow Zucchinis takes the shortest time to grill. I'm excited to see grill marks on the vegetables LOL! Once your vegetables starts to turn wobbly, it's cooked!

There you go, it may not look appetizing the way it is presented and it's not burnt! (Those are grill marks). The carrots taste sweet and you can still taste the "rawness" of  smoked vegetables.

Told you it's easy right? Just Wash, Cut, Marinate, Grill and Serve. I eat it with my Chicken Ham Spaghetti, yumz.

Good luck in trying with the grilled vegetables!