Holika Holika; 'Beauty-HOLIC'.

Do you know.. Holika Holika means 'Beauty-HOLIC'? Okay, now you know.

If you follow my tweets, I tweeted this sentence: "Holika Holika in Sg cannot seem to appeal me much since their products are ridiculously marked up and their service attitude is horrible max"

That's my impression of HH.

PS: Holika Holika is not available in Sg anymore.

CN Blue is the brand's ambassadors. I'm not a K-Pop fanatic, so naturally I know nuts about 'em. Google is my to-go, always.

♥ JUNG YONG HWA!!!! >.<~~

This was my 4th visit to the shop, located @ Wisma Atria. Whenever I walked in, I'm greeted by the usual frowns. Is this their trademark, seriously? This time, a bit different. Some smiles, at least there's slight improvement (thankfully). A need to improve their service standard. Really.

Me, Chantana & Jones were there last Sunday, before we headed down to the Guerlain Rouge Automatique Event (stay tuned to my blog post!). We swatched on the Make A Wish Cheek & Lip $15, and literally gasped at how greasy they felt. So, we went on to swatch another similar product instead - Magic Palette Painting Blusher $37.50.

The cream blushers are housed in this pretty lil' box (slightly bigger than my palm size). I totally can see myself re-using this box, for fake lashes :D

Swatch-ing time!

These definitely don't feel as greasy as Make A Wish Cheek & Lip. And, the colors blend so prettily ♥♥♥

Gel-liner swatch-fest! So smooth and creamy. Intensely pigmented as well, except for the shimmery orange color which felt kinda gritty. Lovin' the vibrant colors - teal, pink, purple ♥♥♥ The chrome gold looks good too!

With no intention of getting anything, I hauled eventually. All b'coz of the BOGO promotion (which ends today I think). If not for the BOGO, I couldn't have splurge that much on the blush palette, seriously. My loot was exactly the same as Chantana's, nail color choice different.

All in all, me had a huge savings of $36.20!

My new painting toy. They look like paint tubes, yes?

Chantana asked if I want this blending brush $9.90 $4.95. I merely replied, anything :x I'm a lazy by nature person. Well, I usually always use fingers to apply eyeshadow.

The brush bristles feel soft to touch; doesn't feel scratchy on the skin.

I couldn't capture the exact color of this nail polish no.11 $5 $2.50. Dark fuchsia. Not a bright pink, definitely. Bought this b'coz with every $50 spent, there's life-time membership (10% off). There's no card given though. Just need to show your NRIC card that's all.

 

After the Guerlain event, we went back to the shop again. Decided to get the gel liner afterall.

Wonder Drawing Gel Liner 04 $20 $10.

I don't have any gel liner color similar to this.

And so, that sums up my lil' haul. Happy me teehee :p

Celebrating The Sib's 24th @ Carousel

15th May was my bro's 24th birthday and we celebrated @ Carousel. We had lunch buffet ($50++ weekend) and with any UOB Debit/Credit card, there's 15% off (weekday), 10% off (weekend).

It is housed in Royal Plaza On Scotts Hotel, conveniently located at Orchard area.

The lunch buffet is from 12-2pm. Too little time IMO.

 

I didn't take any photos of the displayed food. The following photos are taken from the hotel's website.

The not-so-amazing spread of seafood. Scallops, crayfish, mussels, prawns, etc.

Halal-concept, so don't expect any pork.. AND B-E-E-F? There wasn't beef. I've no idea why. *sad face*

My very 1st plate of seafood items.. Unfortunately it was the last as well.. I didn't really like the taste THAT much so I went on to explore other food sections.

This plate of food was definitely much better! My all-time-favorite salmon sashimi tasted awesome! :d~ *slurp* Hmm.. I managed to polish more than half of 'em.. teehee :p

The egg benedict tasted fabulous btw. Yummilicious max! The lonesome digestive biscuit with berried cheese tasted extremely good as well! I like :D

Rojak items :x A little of each. Fish, prawn, croissant, peach crumble pie, bread pudding, cheese......

Crème brûlée tasted so good, I have to had at least 2! The potion was pretty small to begin with.

Assorted dessert, which wasn't really a sweet ending. Rather disappointing. 'Nuff said.

Pretty to look at though.

Fruits they took, which I didn't touch at all.

I'm very in love with the coffee! It was superbly good, I tell you! The coffee taste was so intense and oh-so-aromatic. Needless to say, I had 2 cups :p If not for the time constraint, I would have had moreee!

 

Camwhorin' time :D

Ah xin, the birthday boy man ??

I'm random, I know. Nice ma......

Ah mei.

Yours truly.

I'm 24 (not) :,/

And it's gonna be her 22nd next mth. Damn :,/ I feel so old..*double sianz-sation*

The random lil' boy taking random photos with iPAD.

Lunch buffet ending soon. Most already left.

Ah mei dressed as if it was her birthday :x LOL

My OOTD: Bysi black shimmer dress, Bebe black bag, SCHU strappy heels.

Overall, I find the buffet to be so-so. Not much variety and food was not THAT enticing. There won't be a 2nd visit unless it's a treat (lol). Okay, I wanna go Shangri-La The Line Buffet next.

 

Random artistic displays.

The end. Thanks for reading (: