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Friday, March 27, 2009

VOV Castledew Eyeshadow and Blush Palettes

VOV Castledew eyeshadow palettes and blusher! I love how shimmery these are, and I'll be wishing my Bodyshop palette goodbye. I got 3 huge tubes of herbal face peeling gel free with my order of the Diacut cheek and eye palettes, making it a really great deal!


The 9-color eyeshadow palettes I got were BE901 (Planet Diamond) and BE902 (Planet Shine Star).

VOV Castledew Eyeshadow BE901 (Planet Diamond)


VOV Castledew Eyeshadow BE902 (Planet Shine Star)

VOV Castledew Eyeshadow BE902 (Planet Shine Star)

VOV Castledew Eyeshadow BE902 (Planet Shine Star)

I also got 2 of the eyeshadow palettes from the Color Shot Eyes series, #6 - Planet Fantasy and #7 - Pleasure Brownies. I think there are about 9 color combination palettes in this line.

VOV Castledew Color Shot Eyes #6 Planet Fantasy

VOV Castledew Color Shot Eyes #7 Pleasure Brownies


And when I saw this blush compact, I just knew I had to get it. As shimmery as Grasenbon blushes, cheaper, and in 9 shades to mix and match :)

VOV Castledew Diacut Cheeks Blusher


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Trip to Haw Par Villa

It's been about twenty years since I last visited Haw Par Villa, a place built by a Singaporean businessman as a villa for his family, as well as housing a traditional morality exhibit of sorts. They used to charge an admission fee but for now it's free. If you are driving however, parking at the compound costs $5 till 7pm, when they close for the day. The parking fee includes a free bottle of mineral water which you can redeem at the canteen.

Haw Par Villa


This is the family business. An excellent balm for mild to moderate headaches. I can't understand why no one has yet to create something for those pesky migranes.

Tiger Balm at Haw Par Villa


You might find Haw Par Villa a rather weird place with quite a number of half human, half animal sculptures.

Haw Par Villa
Haw Par Villa
Haw Par Villa
Huge Opera Masks.

Haw Par Villa
On e of the Virtues and Vices Tableaus. The first thing that came to mind was the sinking of the Titanic. I'm sure they were trying to teach me something, but I failed to take note of what it was.

Haw Par Villa
Another story about a man hurrying off after a gambling session, and got hit by a car.

Haw Par Villa
A couple of rather violent images. Just imagine that 20 years ago, parents brought their kids to see this. I'm sure they all had nightmares, including myself.

Haw Par Villa
Haw Par Villa
Haw Par Villa
The surrounding ponds and nature.

Haw Par Villa

Tadpoles on leaves.

Haw Par Villa
Although one of my main motives in coming back to this place was to see the ten courts of hell, the very thing that gave me nightmares when I was much younger, I didn't feel that it was neccesary to pay the $1 admission fee when we had already forked out $5 for less than 2 hours of parking. It's probably a token sum to maintain the grounds, but I chose to just let it remain a childhood memory.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Faceshop Raspberry Roots Sleeping Mask

Lazy day today. I decided to use this sleeping pack I got from The Faceshop as a moisturizing mask. It contains 10.75% plant extracts, of which 0.1% is raspberry root extract. Raspberry helps problematic skin, such as acne and open pores, though I doubt 0.1% will have much, if any effect. It is much cheaper than Dermalogica anyway, and looks fun to use.

The Faceshop Raspberry Roots Sleeping Mask

The translucent pinkish gel comes in a plastic pump bottle and has a perfumy scent. Something more akin to Laniege and definitely not at all natural. Due to the messiness, I decided not leave it overnight as intended. In my opinion, it's just a regular hydrating mask.

The Faceshop Raspberry Roots Sleeping Mask