We're half an hour away from February. February... the Sunday of Summer for me. I've not been excited for this month to come. I'm flying back to Melbourne in 3 weeks. 3 weeks will go by in a blink of an eye. As excited as I am to go back, I'm not ready to leave my family & friends. I'm not ready to leave my cats. Not ready to leave the place I call home. I just wish leaving gets easier over time. This will be the longest I've gone without my family. I have a feeling the first couple of weeks back will be such a drag. I bet I'll constantly be moping around the house, missing my loved ones, my mom's cooking, cheap food, cheap everything. Living in Australia is so expensive. I can't remember where I saw this but apparently, smashed avo on toast is about $17-$22. Like.... why do people pay that much for something they can make for less than $10 or even $15?? Eating out over there is more of a luxury tbh. It's so expensive if you convert it to Ringgit.

Apart from my heavyheartedness, I have a skin problem... I have no idea why my skin has been breaking out so bad lately. I thought it was because I was lazy at washing my makeup brushes. So I started washing them more often than before but my skin still looks the same. I try to stay away from processed foods and use skincare products with natural ingredients in them but still... no luck. Someone help!!

I'm planning on doing a "A Week in My Life" vlog when I go back, starting from the day before I fly back up until the end of the first week of classes. Hopefully I get enough footage to make that happen.

Picture from Google

I've watched a bunch of movies over the last few weeks - Rogue One, Allied, Why Him? and La La Land. I have to say, out of all of those, La La Land and Allied were my favourites!! Rogue One would be my third favourite. But La La Land guys... I saw it a couple of weeks back with Farah. I thought the first half of the movie was kinda slow and a bit boring but after the movie ended, I just felt like crying. It was amazing!! I have never understood the hype behind Ryan Gosling until now. He was amazing. Emma Stone was incredible. This movie was just everything! I've been listening to the soundtrack nonstop. The epilogue from the soundtrack makes me wanna cry so much. If you've been looking for a new movie to watch, I highly recommend La La Land. A freakin masterpiece.


Another movie I saw recently was Don't Blame The Kid. It's a Spanish movie and it's adorable and so hilarious. I didn't even see the plot twist coming! So funny!

20 days til I leave. I am not ready :(
'Til next time!

So I recently got my hands on the ever so popular Morphe 35O palette. This has been all over social media for almost 2 years I think? And for good reasons too! I got mine off of beautybay.com back in December for slightly more than what it costs if I bought it directly off the Morphe website. BUT shipping to Malaysia/Australia is USD25. Beautybay offers free shipping for orders over $19!! Obviously, purchasing it from beautybay was the better option. I've never done any in-depth product reviews before but I thought I'd give
it a try.

First of all, this palette was smaller than I thought it would be, which is a good thing! That means it's easier to travel with. I kinda wished it came with a mirror! It makes doing my makeup more convenient. I wished the shades were labelled but personally, I don't mind. It's not like I do makeup tutorials on YouTube. Ya know how they always say things like "so now I'm gonna use (insert shade name) in the outer corner of my eye"? Yeah, I imagine it to be a bit annoying for them to say "I'm gonna take the bottom colour of the middle row" when doing tutorials. I think having your shades labelled would be easier because you know exactly what shades to look for if you're doing a look based on a tutorial you watched.

It comes with 35 shades. 21 of them are mattes, 14 of them are shimmers. Some of the shimmer shades look like foiled eyeshadows, while others look like your average shimmery shades. Some mattes are super buttery and pigmented, some are so-so.

SWATCHES

First Row

Second Row. I use the second shade from the top as a face highlight!! Loveee this colour so much!

Third Row

Fourth Row

Fifth Row

Sixth Row

Seventh Row

My most favourite shade from this palette has gotta be this pink shimmery shade that I labelled with a white star in the picture above. It looks super basic in the pan but when I swatched it, I was blown away!! It has this slight pink iridescent sheen to it and I immediately decided that I was gonna use it as a highlight til the day I die. Soo stunning!! My next favourite is the light orange colour (purple star). I don't know if I should describe it as a matte because it looks slightly shimmery in the pan but it looks matte when I wear it. If I were to name this colour, I'd call it Orange Soda because it reminds me of one. I use this as a transition shade and it's sooo pretty!!

VERDICT: Considering it was only USD28, I think it's worth the money! You get 35 beautiful shades at USD0.80 each! Sure, the pigmentation of some colours could be better but still, they're pretty amazing! If you loveeee warm colours and you've been looking for an affordable palette, look no further! I give this 7 out of 10 stars!!


That is my attempt of doing a cut crease using the palette!! I think it came out pretty good considering I've never done a cut crease :)

There's a little over a week left of 2016. This is sooo overused but I really can't believe how fast time has gone. I'm turning 21 next year. TWENTY ONE. I'm celebrating my birthday and Raya in Melbourne, without my family next year. I'm feeling kinda down about it because I've never been away from my family for celebrations like Hari Raya. How am I gonna get my duit raya?! :(

I'm excited to see what next year has for me! I've already enrolled myself for next semester. I'm taking 3 second year units in Media & Communication, Sociology and Marketing and a first year French unit. I'm still contemplating on whether to take up French or Mandarin next year. Mandarin because I learned it for 3 or 4 years I think? I went to a Chinese kindergarten and took Mandarin for 2 years during my primary school days. So I thought it'd be easier for me to learn again if I take it next year. Plus, it's the world's most spoken language so... And my dad keeps going on and on about how Mandarin would be helpful in the world of business. But I also wanna take up French because it's such a sexy language hahahah. Ok seriously, I have always had this big ass dream of working in a well-known fashion/beauty company in Europe. So I thought French would be nice to add to my resume ya know. I have always wanted to do marketing/merchandising/retailing/media in the fashion or beauty industry!!

I've got sooo many things I wanna do next year. My plan is to get a part-time job to save up and explore Australia. I wanna go back to Sydney, Gold Coast, probably visit a friend in Tasmania and go skiing in New Zealand. I miss New Zealand so much!!

I'm also hoping to go to more concerts and maybe a music festival or two next year. As I'm typing all of this, I can hear the voice in my head going "Are you sure you can save enough money for all this?!" I'm gonna try!!

Hi! I hope everyone's having a wonderful day! Recently, King Ranch has been sharing posts on favourite winter boot styles this season! I thought I would do the same and also include how I would style my favourite winter boots.

#1: Combat boots

HI! I haven't done a favourites post in 6 months! Thought I would do one before the year ends :)

I have been back home for exactly 2 weeks now. One of the many things I miss about Melbourne is how cheap almond milk is over there. If you know me, I eat oatmeal for breakfast EVERY. MORNING. Before moving to Melbourne, I used to eat baked oatmeal with green apples. I used water instead of milk in my oatmeal because I gag at the taste and smell of milk. So during my first visit to Coles, I decided to try almond milk because it's $3ish. Pretty cheap, if you ask me. I thought almond milk would be a good alternative to regular milk and it is. So ever since then, I make my oatmeal with almond milk. It doesn't smell like regular milk does. I don't exactly like how it taste on its own either but it still works. I was stuck on that routine for 4 months. Now that I'm back in Malaysia, I can't just go out to the store and get almond milk because it's expensive af here. So I usually alternate between cereal and bagel for breakfast and I don't like it. It's good but not filling.

I can't believe I'm ranting about almond milk. What a first world problem to have... It's not just almond milk!! I want baby spinach too!! Dude, I have been itching to make this quinoa salad that I did back in Melbourne but it requires baby spinach. My local grocery place doesn't carry baby spinach... Even if it does, I bet it's expensive. Do you see my problem!!

Anyway, I'm thinking of doing a 'A Day in My Life' vlog when I go back to Melbourne in February. I'm planning on going home a week-ish before the new semester commences. So I've got plenty of time to lounge around before the chaos begins. I wanna go to St. Kilda, Eureka Tower, Camberwell Sunday Market, The Royal Botanic Gardens, so many other places!! I've said this before and I'll say this again - I will forever be grateful to my parents for the opportunity to experience life abroad. One of the most nerve-wracking, scariest, most amazing things that has ever happened to me.

I have 2ish months here. I've been meaning to get a job but I'm so lazy. But then, I think of the things I wanna get and that requires money. And I'm not gonna spend my parents' money on things I want ya kno. Especially when these things cost like RM200... I want a pair of all-white Nike Air Max Thea and the new NMDs so bad!! Also, I've been 'fantasizing' about going to LA or Hawaii at the end of my degree. Too big of a dream? Probably but it's only a 14-hour flight to LA from Melbourne. So that's not too bad right? Plus, if I'm not wrong, Hawaii is only a 10-hour flight. How cool is that?!

Hands down, my favourite collection! The frames you see on the wall makes up a dress. How cool is that?!

If I'm not wrong, this was a part of the contemporary art exhibition. One of my favourite exhibitions here! There was a Chanel bag from a show I saw many seasons ago - the bag that looks like a hula hoop HAHA. There were also some Nike shoes on display!

I took this photo during my first visit to this gallery. The space beyond this doorway was incredible! It was a massive room full of artwork and I saw the most beautiful dresser! I wanted to see this again when I came for the Viktor & Rolf but it was closed :(

I don't know if you can tell but the walls are decorated with paintings. It was soooo pretty! Hoping to see this again the next time I visit!