Early Birthday Celebration

My Birthday is this upcoming Sunday but I have been slammed with assignments and midterms so I am unable to party in that day :(. My friend was in a similar situation except her birthday landed right before Lunar New Year, and we know how our Asian parents would flip out if we went out during that day/night.  We both decided to celebrate our birthday on the same day! We didn't want to get too crazy because our fellow friends had midterms the following week.  It was really nice to hang out with everyone once in a while :)

We went to Joe Badali's for Winterlicious. For those who do not know what Winterlicious is, it is basically a week where it gives people an opportunity for people to try out new restaurants for a low cost and is it a pre fixed 3 course meal as well!  I found that Joe Badali's was either a hit or a miss, however I chose some pretty good dishes.  I had a slight variation of something that was similar to Chicken Parmesan, a mushroom cream chowder and a white chocolate cake. 

After dinner we went to Bar+ for karaoke :) If you have the VIP card you and your group of friends can get a free complimentary birthday shot! I had a polar bear and the others had a pornstar and blue lagoon. The polar bear was sooo good <3 Tasted exactly like a mint chocolate ice cream but in liquid form!

(photo credits: Eileen)

That's my hunni stand over there :D

(photo credits: Eileen)

Closeup of the beauty related gifts I received :D 

I froze once I saw NAKED2 since it just came to the Sephora's in Toronto! 

Drugstore Makeup Haul

My first haul of 2012 :D I have yet to swatch or use them! I really like the Almay eyeshadows I picked up, I swatched some of the colours and they are so pretty! I hope they look just as nice when I actually use them!
I also bought Annabelle pigments, 3 pigments + a mini brush! They are gorgeous I can't wait to try them out though I have no experience with using pigments, so I'm not really sure how to use it :S 

Annabelle Pigment Dust

Left container (Top to bottom): Solar, Cool Mint, Prism
Right Container (Top to bottom): Limelight, Golden Pink, Tidal 

Almay Intense i-color

Top row: 021 trio for browns, 032 trio for blues, 

Bottom row: 031 trio for browns, 022 trio for blues, 003 trio for hazels

NYC Lip Sliders Tinted Lip Balm

Left to Right: Sugar Coated, Sugar Kiss, Sugar Angel, Sugar Baby

Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick

Left to Right: Asia, Just So, Heavenly  

Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipstick

Rose Sorbet, Soft Coral

NYX Round Lipstick

Pumpkin Pie, Strawberry Milk

Revlon Colorburst Lipstick

Pink Sugar, Baby Pink

Happy New Years!

Happy new years! I know I'm 2 weeks late! I was really busy during my 3 weeks of holiday!

I think it went by way too fast, and I'm already drowning in school work... Maybe I shouldn't have taken 7 courses this semester @@

Over the holidays I went a little crazy shopping, especially during Boxing Day which is similar to Black Friday in the states but the sales aren't as crazy! Majority of the items I bought were clothes we didn't have any sales on makeup and beauty items over here :/ Over these months I have added many new items to my makeup collection I think I will be posting a picture of it shortly along with other miscellaneous times I have gotten~~

Palty Foam hair dye Review

Palty came out with a new line of foam hair dyes, it's vert popular these days so I can see why palty has decided to join in on it. I purchased the darkest colour of this line, ganache tarte. I was hoping that it would make my hair a single colour, covering up the orange that I had, but I guess it doesn't work that way. I have been using palty for a long time now and it's my first time using a foaming dye.

It darkened out my orange brown hair but roots are still noticeable. The hair dye itself smelled like apples to me, not that nasty chemical smell. It foamed rather quickly and almost over flowed from the cup, then it stopped foaming and stayed a certain size. I left it on my head for 25-30 minutes. Results were alright, I would love it if all my hair was the same colour!

Sorry I don't have a before and after shot, I completely forgot!  I don't think I mixed it well enough because my hair still has a orange tint to it :S I think I will probably stick to Palty's original formula since I am more used to it!