My Little Sister does My Make Up

Dearest Readers,
I'm genuinely sorry I've been a complete arse, not writing nor posting anything whatsoever for a month. I have not forgotten about you, or this little diary of mine. Life has been pretty hectic for me, between scrolling down the endless pages of Tumblr during every class I have, to mid-term, to figuring out what videos I shall make for every week. I didn't know how handful this things are. Man, being a child trapped in a grown-up world sucks.

Anyways, although my channel on Youtube is pretty random, I couldn't stay away from Make Up altogether. Every 3rd wednesday of the month, I get to post any beauty related stuff in there! This month I decided to do a tag called My Little Sister does My MakeUp!

I basically asked my little sister, Noreen, to do my make up however she likes! I think that beside not knowing what a "palette" is, she's got a pretty great instinct. I can only imagine how good she'll be at it once she's ready for them! In this video you could also catch a glimpse of some of my favorite make up items spread all over my coffee table!

I chose varieties of products from Lipstick, to Lip Liner, to Eye Shadow, Foundation, Bronzer, Powder, Blush, Highlighter, Concealer, Eye Liner, Mascara and Brushes!

There are a few eye shadow palettes in this video, TBS one that I've shown on my Body Shop favorites, Rimmel London's small (but very pigmented) palette, and my favorite, Naked Basics palette, which I adore so so so much. The colors are perfect, not too powdery and very pigmented. I also got 4 Loreal Color Infallible in the colors Sassy Marshmallow, Burning Black, Pebble Gray, and Metallic Lilac. Though the colors are absolutely amazing, I don't know how I feel about how powdery this product is!

 You might have not seen these couple of lip-liners if I hadn't shown you this picture, but they are Yves Saint Laurent and absolutely amazing! I rarely use them, but it's such a great line, I think that they're quite worth it if you're such a lip-liner girl!

HEY LOOK! these are my babies! I know you're not suppose to have favorites, but the THIRD & FORTH rows from left are my favorites! They're also the high end products, like Yves Saint Laurent Volupté Sheer Candy in number 7, Chanel Rouge Allure 06 Silhouette, MAC Ruby Woo & See Sheer, and Benefit's Lip Gloss!

 I also got some travel size Clinique products like spray, make up remover, and mascara (which is absolutely amazing but sadly isn't waterproof :( ) AND a few other exciting things, if you remembered the wish list I made a few months back, I wanted a Wake Me Up foundation, Rimmel Bronzing Powder and the Stay Matte Powder, I got them all! YEAY! They're absolutely amazing, I just wish Rimmel would invest a little on packaging, because their products are fantastic, but the packagings aren't so!

My friend Tanya got me the triple tints from Benefit, I have been loving Sun Beam so much, it's just such a nice highlighter, makes my tan skin look very bright and goddess-like. Whilst in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, I got myself that brown mascara from Benefit. I didn't know that by using brown, your eyelashes look a lot more thin and natural. It gives like an after-cry effect, which I really like! 

I have stopped using foundation everyday because I don't want to ruin my skin, so instead, I got a CC Cream from MaxFactor, I think that it works very well and it's very light for college, everyday use.

BELOW IS NOREEN'S LOOK CALLED "Monster Barbie." GO figure why it's called that ;) 

While Noreen is very talented at using amazing products and still turning me looking like poo, I took the opportunity for a revenge and made that angel mouse even prettier (staying away from eyeliner and mascara because I don't want to hurt them big eyes.)
Right is how she turned out! How gorgeous?

Anyways, please watch the video if you'd like, comment and let me know what's your MUST TRY of the month! I love knowing people's favorite products and giving them a try!

x, Nessie

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You're Gonna Hear Me Roar!

 I'm sure by now you've all known the melody to that particular song. 

Sitting at around midnight alone in the kitchen, I found myself humming to Katy Perry's Roar. See, I've always liked Ms. Perry, since I first heard "U R Gay" a few years ago in the middle of music class in high school, through the times my dad scolded me for singing "I wanna see your peacock" all day, and had my eyes bawled in front of my laptop when "Thinking of You"'s video came out.

I personally like her personality (though I don't even know her) and who can deny her talent?  

Anyways, I decided to cover another amazing hit by Katy Perry and then as I went for a run with my sister and Tanya, I thought I'd make a little video for the cover I had done a few hours earlier. 
I shivered as I exported this, I'm not sure I was ready to upload a video of me singing again. I've always loved singing, I've done countless performances throughout my school years, but I haven't done one in so long that it made me really really nervous. I've taken the time to edit, and my friend's time to film, so it's only fair to just put it out there already. As if my nervousness wasn't enough, I tried uploading this 15 times but still, the video, that looks absolutely HD and clear on my screen, decided to turn to crap on youtube's 360p resolution. If you ever decided to see it, please move it up to 720p, it looks slightly better.

Tiger Ear Band from Unknown

Bring Me Luck Tank from H&M

Track Suit from Surfer Girl

Dark Blue Jeggings from CoolJeans

It was nonetheless a beautiful, beautiful day and Oulu has once again gave me a wonderful space to drop my jaw in amazement. It was almost like a dream; the lake, the falling orange and pink leaves, the sun, everything was perfect. I hope you, too, are having a perfect day!

x, Nessie

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Indonesia, My One and Only.

Walaupun sudah merdeka selama 68 tahun, saya rasa masih banyak hal yang kita harus perbaiki dari negara kita. Kalau kita semua bisa bersatu, saya rasa semuanya bisa kita hadapi, dari korupsi, rasisme, sampai masalah kemiskinan. Setidaknya, mulai hari ini dengan diri kita sendiri. Indonesia adalah salah satu negara tercantik di dunia, dengan semua ras, tempat dan makanan yang ada, kadang saya cuma bisa menanyakan diri saya sendiri bagaimana turis-turis dari seluruh dunia bisa menghargai semua keajaiban yang ada di negara kita lebih dari kita sendiri. Ayo kita bawa negara kita ke derajat yang lebih tinggi. Tanpa rasisme, perseteruan atau adu otot, mari kita tunjukan betapa indah dan berharganya negara kita. MERDEKA!

x, Nessie
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Tidung Island Adventure!!

Okay, I've been DYING to share this one.
I've worked on the video for a bit, despite the lack of materials, I'm quite happy with how it turns out.

My cousins and I went to Pulau Tidung for 3 days and 2 nights. Everything was okay, but I personally didn't like the fact that the island is a lot dirtier than what I thought it'd be. I went to Pramuka Island with my high school once and it's a lot better than Tidung, I can tell you that.

My favorite activity was snorkeling. We rented an underwater camera that lead us to get a bit in trouble with the travel agent. Honestly he was being a dick. The camera got an error and formatted the card, he just returned our money and without any apology he said that it's not working. I told him that I can get it back with some software, they didn't care at all. I was PISSED, so one of my cousins STOLE the card and brought it back. We didn't care about the money at all, we told him to keep it (with the cash, you can get 2 more cards.) But he insisted we take it back. I couldn't care less, they were being disrespectful and terrible hosts. Anyways, we did get our photos after all! #YEAY!

                             

 

 THE CREW:

from left to right : Arnas Zaki D. Wedding, Ilham Wedding, Zulfiyah Panwar-Wedding, Me, Kemal F. Judge, Tania Rahma Safira Panwar, Shahnaz Samantha N. Wedding, Nazneen Judge

After all, it was very fun, I really enjoyed spending time with my cousins,

I hope we'll have more opportunities to do something crazy like this again!

till later, 

x, nessie
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