Customer Review: US vs France

US vs France. No.. I am not talking about war or any political issues. I am talking about some women’s passion – Lipstick.

Last week, I have rewarded myself a MAC lipstick.

The story begins…

When I was a student, I do really admire this one cosmetic product, MAC. The color, the prestige, the brand, the packaging, economic… everything seems perfect! (For a guy, MAC is something similar like Ferrari). During that time, I couldn’t afford to get one.

When I went to France, I have been introduced to this one brand, Yves Rocher. It is a botanical product. What attract me the most is their lipstick. Very moisturizing, beautiful color, very affordable. But still, MAC product was something that is always in my dream to own one day.

The day has come. For about a year I have been happily using 3 Yves Rocher lipsticks, I finally ‘betrayed’ it once. I have bought a lipstick from MAC. I’ve got myself the most lovely sweet pink color – the color that I was dreaming about since many years ago.

New MAC store is opened in Alamanda Putrajaya. I was a bit nervous when entering the store. It is my dream to step in there – like kids entering the candy shop. I was entertained by a lovely salesgirl. She assists me to try the lipstick, powder, and blusher. Variety of colors. For blusher, to be frank, I love blusher from The Body Shop more! In the end, I just got myself the lipstick that cost me RM68 – not bad huh.

A normal procedure when you’re the first timer in using this product – fill in a form that I cant recall the exact name but something related to warranty –  a bit technical word.

I was happy! Again, I love the color. When I applied this lipstick on my lips, I don’t need any lip gloss. It is “wet”-looking enough.

After about a week that I have been using this product, I feel a bit disappointed. The promising moisturizer is not that moist. I need to apply an additional lip balm before applying the lipstick.

If using Yves Rocher lipstick, I don’t need any other lip balm to moist my lips. Now I realized that why should I get another brand that couldn’t take care of my lips?

Sorry MAC, you have disappointed me. I was happy when I went into your shop. I was happy when I went out from that shop. But I think, Yves Rocher suits a dehydrated-person like me, more.

Indulging

Bismillah.

Berbahagianya hari ni. Off day from work sebab menghabiskan sisa2 cuti yang takleh nak carry forward.

Bangun sesuka hati kul berapa.. lazing around sampai pening sebab perut kosong… lunch order delivery je walaupun lambat sampai sejam… owh tak kesah la.

Lepas Zohor, terus kluar rumah menuju ke alamanda bersama2 dengan To-Buy-List yang dicatat dalam notebook lawa yang dihadiahkan oleh kak Naomi.

Walaupun kat jalan pening kepala dengan moron-drivers, my mood still tak terusik. It is my day-off. Around 3pm, sampai di Alamanda. Owh VIPnya dpt park depan entrance sebab semua org dah masuk office blk.

Misi menjejaki barang2 yang on sale pun bermula. Parkson, Japanese Home Deco, Yves Rocher, Watsons… those are places that I went to.

Jalan-jalan cari barang… ada promo yang menarik perhatian from YR. Shower gel & cream perfume. 3 items for RM38.

This product range sangat wangi and menarik perhatian. Well, there is another item yang betul2 tengah sale… their Vanilla perfume set. less 60%. tinggal RM86 kot. Hampir-hampir la nak terbeli. I keep on borrowing mantra from Confession of A Shopaholic movie, “Do I need this?”. Hahaha sounds so drama… but it works! Lagi pun, I have just bought a perfume in Oct, so jangan membazir wahai shakiranova!

Jalan punya jalan, kering pulak tekak ni. Well, one of my plan g alamanda is to redeem my starbucks drink. Complementary grande from starbucks sebab dah cukup 10 kali beli guna their card. aaaaa saya suka saya suka (nada suara meimei upin ipin)! Thank you!

Balik je rumah, update stock shower foam.

I will spend more time masa mandi to decide nak pakai which shower foam.

Somehow, today I have figured out that shopping is my therapy. I had a couple of hectic weeks before, and today, I feel very happy… although it decreased some money, but yet, nothing is free kan.

Alhamdulillah.

The Body Shop - Week 7 Spend and Win Contest Winners

I am one of the 80 selected lucky customers!

I am totally lupa pasal contest ni. I have entered it suka suka lepas pegi ke website The Body Shop untuk observe harga barang2.

Pagi tadi tiba-tiba dapat email. Mula-mula macam bugged jugak ingatkan email spam. Actually memang betul… email tu adalah notification of me, adalah winner untuk pusingan Week 7 Spend and Win Contest.

Alhamdulillah.

Dia bagi 2 options untuk hadiah;

*2 tiket ke Aquaria KLCC

*Limited Edition Bakula Body Butter

Aquaria dah penah pegi, so I have decided untuk collect hadiah body butter.

Here is the announcement made by The Body Shop Malaysia.

AAAAA

Seronoknye sayer.

*dancing*

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Want to join it and be one of the winner?

Follow these three steps;

Step 1: Purchase any amount

Step 2: SMS to 33213

TBS<space>Name<space>MyCardNumber<space>EmailAddress<space>BillNumber

Example: TBS Alice Ali 540201010102 aliceali@gmail.com

Source and for more information:

http://www.thebodyshop.com.my/promotions

or

https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-body-shop-malaysia/spend-win-contest/10151715962214119

Tak rugi jadi loyal customer for this kind of world wide brand.

The contest period is between 24 August until 16 November 2012.

Good luck!

Saturday Evening with Yves Rocher

Hello! How’s your weekend? This weekend I’ve chose to pamper myself. Other than sleep… I and my friend, Salmi, went for make over.

Kebetulan Yves Rocher Alamanda ada promotion untuk produk terbaru, Hydra Vegetal.

Cuaca sekarang kan sangat panas masa tengah hari. Walaupun dah minum air more than 1.5L sehari, kulit tetap rasa kering. Seharian keje dalam sejuk air-cond pun boleh mengeringkan kulit. So we do really need a product to hydrate our skin from the outside too.

We starts our session by analyzing our skin.

Miss Nina’s my assistant through out the day and every time I went there. She’s very friendly, and helpful. She helps me to check my skin’s hydration. The result’s not so good… 33%. It indicates I have a dry skin. Well, I already know that since I keep on feel thirsty all the time.

I’ve gone through the following steps;

I love the feeling. Very cool. Not as cool as mint but I feel like I‘m applying wet tissue on my face every single minute. Very refreshing!! I even feel like to apply it to all over my body!

When we have finished, here’s the result…

58%. Any result is good as long as it is above 50%.

Thanks nina!

Lets move to make over…

Impressive. SO many equipment!

Well, there are two makeup artists. Mine wasn’t really friendly boooooo

She feels unease when I keep on asking what product/item that she applied to my face. Of course I want to know every single thing that you’ve applied to my face… at least it can increase the potential for me to buy Yves Rocher’s makeup products. Don’t you get it miss?

What I can recall during the session’s;

She starts with eye’s area – eyelid’s sticker (makes your eyes bigger), foundation, eye based, light pink eyeshadow (based), brown eyeshadow (shading), eyeliner.

Then baru masuk bahagian seluruh muka.

Foundation – loose powder – pink blusher – eyebrow shadow (chocolate) – mascara – bulu mata palsu (optional).

Alahhhh, very basic lah. Bukan macam artis nak naik pentas.

And here’s the result.

Mari kita pergi ke sesi photoshoot…

One of the shoots. Pandai cik salmi kita berposing.

I meet these school kids… teenagers pun pakai this product. Well, it is botanical product.

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Actually October is my birthday month. So apa yang menariknya bila menjadi ahli Yves Rocher? Buy one FREE one item!!!

I have decided to get their perfume. FYI Yves Rocher adalah perfume number 1 di France. Spray sikit je dah cukup.

Untuk product Hydra Vegetal, I’ve got their Gel Crème (RM59.00), FREE toner, and LUCKY DRAW Gel Crème too! And the remaining two down there are coconut bath cube, and bath net… FREE GIFT!

Alright… I hope ramai yang akan jadi penggguna Yves Rocher sekarang ni. Worth it for money.

And this is the picture from the photoshoot.

Black and white polkadot – Classic

A few tips to share here are – for this kind of promotion;

• We have to control ourselves
• Know our nawaitu (intention) to go there
• Know the types of promotion – requires to buy with a minimum purchase or not
• What are the activities included in that package
• Try to avoid additional charges; Fake eyelashes (RM15), whole softcopy picture; 1cd (RM100), Laminate (RM10) --- these are ridiculous things that you should minimize your expenditure – you don’t even need it. Usually these are done by the ‘outsource’… not by the brand itself – Rational!

Thermos Mug for Me and My Brother

I don’t know why I become a Starbucks-maniac recently. Their coffee does really works on me – hyperactive.

Back to the topic – thermos.

Last month I did get myself a thermos mug from Parkson. Alaaa tak nak la mahal2 yang sampai beratus2 and dalam kaca. Yang tu memang la panas. Hot drinks macam green tea and coffee are my favorites. Lepas 3 minggu pakai thermos tu… cap (penutup) plastik tu dah bengkok. – frustrated! 3 weeks! masak la nak beli for every month kan.

Masuk je gaji, I have decided to get a starbucks’ thermos for myself, and the other one for my brother – dia pernah cakap he wants thermos from Starbucks – tak nak from parkson. “demand!” – I replied.

Do you know that Starbucks ada card… macam touch n go card?

• Bila register – dpt one complementary drink.
• Bila beli thermos ni (melalui starbucks’ card – topup with minimum RM50) -  1 free drink for one thermos.
• Discount RM2.00 for a drink if you bring your own starbucks cup/mug/thermos.

A lot more offers when you’ve registered your starbucks’ card.

Lemang Kebab Stall di Food Court Rasa Alamanda

This stall is introduced by Cik Alia. She said kebab served here tastes unique and yummy. We went there to have our dinner together since this is the final week I’m staying here.

This is my plate. Some calamari and ‘powed-alia’s-chicken-kebab’.

Mhm… this kebab tastes different from ordinary pasar malam’s kebab (my TOP favorite especially during Ramadhan's bazaar) which typically use roti pita or roti bun panjang tu. This is more like K*C’s Twister – the one that has popcorn chic, vege and wrapped by roti capati then baked.

More yummy bila makan menggunakan tangan - she said. :)

110211 Happy Birthday Yana

Last Friday was Yana’s birthday. We have an ad-hock lunch-birthday-celebration since she said that she has no plan during the afternoon.
We set a time to meet at 11am in Alamanda. It was very easy to find parking since everybody is still working during that time. >.^

Birthday girl.

We went from one wing to another, and still couldn’t decide where to eat. For almost an hour pusing2, finally we decided to have pizza. Yummy2.

 

Meal 3 + Spaghetti Arabita

Sedapnye cheese ni… =P~

 

Yana: Chuck… sayer kenyang laaaa. :(

Me: MAAAKANNNN!!!

 

Finally… habis.

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Window shopping time

It was on sale everywhere! Sungguh sukar melawan nafsu tapi both of us berjaya control it.

Cadar and comforter were on sale – not really my interest.

Owh my Dior~

I love this red bag. Gorgeous! *nose bleeding*

Done with Parkson.
Next Destination: Fotokem
Yana was looking for a lense because her ‘baby’ dah terjatuh and cracked. :(

This picture was taken during Hangout: ‘Old-Uni’ Friends

Then we went to Bagz Bar



This shop gives you multiple choices of choosing a handbag. You can find many popular brands such as Paris Hilton, JLo, and Elle.

Yana with Paris Hilton

Elle

This bag looks gorgeous! *heart-bleeding* again. I love it so much!

Elle

Another simple-lovely handbag. This bag makes me feel very santai when I holding it. I love this one too.

Then we were heading to Baskin Robbins.

Laju je dia bila nampak ice cream

As usual, bila pegi je sini akan rasa dulu flavor yang mana. Then I have decided to have cookies ‘N cream. Those who loves vanilla ice cream + oreo cookies, I strongly suggest you to try this flavor.



Yana got herself an ice cream with raspberry flavor. Yummy2.

Yana: Chuck, seat situ kosong. Aku g cop cepat.

Me: Ha… lari cepat. Lari! Lari!

End up we lepak kat depan Big Apple menghadap kedai phone sambil berbincang soal kerjaya dan masa depan.

One of the topics discussed (out of the topic) is green tea. I suggest her to buy the Green Tea from OSK brand. I planned to show her how the tea looks alike.

We went to Cold Storage but…



It was OUT OF STOCK. Sobs2.
Owh princess of the day, this is the packet that you were suppose to see on that day.

Picture from posting Japanese Green Tea

Walking… and walking… walking continues…



Actually we went into sooooo many other shops;
Al-Ikhsan, Guess, Nike, Primavera, Swatch, Quicksilver, Aldo, Sasa, Watsons, Bonia

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As the conclusion of this post,

Happy Birthday Yana!

Cold Storage: Favorite Shop to get Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

I love to eat fruit – including cherry tomato. I have found the ‘x-factor’ of this shop last year because it’s hard to find fresh cherry tomato around Bangi or Putrajaya.

This is the ‘must buy’ product for every week.

kebetulan… hari tu ada processed nangka or jackfruit. Very sweet!

For a un-married person like me, I love to get fruit or stuffs like this because of the ease and this is the amount that I suppose to take. But this is not suitable for big family for example because the price is higher than you buy a whole jackfruit and cut by yourself.

Another reason that I love to buy goods from Cold Storage is……

 

… they always come out with beautiful recyclable beg that comes with very reasonable price..

HIHIHIHIHI!