hahaha this is really funny. NARS has this blush called Orgasm -- it's their most famous blush because it's sort of universally flattering and apparently cause a radiant post-orgasm-esque flush. i am desiring this blush muchly and i sent shirin around Tangs Beauty Hall and Isetan while she was waiting for me, to see if they carried NARS, but neither of them did so i shall have to see if Taka has it, because i'm sure NARS retails -somewhere- in singapore. but anyway it's really funny because i just realised that the special NARS Orgasm duo - blush and lip gloss - sold on sephora is called Multiple Orgasm. ok maybe i'm the only person who finds it funny. i think it's a very clever name. who doesn't want multiple orgasms, right? =D

i am very upset because sephora doesn't ship to singapore, therefore i cannot use my amazon voucher on sephora products, and yes i'm STILL undecided on what to buy with that voucher. i wanted the sephora Think Pink vanity brush set, but it won't ship. so i'm going to go check out the estee lauder brush set when i go to taka. and i just checked the NARS website and indeed, it retails at ngee ann city so i will be going there again very soon.

but i am pleased that the Make Up Forever camouflage set that i picked up yesterday was cheaper here than it is on Sephora. you know when i first heard of Make Up Forever i thought the name was sooo cheesy and didn't believe that the products were really so fantastic, but the set i bought is really quite amazing and very convenient, and it's actually a cult brand used by professionals and it was started more than 20 years ago in paris and is owned by LVMH which i want to one day be the CEO of (watch out, bernard arnault!) and they have thousands of products including stuff used to create special effects like wounds and ripped-off arms and stuff in movies. and they even have a professional make-up training centre in paris, which charges upwards of 900 euros for the courses. wow.

anywayyy i still have a Long List of things left to buy, despite the jaunt yesterday. i want NARS and i want Kiehl's Blue Herbal Astringent Lotion (i am going to build myself an amazing skincare regime somehow) and i want a good untinted moisturiser as well but i haven't decided which one and i want Shu Uemura Cleansing Oil just because the bottle is soooo pretty but the price might put me off so that's a Maybe.

though i'm happy with my Make Up Forever concealer, i'm sort of peeved because when i went to Kiehl's yesterday i was looking for their concealer which not only conceals but also treats blemishes. and i was told in a rather condescending voice "we don't have make-up, we only have skincare". so i thought she meant that that particular branch didn't carry the make-upy things. therefore i went to the Make Up Forever outside and got concealer. but then i looked at the Kiehl's catalogue after i got home and they DO have a concealer that heals, and it's called Concealing Stick and it's PART of their skincare range so it ought to be available there. in fact they only have skincare, which was what i originally thought, since Kiehl's is basically a fancified, internationalised, apothecary. they don't have any make-upy things whatsoever. i am really veryput off by the service at Kiehl's -- later on when i was looking at the Blue range i was trying to ask one of the salesgirls a couple of questions and she had this completely uninterested look on her face and turned around right after giving me a monosyllabic answer, so that i got peeved and left before asking anything else. so i might even rethink the Astringent Lotion if the service pisses me off again. Make Up Forever had fantastic service. it's just a little booth sort of thing, but the woman talked to me about the different products and sat me down and showed me how to apply them and all sorts of stuff. i'm even going to get a loyalty card i think.

i also need to get myself to marina square to properly check out the revampedness and new stores and stuff.

speaking of revamped, zouk is rather nice inside. not that i know what it looked like before the revamp, but it's got cool moroccanish patterned walls -- i don't think they're really inlaid marble though -- and funky lights and stuff. but it was terribly un-fun tonight. maybe because it was just a stupid 50 Gorgeous People party/show/thing, and there was no dancefloor or anything. but in any case it was terribly boring and cigarette smoke sucks and i shampooed my hair three times but i still feel like i can smell cigarettes on myself. and the coolest part is the UV light. it's like, spot the white shirt! and apparently my eyes looked like Storm's from X-Men. so lesson: when clubbing you don't need coloured contacts because your eyes look cool anyway.

the morning was spent with my daddy. didn't wake up super-early enough to run at the botanics, but went there anyway and had a mini-hike from the carpark to cafe les amis, because my dad has such a fantastic sense of direction that he parked at the wrong end of the place. but it was good breakfast, although i think my stomach is shrinking or something because i could barely finish. or rather, i didn't finish. i didn't finish my sandwich at Dome this evening either. perhaps i should be pleased, since some people have surgery to make their stomachs smaller. or maybe it's a sign that i should eat at home a bit more often. my dad only told me later on that he decided to treat me to a nice breakfast because i keep eating very little at breakfast at home because i don't really like anything. it was rather sweet of him. but yes, i should try to eat more at home. healthier. better for my skin. but atleast i've got my new facial cleanser which i expect to work magic on my skin. haha i really hope it's worth all that money.

speaking of which, i did something really awful today which i should confess. when i went to buy my facial cleanser, i picked it up from the shelf and then was sort of looking at the other products next to it. when i was putting back a bottle of moisturiser, i accidentally knocked a bottle of very expensive toner off the shelf and the cap came off and half the thing spilt on the floor. i panicked and picked the bottle up before all the liquid spurted out, put the cap back on, put the bottle in a corner, thanked the lord that there was a pile of cardboard boxes there behind which the bottle and the spilt liquid was hidden, and ran to the cashier, paid for my thingy, and fled. i feel terribly guilty and i hope the security camera didn't catch that and i certainly hope i'm not going to hell for my horrible-ness =( i can't believe i'm confessing this to a blog.

happier things. happier things. jen garner's baby was born yesterday! i hope we get to see pictures soon.

i shall clear my room tomorrow. lots of vacuuming, yay. and sunday i shall go shopping again. time to sleeeeeeep. tomorrow my daddy's going off to india and i shall be all alone at home. i feel lonely already.

and ARGH. the hotel suite thing is SO screwed up. am fucked.
ok not so happy anymore. am going to sleep my sorrow away. night!