KISS ME X Sunway Lagoon Party

For the past few weeks, my schedule has been pretty occupied with uni and events that I barely have enough time to rest, even my last update was a week ago. I have never been this busy before but no, I'm not complaining. It's my final year in Uni so I figure it's best to live the student life to the fullest before I start working (the only thing that I dread the most now). I'm currently on my one week Raya Haji holiday but as much as I wish I have the luxury to laze the entire week, of course I'm caught up with my research proposal. Good thing that I have my topic finalized, so I'm now good to start working on it; which means I wouldn't get to attend events that much anymore.

Oh well, enough of my rantings. I shall get back to the Kiss Me Sunway Lagoon event that I attended two weeks back. All thanks to Manoah and Kiss Me for the invitation! It's my first time attending such event with so many bloggers, a good start to step up from my comfort zone I guess. I've always been a socially-awkward penguin when it comes to event like this cause I can be pretty shy at times. It was supposed to be a BFF event where you can bring along a friend of yours but since none of my friends can make it, Yuki found a partner for me, who was a housemate to a friend of hers. Prior to the event, we contacted through Whatsapp and we met only on the day of event itself. 

Being excited yet nervous at the same time, I hardly got any sleep the night before. Yet I had to get up at 7am that morning and made my way to Sunway Lagoon. Since there was also other company's family day happening on the same day, the place was really filled to the brim that we had to braved ourselves among the massive crowd to walk around. But that ain't gonna stop us girls from having fun!  

Meet Khine, my partner of the day (:
I made a good choice wearing my pink crop top cause it matches the official colour of Kiss Me HEH

Just when I wanted to use my camera, I realized that I didn't bring along my memory card. Genius much -_- I didn't have a waterproof pouch with me as well, so I kept my phone in the locker throughout the event. I was bummed out that I couldn't take much photos for the event. I can't be blogging an event without nice photos, right? So thank goodness for the Kiss Me's marshals and photographers for most of the photos taken during the event.  

After settling all our stuff at the locker area, we were ushered to a private venue near Zazu Beach Bistro. Once we arrived, there are Kiss Me make up products awaiting for us on the table. That's the reason we were told to come with our bare face that day. 

Besides the (L-R) Kiss Me Mascara, Liquid Eyeliner and Gel Eyeliner, Kiss Me loose powder, eyelashes curler and a mirror were provided as well. So these three above are said to be waterproof, so we girls get to put them to test and see how good they are. I was pretty impressed at how easy it was to use the Gel Eyeliner, would definitely consider buying it though I prefer the brush to be slightly thinner and softer. I did my usual winged-out liner and since I had eyelash extension, I didn't get to use the mascara. 

Bloggers doing their make-up (: 

After the make up session, we were brought to Lake Kariba for our first activity. But before that, we had to form a group and come up with a group name (related to sea creatures) and a war cry. We formed a team of four with Sandy and Carmen, and I came up with Sea Urchin as our group name, at least something that wouldn't be commonly picked by other groups. We could be small but we sting HAHA and as for our war cry, it was pretty simple. Go Sea, Go Urchin, Seaaaaaaa Urchin \m/ we are not very creative people, it seems :P

Me, Khine and Cynthia. // while people are busy forming groups behind. 

Sandy was the first in line, so automatically they made her our team leader! And that's her in white completing the first task :D where each team leader had to jump into the pool and grab one of those floating sunblocks. The first team to return to the marshal with the sunblock gets a 10 point leads.. but no, it wasn't our team. 

Sunkiller Perfect Strong Plus with SPF 50+ AND PA++++. Four freaking plus sign! This is the first sunblock with the highest PA that I've seen. We then have to apply sunscreen on our face and body to avoid being sun-kissed. The sun has no mercy on us that day, it was scorching hot the entire morning.
After that, we were given an envelope with all our tasks in it, altogether 8 checkpoints to be completed in an hour and a half time. 

We went to grab a map and off we went to our first checkpoint.

We thought that the Native Weapon (one of the clues we had) would be at Wild Wild West so we headed all the way there to find that there was nothing there so we headed to the scream park instead cause it was the nearest to us. 

1st Checkpoint: Scream Park

No idea why isn't there any photo of us at the scream park though the marshals did took a photo of us before entering T__T and I swear going through the scream park was the worst 10 minutes in my life! I loathe horror movies and anything related to its kind and what's even worse when the place is all dark. I was quite reluctant to go in at first but it was a teamwork, so I had to. We were paired up with Yeeing's team and we just braved ourselves in. I requested to be in the middle of the line cause I felt at least a little bit safer. I didn't even dare to open my eyes! Themed War World Z,  there were zombies scaring and attacking us out of no where every minute and we just screamed the entire time and ran for our life. Some of them even jumped out from the door, I wish I could have just passed out and skip the task. The moment I saw the exit, I was like Hallelujah, I'm finally out but then there was a zombie waiting for us carrying a saw there! That was just TOO insane, no more next time. 

2nd Checkpoint: Davy Jones' Locker

The girls are excited to get on this ride but not me. I always say that I'm an adventurous person but ironically I can't take extreme rides, especially the ones that go 360 ° up in the sky. The last ride I had was Cockscrew up in Genting and that was it. Shame on me, IKR. I bailed out and waited for them to finish this ride instead. 

Sandy and Khine :D 

Forgot what Sandy was telling the marshal but I guess it must be pretty funny from my facial expression :P 

3rd Checkpoint: Creepy Crawlers

This task on the other hand was a piece of cake for me (; cause I wasn't scared of cockroaches. We had to find 2 pieces of scrabble pieces each in the box filled with 10 hissing Madagascar roaches each to make the word WILDLIFE. So I dig through the soil and roaches to pick the other scrabble pieces to the surface so it's easier for the girls. The marshal kept on reminding me to not kill the roaches HAHAHA but the roaches are fine, they don't bite or crawl on you. just gently sweep them off. We managed to get this task done fast and we had to hid back the pieces back into the soil for the next group. 

4th Checkpoint: Puoooooong 

We have only 45 minutes left when we reached the 4th checkpoint. Looking at the long queue, which was three-storey high, we were completating if we should go for this task. We had to either wait in line or ask for permission to cut the queue. We saw another group who was half-way heading up to the top so we figured maybe we should just go for it. Of course, on our way up, we got TONS of nasty comments from those who probably have been waiting for the past one hour or even longer. All we could do was to apologize profusely and squeezed our way through with our thick face.

Those people behind are us... were really mad at us and their words really hurt. 

Happy faces before the wild ride!
It was less scary compared to the African Pythons rides, it was okay in the beginning and it got more exciting at the end. Definitely a fun ride, I wouldn't mind going for a second time! 

5th Checkpoint: Kayaking

With just 20 minutes left, we tried out luck with Waterplexx 5D but the queue was insane and we were not allowed to cut the queue so we decided to go for kayaking which was located at the far end of the surf beach. Since I had experience in kayaking few years back in NS, I decided to go for it. Immediately, I hop onto the back seat and we had to make a figure 8 around two floats at the lake. Somehow we had a hard time making our way back and we kept going to the opposite direction so we ended up reversing the kayak all the way back to the dock.

Still,we managed to finish this task in time. Since there was a long queue at the ATV checkpoint, the  marshal was kind enough to give us our sticker of completion by just  performing our war cry to. 

With just few minutes left, we ran as fast as we could back to the Zazu Beach Bistro to meet the head of marshal. We managed to complete 6 tasks out of 8 (Native Weapon & Waterplexx 5D) but I guess we were late and marks were deducted every minute passed 12.40pm ): Nevertheless, we enjoyed ourselves throughout all the tasks.

After all the sweat and water we were drenched in, we had our quick shower before treated with lunch and being pampered for the whole afternon. Life sure is good (: 

All freshen up and ready to fill our tummy with fooood.
As you can see, my eyeliner is still there (even after shower) without a slightest smudge :OOOO
 I'm very very impressed, I must say.

Manicure section. 

You'll get to choose from an array of pink shades, ranging from cotton candy pink to bright pink, even those with glitters! 

This is how mine look like (: 

There's a photobooth as well with so many props provided as well! 

This is the makeup station where all the girls get to have a makeover session, including getting our hair done. Since they have limited time, I didn't manage to get my hair done booohoo

Then it was time to announce the winners!

Congratulations to the first prize winner, Team Catfish (Group #14) They went home with hamper worth RM2,100 of Kiss Me makeup products. How nice!
You could read about their write up here too;  HERE and HERE. 

And as for those who didn't win, there was lucky draw for us; I won myself a RM20 Kiss Me voucher.

Of course they would not let us going home empty handed as well., so each of us went home with a goodie bag and a Kiss Me balloon :DDD

Last but not least, group photo with the bunch of female bloggers to mark the end of the event.  

Thanks again Kiss Me and Manoah for the fun-filled pink Saturday, I had a blast and it was great meeting with the bloggers! Defo' looking forward for more events like this (;

For more details about Kiss Me, feel fee to drop by their FB page anytime.

Till then, loves ♥

xx

17th Asia Pacific Hair & Makeup Olympics

I've only heard Olympics Sports but little did I know that there is also Olympics for Hair and Make up! Interesting isn't it? 

The 17th Asia Pacific Hair and Make-Up Olympics Competition was held in Malaysia last Monday with support by Ministry of Tourism Malaysia, Malaysia Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB), InterExpo and APHCA in conjuction with the Beauty13 Expo, bringing worldwide talents and professionals together for an exciting competition. It is an event held by APHCA every year in various countries around Asia Pacific region and it was Malaysia's very first time in hosting such an event. This competition aims as a platform for international and local talents to show and share new knowledge, creativity and ideas with each other. Besides that, the competition allows the industry players to update themselves about the latest trends and styles, be exposed to huge opportunities and advancing their careers as well. 

They are a total of 300 category contestants coming from 13 different APCHA-member countries namely Australia, China, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Philiphines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand and Taiwan that participated in the competition this year. There are altogether 8 categories of competitions that was held on the same day, 7th October from 10am to 6pm. The 8 categories are of the the following:

• Ladies Designer Hair Cut 
• Men’s Avant-Garde Hair Cut 
• Evening Elegant Hair Cut 
• Bridal Hair 
• Ladies Designer Make-Up
• Evening Elegant Make-Up 
• Bridal Make-Up 
•  Fantasy Make-Up

When I reached KLCC in the evening, I only managed to catch the last twenty minutes of the Bridal Make Up category which is also the last round of competition. 

The hall was filled with models, make up artists, big name hairdressing and cosmetology industry players and media.

She definitely caught my attention! 

After an hour of anticipation, the prize giving ceremony finally started around 7.45PM. 

Awards to be given away that night. 

This was personally my favourite for this category. The winner was from Korea. 

Winners of The Ladies Designer Hair Cut category. 

First and second place goes to contestants from Malaysia (feel so proud for a second OMG) in the Ladies Designer Make Up.

Winners for the  Ladies Designer Make Up category. 

Winners for the  Evening Elegant Hair Cut category. 

Another winner from Malaysia for the Evening Elegant Make-up Category. 

3rd place winner for Men's Avant-Garde Hair Cut who is representing Malaysia! 

2nd place winner from Mongolia. The make up is just whoaaaa. 

The champion goes to Malaysia's representative too! :DDD

Winners for the Men's Avant-Garde Hair Cut category. 

1st runner up for Fantasy Make-up from Mongolia. Pretty impressive, huh? 

The costume I believe made from recyclable stuff is just ah-mazing, it comes with a tail too. 

The champion for Fantasy Make Up, from China. 

Winners for Fantasy Make Up category. 

Winner from Bridal Hair category. 

1st place winner for Bridal Make-Up category from Indonesia. 

There is also an award to Malaysian Best Hair Award, Malaysian Best Make Up Award and an Overall Champion Award that goes to a representative from Taiwan. She has won quite a number of trophies from various categories. 

That pretty much concludes the prize giving ceremony for the 17th Asia Pacific Hair & Makeup Olympics.

Closing speech by Mdm Theresa Tam, country manager of Thailand. 

Before the night ends, Mdm Airene Wong, country manager of Malaysia passes over the flag to Mdm Theresa Tam as Thailand will be the next country to host the 18th Asia Pacific Hair & Makeup Olympics. 

See you next year in Bangkok, Thailand! 

xx

Rich Lash Extension | Pink Passion

For the past one week, I've been getting a lot of this, "Hilda, are you wearing falsies?" well the answer is no, I had eyelash extension instead (; Eyelash extension is nothing new in the beauty industry, but it's my first time experiencing it. I only had an eyelash perming two years back but that is totally different. I received an email from Pink Passion last month to try out their eyelash extension service, I was more than glad to accept the offer. Who on earth will say no to beautiful long lashes! I decided to have my eyelash extension done on the 1st October after a busy September, definitely a good way to kick start a new month (: So as a first timer, I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous cause I have no idea what to expect. 

Pink Passion is a well-known expert in Silk and Rich Lashes Extension for the past 6-7 years, besides that they do provide service such as facial treatments, slimming treatments, bust treatments, hydrotherapy jacuzzi, cupping and ear candling. You can check more about their services, HERE.

The waiting area.

The treatment room with dim lighting, comfortable couch and relaxing music playing in the background. 

I had Rich Lash Extension cause it's more suitable for those with short, fine and less lashes. As usual the most commonly asked question will be if it hurts, *cough* I can assure you that the process is totally pain-free and relaxing. Tape will be applied to the bottom lashes to keep the lashes out of the way during application. All you have to do is relax, close your eyes and leave the rest to the beautician. I almost dozed off halfway cause I barely feel anything. The whole process took around 45 minutes and...

this is the end result while waiting for the glue to dry off. 

All the eyelashes and eyelash glue used in Pink Passion are imported from Korea, thus the lashes are more light-weighted and long lasting compared to others. For Rich Lash Extension, they have three different length of eyelashes which is short, medium and long respectively. Since I've never had eyelash extension or the habit of wearing falsies, my beautician suggested a combination of short and medium length eyelashes for a more natural look. 

In Pink Passion, they also have colourful silk lashes for those who wanted to have a dramatic look for dinner or certain events. They even have silk lashes that comes in different types of curls and thickness.  

I guess most of you would be wondering as well how long would the eyelash extension last.  It normally lasts up to 3-4 weeks, depending on how you take care of it and your day-to-day activities. It's advisable to go for touch up in every 2-3 weeks.

Ready for some before and vain selfiesafter photos? TEEHEE

BEFORE | AFTER
Needless to say, the difference is pretty obvious since everyone questioned me when they see me.
I have longer, thicker, curly and volumized lashes now!
After I had my eyelash extension, I prefer taking photos of my eyes closed :P

[FRONT | BOTTOM VIEW]

[SIDE VIEW]

My verdict: What I love about it the most is that it's weightless and it creates a semi-dramatic look. I can even go out without any eye make up now. Guess what, you can put your mascara away for some time HEHE and it certainly does feel awesome waking up without the oh-I-just-woke-up look. You no longer dread looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning while brushing your teeth. Trust me, you'll love it. But of course with these beautiful lashes, there's a price to pay to. It took me around a week to get used to the feeling of having these eyelashes, it may be quite a nuisance at first (especially when it comes to washing my face and removing makeup) to be honest. It causes discomfort when you're wearing your glasses and sunglasses cause of the length. They acts like windshield wiper on your glasses LOL Since the glue is waterproof, it's totally fine to wash your face or involve in any water activities but not for the first 24 hours after application to allow adequate bonding time for the lashes. 

Just a few tips; 

• Avoid using cotton wool to remove eye makeups, use cotton buds instead. 
• Avoid oil-based make up products around eyes. 
• Avoid hot steam or sauna.
• Do not perm or use mechanical eyelash curler. 
• Be gentle with no lashes. No pulling, excessive touching, rubbing. 
• Do lie and say they are yours (; 

It's been a week and the lashes are still in good condition even after a day at Sunway Lagoon last Saturday. Now I'm starting to wonder how will I look when I no longer have these extensions. Last but not least, thanks again Pink Passion for these much needed boost of confidence *bats eyelashes* Couldn't be more flattered with the compliments I get :P not self praise okay. 

You know they say sharing is caring, so here's a little something for you! Just print out this voucher and you'll be able to enjoy Rich Lashes Extension at only RM88 (NP: RM228) and a free touch up within 7 days.

Been wanting those long beautiful lashes, don't hesitate to visit Pink Passion today!

Pink Passion 
No. 37-1, Jalan PJU 1/3C,
Sunway Mas Commercial Centre,
47301 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Tel No:  03-7805 7285
Operating Hours: Tue - Sat: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
                           Sun: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
                           Closed on Mondays.
Website: http://www.pinkpassion.com.my/
Facebook Page: Pink Passion - The Signature Salon 

P/S: Hope you guys enjoy reading this and find it helpful. Feel free to ask if you have any questions regarding eyelash extensions in the comments section!

xx