Review: Roses De Chloé Fragrance ♥

Grace - Femininity-Complicity 

Roses De Chloé is the newest fragrance to join the Chloe brand after the refreshingly musky See By Chloe. In Australia it was released in November and just recently a pop store started to promote the fragrance for the Christmas Holidays!! So this is just a review post about this wonderful new fragrance. 

The gorgeous bottle :)

Just a little background I actually work in fragrance selling and currently I'm working at the Chloe popup store but this is not a biased review! It's because I'm working with this fragrance literally ALL the time that I've smelt it very thoroughly and this are my honest perspectives about it. 

Roses is a woody floral fragrance with a top note of Bergamot essence and alcohol which the quickly settles in to the heart of Damascena rose essence which honestly is absolutely tender and beautiful! Many people who smell the perfume cards after I hand it to them (the cards are sprayed then some time left for them to settle) - will turn around and tell me how wonderful the scent is!! 

After reaching the heart of the fragrance there is a trail of magnolia accord, white musk and amber which are at the base note and helps to fragrance to stay on the skin. Because Roses is only available as an eau de Toilette the concentration and strength isn't over powering! It's an easy to wear fragrance really suitable for women of any age! 

It has an adorable bottle! Seriously the bow and the plates make this bottle such a collectable item in anyone's perfume collection! And at the moment our awesome pop up store has a special service where you can engrave the back of the metal part of the bottle - FOR FREE! :) to be honest I want a bottle for myself so badly right now! 

The store poster! 

GIFT SET!! 

So this is the gift pack where when you purchase the fragrance you also get a free body lotion and engraving service plus more freebies that we will throw in! *cough shameless plug cough* 

That's the pop up store which I'm working at! It's definitely fun but not without it's challenges! Hope for the best for the next week or so! Need to meet all my sales budgets (praying that I will so I can still have a job!!)

hehe I love this uniform!! <3

Here's me with my uniform looking sharp! :) The colour of the top is the most amazing thing! I adore this uniform to the maximum! 

♥Lingfish~ 

P.S Roses are now one of my favourite flowers due to work - Let me show you why~

HOW GORGEOUS ARE THESE FLOWERS <3 OMGG SO PRETTY and ELEGANT! 

3D Re-wearable Japanese Nail (゜▼゜＊）

Recently I've really gotten into different forms of nail art because my work don't let us have any coloured or structured nail polish since it'll most likely damaged the products that we sell! And as a rule of life - when you can't have something you'll want it more! 

After seeing my friend's (Becky-chan) photo of her absolutely adorable nail pictures on Instagram I absolutely love them and wanted to blog about them ASAP! :3  

HERE ARE THE 3D NAIL DESIGNS: 

Simple plain blue checkers with 3D ribbons and bling attached! 

THESE ARE MY FAVOURTIE!! Rilakkuma 3D NAILS! <3 

These nails are so damn cute!! I absolutely love them to bits and pieces! 

Alpaca nails - with a floral background so cute! 

Simple black and red bling and ribbon 3D nails :) 

Christmas special nails with bears :) SO CUTE! the pink ribbons remind of something else though... hahah :P 

Another Christmas special BEAR SANTA :) 

Rilakkuma Summer special <3 CUTENESS!! 

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Basic Features:

- 3D customised designer Japanese nails

- Stones and designs all set on fake nails

- 100% hand made in Japan 

- bought from: Ohimenailstyle on Etsy

How to Use 3D fake nails:

There's a few ways to attach fake nails - glue or tape! So the tap is more recommended because it's a double sided tap and once on it's much easier to remove compared to the glue! It sticks really well and doesn't damage the nail beds as much. They need to be cut and customised to suit each nail shape (even though they come in different sizes already) but that's not too difficult and once you get the hang of it shouldn't be a challenge! 

Here's how they look once on:

They look soo adorable on the fingers! I absolutely LOVE LOVE ♥ them so I shall be purchasing some myself! 

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These are the ones I want to purchase:

How pretty are the available designs! They're sooo nice!! 

And finally I wrote a table of Pros and Cons for these Japanese 3D nails for anyone interesting in purchasing them! 

Pros

Cons

Can be reused many times Designs can be customized and made to fit your nails specifically The price ranges from $5 to $30 depending on the design  It’s 100% handmade so the quality of the nails are guaranteed It’s really good value because manicures are so expensive THEY’RE SO CUTE and PRETTY! The tap is affordable $2.8 from any Daiso store Shipping is FREE (standard!) The seller is very friendly and will discuss with you in great detail about the design

If damaged can be difficult to fix The tap has to be cut to fit which can be a bit tricky The shipping can take a while because they’re shipped from Japan Need to be very careful with your hands because they are fragile The removal process can be time consuming I’m not allowed to wear them for work and I’m working a lot :’( if you have a complex design it can be pricey

 Anyway I definitely would recommend checking out her page!! And once I receive mine I shall definitely write a more detailed post about how to put them on how to remove them & a review of the quality! :)

♥ Lingfish~ 

P.s Thank you Becky for helping with taking photos :3 

Dolly Wink Liquid Eye Liner Review - Old and NEW ♥

MOI :) 

For everyone that doesn't know I have very very small mono lid Asian Eyes (I can rant for the entire post about that topic alone but I'll save it) so eye liner is one of the MOST IMPORTANT make up things that I must have on ALL THE TIME! If I don't have to do my entire eyes I must at least have eye liner on so I've used quite a range of eye liners and  today I wanted to review the Dolly Wink Eye Liners both of them are liquid! (ノ^∇^) 

Some background: Dolly Wink is a part of the Japanese company Koji and created by the famous GAL model Tsubasa Masuwaka. 

Miss Tsubasa Masuwaka

Dolly Wink Eye Liner Version 1 - THE BEST EYE LINER I'VE EVER USED! 

How the Pen looks Uncapped! THIN and SHARP!

Colour: Black 

The colour of the eye liner is dark and it doesn't require a lot of strokes to build up it's naturally quite a dark ink which is convenient because I frequently draw my eye liner while I'm in a moving vehicle (mostly the bus) so it helps that I can get a dark black line very quickly.

Brush/Tip: Soft and sharp

The tip is like any precision liner very sharp and it's soft so it doesn't feel harsh on the sensitive skin of the eye lids. 

Longevity: LASTS FOREVER

My skin especially around my eyes are very oily and I also dance so I sweat quite a bit but this eye liner can really hack the harsh environments! It doesn't fade very easily and stays on until the end of the day! Some times it does smudge a little bit but compared to MANY other eye liners I've tried (I can review all the others..maybe later) It's by far the longest lasting! 

Price and Accessibility: 

It's not the cheapest eye liner I bought it for $12 or $13 at a SASA Pop up store in Sydney around 2 years ago so in terms accessibility - it's really not easy to get! Since it's always out of stock at the online stores and I can't find it in Australia! 

The saddest thing is the lip of my beautiful eye liner come off and it DRIED (。┰ω┰。) 

I was upset for a VERY VERY VERY long time and I tried to fix by putting in water which worked for a little while but the consistency and the colour was never the same as before it dried and soon the hair on the brush started fraying because of all the water. Make up isn't suited for such harsh environments! So I purchased another eye liner when I went to Japan the same but the second version!

Dolly Wink Eye Liner VERSION 2 - NOT THE SAME!  

  

LOOKS SIMILAR BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME!! D:

Colour: BLACK

The colour was still the same fairly dark and easy to create a black bold line without too much effort and it survived the drawing on the bus test that was good! 

Brush/Tip: Soft and Sharp

The brush was still soft, sharp and hard the same qualities as the old brush so at first I thought the new Dolly Wink Eye liner would be the perfect replacement for my old one! 

Longevity: LIKE ONE HOUR?

This is the part where they differ like night and day! This eye liner looks exactly the same the first version for the FIRST hour then it goes very steeply down hill! It doesn't smudge much either which is good but it FLAKES! Oh yes it flakes.. instead of a complete black line the line starts fading then small black dots start falling from the eye liner creating a strange hollow line! Then the flakes get on my face and create mini black mole/freckle things everywhere!! It was SUCH A MESS! 

I've never been told that I need to fix my eye liner until I've used this one! To be fair if I'm not doing anything extremely strenuous i.e. just staying at home it's fine but when I'm out boy it's so inconvenient!! 

Recommendation: VERSION ONE! If you can find it!! 

For myself I would definitely get the first version - ANY DAY! But I'm definitely not so keen on the second version! It was definitely incredibly disappointing with its none existing staying power and messiness! I wouldn't recommend it! Personally I'm on the hunt for another good eye liner (lots of hours on the internet and time at the shops ensures)! 

DOLLY WINK YOU GET IT?? ;D 

♥ Lingfish~ 

Makeup Haul #1 - Natio brushes and more (◕‿◕✿)

To be perfectly honest - I wasn't meant to spend money! But when I saw that Priceline was having a 40% off cosmetic discount I really couldn't resist myself! But I stayed on the 'safe' side and bought more essential things than things I wanted to get (only because I would get everything)! So here's my makeup haul!! And I'll write about using the products also soon :) 

The entire collection :) 

That's everything that I bought on the day - it doesn't look like much and it costed me $43.15 all together (there goes my payyyyyyyyyyy)! 

That strange packaging!

The first product that I bought was the Maybelline Fit Me Bronzer, in the colour Light Bronze. I have really fair skin so I've never actually owned a bronzer before! But I really need one to do more contouring stuff and when I tried this bronzer on my skin it seemed to be dark enough to use as contouring but not so dark that I look like I'm painting my face! 

The packaging is a bit dodgy though as you can tell from the picture - when I opened it the cover was already broken - I DIDN'T do it! It was already like that *cough*. But in all seriousness the bronzer is good the packaging hmmm I'm not so sure. Maybe it was only my one? 

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This is the Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain - in number 45 Romantic/Romantique. I have this lip balm in a pale pink colour from sometime last year and I absolutely LOVE IT! It has the moisture of a lip balm with the colour of a lipstick what's not to love and to be honest I don't like wearing lipsticks because it has a tendency to get on my teeth and just everywhere so this was my perfect solution! So now I just want to collect ALL of them! 

I WANT THEM ALL! One Ring to rule them all! (omg..I'm so lame)

TRI-FORCE :P

Then I also bought 2 eye liner pencils and 1 lip liner from a brand called Savvy which is an affordable and local brand of cosmetics stocked only at Priceline! They were around $1.5 each~ Super cheap! I've used the black eye liner but to be honest pencil liners never work for me because my eye lids are so oily (DAMMIT SKIN) So it smudges and gets every where definitely wouldn't recommend but I'm yet to try the other two so who knows? I remain hopeful!

SWATCHES :)

Here's the colour swatch on my hand - first being the Maybelline lip balm, then the pencil lip liner, black eye liner and black eye liner! 

Le packaging

YAYYYYY Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

This was my favourite item! I absolutely loved loved these brushes - I haven't used them yet and I already love them (clearly too keen)! So it was the Natio Professional Brush Kit and it was SO SOFT!!!!! Here are some close up photos of the brushes and I'll post a tutorial of how to use them LATER :) 

Kabuki brush 

Dual Headed Eye Definer and Lip Brush 

These brushes are not made from natural animal hair because Natio is an organic brand and they really pride themselves on not abusing animals for beauty~ YAY! That's the end of my Haul post! FIRST ONE EVER! 

Am I a beauty blogger yet? AHAHAH LOLJKS 

♥ Lingfish~ 

Re: Angie and Jason's wedding ♥

<3 

On the 9th of November I attended Angie and Jason's wedding with the ceremony at Column Garden in Centennial Park and then reception at L'Aqua! :)

It was such an awesome day plus night! The ceremony started late due to some traffic which I was really grateful for since I was running late also due to traffic on the road.
Damn it city traffic!   Once the beautiful bride arrived and  the ceremony was under way it felt like a fairy tale wedding, the park was filled with white cute seats and pretty pink and white flowers! (I LOVE FLOWERS!)

the happy couple saying vows :)

FLOWERS <3

Imagine just imagine saying your vows here! Fairy tale right? 

And of course the vows were very moving - the interesting fact was the couple are both gamers so the ceremony music was game music
which I totally didn't recognise. But I thought that was a really sweet and personalised touch! :) THE DRESS is amazing! Angie looked like Disney Princess or something along those lines! And they both had a glowing happiness and about them that almost make me believe that Happily Ever After is real!

After the ceremony it was very short wait until the reception in the amazing L'Aqua. The view of Darling Harbour was stunning but due to my still noob photography skills I didn't take any photos! So I shall share some of other people's photos instead!
Hehehe 

  

Darling Harbour 

L'aqua <3

Looks amazing right? :) 

Once we arrived at the ceremony there were canapes being served (DELICIOUS) and then wine, champagne, juice, water and other drinks served on platters available for everyone! Plus the out side was decorated with the same flowers as the ceremony which was definitely a consistency I liked. 

MOAR FLOWERS!

CAGES OHH

I wanted to take these home for my room! They are such pretty roses!

Then we were seated in to the room for dinner - the decoration were soooo pretty! The center pieces were more flowers or cages! Definitely different to any other weddings I've been to! And not to mention there were two adorable teddy bear couple left on each person's seat as a present for the guests :3 too cute! The boy bear was my date for the evening!

Me and my date for the wedding TEEHEE! 

Now to the high light - FOOD! Overall it was definitely veryvery good and there were two options which is bad for me because I always preferred the other option to the one I received
but that's just a bad habit I have!    For more photos and THE DINNER click :)