Some Shopping You Can Do While I'm Away :P

Isn't this an EYE CANDY?

My wonderful friend and Shobe Sophie will be accepting prebuys for the lovely babies!!! I can't help but DROOL, soft brushes and in PINK???? What more can a girl ask for???

Check out her site by smiling and clicking Beauty & Minerals
*Drool drool drool*

Another prettylicious friend Shen gave me a couple of freebies from Ellana Minerals. I haven't had the chance to do a review on it but I am loving it!!! The minerals are fine and really...great for sensitive skin! Take a look at her uber girly shop and you find that there's a whole lot more to choose from for your Mineral Make-up Orgasm! :P

Check out her site by smiling and clicking Shen's Minerals

Shanghai City!!! Here I come!!!

**photo courtesy of Lonely Planet by Strangelolah

I will be off for a one week trip to Shanghai tonight to visit my brother who's working there as an Architect! I can't wait to be there after 4 years!!! I missed Shanghai!!! I am sure the city changed so much I will definitely get lost! :D

I have scheduled some posts as the day goes by (but not regularly) so don't miss me too much...but do not "NOT" miss me, oh heck! LOL I'll be back with more posts and hopefully wonderful stories to tell!!! :)

Oh yeah, before I forget, today is a Special Holiday for all Muslim friends out there!!! They call today the observance of Eid al Fit’r (The Feast of Ramadhan)

Happy Holidays!!!!

Take care 'ya all and please always keep that smile!!!
See you all when I get back!!!

Nail Art Tutorial: Hawaiian Nails

First of all, I want to thank my first PrettyNails customer Nancy for being such a sweetheart for always updating me with what's up in the Nail Art world! I would say she does her nail art so well I am honestly ashame to do mine! Nancy, make your own tutorial ok???

Anyways, she told me about this Korean booth that sells some great Korean Art products and I gave them a visit last weekend and this polish caught my eye! I gotta have the color!!! Right???

I am inspired to create a nail art tutorial because of this lovely color (Again, I am in no way a professional nail artist, so please bear with all the imperfection!)

The polish color is so pretty! I bought this at the Robinson's Place, Ermita
the polish amounts Php80.00 (approx less than $2.00)

Let's get started

Step 1:

Paint your first coat, let it dry totally.

Step 2:

Apply the 2nd coat, while wet, apply dots (this trick will scatter the pink dots creating a different style of flower)

Step 3:

While the pink petals are wet, use a sharp object like Mechanical Pencil or needle to line the petals (making the design livelier)

Here's how it looks like

A closer view

Step 4:

Apply yellow dots to have the "Hawaiian Feel"

Step 5:

Using Alyssa's LA Colors Art Deco Gold Polish, I applied French tip and ....below tip lol I don't know how to call it :)

ALOHA!!!!
Lilo and Stitch Says "HI!!!!"

Much Mahalo to everyone for taking the time checking out the nail art tutorial!
Smile and be happy! :D

Askmewhats Makeover: Grace for her Acquaintance Party

Shobe Grace, my dear sister-in-law, is only in her Freshman year in the Uni. She attended an event for her school called "Acquaintance Party" last weekend<--- funny they just had this party now and they've been studying for months now! LOL My dearest Shobe trusts me so much because she let's me cut her hair (let me tell you, she's so particular with her hair), and she let's me do her make-up as well!

She will be sporting a lovely white and a blue-green dress so I got inspired with the colors! She won an award that night! YAY! I am so proud of her! I think "Best Dressed/Look" Award! I am a proud sister!!!!

Here's Grace BEFORE
(it helps if she smiles...lol I think she had this notion that a BEFORE picture should look devastated! hahaha)

And here's Grace AFTER

She's got a lovely skin to start with. So I've used lesser amount of foundation for her. I've decided to do a strong eye look because it is a night event, I've also used a lovely PINK lipstick for her because it goes well with strong eyes = dainty lips (thanks Aly for the NYX lippies)

Products Used ---

Face

• Paul & Joe Foundation
• Paul & Joe Powder No. 30
• Arezia Blush in Blushing Pink

Eyes

• Paul & Joe eyebrow Pencil no. 2
• MAC Coquette - to fill in brows
• UDPP
• 78pcs palette (for blue, green and yellow) - mixed together to create this color
• MAC Carbon
• Paul & Joe eyeliner in black
• Paul & Joe Curly mascara in Black

Lips

• Nivea Caregloss
• NYX Round Lipstick in Christie
• Clinique Full Potential Lips Plump and Shine

She's got this lovely photo with her dress!!! I will get it from her and will show it to you gals!
Uggghh I am so sleepy today!
Have a great start of the week and BEEEEEEeeeeeEEEE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!

Weekend Food Tripping at: Tokyo Cafe

Dear Philippine Readers:

To those of you who are interested with the mini-fences I've posted yesterday. A lot of my nice readers commented/texted me telling me that I can buy them cheaper at the Japan Home Store for Php88.00 (approx $1.95) way cheaper than what I originally bought! :) Thanks for being such a sweetheart everyone for letting me know!

Anyways, another post for my weekend food tripping!!! This is a lovely place located at the SM Mall of Asia, we've been wanting to try this out because of the lovely ambience but this restaurant has been jampacked and that made me wanted to try it more!!! :D

Here's how cute the Tokyo Cafe looks like....

First stop, the ALL MEAT Pizza
Php260.00 (approx $5.65)

We requested to pizza to be super crunchy, but it came out to be really thin sliced (we love) but not so crispy at all!

Chicken Cream Pasta
for Php215.00 (approx $4.68)

This taste kinda weird at first because this is the first pasta that has veggies on it, but it taste different and ok. My hubby loved it!

Hamburg Steak
Php175.00 (approx $3.80)

I love this steak, not a lot of extenders (like most restaurants do) What I missed out on this is the RICE, you can order rice but you have to pay separately. I love the sauce, doesn't taste like the usual "instant" gravy. I love this! My favorite!

Tokyo Cafe is owned by Japanese and a Chinese Partner. The Japanese owner is very hands on, he's working at the bar and also help out with the waiters/waitresses in serving and making sure the customers are comfortable!

I will definitely come back and dine again in this restaurant. Up to date, there are only 2 branches of this restaurant, one located at SM Mall of Asia and the other one at SM The Block (Click to enlarge)

Kamiseta was on sale last weekend, and I mean 50% off on everything! (but of course they are the old collections)

Here's how crazy everyone was like and look at how long the line was!!!

And here are what I bought, not too flashy, just simple pieces

Have a great start of the week everyone!
I may hate Monday but not today! LOL
I will work for 2 days and it'll be a nice break for me!!!