Cathy Doll Soft Brow Pencil & Spoon Brush Review

I am so in love with Cathy Doll's Skinny Eyebrow Pencil and I have been recommending them to my friends on and offline for a while now!  I finished a pen in less than a month and is currently using the second one --- yes, that's the ONLY downside, it is so skinny and wonderful I finished it so quickly!

I was surprised to see Cathy Doll getting into the brow game!  After the success of Skinny Eyebrow Pencil, they came up with another unique brow product.

Cathy Doll Soft Brow Pencil & Spoon Brush

 #03 Hot Caramel Brown

Php450.00

Create the perfect brows with the automatic pencil that features especially soft texture which is gentle to the brows. It glides on soft for line-by-line precision with natural result and allows you to draw a thick or thin line as desire. With the easy to draw, pigmented and long-lasting texture, it also comes with a fluffy spoon brush to facilitate blending for an even more natural result. Available in 4 trending colors.

Nail Art Tutorial: Sweet Fimo Nails (For Kids and Kids At Heart!)

Fimo nails started in the AMW household quite early!  It was year 2009 when I ordered online and had Mr. AMW manually cut them for me (Read FIMO CLAY HERE)

I've done several nail art designs featuring the Post Cut Fimo Clay here ---

Fruit Salad Nails

Fruity Fimo Nails

Summer with Fimo Nails

And expect me to share more because, Girlstuff came up with pre-cut Fimo Polymer Clay and they are even cuter than ever!  So my nail art design is inspired by the cute clay and Kyle can't get enough of these!

Step 1:
Apply a base coat to protect your nails.  Apply 2 coats of Sally Hansen Miracle Gel in shade Tipsy Gypsy.

Lustrous Lip & Cheek Tint Raw Review

Let's start by setting this straight : I have perpetually dry lips, the driest of all dry lips (I'm claiming that!) in the Beauty Blogging industry!  Because my lips chap and crack and bleed on some mornings whenever I yawn, let me know if you have the same I'll put you up on the top 3 list :P

When I chanced upon Nadine Lustre's Lustrous Lip & Cheek Tint, I have to test and use it right away because --- why not?  It's a collaboration with the country's top actress and for you to put your name to it, it must be good!

Unfortunately, not for this particular product --- don't get me wrong, I haven't tried ANY of the Nadine Lustre x BYS makeup so I'm just speaking on this particular product.

The color is beautiful on photos and I can actually achieve a fierce look with the shade RAW, but judging by the look on photo, you can see uneven patches on how the product clings on to my dear dry lips!  

But before that, I'm not stating this as a BAD product, it isn't --- if you have nice, hydrated lips!  Maybe, if you are into Korean gradient lips, this will also work because it does give a nice-looking stain!

AMW wears Lustrous Lip & Cheek Tint in 01 Raw

Php399.00

Braised Tofu with Minced Pork and Shrimp Recipe

You all know I love my tofu, I cook Tofu dishes at least once a week and I've found the best Firm Tofu in grocery stores!  It's a Korean brand and so far, I've only purchased 1 out of 50 sour ones!  You all know sour tofu are boo-boo unless you are eating Stinky Tofu!

This is the exact brand with price lifted from Honestbee website via Robinsons Sueprmarket.



So here's my simple recipe but made a great impact to the family becaues of the fresh shrimps added!
Ready to know how to cook this simple dish?

Ingredients:

• Firm Tofu
• Ground Pork
• Fresh shrimps cooked and peeled.  
• Shrimp water (the water used to cook the shrimps)
• Soy sauce
• Hoisin Sauce
• Onion and garlic
• Pepper
• Cornstarch slurry
• Optional: Enoki Mushrooms

Steps:

• Cook shrimps for 3 minutes max.  Lift the shrimps and peel them off saving the shrimp water.
• On a separate pan, saute garlic and onions and add ground pork.
• Add enoki mushrooms.
• Pour soy sauce, hoisin sauce, pepper to taste and stir well, add a bowl of "shrimp water" (the one you used to cook the shrimps).
• This is the time to taste everything and it is okay if it is a bit salty as you will add in shrimps and tofu later on.  The reason for adding Firm Tofu on the latter part is for them not to break from all the stirring.  As for shrimps, best to eat shrimps cooked just right, overcooked will lead to dry and hard-to-chew shrimps.
• Once you're happy with the sauce, add cornstarch slurry, turn off heat and pour cooked shrimps and sliced firm tofu.

Voila!  You're done with the restaurant-tasting Braised Tofu with Minced Pork and Shrimps!

Have you tried this dish?

Do you order this dish in Chinese restaurants?

Keep smilin'

Stay happy!

Achieve Long and Healthy Hair Easily

My hair story is an open book.  

I color it, cut it in crazy layers, style it using all sorts of styling tools and even go on an annual rebond session --- yes, beautiful hair needs a lot of work for me, so if you have insanely beautiful hair without having to spend or do anything --- drop down on your  knees and thank the hair heavens!

As early as Freshman High, I knew that I wanted healthy hair because it is naturally dry, frizzy and "poufy".  I envy my sister's long, straight, shiny hair and wondered how sisters can have such different hair genes!  

One of the brand I really invested for my hair is Kerastase --- the brand and I had a loooooong history!  I told myself I'll purchase a Kerastase hair treatment when I got my first salary but that didn't happen --- becuase Mr. AMW (then boyfriend) was the one who bought it for me as gift!  Yes, our gift-giving does not circulate only on chocolates and flowers, Mr. AMW knew me too well to gift me such because he knew this is worth more than flowers and chocolates #RealTalk 

I have experimented a lot of hair color for the past years and I realized that my hair has been going through all those stress, it doesn't grow as fast as it did several years back.  So it was perfect timing when Kerastase launched their Kerastase Resistance Extentioniste range.

 This is the first hair program designed to optimize and reinforce the length of damaged hair.