Style Series: Bright Colored High-Low Top

This COVID season with a lot of us staying at home for work!  Dressing up is actually the LAST thing on your mind - trust me, I know as there were days I'm in my pajamas for the whole day!  

So why am I even dressing up?  Not because I want to, I just had to!  I have a couple of meetings the past weeks so I've decided to dress up not only on top but made it a complete OOTD thing.  Because seriously, I felt much better dressing up on some days.

Shopping for clothes is one of my favorite past time, I don't discriminate on clothing brand, I wear clothes from different price range as long as I know the style fits my body shape!  I remembered purchasing this top on a sale at SM Women section and I was thinking: "What the hell am I doing showing off my bulging tummy?"

Well, I don't have to!  I only need to pair this with a high waisted shorts or pants!  This works well white or light gray bottoms!  

AMW Cooks: Korean Bibimbap

I love Bibimbap!  This rice dish is always present whenever I'm in a Korean Restaurant.

Because I have never left the house since March 2020, I've decided to "cook everything I craved for".  Well, I try to and I took time in creating this because I knew this dish is simple yet tedious.  Tedious in a sense that I have to chop the veggies and cook them one at a time.  

I know, not a huge deal but when you don't have househelp at home and you have a kid that wanted your full attention 24/7 - you know this is a challenge.  But a challenge I'm glad I accepted because we had the best Bibimbap meal for the past 6 months!  Yes - we haven't had this for so long!

Ingredients:

• Carrots
• Spinach
• Mushrooms
• Rice 
• Sesame Oil
• Kimchi
• Gochujiang Paste
• Salt and Pepper to taste
• Eggs

To pair this wonderful rice dish, I used a pressure cooking in creating Pork Stew.  I don't have beef at home so Pork is good enough.

And just in case you want to watch this short clip (1 minute clip) on how I create this dish, feel free to click this LINK  and swipe left!

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Happy Cooking!

Keep smilin'

Stay happy!

  

Cathy Doll x Hello Kitty Collection (Full Review, Photos, Swatches and Video!)

Hi AMW Friends!

This will be the longest, most detailed review and photos I've done in so many months!  I mean not because I am not taking the other posts seriously, because this is a HUGE collection I can't help but be particular about each item. (And editing the photos and writing and checking shade names took me 2 FULL hours minus the hours of swatching on both arms and face!)

After posting about this on my Instagram, a lot of you commented how you would want me to put up a swatchfest PLUS detailed review. 

Your wish is my command.  After weeks of testing these out, I am ready to share my thoughts with photos and a video!  I hope you appreciate this by commenting and telling me your favorite product in this collection!

Introducing, the FULL Cathy Doll x Hello Kitty Collection available in the Philippines!

Cathy Doll x Hello Kitty Oil Control Blur Pact

Php249.00

This is a translucent powder pact, meaning, there's no color and is meant to work as an oil control powder for the face!  I find this product to be like any translucent pact you see in Korean brands.  It does a good job controlling oil, so good that my skin turns dry because I already have dry skin!  Don't get me wrong, if you have oily skin, you'll love this product, it just won't work for my skin type instead, I love to use this product to set my lipstick because it is "mask season" and this helps any lipsticks from transferring from my lips to my face mask!

Style Series: Zoom Meeting OOTD and Makeup

This week, my body is going crazy!  There are days I get too sleepy and there are days I just can't sleep (talk about 3:30am sleep time!)  Do you have the same experience?

Thankful that there are some "normal" things happening in an unusual way!  EVENTS!  How long ago was the last event I attended?  4?  5 Months ago?

So when I got an invite to attend a ZOOM EVENT c/o Freshlook and Air Optix together with Teviant Makeup, I knew I had to clear up my crazy schedule.

It was worth it!  For this particular 1.5 hours event, I wore my Freshlook contact lens in Pure Hazel.  Yup, obviously..that's my favorite shade!

Because I knew Teviant's creator, celebrity Make Up Artist Albert Kurniawan would be around to talk and share tips on eye makeup, I kept my eyes bare and applied light base makeup (aka Concealer and face powder).

Because I wanted to wear this outfit the whole day and not waste "laundry" time (yup, this momma has no house help!) so I've decided to wear something I can actually move around and be a "mom" after the said E-vent!

The top is zippered all the way back and the shorts is super comfortable by the way!  Obviously, I like wearing slippers!  This is the soft version very comfortable on feet (by Oxy Original).

Keeping my hair straight and simple and pulled my bangs with a pair of lips because my bangs are getting in my way!

Mirth & Yift Kristina

Last month, I posted this on Instagram because this is one of the best purchase I've done during the Lockdown season.  

I own 2 pairs of Mirth & Yift earrings and they are both dainty and gorgeous pieces.  These are the types of earrings you can wear dressing up or down.  So having a third or fourth or fifth pair won't be an issue for me as I love to collect such pieces.

Mirth & Yift supports World Vision Philippines during the COVID-19 by donating a portion of their sale from their core Mother of Pearl collection.  I had my eyes set on a couple but they were sold out in an instant!  I mean, these pieces were handmade so you are definitely owning one-of-a-kind pair.

As I checked back, I'm glad Kristina was available for me to purchase immediately!

Kristina is a white with silver tone brass anthers with white pearl!  This is so pretty I always put them box in the box after every use!