Home Remedy Super Rich Cream Face Mask For Dry Skin.

Ingredients:
Milk Cream
Cotton
Nourishing Oil
Lukewarm Water.

Apply milk cream on the face and neck. Saturate thin layers of cotton with a nourishing oil and draw cotton pads lightly on the face and neck over the layer of milk cream. Leave it on for 30 minutes. Thereafter, rinse with lukewarm water.

Milk cream nourishes the dry skin and supplies suffecient oil to the dry skin so that it can maintain its oil balance. If oil balance is maintained, the occurrence of wrinkles or age sopts will be minimized to an extent.

Do you consider yourself a reader?

When I saw this posted on From Chalkboards to Strollers blog, I just had to try it out. I have always considered myself to be well-read. I even went through a phase in my 20's where I tried to read as many classics as possible. Give it a try and see how you fare:



The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions:

•Copy this list.

•Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.

•Italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.





Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Harry Potter series – JK Rowling

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

The King James Bible

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) – George Orwell

His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

Complete Works of Shakespeare

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk

Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

Middlemarch – George Eliot

Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

Emma -Jane Austen

Persuasion – Jane Austen

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 

Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Dune – Frank Herbert

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

On The Road – Jack Kerouac

Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

Dracula – Bram Stoker

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Inferno – Dante

Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

Germinal – Emile Zola

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Possession – AS Byatt

Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

Watership Down – Richard Adams

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo



Wow - I've only completed 24 of those 100 books! What really stands out to me is the number of books I've started but never finished.



How did you "stack" up? (Awful pun, huh?)

I need a new school bag!

I need a good school bag that will last me through my remaining two years at Uni, so I decided to check out CSN Stores as I've had positive experiences with them. As you might know from some of my previous posts, CSN Stores has over 200 online stores where you can find everything from stylish handbags, to counter height stools, or great cookware.

Here's my selection of potential school bags:

FUL Almost Famous Messenger Bag $36.99

Instinctive Bags Bamboo Messenger Laptop Bag $34.99

Kipling New Rita Medium Shoulder Bag $48.99

QNKKI Laptop Messenger Bag $36.99

I still haven't made my mind yet, but I really love the second one...

Totally Inappropriate Greeting Cards!

I recently won a package of holiday cards from a giveaway on Mommy's Free Time. This past week, I received the cards from Totally Inappropriate Greeting Cards. I must say that these are perfect for us! My husband, upon hearing that I won the cards, immediately began making a list of who we would send them to this year.



The cards are not for everyone! They do contain bad language, so you must really think about who you send them to. I think my favorite part about these cards is the, unless you read them, they look just like any old Christmas card. And, at $12.00 for 8 cards, the price is right. Where else are you going to find funny cards like this?



Here is my favorite (WARNING: here comes some of that language!)



You can find Totally Inappropriate Greeting Cards on Etsy, Twitter, and Facebook.

Coach Signature Perfume

What do you relate to when you heard the name Coach ?

Handbags or cockroach?

Today Coach launched their first fragrance which embodies the many personalities of the Coach woman…timeless, chic and sophisticated.

The scent was described as classically inspired with a unique blend of soft florals. The topnote sparkles with tart green mandarin, guava, lush violet petals and giant waterlily. Its complex scent melds honey, orange flower, mimosa and a touch of jasmine. To further enhance the floral signature, the drydown adds a luxurious finish with smooth and supple sandalwood and amber-wood. The result is a beautifully blended fragrance that represents modern beauty, elegance and charm.

And the fragrance bottle is truly unique, featuring Coach’s signature design and lozenge that completes the whole look.

Signature EDP 50ml RM 290

Signature EDT 50ml RM 245

For the first time I sniff it, I am quite surprise how pleasant the fresh fruity & floral smell it is! Very relaxing and not too over whelming.... And you gotta go and try this out!!!

In addition to this Coach also launched purse spray, body lotion and lip gloss complete this collection.
Signature Body Lotion 150ml RM 180
Signature Lipglosses RM 85 per piece (Orchid, Peony, Freesia)

Coach Signature Perfume is available at all Coach's store since Oct 2010.

Back to Snow!!

Firstly thanks so much to all my followers and all the lovely messages asking if id had a nice holiday! Well yes it was brill but i must admit i rather missed my shop, how sads that!!

A big thanks to all my customers from Germany, i know allot of you brought from me for the first time before i went away, and there was some confusion about my shop being closed, so thanks for your patience and understanding.

I did not reply to my messages until monday as there was just so many and my lad wanted to a build snowmen and put the Christmas decorations up!

I did go straight on to read messages on my return at 2.30 in the morning but it would not have been fair just to answer a few and then leave the rest until Monday so i thought its best to do them all the same day.

I will leave it there now as ive got so much posting to do and its snowing quite heavily now and im worried i may have to collect my son from school.

I will write again soon with details of any new arrivals, thanks

Home Remedy Lemon And Egg Face Mask For Oily Skin.

Both the indgredients of this face mask are good for oily skin. Egg tightens the skin pores and so oil balance is maintained. Lemon is also known to reduce oiliness of the skin and also lightens skin blemishes if any.

To prepare this face mask mix egg white with a few drops of lemon juice. Apply it all over your face and neck. Leave it on for about 15 minutes. To wash off this face mask, boil lemon peels in water and allow it to cool. Do this sometime prior to applying the face mask so that by the time we have to use, it should be cool.
Wash off your face mask with this water and it acts as an astringent.
This face mask if applied regularly tightens the skin and makes it wrinkle free. It also makes the skin clear from blemishes or dark spots.

Confidence starts with Clean & Clear

Does this look familiar to you

Yes this is teen skincare expert Clean & Clear® new look! I like their new packaging, looks more fresh and vibrant :)

Today Clean & Clear® have reinforced its comprehensive range for teenage woman that treats normal to top teen care skincare concerns like oily, acne prone and uneven skin toned skin.

Well for me, Clean & Clear® is one of the earliest skincare that I have used during my teenage years AGO where my skin are oily like yao char kwai (fried dough stick) and have pimples all over my face. Lucky gone are the days !!!

So when I was invited to attend Clean & Clear® media launch of their latest skincare innovation and new look of their packaging, I am curious to find out how much they have changed or improved.



Together with us at the event are Safiah, Ainaa, Jesslynn and Lien Siew who are the recent first and third prize winners of Clean & Clear® Top Best Friends Models Malaysia as the MC for the day :) They are very confident and definitely they look good here :)

And I believe today most of the teenagers today are equip with camera or at least a camera phone because it is so affordable. And that is the age where we would love to cam-whore anywhere at anytime without feeling shame . However that is also the time when our skin condition starts to change due hormone. And no one wants to looked take pictures with face looking oily and pimples popping all over the face right ? So Clean & Clear® is introducing an all-new x8 oil absorbing formula to help teens keep their skin oil-free up to 8 hours! What 8x oil absorbing formula ?? Read further!



Joyce Lee, the Managing Director of Johnson & Johnson Sdn Bhd said while Clean & Clear® has always been known as the brand that boosts teenagers' confidence by helping maintain clean, noticeably clear and beautiful skin, the brand is also strongly committed to understanding teens and delivering solutions to meet their needs with the most innovative skincare technology. She further said that "Clean & Clear® understand that teenagers today love to take pictures and look good in them, therefore Clean & Clear latest oil-absorbing technology is specifically developed with oily skin concern in mind"

Clean & Clear® latest formulation contains special extract of an all-natural rice protein which has a unique structure to soak up oil from the skin like a micro-sponge all day long. It works mainly by attracting and capturing sebum (oil secretions from skin) out of skin pores 8 times faster and lasting up to 8 hours. It also contains six minerals and 18 amino acids to protect the skin from environmental damage. Its other benefits include prevention of skin irritation and promotion of water-oil balance in skin.

In the picture : Mr Keshan & Jesslynn and Lien Siaw ( third prize winners of Clean and Clear Top Best Friends Models Malaysia contest)

Mr Keshan Gunasinghe , the leading scientist from Johnson and Johnson Asia Pacific Beauty Care Research & Development said that Clean & Clear® uses 4 technologies in their products that serves different functions for various skin types, from normal skin to oily, acne-prone and uneven toned skin"

Angel Technology - a powerful pimple fighter that taps on Salicylic Acid and Active Botanical Formula to dissolve pore-clogging sebum

Triclosan - an ingredient that helps to prevent pimples and blackheads by advocating an anti-bacterial ingredient; using one of nature's richest sources of Vitamin C

Cherry Extract - works as a complexion brightener with its skin-lightening properties

8 times oil-absorbing rice protein formula - goes deep into pores to absorb oil, keeping skin oil- free for up to 8 hours

He further explained that "Oily skin can be a real dirt magnet. You will need a skincare range that works deep down into pores to keep oil away long after you've washed your face. And this is when Clean & Clear® Deep Action range is the most helpful"



Apart from the sharing session my Mr. Keshan, Clean & Clear also invited the cheerleading team from CHARM (Cheerleading Association and Register of Malaysia) who gave an energetic performance to the audience before the event came to an end.



A happy group photo

Below are the range from Clean&Clear that would suit any teenager's concern today



Essential Range- basic skincare set that suitable for all skin types.



Deep Action Range - works deep down intro pores to keep face oil free



Active Clear Range - designed to clear and control acne, as well as to assist skin recovery from acne



Clear Fairness range - suitable for those who want to achieve even skin tone


Anna , me, Wendy and Sharon

The lovely bloggers who I met in the event :)



Goodies that I got at the end of the event

To be honest, Clean&Clear is one of the earliest skincare product I used in my teenage year, I would say they mild and work well on my skin to control oiliness and blemishes. However over the year, my skin concern has changed and I do not think I'm suitable to use it.


So should I do a giveaway to give to people who might need this ??


And we are also given an uber cute wrist bracelet pen drive :P

For more information on Clean&Clear products, kindly join their facebook here

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