2011.10.10 Body Shop Tea Tree Line

Brand: The Body Shop

Product Name: Tea Tree Skin Clearing Toner & Tea Tree Blackhead Exfoliating Wash

What it Claim: The Body Shop Tea Tree lines claim to keep the skin clear by helping prevent blemish and blackhead and controlling excess oil. 

Tea Tree Blackhead Exfoliating Wash

I love how this exfoliating wash is different from any other face scrub I used before. It's creamy with little chunk of crushed apricot stones that allows me to move the crushed apricot around and concentrate on some parts of my face that need exfoliation the most. 

After washing my face with this cleanser, my face feels soft & smooth. It doesn't make my skin feel dry and tight, so it's a plus!

Tea Tree Skin Clearing Toner

The first couple times I used this toner, it stung my skin and it felt hot and my skin turn red. I keep using them for several day after that to see if I can really use it or to return it to the store. 

After a few days, the toner didn't stung my skin anymore. I occasionally still feel the warm (not hot) sensation when using this toner, especially after I use microdermabrasion type of scrub on my skin. 

I have a very oily skin, but sometimes this toner can make my skin feel dry.

Overall Review: While I'm still have problem with blackheads and, I noticed that after using these products for a month, it is a lot easier to clean my blackhead when I use the pore pack. The pore pack now picked a lot more blackhead than before, even if I don't use my special combo product before using the pore pack. 

Now I can just put the pore pack directly after I washed my face and it will do a great job picking my blackhead.

Also, I notice that this month when I'm having my period, I don't have as much hormonal break out as I did last month. I only have 2 small acne this month and I'm quite happy about that. 

2011.10.07 Bebe's First Skinny Jeans & Growing Pains

Bebe surprise me everyday with his new trick. 

This morning, he took out the word card box from under the bed and bring it to my bed,

it was quite heavy for his size!! and after he moved the box, somehow his right arm was out of his t-shirt...lol

and this sweet little boy still loves to hold me before he went to sleep...

I don't know how much longer would he wants to hold me like this,

but I'll enjoy it for now :)

Today I'm so happy because Bebe's clothes came a week early from the scheduled delivery,

I order him some vest and his very first skinny jeans.

I think skinny jeans is great for rainy weather like now, since it's tighter on the bottom,

the bottom of the pants won't touch the ground and get wet / muddy.

my big boy in his skinny jeans

Today we went to the DMV office to schedule driving test for me next week. The lady that passed on the waiting number always give everyone nasty look...I wonder why -_____-

Anyway, I'm very excited to take my driving test next week, so I would finally got a driver license!!

After making the appointment, we went to eat Pho for dinner.

Bebe enjoying pho... XD

After we got home, I dyed my hair before hubby had to go to his basketball practice.

This time, I'm using 2 bottle of hair color to make sure I have enough product to saturated my hair. 

I haven't dyed my hair with this much product before, the washing hair part was scary, all my bath tub turn dark purple...lol...luckily the water washed it away. 

This is the first time I'm trying this brand, it's quite moisturizing and my hair feel so smooth afterward.

I'll take more picture tomorrow :)

Talking about basketball, last week hubby told me this funny / ironic story. There was this old guy that play basketball with him, and the old guy asked hubby why he haven't show up at bball for a long time.

 Hubby said that he was busy taking care of the baby. 

Then the old guy said "don't spend to much time with your baby! they won't remember it anyway!" He said that he used to carry his son on top his shoulder and walk the son around, now the son is grow up and work as a dentist. The son doesn't remember anything about it and also doesn't want to hang out with the father anymore.

In a way, this story is funny how the old guy became so bitter like that, but it's also ironic at the same time that as parent, we try to cherish every single second of our baby's development. We want to pamper and hug them as long as we can, knowing that they won't remember any single thing we did to them when they were baby. I know for sure that my baby won't remember that I always kiss him everyday, that I say that I love him everyday...it's sad...but I just want to enjoy all the moment. I want to kiss his chubby cheek everyday, and hug him until he fall asleep.

One day, when he grow up, I'll show him this blog to show him all his pictures since the day he was born, all  his funny stories when he was a little baby, all the precious moments we had together. I hope time won't flies too fast...just a wishful thinking...

2011.02.15 Old & New

Finally, another beauty related post!!

This month, I finished 2 beauty products, and one of the was the Chanel Double Perfection Compact in Soft Beige 20. It was a compact foundation powder, I like the soft texture of the powder and the matte finished of it, also the compact itself was so sleek and posh.

The new replacement is also another compact foundation powder, it's Diorsnow White Reveal Make Up in 021. This particular product is Asia exclusive product that I got at Duty Free Shop during my trip. I like how the Diorsnow compact is more to the yellowish tone compare to the Chanel one, but I just wish that the compact itself were thinner like the Chanel one.

The other beauty product I finished this month was the famous Lancome Bi-Facil eye make up remover.
I read a lot of good reviews about this product. On the official Lancome website, this 4oz make up remover retail for $26.00, so when I saw one at Costco for $19.00 I just snapped it and try for myself. This cleanser really live up to the hype, it took off all eye make up easily, even the waterproof mascara.
I really love this product, so when Nordstorm had GWP event, I snapped 2 more bottles of Bi-Facil and got 4 free small, travel size Bi-Facil. sweet!
I'm on my second bottle now, and it seems like I will be using Bi-Facil for a long long time :)

2011.05.14 January 2011

I was in my home town, Denpasar Bali :)
I was so happy to be with my big family...

2011.01.01 Jazz by the Sea Festival, Tanjung Benoa

jagung bakar!!! (bbq corn)

2011.01.09 Baby E's 7 months, Bali Safari Park

with my brother, hubby, baby E and my mom

2011.01.10 Ubud Getaway: Bebek Bengil, Royal Pita Maha

on the way to Ubud
the famous crispy duck at Bebek Bengil
beautiful view from Royal Pita Maha Resort
the private pool inside the villa
swims on his own... :)
ribs dinner at Nuri's
breakfast
2011.01.12 Bridal Make Up class with Linda, Jakarta

the model was my mom and my sister
my beautiful mom and sister
2011.01.14 1 more session of bridal class

the model was my gorgeous bff, Putri
Indonesian bridal make up is tend to be more to the glamorous type, they love to put layers of lashes...
ps. my bff and my baby shares the same birthday, how cool is that!! :))
2011.01.16 Going Back to Bali

hubby, baby E and my cousin's kids...too cute!!
2011.01.18 visiting my sweet grandma :)
baby E thinks that Bali is too hot!!
with my mom, my son and my grandma :)))
2011.01.19 Farewell...??
we were having farewell dinner because we were scheduled to go back to US on January 21st. but on that day I feel absolutely horrible, and then later on find out that I got upper respiratory track infection...it was awful...fever, muscle aches, nausea...everything in one!! (they have breakout in Bali) and had to postpone my flight to January 30th.

lunch at Leko...oh so good!!
I met up with my other bff, Titien...
she's so in love with bebe E and took him to her photo studio, TATI Photo and took lots of picture of him!
(this one was by my camera)
she edited the pictures herself, thank you so much babe!!
dinner with my mom's family
2011.01.23 Watching Live Soccer...lol

having lunch at Flapjack
live soccer at Gianyar...my brother is a big fan of soccer, so I tag along...haha
2011.01.26 Monkey Forest!!
and while in Ubud I gotta make a quick stop at my favorite place...
their famous Black Russian Pie was drenched in Kahlua...it was sooooooooooooooo good!!! and the other desser, I think the name was Ice Jambul Putih (not sure) was super good too, it's like Indonesian es campur (mix ice) but they put es puter (coconut milk based ice cream) on it...ahhh...drooling all over my keyboard now!!
later on that night, we had family dinner at Arena cafe
baby E loves mango smoothies :)
2011.01.29 Last Dinner at Sushi Tei
2011.01.30 Time to go back to Seattle...

my mom and my sis can't stop crying on the airport 9they already start crying a week before our departure) and no...they never cried like this before when I leave hom, this time it's because baby E...haha

at the airport the flight attendance asked if she can hold bebe
touchdown in Seattle :)