Red Vibes

I just cannot tell how much I love red on me.

I have been eyeing on M.A.C. eyeshadow in Cranberry for a while and finally decided to add it to my little 4 pans eyeshadow palette.

When I was taking photos for this blog post this evening, I kind of wanted to pull a bad-ass face for it. But I could not really do it so I just put on my old Sakun mask for it.

I love this eyeshadow so much that I even wore it to work last Saturday.

Of course, just tone it down with a brown eyeshadow to make it more subtle.

Love,

Sonia

ina-ho 【稲穂】| Pilot iroshizuku

Another bottle from Pilot iroshizuku which is called ina-ho.

Ina ho mean the ear of rice in english.

This ink colour is perfect to show the exact colour in my mind for ina-ho.

Also, it is another colour that calms me down while I am using it.

To be honest, writing with calligraphy pen calms me down a lot.

Last time, I wrote it on a Muji schedule but this time, I tried on a different type paper which is also from Muji. It is from their Recycled Paper Notebook and I noticed the ink reacted different than those smooth paper. The effect of it is pretty too!

One more new ink bottle to go for next time.

Love,

Sonia

Nerdy Pretty

Wanna keep yourself pretty with glasses?

All you need is Tom Ford! *just kidding*

Sometimes, I cannot be bothered to wear contacts because it dries my eyes out when I am tired.

So glasses come in handy!

This look is very classy with or without glasses!

You only need a neutral tone eyeshadow quad. In my case, I am using my beloved Golden Mink eye quad from Tom Ford Beauty with my new lips and boys Julian.

Use the darker brown in the inner and outer corner of the eyes, then use the lighter brown to blend in!

If you have got the same eye shape like me, it is very important to put a dark colour in the upper inner eye corner.

Don't forget also to put the darker brown on the outer third of the undereye.

Voila! The eye look is completed!

And bear in mind, wearing glasses does not mean that you cannot put effort on being pretty at the same time. But of course, sometimes I just purely do not want to wear makeup so I wear glasses :P

Love,

Sonia

Nordic Mocha

Heeeey! It has been 3 weeks since I wrote the last post and I know I missed a lot of blog posts.
I do need some time to shut myself down for a while and work has been hectic lately.
6 days of work in a week plus disappointment in life make me really tired from doing anything else.
But I guess I am pulling myself together gradually.

I went dark again for my hair because it has got too many colours left with previous hair dye and my hair is really uneven in colour right now. This time, I went to a salon which uses INOA products from Loreal Professional and I got it in a dark mocha colour.
It turns out really nice as it adds a little warm to dark brown colour.

M.A.C. eyeshadow in Satin Taupe and Twinks | Tom Ford lipstick in First Time

Makeup wise, I am very minimal these days in my eye makeup.
I re-discovered my M.A.C. eyeshadow Satin Taupe.
It is a cool toned brown with a bit of silver shimmer in it so it adds a natural definition to my eyes.
Since my eyes colour is in a really warm light brown, I think cool toned colour looks really good on me as it balanced out everything.
Besides, I would also like to use Twinks for deepening effect too.

With my new scarf, I just think I should go nordic and ride a horse!
Hopefully it will happen in 2017!
But I just booked my flights to Europe in March. Too excited for travelling again in just 1.5 months:)

More blog posts sooooon:)

Love,
Sonia

tsuyu-kusa 【露草】| Pilot iroshizuku

I have been looking for a perfect china blue ink for a while and I have found it!

Not sure why I am having such a feeling for the specific blue colour on china.

Maybe it calms me.

This is the sample from Pilot Japan official website.

Since this ink is from Japan, it makes me kinda want to write this post in Japanese!!

I used the Kaweco squeeze converter as an ink cartridges for this!

It worked perfectly.

Feel free to check out the previous post about the squeeze converter.

This blue matches my expectation on the blue colour on china. It is really stunning.

 I tried on two kind of paper and the first one is Schöpfer notebook by Life Company Limited.

The second one is the 2016 schedule by Muji.
For the paper in this schedule, it takes a little bit of time for the ink to dry.

Two more new ink to try out!
Stay tuned for the posts in the coming week.

Love,
Sonia