The 2 Kinds of Clothes Retailer Online

As the title indicates, I want to talk about the online shops selling clothes. I am not defaming any particular sites, just want to share my experiences!

Some online sites (many in fact in the past) sell clothes using pictures from their suppliers. The models can be Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese. A lot of times, pictures are in viewable size, but not exactly big and super clear. And of course the clothes look fantastic on them all the time as the models are always kawaii/sexy/pretty/sweet. And I believe many of you gals also can't help browsing the website(s) over and over again deciding what to buy. And maybe from only 1 piece that you want, you end up deciding to buy more than that, especially when they say buy how many pieces got what discount blah blah blah! (okies I'm just talking about myself >.< ). Some pictures may not be even clear, you just have to use your imagination and hope that it will turn out as pretty as the way it looks in the picture!

 But as with online shopping, you cannot touch cannot feel for yourself the clothes material and quality can only see and read from the picture and description. I do not buy online clothes that often as some do but I do have my share of experience receiving goods that are just disappointments! Here's an example:

I thought this looks casual and cute!

Shall not say which website this was taken from, it's a picture from the supplier that all online blogshops are using if they are selling this piece.

But when I receieved it I was like.......

I mean, the colour is totally off, yes I mean the colours are the same, but the tone the hue the feel is totally OFF! It feels like it's just some cheap piece from I bought from the local Pasar Malam ( Night Market) and it cost me 20 over bucks okay. It's not dirt cheap.

So what to do? Just have to accept it. I'm not those kind of people who will ask for refunds unless the goods are totally not what I've ordered. Anyway I doubt the online retailer would refund or let me exchange. So what if I exchanged, the rest of the good may not be true to the pictures too.

Whereas, the 2nd kind of clothes retailer uses their local models and own photographer. This kind of pictures that you see on their sites are definitely much more true to the goods. Very successful examples would be Bonitochico and Lylarose as I bought from them before and the goods are definitely true to the picture.

Online shopping does have its kick. but when the goods arrive sometimes you just have to embrace yourself for the moment of truth. This is where shopping physically in a real retail shop beats online shopping.

Yeap so that's what I want to share, and oh if anyone is interested in the above piece of tee-shirt do email me or leave a comment! Brand new! =X

*Update: I'm willing to let go at $5 only. Lol. Price still negotiable! If not I will treat it as back up pyjamas!

Update on the Reebonz 99% off Sales

Reebonz posted apologies on Facebook today in regards to the "failed" 99% sales.

They are going to randomly give away the items in the sales to members who have RSVPed for the event.
Dear Fairy God Mother, please grant my wish to be one of the lucky ones who will get a bag? I'll be a good child. =D

Lylarose is back to Biz! vv (^.^) vv

Yippie! Would like to share with you all the email I received just now from LylaRose which has been closed for quite a long time:

 They have shifted from livejournal to another domain. Snapshot of the new website:

Am going to be ready at home on Thursday to visit their site since I got nothing important to do during this week's leave!

Other than Bonitochico, Lylarose used to be one of the blogshops I would visit everytime I'm online!  

♥ ~ はるみ ~

99% (turned) off + 1% (site) damaged

Opened up my email this morning and was excited to see this in my mailbox.

Reebonz is a website that sells branded goods at a lower retail price. And they have this crazy 99% off sales.

But at 4pm sharp I had problems loading the website, which is really expected as I was super sure there would be hundreds or maybe thousands of people like me sitting by the pc waiting to pounce on whatever goods available. I mean who wouldn't? If it's a 1k item, it would only cost 10 bucks. Without the 9.90 SGD

shipping fees. Only after almost an hour I was able to log in n view only the 1st page of the event. And I added one blue kate spade bag to the shopping bag, and upon checking out, it says I have no item. I don't feel like elaborating how many times I refreshed the page and waited for it to load. Seeing the comments on Twitter and Facebook many many people was facing the same problem. My cousin Jellytelly_ri-chan was also very frustrated.

 

So about 2 hours later the Reebonz team decided to down the site for maintenance.

So much for anticipating the traffic beforehand.

There's no free lunch in this world, and there's no free handbag either.

Haha. Back to reality!!!

女人我最大 20100701 超簡單 手笨也能學會

Was watching 女人我最大(Queen) a Taiwanese beauty show broadcasted on July 1st 2010, on youtube. The hairband that is shown in the Japanese magazines was featured in the show! Now then I know inside there is actually a wire so you can just twist at the top of your head to make it like a ribbon or rabbit ears!

Part 2 of the episode:

I'm talking about the hairbands worn on the 2 models from the left and the centre. Picture is from the centre model Tsuriki 's blog =) She has a blogshop named Japanese Street Fashion (the icon link is on the left side of my blog) and I've ordered the clothes she's wearing in her spree 2! Waiting for updates from the blog.

Kawaii desu ne!

So does it means this kind of hairband is available in Taiwan too??? Darling Yiting is going to Taiwan soon can help me buy??? LoLx.

Part 4 of the episode:


And I wan the "Nubra" for the hair also!!! Available in Taiwan!!! >.<

Wished I had the $$$ to go Taiwan again......

LG Vanilla Ice-cream phone + Meji Choco Ichigo Hp Strap

Playing around with Canon 550D.

I had frosty vanilla ice cream and marble chocolate for dinner. Just like my hp the LG Ice-cream phone in Vanilla and my Meji choco strawberry hp strap just that I didn't ate any strawberry for dinner. Hahahahah.

Fun Make-over gathering

Had a fun day spent at a colleague's house with 5 other beloved colleagues doing make-over for everyone. We brought Arnold's chicken meal to her house for lunch, and after it was lesson time!!! I helped 2 pretties did their eyemake up. The sharing session was on because a lot of the girls said they didn't know how to put fake falsies on. But I didn't bring my camera there so I can only come back to camwhore myself. I guess could check out the photos at either Nora's or Yiting's beauty blog! =)

This were some of the items I used on my face today.

Clockwise from top left: Guerlains' travel pact meteorite loose powder, Dolly Wink Falsies Eyecase (I used it to contain the No.1 Dolly Sweet upper fakelash and no.5 Real Nude bottom lash), YSL Touche Eclate Radiant Touch (for highlight), Lavashuca Eye Shadow palette BR-2, Dolly Wink Eyelash glue, IQQU sunscreen (Favourite!), Bobbi Brown Concealor, Bobbi Brown Corrector.

I forgot to take photo of my fav Jill Stuart mix blush compact in 03 coral glow!

Please bear with my narcissism (vanity).. Couldn't resist snapping some photos before I wash them off! I normally don't wear makeup to work even though I am so interested in them as I am toooo lazy to wake up 5 mins earlier to draw my face. I only "transform" myself when I'm not working! Here goes!:

Bread-face =(

Feeling vain after I came back I curled my straight fine hair myself for the 1st time using the cheap Watson's curling iron bought at the recent sales.

Messy I know. >.<

Wearing the Dolly Wink's Lower Falsies in No. 5 Real Nude. It looks super natural!

My eyebrows are drawn with the dark brown eyeshadow from the Lavshuca palette.

Hair half tied-up look.

But I don't know why my Dolly Wink no.1 lashes look so droopy on my eyes, not curled up at all. Yiting wore them and it looks so curled! She said maybe it's the way I stick my lashes on so it looks flat. But that the the Bobbi Brown makeup artist sticked for me also droopy! Don't know is because the way I cut the lashes myself? I must try again when I've the time!!!

Dolly-Wink Inspired Nails

So other than Dolly Wink Falsies, Candy Doll, Tsubasa san has come up with the Dolly Wink Nail Collection!

It has 2 themes in the Dolly Wink website, Pastel Dolly and Vivid Dolly.

Here are some of the nail colours available:

And I was inspired by this:

Of course I don't have Dolly Wink's newly launched nail colours, but I thought of the Barbie Pink like nail colour I bought from The Face Shop at the recent GSS and decided to paint my nails like this:

Both the pink and black are using TheFaceShop nail colours. They are cheap (I think retails at $2.90) and easy to work with. I 've used Sally Hansan Diamond Shine as base and top coat.

It was a rushed-thru job though, so not very good. =X

The Face Shop Diamond Shine Lip Gloss OR202

The Face Shop Diamond Shine Lip Gloss OR202

What is your the one thing that you can't resist buying in cosmetics? For me, it's lip colours, especially lipgloss.

My dear secondary school friend Grace went to Korea last year end and bought me a this TFS's lipgloss in OR202. But I only got it from her like this month (Yes we've not meet up for 1/2 yr). It's a coral (orange based) gloss that contains fine gold shimmer. Looks quite pigmented in the picture, but is actually quite sheer when applied on lips. Not very sheer until you can't see that it's coral coloured though.

 Comes in a bent spongey tip wand for easy application.

Swatch of the colour on my hand under natural sunlight.

Before application:

 My bare lips under natural sunlight (Late afternoon)

After application:

Above 2 pictures taken with natural sunlight.

The rest of the pictures below taken with room fluorescent light at night.:

With flash:

*pardon my facial hair. needs to go wax upper lip soon! =S

But this photo can capture the tiny specks of gold shimmer on the lips!

Sorry for the lack of quality in the photos. Was only using a 5 megapixels camera...

Anyways the lipgloss is lightly scented. Can't quite make out the scent, but it's not unpleasant. But not something I really like. But it's bearable. It is not too sticky nor too watery =)

It is still selling at TFS outlets in Singapore as I have seen this in their store recently.

I think their GSS is still on, customers just need to purchase at least $10.00 to enjoy 20% off!

 

 

おやすみなさい

~はるみ~

Aqualabel Milky Mousse Foam Review

I just washed my face with the milky mousse foam. A hint of rose mist fragrance, just like what it stated behind the back of the facial foam in English. It also states that it contains ingredient: Collagen GL. It is described as a "High density moisture cleansing foam that protects skin while it cleanses. Formulated with moisturising ingredient and collagen."

It's cream like facial foam, so according to the instructions I'm supposed to squeeze out 1cm amount of the facial foam and lather up with water, and just clean your face.  Just like any other normal facial foam must lather up~

So it's really milky, not really like other kind of mousse facial foam I used before. After washing, I don't feel any tightness. Face feels clean. But it was not moisturising enough. I purposely did not use my toner and moisturiser and waited to see what feeling my skin will get. I don't know is it because my cheeks are naturally quite dry, my skin did actually feel dry after a short while. But since I bought it I will continue to use it.

So out of 5 stars, I will give it a 3. Not exactly fantastic but it does its job as a cleansing foam. =)