The Muse @ Neo Damansara

BEFORE: my "yin-yong" bleached hair (with leftover makeup after the Evangelion photoshoot last weekend).

10am: finally got out of bed after being awake since 8am. i remember about my appointment today at The Muse, so its time to get moving!

11am: i nearly forgot about the voucher after i got changed into my dress, but lucky for the annoying reminder on my not-so-smart-but-sometimes-is smartphone.

(i believe a smartphone is suppose to ease my life by helping me not being late anymore because i am always terribly fashionably late for anything and absolutely everything. so late that it would be appropriate for my coffin to arrive late for my own funeral.)

12noon: i parked in the basement of Neo Damansara (weekday parking rate is RM1 hourly) and made my way up the elevator.

imagine my surprise when i saw The Muse was all black at first, thinking they were closed! T____T it turns out that the glass was just tinted super black.

after i linked my phone to The Muse wifi, i spoke with a couple stylists about which colour to dye and they suggested a shade of brown from their L'oreal range.

before the dye, the daunting moment of truth: how healthy is my scalp? The Muse scalp test revealed i have the average untreated scalp, perhaps causing my thin hair growth due to the cling-film-like layer on my scalp.

1.30pm: wash time~ the dye has set and i am off to receive my scalp treatment and hair treatment. anxious about being late to work again.

2.30pm: yes, i am officially late.

two tone: Bodyline wigs (and some shoes) replica

this is part two; a continuation from my first contemplation on two-tone hairstyle:

1. vertical or horizontal two-tone? definitely vertical. horizontal is everyone's pick currently (trending).
2. lighter colour on the left/right or top/bottom? lighter colour on my right half.
3. which combinations: black/blonde, brown/blonde, pink/blonde, brown/light brown? decidedly brown/brown or brown/blonde depending on how long the chemical stays on my hair.

one major event that pushed me to make the decisions above is the idea of having to buy two boxes or four boxes of dye (since Guardian is having a "Buy 1 Free 1" promotion on Beauteen products). by my calculations, i would have to get three boxes for most of the colour combinations. therefore, i decided to get two boxes of bleach, both would be different tones of blonde bleach.

after concluding about the three issues above, i realised i might still have one more hurdle: parents. but oh well, i will just have to walk in the saloon later this week and get it done on my own, then see their reaction. how bad could it be? the solution is simply to dye my hair back to black.

now, Bodyline seems to have jumped on the hype of two-tone wigs too. what most people have noticed is the wig which is a replica of a Cyperus wig in brown with a quarter of dark brown.

left: Bodyline has actually removed the two-tone wig from the site soon after its release.

Ranmao dash to the lash!

okay, i know the title does not make sense now, but let me explain. this post is about the making of Ranmao's accessories and wig styling, and a piece of prop for the CF cosplay group competition tomorrow.. and to confess, today i skipped classes. (yeah, i did it for CF.) *slapped*

because the prettiest item is the photo of Ranmao's hairclip, i shall start with that. as you can see, i simply attached a blue 'tassel' piece to the flower hair clip. but truth is, i used one whole spool of blue thread to spin the tassel because i have no more money and time to spend on a ready-made tassel from a store (which  could probably be inaccurate to the colour or wrong shape that i want, and waste petrol and parking fee too).

sad day...

there are days when you have ups, and there are days that get you down. what a fluctuation compared to my recent post here. perhaps you might just leave this page and return another day when you don't think yours truly is in PMS mode.

even though there are such unforgiving days, you must make some use of it. after all, don't they say, if you get lemons, make lemonade! lemons are sour citrus fruits, but you can still sprinkle some sugar and ice in the lemon juice and make delicious lemonade.

Estee Lauder Model Search 2010

last weekend i went to the final roadshow of the Estee Lauder Model Search in KLCC. mummy just wanted to purchase some EL products, so she gave me the contest entry instead. thus, this time i am joining for fun (plus, i won't be going to any fancy convocation for my Diploma graduation to waste money on some fancy photo).

"this time"? yes, i have participated in the same model search contest in 2007 (in Mid Valley) but i was really bad at my first attempt. honest! XD "this time" i have learnt a lot more from previous cosplay photoshoots, so i decided i should give it my best pose even though i will not be a finalist.

allow me to share the photo entry that i submitted for Estee Lauder model search 2010:

sorry, this is not a scan but a photo of a photo. perhaps i can scan stuff when i get an all-in-1 printer.