Laneige White Dew VIP Trial Kit

Laneige White Dew VIP Trial Kit

Before I start to write a review, let me tell you a short story about my activities at this week :

Lately, my children and I were sick. We got cold and a very bad wet cough. This condition made us only stay at home, and took a lot of rest. I didn't went out, only took care of my children, cooked healthy food, prepared a lot of medicines, and not forgetting to check their body temperature every 15 minutes because sometimes fever also came. Honestly, those days made me feel bored and it was very hard for me. All those "activities" was driving me crazy until I had no enough - good quality bedtime. However, when the kids were sleeping, I have a little bit time for take a rest. At that time, I opened my photos on the camera, and upload it into my instagram's feed. This time I still work on my pictures from the last summer trip to Canada. Well, you might think it's too late and weird because I've back to my home 2 months ago, and it's still unfinished. Well, I'm a perfectionist person, and I want my post looks perfect (not just the picture, but the caption too). And if you see my itinerary, you'll know that I didn't have time to do that during the trip. That's why I always post about my trip after back home.

Now you might be confused and wondering, "What's the connection between that story and the title of this blog post?". So, when I was looking at the gallery on my camera, I just found some photos about Laneige White Dew VIP Trial Kit, which I brought on my Bali trip. It was around 7 months ago and I just realized that I haven't write a review on my blog about these products. Now, let's start to read about this travel set.

If you ever read my older blog posts, you'll know that I always use Laneige White Dew Tone Up Cream everyday. Beside that, you also will know that I wanted to try another products from this series as well, to fasten the result and brighten my skin tone, permanently. When I was seeing a trial kit from this series, I thought it's the right time to try it. This trial kit consists of 2 products from White Dew series : Tone Up Cream and Original Ampoule Essence. Since I've written about Tone Up Cream, this time I only gonna write about the essence.

Laneige White Dew Original Ampoule Essence is one of a must product from White Dew series. This essence used after toner, and before day cream (or Tone Up Cream). Like other essence products, it has a transparant color. However, it has a gel texture, which made me think it's gonna hard to absorb. Because all I know, essence always comes in water (such as SK II Facial Treatment Essence). In fact, even though it has a gel texture, but it's very light, and easy to absorb. I really love it because I realized this texture can hydrate my skin.

Laneige White Dew Original Ampoule Essence has a gel texture

First time I used it was in Bali, and I didn't see any result. Maybe because it's just 4 days, so I didn't feel any difference on my face. Next, I used it again for around 3 weeks on my summer trip to Canada, and I started to see the result. It hydrated my skin, and also make it looks brighter. The other things that I like from this essence is, it balanced my skin tone before using tone up cream, so my skin didn't looks pale. And the last, the brightening effect didn't disappear, even after I washed my face. I still could see my bare face  looks brighter and I satisfied with it.

Tone-up Cream vs Original Ampoule Essence

The result if I blend it together. It stilll unfinished, but as you can see, it doesn't have much difference with my skin tone.

Why I only use this essence while traveling, and not use it as my everyday skin care??
First, I still use other essence product at home, and I want to use it until finish to see the result. Second, I only have this essence on travel size which is very small, and it's perfect for traveling. FYI, I always bring a very light skin care products while traveling, and mostly on travel size. I hate to bring a full size skin care while traveling, because I know I'll buy more beauty products at that time, and I need a lot of space for that :P

My only skin care during holiday in Bali

However, after finish my current essence, I'll buy the full size of Laneige White Dew Original Ampoule Essence, because it had shown a good result and it's perfectly match with the Tone Up Cream.

Natural Pacific Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence

Girls..

How are you today?? Summer holiday is coming and I'm pretty sure you're all have a great plan for that moment, because I have it too :P If you want to know more about my holiday for this summer, just follow my instagram to keep update. It's gonna be an exciting trip for me and my whole family. Anyway, since my routinity and preparation for summer holiday made me very busy during this past few weeks, I didn't have time to post oftenly. However, I have a great project for my blog, and I'll post it after come back from holiday. So stay tune..

Honest Review about Natural Pacific Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence

Well, you've read the caption of today's post. Yup, it's about "Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence" by "Natural Pacific". You might ever heard about this product, or you might not. At this post, I'll write about this product completely, including the honest review from me. I don't get sponsored for this, I just want to share with you about my experience after using this essence. Let's start from knowing the brand, Natural Pacific.

Natural Pacific is a new beauty brand and currently become very popular in Korea. This brand really famous for its serum, which promising to "fix" any problem on your skin, "Fresh Herb Origin Serum".  Looking of its name, we'll think that they use natural ingredients for their products. And the fact is, yes, they only use natural ingredients for their products, and that's a thing that makes people like it. To be honest, this serum was really really got me. With its ingredients and also a very great effect, I really fell for it. Especially after I know Jun Ji Hyun also use this serum, I want it, so badly...

However, my desire about this serum totally gone after hear about the stinging sensation during the usage. Even though this sensation only happened while you have some problems on your skin, but it still sounds scary. That's the reason why this serum has a nickname "Damn Serum / Scream Serum". I couldn't imagine if everytime I use this serum, I'd scream and feel pain on all over my face. Since I didn't use this serum, I can't tell how it works. But you can try it if you really curious with the result, because some people said it's really work. But personally, I'll skip it.

While searching about this serum, I found another interesting product, under the same brand. It's Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence. As you can read from its name, this essence has a whitening function, which I love the most. With no doubt, I bought it and decided to try it. I used this essence every morning together with SK II Facial Treatment Essence. I was using it as a serum after essence, because it has an oily texture, which I believed it can help me with my dry skin. As you can see at the pictures below, the essence has an "oily-thick" texture. It might not suitable for oily skin type, but it was doing great on my face.

Let's talk about the ingeridents. If you take a look at the bottle, it's exactly written the main ingredients of this essence are Niacinamide 5% and Hyaluronic Acid. I'm pretty sure you must be know about these ingredients because lately they are used as a great serum from Canadian beauty brand, The Ordinary. While Niacinamide has ability torepair skin problems such as enlarged pores, uneven skin tone, and dullness, Hyaluronic Acid work as anti aging by keep the collagen synthesis up. The combination of these ingredients, trusted to make this essence become a great brightening beauty product. If you want to know, here's my experience after using Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence by Natural Pacific.

• In 3 days 

It started to hydrate my dry skin, especially on my cheek. It didn't feel as tight as before, and the flaky skin also began to decrease. However, I still couldn't see the brightening effect.

• In 7 days 

After 1 week of usage, I could see a significant change on my skin. It started to get brightener, and I also felt my skin become very soft. It was still has a flaky skin, but not as much as before. I was really happy at that time because with affordable price, this essence shows the brightening result that every one hoping for.

• In 10 days 

I woke up in the morning and saw 2 big size pimples on my cheek. OMG! It never happened before. I never have a problem with acne. It only shows up everytime I got period, but it only 1 and will be gone in maximum 2 days. Or sometimes I also got pimple when I tried a new skin care, which not suitable with my skin. At that time, I didn't get period so I was thinking the pimples appear due to the usage of Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence. I quickly stopped the usage of this essence, and used Mario Badescu Drying Lotion to clear up these pimples.

• In 15 days

After a few days healing the pimples, I decided to give another chance with this essence. To be honest, I was in love with this essence already, and I didn't want to trust that this essence made a breakout on my face. I started to use this essence again, and I was hoping the pimple won't appear anymore.

• In 17 days

This time it didn't take a long time for the pimples to came out. Only in 2 days, and I started to see the pimples appear again. I had no choice beside to stop the usage of this essence, again, until the pimples disappear.

After the pimples are disappear, I gave the last chance for this essence, and started to use again. However, only in 2 days (again), it started to breakout again and even it's getting worse. Well, that's enough with this essence, I won't use it anymore.

After all, I won't say this essence is not good. Even I wanna say this essence is really great, and show the brightening effect just like I expected. However, I have a very sensitive skin and by the chance, this serum has ingredients which not suitable on my skin.

New Packaging of Natural Pacific Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence

As a new brand, these products won't be available in store in Indonesia. You need to buy it online to get this essence. And if you're wondering why my essence has a different packaging with the one that you just see on your trusted online shop, it because Natural Pacific just launched a new packaging for both Phyto Niacin Whitening Essence and Fresh Herb Serum, right after I bought it. Same ingredients, just different packaging. So don't you think it's a fake. Because as I know, currently there's no fake products of Natural Pacific brand.

SK II Pitera Welcome Set

Unboxing SK II Pitera Welcome Set

Hi dear!

Here I am, back again with a blogpost about beauty products from my favorite brand, SK II. If you have read my previous post, you'll know the first product from this Japanese brand that I used is SK II Facial Treatment Essence. I've used it since 3 years ago, and I never have a thought to stop using it. I love this product a lot. As I was saying before, the result will be shown after long term of use. And yes! I started to see the result now.

After 3 years using this essence, finally I started to see the change on my skin. I realized that my age is growing, and lately my skin is also a bit dry (due to last winter holidays). However, I don't see any appearance of fine lines. Whereas before, I could see the fine wrinkles on my face, especially in the area around my eyes. At that time I was only 24 years old and the wrinkles made me looks so "old". Thanks to SK II, you really change my destiny :)

The history of "PITERA", seen on the side of SK II Pitera Welcome Set's box

"A good skin care will costs a lot" - hmm, I would say that I'm agree with it. A good skin care, contains a good - high quality ingredients, which also need a high costs. Especially if it has anti aging effects, that can be found at SK II products. The "high" price of this products could be a concern for some peoples who just want to try to use it for the first time. They are worry if the products are not suitable on their skin, and it only gonna waste their money.

3 first steps to get a clear skin by SK II

However, if you really curious with the "power" of SK II products and wanna try it without breaking your wallet, you can start it with SK II Pitera Welcome Set which just launched and designed special for the first timer. Inside this box, there are 3 best seller products of SK II, comes in mini size.

•  Facial Treatment Clear Lotion 30ml

The most important point to get a clear and healthy skin: "Make sure your face at the very clean condition before start your treatment." A facial wash is not enough to make your face 100% clean. You need to use more cleanser before start with your treatment.  A good cleanser also important to get a healthy skin because it will exfoliate a dead skin cells, and make your skin become very clean and of course, healthy. SK II Pitera Welcome Set also comes with SK II Clear Lotion which is a good cleanser. Use this as the very first step, with cotton pad, before you continue with Facial Treatment Essence.

• Facial Treatment Essence 75ml

This essence is a must products from SK II. It contains Pitera which really great to make your skin keep "young" and glowing. Use this essence as the first step on your treatment, after get your face clean with Facial Treatment Clear Lotion, twice a day, in the morning and before sleep time. You can use it with cotton pads, but I choose to only drop it on my palm. With that way, I only need 3 drops for my whole face.

• R.N.A Power Radical New Age 15g

After essence, you might need a serum for a serious problem on your skin. However, if you don't have any serious problem, and only wants to make your skin keep moisturized and get brighter, you can go with moisturizing cream after essence directly. R.N.A Power Radical New Age, is a best seller moisturizing cream by SK II. R.N.A series known for the anti aging effect, which what people expecting for from this brand. However, it's not only for elder women. Young women (from 20 years old) can also use it as a measure to prevent premature aging. Beside that this cream has a very rich texture, and it will moisturized your skin.

Those 3 products are the best seller products from SK II, and known as the first step to get a crystal clear skin. This Pitera Welcome Set only costs IDR 958k, and it's a very good deal for SK II products. You can get this set in every SK II counter. You're better be hurry up, because they only have limited stock. Are you ready to #changedestiny ????

[Find out how SK-II Skincare Routine can brighten your dull skin]

SK II Pitera Welcome Set - the first step to crystal clear skin

MakeUp Inspiration for 2018

It’s been a week after Aurelia started her end-of-year holiday from her school. I spent this week to prepare everything for my next winter holiday, to Japan!!!!! Yeay ^^ Can’t wait for this trip because it's the first time we go to the place in winter season with Winston.

Now the preparation has done, and i got nothing to do. So i decided to open my make up drawer, and started to “clean up”. It doesn’t mean my make up drawer was dirty. Instead, it’s very clean and tidy. Well, what i mean with "clean up" is, looking at my make up collection, and "do" something with it. Because I just realized that I still have a lot of make up which i never used, at all. Even they still looks the same as pretty as the first time I bought. I started to open it one by one, and my eyes pointed at Chanel Les 4 Ombres (238 Tisee Paris) which I bought at Galeries Lafayette Paris. Yeah, it’s been 2,5 years since I had an Europe Trip and i haven’t touch it. (Also read : Beauty Haul from Europe)

Looking at these beautiful colors, it inspired me to get a new make up style for 2018. During 2017, I was stucked with Urban Decay Naked 2 for my eye make up. I know it’s beautiful, but sometimes i feel bored with those colors which dominated with grey, black, and other dark colors. So at 2018, i want to change my make up style with more color, like what i got on this Chanel eyeshadow palette. It has a combination between dark grey and pink. I think it looks pretty, and looks perfect on my eyes.

Kylie Holiday Edition 2016 Mini Matte

 Beside the eyeshadow, i also started to play with Kylie Lipcolor by Kylie Cosmetics. Last year, precisely at Black Friday 2016, i got crazy with every Kylie Cosmetics products which on sale. At this chance, i bought every color from every collection on its website, and they’re all ended stuck at my make up drawer. Why???? Because I have a very dry lips, and all of this matte-looked lip color will be crack on my lips. However, now my lips is already smooth, and not dry anymore. Thanks to Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, finally I can use these lip colour.

What i used for this look???
- Laneige BB Cushion SPF 50+ PA+++
- MAC Studio Careblend - Medium
- Chanel Correcteur Perfection - 20 Beige Ivory
- Chanel Les 4 Ombres (238 Tisee Paris)
- Koji Dolly Wink Liquid Eyeliner - Deep Black
- Essence Long Lasting Eye Pencil - 20 Lucky Lead
- Etude House Drawing Eyebrow #1 Dark Brown
- KIKO Milano Colour Veil Blush 03
- NYX Wonder Stick - Medium
- Kylie Cosmetics Holiday Edition Mini Kit - Kristen

I love this make up look, especially on the eyes. It's not full with dark shade, instead it also has a pink shade which make it looks prettier. I'm so satisfied with it, and gonna wear it as my daily make up at 2018.

Sony A6000 mirrorless camera and rose bouquet from Ivan

Anyway, for all of these photos on this blog was taken with mirrorless camera Sony A6000, which i got from Ivan as a birthday present. I love the result of this camera. It's amazing and I even don't need to edit these pictures. Thanks hub, for this lovely birthday gift :)

P.S : That beautiful bouquet was from Madame Florist, the best florist in town.

Beauty Haul from Europe (Part II)

This is the second post about beauty haul from Europe Trip. It's kinda embarrassing to post about it at this time, because it’s been 2,5 years since i had this trip. But i really forgot at all about this post and it has been at my draft for that long. I’ve make promise to post about other beauty things that i bought in Europe at the first post about beauty haul from Europe. And i’m not a kind of person who likes to break my promise.

If at the first post i wrote about luxury beauty stuff that i got in Paris, this time i’ll talk about beauty stuff that i bought while i was in Milan, which is more affordable. Actually i don’t have any plan to shopping again. I’ve got everything i want in Paris. But when in Milan, i just found some new make up brand, and they’re all looks amazing. Really hard to ignore them, so i bought some make up and nail polish to add my make up collection. (Also read : Cheap “Fashion and Beauty” Shopping Guide in Europe)

Essence
I never heard about this brand before. I found this brand at OVS Via Torino, near Duomo di Milano. OVS is a shopping store, and they sell affordable fashion stuff. First time i stepped in to this store, i just wanted to shopping for a daily outfit. But i saw this Essence stall and i fell in love with their product. Not just because the cheap price that they offer, but the products itself looks pretty. They have a lot of variety beauty products from make up until nail polish.

I fell in love with this nail polish since the first time i saw it. The color looks fabulous. And, Oh! It's not and ordinary nail polish. It's a nail gel, and i love nail gel so much. I'm not a kind of person who likes to change a nail color at the short time. I really need a long lasting nail color, and nail gel it's a perfect things for me First time i knew nail gel from Sally Hansen, and since that moment i started collect nail gel. The gel nail polish from Essence is really a good products. Easy to use, not bubbling, long lasting, and the color so beautiful. You can get this good quality products only with €1,7.

From top to the bottom : The Gel Nail Polish 34 (Candy Love), 21 (a whisper of spring), 36 (dare it nude), Effect Nail Polish 28 (truth or dare?)

Other products that i bought at Essence is the eyeliner. I bought 2 types of eyeliner, "liquid matt" and "long lasting pencil". After try both of these products, i would recommend you to buy the pencil one. I love this eyeliner because it's super easy to use and also smudge-proof. And like the name of this eyeliner, it has a long lasting result. So far this is the best eye pencil i ever tried, and the price is only €1,6.

Essence Liquid Ink Matt Eyeliner 

Essence Long Lasting Eye Pencil - 20 Lucky Lead

KIKO Milano
Still at the same street, KIKO Milano has their own store and it's like a heaven for make up addict (like me). The price is not as cheap as Essence, but it's worth with the quality.

Started with this eyeshadow stick, this is one of my favorite product from KIKO. The formula is really good. Well pigmented, easy to blend, and the most important is long lasting. It's really suitable for a traveller like me. Since i have this eyeshadow stick, everytime i travel, i'll bring this because it's so simple to use.

KIKO Long Lasting Stick 38

Next is concealer. Dark circle always be a problem for me. I've tried many eye cream and also get enough sleep, but it never gone. So everytime i'm at makeup store, i always looking for their best seller for cover the dark circle. With the peach color, this concealer from KIKO really cover the dark circle under my eye. They have a good formula, however i don't like the packaging. It's a pump type concealer. Everytime i pump it, the concealer always come out a lot and it's too much for me.

KIKO dark circle concealer 02 Peach

The last is the blush on. I love this color since the first time i saw. It's so perfect for my skin tone which not too fair.

KIKO colour veil blush 03

Flor de Mayo
Actually it's not a beauty product that i bought in Milan. But this product is really good so i also write about it at this post. I bought this hand cream at El Corte Inglés, Barcelona. I love to using hand cream because it makes my hand keep moisturized. I have many hand cream, but this hand cream is my favorite. Not just because the natural formula that they have, but i love the smell too. It's vanila, and it always be my favorite.

SK-II Facial Treatment Essence Crystal Limited Edition

Hi girls!! This is my first post about skin care. And I will write about a product that has been trusted to make the skin look younger, SK-II Facial Treatment Essence.

Actually this is not the first time I use SK-II FTE. But this time, i got this beautiful Crystal Limited Edition bottle, which the packaging is so gorgeous. This isn't the newest edition. As i know this is the limited edition for Christmas 2013. But i really like the packaging, so I just bought it at Seibu, Grand Indonesia.

For you who never know about SK-II FTE, i'll give you a little explanation about that. Facial Treatment Essence has more than 90% Pitera, an ingredient found more than 30 years ago but still remains the same to this day. This formula gently helps remove dead skin cells on the surface of the skin and helps the skin surface rejuvenation cycle.

It can help transform your skin 5 dimensions: help disguise dark spots , helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles, helping to improve skin texture, skin feels firmer and helps the skin look brighter. The skin looks more radiant captivating crystal clear.

How to use it?
Moisten a cotton swab and rub gently on face for 1 minute. Use the reverse side and gently pat your face and neck for 1 minute. Do this every morning and night after cleansing and toner use.

I have a very sensitive skin. First fime i used it, it was purging my skin. In the first week appeared a few small pimples. But i keep use it twice a day and now all the pimples gone ^^

You might be feel an anti aging product isn't important for you at the age of 20. You don't have any wrinkles on your age. But if you use it from now, you can see the result when you're 30 years old. Your skin will not get older. Even though the wrinkles appear, but it isn't as much of wrinkles that appear on the skin that don't  use the SK-II FTE.

Beside the FTE, i also got the SK-II Whitening Source Derm Revival Mask. I haven't use it before so i can't give the review for that. But i'll use it soon so i can review it.

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