Brand-minded

Lately I've been hearing stories about these rich spoiled daughters of my mom's friends. They got married or will be married to super rich dudes, and ever since the only things in their little spoiled heads are Gucci, LV, Hermes, Laboutins, Chanel, Prada and so on. They kept on buying all those stuffs from handbags, shoes, clothes, and duh, they cost a fortune. An Hermes Birkin bag costs about as much as a city car!!

Well it's not that I don't like branded bags, which girly girl doesn't, right? But that's so over the top, why try so much to be a hot socialite, no normal girl needs that many branded bags or shoes, why try to be a walking advertisement board, why show off so much, it's not even the money they earn themselves...

Anyway, I'm quite irritated hearing these stories my mom tells me, and I pray pray pray to God that no matter how rich I would become one day, I wouldn't turn into one of these girls, who let their branded accessories define who they are.
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Chanel Inimitable Mascara - not buying it anymore

I first came into contact with Chanel Inimitable Mascara when a half-size sample came with my Glamour Subscription back when I was still in Germany. I tried it on, and it was WOW. The best mascara I've ever had, it had everything, volume, length and curl. My eyelashes are "barely there" meaning it's sooo short and thin I usually don't bother wearing mascara because it's not gonna be visible anyway, but the chanel mascara was good. I suddenly "have" lashes :P

And so after that I bought the full-size tube. And for a few years I haven't used much mascara, and just last month I saw this add, and remember the good 'ol days, so I bought another tube when I was at the airport. It cost me USD 29, and whadya know, it isn't as good as I remember it was. It's no better than the L'oreal Collagen Mascara that I've been using for a while. So I dont think I wanna buy one anymore, it cost more than twice compare to L'oreal.

Skin care splurges

Lancome Genifique Eye Concentrate

In quest of searching a good eye-cream for my now PUFFY eyes with dark-circles, I came across this product while reading the in-flight shop magazine while traveling to Guangzhou. It got great review, and that they tested on around 40-50 women who get great improvement after 28 days. Sucker! So I bought at the Guangzhou airport before leaving back to Jakarta. It cost me around USD 55, the highest I've ever paid for an eye cream, so it'd better work!

DHC Deep Cleansing Oil

I found this product a few days ago while buying a MAC Cream blush from an online shop, and so I browsed for a review and turns out it's a very popular product from a japanese skincare company. A bit expensive here (around USD 38) but it's worth it, now I don't need my Clinique extra gentle eye make-up remover anymore (I'm out of it anyway), because this cleansing oil cleans all my make-up including Mascara! Don't need cotton pads anymore, just rinse them, and my face and eyes are all clean! yay... It's good because rubbing my eyes too much with cotton pad isn't good for the skin around the eyes, right?