Skincare Routine - Face

This is my happy Laneige skincare products (plus vaseline ;P) that I use on a daily basis at my university residence. My skincare routine changes depending on where I am at the moment (back home or at my bf's place) so that I don't have to carry all that stuff with me all the time. My alternate skincare products consist of biotherm and lancome products. I'm not sure if there's a great effect from constantly changing products, I personally don't see much of a difference in my skin as I'm more concerned about the convenience issue.

I used to use the blue line (Basic Care and Water Bank line) all through high school and into university. When I went to Hong Kong in January this year, the sales lady suggested me to use this green line designed for sensitive skin. I thought I would try it out to see if it makes an improvement.

Refiner (I just call it a toner), Essence - The essence makes your face feel so hydrated. It dries quite fast, so after drying, I can go ahead and apply the other products.

Dual Enhancing Cream (includes eye cream and face cream) The eye cream is not bad. I have used the clinique moisture serge eye gel (I forgot what it's called), and I would prefer the clinique one over this.

Water Sleeping Pack Plus - I apply this probably once per week. After applying, it feels like a mask on your face. Your skin will absorb all the water that it needs when you are sleeping. It feels so good :)

There's one downside of the green line. If I'm not mistaken, I think the price is similar to the basic line; however, the amount of product is so much less! The bottles are smaller and you finish them so fast. I use about two pumps of the essence every day, and it's about half gone.. and I've just used it for a bit more than 3 months :( (remember I'm not in my residence 3/7 of the time so I don't use these products every day)

Lastly I use vaseline for my lips, dry areas on my foot, and so on. I have such dry lips :( If I don't moisture my lips for a day or so, I'll have bloody lips.. Anyone do lip conditioning treatments, or if these treatments even exist? I use lip blams when I'm going out, but I haven't found one that can give me as much moisture that I need as vaseline. Please let me know if you have similar lip conditions as me and have any suggestions on what I can do.

Much Love.

Gossip Girl Talk

Ever since watching the 17th episode of gossip girl last week, my heart raced whenever I see either chuck or blair on screen. In my opinion, the couple was rather boring to watch throughout season 3. I don't know what I want, I longed for their admitting to their feelings in the first two seasons, and they fought through skies and seas to finally be together in season 3, and I'm not satisfied? I can't figure out if I want them to be peaceful with each other or keep struggling through their complicated past. Oh well, at least I'm excited for gossip girl again :)

Let me know if any of you are a gossip girl fan too, or even better a chuck and blair fan! Haha, seriously, they're almost the only reason why I watch the show religiously.

Today, my bf and I decided to cook ourselves some steaks and veges for the first time. Surprisingly it turned out not bad :) yummmm

Much Love <3

1st Haul! (H&M)

Just got back from dinner and a little shopping with the bf at a mall near our university. A new H&M was opened and we decided to go check it out. I don't usually buy much from this store, but today, I saw a big sign "$7 SALE" that caught my attention. I'm always on the lookout for cheap finds :) Holla if you love great deals too! lol

Left (striped sweater dress $7) Right (3 tier layered tee $14.95)

Just to show you guys how they look on the body, and sorry for not showing my face as I have no make up on. I paired up a black scarf with the sweater dress just to add some accessory to take some focus off the stripes. Looking at them too much would make you dizzy! Wearing it with black leggings and a belt would be quite nice too :) And on the right, I'm just wearing the shirt with some basic black skinny jeans. I think a long necklace would suit this look just well!

And while I was at the counter, I grabbed myself a copy of the Spring 2010 Magazine. These are just a couple of images from inside. I have been searching for the perfect blue striped shirt just like what the model is wearing in the middle image, but no luck yet. And I realized the pattern of my sweater dress is similar to that of the Sonia Rykiel collection in the right image. I wonder if my purchase is in that collection ?_?

My dinner - kimchi fried rice :)

Hope you guys enjoyed my haul! Much Love.

Intro about me

Hi everyone :) my name is edwina, but I go by sumlala or lala in short on the internet. I'm definately not new to blogging, but I have to consider myself as a newbie in this type of blogging. The reason is that I own another blog (actually a livejournal if you have to be specific) mainly about my life and my feelings, it's more like my own spin on LeLove but based on my everyday feelings and experiences regarding love. In the past 8 months or so, I've started intensively watching Youtube beauty videos and reading blogs of various gurus, and I'm in love. I think it's about time I focus on the happy things that makes me smile as I'm prone to dwell on my pessimistic thoughts. This blog will be mostly about the things in my life - fashion and beauty hauls, my travels, movies, TV shows, materialistic obsessions, basically anything that makes me smile :) I look forward to sharing with you all a little bit of my life.

Much love <3