I did this look for Diana, who went for her interview for UAE Airlines. Both of us woke up at 6 am, rushed to the hotel and I have to do her makeup real fast!
Apply concealer and foundation on your face. Set it with face powder.
I apply dark brown colour eyeshadow for her eyebrows using an angled brush. After that I dusted her eyebags with translucent loose powder. This makes sure that any loose eyeshadow colour pigments that falls onto the eyebag will not leave a smear and can be dusted away in the end.
After that I apply white eyeshadow on her brow bone to give it a lift.
After that I use a light pink colour over her lids and I blend towards her brow bone.
I continue to build up the colours using a dark grey colour near hear upper lash line. I blend properly to make sure that the colours have a nice gradient to it.
Then I use black eyeshadow on an angled brush and line her lower lash line and upper lash line. After that I blend it upwards to create a smokey effect.
After that, I use pencil eyeliner and line her eyes.
I use mascara on her lashes. Diana have really long lashes, jeles max.
To prep her lips, I use lip balm to soften it and applied concealer around the edges of her mouth. It's important to apply the concealer so that when I apply the red lipstick, it is neat and her lips will be well defined.
I filled her lips carefully with red lipstick using a lip brush.
After that, all that's left is to apply blusher on her cheek! I use a pale pink shade for this.
Simple Air Stewardess Look
The effect is a very clean look that is professional enough for an air stewardess!
Wee~~ finally got time to post.. Here are the tools that you need :
Maybelline Angelfit Concealer
Benefit's Hellow Flawless Pressed Powder
Maybelline ImpactExpress Eyeliner
STEP 1 : HIDE YOUR FLAWS!!
Using the concealer, dab at all your pimples, eyebags, eyelids areas between the nose and
the skin and around your lips! Pat and blend them using your fingers!
Then use the powder puff and apply powder all over your face to set the concealer in!
STEP 2 : PERFECTLY DEFINED BROWS
Use your friendly eyebrow pencil and fill in the bright areas in your brow. The latest trend is to have the inner corners of your brow thicker, so shade them a lil’ bit more!
Next, dab abit of the lightest eyeshadow you have: white or yellowish white. Apply the eye-
shadow right below your brows. This will lift your brows, making it higher and more defined!
STEP 3 : SEXY EYES!
Get a shimmery silver eyeshadow, I used Majorca Majolica shimmer silver for this step! Apply it all over your eyelids. Then, clean your brush and slowly blend the shimmer on your eyelids up towards your brow!
Now, get a dark grey eyeshadow and apply on the outer corner of your eyelids right near
the lash line! Then, imagine that your brush is a eyeliner and line the your lower lash line!
Now, get your liquid eyeliners out! Line your upper lash line and end with a curve up at the outer corner of your eye! After that, draw a very thin line on your lower lashline. Finish with a thicker brush stroke on the outer corner of your lower lashline!
Then dab some of that dark grey eyeshadow and apply on the eyeliner to give a smudged
look!
Curl your lashes and apply a few coats of mascara on your lashes!
Finally, get your fake lashes out, trim it if it is too long for your lash line. After that, apply eyelash glue on the fake lashes’ bone and wait for it to become sticky. Once it is sticky, place it on top of your lashes. Push it to touch your eyelids and press both your lashes and the fake lashes together!
There! All beautiful!
STEP 4: BLUSH & SMIILE!
Use your favourite blusher in sweet pink and blush up your cheeks in a circular motion! After
that, apply lip balm on your lips. Make sure your lips is soft and healthy looking before proceed-
ing to the next step!
Then, dab the outline of your lips with concealer and smudge them towards the center of your
lips with your fingers. The trick is to make your lips outline less defined.
After that, use a pink lip gloss and gloss up your lips!
There, all done! Just 4 easy steps to looking pretty and glamorous!
When I decided to work on Jill, I was skeptical bout my own abilities, experience and most of all thoroughness. There is so many things to research and learn (no one to ask what, I cant ask my future competitors right?) and the planning is spanning across months n months.
This brings me back to the days when I was noob with CSS, HTML or basic website creating. I downloaded some themes for my blog and there was so many settings so many things to fill in I dunch even know filling in which will change what. It was difficult to use, change, implement my own design and most of all, making it unique(it’s so difficult to make it look not-templatish).
I worked on planning, research, copywriting and the proposal of Jill for weeks now. Each time I hit a block I wanted to blog about Jill to reorganize my thoughts and I couldn’t cuz I can’t reveal too much(kiasu max I know).
During research bout current competitors, I noticed that wp premium themes providers are all very diversified. Some provide options only when nessescary, some provide so much control and customization settings. Not only that, some only have one theme for sale while there are those that charge crazily cheap for their themes. It takes a call for a choice, to be yet another different one or be the one best preferred out there.
The problems are clear, too little options = easy to use. Too much options = more uniqueness in the theme. Is there a balance between both n can a theme have both? I dunch know but I feel like I wanna aim for that direction.
This calls for a good UI for the backend options. I downloaded a few premium themes from a few of the competitors to look see look see. It’s confusing for newbies and developers still have to hit code to further customize the theme. Right now the pie can either be targeted at design or uniqueness. Its impossible to have both. More design means less options, the design is decided for you by the theme provider. More uniqueness means you get to put in your own design, if your design is bad you’ll end up hating the theme anyway. But in this micro-industry, you still gotta make a mega theme of nothingness but options and customization by the user at one point in time. So design focus it is, less options. The mega theme, oh well next time maybe.
This is bad cuz u can’t just target newbies or just developers. Newbies probably buy from you one time and developers are the one that subscribes to your themes and consistently use it. If options have to be in 2 packages catered for each market, it just means the ui is not good enough. More expensive pricing for the developers package is beneficial to the provider not to the users.
In terms of shopping cart n payment system for intangible goods like downloadable themes, there are a few options from Paypal, Google co to 2checkout. I am going to stick to 2checkout eventhough there is a setup fee and they charge high transaction fees mainly due to the following reasons : they provide shopping cart and ready links, they check for fraud and handles all the buying, upgrading, refunds n exchanges. The difficult part comes when I read their terms, there are so many hidden fees involved. But there is no choice, each payment gateway have their horror stories but still gotta use them.
2 weeks ago, I went to the Mini Driver Training with KY, Kimberlycun and ShaolinTiger at Sepang. It was the most overkill-managed event I been to, ever.
We were given tags with our own name and breakfast is served by Shangri-la.
After a good breakfast, we introduced ourselves and attended a driving lecture given by Hammond Lai. He taught us (with great humor) theories on braking, lateral forces on tires and the gist of driving smoothly. They even have their own photographer that shoots most of the great pics in this post. Awesome!!
We head out to the car park to find beautiful Mini Cooper S waiting for us, all brand new and polished for us to learn.
KY and I took a sneak peek in the dashboard drawer (which slides out slow-mo when we press it) and found a list of spare parts for the car. The whole course is over RM 1000, but it is definitely worth it. All the adjustments for a brand new car plus we actually get to drive it aggressively enough to harsh the car.
Let’s not forget the Shangri-la breakfast and lunch as well. Oh and, helmets are provided AND umbrellas (it rained slightly). These guys seriously do not miss any details when it comes to event management.
This is the reason why I took so long to blog about this. I lovingly edit the videos and compiled them into a 4 minute plus video with effects and slates. The videos is shot on 2 GoPro HD wide angle cameras and KY’s Canon s90. Song is from Need for Speed Carbon soundtrack, blardy Youtube WMG emailed me a copyright warning within minutes of processing the uploaded video. Enjoy the video You can subscribe to my Youtube channel here too! Sections : Slalom 0.12, Emergency Lane Change 0.24. Straight Line Braking 0.40, Understeering 0.56, Brake & Swerve, 1.25, Agent Turn, 1.39, Mini Contest 1.54, Sepang Track Fascination 2.22
For the mini contest, KY won first place with 21.01 seconds. You can watch the contest in the video above. I won second place with 22 seconds. ST got third place too (I think they mixed up, he is supposed to be faster than me wtf) I wasn’t prepared to win and I walked up there with hair undone and a lollipop in my hand. -_-
Our awesome instructors, Ivan Khong and Hammond Lai.
KY, me, Kim and ST in wide angle GoPro shot
The GoPro HD camera comes with only 2 buttons and no preview, the good thing is I can put it anywhere and get a shot of EVERYTHING I want cuz the angle is really wide.
Monsters at Sepang’s pit.
Lovely kimcunberly and I. :3
To my surprise, Dwong went for the training the next day. I got the photo from Sashi’s email. A big big thanks to Sashi for the invitation to this max hardcore awesome event!