#EOTD

It's been a while since I've graced my own blog with my own face. Oh yes, narcissistic Amelia is still narcissistic, don't worry.

Anyway, here's a look I did for a day out with my darling Allisan over the weekend for shopping and food (and boy, did we do a lot of both). Mostly focused on the eyes, I decided to give bright lips a miss and opted for "Kylie Jenner inspired lips".

Yes, this face be on all my social media. DON'T HATE. It's hard to take a good selfie these days.

And the main star of the day: 

On the eyes - The Balm Meet Matt(e) Nude Palette; 

All over the lid: Matt Singh

Crease: Matt Abdul 

Outer Corner: Matt Johnson 

(Can I just take a moment to SQUEAL about how much I love this palette, gifted by my darling Diana. The colours are SUPER long wearing, and they are SUPER crease proof and the colours are all so wearable. My #1 palette. Thank you Diana love!)

Eyeliner - MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack 

Tearduct/Inner liner - Rimmel Scandal Eyes Waterproof Kohl Liner in Nude

Mascara - Benefit They're Real Mascara

If you're asking bout my brows, I finally got up the guts to do eyebrow embroidery and this is the result after 2 touch ups. I am mega happy with it! Never have to worry about wonky eyebrows ever again! lol 

Also, I've finally gotten back onto the gel liner bandwagon. It's be YONKS since I used gel liner, and I have forgotten just how much I love the outcome of it. Completely different feel from liquid liner and it's quite a refreshing change for a while. 

In terms of my lips, I am hoping to do a tutorial for it too since I have found the absolute best combo. I love it so much I've been reaching for it more than bright lips on the weekend and we all know how much I love a bright lip since I can't wear it to work. So.. yes, wait for it! 

HAVE A LOVELY DECEMBER Y'ALL

lots of love

Amelia xoxox

Just pictures lolz

Funny.

Funny how the world changes doesn't it.

Last year, you told me words that hurt me and still haunt me sometimes these days to the point that I sometimes question the things I do. Your words, they stung me.. bad. They keep me from being the person I am. Sometimes, I dislike myself because of what you said to me.

But look how the tables have turned. It seems like, karma does exist after all. But you know what, I'll keep it to myself. Thanks.

The thing I've learnt is that you need to always be true to yourself. If you can't even be honest with yourself, or be at one with the person you truly are..  how is anyone else suppose to know the real you?

Be yourself and be proud to be who you are. I'm still learning how to love myself, but I know that today, I love myself more than I ever have in the past years and so far so good. I've no regrets for the person that I am today. (even if I can be a little too harsh on myself sometimes.)

The people who care, will in the end be there for you. True friends are the ones who are there for you despite whatever crap you put them in. They are the ones who tolerate and love despite all. I know who my true friends are and I may not be somebody who has a lot of friends, but I am blessed with the handful of them who love me dearly and want only the best for myself. In this aspect, I consider myself the luckiest. What did I ever do to deserve these friendships?! hehe :) Must have done something right~!!!!!! LOL

 

After all, how many times can you actually keep trying to reassure yourself that you are happy? 

xx

Amelia 

My heart's a mess.

Here's me with Saint Germain on my lips the other day. Allisan gave me this lipstick as she thought it wouldn't suit her. Too much of a barbie pink but I love it! :D I am obsessed with lipsticks, really I am. (But I'm also obsessed with blushers and brushes and eye palettes -- but this is all a different story.) I am always amazed by how much I adore make-up right now. I can spend hours reading make-up reviews as well as watching tutorials or vlogs on youtube about make-up. Seriously. All my money this year has been spent on make-up as I have sort of given up on clothes shopping. I've not bought new clothes in the longest time.. but make-up? Every freaking month!

There's something about all the colours and how they all work together. The lips, the eyes, the cheeks.. ahhhh! Love it. Puts me on a certain high when I'm surrounded with all this make-up.

It's so weird because, ask me a year ago and I did not have any idea how to apply eye-shadows or draw my eye-liner properly. I would have coughed at the idea of using bronzer.. but look at me now! Hehe I love it. It's amazing how a person can change so much in a year.

Outfit Det:

Black Shorts: TopShop Moto

Cropped grey Cardi: ESP 

(This cardi is soooo old like 6 years old probably. I totally forgot I had it and then I found it at the back of my closet. lol)

Lips: M.A.C Saint Germain

Yup. Anyway, I am done with 2 papers at the moment and another 2 to go. Management Accounting and Auditing. Both of which I am not looking forward to at all. Auditing is a pain in the bum. You'd think that we'll get to do some form of practical right but no, this exam is going to be 3 hours long and will be made up of 3 essays. That's 1 hour per essay which means they'd expect us to write shitloads! Ugh! I hate essays. Well, I hate exams so I guess it's the same thing. lol 

The weather has been seriously messing with us. Just before the exam week, it was too cold and windy and raining and less than 10 degrees and all that jazz and now that exam week has started it has been nothing but sunny and 20 degrees and so much love. UGH how much you wanna bet that when I'm done with my exams, the weather will be shit again?! CONFIRM. So unlucky. 

That said though, I am looking forward to the end of the exams like no other. Mwahahaha

lots of love

Amelia xx

Alive with the glory of love.

Checkered sleeveless top : TopShop

Shorts: TopShop

Woven Belt: Uniqlo

On my lips: M.A.C Chatterbox 

Tribal print top: Jane Norman

Skirt: ASOS

Bow Belt: ASOS

On my lips: M.A.C Chatterbox

Hello everyone.  How's everyone doing? It is March now, how quick is time going by? End of this month and 1/4 of the year 2012 would have gone by already. What have you accomplished? Actually, I'll answer that at the end of this month :P 

For the month of February, I am proud to say that I have been going to the gym religiously. I aim for the gym at least 5 or 4 times a week, 2 days at the swimming pool and one day off to cool down. I think I'm getting used to this routine and I look forward to it almost every day. Yes, the reason for all this sessions is to mainly lose weight-- which I have not been successful with. I have been gaining unfortunately, which sucks for me since the number on the scales are oh-so-important to me. But it is what it is. I think it must be because I've not been successful at cutting down my food and portions. It's so difficult when you get hungry all the time y'know? It is frustrating. Very very frustrating. It is quite demoralizing to be honest, I feel like there is no point to pushing myself so hard and not coming out with any results..but I think I just really need to man the hell up and start cutting down on my food fo' real. Or else, there wouldn't be any point at all.

Today, on the way to the gym in the morning (yup, we aim to go first thing in the morning if time allows it. Usually around 7am or 8am. If not, we'll go at 7pm. We as in Allisan and I and at night, occasionally with Sinda).. something unfortunate happened. Was walking down the stairs of our flat and I miss the last two steps and fell on my side, on my left ankle to be more exact. So, now I am here in bed lying down with a swollen as fuck ankle. This makes me really sad because I over-ate yesterday and was really looking forward to running this morning. This swollen ankle also means that I won't be able to do any exercise for a while since I can hardly walk without wincing in pain and sighing in frustration. I walked to class and back and I felt like I was dragging a dead foot around. It hurt pretty bad. Why am I so clumsy?! Ugh. Frustrated at myself. So freaking much. 

Allisan has been a really darling, making porridge and frying up an omelette and putting together everything. Just cause I said I'd like to eat porridge. It was delicious and reminded me of home and my mom who would make porridge if I wasn't feeling particularly well. It's times like this when I miss home the most. To have somebody to dote over me and make sure I feel better and that is why I am so thankful to have Allisan as a flatmate. She does so much for me, I am forever eternally grateful to have her in my life and to be able to share these two lovely years with her (she graduates this year!).

I hope this ankle of mine heals up soon enough. Fair enough, tomorrow was supposed to be my day off anyway but on Saturday, I am scheduled for swimming and hopefully climbing and I have not climbed in ages and was really looking forward to it and then Allisan and I have circuit classes on Sunday and I really really want to go to that. So hopefully my ankle heals up soon. Wish my luck! If not, I am going to be so disappointed. :( In my self for being so clumsy. zzz. 

Anyway, you'll notice in my pictures that I have been using M.A.C's Chatterbox on my lips a bit. I love it! It's the only colour I want to use at the moment. It is the perfect shade of pink and it makes me so happy when I have it on. :P I am obsessed with make-up it is so unhealthy at the moment. I don't even want to buy clothes anymore which is good. Right? But make-up is so expensive it doesn't really matter if I don't buy clothes or shoes or bags. All my money is spent on make-up that I want and not really need. -_-" Hmm. 

Hope y'all have a good weekend. I'm going to spend it trying to get better and spending a day in Edinburgh (I don't know how I am going to walk it) and hopefully start on my Auditing coursework. I hate how our coursework due dates are all so close... it is so :( 

lots of love xxx

Amelia

Lost and Insecure,

You found me, you found me. 

All the different-ish hairstyles.

I can't wait for my hair to grow long again! I want to have long hair that I can tong and straighten and put up into a nice bun. Soon, Amelia, soon.

You know how you get some days where things just aren't going right for ya? I think today's one of those days for me. From the first thing in the morning, getting my results (not bad, did better than I expected but still..), not having enough energy in the gym and thus doing less than expected, discovering a huge burn on my chest that stings and hurts every time I move (I've got paracetamol for that now), and realizing that I have not lost any weight at all despite going to the gym regularly for the past 2 weeks and working my butt off. I don't see no difference, I think my jeans are getting tighter. Why. why. why.

Okay, maybe things aren't so bad as I make them out to be. In retrospect, today is just like any other day really. Just that I'm feeling really shit today, I have a feeling my best friend is coming to visit me soon and thus all these lousy mood swings and hunger pangs are hitting me so very badly. Need to control my PMS. Seriously. People around me don't deserve all this negativity especially the boyfriend. Poor boy don't know what's going on and I don't know how to explain. It sounds like such a shit excuse as well, doesn't it. "Oh, it's PMS." So easy to blame it on PMS. But I know it is though, see my face is popping up with so many pimples it's atrocious. Ugh.

Anyway, this weekend should be lovely. Not because Allisan won't be home with me (she's off to visit her super cousin in Shakespeare's hometown-- and I'd love to go with her if I didn't have finances to worry about) but because I've got a weekend filled with promising agendas. For example, tonight, B is coming over and we will watch love stories together, and I assume he will be quite bored but he says we can do anything and I really feel like I wanna sob my heart out so I will do just that. Tomorrow, I've got swimming in the morning and the girls are coming over at night because I'll be making some pasta (I'm thinking chicken and mushroom cream sauce with tagliatelle) and then we're going out for a night out to release some stress all these results are causing us-- and by us and I mean me. Lol. On Saturday, I'm going to sleep in (for the first time this week! Been waking up at 7 every morning for either gym or swimming) and then go ice-skating with some of the girlies at 12pm! hehe and then spending the rest of the day with my favourite boy in the world <3! Sunday, sleep in again and then Allisan comes home and we watch The Eye (most likely-- lol) and then we gym at night and will sleep and Monday will come soon enough.

I'll take loads of pictures this weekend, hopefully :) 

Hope y'all have a lovely weekend!!!!!

Lots of love
Amelia X

Oh, it is love.

Hello wello! How's everyone doing? It's so quick, blink of the eye and it's mid-February already. Where is all this time going to??? Been absolutely busy with all sorts of nonsense. Some of the things I've done includes joining the gym and swimming pool, been to Edinburgh with the love, made sure I've got somewhere to live next year (I do! I do! Hehe), celebrated Chap Go Meh with a lovely meal, uni work... etc.

So here are some pictures to re-capture some of the moments :P I've lost my typing mojo at the moment. I'll get it back soon enough.

CHAP GO MEH DINDIN W/ THE GIRLIES

With Cheryl and Sinda!

Diana and Allisan

Best Flatmate award!

Our dishes: Three Roast, crispy salted chicken, Ma Po Tofu (new favourite -- except it can be a little too spicy) and fried bak choy with garlic. YUM. Oh also had some vegetable soup with salted eggs.

Outside our favourite chinese restaurant in Aberdeen :P

DAY TRIP WITH B TO EDINBURGH

♥♥♥

Being silly on the train :p

Yumyum Mussels galore.

Korean food!

Pa Jeon <3

I had a clam stew while he had a Kimchi stew. Both were super yums!

I always make it a priority to stop at Shilla's whenever I am in Edinburgh. I love that place!!!! I seriously think it has one of the best Korean food in the UK-- although, I might be wrong as I've not been to many in the UK, but so far.. this place tops it all for me. It is so far my favourite restaurant in the UK. Really and truly. If I could I would go to Edinburgh weekly just to eat here. SERIOUSLY. No joke man. Hahahah #over

It was really nice in Edinburgh. Unfortunately, they're digging up most  of Princes St. atm to make way for the tram so it's a little unsightly but apart from that, we had a lovely day. Okay, the weather was shit and I wore the wrong jacket. But still! Nothing hot chocolate can't fix :P

MISC OUT & ABOUT FOOD OUTINGS!

QT pie

How cute are her nails? DIY leh. PRO!

My super awesome Clam pasta dish.

I think Allisan had a lovely chicken bake penne thang.

Crispy noodles. Yumyumyum

Super awesome juicy prawn wantans.

haven't done an  OOTD in ages so here goes.

Brown Knitted Top: TopShop

Black Shorts: Primark

Red Sneakers: Converse

Black Knitted Snood: ASOS

Jacket: Khujo (my favourite atm, got it in Germany ^_^)

And yes, that's my new camera! hehe Still learning all the functions. Will be wanting to take nice pictures ASAP so look out for nicer looking photos :P

VAIN PICTURES OF ME HEHEHEHEHE

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry. Couldn't help it. Got this bunch load of photos in my phone/camera. WHY LET IT GO TO WASTE. LOL At least I will remember how I look like when I look back.... :P

OH and last but not least...

Look what came in the post??? HAHAHAHA All the stamps are 20 cents worth! Covered the entire back of the envelope. Definitely made my day :P I asked my dad why so funny and he said, "Fit for a princess mah". WHUT? LOL so cute. I miss my parents too much.

KK. Picture overload, I know and I'm sorry :P will update more often so there's not too much pictures in one go :P

Okay. 11PM and I've got 1 seminar to finish before I can crawl into my super awesome comfy bed and sleep.

Have a lovely week y'all!

Lots of love
Amelia X