Hijab Style - The Dubai way

Before the current "hat-bandana", I wore a piece of cloth underneath my scarf. However, my personal stylist aka mom always insisted I looked fugly in it. She kept looking and even had some headscarf with lining. Instead of making me pretty, I looked like I had a big head what with that thick bandana.

These days, I'm really in love with the this particular head gear. What's interesting was that it has a soft bun lined inside the set so when I put it on, it seems like I have this nice bun on top of my head. Thus, shaping the head nicely underneath the hijab.

I planned to post the pictures, but for some reasons the files are missing, so I'd just post my face with the Dubai style. By Dubai style here was using a flat headgear and my usual slip-on jilbab.

Happy Monday - FOTD March 16, 2009

There are several new things I wear today; my new orang jilbab...absolutely love the cheerful-in-your-face color, and then my new geeky glasses, a hand-me down from my lovely brother. I took the glasses to ITC Kuningan last night and voila, new look.

Today it's all about orange:
MAC fresco rose, melon, and the brown shadow from my Dior Incognito palette, Rimmel Apricot blush, Maybelline Extreme Coral Pink, and Maybelline Water Shine 3D in Coral Pearls.

Hijab Style - Little hijabis

Baby is not too keen on wearing a hijab for more than 1 hour. Strange because when she's a tot, she hardly ever put up a struggle when we put on a jilbab on her. She absolutely loved the loving adoring look she got from people.

This picture was taken when she took a placement test in Madina Islamic School. Look how stylish she looked with her pink jilbab, Zara black jeans, Next T-Shirt and the Hello Kitty umbrella.

Hijab Style & FOTD - March 13, 2009

I found this great jilbab in Tamita last week. I rarely wear black jilbab unless a) I go to a funeral or b) I have an evening do, but this one is so pretty that wearing it outside the house in a broad daylight is not too formal.



And here's the butterfly up close :



Separately, I'm loving the simple eye makeup I had on today :
MAC fresco rose p/p on lid,
MAC illegal cargo e/s on lid
MAC p/m blue brown on V & crease
MAC ricepaper e/s as highlight
MAC syrup l/s
MAC prrrr l/g
Revlon very mauve l/l

I'm off to Buddha Bar. Hopefully it's still there considering its' Friday so heavy traffic is on the horizon.

Toodles.

There were absolutely tons of things I planned to do on my off-day, but none of them included me driving to Hanif's friend's house to drop him off for school and then went back home again because his friend and his dad left already and then found out that the car just left the house. And involved in a shouting match (I won, of course) because hubby didn't bother to tell me about the dropping kids off plan. Swell morning, indeed.

Anyway, some of the plans for the day included visiting Lula's dad at the hospital, picking up some cakes and flowers for her dad, picking up Hanif, registering them at the spelling bee competition, buying birthday cake (I hated him for ruining my morning, but a birthday is still a birthday), then cooking for dinner, replenishing my night cream, picking up baby at the reading course and if I wasn't dead by then, perhaps I could just have a long restful sleep.

So, here's how I prepared my face for the tasks ahead :


I thought I looked pretty good.

I had on my usual base for my face (Olay regenerist serum, EM golden winged butter, Revlon blush - 2008 LE forgot which) and for my eyes :
MAC groundwork as a base
MAC sable on lid
La Tulipe palette - copper
L'Oreal Hip Dio e/s Platinum - black
MAC Ricepaper - highlight

Lips :
Maybelline Extreme Tea Coral
MAC l/g tartlette

And the best thing of all from today was I could happily report that I crossed off all the tasks on my list. How about that. It went without saying though that my old self was begging me to take it to bed asap.

NOTW - The Face Shop #21

I don't like TFS. Its product is for all girly girly population; you know, those who look good in sheer lip gloss, have transparent complexion (not vampires, I could assure you that), and who are, I suspect, would consider themselves goth girls if they wear transparent glitters on their nails.

I don't know what possessed me to buy the nail polish. Oh maybe the fact I was wondering alone after eating 4 half-cooked eggs from Kun Kaya Toast. But still, I brought it home.

Fast forward two weeks later, I decided to try it on. First layer, I could still see my nails. It's that transparent. The color was not even me. It's palest purple. I almost tossed it up if it's not for I-never-throw-away-makeup-product principle. So I added another layer, then another layer...then another layer. To my amazement...it turns out real pretty. The color is similar to that of the bougenville flower.

Look!


pic. from www.menlh.go.id

In Search of Holy Grail - Maybelline Water Shine 3D

Coral Pink, 3D #10
I can't rave enough about Maybelline Water Shine 3D #10. It's the perrrrrFECT lipstick for me, given my dark upper lip and pigmented lower lip, strange lips, I know. Sadly, it's discontinued. The whole line is discontinued! I've checked Maybelline's site and sadly, they don't have any dupe recommendation for it either. Why do I love it so much? It makes my lips plumper and it's pretty shiny and yet pigmented and it stays. The 3 things I (read almost the whole lipstick wearer population) look for in lipstick.

So, as I wallow in front of Maybelline counter, I discovered Maybelline Extreme in Coral Pink (#830). It's a different formula, true, but swatched in my inner arm, it look pretty similar with my HG Water Shine 3D #10, except that Coral Pink has more coral than #10 which is a bit more pink coral. Thankfully this mission only cost me Rp 42.100. A relief!

Time to take a rest now and just make a good use of my new lipstick. I'm not 100% happy but sometimes you need to take whatever you have and just put your feet up.

Attack of the Jollieness & FOTD - March 6, 2009

Last Wednesday after picking up my kids, I stopped by at Prema Salon. It's brow-threading time! I'd been having difficulty drawing my eye brows and realized that I needed to take action stat!

Well, I asked Acu to take care of me and apparently made a mistake asking for a slight arch. As a result, I ended up looking consistently surprised until my next threading schedule. Yes, they look pretty clean and shapely, but, I still couldn't pull off being a Jollie gal with my thin lips and plumpy cheeks. *le sigh*
Anyway, Acu does help drawing shading my brows easier and my face looks a tad slimmer what with my arches, but I'm staring at a face which is quite alien to me.

See for yourself!


Anyway, this morning was a hurried day as usual, except I was woken up by this weird dream of me not delivering Hanif's share of lunch sharing on time. I started the day cooking up a storm aka heating up sambel goreng hati. Luckily the meal didn't go bad eventhough I forgot to put it on the fridge last night. Hence the dream, I figured.

Putting on a morning face was not going as smoothly as I wanted since MAC Deep Truth was a blitch to blend. Perhaps POND's eye cream made my lids too oily, but even after I smoothed Groundwork paint pot and NYX jumbo pencil Black Bean, deep truth still acted like a kid who insisted to stay at the toy store and no amount of dragging would make him step out. When such case happened, I just use my finger to blend.

As always, blush and lipstick came to the rescue when I had a bad eye look. The day is saved today by Nars Orgasm, a concoction of MAC Syrup, Revlon Ginger Rose & Estee Lauder Pure Gloss in Plum Nectar.

And voila!

But at least I look pretty decent.