Oh gosh, I just had one of the worst scares I've had in a long time!

I cleaned the house and do some meal prepping earlier from 7pm ish to 9.41pm, then I fed the doggie and went upstairs to get ready for bed (brushing my teeth, washing my face, etc). It was around 10pm when I finished and plopped onto my bed.

I decided to call Sam to ask him what time he'll come home tomorrow so I can match it to the time I'll be home. He didn't answer. I called again. Still no answer.

In between calling him, I checked WA to see if he has replied my last message, which he already did.

Because there was still no answer, I checked the last time he was online in WA, and it was precisely the time of his last reply to me, 6.03pm.

I started panicking a bit because he's usually in WA a lot.

Then I called his WA like 8 times, then proceeded to line him continuously. Back to calling his phone, still nothing. It's really unlike him to be missing like that for almost 5 hours.

Not gonna lie, the first few horrible things that popped into my mind had something to do with him cheating or something like that haha (I know, I'm so insecure wtf). But then I brushed that off immediately. The next horrible things that I could imagine weren't any better.

Next, I try to go to his FB to message his friend to see if he's at the office but turned out he has changed his FB password like 4 months ago wtf. Tried his email, the password has changed too.

I went and tried to call him again, still no answers.


At this point, I was in full-on panic mode. What has happened to him? It's not like him to be offline for hours like that and cannot be called. I started imagining the worst thing. Then, like any sensible panic person would do (sense the sarcasm here?), I went to a news site wtf. I scrolled through the latest news. I also went to google his name cos I thought that'd be easier if there is any news about him *touch wood*.

I found none and exhaled a little. But I was still panicking and worrying like crazy.

I don't have any of his colleague's contact, so I DMed a friend who I thought might have one of his oldest colleague's contact (let's name him Z). This friend, let's call him R, didn't have Z contact, BUT he knows that his friend does, so he asked his friend for me, which I'm super duper thankful for (It was almost 11pm already at that time).

Once he sent me Z contact, I immediately sent a chat to his line (it was line contact, he doesn't have Z number).

While waiting for Z's reply, I started panicking even more as I tend to imagine nasty shits when I'm left alone with my thoughts like that. I was already tearing up at this point. So I decided to call my mom to calm myself down. She was already asleep (whoops, sorry Mom), but she answered anyway. I told her what has happened thus far, and she said to me to just wait or maybe call Z on his line.

It was already 11pm, so I felt a bit paiseh to call him. Then again, I was already too panicked and was like "heck it, I'm gonna call him anyway". He didn't answer, but he did reply to my line chat immediately. Turned out he doesn't work at that office anymore fml.

I asked him if he could ask anyone that still works at the office to confirm that Sam was already at the office safe and sound. He obliged.

I waited anxiously for his reply.

After only a few minutes, he replied...

YOU KNOW WHERE HE'S BEEN???

DO YA??

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TAKE A GUESS!!

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Made a guess already?

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HE WAS (IS, cos still is until now) SLEEPING THE WHOLE TIME!!!

WTFBBQ CB KNN

OH-MY-GOD I was worried to death and he has just been sleeping WTF (which I guess I should be thankful for lah, and I AM thankful, so so very thankful, but I was so dramatic already please, feel so embarassed).

Ironically, I actually thought that maybe he's sleeping when I called him the first time, but my logical brain was telling me that it wasn't possible for him to sleep for more than 4 hours in the evening, let alone sleeping for more than 4 hours AND not waking up to the sound of a thousand line chats, calls, and WA calls (yes, yes, he probably silent his phone, but still, imagine the crazy vibration -i doubt he turn off the phone).

Turns out, if you're kebo enough like him, IT IS POSSIBLE!!

Tsk, should've known better.


So, yeah, that's the story of how I inconvenienced a lot of people late at night because Sam is KEBO and I have wild imagination. Thought I'd immortalize this stupid happening in this blog for future me to shake my head at.

Night.

And by the way, he STILL HASN'T WOKEN UP TILL NOW.

And no, he didn't have a late night or anything like that the night before.

CHEEBYE PHOTOBUCKET!!!

As a preface, this is not just me ranting, there's a nugget of (hopefully) useful information on hosting your image on google drive, so read on hehe.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people are aware of it by now, THE PHOTOBUCKET FIASCO! where the cb Photobucket stopped their free 3rd party image hosting service and tons and tons of images on blogs, Amazon, eBay, etc turned like this:

And you have to pay FREAKING $400/YEAR to enable the 3rd party hosting WTFBBQ

Honestly, when I first saw my blog turned like this I was just like, "meh." I can easily change hosting. No biggie. 

But man, $400 a year for a measly 500GB storage is damn expensive.

As a comparison, you get 2TB of storage on Google Drive for $300/year. Plus the fact you can save all kind of files on google drive, not just images.

RIPOFF!!! 

The only thing with google drive is that it doesn't automatically give you a direct link to the image, so I have to edit the URL one by one so that it becomes a direct link. Meh.

HERE is a helpful video showing you how to do it in case you wanna go the same route as I do and change to google drive to host your images. You're welcome.

LUCKILY for me, I only use Photobucket to host images pertaining to the layout of this blog and never to host photos I put in my posts (I use the default google photos for that), so I only had to re-host 7 photos or so.

In the midst of the mind-numbing task of manually changing the links, I thought of bloggers who DO use Photobucket as their main photo-hosting site for the photos on their blog. Imagine re-hosting hundreds, thousands even, of photos so that your blog post isn't just filled with stupid grey squares. Imagine how many days/months it'd take for such a tedious task. WHAT A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME. 

While I do think it's completely fair for Photobucket to put a price on their hosting service, I think it's deviously calculating to force your users to upgrade if they want to keep the photos on their blog/listings as it was, out of the blue. They know people who have hundreds of images wouldn't want to re-host and would naturally opt for an upgrade. HOWEVER, IT'S A TOTAL MAJOR DICK MOVE to make the 3rd party hosting service to be only available for the most expensive $400 package. FFUUUU! They effectively force the user to not only upgrade but upgrade to the most expensive package available. I'm sure they (as in the assholes of Photobucket team, not the users) know a lot of people use their service mostly for 3rd party hosting. DICK!

Anyway, as I said, I mainly use Photobucket for 3rd party hosting my blog layout images and that's it, not as like an actual online storage for photos. One of the reasons for this is the Photobucket website is damn laggy and takes forever to load and often freezes.

So yea, no thank you, I ain't paying $400 just for an upgrade of storage that I don't need, a laggy service, and a 3rd party hosting. I'll gladly use google drive and manually edit the links, tyvm.

And thus my goodbye to PHOTOBUCKET. You've served me well before all this nonsense.

Midnight post

It's 1AM now and I was going to blog about this resto I went to a couple days ago, but I'm too sleepy already. But but butt, at the same time I want my latest post to be anything but the emo-ish gibberish crap one I did on my last post lol (don't want to delete it either because I treat this blog as a diary of sort and it's good to keep memory of not just the good days, but also the emo moments haha).

I initially planned to blog about the resto on the day of (oh silly little naive me), but of course that didn't happen. Next day, still didn't happen. The next day (17th), also didn't happen. So I'm gonna make a pact to myself that I'mma blog about it TODAY (18th - after I've slept lah). Anything to bury the embarassing emo-existencial-quarter-life-doubt-anything-crisis rant -___-".

Okay, filler post done.

Are You an #oldface ?

Sam showed me this website, how-old.net, where they will detect how old your face is from a photo. *Wrote this more than a month ago, this website is kinda old news now X_X*

So I tried it

Waaa, 8 years younger one. #notbadjpg

Tried Sam’s photo:

He got 28 LOLOLOL FHL

Do another one of him

1 year younger than before, but still. hahaha OLD FACE!

And then I did another one of me and, apparently, karma caught me, so I got 28. TWENTY EIGHT.

Conveniently forgot to to screen grab that one though :P But here’s another one that is close to that:

A redeeming one now. Here’s one when we were young - 3 years ago

Another. Here’s one of pedophiliac Sam

Anyway, it was around this time that I realized, how-old actually also detect your GENDER.

And Sam almost always detected as a girl lmao. But then again, I’ve been told that he does have a prettier face than I fml -___-"

In any case, I think rounder face can be a bit of a factor:

See, in this photo my cheeks are pretty much half of my face. Yes, I have bakpao cheeks. and meatball nose.

While in this photo I tried to do more demure face (keyword: tried), so my face isn’t as round as the one above, and I got 4 years older. Both taken only minutes apart.

Can be just coincidental and I’m just bullshitting you lol. Nevertheless, this website did give me a momentary mild entertainment, so why not give it a try? You might be able to tell the people that you love dearly that they have old face. fun.

take care,
xoxo

Risen from the Ashes

lol super dramatic title or not?

SO.

Hi there!

Man, it’s been so so long since I last blogged. 3 MONTHS!

Wait. I just opened my blog to see if I had ever skipped blogging this long and found this:

Where is my pretty banner and background wtf
I’ll go and sort this out first then continue this, so when you guys read this post it’s back to normal already ~ first time blogging after a long time and got this to deal with fml

Okay, so apparently it’s not just the background and banner, but ALL images from my google+ photo album that connect to this blog, which basically are almost all the images in this blog except those images in sidebar where I use photobucket.

I think it’s because I recently changed my blog title (due to a bug in blogo, the team told me they’ll fix it), thus changing the name of the photo album by default, then all existing link needs to be redirected? Not 100% sure. Anyway, I’ve posted the problem on blogger help forum, so I’ll just wait for a response. Meanwhile, I’ll try to tweak it myself, see if I can fix it.

If turns out I DO need to redirect the broken link one by one, then #crydieme lol. Redirecting almost 1000 images wtf. @_@

unrelated meme, but this captures what I’ll look like

I’m getting sidetracked here.

Now, one of the reason why I haven’t been blogging is because I’m graduating soon = thesis. We finished the thesis in February like I said in my Valentine’s video, but the thesis defense day was not until march, then after that we still had to do revision for the hard cover version.

I don’t know how many copies of the thesis I’ve printed out already since there were multiple revisions for the most nitpicky stuff (margin, paging, etc). The most annoying thing was, they didn’t point out the revision all at once. So we fixed one, then they pointed another one, we fixed it again, then another revision magically appeared.

Y U NO SHOW THE REVISION ALL AT ONCE??!! U WANT ME TO DUMP SO MUCH PAPER IS IT?! U HATE FOREST IS IT?! *table flip*

*calm self down*

And man, getting all the autograph needed for the hard cover was a pain in the ass.

In summation, it was one costly thesis.

Sam paid for most of the cost though, and no one paid him back summore. fhl

Other than that, and this is probably the main reason, is because I MOVED. Again. I moved in the beginning of March, and unlike last July where I only moved to a new boarding house, I moved into a house, so the unpacking and getting the house ready took quite some time
And then I took some time to just getting myself together, tried to be zen haha

So yeah, that’s about all the excuses that I have. But I’m going to continue blogging now.

take care,
xoxo

A Break from Youtube + Food Poisoning | What a Post to Start 2015 ♡

Going to start this post by saying HAPPY FREAKING NEW YEAR!!! to all of you who are kind enough to be willing to read this rarely-updated space I call my personal blog (or is it maybe you just have some time to waste on your hand?lol).

Moving on.

I see most bloggers do this kinda "2014 Summary" sort-of thing and I think that's a great way to recollect all the things you have done/not done or accomplished, see if you're satisfied with you did in 2014, what you wish you had did/didn't do, and all that sappy stuffs to better yourself in 2015.

Myself personally? I don't think I'm gonna do any of those post, not because I don't want to, but mainly because I don't think I blogged often enough in 2014 to summarize them into a consolidated blogpost of my 2014 lol. Anyway, I'll try to dig deep into my entries, photos, etc lah to see maybe I can scrape up some stuffs enough to make one of those post.

Totally unrelated, but on 30th (3 days ago) I got food poisoning wtf. My first time got food poisoning too (YAY, I guess? For "firsts" milestone). Until today I still don't know what gave me that food poisoning -___-

Anyway, my mom got me this antibiotic right to calm my stomach and to churn out the poison, so for the next 2 days I've been spewing like a fire hydrant. I can poop 4 to 5 times a day O.o TMI? Too graphic? Sorry, sorry, for putting that image in your head haha. Oh, you didn't imagine it, but now you do that I mention it? Sorry again lah =X Here, here go google unicorn poop instead. It's glittery and rainbow-colored one :D

Now into a more serious topic -even though I consider my previous topic also already serious, my first time got food poisoning lol-, I've decided to take a break from youtube until the end of January. If you're curious why, you can see here, I filmed my first update video:


I'm still gonna blog IF I have the willingness to, because let's face it, I've been half-assing this blog long before I have a legit reason to =X But really though, for me blogging does not require a tremendous amount of time like filming and editing video does, so I might be more active on this blog for January (lots of food post coming, I've already drafted up some).

And, and you can go follow my Instagram, I've started to post more pictures now, not every 2 months lolol. It's @lilyzhen168

Alright, that's all for now. I hope you'll have a FREAKINGTASTIC 2015!!! Lots of love from to you xo

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In the light of recent AirAsia accident route Surabaya-Singapore, I really hope friends and families of passengers and crews aboard the plane are given and blessed with an enormous amount of strength and fortitude to help them go through this unfortunate situation. I really am not good with words, but my deepest condolences and I do hope for the best for all the people involved. 

take care,

xo

Monthly Montages - August, September, & October 2014

There goes down the drain my initial plan of actually doing this "Monthly Montages" in monthly basis while I'm in summer holiday lol. It's November now, summer has passed and I have 3 months worth of "Monthly Montages" piled up. #procastinationatitsbest people!

Anyway, I'm just gonna combine all those months into a single post, not even gonna bother to try and make them into singular ones.

Let's start with August!

August

• Finally summoned the gut to sort out and clean my nail polish stash. Killed a whole afternoon lol
• And and and Din Tai Fung at Mal @ Alam Sutera finally opened!! Tried their supposedly "best xiao long bao" and it was really good. Not sure if it was the best (this din tai fung is the halal one, so no pork xiao long bao - boo!), but definitely yummy. Gonna go to the Din Tai Fung chef's table next time to try the real deal (pork xiao long bao that is)
• Selfie while filming 3 videos in a row I think, it was when I was in a roll filming back to school videos
• THIS! This is one of the cheapest arem-arem I can find here in Jakarta. It was 3k, which of course not exactly cheap - it's average price - for a street snack back in Jogja, but it was really GENEROUSLY filled with the meat filling. Taste wise, it was pretty good too.

• Also finally tried Marugame Udon. It was pretty good too I think, but I still much prefer thick-souped ramen (I like super savoury dishes better than light-tasting ones)
• Aaah, that feeling when all of your online orders coming in at the same time. It's like a birthday lol
• Gotta take a selfie (ish? Only eyes one) because I did an almost perfect winged eyeliner!
• Spotted this stand that sells uber cute soap shaped in various treats (cupcake, macaron, drinks, tart, etc) in CP bazaar. Bought 3 soaps (smells really good btw) and haven't used it till now 'cause I don't have the heart to ruin the shape wtf #firstworldproblem

• Disgusting pic, I know, but I was doing a major rub-off in my room for the first time since I moved here and damn, they didn't clean this place properly. Lots of dirt on the window frame and hinge area of the bathroom door
• My (then) favorite snack. A bowl of milk and dark baking chocolate chips. I bought it to make lava cake and end up only used it to make 1 lava cake and snacking the leftover just as is hehe
• Sam was sound asleep and I had nothing to do, so what else did I have to do other than give him a quick nail do, yes?  

• Okay, I think there's a glitch in my Sims 3, every time my sim finished took a bath and went to work, he went naked like that lolol. I think it's because he's on the higher level of his job and doesn't have to wear uniform and most of the time he goes to work right after shower, so since he doesn't have to change clothes he just goes with the last clothes he has on, which is his birthday suit a.k.a NONE. Makes sense enough? So, yeah, he just walks around, struttin' his stuffs with no fucks to give lol (none of that pixelated censor covering his butt and weewee some more - btw, if you're curious, he's a ken doll wtf)
• Wasabi Kit Kat from Eko. It tastes like milky kit kat and then has this slightly spicy and bitter aftertaste.
• Mussels in garlic herb butter sauce or something from Manhattan Fish Market. I usually don't quite like mussels, but this one is really good, especially because of that yummy sauce. I can eat just bread and that sauce and will be a happy camper.
• My favorite hainam rice from Gang U in Syahdan. Best one I tried around here so far.

September

• Moon cake festival! I actually only like moon cake with red bean (tausa) and nut (I think it's almond) filling. Back in the day (which probably only like 5-7 years ago lol), it was one of the most often flavour that is given out, but now out of a few boxes of moon cake that my parent got, I only found one cake with that filling (1 box usually filled with 4 different moon cakes). The rest are either lotus paste or these new (modern, I guess) filling like avocado, mango, green tea, like WHAT?! They taste weird to me and I'm usually down with trying any strange/new food.
• Poppin' Cookin'!! It really is fun, and the taste is not bad at all. The fish roe taste like popping bubble :D
• Everytime in Jogja gotta have a chinese food and dim sum feast at Serayu Restaurant. They have really awesome chinese food. Try the shrimp hotplate!!
• Tried this (relatively) new authentic Italian restaurant in Jogja (don't remember the name). I ordered squid ink pasta expecting the sauce would be black, but actually only the pasta uses squid ink, the sauce is like standard cream sauce. Still tastes good though. The price is a bit steep for Jogja, but for once in a while still okay, not crazily overpriced. My father definitely will prefer eat at warung tenda seafood (seafood hawker stall?) next to this place lol. He doesn't really like western food, add to that have to pay so much extra, I think he'd rather just watch us eat and then he'll get himself take-out from the hawker stall later

• I'm forever will see my lil' brother as a 10 years old. When I saw he actually has (somewhat) muscly arms, it striked me that he's actually already 14 (I felt so old lol)
• My favorite cookies from Mary Anne's. Butter Cornflakes. Even my lil' brother who don't really like cookies like this one, so naturally I had to stock up to bring to Jakarta :D
• Selfie with Sam at Puncak. He was so adamant about me having to try eating Indomie (with soup one) in Puncak wtf. He said because the weather is cold, the indomie tastes a lot better
• My lil' cousins from Jember. So cute!! Anyway, the blue beenies were knitted by my mom. It's her hobby now. Knitting. Such a granny's hobby lol. I think I got my crafty gene (read: spending - wasting if you want - hours of time by making something yourself when you can just easily buy it in stores and save yourself the trouble lol) from my mom.

• Spending the day in Taman Safari (Zoo) Cisarua Bogor. It was one of best date we've ever had. I love zoo and I really love the road trip to get there and back 

• Elephant poo paper. I sniffed it and it doesn't smell like anything thankfully. I expected it to at least has that "organic" smell.
• Ubi Madu Cilembu (Cilembu Honey Sweet Potato)!! It was actually my first time trying out ubi cilembu and it was really good. The name honey sweet potato really fits too as it is the sweetest sweet potato I've ever tried
• Visited Cimory while in Puncak. They have buy 1 get 1 on their newly launched soya milk, so I bought a bunch of them - it's the cheapskate in me, can't pass up a good deal
• Chocomory - Cimory's chocolate brand. I recommend that hazelnut filled chocolate and crispy matcha. I bought that chocolate buttons because I thought I'll be all cutesy tootsie sippin' in hot cocoa while reading or blogging or editing, but ended up haven't even tried it yet till now wtf

 

• Soufeel charms bracelet, sooo pretty
• Sam being all serious coding and stuffs (he looked like he's sleeping though in this pic :p)
• Went to Luxola's launch. Read HERE for the full post
• My mom and and dad visited Jakarta, so we went to eat together. My mom said she might come to Jakarta again in a couple of weeks. Eeek, I'm excited!

• I slept with parent in their hotel 'cause I want to have the breakfast. I don't know what it is about hotel breakfast, but I loooove it so much. It's my favorite part about staying in a hotel! 
• Seafood baked rice from Fish & Co. Meh. Just go eat their fish and chips
• The chilli crab fish and chip! Love it :D
• Uber cute doughnuts. To be honest, it doesn't taste that good (nothing compared to dunkin' donuts or J.Co), but it's instagram worthy lol. Sigh, remember that time when people buy food because they're delicious and not because they want to have nice instagram photos? #preinstagramera

October

• Finally took photos of the Madam Glam nail polishes! Reviews on them soon :)
• Had the will power to tidy up my insanely messy wardrobe, at last. Yes, that pic is already the after. 
• Had another perfect winged eyeliner day, SO.MUST.TAKE.TONS.OF.SELFIE lol
• Another instagram worthy food! These ones is not bad though. I quite liked the beef blackpepper (cow shaped one), although the chicken something" (chicken shaped one) is no bueno (is that the correct word? :p)

• Stayed at my brother's and cooked this breakfast with his girlfriend. Pork burger, homemade BBQ sauce, and cheat pancake out of the box. The homemade BBQ sauce was dabombdiggity! We used the Gordon Ramsay's recipe btw if you want to make BBQ sauce yourself too.
• Flied back to Jogja for my Dad's birthday! :D
• Finally the long-awaited IKEA opens its door! The famous ice cream cone. I also tried the famous swedish meatball, but I already gorged 'em down before I can remember to take photo of it #gluttonproblem
• Wedding guest OOTD. Love that bottom, too bad there isn't much place I can wear them to

• First time eating actual pomegranate fruit (I only had tried the boxed pomegranate drink before). They are a pain in the butt to peel though, aren't they? I've tried using the technique I learnt from youtube (Youtube is the best way to learn something lol, even menial stuffs like this) and it still took me more than a half hour with red splatter all over the place wtf. Anyway, the texture is a bit like grapefruit -crunchy with burst of juice- and the taste is like a mix of orange and grapefruit
• Bunny farm at Mal @ Alam Sutera! Cuteness overload! You have to pay 30k to get inside though
• Really cute brother and sister I spotted in LW after my gym class. They hold hand all the time while walking with their parent, never letting go for even a second! So cute and precious can melt your heart. Anyway, I had to be a creepy stalker and take a photo of this precious moment
• All you can eat at Poke Sushi because they're having 50%, 75%, and 100% off promotion with Danamon credit card. This one is Salmon Salad (I think) and it was the highlight of that night. The salmon was fresh and the sauce was really delicious and went well with the salmon. A perfect light appetizer

And that pretty much conclude the last 3 months of my life. I went back to Jogja a lot lol. Anyway, hope you guys have a great holiday season!!!

xoxo,

Lily 

Luxola's Beauty Discovery Evening | NEW Luxola Indonesia Launch

/*overdue post! forgot to publish it lol*/

A couple of weeks ago (on 22nd of September, I believe), I was invited to attend the launch of NEW Luxola Indonesia. Why "NEW" you might ask, since Luxola has been launched in Indonesia since a couple years ago? I'm gonna tap into that later in the event section, but first thing first, I wanna give a huge thank you to Luxola Indonesia's team for having me :)

I think most of you already know about Luxola if you're from South East Asia, especially Singapore (their origin country - I saw a HUGE HUGE advert of Luxola pasted on the wall of the MRT Station when I was in SG), and if you've subscribed to Lolabox before, since Luxola has made frequent appearances in their boxes. Heck, even I know Luxola from Lolabox. I actually purchased my first Sleek palette and Models Own nail polish from them as well.

In case you don't know about Luxola, here's the gist: they are a one-stop online beauty store where you can find various brands, from the ones that you're familiar with (ie. The Face Shop, Skin79) to the ones that are still hard to find/not distributed here (ie. Lime Crime, Beauty Blender, Eco Tools, Real Technique, etc). Yes, their products are 100% original. As of now, Luxola operates in 10 countries, including Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, and of course, Indonesia!


Now that you've been familiarized with Luxola, let's get into the fun part, the actual event! :D

Of course, gotta take a selfie of the FOTD on the way there. 

I was rushing from school to the event (I had class until 3 p.m., the event starts at 5 p.m., and the venue was about 20 km away), so I only used very minimal do. I think I only had on The Body Shop Vitamin E Cool BB Cream, Maxfactor Mastertouch concealer, Crazy Rumors lip balm, The Body Shop lip stain, eyeliner (either Maybelline Hypersharp Liner or Cyber Color) and a setting powder. I also planned to do something to my hair, but at the end I was like "Ain't nobody got time for that", which actually benefits me and you'll see why later.

The event was held at Jimbaran Outdoor Lounge in Intercontinental Jakarta Midplaza Hotel. I really liked the venue because it's outdoor, which means tons natural light, resulting in nicer pictures (at least while the sun is till up).

At the entrance, there was a Photo Booth for camwhoring and also a guy who'll took a polaroid picture of you :D

Props to camwhore with.

Spotted Carryn from diaryofaneyelinerjunkie with Aullia from duapuluhtujuhdesember. There were also Endi Feng, Felicia from bubblegum-happiness (she's even more pretty in real life omg), Uchieta Pohan, Shella from polish wonderland, and a bunch more.

One with Elin from elinivana. Btw, the dress code was Classy Black and White, that's why everyone were dressed in monochrome.

You don't expect someone who's vain like me to not take pics just by myself, do you? Or maybe that's more because I'm a very introverted person rather than because I'm vain :p

The theme of the event is "Luxola's Beauty Discovery Evening" because there will be various mini beauty treatments from some of the brands that they carry. So there were these little sections at the venue and there was a different beauty treatment in each of those. Cute concept, isn't it? Let's take a lil' tour to each booth!

Skin Care Booth by L'Oreal

The first booth there was a skincare booth by L'Oreal, so there were a bunch L'Oreal stuffs to try out, like the ones from the RevitaLift line and White Perfect line.

I didn't actually visit this booth because I already had makeup on, so I just took a couple photos.

Make-Up Booth by The Balm

I loved this booth. There were tons of The Balm products to play with, and God knows I've been really intrigued by The Balm for a long time, mainly because of their unique retro packaging. What can I say, I'm a sucker for a cute packaging!

You can also get a make-up touch up, even make over, there if you want.

Look at those The Balm items galore to play with. There were more products at the back too. I just can't.

False Eyelashes Booth by Arline

The display of the various kinds of falsies they have.

I believe the woman is the owner, while the guy is the ambassador. I thought it was the other way around since the name is Arline by Gusnaldi (the guy).

Anyway, I was waiting for my turn to try on their falsies when I noticed the SPG (I think)'s falsies and immediately fascinated by it. It's so cute and fits her oriental face perfectly, definitely the kind of lashes that is suitable for Chinese event like CNY. Picture that lashes, red lips, and a Jibao dress :D

This is the lashes they chose for me because I asked for a natural look. This falsies are made from 100% premium human hair.

Before putting on the falsies. As you can see, I have an almost borderline non-noticeacle lashes. It's not that I have super-short lashes, they are just not thick and curled enough.

Waiting for the lashes to be cut to fit my eyes and to be glued. The girl who helped me putting on the lashes was really nice and informative. Love her hair too btw.

So vain one, putting on falsies still have to smile at the camera lol. 

Excuse the mess that is my eyebrows. I rarely groomed them unless I have a special event to attend to (ie. family weddings) because I feel like they are covered by my bang anyway. Truthfully, that's just an excuse for me being a #lazyass

After putting on the falsies. 

I kid you not, it was the most comfortable falsies I've ever tried. Granted I've only tried a handful of falsies in my entire life so far because I only used them for special occasions like family weddings, graduation, etc, but I realized at one point I actually forgot I had falsies on until a representative from Luxola (either from Malaysia or Singapore) asked me about it. Also, by the end of the night, I don't feel like ripping the falsies right off, which is rare for me.

It's a little bit hard to see the actual falsies in this photo (I have clearer photo down below), especially because I didn't use an eyelash curler afterward, but you can definitely see the thickening effect of it. It looks natural too :D

Nail Parlour Booth by OPI

Look at those OPI nail polishes on display! Good thing I'm not as addicted to nail polish anymore, so I'm not as tempted to just shove it all down my purse.

I didn't get my nails done though because I already had a nail art on, and why would I wanna trade a nail art I painstakingly drew to a plain mani, right? Okay, I might have exaggerated a bit. The nail art I had on was actually quite simple, but I was still reluctant to remove it 'cause it matched the dress code.

Hair Styling Booth by Babyliss & Vidal Sassoon

Good thing I didn't do a single damn thing to my hair other than combed it before the event, so I get to try the babyliss irons provided. I also saw some hair stuffs from Vidal Sassoon too, but decided to try the Babyliss Curl Secret!

I've been intrigued by the Babyliss Curl Secret for quite sometime ever since I saw it on itsjudytime channel, but -Oh, wait I just checked out her channel, turns out she tried the one from Conair, not Babyliss lol. Oops, my bad- But anyway, I thought she tried the babyliss and it seemed like such a hassle to use and not to mention seemed pretty dangerous because your hair can get stuck in it and get pulled, so I never took the plunge when I saw it on the counter (I had it in my head that it was a dangerous, hard to use, gimmicky product that's not worth the money).

Still, I was curious about the unique concept of this curling tool, so when I saw it ready to try in this booth, I went ahead and tried it with the help of the girl from that booth.

It's actually REALLY easy to use. There are 3 settings, for the heat, timer, and curl direction so you create curls with different effects. All you have to do after choosing the setting you want are placing a section of your hair into the chamber, wait for the the timer to beep, and release the hair. I tried it myself after the girl taught me how and I have no difficulty using it.

The con I find on this curling tool is probably the fact that you need to section you hair pretty small to be able to fit it into the chamber, so it can be pretty time consuming if you have tons of hair. Oh! And also, it's a bit harder to do the hair at back side.

After the curling is done. I loved the result. I think it took about 15 to 20 minutes or so in total. Added this Babyliss Curl Secret to my wish list :)

You can see the Arline falsies better in the above photo.

Products Booth

In this booth there were products that Luxola carries on display.

Sugarpill, Ecotools, Skin79, Real Technique, Bioderma, Cottage, The Balm, Lime Crime, etc

Yes, they do carry Lime Crime & Sugarpill!!!

I can already hear the excitement of Indonesian MUA and beauty blogger lol. I personally am pumped that I finally can get my hands on Lime Crime nail polishes. I've searched for Indonesian online shop that sells them a long time ago to no avail.

Kenzo, Cartier, IASO, Dr. Jart, Coverderm, Rosebud Perfume Company, Beauty Blender, etc

More eye candy for beauty product junkie :D

NEW Luxola Indonesia?

That's Alexis who presented. She is the founder of Luxola. The woman beside her who wore that white halter top and black skirt is Cynthia Chaerunnisa, head of marketing Luxola Indonesia, and she is actually the co-founder of the now-discontinued Lolabox! Sigh, I miss Lolabox. I hope there will be a new beauty subscription box in Indonesia soon.

Anyway, here's the gist of the NEW Luxola Indonesia:

• Luxola Indonesia has its own domain now, so you go to www.luxola.co.id instead of www.luxola.com/id
• Luxola now has a warehouse located in Indonesia, so all products you purchase from them are sent directly from their Indonesia warehouse, as opposed to before where your purchase were sent from Singapore Warehouse -> Indonesia Office -> Your Doorstep, which means a lot faster shipping time (Yay!!).
• www.luxola.co.id carries different products than www.luxola.com. Because Luxola Indonesia warehouse is still considerably new, some of the products available are different than the ones on luxola.com (ie. you can't find Lime Crime & Sugarpill on luxola.com). Also, currently Luxola Indonesia carries fewer brands than luxola.com. Don't worry though, because they are working on bringing other brands available on luxola.com to the Indonesia warehouse as well.
• Various payment methods are available: Visa/Mastercard, BCA Klikpay, Mandiri Clickpay, Bank Transfer, and COD (Jabodetabek area). Ps. the last time I shopped there, BCA Klikpay is not available yet though.
• Aforementioned faster delivery time. 

with Hema Mansukhani and Alexis. Both of them are so nice.

The event presentation actually only took about 10 to 15 minutes, and then they let us roamed around the booths again.

I was already finished exploring all the booths, so I went to get some finger food provided there.

I know this has nothing to do with beauty stuffs, but being a total glutton that I am, it's almost impossible to resist to take some photos of the food :p 

This one is some kind of meat (duck?chicken?) on a cracker.

Salmon on a toast

Yummy Chocolate Cake

After I stuffed my face with all the finger food (so proud of myself that I had managed to restraint myself from getting more food as I usually go out of control at any buffet-style eatery), I took more photos at the photo booth, chat a little bit, took the goodie bag (AWESOME goodie bag btw), and went home.

Anyway, a little side story, I waited for about an hour for Sam to pick me up and I was worried that he couldn't find me. I ran out of my phone battery some more. Luckily, when I asked the front security on where I can find a pay phone, he actually offered me to use his phone instead! So nice of him, isn't it? I'm forever grateful to him, because if I hadn't been able to call my mom (I don't remember Sam's number by heart lol), who knows how much longer I'd need to wait as it turned out Sam was waiting on the other part of the building. Faith in humanity restored.

Left: at the beginning of the event & Right: at the end of the event. It's not often that you go to an event and come home with a nicer look :)

The super awesome goodie bag :D Definitely going to review some of them!

Once again, thank you Luxola for having me there (and Herinta for inviting me)! It was a fun event.

xoxo,

Lily