I’ve never really been happy with my body figure (though most girls aren’t). Like most girls I hope to be thinner, flat stomach and toned looking.

I am pretty slim but I do have a stomach (a pretty big one too) and pretty fat thighs. For years and years I’ve wanted a flat stomach and thinner thighs but never done anything about it. I tried dieting but I usually give up or they don’t really work for me.

After sometime I learnt from a friend who’s sort of a body builder that the only way to get a flat stomach is to exercise regularly. Off course eating healthy is also extremely important. He taught me that by toning up, I will appear thinner than someone of the same weight but isn’t toned. My mum regularly attends an aerobics class and her teacher told her the same thing.

I learnt that information a while ago but was way too lazy to attend the gym often. Recently I’ve decided to attend the gym regularly (at least 3 times a week). I also started doing more weights then usual. After 2 weeks I’ve already noticed a small difference. My weight is about the same but my legs do look thinner.

I also learnt that muscles will burn more calories therefore it is important to have a lot of muscles so you will burn fat faster. Doing weights (or using the tone machines at the gym) will help you to build muscles.

Hopefully I’ll be able to keep this up for more than a month and off course I hope to archive the body figure that I want.

I should also start measuring my body parts! I think that I look thinner but I haven’t measured anything so I don’t really know if it has really improved or my brain is just lying to me.

Make up brands generally like to number all their different shades of lipstick, eyeshadow etc. I always find many missing numbers at drug stores, e.g. BRAND A sells eyeshadows in number 5, 8, 29, 75, 80 but where’s all the numbers in between?

I think I have discovered where all the other numbers are. It seems that each country have different shades on certain products even though it’s from the same brand. I’ve been trying to look for several lipsticks and eyeshadows that has been recommended by Youtube make up gurus from the US or Canada. I looked everywhere and couldn’t find them at my local drug stores or even online. After surfing some USA websites I actually discovered that the shades are not always the same. There are a few common colours but most are different. Although it looks like similar colours but it’s not the same number.

That is kinda annoying because I really want a few shades recommended by these gurus but they aren’t sold in the UK

Sometimes they’re given a different name, e.g in the USA the new Maybelline eyeshadows quads are called “Eye Studio™ Color Plush™ Silk Eyeshadow” whereas in the UK it’s called “Eye Studio™ Diamond Glow“, that took me some time to figure that it’s the same just with a different name and a different set of shades. Kinda annoying really because I want some of the shades from the USA.

We don’t have the Rimmel Lasting Finish lipstick in “Airy Fairy” which again is a highly recommended shade

I would really really LOVE to do a drug store make up swap with someone from the USA. Then I can have some of the shades from the USA and person I’m swapping with can have some shades from the UK. Anyone interested?

I got my “The Brush Guard” Variety pack today. That’s pretty fast delivery because I only paid for that last Friday, which means it arrived in 3 working days. Wish my other USA deliveries can that that fast as well. Usually it takes about 7 workings day for post to be delivered to the UK from the USA.

These brush guards helps to protect your brushes when you’re cleaning & storing them.You can use this for any type of art brushes as well as make up brushes.

I disliked cleaning my make up brushes because I found it hard to dry them properly without them going out of shape. It’s important to dry your brushes upside down so water isn’t slipping into the handle and damaging the inside of the brush. With these guards, you can place them inside a cup or jug so that that you can dry them upside down. So here’s me drying some of my make up brushes with the new guards.

I need to order more because I have many many make up brushes. I’m too lazy to clean them all often so I always just clean them in one go.

I learnt how to clean my make up brushes from Michelle Phan’s video “Squeaky Clean Brushes!“. So check it out if you guys want to learn more about this. I really recommend this method to clean your art brushes.