Rampant Caries Day

Slightly slow in blogging, but our class made up a "Rampant Caries Day" last Thursday in preparation for the mourning of Anatomy Test (which turned out really bad). But really, it was just so all of us could wear black to school. :)

Pretty cool huh? But while standing in the corridors we looked like we were going for some funeral like that :(


"Eh everyone, Keng Wee's fly is undone!" *The 2 girls beside him turn to look* LOL

Konads

Did my nails specially for Saturday's FOD 80th Gala Dinner! Did it at Cinderella at Far East cos it's so cheap. Haha. I decided to do the Classic Mani + Pedi to pamper myself. It was $26 for students. Of course, given the price, the quality isn't the best. Nat did the express mani + pedi for $10 :)

Like the toes! French was free.



For hands I wanted french too, but unfortunately one of my nails is alot shorter than the rest, so it would've looked weird. In the end, I chose a new O.P.I colour that just came in to the salon, but as usual, I forgot to note down the colour! It's a dark sparkly brown!

The texture was a bit rough (due to the sparkles) even after the salon applied top coat. So I decided to apply an extra layer of Seche Vite, which worked wonders!

And speaking of nails, I now have a new interest - Konads. Konading is basically stamping nail art. Even though they take some practice to get right, when you do they're super gorgeous! Here's a video on how it works, if you're interested :)




credits: frmheadtotoe

Pretty right? I think the main website to get these is http://www.wowsocool.com/. They have design samples too. But there's also a Singaporean site that's slightly cheaper and has the same products: http://www.konadnailart.com/.

I really really really want the Custom Starter Set in time for the holidays. I've been mulling over it for about a week now, and it just grows on me! Haha if no one wants to buy it for me as an early Christmas present, I might strongly consider forking out the SGD$27 for it myself :)

Line Dinner

Had Line Dinner last Tuesday at Pepperoni's (at Hillcrest, behind NJC)!

All the Year 1s to 6 came, plus 2 other doctors :)







Overall, I'd say the dinner was quite good! Both food and company wise. Even though Joshua and I didn't know what the seniors were talking about alot of the time, we still had fun. (They also told funny stories about the profs!)

We ordered Calamari, Chicken Wings, 1 Family Pizza (the XXL one) and 4 Large pizzas! Sorry but I can't remember all the flavours! I just know that one of the Large ones was Truffle pizza which was REALLY GOOD.


This was the Family sized one. (Notice a smiley face?)
Oh I remember that the one with the greens was Proscuitto



Truffle (the further one) and Suprema

Besides that we ordered a large mushroom and a large olives pizza too! I love black olives (I always ask for more when I eat at Subway) but for this one, the WHOLE pizza was full of olives. A bit too much for me. Haha.

But nonetheless, I really enjoyed the night. It was great meeting students and dentists of different ages and all at different points in their studies/career. They were all super nice too. 3 of them were fighting for the bill at the end of the night! Haha.

So here's looking forward to next year's dinner! :)

Nails nails nails!

Another post about some of my nail endeavours. Haha.

Painted my nails O.P.I's Isn't It Romantic (H35) again! Haha that's the only O.P.I nail polish, or rather, good polish I have, so it's the only colour I can paint! *Ahem - Hint hint* LOL




But this time, I discovered an AMAZING top coat - Seche Vite.



It's a fast drying top coat (and by fast I mean, 5 minutes, and your nails are totally dry) and it's so good I don't know the words to describe it. Haha so here's a paragraph from the Seche Website about it:





Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat is acknowledged as the world's finest top coat. Its patented formula allows it to penetrate through the nail lacquer to the base coat forming a single solid coating over the nail plate for a much more durable finish which is guaranteed not to yellow. Seche Vite is unmatched as a top coat leaving the nail silky feeling, stronger, more durable, absolutely will not chip and creates the highest gloss of any product on the market today. Apply thickly, get a nice bead on the end of the brush, then set softly down on the first nail painted and watch how Seche Vite flows over the wet nail polish self levels and will not drag or streak the underlying manicure.

And yes, the website is QUITE accurate in describing the wonders of Seche Vite. I bought mine from a bazaar at NUS for $12. The lady had a BIG bottle and was pouring it into smaller O.P.I sized bottles to sell. It's really really worth buying, but I heard it thickens after some time, so it's good for you if you paint your nails often! (If not, there's also the Seche Restore Thinner, which is the only thinner that may be used to thin a bottle of Seche Vite)


Speaking of nails and NUS Bazaars, there was a Halloween bazaar this week, and one of the stalls had $5 manicures (with O.P.I nail polish, no less). Me, Nat and Jess couldn't resist the temptation. Haha.

It was done by this girl called Chris (check out her website here!) who has a Diploma in Nail Art & Technology! I never knew they had such things! Haha she said she studied 4 months for it! Quite cool huh? But I always think that it's such a pity that these people, who are so interested and passionate about nail art, don't get to wear it on themselves most of the time.

Anyway, Jess got ORANGE whie Nat and I got the same colour (Chris didn't have many colour choices at that time) but unfortunately I really really can't remember the name/number of the colour that we got! It's a dark red (but can look lighter/darker in different lightings). I quite like it! First time painting my nails such a dark colour. (Haha on hindsight, it kinda matches my hair a bit?)

Really red in bright sunlight!!! (A bit too red if you ask me)



In natural sunlight



And it's the darkest in artificial light. I think I like it this shade the best.
Me (left) and Nat (right)



Speaking of which, we went to the MGS funfair today! It was quite small and not so happening. A bit disappointing, but at least we both got henna! Haha :)

Dye Job

Finally got my hair dyed on Friday! This was only my second time. The first time was at Next at Holland V. For full head dye, it was about $120! SUPER EXPENSIVE...

So this time I was more resourceful and managed to book myself a slot at the Toni and Guy Academy! I had to book like, one month in advance though. The slots are really limited (Mondays and Fridays 10am or 2pm) and sometimes they don't even have slots due to demos or something. Being an academy, the services are done by students, and so the rates are alot cheaper. Colouring services start from $18 (depending on type of colouring and length of hair), but highlighting ranges from $25 to $46 depending on your hair length and the type of highlights you want (Partial, Full head Highlights etc.)

I reached the Academy (at Bugis - 31 Tan Quee Lan Street #02-01 ) and it was quite cool! There was a cutting area (which was larger and noisier) and a dyeing area. For dyeing, those who make appointments do it all at the same time. Meaning we go in with our "student hair dresser" together, and have our hair done at the same time so the instructor can be there to oversee everything.

For the session I was at, there were 4 model-student pairs for the dye job, I being one of the "models". The student I got was this Japanese girl. She was quite timid, shy and gentle, but not confident at all. Maybe because she wasn't fluent in English? But anyway, how it goes is that the student will discuss the model what she wants. Then the instructor will go to each pair when they're done, and the student will tell her what he/she plans to do. The instructor (who was a very nice lady in her late 20s maybe?) would test the student on some technical stuff, and discuss further with the model what she wants. Then the instructor would give suggestions to adjust/tweak the plan according to what's best for the model. Quite cool. I learnt that different darkness of hair colours have different numbers to them. I think mine was a 4? (The lower the number the darker the hair) And then the colour that we chose was a 6 (i.e. a lighter colour). It was a brownish-reddish colour, like mahogany.

Beside me was this blonde woman in her 20s who was SO fussy about the highlights and "lowlights" she wanted, the instructor spent so long discussing the colours with her and the rest of us had to wait till she was done to continue. I was the only one of the four who was doing full head (away with the white hair!) while the rest were doing highlights. So, I was done the fastest! Haha.

Of course for the price we're paying (I paid $29), the service isn't the best, since they're still students. The jap girl accidentally touched my face while dyeing my hair, so a small area below my left eye had a dark patch on it. I asked her if it'll go away, and she said "About 2 days?" O.O

Also, when she was rinsing my hair, she didn't do a very good job.. While she was rinsing the dye off, the water flowed down my back - which wasn't as bad as the fact that the dye stained the back of my (white) dress!! She was quite apologetic though and blew dry the back of my dress after blow drying my hair. Haha.

But anyway after that she let the instructor check, and the instructor commented that my hair takes the dye quite well. My hair is quite fine, and she told the jap girl that for other ppl with coarser hair, the colour wouldn't be as rich. :)

So of course, next up, expect to see lots of photos. Since there's a reason to camwhore, why not huh? LOL I'm kidding!!


Right after the dyeing - not so obvious under artificial lighting



The next day - sometimes still not that obvious in sunlight, but at least all my white hair is gone!



More obvious in bright sunlight (shameless in the bus, I know)

I'm quite happy with it! I guess I like the fact that it's not too obvious at times (so it won't be so apparent when my roots grow out!) Still thinking whether I should do highlights or not! Full head will cost $46. The instructor said I shouldn't wait too long (maximum 2 weeks) before the roots start growing out! What do you think? :)

Return Tea

Totally forgot about this post that I saved as a draft!! Haha ok it was like almost a month ago on 9 Oct, but this post is about Return Tea! Basically it's a performance/buffet dinner event to thank the seniors for a job well done for orientating us :)

Besides the band performance, there was a dance and skit as well! Jess and I didn't have to perform cos we already contributed with our fantastic home-made (albeit smelly) Thank You cards + photos. Hahaha.


Jess, Nat, Me



With Josh and Kokwai

Line senior Jonathan and Line Brother Joshua. (They're related! And btw Josh is not shorter than me. I was standing a step higher than them. Haha)

Jess and her line senior, Pei Fang

Nat and her line senior, Ruth

Yep, in case you're confused by all this line stuff, basically each year 2 chooses a year 1 to mentor. And every year it continues, so that will form a "line" of seniors from year 1 to year dunno what. My line is split (my year 2 Jonathan chose two year 1s, i.e Joshua and I) because the Year 1 class has more ppl than the Year 2 class.

And there was a gift exchange! Jonathan gave nme the new Philips, Craig and Dean CD, which I have still, unbelievably not opened yet! Keep on forgetting about it! :P