Michael & Guys review

On the 25th of July, I got some ecstatic news: I was the winner of a RM500 hair voucher from Michael & Guys! Won it from 8tv's 8team :D :D

So I immediately went and made an appointment for the 1st of August, the day after my internship ends, anticipating a joyful time at a new hairdo and hair color. I downloaded and screenshot hundreds of photos under "I want" and "kind of like this" to "definitely not".
I WANNA BE A REDHEAD!!

yea baby! come gimme your hairrr

or the sweetie japanese/korean hair?

this is under "definitely not", too red, too..meh.

My experience at Michael & Guys was.....meh.
Read on to find out why :/

Firstly, I was under Michael & Guys head hairdresser, Ms Callie Goh who was in charge of giving me my "makeover". I went in and they had one other customer, which was normal for a weekday at such an early hour (11.30am) but had to wait for another 15 minutes because Callie wasn't there yet. Well, that comes with being the boss, I guess!

Then Callie came and invited me to sit and enquired as to what I wanted to do to my hair.

"erm..a trim and coloring?"

"Alright!"

Callie was one of the few hairdressers I've seen who could converse confidently in English, and made an effort to emphasize it to me as well, hehe. Surprisingly, she was a Christian as well, and so we took to talking about her cell group and her being a new Christian.

I was extremely pleased with the haircut that she gave me, before that my hair was thick and lanky and dull, I guess, but she added layers and chopped off hair the volume of my hair (T.T) and it ended up looking fabulous.

The hair coloring job, though...was kind of a disappointment :/ I told Callie that I want reddish-brown hair, "with more red", but the color turned out splotchy and uneven. She told me that i should use color saving hair products and that "after a few washes" the brighter colors would wash off.

after the hairdo, otw home-took a pic and
realized my hair looked BLACK!

taken the day after my hair "makeover", see the uneven hair color?

After 6 washes now, my hair color is still uneven *sad
Plucking up courage, I called the salon to ask if they would fix the unevenness of it. First, the girl who answered said she couldn't do anything about it and I better call the boss herself to talk to her (and nope, of course I have to call her myself--communication breakdown, anyone?) since I was a sponsor case and not a paying customer.

my hair at this moment, doesn't look as if it just got a dye job, eh? :/

 So I texted Callie and she promptly called me back to tell me that it was most likely because (1) I didn't use hair color protecting products she recommended (I assured her I did) or that (2) my hair color was already uneven when I came in to color it. Which made me very unsatisfied -.- Why would I go for a hairdye if my hair was evenly colored and perfect in the first place =.=

SIGH. What to do. At this time I was already sure that she was clutching at straws and that she wouldn't fix the hair that her salon colored unevenly in the first place. I guess I was lucky, Callie even offered to do my hair again in another month, so long that I was a paying customer (her kind offer included a trim+color+treatment at RM198 at student rates: so I'm guessing my asking for just a trim + color using my RM500 voucher saved some for their salon?)

Being the bigger person, I decided to let it go.
By writing this blog post *evil smile.

CHEERS!

enhanced it a little to pretend I have red hair :x

PhD in Skin Science

This is a story of my experience with dermatologists. Or more specifically, A dermatologist.

Happened about two years ago. Now don't get me wrong, dermatologists ARE effective, as far as my experience went, but you have to be consistent and cooperative to maintain your complexion.

Alright, my skin doctor was in Ipoh, one of my best friend's brother was seeing him so when I was at her house visiting she and her mum recommended me to see the doctor. I was like, ooo-kay-lah, since I was kind of desperate then already :/ (still don't know whether to laugh at myself cynically or move on already)

The dermatologist I went to, Dr Lim at Ipoh Garden South

The place is quite near to the Jusco at Kinta, where everybody used to hang out every weekend and bump into each other a few times per day because the place was so small. I think the same is still happening right now? Thank God we moved to KL :D :D :D

So the first time I went I was looked keenly over by Dr Lim with a hand tool that looks like a fly trap with the hypnotizing lights, but don't worry you don't have to look into the lights she just uses the tool to inspect your skin in detail ;) After that I was sent out again to wait for her prescription. There are always plenty of patients waiting patiently during the weekends, so after that when I went back to see her it was on weekdays, or else you'd be waiting for at least half an hour up to an hour. Seems like plenty of people were like me!

Her prescription: (prices are vague, I'm spouting from 2-year-memory)

a cleanser (RM100)

benzoyl peroxide 5%, although not in Benzac form, they provide it in
little round medicine containers (RM15-30?)

Acne treatment gel for night use, I still have this brand-new
tube as I didn't finish her course (Rm30+?)

The instructions were: use cleanser + benzoyl peroxide in the daytime and cleanser + acne treatment gel at night. my first thoughts were "what? NO toner??!!" but now I'm pretty used to it and have never turned back to using toners ever since, even after stopping her prescription course.

doxycycline (used to be green)

doxycycline (mine was in green)

 As for the doxy, I had to take it 3 times a day after meals. Doxycycline is considered an antibiotic, so it isn't advisable to take it for more than 6 months. I was on it for 8 months.

Diane 35

Diane35 is a contraceptive and can be used for my skin problem, targeting the hormones to balance it out. I was extremely hesitant to use it, so I decided to buy one box and Google it at home. After a horrifying research of its side effects i decided not to take it (you can always Google it yourself).

My first bill came up to RM300, including a first-time consultant fee. I would say that it is relatively reasonable? Consequent visits were always around RM80 as the cleanser can be used for a long, long time.

So what happened? My skin peeled, got so fragile that walking against the wind was extremely harsh and sensitive to the face, and it magically cleared up within a couple of months. The cleanser is extremely drying on the skin, so, BE WARNED.

It was Chinese New Year. My store of products was drying up (at that time I was unaware that doxy is sold at pharmacies, and that the benzoyl peroxide IS Benzac) but the Chinese New Year holidays meant that the skin clinic was closed. What happened was devastating, the acne came back with a force and after the week I hurried back to Ipoh to buy my Doxy and Benzoyl peroxide but it was too late already.

I was put back on the prescription but somehow my skin never cleared up and remained the same, so after another half a year, I stopped the Doxy and went back to my desperate quest of having clear skin, which only worked when I started acne.org, which was a year later :/ (read up here to find out how)

SO right now I'm happily enjoying my clear skin, I hope to update you guys about trying new products (I'm currently using a facial brush similar to Clarisonic's Mia and Hada Labo).

Cheers!

At an openrice event the other day :)

Yesterday, with storybook characters and Despicable Me 2 Minions

If I had to write a children's storybook, it'd probably be about 3 characters called Drunkard, Kiasu, and Conman.

Because it just so happens that I met them yesterday -.-
OH well, I guess that when people become successful (or anywhere within the confines of that-which they decide themselves) they become piping full of confidence, to the extend where people might find them obnoxious.

Drunkard would be an old hag with braying bursts of laughter and poisonous bits of comments every now and then.

"You fart like a monstrous truck.AHAHAH, joking, onlyy!"

Kiasu would be French-speaking without the fluency, but still brilliantly good at using it to promote his talents, "moi is esplendide et being kiasu!"

"GRAAAAABBBB!!" *kiasu-ness to the max

 Conman will insist that he's a Brit while spouting English like a "Made in China" teapot.

"oh I definitely AM from Google, even though
they don't dress like this"

It'll probably be best-selling the moment it hits the bookshelves muahaha.

Anyways, mean spirit aside, I went to the screening for Despicable Me 2 last night! (courtesy of Nuffnang, of which I will be forever grateful, of course) My first screening in a long, long, time especially after my four months of back-breaking Final Year Project stressload. =) =) =)

tralalalala! You got anottttt

Nowadays it just feels like the animated movies (or cartoons) are getting more and more shallow. What I want is simple: Make me CRY! make me FEEEL for the characters! Make my poor heart BREAK and REJOICE with the heroes! (Game of thrones did that sure fine)

The last one to make me FEEL must have been "UP". =/

Sooooo, Despicable Me 2's dried-up-plot was made from juice squished out from what's leftover from Gru in Despicable Me, and mostly from the minions. Something stolen, wanted back, Gru is involved, throw in some romance with a manic-depressive girl, and DO include, a whoooole load of scenes from minions because they were so popular in the first one. Towards the end I kind-of forgot what's the movie and hoo-hah about because it was soooo centered around the minions, and "oh yeaa hor it's about the stolen serum!" Or maybe it's just my short-term memory.

Wouldn't watch it twice, toodle-dah!

I want to dye my hair in bright colors! the fight between black hair and colored hair has ended and colors have proven the winner because everyone else in Malaysia has black hair =/

This color looks great:

 

But it'll look better with a shade more red? Looks nice to me right now though.

Ponderingly,

CHEERS!

Have It Your Way

Before I start, have you ever noticed that when Malaysians are driving, they have a penchant for digging their noses?

Start thinking: Do you dig your nose?

No? Think about it. And while you're at that, do notice the moment when your finger suddenly goes up to your nose. pause. stare at your finger for a few seconds (but not so much that accidents happen). Look around shiftily in case somebody saw. And lastly, shove your finger back to the steering wheel, where it belongs.

WELL, I have seen lots of drivers doing that. (Most likely because I'm always the passenger, nobody likes me driving *sigh). Ladies, knights, honorable men, squires, and even people who drive me when I'm in the car; they don't notice that they tend to do it -.- (have been watching Game of Thrones lately)

Anyways, I digress. back to the post. Does the slogan "Have it your way" look familiar?

YEAP. Burger King's. and NO, I did not have it my way -.- uuurgh.

Noticed that Burger King (BK) was putting up billboards saying that their breakfast starts at RM 3.95 (Hey! 5 cents cheaper than McD!) So I went and tried it out this morning.

Mediocre

Mediocre, though loverboy did say that the hashbrown's better

Disappointing. First off, it is NOT RM 3.95. It's RM7-9, more dear than McD's lunch promos. Second off, no receipts. I can't even complain to BK that i got ripped off by their cheapo lying billboards. Third off. I paid extra RM1 to upgrade my coffee into Nesle Dolce's Hot Chocolate, and I got this:

This is just colored water. None of the chocolate taste I paid extra RM1 for, no milk, no foam, nothing at all. I might as well just pay for hot water -.- This was the thing that especially got me mad, partly because i pretty much love hot chocolate and Milo <3

Got ripped off by Burger King. -.- People, Don't go okay.

Ended up at Starbucks cuz I had to please my taste buds by giving them the real thing.

To end on a happier note, I have to give you balloons. Who doesn't just LOVE balloons? <3
Cheers.