cosmetics.....gergh

ok, I'm done.

Not that.
I never actively wear makeups.
Now, late in my 20's, I started wanting to use them.

But the BIG questions comes whenever I standing in front of racks showing a lot of cleanser, creams, etc...

I am a muslim.
I am now living in where there's a very small population of muslim.
In regards of food, somehow I manage to survive... there's a lot of fish and an online halal food delivery.
But, how about cosmetics?
It's easy to recognize back in my country, but here?
So, first I started with brands I know back in my country.

But recently, when I looked back at PETA: an animal cruelty free site... somethings are just......
and there's a lot of unlisted Japanese companies.

Now for my daily toner, moisturizer and face cleaner, I use products from ROHTO. Typical drug store products.

肌ラボ HadaLabo

I love the HadaLabo series. They didn't contain any animal derivatives and no alcohol as checked from Malaysian site. Moreover, they did not test in on animals. Safe one hurdle.

Then a new product called Yuki Gokochi (literal translation very comfortable snow) came out.

雪ごこち　Yuki gokochi

I really wanted to try it. So I sent a questionnaire to them late last night, and today they called me to say that there is no animal derivatives and alcohol in the cream. Yes! Score another one!!!

That's from typical drugstore products.
Then as my willful wills, I just type halal cosmetics.
There is one with Halal certification of products from a Japanese company. A little bit pricey. I'm so going to buy it when I am a little bit richer.

Here's the site:  http://www.royalgoldcream.jp/en/

Royal Cosmetics

Cool!

But now... the rest of the makeups... it seems quite hard to find, and the other option is for me to buy online as Cruelty-Free, Animal-Free, Totally Vegan cosmetics are all outside Japan...(to name a few, they are Tarte, Urban Decay, Fx Cosmetics) 

Good thing I didn't buy the whole set during the time being ignorant as I am. 

Now I just need to find a good mascara, eyeliner, and foundation.  

so, till then,

HaHuHi.

After the depression willful days

nice weather? Not today.

It was supposed to be sunny, and I happily laid out my late-due-to-one-week-rain of laundry.
Then, I'm off to college. Just about having my lunch that these tiny drops of water fell. lightly, with strong wind. Light shower on a sunny day. Japanese people said that during days like this the fox will take a bride. A fox wedding day huh? Congrats then.....while my laundry piles up again.. huhuhu

Now,
a little late for my promise but here it is!
The summary for novels read on those willful days.

1. Princess of the midnight ball

A retelling story from our beloved fairy tales; the 12 dancing princess.
It told the story of 12 princess, cursed from birth due to her mother sacrifice, to dance for an evil underground King and the king's sons.
It adapted nicely and just like in the fairy tale, a soldier who was given an invisible cloak rescues them from the evil clutches.
Here, our hero does a bit of knitting and gardening, which comes handy in defeating the King.
And the budding love between Galen, the hero and Rose, the oldest princess brings fluttery feelings in my stomach. The story also involves politics a bit, to add reality to. Castle politics, I suppose and the relationship between neighboring princes and countries when the King (the princess father) wanted to solve the mystery shrouding our princess dancing shoes.

2. Princess of glass

This time, a Cinderella story, but it's not Cinderella who the heroin. It's one of the princess in the above mentioned story. The battle between the new evil underground King continues in this story, as the new evil King wants a bride (well, the old evil King wants the princess to be his sons' brides). I don't want to spoil the story so here my very little summary. The princess were sent to neighboring countries to mend the relationship because of what happened in the first story. The heroin this time, Poppy, was sent to their cousins and at the same time a neighboring prince was attending. Not much of a romance here, but I like the banters between Poppy and the prince, who seems to think that almost every girl will think of him as the next husband target. A maid was cursed and the one who realized it first was Poppy. But how can Poppy help her if the girl herself wish not to?

That were two books that kept me till dawn. 

After that I finished reading Entwined, Hunger Games, and Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow. I am waiting for the last in the trilogy when the youngest sister gets her own adventures in Princess of the silver woods.

Till then, 

HaHuHi  

P.s: My thirst for books is really bad. I can finish a novel a day......and with all the mangas lying around, I wonder how in the world my room has turned into a library?

    

dreadful days

Squandering among the piles of books, files, papers and dirty laundry is not I wished to have right now.

Moreover the stress been piling up since it is only 3 more days before the academic conference.
It's not just pilling, it catching up to my nose right now!!!
Don't start with the stomach either.... my appetite seems to be lost since 5 weeks ago.
First, my zemi presentation.
Then, this academic presentation.
Although I'm happy that AT LEAST, the school pays for the accommodation and  trip fare.

In the midst of this, how did I find myself engrossing TWO, not one, novels, finished by the break of dawn?

Well, that goes to the sleep deprived girl over here.

Good thing that the convenience store down the corner sells onigiri, cream puffs, and onigiri.
They please my stomach, at least to stop from grumbling enough.

Hate to say, I am the epitome of the very image of a book worm+student.
Good thing those instant things still here.

Then,
Ha Hu Hi

P.S I'll write the summary of the novel I'd read next time. I really like the hero ( °^o^ squeal °)

the misadventures of when you're sleep deprived

misadventures of sleep deprived girl

First either your baggage lost or yourself to be lost.

Secondly, been caught in the act of your bad sleeping habits

Thirdly, the BIG lost of transportation fees.

Moving On

Such a long time

hahahaha

Now I understand why moving on is hard. It takes me two days to start my life again after the rejected mail... I meant from my first choice company. Life goes on and I don't want to make my sensei worried about me too. So I'm moving on!!!  

After all I'm a survivor!!  although it's more to my work...

tired... whimsical

I never ever been this tired before.
My body still feels sore all over, and I can't shake the sore off.
My shoulder's stiff, my eyes feels sluggish (my friend keeps saying there's a very black baggy under eyes I have).
I keep waking up to lab, and coming back to sleep.
Is this what it feels to be very busy?

At least, there's something I can look forward to every week.

Future

Exams, reports, experiments
And to top it all, 就職活動　job-hunting all in one go!

my head is already spinning round and round and round like the Yamanote line.
urghh... I need extra stamina to last this semester!
YohOoooo!!!!

Plus my room already in a mess. My head goes forward and backward everytime I enter my room.
OuChies!!!