Hello Chilly November

Welcome November. It's also welcome winter to the land of snow and vodka.

Finally bought new winter boots to get myself prepared for the harsh winter here.
I really need these boots since I do not have any boots for winter.

Dark navy boots.

UGG style inspired grey boots.


I did a small skincare buy too since my skin was peeling and flaking due to the extreme dryness over here.

This is the first time purchasing skincare from Lush. It is the Celestial Facial Moisturizer. I would say it is kinda pricey at about 739Rub per tub of 40g but I really like it when I tried the tester, it felt so moisturizing.

I applied for the first time last night and my skin felt so soft. It might feel oily for people with oily skin but currently have dry, flakey skin so it absorbed the moment I rub the moisturizer into my skin.

It comes in Lush typical black tub.

The cream is pure white.

I have been thinking for some time whether I should get this because I am not into Western BB creams after using Maybelline's Dream Fresh BB and Eveline Cosmetics BB.
Lately, I am starting to accept Maybelline's Dream Fresh BB after applying it with a brush, I feel like it did its job after applying with a brush. My skin looked so smooth and radiant.

Jumped the bandwagon and got Garnier's BB Cream.

I havent used it or swatched it yet. So for now I don't know how is the consistency of this BB cream but I can't wait to use it in the future. 

Goodbye October.

Down busy south west town of Yugo Zapadnaya in Moscow. There's a pretty eyecatching cosmetic store "элизе" which is pretty big compared to most beauty store I've visited in Moscow.

It is pretty much like an Ulta.

What really attracted me to the store is it carries "ArtDeco". "ArtDeco" is a German brand not really known anywhere outside Europe and Korea (apparently Lotte, Olive Young in Korea carries ArtDeco) unless you pay much attention to the beauty community. 

I heard how highly praised their eyeshadows are. So when I went to the ArtDeco counter, I swatched all of their eyeshadow and I love them! They were so smooth and pigmented. 

I immediately bought two colours which caught my eye. To add on there were sales, so it like firmed my decision on getting them.

I am boring person so I picked up a grey and a skin-tone colour.

I picked up colour 316 and 372.

And yes these two colours are shimmer bombs. I really love shimmers as it makes my Asian eyes more awake.

316 is a metallic grey with lots of silver shimmers.

This is probably my first grey mono eyeshadow. I decided to get a grey eyeshadow as I wanna try edgier looks rather than sticking to my plain natural browns.

372 is a skin-tone colour with silver shimmers. A colour typical to me.
A great all over lid colour and highlight colour.

So far I am really loving ArtDeco and I will get more items from this brand.

It is snowing really heavy outside, makes everything depressing. Winter came too early. 

Korean food.

”三味”
This is the Korean restaurant I usually visit when I am here in Moscow. The price is slightly cheaper than most of the Korean restaurants here.
Just that the chef of this restaurant is Chinese instead of a Korean.

Samgyeopsal.

Sizzling in the hot pan.

Tteokbokki. My favourite Korean dish.

Kimchi Fried Rice.

Haemul Pajeon.

i was enjoy dining here with my friends due to the affordable price after sharing the bill together and the  restaurant is really Asian. It feels like you are back to Asia.

Post-Birthday.

I wanna thank my friend for putting so much effort in baking my cake for my birthday. The chocolate banana cake was delis!

Nicely arranged bananas on the chocolate cake. So much love.

Some lovely girls even baked cookies for me. Oh the love.

chocolates packed nicely from a sweet girl, she even insert a cute rose hairclip for me. 

This is what I did with the fallen rose petals. I thought they are so pretty when arranged with my Jill Stuart items. 

They just blend together so well with the princess, sweet and romantic feel.

My mum let me do a Gmarket haul for my birthday. I almost got everything I wanted from Gmarket for now. 

I did splurge a little too much but in this haul i got items for my mum and my sis too since they wanted some items from Gmarket too.
I am exploring deeper into Korean brands like Aritaum, Banila co. etc. Brands that I can't get in my country but so hyped up in Korea. It is the biggest Gmarket I've done for now. 

21st

Thank you everyone who celebrated my birthday today.

21 roses from 21 awesome people for my birthday.

Sushi Mondays

More Sushi, pronounced as More-Rei Su-Shi is a Russian chain sushi restaurant.

Although it is situated pretty near where I live, I seldom head to More Sushi. I only go there once in a blue moon.

Bonito Sushi.

I really love Bonito flakes. I miss having them. 

The presentation of the sushi is just average, nothing arranged too spectacular. 

The sushi taste pretty fine though. Not like wow but still it's good.

Tempura Sushi.

As usual Russian services is just plain lousy. I feel like the waitress girl is PMS-ing.

They just can't get the bills and change fast nor take orders.
But they offer 10% off for students. So they might pull me in for a revisit.

15th Oct hauls

Here comes the monthly 15th haul.

It has been almost a month since I've done a haul.

I picked up 3 items only.

Maybelline ColorSensational Popstick in Tropical Pink, Maybelline Color Tattoo in Infinite White and Essence Stay all day long lasting eyeshadow in For Fairies.

Infinite White is a sparkly white colour.

I got this because I wanted a sparkly white colour that I could highlight my lower lid. 

A pretty sparkly white.This is the last clean pot left.

The others are really nasty, people already dip their fingers into it.Sometimes I don't get it why people open the stock when there's testers. Such a pet peeve!

Essence Stay All Day Long Lasting Eyeshadow.
The second cream eyeshadow I got, I am interested to compare this to the Maybelline Color Tattoo since it is a fraction of Maybelline's price. 

It is a frosty pink. A very cute colour for a sweet look.

It comes with 5.5g of product which I think it is a great amount for its price.
The jar is really flimsy compared to Maybelline's heavy glass pot.

I have been eying on this popstick for a long time because it is so cute!
The transparent neon thing going on just attracts me.

I got No.020 Tropical Pink.
The only colour that caught my eye, the others are either too light or Orange and Red.