FOTD Touch of Plum

Omagah! I get to post FOTD again. Super happy!! As I mentioned in some of my previous entries, I've been dealing with the worst breakout in my life. Which is the reason why I couldn't come up with FOTD post. Makeup looked ugly on me. I attended some events and put on my makeup and thinking about posting the FOTD on my blog. I edited the pictures but the results were too fake. LOL. Guess I just didn't have the heart to post it. However, things are getting pretty good lately. As I said, all the bumps had gone and I have only red acne scars to cover. No biggie. My skin is currently peeling and I take it as a good sign.

Here's my FOTD when I was attending Coverderm Beauty Gathering. I was wearing my Koh Gen Do Aqua Foundation which is a light coverage foundation (yay!). For additional coverage on my cheeks, I added Graftobian HD Creme Foundation. My skin is very dry right now, so I didn't feel the need to powder. Really love the dewy finish the foundation gave. On my cheeks I had my current favorite blush and it's kiko Soft Touch Blush #106 which is a brownish plum. I'm so in love with this one. The color is easy to wear, it accentuates and sculpts my cheeks at once. And it's crazy pigmented too. I have to be careful whenever applying this. To complete the look and compliment the blush, I put on NYX Round Lipstick in Cocoa. Might a little too dark but I liked it. Reminds me of flapper makeup.

For my eyes, I didn't do anything too over the top with my eyeshadow. I was wearing my Wet n' Wild Coloricon in Vanity. For a little accent, I applied NYX Glitter Liner in Gold on my lower lashline. Can you tell who inspired the look? Hint: Nine girls from a Korean girlband (too easy!). I also had my Elise false lashes. I love these lashes. It's just as long as my natural lashes only a lot thicker. Some even mistaken it as my actual lashes. Haha.. I  wish! I don't remember the number though. And ignore that ugly smudge on my eye. I was having a little trouble with the eyelash glue.

 

So yeah, those  are what I came up with after a long time. I took the picture immediately after I put the makeup on. By the middle of the day, my skin started to peel again and kinda ruined the look. But that's okay though. It's gonna take time to deal with this breakout but I'm getting there. 

Anyway, just for fun, wanna see my amateur editing skill on my picture? The result look too overdone, I think. Guess now you know why I didn't publish this picture before. But not bad for a rookie, eh? Considering I learned the techniques from a guy who edited my ID picture. In the end I edited almost all my pictures just for fun. My skin was awfully flawed back then, it was nice to be able to see it in a smooth condition even just in picture.

Experiencing Shinjuku Premium Salon

I was given a chance to try some services at Shinjuku Premium salon. About time. My hair could use another smoothing session as the roots had grown too long already. So there I was, with Nisa, getting a hair makeover.

Shinjuku Premium is located in Kuningan City Mall and just recently opened in Jakarta. Nevertheless, if you happen to live in Surabaya the name must be familiar to you. The salon is sponsored by L'oreal therefore they use L'oreal pro products, a brand I can always count on for haircare. My first encounter with the salon impressed me. I love the ambiance as it feels comfortable. Afterall, salon is a place for me-time. Comfort is key.

I was getting hair makeover together with Nisa. Before decided about what to do, we consulted with Audid, the owner of the salon. Besides smoothing, he suggested an idea to highlight my hair. But being a faint-hearted that I am, I backed out (although I am considering it now). So he decided to cut my bangs straight as it would go together with my medium-length straight hair. The image of Nicole Scherzinger came to mind, so I agreed. On top of all, I just wanted a low-maintainance hair as I spend too much time doing my makeup (or, you know, sleep), I usually have just a very short time to do hair.

Smoothing session, like always, was long and boring. Thank God I had some of my friends there so I spent a lot of my time chitchating. Nisa, Franky and Stella were there as we came straight to the salon right after blogger gathering. Franky was so funny, waiting for me and Nisa, constantly telling us that our hair look good. I wasn't sure if he was being honest or just telling us sweet-nothing, but hey, even false compliments feel good! LOL. The smoothing solution applied not too close to the root to avoid the final result from being too flat. And the good news? I don't have to wait three days to wash my hair. Oh that means a lot! The first three days after smoothing are the days that I hate the most. My hair look flat, oily and these are the times that I usually avoid meeting friends. Just to be sure, I waited a day before I washed my hair. And it says in shape up until now.

After the smoothing session, I got my bangs cut. It was a straight bangs with curve on both ends to shape my face also hid my chubby cheeks. Works well especially when I put my hair into ponytail. I love the final result. If you think a simple thing like get a hair bangs won't make a difference, think again. 

Here's how my hair looked like before the whole process started. To be fair, I straightened my hair before I visited the salon because I was attending blogger gathering first.

 

Here's how the hair looked like, right after makeover. The roots still too flat and stiff as I just finished smoothing session.

And here's basically how the bangs looked like

After the makeover, Audid blowed dry my hair loosely. He said, the concept is, the way my hair looks like as I left the salon is how my hair is gonna look like on daily basis. And I must say I love the result. I received compliments from my friends, told me I look younger, which is my aim from the beginning.

That was a pleasant experience at Shinjuku Premium and I am one happy customer. Highly recommended. If you're thinking about doing hair makeover, feel free to consult with Audid first. He has good taste in hairstyle.

Shinjuku Premium

Kuningan City Mall Lt.1 #58

(021) 3048.0775

www.shinjukuhairmake.com

Basically Just Me Rambling

Hiya guys!

Did you notice how many posts I've come up with this month? Geez. I thought I'll never go back to that phase where I could only come up with less than five entries a month. But unfortunately, sometimes those days are inevitable. However, allow me to defend myself in this entry that I disguised as "update".

First of all, like a memorable old song, my academic life got me tied up. Well that's something I'll never compromise. I also took a break and flew to my hometown, Jayapura, for a week where I didn't have my laptop with me. And then mom paid a visit afterwards, helping me to move out of my apartment. It was hectic. Second of all, I couldn't really play with my makeup. For reasons I don't know, my breakout decided to aggravate by the end of last month. I have this theory that it had something to do with a lot of stress I didn't realize I was under. I'm sure you know that the key to flawless makeup is healthy skin. So not only the result of my makeup was desperately flawed, putting on makeup on inflammatory acne was nowhere near fun. The pain was agonizing. So back on accutane I go! My skin is getting better now. I still have redness and acne scars scattered all over my face, faded a little bit, but at least the bumps have gone. So glad that I get to wear sheer to medium coverage foundation again (with some acne scars still peeking through, but I don't mind). The options used to be either bare face or high coverage foundation (I really put my Graftobian foundation to good use for these last couple of weeks).

Let's see, what else... Oh! Mom and dad just got back from their trip to Europe. Mom got me some makeup, of course. I have family there and my aunts, knowing my interest on makeup (they even found my blog!), also got me so many new makeup. I was completely in awe. There are too many!

I also added some foundations to my collection. I've been wanting to try all these for so long, especially Koh Gen Do foundation. So I took advantage of Sephora Friends and Family Sale. Just let me know if you want to know more about products you see here.

 

Speaking about too many makeup, I proudly announced that starting this month I am currently on makeup ban. Isn't that great? Those foundations were my last purchase and I bought them a month ago. Didn't see that coming, but finally come those days where latest makeup collections don't interest me anymore (although I still have a  soft spot for foundation). I mean, I still love playing with my makeup that I have. I just don't feel like I need to buy more, hence I rarely visit makeup counters lately. Not to mention I have enough makeup that will last until the apocalypse, so I'm good. Doesn't mean I'm running out of materials to blog, though. I still have products that I planned to write about.

Being on makeup ban apparently doesn't save me from bankruptcy at all. I think I have this pathological habit on spending money. Maybe subconsciously I just hate seeing my purse filled with enough money and prefer to be broke, instead. I am revisiting my old hobby now, reading. After two years didn't have enough time to finish a book briskly, I'm like on fire these days. Gramedia, Periplus and Kinokuniya have replaced  Metro, Sogo and Matahari department stores as my favorite places to visit. And man... Books these days are expensive. I mean a hundred thousand rupiah for a novel? Come on! And why do these authors keep releasing books in series? Why can't they just stop with one? OMG. (An irony coming from someone who just spent $62 on a bottle of foundation). These are some books I collected since the beginning of this month and I only read less than half of it so far. Well, in my defense... Oh, what the heck, I am defenseless.

Anyway, reading a lot of books really broaden my vocabulary and the nerdy side of me really excited about that.  I really want to incorporate that to my writing, however some of my friends told me that my vocabulary is already too complicated and hard to understand, especially for my Indonesian readers. I personally took it as a compliment *grin* but, just out of curiosity though, what do you think? I think that I'm still a rookie and there's nothing sophisticated about how I write. You wanna see sophisticated writing? Go visit my sister's blog. She got me perplexed all the time, even until now.

I tend to get carried away when reading (or watching movies or doing anything I'm into) and there were these periods when I'm reading certain books I like, I bombard my twitter timeline with the same topic over and over until it gets annoying. Apparently 140 characters aren't enough. So I decided to create another blog. This is not a book blog, mind you. Just a blog to write anything that interests me, other than makeup. And the blog is in Bahasa. So if you happen to have the same interests, feel free to pay a visit to myownlittlechair. I am still building the content and not sure where this blog is going to go at the moment. Probably just let it flow and not going to be obsessed about it too much. But who knows. That's how I started with allthatmakeup. Haha..

And speaking about my makeup blog, (this it the last point, I promise!), did you notice the new URL? I finally decided to purchase a domain. So it's allthatmakeup.com now. My blogger friends were very supportive about that. Nisa helped me a lot with the process given she just bought a domain herself. She said better hurry before other people took the domain. Did you know that there are two other blogs that go by the name "allthatmakeup"? Because the name was already taken, they added numbers behind it.

As I promised, this is finally the end of this pointless ramble. Here I write a lot just because I feel like to, really. I know this journal kind of entry might not be everyone's favorite nor that it'll take anyone's attention. But I don't care. I just need to let it out and get a little personal. As I said, it'll be nice to get to know the person behind all that makeup.

Swatch of Kiko Face Palette in Tangerine Tan

My other kiko Origami Face Palette finally arrived. This one is in the shade Tangerine Tan. I already reviewed the product in general, so this post is just going to be about the swatch and pigmentation, which sadly, even worse than my previous palette.

I was already suspicious when I opened the palette and see a group of warm brown colors that matche my skin tone, except for the dark brown and the peachy pink. If the colors match my skin tone, then how on earth are they going to show up? And I was right. You can see on the swatches below. I swatched the colors separately. They look very pale with very strong warm undertone. Most of the colors show up as yellow and orange. I'm not saying I don't recommend this shade, because as I said on my review, this actually has a wonderful quality But of course Tangerine Tan is definitely not for my skintone, and darker. If you are paler than me, then you should get this. But remember that this is a very warm palette. Don't even bother trying to get it if you have cool undertone

And here's how the color looks like on my cheek after I don't remember how many layers. I lost count after fourth layer. Can't see anything? Yeah, neither do I.

Anyway, I dropped my palette the other day. It fell from the sink which about the height of my hip. It sounded pretty bad. I panicked and immediately picked up the palette from the floor, expecting to find all kinds of mess consists of crumbly blush and pieces of cracked mirror. But I have to give it up to the sturdy packaging and solid product inside. The blush itself just detached form the pan and the five colors separate from each other, but no crumbly mess. Also the mirror stays in one piece.

If you notice that chunk of blush in the picture and staring with questioned mind, well that's not how the palette originally looked like right after it fell. I panicked when it fell and then relieved that the blush was alright so I just pressed the detached product immediately into the pan. And then I realized, this could be a testimony for the product and I wanted to show it on my blog. So.. ehm, I slammed the palette one more time. This time with lighter force though, just enough to detached the product once again and took picture (I realize this story is getting even more absurd as I'm writing it).

So yeah, plus point. Sturdy packaging and dense product. Get this if you can, preferably if you have lighter skintone than mine. And why do I never report about the sturdiness of a packaging? Because I always try my best not to drop any of my makeup compact. But hey, at least there's an advantage from that stupid accident, yea?

Find Your Passion and Reach Your Dream with 'Shine With Passion'

 

In the middle of last month I was invited by Unicharm to come to the launching of www.shinewithpassion.com where there will be talkshow and discussion about finding your passion and reach your dream, as well as introduction about latest product from Charm. The topic really appealed to me so I decided to come. None of my blogger friends could make it, so I asked my friend, Hanny, to come with me. 

The event was held at Kempinski Hotel. The venue was mind-blowing and as I entered, I saw many framed empowering quotes by many famous figure, to complement the theme of passion that day.

 

The event was hosted by Iwet Ramadhan and Priscilla and started with Mr. Yoshihiro Miyabayashi, the President Director of PT Uni-charm Indonesia giving opening speech and introduced us to the company and their achievement in Asia and, specifically, in Indonesia. And then continued with Mr. Yasuaki Aoyama, Brand Manager Feminine Care of PT Unicharm Indonesia, explaining the ideas behind the campaign and their latest product. "This is an era where women play an active role in social environment. Therefore, more women are maximizing their potential to turn their dream into reality. 'Shine with Passion' comes as a reflection of the passion from Charm to facilitate active and talented women across Indonesia in finding their potential and reach their dreams with maximum effort." Not only by 'Shine With Passion' campaign, Charm also introduces the latest Charm Body Fit Day Slim to prove their passion and commitment to understand active women's needs to work on their passion with no obstacle, including the uncomfortable feeling during that 'time of the month'.

The event continued with talk show with Alexander Sriewijono who is a psychologist and career coach, Revalina Temat who is Charm brand ambassadress and also an actress. And Diana Rikasari, a fashion blogger and young entrepreneur.

We talked about Diana and Reva's passion. What keep them doing what they are doing right now. Reva picked acting as her passion. Trying to portray a character is her passion and something she really enjoys. As for Diana, whether as a blogger or entrepreneur, she loves to share the ideas she has in her mind. With that, Mas Alex comes into an underline that passion doesn't equal job. You are maybe a writer but what is it that you really do when you write? Some people write to share ideas in their head, or maybe to teach someone or to describe something. Also there are people who writes because it's their job, which is most likely the most boring answer (in my opinion). So your passion determine the output of your work. And something that you do out of passion will give more satisfying result and people who see your work can see that.

Mas Alex's presentation about The Quantum Leap theory really is an eye-opener. He started with a question, "If you have only two millions rupiah in your hands, where would you travel six months later?" Many audiences proposed idea of domestic traveling, except for Diana who carefully answered Europe. After he gathered all the answers, he then reminded us that the question asked your purpose in six month later, which means there's enough time to do many things with your current money.

The application is, he asked us not to plan our future based on what we have and then later define our dreams (SW-OT). This way of thinking only reacts to alteration and differences and we 'predict' our future based on what we have. Instead, find your dreams, and then define what you have to do (OT-SW). This way, we create differences and instead of predict, we 'make' our future happen. Quantum leap in growth!

As the talkshow ended, the event came to an end. I'm so glad I decided to take time to come to the event as there were many things I got from it.

Untuk pembaca di Indonesia,

"‘Shine with Passion’ mengajak perempuan berusia 18-27 tahun untuk langsung mengunjungi situs www.shinewithpassion.com lalu melengkapi data yang diminta. Pilih kategori dan kirim proyek yang akan dikembangkan, kemudian peserta akan mendapat link khusus untuk mekanisme pemilihan hingga 30 Agustus 2012.

Sepuluh besar finalis dengan voting terbanyak akan ditantang untuk mengimplementasikan proyek yang telah diajukan sebelumnya. Setelah pameran khusus semua hasil karya mereka pada 22 September 2012, akan terpilih tiga finalis utama akan diumumkan pada 30 September 2012.

Finalis terbaik akan mendapatkan dana sebesar Rp 100.000.000,00 dan dua finalis lainnya masing-masing mendapatkan dana sebesar Rp 50.000.000,00 untuk merealisasikan proyek mereka tersebut."

Tips Memulai Beauty Blog

Hi bloggers! 

Semoga kalian ga bosen dengan tips-tips sok tau dari saya. Tips kali ini tentang memulai beauty blog. Semakin ke sini, saya liat semakin banyak yang mau memulai beauty blog. Apalagi kalau menilai dari jumlah member di komunitas Indonesian Beauty Bloggers yang semakin hari makin bertambah. Artikel ini sebenernya udah lama mau saya selesaikan setelah sekian lama duduk manis di draft blog saya. Kebetulan IBB Jakarta baru aja ngadain gathering dan di acara itu Stella dan Mada ngajak saya untuk sedikit sharing tentang dunia blogging. Setelah itu, saya baru inget kalau saya ada artikel nganggur menunggu untuk diselesaikan. Jadi yah sekalian artikelnya saya kembangin, siapa tau bisa membantu buat temen-temen blogger yang baru mulai blogging.

Hobi makeup tidak sama dengan hobi menulis tentang makeup
Oke, maaf kalau poin pertamanya sudah terdengar harsh begini. Tapi sebaiknya dari awal saya kasih tau batasan antara hobi makeup dan hobi ngeblog tentang makeup. Banyak orang yang hobi dandan dan koleksi makeup. Yang membedakan mereka dengan blogger adalah hobi menulis. Kalau kamu tergiur untuk memulai beauty blog, tanya dulu sama diri sendiri: apa saya suka menulis? Di tahap awal ga perlu pinter nulis dulu karena seiring dengan kita sering nulis, lama-lama akan lihai bermain kata-kata. Tapi dari awal harus ada minat dulu untuk menulis.  Karena yang namanya nge-blog tentunya ga akan jauh-jauh dari hal tulis-menulis.

Pilih-pilih nama blog
Jangan anggap remeh pentingnya memilih nama blog. Ini yang akan jadi identitas kamu, jadi pilihlah baik-baik. Sebaiknya cari nama yang mudah diingat dan dilafalkan. Awalnya, saya sempat terpikir untuk membuat beauty blog dengan menggunakan nama saya. Tapi setelah dipikir-pikir, untuk booking pesawat saja saya sampai njelimet mengeja nama saya, apalagi kalau saya pakai untuk nama blog? Bisa-bisa orang nyasar tiap mau berkunjung. Menggunakan nama yang simpel itu membantu sekali. Dan sebaiknya hindari penulisan gaya alay yang membingungkan dengan mencampuradukan huruf dan angka. Tujuan kita adalah mencari nama blog, bukan bikin password. Bisa juga memilih nama yang berhubungan dengan isi blog, sehingga orang yang mengakses blog kita sedikitnya punya bayangan mengenai isi blog yang dikunjungi.

Jujur aja, untuk poin ini saya angkat jempol buat komunitas IBB. Saya sampai kagum koq bisa mereka kepikir untuk bikin nama blog yang unik dan imut-imut. Saya sendiri bukan orang yang kreatif dan cenderung praktis. Kebetulan hobi saya yang lain adalah dengerin musik dan saya suka musik jazz. Jadi bisa ditebak, nama allthatmakeup diambil dari lagu All That Jazz. That is, in case you're wondering.


I have a blog. Now what?
Saat kamu sudah punya blog, inget-inget bahwa dalam ngeblog ada dua tahap yang mesti dilewatin. Yang pertama, fokus dari dalam dulu yaitu dengan membangun konten blog. Setelah itu, kalau kamu merasa konten blog kamu sudah cukup bermanfaat untuk dikunjungi, barulah mulai sebar 'undangan'. Ga mungkin kan kita fokus ngundang orang dulu, tapi waktu pembaca dateng kita ga punya apa-apa untuk disajikan? Jadi jangan sampe tahapannya kebalik ya.

Membangun konten blog.

• Cari kekuatan kita yang bisa dijadikan ciri khas

Kalau mau ngomongin tentang 'kosmetik', tentunya topiknya luas sekali. Saran saya, mulailah dari koleksi kita sendiri. Dan seiring dengan berjalannya waktu, kenali kekuatan kita. Menurut saya, pembahasan beauty blog secara garis besar dibagi jadi dua, review dan tutorial/FOTD. Saya sendiri, waktu mau memulai beauty blog sebenernya pengen lebih fokus ke tutorial. Makanya saya sampe punya youtube channel segala. Tapi makin sering nulis, saya sadar bahwa kekuatan saya justru di kemampuan saya mendeskripsikan produk dan bermain kata-kata. Dari situ saya membangun blog saya untuk lebih fokus ke review produk. Dan itu bukan sesuatu yang saya sadari dalam sehari dua hari ngeblog. Wajar koq kalau di tahap-tahap awal kita masih mencari-cari kemana arahnya blog kita. Kalau kita tetep pada konsep awal, itu bagus jadi dari awal kita udah punya target pembaca yang tetap. Tapi kalau di tengah jalan baru ketemu ‘feel’-nya dan akhirnya kita berubah haluan juga ga masalah. Pokoqnya menulislah dengan nyaman.

Dalam komunitas IBB, kita perhatiin beberapa blogger senior yang udah lama ngeblog punya ciri khas masing. Misalnya PutriKansil dan Ichil yang fokus ke tutorial/FOTD. Atau Priscilla dan Ai Ni & Eve yang fokus ke review produk. Bahkan kita bisa memilih topik yang lebih spesifik seperti Mada Foe yang ngeblog khusus untuk review produk kosmetik dengan harga terjangkau. Atau Stephanie yang mereview produk dari sudut ingredientsnya. Nah, luas banget kan? Apalagi dengan menjamurnya beauty bloggers sekarang, punya ciri khas tersendiri itu membantu banget untuk menarik pembaca ke blog kamu!

• Bahasa apa yang digunakan?

Tujuan dari menulis di blog adalah menyampaikan informasi. Untuk itu penting banget menggunakan bahasa yang kita kuasai. Saya ngerti kalau beberapa bloggers memilih bahasa Inggris untuk ngeblog dengan tujuan meningkatkan traffic. Saya sendiri pun bertujuan begitu, selain untuk melatih bahasa Inggris saya. Tapi jangan anggap remeh kekuatan dari bahasa kita sendiri. Pasarnya Indonesia ini luas koq. Liat aja blognya Hanna. Bahkan Elrica yang udah sampai Singapore pun masih ngeblog dengan bahasa Indonesia. Dan traffic mereka pun tinggi! Jadi jangan takut kekurangan pembaca karena menulis dengan bahasa Indonesia.

Kalau pun kita kekeuh mau menulis dengan bahasa asing, jangan lupa konsekuensinya adalah kita harus mau terus belajar dan meningkatkan kemampuan kita. Apalagi bahasa Inggris yang salah penempatan huruf s aja bisa bikin arti kalimat jadi beda.

Pada akhirnya sih, mau menggunakan bahasa apa itu kembali ke bloggernya masing-masing. Asal kita bisa pastiin kalau pesan yang mau kita sampaikan bisa sampai dengan tepat ke pembaca.

Promosi blog

Setelah kita merasa kita sudah cukup membangun isi blog kita, tentunya kita pengen apa yang udah kita tulis ini dibaca orang dong? Dari sini kita mulai promosiin blog kita. Saat ini udah banyak platform yang bisa kita pakai untuk memperkenalkan blog. Salah satunya kita bisa gabung di Hellocotton atau Bloglovin. Apalagi sekarang era-nya Facebook dan Twitter, kita bisa mempost hasil tulisan kita di kedua soc-med tersebut supaya orang lebih sadar dengan keberadaan blog kita. Kalau kita ikut forum kecantikan, secara pasarnya pas banget, kita bisa sertakan URL blog kita di signature, seperti yang saya lakukan di forum Femaledaily. Bisa juga dengan meninggalkan komen di blog lain. Intinya bergaul lah seluas mungkin dan tinggalkan alamat blog kita.

Walaupun ada banyak cara yang bisa kita pakai untuk memperkenalkan blog kita, tapi disini saya amat sangat sarankan untuk jangan pernah menghina hasil karya tulisan kita sendiri dengan berkunjung ke blog orang lain untuk “follow for follow”. Selain bisa menyinggung si empunya blog, kita pun terkesan desperate. Percaya sama hasil tulisan kita sendiri dan percaya sama diri kita sendiri. Kalau memang blog kita bagus dan berkualitas, otomatis orang pasti dateng dan ngikutin blog kita. Lagipula, follower yang tercantum di blog itu ga menjamin kualitas suatu blog. Blog yang bagus memang punya banyak follower. Tapi blog yang punya banyak follower belum tentu bagus.  

Selain itu follower yang datang tanpa diminta-minta itu bisa digunakan untuk mengukur sejauh mana jangkauan blog kita. Tapi untuk hasil yang lebih tepat, saya sarankan untuk menambahkan fasilitas blog counter supaya kita bisa menilai jumlah dan pasar pembaca blog kita. Kebetulan fasilitas ini sudah disediakan oleh blogger.com. Sedangkan saya sendiri, untuk menambah informasi seputar traffic blog saya, menggunakan Statcounter.

Konsistensi
Nah, ini dia bagian yang saya sendiri masih harus tingkatkan. Sebisa mungkin jangan sampe blog kita ditelantarkan dalam jangka waktu panjang, tanpa postingan (ngomong sama diri sendiri). Ya memang yang namanya blog tetep aja dianggap hobi sampingan (setidaknya buat saya) dan saya ga mau sibuk ngeblog sampai kesibukan utama saya terlantar. Yang mahasiswa tetep mesti utamain kuliah. Yang karyawan tetep aja mesti utamain kerja. Tapi sebisa mungkin blog tetep di-update. Atau segera update blog setelah kita menghilang utuk periode waktu tertentu.


Karena bikin postingan (yang niat) untuk beauty blog itu rempong, biasanya proses ambil foto produk, editing dan tulis menulis saya cicil. Misalnya, supaya praktis, begitu beli barang biasanya langsung saya foto walaupun saya sendiri ga tau kapan saya akan posting. Yang penting saya sudah punya foto barangnya dalam keadaan masih mulus. Selanjutnya saya tinggal edit saat ada waktu luang dan sediakan waktu untuk menulis artikel.

Sekian tips dari saya. Maaf ya kalau tips dari saya makin lama makin panjang. Buat saya ngeblog itu adalah suatu proses dan saya belajar dari pengalaman (dan kesalahan) saya selama blogging. Kalau kalian punya saran dan kritik yang relevan buat blog saya, dengan senang hati lho saya terima.

Blogger Appreciation Award Tag

Confession: I've never done any Blogger Award before.

As much as I truly appreciate the gesture and the awards, let's face it, the tasks is sometimes too complicated. By the way, saying I received an 'award' sounds awkwardly overstate in my head, as if I'm doing something big here. I'm just gonna call it a tag. Ahaha... However this tag caught my attention because there aren't many questions and the questions are blogging-related. That's a topic I always like.

So thank you Stephanie, Monica and Felicia for tagging me. Don't forget to drop by at their blogs as well.

1. Thank The person who have you the award with their blog link on your post.

2. Answer the following 4 questions.

3. Award the blogger appreciation award as many readers/commenters/followers as you'd like.

4. Let the blogger know you've just awarded them (by leaving a comment/email/tweet/etc).

The Questions:

1. How long have you been blogging?

2. What are 1-2 reasons why you started blogging?

3. What types of blog do you like to follow/read?

4. What is 1 thing you would like to improve on as a blogger/on your blog?

How long have you been blogging? 

 I’ve been blogging in my beauty blog for three years now. But I’ve been blogging in general since 2008. 

What are 1-2 reasons why you started blogging?

It all started with a series of diary when I was in sixth grade. I guess I must admit that I like pouring everything that’s going on in my mind into an essay. I always have opinions about everything but I’m not an outspoken person. That’s when a pen and a piece of paper become handy. Or I should say now, a keyboard and a blog page.

I used to blog about my life and my ideas about everything. And then I realized, nothing in my life is interesting enough that would attract people to come and read my blog. However, beauty blog and video were very ‘in’ back then. And I was just started doing makeup. That’s when it hits me: I’ll just write beauty articles!

Anyway, if you’re interested, here’s the link to my old blog.

What types of blog do you like to follow/read?

Until now I only follow beauty blogs.

What is 1 thing you would like to improve on as a blogger/on your blog?

There are many things I need to improve. First of all would be the design of my blog. I love blogging but I am not a hi-tech person. I hate dealing with complicated codes in my website. So as you can see, the result is a super simple and forgettable layout. Ugh!

Another thing is to write carefully in the right manner. I wish I could be more attentive. I am not a patient person so I tend to just speedily write and then publish the article without proof-reading it. And the result is, most of a time, a piece of article loaded with typos. And I *always* find them after I published my piece.

Last thing I could think of right now that needs improvement would be how to write grammatically appropriate.

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Okay, that was fun. After all, digging up stories behind someone's blog is always fun, yeah? I know this tag has been going around and everybody has done it but I would like to know the about my sister's blog at peachysweetness and my friend, Hanny, at thestoryofbipolarcoffeejunkie.