Revitalize!Maddy's take on Makeup and Lifestyle 

Would you like to see me do a haul of everything I bought during the time I was away?

Favourites for the month of july! I will be making more videos on monthly faves!

Haha actually I graduated last thurs which was my convocation. If you know me personally, you probably have seen my convovation pictures splashed all over facebook. After 4 toiling years of stress, I felt so proud of this moment! And also to all who graduated in 2011, no matter what university you are from - CONGRATULATIONS!! We have all made it!

Here's me with all my graduating friends!

So proud of myself!

Mummy gave me such beautiful lilies so that I can look pretty in my photos :)

And also a graduation balloon from my fiance :)

And if you want to know what makeup I applied for my convocation, I use E.L.F quad in butternut, MAC blush in goddess and Benefit's lipstick in Lady's Choice

Yep finally graduated though convocation is on the 28th july. Last night I attended NTU's dinner and dance for class of 2011 and here is my makeup and outfit:

Decide to go with neutral eyes and my dress style was greek goddess thus it had to simple and nice as goddesses are beautiful even without makeup haha!!

This was the dress I wore. Bought it at Far east plaza for $44.50. Accessories was kept simple with just a leaf hairband that has silver crystals, a pair of flower earrings and simple bracelet. I didn't do anything to my hair at all except put on the hairband :)

A comprehensive with some rambling on the clarisonic plus!

Overall I do like it :)

Joined a spree in late june hosted by Cherub lips and gotten some new goodies which sigma introduced recently. Really excited in trying them out!

I have tried the Dry n Shape yesterday and I do like it. It really drys my brushes especially those hard to dry synthetic brushes within 6 hours!! However I'm not so sure about restoring the shape of of brushes to its original state. It seemed to dry them into the most compact state possible and its not how it originally looked. But a little fluffing of the bristles will bring it back to normal :)

Really love these red satin makeup bags with gold linings and zippers. They look very classy and expensive and not to mention the interior of the bags are filled with black fabric that offer some cushioning. Very good quality and well worth the price as it was on 30% discount!

Jumped on the bandwagon and got the cleansing and polishing tool as well. Ordered this before the clarisonic and fickle-minded me decide to get the clarisonic in the end also. So now I have this and the clarisonic as well. Will do a separate review on them individually as they are both used for different purposes. This is for exfoliation while clarisonic is more for deep cleansing.

All in all I spent quite a lot. Sigma ain't that cheap afterall. Here is a rundown of the prices:

Cleansing and polishing tool: $59.14
Dry N shape: $42.25
Red makeup kit : $22.61

Just a quick haul and review. Enjoy!

Some stuff I got during this month with the star buy at the end :) :

Star buy:

The pink one is super cute and it helps the fight against breast cancer foundation as well ! It was $375 with a $40 sephora voucher if you buy it this month.

Oh well just an update,  just my luck that I got a defective clarisonic :( Boo! The shower brush when inserted could not vibrate and when I brought it back to sephora, they told me that the battery was faulty as well as my clarisonic when switched on became hot. They are exchanging mine with a new one which is currently charging(24 hour charge required before first use) at sephora recommended by the SA to ensure that all is fine before they hand it to me. OMG imagine if I had bought it online, wonder how long it will take to exchange!

Hi all, haven't been around lately due to my studies and I am proud to say that I have finally finished my 4 year long degree and have graduated! My results came out on june 9, right after my grad trip and I was relieved when the school website results showed I have completed whatever I need to and have graduated. Yeah!! Convocation will be on 28th july so I can't wait haha!

Anyway I went to HK and Macau for my grad trip with 3 of my good friends  and we had a wonderful time. I have never been to HK and Macau before so I was really excited plus I bought a lot of stuff *guilty*. It was all worth it!

Some pics from my grad trip:

This was our hotel room. It is apartment style with a kitchen, a living room and 3 bedrooms

This was my room during our stay in hong kong

Gong cha anyone?

Disneyland!

St Paul ruins

The Venetian

Here are me and my friends

So now to the haul;

Bought a new camcorder from Toshiba! I got it primarily for my Hong Kong Trip next month. Its not a big camcorder, rather its a pocker camcorder so I can carry it around easily! Was contemplating getting the Flip Mino but in the end decide to get this :

Its the Toshiba Camileo S20

Love that it can film HD videos at 1080p, the highest for youtube videos and it weighs a mere 115g

Flips right open and sits just nice in my hands

Makes self filming easier as the LED screen can be flip backwards. That's me holding my camera to snap a shot of this baby

Even comes with a cute flexible tripod stand.

All in all, I paid only $199 for this camcorder as my fiance has the challenger membership, otherwise it would cos $249. It comes in a range of colours like red, pink, white and black. I would have bought red if I had a choice but this was the last piece available so I took it, but black is sleek anyway haha!

I can now do HD youtube videos woohoo!

Specifications in case you are interested:

Image sensor 5 Mega pixel CMOS sensor

Operation modes Movie record, Picture record

Zoom FHD(1080p30):1X (1X Digital zoom)

Other video resolution:1X~4X (4X Digital zoom)

Shutter Electronic

LCD monitor 3” /7.6cm LCD

Storage media

Built-in 128MB memory (partial memory is used for firmware code);

SD/SDHC card slot support (up to 32GB)

Image resolution High 4608 x 3456 (16M pixels)

Standard 2592x1944 (5M pixels)

Low 2048x1536 (3M pixels)

Movie resolution FHD (1080p 30) 1920X1080(30fps)

HD (720p 30) 1280X720(30fps)

WVGA60: 848X480(60fps)

VGA (4:3) 640X480(30fps)

White balance Auto/Manual (Daylight, Fluorescent, Tungsten)

ISO Auto/800/1600

Self-timer 10 seconds delay

Light Digital Light ON/ Light ON/ Light OFF.

File format Picture: JPG

Movie: AVI

Image play Single image/Slideshow

PC interface Mini USB 2.0 port

TV out NTSC/PAL selectable, HDMI

Battery Lithium-ion rechargeable battery

Dimension 59mm(W) x 106mm (H) x 17mm (D) (2.3 (W) * 4.13(H) * 0.66(D) inch)

Weight 95 g (without battery)