My Foundation:
Of course, primer goes on before foundation; I use Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer. My foundation of choice is Lumiere Mineral Foundation but on days that I feel like using liquid foundation, it will be Lancome Color Ideal.

My Mascara:
Lancome L’Extreme is the only mascara that works for me. It’s pricey at $32 a tube but it’s worth it and besides, I don’t use it often. In fact, I usually either don’t wear it or I forget to put on mascara most of the time and on nights when I go out, I wear false lashes). I just like having mascara as a back up because I know it’s there. I’ve given up on my short, stick-straight Asian lashes.

My Blush:
Why spend a billion dollars on department store blush when it’s the one drugstore product that works better? I’ve only tried Mac, Dior, Lancome and Estee Lauder blushes but I always prefer my Annabelle blushes way more. Plus they are like $20 cheapers. Bronzers are a different story though.

My Eye Shadow:
I’m a total Mac whore when it comes to eye shadows! I have a bunch from other brands as well but I barely use them.

My Day Cream:
Dove Energy Glow and Dove Day Cream.

My Lipstick:
My favorite lipstick is Sandy B by Mac but other than that I prefer lipgloss. My favorite l/g is the sadly discontinued Mac’s Chromeglass in Snow Coral ♥ ♥ ♥. I’m almost done my last tube so I have to find a look-a-like. Any suggestions?

My Beauty Product Brand:
Um, can I say the entire Sephora store? Just kidding. I’ll have to say Mac because I love everything from there EXCEPT their skin products which makes me break out… and maybe their mascaras because they don’t work on short Asian lashes (damnit).

My Essential Beauty Product:
Primers primers primers! Urban Decay Potion Primer and Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer.

My Favorite Makeup Product:
Eyeshadows. I just can’t get enough.

My Perfume:
My current obsession is Escada’s Pacific Paradise.

My Nails:
I like to get my nails done occasionally but I try not to too much because I HATE the phase after I take them off because I have to wear bandaids on each finger since my nails are so weak. It’s so hard though because I get my nails done for free. Teeheehee. Otherwise, I’m usually wearing OPI black or white nail polish.

My Feet & My Hands:
H2O products.

Three Products to bring on a deserted island:
Hair conditioner, a razor and lipbalm deodorant just to be pratical. If I was really shallow, I’d bring my foundation, eye shadows and my brushes so that my make up can melt on my face under the presumably hot weather.

Woman I admire for beauty:
Halle Berry, Gisele Bundchen, also Natalie Mejia and Chrystina Sayers from Girlicious! No matter how embarrassing their group name is and how no talent they really have, they are freaking hot!

Woman with the Best Sense of Style:
Kat Von D, Nicole Richie, Audrey Hepburn, Victoria Beckham.

My Ultimate Dream:
To have a successful home business (Freelancing? Blogging? Selling Shit? Buying Shit?) and be a richass mofo… and then eventually retiring somewhere in Egypt with a stable and lots of horses. Maybe I’ll become the next Perez Hilton except instead of celebrity gossip, I’ll be blogging about Crest White Strips. Haha just kidding.

How Do I Define Womanhood:
Should I define it the shallow way? HAVING CURVES! Otherwise Womanhood is being strong and independent and not a clingy, dependant bitch. Sorry I didn’t bother to be nice.

My Favorite Fashion Publication(s):
I don’t even have time to read anymore (total ) so when I do, there is no way in hell I’m reading magazines… I’ll be reading books. Duh! But seriously, although I don’t actually read magazines that much, when I do, I read design magazines like Computer Arts and HOW. Okay, well I admit do occasionally pick up my copy of Vogue a couple times a year but that’s about it. I love fashion and everything girly but design is my real passion.

I was browsing through Etsy and came across a bunch of shops that I had to link.

The Toki Cafe. Since I was professing my undying love for dim sum in my last entry, check out Toki Café’s adorable little dim sum creations; I want one just so I can be reminded of Shui-Mai wherever I go. They also have sushi and 1-UP (OMGZBBQZ!!!). I loveee the 1-UP mushrooms. Check out their blog for latest project updates.

Candypop Creations. Just because I love everything to do with food.

Bella’s Gallery. I love her art; it’s very dark, gothic, moody and very mysterious in general. I needed paintings to hang around my room and I think I’m going to order some of hers to add to my already dark and gloomy room. You can see more of her art at bellas-playground.com.

Erinzam’s Shop. She has a billion awesome projects, especially some really cool bookmaking and binding projects. Definitely check this out if you are a designer! You can visit her blog at Vietnamese coffee on her blog and now I’m craving for it damnit. Vietnamese coffee is straight LOVE. Mmmmm.]

Carambatack Designs. Simply beautifully awesome illustrations and textures.

Spin Designs Inc. I’m so in love with the silhouettes embedded into their jewelry and mobile designs.

Can you believe it’s MAY already?! What does that mean? MOTHER’S DAY is freaking coming up dude! We always procrastinate with Mothers/Father’s Day presents and always end up panicking in the end, and if you are like me, then here are some quick and easy gift ideas:

• Take her to the spa. Get a simple facial, a nice full-body swedish massage or hell, even a brazilian together (well maybe not in the same room to save from awkwardness), but I’m sure mother will love it anyway. Being in a spa always feels good even if you are getting hair ripped from your body. If you live in Richmond, BC, Raintree Day Spa at the end of No.2 and Steveston is my favorite place to be (plus they serve you delicious tea while waiting… if you’re a tea freak like me).

• Buy her a puppy! Well this is from my personal experience because my mom loves my Mochi and won’t stop spoiling her. Just don’t do what I did and tell her we are babysitting it for a couple months when in reality, I spent $800 on her. Oh, and make sure that you don’t have grandparents that eat pets; my grandma, as much as I love her, ate my grandpa’s goldfish so I’m keeping my six eyes on Mochi 24/7. Hehe just kidding.

• Take her out for dinner. Or in my case, I think we’re just going to go out for dim sum because we are Chinese and can’t live without dim sum (well I can’t anyway). My mom usually goes out to dinner with her Chinese lady friends which I would rather stay out of just because I always feel awkward and bored in those situations despite the delicious food. I don’t think they like me much either because I’m rude and I use to talk about how much I despise Hongers in their presence. Lmao.

^{Honestly, how can anyone not LOVE dim sum? If you don’t, I’m not your friend and I don’t like you anymore. Seriously. Photocredit: jenzcorner.com}

• Increase her collection of Korean dramas. If your mother is like mine and likes to watch sappy dramas and look at hot young Korean guys (which is kinda wrong).

• Give her a makeover. My mom hates it when I wear make up but I know she’ll secretly have fun if I give her one. Your will too (because I say so).

• Buy her shizz (other than flowers)! The easiest piece of advice I can give ya.

• Or don’t buy her shizz (especially flowers)! Some of them (like mine) don’t like their kids wasting money on materialistic things even if it is for them (umm.. not me though, you guys can buy me as many materialistic things as you want ).

Oh wait, I just thought of THE BEST TIP EVER: DON’T PISS OFF MOM ON MOTHER’S DAY or I can guarantee you that she’s gonna be pissing you off for the rest of the year.

I was browsing through 42photo.com because I was looking through my pictures and decided I might want to invest in a new camera soon. I currently own a white Sony Cybershot T20 but the quality wasn’t too great compared to my previous cameras and I’ve always wanted to go back to Canons. As a designer, I have to ask myself which one is more important; the picture quality or the sexiness of the hardware? I’m materialistic and a sucker for beautiful things but I feel sick when image quality doesn’t meet up to my standards. Photoshop can fix quality (although tedious) and skins can fix the sexy-factor but still. This is going to be hard.

Although Canon is a leader in the digital camera/point-and-shoot industry quality-wise, in my opinion, Sony designs have always grabbed me more. I’m thinking of upgrading to this sexy and sleek Sony digital camera, the Sony DSC-T200. The WHY? BECAUSE IT’S SEXY and it’s a touch screen! I know I’ve said touch screens were annoying in the past but that was a cellphone and you don’t have to dial numbers and text message on a camera. And besides, I can’t resist a camera that’s not the usual black or silver. Plus at $314.99 on 42photo? Somebody kill me now for hesitating.

^{Current camera.}

But of course like always, low prices and good deals always put me in a state of dilemma. They also have a wide range of video cameras which I’ve been eyeing for a while too. Hours and hours of video of us running around like morons back in the day back was p-r-i-c-e-l-e-s-s so why aren’t I still documenting everything like I use to? I hate to say this, but I hate awesome deals because they make everything so much harder for us to choose from. I wish I can just buy everything. Le sigh.

Appetizer
What was your favorite cartoon when you were a child?
I don’t remember many cartoons except for Sailor Moon and Inspector Gadget. I loved Mr. Dress-Up though… it always came on after Sesame Street.

Soup
Pretend you are about to get a new pet. Which animal would you pick, and what would you name it?
Obviously I’d pick a horse and name her Misty (after Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry which was my favorite book when I was little).

Salad
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how much do you enjoy getting all dressed up for a special occasion?
10!!! I’m usually too lazy to dress up otherwise and I’m usually at work anyway… there’s no point making an effort there especially when I’m sitting in front of a desk all day and whose there to dress up for? Boyfriend doesn’t work with me (but not like I dress up for him anyway unless wearing his clothes counts. Hah).

Main Course
What kind of music do you listen to while you drive?
I listen to news stations for traffic and news updates (which is a lot more useful and more interesting than listening to music). Music stations especially The Beat is most annoying thing ever in Vancouver… I don’t understand how anybody can listen to that crap and the annoying DJs!! It’s almost a disgrace to our city (along with our over-population of annoying “gangster-kids”). The only time I might listen to music is at night when driving to Boyfriend’s house; music on my iPod includes oldies, R&B, country, hip hop and Spice Girls! Lol. Well basically anything except for annoying emo music.

Dessert
When was the last time you bought a clock? And in which room did you put it?
I got a new digital clock after renovating my room except it’s so damn bright that I get really annoyed at night unless I wear my sleep mask. Speaking about sleep masks, once you get a one, I swear you won’t ever be able to sleep without it again!

Anyway here is an article about the Asshole, spam (who doesn’t deserve a capital): Spam Turns 30 And Never Looked Healthier. Here is a link to the first spam message ever.