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Hello everyone,

I would like to draw your attention to a contest held by Orchard Central (OC) for girls aged between 18-28 years old.

They are holding a competition to look for the “OC” girl, the face to represent Orchard Central.

They’re holding a makeover session (who doesn’t love makeovers?!) every Sunday from 1-6pm from now till October at Basement 1. Each month, a finalist will be picked and featured in CLEO Magazine and the overall winner of the contest will stand a chance to win $5,000 worth of prizes, a CLEO feature and become the face of Orchard Central.

All OC Girl participants will also be invited for an OC Girl Party that will be held on the first Friday of the following month to announce the winning OC Girl for the month.

Dawn and I were invited to experience the makeover for ourselves and like I mentioned, who doesn’t love makeovers?

The makeup used was by Missha (located at #B1-36), a popular Korean makeup brand. The makeup artist mentioned the use of a makeup primer which contained collagen and everyone’s faces just seemed to light up after hearing it.

What I usually don’t enjoy about makeovers is the fact that I get my face caked up with tonnes of products and it literally feels like I’m wearing a mask, however, the makeover for the OC Girl was comfortable and I felt like my skin could breathe while at the same time, it was being beautified and enhanced by the makeup that was used.’

My makeup artist was friendly and professional, I gave some input on how I usually look better with darker eyeshadows than lighter ones for some reason and she did an awesome smokey eye makeup for me.

Our hair was done by Lacoco Hair (located at #04-13) and both of us had big gorgeous curly hair at the end of the makeover. . Dawn carries off curly hair wonderfully and her lighter hair makes her look very outstanding. The hair products used were of high quality salon series and managed to hold the curls and hairstyle pretty well.

The makeover services were fantastic. I loved the fact that I could just head out without any makeup because I was feeling so lazy that day, head down to Orchard Central to have my hair and makeup done by professionals and then have the rest of the day looking glamorous and made up. Remember how we’ve always said that a complete outfit includes styling on the hair and makeup on the face as well?

So do head down to Orchard Central this Sunday and have your hair and makeup done.

Good luck with the contest!

Dawn and I seem to hardly to store or brand reviews except of those which we feel passionate about.

Enter Doorstep Luxury who sent us an email which made us innocently click on the link to be directed to a beautifully designed website with a running squirrel.

The squirrel. It can be quite mesmerizing, I’m sure one can imagine petting a squirrel while browsing through the site while going “yesssss, I would like this, this and this.”

Okay, maybe not.

Victoria from Doorstep Luxury has kindly invited us to their showroom to tell us more about the designer luxury labels which they carry in their stores. We couldn’t lie when we told her that it was the items from Fleet Ilya that we really want to get our grubby hands on.

Structural leather waist clincher, UNF!!

Droplet clutch, also from Fleet Ilya.

Another piece from Fleet Ilya, we’re are quite obsessed with this label.

Dawn and I took a self-proclaimed holiday from blogging to reflect a little bit on the direction we’re heading.

It seems that in the blogosphere, traffic means more than anything, sure enough having more readers does mean that more people appreciate your work and writings but in the midst of trying to generate posts more frequently, we kinda lost ourselves and it felt as though we were compromising the quality of our blog posts.

This little break also made us realise that we really just love shooting pictures and trying to show people how black outfits can be interesting.

This outfit post is from one of those little outings we had in Haji Lane, as you can see, we do really enjoy this gritty little lane.

Overworn shoes and bag. Which reminded me that I have yet to showcase these awesome shoes that I bought just the other day. I can’t wait!

Oh yeah, over worn harness too. Does anyone have the problem of wanting to wear the same item over and over cause you like it so much?

Black outfit Breakdown:

• Dress: Threadbare & Squirrel (Haji Lane)
• Harness: Wonderwool (Haji Lane)
• Bag: Far East plaza
• Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell
• Accessories: m)phosis, Diva, Marc Jacobs

I’d have to say, it’s not everyday that you try to check the weather so that you can dress appropriately in Singapore cause it usually fluctuates between 30-32°C anyway. So there we were, caught off guard about what to wear for the day that we would describe as “cold” in Singapore. This is how difficult it can be to master the art of streetstyle in Singapore.

So Dawn and I chose to be seated outdoors while having dinner and this draft bothered us so much that we decided to check the temperature. It was freezing 25°C, don’t get us wrong, we’ve both been through sub-zero temperatures before but something below 30°C is not within our calculations in Singapore.

Wearing a mish-mash of my favorite accessories. If you’re wondering why I haven’t gotten the iPhone 4 yet, it’s cause the white one isn’t released in Singapore yet. /sadface

Just lopped off more than 5 inches of hair off yesterday. It isn’t terribly drastic but well, I am kinda missing the length.

Black Outfit Breakdown:

• Camisole: Old Navy
• Sheer top with frills: Bugis Village (seems to be a copy of a top from Topshop)
• Jeans: Forever 21
• Harness: Wonderwool (Haji Lane)
• Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell (I seem to be determined to wear them to death these days)
• Accessories: Surface to Air Ring, Marc Jacobs, , m)phosis
• Bag: Alexa knockoff from Far East Plaza

I was extremely privileged to be able to travel down to Cairo, Egypt last week for a quick tour to see the Pyramids of Giza. It wasn’t a long trip but it’s exciting to re-visit the pyramids after an absence of 3 years. It was full blown summer with temperatures reaching 37°C in the day. However, it doesn’t mean you can’t be fashionable in this weather.

We were riding on horses, the scorching heat would make it very uncomfortable walk directly on the desert sand.

Camwhoring with a DSLR while riding a horse is actually possible. True story.

While I was expressing concern to Jingna about heading to the desert in the peak of summer, she shared a story where she was shooting Sugizo in the desert and the heat from the ground melted the glue holding the shoe together, effectively destroying it and laughed about how I should be glad cause I wasn’t a fan of those shoes.

The terrains are rough, the heat is the most disturbing part of the entire trip, I don’t really recommend going there at this time of the year. To be honest, as a person who grew up in the tropics, I would expect myself to have developed some  resistance towards hot weather, to my dismay I have sorely underestimated the soaring temperature in the desert.

It makes you marvel at how the ancient Egyptians managed to build a civilisation amidst one of the harshest conditions on earth. With 200,000 workers building a pyramid for a duration of 30 years, which to date still baffles archeologists how it was possible to build something which retains the title of the world’s largest man made structure for a good 3,800years.

Being fashionable in the sweltering heat of the desert in Cairo, Egypt is not easy. This trip to visit the pyramids of Giza has certainly humbled my self proclaimed superpowers against the heat. Light and thin cotton garments work well as it allows your skin to breath and doesn’t trap heat. Despite the blistering heat, I picked something that covered my arms and shoulders as a direct hit from the sun can only spell sunburn at the end of the day. Always remember your sunblock, I slapped on some SPF 130 sunblock and I’m pretty glad I did.

Hope you enjoyed this little trip to the Pyramids with me.

Outfit breakdown:

• Top: Bugis Village (Singapore)
• Shorts: m)phosis
• Sandals: m)phosis
• Bag: Far East Plaza  (Singapore)