Quick Hot Pot Post ^o^

SUPER QUICK POST OF PICTURES.
Christmas night = Hot Pot!!!! For Christmas Eve we ate pork and duck, no post for that because it wasn't that "official". Ohohooo

My mom just bought a new one this year. $45 yo.

Augh my favorite part of the hot pot is the TOFUUU. I love tofu omfg. If there wasn't tofu, I'd be uber sad. Won't be as tasty. I'm the only one in the family that likes it really. lol. MORE FOR MEEEE.

Camera made the mushroom all yellow looking. It's white. Soo good. I LOVE.

Mouth was watering as I waited for the food to be ready..

To be honest, I only made this post because of my new camera. Overexcited haaaaa.

I'm so full right now though. I'm about to explode. Pretty sure I'm going to want to eat some more in a few hours. Pfftt. That's how our family works. It's still pretty early, sorta. SHALL EAT MORE LATERRR ARRR.

Sorry for such a quick post. Over and out.

What I Got for Christmas 2013 ~

I can't believe how fast December passed by. It felt like I just put up the trees and wrapped the presents yesterday!! My family and I opened our presents and now I've decided to show you guys what I got! 

We usually bring all the presents down to the big tree right before we open them. Let's start!

Man, lemme tell you. Since my sisters and I wrapped these presents and bought the wrapping stuff, it felt bad to rip these babies open. Especially the ribbons, they looked so pretty, all colorful under the Christmas tree. Sigh.. But on the other hand... PRESENTS.

Apparently, I'm poopie. As expected from my sister. Look at that beautiful doodle of poopie with flies.

I'm gonna start off with the presents I'm most excited about...

My parents bought me the Canon Rebel T3i. I'm so happppy you have no idea. I've been wanting a better camera but I was too afraid to ask because it's rather expensive. Soo from now on, the pictures on this blog post will be from my new camera!

I got an extra lens and a camera case for it all as well. KYAAAAAAA~ The video quality is so much nicer than my camera! Super excited to film new videos with this.

I've been needing a new purse because my Coach bag has been ripping. >< My sister bought me a new one from Target~ I looove ittt. It's from the brand Merona.

Okee so I desperately needed a new wallet. Why? Because my current wallet is from.. literally.. 10 years ago. I've been using my 10 year old Hello Kitty wallet. I don't know why I never bought a new wallet. How embarrassed I felt when I took my wallet out. Hahahaa... oooh myy. New wallet and coin purse to go with my new bag. Uber excited to go out with it !!

I have an obsession with wigs. Seeing too many different hair colors that look so good makes me want to dye my hair. I've lost count of the times I've dyed my hair.. bleaching it... nothing coming out exactly the way I want it.. Now I've settled for wigs. Wanting a blonde one, I got one! It's so nice and softt! I like the ones with bangs because the ones without them makes it hard to "blend".

Oooh such a pretty color and a nice length~

If you know me, you would know my obsession with false lashes. These are the Eye Matsuge lashes, pony ones. I have another pack from this brand, and I totally love them. They were the sheep ones I think. Alapaca? Don't remember. But anyways, the length on these are amazing, as in the lash band width. Definitely recommend these brand of eyelashes !!

Obsession with cute things like Rilakkuma and circle lenses comes into one. SUPER cute lens case!! Featuring Rilakkuma and Korilakkuma(sp?). I didn't want to take them out of the packaging until I used them. ohoho, sorry for the glare.

Last but not least...

Oh yeah! I got a Minecraft T-shirt. My older sister, cousin, and I are always playing Minecraft together. It's Steve with diamondsss!! Yeah, AHVEnt is my name on there so if you see me in them servers, say hi!!!

Hope you guys also had a very Merry Christmas~~ ! Penguin on our tree says byebye!

Gingerbread House Gone Wrong

Christmas really is my favorite holiday so my sisters and I really like to do "christmasy" things.
We started to make gingerbread houses recently.
It snowed so roads were icy, making us go to WalGreens to buy a gingerbread house kit.
Yeahh.. we buy the kits instead of trying to build our own and whatnot.

I tried to take a picture of it snowing but the camera wouldn't show the little flakes. Ended up being like.. 3 inches of snow?

My lovely little cousins were going to join us this year which makes me so haappyyy!
They're so cuuuteee and loveable!

Ignore my sisters to the right. 

 Wasn't much to choose from. We wanted to buy the kit from Target because they had the premade built house already. Everything already assembled, just had to decorate it.

Little did we know how difficult this year was going to be.

We chose this little guy. Only $10.

Man, it didn't even come with gum drops. What kind of gingerbread house has no gumdrops?

Okee, so the icing that came with the kit was grody. It felt grainy and old. The picture shows the house assembled, only held up like that for some seconds. So we had to resort to something else... hot glue. Who cares? It's not like we weren't going to eat it right? Hot glue solves everything!

 But we were wrong. Hot glue DID NOT HELP. It was so frustrating.. you have no idea. I thought the glue would be the savior of the night. NOPE.

I must admit, the candy did make the house look somewhat better. The colors were a nice mixture. 

Expectation of the night:

Reality:

Ooohhhh the disappointment. It was only fun because of my cousins. Oh well!!! Never again, Wal Greens, never again.

Just a short post! Will soon be posting up What I Got for Christmas. 

Good night and have a Merry Christmas~

Review: 3W CLINIC Sheet Masks

Hellooo there ~ So I received some masks from 3w Clinic to review. The ones pictured above are:

Fresh Potato Mask Sheet

Fresh Green Tea Mask Sheet

Fresh Cucumber Mask Sheet

Fresh Lemon Mask Sheet

Fresh Placenta Mask Sheet

Before I applied any of these masks, I thoroughly cleansed my face with my Clarisonic with the Clinic face wash.. forgot the specific name. :I

Anyways, I'm super excited to review these because I absolutely love sheet masks.

These are 100% cotton masks, suuuper soft.

I do have one complaint on all of the masks though that I will point out now.

Okee, so they have bad proportions. Like, the eye holes are way too close together. Some are closer than the other masks though. Also, I have a huge nose and this mask has a small area for noses, it doesn't cover my whole nose.. TT~TT If you try it, you could easily cut the holes for the eyes bigger, I'm just lazy. Ohoho.

So I first tried the cucumber mask.

I actually put the masks in the fridge while I wash my face to get them to be a bit cooler.

The masks already give off a cooling effect, I just like them even colder.

Anyways, the smell is like the typical cucumber melon lotion smell. Once you open the package, you can automatically smell it but it's not overpowering. When you put the mask on, you get used to the smell quickly so after awhile, doesn't smell like much. 

The product on the mask is a little sticky, stickier than what I had expected. There is enough that the cloth is soaked but there is also extra product 

Ooooh, so attractive, I know. [Sorry for my angry looking face, kind of hard to smile in the mask]

Messy background, I know. ><

After I took off the mask, my skin felt so refreshed. I recommend rinsing off your face because there is residue that will leave your face sticky. 

The back of the package says: "This is a sheet-type mask containing cucumber extracts. Its excellent hydrating effects will leave dry and tired skin looking smooth and moisturized. This hypoallergenic mask sheet stays attached to the face along with the natural skin texture, and will provide a soothing comfort for your skin with its cleaning and astringent effects."

I did feel like it soothed my skin, but really nothing else. The feeling of soft skin doesn't last long.

On to the lemon mask~

This mask made me crave for lemon bars. The smell isn't like a fresh lemon, more like a lemon pastry. I like it. I thought it'd be too strong because when I opened the package, it just hit me in the face but after having it on, it was tolerable.

As you can see, part of my eye is covered up. Be careful if your eyes doesn't fit the mask correctly because it'll buuurrnnn. Not too bad but it's sooo uncomfortable if you don't move it off right away.

The package says: "Thie is a sheet-type mask containing lemon extracts, It not only hsa cleaning and astringent effects but also soothes tired looking skin, leaving it smooth and clean. This hypoallergenic mask sheet stays attached to the face along with the natural skin texture, and will provide a soothing comfort for your skin."

 I didn't feel like this left my face "clean", just refreshed and soft. 

After rinsing my face off, it still felt fresh, it wasn't just the product.

I wouldn't leave the product on my face because I felt like it'd break me out if I didn't rinse my face after taking the sheet off.

Never really hear people talking about using potato based products for their skin so this was interesting. Plus I love potatoes. Hehe.... OTL

I didn't know what to expect from the smell of this. Thought it was gonna be kind of weird smelling but it ended up smelling sweet. Similar to the scent many of the Asian BB creams have. Pleasant smell. 

The back of the mask claims that "This soft masks completely covers the skin and the potato extracts makes clear and clean skin by supplying necessary moist on the skin without stickiness and managing the skin texture."

The mask did leave a stickiness though. But so did all of the other masks.

I'm just going to combine all of my thoughts on each mask onto one review:

Okay, all of the masks gave a similar effect. The thing is that I only used each type of mask once so I'm not sure about the outcome if a specific mask is used more than once.

All of the masks gave me a refreshing feel and left a stickiness residue. After tossing the mask away, I did rub in the extra product into my skin, giving it a few taps as well before I rinsed off everything.

I feel like alot of people would want to try out the green tea mask.. since everyone loooves green tea everything so muuch.. pfffttt ;P

Also, you're probably wondering about the PLACENTA mask. I was super creeped out when I saw this in the mail package. I told a friend (∪￣ ㋓ ￣∪) and they told me something like it's good at anti-aging. I HAD to try it out though. So the scent is also sweet. The placenta, potato, and 

green tea mask had similar scents. Sweet. 

Overall, I didn't see much difference in the masks, same effects. I give the sheet masks about a 4/5. I like the feeling of my skin after I use them buut not too amazing. I do recommend them if you're looking for some masks to try though.

Check them out here: http://cosmetic-love.com/3w-clinic-fresh-mask-sheet-10-peices-set.html

Thanks to cosmeticlove for sending these to me. ^-^

Collective Haul: Ulta, Forever21, A&F, Kohl's, Charlotte Russe and Victoria's Secret

Since Christmas is coming up, I've been doing alot of shopping lately. Especially since I've got a new job. 

Most of the time, my mindset is buying presents for other people but I couldn't help getting some things for myself.

OHohohooo

I'm going to start off with what I bought at Ulta: foundation, nail polish, & lashes.

The pair of Eyelure lashes in 202 is actually from Target. Hahaaa. Whatever, I'm just going to include it into my Ulta haul anyways.
I've been desperately in need of foundation and I repurchased the Revlon Colorstay foundation in 240 Medium Beige. Since they were having a buy one get one 50% off, I decided to buy their Revlon Nail Art Moon Candy, which I've been wanting to purchase since it came out. Crossing my fingers it'll be worth it !
I am crazy over false lashes so I bought the Kardashian lashes, a little overpriced though. I had a coupon though, soo it was technically only $2. Hehehee.

Onto Forever 21~

Again, I purchased even more eyelashes. SOMEONE HALP ME! One pair is for my older sister though. They're not all mine. (Like that makes it any better) Their lashes are pretty cheap and cute, couldn't help myself. Besides, I don't have lashes that have these pattern. Their packaging is cute too! I'm a sucker for cute packaging, unfortunately.

I'm almost always wearing cardigans. Seriously, they're so comfy and casual, yet super cute! I already have a studded cardigan that's black but this was 50% off so I decided to just get it because I love maroon. 

I've already worn the jacket, it's not exactly "warm" but I see these types of jacket everywhere and they just look so cute on people so I decided to get one myself. It's SUPER comfy. Wish it was a tad bit short.

Jewelry there is so cheap too, yet so cute. I don't even know why I bought earrings because guess what? One of their earrings I bought for them is stuck in my ear. Like, I can't take it off. HA. WHY DID I BUY MORE? Cause... it's so cool and cute. I likie. It just motivated me even more to try to take this stupid thing off my ear. The black pair is for my sister though. I wasn't sure if I wanted them in a pair of gold, decided to buy the left pair though. Mostly because they'll match the cuffs. Hehe. Not a gold person but then I just had to get them.

Now on to one of my favorite stores to shop from, Abercrombie & Fitch.

Okay, so I actually have the grey and white already. I bought pink and another white again because that's all they had left online, unfortunately. These are seriously so comfortable and looks so cute. It'll make your body look slimmer. They're a little short though, I don't mind, just pull my pants up. I'm so sad they don't have any more colors to buy. TT~TT They were only about $9. Not bad at all.

I got 4 "athletic" jackets from Kohl's. Before I started working here, I didn't know they had such cute clothes and great deals. Like seriously, it's so easy to save a bunch of money there.

I'm not sure if you'd call them athletic jackets, but I would so I'll be referring them to them as that. I purchased one from TJMaxx from Calvin Klein and I wear it like, everyday. Seeing these at Kohl's, I just had to get some too. The first three from the left is from Tek Gear. I only bought the last one because my sister has a black version and she looked good in it and so I wanted one too, got it in blueee~

Someone please help me. I have an obsession with oxford shoes and when I saw these two pairs at Charlotte Russe, I knew I was going to buy them. No second thoughts. Plus one of them is MAROON. I've been looking for a pair in maroon.

I got them both in a size 8. The tan pair is a little snug though, but they'll prolly loosen up after I wear them a few times, hopefully. They're not uncomfy though. I can deal with it. They were both $22.50 but with a couple discounts it was about $30. I'm super excited to wear them !
I used to wonder why people always said that girls were obsessed with shoes but now I understand. I need to stop. My sisters and I all wear the same size, so easy to have lots of shoes now. HA. My little sister isn't a fan of them though, s'kay. More time for me to wear them!

I also had to go bra shopping. I stopped by Victoria's Secret to get a new t-shirt bra because one of my favorite one broke it's strap. I decided to get a nude one since I only have nude push-up bras.

Just a plain nude bra, suuuper comfyy ~ It was a 2 for $49 so I just got another bra:

I got this nice baby blue lace convertible bra. There wasn't much bras to choose from for the deal but I thought it's still cute~ Love the color too. 

Of course, while looking around some more, I found the cutest bra EVAR. I've been wanting to buy a lilac bra for some time now since I've been obsessed with the color. At first it was a another baby blue bra, but while I was looking through the drawer to find my size, I stumbled across the lilac version. I was so haaapppyyy kyaaaa !! It's so cute and comfy! Expected from VS, it's pricey. Haha.. coupon alert.

Okay, the camera does not do it justice, I promise, it looks 100x better in person. I'm so happy, you have no idea. Soooo cuuuuuutteeee. It's actually sparkly at the top too! Specks of glitter/gems and what not. Tried to get shot of details but the camera didn't really get it. I tried looking for a better picture on the VS website but I couldn't find it lol. Too many bras.

Took a close up of the cute bow and charm though. Ohhoo. 

I'm usually not obsessed with bras but this bra makes me want to go buy a million more. Victoria's Secret really does have the cutest bras.

Oh and the purchase came with a VS blanket!

On a different purchase.. at Victoria's Secret, I bought two of their shimmer eye shadows:

The left one is Provocateur and the right is Dusk.

I forgot to take pictures of them so I just took it off their website. To be honest, the eyeshadows don't really look like this in real life. Much more shimmery and the dusk is more of a silver color. I recommend you guys to try out some of their eyeshadows. They're so smooth and pigmented (most are pigmented). They're not too expensive either ($12).

I love looking at other people's hauls so I hope you guys enjoyed looking at my haul~ 

I have a review over Korean face masks coming up very soon, be sure to come back and check that out ! :) 

Have a nice day,

xoxo