writer rachel, 21, art music literature architecture fashion philosophy

my website Cherchez Beauté

wishlist
Books I want
tree of codes - jonathan safran foer
six walks in the fictional woods - umberto eco
the separate heart and other stories - simon robson
generosity - richard powers
shades of grey 2 - jasper fforde
fiction ilustrado - miguel syjuco
mr peanut - adam ross
light boxes - shane jones
a void - georges perec
the mind's eye - oliver sacks
the fall - guillermo deltoro
bel canto - ann patchett
wolf hall - hilary mantel
my name is red - orhan pamuk
the misfortune - wesley stace
time's arrow - martin amis
darkmans - nicola barker

Skin Care I Want
Anne Semonin Eye Express Radiance Ice Cube
Benefit Ultra Radiance Face Re-hydrating Mist
Clinique Repairwear Intensive Eye Cream
Murad Essential C Eye Cream SPF 15
No. 7 Protect & Perfect Intense Eye Cream
Tokyo Milk - EVERYTHING. I want everything from them, darn it.

Make Up I Want
Amazing Cosmetics Amazing Anti-Aging Face Primer
Benefit Sugarbomb
Benefit Moon Beam
Canmake Cream Cheek Blush Sweet Apricot
Coffret D'or Shine Drape Rouge (Glow)
Le Metier de Beaute Creme Fresh Tint in Poppy
Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Blissful
YSL Pure Black Lip Gloss

Other Stuff I want

Nail Polish Lemmings
Essie Starry Starry Night
Chanel Ciel de Nuit
Clarins 230

a-england Lady of the Lake
BB Couture Dragon's Breath
BB Couture Napa Valley Red
Bb Couture Mendocino Midnight
BB Couture Redwood Forest and loads more BB Couture polishes...

Butter LONDON Black Knight
Butter LONDON Tart With a Heart

Color Club Untamed Luxury
Color Club Otherworldly
Color Club Scent-suous Gingerbread Man
Color Club Scent-suous Santa's Cinnamon
Color Club Scent-suous Sugar Plum Yum

China Glaze OMG! Collection

Cult Nails Hypnotize Me

Deborah Lippmann Edge of Glory Holographic top coat
Deborah Lippmann Call Me Irresponsible
Deborah Lippmann Forget You

Dior Exquis

Essie Geranium
Essie Strawberry Sorbet
Essie Swept Off My Feet
Essie Mademoiselle
Essie Marshmallow
Essie Mesmerize
Essie As Gold As It Gets
Essie Pure Pearlfection

Estessimo TiNS The Neo-Vintage Dress

Etude House BL009
Etude House WH004

Finger Paints Special Effects Asylum
Finger Paints Special Effects Twisted
Finger Paints Evergreen Dream
Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat
Finger Paints Cordur Orange
Finger Paints Holly Good Times
Finger Paints Floatin' On a Cloud

Glitter Gal Marine Blue

Golden Rose Scale Effects: 2, 5, 11

HITS Lambada Flake
HITS Valsa Flake

Illamasqua Rampage
Illamasqua Boo! and Hiss Nail Pantomime Duo

Kleancolor Metallic Orange
Kleancolor Metallic Green
Kleancolor Holo Chrome

L'Oreal Owl's Night

Ludurana Aurora Boreal Reluz
Ludurana Aurora Boreal Emocionnante

Lynnderella (Llarowe stocks in January) Cauldron Drippings
Lynnderella Happy Holo-Daze
Lynnderella Gotta Love Brains
Lynnderella Bride of Franken

OPI Time-less is more
OPI DS Extravagance
OPI Diva of Geneva
OPI Jade is the New Black
OPI Can You Tapas This
Orly Galaxy Girl
Orly Lunar Eclipse
Orly Au Champagne
Orly Royal Velvet
Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
Orly Happily Ever After

Ozotic 624
Ozotic 531
Ozotic 532

pa A19
pa Q24
pa A24
pa A134

Periphera - any polishes, especially the perfume enamels as I don't have these yet. From Korea.

Picture Polish Hypnotic (Coming out in 2012)
Picture Polish Vegas

Mavala Agena

Missha HGR01

Nicole by OPI Hard-Kourt Fashionista
Nicole by OPI Kourt is Red-y For a Pedi
Nfu Oh 51
Nfu Oh 52
Nfu Oh 56

Nubar Peacock Feathers
Nubar 2010
Nubar Swiss Chocolate
Nubar Sour Candy
Nubar Gold Feather
Nubar Greener
Nubar Indigo Illusion
Nubar WIldlife
Nubar Purple Beach

Rescue Beauty Lounge Recherche
Rescue Beauty Lounge Anne

Revlon Facets of Fuschia

Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Turquoise Opal

SpaRitual Golden Gleam
SpaRitual Howl

Zoya Casey
Zoya Adina
Zoya Kimmy


cool stuff
Style.com
City of Skies
Flickr
Spinner
Fashion Nation
Scrangie
Vampy Varnish
All Lacquered Up

credits maker
picture
brushes
blogspot
blogskins

Thursday, March 01, 2012
Oh you have no idea -

I'm doing my best.
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
Oh so it has to be this way I see

Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you,
Getting to hope you like me.

Getting to know you,
Putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,
My cup of tea.

Getting to know you,
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you,
Getting to know what to say

Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Christmas is coming!

I've been doing up my wishlist *shamelessly brandishes it in your face* and of course, nail polish is top of my list. If you wanna get nail polish for me that's not on my wishlist, do let me know in advance because you may end up getting something I already have, which is totally counterproductive, so...

Actually my wishlist is pretty simple. Apart from the nail polish lemmings which are a really long list, I know, I know. If you absolutely refuse to support my nail polish obsession, just look at the right sidebar of this blog and you'll see a whole list of books and other items I want. Giving me any of those is bound to make me 1) squee and jump around in joy and do a happy dance 2) hug you immediately 3) give you a really awesome gift. So if you want any of the abovementioned 3 things to happen, do HIGHLY consider doing that. My wallet and my person thank you in advance.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Hour

Love's time's beggar, but even a single hour,
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.
We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers
or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch.

For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair
like treasure on the ground; the Midas light
turning your limbs to gold. Time slows, for here
we are millionaires, backhanding the night

so nothing dark will end our shining hour,
no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit
hung from the blade of grass at your ear,
no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit

than here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor,
but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The Definition of Love

MY Love is of a birth as rare
    As 'tis, for object, strange and high ;
It was begotten by Despair,
    Upon Impossibility.

Magnanimous Despair alone
    Could show me so divine a thing,
Where feeble hope could ne'er have flown,
    But vainly flapped its tinsel wing.

And yet I quickly might arrive
    Where my extended soul is fixed ;
But Fate does iron wedges drive,
    And always crowds itself betwixt.

For Fate with jealous eye does see
    Two perfect loves, nor lets them close ;
Their union would her ruin be,
    And her tyrannic power depose.

And therefore her decrees of steel
    Us as the distant poles have placed,
(Though Love's whole world on us doth wheel),
    Not by themselves to be embraced,

Unless the giddy heaven fall,
    And earth some new convulsion tear.
And, us to join, the world should all
    Be cramp'd into a planisphere.

As lines, so love's oblique, may well
    Themselves in every angle greet :
But ours, so truly parallel,
    Though infinite, can never meet.

Therefore the love which us doth bind,
    But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
    And opposition of the stars.

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Sunday, October 16, 2011
five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear

I'm feel so relieved now even with more work looming in the next two or three weeks. At least the worst (2 presentations, an essay) has been over since Wednesday! Hurrah! What's that you say? What have I been doing since then? Oh nothing much, just applying for the most important school term of my school life apart from Honours year - I'm going on the Student Exchange Programme to Switzerland in Semester 1, if everything goes well. I'm definitely looking forward to going back to Switzerland to study (went for the French language immersion programme there previously) because it's such a lovely country, with great food, efficient transport and beautiful scenery. I know that some of my fellow Swiss exchange friends were grumbling about the high cost of living there and also the lack of an exciting nightlife, but I guess I've been blessed with understanding parents and I don't particularly fancy participating in clubbing or bar-hopping anyway, so the nightlife complaint is moot.

I've been doing a lot of thinking over the past few months. You know, about what I want from life and all the little things in between. I'm especially grateful to my dearest and closest, who've been there for me in difficult times (oh yes, very difficult times). If you're reading this right now, you should know who you are :) I'm not shy to express my gratitude to people who've been wonderful to me; you have been the constant in my insane, melodramatic life. Sometimes it's kind of funny how I keep drawing the strangest types of melodrama; I'm not even sure whether it happens by choice or by chance! I suppose it makes for plenty of gossip fodder and interesting stories when things blow over, but when one is living through the chaos, it is NOT pretty. People change, that's true. It's interesting when you feel like you've given up on maintaining any semblance of a good relationship with them, especially those friends who've been rather MIA (I know I'm guilty of this sometimes), and then suddenly they contact you again... But not exactly because they miss you, not really. Probably because they need something from you, be it attention, time or a favour. What a bittersweet reunion.

In any case, what I really mean to say is that I hope that the people in my life now will stay for a long, long time. I really treasure you, and I can't imagine not having known you or not having tried to make a connection. Maybe sometimes you get upset at me (for perfectly valid reasons, I know), but I just have this hope that maybe, just maybe, I've found people who'll stick it out with me. Then I won't need to keep dreaming my escapist fantasy of starting afresh in a place where no one knows my name... Melodramatic once again, I know, but the idealist in me, constantly disappointed, is always looking for a way back to the ideal. Also, no matter how many words I use to convey the depth of how much you mean to me, it's just not enough, either in speech or in prose. Just know that no matter where life takes us, I will always remember the crossroads at which we met, and I'm hoping that we're taking paths that converge, else it will be my memories of you that follow me along my path. Regardless of how happy I am to know you in such a way that few can or do, I only want you to be happy. And if your happiness is predicated on choosing a path that diverges from mine, no matter how difficult it would be for me to watch you leave, I will not stop you. My thoughts will always be with you just as our memories will always be with me.
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Sunday, October 09, 2011
Bunbun Makeuptips Giveaway: Daiso Detergent for Puff and Sponge

Bunbun Makeuptips Giveaway!

There's a great giveaway going on for the Daiso Detergent for Puff and Sponge right now at Bunbun's website :) According to Juli, it's the best brush cleanser she's encountered (better than the MAC one and it's only $2 yo!) - you can read her post about it here.

For the giveaway, 3 lucky readers will get the Daiso Detergent for Puff and Sponge and the best thing is that it's open to readers from all over the world! The giveaway ends 23 October 2011 12:01 EST, which should be 12:01pm Singapore time. I really hope I win one so that I can stop using soap and water to clean foundation off my brushes - it's really a pain and very time-consuming. Kudos to Juli for the great giveaway, and do join - don't wait!

Labels: bunbunmakeuptips, giveaway

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