I bet you’ve been seeing a lot of reviews of that popular gel liner by Benefit lately, haven’t you? Well, I’m not going to review that one today simply because I don’t have one and don’t intend to get one. I guess after you’ve seen it talked about in every other blog, you’ll tend to want to try something else, y’know what I mean? 😛

However, I do want to talk about a very similar gel eyeliner today. I picked up the Lasting Drama Pen Gel Liner by Maybelline when I was in Japan. At that time, I didn’t know about the Benefit They’re Real Push Up Liner. I didn’t even intend to buy any beauty products from international brands like Maybelline, Revlon, etc in Japan because I thought we might get them here too. However, the Lasting Drama Pen Gel Liner intrigued me so I decided to get one to try. I didn’t actually use it until I saw the Benefit eyeliner that I thought, hang on, they’re pretty much the same thing!

Well, a very similar sort of gel eyeliner anyway.

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Confession time, folks. This is something I’ve never admitted to anyone before till now. I wouldn’t even admit it to myself up till about a few months ago.

You know that famous eyelash curler by Shu Uemura? The eyelash curler deemed the Holy Grail of eyelash curlers by many women? A must-have?

I don’t like it. I really don’t like it. Yet the funny thing is, I used that popular eyelash curler for over 10 years whilst not liking it at all before I even thought of using another eyelash curler. All because it’s known as the best eyelash curler around and me, I thought I had to have the best.

*insert eye-rolling emoji*

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Let’s talk about books today, shall we?

How many of you love reading?

*hand shoots right up*

I love reading. It’s a favourite hobby of mine. Growing up, I read a lot. I may not have read a lot of the classics but I still read a lot. You’d find books in the toilet. You’d find me holding a book with one hand and eating with the other. You’d also find me in a lot of trouble for eating and reading at the same time. I’d be reading to the early hours of the morning and somehow still able to function the next day. Every weekend, I’d go to the book store and come home with at least one new book. I spent a lot of my allowance and later on, income on books.

Sadly, in the last few years, I’ve not been reading as much as I used to. The iPad became a huge distraction and I was consumed by the amount of magazines I could easily read on the tablet. My Kindle had also taken a backseat let alone my physical books. For someone who used to read so much, it’s a disappointing feeling.

Early this year, I was determined to read more books and a lot less magazines. Every book that has been read is noted in my Google Keep app. I don’t use Goodreads even though I’m a member simply because I’m quite private about the books that I read. Believe it or not, people do judge what you read on Goodreads so it’s best for me to just stay away.

Anyway, today’s post isn’t about my reading progress. It’s about my pet peeves on books. See, I’ve been watching a few BookTubers’s videos (that’s what they call book fans and reviewers on YouTube) and some of the things I’ve seen them do to their books just make my heart sink. Most book lovers treat their books like gold and I love them for it because that’s exactly how I treat my books too. Even though I mostly read on my Kindle these days purely for convenience, I still love a good physical book and believe that ebooks can never replace the feel and scent of a book. One of my favourite things to do when I’m shopping is go to a book store and just inhale. Inhale all that goodness in books. Ahhh …

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