Japan holds a special place in my heart because I’ve not only had great memories and experiences while on holiday there, I’ve also worked and lived there for almost 2 years.

If you’re itching to visit Japan but are worried if it’s going to be difficult because of the language barrier, don’t worry. I say this often to people who are wary about going to Japan but can’t speak Japanese: if I can survive in a small city 2 hours away from Tokyo where majority of the people can’t understand English and I can’t speak, read nor write Japanese, you will do just fine. I picked up a little Japanese when I was living there but only enough to get by with a whole lot of body language. It worked for me and it will definitely also work for you. 🙂

Here are some random tips for you that I’ve gathered over the years. I’ve got a lot more but I’ll be writing a thesis with them and that would bore the daylights out of you. Here they are in no particular order.

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I’ve read a great deal about the Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré on a lot of blogs for years. I remembered about a year ago when I was really keen on trying it out given that it’s received such rave reviews, even though it’s actually pretty thick and is meant for dry skin, not so much combination skin. At that time, searching for stockists online only gave me results of specific beauty salons that I could get this from, all of which were quite far from where I live. In the end, I gave up.

I almost forgot how much I wanted to try out at least something from Embryolisse until about a couple of months ago when lo and behold, a tube of the Emulsion Hydra-Mat landed on my desk for review. Even though it wasn’t the Lait-Crème Concentré, I was excited to try the Emulsion Hydra-Mat out too, especially since it’s formulated for oily to combination skin.

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I’d like you to take a look at your About Me page. When was the last time you updated that page? Wait … what? You don’t have an About Me page on your blog?

Oh boy. You and I, we need to talk.

I can’t even stress how important an About Me page is. I often see blogs with just a short 2-line bio of the author on the sidebar and it frustrates me because I want to know more about the blogger. But that’s all the blogger would tell me, all in those 2 lines.

Here’s an example of a sidebar bio I’m completely making up (but not really): Hi, I’m Jane and I love makeup. Welcome to my blog! Let’s connect.

That’s it. There isn’t an About Me page in the blog that allows me to know more about Jane. I don’t know where Jane is from. I don’t know why Jane loves makeup. Would I want to stick around and connect with Jane?

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