I use the iPad heavily for blogging. Most of the final work like text and photo editing is carried out on the desktop (hail the 27″ monitor!) but when it comes to writing the meat and bones of blog posts, they’re done on the iPad.

The iPad has taken over the role of my laptop. I read, write, watch movies, listen to music, do the whole social media thing and so on on the iPad. My laptop is now at least 8 years old and is still running on Windows XP and Tim’s laptop is 6 years old. Both are running like tortoises which makes opening programs like Photoshop and even the Chrome browser a real chore. They take about 10 minutes to fully boot and running memory-heavy programs are very difficult.

As I use the iPad so heavily these days, there’s no need for me to get a new laptop. However, this also means that I have to make sure I have sufficient apps on the iPad to make my workflow seamless.

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Photographed in the wrong light or makeup faux pas? You decide.

Tabloid magazines often catch celebrities in their most unflattering form and more often than not, the caption has absolutely nothing to do with reality. It’s just like pressing the pause button when you’re watching a video and it happened to stop right at the moment when the person is blinking. Eyes closed, maybe looking a little sad and bam! “Kate Middleton is sad about being preggers again!“. Y’know, that sort of thing.

And then there are those unflattering photographs of celebrities whose faces look a few shades lighter or darker than their actual skin tone. I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of those as well. Often those photos make me wonder: is it the photographer’s flash that made their look way lighter than their neck? Is the light bouncing of the SPF in the makeup? Or did said celebrities really wear foundations lighter than their skin tone?

It made me curious. Do we wear foundations that are exactly our skin tone or do we deviate to something lighter or darker depending on how we want our skin to look?

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I’ve heard a lot about sponge-type nail polish removers but have never tried it out. During one of Priceline’s sales, I decided to pick up a bottle of the Maybelline Express Remover just to see what the fuss is about.

OMG. I may have discovered a miracle product. Imagine being able to fully remove nail polish off 10 fingernails in less than 1 minute. That was how quick it was for me to remove my nail polish with the Express Remover.

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