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Happy hump day, folks!

Yesterday, I asked on Twitter if there are any questions I can answer about blogging and Chelsea asked me this.

Time management. I.e. how to work and blog and not feel like it’s a chore.

Paris B wrote a very good post on how she did it with a full-time day job. It never ceases to amaze me how she works full time AND keeps to a regular, almost-daily blogging schedule. In fact, all you bloggers out there who has a full-time job and blog daily or almost daily, I salute you. It’s not an easy feat. Not at all.

It’s different for me now because blogging has become my day job since last year. However, I did start blogging when I used to have a day job as an engineer and while I didn’t blog as heavily then as I do now, it still wasn’t an easy thing to keep up.

I started blogging about beauty when I was still working as a R&D engineer in Malaysia. At that time, I was in between projects so I had a bit more time than I did before to blog at work. I’m not saying that’s what you should do; it’s just what I did. As I had to wait for instructions on how to proceed with the next project, there really wasn’t much to do at work except paperwork and attending useless meetings. We weren’t allowed to use the Internet willy-nilly either because whatever websites that were accessed would be logged by the IT department. So what was I to do to pass my time? I blogged but not online. I wrote all of my blog posts on Microsoft Word. People thought I was writing reports back then but truth be told, I was actually blogging. Mind you, those were only done after I had finished all of my work. 😉

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I don’t think I’ve heard or read that much hype about Bourjois’ 123 Perfect CC Cream ever since they launched the Healthy Mix Serum. The Happy Light didn’t sit too well in comparison to the Healthy Mix Serum in terms of its reviews but boy oh boy, was the 123 Perfect CC Cream raved or what? Obviously, given that I have 101 BB, CC and even DD creams, I was curious enough to want to try this out as well. Like I don’t have enough skin surface to slap on more creams, eh? 😛

I decided to pick a tube of the CC cream to try out. You know what? All those positive reviews I’ve read on blogs and watched on YouTube? Spot on, I tell ya. Spot on.

But … is it really necessary?

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This week, I’m doing a brand focus on L’Oreal to celebrate the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (formerly known as L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival). This brand focus is not sponsored content.

I remember when L’Oreal first came up with the Glam Shine lipglosses. It was many years ago and was also the very first lipgloss I ever used and while it was sticky as fly paper back then, I loved it to bits. As I grew older, my love for lipsticks grew and my desire for lipglosses diminished. Still, the Glam Shines always have a warm spot in my heart.

Yet I had mixed feelings when L’Oreal released a lip crayon version of the Glam Shine, called the Glam Shine Balmy Gloss. On one hand, I wanted it to work as well as the original Glam Shine glosses but on the other hand, lip crayons seem to be overdone by so many beauty brands and I was worried the Balmy Glosses wouldn’t deliver. Would they be sheer like a lot of lip crayons that I’ve tried?

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