This is something very few people know about (well, now you), but I simply cannot get dressed, get my beauty groove on without, well, getting my groove on.

I’m sure a lot of you have watched The Devil Wears Prada. It’s one of my favourite movies, especially the intro scene with KT Tunstall singing “Suddenly I See” in the background, and the gorgeous ladies are getting ready for work, putting their clothes and makeup on, etc. I remembered for weeks after that show came out, I played the same song on my iPod in the mornings when I was getting ready for the day.

I have a digital radio by my bedside which is also an iPod/iPhone dock. So whenever I’m putting makeup on, I have to tune in to bossa nova or samba music to shake my booty while I’m in my bathrobe or undies 😛 I don’t know why, but it makes me get into the mood of dressing up for the day or night. Sometimes I even sing to the music with my hairbrush as a mic 😉

What about you? Do you also shake your groove thing when you’re getting dressed and doing your makeup? Come on, it can’t be just me, can it? 😛

Long time readers will know that I very rarely do Face-of-the-Day (FOTD) posts. That’s because I’m seriously hopeless in makeup application, and cannot even come close to the many beauty bloggers who are makeup geniuses. Yes, and I call myself a beauty blogger too. For shame!

However, for today, I thought I’d share a little something with you which I did up just for fun, featuring some of the makeup that I’m loving at the moment.

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Happy Hump Day, folks! Yep, it’s Bloggie Wednesdays again 🙂

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been having a lot of problems with my webhost for the past few months. In short, they complained that my website’s CPU usage was high and was affecting the shared server environment. They’ve disabled scripts that practically rendered my blog useless and inacessible, they’ve blocked my own IP address which made everyone able to access my blog but me, they’ve offered advice that caused my blog’s SEO to tank on Google and other search engines.

In short, it was a bloody nightmare. What made it worse was that I actually recommended them so highly to other bloggers, and one even signed up with them because of my recommendation. Guess what? A few months after I started experiencing issues with the old webhost, she was hit with the same problem too. She has since switched webhosts, but I’m still feeling bad about it today. 🙁

I switched to another webhost a couple of weeks ago, and prior to the switch, I’ve been asking around, on which webhost other bloggers are using, and why they chose it. After plenty of research and hair-tearing moments, I finally transferred to a popular webhost that a majority of the beauty bloggers are on. All the problems I had with my old webhost were eliminated.

If you’re planning to jump on the self-hosted platform bandwagon, here are a few tips which might help you avoid the problems I had.

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