(UPDATED) Rise & Shine Family FunFest 17-19 Feb 2017





(UPDATED) Rise & Shine Family FunFest Early Bird Pricing has been extended till 13 Feb and don't miss your last chance to enjoy your 1-for-1 promo!

Hello mummies,

 

You are all invited to join me at Rise & Shine Family FunFest - indulge in a Weekend of Family Fun! 

 

Special 1-for-1 promo for Made Beautifully readers! Ticket allows access to over 30 fun games & activities, unlimited bounces on the MEGA Bouncy Castle as well as a $50 goodie bag!

 

Use the promocode: BEAUTIFULLY upon checkout: $5/two kids. If you have 3 kids, please register the third kid separately. Promo ends 5 Feb. URL: http://riseandshine.com.sg/riseandshine-family-funfest-2017.html

  

 

See you there!

Sample Store Ka Bloom + Launch of Sample Store's Mobile App

Last month, on 5th of September, I was invited to Sample Store Ka Bloom + event for the launch of Sample Store's Mobile App. Sample Store is now available on mobile phone. You can get the mobile app on Apple Store or Google Play now for free. You can also download it here at http://www.samplestore.com/mobileapp

Unfortunately I couldn't attend the event due to personal matters I needed to attend on that day. I will definitely attend the event next year

I have been a big fan of Korean beauty products for more than 10 years and now thanks to Sample Store & Cathy Doll for sending me super nice Korean beauty products to try and review on my blog, my skin looks greater now! Cathy Doll is a brand from Thailand, selling Korean beauty products available at http://www.karmarts.com.sg

And here's my review:

1) Cathy Doll Water Splash Essence

This product is all the time best seller! It contains mineral water essence and glutathione to hydrate skin, instantly brighten and effectively moisturize. After putting water splash essence on my face, I feel so fresh and I am surprised with the instant brightening effect. Before VS after, you can see "after" is brighter than "before" it really works as it claims!

2) Cathy Doll Whitening Sunscreen

This is also another best seller product I like. It has highly efficient UV Protection SPF 50+ PA+++ and L-Glutathione Magic cream to brighten dull skin, moisturize dry skin, conceal spots/blemishes and it's also paraben-free, waterproof and non chalky formula. What I love from this whitening sunscreen is the cooling effect and it doesn't feel sticky at all which I like and it does have instant brightening effect as you can see from my pic. A perfect solution to look good and fresh for morning jog under hot sun in just 1 minute!

3) Cathy Doll CC Cream Speed White

The onsen mineral water technology deeply moisturizes dry skin, formulated to feel lightweight and grease free and it also contains SPF50+ PA+++ which I like. What I love from this CC cream is the lightweight effect on my face. It also brightens my face instantly. Lightweight and grease free are formulas needed for hot & humid country like Singapore where we sweat a lot more!

Can you tell my complexion looks better?

4) Cathy Doll CC Speed White Powder Pact

Less oil, lightweight, easy to spread and paraben free formula. It also has SPF40 PA+++ formula which I like. This one is my perfect quick solution when I need to rush out with my 2 kids. I just need a few applications of CC Speed White Powder Pact with lipstick and I'm done & ready to go out with good complexion! It really has immediate result to brighten my skin and maintain a smooth complexion all day long!

I'm really happy with Cathy Doll products. The packaging and overall look are really pretty, girly and attractive which I super love and seriously irresistible!

Thank you Cathy Doll for making me look good in just a few minutes time!

 

 

Sample Store Editors' Party

A couple of weeks ago, on 22nd August, Saturday, I was invited by Sample Store to attend Sample Store Editors' Party. Thank you Sample Store team for organizing such an awesome party for all Sample Store Editors! It was my first editors' party and I was really excited knowing I got to meet so many wonderful & good looking ladies at the event. I felt a bit nervous too hahaa.. I was like planning what to dress up, what shoes to wear and what hand bag to carry, etc.. Despite having 6 extra kg of baby weight stuck inside me, I determined to look at least presentable. Lol!

The Sample Editors' party was conducted at Full of Crab, located at 195 East Coast Road Singapore 428900 (nearby i12 Katong Mall). Full of Crab is an American styled restaurant that serves fresh seafood with bursting flavors, cooked with tasty sauces such as Cajun, Garlic and more secret ingredients. The decor of this restaurant caught my eyes the moment I stepped in. It was unique and cozy. It looked like a good hang-out place with good food to spend quality time with family & friends.

The boss of the restaurant was so generous, all of us were fed well with generous portion of crabs, seafood, fries, cajun wings, fried sweet potato, free flow of soft drink and many more. The portion was too generous that we couldn't finish all. The food was too good and I was particularly impressed with the delicious garlic butter crabs and cajun wings. It was one of the best ever! To a food lover like me, I was kind of missing the taste when I was back home. so, I nagged my husband to bring me back to Full of Crab next week and he said "yes".

 

Ready to eat

 

Super delicious food, are you drooling now?

 

I can't wait to have my wonderful dining experience at Full of Crab again. For more information, please visit Full of Crab website: http://www.fullofcrab.com

 

  

Sample Store Editors were not only pampered with good food but were also exclusively pampered by FOMO Digital, the one stop social media marketing solution provider.  

 

The editors were allowed to take as many pictures as possible, got our pictures edited and uploaded into social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc and got our pictures printed on the spot.

It was instant and personalized. The "on the spot" instant photo printing was awesome and I loved the good service provided by FOMO Digital team too! They did a really good job. For more information on how to engage their service, please visit their website at https://www.fomodigital.com

 

 

And now, good news to share with my readers!

Sample Store will be organizing Ka Bloom + Beauty Fair on Saturday, 5th September at TripleOne Somerset, Makers' Market #01-10, Singapore 238164, 12pm-6pm and you will need to sign up as a Sample Store member to receive RSVP invites on 1st Sept to this beauty fair.

Alternatively, you can download the mobile app from 1st Sept onwards on the app store & sign-up as a member and simply flash the app at the beauty fair to get in. Attendees can bring their friends as the event is open to ALL, for as long as they've downloaded the Sample Store mobile app from 1st Sept onwards.

You will also receive instant win with every mobile check out at the event. PLUS exciting exclusive promotions (from Partners of Sample Store), hourly lucky draw (win prizes worth up to $2800), door gift worth $69.90 and photo booth (with unlimited instant prints). What are you waiting for? Be a Sample Store member at https://www.samplestore.com/ and RSVP now!

As a Sample Store editor, I was really pampered by the sponsors and wow! just look at the beauty and hair products I received in my goodie bag. I was more than being pampered, I was really treated like a real princess with so many branded beauty and hair products.

 

Goodie Bag from generous sponsors

 

And my lucky draw prize

Specially dedicated to all sponsors participated in this party a big "THANK YOU" for sponsoring me the goodie bag (worth $300) and lucky draw prize (I was really lucky to win the 5th prize, worth $135.6). A big thank you from deep of my heart to:

Tsubaki (Tsubaki Koji S that has hair and scalp moisturizing and softening effect)

Ma Cherie (Haircare that cares my hair in the most luxuriously sweet way)

ZA (ZA true white Ex series that are formulated with whitening ingredients such as Vitamin C essence for skin whitening & moisturizing. And also ZA killer volume curl mascara that creates ideal 110 degree curl even on downward straight Asian lashes with ultra curve brush)

Aqua Label (A moisturizing line that enhances the skin's moisture density, achieving moisture-laden, irresistibly soft, supple and bouncy skin and a whitening line that focuses not only pigmentation spots, but on overall facial dimness)

Majolica Majorca (The perfect automatic liner that is easy to draw, long lasting, quick dry & resistant to perspiration)

Senka (Speedy perfect whip that creates thick, creamy foam for deep cleansing and leaves skin feeling soft, smooth and moisturized and also perfect puff that is 3 layer make up remover puff with in-built cushion effect to gently remove make up)

BioNike (defense tolerance 100, protective and reinforcing base cream for hypersensitive & intolerant skin)

Sampar (skin quenching mist to freshen up & soothe my tired face)

I can't wait to try these awesome beauty & hair products and share my review here and overall, I really had a good time at the party with super delicious food & good service from both Full of Crab crews & FOMO digital crews. And having fun moment & good time with fellow beautiful editors and thank you so much Sample Store for organizing this wonderful party!

Until next Sample Store event. See you!!

 

My Gym Review

Last Saturday, 6th June, I was invited by My Gym City Square Mall to attend trial baby class together with my other 14 mommies friends. I guess most of my readers don't know about this yet. I'm one of the December 2014 mommies group members. From the group, I have met many wonderful mommies and babies. I have also attended fun & exciting play dates & gatherings with fellow mommies & babies (yes, it's really fun when babies are the same age/born in December 2014).

My gym has developed an extraordinary program and facilities devised to help children 4 months thru 10 years of age develop physically, cognitively and emotionally, offering structured, age-appropriate, weekly classes that incorporate music, dance, relays, games, special rides, gymnastics, sports and more.

MY GYM’s having won US Parents’ Choice Awards has designed program in a way that nurtures a child’s natural ability, curiosity and creativity emphasizing on small student-to-teacher ratio to provide individual attention and positive reinforcement

I would really like to thank My Gym for sponsoring us (a group of 15 mommies & babies) to try fun-interactive activities at My Gym, City Square mall. It was my first experience at My Gym & I didn't expect it was going to be really fun & interesting. All babies were about 6 months of age

The duration of the class I attended was 60 minutes. At first, babies were allowed to play round & interact with one another. Baby Calysta really loved the balls pool :) and so were other babies. After that, there were music, singing and dancing guided by well trained teachers. It was really fun & interactive. Mommies/daddies with their little ones were enjoying that session so much. In fact, it was my favorite session because Calysta enjoyed it so much. Next was all babies were allowed to play with a great selection of educational & learning toys with games guided by fun loving teachers

Moreover, there were also gymnastics & sports activities catered to suit young babies aged 6 months or less (our babies are more or less 6 months old) I didn't know babies can roll over and I didn't expect babies enjoy swinging so much. My Gym proved me that babies were capable to do gymnastics actions we previously thought they weren't able to do so. Babies are more than capable than what we think with the right guidance from skillful teachers

It was overall a good experience and I would join again

Mommies & Babies

Calysta enjoying herself

Sample's Store Easter Event, D'Easter Wonderland

Hello fellow mommies, daddies & babies!

I would like to share with you an upcoming event this coming April. The exciting event is organized by Sample Store on the Easter day.

Before sharing with you the details of that exciting event, I'm going to introduce you about Sample Store. Many of you may have already known about Sample Store but if you haven't, let me share with you a brief introduction of Sample Store.

Sample Store is the first & top try advertising platform in Singapore that offers FREE samples and FREE membership. Sample Store has 100 different products & services ranging from beauty, household, food & beverages. In Sample Store, they something for everyone regardless if you’re a woman, man or kid!

Thanks to Sample Store for giving me the opportunity to be one of their editors, I'm currently embarking on a new journey with Sample Store and I will share more my exciting journey with my readers in my upcoming blog posts

Sharing with you the details of the event:

Event: D’Easter Wonderland
Date: 5th April 2015, Sunday
Time: 10AM to 6PM
Venue: Downtown East D’Marquee

Highlights of the event:
*   Admission is free for all
*   Hourly lucky draw (WIN attractive prizes worth up to $2000)
*   Bring home an exclusive goodie bag worth more than $100
*   We’ve tons of fun-filled activities for kids and adults
*   For kids: Egg Painting Contest, Egg Hunt Adventure, Alice in Wonderland mini live show, Magic Show, Bouncy Castle
*   For adults: Mini retail therapy & sampling experience at advertisers booths (beauty and F&B related products & services)

To enjoy Sample Store's Members' Exclusive Perks, get ready yourself to RSVP to this event via this link: https://www.samplestore.com/easter

Exclusive Perks for members will be:
*   Access to buffet & dessert bar
*   Complimentary Egg Hunt Adventure (worth $20/per child)
*   Instant Print Photo booth

Although admission is free, non-members will not get to enjoy these perks, so sign-up as a Sample Store member to enjoy these privileges!

I'm going to the event with baby Calysta, so see you later!

Happy New Year 2013

Hello Beautiful...

A Very Happy New Year to all of you :) <love>

The best thing that ever happened to me in 2012 was I got knocked up, yes... getting myself pregnant was the best thing ever in 2012 :)

I'm beyond grateful to be able to carry my little man inside me and am enjoying every single moment of my pregnancy... his movements, his soft kicks, his strong kicks, his punches... everything about him, I just can't get enough ^^

Remembering 2012, when I struggled to stay healthy and how difficult for me to conceive him after months and months of trying, the painful surgery, the hospitalisation, tons and tons of injections & medications and ya know what.... miracles did happen! August 2012 was the best month of 2012, the month when I found out I was going to be a mother, for REAL!! I was beyond thankful!! 2012 was great!!

I was also very grateful to get tons of sponsored FREE beauty products, contact lenses, perfumes, vouchers, clothes, etc for being just a simple, nothing-special blogger... Every time I received new item, it was like Christmas for me, unwrapping it was the most exciting part ^^ oh yes, super duper grateful to my blog (that was also born in 2012) and so far had been helping me so much to get great great sponsored stuff ^^

What's my resolution for 2013?

1) Be a good mother to my son
2) My son to be healthy and happy ( he will be most likely coming in April 2013)
3) My husband and my family to be healthy and happy
4) I stay strong, healthy and happy
5) Getting pregnant with baby no. 2 (oh yes I want to give my son a sister or a brother in 2014)

I think that's it!! I don't wish to be popular in terms of blogging, I don't wish to get more money or whatever.... I just want my family to be happy and healthy, pretty simple, no?

Whatever your wish is, I just wish you a great great NEW YEAR 2013!! Be 2013 a fruitful & meaningful year for all of you ^^

For those who are trying to conceive, DON'T GIVE UP!! Keep trying and remember miracles do happen! If it's still difficult for you, don't think that life is unfair (I used to think so) but just to think that at the end, no matter how long you wait, how painful the process you're going through, how heart broken you've become, how much endless tears you shed, it's going to WORTH it and it's coming to you and all your efforts will be paid off and you will be eventually becoming a mother... Think it as a long mental preparation before you become a mother, a real good mother and you won't take your kids for granted, appreciate and love them more (think about how long you're waiting and how difficult, it will make you a better mom, trust me!)

Happy Happy New Year, beautiful souls :)

Loves,
Netty

Twilight Breaking Down Movie Preview @ Golden Village City Square

Hello everyone...

Thanks to OMY.SG for a pair of Twilight Breaking Down tickets, me & my husband went to our long-waited Breaking Down movie preview at Golden Village, City Square (Level 5/Nearest MRT: Farrer Park) on last Saturday, 24th Nov..

The new GV multiplex is really awesome (based on our experience). It houses six cinemas auditoriums with a total seating capacity of 1082 and one of the auditoriums is an unique and intimate 42-seater 'Couple's Cinema'. The six cinemas have stadium seating, comfortable leg room, crystal clear 2K digital projection, 7.1 Dolby digital sound & premium-grade EAW speakers from the US.

Even my husband who is always complaining about cinemas commented that "Wow, I love this cinema, I can sit comfortably, the sound is crystal-clear and most importantly, it smells so brand-new" (you know why he said "it smells so brand-new"? because he used to complain that old cinemas have that kind of smell like old soaked wet laundry, lol, I don't get it though about how does old wet laundry smell like, lol!) But he really loves this new GV cinema!

Anyway, the whole movie-watching experience was real great and we will surely return to GV, City Square to watch again.. Next time round, we must try the couple cinema.. :)

Our tickets ^^ I was very excited because I had been waiting for this last twilight movie for so long...

Great-looking Golden Village, isn't it??

Snacks are big MUST...

Tell me I am childish, but I love TOYS, yes I do!!

Whoa!! Let's try this next round!!

Coca-Cola will always be our favourite movie-date-drink :)

Our popcorn... Really Really good, I swear!!

Waiting with full excitement... Already imagining cool vampires & hot wolves... (**drooling**)

Super Comfy & Cozy seat...

 

Overall, it was great!! Cinema was great, Movie was great and of course our dating was great too.. At the end of the day, it was an enjoyable dating between me and my husband!!

 

 

Till Next Time,

 

Loves,

 

Netty

STClassifieds Fashion&IT Showcase 2012

Hello readers...

I was very very lucky to be invited to attend the STClassifieds Fashion & IT Showcase 2012 :) on last Saturday, 28 July at Suntec Convention Hall 402. Plus,  I received my cool VIP Blogger Goodies Bag with vouchers worth over $200 as well as exclusive discount vouchers with some of the participating merchants! Not only that, I was also given one VIP Seat Ticket to attend the coolest Runway Show at 1.30 pm, you see how lucky was I? :))

and here are runway show participants, all of them are very established retail and online stores in Singapore :)

check their online stores out, guys!!

wow... the crowd!! I was lucky to be able to sit down at my VIP seat :p

before showing you guys the gorgeous models (they are really tall, sexy and beautiful with exotic look, how jealous!!) with their hottest fashionable outfits, I'm going to show you my favourite store, oh yeah it's a very vintage store from Victoria Jomo, as you guys know that I'm so so crazy over vintage stuff (check out my vintage posts), I'm so so in love with their vintage stuff and it's a big awwwww.... from me and wish I could collect all their vintage collection, how jealous!!

From Victoria Jomo

From Victoria Jomo

From Victoria Jomo

From Victoria Jomo

oh yes, that's what you are waiting for, right?? The sexy babes are here....

The fashion show was very enjoyable to me, I enjoyed every moment of it and couldn't take my eyes off AT ALL, how come the models are damn damn gorgeous with nice slim figure, I'm jealous!!

ENJOY!!!

Love this dress :)

love this floral dress (below, right) and it gives me some ideas how to dress my super short dress, oh yes.. pair it with shorts.. (awesome idea for a tall girl like me)

AHHHHH MY FAVOURITE DRESS OF THE SHOW!! LOVES!! how vintage, loves!!

and this is what I bought from MODPARADE, ohhh super loves loves this wire twisted 2 in 1 head and hair band, I bought this because I love anything everything vintage-ish :) and it looks so sweet & pretty too plus I can create so many different hairstyles with this baby..

See See See...

Hair Style 1: sweet look

Hair Style 2: girlish look

Hair Style 3: Boho look

and I love boho-vintage-ish look the most :)

and here are my vouchers (worth more than S$200), feel lucky and happy shopping to me, yay!! :)

and I'm going to list down some established online stores in Singapore, in case you guys want to purchase cute dresses or stylish outfits online but not sure if you could trust them, here is my recommendation, they participated in STClassifieds Fashion&IT Showcase 2012 too.. they are very reliable online stores, must check it out, yeah? Enjoy your shopping!!!

MODPARADE

SANDYJOY

EARLGREYPARTY

ZALORA

THE DESIGN CLOSETS

REZILIENZ

CATWALKCLOSE

MONTROSE DESIRES

RIOTLOCO

HERVELVETVASE

MARYJULIAN

ARMOIREAPPAREL

Thank you omy.sg and STClassifieds for the invite :) so happy and honoured to be your official blogger for this event..

Until Next Time

Millionz of Loves,

Netty