New Buys from Fancl

If you read my blog, you will read that I got 2 issues to settle. One is to reduce my body fats and another one is to find hydrating products for my dry skin.

It was just nice that I received a leaflet from Fancl to offer me to sample to their new Overnight Hydrating Pack. I immediately rushed down to Fancl counter today to claim my sample and to find out more about this new product from the staff. So this is a new sleeping mask which I was suppose to put on after my usual skincare. Look good. I will try it out later and feedback. It is $56 per bottle.

I couldn't resist to invest into their brightening mist lotion, This is an limited edition product, suppose to smooth, hydrates, refreshes and give skin a healthy glow. I wanted to use this after exercise and when I feel tired and when my skin is dry especially since I work in air-con environment whole day long. It is $30 per bottle.

For my body fats issue, I am not someone into slimming pills and such. However, all along I do feel safe in consuming Fancl products as they are free of preservatives and most important they are very particular about expiry date. To me, especially for consumable items to eat, it is important. So when I first knew about my body fats issue, immediately I wanted to find something from Fancl. Deciding between their famous Prefect Shape Up Drink and Calorie Limit, I decided to go for Calorie Limit first as I feel possibly it is due to my body not able to digest the fats and sugar well. Not sure if my analysis is correct. Anyway, I decided to try out this. I was told that I only need to take it when I am eating oily or food that is rich in carbohydrates. So I guess I will be taking it every lunch time since I eat out. Let see if it will work for me.

Lastly I also bought their skin base to try. They come in 2 colours - pink and green. The staff recommended the pink base for my skin type as I do not have redness problem. I tried it at counter and the texture is very light and smooth. Will review on all these products soon!

Health Checkup

I am always thankful that I worked in a company who provide free basic health check up for us every year. They even arranged for the health check up to be done in our office and during our office hours! I had always signed up for the test since they first started. They also offered us with more comprehensive check up which we need to top up a bit. I tried to do a more comprehensive check up every 3 years.

So far, I am glad to say I have been in pink of health with no high risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes. I have to say this pink of health doesn't come by naturally but rather due to my high awareness of health issue. Since my health suffered in 2001, I have been taking good care of myself. I research a lot and read up a lot. It is a little sad to say I didn't blog down my experience then. What a waste. But nevertheless, I will try to recall as much as possible and share over here.

Right now, what I did is to exercise twice a week, take Vitamin B Complex and Vitamin E daily and control what I eat. I tried to do detox every once in a while to flush out the toxins in my body. I always feel good after my detox session but I got to admit this is something not easy to do or follow. I will share more about it when I have my next detox session.

Nevertheless, this year. my company organised a visceral fat test for us for the first time. According to the write up I have, high visceral fat surrounding your internal organs will lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke and diabetes! I am glad to say I passed the test as I fall within the ideal range. My body age is also 4 years younger than my actual age (beaming :P). However, my body fat is a bit slightly higher than acceptable range although I am not over weight at all. So I guess I will have to find out a bit more about this issue.

It is a little sad to hear that 90% of my colleagues failed the visceral fats and most of them fall in the high risk range. It is mainly due to lack of exercise and the food they ate. So it really took a lot of discipline to maintain good health. However, you will be thankful for it when you find yourself feeling good everyday. Since I started to take good care of my health, I seldom fell sick. (Believe it or not, from the period of 2001 to 2003, I have giddy spells every 2 weeks which lead to vomitting as well and I am always looking dull and my skin is horrible!) The lady who did the visceral fats test today for me told me I look so radiant and bright that from my look, she knew that I am very healthy and the test confirmed it.

Health is very important to me now and I took care of myself and my 2 little gals age 6 and 4. They are also both very healthy and seldom fell sick as I plan their diets and always bring them out for exercise once a week. I do not restrict snack and ice cream totally. I allowed them to eat these (they are children afterall) but not until they had their main meals and they are to drink a lot of water after that. :)

Hope to share more about health issue again soon.

Review : Whitening Mask (Prive Clinic)

I always make it a point to put on face mask as well after my marathon run. It is my way to reward myself for my "hard" work to complete my 10km run as well as relax.

Today, I decided to try out the whitening mask from Prive Clinic. Like their acne relief clear mask, the essence is so rich that when you put out the mask from the package, you felt like the essence overflow!

The essence is so thick that I do not apply moisturiser after removing the mask. I just massage the essence to let my face absorb it more thoroughly and after that I just went to sleep. The essence is so white that it make me looks like I'm applying thick layer of power! When I wake up, my face is still very white!

Overall, this mask is okay for me. I wake up to nice and smooth skin as well. However, possibly to the essence, the mask is very heavy. I feel like my face being "pulled" down as I put the mask on my face. I do not feel as relax as when I use other mask due to this heaviness. However, I don't mind to use it for the benefits to make my skin more radiant!

I took another picture of the masks I bought from Prive Clinic. When I bought last week, they are having promotion of you buy 10, you get 5 pieces free.  The whitening mask is the one on the right.

Review : Foot Mask from Étude House

I went for 10km run again today! This is my 5th one for this year. Usually after my run, I will treat myself to a relaxing foot mask from Étude House. (I also use a face mask together, see here) This is my top favourite product from them! My feet always feel relaxed and moisturized after each use. It is also selling like hot cakes! Always grab 10 pieces when i need to top up. Just realized this is my last piece, need to to down to grab some soon!

This is how it looks like when you put on the mask on your feet :)

 

Review:-

 

Product : Etude House Foot Mask (Hand Bouquet Range)

Price : $8.90

About this product :  Really love this product. The mask fits your feet like a pair of socks and they even give you a pair of transparent plastic bags which add as "gloves" to you feet so that you can still walk around even when putting the mask! Feel like I am doing a spa for my feet at such a good price :)

Exercise : Hot Yoga

As I mentioned before that we can't achieve good skin with just products and facial alone. It comes with good maintenance of health as well. Only by taking good care of yourself, then can you maintain good skin, good look as well as happiness! That is because falling sick is a horrible thing to happen to anyone!

Recently, one of my colleagues was strike with stroke all a sudden. He is only 42 and right now his half body (right side) is immobile. He needs to go on long term medication, treatment and therapy to recover. I strongly believe this is due to he not taking good care of his body. He eats like a mountain, he doesn't exercise and he is way over weight at more than 90kg. Seeing him suffering right now, I really feel very sorry for him and at the same time, telling myself I'm doing the right thing to exercise at least twice a week and control my diet. My colleague is regretting for his action and told us he will definitely take good care of himself from now onwards.

Anyway, hot yoga is one of my regular exercise since last year October. I discovered it by chance as groupon was offering this voucher at $40 (or $30) for 4 sessions with Absolute Yoga. So I went to try and fell in love with on first try. I would like to say it is not easy for me as I am a hearing impaired. Yup, I cannot hear anything with my left ear and am wearing hearing aid. I will share more about this next time.

I always go for Hot Yoga B which consists of 26 poses in the same sequences. It is very easy and simple to follow (which is why although I cannot hear well, I can still follow them). Hot Yoga means you are practising yoga in a hot room of above 37 degree! Yes! You will be sweating a lot but you will feel great after the session. For me, I feel like all the toxic in my body being flushed out! I would like to mention before I started on Hot Yoga, I always had shoulder pain which is possibly caused by my desk bound job and I always need to go for massage to ease away the pain. It is only a temporary measure. And when I started on Hot Yoga regularly, I realised I hardly got shoulder pain anymore!

And I like my look after each session, radiant and refreshing and healthy! Before I discovered Hot Yoga, I am into running marathon. I participated regularly in 10km runs. With this hot yoga, it actually compliment my running exercise as hot yoga helps to heal up the body aching and sore after the run! So nowadays, my exercise consists of 1 session of 5 to 10km run and 1 session of Hot Yoga per week.

Of course, everyone got their own exercise routine. Take your time to discover yours but most important is you must be consistent and if you can, find a buddy who has the same interest as you so that you can keep up to your exercise routine. For me, I have found a buddy for running and a buddy for hot yoga. They are great company to me and that is why I am able to keep up to my exercise routine for the past 2 years without fail. :)

If you have any good things to share about exercise, do share them with me!

Review : Diamond Peel Facial by Prive Clinic

I went to claim my prize yesterday! It had been ages since I went facial especially treatment facial. I had been going to Clea De Peau facial since I started using their products. Their facial is those massage facial, with no extraction and machine involved.

The service at Prive Clinic is really good. They made you feel welcome and definitely not pushy. Joanne is the one who did the treatment for me. Before starting on treatment, she did a face analysis for me. I was told my skin type is dry, sensitive and signs of ageing is starting to show. However, I scored high marks for smoothness and pores. This is due to my good maintaining over the years. (Heee.. at least now I feel good with all the things I had done so far for my skin). I was told I need hydrating products a lot. (Something new to me as all along I thought my skin is towards oily and I always using combination products for oily skin together with anti ageing products). So my next step is to find out more about hydrating products. Anyone got good one to share with me?

After the analysing, I was bought into the facial room. Joanne washed my face and use a machine to peel off all my dead skin cells. After that, she did some extraction for me. Her skill is quite good as it was not too painful and my face is not so red after the facial. (I had bad experience with facial which leaves me redness and swollen after the facial! Spoken to Joanne about this, she mentioned because I have very sensitive skin and so I tend to have redness after the facial. But for them, they cooled it off for me with their mask and so I don't see any redness after facial)

After extraction, she did some massage for me. I always enjoyed this part of facial. Joanne's skill is not bad too. (I am someone who went through painful tuina for treatment of my health years ago so massage is never a painful procedure for me. It is in fact so relaxing to me compare to painful tuina which rub and push your shoulder till you can scream)

After the massage, she put on a mask for me. I think it is a clay mask as it harden after it dried and Joanne "cracked" it after that with her hands.

The moment, everything is done. I feel my face is so much relax and lighten. It is not as tight as it is before. Joanne said it is because the dead skin cells had been removed so my skin feel lighten. And when I looked into the mirror, my face looks very much brighten and clear.

Overall, I think it is a good treatment to try. They are having a promotion when you signed up a package for 6, they will give you 2 free. I haven't sign up as I wanted to remove my milia seeds first. I booked my appointment in October! And I also top up my whitening and clear acne relief masks Invested into something else which I will share in next blog as it is nothing to do with my facial :)

Review : Clear Acne Relief Mask (Prive Clinic)

I love to use masks. I find that I need to use masks at least 2 to 3 times a week in order to maintain my skin in good condition especially I seldom go facial nowadays. I tried many masks over the past 2 years and will try to share them as much as I can

I just used Clear Acne Relief Mask for Prive Clinic last night and decided to blog about this first while the experience is fresh on my mind.

I decided to use this mask last night as my face was getting some mild breakout again possibly to due my work stress recently. The moment I put on the mask, I feel a cool sensation on my face immediately. I believe this is due to the ingredient : Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Menthol found inside the mask. My eyes almost cannot open too! . Usually when I do my mask, I will read books. But with this mask, I decided to just close my eyes and relax since I cannot really open my eyes (Don't get me wrong, it doesn't sting but possibly because it is so cooling, you just feel like closing your eyes). It is really a good relaxing mask.

So I just closed my eyes and set my alarm clock to 20 mins. After 20 mins, I removed the mask. Oh mine, the essence on the mask was so thick that my face was full of it after removing the mask. As per the instruction on the package, I have to massage around the face to facilitate the absorption of the remaining essence. I didn't feel like applying any toner or moisturiser after that as I feel the essence is more than enough.

2 pcs of Clear Acne Relief Mask and 3 pcs of Whitening Mask.

Picture by Little Fairy Wishes

 

This morning, I wake up to a radiant and smooth face. It was also much easier to apply make up today which I think it is possibly due to the smoother complexion. I like the mask, maybe will buy a few more pieces to try out. Need to find out how much are the masks when I go for my Diamond Peel Facial.

The only con of this mask is the size of the mask is very big which I think is because the mask is from USA. It is so big that it can even cover my neck and due to the richness of the essence, the essence actually keep dripping onto my neck and clothes. So I really got to lie down while putting on this mask. But well, what is a little inconvenience if the mask is good and suitable for me :)

Prive Clinic - How I started with them.

It was by chance that I was being introduced to Prive Clinic in July this year. I got to know about this clinic from a famous blogger's blog. By chance, I wanted to remove my milia seeds for the longest time as they are really very unslightly and I had lot of them under my eye bags and some of my face too. But somehow never get around to get them done partly because I haven't been able to find a doctor whom I am really comfortable with.

So I was so happy when I was selected as a winner to Prive Clinic's prize for the famous blogger's give away! :D All I need to do is to share why I deserved to be a winner and I was selected. I got myself 5 free masks and a free consulation. Really very happy as I was hesitiating if I should give them a try. With the free consulation, of course, I go!

My first consulation was with Dr Janice. The clinic gives me a very good first impression. The staff was all very friendly and made me really comfortable. So I share with Dr Janice my concern about my milia seeds and she briefly explained to me the procedure. I need to "bear" with some ugly marks for about 5 days. Hmmm.. meaning I need to stay away for work. Hmmm.. need to plan my work schedule before I can get it done.

Anyway, she gave me 5 pieces of masks based on my skin type. I was very impressed with the fact that actually I won the Zen Free Mask but they didn't give that to me as Dr Janice feels other masks are more suitable for my skin type. She gave me Clear Acne Relief Mask and Whitening Mask. I was having some mild breakout at the point of my visit so she gave me 2 pieces of the Clear Acne Relief Mask to clear them off and 3 pieces of Whitening Mask to brighten my skin! (Will share my review in another blog).

After going home, I started to research more about Prive Clinic and I seem to be seeing alot of good review. By chance, I saw a July survery which gives me a chance to win a Diamond Peel Facial. Just submitted it to try my luck.

Guess what? I was informed in August that I was selected as a winner again! :D So I will be able to try out this Diamond Peel Facial for free this month. Looks like I really have a lot of fate with this clinic. :) Will review about this facial after my appointment.

Review : Vasline Lip Therapy

I discovered this product by chance when reading a beauty blogger's review about this. I really cannot remember which blogger now as I was just scanning through the website at that point and it wasn't to search for beauty products but rather on travel.

Just so concidence I was going to Hong Kong at that point and this product can only be found in Hong Kong! I tried to search for it in Singapore but seems like it doesn't carry. Anyway, I got it from Manning in Hong Kong (Guardian in Singapore). I can only find it there. I tried to look for it at Sasa and Waston in Hong Kong but I couldn't find it until I finally found this in Manning on my last day. I'm so glad I got it!

I love this so much that now I do not use any other lip gloss or lip protector. So here is my review.

Photo by Little Fairy Wishes.

Product :Vaseline Lip Therapy with Rose and Almond Oil
Found in : Manning in Hong Kong
Cost : HKD 25 (Est SGD4.20)
Review : It gives me a really moisturing lip! My lip is very very dry type that it will peel off by end of the day even though I applied lip protector. I had used $99 lip protector before. Everyone raves by the $99 lip protector but it is still the same to me. :(

With this lip therapy, my lip do not peel at all at the end of the day! And with its light pink colour, I actually do not need to apply anymore lipstick or lip gloss but I still do if I want a stronger colour. If I used this lip therapy + my skilly girl lip gloss, the colour would actually stay on my lip whole day long and I do not even need to reapply!

So the word "rosy lips" suits this product 100%! Get this if you ever travel to Hong Kong. I'm a bit regretted that I  only bought 3 which the other 2 are to be gifts to my friends. This will possibly last me for 6 months. If I travel to Hong Kong in the next few months, will definitely top up more. :)

They got another one with aloe vera which is green in colour. I would buy that to try out next time too. :)

About Me

After my health took for a worst turn in 2001 when I was just in my 20s, I began to "wake" up and started to review my life. I took life for granted and think that life is still a long way to go, so I never plan for the future or think far ahead. I live day by day without much thoughts. Neither did I know where am I heading to.

The "wake up" call made me review myself and all the things I had done in the past 20+ years and I felt I had wasted my youth on unnecessary things. I was a hot tempered and extremely particular girl in the past and I must say I wasn't well-liked anywhere I go.

After I lost my hearing, I began to realise there are so much things I should be doing and I shouldn't waste my time anymore because time and tide waits for no man! There are so many things I had always wanted to do but I didn't because I lack of confidence to try or I just couldn't get myself started.

I spent 3 to 4 years trying to build up a better me, in sense of personality, mind as well as body. I am glad to say today, I am a much positive, healthier and cheerful person. I am also definitely more well liked (:P) In my course of knowing myself, I realised my love for beauty products, exercise, make up as well as writing. While it is kind of too late for me to go into these line as right now I do not have extra time to commit to extra courses due to my 2 lovely gals, I read up and find out more about all these through internet, magazine and of course recommendation from friends.

One fine day, I thought why not I started a blog to share with my friends my experiences? The blog could also be my diary! So this blog, Little Fairy's Wish is born. The name "Little Fairy" reminds me of my 2 little gals.

So welcome to my blog and I hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing.

Disclaimer:-

Do be informed that everything written here is based on my own experience and test. Everyone's skin conditions and reactions to products are different. I will not be responsible for anything that happen to you should you try out any products here based on my review. I welcome any feedback and sharing from everyone. :)