New haircut

Hey Lovelies ^^

Long time no blog, I've just been superbusy and there were a few incidents that took up a lot of my time. Hopefully I'm back now and will be blogging on a more regular basis. ( I HOPE!)

So, to kickstart my return to blogging I decided to post some pics of my new haircut. As usual, I asked my hairdresser to do her "thang" and surprise me. My eyes were glued to the magazines all the time and when I looked up after hearing a "TADA, you're done" I had to take a second look at myself.

I haven't sported bangs since I was 7 years old and mind you, (to those of you who have seen my "Ugly Duckling"-entry they were cut by my mom and crooked so that scared me off bangs for 19 years until my hairdresser decided to give me some.

To be really honest, I don't know about this haircut yet. I think I have to get used to it. Let me know what you think ladies, (and gentlemen?) is it YAY or NAY to this one?







Thanks for looking! ^_^

Quick update

YES! I got the shoes from Jimmy Choo for H&M but I'll do an entry on that later after I prance around a little more in my new heels. Yes, my sister and I had to get up at 4.30 am but it was worth it to be #9 and 10 in line for the accesories and shoes. The blue dress was pretty fab but I knew I wanted to go specifically for the shoes and I got the 3 pairs that I wanted.

Pictures and more on my day in a later entry...

You don't MOVE a national monument, or do you?

I'm writing this entry because for the World EXPO in Shanghai next year, the Danish designers of the nordic pavillion decide to temporarily relocate our beloved "little mermaid" so that she could be the centerpiece of the Danish decoration. Furthermore, water from the Danish harbour will also be n display around her. I guess regular Chinese water won't do when the designers have made up their mind about everything being Danish and most importantly that we do not lose the "Danish feel"




How on earth did they come up with that idea in the first place? Physically moving a national monument out of it's place and transport it to another country. Somewhre it just doesn't seem right in my eyes but then again, I'm just another citizen among many.

Yes, I can definetely see it from another viewpoint that by moving her to China also gives not only the mermaid but also the kingdom of Denmark a lot of exposure. Say, if we get 1 million tourists per year to come then by taking her to the world expo means that she could be viewed by aprox. 70 million people. Yes, I get that it's a wonderful opportunity especially for people who aren't fortunate to go travelling or go to Denmark to get to see her. It's clearly also a sign of goodwill to be taking an original monument to another country to improve on international relations.

But I give you here the other options that tourists will have, should they happen to be in Copenhagen next year from May to October:



This statue is made by sculptor Anne-Marie Carl-Nielsen, wife of composer Carl Nielsen and will be replacing the little mermaid but she will be situated in front of the Royal library instead. It's an interesting figure, the eyes are wide open, almost panicking and her mouth looks like she's gasping for air.

In case you didn't know, there are many canals around Copenhagen and right next to a bridge in the canal are these stone figures from the old poem/song: Agnete and the merman.



It shows the woman Agnete with her husband and their 7 children dancing around in the water, at night it's illuminated and for people who don't know about it, it can be a weird vision. The first time I thought someone had jumped in and they had sunk to the bottom, mind you I was 7 years old. So I do not have the fondest memories when it comes to this one.

Last but not least only a 10-minute walk from where the original mermaid is situated, there is a small square called the genetically modified paradise. In the water of the quay there is the result of Bjørn Nørgaards mermaid. Quite interesting, I'll have to take some more pictures of the statues around but for now I only have a pic of the mermaid.




So if you're thinking about coming to Denmark next year don't expect to see THE mermaid, instead there will be these other options available shown above. But then again Denmark isn't just about a statue...or is it?

As for me, I still think it's weird just moving a monument but then again, maybe I just need some time to wrap my head around it...

Night Butterfly

Hey Lovelies ^_^


I'm back with an autumn look. I decided to go against "the rules" and do dark eyes and dark lips. In some cases it works imo, when it's not OTT but the colors complement each other it can be pulled off (fingers crossed)

Eyes:

On inner upper lid I applied a medium gray eyeshadow.
A medium violet applied to outer 2/3 of eyelid up to crease.
A light purple applied to inner lower corners.
Dark warm purple applied along outer 2/3 of outer lashline and upper mobile eyelid, slightly defining crease.
Black eyeliner applied thinly on upper lashline.

Lips:
A warm plum/burgundy for dramatic effect.






Thanks for looking! ^^

Hey Lovelies ^^

Just decided to do a repost of yet another old entry of mine from ABB, yes I'm that lazy -_- (Please don't judge me!) ^_^

I was standing in my local beauty store, buying toothpaste, foundation and lipbalm when my eye spotted a color...a very vibrant color. So... of course I had to get it... how could I not?

Got home and immediately started playing with make-up and eyeshadows. This is the result...




Eyes:
Helena Rubinstein e/s duo in Emerald fun
Chanel e/s in Lutin blended on inner part of crease






Thinking that it needed something, I lined my eyes with MAC liner in Inkspill, upper lashline and dotted on lower. Sorry, I blinked before the liner had dried making it smudge. If you would look away from that please! ^_^


Thanks for looking!

I love you...

But I can't seem to get the words over my lips. Why is that?!?

Let me explain, no there's not a man in my life. Let's make that clear first. No, what I'm referring to here is something that I hope I'm not the only one to have experienced.

I don't know how it is in the rest of asia, but in places like China, Taiwan and Japan displays of affections are rare, some would say, maybe even non-existent. Don't get me wrong, there was and still is a lot of love in my family but we just don't know how to bring ourselves to say it. At least I dont...

As a kid, growing up in an asian environment inside a larger Danish society, I would often be envious of my friends who often got hugs and affection from their parents. For a while I thought that my family and myself included were dysfunctional. My parents would never hug us kids and the words "I love you" were never uttered in our home. Why? you ask. Because it's just not common, it's not what we do.

I remember once asking my dad about it and he replied: I don't think there's a reason to say it all the time and make it trivial. The most important thing is how you feel about that person. He then proceeded to tell me that he loved me and I should never ever doubt that even if it meant him not saying it everyday.

After I grew up things have changed around the house. My dad seems to once in while be a little more affectionate with me and my siblings, maybe something he missed doing when we were younger? I don't know, but my mom is still the emotionally distant person she'd always been.

Even though things changed with my dad I feel like I haven't changed. Even my friends notice it: That I'm just not that big on bodily contact. Is this a piece of my childhood where I was "deprived" of physical affection? Even today I can't bring myself to say those words to anyone...well at least anyone living.

I have no doubt that my parents love me and my siblings. But looking at them today, my brother, who I was talking to, directly told me that he wasn't comfortable when I put my hand on his shoulder to emphasize point I was making. I think it's safe to conclude that the three of us are in the same boat when it comes to physical touch.

This is part of why I think the words "I love you" seem to have lost all meaning. They become trivial when people just utter them over and over without thinking. When sitting at a café and hearing a man talk to his wife and son over the phone, saying "I love you" at the end of the conversation and that he'll be home shortly, only to turn around and stick his tongue down his mistress' throat and a hand up her skirt.

I feel like I have something to give but I don't know how. I can't make my mind go over the fact that my grandparents need me to be more emotionally available at times. So I do what I know.

I make my grandmother a cup of coffee every afternon when she wakes up and give her a manicure from time to time. I shave my grandfathers head when his hair is too long or find that glucosamine and chondroithine online when his knees are hurting. I tweeze my mothers eyebrows and dye her hair to make her feel pretty. I clean my brothers ears for him when it's necessary. I help my dad out with minor secretarial work because I can. I'm trying to spend every moment with my sister when she's available to let her know I'm there and to show I care. I bake and make enormous amounts of desserts and baked goods to feed my family, because this is how I know how to do things. I feed and care for them.

I can't hug them, because my entire body just shuts down when I start thinking about it

I love them but I can't say those words... Just like my mom. She loves us and shows us in so many ways. Just not the ones that are considered "normal" in a society.

So I'll whisper it here, right now. Out into the big cyberspace because that's the only way I can say it.

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More uniforms...

So lately my brother finished the mandatory military services and is now standing guard whereever he is assigned. Be it the Queens Palace, (one of the)summer residence(s) etc.

My family and I went to see him in action and to take pictures. Just posting a few of them.


This used to be a summer residence but is not used as residence anymore. Now it houses the crown jewels (heehee, sounds so funny) and is open to tourists. It's the Rosenborg castle and because noone lives there, they only have to wear their green military uniforms.



My grandparents and my brother. Can you tell by my grandmothers face how proud she is?






The statue in the middle of the square of the Queens palace. It cost so much back in the days, that the king almost had none left to rule the country. He wanted an impressive statue and hired a renowned sculptor from France.







Standing gurad at the Queens palace, in the "real" uniform. The red one is reserved for special occasions like the Queens birthday and so on.

It's kind of weird for me to admit, because I'm his sister and all but...I suppose that if you don't look too closely...then my brother's not THAT bad-looking after all. Haha, he's turning into a fine young man... I guess... ^^

Only in Denmark...

I was on my way home from the supermarket, grocery bag in hand when I turned the corner and starting walking down my street. I stopped and almost dropped the bag because the sight that met my eyes was to die for!

Only in a non English-speaking country can this happen. I suppose Damm (pronounced DAAHM) is the surname of the person behind the bus tours... but still this was too funny. So I rushed home to get my camera so that you, my viewers could see this with your own eyes.








Hope you enjoyed it! ^^

No more buys until November!!!

I am so excited and almost can't wait for November to come. (Wow that's gotta be a first)

The reason for that is simply because H&M this time has decided to collaborate with Jimmy Choo, yes ladies you heard me right. At selected stores on November 14th the H&M/Jimmy Choo will be available.

I almost skip-hopped down the road when I first found out a while ago and I've also had Choo dreams lately. I can't wait to buy pairs and pairs of Choo's at "H&M" prices, so I just thought I'd want to share this although I'm pretty sure most of you already know about this.

According to hm.com not only will the collection span over shoes but some clothes as well and for men there will be shoes bags and accesories.



Picture courtesy of the album: Jimmy Choo for H&M facebook site

I'm as excited as a little girl waiting for her birthday to come...only I'm not really a little girl anymore and birthday is several months away... But I'm still excited!!! \(^o^)/

I know for sure I'll be acting like a madwoman on November 14th. Anyone with me?? ^^

Holy cow I'm lazy!

I'm so sorry I haven't updated in sooo long. This is all due to me being lazy... -_- yes sorry but I haven't had the energy to update but mark my words, I will be back with a lot more updates whether you like it or not. ;)

ARL BEE BAAHCK! (said with Arnold's pronunciation) So stay tuned!


/Chi

Attempt at Rock Chick! (repost of older entry from ABB)

I was just flipping through some of my older entries, laughing at my crappy photo skills from the beginning of ABB, when i came across this entry that I had almost forgotten about. I really liked this look on me and since it's never been posted here on my blog, I thought I'd post it here.

I think I'll be posting some of my older entries from time to time starting with this one.

Copy pasted from my entry on asianbeautyblog

Hey Lovelies! ^_^

I was flipping through a magazine the other day when the gorgeous and unique face of Kate Moss pops into my eyes. I've always liked the way that rock chicks do their make-up. Heavily lined eyes or really dark make-up. That slept in, sexy look that they seem to have patent pended.

And... yes, I'm fully aware that I'm not Kate Moss, nor do I like like her, due to various, obvious reasons, but a girl can still admire her looks and make-up.

Kate Moss make-up attempt below!


Products used:
Lancôme khôl pencil liner between upper lashes
Maybelline Sky high curves waterproof mascara
MAC Smolder eye pencil, lined upper and lower lashes. Then smudged with a q-tip and lined again.
MAC Nehru and Scene e/s on top of Smolder eyeliner to set it.

MAC Freckletone on lips. Rest of the make-up in face was kept to neutral colors and/or minimum since the eyes were in focus.













Thanks for looking!! ^_^

Birthday last week

So, my sister told me not to make any plans on my birthday because she wanted to take me out for dinner. We hadn't celebrated our birthdays together last year due to us being situated in different countries so this year she wanted to spend that day with me. I had to push my plans to celebrate with friends a couple of weeks ahead and the two of us went out that night.




I love this look on my face, it's all serene because we splurged on some really good red wine.




For starters we got beef carpaccio with cherry tomatoes and mozarella drizzled with olive oil, YUM!



Woops! Almsot forgot to take pictures, was halfways through with it before remembering.




Done! I'm not a big fan of olives...can you tell?



Their homemade, hand-cut fries. They were SOOO good!




My sister got the "meat special" Haha, no it's not called that but it's a small pot with: veal, bacon, sausages and a few vegetables in a delicious sauce.




I had old-fashioned duck. It was really delicious actually. When it was served I was a little apprehensive because it looked a little dry but when I cut it it was really tender.




Dessert, a delicious vanilla ice cream with pineapple, melon, kiwi whipped cream and chocolate sauce. We were rather full by then and couldn't handle one of the bigger, more elaborate desserts so we settled for this to share.



A random pic taken by my sis. ^^

Thanks for a lovely evening sis!

In the army...

So... I probably haven't mentioned this before but my brother joined the army (no, it's not voluntary and yes you get to pick a number. If the number you picked is above something something you can get out, if not then you're enlisted unless there is something wrong with your "health") But yes, my brother was enlisted and he is going to become a Royal Danish life guard, meaning that he'll be protecting her majesty the Queen of Denmark at some point. Last Saturday was Open house day and we got to see how they live and what they usually do in a normal day. The Three Musketeers aka me and my siblings. I'm the oldest (left) and my sister(right) is 3 years younger than me. My brother is 6 years younger than me and the tallest out of the bunch. I'm 5'6" which is an okay height but my sis just stopped growing when she reached 17...

The two official uniforms they're supposed to wear when standing guard. The red uniform dates back many many years when design was more important than practicality. Can you see what I mean when I say that the red uniform looks like a target especially with the big white cross in the middle? Not exactly camouflage-y when crouching behind a bush! (I wonder who designed it? Yeah it has the national colors on it but that doesn't justify it)



Here I am, shooting a rifle. Amazingly enough I got 5 out of 5, yay! Maybe I can do something cool like become a sniper! Just keeding! I don't have the patience and don't have a clue of how to take the humidity, the wind or coriolis effect into consideration.



During the morning check-up in their rooms, a sergeant also checked their water flasks. Since their supposed to be empty and all, they usually "pour" the contents over their heads, unfortunately for some of the guys they apparently forgot about it. Haha!

All in all a nice day where I got to see a lot of young boys in uniform *drool* Haha, just keeding, they're too young for me ... ... or are they? (^o^) lol

Schadenfreude

I remember a while ago reading a newspaper article about how the results of a recent Australian survey showed that most people feel schadenfreude, which roughly means taking pleasure at others misfortune.

... and this is supposed to be new findings? Uh... hello? I mean come on! I know for sure that I would have to stifle my laughter should someone actually slip on a banana peel in the street. Not sure if it was the person slipping I would laugh of or the entire situation that it was actually possible to slip on a banana peel XD.

Seriously, why is it that reality tv is so popular these days? Exactly because of that. It seems that we love watching various shows on tv that for instance picture battles that morbidly obese people go through to get healthy and thin, people undergo extensive surgery only to be bedridden for weeks on end for a more physically attractive appearance and let's not forget about shows like X Factor and American Idol: the show where hundreds of contestants are humiliated on television in front of millions of viewers.

The purpose of all these shows? Schadenfreude, nothing more and nothing less. Just take a look at viewer ratings and it's clear that this kind of entertainment is just about what we want to watch. It all boils down to us, as viewers, sitting comfortably on our @!#%¤ in front of the tv, thinking "thank the heavens that's not me on display"!

The survey even stated that it's typically people with low self-esteem that seem to derive most pleasure from schadenfreude. The lower your selfesteem is the more pleasure you feel from other peoples misfortune.

In case you didn't know before, now it's scientifically proven. Reality-shows appeal to the lowest denominator, something we all, myself included, have watched.

Maybe it's about time we watch someone who's actually good at what they do... but then again, where's the fun in that?? ;)

Drumroll please...

Argh the tension is killing me!!! ;)


After long consideration I have decided on the winners of this contest. I was in awe of the creativity you girls came up with. I really wish that you could all win and I even made my sister a judge of this contest as well since I couldn't handle the pressure. Haha! It wasn't easy but here are the winners:






1st place:

Miss Joy








1st runner up:

Miss Peppermints







2nd runner up:

Miss Donnarence






Aand... I also have additional consolation prizes for these beauties:

Miss Arashi, for the subtle yet stunning eye make-up



Miss Whit, for being the queen of blending and vivid colors



Miss Gia, for being creative and thinking outside the box



Miss Olive, for being just lovely :)






Congrats to the winners!!

PS! Please write me an e-mail with your name and adress please so I can send you the goodies! \(^o^)/

E: chyichyi@gmail.com Please allow up to 2 months for delivery.

Thank you everyone so much for participating!