Mani Interest

The last 2 weekends I sorta experienced the life of a manicurist, hehe.

I DIYed gel nails!
A trip to MagicBoo, a beauty products wholesaler/retailer (great recommendation from hubby dearest!), led to a damage of about $100 & an interest in DIYing my nails.
Gathered a few other lacking items from Far East Plaza & voilà, this is my very own Gel Nails Kit! ;)

This my 2nd attempt. The 1st was quite a mess.. so I redid it 2 days later on Mon when we're both on leave.

This was done last Sat. Much better but still got lotsa room for improvement. The nail on my ring finger is actually an extension that I did. Not bad at all right? :)

Total bill for this kit - $240 (including the UV lamp that's @ a cheap price of $42). I just need to do 2 nice sets to break even... & I'm already 1 down, haa (hopefully it lasts at least for 3 weeks though)...

You see, once you start to do gel nails there's a high tendency you get hooked. Or is it a self-justification?:P For CNY & some other special occasion I think I'll still go to my manicurist as she does a really great job (but very ex.. + extension + french + Christmas/CNY surcharge = $140!). So on normal days when I just want my nails to look polished & maintenance free, this a good way ;)

But it's definitely no ez job. Thousands of kisses to my honey who's, as usual, so ever supportive of what I want to do... ran around with me in search of the missing products, not only once or twice... even in the late evening all the way from home to AMK! And staying awake into such 'early' hours just because his wifey has taken up a new interest & at exploration stage..

I'm very sure now hubby knows about gel nails even more than many ladies out there, hee!

Routines

Nowadays I'm so short of time. To consider that for the last couple of months we knock off on the dot & head home straight. The road condition is normally good before 6. After settling dinner, it's usually 7ish that's including getting our next day's breakfast which is taking more & more time to settle as we're out of ideas (of what to eat in the morning) since we're quite overdosed of the usual ham+cheese bun & such...

There seriously isn't much time left after we reach home. We'd only manage to catch 1 or at most 2 episodes of TVB drama while hubby gives me an hour of foot massage before we Zzzzz. Most of the weeknights, we sleep before 11pm because I try to wake up before 6 & hit CTE before 8 to save ERP charges. We've been paying $6.50 on a normal day (on some days when there's massive jam on CTE or we left home late we even paid $9.50!!!!!) till more than a month ago I needed to get to office early for a meeting. Have we realised the amount we could save from ERP! From $6.50 to S2.50... & a much smoother traffic.

Every day passes so quickly... before we know it, weekend is here. We spend every weekend together & it's always short & never enough.

Time passes so fast... week after week... & half of 2011 is gone now.

MBS weekend

A walk on a Fri evening :)

We'd a Korean dinner earlier just opposite my office but I was greedy. So we'd tea, cake & some snacks @ Beanstro

Birthday celebration on the following Sunday. Round 1 @ Bazin.

Presents for the June babes & dude.. Hee..

Round 2 @ High Society. Intriguing interior ;)

Spectacular

Today we're invited by Marina Bay Sands for a site visit followed by lunch. Impressed by their service... they actually provided transport to & from the hotel as well. Enjoyed the tour & the food.... the view was impressive ;) A lil embarrassing to say..... it's actually my 1st visit there! Hee...





Coincidentally, we're going there tomorrow & on Sun!