So I don't know how many of my readers on here actually follow me on instagram (probably none, so GO CHECK ME OUT ON INSTAGRAM @azhng), but today I instagrammed a picture of my vday nails ! 

I'm leaving for Toronto with my boothang tomorrow so I thought I would fix up my nails today for vday. Once again, I got my nails done at Modern Nails. It's my third time getting my nails done here and they haven't disappointed me once. They always do exactly as I tell them to, and replicated the designs I show them perfectly. Love the service, and of course the price is unbeatable. 

Hope you guys are having a great tuesday, and I promise I'll get another blog post up soon ! 

Lately my hair has grown out to be a ridiculous length. I've thought about chopping a few inches off it but my boyfriend keeps telling me that it looks good at the length that it is, and that he likes it long soooo I haven't cut it in a while. Not going to lie though, at the length that it is at, it looks absolutely amazing curled. It almost looks like I had put in extensions. It's thick, and long, and full. I absolutely adore it.

The only problems I've really been having with it is that, some how, the hair at the back of my neck keeps getting tangled. I'll comb it out in the morning and a few hours later, I run my fingers through it and there is a ridiculous knot. My hair is also getting really weak at the ends now. So much that if there's a knot in my hair that I have to comb through, a lot of the hairs will just break :'(

It's funny though because I still regularly get people telling me how pretty and healthy my hair looks. HEALTHY ? ARE YOU FO' REALS? To me, my hair has been the most damaged it has ever been. 1. because I destroyed it with bleach and dye

and

2. because it's long as nuts. 

But apparently, it's still considered relatively healthy ! I'm assuming it's because the colour in my hair is the first time I have ever dyed my hair, so really, there hasn't been that much damage done. Plus curling my hair is a rarity. The only heat tools I use often is my hair drier. 

So let me give you guys a run through of what I do to my hair, since apparently it's "healthy" *rolls eyes*. Be warned though, I honestly don't do very much to my hair. I just got lucky and was born with healthy, smooth, silky hair. I swear it's an asian thing. ANYWAYS

As for other hair products? Well, I use the TreSemme Heat protectant before I use any serious hair tools on it and that's about it ! 

Do I blow dry my hair? Hell yeah. Ain't no body got time to for dat shit to dry nuh-uh. 

There are days that I get lazy and I let it air dry though. But it doesn't happen that often. 

and yeah, that pretty much concludes my hair routine. 

I know it was stupid and short and probably unnecessary but I thought I would write about it anyways, incase anyone asks again. 

This past Christmas, for my student club secret santa event, I received my very first MAC lipstick. Being the makeup obsessed freak that I've become in the last couple of years, it's a big surprise that I never went out and splurged on a MAC lipstick. Yes, I say splurge, even though these lipsticks don't cost nearly as much as some of the higher end lipsticks out there ($18). But still. I live on a very tight, measly little hostess budget. Especially with the taxes and gas price in Vancouver.. I think I'm just going to stick with buying 6 dollar lipstick from Walmart. It's true what they say though, you really can't judge something unless you've tried it. And honestly, I haven't even had the chance to wear this lipstick yet... but just holding the slick black tube in my hand... swatching it over and over, taking photos and admiring it... I've already fallen in love. 

Something about a MAC lipstick just feels so... right. It was pretty much love at first touch. 

The one that I received was MAC's classic matte red lipstick, Ruby Woo. I was absolutely lusting over the Ruby Woo variation that came in the rose gold packaging for Rihanna's line with MAC, but I heard it was pretty much the same lipstick, just in a different tube. 

Usually I don't tend to gravitate towards the matte lipsticks just because I've been cursed with super disgustingly dry and chapped lips most of the time. However, because it is a MAC lipstick (something a little more special and luxurious than my average drugstore lippie) I'm sorta glad I got a matte one. It seems to make it more special, and it's something that I probably won't wear as often.

Which to me, isn't necessarily a bad thing. It just means I'll have this pretty little thing for longer.

Anyways, when I first swatched it, I was actually a little surprised. In the tube, Ruby Woo looks like a very classic blue-toned red. But swatched on my hand (and maybe it's because of my skintone?) it turned out to be a brighter, more warm-toned (almost orangey) red. Like I said, I haven't gotten the chance to wear this lipstick yet, so I don't know what it'll look like on, but from the swatch above, you can see that it doesn't come out as cool-toned as you think it would. 

So what's the first thing I do after swatching this lovely new baby of mine? Try to find a color dupe in my collection.. DUH. 

So here is my little collection of red lipsticks. I don't have that big of a variation in brands, but as you can see, I still have quite a few reds. 

So from left to right in the above pictures I have : 

Wet N' Wild - Red Velvet

Maybelline - On Fire Red

MAC - Ruby Woo

Wet N' Wild - Stoplight Red

Maybelline - Red Revival

So here are the swatches for all the above lipsticks. Please ignore my dry hand. It's going from winter to spring here in Vancouver, and usually when the season changes, my body goes absolutely bonkers and completely dries. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. It just happens. 

So the swatch at the very left is Red Velvet by WnW. I thought that Red Revival (the swatch at the bottom) would be the closest to Ruby Woo when I first glanced at it, but it turns out Red Velvet turned out to be a much closer match than Red Revival. Stoplight Red (the one at the top) also matches pretty well but I still think Red Velvet is the closest. Other than the texture and finish of the lipstick (Red Velvet is creamier, and more moisturizing) it would actually be a pretty good dupe for MAC's infamous Ruby Woo. 

How are you liking the qualities of these pictures by the way? I've been playing around with my friend's T3i and I've been absolutely loving it. I'm planning to take some of my saved up chinese new years money and buy myself one ! I'm going to be using the T3i to film a make video soon too to see how it works in the video department but so far I am adoring this camera. Get ready for some way better quality pictures for this blog.

Hope you guys are having as great of a day as I am.

Talk soon, lovers. 

I love getting to spend new years with someone I love; nothing beats a good, loving, new years kiss. 

hardwell looking like a god standing up there