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Summer Loving
Friday, December 7, 2012 || 10:23 PM

December is finally here!! That only means three things - summer, shopping, and Christmas!! And to top it all off, I am officially a high school graduate so no more high school ever! It's about 3 weeks into my summer holidays now and I've just been hanging out with friends, going on many long awaited shopping sprees, and working.

Night out with the girls ♥


Since it's summer now, I thought I'd share some of the products I've been loving for the summer recently!
So those are my summer must haves, all are very summer friendly indeed. Embrace this beautiful sunny weather that we are experiencing at the moment because before you know it, autumn will be here! Happy summer holidays everyone! xx


Hairy Beans
Thursday, July 5, 2012 || 10:52 PM


I seriously can't believe that grade 12 is so close to being finished, I'm looking forward to life in university so much. High school makes me still feel like I'm a little girl, but I feel as if once uni starts, I'm going to feel so much more grown up. Making my own decisions, building my career, making new friends. It all sounds too good to be true!! As long as I graduate knowing that I tried my best in term 3 and 4, I can easily say graduation will be the happiest day of my life - up until then. I definitely was no where near putting 100% effort in term 1 and 2, more like 15% and I'm not even joking. Even though I kept telling myself night after night that the next day I would study straight after school, nope never happened. The television or computer would lure me in with its seducing ways. Or even if I ban myself from both, I'll just be sitting in my room, doing nothing. Determination is there, just not motivation. How does that work? I don't even know, guess it's just the mind of a Gracie. So, moral of saying all this is that this term I will actually put in 100%. I promise, I swear on Nialler's grave, on Harold's, on Woody's, on DJ's, on Boobear's. And that's saying something.


Painted my nails with OPI's In The Spot-Light Pink polish, such a pretty soft pink! Though looking at my nails right now it looks quite ugly.. Maybe because it's been a few days and washing dishes etc. I used Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails as a base and then Sally Hansen's Maximum Growth as my top coat. Oh and I applied 2 coats of the pink polish so it's slightly more opaque. So lately haven't really been doing much, just allowing my mind to relax and making myself comfortable - a bit of indulgence for myself before school starts again! OHHH! Last night I watched The Amazing Spiderman, holy shibs man, it is such a great movie!!! Andrew Garfield is officially my favourite actor. He was on the ellen show the other day and he is so so modest, so so amazingly adorable wow. This movie is like up there with The bloody Avengers mate! 


Oh and just a heads up, if you plan to watch Ice Age be warned.. I think number 3 was better, this one is so predictable and no suspense. Usually I'm the kind of person who loves every single movie but this one just wasn't good, but I do admit I only wanted to watch it because Chasing the Sun was in it :) ..


I try and take as many photos as I can before I blog so it's a tad more interesting haha. Holy foshiz I'm freezing my non existent ding a ling off. It's been so bloody cold the past few nights but during the day it's nice and warm. 2 nights ago I couldn't sleep so I stayed up until like 3am watching the janoskians ha.. ha.. And they actually made me laugh quite a bit! I shall leave here with some videos. Ciao bella!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWYVOmQnsk4 very catchy indeed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55mFlpTmMCk&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pNHUxcaby4&feature=channel&list=UL 5:46 omfg the asian lady

Alphabet Beans
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 || 10:23 PM

A - Age: 17


B - Bed size: King Single


C - Chore you hate: Wiping dust around the house


D - Dog’s name: Wish I had a dog


E - Essential start to your day: Peeing


F - Favorite color: Turquoise


G - Gold or Silver: Gold


H - Height: 157cm


I - Instruments you play: Don't play any, but guitar for fun


J - Job: Student, part time at a cinema


K - Kids: Would love a boy and a girl


L - Living arrangements: Neat


M - Mum’s name: Jenny


N - Nicknames: Grass, Grassy, Bain, Styles


O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: None


P - Pet Peeve: Unnecessary comments whilst watching a movie in the cinema


Q - Quote from a movie: "A genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist"


R - Robot or Human?: Think I'm human


S - Siblings: Two older brothers


T - Time you wake up: School day 7:30, non-school day 9 - 11


U - Underwear colour: Black


V - Vegetable you dislike: Eat all vegetables, but if I had to choose it'd be zucchini 


W - Ways you run late: Sleeping in, constant outfit changes, hair and makeup


X - X-rays you’ve had: Teeth


Y - Yummy food you make: Smoothies


Z - Zoo favorite: Monkeys

Scented Beans
Sunday, June 24, 2012 || 10:03 PM

Today we celebrated Foonie's 18th by having a late lunch date! We had lunch at at a Japanese restaurant called Wagayama in china town and it was so pretty, and the food was well priced for such a pretty restaurant. Definitely would go back.

Spider Roll
Rainbow Roll

The spider roll is just soft shell crab, and it is really yum! The rainbow roll had tuna, salmon, and prawn as the meat and personally I wouldn't order this one again because compared to the other sushi they serve, it's no where near as good. Foonie ordered a few plates of this seared salmon sushi and that was so good, like sex on a plate, I want to go back just for that!



Went to karaoke after lunch, then headed to the One Direction merch store! Was a very fun day :) Tomorrow is first official day of holidays! Going to vacuum the house, umat, maybe start some maths, and then just dance woot woot. Ciao bella!

Foam Beans
Sunday, June 17, 2012 || 10:11 PM

Well ello dere! Today I will be talking about products that I regret buying, but bear in mind I don't hate all of these products, it's just if I could rewind time I wouldn't buy them. Also even though I don't particularly like something, chances are you will actually like them :) Ok leggo!


First up shall be the Skin79 Pink BB cream. I absolutely love the consistency and the finish of this, it makes my skin look very smooth and dewy and it didn't feel heavy on me at all. But the problem is that this BB cream only comes in one shade which is too light for me. I would seriously wear this every day if it came in a darker shade though. But I don't want to waste my money so I'm going to try figure out ways to make this look alright on my face - maybe since it's winter my skin will get a bit paler and my chest area will be less exposed so I can get away with wearing this during the winter.. hopefully. Also I'm going to try applying less of this because last time I applied this I have to admit, I did put quite a bit on my face, and then my face and neck were two completely different colours. 


This is the Urban Decay Cannonball waterproof mascara. I bought this because at that time I didn't have a waterproof mascara and my lashes told me that waterproof mascara is mandatory so I didn't want to argue with my eye lashes.. Basically since I have asian lashes that wont hold up a curl, I need a waterproof mascara to hold the curl up. So this mascara definitely holds up my curl very very well - for the whole day. On its first coat it looks nice and natural, almost as if you're not wearing any mascara at all. But if you want to make your lashes more noticeable, on its second coat it starts looking a bit spidery and didn't even give any volume to me lashes. It gets pretty clumpy after the first coat which is horrible. Compared to the Covergirl Lashblast Volume mascara (waterproof), I would so much prefer the Covergirl one. The covergirl one holds my curl for the whole day and doesn't get clumpy and is easy to build up coat after coat for a more dramatic look. 


This is Mac's paint pot in Barestudy. It's basically a cream shadow that can also act as an eye shadow primer. Even though this product is a part of this post, I still use it quite often - only because I want to make the most out of my money. There's nothing wrong with the actual product itself, it's very creamy and stays on the lids for the whole day, and has great colour pay off. But just because of the fact that I have eye shadow that can give the same look as this does, then this sort of becomes pointless. So I still really like this product, but I could survive without it. (Sin and virgin from Urban Decay give a similar look to this).


Oh my goodness, this product sucks like poo. It's the Youngblood pressed blush in Nectar. I thought this would be a pretty coral colour on the cheeks but when I put it on my cheeks, there's no bloody difference to when my cheeks were naked! So I full on packed it on to my cheeks and you can barely notice that you're even wearing a blush. I actually don't recommend this product to anyone.. unless your skin is literally as white as paper.. I love Youngblood a lot, but this blush in this colour is equivalent to sitting in a bath tub full of cockroaches, bumpy toads, spiders, and geckos. 


This is Stila's lip cream in the colour coral. Like the paint pot, I don't hate this, it's actually a pretty nice product but it's just that the colour isn't anything too special - I don't find myself reaching for it whenever I do my makeup. I like to apply it on my lips then use my finger to spread it evenly across my lips. It's quite a pretty pink that's more on the coral side and smells like vanilla! Since this is a lip cream it isn't moisturising at all, so it leaves your lips  feeling quite dry. I'll try using this up though!


Ok finally, this isn't really a makeup product but it is beauty related! It's the Lush No Drought dry shampoo. Unlike regular dry shampoos, this comes in a powder form. It didn't get rid of the greasy film on my hair which dry shampoos are meant to do.. And also because it is powder, it gets a bit messy when applying it and when I apply this in my hair, I have to hardcore rub it in so that it doesn't leave a grey residue behind. And since I have to rub it in so hard, I'm just creating more dandruff in my hair because I'm rubbing my scalp too much. So after it's all rubbed in, my hair is still greasy and I also get an extra bonus of dandruff! I don't know what to do with this poo.. But I'm pretty sure my hair is just.. a bit special so it'll probably work really well on others. 

Wow, I finished yay! To be honest,  after the first product I mentioned I wanted to stop blogging haha, I was so bored. Oh! I went shopping with mum and my heart left the shopping centre 70% content.. My heart still longs for a bag. I don't think my heart will go on, sorry Celine. Oh shibs, 10 past 10 mate.. I should shower bye!


Potatoe Beans
|| 12:42 AM


This short break from school feels like eating tropical fruits by the sea side with One Direction, feels so bloody good!! But my sleeping pattern is so horrible now, sleeping at 12am at earliest and then waking up at 10:30am earliest.. got to fix that up.. So! I've gone on a couple of shopping trips lately and the above photo shows a necklace, and me knit I bought. First knit I've owned, and I love it so much - a winter essential. I'm most excited about wearing the knit over a collared shirt with a necklace peeking through like the photo yay! Looking forward to shopping for more things so that I feel more feminine.. Because you know, exams filled me with direst cruelty which made me plead to be unsexed.


As boredom strikes at home, what other to do than whip out me makeup :) I feel as if eye shadow doesn't suit my eyes, every time I put some on, I just look weird.. Or maybe it's because I don't know how to apply it, or I'm choosing terrible colour combos. I used to restrict myself from buying clothes so I could buy makeup, but now it's vice versa. I watch tonnes of beauty videos on youtube and I guess I get tempted to buying so many products that others use because of how much they say they love it. But I've learnt a lesson that every single person on planet Earth is going to have a different experience and hence opinion on a makeup product. So basically, I have more makeup than I need, wasted my money, takes up space on my table, and adds onto the list of things I must wipe dust off of. Actually I think I'll do a post on products I regret buying some time..


I reckon it fits in pretty nicely with the rest of my text books, wouldn't you agree :) Honestly can't describe how much I love them, and 95% of the time I'm fangirling about them I forget that I'm actually going to see them in concert ahhhhh!! Though I really do wonder by September next year whether they'll be as big as they are now, or whether I'll be as big of a fan still.. Really hard to say because in one year and 3 months time you never know what could happen. I could very well be married to Harry, maybe even Niall, or Liam, possibly Zayn, and perhaps Louis, who knows..

I'm hoping to go shopping with my mum tomorrow, fingers crossed. And then back to ze school on Monday. Ok well I'm going to go to sleep now and try wake up at... 9...? Farewell :)



hello dere!
Friday, June 8, 2012 || 6:11 PM

I feel a lot more freedom coming my way, only two more exams to go, then party time! Speaking of parties... it was Maddie's birthday a few weeks back and she got some lovely cupcakes that were mighty scrumptious :D


Speaking of sweets, we made some Japanese candy at lunch!


Ok, the second picture is just an ordinary mandarin. Speaking of lying, One Direction have a song called Tell Me A Lie!


These lads are the most amazing people <3 Speaking of beautiful, hot, and mighty fine, I had Vapiano's!


Pizza had no meat on it, but still very delicious mmm! I like the basil plants :) Speaking of organic, I did an organic braid on meself the other day!


An organic braid is just where you plait without an elastic, pretty awesome aye. I learnt how to do it from Youtube ;) So what are my plans for the upcoming holidays? 
Okay, I better shower now and try to finish the chemistry revision sheet by tonight.. I've been sleeping way past my normal bed time for the past few days, like 1am - 2am, normally I sleep at 11pm. So I crave for sleep! Okay now bye!

pump up the jam
Sunday, April 15, 2012 || 6:55 PM

Oh hi there, didn't see you :) I can't remember exactly what happened since my last post, but as usual I'll just be leaving a trail of my thoughts here. I had work all day yesterday and today, it's like a full time job aye :P Yesterday after work I watched American Pie by myself... hahaha and that kind of movie should not be watched by yourself. I felt like a.. what do you call it, like a paedophile but not to children. I was like hahaha... haha...ha....ha *looks around to see if anyone's judging me* Anyway! Pie was a lot funnier than Jump St I reckon, very disgusting as well.

My manager kept teasing me about 1D, he reckons I'm a hardcore fan even though I told him I only have one of their songs. He kept going 'Gracie, seriously you got to get your mind straight and focus. No more thinking about New Direction ok?' I kept telling him it was One Direction, but no change HAH. I have picture of a super duper cute banana I ate, but battery is currently charging so will upload later on in post yah yah.

Omg can't believe I have not mentioned them before. Wait have I? So I am in love with The Wanted. I'm not obsessed with them because they're good looking, but because they sing so amazingly well and their personalities are like friggen jelly bellys. Wow, srsly I would die to meet any guy that has personalities like theirs! They are so hilarious ahhhh <3 Let me find a link of them to show you...
Ooh la la those 2 dot points have put me in a dot point mood. So here's a bit of my life :D
  • Dance Again (feat. Pitbull) - Jennifer Lopez
  • Burning - Ne-Yo
  • Temple Run
  • Draw Something
  • Apples
  • The Wanted
That's all I can think of mate..


So ready for school girlfriends :)

skin drama
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 || 9:29 PM

So I've been watching a movie every day for the past few days now, just taking advantage of staff discounts ;) Saw hunger games again, 21 jump st, the lorax, titanic, and I think that's it. Watching hunger games for a second time was tbh quite boring :( It's just one of those movies you can only fully enjoy just that once. 21 jump st was definitely not as funny as I expected it to be, but still pretty funny! The lorax was very cute, but it wouldn't be one of my favourite animated films AND THEN I saw titanic today with justine and she didn't cry, she didn't cry! There was this part in the film where I wanted to cry really loudly but the cinema was all silent so I was literally biting my teeth together to refrain from loudly sobbing :'( I think titanic is a movie that's better in the cinema than at home for sure :D I really want to see american pie as well!

I have a few pics from a bbq I went to at easter :)



They're my little cousins, so cute ^^ So what else happened to me... After titanic today, I went to the city to buy the lush magnaminty mask (WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS!), and also bought are you ready.... a canon s100! Yayy :D Now I can have good quality photos! I mainly wanted to get a good camera for the formal, so yay one thing ticked for formal :)

I feel like talking about skin. Ever since mid 2009 I have had to deal with acne :s And honestly, no one knows what it feels like to have acne unless you experience it yourself. No I'm not talking about the pain of some pimples and that stuff :P But about how much it really affects your self confidence. I think acne is the #1 thing to make a girl's self esteem go down, I say girl because majority of guys don't really care (an assumption I made based on my brothers).

So that's just a super brief sum up of my thoughts on it haha :) My skin has been acting up on me lately and it's the thing that makes me not want to go out. SO I decided to compile a list of things I'm going to stick by 24/7 to improve it. If you are also experiencing some skin drama, hopefully this will help you! This list of things to do has really helped my skin clear up from what it was in 2010. And ofcourse this is accompanied by the usual skincare regime etc.

Gracie's clear skin action plan:
And I think that's it! Tonight I'm going to use my mask, I've been longing to use it for so so long but never got the chance to go city to buy it. Anyways, plan for tomorrow, go to work, maybe watch american pie, maths b assignment!! Yay sounds like a jam packed day filled with fun! Hope your day will be as jam packed full of fun as mine aye :)