Happy Birthday to myself. Hehe. This is an overdue post since my birthday was over for a few days. The older I get, the more I don’t want to share my age now so I am just going to use the same blog entry title for all my birthday posts from now on. :blank:

This year’s birthday is quite different. I basically don’t feel that it is birthday since I have been really busy at work. It don’t feel like December since work is quite hectic this month. I remembered how work slows down from November till December when I was at Autodesk. Well, I had Week of Rest back in Autodesk. It basically means that we don’t have to work on the last week of December. Many of my colleagues (back in Autodesk days) also clear their annual leave in December so the office is kind of empty in the last month of the year.

I didn’t stayed long enough at Uber (due to merger) to know what is it like in December but I spent my last December at Grab. Oh boy, December is a busy month. It’s the same in last December and even busier this December. 🙁 Oh well… Luckily I started clearing my leave in November, otherwise, I may not be able to clear them this month.

So what did I do during my birthday (13 December)? Well, I didn’t schedule a Sulwhasoo facial treatment (like last year). I didn’t get myself another electric violin like back in 2017. I also didn’t get a new ukulele like back in 2016. I spent my day resting at home since it was raining for the past few days and it was still raining for the entire day on my birthday.

I did, however, got out of the house to have dinner with my boyfriend at Beauty in the Pot. Hehe, it is one of my favourite restaurants and I love hot pot. :happy: Chin Hau got me Hello Kitty balloon bouquet for my birthday too which was a great surprise. I have always envied the kids who got Hello Kitty helium balloons when I was outside and this time, he got me not just 1 but 5 helium balloons. 1 of it is a huge Hello Kitty figurine too! I was quite shocked at first but I kept looking at it and smiling to myself when I am seeing it at home. 🙂 Sakura is a happy girl with her helium balloons. :happy:

I also went shopping by myself then Chin Hau joined me after some time on 14 December. I got myself a mirror with lights which is useful for applying makeup. I got Chin Hau a simple yet pretty photo frame for Christmas and he got me a really pretty rings/accessories holder. 🙂 Then we had dinner and went to admire the Christmas lighting at Orchard Road. Sadly, it was raining so a bit hard to really go out and take photos. 🙁

We passed by Kiehls at ION Orchard and realised they have a storewide 20% sale. Not sure why that was the only branch with the sale though since I passed by the Plaza Singapura and TANGS branch today and there were no sale. I got my Kiehls skincare products which is going to last me for the next 6 months. Together with my other products, I think whatever I got so far is going to last for the entire year 2020. :happy: Oh, maybe except eye cream which I need to get from Sulwhasoo soon.

I got my Innisfree stuff today and VIP members get 20% as a birthday gift for their birthday month. I guess that is better for me since I am struggling to finish their samples from their birthday gifts or other purchases. I wanted the jewellery case which is their December month promotion and managed to spend exactly $100 for my essentials. Okay, fine, not really essentials as I splurged on diffuser (which is totally not an essential) and 1 lipstick and mascara – oh gosh, I don’t use mascara that often. :stressed: Shopping is really bad for my wallet, indeed. I’m feeling really poor this month. Fortunately, I don’t usually buy skincare/makeup stuff for the rest of the year so that’s not too bad. Okay, minus June because sometimes my products ran out and needs to be topped up before December. :shy:

Anyway, I will post a photo of my birthday cake later since it is like my tradition now for all birthday posts, haha.

Sephora at Takashimaya has reopened and it comes with free skincare analysis. A beauty advisor offered to do a free skincare analysis and I agreed. She didn’t show me the results but she explained it to me. She told me that my skin is moisturised. Whee! All these years of diligently applying my skincare stuff has paid off. I need to continue it to ensure that it is always moisturised. 🙂

In addition, I did the skincare test from Laneige and they mentioned that my skin is less moisturised than people of my age group (in 20s) but have much higher clarity. Well, good skin is a long term investment indeed, especially when I don’t go to facials… other than the free ones I get from Sulwhasoo once or twice a year?

Have you been taking care of your skin? If no, maybe my skincare regime over the years can inspired you?

I think I am going to blog about my skin care regime once a year. It is quite interesting how I have upgraded my skin care over the years too and how I have came back to the same kind of products – like how I started using Sulwhasoo First Care Activating Serum in 2014 and paused for a while before returning to it in late 2018/2019. Also how long I have been using Laneige White Dew Ampoule Essence (previously known as Laneige White Plus Renew Original Essence) since 2014 and still using now. Oh, and not to forget my Clarins sunscreen which is my all-time favourite. I will use it when I get it at a discount.

I probably wouldn’t realised until I look at my old blog posts. 🙂 I have italics those that I have been using for a long time and will continue to use it.

I have blog about it in my previous posts before:

• My skin care regime in early twenties – 2014
• My skin care regime in mid twenties – 2017
• My skin care regime (2018 edition) – 2018

So here it goes…

Day care

1. Cleanser (I’m currently using Fancl Washing Powder)
2. Sulwhasoo First Care Activating Serum EX
3. Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Renewing eye cream
4. Innisfree Green Tea Serum or Laneige Water Bank Hydro Essence
5. Laneige Water Bank Gel Cream
6. Roche Posay UVIDEA XL Aqua Fresh Gel SPF50 (I only bought one bottle and not going to buy now) or Clarins UV Plus Sunscreen (White version)
7. Sulwhasoo Perfecting Cushion EX or Diorskin Forever Perfect Cushion or NARS Natural Radiant Longwear Cushion Foundation (I don’t recommend this though. Not something that I will buy again.)
8. Orbis Sunscreen Powder or Peter Thomas Roth Instant Mineral Powder Sunscreen

Night care

1. Makeup remover
2. Cleanser (I’m currently using Fancl Washing Powder)
3. Sulwhasoo First Care Activating Serum EX
4. Any masks that I happened to buy (which is a huge range so I’m not going to list them here)
5. Muji Light Toning Water High Moisture
6. Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Renewing eye cream
7. Laneige White Dew Ampoule Essence
8. Innisfree Green Tea Serum or Laneige Water Bank Hydro Essence

Damage*: S$1072

*I’m following the prices I found online and not the ones that I actually paid for. I always do my due diligence when it comes to buying the products and where+when to buy them. So what I paid for might be significantly lesser…I also excluded the prices of my face masks since I have been using samples now and sometimes some face masks from Innisfree.

Seems like my damage to my wallet has increased over the years. Well, my Sulwhasoo products aren’t cheap so oh well… Most of my skin care products are stuff that I have been using for a long time too…

Yay for discounts! Innisfree is having 15% discount for its Premium members and 10% discount for its Welcome (New) members. I went to the store and planning to get just 1 face mask. I ended up getting the Innisfree Jeju Lava Seawater boosting ampoule, the Smart Drawing blusher and my new found favourite mineral setting powder.

Haha. I should stop buying Innisfree products since I am going to Seoul this year. I can just get them in bulk and tax-free when I go shopping in Seoul. Laneige, Innisfree and Sulwhasoo, here I come!

I was at Kinokuniya and was reading the book on Korean skin care (this one) and got inspired to blog about my own skincare routine. I have blog about it in my previous posts before:

• My skin care regime in early twenties – 2014
• My skin care regime in mid twenties – 2017

I’m going to use the same format again. 🙂 

Day care

1. Cleanser (I’m currently using Fancl Washing Powder)
2. Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Renewing eye cream
3. Laneige White Dew Ampoule Essence
4. Laneige Water Bank Gel Cream
5. Clarins UV Plus Sunscreen (I’m using the tinted version that is only found in USA)
6. CNP Laboratory Omega Perfection Sun Block (for my neck and arms)
7. Sulwhasoo Perfecting Cushion EX or Diorskin Forever Perfect Cushion
8. Belif Sun Powder (optional since I don’t really use it so often)

Night care

1. Makeup remover
2. Cleanser (I’m currently using Fancl Washing Powder)
3. Any masks that I happened to buy (which is a huge range so I’m not going to list them here)
4. Sulwhasoo Concentrated Ginseng Renewing eye cream
5. Muji Light Toning Water High Moisture (My all-time holy grail product!)
6. Innisfree Green Tea Serum

Damage*: S$656 to S$661

*I’m following the prices I found online and not the ones that I actually paid for. I always do my due diligence when it comes to buying the products and where+when to buy them. So what I paid for might be significantly lesser…

Seems like I should expand on my night skin care regime… 6 steps is probably not sufficient, haha. 

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