Friday, September 23, 2011

The winner is..

Bobbi Brown!!!!

Not sure if I liked what the Bobbi Brown lady did on my face (:p) this evening at Beauty Beats David Jones... But I will make it work! Otherwise I'll be so upset spending $90 for an eyeliner and a brush.

Pretty sure I can get cheaper in Japan.
Anyway I can't wait tmrw to try it on by myself:)

Thursday, September 22, 2011

To Get Perfect Eyes... Part 3

So I booked into Bobbi Brown 30min Make up lesson tomorrow! So exciting----- but t doesn't mean I haec already decided to get the Bobbi Brown Gel eyeliner.

Yes, there are more eyeliners I am very keen to try on.... 

Today's pick is CHANEL - ECRITURE DE CHANEL Automatic Liquid Eyeliner. 

I choose this product because simply I am a big fun of CHANEL products. 
I use CHANEL base cream, powder foundation and eye shadows. I love those product as much as the sound of "I use CHANEL". 
They all come with gorgeous CHANEL cases and little brushes.... ahhh.. just love it! 

I LOVE CHANEL! How simple is that?! 

But I've never actually tried any eyeliners of CHANEL. Maybe I have always good eyeliner so didn't think of getting a new one, but same time I wouldn't spend so much on my eyeliner. I use eyeliner everyday, at least twice a day. I use pretty a lot by drawing thick lines. I'm not sure if I could afford it. 

I looked up the review and here we go... some of the comments are "just too expensive". Couldn't find the price in AUD but is NZD$55, I would guess about $50? I don't know how long it lasts but it looks pretty small... and $50 each time....

Having said that I'm pretty sure it's a great product. Plus I love this type of liquid eyeliners - they are the easiest to apply for the perfect cat eyes, I know that! And it looks really BLACK and apparently it stays long time. 
I will definitely try and I may get it but not in Australia... (CHANEL in Aus is ridiculously expensive). So not happening tomorrow, but it is on my wish list for sure! 

シャネルのアイライナー使ったことありますか?
シャネルの商品使ってるってだけで気持ちが浮くのはあたしだけでしょうかぁぁぁ?シャネルはずっと愛用してるんですけど、特にファンデーションは大学の時からずーーーーーっと、商品よりも名前に負けてるかも?だって、ケースとかで上がるんだもん!!!

アイライナーは今まで困ったことなかったから、シャネル使ったことなかったんです。ほら、やっぱちょっと高いし。しかも、見た目小さいし。。。いっぱい使うからあんまり高すぎるとちょっとキツイ。

レビューでも、商品自体はすごくいいけど高すぎるっていうコメントがけっこーあったんだよね。オーストラリアって、日本よりもなぜかめちゃくちゃ輸入品が高い。シャネルも倍まではいかないけど、それに近いくらいの値段になってて、普通にファンデが1万以上して超あせったからね。だから絶対こっちでは買わないけど、日本に帰った時に買って使ってみたい!
色の発色すごいよさそうだし、この筆タイプは使いやすいから大好きだし☆☆

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

To Get Perfect Eyes... Part 2

My second pick of eyeliner is, of course, Bobbi Brown - Long Wear Gel Eyeliner . 


A king of Gel Eyeliner, I could describe it. 
This award-winning liner gives you the look of liquid liner with the ease & feel of a gel formula. Long-wearing, water-resistant color glides on & let’s you get it just right before it dries - then stays without a smear or crease. 


Awarded 'Best of Beauty' by 'Allure' Magazine (2011). Awarded best liquid liner by 'The Knot' Magazine(2010).

To apply: Dip tip of Ultra Fine Eyeliner Brush (coat both sides of brush head). Wipe off excess before applying to eye. Work quickly as product becomes transfer-resistant once dry. To remove, use Instant Long-Wear Makeup Remover.
Again, I had a look the reviews on MakeupAlley



Interesting... Many people were actually comparing with the MAC's gel eyeliner. A few people pointed out it dries up really quickly they couldn't finish the bottle - that's a bit worry. Plus apparently we have to get separate BB's eyeliner brush to apply? But look at the bottle.. so cute!! And it looks like it comes much darker than MAC. 


Average Rating: 4.4
85% would buy this product again
Package Quality: 4.2
Price: $22

I'm thinking to take BB make up lesson on Friday rather than MAC's now... tempting tempting...

ボビーブランのジェルアイライナー使ったことありますか?日本でも超人気のこの商品。。。気になります。このボトルかわいい♡

オーストラリアでもこの商品は超人気で、いろいろな雑誌で評価されてるんです。

あたしのお気に入りのサイトでレビューを見てみました。やっぱり、マックのライナーと比べられてますねー。どっちも気になるぅぅ、けど、BBの方が微妙に勝ってる?かな?
乾燥しやすいって書いてあるけど、色が濃いのがこっち。とれにくいのもこっち。。でも、専用のブラシ買わないとだめなの?

今週の金曜日もメイクアップコースはBBに決まりそうぅぅぅ。。(マックはいっと混んでるだろぉーし。。。でも、絶対マックも試すけどね☆)

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

To Get Perfect Eyes...

You need a perfect Eyeliner.
I won't go out without wearing eyeliner. They are fantastic! Seriously I want to thank anyone who invented it.
The line has to be very smooth, thick and BLACK. I love liquid eyeliners more than a pencil type. Liquid type allow you to draw beautiful edge. I like drawing the edge nice & long & smooth, like cat eyes. Because I have Asian eyes, I need very thick eyeliner to make my eyes a bit bigger. So without eyeliner, I look completely different person.

I have been using SHISEIDO Automatic Fine Eyeliner for long time. I loved it so much.
BUT they decided to make it a bit more "proactive". Failed. Why did you do that?!?!
It's not Black enough, waterproof doesn't work, not staying on all day still it's easy to apply but it's not the same.

So I decided to find a new perfect eyeliner, deadline is this Friday.
Everyday I pick one product and read reviews and think about it... then I get one on Friday!
(Friday is "Friday Night Beauty Exclusively at David Jones")

Today I picked M.A.C - Fluidline Eye-Liner Gel in Blacktrack



I always wanted to try Gel type eyeliners.
Plus I love M.A.C products.

As usual, I checked MakeupAlley.

1798 review (wow), average rating is 4.4 (out of 5) and 85% would buy this product again.

WOW- that's a really great.

Of course a few reviews are saying they don't like it but most of the review say "LOVE IT".
Apparently it doesn't smudge, stay on all day, nice black colour, dry up quickly, smooth and very easy to apply. Sound very good so far.
RRP $32, use a blush to apply.

I'd better try this one on before Friday!

皆さんはどこのアイライナー使ってますか???
わたしはずっとお気に入りだった資生堂のリキッドアイライナーがなくなっちゃって(新しくかわったはずが、あたしは廃盤の方が好きだった。。)これを機会に新しいアイライナー探します!

期限は今週の金曜日。それまでにいろいろレビュー読んで調べます。

アイライナーはあたしの命の次に大事な物といっても過言ではないくらい毎日の必需品!完璧な物探します!

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Hair Spray at new The Star☆

Did you like going to the Star City? Me, no. Casino doesn't really attract me at all. Only I went there because of the musicals I've seen in the past.

Well, maybe that was until last night. Post Star City has been transformed since last Thursday, changed the name to The Star.

New shops, new restaurants, totally new look.
The renovations are still going but really impressed. I went there because I wanted to see the musical Hair Spray, no expectation of any of the shops in the star. Well.... I did "wow" when I saw the outside, looked amazing. And more "wow" inside. I've never seen so many people, have to say it was really good vibes.
I picked a shoes shop called "MODA EMPORIO". Most of shoes are from Italy. Gorgeous. Really stylish. Modern designs. And expensive:p
A pair of shoes was especially looked into my eyes. Wow.... So beautiful! Love the colour, love the heels and love the design!!!! Can you see the Gold platform? That's really gorgeous!
I am hoping when I go to Italy in December (Yes, I am going to ITALY!!!! yay) I could find something similar.... now way I could afford this pair... I don't actually record how much it was... but I remember it was more than $1000.....

If you walk around, you see a couple of great restaurants.
BLACK by ezard, I'd definitely come back to try his dishes. Reading the website just sounds too good and also the restaurant itself looks amazing. You can actually see the kitchen from the passage - awesome. And how many bottles of wine they've got?! Wow.... many lol You must be able to order some good wine there.

But unfortunately we didn't have time to sit down properly and eat nice dinner tonight. So decided to go to the casual dinning section.

Another surprise! Omg, Flying Fish is there!!!! Flying Fish is Sydney's premier fine dining waterfront seafood restaurant with breathtaking views of Sydney Harbour at Jones Bay Wharf, one of my favorite restaurant.

But this one is called "Flying Fish Chips" :-) Much casual than Flying Fish but still they have really good Fish and Chips! Fish and Chips Special is really reasonable. With a glass of wine,  I think it was only $14.90 (I might be wrong... ).

Then if you feel like an ice cream before getting into the theatre, go to Messina Gelato:-) You can't decide  what you want to order... so many flavors, they all look super yummy.
I know ice creams are a little devils but who doesn't want to have them? Yap, I failed. I ordered a double scoop, pistachio and tiramisu in a corn. YUMMY! Seriously they are really good. I love having an ice cream in the theatre or even in a cinema, yeah I think they are "MUST" stuff.




Ok, I think enough about shoes/food already. Let's talk about the Hair Spray.
Have you seen the movie? Oh, I LOVE IT so much. Personally I love 60's style a lot and the outfits in the movie made me really happy by just watching. I love 60's big hair, high-waist skirts, pretty high heels... like BB and MM.
Plus all happy songs... and of course, James Masden and Zac Efron were so gorgeous in the movie:-) haha
Well, overall  it was very well done movie and they came in Sydney as a musical, I couldn't wait to see.

I have to say the musical was really good, really really good. I've never seen a musical like this one.
A lot of CG involved but still feel like you are in 60's. Their performance was seriously great. And still really funny - They added a few jokes in, was funny too. Good jokes! The stage was also really cute. It looks like you are watching a tv from where you sit. Totally recommended even though it will end this week...

I wanna watch the movie again!!






日本ではカジノって言うと、ベガス?って思ちゃうと思うけど、実はシドニーにも小さいカジノあるんです。

別にギャンブルもしないし、そんなに面白い場所でもないから、ミュージカル見る時以外は別に来ようって思わない場所です。で、今回も先週の木曜日にリニューアルしたことは知ってても別にそんなに期待もせず、ヘアスプレーのついでぐらいの勢いでやってきました。

まず、駐車場に入る前にちょっとびっくり。見た目よくなってるし。。。ここ1−2年くらいずっと工事してたから完成した姿はけっこうすばらしい。。。。

で、中に入ってさらにびっくり!人がめっちゃいるし!いつもはけっこーカランってしてたのに。。。お店もいっぱいできてるし!しかも、結構いいお店が入ってるし!!!
やるじゃん。。。

名前もスターシティからザスターに変わったらしい。うーん。。。どうなんだろ、そこは?別に名前変える必要あったのかなって思ちゃうけど、まぁ、いいか。

一番最初に目に入ったのが、イタリアの靴がいっぱいそろった靴屋さん。見た目もゴージャスでいっぱいかわいい靴あります♡♡
中でも目を引いたのは、写真にあるオックスフォードシューズ。めっちゃかわいい!色もヒールもプラットフォームの金もすべてがかわいい!!!!さすがイタリア製。いい皮使ってます。そして、とてもいいお値段。17万円くらいしました。。。無理です。冬にイタリア行くから、そんときにそれらしき物が2万くらいでないかな。。。。と、思いながら写真だけ撮っときました。

で、その後は夕食。でも、時間もなくって、ゆっくりすわることができないから、超気になるレストラン ブラックは次回にとっておいて、今回はカフェエリアに。

ここで、また驚きが!フードーコートってなめてたら、けっこー有名どころがそろってるじゃないですか!
今日はあたしの大好きなフライングフィッシュのカジュアル版、フライング フィッシュ チップスで、フィッシュ&チップス頼むことに。これ、めっちゃうまい。もともとピアモントの方のレストランでもチップスは激うまなんだけど、こっちでも全然いける。それで、三分の一の値段だし。これは、いい!!!

で、急いで席へ。ヘアスプレー見たことあります?あたしは映画好きでした。個人的に60年代ってすごく好き。

洋服も髪型もすごく好き。あたしの一生のあこがれのブリジット バルドーも60年代が一番活躍時代だし。

ミュージカルって歌とダンスの迫力で、めちゃくちゃ元気になる☆よく、ミュージカルは見に行くんだけど、このミュージカルは特別だった。うまくCGを組み合わせてて、新しい感じだけど、気分は60年代。めちゃくちゃよかった。。。日本でもやるのかな?もし、見れる機会あったら是非見てください!終わった後はやっぱり歌、口ずさんじゃいますよねぇー♪

あぁーもう一回映画見直しちゃおぉーーーーっと☆

Friday, September 16, 2011

Spring-time for a new pair of TONY BIANCO

Business trip in Melbourne, always excite me. I loooooove Melbourne.

Love shops in Melbourne. If you like something different but still trendy, Melbourne is the place to visit.

So many little designer shops on the streets, you can walk around whole day.

But ........ this time, I didn't event have time to go into the city. Poor me...:-(

The time I've got before heading back to the airport was only 45min. Only place I could go was DFO.

I don't really like DFO for some reason. I've never even been one in Sydney.
So when I walked into the DFO, wasn't even think I could shop...till I saw Tony Bianco shop!

I want to add bout Tony Bianco here for anyone who don't know about.
"Tony Bianco is Australia’s leading fashion footwear brand that recognises that being an individual is the essence of true style. This fashion forward collection of shoes embodies the attitude of High street London and the spirit of Soho NY. It represents the perfect harmony of creative, cultural and on-trend infusions.

The Tony Bianco signature denotes a heightened focus on detail, superior quality and unique luxurious materials. The contemporary styling reigns supreme, inspiring and surprising with undertones of mystery.
The Tony Bianco girl is a well-blended mix of street-smart modernist, epitomizing cool with an effortless ability to switch their looks day or night; from androgynous to glamour, vintage meets modern to everyday, street-luxe dressing."

I have many pairs of Tony Bianco. Totally a fun. Very simply but still very sexy. Trendy designs but still have style. Those show make you happy for sure.

Today I met "Betty"- nude patent. Perfect colour, perfect shape and perfect heel height 13cm with platform.

I have been looking for a perfect pair long time. Had to match with my skin colour. (otherwise it won't call it "Nude Heels", apparently)  - here pretty interesting article about Nude Heels.

Those were new pair and wasn't discounted. (very tricky, you think everything is on sale in DFO but they are actually not. I didn't even look at the price before I went to the casher...lucky Tony Bianco is a reasonable brand which is another "tick" of why I love Tony Bianco)






Having said that, there is a way to get 10% discount in DFO Melbourne. Here is the secret (not really) trick.
If you check in your facebook at Tony Bianco South Wharf Official Page, you get the discounts. Very clever little thing to get more "like"on their page. So I did it, even I had to run upstairs to get network (the shop is underground, no reception... duh) and checked in, came back to pay lol

Nude colour goes with any colours. Why don't you try?

I can't wait to wear them with my baby pink dress which I got from another my favorite Australian designer Arthur Galan. I will write about him another time though...

メルボルンはよく出張で行きます。メルボルンいいですよねぇぇーーー大好きな町☆天気さえもうちょっとよければ、全然住める。買い物も絶対シドニーよりもいい物が見つかるのが確実。しかも、おいしいレストランとかワインバーとかもシドニーよりもある。

なんですが、今回はまったく町を歩く時間もなく、自由に使えた時間はたったの45分(しかも、空港に向かう直前の。)何かできるかっていったら、すぐ近くできたDFO(日本での言うアウトレットモール)に行くくらい。

日本に居る時からあんまりアウトレットって好きじゃなくって、今回もそんなに期待をせずに覗いてみたら、な。な。なんとTony Biancoがあるじゃないですかっっ!日本ではまだあまり知られてないかもしれないけど.Tony Biancoはオーストラリアのブランドで、こっちでは王道のシューズブランド。みんな大好きなブランド!日本人ウケも絶対いいと思う。シンプルだけど形がすごくよくて、デザインも流行にのってて色もスタイルも豊富。ヒールが高いデザインが多いけど、これまた歩きやすい。私も何足かもってるんだけど、すべて13cm以上ヒール。もともと168cmあるので、いつも巨人に大変身。。。だけど、好きなんです、高いヒールが。Tony Bianco のウェブサイトもチェックして見てね!超おすすめです☆ネットからも購入可能!

で、今回出会ったのがBetty"。春にもってこいのヌーディーカラー。ずっと探してたんです、こーゆぅの!ここ最近ずっとヌーディーカラーブームだったけど、季節の逆のオーストラリアで冬終わるのずっと待ってたんです!!やっと、履けるし着れる♪ピンクベージュのドレスが2着ほど春デビューにとってあるから、この新しいペアシューズと一緒に着れるのが楽しみでしかたなぁーいぃぃ!

その、ドレスのデザイナーももちろんオーストラリア人。Arthur Galanです。彼もとてもメジャーなデザイナーであたしのお気に入りの一人。次回のブログで紹介します。今回はとにかく、Tony Biancoを知ってもらいたくって。。値段も手頃だしっ☆☆


Sunday, September 11, 2011

A Little Trip to Italy for Sunday Lunch

Lovely spring weather on Sunday, what would you like to do?
Most of Sydneysiders go out for late breakfast on Sundays especially in this weather, you'd like to go somewhere you could sit outside and enjoy the sun. So where would you go?

I chose to go to Italy today, but just only in Surry Hills.



Caffé Sicilia 
628 Crown Street Surry Hills NSW 
www.caffesicilia.com.au

"Old-world Italian dining meets new-school Surry Hills"
You feel like you are in Italy! (not as I have been there yet...) Italian staffs will treat you very well:-) It's prefect for late Sunday lunch with a glass of wine.

We didn't have wine as I was dying to have a coffee.
Coffee was nice & strong, Orange Juice was also nice & fresh!

So far so good...

We ordered Fried Mozzarella in Carrozza ($14), Pane Cuzato ($14) and Involtini ($20).
I just guessed it would be lots of cheese:-) Yay!

First two dishes came into the table. Yes!!!!! CHEESE!!! Fries Mozzarella is basically "Fried Mozzarella":P Very crunchy outside and melted Mozzarella inside.... YUM!

Then Pane Cuzato is grilled focaccia (loved the crunchiness) with Tomoto, Buffalo Mozzarella, Tuna, Eggplant and Baked Ricotta = FULL ON.

My first impression, to be honest.... was, my gosh. The baked ricotta looked like white chocolate and the sauce looked like dark chocolate...lol But once you tasted, everything worked pretty well.

Finally Involtini which is rolled Veal stuffed with Breadcrumbles, Parmesan, Garlic and Peperonata. Lovely taste, nice and thin veal.. but by the time we received the dish, I had too much cheese already.

Overall everything was really tasty but I couldn't eat any more cheese. I wonder all Italian eat so much cheese every day?
They have so many good looking dolci too.. but I couldn't fit any more food:-( maybe next time.....

Once we finished the lovely time in Italy, decided to pop into a new store on Crown St "THE STANDARD STORE" .


They have lovely English-style clothes and accessories. Check out their website www.thestandardstore.com.au - they will start online shop very soon too! Very simple but very details.
 I only got a super cute&tiny bracelet which was made by a French girl who live in Australia - elvis et moi★ www.elvisetmoi.com 

Very cute... love it so much! The Standard Store has different types of bracelets and necklaces - loved the one with skeleton which eventually will be on my wrist soon:-)

After walking around Surry Hills, we decided to go back to typical Australian Cafe, Bills, Woollaahra. www.bills.com.au 


I love Bills. Ordered Meatballs, I was already so full... so couldn't eat much but it was very interesting taste. Meatballs are like Moroccan, potatoes  are like Indian and sauce tastes like Asian... maybe I prefer the famous pancakes better but I feel so happy just being in the restaurant. Just love it.

Over all nice Sunday afternoon! x 

シドニーもだいぶと春になって、ポカポカです。そんないい天気の日曜日、何してますか?

シドニーでの週末の過ごし方は人それぞれですが、大抵の人が遅いランチを楽しんだり、ビーチを歩いたり、公園に行ったり、日曜はどっちかっていうとダラダラ過ごします☆

で、あたしはサリーヒルズにあるイタリアン カフェ "カフェ シシリア" に行ってきましたぁー!イタリア行ったことないけど、イタリアに来た気分になれるレストラン。

食べた物がすべてチーズで、ちょっと失敗しちゃったかもしれないけど、トロトロチーズが超うまい!イタリア人は毎日こんなにチーズ食べてるのかなってちょっと考えながらちゃっかり完食☆

次に向かったのが、最近クラウンストリートにできたザスタンダードストア。
ここの商品は日本人にきっとうけると思う!英国風のスタイルで、服からアクセサリーまでシンプルなデザインがいい感じ!そこで、出会ったのがこっちに住んでるフランス人の手作りというブレスレット。大好きな☆がかわいい!この、繊細な作りが超つぼ。他にもいろいろなデザインがそろってたから、またきっと戻って違うパターンも揃えちゃぉー♪

で、最後は日本でもおなじみのビルズ。ウラーラ店はあたしのお気に入りの一つ。あの、中庭感覚が落ち着く〜。お腹いっぱいなのに、ミートボール頼みましたぁぁ。いろんな国の味が混じってて、不思議。個人的にはスタンダードなパンケーキのが好きかも。。。

ってな日曜でした☆

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Start with Tiffany & Co.

The night of Fashion Night's Out in Sydney, I found a gorgeous gorgeous necklace at the Tiffany & Co.
I've been looking for a perfect gold necklace for ages - needs be be perfect length, colour and of course design.

Gorgeous pattern on this pendant from Tiffany's Paloma collection.
It's still pretty new in Australia (AU$2,550) - Paloma's Venezia Stella Pendant.

Patterned after the gold eight-pronged stars featured on the backdrop to the famous lion sculptures gracing the Basilica San Marco in Venice. Pendant in 18k gold with blue enamel finish and round brilliant diamonds. On a 16" chain. Carat total weight .08. Original designs copyrighted by Paloma Picasso.

I LOVE IT!!!! Just perfect.... yes, just perfect....

The problem is.... can I afford this right now? ......ummm, maybe no......or maybe yes?? I guess I have to wait for my tax return...

I was thinking to get it when I'm back in Japan (must be cheaper by knowing we have Tiffany at the airport) but seems like it hasn't arrived in Japan market yet. Damn.... why?


ファッション ナイト アウトで出会ったパーフェクトなペンダント。それはティファニーのパロマ ピカノのコレクションの一つで”パロマ ベネチィア ステラ ペンダント"。
長さも色もデザインもすべてが完璧☆日本でもパロマ ピカソのデザインは人気だけど、なぜかこのシリーズはまだ出てない?なんで?日本人こーゆぅの好きだと思うんだけどぉ。。。
日本に帰る時に空港の免税店で買おうかと思ったのに、なかったらチーーーーーーーン。。。

8角の☆型はベニスにあるバジリカ サン マルコで有名ですょねー、けど、あたしの最初のイメージはモロッコだったケド。。