A Pocket Full of Sunshine: March 2014

Hundred and Ten.

Hello! I am here to share with you on an ongoing Salon Vim promotion!! :)

Went to Salon Vim last week to pamper my tresses!

And I left the salon feeling like a million bucks woohooo ~~~ (as usual hehe).

A selfie to show my color before I changed it!

You know I don't know why even though I am disappointed with Gongcha every time I buy their normal milk tea, I still don't learn my lesson and buy it again. -.-

Their tea has a weird after taste and it's only alright if I order honey milk tea?!!

Cha-time (my new fave) / Koi / Share Tea is soooo much better!!

I chose matte brown for my hair color this time! You can see my roots slowly growing out and how the ends of my hair is so rough and dry. :(

After dying my whole head, they wrap it up to allow the color to seep into my hair! :)

Katherine recommended me this "Power of 3" Kerafusion treatment!

IT'S DAMN GOOOD. Like soooooo awesome.

So basically last time for my Keratase treatment, you get a concentrate + 1 booster.

But now, you get a concentrate + 2 boosters!

So you can imagine how soft, smooth and shiny your hair will be!

There's also a promotion going on until 31st of March!

This treatment is only at $338 instead of the usual $480!

I'll say it's worth it because your hair is really as soft as a feather! (Y)

These are the products which I used! :)

The boosters are supposed to help make my hair softer and more moisturized!

I must really say that the effect was achieved for my hair because I was pretty amazed by the results hahaha.

And the mask which was used as well!
So you see, I have the concentrate + boosters + mask for my treatment which equates to super soft hair! I think I keep using the words soft / awesome in this post, but I am not trying to exaggerate to force you to go and try the treatment, but it's really because I think that the treatment is seriously good!

I am having my treatment done for my hair here! :)

And out comes the blue machine which will allow my hair to absorb the products better! :)

I feel like an alien! I must be too influenced by the You who came from the stars k-drama hahaha.

And ta-dahhhh!! The end results! :)

I also snipped off at least 2 inches of my hair because I wanted a change in look!

I LOVE MY HAIRRRR.

You can look for Katherine at Salon Vim 313 if you are interested! She's my hair stylist. :)

Remember to quote "bertilla wong" to enjoy 10% off all hair services!

Do call them to book an appointment in case they are fully booked on the day you head down! :)

This was my outfit of the day!
Matched our keepsake top with a printed skirt for a summer look!

Top: TCL Keepsake Embellished Swing Top

Skirt: Zara

Heels: Jeffrey Campbell

Blazer: H&M

Shall post a couple of OTDs, which are already featured on my dayre but I'll post them here too! :)

Top: TCL Crochet Sleeve Peplum Top (upcoming)
Bottom: Pleated Midi Skirt (upcoming)

Heels: New Look

Bag: Horse Embedded Sling Bag

We spent like an hour trying to take our otds that day! Plus it was actually raining really heavily.

Took me sooo long to get a good twirling shot! So sorry that it's kinda blur when it is enlarged. :(

<3 monochrome!

A close-up of the top! :)

There are really pretty crochet details at the sleeves!
I am wearing an altered piece for the skirt as the S size doesn't really fit a Uk 4!

Close-up of the pleats. :)

New clothes almost everyday for last week because our upcoming launch is going to be fabulouso ~~ hehe.

Dress: *Premium* Tartan Cut Out Dress (upcoming)

Heels: TCL Minimalist Heels in Black

My piece is altered to fit my size ya! :)

The tartan trend is still going strong so don't miss out on this dress!

And I think this dress would look great with a biker jacket thrown over it. :)

It was a good hair / makeup day on Saturday so time for some selfies hehe.

And this is a truer color of my hair color now! :)

Tried to apply more eyeshadow that day!

I also tried to contour my face using a sleek contour palette but...I need more practice hahaha.
Can you also spot a slight gradient on my lips? I used two YSL lippies to create the effect!

Anyway, I was dressed like charlie chaplin that day hahaha.

Top: Personal Piece

Bottom: Suspender Pants (upcoming)

Shoes: Oxford Booties (upcoming)

I felt so happy in my outfit! (Y)

The pants are slightly loose on me so I think that it'll fit a Uk 6 better!

And yes! Time to talk about these awesome kicks!

LOVEEEE THEM hahaha.

Basically I have 100001 pairs of shoes / heels and I can never get enough of them! ><

Been trying to save money and so I haven't been buying many pairs recently!

Since these are upcoming on TCL, I have more reason to keep them hehe.

This pair comes in brown and black!
We have a similar one launching as well and it comes in black / wine!

More details on our TCL instagram (@theclosetlover). ;)

And so I attempted to try an artistic shot which didn't turn out very well..but still okay la right haha. :p

We were actually laughing our asses off taking this shot!!! Hahaha.

Bree wasn't tall enough to take the photos so she asked Mel to help, and in the end we just used the normal Samsung camera to take it. LOLLL.

AND...to entertain my readers/ followers, here is a video which we took hahaha.

Bree suggested doing those duck walks in the shoes and I added some other retarded movements as well! #nojudge #justforlaughs #iamretardedlikethis

Be sure to catch our launch on Tuesday at 830pm!
Full sneaks will be up tomorrow as well, so keep your eyes peeled on our facebook / instagram for more sneaks. :)

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

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Hundred and Nine.

australia

Hello! I am currently having my hair done at Salon Vim, shall do abit of blogging while I am here!
Did you know that there's free wifi at Somerset 313? Haha I never knew too!

Anyway, I am updating about our 2d1n trip to Hunter Valley! :)

Hunter Valley was about a 3 hour ride from Sydney!

We made our bookings only on the weekend before we left haha.

So you don't really have to book in advance!

A snapshot of the bridge we had to pass on the way to Hunter Valley! The weather was so gloomy when we left and we were quite worried that there will be thunderstorm etc but surprisingly, the weather was sooo good at Hunter Valley!

On the way to our guest house, we spotted kangaroos!

For our accommodation, we stayed at Peppers Guest House!

Peppers Guest House

Ekerts Road, Pokolbin

NSW, 2320

http://www.peppers.com.au

There are actually plenty of accommodation available in Hunter Valley, but we chose this because it was recommended by Sukhi! A pity the weather was too hot to really wander around, but the views were gorgeous!

The polite lady at the reception!

Haha Glen acting cute here heh.

The walkway to our room!

The room was cosy, clean and huge!

It was nice to have a big and clean toilet, complete with toiletries!

The bed is so comfyyyy. We brought along his laptop so that we could watch a movie if there was time!

Anyway, Hunter Valley is known for their wineries! The wines sold are mostly made at their vineyards, so you can expect really good quality wines!

We arrived past 1pm on the first day and missed the half-day winery tour. So we booked the half-day winery tour the next day, and decided to go for horse riding in the evening instead! :)

Since we had time before the horse riding tour, we took a walk around the guest house!

Came across this garden with picture frames hanging from the trees hahaha.

There was this part with bare trees! It would have been really nice if the sun wasn't so hot. :)

The view of our guest house from where we were.

So pretty right!

They had these lovely blue flowers planted around the guest house!

I have no idea what Glen was doing LOLLL.

They have really nice gardens around the guest house! :)

A shot with Glen! :)

OTD shot for Glen hahahaa.

His whole outfit is from ASOS! ;)

Here's my OTD shot!

Top: TCL Color Wonder Top in Tangerine

Bottom: TCL Mink Crochet Shorts in Off-White

Shoes: New Look

Love colorblocking, all day errrday! Hahaha.

After the walk, we watched a movie and went for our horse riding tour! :)

There are two horse riding tours in Hunter Valley if I am not wrong, and we booked the nearest one! You can book via your hotel too!

This was my first horse riding experience and we were not allowed to take photos during the ride, but the views were amazinggg. Imagine riding up hills and slopes and viewing the scenery of lakes / mountains / sunset from a high level! Plus even though the sun was shining brightly, there was still some light breeze so we were not sweating at all!

But I must admit that my butt was feeling a little sore hahaha. I was a little paranoid when I first sat on my horse because it was quite hard to control him, and he didn't really want to listen to meee! :( It got better after a while though. :)

The stable with all the horses!

Say hi to Pepper!!!

The resident cat, who was pretty close to some of the horses haha.

I am getting off Pepper here! Oh our tour guide was really good as well! There were a total of 4 of us on the tour (excluding the guide), and she said that she can take up to 12 people too!

Thank you Pepper for not running off and veering off course!
Even though he galloped a little bit, but it was still alright haha.

Here's Glen and his horse! :)

His horse was actually realllly tall hahaha. Mine was small and pint sized, to fit my size!

The instructor told me that she specially chose Pepper for me because I was the tiniest of the group hahaha.

We had two other ladies with us on the tour too! :)

Okay this is really funny because her horse actually likes to scratch his butt against the wooden fence! I tried to take a video of it but each time I whipped out my camera he would stop. -.-

Here's a video of him scratching his back instead hahaha.

I really enjoyed the horse riding tour and I highly recommend you to go for the tour if you haven't tried it before! It's really quite an experience to horse ride up and down slopes and hills heh. :)

Our view back to the Peppers Guest House was amazinggg too!
Just take a look at the sunset. :')

After the tour, Glen wanted to take a picture of himself with the mountains! Hahhaa.

<3 <3

I took jumpshots instead! :)

And because of the helmet, Glen's hair was all messed up and so was mine! But it was all worth it (y)!

We had dinner at Chez Pok, a restaurant at the guest house!

They served cheese for starters!

Oystersssssss.

We ordered lamb steak to share! It came with potato strips and salad!

The lamb steak was pretty good!

Potatoooeeee.

And that concludes day 1! :)

Our day 2 started bright and early because we were going on a morning half-day tour!

Surprisingly, there was only Glen and I on the tour so it was more like a private tour instead.

They usually have a bus full of people, so I guess we were just lucky!

Keep calm and drink wine!
So apt for a place full of wineries haha.

We went to quite a few wineries and I can't really remember the names..but there was Mcleish Estate winery and more! We visited the boutique wineries more than the bigger and commercialized ones as our tour guide recommended the boutique ones instead.

Glen and I actually preferred the boutique wineries more than the commercialized ones though!

Their wineries are hugeeee and vast!

My eyes are closed here or maybe they look closed because the sun was too strong HAHA.

One of the interiors of the winery that we visited!

The lady here taught us that to taste the wine, we needed to take at least 3 sips of the wine to taste the full flavor! We learnt quite a bit here. :)

I think this was Kevin Sobels winery!