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There is a new ingredient called BirdNest Collagen in Nutox Oxyfusion now. According to the company, BNest Collagen contains effective cosmetic ingredients with anti-aging effects. It improves the quality of our cells by regenerating new cells. Frequent application can promote youthful smooth complexion and healthier skin.

Nutox Oxyfusion has appointed a new ambassador Bernice Liu from Hong Kong as a spokesperson. Recently, she was here to promote this new range product and had an interview with The Sun.

emmagem.com has an interesting article about the Nutox BirdNest Launch and skin analysis in One Utama shopping complex in Malaysia. Besides the product launch, the fans in Malaysia were able to have a closer look at Bernice as well. My thanks to emmagem for suggesting lolyco.com as online source for Nutox products!

Confession of a Q Shopaholic has a story about buying Nutox at Guardian and recommends trying Nutox Oxyfusion Solar Block SPF45PA++. You can buy Solar Block SPF45PA++ from lolyco.com at over 12% discount from retail price.

Youtube has a Bernice Liu advertisement for Nutox Oxyfusion:-

Bio Essence came out with a new range of products called Tanaka White Series which is to keep your skin white, firm, moisturized & cool. With modern bio-engineering techniques, the Tanaka tree bark extract has deep nourishing, hydrating and cooling properties.  Is considering the most natural and effective care for the skin.

These are the steps for using  Bio Essence Tanaka White Series program:-

1. Gentle Cleansing Foam – Cleanse
2. Bright White Clarifying Softener – Softener
3. White & Firm Double Action Essence – White & Firm
4. Rejuvenating Whitening Day Cream – Rejuvenating (Day Use only)
5. Renewal Night Cream – Renew (Night Use only)
6. Skin White Perfecting Lotion SPF15 – Protect

* Skin White Perfecting Stretch Mask – Intensive Treatment (Once or twice a week)

CozyCot has Tanaka White Series details about the ingredients, the functions and the price in Singapore Dollars. You can get it in a cheaper price at Lolyco.com!

There is a review of Tanaka White Series in VIVI’s DIARY.

This is the advertisement for Bio Essence Tanaka White Series of Linda Chung:-

Cheryl Cole

Every year I’m fascinated and excited want to find out:  who is the most beautiful women in the world? Who is the best dressed woman? Recently, there was a poll conducted by The Style Network, voted Cheryl Cole as the Best Dressed woman of 2009 and style icon of the year.

These are my personal favourite pictures of Cheryl Cole.  She is indeed gorgeous and stylish. I like her hairstyle and the proportions of her figure  makes her look so stunning whatever she wears. No wonder she would be able to beat Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham to grab this year title! I reckon she could grab the most sexiest icon of the year as well, what do you think by judging of these few pictures?

Cheryl Cole

There were about 3000 women took part in this poll, the survey asked who is the most stylish icon age range between 25 to 30. I read somewhere that her success is thanks to her shopping habit and she dresses up well all the time. On top of that, she is married to a rich and famous  Chelsea football player Ashley Cole which helps her fame as well.

Cheryl Cole

Cheryl Cole

The top 10 best-dressed women of 2009 were:

1. Cheryl Cole

2. Kate Moss

3. Victoria Beckham

4. Alexa Chung

5. Blake Lively

6. Katy Perry

7. Agyness Deyn

8. Katie Holmes

9. Rihanna

10. Rachel Bilson

See the pictures  of the top ten best dressed women here.

It’s not as though I’ve got all the time in the world, and this does, at first glance appear to be a complete waste of time. But sometimes time is best wasted, like spending too much on shoes or drinks or a shirt you only wear once, throwing away time makes you feel like you’ve got it to burn!

Institut Esthederm logo (GIF)

Jess wanted some pictures with the Institut Esthederm logo in them, but the only versions I could find online were very small, so resizing them made them look horrible. She had a version on a disk too, courtesy of a trip to Esthecosme, her supplier. It was the old black-on-white version of the logo, and in an EPS (Encapsulated Post Script) file. Even though it was a huge (over 300kB!) file, it still had jagged edges!

I’d recently done a few articles about Inkscape, the drawing program, for isono.my, so I thought I’d test my new-found skills on the Institut Esthederm logo. I’m not a graphic designer, so I may not have gone about it quite right. It was easy enough, with perhaps the only tricky bit the kerning (spacing between characters) of the text. It’s very easy to change the kerning of text in Inkscape, once you know how – it’s not obvious!

Reconstructed Institut Esthederm logo, large version (PNG)

Before you use this logo in any of your own work, please note that it isn’t Institut Esthederm’s logo, it’s Lolyco’s reconstruction of it. It does look like their logo (okay, so the first ‘I’ and the last ‘T’ in the curved INSTITUT at top are not quite rotated as much as the original), but if you really wanted to use Institut Esthederm’s logo in your own documents, we strongly recommend asking Institut Esthederm for a better, official version. I could have done that, but patience is not a virtue I possess.

If you want a resizable (to any size) version that you can use with Inkscape (so you can fix the rotation on the ‘I’ and the ‘T’!), Institut Esthederm logo, SVG format, zipped.

Institut Esthederm from France  starter kits for Dry Skin, Oily Skin and Sensitive Skin are now available. The kits are ideal for people who just would like to try Esthederm products. With an advanced technology, Esthederm often upgrade their products with their latest skin care patents. Their products contain 100% active ingredients unlike other products which are only 1 to 10%  ingredients.  The ingredients slow down the  skin-ageing  process, so the products are excellent for home based use because the ingredients themselves are able to work on their own.

Esthederm starter kits at lolyco.com

For beginners to use a new product, it  is very important to understand the basic of skin water protection. For instance, a plant that is too dry or doesn’t have enough water, won’t absorb minerals or nutrients. Similar with our skin without enough water, it will become tighter, wrinkles appear, there’ll be a loss of elasticity, black spots appear and etc. Esthederm Cellular Water is the first and only replica of the skin’s water. It can carry cellular water into deeper layers of the skin.

Esthederm products are easy to use. For dry skin, you use Hydra System, for oily skin you use Pure System and for Sensitive skin you use Sensi System. You can mix and match depending on your skin condition. For example acne skin, after it clears up, you can change to Sensi system and then treat as normal skin. Besides this basic skin care, there is an intensive ‘Molecular Care’ range for emergency treatment of serious skin problem such as severe dehydration, severe acne and hyper sensitivity. Use it at night time to get optimum results.

The reason why all the Esthederm starter kit products concern about water level of the skin is that water level is fundamental to the absorption of nutrients. For more details, you can browse www.esthederm.com for more expert opinion and learn more about why it stands out from other cosmetics brand.

After years of research and development, the Bio Essence skincare series is becoming more and more popular. A unique and effective skincare that will make your skin more radiant and give you a clearer complexion.

Bio essence test at 1 Utama

Bio-essence have even held several huge events where they demonstrated their products’ effects. The event in the picture was at 1 Utama, a famous shopping complex in Malaysia.

Beauty Biotech has an article about Bio Essence company background, made of herbal chinese traditional and etc.

Follow these steps for a Basic Skin care program:

1. Exfoliate – Deep Exfoliating Gel
2. Remove – Deep Cleansing Milk (If you use make-up)
3. Cleanse – Deep Cleanser
4. Tone – Deep Nourishing Toner
5. Skin Nourisher – Cell Re-growth Essence
6. Moisturize – Deep White Lotion
7. Protect – Sunscreen Moisturizing Lotion SPF15 or Sunscreen Moisturizing Cream SPF56

So easy! Effective too.

You can buy products from the Bio Essence range at my shop: Lolyco.com, I stock almost the entire range. Let me know if there’s a product you want, but I don’t have in stock, I’ll see what I can do! You can leave a comment below, or use the contact page at Lolyco.com.

One of the fashions that struck me most about Jean Paul Gaultier (hear how to pronounce his name)  fashion designer was the ‘Cone Bra’ outfit, which was designed for Madonna for her Blonde Ambition tour in 1990. After that, there was a Hong Kong Comedy Movie, starring Maggie Chung who wore that Cone Bra for her funny role as well.

You can see the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Summer 2008 for his collection in here. This time a mermaid is wearing the cone bra.

I was wandering if I was wearing the Cone Bra on the street, will people stare at me?  I don’t mind if I would be able to wear it on a fashion show but not in the high street!

Hello magazine has a great Jean Paul Gaultier profile. He was so obsessed with fashion design in the early days. I would say if somebody is obsessed and persistent in their goal, usually they will be successful, don’t you think so?

Jean Paul Gaultier said that beauty can be universal. The model’s name is “Velvet” from New York, USA. Some bloggers say Jean Paul Gaultier did this as a reaction, to make a mockery of the ban on super-skinny models. Many have commented that if he really wanted to show beauty is universal, he should have used some average sized women.

Whatever the truth is, there are plenty of opinions! So what do you think? Was Gaultier telling women “you’re all beautiful, no matter what size”? Or was he saying “I can’t use skinny models? Well, cop this!”.

I’d love to know what you think!

Another designer’s name that catches me out sometimes! Jean Paul Gaultier is pronounced like “ZHON POL GOL-tee-yay”. The “Paul” and the “Gaul” sound the same. The ‘ZH’ sound is like the ’s’ in ‘vision’.

Here’s an audio clip of “Jean Paul Gaultier”:

From this Jean Paul Gaultier ‘Classique’ video:

The music is “Nessun Dorma” from the opera “Turandot” by Puccini

This is another audio clip of someone saying “Jean Paul Gaultier”:

From this ‘le male’ (the man) video:

The music is “Casta Diva” from Bellini’s “Norma”. While I was researching on YouTube, I found this amazing video of the famous opera diva Maria Callas singing Casta Diva. What a voice – I had to include it!

Nutox Oxyfusion is suitable for all skin types, especially for those who wish to have a wrinkle-free and radiant complexion. A while ago, somebody asked me how to use the whole range of Nutox Oxyfusion, here are the steps to use:-

• Step 1: Remove make-up ( use Softening Pre-cleanser to remove make-up )
• Step 2: Exfoliate ( use Skin Reborn Exfoliator )
• Step 3: Cleanse ( use Purifying Cleansing Gel or Wrinkle Away Cleanser )
• Step 4: Toner ( use Skin Refining Astringent )
• Step 5: Revitalize ( use Advanced Serum Concentrate )
• Step 6: Lighten ( use Spot Away to lighten and reduce the black spots )
• Step 7: Moisture ( use Moisture Emulsion SPF25 PA++ / Solar Block SPF45 PA++ for day and Supernatural Night Repair for night & Eye Refiner for eye area )

Others: Deep Absorbing Detox Mask or Restorative Hydrating Mask.

You can get the Nutox Oxyfusion products from Lolyco.com online shop.

When somebody see you, of course the eyes will be the first contact. Protect and take good care of your eyes is important for everybody. Women will do anything to slow down aging but nowadays guys want to do that too!

The skin under your eyes is fragile and thinner than your other facial skin, about 3 to 5 times thinner! Some of the causes of eye bags, dark circles, wrinkles, crow’s feet, and dullness are: high stress, hectic lifestyle, late nights, UV rays, lack of sleep, poor dietary habits, natural aging to name a few.

How to treat your problems? There are a few moisturising eye creams that you can choose from lolyco.com. Besides good products, technique applying the eye cream is also important. The videos below will show you how to use your ring finger on your eyes. Some people just rub with their hands, which is wrong, it can damage the delicate skin around your eyes.

The first video shows the basics of how to apply eye cream, just use a pea-sized amount to apply to both eyes – don’t use too much cream, it won’t penetrate.

The second video shows the method in detail. See the way she taps gently underneath the eyes. You can use this techniques to apply concealer to cover your dark circles as well.

On top of that, I would recommend that some good deep sleep (hours before midnight are best!), drinking plenty of fluids, reducing your alcohol and fat intake, light outdoor exercise in the fresh air will improve your facial skin and help you get rid of puffy eyes.