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Lolyco is giving away some free gifts. There will be random free gifts for every order. Most of the free gifts are from skin care, personal care or handmade crafts. Some are totally free for every order but some of it must buy above certain amount of money. Follow Lolyco’s Twitter Feed to get the updating.

If you buy a specific brand, usually free gift will be the same brand. If the same brand free gift no longer available then Lolyco will give someting different from the website.

The first free gift will be Esthederm Travel Body Kit. If you buy above RM500.00 sales amount, you can get this free gift. First come first serve basis, there are only a few left. Our system will let us know who is entitled to get this free gift. While stocks last. If below RM500.00 then there will be other free gift.

A convenient selection of Institut Esthederm products (Esthederm Travel Body Kit) in its own carrying case. The kit comprises:

• Biotonic Water 50ml spray
  A continuing source of health and well-being.
• Vitality Body Scrub 15ml
  We have Vitality Body Scrub in a larger tube.
• Whitening Buffing Mask 15ml
  For clearer, softer skin.
• Slimming Biolift Cream 50ml
  Apply daily to treat skin imperfections, for smoother and firmer skin.

Just would like to share with you all some wonderful pictures which  I found in BBC website. There are some pictures there from the Landscape photo of the year 2009. Sometimes pictures do make me have peace of mind or imagine a fantasy world! My favourite is this one:

This is Sunrise over the Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland. It won the landscape photo of the year 2009.

The landscape of these pictures are fascinating and by looking  at the surrounding of natural environment, just amazing!

That inspires me to have a good camera so that I can capture all the fantastic memory when  I look back one day.

You can view the full pictures gallery here.

Durex Quality condoms

Sometimes Lolyco customers ask for advice in choosing a condom. Actually customers ask for advice about all sorts of things. It’s easier with skin care products – they say “I have oily /dry / combination skin” or “I want to get rid of my wrinkles / black spots”.

It’s more difficult with condoms. So far, no customer has said “I am hung like a bull / orangutan / cicak” and neither have they said “I want to last all night / feel nothing / keep the rain off my lunch”. They do occasionally ask, but there’s not much information offered on which to offer advice! It has been difficult knowing what to say, apart from “try and see”.

The Durex condoms Lolyco stock are in boxes of 12. “Try and see” can quickly become expensive, and if you try the first of 12 and find it’s not really for you, that’s 11 creative uses you have to think of for the remainder.

Lolyco has added a ‘pick and mix’ individual condom item to its catalogue. Now if you want to try a range of different Durex condoms, you can choose exactly which ones you want, and exactly how many of each kind. Just add the total number of Durex condoms you want to your shopping basket. After you’ve gone through the checkout, drop Lolyco a note to say exactly what kinds of condoms you want.

Lolyco Durex condom mix selector

Example: If you want 1 Extra Safe, 3 Pleasuremax and 2 Close Fit and 2 Together, just add 8 Mixed Durex condoms to your basket. You can use the Lolyco ‘Contact Us’ form to let us know the breakdown: just write something like:

“Hi Lolyco, just placed an order for 8 Mixed Durex condoms. I want 1 x Extra Safe, 2 x Close Fit, 3 x PleasureMax and 2 x Together. TQ!”

And that’s it! Hopefully that will help anybody wondering which is the best condom for them. No need to get the ruler out any more – happy testing!

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:-

I did some survey in Terengganu, Malaysia for handmade crafts and discovered the riches and heritage of that Peninsular Malay State. Batik is one of the famous worldwide products to be made into clothing, sarong, beachwear, shoes, table covers, bags, purse, accessories and etc. Songket is woven with gold and silver thread which is popular among the royal families and Malay wedding clothing design. It is very expensive item indeed.

Back: medium handbag, tall wine/gift holder, large handbag. Front: Small gift/novelty holder, small handbag, gift holder

If you are searching products for Christmas presents, birthday gifts, valentine gifts, wedding gifts , a special gift for a special love ones, you can look for it at Lolyco.com at Malaysian crafts category which has a variety of choice. You can just give away as it is or just can be a little bit creative for instance, just purchase a handmade box and just put some jewelery or souvenirs as a surprise gift!

Back:Placemat, large box. Front: Large presentation box, pencil cases, songket coaster (cup mat) set, gift box.

All the Malaysian crafts that can be seen in Lolyco are handmade products, made by hardworking women with a lifetime’s experience in a small village town. According to the manager, once they have gone, it is a bit difficult to find such experience workers. So even the workers are national treasures, not just the unique product!

From 27th March 2009 for a limited time, Lolyco will give a free Malaysian craft with every order. Which one? It depends the amount of the order! Actually, we were going to do a promotion later but just can’t wait to give you those wonderful crafts! Hurry, while stock last! Just say you saw this blog article when you place an order.

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.

I was watching some YouTube videos about Barack Obama’s election success (congratulations, by the way!) and realised I’ve been saying his name completely wrong. I’ve been saying ‘Barack’ like the place that soldiers live in – like ‘barracks’. Maybe it was the time I spent in the UK. If you’re aware of the difference between the UK pronunciation of ‘garage’ and the USA pronunciation of ‘garage’, well, the A sounds in Barack are very similar to the USA pronunciation of ‘garage’.

Listen to the way Oprah Winfrey and this journalist say his name:

If you want to hear their pronunciation separately, here is Oprah:

And here’s the journalist:

I hope that helps! Maybe I should spend more time watching the news on TV instead of reading it online!

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.

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!