Here’s the 2nd part of the Skin79 Reviews! We’ll hear from guest blogger Valentina Lim about her experiences with Skin79.

“My maiden attempt with the much raved BB cream.
I like how it moisturizes my skin and at the same time providing rather good coverage but still manage to feel so light and airy. It makes my skin look and feel so smooth and soft. It gives the same results as my Bobbi Brown Liquid Foundation but not as heavy or time consuming to put on – it creates a very primed and airbrush look for me. I still love that foundation but will save it for special occasions, this will definitely be an easier alternative for everyday usage.
I just have to use a minimal amount of it and it is enough to blend in seamlessly onto my face. Best of all, it doesn’t clog my pores and is able to last throughout the day on my combination skin.
I am thrilled to learn about this BB cream and will definitely purchase this product!”

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I sent some samples to a couple to girls that were so sweet to help me review and test our Skin79 BB cream! Since I’ve sent the girls different type of Skin79 BB Cream, I’ll show case their reviews in three posts. The first post will be Wendy Sim and Donna Tay who both received the Skin79 Super Beblesh Balm Gold label BB Cream.

Firstly we have Wendy Sim.

And here’s what she had to say about Skin79 Super Beblesh Balm Gold label BB Cream:

“I’ve always been trying to find a BB cream that can go well with my skin type, but after trying out quite a few brands, I kinda concluded that BB cream probably isn’t for me. When Renzze mailed me the Skin79 BB cream after I told her about my skin combination, I have to say she really predicted the right one for me. I’ve been using the Skin79 BB cream for a week now, and I have to say I totally love it. For one most important reason : unlike most other BB creams I have tried, my skin does not feel oily even until late afternoon when I use Skin79! Furthermore, the BB cream blends easily and it does not leave my skin sticky! This is especially important for me since I have acne-prone + sensitive skin and anything that leaves my skin oily and sticky is a definite NO. I’m so glad I’ve finally found a BB cream that can serve me well! All thanks to Renzze! =D”

Next, we have Donna Tay.

And here’s what she had to say about Skin79 Super Beblesh Balm Gold label BB Cream:

“First of all I do not know exactly what this product is suppose to do on me except from the lable on the box ( on whitening n wrinkle improvement. After using it for three days, I realise that my skin is less oily compared to other creams. It could last till evening and my skin is still pretty matte. Texture of the cream is nice too and application is very easy with good coverage using a small quantity. It does not have a strong scent which is good for people with sensitive nose. In terms of coverage on blemishes, it does not really work on me, or perhaps I did not use enough cream ( i only use a tear drop on each application). As for wirinkle improvement, it could be too early to tell so will keep u updated on this! But I’m glad to say I’ve no negative comments on this product.”

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As some of you may know I don’t use any sort of cream, foundation or makeup on my face other than eyeliner and false lashes. Makeup isn’t a priority but skin care is. And one of the most important aspect of skin care is sun protection. Living in a sunny island like Singapore makes it even more vital.

My daily sunscreen is called Doll by Porcelain. It is an oil free tinted sunscreen which goes on easy and leaves no residue or any of that greasy feeling normally associated with sunscreen. A tiny little bit goes a long way!

90% of skin aging problems like pigmentation and wrinkles come from the lack of sun protection. Doll’s oil free, paraben free, sunscreen does not clog pores and corrects existing pigmentation. It’s suitable for any skin type.

I’m currently in Bali and have been using this every single day to shield my face from the strong sun while I relax all day in the pool. As I have had many requests for my skin care and make up routine, I will be doing a little show and tell soon. But meanwhile, you could easily win yourself a bottle of Doll to try out for yourself. One bottle can last 12 to 18 months.

Here’s how to get your hands on a Doll sunscreen worth SGD160.

First, visit the Porcelain The Face Spa Facebook Page. Then, simply share your experience with sun overexposure and how Doll Sunscreen can benefit you! For every 10 entries, 1 Doll sunscreen will be given away. That’s a really high chance! So ask all your family and friends to join too since the more people that participate, the more tubes of Doll would be given out free!

I’ve already added my entry and you should do so before the deadline for the lucky draw on Friday, 30th July 2010!

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Delighted with my new cherry themed nails by Clara H nails! Who says nail art designs can only work on acrylic nails? Her new portfolio of  concepts can be painted on both acrylic  and non acrylic nails. The cherries are hand painted and look so good in real life that I could eat it! The best part? These designs aren’t costly at all!

You can text or call +65 9671 4115 to make an appointment.

PS – the pink dress I wore is bought from Stellar during Fiona’s and Melva’s shop opening!

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Just recently, I attended the store opening of Nail Vibe and Stellar. Nail Vibe (nailvibe.com) opened by my friend Melva, has been a very reputable online store for nail polishes for quite awhile already and she has recently expanded her to a brick and mortar store to cater to walk in retail crowds!

Stellar, the other side of the store is managed by Fiona and deals with trendy apparels and accessories for both retail as well as wholesales. What a perfect match!

They had a wonderful turn out for their opening with family, friends and regular clients all eager to celebrate with them. Gorgeous cupcakes dress up with motifs of dresses and nail polishes, lots of champagne and for those who drove there, you could switch your bubblies for yummy KOI bubble tea!

At the auspicious hour, the unveiling of the store sign by the 2 girls! Yay!!!

I love the pink skirt that the two owners wore that day! So bright and fitting! I ended up doing what I do best… shopping! Bought clothes and nail polishes and I’ll definitely be back for more!

I was helping Melva look after her store for one of the weekends when she was out of town so some of you might have spotted me there! I never knew there were so many shades of nail polish colors out there! I got a few for my upcoming trips cause they were so much cheaper then getting them from the usual retail stores. Around $10.90 a bottle for OPI if you buy 3 or more.

Here I am with the 2 very pretty, very talented and very entrepreneurial owners, Melva and Fiona. Wishing them all the best in their business! Yay to more cheap and good clothes and nail polishes!

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Marking this down as a belated post cause I do know that I’m posting this series of post 6 months late… but I’m catching up!

Spent the CNY morning with family of course! I rushed back to Singapore on Chinese New Year Day itself just so I can pai nian to my parents.

I had on my tailor made cheongsum that I bought in Shanghai and my gorgeous nails were the result of Clara H. Nails! She’s damn talented and I trust my nails to her anytime! Just look at the incredible details! The most amazing part is that I did my nails 2 weeks before this shot was taken and it’s still in impeccable shape. I’ll put a larger photo at the end of this post.

My mum cooked a sumptuous meal for all of us! I still remember that during that period I was travelling non-stop to so many places that I absolutely craved my mother’s cooking. And mum must have read my mind!

Here are some photos of my outfit that day.

I even bought the earrings to match my dress! New Year means new clothes! The shoes were bought 7 years ago but I never wore it so it’s considered new too!

I love the details of the buttons.

A question… Other then CNY, where else do you wear your chongsum to? I love this piece but I’m wondering when I will take it out to wear again.

And as promised, here is the close up of my Cath Kidston inspired nails! Clara of Clara H Nails painted the flowers and everything else was hand molded using acrylics. I love love love it!

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Some time back I was invited by Pink Parlour and Skin79 to try out their products and services.

My 7pm pedicure appointment was at the Pink Parlour outlet at the basement of Liang Court. I’m sure most girls would have heard about Pink Parlour as they are pretty established in Singapore for their products and services; especially their nails and waxing services.

There were just so many colors to choose from but my final pink was OPI’s Mad Hatter! A very glittery sort of purple. I was absolutely in love with the color and I loved it so much on my toe nails that immediately after my session I messaged Melva of Nailvibe.com to ask if she has the color available for purchase! Unfortunately, it’s a limited edition color by OPI for the Alice In Wonderland collection and they have already stopped production. So if you want to try out the color do head down to Pink Parlour.

While I was aptly and luxuriously pampered with a lovely pedicure by Pink Parlour, Loraine from Skin79 was there on hand to let us try out the products and answer all our questions on Skin79. Although they have many ranges of BB creams to suit different skin types, the main focus of that day was their Oriental Series.

Skin79 is the first brand to come up with the idea of BB cream in Korea before all the other beauty brands recognized the potential and power of such a cream and came up with their own versions. They have been the top seller in Japan and Taiwan with Jolin Tsai being their brand ambassador. And we all know how the Japanese and Taiwanese are always in the forefront of beauty products!

What exactly is a BB Cream? Well, think of Skin79’s BB Cream as a time saving multi-tasking cream. Different ranges gives different benefits but they all help to brighten and protect the skin from harmful substances while giving a even complexion and hiding blemishes. You could wear it under your make up or just on it’s own!

The Oriental Gold BB Cream packs 10 beauty benefits in one jar and also comes with a lip and cheek cream in dusty rose on the lid. How thoughtful! You have your whole light makeup routine in a bottle!

I’ve awarded my blog winner of ClubCouture’s Who Wore It Best Contest the this full size Oriental Gold BB Cream and will look forward to her review.

The other girls that were short-listed have been sent their miniature BB creams from the hot pink and gold collection and I’ll post up their review here once they have tried it out.

My favorite is the Oriental Shimmering BB Cream. The shine and shimmer is gorgeous! It is made for the face but this pearlised BB cream is perfect to be used as a glowing bronzer!

Since I have been keeping to my promise of not putting any sort of makeup cream or powder on my face so instead of reviewing the BB Cream that has already won lots of worldwide acclaim and testimonials from bloggers and celebrities, I will be personally reviewing the Oriental Lifting Eye Controller instead. My review will be up together with the other girls on my blog in due time so look out for it!

I’m sure you noticed by now that Skin79 is not only interested in making your skin look flawless but to give your skin all the added boost it needs to remain flawless… with or without makeup. So other than their BB cream range, they also provide a professional skin care program. I really like their New Turn Therapy set. A set of 3 serums with fast absorbing properties to give you the necessary care whenever you need!

Thank you Skin79 and Pink Parlour for all the pampering!

I headed out to supper after my appointment before heading home and noticed this kitty! Doesn’t the big eyes and cute face reminds you of puss from Shrek?

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Some of you might recall that I posted the ClubCouture “Who Wore It Best” contest last week. Well, the results are out!!!

I had quite a number of entries pouring in despite only having the contest run for 3 days. Friends and readers both sent in their applications and to be fair, I shortlisted a couple of girls and had Flora and Kaitlyn of ClubCouture help me out with the final selection so there will be no biasness.

The winner is Clara Hwang!

Congratulations! Clara wins a $50 ClubCouture shopping vouchers + a free signature tank top to style and above all, automatically qualify as a finalist in ClubCouture’s Who Wore it Best Contest!!

Additionally, she’ll get a full size Skin79 Oriental BB Cream to review and keep.

And to the other girls that were shortlisted, they will be invited to be do a guest post on renzze.com and I will be sending them each 1 miniature sample of  skin79 BB Cream for them to also do a review to share with the readers here. So readers, look out for their postings on renzze.com soon.

Here are the short-listed candidates (in alphabetical order).

Donna Tay

Valentina Lim

Wendy Boey

Wendy Sim

Thank you to everyone that participated in the contest and to those that have been featured here, you will be contacted shortly via email

I will be doing up a review of Skin79 and their products next week. Skin79 is the No. 1 BB Cream in Taiwan and Japan. As some of you might already know, their ambassador is Jolin Chai.

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I’ve been meaning to write a review post on my facial treatments at Porcelain but I have been too busy to do so. It’s been a fantastic experience with them and my skin had never looked better! I’ve been so happy about my glowing skin! My sister was amazed that I wasn’t wearing any sort of foundation, makeup base and yet seem to have a new very radiant skin and many of my close friends have been asking me for the address and telephone number of Porcelain The Face Spa so that they can book their appointments. To those that I’ve been too busy to get back to you… here’ s the address and the promotional code for the $38 trial with a free eye mask!

31A Cantonment Road, Singapore 089747 (tel: 62279692)

I promise I’ll find time to do a post to answer a number of email quires on Porcelain as well as my skin care routine.

Today I’ll tell you about my current Porcelain Pure Cleanser. It’s extremely effective at removing impurities yet mild enough that it doesn’t dry out your skin. Many of the cleansers out there can be too harsh for our delicate skin especially for people like me with sensitive skin.

I found Porcelain Pure Cleanser to be as good as one of the expensive cleansers (not naming the brand because it was good to use just super ex!) that I use to buy from another renown facial salon. But at $180 a bottle I could easily buy 2 of the Porcelain Pure Cleanser with change to spare. And the ingredients are 80% similar! So are the effects!

Here’s a list of the  8 Key Active Botanical Ingredients

Cucumber Extract

Chamomile Extract

Horse Chesntut Extract

Rosemary Extract

Nettle Extract

Green Tea Extracts

Coltsfoot Extract

Sage Extracts

Normally, I’ll pump one pea size to lather with water into a very light foam and then proceed to cleanse my face. After that I’ll rinse with water then put on toner. One bottle would easily last 6 months or more so it’s quite value for money.

I’ll share more about my skin care routine in another post in July. Meanwhile for those who would like a chance to win a Porcelain Pure Cleanser worth S$75, here’s how!

First, visit the Porcelain The Face Spa Facebook Page. Then, for those who have already tried Porcelain Pure Cleanser, you may write a short review on it. For those who haven’t tried it but would love to win a full size cleanser so that you can also experience the wonderful benefits, you can either write one of the benefits of the product or write why the product is good for you.

But you gotta act fast because the deadline for the lucky draw is this Monday, 5th July 2010!

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I guess for my regular blog readers, you’ll probably know by now that for the last 2 years I’ve started to be more and more interested in skincare. I guess it’s probably because I started to see new problems with my skin only in the last 2 years which is fuel for the drive to do something about it. While on the surface, most people would look at me and see that I seem to have “flawless” skin, it’s only a misconception. Yes it’s true that I don’t really get major pimple breakouts nor do I have any obvious acne scars but my hectic lifestyle, late nights and lack of a discipline skincare routine through the last few years have definitely helped in my skin’s deterioration.

What I have is tiny oil bumps under my skin that never surfaces as pimples (so they may go undetected to the unobservant eye) but are actually one of the most difficult to get rid off because the excess oil is trapped under the skin instead of erupting out as pimples do. And I also have rather large pores around my nose region.

I’ve looked and shopped around and finally settled on Porcelain The Face Spa to be the center of my skin consulting needs as well as provider of my facial services so that I may regain what everyone wants – beautiful skin.

My first appointment with them took me to 31A Cantonment Road, Singapore 089747 (tel: 62279692). The nearest MRT is Outram Park station and the nearest car park would be at the infamous Pinnacle@Duxton. It’s along the row of shop houses facing the Singapore Police Headquarters.

Up a little flight of stairs and you’ll find Porcelain The Face Spa.  Knowing that the owners have 18 years of experience in creating solutions to achieve beautiful skin is a reassuring factor. Being in a facial spa for the first time and being at a new hair salon is equally filled with tension for me. The idea that I’m placing my beauty (yes I’m vain) in the hands of someone else scares me but once that initial contact has been made and a great job has been done, you can be sure that I’ll always be a loyal customer.

Porcelain The Face Spa has a cozy interior that sooths me immediately once I enter even though it’s just steps away from the bustling streets.

A little form to fill and chat on my previous and current skin care routine helps my therapist to get to know my skin history a little better. Their company’s direction has been based on a simple concept that have proved successful on their many customers. Many of them who are regulars with them. Porcelain The Face Spa aims at customizing a detailed treatment specially for each individual customer that will definitely produce effective results. I think it’s a fantastic idea! Nothing speaks more than results right?

The whole concept of their skin care is for their customers to eventually achieve naturally porcelain clear complexions that will no longer need any sort of foundation or makeup to look good. I made a decision that day that I will no longer use any make up on my skin with the exception of eye makeup. No concealers, foundation, BB creams, loose powder or any of that sort. (Well I guess it’s easier for me to give it up cause I’m so lazy to put them on most of the time anyways!) And hopefully my readers can track the progress of my skin as I journey with Porcelain The Face Spa on my search for beautiful glowing skin.

Taking a deep breath, I entered the treatment room to start on the first of my facial treatments.

A quick analysis of my skin by the professional skin therapist confirms my problems of oil bumps, uneven spots and large pores. I also have an oilier than usual T-zone and all the many traveling has basically made my skin rather volatile with no sense of equilibrium. I cringe whenever I look at my skin up close like this and being a vainpot, this picture is already the best one of th e 4 I took. Look closely at my nose bridge and forehead to see the many little red bumps, my oversensitive red skin too.

The whole facial routine took 2 and 1/2 hour which means that nothing was rushed and nothing was left to chance. Most other facial spas finish up in just 60 or 90 mins so they can slot in more appointments for the day. Porcelain The Face Spa on the other hand, makes sure that there is more than enough time to do major deep cleansing and prep each and every oil bump, pimple and black head for extraction. Facial includes double/triple cleansing, exfoliation, skin analysis, deep cleansing extraction, customized concoction of serums & ampoules, customized blended mask and use of one selected equipment as recommended by the Therapist.

Looking like a total Egyptian mummy here but it’s all worth it when you see the scary amounts of white heads I have when the scraps of paper were peeled off my skin! I also underwent LED light therapy which is a NASA approve treatment and is used by dermatologists all over the world. The doses of red lights help cell rejuvenation, increase collagen, prevents lines and helps to heal the skin after all that extraction. Then the doses of blue lights kills bacteria, prevents infections and controls acne. All these would have easily emptied my pockets at the doctor’s office but now that the technology is finally released for usage in spas and no longer just at the dermatologist, it can be more affordable for everyone.

A nice herbal tea afterwards while I listen to Pauline explain the skin care I need to embark on. The best thing is that their skin care treatments includes take home products catered specially for each individual. So everyone takes home a different set of products depending on what your skin needs.

My customized take home facial care includes a good gentle cleanser and a special treatment tonic.

It also includes a specially formulated preservative free “Balance” serum to help control oil secretions and to help soften my oil bumps for easier extraction the next time round. The Aloe recovery gel helps to sooth my very sensitive skin and heal the tiny wounds from the extraction process. Lastly, while I don’t wear foundation or any form of powder, I have “Doll”, an oil free tinted sunscreen specially formulated to absorb fast into the skin and won’t clog any pores. Their products have gone through many years of research in the USA and are manufactured in USA, Japan, Taiwan and Switzerland. They basically took the ingredients of the same expensive products you get from dermatologist and big brand names, repackaged it without the frills of marketing costs so that their customers can enjoy the same benefits without the hefty price tags.

Right after the facial, my face looked worse and the bumps highlighted with redness! But within a day or 2, the redness subsided and my skin is remarkably much clearer with much fewer bumps and unevenness.  All these after just one session! I’ve just booked my appointment for my 2nd session with Porcelain The Face Spa and I can’t wait to hurry up the journey to better skin! The part I love most about them is that there is no hard selling. They believe that results and good service is enough to send customers soaring back to them and they are probably right; seeing as how packed their appointments are.

For my dear readers, you can also try Porcelain Trial facial at only $38!!! It’s worth $380 so that’s major savings! Quote KR1 and you even get an additional eye mask! How much better can it get! You can visit their website at www.porcelainfacespa.com for more info or if you can’t wait to get started, click here for their online appointment forms and don’t forget to quote KR1 for your free eye mask with your $38 facial trial.

PS- The special code will be located at my side bar links under ” Renzze Recommends” in case you need to find it in a jiffy!

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