Seche Vite Top Coat Review

So I ordered this Seche Vite Top Coat from a spree and was hoping to use some Grade A manicure crack. The way people have been raving about this product, I thought it should be the answer to all my manicure problems so I chose the Secrets of the American Pedicure kit since it has this and a few other products. Cheaper than if you buy individually.

When Saturday rolled in after I received the items, I prepared my mani/pedi tools and got this bottle out of the package. What I saw pissed me off



If you can't see it clearly, the brush is stuck inside the bottle leaving the cap bare-assed and looking like the end of a lollipop stick.



But that's not the bit that annoyed me. It's this:



If you look at it hard enough, it looks like a black broomstick floating in a sea of frozen white turd.



Now it looks like a butterfly! Or a propeller.

The spree was from Transdesign and I've heard good things about that site too. My other items were fine so maybe this is just a fluke. Pity though that neither Transdesign nor the spree organiser answered my emails. Oh well. So much for the review, can't used frozen turd to get quick-dried, hard nails.

Waxing - myladyq (Eunice)

Image by Bill Longshaw

For the first time in many years, I'm hairless! Well in my hairier bits, aside from my head that is! I shaved it 1 year plus ago and so I thought it's time to get rid of the other kinds of hair this year.

I tried out a new salon, this time an at-home service. Meet myladyq. Eunice, the therapist, does only waxing and she has the best prices in town! She has a room set aside just for waxing so you don't have to worry about it being a home salon. She is also really personable and friendly so you won't feel awkward at all while you're getting waxed. So if it's your first time, rest assured that there won't be any discomfort save for the pain from waxing of course heh.

Speaking of which, I think it's the least painful experience I've had. Of course, I haven't tried out any other waxing salons aside from Strip so ymmv. She's really quick and will keep chatting with you so time passes really fast and before you know it, you're done!

If you're in Singapore and don't mind travelling to the West (Bukit Panjang), give her a ring! Contact info is in the website. The best part is the fact that she doesn't push any products at all. I'm sick of salons insisting that a peculiar product or set of products will be the only thing that can keep you from deteriorating so it's really refreshing when she said that the most you should do is a scrub twice a week. Any kind of scrub that isn't too abrasive!

Personally, I think honey + sugar scrubs are cheap and good so here's a recipe to round this off:

Ingredients
- Honey, preferably raw
- Brown sugar, you can go organic if you wish

Steps
- Mix about one part honey with 2 parts warm water
- Add the brown sugar
- Mix some more!
- Massage mixture into skin, gently!
- Leave for at most 30 minutes (if on face)
- With some warm water on palm, massage the mixture off
- Rinse!

If it's all tl;dr then all you have to do is mix sugar and honey and then use it as a scrub. HAH!