Japan Feb 2010 Shopping haul!

Ok first of all, what is ichimarukyu?

It is how the japanese say 109 as in Shibuya 109

ichi = 1   maru = O or noughts   kyu = 9

And Shibuya 109 is my fav shopping mall in Tokyo! Theres 8 floors and 2 floors underground so 10 floors in total! The first pic was taken when I went to Tokyo in 2008 July, there was a 5 days bargain sale! 2nd photo was just of a dbsk banner in shibuya cos I love them so much! hehe Other than that I didn't take much nice photos of Shibuya cos my camera is crappy and most of the photos are blurry!

So that's why I decide to name my blog Yuki 109, so this will be my version of a 109 with posts about make up, hair, shopping, travelling and all sort of miscellaneous things =)

So why is it a shopping 'haul'? Cos you should see how many 'hand luggage' I had when I flew back home! Feel sorry for my boyfriend! I was seriously worried that I couldn't bring everything back!

So here is my 'harvest' from shopping trip #1. 

 Got off the subway at Omotesando Hills and first stop is of course at the Samantha Thavasa DELUXE store! There you can buy limited edition products from the deluxe line that you can't find in other Samantha stores.. (but I'm lazy to post the picture of the store, I think I will do that in another post)

Anyway, here is what I bought! Deluxe Samantha cosme pouch in pink for 10,500 yen! Super cute!

Then I went to checked out all the luxury brand shops along Omotesando avenue - Chanel, LV, Dior, Burberry etc den I came across Kiddyland!! It's basically got all Hello Kitty, and all these japanese toys and stuff! So I bought a lot of rillakuma stuff!! One bolster, earphone, mb pouch, 2010 calender, bling pen, business card holder and a rillakuma paris set for my best friend Zhao Li

actually I only love korillakuma the white one cos I love white and pink and it's cuter than rillakuma! Anyway everything was 15,571 yen.

 After that we walked to Shibuya, on the way stopped over at Vivien Westwood store. Wasn't that good so didn't buy anything

When we arrived at Shibuya, I went to check out Shibuya 109-2. Three levels were all clothing for men but there were some shops for girls too and I bought this top, it was on sale and super cheap only 980yen! Really good quality too! What a bargain!

 Alright and next up Shibuya 109! I think I started from the top floor and made my way down! Everything in 109 is super expensive! Everything starts from 8000yen +++ But I did manage to find some goodies

LDS 5th Floor - long boots 12,800 yen with 50% discount = 6400yen and short boots 3000yen
the long boots can be worn over or under the knee

I actually havn't had a chance to wear either of these shoes yet *gulp*

 Flag - J 2nd Floor - I think it was 3150yen each cos the total bill was 6300yen and I'm pretty sure it was the same price

 Pinky Girls - 2nd floor next to Flag - J

Love these two coats to death! 9500 yen for the coat 8500yen for the jacket. The long coat can be worn without the collar and comes with a cute black belt! Also can take away an inner layer so the coat can be worn in winter and in autumn - spring as well! Loved everything in that store but is super expensive! The girls working was so pretty and friendly. Plus also saw this girl with this old guy prob her sugar daddy and she basically didn't even try on the clothes, just pointed to this n this n this and then the guy stood there with his credit card ready to pay. The girl had LV from top to toe and she wasn't even pretty at all!

Oh also bought some lingerie from FKJ, their lingerie is hell cheap! I bought HEAPS first time I went for me and my best friend and this time I went back for more! I regret not buying any from Peach John but they were pretty expensive! 

After Shibuya 109 I went down the road to Donky Hote to buy some contact lenses. They only had 3 months lenses and quite expensive around 4000yen each! And got some rillakuma slippers 798yen each! Donkyhote is basically a store with a LOT of random things u can buy like accessories, fake eyelashes, even second hand tiffany jewelery! I didn't have much time cos I just went there for the contacts but highly recommended though!

Ok so here is the happy family photo of all my shopping from day 1! looks like a lot aye!

Day 2 Shopping

Visited Ginza and I bought some JillStuart Make up at Matsuya Ginza - foundation 4000yen, concealer 2800yen and gorgeous eyeshadow pallet 5000yen! The packaging is soo cute, gets you sucked in huh? The foundation don't come in a pump bottle so it's a bit annoying getting the foundation out, but it has a nice scent but I love the concealer! It is so cute too! hehe

Went back to kiddyland for some rillakuma stationery for last year of uni and letter sets so I can use it to write letters to my best friend in Korea cos she loves rillakuma more than me! 3317yen for everything!

 Bought some clothes from Harajuku, quality not so nice but is certainly much cheaper than Shibuya!

Margo - 1995yen for the white top and 4095yen for the grey long cardigan which is on Takeshida Doori.. actually it's not that cheap when you think about it.. lol

 And a maxi dress, I think it was 5000yen

 Ok went back to shibuya 109-2 and found this store Lodispotto and bought 3 jackets and a skirt! All super good quality! Greatly recommended! 4700 yen for the white jacket and long cardigan and skirt and 6600 yen for the leather/pinkish jacket

 A must go in Japan which is their drugstore, kinda like Priceline in Australia

I got masks, DUP eyelashes, glue, kate make up, sekisei from kose, hair dye omg a lot! Must stock up! was around 24,000yen omg.. thats quite expensive for all that! haha.. I kinda went crazy it seems..

 Ok then I went back to Shibuya 109 for Navana Wig which is on B2 and bought a wig, and hair accessories! 17,325yen in total!

 Happy family shop from Day 2 Shopping!

...and some souvenier I bought from Disney Sea

Final photo of me with all my shopping ^__^

In conclusion... Japan shopping is the best!! But super expensive.. so you will need to prepare to put a huge dent in your credit card or wallet..

My regrets for this shopping trip is...

• Didn't buy anything from peach john or liz lisa...
• Didn't buy duffy or shelliemay from Disneysea...

FMLFMLFML..

And.. I didnt realise Hk have a peach john and a lizlisa store... so didn't buy it when I went to hk either! fml X 2 

BUT I am going back to HK in Feb so I SHALL get peach john and liz lisa then AND My bf is getting duffy and shelliemay for me for xmas this yr

so unFML =)

yay If anyone interested in reading about my Japan trip in more detail please drop a comment and I will write an entry on it next time! Yeh I know it's a very late entry cos this is all in Feb this year but since I just started a blog so I have a chance to show off all my shopping now! haha

xx

Yuki

Travelling down Hair? Lane...

Ok this post is dedicated to one of my closest and longest friend and my personal Hair dresser Vicki Lin!

I have known Vicki since 2006 so we have been friends for 5 years now (and counting), so I’m proud to say that I have been there from the beginning when she first started out her hairdressing career! And ever since then, I have been changing my hair constantly (poor hair) and people at work always wonder why I always change my hair colour and style etc.. well here is why..

I remember when Vicki first started out at Top Image I was her guinea pig and she took me in to her first day at work and basically the boss Andrew showed her how to cut hair with my hair -.-; lol...

But it was as if she was born to be a hairdresser, she have this natural talent and learnt very fast and soon became one of Andrew’s fav employees

Over the years I have intro a lot of my friends to get their hair cut with her and they all love her and intro all their friends to her too! 

Now 5 years later she has really come a long way! She is a fully qualified hairdresser working at Studio 199 in Northbridge and has entered in numerous hairdressing competitions and won a lot of prizes and trophies and awards! I’m proud to say I was her hair model 3 times and won her first place the first time!

OK so following are basically photos of how my hair evolved over the past 3-4 years ever since Vicki started out her hairdressing career

Ok so this was one of my first hair styles.. just some normal dark brown hair.. this was in 2007

Ok this is my favourite hair style of all time Feb 2008 - Aug 2008! And this is the hair style that won first prize hehe! I didnt want to post up any photos from the hair comp day because I looked so shit cos i totalled my car and my eyes are all puffy from crying @.@;; Anyway you can't really see from this photo but it had like blonde streaks and all these other coloured streaks through it and it was layered and very thin! Loved it!

And this is the national hair comp Aug 2008 and she was going for the ganguro look, whole head was bleached >.< and whole body spray tanned!

Ok so that was obviously too much for work so after the hair comp I dyed my hair to a very light brown and cut off the dry bits at the end so it became medium length and I end up looking like a little kid @.@

Nov 2008 - March 2009

So then i went in to dye my regrowth and so on.. and for some reason.. my hair turned out blonde because of the bleach underneath it was very hard.. so I was like oh what the heck.. chop it all off I will have something totally different then! So here is my blonde short hair.. 

So anyway I got sick of all the 'Asian blonde jokes' and also bleaching your hair too much is not cool... your scalp hurts like hell!! So i changed my hair back to brown and put in some temp extensions cos I missed my long hair so damn much

March 2009 - July 2010

My hair took sooo long to grow out and every time I dye my hair some darkish brown colour it kept washing out to a light brown colour because I had bleach underneath so that's why everyone kept thinking I change my hair colour ALL the time but in actual fact I only dye it every 3-4 months! 

Side fringe

As you can see, I basically had the same fringe for the past couple of years but I went on holiday in June/July 2010 so my fringe grew out and I left it for a while because Vicki was going to use me as her model for her hair comp and wanted to keep my long fringe so she can do this to it...

 I know the style is so not me right? haha But normally it actually look like this...

Is kind of reddish brown with red streaks through it, it was actually dark purple and washed out to a red and then pink ahaha!

OK guys I'm late for work so I'm going to wrap it up for now!!!

Here is the details on how to find my awesome hairdresser and best friend if you are lucky enough to live in Perth

Vicki Lin

Studio 199 - 4/199 Bulwer st Northbridge 6000

9228 1110

So when you book make sure you book for Vicki Lin

She works Monday, Wednesday - Saturday

Omg.. took me 40 minutes to write this post! I'm so late >.< No time to proof read this so excuse me if I have any typos or misspelt words etc.. >.<

xx

Yuki

To Blog or not to Blog..

I've thought about starting a blog for a long time but every time the thought crossed my mind I would then think...nah no point because..

1. My life is boring.. I will have nothing to blog about
2. I'm too lazy... I prob won't blog for long anyway
3. I don't have enough time to blog

and so on..

So why do I decide to finally give in and start a blog?

1. I realise I DO have things to blog about now
2. I have time now since I finished uni and have all the free time in the world! Til I start real full time work anyway haha
3. I have a laptop now so it makes blogging more convenient

But I still need a decent camera to take good quality photos cos my camera atm is pretty crap.. but it's ok, I'm planning to buy a new cam when I go HK in Feb 2011 so until then everyone will just have to put up with crappy quality photos unless I can be bothered photoshopping every single one of them @.@;

Anyway so what have I realised that I can blog about?

Well, since I've been travelling a lot I can blog about all my travels

But most importantly the aim of my blog is to tell you all about the awesome things I love in life such as

Make up, skin care and tips that I have picked up and can share with you all

ok i think by now all the guys are prob like omgg this is a girly blog not for me.. well I will also blog about urm.. interesting stuff that guys might be interested in? haha hmmz.. Like how to jailbreak your iPhone 101? haha

Anyway I think in the long run, this may turn into some advertising sounding/looking blog that look like 1000492348 other blogs out there.. but anyway I do hope that people that read my blog will learn something new and of course be entertained and enjoy reading my blog and keep coming back!

So here is just some random photos so that my first post is not ALL text in other words.. please excuse the camwhoring! ^.^;

trying on new wig.. looks black but suppose to be brown -.-;

New DollyWink eyelashes, my Samantha Thavasa Make up case and JillStuart Eyeshadow!

DollyWink no. 4 Feminine Style, haven't used it yet, going to use it this weekend!

Dollywink Eyelash Glue and CandyDoll Lip Concealer

Fav Jap fashion mag = Popteen ^_^

Trying on wig no.2

Alannah Hill Fuzzy Beret, haven't had a chance to wear it yet and summer is already coming -.- fml!

Shu Uemura from my latest shopping trip!

The photos are not photoshopped cos I cbf and fyi I'm wearing Dollywink no. 3 for top eyelashes and Dollywink no. 5 + 6 for bottom, more on that in later blogs!

Yes i will blog about all those things in my photos later individually! Here and some things on my to blog list:

• Top 10 things punters do to piss off a croupier
• 5 sure signs to spot rich arrogant assholes
• DollyWink and CandyDoll Product Review
• Fake Eyelashes
• Wearing a wig 101
• Jailbreaking Iphone 101

If there's a certain topic you want me to post about asap please leave a comment and let me know!

so until next time~

jaa na~

xx

Yuki