Important: Blog Update

I will consolidate and merge this blog with my main blog as it takes too much time and effort to maintain 2 separate blogs while trying to look like I am adopting 2 different personas. It will take some time to transfer blog posts from this blog over to my main blog but rest assured that this blog will still stay with its old blog posts still intact so that followers will still be able to look for old post easily. But at the same time, these same posts will also be available over at my main blog as well. So yeah, rest assured.

Meanwhile, I need some time to mourn the death of my mother in 2016. Hence, there won't be any blog postings for a few months or at least until the end of the year depending on the situation I have at hand.

But, just to clarify, my mother didn't die of old age and with natural causes. Her supervisor at her part-time workplace refused to let my mother take leave to rest properly at home despite that heartless supervisor being fully aware that my mother is tired from work. Let's just say, her supervisor caused her death. And the best part is this murderer (I called him a murderer since he directly/indirectly caused my mother's death at the unfortunate age of 64-years-old) didn't once showed his face at my mother's funeral and since I was still working at the same shopping mall as my mother, he actually had the audacity to live his life as if he didn't do anything wrong at all.

Therefore, you can imagine the pain and sorrow I am going through while trying to pick up pieces of my life. It is hard to go on, knowing that the person who caused my mother's death is just living his life as usual while I am trying to move on. Therefore, please do accept my humble apologies as I am on hiatus mode for now. I will come back to blogging, slowly and gradually. But right now, I need the time to heal and to move on. It is a difficult time in my journey from now to the future but I am trying my hardest too. So, thank you for being understanding and see you all within the year after my heart has healed a little.

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BeautyKeeper 美麗掌櫃 by Sample Store Review [Sponsored]

This review is proudly sponsored and brought to you by Sample Store. Any external images, if used, solely belong to their respective owners and not to me. I only re-link and use them as part of this review.

Note that all views presented here are of my own and whether the product is sponsored or not, it's honest throughout. Only that effects will vary on the individual when applied.

Before I start off with this review, let's talk a little about anti-aging/age defying. As we all know, as soon as we reach our 20s, we have to start considering anti-aging and age-defying options. In short, our skin cannot possible stay young forever well into our 60s or 80s (unless you *ahem* consider susuk a.k.a "charm needles"). But that will be another horror story for another time :P

Anyway, as I was saying, we should be focusing on developing an anti-aging treatment routine into our daily skincare regime. Once you start at the sweet young age of 20, you need not have to play catch-up as soon as you go into your 30s. Imagine not investing in anti-aging products in your 20s, only to have your skin feel loose like a worn sweater when you are in your 30s. By then, no matter how much anti-aging products you buy or how expensive the product is or how fast you are supposed to "see results", it would have been a little too late.

And as the saying goes "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", start early and it falls into a simple but foolproof routine that you can even do with your eyes closed. And for that, I shall present to you, BeautyKeeper brought to you exclusively by Sample Store.

• Upra ® Age Delay Revive Toner / Wakeup Skin & Freezes Age Essence
• Waterdrop Cream
• PSK's Color correction CC Cream
• Ethel Pharmaceutical AHA Source of Citric Acid Tablet

But before I proceed to introduce the awesome goodies I've received, let's discuss a little more about Beauty Keeper(美麗掌櫃) from Taiwan. Here is what Beauty Keeper(美麗掌櫃) is about in their own words, taken from Beauty Keeper(美麗掌櫃) website.

Beauty- Keeper carrying high quality and most popular beauty products from Taiwan, including skin care, hair care and makeup. Beauty-Keeper, having a great confident in Taiwan beauty products, sharing the TOP Taiwan beauty and high-rated beauty products to everyone, which Beauty-Keeper platform is where the ladies can pick their favorite Taiwan beauty products, getting the latest trend and beauty knowledges.

Beauty-Keeper wish to fulfill every ladies with all kind of beautiful and happiness, as every skincare and makeup touches, the love and satisfaction for our products is what as promises in every lady’s daily life.

The core value of Beauty-Keeper is guaranteed in both quality and price. Cutting down unnecessarily expenses, building reputation by the word of mouth instead of paying excess advertising cost, it reflected on our reasonable price. Every single product on Beauty-Keeper are required to be tested by our team, inspection report and sources of raw materials are strongly required to be provided by suppliers. Beauty-Keeper makes sure all customers shop in a trustworthy environment.

Instead of categorize the products by brands; functions serve better in letting the customers finding the right and suitable product. By applying the right products to suitable skin types can make you shine and stand out in the crowd.

Beauty-Keeper cares the frequent travelers, by providing airport and hotel drop off service, orders can be made before or during the trip in Taiwan, without worry about purchasing of beauty products, ordered, and collect in the hotel or airport on the leaving day.

Recently, Beauty-Keeper has building partnership with several companies: SingPost, Sample Store and CDRI Taiwan, to speed up the growth as well as providing a better shopping environment to our customers.

Beauty-Keeper, the source of your beauty life.

First up: Upra ® Age Delay Revive Toner / Wakeup Skin & Freezes Age Essence

The toner comes in a cylindrical frosted glass bottle. Ooh~ I feel classy already wor~

Here's a look at the list of ingredients that went into this bottle, for those of you interested

Literally clear in color and there is no scent to this toner

It actually felt pretty easy to glide the toner around and get it absorbed into my skin

VERDICT: The essence is a clear liquid but is of a slightly thick texture. I personally couldn't "detect" any particular scent to it, folks who don't like their products to have any discernible scent to it are probably going to love this product. I personally find that the product feels watery when applied to the skin and it actually absorbed pretty well. My skin felt a little sticky for a little short while and the sticky sensation slowly dissipates in no time at all while making my skin feel that "boing boing" sensation without the tight and taut sensation.

Second: Mdmmd Waterdrop Cream

This water drop cream is actually a toner, serum and lotion all in one, literally a 3-in-1 product. For those of us who doesn't want to spend too much time on a separate toner, serum and lotion, this is definitely a must-have :D And the gold color cylindrical bottle is really a classy touch, feels like I am using an expensive product. Machiam like a few hundred or thousand dollars cream to keep me looking oh-so-young :P

Here's a look at the list of ingredients that went into this bottle, for those of you interested

The waterdrop cream is milky white in color while the consistency isn't so thick in texture. This cream literally liquify instantly as soon as I start to pat into my face.

You can literally see the waterdrop cream liquifying and gliding into my skin efortlessly.

VERDICT: My skin actually felt hydrated even after a few hours has passed while my skintone actually looked slightly more radiant as opposed to my usual sallow, sickly and ghostly looking skin. As I personally do not have any fine lines, wrinkles and such on my face, I am unable to state how well my non-existence lines and wrinkles will cope with this product. However, the good thing is that, my skin doesn't look greasy/oily throughout the day/night. As most facial creams, whether it's serum, gel-based or cream-based will actually make my skin look a little "glossy" a few hours after application. But this! This products doesn't, in fact, my skin actually looked sufficiently hydrated AND dewy-looking.

Third: PSK's Color correction CC Cream

Welp, when I first lay eyes on this box, I thought the box itself looked "minimalist" to me, just simple and straightfoward to the point. None of those overly-fancy looking CC cream packaging I am used to seeing. Or maybe it's just because I tend to make side trips to the expensive cosmetic counter :P

The sponge provided is similar to those air cushion type of sponges intended for BB/CC cream, but I find that this sponge is a little more dense than normal ones. The CC Cream itself first looked a little too yellow for my liking, but, looks are definitely deceiving. It actually matches my pale as a ghost skintone O.O

Here's a look at the ingredients that goes into this CC Cream. Sorry, I really tried but the light reflected rather badly. Didn't help that the ingredient list is literally on the glossy side of the box D:

As you can see from this swatch, the CC Cream in contrast to my skin is already this obvious. And I was thinking it will get worse if it goes onto my skin. But...

This shade when applied evenly to my skin is actually the perfect shade for my skintone, I am pleasantly and genuinely surprised. As with other BB and CC Creams I have tried, I can literally see the different in color tone between my face and my neck area. But this, is literally the perfect coverage. It does hide my old and slightly faded acne scars without any problem and the best part is that, it's really lightweight on my skin. Yep, impressed with a capital letter I!

VERDICT: The texture is similar to cream-based foundation, and it seemed to take a little effort to blend evenly onto my skin in the beginning. Initially, I tried applying with the sponge it came in, but it proved to be rather difficult to do so. To compare, catching a seemingly rare-ish Pokemon seemed like a walk in the park than trying to get this CC Cream from sponge to my face. Although attempting application with my fingers seemed slightly better. There seemed to be a scent to this CC Cream but I can't really tell what it is exactly, the scent itself isn't bad and anyways, I am not too bothered by the scent as I don't really smell anything after applying to my skin. I like the fact that it gave my skin a natural finished look inside of looking too pale even though I am of the pale skintone variety. I am really impressed by this product throughout.

And lastly: Ethel Pharmaceutical AHA Source of Citric Acid Tablet

White, round and actually small enough to swallow. To be honest, I am spooked when it's time to swallow pills of any variety since I am a constant user of different painkillers and paracetamol (from doctors) due to my constant regular migraine and back pain. But this is actually surprising to swallow, although I can literally taste the sourness of the citric acid the first time round due to the fact that I forgot to swallow it down. Don't ask me why, since I don't know either... ^.^;

A look at the list of ingredients that goes into this product for those of you folks who needs to know.

Verdict: As this pouch/packet cames in a quantity of 50 and the packet itself suggests that I am meant to ingest 5 tablets on a daily basis within 10 days. But I took only 2 tablets per day, basically just before bedtime so it can do it's work after it gets absorbed into my system while I do my part in the sleeping department. So far for the first few days after application, my skin feels okay and I did notice less pimples showing up as my skin is really prone to problematic pimples when I least expect it. So, I am going to say that this is working rather well.

Where to Purchase BeautyKeeper products?

You can buy these award winning Taiwanese products directly from BeautyKeeper website over at Beauty Keeper 美麗掌櫃 and at the same time check out more awesome beauty products from BeautyKeeper as well.

All products are conveniently priced in Singapore dollars, so you don't have to convert the amount between different currencies from random websites. How convenient is that?

Upra ® Age Delay Revive Toner/Wakeup Skin & Freezes Age Essence is priced at S$41.00 while Waterdrop Cream is priced at S$47.00 (Prices have been rechecked and updated in this blogpost by me)

Where to get BeautyKeeper samples?

Samples cane be requested directly from Beauty Keeper(美麗掌櫃) Facebook page.

P/S: If I happened to purchase anymore Beauty Keeper(美麗掌櫃) products to complement the retail-sized samples I am currently using, I will also make another separate entry and update this blog post as well :D

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