Nail Polish Edition #2

Nature Republic

The nail polishes did not have the best packaging and the colors collection is not really my type. As i should described it, mature colors. I mean my auntie and my mom bought the most polishes here when they visited me here.

Nature Republic nail polishes, from left to right :

Glittery bronze color waltz BR901

 Shimmery coral pink color waltz BE101

Neutral Taupe color waltz BE103

cropped from their website

They don't actually have color names on them, so i had to make their own. To be honest this is not my favorite collection, mostly because of its unappealing appearance. And its texture is watery, but it dries relatively quick.

And how the just put everything in one box (the sale ones) is just unappealing..

The price is really affordable, starting around 1.000~ KRW. They usually had this randomly selected polishes mountain which is all 1.000 each, and they are there for the whole year. Not only the nail product, all their cosmetic products is actually in an economic prices, sadly their website is not open to online shopping.

Recently they're promoted by KARA's Goo Hara and Jang Geun Suk, before them it was JYJ andddddd I abused ALOT that Jaejoong's cut out in front of their store haha

Taken from my instagram (@filiap). Nature Republic Neutral Taupe :* loving it! 

Nail Polish EDITION! #1

This is been a long long review posts I've made since weeks ago. But because of all the busy student life (and procrastinating), I decided to make a review out of Korean brands, focusing on their nail polishes!! My collection might not be overwhelming but I just stating my opinion about each brand, and  give a more information for each of them, since I know it's not easy to get Korean brand outside of, you know, Korea. 

I've been making this post as a whole big review post, but I found them really long and tiring, so I decided to divided them by brands! 

So, here is the first post! I will try to update daily for other brands, as they were already on my drafts.. Beware of updates! 

Innisfree

Innisfree is one of Korea's make up brand that promotes green life style. Recently they are promoted by Girls' Generation, Yoona. Somewhat like Korean version of 'The Body Shop', with more green products originated from Korea.

Now introducing my Innisfree nail polish collections :

Innisfree's Eco Nail Color, from left to right 

봉숭아 꽃 살구 (Apricot's Flower Balsam?) No. 9

가울 여행 (Autumn Trip) No. 64

젤리 핑크 (Jelly Pink) No, 49

익은 감귤 (Ripe Tangerine) No. 8

허브 요거트 (Herb Yogurt) No. 83

허니 골드 (Honey Gold) No. 53

꿈의 눈꽃 ( Dream's Snow Flower) No. 74

Eco Top Coat 

I could say this is my favorite one. The packaging is nice, and the polishes are not that bad! They had quite a large selection from pastels to vivid, from shimmers to glitters, and they have this nice consistency. Even though applying nail polishes with the brush could be tricky (since the bottle cap is round, kinda difficult to have a steady hand when applying). 

The price is quite in the higher range, starting from 2.000 KRW and higher for glitters or non-basic color, even if you could get more discount I think you need a VIP membership card ...... which is difficult to get, almost impossible, if you're not Korean or not currently residing in South Korea.

Basically Innisfree is focusing on organic make ups and skin cares. Recently they were famous  for their eco science products with marine plants from Jeju ocean's eye cream which have been stock outed for weeks!  

Favorite one <3 Apricot Flower Balsam, Herb Yogurt, Ripe Tangerine

One more thing! Try to go to Innisfree website, not only they have the colors collection there, they also had some nail tutorials there! (In Korean though. But pictures tells 1000 words that should enough)

 inside their website! check them out! 

My instagram pictures of nailart. Made by Ripe Tangerine and Apricot Fruit Balsam, topped with Etude's Matte Real <3 chipping a lot because I'm lazy to wait it until it really dries <3

That's all folks for the first review! Wait for the next one, if they're upped already I'll post the link below! :) 

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5TH OF FREAKIN' MAY 2012

WHAT? What the hell is 5th of May?

If you guessed Children's day, yeah you are actually right but NO YOU'RE WRONG.

It's the day when my dream had gone to become a reality.

It's L'ARC~EN~CIEL WORLD TOUR 2012 IN SEOUL!!!

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

The concert was in Seoul, Jamsil 실내체육관 which was indoor and rather.. small. You know for someone who always fed on Laruku's concert DVDs and saw mighty stages, this one was nothing. 

But nevertheless WE HAD THE MOST ENJOYABLE NIGHT EVA!!!! 

 L'arc concert GO GO GO! Notice my sis wore my 'Damn! I Love Indonesia' shirt!

I almost when crazy, even until now my throat still aches and my voice are as sexy as hyde (I wish. It comes out more like a weird ahjusshi right now :S)

Anyway! don't even asked me the song list. I don't even remember, I sang to everything and jumps and shouts to hyde whenever he is close by. lol

But i remember there's Chase, XXX, Driver's High, あなた, 虹, fate, stay away, Link (Kiss' ver), Ready Steady Go, Good Luck my Way, Forbidden Lover, Honey, etc etc, not my favorite song lists ever, but I do know almost all laruku songs, but DOESN'T MATTER I SAW HYDE.

 It started almost at 7.30 and ends at 10.00++ I don't remember but it was almost 2 hours? It felt SO SHORT. Time flies. 

after the concert!!

Of course 'Niji' was the encore song and on 'Anata', it was the most beautiful moment. all the fans sang along, Ken and Tetsu dropped their headset and listens to the fan. And

This time at the MC part, Ken went to Insadong and Dongdaemun? I guess, and bought Yuki some stuffs <3 Well you beats me, Korean is not my first nor second language, and Ken spoke with a HEAVY Japanese accent so, yeah, I don't really get what did he said. But still it was so funny seeing Ken opened a letter full of katakana version of Korean, and he was trying his best to read Korean. 

Anyway Ken bought Yuki two little taekwondo statues, a phone strap (?) with a crying baby voice, a Keroro and Pororo starps, and T-shirts with either dog or bear portraited on it. Still, I saw a video in Jakarta, where Ken gave gifts to Hyde, and how much cute he looks when he played with the stuffs <3

I can totally watch this video 1000x times. Credit to pokcay @youtube

I did record some, but it's not a really good quality TT_TT 

I wanna show you guys HOW MUCH CLOSE I WAS WITH HYDE.

still I'm sad not to watch them in my home country. Would be so much priceless. OK NEXT TIME NEXT TIME IN JAKARTA.

 before the concert! 

Anyway, There's still a lot of Japanese fan that come to the concert. I heard the rumor that they sell the ticket to the Japanese's fan first before even opening in Korea. So, I don't know... but the Japanese fan did brought/wore merchandises from L'arc's concert which I'M JEALOUS TO DEATH. 

The merchandise stand, which nobody was lining for. 

I was taking pics of the venue, in the noon when there's nobody around. My sis asked me to stop taking pictures because people might think nobody comes to the concert. lol. 

But really, nobody really come early, so the stand had nobody queuing.

 a big air balloon outside the arena, I believe it was the fans' gifts to L'arc <3

I did bought some merchandise, 

I bought the Eco bag, the World Tour T-shirt, the stickers, and the light stick.

All cost me around 70.000 won!! 

plus a Butterfly CD and P'Unk~en~Ciel album, only for 15.000 won! 

 my merchandise and close up shot of the lightstick. 10.000won for using only once. 

Camwhoring with the expensive-once-only light stick.

I did met with other Indonesian, mostly students studying right now in South Korea. I was totally happy seeing there's still Indonesia wanting to watch them. Even though I believe I'm the youngest. lol.

BUT, one of the Indonesian, if you're a big Laruku fan you must know this, CAUGHT TETSU'S BANANA. That's sound so wrong. LOL

proud Tetsu's banana owner!! So excited!! 

 the label! Mukimpo Mukimpo Mukimpo!! 

Me myself only got the feathers from the encore stage. lol. THAT'S OK THAT'S THE ONLY THING I WANT *cries*

People where like panicking over the confetti. Just found out that the confetti where printed with L'arc~en~Ciel and L'Anniversary over (Like the one in my Butterfly CD). Too late when I realized it no ribbon was left *cries again*

Anyway the L'arc fan cafe, Korean ofcourse, made an event! 

In the end of the concert, which is the NIJI song, everyone should wrote 'THANX' in the fashion my phone did it, and we'll rise it together. 

Mine was so small, Did hyde even read it T^T 

That day would always be in my memory :))

Luckily the weather were also nice and all! So bright I had to rock out my sunnies! 

Thankyou so much L'arc for showing me my deepest dream!!!! <333333 

Now I don't think I could let go of L'arc haha

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