1 Comment// Posted in Life, Random by Nielfa Hanifa on 01.13.09.

So the actual realisation that 2009 is here, has finally kicked in. With work being scheduled for the months ahead, I’m strangely excited. But this post is about another sort of excitement completely. My newly found fondness of make-up and beauty products.

Now I’ve always been a jeans and t-shirt girl, plain and simple. Washing my face with any kind of soap would be what I understood as a facial cleanse and the closest thing to what I considered make-up was eye pencil… and maybe lipstick. Getting my hair blow dried would be a treat.

Well, this new inclination all started when I was invited to a ladies only, “Moulin Rouge” themed birthday party. I’ve only seen the movie fairly recently, but I knew the dress code was a little risqué and was expecting many a lady to doll up for the party. Anyway, stopping short of hiring an outfit, I adapted a dress/top that I had recently bought with a pair of leggings and pumps. To finish it off, I added a hat. I looked very cabaret/on broadway like and not overtly naughty but still appropriate for this occasion.

Then came the make-up… as far as my knowldge of applying it goes, I’ve learnt all I know from having my face done in a department store by one of those sales ladies/make-up persons. But what I remembered must have been all the right things because everyone I knew complimented me and I didn’t over paint myself to look like a tramp, to put it bluntly. Most of all, I couldn’t believe how much fun I was having with eye shadow and liquid liner. So much so, that I ended up buying a whole lot of stuff to fill up the make-up bag that Zeen bought me a while ago and it seems the binge is not over yet. Today, I bought a bag full of facial cleaners, exfoliators and moisturisers.

I do obviously feel prettier for it, but it’s not like this was a new year’s resolution for me and I planned to do any of it… it just happened. So, either I’m taking a little more pride in my appearance lately or I’m subconsciously just trying to defy this thing called age.

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