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I've been doing a lot of baking lately.. and you will see a lot of it on things that I will be posting soon. This started when I made those Chocolate Chip Cookies of which I blogged about here . I've always loved to bake since I was young and that stopped when I moved here in Dubai 7years ago. Work was too much that I just want to rest when I go home and do nothing. lol!  But having more free time now has led me back to one of my favorite hobby, which is what i said..baking. It's easier for me to go back to it since I already have the equipment to do basic baking.  I bought this box of Betty Crocker French Vanilla Cake a year ago, i planned to make them for Chief but then I got busy until I totally forgot about it and now I have to make it because it's about to expire! lol! I promise that this will be the last time I am baking something from an instant box. To make up for this I will be making frosting from scratch. I just followed instructions nothing too ...

Remember my unpleasant experience at Mirdif City Center branch of Sephora? I wrote an entry about it which you can read here . Because of that i went to the Dubai Mall branch to do my regular Sephora visit. By the way, I went back to the MCC branch again to give them the benefit of the doubt and there was this lady, I asked her if they had Stila products and she answered: "what Stila? i don't know that" in a very rude and shooing way.. was really rude.. By then I had enough of giving the benefit of the doubt on that store and I just stepped out. Rude people work on that store and I am never going back in there EVER! I was even thinking then when I was walking away from the store that I should have answered her and said "What?? You work for Sephora and you don't know Stila??" I dont know what kind of sales people they hire on that branch. Oh well..they just lost one buying customer. Anyway, my visit to Sephora Dubai Mall paved way to these beautiful thing...

A trip to the pharmacy paved way to my discovery of Gosh Cosmetics  from Denmark. I was supposed to get medicine when i was intrigued by the beauty section of  Boots Miridf City Center. Of course my curiosity led to buying and here are the things I got.. The CC Cream Illuminating foundation.. What I like about this CC cream is it's lightness on the skin. It gives a dewy moisturized finish with SPF 10.  Here are the swatches.. My bare hands without anything.. and here's with the applied CC Foundation.. see the glowing dewy finish? It blends well on the skin.. Coverage of course is not heavy compared to regular foundation. It aims to make your skin look fresh and glowing.  I also tried their bronzer.. what I like about this bronzer is the pigmentation. Its not heavy so it is easy to use. you can build up your contours easily and it blends very well.  swatch with CC cream and bronzer without flash.. and with flas...

It's summer again in Dubai and it's starting to get hot! Time to wear those beautiful sandals and slippers and flaunt our beautiful pedicures! Seven years ago  I shared a flat with 4 girls when I first came here. We shared beauty secrets and it was like living with four sisters... super fun! One of the obsessions we had then was to have beautiful and soft feet. You know how the hot weather just makes your feet dry? We hated that! Imagine the skin of your feet turning white because of all the dry skin! eewww! Living on a hot country makes your feet dry, scaly, rough and ugly. Thus make wearing sandals is unflattering.  There's a cheap and cheerful solution which will keep your feet soft and  moisturized that I want to share with you guys!  It will take the embarrassment of having rough and dry feet when you wear sandals and slippers. I PROMISE! You just have to use two products and a pair of socks. At night before you sleep, wash...