Bridal Pre-wedding Hair and makeup: Sumiko

Being an athletic woman, Sumilo wanted a sports casual style for her pre-wedding photo taking session.

Hair and makeup for the Sporty Athletic Bride

Hair and makeup for the Sporty Athletic Bride

Hair and makeup for the Sporty Athletic Bride

They went more extreme and decided to get wet!

From their happy faces, it is obvious they are enjoying themselves. :)

Congratulations dear !

Bride Hair and makeup for: Elaine

Beautiful Elaine is a TV host from Beijing and she has the nicest features and the cutest dog poodle. :)

Congratulations Elaine!

Bridal hair and makeup Elaine

Bridal Hair and Makeup Elaine

Wedding Photoshoot: Yachting at One degree 15 by White Sails in Sentosa

Up on an early morning and off to a day of yachting adventure for a couple shoot with Lumiere photography and White Sails (1 Degree 15-Sentosa).
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I was excited as it was my first time on a yacht in Singapore, (my first yacht experience was when I went to Hongkong) and was pretty curious to see the yacht's interior and experience the life as (what many people would consider) the "upper society" class. Hooray!

The charter was for 4 hours. Though it's not considered expensive but I wouldn't label this as an activity like: going shopping in town on a whim; as a sort of activity whenever we feel like it. I was just going to fully enjoy being on one FREE OF CHARGE. Hahahhahaha

Surprisingly, the waters are clear here and you can see FISHES! I was AMAZED!!!!!!!!

A pretty pic of Angeline before we board. :)

Before the yacht set sail, it was bobbing crazily at the dock. We were all busy loading and setting up our equipment without paying much attention to the crazy swaying until much later. 

As I did not have a proper breakfast, my gastric juice was swishing around in my stomach and I was starting to get EXTREMELY whoozy and nauseated. 

I would say I'm not prone to seasickness that easily but for this, it proved too much for me to bear. ARGHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I desperately tried to swallow mouthfuls of water, trying to hydrate myself thinking maybe it was due to the hot weather. Snacking periodically to ease the rumbling of my stomach. 

Finally I couldn't take it anymore and went to biggest bed inside the cabin and tried to sleep the nausea away till we docked at the island. 

My Unglamourous Pic:

Unfortunately, the poor photographer puked and he had to shoot. Poor Dan.

The unglamourous Photographer:

By this time, we had already docked on this island called:
St Lazarius. (not even sure if I got the spelling right?) 

And another boo-boo phtographer who had his socks screwed up. At least it's still the same colour tone...

Anyway this island is part of the St John' island in Singapore, secluded and un-developed. Basically you could skinny-dip in the waters and nobody would know. (except your friends of course! Coming alone would be way TOO CREEPY!) But the waters are clear and very nice!

St Lazarius in a snap

Look of the day: Waterfall braids and wedding makeup

Shot on a yacht at: One degree 15, Sentosa by White Sails. 

While on the yacht, Angeline and her beau, Joey, had to strike poses and I thought they looked kinda awkward and funny but still cute. Look at their strained necks!!! I never thought taking pictures were easy anyway.....

I shamelessly camwhored too! Couldn't couldn't resist..... 

Shameless

Candid Shot of Joey trying to do a jump shot and me failing terribly trying to capture it
Erm.

Well it sure looks like this girl is enjoying herself too! 

Our man Shao looking good here!

While on the beach......

My heart goes AwwwwwwWWwwwwww.......

It was a crazy hot day and my feet were burning. We quickly finished up on this island and proceeded to continue with Joey taking a jumping shot off the yacht and then it's back to Singapore. 

So the boys, Shao and Dan, set off on a dinghy, which they reminded me of Tom Hanks in the movie: Cast Away. HAhah

So, Finally it's a wrap ending with a nice hearty beer and lunch at Harry's bar. 

To top it all off, I had ugly tan lines. ARgh!!!!! I hate it. 

Love,

G

Bridal Hair and Makeup: Braids

The bride who loves big thick lashes. She is kinda concerned about her very small eyes.


Beauty is confidence. As long she feels good, who's to say she is not allowed her use 'Fan-sy' lashes?!

Hair And makeup by me
 (www.facebook.com/artsy.gerra)

Bridal hair and makeup

Purple hue shadow makeup

Bridal Romantic Braided up-do

Bridal Hair and Makeup: Charis

Hair and makeup by me
 (www.facebook.com/artsy.gerra)

1 look for day and 2 looks for night

She is the second bride I've come across game to try on lower false lashes. Well I must say the effect looked pretty good making her already huge eyes more doll-like!

Bridal Princess hair and makeup

Wedding: 1st look day hair and makeup

Wedding: 1st look for Solemnisation hair and makeup

As her wedding is held outdoors, I did her hair up. Otherwise, she would be feeling sweaty by then and it would be a mess! With the many guests to entertain and the limited restroom facility, we didn't have much time for touch-ups. 

Wedding: 2nd look for night hair and makeup

Charis arranged a beautiful theme of sea blue for her outdoor wedding! She even custom made blue popcorns, blue M & Ms and yummy blue jelly beans which tasted surprisingly good! (jelly beans) and I'm normally not a fan of jelly beans!

That's why I did a beautiful turquiose blue for her eye shadow to match :)

Bridal hair and makeup: Romeo and Juliet

I love the story of Romeo and Juliet. Especially when they live happily ever after.........

Who says anybody has to die?!

I totally enjoyed putting on manly facial beard on the groom!

Photography by Tammy and Zep
Assisted by Shao
Styling Tammy

Hair and makeup by me.
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Sun-kissed Summer Bronze Makeup

Dreamy bridal makeup

Customised Romeo and Juliet Pre-wedding Photography

Bridal hair and makeup: Lifong

Bridal day hair and makeup

Bridal night hair and makeup

Bridal Hair and Makeup ROM: Chrysa

Sweet and princessy with braids in hair for Chrysa's ROM

Sweet girly bridal hair and makeup

Bridal Makeup and Hair: Celia

Lovely bride Celia who has a big heart and a great personality!!

We totally clicked and talked very loudly pretty much all day through!

Bridal Hair and makeup for day and night

Bride: Serene

My very first time attending a wedding on a Chinese Junk Boat!! She was referred by a mutual friend who is also her wedding photographer. When she asked if it would be okay for me to follow her up the boat to do her hair and makeup, I was like "WHAT?" followed by "OF COURSE! MY PLEASURE!" :D

I was excited and I totally wore my new modern cheongsam, (which I never got the occasion to wear till now) to fit the whole mood.


To end it all, I had an extremely enjoyable time on a junk boat to share in Brian and Serene's joyous celebrations!

Hair and makeup by me

Bridal hair and makeup for day and night

Wedding Chinese Junk Boat Style

Bride: Joanne

Hair And Makeup by me
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Bridal day hair and makeup

Bridal Hair up-do

Bridal 1st hair and makeup for night

Bridal 2nd hair and makeup for night

Bridal Smokey eyes and Hair Chignon

New Updates

Oh my God!

It has been Eons since I last blogged!

Life goes on. Fell out of love, fell in love, fell out again. Now L-O-V-E It needs to fail. When it comes back, it is destined and will be stronger than before!!!

Im banking on it coming back STRONGER! BIGGER! BETTA.

Well............... updates:

1) I finally got my long time dream come true! I flew to phuket for a pre-wedding shoot!
(Oei, you may only thing it's a small deal, considering it's only to phuket. But it is a big deal for me ok! ) - holidaying and work all in one! :)

I would cross my fingers and pray to go to further places. like PAris? London?? MILAN?????


2) recently got featured in a Chinese lifestyle magazine called 生活
Im supposed to show tips on the many ways to wear a shawl... Being a model is sooo hard!



















Here is one picture during the shoot... Not too bad looking for an amateur model I would say? :D






3) starting up a concept lifestyle wedding photography company with friends!

I hope its going to be epic BECAUSE it is totally different from all the albums you have seen so far! Stay tuned.......


4) Got voted as top 100 most inspiring women in Spore!! hoho!
by CozyCot and Singtel! It is one up for my career in this Beauty industry. I hope!!

Thank you those who have nominated me!!




xoxo
Gerra

Trip to Taiwan!

OOooohh!! Finally Im blogging!! it's been ages since I did so and even my holiday entry is so delayed!

Latest: TRIP TO TAIWAN!

Purpose: To attend best friend's wedding dinner and shopping!

(*Salute to my friend! ---->Who has the longest relationship ever!! since SECONDARY SCHOOL days and half of it's long distance!! )

I am so loving Changi Airport, cause whenever I'm in it, it means im flying off to somewhere!

AHEM!
This taiwan trip's biggest purpose is to shop for quality heels!! Not so much on clothings this time.
I want THOSE heels that you can run in and walk all day long! Am soooo gonna get rid of so many of my old bitey shoes!

I only brought $480 worth of sing dollars to spend in Taiwan. Enough or not???
Me thought I probably won't be spending toooo much, considering I have tons of girlie what nots in my room already......
(Did I mention I got rid of my old writing table and changed it to a giant wardrobe instead? So, now I got 2 wardrobes in my cramped room)

HAHA!

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Me and friends took EVA airlines. The only off thing about this airline is that it has mad crazy departure time from Taiwan in the wee hours of the morning back to SIN. Totally sickening waste of one perfectly good day and some good sleep..... -.-

Our flight was in the noon. Flight journey was about 5 hrs +/-


feeling kinda bored, we took a few pics! Me and Meiwen, My trip buddy!


After cam whoring, I opted to watch movies on the plane instead of nap!
Oh boy did I thoroughly enjoy myself! The plane food wasn't that good though....

"The Ugly Truth" was just crazy hilarious, I was laughing out loud most of the time.

"The Orphan" was an extremely gripping and disturbing movie. It has a twist at the end and it's a MUST watch!

Ok, back to the story of my trip.



Finally we landed in Taipei Taoyuan airport at about 6 plus pm. The sky was already dark unlike Singapore where it only turns dark after 730!

I'm a daylight person! So, we hopped into our transport and the journey took about 1 hour to our lodging in Ximending (XMD) district.


After reaching Royal Castle hotel, Meiwen and me dumped our belongings and quickly went to the hubbub to scout for our dinner. Can't waste any time!!

We found this! Taiwan authentic Mee sua!! It's very good I tell you! It's 大肠面线.


After mee sua, we shopped around basically just roughly scanning out the area of XMD


How it looks like in XMD.


Looking for more food, we found this:

I wonder what's that square thingy that looks like 年糕. If it looks dubious, we probably don't want to try.. haha



We opted for the 鸡胸 (chicken breast meat) safest bet of all.



It looks like this. Actually its cold and the meat is SUPER TOUGH!! Very hard to bite off and meat keeps getting stuck in our teeth!! But the seasoning they did is very good!


And then I got smelly beancurd

Meiwen found it gross and smelly so she only took 1 bite and I gotta finish the 4 of them!
Luckily I got the beancurd dessert, so it makes the smelly beancurd easier to consume...
It tastes a bit too much after a while on its own. At least they got some side dishes like salted vege to go with it.



I found this Hello Kitty wonderful bike helmet selling freakingly cheap! So, I bought it even though I don't ride (just the occasional time when my bf rides)

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The next day, we planned to go the wholesale place at Wu Fen Pu to shop.

going crazy soon..... :D Shopaholic me is very excited....


Our mode of transport was the train! IT's really easy to get around and cheap too!

Similar to spore style



We got off at the wrong station thanks to the wrong info given by my friend! And we gotta walk one train stop away! @#$%%$^


My impatient 'backview'
Can't wait to shop shop shop!!!


Dang! We got there too early and so decided to settle for a bowl of dessert... Cause my friend is hungry again!!! Walao! Its like less than a couple of hours only after breakfast and she is hungry??!!

mini tang yuan in red bean soup



the menu of desserts


After that we went crazy shopping and buying like nobody's business! I bought expensive stuff! There goes my hundred odd so bucks in one shop!!


LUNCH:

lunch was this yummy handmade noodles.. My favourite!


In only a few hours, I had accumulated a huge bag of goods, like I was purchasing as a wholesaler!

The weight of my barang was horrific , almost like that of a toddler but bulkier... Very hard to carry!

My arms were madly aching and I was super tempted to hire a porter OTS!!!
It just sucks and it got to a point where we couldn't shop anymore. (didn't want to waste $$ on cabbing so it was never an option....) haha Stingy dingbats we were.

So we took train back to hotel and then decided to go to Shilin night market after dumping our stuff!


Super crowded when we reached there. Supposed to be the biggest night maket and the most popular one in Taipei.


check out crowd behind me....


Dinner was at a place selling mini hot pot "小锅"

Insanely cheap! prices you see divide by 22.6.
They have all kinds of meat at cheapo prices!



I ordered 'Ma La toufu' pot. With freeflow drinks complete with tissue...

$2 only!! Nett!

WHAT THE HELL?!!


Bestest meal we ever had.... Look at my blissfully satisfied face.

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The day comes for our friend's wedding...

My outfit for the day:

Black white combi, nice right!?


Worst thing to happen:
RAIN!
When we reached the station of our destination to our friend's hotel, it was raining! What's bad is that, none of us got an umbrella! My friend only got with her umbrella cap but no umbrella!! Choked for words..... hahhahahahhaha

Wear nice nice get caught in the rain!
Cannot be late some cause we do not want to risk arriving later than the groom...
So, we gotta brave the rain in the cold weather and try to walk as fast we can in heels! :(

At least it was not pouring.... Thank you very much!



finally we got to the beautiful bride!


After the groom arrives; we got him to sing a song and read love contract.

The Sabo session is too easy for the groom! Only a mere 15min! I guess its not in the taiwanese custom to play that long.... SIGH!



best friends since sec school days. :)


The wedding dinner menu
crazy 13 course dinner!!


The food is good but too much and too rich.. bleh!! A lot of unfinished portions. I think I overheard the waitresses saying they packet the leftovers... GOOD! So there won't be wastage!

At the end of the dinner, we remembered we haven got our angbao! So we comtemplated if we should just outright ask for it.

If not now, then when?? We can't be asking the bride for it, and we won't be seeing the groom after that same day!

Luckily, we got very thick skin!
So, Claris was the one who went up bravely to the bride and asked for our ang bao and then she ran to hide behind us!! It was hilarious!

Who needs enemies when you have friends like these??

We were super desperate cause we need more NT dollars for our shopping trip! MUahhahah!!!

BUT of cause, it's more for the good luck mah! heeheeeeeeeee


Anyway, we are all happy for our friends.(we know the groom too but hang out more with the bride)
Another one who is married!!! Never mind, I still got a lot of single friends! I won't be lonely yet! muhahahhahah

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Next day at Shida 'night' market. It opens during the day because of the University nearby that caters to students.


OOooooo I love toys...



My dream come true........ Noooo I did not buy any pillows back.. Though I would love to!


Lunch:

Lunch was beef tendon noodle ! (I super regret giving you that huge piece of tendon girl!!)
Very good! very very good!

After Shida, we went back to wu fen pu again because we were not satisfied with our shopping and the area is ~3 times bigger than bugis street!


Dinner:

My dinner was a mini bowl of lu rou fan. Don't have enough money to try the famous roast meats at Hu Xu Zhang (supposedly famous for their roasted stuff) Pathetic.....

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Last free day of trip:
Gong guan 公管


Fan of the Kitty cat


street of shopping district 'gong guan'







Melancholy me....

no lah! i just want to pose only!






I tell you, this wanton mee is delicious! I love this kind of noodles, handmade kind. There is garlic mixed in with the minced meat so its super 香!



This is a self taken shot... Pro right? :D.


After expending what ever cash we have at this shopping district, It's back to XMD and further deplete all our cash on last minute stuff.

We came across the cutest donut poster ever seen:

This little lamb has a donut crumb on the side of her cheek!! hahhaha! Her 'mane' of wool is donut ! What a clever way of advertising.....

My dinner for the day was instant noodles and bamboo shoots as side dish....

Where got people go holiday until like that one??!!!
*Whine!*
I don't even have enough money to buy the cutest bedroom slippers ever!!!!


Arghhhh.....................

Never mind, people always say the instant noodle is damn good in TW so this is a chance to test out the taste. It is yummy alright but the portion is too big and I couldn't finish it. What a waste....
Our friend, Meiwen got carrot cake and some taiwan sausages. The carrot cake is good but the sausages taste like what we have here. So nothing special....

After dinner, off to bed we go. We got an early flight to catch the next day! Sian..............

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At the airport.



Interesting looking fish eggs that look like kidneys.... How come the fish eggs in Spore look nowhere like those here??

Dah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And this marks the end of my wonderful holidays.

I'll be back TW!!