So many of you may know about my freak out on Twitter sometime back where I tried a glycolic acid solution on my face and then literally burned it. (Idiotic Renee Moment #9801.) It’s been a little over 3 months and dare I say the scabs, scarring and general woe from it has all finally subsided, so I’m going to write a WARNING post of sorts so that you don’t burn your beautiful faces either!
OK, first and foremost, why did I do it?! Good question. As many of you may know I have always been quite open with the fact that my skin in my high school years were definitely heartbreaking for me – I know of many who’ve had it worse but I think anyone who’s dealt with acne would know that even having “mild” acne really does effect your self esteem and confidence. Especially at that very insecure age that is the teenage years. To cut a long story short, I first started getting zits and the whole works around 14, and I was finally “done” with acne around 19 years old – I started to notice my zits die down at 18 (thanks to my new skincare routine by Clinique) and by 19 dare I say my acne was gone (but not forever, it seems!).
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I‘ve been seeing a lot of bloggers doing ‘What’s In My bag?’ type posts recently and I don’t like feeling left out, so I’m inviting myself to join in. ;) I also actually really like these types of posts… I’m not really sure why, but I guess I’m just curious and it does say a lot about a person and a peak into their daily lives.
My Valentino Le Maison bag was a gift from my dad on my 20th birthday. I asked for it but warned him that it’s so expensive so I’ll pay for part of it. My dad agreed, but my mom later said it’s not a real gift if I have to pay for part of it. Thank you, Mom! So on my 20th birthday I received it. It’s the perfect bag for me – everyone who first saw the bag kept saying it’s so “me”. I love it so much I named it Rocco, ’cause it looks so rock and roll. Geddit? ;)
However! Valentino – are you reading this? After 1.5 years old and it’s already getting ripped at the sides, and I need to take it for repair. For that price I would’ve thought it’d last better. Ugh!
Here’s what else is in my bag…
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Alright ladies… it’s been 2 years and it’s time we have a housewarming party! I can recognize a few familiar faces, (especially if you’ve enabled Gravatar!) but I know there are some others and I’d love to meet you all. It’s about time we start getting to know each other properly, no? ;) So pull up a chair and write whatever you’d like! Here’s some questions I’d love to know about yourself….
- How old are you? Where are you from?
- What do you do? Are you currently studying/working?
- How did you find Beauty Fool?
- Other than beauty (I’m assuming!), what are your other obsessions/interests?
OK I’ll go first to break the ice. ;) I’m 21, from Singapore but I’m half Chinese and half Danish, I’m currently having a bit of a holiday because I’m waiting to graduate from university, but I should probably start job hunting… oops. Um, I found Beauty Fool because I created it, silly! My other ultimate obsession is music and playing the guitar (badly), and my interests are watching movies, writing, traveling, drawing, cycling, seeing friends, having late night drive adventures, bumming on the beach and more! Phew…
Also, just to let you all know I am taking an impromptu trip to Thailand – it’s beach time for me! I’ll be gone for a week so posting will be a little bit dry, but I’ll be as active in the comment sections as much as the hotel Internet allows! ‘Til then, hope you all have a great week and we’ll catch up very soon! :)
P.S.: What do you think of a post like this every end of the month? Somewhere where we can chat, ask questions – an ‘open thread’ of sorts? Could be fun, let me know what you think.
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The title says it all, really. How old were you when you started wearing makeup? What age did you start getting interested in it? Were you ever forbidden to wear it until a certain age? I would love to hear your stories!
As a young girl I would always want to be like “mommy” and would go to her dressing table and put it all over my face – my favorite beaing lipstick – I even applied lipstick on my forehead! I hung out at my mom’s dressing table so much that eventually my parents bought me this plastic kid-version and I was in love! (Although I’m looking at the photo now and it seems to be a bathroom sink instead of a dressing table? Oh well.) I was not allowed to have ‘real makeup’ on my dressing table so I think the closest I got to having ‘makeup’ was baby powder, so I remember just applying it all over my face, silly girl!
It was not until I was 15 when I entered high school that I started wearing makeup. I decided upon mascara, and my mom took me to a MAC counter and we picked out a mascara. It was so exciting! (I know I wrote here that it was eyeliner, but I just checked with my mom and it was actually mascara, then eyeliner a month later.) Soon after I discovered ‘smokey eyes’ and it was a lost cause – I was smitten with makeup! ;)
When did you start wearing makeup?
Nothing is more terrifying than avoiding your own blog because you hated the direction was going.
“What are you on about this time?” you ask. To put it simply, I had always visioned Beauty Fool to be an ‘online’ magazine because my passion since I can remember was writing, and I was (and still am) obsessed with magazine and the media. I also thought that if Beauty Fool was a bit more ‘professional’ and I wrote more ‘formal’, I can add it to my resume when I job hunt, because blogs are still looked down upon from the ‘real’ media. (Sad but true, at least for now.) The only thing is, Beauty Fool is a blog. And blogs are supposed to be fun, personal and real – the complete opposite of (most) magazines.
So: I’ve decided to rid this ‘goal’ I had of BF being an online magazine of some sorts and embrace the fact that it is a blog, because I love blogs and the world of blogging. My favorite blogs are personality-driven, so I don’t know why I wanted to go in the other direction with Beauty Fool. I guess had always been too shy with this “online thing”, but I recently had an Ah-ha! moment (thanks Oprah) and decided I should come out of my shell and make Beauty Fool more personal – at least so you can know the real me; I’ve been shy long enough!
So what changes will be happening here? Well, for starters I already wrote a more personal type of post that I hoped you liked, (and will be adding more in the future) and second I completely stripped the blog design bare. Admit it – the last design was too “high-fashion” and pretentious and I personally hate that sorta stuff! The current design is still in the works but I plan to make it completely Renee – down to my favorite colors for fonts, patterns, images, icons, and whatnot. I’ll also be adding more personal stories and pictures (where relevant, of course, it’s still a beauty blog, don’t worry!) and I really hope you’ll like this direction Beauty Fool is taking.
I would really love to hear your thoughts on this – will you still be reading if I add a bit more of a personal touch? :)
xx Renee
I was asked how much I weigh the other day.
I responded by staring blankly back at the person. Firstly, what a question; and secondly, I couldn’t give a direct answer … because I had no idea. I also realized that I hadn’t weighed myself at all this year – yep, I don’t really have any idea how much I weigh. (Well, I have a rough estimate from the doctor’s office a few months ago, but that’s about it!)
But is that such a bad thing?
Like many other girls, I used to care about my weight and weigh myself everyday.
I did some modeling as a teen (nothing big, but it was nice pocket money). I’ve always been a “skinny kid” so I never thought about my weight too much. Yes, I was teased in school for being so scrawny, but I always thought it was more my height than being thin. (On hindsight, though, maybe it was both?)
But weight issues, talks of being thin, exercise and diet suddenly came into my vocabulary when I started modeling. With modeling, you’d go to castings, and at castings, you see your competition: Six feet tall, perfectly engineered, flawless young women. How could that not interfere with a young girl’s self esteem? (I was 14 or 15 when I started modeling). I also started to make some model friends, and though I’m not saying this is true with all models, the majority of them only talked about their body and their weight. Some would be skinnier than me, and much taller (so they would have to weigh more than someone who was shorter) – and yet they called themselves ‘fat’.
Before long, I started to wonder what they thought of me. Was I ‘fat’ in their eyes, too?
That’s when the obsessive weighing started. I would wake up each morning and weigh myself. I was satisfied at the weight I was, but anything over that (like at night, after all the day’s meals!) I would get depressed. My mind started telling me maybe I should stat dieting and eat salads like those other girls.
I did modeling for a few years with these thoughts growing more and more frequent in my head, month after month. I had other stuff going on in my life, so my self esteem eventually took a nose dive.
The deciding factor was when I was 18. I was at a fashion show and went to the bathroom, and overheard one of the other models throwing up behind a stall. I froze. I remember feeling sick to my stomach and thinking I couldn’t go on like this – who knows, it would only be a matter of time before I would be doing the same.
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At the start of the year, I wrote about the launch of Fabulous: All About 50 Top Beauty Bloggers of 2010, a book all about the beauty blogging world. And though I ordered the digital book version… it wasn’t enough. Finally, the print version was released on Amazon.com and I managed to grab a copy.
It’s funny how things change so much. When I was doing this interview last year in November, I was asked about my future plans and all I yapped on about was how I wanted to write in magazines. And though I still want to write, I am thinking more to writing books, which is something different altogether! (Or maybe both?)
Anyway, I hope you’ll support Nicki Zevola, the author of the book, and grab a copy. She’s done a brilliant job and I can’t thank her enough for wanting to feature Beauty Fool and I. The book gives all sorts of tips, tricks and information about the ever growing beauty blogging ‘industry’, as well as interviews with over 50 of the top beauty bloggers around the world. You can buy it online at Amazon here. In the meantime, here are some pics I took of my feature, I hope you like it. :)
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