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Oxy Class Attack

I’ve always wondered why do I always get pimples on my nose. Its like, every time I get my period, my hormones surge up and there will always be one or two pimple on my face. The thing is, it always appears on my nose, recently.
The thing is, I rarely get pimples since I was [...]

28Oct2009 | karenmarie | 1 comment | Continued
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The spotlight’s on - thepoplook.com

NEW SHOP ON THE BLOG: thepoplook.com

Branded, funky and stylish would be the three words I use to describe this new shop on the blog: thepoplook.com. They’ve got up-to-date trendy pieces of clothing imported all the way from overseas. What’s awesome about this particular online shop is that, they do not sell counterfeit items. Of course, [...]

11Sep2009 | karenmarie | 2 comments | Continued
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Lux is in search for a Masquerade Princess

There’s something mysterious about being behind a mask. A masquerade party is avant garde, totally over the top and elaborate. We wear awesome dresses, big puffy skirts, with make up which accentuate the eye because that’s the focus behind the mask. What else is important is the skin. Behind a mask, you hardly see any [...]

11Aug2009 | karenmarie | 3 comments | Continued
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Clarins Hydraquench Cream-Mask

Every now and then, exfoliate your skin with a mask treatment. I mean, it only takes 10 minutes, not that hard to do. There are many ranges of mask available out there from gel mask, mud mask, even cream mask that are oh-so-easy to apply.
I have a cream mask lying around and since everyone tells [...]

6Aug2009 | karenmarie | 0 comments | Continued
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That looks familiar…did I see that in another shop?

I met a friend of mine at 1U yesterday at the Lenka Showcase. She was showing off what she bought at Forever 21. It was a really nice graphic dress with detailed neckline and in pinkish, purple-ish colour

3Aug2009 | karenmarie | 6 comments | Continued
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Bag Print Design Contest Winner!!

The Breast Cancer Awareness Bag Print Design Contest was held over the past 2 months and boy did we get a good response from all of you. We collected over 150+ beautiful designs from all of you talented designers and had a week plus of voting to determine who gets their design printed on the [...]

31Jul2009 | karenmarie | 7 comments | Continued
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Last day to vote for your favourite design!

Today is the last day to vote for your favourite bag print design! Please head on to the Bag Print Design Contest website and click on the pink ribbon to vote. There are over 150 designs on the site, so head on there now and start voting. Voting ends at the end of the day.
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20Jul2009 | karenmarie | 0 comments | Continued
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Express way to loose weight at Contours Express

Once upon a time ago, Karen signs up for gym membership. She was very excited over the prospects of getting a gym membership because all the cool kids have one and she can finally start losing weight. Of course, being in college at that time, she had classes, assignments and stuff like that, but still manages to [...]

14Jul2009 | karenmarie | 6 comments | Continued
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Eye Candy: Fabric Flowers

So during my regular visit to oogle on pretty things on Etsy, I spotted something so pretty, I immediately wanted to have one. Aren’t they so pretty? The colours are amazingly vivid and the patterns just make me want to walk on beds of flowers! Feature image from Going Sew Crazy. These pretty things are [...]

29Jun2009 | karenmarie | 0 comments | Continued
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My Lurve Affair with…

So about a month ago, I had the biggest letdown of my life (I’m exaggerating), but, yea, my notebook of 4 years crashed on me. It was a sad moment because it was my lurve and it has been through so much with me throughout my whole undergraduate life and of course, emmagem was developed using [...]

29Jun2009 | karenmarie | 0 comments | Continued
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The King of Pop remembered by many

You know how much Michael Jackson has inspired people when you feel the love in the air, far away from LA, in a shopping mall in PJ, when hundreds of fans turned up to pay a tribute to the great late Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson, who passed away because of a cardiac arrest is a [...]

29Jun2009 | karenmarie | 5 comments | Continued
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Upcycled Vinyl Banner

Recycling has become such a phenomenon in the recent years. Well, we all know how much we must save mother nature from falling apart, so we all must take steps to reduce global warming and make the world a better place. Do something for earth, start planting trees, if you can! When you have scraps [...]

23Jun2009 | karenmarie | 4 comments | Continued
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Clarins HydraQuench

Facing the world daily makes our skin vulnerable to all kinds of damage. Remember how I wrote about the importance of hydrating your face in this article? Now, many cosmetic/skincare brand took notice of how our skin’s so hydrated that they’ve come up with more products to help hydrate the skin.
From H20, Clinique, Biotherm to [...]

18Jun2009 | karenmarie | 2 comments | Continued
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When fashion and gadgets become one..

You get a pretty normal looking tote bag with a TV on it! Bag TV is an innovative bag which comes with a TV so that you can bring your TV along everywhere you go. This ordinary looking bag has a flap on the front which opens up to a 7 inch LCD TV. How fascinating?
The bag [...]

17Jun2009 | karenmarie | 1 comment | Continued
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Men’s Secret…

Fresh off Women’s Secret’s W blog, comes a secret that would tickle your boy’s fancy. A new range of menswear recently launched at Women’s Secret.
They went back to the basics with the men’s range of undergarments. Since Women’s Secret’s been making undies for the longest time, they know just how to make sure the fabrics’ [...]

16Jun2009 | karenmarie | 0 comments | Continued
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The magical unveiling of HTC Magic

Touch screen is now so common that every other gadget is going touch screen. We all want to touch and feel things. Move things with our fingers and everything is at a touch of the hands. HTC has always been bringing in innovative phones which are trendy and up with the phone market. Just recently, [...]

15Jun2009 | karenmarie | 1 comment | Continued
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Eye Candy: Plastic Rings

Another eye candy for this week: Plastic rings! Plastic rings are really such cute things which can be placed in replacement of your usual gold or silver ring just to spice up your day. I remember a scene from Grey’s Anatomy when Izzie Stevens walked into the chemo room with a big white plastic ring with [...]

14Jun2009 | karenmarie | 4 comments | Continued
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Emmagem.com was on BFM!

Listen to yetmee as she speaks to Freida on “Open for Business” show’s podcast on BFM 89.9.

12Jun2009 | karenmarie | 1 comment | Continued
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Eye Candy: WAM Bands

We all love that one piece of jewelry that would just stand out from the outfit, but yet, still not overshadow the whole look of the outfit. Usually a big long shiny necklace will do it, but its quite hard to match big shiny things with outfits. One I really like are bangles. Statement bangles.
I [...]

10Jun2009 | karenmarie | 2 comments | Continued
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e-MANcipate: Mantyhose - Tights for men

We all know how the tights phenomenon hit the fashion scene and now everyone is wearing tights.  We wear them under long shirts, with dresses and so on. It has become a necessity for some and a fashion statement for others with the increasing trend of wearing printed and metallic tights. When I said everyone, [...]

9Jun2009 | karenmarie | 4 comments | Continued
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