Tip: Rosie Romantic

Hey hey pretty ladies, Vday is just a sleep away. I bet all of you are already preparing your dates outfits and makeup look. Remember girls he loves you just the way you are so please don't go overboard and looking completely different tomorrow. Didn't we all learn from Princess Kate, who did her own makeup on her wedding day because she wants Prince William to recognize her. That is by far the best look to go for on your date tomorrow. But if you still want to put in a little more effort looking all blushy but still very natural here's a very quick and simple tutorial to take inspiration from. 


Enjoy your date tomorrow! 

Mixxed

Trick: Oh fudge, a smudge!

Let’s face it, one way or the other we’ve all experienced mascara smudge either while applying mascara or after. Unless you don’t mind rocking the panda eyes here’s a little trick where you don’t have to remove all your makeup except for the smudge. 

I present to you my secret weapon… drum rolls… Q-tip/Cotton buds, however you want to call it. This baby works wonders. When you accidently smudge your mascara whilst applying I know your initial reaction is to remove as soon as possible but DON’T. The trick is to let it dry because it will be easier to remove. Once it’s dried up, dip your Q-tip in makeup remover or lotion,then just dab it on the smudge and it will come right off. Easy breezy!

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Happy FAITHday. :)

I had a truly profound journey on my way to work this week as I’ve been reading “Have a little faith by Mitch Albom”. I was so immerse with this book that I almost wished my travel to work is more than 30mins! But all good comes to those who wait.

In this day and age it is so easy for us to get in the hype and drown ourselves in our sorrows thus condoning the bigger picture that is to Have a little faith. It’s really inspiring to read someone whose faith has never falter in all that he’s been through. Anyway, since I don’t really do in-depth reviews here are some of the quotes I have made mental notes on.

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.” 

“The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.” 

“So, have we solved the secret of happiness? 

"I believe so," he said 

Are you going to tell me? 

"Yes.Ready?" 

Ready. 

"Be satisfied." 

That's it? 

"Be greatful." 

That's it? 

"For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you." 

That's it? 

He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. 

"That's it.” 

“To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can’t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren’t satisfied - before working some more.” 

“Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come” 

“I think people expect too much from marriage today,' he said. They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience. 

. . . twenty good minutes here, forty good minutes there, it adds up to something beautiful. The trick is when things aren't so great, you don't junk the whole thing. It's okay to have an argument. It's okay that the other one nudges you a little, bothers you a little. It's part of being close to someone. 

But the joy you get from that same closeness--when you watch your children, when you wake up and smile at each other--that . . . is a blessing. People forget that.” 

“After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. 

God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children, too.” (Quoting from the Bible)

“Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can’t explain, something that created it all at the end of the search. And no matter how far they try to go the other way – to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty – at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end?” “When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.” 

But so many people wage wars in God’s name.

“Mitch,” the Reb said, “God does not want such killing to go on.”

Then why hasn’t it stopped?

He lifted his eyebrows.

“Because man does.”

“Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?” 

"It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there" (A favorite line of mine)

I simply love this book and I encourage everyone to read it.


Other books of Mitch Albom: 

• Tuesdays with Morrie
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• For One More Day
• Have a Little Faith

*Sidenote: I've also changed my Book Slut monthly posts to Book It!, it's more decent to say the least. 

Loves,

jCel♥

The Child in Me

I was browsing through the genre, Children’s Classics and came across this book and just thought I’d share it. 

This is one of my all time favorite book. We were required to read this book back in 5^th Grade and I remembered we did a play and I was casted as Amy, the youngest sister of the bunch. Oh the good times! When I saw this I felt the sudden urge to go and buy so that I can read this to my future kids. My other favorite classics are: Alice in Wonderland, The Prince and the Pauper, Guiliver’s Travels, Thumbelina (the girl is a tiny/big as a thumb!), Peter Pan (the book is so much better – as always) and of course The Jungle Book – I mean how can you not?!

So what’s your favorite book growing up?

♥, 

jCel 

Books to life

Deep inside my heart I always knew that books have a life of its own and this video just proved it. 


How freakishly cool would it be if all the books in your house would come to life and started dancing before your eyes. That would've been cloud 9 for me! 

Til the day this actually happens, we can keep dreaming for now. 




Ciao! 
jCel ♥