La Roche-Posay Anthelios 60 Ultra Light Sunscreen

My search for a light and non-greasy sunscreen is finally over! woot woot! This La Roche Posay sunscreen works like a charm to keep my face protected and at the same time not causing my face to be oily or breakout. I have already used this product for the last few weeks and so far its a great product that I will keep buying.

There actually quite a lot of sunscreen in each bottle so you can actually use it for at least six months. I bought this at my local CVS store for $19.99 as they had a promotion for $10 off any La Roche-Posay sunscreen product.

I use this product after my moisturizer and you can see in this photo that my face is still very matte.

Drip dispenser allow product to be easily dispense while not pouring out too much.

Most of La Roche-Posay's sunscreen sold at CVS is actually made in USA and this was one of a few that is made in France.

See how watery and workable this sunscreen is?

Applied sunscreen on hand and love the fact that I don't see any white cast on my hand.

This will be part of my everyday skin care routine from now on! I hope you guys can give it a try too!

Beauty Buy: Twisted Crystal Bracelet

I recently went into a Ross store and saw this $9.99 bracelet that caught my attention. The bracelet is made of strand of crystal wrapped inside many strands of twisted fishing wire. The bracelet looked very unique and is perfect for Spring so I decided to purchase it.

Another great part about this bracelet is that you can easily wear it by yourself as it has an magnetic clasp.

Love the fact of how I can easily wear and take off this bracelet all by myself!

Me with the bracelet. I think the bracelet looks pretty simple alone so I think I'll just wear it with some other bracelets together.

Can you guys see how uniquely this bracelet looks. The fun part about this is that the bracelet is tightly woven that no crystals would ever drop out. It's super fun to look at!

The Lovely Descanso Botanical Garden

I went to the Descanso Botanical Garden some time ago and never posted it so here it goes. The remember the day was very hot so thankfully I had sunscreen on to prevent me from getting any skin damages. I recently purchased a new sunscreen and it has been working wonders for me so I will talk about it in another post. Luckily, my skin naturally do not get toasted or darkened so a sunscreen is good enough. Yes, I am blessed on that end but I do and will get not one but lots and lots of freckles. Girls, we know how hard it's to conceal freckles so we really don't want that to happen.

The Descanso Garden is filled with beautiful and exotic plants, trees and flowers! It would be such a waste to not pose next to any flowers!

Tada! here's a map of the Descanso Botanical Garden.

A beautiful scenery in the rose garden! Too bad the picture came out a little blurry....

Picture of my beautiful sister posing for me. Total LOVE it!!!

Another picture of my sister by the house inside the garden.

Oh, I like my sister's hair in this picture. I wonder who helped her bleach and dye it? haha... it's me. nice right?

Now that's it for today. If you guys want to go to the Descanso Garden spring is the best time as the weather  is not too hot yet. Got to go sleep now! I'll see you guys next time!

A Day At The Flower Fields

April is the best month of the year to visit botanical gardens as a lot of flowers are in full bloom. This time I have decided to visit the beautiful Flower Fields located at the Carlsbad Ranch in San Diego. This is my first time waiting The Flower Fields and it was honestly very breathe taking!

50 acres of rainbow colored giant Tecolote Ranunculus! One of the best place for flower site seeing as the garden is very well taken care of and there's also a lot of variety of flowers to look at!

I decided to dress up in a loose and flowy Spring outfit wearing a Esley asymmetric skirt and tank along with a cardigan as the weather was kind of chilly that day. To top everything off, a sun hat is definitely essential for the spring and summer time!

Pictures of more beautiful flowers!

A beautiful bed of flowers with a different color for each section.

The Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flower looks beautiful up close as there's so many layers of petals making this flower very unique.

Alright this is all the pictures for my glamorous Spring day.... I will definitely be back next year!

Dr. Hu's Jalili Face Mask Review

Dry skin is honestly a girl's worst nightmare as makeup does not stay and skin appears very flaky. Sadly, my face has been super dry lately due to the change of weather so I've been actively using face mask to keep my face moisturized at night so that I can wake up to much more hydrated skin. 

I actually have never heard of this brand, Dr. Hu, before until I purchased this face mask at a local street festival a few months ago. The ladies at the stand told me that this line Jalili from Dr. Hu is actually one of the top selling mask in Taiwan and was on sale for $1 a piece so I bought a few to test out.

 Dr. Hu's Jalili mask comes in 8 variety each with a different set of benefits. The one I've tested today is made with Ascorbic Acid which is used to help with whitening, firming, and moisturizing.

Direction says to apply the face mask after face is cleaned. Next allow mask to sit for 15-20 mins on face before removing the mask and then lightly pat the excess moisture into face.

The mask is very moist and there is plenty of left over serum in the package!

Sorry to show you guys a  picture of me with the mask on but I wanted to show you guys the texture of the mask so here it goes! The mask is very thin with a lot of moisture. Mask sticks very closely to the face and I love the two little flaps that I can pull up to moisturize my eyelids.

Wahhhhhhlaaa.. I super love the results. As you can see in these pictures the before picture of my face looks very oily and my pore are quite enlarged and after using the mask for 20 minutes my face looks much more hydrated, whiter, and pores are a lot smaller. Overall, I am super excited about this product and I will definitely buy more to use! Hope you guys give it a try too!

Picking My Own Strawberries!

Sometime leaving the city life and going out to the farm land for a fresh breath of air is very relaxing. I'm quite happy that it's currently spring and there's so much stuff to do and the weather in California is perfect for a lot of outdoor activities.

Now looking at the pictures the strawberries look so plump and juicy! Unfortunately, the strawberries were not sweet at all.

Haha... I found my self a big and juicy strawberry!

It was a bunch of fun picking strawberries at the U-Pick Strawberries in Carlsbad, California but it was a lot of hard work too. The rows of strawberry plants are very narrow so I had a hard time walking and bending down looking for strawberries. Man, picking strawberries and really make a person appreciate all the fruits we have at the market as a lot are hand picked by farmers!

Here's an up close picture of the strawberries. You can see a lot of strawberries are still green, white and tiny so I really had to dig real hard to find the big juicy red ones! Since this is a public strawberry picking farm some of the strawberries are damaged do to human abuse so I had to be real careful for not picking a spoiled strawberry!

See... I really have to squat to pick the strawberries as the plant is so low. Picking the strawberries was so expensive, the tiny cup you see in this picture cost $10 and I cannot overflow over the top too. I guess I was paying for the experience and not really the strawberries as a whole basket only cost $1 at my local market.

Eating my hard pick strawberries is very satisfying so I'm definitely going to try apple pickings next time!

Photo Session With My New Nikon 35mm Micro Lens

I recently purchased a new lens for my Nikon 3100 camera so my first round of testing subjects are of course the beloved pets! The cost of this lens was almost $300 with tax but I think the results are pretty much worth every penny I paid for it!

I realized that the results of the 35mm lens is almost the same as the 40mm so buying this lens I will not have to buy the other one so horray!

This is a picture of using the lens under macro mode. Wow... I can see almost every detail of the flower that I couldn't even see with my naked eye.

Here's a picture of the sweet and gentle MeiMei! I took her out for a stroll and she sure is enjoying the weather. Talking about his picture perfect shot...

Another shot here is my cute kitty fat cat! You can see every inch of his fur so closely.

Oh my my sister's doggie, Porky, looks real cute here. Porky looks like she's drooling while waiting to get a taste of that doggie bone. Yum Yum...

The lens pick up such great color, of course the subject must be beautiful too!

Here's another shot.. this one MeiMei is smelling the flower. OMG... she's just too cute... I just want to hug her right now!

Here's a picture of fat cat at night. The lens picks up a great amount of light even at night.

Side profile of Porky. She looks real good for a 10 years old dog.

I will end this post with a picture of MeiMei strolling down my block. Absolutely stunning... Overall, I like the results of the pictures and there's definitely no regret in buying this lens. It's so easy to use and the outcome are great but the only thing I need to learn is to focus correctly so hopefully I'll get better with practice.