Top three favourite beauty products

1. Bioré Makeup Remover Cleansing Oil Sheet
I tried Bioré Makeup Remover Cleansing Oil before using this and it was such a burden to always have cotton pads around. I did not like the feeling of rubbing oil all over my face, to me it felt like it was clogging up my pores and it always left my vision blurry after removing my eye makeup. Despite that, having it in sheet form is absolutely perfect. I only use half a sheet everyday as soon as I get home to remove my everyday makeup. Gentle rubs can to the trick to removing mascara and everything else I usually have on. It is however slightly pricey just to keep you informed but keeping my skin happy is one of my main priority.

2. Bobbi Brown Extreme Party Mascara
It is not as extreme as it says, in fact I use this mascara everyday. It never clumps, it's easy to use and I usually only apply one coat because I'm always in a rush before class. Whenever I have a couple of minutes to spare, I would double coat and it does me well. I've tried a couple of mascaras before this and they were terrible, definitely recommend this for newbies (I still am one).

3. Urban Decay Naked Eyeshadow Palette
I haven't owned this for long but so far I've used it for a few occasions. Well actually, most of the time I just play with it at home just experimenting or you can say 'practising'. I do use the 'Naked' and 'Buck' powder to do a little contouring, I don't own a bronzer just yet. Sometimes I use 'Virgin' to put at the inner corners of my eyes. I still need time to put my Naked palette to full use one day. The packaging palette is also more secure compared to the latest two Naked palettes, I really like the fact that it's a magnetic closure.

(All these three items without doubt I will repurchase in the future.)

Sarah turns twenty in Exeter

I'm taking a breather right now, I was working on my assignment all day and it was rather overwhelming because I was unaware of the amount of work I had to put in. Of course, life is not always bubbles, Sun and ladybugs so I broke down for a couple of seconds, picked myself up, pop into the shower and started cleaning up the apartment to clear my mind. Oh and I turned twenty, five days ago. How I felt about turning 20? I'm two decades old, what do you think? Well, it was not much of a big deal at first but it only hit me when I started receiving birthday wishes in the evening the day before my birthday because it was midnight in Malaysia. I did not want to admit I was already twenty in Malaysia so I refused to read my messages for a moment before I gave in to read the sweet wishes from all my favourite people around the world. Still, though I'm buried under piles of assignments, tests, presentations and preparing for my upcoming exams at the moment, I'm still grateful with where I am, who I am, what I am doing and what I have done. Thank you everyone for the thoughtful wishes on the phone, whatsapp, instagram, facebook (I'll probably only reply in the next week or so), twitter and snapchat.

Look, I'm just as yellow as the wall. I find that hilarious.

Basically from the title, I turned twenty in Exeter. I decided to follow my best friend back to where she was currently studying at after the whole Brighton trip. Just so I can do some exploring around the sweet little town. Also, to celebrate my birthday quietly in another city with my best friend.

Overall, I got what I want for my birthday if you're wondering. Received endless amount of love from my family and friends, a quiet lovely time out in town with the Sun, skinny fries and watched my all time favourite disney movie, Alice in Wonderland (the classic cartoon one) with my best friend in pyjamas. That's my kind of a perfect birthday. I think I need to get some sleep now before I go mad, mad like the mad hatter. Maybe that isn't so bad actually. Thank you to my best friend above for everything and send love from me to your friends for being so sweet in helping you out to surprise me with the lovely cake and bubbles. Have a nice day everybody and God bless.

Sarah goes to Brighton | Part 2

Here's a quick update while in the midst of doing my research for my assignment. On day three, we had breakfast by the beach before visiting the pier. I pet my forth dog there, I absolutely adore the amount of dogs in Brighton. I wish it was the same for Newcastle where the dog owners are just as kind and friendly too. 

The Sun definitely had its BrightOn when we visited. Get it? Get it?

We finally made it to the pier after two days of seeing it from afar.

Do expect random dancing and prancing around when you're around me.

Only in England you can find people differently dressed for Spring, Summer,  Autumn and Winter at the same time.

The girls rode a couple of rides on the pier while I just stood and watched the intensity of the rides around. 

I'm a scaredy cat, I admit.

Finally, we ended our trip by having our last meal in Regency Restaurant (highly recommended by Rachel, thanks for doing so!) The seafood platter was absolutely glorious and so was the fried calamari. No doubt it was a 10/10. Right after we were done, Tasha and I had to run back to the other end of the beach where the hotel was to grab our luggage and catch our train. We lived happily ever after if you're wondering, there was no train missed that day. Except the part where we missed one of our stops because we were talking nonsense as usual to realise. Still, we manage to get back to the initial stop in time and lived happily ever after again.

Sarah goes to Brighton | Part 1

My easter break is finally over after four short weeks that went by a little too fast. As usual, I've left my assignments collecting dusts while I was out and about so I'll have to get my brain engines oiled up and drink gallons of brain juice to get them done. However, for the mean time while I procrastinate a little for now, here's my trip to Brighton, enjoy ! I even made extra efforts to make gifs, hope you guys like it.

I absolutely adore these couple of group shots, it was taken right after we had our late lunch in Bankers where we had fish and chunky chips (they had the best fish, my favourite so far) then we headed straight for the beach. It was such a beautiful sight to see the sea after quite awhile from being away from home where I used to pass by the sea every single day.

This stranger right here was the first of many that made me love the people in Brighton.

There is a little silly story behind these two photos taken in front of the ice-cream shop. As you see Tasha (the one with the yellow sling bag) was holding the ice-cream sculpture in that pose, apparently to keep herself balanced. Seconds after the photo above was taken, she lost her balance and push the sculpture forward by a little which landed on my tongue as I was still posing. Therefore the outcome of the photo below where she was just laughing at me when she realised what had happened. That little devil. I don't even know if the other two girls knew about the shenanigans that was happening behind. I had coffee flavoured ice-cream by the way, I loved it.

We coincidentally had our outfits paired up, denim on us and leather on the other two.

Don't these huts look similar to the Melbourne Brighton Beach huts?

We ended our day with having Japanese food for dinner in Sushi Garden, the food was a little below average.

Day 2 in Brighton, we practically spend our whole trip by the beach without even visiting the Churchill Square.

We did however do a tiny bit of shopping in the cute little shops by the beach.

Pretty satisfied with my purchase on this hat.

What do you think? Actually, scratch that, I don't want to know.

Isn't she a beauty? Mother nature, not that human.

Petra doing what she does best.

I forced her to stand in the middle of the shop, she's a cute monkey isn't she?

While Petra was still hanging around the shops, Tasha and I went ahead and tried cockles, whelks and crayfish tails that were sold nearby. I really enjoyed it, you guys should really try it out if you're in Brighton. I'm not very sure where else they are sold but it was unexpectedly delicious.

Her face perfectly portrays that content emoticon that I use too often.

Lunch at Burgers and Cocktails where I had my favourite banana milkshake, they had pretty decent fries too.

After that, we visited Snooper's paradise where of course, you can spot this queen.

I manage to take a quick look outside of the Snooper's attic and snap some photos of this queen before a lady came to tell us we weren't suppose to be there. We then met up with our group of friends in town visiting for a day and had dinner in Coach House, not bad but pricey. Part 2 coming very soon.