Curing chapped lips: DIY Natural Lip Scrub

Hello lovelies!

Just want to share with you a simple beauty DIY that I’ve been wanting to share for ages.

I made this in attempt to save my dry, chapped and painful lips. They were so horrible that the edges of my mouth were also swollen. I couldn’t wear lipsticks as they would only make my lips worse. But thanks to the goodness of nature *plays Lion King song*, this has made them so much better now.

All you need is:

• 2 tsp of honey
• 2 tbsp of sugar – I’m using normal refined sugar, but you can use brown sugar too if you want
• 1/2 tsp of multi-purpose cream, e.g. Vaseline. I’m using Egyptian Magic
• 1 tsp of lemon juice (optional)

For those who’ve heard or known of Egyptian Magic cream before must be thinking, “wow such a waste to use pricier all-purpose cream for a DIY”. But the thing is, this is the only multi-purpose cream that I use as it’s made of all natural ingredients: olive oil, beeswax, honey, pollen, royal jelly and propolis extract. I bought it to help ease my eczema last time. Didn’t really work so well on the eczema but it’s a great moisturizer (apply at night and your skin will be bouncy with glow in the morning) and lip balm.

Mix all ingredients together.

If you add lemon juice, you need to add more sugar to add consistency. I personally like it more liquidy so that after scrubbing off the flakes I can just leave my lips masked with the scrub overnight.

Store it in a small container and voila! You’re done!

I was amazed by the first time I applied this overnight. I could totally see the difference the next morning. After several times of using this, my lips returned to its moist flake-free state! But of course, this alone wouldn’t help. I drank gallons of water and sealed my lips with lipbalm at all times. The best lipbalms for me, hands down, are the Burt’s Bees. I’ve tried many other brands and even pricier ones are not as good as these bad boys. I’ve finished the original and the Kokum Butter and using the Mango Butter at the moment. Yum!

Oh, and one important tip is no biting! Ugh this is so hard, I know. But biting off the flaky lips would just make them worse.

Hope this helps to get your luscious lips at its best state, especially bright neon lips are so on-trend right now. Pucker up!

 

xo, Jo

I swear I didn’t mean it

I wore my DIY pieces on the orientation day. Only two words can describe that day : FOOD and RAIN. Yep, lots of them.

top – Seed, cardigan – Et Cetera, shorts – Island Shop, belt - Elufa

First class ever in Degree 2nd year! Notice my necklace? I made it! It also can be worn as a headband ;) oh and the hand puppet penguin is a gift from a friend from his Australia trip! He also brought some chocolates with cherry filling inside, didn’t taste so cherry to me but they were SO GOOOOOOOD ;)

Today’s class was the second class and I felt it was quite stressful. The lecturer was asking about company names, market stocks and other world news which were not familiar to my ears. So what happened was either I answered wrongly or I just kept quiet coz I didn’t know what to answer. Plus, I made a bad first impression by accidentally threw the attendance form to her table. I thought it would land smoothly!!! But no. Sigh. She was like ‘You know it’s quite rude to throw like that’ with her mic on. *Embarrassed*

I need to watch 90210 and play the electone to get over of what happened today.

xo, Jo

Strap It

Hey, beautiful people! How’s your weekend going?? I hope it’s great coz mine is pretty awesome! ;)

So here is another piece of clothing that had the similar story with the pants I reformed. I found a defect on its neckline and it frustrated me quite much! I tried to accessorize every time I wore it but I never got fully satisfied.

Sooo, I found these bra straps (lol) that I don’t remember why I bought them. I cut the adjustment clips (or whatever it’s called) so they became just like normal elastic strips. I sewed them along the neckline to ensure that the defect would be perfectly invisible and tied them together into a bow!

 

I’ll probably wear it tomorrow on the Degree orientation day! :)

Thanks a lot to Jennifer for passing me this award! :D

I felt pretty bad accepting this award since I don’t do outfit posts lately but I promise I’ll catch up! It’s just that I like to post more DIYs these days heehee.

Later!

xo, Jo

Shorty Like Mine

Few days ago I “modified” my pants from Island Shop that I got quite long ago. I wasn’t that satisfied after trying them at home since I got them in a sales rack battling with hundreds of hands digging (ok maybe not hundreds but you know what I mean). The material is very comfortable, it feels like you’re not wearing anything! Hahaa..well, it IS thin, so I had to wear biker-shorts-like underneath. They have been worn once only and to be honest, my butt looks twice bigger than it is on them (while it’s already super big in real size) and the pants length just makes me look even shorter. Not to mention my funny face in this picture. Wow, how perfect is that.So I decided to cut them into shorts, so I can wear them with tights (in hope they’d look better on me after). I changed the position of the buttons and I think they looked cuter that way. Oh, and this was done without involving a sewing machine (coz I don’t have it here) and with full of pauses in the process (mostly due to watching youtube videos!) so it took me 2 days to finish them haha.

“Why are you posting this by the way? It’s such a simple thing people can do!”

Well, because this is the only piece so far that turned out pretty successful after having it chopped and stitched without my mom’s advice so I’m quite proud of that. She normally advises me for taking whatever I wanna change to the tailor ;)

Till next timeee!

xo, Jo