Makeup Review: Benefit Dallas Lip Gloss

I got Benefit Dallas Lip Gloss from a friend for my birthday. It was a touching gesture from her because I did not know her very well, yet she got me something that she liked and wanted to  recommend it to me.

I highly recommend this lip gloss on a couple of pretexts:

1) I do not wear any lip products at all. I buy lipsticks, gloss and tinted balms because of their pretty colours and I always tell myself that I will wear some lipstick, but that never happens. I put on a new lipstick for a couple of days and it will be back in my makeup box, the deep end where I do not remember. 

2) I hate the sticky feeling lip gloss gives. Every time I put on a lipgloss, my hair blows and it gets stuck onto my lips, this irritates me a lot because I don't like my lip gloss to be messed up and I don't like my hair having the sticky feeling the lip gloss gives.

3) It always goes away. I get discourage when I wear lipstick because it always goes away after a while. It will disappear and then I have to reapply it again and I hate carrying my makeup around in my purse. However because lipstick is like this, I make an exception for it.

4) I get conscious when I eat it or drink it. I know other women might see their lipstick stain as a sort of claim and mark. When I see it, I think about the fact that I might be eating or drinking my lipstick and that makes me uncomfortable.

So with all my apprehensions about lipstick/gloss/stains, I gave this particular lip gloss a shot, simply because my friend recommended it saying that it is not sticky and is much more moisturising, like oil.

Well we eat fried stuff all the time and oil always gets on our lips, so really, I rather have oil on my lips than sticky gloss. Gave the lipgloss a shot and it works like a charm, it is really the first non sticky lipgloss, genuinely feels like a gloss with added colour on it.

I give this a 4.5/5. the missing 0.5 is due to durability, just like every other lip product, I have to reapply, but if the gloss is that comfortable, reapplying is that bad. Perhaps one day when the perfect lip products appear, this will be kicked out of my top favour, but until then, I am sticking with Benefit Dallas Lip Gloss... and maybe Mac Viva Glam V!

The Easter Reminder

I have been working as a writer for a magazine and when you write in office, sometimes it is tiring to write at home. However I am always reminded of God's goodness and that compels me to write, because I have to give him the glory he deserves.

On the 7 April this year, it will be my 4th year since I received my Driving Licence. These 4 years have fly by, I have not gotten a bad record in Singapore, however I had my fair share of driving excitement in the USA. Every time I look back at my driving experiences, I know that God's hand has been in every single trip. I have had my near accidents experience but have maintain a clean record in Singapore. Getting my driving licence was one of the situation in which god met me at where I was.

I am part of the Comfort Delgro Driving Centre (CDC) group students. I started taking my driving in the start of 2011, I have renewed my membership once and my Provisional Driving Licence (PDL) 3 times. I had 67 100 minute lessons before I passed and I passed on the second try. For the record, I took manual and am a proud owner of a Class 3 licence. My journey to get this licence was one of humility, hard work and blessing.

I started out in CDC as a common pool student, the scenario where you fight with 1000 other students for measly number of slots. At that point, I put in the exact amount of money required to take a couple of classes. I did not think long term and had booked a few classes at one go, I was not consistent in my booking and hence only had classes at the end of each month. Essentially I was taking classes on week 3 and 4 of each month, putting 2 weeks of break between classes. This caused a lack of consistent practice and my skills were not smooth. After daddling for at least 20-30 classes, I decided to move on to OneTeam, where I could book more consistent classes and started having consistent classes. However due to the bad habits I developed through my initial lessons, my teachers spent a lot of time breaking these habits, after which they had to inculcate all the proper habits and that took a long time. 

During my first exam, I was so nervous about the yellow lights that I step into the yellow box and had an immediate fail, I was so upset about my fail but I had to continue and push for my second test. During my second test, my tester was a little kinder and I picked the last slot of the day. Despite the traffic on the road, it gave me the opportunity to be slower and that helped me. After getting my test results, I passed with 16 points (18 points is pass while 20 points is fail). When I look carefully at my test results, I calculated my total points to be 20 (which mean I would have failed), however I had 4 points of exemption. At that point, a still small voice said "That is grace". I believe that was the holy spirit sharing with me what the grace of god is; something you don't deserver but given.  And this great reminder came just one day before Good Friday. If I did not have the exemption, I would have failed and had to take the test a 3rd time, but his grace has been sufficient for me. Every time I share my experience, I know that it is a testimony to God's goodness.