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Hello everyone!

Here’s wishing you a very Happy Chinese New Year!

May you all have a wonderful, prosperous, healthy, wealthy and happy year of the water snake…Huat ah!!! 😀

I hope you’re all having a wonderful New Year so far. The public holidays are definitely awesome and I’m having such a wonderful break doing absolutely zero work, stuffing my face with goodies and visiting my friends and loved ones. I know I haven’t been very active on my blog. I’m a lot more active and current on Instagram, so you can hit me up for ‘live’ updates and more! Do say ‘hi’ there! 🙂

Here’s my lovely family with our only grandparent left. Grandpa is 97 years old and still going strong. This CNY has been pretty low for our family as our maternal grandparents left us recently and this is the first CNY without them. We’re missing them so much and are missing their handmade ‘ngoh hiangs’, home-cooked curry and massive steamboat affair that we had every year. We hope you’re both in a happy place looking out for each other and watching over us!

Here’s my sister. 🙂

Little neice, Ashley (photo bombed by my Dad and Uncle).

#OOTDs

Pink Flare’s drop-waist dress for reunion dinner and leopard print pony hair wedges from Pedder Red.

Details.

Pink Flare’s Korean Fever Dress for CNY Day 1. I love the checkered prints and asymmetrical hemline on this piece.

It’s almost a month after my birthday, and I’m still celebrating. Lucky me. 🙂 I’m sharing the cake with Penny, also a birthday girl.

The must-have ‘lucky’ yu-sheng. Huat everyone!!

Not sure if you guys noticed, but I had a hair-cut/colour and changed my hair’s parting to the centre before the CNY. I’ve been meaning to try a centre part and colour my hair for the longest time and Serene (from Chez Vous Salon) did a wonderful job. So happy!

Here’s the process of getting my hair coloured and cut.

I got a light brown colour done with subtle undertone highlights. I love love love the colour (and cut)!

After:

Love that my hair is still soft and smooth after the colour. Serene did a quick colour treatment after the dyeing to seal the colour and condition the hair. Serene really understands my hair and gives me the best possible treatments and cuts so that I can maintain it daily. There’s no point in only having gorgeous locks when you walk out of the salon and having a nightmare to maintain it daily. I have natural curls in my hair, so I can’t have too many layers done or it’ll get really messy. So Serene gives me straight cuts with a wee bit of layers at the ends to show the undertone highlights. Mad props to her!

Colour Extend shampoo from Redken for luscious locks and to maintain the colour. 🙂

Here’s how to look for Serene at Chez Vous for awesome hair:

Tel:

6732 9388/ 6732 9468

Add:

Chez Vous

391 Orchard Road

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Ngee Ann City Podium

www.salonvimbychezvous.com.sg

xoxo

Last Wednesday, I went excitedly to Chez Vous Salon at Ngee Ann City to get my hair fixed. By fix, I mean to get my hair from frizzy, unmanageable and unruly to soft, silky, luscious and manageable hair…all in a span of 3 hours.

Some background about my hair, I’ve always had rather frizzy, unmanageable hair. Hair treatments, spas and even the best shampoos have never quite worked to tame my unruly mane. I’ve always relied mostly on re-bonding to keep it in shape, but have never liked how flat and shapeless my hair becomes after a re-bonding session.

So here comes Chez Vous to the rescue. They told me about this treatment called, ‘Keratin’ that injects all sorts of goodness into the hair strands (keratin, amino acids + omega 6 and 9) to treat and re-store hair to its natural luscious condition. Whee! I couldn’t wait to try.

Hair Before:

See all the frizzy bits sticking out at the top?

Strange curly kink on the top right side of my hair.

Keratin Treatment Step 1:

Wash with Keratin shampoo and leave to set for 10-15 mins. Ed, the hairstylist assistant propped my head up on the sink with a ‘pillow’ so it wasn’t uncomfortable to lie at the sink for so long. I have to mention that the head massage after to wash off the shampoo was awesome!

Keratin Treatment Step 2:

Keratin application. That’s a TV in-front of me by the way. What a clever idea for salon patrons to kill time between treatments, hair dyeing and such.

Keratin Treatment Step 3:

Set the hair under the O3 machine for 10 mins.

Keratin Treatment Step 4+5 (final):

Dry and crimp.

Can you see how straight, smooth and glossy my hair is already? 😀

Hair After:

Super happy with the results. My hair has zero frizziness, is super glossy, shiny and luscious! I never thought that I’ll be able to use the word ‘luscious’ to describe my hair. 🙂

Here’s a close up shot whilst my hairstylist, Serene is cutting my hair. I snipped off about 2 inches.

Meet Serene, the stylist behind my now gorgeous locks. I’m usually very fussy about hair cuts and get really worried when I work with new stylists, but I have to say that I’m super happy with the results post treatment and cut. 🙂 Thank you Serene!! Did I also mention that Serene and Ed stayed almost 2 hours past closing time just to work on my hair? What superb service Chez Vous has got. I felt so so bad having them stay late.

Ta-dah! Meet the happy trooper with gorgeous hair. 🙂

The lovely people at Chez Vous also passed me a post-Keratin treatment care set complete with Shampoo, Conditioner and leave-in oil.

The Keratin oil is infused with argan oil. I’ve always heard good things about argan oil for hair. Can’t wait to try!

This is my hair, 3 days post treatment and cut. I’m loving it! I don’t even comb my hair when I get up these days and it falls nicely into shape…without being too flat. I’m a complete Keratin and Chez Vous convert.

Want luscious locks too? Look for:

Serene

Tel:

6732 9388/ 6732 9468

Add:

Chez Vous

391 Orchard Road

#05-05

Ngee Ann City Podium

www.salonvimbychezvous.com.sg

Have a lovely week ahead everyone! xoxo

(Pink Flare Love Child Aztec Tube, Pink Flare shorts, Givenchy bag)

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