How to Enjoy NYE at Home

There is nothing embarrassing with admitting that you are spending your New Year's Eve at home, away from the jubilant voice of party and cracking fireworks. After all, there is no place like home, right? Due to work, I'm not able to join the rest of my family in their exciting trip to Turkey. Luckily, I won't be alone at home, my dear sister is also stuck here for exams (#thejoyandsorrowofmedstudent). We already have a couple of things that we'd do together to celebrate NYE.

Baking and Cooking; My sister is currently in a phase when she is conscious of everything she eats, a phase I went back when I was around her age. She's been interested in cooking and baking lately. I haven't been able to rekindle my passion for baking despite the many attempts I made this year. Figure this will be a great chance, I'm thinking something along the line of Hummingbird Bakery Chocolate Brownies or Peanut Butter Cookies. By the way, can you believe that this will be the first time we whip up something together in the kitchen?

At Home Concert/Cinema; even if you don't have impressive home theater, you can still enjoy the euphoria of your favorite concert/film just with your PC and great quality headphones. Turn off the room light, switch on my turquoise ligh-stick, and I'm ready to relive my SHINee World Concert experience.

Lit the candles; get the celebration mood by doing the most simple thing you can do; light up the candles, turn up the fairy lights. Not only it will fill your house with the most heavenly scent, right candle and lighting can set up a right celebratory ambience.

Early morning shopping; which includes shopping for your dinner ingredients. I found shopping at December 31st morning gives me the craziest of deal. Who doesn't love 50% of Hershey chocolates and big jar of Nutella, seriously? While you're at it, visit your favorite makeup counter or retail store, you might find the item in your wish-list to be at its lowest price.

Clean and declutter; use this last chance to do the yearly clean up you always promised you'd do but never did. I've did another wardrobe clean up early this month, and it's more merciless than the one I did back in July. I ended up with two huge shopping bags; one to donate and one to sell.

How do you spend your new year's eve at home? and Happy New Year!

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The Best Makeup Edit 2016

With the end of the year approaching, posts about yearly favorites are popping here and there. Just like NYE itself, it's a tradition. I use this chance to look back and see what products did I love this year. Though my focus was more on skincare throughout 2016, I got myself some lovely makeup bits that I absolutely adore. Even if my makeup stash is considerably small, to keep things simple, I'm excluding products that I bought last year.

I finally tried Nars for the first time this year, and I'm incredibly smitten. My base favorites are two items from Nars. Their Velvet Matte Skin Tint and Contour Kit have been a firm staple in my routine since July. Both are light-weight and looks like real skin, especially the skin tint. The contour kit can double up as blusher since it has slight rose-tint to it, very handy when I was feeling lazy.

I got another chance to nab some Jill Stuart item this year. While not all of their items are stellar in term of performance, I cannot deny the quality of their best selling item; the blusher. With build-able pigmentation and finely milled shimmer, this blush gives my cheeks a very radiant, flushing cheeks. Their nail polishes are also in top tier quality. They're priced roughly around the same of Essie nail polishes, but with even more elaborate packaging.

For the eye department, I'm sure if you're a regular reader, you would know how inescapably in love I am with Burberry Eye Color, they make great eyeshadow as well as highlighter. Kiko wow-ed me with their highly coveted eyeshadow stick which was my on-the-go eyes for busy morning, they apply and wear like dream.

For my first foray into the world of eyebrows, I trusted Bobbi Brown Natural Brow Shaper, it's a life-saver for brow-noob like me for its effortless application. Mascara is not an obligatory for my everyday makeup so I only picked one from Majolica Majorca this year. MajoMajo lives up to its name for being one of the best drugstore mascara in the market, this one instantly lifts and curl, while lengthening my lashes at the same time.

For lips, Clinique Pop Lips had taken over the last quarter of the year. Not only creamy, this lipstick is incredibly long-lasting and comfortable to wear. Lush Lip Scrubs are one 'blogger-made-me-buy-it' product, and I'm not disappointed! I can see why people love this delicious lip scrub, it thoroughly removes the unflattering flakes from my lips.

What have been your favorite beauty products this 2016?

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Festive Room Details

It's getting closer to the peak of this season. Everything is decorated with red and gold, a touch of green and some silver glitter there. Seasonal menus and red cups have become my morning routine as of late (Toasted Graham Latte and Shepperd Pie are personal favorite!). While I'm not celebrating christmas, there is nothing wrong with transferring the uplifting mood to my room when I spend majority of my time this December (#homebody).

What is best to describe festive mood than gold? Still following the latest trend, I've been adding a touch of rose and gold to my room for past 4 months or so. Small and dainty trinkets like jewelries are not only good for props but also for home decor. My favorite includes this bird hair pin from Zara. I arranged it on my necklace hanger so it looks like it perches on there.

Whilst Star and Moon accessories‎ have been popular for these past couple months, I've always been obsessed with celestial objects (hence the name of my blog). It was a blessing when they started showing up everywhere. Stradivarius is not only my favorite place to pick up apparels, but also accessories. These set of rings and bracelets come in handy for party occasion, but also gives a touch of bling in the corner of my room.

I picked up this rose-gold shell plate and copper basket from Zara Home, and I've been smitten with them ever since. Most of my jewelries now sit there, while the copper basket has been utilized to store my hair products and hair pins. I hope I'm not the only one who thinks makeup brushes are great decoration. It is probably one of the reason why I'm so obsessed with Zoeva Rose Golden Brushes Set. Also, this sunglasses from Forever 21 makes a great center piece on top of my book shelves.

Lastly on top of my bed, I have this cork board with World Trigger Rubber Straps and favorite characters acrylic keychains. I think the best way to make use of these kind of things is to make them as room decor, they're colorful so they give my room a nice pop of color. Below, I hang the photo stickers I took while I was in Japan. Most of them were taken back in 2013 and some from my recent trips this summer.

How do you decor your room in this festive season?

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