Goals And Resolutions For 2017

Goals And Resolutions For 2017

Personal Cosmetopia Digest   Monday, January 02, 2017

Happy New Year! I hope you and your loved ones have had a great Holiday season, wherever you are around the world. I also wish each of you a very fruitful and prosperous 2017!
2016 was one of the three worst years of my life. I spent the first few months hiding at my parents' place, not even stepping out to sign for packages, with my face ravaged by a terrible breakout. Things began looking up from the mid-year, and I am due to start subcision for the scars from January 18.
For 2017, my goals are as follows:

Personalised Blog, Life and Work Planners for 2016

Personalised Blog, Life and Work Planners for 2016

Planner Cosmetopia Digest   Sunday, January 24, 2016

Have you got your planners for 2016?  I ordered mine a few months ago. As soon as I learned to write, I had begun keeping a daily diary and had wall-planners from my high school days, but swapped both diary and wall-planner for a planner notebook two years ago.
I patronised boringly respectable, dour business organiser-style planners, but decided to go in for something more fun this year. But you cannot take the nerd out of me at one go, so I got two planners from personal-planner.com - a formal planner, and a somewhat more fun planner for the blog.

Scroll down to check out these personalised year planners for 2016 and where you can buy them.

Blog Planner Giveaway Results

Blog Planner Giveaway Results

Planner Cosmetopia Digest   Wednesday, December 23, 2015

One more week till the year ends. The good news is, this blog will be celebrating its third birthday in three weeks' time. And yes, there will be more than one multiple-prize makeup giveaway to mark the milestone. Along with another beauty-history post.
Just to make something clear - I will be posting the planner ONLY after the 28th, because of the Holidays. Even so, I highly recommend posting after Jan 1st, to avoid being caught in the backlog of Holiday post.
But first, the winner's name.

My Experience At The LuLu Beauty Fest

My Experience At The LuLu Beauty Fest

Lifestyle Cosmetopia Digest   Sunday, November 29, 2015

On Black Friday, I had the opportunity to attend a blogger event when I was invited to the inaugural LuLu Beauty Fest, featuring more than 100 beauty brands. The event was held at LuLu, the largest shopping mall in South Asia (LuLu Group are a leading department store chain based in Abu Dhabi). The Beauty Fest runs from November 27 till December 6 and will be an annual event.
Brands in attendance included Shiseido, Clarins, The Body Shop, Yves Rocher, Toni & Guy, Elizabeth Arden, Hugo Boss, Vaseline and drugstore names such as Olay, Vaseline, Nivea and so on. 
Scroll down for more deets on the LuLu Beauty Fest.

Daily Planner Giveaway: Open Worldwide

Daily Planner Giveaway: Open Worldwide

Planner Cosmetopia Digest   Monday, November 23, 2015

As 2015 draws to a close, you must be thinking about getting your 2016 diary, planner and so on. I usually receive formal corporate ones.
For newbies, or fans of basic planners, here is your chance to win a daily planner for yourself. This is not a custom planner, and is rather basic, but it is a good way of staying organised through the year. The giveaway is open worldwide, although I cannot guarantee delivery before the New Year, due to postal delays. 
Despite the title of "Blog On", you will notice from further pictures below that the planner is not intended for just bloggers, but for anyone at all! This is sold by Amazon and you can read reviews/get more information here.  

Scroll down for more photos, rules and to enter the planner giveaway.

Petition to Memebox to restore shipping worldwide

Petition to Memebox to restore shipping worldwide

Petition Cosmetopia Digest   Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Dear reader (yes, you),
You have been a huge source of support and inspiration for my blog, and now I need your assistance to get our collective hands on a beauty box. I'll tell you how you alone can help me out.
Since mid-2013, My Beauty Junction has been a blog devoted especially to finding beauty boxes that ship worldwide. You can see my unboxing posts and beauty box reviews here.
Some of you must have read my posts on Memebox, a Korean beauty box that offers great value for money. You are looking at previous Memebox photos in this post.
My blog has sent them several customers from within and outside my country, and more than 60 boxes have been pre-ordered by customers from my country alone (that I know of, lol). There has been neither postal delay nor customs hassle till date, as far as Memebox delivery is concerned.
On March 31, Memebox stopped shipping worldwide, and restricted themselves to the US, Japan and Canada. I received this news with disappointment, but Memebox promised to ship worldwide again soon.
Read on to find out what went wrong.