February 13, 2013

Future Reviews

For those of you wondering why I don't review my Topbox/Glymm box items as soon as I recieve them, it's because I've made a rule for myself to minimize clutter on my bathroom counter. I only open one or two of an item category at a time (ie. only 2 moisturizers being used at a time) and I don't open anything new until I've finished something. This was after my mascara incident where I had 10 tubes open, but barely used and had to throw away most due to expiry. That being said, I've been racking up more and more stuff at a much faster pace than I can use. I also buy a lot of things to try (especially after my trip to Taiwan).

For an idea of just how much stuff I'm talking about... here is proof:

I am slightly ashamed by this. Makeup hoarding?

As you can see there's still a lot of stuff for me to get to. Some of the above items are backups of stuff I already love too. I probably won't review them all, just the ones that really wow me or irk me lol. I'm very excited to start using the ZA stuff! I have the 2-way face powders, wide eyes mascara, and three moisturizers (a gel, a cream, and a spray one). Also not pictured are about 15 boxes of sheet masks as well as a box of the acid peel for feet. 

Look forward to my future reviews, I promise they'll be posting on here frequently ;)!

February 04, 2013

January Glymm Bag Review

I got my January Glymm bag on Friday (Feb 1st) which is pretty late even for Glymm. What happened was they emailed everyone close to the 10th of January saying one item was delayed so the entire box that month would be delayed. No biggie, how nice of them to let us know right? No! No one heard anything for like weeks and even their Twitter and Facebook seemed oddly silent then out of no where they emailed a shipment notification. I heard some people didn't even get a notification and the bag just sort of popped up on their doorsteps one day. Anyways, all errors aside, here is what I got this month:


Keep reading for the full review!

January 20, 2013

Life After Grad

One of the happiest things that happened to me last August was finishing university! After 4.5 long years I managed to finish everything I set out to accomplish. Although there were many times I thought I wouldn't have the time to do it all, I managed to squeeze everything into the extra half a year and get it done x_x. Now that I'm finished, my life has been a lot different from what I was used to before.

Me and my boyfriend on graduation day :) Our squatting looks like toadstools lol.

January 19, 2013

January Topbox Review

I got my January Topbox on Thursday and was surprised to see this month's box had a Clinique theme. Don't get me wrong I'm a huge Clinique fan, but being a regular buyer of their products already I usually rack up a lot of "free gift with purchase" bags filled with deluxe samples throughout the year at the department stores. The downside of this is that this box didn't give me a lot of new things to try, but the plus side is I can provide a decent review of the products having used them for a while now.



January 11, 2013

New Year, New Blog

I finally decided to start blogging again. The last time I had an actual blog was during high school. I ended up closing it after realizing high school life was extremely uneventful to write about and all the problems I thought were "big deals" at the time were actually quite lame. For those of you who follow me on Luuux, I now blog here :)! I didn't like all the limitations on Luuux and sometimes after spending a long time on a post it would just disappear due to yet another network error. I'll try to post there from time to time still.

I initially wanted to start this blog on January 1st, but ain't nobody got time for that *insert meme here*. Lol no I kid, I was actually stumped on what to name this thing. Then it hit me... how about my name? Considering this is a personal blog about myself, it seems like the only fitting name really. So tada, welcome to Aly Wu.

I'm not huge on long introductions about what I'll be blogging about because I'll probably end up making promises I can't keep. So to avoid that I'm just going to go ahead and start blogging whatever pops into my head. I promise this will be much more organized as time progresses.

Hope you all look forward to what's coming ;D

Me and my dog Nina. You'll probably be seeing lots of her.

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