Midsummer Playlist 2014

Heya! Thought I'd mix my content up and share with you some songs I've been jamming to ever since summer has started! Lots of these are oldies but are still definitely good! If y'all don't know- my taste in music definitely ranges. I'm into just about everything with a few exceptions here and there. If you have any suggestions as to what I should be listening to, leave them done below and we can definitely swap favourite songs and artists! Click to listen!

• 1901 - Phoenix 
• Alive - Empire of the Sun 
• Wasted (ft. Matthew Koma) -Tiesto 
• Carried Away (Tiesto Remix) - Passion Pit
• No Faith in Brooklyn (ft. Jhameel) - Hoodie Allen
• Mason Jar - Smallpools
• Sleeping with a Friend - Neon Trees
• Dreaming - Smallpools
• Changing of the Seasons - Two Door Cinema Club
• Riptide (Flicflac edit) - Vance Joy
• Shiver Shiver - Walk the Moon 
• Riptide - Walk the Moon 
• Girls - The 1975
• We Come Running - Youngblood Hawke
• & quite possibly my fave, Resting Stone - Jhameel 

Korean Cosmetics Haul: Nature Republic & Tony Moly

Hi everyone! I'm back from my little trip to Honolulu and even though I had a great and relaxing time on the beaches and soaking up the sun, I'm super glad to be back home. I've been meaning to get this haul up for a few days now, but the weather has been weird here so the natural lighting that I use in my photographs are off. Today was not different, but I was getting annoyed and impatient and thought whatever; it's just a haul anyways. 

While I was in Hawaii I had the opportunity to shop in both Nature Republic and Tony Moly stores! This was honestly such a treat to me since I do 99% of my Korean cosmetic shopping online or in the 2 The Face Shop stores I have here. I had the chance to visit Tony Moly once on my 7 day trip but I got to visit Nature Republic a few times more.. hence why this haul is basically me throwing all of my American cash at them and their products. Plus, I don't know about you guys but I find shopping for Nature Republic online is quite difficult, as the online store I frequent don't carry a lot or any product of the brand. 

WELLLLLLL- here we go then! 

Review: Aritaum Full Cover Liquid Concealer 02 Natural Beige

Hi everyone! Today I'll be reviewing one of the three concealers that's a part of Aritaum's Full Cover line up. This line captured my attention through a Youtube video I saw of a girl with troubled skin demonstrating this line's capabilities through the Full Cover BB. The Full Cover line not only includes 3 different concealers and a BB cream, but also a finishing spray; all which can be purchased here.

Wednesday's Wishlist: #2 Hawaii Edition

As you all should know, I'm headed to Hawaii tomorrow! This will be my first time going and I can honestly say I haven't been this excited for anything in a really long time now. I can't wait to see and be on a real beach and smell the ocean and be in the waters and just experience something new for 7 whole days. Travelling excites me like nothing else and I'm so happy that I'm able to do this trip with my loved ones. Anyways, today's wishlist will be a little different because it's what I want to see/do/buy while visiting Honolulu :)

1. Experience aquatic life  - I've always heard about people talking about snorkeling or scuba diving and coming to see underwater life like turtles and tropical fish and that would probably be one of the weirdest and most OMG memories ever.

2. Tan- or not tan, but mostly be on the beach - Beach life just seems so weird and unreal to me because well, I've never been to one or seen one in person, well, not a tropical one at least. The pictures of beaches I've seen are all so beautiful and relaxed looking so being a beach bum is FOR SURE something I'll be doing in this next week :)

3. EAT TONS - Not that I don't already.. but vacationing for my family always means eating out- and eating food that we wouldn't normally experience. Coming from an unadventurous Chinese family, eating different ethnic foods out of the Asian range is something we normally don't do so going on vacations is always something I look forward to because I get to eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat and eat and eat and then come home and feel semi bad about it haha! I seriously cannot wait to have seafood though. And KBBQ, because I've heard that there's lots of  that down there!

4. Visit Tony Moly + Nature Republic - This is seriously one of the things that absolutely HAVE to be done within this next week. Once I learned that there are physical TM and NR stores in Honolulu and I nearly died. Plus, I'm totally digging that everything is within walking distance in and around Waikiki. Love love love love love love it! And then I can't wait to pick up goodies and bring em home and share them all with you!

5. Visit China/Korea/Japan/Any sort of Asian Town - This has also kind of become a tradition with me and my family whenever we visit a new city- we always like to scope out other Asian communities. My mom is super excited about this because of all the markets and the fruits that will be sold at hopefully good prices. I'm personally excited for all of the food, but hey!

6. Do some shopping - I'm definitely planning on visiting the Ala Moana shopping centre and the Waikele outlets.. I mean, 7 days in Hawaii... you'd have to be surprised if I didn't shop for at least 24 hours of the 168 that I'll be on American soil.

7. Do some type of water sport - Whether that be surfing or parasailing or anything really.. I'm just excited to be out in the water!

Anyways! That's all for today and I probably won't be able to sleep at all tonight because 1) I'll be too excited and 2) I have a super early flight. The next time you'll be hearing from I'll definitely be tanner and probably weigh quite a bit more too!

Thanks for reading and until next time!

xoxoxooxoxoxox Cat

Week #2 Essentials

Heya! This week's list of essentials will be super short and sweet. I've mostly been at home and relaxing since last week was pretty hectic for me, hence why I didn't do any blogging. I apologize!

Anyways! As you can see, my week mainly consisted of work out essentials. I've been really slacking with exercise ever since I stopped dancing and I've seriously been noticing a difference with my body  and how sluggish I've been feeling. It's definitely hard to get back on track after taking a long break from things but I'm super determined this summer to change my ways and hopefully get back to where I used to be.