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Christmas Dinner and Kris Kringle

28 Wednesday Dec 2011

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Every year, my closest friends and I come together for a fun Christmas dinner and exchange our Kris Kringle presents. This year, we decided to have our dinner at Dragon Boat Chinese Restaurant.

For this year’s Christmas look, I decided to go for a gold and coral colour combination. I used shades of gold and apricot eyeshadow on my eyes and a pair of natural false eyelashes. I then applied some bronzer and a bold coral lipstick to finish off the look.

I had to rush to do my makeup because I had work till 5pm that day and I would have blended the colours much better if I had more time :(

My hairstyle is the same as the one I showed in my plummy silver holiday makeup look except I used a gold hairpiece instead, also $1 from The Reject Shop.

For my outfit, I wore a coral maxi dress from FEMME Connection, which has gorgeous lace detail all down the back. I accessorised with an adorable necklace of little birds perched on a tree branch.




At Dragon Boat Chinese Restaurant, we decided to have the 9-course dinner banquet. For the entree, we had spring rolls, prawn toast, stir fried scallops, Peking duck wraps and sweet corn soup.




Already starting to feel full from the numerous entree dishes, the mains followed with special fried rice, garlic prawns, black pepper beef and lemon chicken. The black pepper in the beef tasted too strong for our liking but everything else was delicious!

We finished off our huge meal with mango pudding topped with vanilla ice-cream. The pudding wasn’t great as the texture was too soft.



A few photos of my friends and I at the restaurant, including Daniel from DanTayTV!

After dinner, my friends and I gathered outside the restaurant to exchange our Kris Kringle presents. A few months earlier, we drew the name of our Kris Kringle and we have been bursting to find out who everyone got!



My Kris Kringle present was beautifully wrapped in silver wrapping and bow. When I opened it, it revealed to be Justin Bieber The One Less Lonely Girl nail polish collection from Nicole by O.P.I! It contains four mini nail polishes in two purple shades, one silver shade and one purple glitter. I immediately knew it was from my friend Allan because we often joke about Justin Bieber :P

I also received a surprise pressie from Daniel, which turned out to be a personalised can of Coke from the ‘Share a Coke with’ campaign! Woohoo thank you!

Overall, I had a wonderful night celebrating with my group of best friends and I really felt the joy of Christmas :)

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas with the ones you love and that Santa gave you all that you wished for!

- Miss Pixie Lulu

My 6 Year Anniversary

10 Monday Oct 2011

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A couple of weeks ago, my boyfriend James and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary ♥



Source: Laura Mercier

I had an 8-hour shift during the day and had to rush home to change, do my hair and makeup and rush to the city. I was wearing my L’Oreal Infallible foundation all day and is truly is a long-lasting foundation, I didn’t even have to touch it up! It’s not my HG foundation for nothin’!

I went for a soft pink and purple look using the gorgeous Laura Mercier Silk Road Palette (above) which was given to me by Adore Beauty (Click here to watch my review). I used all the eyeshadow shades, as well as the blush and highlighter to achieve this look. I finished off with a pair of natural lashes and a pearly pink lipstick.

For my hair, I tied it into a loose bun at the side of my head and used alot of bobby pins to hold down the loose ends.

I wore a one-shoulder magenta dress from ‘Forever 21′, kindly given to me by my friend Vivian. I love dresses with ruffles, it’s very feminine and romantic. Because it’s a bold coloured dress, I went with cream coloured accessories and shoes for a bit of contrast.

James surprised me by sending a dozen roses to my work. They were beautiful and put a smile on my face for the whole day :)

That night, we went to dinner at ‘Comme’, a French-style restaurant in the CBD. It’s nestled in an alleyway and the interior is intimate, stylish and relaxed.

After we ordered, we were given a bowl of freshly sliced baguette with butter. The bread was crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside and the butter was so deliciously soft and creamy (never thought I’d rave about butter haha!).

For my entree, I picked a scallop and crab boudin blanc, veloute of fennel, young chervil. A boudin blanc is a ‘white sausage’ and it was my first time trying it (surprisingly, I knew what it was cos I watched too much ‘MasterChef’ lol). The texture is very soft and it almost melts in your mouth and it was accompanied perfectly by the veloute of fennel (a French sauce). Overall, it was a very light and refreshing dish.


For my main, I chose the Otway pork – lightly cured scotch and belly, grilled fennel, tomato gratinee and pernod. We also got ‘pomme frites’ on the side, which turned out to be French fries lol! It came with a mustard mayo dip.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the tomato gratinee (too mushy!) or the toasted fennel, but I enjoyed the pork immensely. The belly was tender and succulent and the scotch was full of flavour.

Because we were both so full from our meal, we decided to each have a plate of petite fours for dessert :) Our plate consisted of caramel slice, orange cake, chocolate and coconut marshmallow and lavender macaroon.

This dinner was a wonderful way to celebrate our 6 years together. In those 6 years, we have matured from teenagers to adults and we both have shaped each other to who we are today.

He is not just my boyfriend, he is also my best friend :)

- Miss Pixie Lulu

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