Benefit Agent Zero Shine Workshop with Nikki Tiu of Askmewhats

Last Saturday I attended the Benefit Agent Zero Shine beauty workshop. It required a reservation for a slot prior to the event, and knowing that it will a free afternoon for me that day, I decided to reserve for a slot.

But I found myself rushing through various errands the morning before, even though I had everything laid out the night before that. No big deal -- until I realized it was already 11:30 and I still have to commute my way to Shang!

*But then commuting is my way of life, so who am I kidding?*

While waiting for the workshop to start at the Benefit counter. See that girl in blue on the left side? That's Nikki!

Selfie time while waiting.. *dang, I forgot to apply hair serum after parting my hair!*

It was around 1:23PM when I arrived at Rustan's Shangri-la, and Nikki Tiu of Askmewhats is already there. Starstruck was an understatement -- I was pretty lost for words when I saw her at the Benefit counter.

*Because it's one of my favorite beauty bloggers in the flesh, yo!*

Nikki doing her magic on model Tasha while teaching tricks how to do the same on our own!

And she turns out to be one of the best beauty teachers around as she dishes out tips and tricks to achieve that 'date look' for Valentines' Day, like layering on products to create your own color, mixing some products to save time, the proper way to apply foundation (brush downwards, always!) and the trick to make eyes pop while using just one product (will gonna try applying eyeliner on my upper waterline though I'm scared that I might poke into my eyes while doing that).

A few minutes after the workshop has started, Nikki's hubby Keith and their son Kyle Nash made an appearance. Baby AMW is too cute for words! Too bad I wasn't able to take a photo of them.. *bummer*

Photo op with me and Nikki!

And it was so gracious of her to have a picture taken with her. Tasha was also gracious for holding the tablet to take this photo of me and Nikki (yes, I used my Note 8 to take all the photos in this post).

I really hope I could get myself into more events like this one, as I'm learning new things from people who are in the know; and for a budding makeup maven like me, that means a whole lot!

Wazzup With Meh?

My answer? Nothing much, thank you.

I've been thinking about updating my blog, because when you come to think about it, my latest blog entry was a late one - it's supposed to be posted the day after, but it took some time out before I finally posted them. Going back, I really feel disorganized, probably because of the stress brought about by graveyard shift, that I can't seem to arrange my thoughts good enough for a half-decent blog entry.

So to make it up to the lost time, I'll just make a rundown na lang siguro...

• There was nothing much last V-Day for me and my boyfriend, primarily because of his sickness (more of that later). But even though, he still made an effort to meet me at Gateway. We just ordered pizza (buy one take one, mind you) and ate one of them at the food court (I took the other one to the office, where I treated my shiftmates to a pizza). Highlight of the night? He gave me a single-stem tulip!
• Boyfie has been suffering from mild asthma since the first week of February. It all started when he cleaned their house in time for his family's arrival, but the next day, he is going down with fever, so bad that he was not around for two days. The following week, he came to class coughing every now and then, that he has to be looked after everytime we're together. I really don't mind at all, but I really can't help feeling pity towards him. I mean, he should have been resting the whole time, but he still chose to go to school just so he does not miss the classes. Poor boy...
• I missed the Taylor Swift concert! Primarily because I don't have the dough to buy the tickets... So sad... :(