Do you remember how our parents and grandparents used to say that fruits and veggies are good for you when we were kids and how our nannies/babysitters used to force us to eat them? Well, it took me 30 years to actually realize what they were saying was true. Tee hee. My skin broke out so bad lately due to PMS and eating...

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I love challenges. It's part of what makes life worth living. It's exciting and you can get creative juices flowing plenty. So when +human heart nature announced their 7-Day challenge and called out to every Filipina to be part of it, I was definitely in before one can say, "Pro-Philippines, Pro-Poor, Pro-Environment"! I dared myself to cook all Filipino meals for the entire week. I...

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The best part of becoming a VIP at SampleRoom PH is that I was able to grab the complete sampler set of Shiseido's latest skincare line, IBUKI, designed for women of the Millenials whose lifestyle is pretty much like mine. So here's the story of my life right now. I am a medical transcription editor and a writer for various publications who maintains...

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The main problem with bleaching dark hair is the brassiness. See my previous post. It takes a lot of sessions to get to that ideal pale light yellow color. It's a bit of a hassle but once you know what products to use and how to maintain your hair, it's really not a big issue at all. It just suxxx that we don't...

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Apparently I haven't been buying gadgets or reviewing any in the recent months. I can't even remember my last consumer electronics splurge; though if my memory serves me correctly it's been a year since I bought my Panasonic Lumix LX7. That's life, I guess. Change of priorities. Then I just started to become a beauty blogger, too. Recently though I was tasked to...

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I walk barefoot. A lot. Especially when I became pregnant 2 years ago and my foot size magically increased whereby rendering all my flipflops and shoes unusable. Okay, I still wear some of them but majority are now a size smaller. Ugh. Remember my huge Havaianas sacrifice sale? So anyway, my happy feet are not so happy anymore because now it gets super...

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Today I received quite an awesome and totally unexpected grand surprise from Cetaphil Philippines. I happened to start using Cetaphil in 2011 when the NoodleLito's pedia prescribed it to treat his skin allergies because I also found it beneficial for my skin. Then I won even more products from Cetaphil's social media promo earlier this year. So basically I've been using this for...

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