Wanna know a secret? When Scholl launched the Velvet Smooth Express Pedi Foot File a year or two ago, I was so intrigued that I kept watching Youtube video on how to use it. It’s therapeudic . The most interesting video I watched is from BeautyQQ. That little machine worked so well on her and her mum! Then last year, Scholl released a Limited Edition Velvet Smooth Express Pedi Foot File in Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I screamed. Pink is my favourite colour

Lazada Malaysia had a super-worthy-over-the-roof promotion whereas you only paid RM189 for Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi Foot File AND Kinohimitsu Collagen Diamond 5300 Drinks (50ml x 16). Mind you both of these already cost RM310.10 as normal price. My parcel reached me more than a week delay thus the late posting of this review . I am so sorry about that but do keep an eye on Lazada website. Who know they might change the pricing again for Hari Raya Promotion or any other promotion? Which I foresee they *might* . Don’t quote me

The packaging was easy to rip off, which was to my surprise and I was able to get the foot file out of the shell without any tugging war. It is a very simple hand-held device with just two item in it. The foot file itself and a plastic cover for the roller head. The overall package comes with the Electronic Foot File, a Diamond Crystals Extra Coarse Roller Head, a Cover, and four AA batteries.

Operating the Velvet Smooth Express Pedi Foot File is as easy as just a turn of the ON and OFF dial. As simple as that! No rocket science.

The roller head now are replaced with Diamond Crystals Extra Coarse. Although “extra coarse” sounds intimidating and painful, however it is not the case. It feels very comfortable on the feet actually. Before using the device, you are advised to clean both your feet and dry them up well. The device only works on hard skin on the feet therefore it can only be used on dry feet. Never ever try using it on wet feet. Work on one area at a time with not more than 3-4 seconds per area. If you keep working on the same area for a long time, you may risk having redness on your feet. So go back and forth if you needed to. You should not feel any discomfort or irritation at all. If you do, just stop using . There will be white powdery residue from the filing so do this in the open environment ya.

Lo and behold! Miss Feet aka my feet makes an appearance for the first time (I think) in this blog . Look away if you feel ticklish or having goosebumps lol.

I do not have hard skin on my feet but my feet do tend to get very dry and flaky with the hot weather.

As I am always on high heels, cracked heels is unavoidable. It gets worse with the dry weather but still, no hard skin formation thank God. My cracked heels situation is not the worse case scenario so it took me less than a minute to smooth them out. I was not able to smooth the lines away because like I said, the skin on my feet is quite thin so I do not want to risk getting my feet irritated by running the device repeatedly on the area. Once I was satisfied with the result, I stopped . I clean the foot file, wash the roller head, wash my feet and apply some foot cream. Voila! I am all done.

Are you still with me after the nasty feet photos? Yes? Good

It seems weird to see that Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi Foot File had a bundle with Kinohimitsu Collagen Diamond 5300 Drinks but it is also good as I get to try this version of collagen drink. I always believe and mentioned so many times before that besides nourishing our skin from the outside with topical skincare, we also need to take care of our skin from within. Regardless which type of product you choose, additional step to nourish our skin from the within is better than nothing.

The Kinohimitsu Collagen Diamond 5300 Drinks comes in a pack of 16 bottles. That is a whole month of supply as you only need to take one bottle every two days, before breakfast or bedtime. I like my collagen drink before bedtime as morning I would be on my usual coffee .

I remember how collagen drink used to taste fishy and not palatable at all. With the improvement year by year, collagen drink actually taste so much better now. Just like a fruit juice. This Kinohimitsu Collagen Diamond 5300 Drink is made of collagen, perilla seed extract, silk protein, soy isoflavone, and added with fruity condensed juice of apple, lemon and lychee. It is also far less sweet than every other collagen drink I have tried. I like the taste of this one better. It does not make me feel thirsty after one bottle. Best of all? No nasty fishy taste on the tongue.

This particular Collagen Diamond 5300 Drink is specifically for mature skin. That’s my skin we are talking about. It is meant to restore youthfulness, resilience and radiance as Collagen Peptide has a shorter molecular structure and easily absorbed by our skin. On a long run, it also tighten skin pore and reduce fine lines. As you may or may not know, collagen drink also strengthens our hair and nails too.

Disclaimer: Product was sent to me for review consideration. This doesn’t affect my judgement in the review in any way.

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Exciting announcement ahead! Online shoppers take note

A few days ago, five leading e-commerce businesses invited members of the media over for a special press conference and so I went. I was curious with the special announcement and that I’m always interested with anything that is related to digital . It turns out that these five e-commerce site namely Lazada, foodpanda, ZALORA, UBER and HappyFresh will join forces and resources to bring Malaysians the first ever #Unitysale. It is one of the kind in Malaysia and it will run for just 7 days only, from 26^th August – 1^st September, 2015. That’s even better than I expected. The power of the four little alphabet – SALE

What is #Unitysale? Basically all of the five e-commerce site will be running an offering of more than 20,000 online deals and up to 94% in product discounts across individual products and services on each of the website. The campaign is a joint initiative to leverage on Malaysia’s internet users, which are rising and currently stands at a whopping 20 millions. Believe it or not, online shopping has grown leaps and bounds over the recent two years and Malaysian’s are shopping in new ways all the time. This includes an increased use of mobile devices to purchase items online; and using the Internet to research the best deals before purchasing them.

Through #Unitysale campaign, we will get to see the combination of website and consumer activation touch-points such as a mobile application and social media channels. Lazada, foodpanda, ZALORA, UBER and HappyFresh makes the perfect complete partner for each with the combination of products, services, food and beverage options, fresh produce and transport, online and offline for the consumers.

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Honestly I have no idea what Black Friday is and why is there so many Black Friday sale around until a few days ago. So I did a quick googling and found the meaning behind Black Friday.

Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November), often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.

Thanks to Wikipedia, now we know why every single online shopping site you ever know are running their own version of Black Friday sale. I’ve gathered a few of them that I thought are good so you too can have a Black Friday sale shopping

Sigma Beauty (http://www.sigmabeauty.com/)

I’ve never bought anything directly from Sigma before but I thought their complimentary worldwide shipping is a good deal. Just enter the code BF2014 at checkout. Oh and the site is also offering Cyber Monday sale of 20% OFF sitewide on the 1st December with the code CM2014 at checkout.

Luxola (http://www.luxola.com/my)

I was eyeing on Luxola yesterday for Black Friday sale and there wasn’t any. Then later that evening Luxola released an EDM on Cyber Monday sale with 40% OFF sitewide for the 1st December. It looks like they skipped Black Friday sale and head straight to Cyber Monday. But then again, all the discount doesn’t apply onto Zoeva anymore *sad*

Net-a-Poter (http://www.net-a-porter.com/)

I was so ready to get the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush Palette two days ago but the free express delivery was over. I check yesterday and there was nothing as well. Most of the sale is for clothing etc and not the beauty products. Today when I check again, Net-a-Porter is back to offering complimentary express delivery (2-3 days) on all orders. The palette cost $10 more than every other site but the free express delivery is way better than other site. So in the end, it’s cheaper – $68 with express delivery vs £56.00 + £5.00 standard 21 days delivery.

Zalora (http://www.zalora.com.my/)

Zalora is the mother of all online sale. For Black Friday, they are offering up to 70% OFF the brands listed as below. They have this 15% OFF on selected items with the code BLACKCRAY15 but that was valid until 28th November midnight. Subscribe to their newsletter and you’d get RM20 OFF too.

Reebonz (http://reebonz.com.my/)

For the past few days Reebonz has been doing a pre-Black Friday Sale where as you’d get extra 11% OFF by entering the code 2014BLKF11MY at checkout. That’s the code I used to buy a Longchamp bag. I’ve always wanted another Longchamp bag but couldn’t decide on the color. Moving to the actual Black Friday Sale which started from 28th Dec to 30th Dec, the site is offering 500 items at 50% OFF, 400 items at 40% OFF and 300 items at 30% OFF. Not only that. Their two hourly specials – Gift-opia is happening from 10am to 10pm which will feature two items at final price for two hours only. If you’re a regular of Reebonz, you would have guessed that Reebonz never fail to have something extra for the weekend. So from 29th to 30th November, enter 2014BLKF8MY at checkout to enjoy additional 8% OFF.

The Body Shop (http://www.thebodyshop.com.my/)

The Body Shop too did a Black Friday sale. The 50% OFF EDM sounded so good so I check it out yesterday and disappointed to find that the selection is so small and unattractive. Perhaps you can find something that you like there.

Mysale.my (http://mysale.my/)

Despite the mishap that happened to me a few months ago, I still check the page from time to time. Mysale has been doing a RM1 shipping fee which I find really good since we paid RM30 previously for a shitty delivery service. I couldn’t find any Black Friday sale on the site yesterday and it magically appeared this morning. Besides the deals and the RM1 shipping fee, Mysale also offer an extra 10% OFF, which will be deducted from your order at the checkout page. No discount code needed.

Lazada (http://www.lazada.com.my/)

Lazada is currently offering discounts up to 94% OFF for their Black Friday sale from 28th to 30th November. Besides that the site is also doing a Black Friday Weekend Giveway. All you have to do is to shop from 28th November to 1st December in order to receive a gift card to shop on 12th December. I don’t shop at Lazada personally so check it out if you’re into finding lots of funky stuff.

There you have it! My top 8 picks of Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sale for 2014. There are a whole lot more that you can find from the web which I didn’t mention here. I was hoping that Sephora will follow the trend and do a Black Friday sale but it doesn’t seems like it. Or maybe there’s a Cyber Monday sale? Let’s hope so! Meanwhile, happy shopping girls!

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