Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Zhong Guo Feng -- Part 1

17 Aug 2007

“Behind the Scene” actions started from 3.30pm. Went to my regular hairdresser to have my hair tied up in a bun. Turned out that I had only brought along one crystal hair pin instead of two. Haiz, this week’s sure not smooth. . So could only make do with what I have and to place the pin at the side instead.

As my hair is super layered and think, it required lots of hairspray and lots of orh-pins (bobby pins) to keep the bun in place. Lost track of how many pins she slotted it. Had keep in my mind to count them at night when I “dismantle” the bun. My fringe kept on falling off from the sides, hence the hairdresser slotted it another orh-pin to temporarily hold it in place. So by the evening when I remove it, the fringe should fall naturally to the right side.

Good customer service, I should say, for the hairdresser told me that she can tidy up my hairdo again if some loose ends fall off during my make up.

Changed into my cheongsam and covered it partially with a jacket before making the way I-nouvi. Am familiar with the make-up consultants there cos I often went there for eye-brown trimming. At least there is a level of trust in them that I wun turned out with a wayang actress face after the process.

“Miss L” as I shall put it, seems to be happy that she was given this “oriental theme “ to play with. As she puts it :

“很容易啊。你的脸不难画。”

Suddenly it's seems that my face is like a raw material.

Seeing my red and black cheongsam, she suggested going for an “antique china doll” look using apricot, plum eye shadow with thick dark fake lashes and a touch of glitter.

"让你去决定”, I said.

Xinyao arrived just minutes before “Miss L” put on my fake lashes. (she wore a bare back cheongsam.. Sexy sia) Xinyao is so excited by the “fake lashes implantation”. Due to company policies, the make-up consultants cannot be photographed. Hence Xinyao have to take the pics from special angles.

Later ‘Miss L” told me with a gleeful tint in her eyes that
“很少人会接受这种红色(eyeshadow)的。每次问她们，她们都不要。” . Ah, machiam I am a guinea pig. Shall I say it was a “successful experiment’. Xinyao, Miss L and me all pleased with the final results.

Went back to hairdresser to pin up the strands of hair that came loose during the makeup process. There Xinyao could not help but took quite a few of the “behind the scenes” pictures. Luckily all these were done as discreetly as possible.


Grabbed a small piece of cake (but no time to consume all) and a roll of red thread before we proceed to meet YF at the MRT Station. Gor, my helper had already arrived at Settlers and was chasing us. Yeah Yeah, We have only 30 min to decorate.

Initial plans to put up 2 rows of lanterns from the mid of the door had to be scrapped as the staff mentioned that the door had to be closed. The helpers did a good job in managing what ever I have and the end result is:


(seems like my guests having fun with the décor.)

Dress code for this year is 中国风. Guests were encouraged to put on their cheongsam, ma-guas, pigtail caps. Though I hinted some can get by with clothes with a hint of oriental element (dragons, big flowers) or oriental accessories.

YF and Jiak-Lor-Mee supposed to be the disciplinary mistress and master; but I guess this year forfeit is too simple that they dun bother much.. Due to me unable to get hold of flower hankies, the only forfeit for those who disobey the dress code is to pose with fans.



As for the pic of Ah Du doing a forfeit, that was for the game he played with the Monsters & Affiliates table.


As for those who took up the dress code challenge:


(minus flutterby actully, cos she did not wear cheongsam, but the pic will not look good if I etch her out)
The good thing abt have a gathering at Settlers is that guests can keep themselves entertained with the boardgames (actually also consists of card games lah) provided, hence I need not planned much on the entertainment.

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