tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17388149319045543802024-03-18T09:54:14.632+08:00HERLITTLEPLANS.COMErin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-58131512416636410172016-11-25T16:03:00.000+08:002016-11-26T03:41:29.824+08:00I'm Moving to Wordpress!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi everyone. If you can't access <b>www.erinazmir.com</b>, please use <a href="http://erinazmir.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ERINAZMIR.BLOGSPOT.COM</a> to view my blog while I'm setting up my Wordpress website. I finally decided that I should take the plunge today when I was browsing to purchase a template since Black Friday sale is still going on and I was disappointed by the limited choice of layout for Blogger. And I hate the new Blogger interface/dashboard/whatever you call it.</div>
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The reason why I always change my Blogger template is because I don't have that flexibility to change my post layout. Some days I'm feeling grid layout and some days I just want the classic post column and sidebar. Almost all Blogger templates don't have that feature and I'm just done spending money on Blogger templates. Wordpress templates might cost more but you can change it up to multiple layout designs in case you get bored of your current one.</div>
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I'm migrating to Wordpress myself with the help of Google so please pray for my sanity for the next few days. I will be saying hello from the other side! x</div>
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Goodbye, Blogger. Thanks for the 8 years! ππ</h4>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-8384288855177975002016-11-24T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-26T03:41:29.827+08:007 Deadly Sin of Beauty | Tag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi everyone! I've been tagged by Anis for the 7 Deadly Sin of Beauty tag. Go check out hers <a href="https://blurrr4evablurr.blogspot.my/2016/11/7-deadly-sins-of-beauty-tag.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Anyway, I'm trying to make use of my camera and produce my own photos instead of depending too much on stock photos. Stock photos are great β but at the end of the day they're not my photos. I think it's okay if I don't have white background with rose gold props as long as my photos reflect me and my blog, which for now looks like it's been overexposed and flash reflect everywhere. Forgive me β the sweater weather is unforgiving to take pictures in.</div>
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Sin #1 β Greed</h4>
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What is your most inexpensive beauty item? What is your most expensive? </h4>
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My most inexpensive beauty item is <u>Essence Longlasting Lip Liner in Plum Cake</u> (MYR8.90). So creamy, so pigmented, so good! I wanted the nude-ish pink one but they were out of stock and Plum Cake is the closest shade to the shade I wanted although it's more to a plummy purple colour. It looks amazing with SimplySiti Samba Red lipstick on top! Here let me show you a picture:</div>
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(I did not not go to campus with fake flowers on top of my head for fun. I had dance performance for one of my courseworks)</div>
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For the most expensive beauty item, I'm going with an item that I purchased with my own money and not a gift from my parents. It's the <u>MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation</u> (MYR170 in 2013) in NC35. I was a little bit darker 3 years ago because I just got out of high school and we all look like potato in high school, am I right? I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere between NC25-30 now. I love this powder! Perfect for gals out there who don't have time to put on liquid foundation but still want something that can give light to medium coverage and look like foundation.</div>
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I hit pan on it two years ago but there's still a little bit of product left on the outer rim of the pan. I no longer use this product because it's been 3 years and a half since I purchased it so I'm sure it has passed its expiry date already but I'm not going to get rid of it because it was my first expensive makeup purchase ever and I can buy refills at MAC.</div>
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Sin #2 β Wrath</h4>
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What beauty products do you have a love/hate relationship with? What product has been the hardest to get?</h4>
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I have a love/hate relationship with <u>Bourjois Healthy Balance Compact Powder</u> (MYR46.50). I love it because it's a good powder to mattify my T-zone especially with Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Gel Foundation. I hate it because I accidentally dropped it on the floor and it broke into million pieces, along with my heart. Luckily the compact did not open when it dropped so I can still use what's left of the compact (I mean <i>shattered</i>) powder but I can only use it to set my eyeshadow base.</div>
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The product that has been the hardest to get is <u>Colourpop Ultra Matte Liquid Lipstick</u> (MYR40/<a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/05/review-colourpop-ultra-matte-liquid.html" target="_blank">POST</a>). I was able to purchase it because my friend bulk-buy straight from the website so I purchased two lipsticks from her. Some irresponsible online sellers sell fake Colourpop so you have to be careful before deciding to purchase any. In my opinion, it's better to buy drugstore products than fake makeup.</div>
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Sin #3 β Gluttony</h4>
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What are your most delicious beauty products?</h4>
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It has got to be <u>The Body Shop Born Lippy Pot Lip Balm</u> (MYR23) in Strawberry. I brought this everyday to school with me and I always reapplied because it smells and tastes so good.<br />
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Sin #4 β Sloth</h4>
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What beauty product do you neglect, due to laziness?</h4>
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<u>Eyeliner</u> but I'm not even a big fan to begin with. I don't think I look good with any eyeliner look so I've just never been bothered to wear it. If I'm doing a full face makeup including eyeshadows, then I'll use eyeliner but for most of the time, nope. Plus it's a pain to remove!</div>
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Sin #5 β Pride</h4>
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I'm confident going out without any makeup on but one beauty product that gives me a hella boost of self-confidence is probably foundation. It clears out the redness and lighten the hyperpigmentation on my cheeks. During early 2015 when my skin was clear, I went to class with only wearing day cream, lipstick, and my brows done. And then I went to Umbai, Malacca in March and had seafood galore fiesta with my extended family and all hell broke loose...</div>
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Sin #6 β Lust</h4>
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EYES, EYES, EYES, EYELASHES, EYEBROWS. Especially my boyfriend's. I love his eyes, his brows, and his lashes. He doesn't deserve those long and curly lashes, I do! π</div>
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What beauty items would you most like to receive as a gift?</h4>
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Well I could use 10 more lipsticks from MAC.. or Make Up For Ever Ultra HD Invisible Cover Stick Foundation.. or Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit.. or <a href="https://www.hermo.my/mall/17541-sleek-makeup-highlight-solstice-palette?ucf=card-box-mallListing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the one from Sleek</a> is also okay. To be honest, I'm thinking of turning my makeup collection into a minimalist one because I'm not a heavy makeup user β in fact, I don't wear any at all except for when I have somewhere to go to and I want my collection to consist of quality over quantity of products. I'll probably do this in a few years once I've gone through the makeup I already own.</div>
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I have so much fun doing this! I'm tagging Lenne and any beauty enthusiasts who stumbled upon this post and wanted to do this tag.</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-31260113446024010462016-11-23T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-26T03:41:29.811+08:00If You're Thinking of Spending Money on Your Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So you've been blogging for quite a while now and figured you could use an upgrade to your blog but you are not sure how much and what to spend on. Frankly speaking, you do not need to spend money on blogging unless you have some money set aside for your blog. I know not everyone thinks that having a brand spanking new design or domain name are worth it and some might think they're a complete waste of money but to each their own, though. You do you, boo.</div>
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If you can't see yourself committing to a blog for the next few months, then I think spending money on your blog will be a total waste. However, if you've been doing it for quite a while and you are really enjoying it and you don't mind spending a little bit for it, then I hope this post will be useful for you.</div>
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Quality contents are important to me but I'm the type of person who judge a book by its cover and I always remember blogs with beautiful design so contents and design are equally important. You can always code your design by yourself if you know how to code but if you don't, there are a lot of premade templates available that will suit your need. My favourite place to find template is Etsy or any other web developer websites that I couldn't find on Etsy. Here's what to remember before you buy a template:</div>
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<b>1.</b> Decide on your budget. You can get a simple and beautiful design for as low as RM20 or a more complicated design for RM100 and above.</div>
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<b>2.</b> If the template that you're planning to buy looks like something you can get for free from ThemeXpose or SoraTemplates, then choose another template or just download the free one. However, I do not recommend purchasing templates from both websites as you can get them for free.</div>
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<b>3.</b> If the design is very basic but priced at RM80 and above, choose another template.</div>
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<b>4.</b> If you bought 5 RM20 templates because one after another did not satisfy you, you might as well purchase an expensive one that you know you will be satisfied with for a long time.</div>
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<b>5.</b> Don't buy ugly designs. If you're as fussy as I am, you will know that not all premade templates are beautiful.</div>
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I created a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/people/erinazmir/favorites/templates-recommendation" target="_blank">template recommendation</a> page on Etsy so if you're clueless about where to start searching, you can visit the page and have a little browse to get you started. Here's my recommended shops according to budget:</div>
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<RM50 = <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/MisteryDesigns" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MisteryDesigns</a> | <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/FearneCreativeDesign" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FearneCreativeDesign</a> | <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/VefioThemes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">VefioThemes</a></div>
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>RM100 = <a href="http://underlinedesigns.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UnderlineDesigns</a> | <a href="https://www.kotrynabassdesign.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KotrynaBassDesign</a> | <a href="https://www.pipdig.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pipdig.co</a> | <a href="https://mairagall.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MairaGall</a></div>
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I recommend getting a blog design first before investing in a domain name because you will have to renew your domain every year. If you do not renew your domain, it can't be used after it has expired and you will basically lose all your SEO thingamajig and when people type in yourdomainname.com, they will not be redirected to your yourdomainname.blogspot.com. You will see decrement in pageviews.</div>
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Get a domain name that suits your blog. Don't choose anything too long and hard to remember. To be safe, pick your own name. My first domain that I purchased in 2013 was <u>www.syazanasyazreen.com</u> (my real name) but it's too long and the spelling is too hard to remember so I did not renew it. However, if you do use your own name, make sure to use the full spelling.<br />
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<b>IMPORTANT:</b> If you change your blogspot url from <i>erinazmir.blogspot.com</i> to <i>erin-azmir.blogspot.com</i>, you basically lose <b>all</b>
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Some of the example:</div>
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Your nickname and your dad's = <a href="http://erinazmir.com/"><u>ErinAzmir.com</u></a> / <u>LiyanaJasmi.com</u></div>
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Just your nickname = <a href="http://siqahiqa.com/"><u>SiqahIqa.com</u></a></div>
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Your full name = <a href="http://nadiaizzaty.com/"><u>NadiaIzzaty.com</u></a> / <a href="http://hanisamanina.com/"><u>HanisAmanina.com</u></a> / <u>SyazaRaihanah.com</u> / <u>AtheeraDayana.com</u></div>
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FatinaMdzfr = use <u>FatinaMudzafar.com</u> instead of <u>FatinaMdzfr.com</u></div>
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Lenne Zulkiflly = use <u>LenneZulkiflly.com</u> instead of <u>LenneZlkfly.com</u> </div>
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You certainly do not need a fancy camera to blog as long as your phone camera can take great photos so don't go around whining to your dad saying "dad can I have a new camera for my blog because this blogger chick I know named Erin says we all need a camera" π</div>
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I suggest purchasing a compact camera than a DSLR because you can bring it everywhere with you as it's not as bulky as DSLR. However, if you already have a DSLR at home, then you don't need a compact camera unless you really want to.</div>
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For compact camera, I really like Olympus PEN and Sony NEX. Their designs are so feminine! Mind you that I know nothing much about camera but I do know us bloggers like pretty things including our gadgets. Am I right? π
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For DSLR, I suggest getting one with free-angle monitor as you can adjust the LCD screen if you're taking flatlays. You don't need a professional or semi-professional cameras, an entry-level DSLR is just enough. You can check out this article for <a href="https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/buying-guide/9-recommended-entry-level-dslr-cameras" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the best entry-level DSLR for 2016</a>.</div>
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I personally use a Canon EOS 60D because I'm a Canon trash and it's either that or Nikon D5000. I'm more familiar with Canon than Nikon and my brother likes Nikon more so it's a win-win situation for us. My dad purchased both when they came out years ago but he didn't use it so <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/03/camera-for-my-blog-canon-eos-60d.html" target="_blank">I took one for my blog</a>.</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/EF-50mm-1-8-Camera-Multicoated/dp/B007Y5PQQ2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens</a>: My favourite lens! Perfect for taking close up photos but I broke it. π</div>
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<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-Wide-Conversion-Lens-X-0-7-VCL-0752C-w-Tiffen-77mm-Clear-52mm-Mount-/141484981303" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sony Wide Conversion lens</a>: To be used on top of 50mm lens. Gives you that nice close up shot with wide angle. </div>
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<a href="https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/lenses/ef/standard-zoom/ef-s-18-55mm-f-3-5-5-6-is-ii" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens</a>: Your standard kit lens. I use it for flatlays (which I have no skills of).</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Canon-Speedlite-430EX-Digital-Cameras/dp/B001CCAISE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canon Speedlite 430EX II flash</a>: Because the built-in flash on my camera is not very nice.</div>
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You would think that with all these lens I have my photography skills would get better but haha nope. You don't need all these lens. I would recommend the 50mm lens, 18-55mm lens, and a tripod. The Tamron 18-200mm is a nice addition too.</div>
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<u>Ringlight</u>: Comes in handy when you're taking photos at night or during sweater weather days like for the past week in my area. No sun = in bed all day under the blanket = no beauty posts.</div>
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<u>Softbox</u>: Ringlight and softbox go together. Softbox will diffuse the light giving you a soft, even light. It reduces harsh shadows in our photos.</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-26039831815017662382016-11-22T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-26T03:41:29.809+08:00Why I Started A Blog Again + 8 Years of Being A Blogger<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Reading a 'Why I Started Blogging' posts is definitely interesting as I can get to know why and what someone was thinking when they started a blog. 13 November 2008 was the day I signed up for Blogger and published my first ever blog post. I was a 13 year old girl at home on school holiday with a laptop who somehow managed to stumble upon Blogger.com from a blog I was reading. Everyone had a blog so I thought, "why not"?</div>
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I'm not going to talk about why I started a blog 8 years ago but rather why I relaunched my blog on February 19th this year. Before February, I micro-blogged on Tumblr with this domain (www.erinazmir.com) and I felt like I have more privacy there. I can post as much as I like per day without clogging up my dashboard and annoying my followers. I wrote about personal things on Tumblr and it was just easier to post photos, videos, music, or even a long text post (which I don't recommend). But the thing is you won't get as much engagement on Tumblr as you can on Blogger or Wordpress.</div>
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One thing I do like about Tumblr is people can send you questions and I really hope Blogger can add that feature because it's so much fun. I've gotten hate messages, nice messages, and people asking me when am I getting engaged/married haha. I can't post there what I can on Blogger and that was one of the reasons why I started blogging on Blogger again.</div>
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I've tried Wordpress.com too but I can't use my domain there because you have to purchase a domain from them and it's so expensive and to me that's not worth it. So Blogger is the cheapest and the easiest alternative for a blogging platform.</div>
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The need to write</h4>
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I personally think that anyone who owns a blog has an interest in writing as I do. I can't imagine doing something I don't have an interest on just because every else is doing it. I'm very chatty and I like to pour that out on a blog. I have so many things and ideas to talk about and I would like to share it with anyone who is interested to read it. Blogging is also a great way to practice your writing be it in Malay or English. However, I do prefer blogs that are using minimal short forms especially when writing in Malay.</div>
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Because Twitter is not enough</h4>
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If I count all the tweets I have posted since I made my first Twitter account 6 years ago (my current account is my third one), I have about 150,000 tweets posted. All the more reason to get myself a blog so I won't bore people with my endless tweets. As I grew older, the need to be on Twitter is lesser day by day and I'm not enjoying Twitter all that much to be honest. Of course I can tweet whatever I like but I need a suitable medium for my writings and I can't exactly be writing makeup reviews on Twitter, can I?</div>
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Doing it right</h4>
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Because I'm all grown up now so I don't want to embarrass myself with childish and immature blog posts that I will regret one day. I think the majority of us have gone through a what-the-fuck-was-I-thinking-publishing-these-posts moment in our life. Right? RIGHT? #IWas13 #ForgiveMe</div>
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I like spending time indoors than outdoors. One time I went through three weeks without getting out of my house and my happiness level was still top notch. I need something that I can do at home to fill my time and blogging is exactly it. Blogging keeps my brain active because I'm constantly thinking of new content ideas and to me, managing a blog is not as easy as it looks.</div>
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There's nothing more exciting than visiting a blog for the first time and getting to know them from their writing. I miss getting and writing comments, I miss doing tag posts and I miss making new friends online. I like reading interesting posts and I'm inspired to write them as well.</div>
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Blog designing is fun!</h4>
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To be honest, I have never spent a cent on blog design before nor did I feel the need to but Blogger never updates their templates to a new responsive and modern design and I'm getting bored of Simple template because I can't code it to how I want it and the free responsive templates are just not up to par. I'm willing to spend some money on my blog because it makes me even more excited to blog with a shiny new gorgeous template from Etsy and I see that as an investment for my hobby.</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-3411176593010518832016-11-21T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-26T03:41:29.816+08:00Get to Know Me | 10 Facts and A Lie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi everyone. I got the idea for this post from <a href="http://www.missgetaway.com/get-to-know-me/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Miss Getaway</a> and I thought it would be fun to do it on my blog. I love reading random facts about a blogger (aside from age and location) but this time, I'm going to do it but with a twist. I will be listing 11 random facts about me but one of them is a lie so you will have to guess which one is it in the comment below. Let's get to it!</div>
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1. I hate egg yolk. Whenever I'm eating something with fried egg or hard boiled egg, I will give the yolk to someone else or I will just throw it away. </div>
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2. When I was 6 years old, I had an infection on my lungs and also a problem where the skin around my nails cracked so I needed to use a cream everyday until it got better.</div>
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3. One of my ex-boyfriends broke up with me because "couple is haram in Islam" but dated another girl in his class not long after.</div>
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4. When I was little, I really wanted to be a model but I stopped growing at 14 years old so modelling no more.</div>
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5. My favourite place is Nyhavn, my favourite city is Copenhagen, my favourite country is Denmark, and my favourite language is Danish (besides English).</div>
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7. My dad never lays a hand on me or my siblings no matter how terrible the things we do. No <i>rotan</i>, no nothing.</div>
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8. One time when I was 16 years old, I went to a Giant hypermarket near my house with my friends and shoplifted a Maybelline mascara at Guardian. I got away with it but it didn't feel right so I came back and put it back on the rack.</div>
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9. I have tried smoking twice back in university just to understand what was the hype about but I didn't really like it but I do prefer menthol cigarette than regular cigarette.</div>
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10. I love beaches. They make me feel serene and peaceful inside.</div>
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11. My area of expertise in cooking is anything pasta especially fried macaroni, linguine bolognese, lasagna, and aglio olio.</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-48231404151810503292016-11-19T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-26T03:41:29.819+08:00The Blogger Tag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy weekend, everyone! I thought I would fill your Saturday morning with a tag post originated from <a href="http://www.abbiechic.com/2016/11/the-blogger-tag.html?showComment=1478953656554#c3304353612127722753" target="_blank">Abbie Chic</a>. I tag everyone who wants to do this so we can all get to know each other a little bit more.</div>
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How tall are you?</h4>
Height is not my strong feature. I'm actually very short β 5 ft 1". π<br />
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Do you have a hidden talent? If so, what?</div>
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I can mimic how singers sing especially Malaysian singers. Whenever I do that my mom will laugh like hell hahaha.</div>
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What's your biggest blog-related pet peeve?</h4>
No 'About' page and welcome text + picture/name/age/place on sidebar. Drives me mad! How am I supposed to enjoy reading your blog if I don't know what you look like.<br />
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Seeing people spit in public especially guys. This is the main reason why I don't watch football match. They all spit. <i>Muka handsome tapi meludah ew.</i></div>
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Anything from the 80s and 90s especially boy bands. Backstreet Boys/Westlife/NSYNC/98 Degrees/Boyz II Men/Michael Learns to Rock/A1/Plus One/Blue/O-Town/Boyzone/The Moffatts/Air Supply/Aerosmith/Savage Garden/Chicago/Journey/Toto/Take That/All-4-One UGH I love! π But my favourite song of all time will have to be:</div>
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I don't know why I'm distancing myself from social media these days. I feel so comfortable sharing everything on my blog but I don't feel right doing that on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook. My friend even asked me why he never sees me on Twitter and Snapchat anymore. Maybe I'm done spending time on Twitter timeline (which you all know can be full of hate sometimes) and posting ridiculous selfies on Instagram. I think I'm becoming more like my boyfriend. He doesn't like social medias so he deleted every account under his name. He said that he doesn't gain anything from having social medias and I thank him for that 'cause I don't have to spend my waking hour stalking his accounts and vetting every person he talks to π‘</div>
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What's your favourite way to spend your free time when you're alone?</h4>
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Reading youtalktrash.com and reddit.com/r/beautyguruchat, taking a nap (which I rarely do), watching chick flick movies 'cause I'm a sucker for romantic comedies, and imagining my future.</div>
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Durian popcorn! You know, the one in yellow packaging that looks like this:</div>
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MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation that I hit pan on and is too dark for me now; and Real Techniques Buffing Brush. I use that brush for <i>everything</i>.</div>
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Okay, I wasn't really embarrassed but I'm pissed because it happens to me so many times. Whenever I'm out with my boyfriend, I always slip on the escalator. The thing is it only happens when I'm with him and no one else. It has come to the point where he'll step in front of me on the escalator and says "you please jangan slip lagi" but guess what? I SLIPPED.</div>
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I'm so sorry coffee but it's going to be ice blended green tea. Not the Starbucks one 'cause that one tastes awful, the RM5 one you get from stalls. I used to drink that every single day back in campus. Nasi kukus ayam goreng berempah + ice blended green tea = Erin's favourite lunch 5 days of the week (only because they close on weekends). Yum.</div>
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Chick flick. Rom com. Clueless. Cher is me. I am Cher.</div>
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Copenhagen, Denmark.</div>
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MAC. Someone told me, "once you go MAC, you'll never go back."<br />
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Last romantic gesture from a crush, date, boy/girlfriend, spouse? (or kind gesture from a friend)</div>
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I'm going to leave out all those sweet stuff details behind and go with my boyfriend bought me food and sent it to my house when I told him I was hungry. What could be sweeter than that?</div>
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Favourite celebrity?</h4>
Nicolas Cage and Bruce Willis. I have a lot of favs but these two are just da π£. They're not the most good looking celebrities out there but their acting talent is far more superior than most of them.<br />
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Definitely Hannah from HannahGale.co.uk and Victoria from InTheFrow.com.</div>
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Neelofa. I wanna be successful like her but in my own way.<br />
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Hannah Gale, In The Frow, Jasmine Talks Beauty, Lily Like, From Roses, and A Girl Obsessed to name a few.</div>
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What is your favourite high street shop?</h4>
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MANGO. When I was in high school, my wardrobe was like a mini MANGO boutique 'cause I only bought my clothes there. I still wear them now though but not that much.</div>
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Are you in education or do you work?</div>
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I'm still in education although I'm taking a gap year now. I don't have a job.</div>
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One thing you are proud of.</h4>
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My blog and how much it has grown in 10 months. Wouldn't have it any other way. <3</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-49211568269390742102016-11-18T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-26T03:41:29.821+08:00What to Do When You Have No Idea What to Post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been getting a lot of questions about how I come up with blog post ideas and creating great contents for my blog so I'm going to share with you my tips and tricks. I haven't been getting writer's block for weeks and I always have a few posts to finish for the current week while also adding new draft posts in between.</div>
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Writing is not an easy task to begin with. It doesn't matter if you have something interesting to blog about but when you're not in the mood, you won't be able to finish the post or you'll only be able to write a half-assed post and to be quite honest I hate half-assed posts. Your readers will know from your writings if you're posting because you genuinely want to share with them or that you just don't want your blog to look dead because your last post was published a week ago. It's okay to take a week off of blogging. It's okay to not have a post up for a month. We all have been in the rut.</div>
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Do you have any posts in draft that you still haven't finished writing such as the "What I Did Last Weekend" or "Haul from Shopping Trip With Mom" or "______ Foundation Review" (I'm so guilty of this)? You should probably go ahead and finished those posts first.<i> </i>Don't go around googling for "lifestyle blog post ideas" or "1001 blog post ideas when you're having writer's block" or anything along the keyword "blog post ideas" 'cause you might be overwhelmed by the number of post ideas that you still haven't done and you will end up writing about none of it, trust me.</div>
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Sometimes you get a lot of comments from different people mentioning the same thing so why not do a blog post about it so everyone can read it? For example, I got comments about MacBook <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/11/5-items-im-lusting-after.html" target="_blank">here</a> and since I'm using it, why don't I make a blog post about it <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/11/an-ode-to-macbook-pro.html" target="_blank">here</a>?</div>
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Do not copy and paste their contents to your blank post. What I mean is, go through their posts and see which one you would like to write about and change up the post title a little bit to make it more you. Use it as an inspiration for your new post. Credit them if you want to especially if their post that you're using as an inspiration for yours is one of a kind.</div>
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If the above methods didn't work and you insist on writing about something else, you can go ahead and find blog post ideas or you could check out my posts <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/04/50-blogging-ideas-when-youre-having.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/09/90-blogging-beauty-and-lifestyle-post.html" target="_blank">here</a>. If you're still not quite sure about what to write even after going through 4983 blog post ideas, just turn off your laptop or go watch the Game of Thrones or something 'cause you're clearly not in the mood.</div>
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I have figured out that writing down blog post ideas in a notebook doesn't work for me anymore. I have an easier way for keeping blog post ideas which is creating a new post, inserting the title, and saving it to draft. Whenever I'm in the mood to brainstorm, I open the post I would like to brainstorm, type out the points, and save it. If I plan on publishing that post in a few days, I can work on it without having to brainstorm for contents.</div>
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I always get that DING! moment no matter what I'm doing at that time where I get an idea for a blog post out of the blue. I could be watching Criminal Minds and suddenly had a DING! moment about a new beauty post I should write on my blog. And then, I create a new post and insert the title of that DING! post so I won't forget about it later.</div>
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At the end of the day, you are the content creator of your blog and only you know what fits your blog niche so sit back, relax, and have fun blogging!</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-49038676467637422452016-11-17T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-26T01:30:53.201+08:00An Ode to MacBook Pro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Disclaimer: I am not a tech geek whatsoever and everything is written based on my personal use and understanding.</div>
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In my <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/11/5-items-im-lusting-after.html" target="_blank">5 Items I'm Lusting After</a>, I got a lot of comments from my blogger friends who have been wanting a MacBook Pro so I thought I would do a review of this laptop to talk about some of the things you need to know about it and my overall opinion about this piece of device.</div>
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Here's a backstory of how I came to own this laptop:</div>
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Back in early 2012 (I was 17), I wanted a MBP so much that whenever I went to Apple stores I always played around with this laptop and hoped that my dad would buy one for me. In <b>September 2012</b>, my dad ordered this laptop for himself. Yes, for himself. He knew how much I wanted this but he bought one not for me. I was like π and π and he told me that if I wanted it, I should save my own money. π</div>
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He mainly used this MBP to surf the net, read the news, and watch YouTube videos so when he wasn't using it, the MBP was with me most of the time because I hated my laptop at that time and the shiny new piece of Mac was the laptop of my dream. Who could resist, right?</div>
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So in <b>December 2012</b>, we went to Big Bad Wolf book sale at the MIECC because I wanted to purchase some books. After that, we went to The Mines and my dad wanted to purchase an Earpods (which he ended up forgetting he had so the Earpods I'm using now is his haha) so I played around with MacBooks, as per usual. And I kind of made <i>that voice</i> β you know that annoying voice you make to your dad when you want something so that your dad couldn't resist his daughter's request so he <i>had</i> to buy it? Yeah, I did that and it worked!</div>
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I thought my dad wouldn't let me buy a MBPro so I opted for a cheaper option which was the 11-inch MacBook Air. I believe it was RM3099 at that time, just RM600 shy from the MBP. My dad said he bought it as my SPM gift (I just finished SPM) and also because he got tired of me always using his MBP. Hah. π</div>
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Fast forward <b>April 2013</b>, I was going to register for university in May so my dad said we should exchange our Macs since I probably be needing a larger laptop for school. He took my Air and I took his Pro but my dad was never a fan of Mac so right now, the Air went to my sister.</div>
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My laptop is the <b><a href="https://www.switch.com.my/apple/mac/MacBook-Pro?product_id=12001" target="_blank">mid-2012 non-retina MacBook Pro</a></b> which is the last version of the <u>standard non-retina Pro</u>. It was sold for <u>RM3699</u>, before the downfall of our currency and the implementation of GST. It's much more expensive now. You have to buy <u>Microsoft Office</u> separately as it does not come pre-installed, I think that costs about <u>RM569</u>.</div>
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You can buy their wireless <u>Magic Mouse 2</u> for <u>RM379</u>. I have the original Magic Mouse and it costed around <u>RM229</u> at the time it was bought. You can also buy its casing, roughly around RM99-RM150. I got mine from Speck for RM99.</div>
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Total in the year 2012 (laptop + Microsoft Office + Mouse + casing) = <u>RM4596</u></div>
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It doesn't have the classic antivirus program (Kaspersky etc..) that you have to upgrade every single goddamned time and I have never gotten any viruses on my laptop even though I use Torrent a lot so I don't have to worry about accidentally clicking on a malware (I don't even know the terms tbh)</div>
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Pretty. 100% aesthetic value. Instagram/blog worthy.</div>
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I prefer macOS than Windows just 'cause it's easier and more straightforward.</div>
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You can buy a lot of pretty casings and skins for it. Marble casing/skin? Got 'ya covered, boo.</div>
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PhotoBooth. 'Cause FILTERS.</div>
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Bloody expensive.</div>
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The specs does not worth the price tag.</div>
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The power cord is as poor quality as the iPhone's USB cable. I broke mine August last year and mind you that the power cord retails at RM299 π</div>
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Why didn't you buy the Retina MacBook Pro?</h4>
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I purchased this in 2012, a year before the retina MacBook Pro was introduced. I was tempted to own a retina MBP but I have two issues with it:</div>
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1. <u>It doesn't have a CD drive</u>. It's not a deal breaker for some but for me it is because for my TESL course, we have video assignments that need to be burned in CDs. I also like to know that I have CD drive so I can play DVD on my laptop, just in case. CD drive is not important, but I do prefer my laptop to have one.</div>
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2. My cousin brother told me that he has a friend who works as a graphic designer who uses a retina MacBook Pro. He has perfect vision but after using the rMBP for a few months for work, he had to get prescription glasses because the screen ruined his vision. I already have terrible vision and I spend a lot of time with my laptop. I don't need to ruin my eyes more so I can have a crystal clear laptop screen.</div>
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But to each their own, though. rMBP is lighter and faster than the one I have. It's also more expensive with a small storage. My MBP comes with 512GB flash storage while the entry level retina MBP comes with 128GB storage. You can always use an external hard drive so I don't think that's going to be a problem.</div>
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I gotta be honest here β being a blogger with a MacBook will make you look cool just 'cause it's a MacBook.</div>
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It's a pleasure to type on and blogs look amazing and smooth on screen although it is not a retina MacBook.</div>
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It loads Adobe Photoshop CS6 okay. It also has an SD/SDXC card slot so I can transfer photos from my camera to laptop without having to use a usb cable.</div>
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The pictures I took with my camera are high resolution and I have hundreds of them so I got an external hard drive to backup everything on my laptop. It helps with the speed, too.</div>
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I have a bit of a problem when doing presentation in class because this laptop doesn't have the port that connects it to the projector but you can buy the adapter separately. It's not a major issue for me because my other friend usually brings her laptop for presentation day.</div>
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It is quite a heavy laptop so I bring a large tote bag or a bag pack to school.</div>
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What can I say other than I love it so much. I have owned it for about 4 years and I never had any major issues with it other than lagging during the third year mark but that's understandable as it happens to every gadget.</div>
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I didn't touch about specs all that much because it is a 4-year-ago model and I'm not a tech geek. However, I do know that you can upgrade the RAM yourself unlike retina MBP so that's a plus. I'm thinking of upgrading to 8GB RAM in the future. Currently, it came with a standard 4GB RAM and that's all I know, specs wise.</div>
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I wanted a MacBook purely because it's a MacBook. If I wanted something powerful, I might as well buy an Alienware laptop or any other powerful laptops out there but I'm a blogger and a TESL student who types a lot of essays NOT a gamer or engineering student who needs AUTOCAD software for their course that requires a heck lot more powerful laptop.</div>
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It fits my needs as a blogger and student and also for my aesthetic pleasure and to be honest that's all I care about.<br />
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I hope you found this post helpful if you're thinking of buying this laptop. I really hope Apple doesn't discontinue this model just because it's the only Apple laptop that still has a CD drive. You might not need it always, but you will need it one day.<br />
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-65897191750996226282016-11-16T15:03:00.000+08:002016-11-16T15:03:20.232+08:00ATTENTION TO EVERYONE WHO SENT ME QUESTIONS (Q&A RELATED)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li style="text-align: justify;">do you think it's fine to 'steal' other people's idea of blogging in terms of content? they don't copy paste other people's content and publish it on their blog, they do some changes here and there but still, it's from other people's content. what do you think of it?</li>
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Because the usual <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/11/q-with-erin-pt-1.html" target="_blank">Q&A post</a> is pretty bladdy boring. I wanna talk. A lot. And Erin Talks is purrrfect for it. Let's get on to the questions I received from the previous post I did.</div>
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#1 / do you take any supplements? (e.g. aura white)</h4>
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Surprisingly, I don't. I don't take any aura white, collagens, or whatever supplements in the market right now. Not even Qu Puteh (ha!). I occasionally take Omega-3 fish oil but for most of the time I forgot to even take it. I'm only 21. Not yet married. As far as I'm concerned my collagen production is fine and I'm a bit iffy when it comes to consuming supplement products.</div>
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#2 / what do you think of the 'no-makeup' makeup look?</h4>
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<u>I am living for 'no-makeup' makeup look.</u> I'm more into natural, dewy, and glowy skin so the lesser makeup I have to use, the better. You can do your makeup however you want obviously no one should tell you what you can or cannot wear but for me personally, I like dewy skin, strong brows (because your home girl has black brows), subtle blush and highlight, and nude lips. My current favourite lipstick right now is MAC Mehr. I feel so sorry for my Velvet Teddy. I haven't worn it since I got Mehr last month.</div>
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Worth reading: <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/10/my-go-to-makeup-look.html" target="_blank">My Go-To Makeup Look</a></div>
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1. My MacBook. I have separation anxiety whenever I'm outside because I can't be with my laptop. It's awful, really. So I really need my laptop for everyday use and also for blogging. I have grown accustomed to my laptop so it's weird to blog using other computers. I don't write blog posts via mobile phone 'cause it's just going to be a hot mess.</div>
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3. Hard drive. I recently backed up everything on my laptop to my hard drive and deleted everything on my laptop. Life has been good ever since. All my stock photos, photos I have taken myself, templates, and everything else is safe and secure.</div>
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4. Canon EOS 60D. You don't need an expensive camera for your blog obvs but it's quite handy to have one. Even if my photography skill is zero, at the very least my photos are all high resolution.</div>
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5. Bloglovin'. I can't go a day without going through my Bloglovin' feed. So many awesome posts!</div>
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Worth reading: <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/08/my-blogging-essentials.html" target="_blank">My Blogging Essentials</a></div>
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#4 / the font for your post body is really nice and neat! what font is it? if you don't mind me asking :)</h4>
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Why thank you! It's Raleway, 12px, font-weight: 400, letter-spacing: 1px, line-height: 1.9.</div>
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Worth reading: <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/09/blogging-tips-roundup.html" target="_blank">Blogging Tips Roundup</a></div>
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#5 / What is a makeup no-no that you're guilty of doing in the past?</h4>
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Honestly I can't think of anything else. I didn't wear much in the past and I'm pretty sure I google everything I need to know about makeup. But if there is one thing that I can advice people of, is to wear foundation the same shade as your skin. I know Malaysians are obsessed with having fair skin (to be honest I do not know why) and they tend to wear foundation or powder that are 2 times lighter than their skin tone resulting in grey face. Not cute at all. Embrace your skin tone. Use the same shade foundation and your makeup will look good, trust me.</div>
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Worth reading: <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/07/my-makeup-story.html" target="_blank">My Makeup Story</a><br />
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#6 / Hi, Erin. It's Lia here. No personal life option to tick on, eh? That's why I let it blank, if it's allowed. I love to read about personal stuff, especially foods and beverages someone enjoy the most.</div>
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Hi Lia! I didn't include personal life option because I do write personal posts from time to time. I did cafes and restaurants reviews back on my blog in 2014. It was so much fun to do! I took pictures of the restaurant ambience, the food, I freaking love taking food photos just like what you're doing on your blog now.</div>
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But that was when my blog was more to personal and just a little bit of beauty blog. Now I have beauty posts, blogging tips, lifestyle posts, personal posts, and it's just getting too much to handle because that's a lot of niche I have to cover.</div>
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Maybe in the future I can post more about places to eat? Who knows? :)</div>
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Ever consider to become a youtuber ? if yes, let's collab then hehe</div>
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β My blogging goals are:</div>
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1. To make a lot of new friends as much as I could.</div>
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2. Make my blog a business that I can earn money from so I can make blogging my professional career. I did one sponsored post a few months ago and I got RM150 for it. It felt soooooo good omg. I also helped a few of my blogger friends with their templates (I purchased the template and installed/tweaked it for them) and I also help bloggers buy templates from Etsy because not everyone has a Paypal account. Just contact me if you're interested.</div>
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β I have a YouTube channel and I did two What's in My Bag videos in the past hahaha but I'm not ready to become a YouTuber. Maybe in the future? :)</div>
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1. <u>HannahGale.co.uk</u> (Hannah)β she's so fun and her posts crack me up everytime. She's so relatable.</div>
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2. <u>InTheFrow.com</u> (Victoria) β her blog is a freaking Vogue Magazine, I swear! She makes me want to move to London and be a fashion blogger.<br />
3. <u>Lily-Like.com</u> (Lilia) β her fashion is so me! I once went through her MAC lipstick category on her blog and ugh I want every MAC shade that she has!</div>
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4. <u>JasmineTalksBeauty.com</u> (Jasmine) β 'cause HER MAKEUP COLLECTION that's why.</div>
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5. <u>FromRoses.co.uk</u> (Rebecca) β UK beauty and lifestyle blogger.<br />
6. <u>AGirlObsessedBlog.com</u> (Mandy) β US beauty and lifestyle blogger.</div>
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I love reading successful UK blogs. Definitely my blog inspiration!</div>
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Probably juggling between writing beauty posts (more higher end makeup hopefully <i>husband I want that Chanel foundation and powder</i>), lifestyle posts ('cause you know avocado on toast is still in and maybe just maybe my flatlays are on point with marble background and rose gold props), and mommy posts (ehem baby clothes haul and tutu haul and toddler haul).</div>
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I have so much fun answering these! I will be publishing a Why I Start a Blog post hopefully some time this week for more in depth on this topic.</div>
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<u>Your style of writing is important</u>. I like reading posts that are my niches such as beauty posts, blogging stuff, and lifestyle posts. I love reading personal posts too but it depends on the writings. You don't necessarily have to be doing fun stuff but the way you write the post is what matters most. You can write about your day at home or your day in university and still make them interesting with your writings. It's all about the writings.</div>
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<u>I use my favourite blogs as guidance</u>. However, I do not copy and paste my contents from other blogs 'cause that's just unethical and mean. If I read a post I like from a blog, I take it as an inspiration for my future posts and write it with my style of writing and ideas. No blog is original these days but at least make yours genuine.</div>
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<u>I write posts that I love to read</u>. Everyone has their personal preference of what they like to read so I apply that on my blog posts. What's more important is you enjoy creating contents for your blog because blogging is fun!</div>
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Worth reading: <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/08/5-types-of-blog-posts-that-turn-me-off.html" target="_blank">5 Types of Blog Posts That Turn Me Off</a></div>
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#9 / Where do you promote your blog to increase your views?</h4>
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To be honest I don't promote my blog all that much. Once a month I post my blog link on Facebook and Twitter, I registered my blog to search engines and babab.net (even though I don't have their banner on my blog, my blog is still registered), and I have quite a number of followers on Bloglovin'. I also joined <a href="http://xomisse.com/twitter-chats/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter chats</a> too. </div>
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I kinda let my blog grows at its own pace while maintaining its quality. I'm obsessed with my stats, sure, but I'm not going to stress over having to promote my blog everywhere and leaving my blog link on every single blog I visit just so I can have 2000 pageviews per day. It's tiring and I don't wanna feel tired doing what I love.</div>
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#10 / Who's blog inspire your blog design?</h4>
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I don't design my blog myself. I actually bought a premade one from Etsy which is the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/255519895/responsive-premade-blogger-template" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marigold template</a> from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/UnderlineDesigns" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Underline Designs</a>. I saw it one day, fell in love with it, and bought it a few days later. You can read about it <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/09/new-blog-design-and-last.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I also made a <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/09/etsy-blog-templates-review.html" target="_blank">review</a> of all templates I have used in the past.</div>
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Worth reading: <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/06/10-tips-when-choosing-responsive-blog.html" target="_blank">10 Tips for Choosing Responsive Templates</a></div>
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Hello there! I did make a few posts about my collection. Check out where <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/06/my-beauty-shelf.html" target="_blank">I store my makeup</a> (maybe I should do an updated one, eh?), <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/09/makeup-collection-lip-products.html" target="_blank">lip products</a>, <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/09/makeup-collection-cheek-products.html" target="_blank">cheek products</a>, and <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/10/makeup-collection-eye-products.html" target="_blank">eye products</a>. My face products post is coming up soon.<br />
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These are the items that if-I-had-the-money-I-would-spend-it-on-them first. All items are purely developed by lust because I'm an appreciator of everything nice in the world and someone like me needs to buy them so they can feel appreciated and this is just my lust talking #bye.</div>
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<u>Sudio Vasa Rose Gold White</u> | RM320</div>
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I've been eyeing this earphones from Sudio for a few months now. It's white with rose gold accent and it makes a great prop for taking photos too. I hope it's more durable than Earpods though..</div>
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<u>Olympus Pen E-PL7</u> | RM2099 (avg.)</div>
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Olympus Pen has got to be my favourite camera that I would love to own. They have recently come out with the new E-PL8 but I'm not quite fond of the design. I know I probably won't be buying it anytime soon because I have my EOS 60D and I'm not even a camera enthusiast but the Olympus Pen is gorgeous! It's more compact than my DSLR so I can actually bring it along with me when I'm outside and not feel like I have a 10 pound rock in my bag. π</div>
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My guilty pleasure is looking at swatches online and making a mental list of shades that I wanted to purchase. The worst thing about it is most of the shades in my list are either slightly lighter or darker than each other. Who needs 5 different shades of nude pinks, right?</div>
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<u>PANDORA Rose My Princess Tiara Ring</u> | RM340 (approx.)</div>
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This is the effin' two hundred and seventy ringgit template that I talked about in my last <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/11/the-sunday-currently-vol-3-q.html" target="_blank">Sunday Currently</a>. So many blogs are using this template now I kinda feel less excited about it but I really like the design. To think of, this template is too simple to be worth 270 ringgit. What annoys me the most is this template was initially sold for $49 (around RM210) but they increased the price to $59! The Blogger and Wordpress versions are sold at the same price but you can do so much more on the Wordpress version than on Blogger so I really think they need to reconsider and make it $49 again. Or maybe I'm just bitter that it's so expensive. #CurrencyPlease.</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-1118240519640761012016-11-14T08:36:00.000+08:002016-11-16T15:05:40.056+08:00Q&A with Erin Pt. I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In my previous posts I asked you to send me any questions about anything at all so I can do a Q&A post so here's the questions that I've gotten so far. I also get a lot of submission without questions. Some of you only checked the box of the first question but that's okay. Keep the questions coming and once I have enough I'll be doing a second Q&A.<br />
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do a tutorial using only drugstore products! <3</h4>
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Good idea! In shaa Allah (if I'm not lazy, that is) I will do one soon!</div>
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what do you think of braces?</h4>
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I think braces should only be worn if you really need dental help. For cosmetic purposes, I'm not that keen on. Why would you wanna wear braces for fun?</div>
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To be honest, my face makeup products is the last post in my Makeup Collection series that I will be publishing but for some reasons I've been delaying on taking photos for months. Shoot me now. Will do one soon.</div>
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I have been meaning to do this kind of post for quite a while but I always opted for posts that were easier to me in terms of taking photos and actually writing the blog posts but I will be doing one soon after I'm done with the posts currently in my draft.</div>
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How do you list all your blog post in archives section? Is it automatic update?</h4>
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Here's the link to my <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/p/the-archive.html" target="_blank">Archive page</a> and here's the <a href="https://github.com/jhwilson/Create-a-Blogger-archive-page" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">coding</a> to get it. Yes, it updates automatically.</div>
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1. Do not touch your face with your fingers (although sometimes I do caress my acne just 'cause)</div>
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4. Eat a lot of vegetables and fruits and drink a lot of water for your health and also skin.</div>
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6. Get your hair out of your face. The oil produced by your hair can cause breakouts.</div>
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7. Buy skincare that cater to your type of skin. Do a lot of research and read reviews.</div>
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Aprox MYR you already spent for blog?</h4>
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I have spent around 260 for blog templates that I used on my blog, not including the ones for giveaways. 90 for domain name for two years.</div>
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I think I've mentioned it so many times by now in my previous posts. I'm currently taking a gap year in the middle of my degree so I'm home all the time for a year (or more if I don't wanna go back to school yet). I do not have a job nor did I try to find one. I'm basically an unpaid full-time blogger/tv shows watcher.</div>
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Changing template is fun for me. I love the feeling of purchasing new template and installing it on my blog for the first time. And I get bored easily so I can't use the same one for a long time.<br />
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-24949436179635639592016-11-13T19:06:00.000+08:002016-11-13T19:06:41.281+08:00The Sunday Currently: Vol. 3 + Q&A!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi everyone, how are you doing? I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Today was simply the laziest day out of the week for me. I spent all day including eating lunch in my bed. I had chicken rice in a bowl while all curled up under the cover with the second season of Elementary on iflix. Sunday is nice. Sunday is good. There are no other day like Sundays.</div>
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β Reading</h4>
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7 Hari Mencintaiku by Siti Rosmizah.</div>
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I read this novel way back in 2012 and since the drama is showing on television right now, I thought I would go down the memory lane once again and reread it.</div>
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I have a bunch of drafts that I haven't finished writing yet. I have so many ideas for blog posts but my brain just wants to shut down all the time. Blogging? Nope. Sleeping? Nope. Everything else β A BIG NOPE.</div>
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) by Whitney Houston.</div>
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Because I love me some 80s. A good pick me up song when you're feeling down.</div>
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... of doing a Q&A posts. Am I well-known enough to do a Q&A though...</div>
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My room! The other day I bought an Ambi Pur air freshener in Green Tea which is my favourite scent for my room but the thing is it doesn't smell like green tea. It actually smells like my brother. Oh y'know, the usual boy scent. Maybe they mislabeled it I'm not sure but hey if your partner is far away and you need some testosterone scent, Ambi Pur Green Tea is a good alternative.</div>
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... for a new template but the currency is awful right now. RM270 for a template? Na-uh. Maybe when the currency gets better. So I took a few hours last night to revamp my blog! I change the colour scheme to #eeeeee, deleted some widgets, added a few more, and if you're reading this you might notice that I have 3 columns for post page! On the right sidebar you can see my popular posts this month and everything else is moved to the left.</div>
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... that Guardian Online processes my order as soon as possible. They had a buy 1 free 1 deal last Friday and a lot of products were on sale so I picked up a few things that I needed. I will do a Mini Drugstore Haul along with two products I got from Watsons Online a few weeks ago.</div>
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MNG sequin shirt and Tesco shorts.</div>
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Like I said in my previous two TSC, Tesco shorts are my favourite and I have a hefty amount of them in my collection so I probably can get away with wearing Tesco pants everyday for two weeks without reusing the same one.</div>
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I feel like I should do a current love post showing you the products, songs, shows, and everything else I've been loving right now but for this TSC, I will have to go with my newly revamped design. I absolutely love it!</div>
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... a new Earpods. I'm on my third right now and this piece of junk is nothing but pricey with zero quality. Although credit must be given as it survived being in washing machine for 45 minutes..</div>
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... a new pair of contact lens. I usually buy the 3 month disposable ones but I use them for a solid two months before purchasing another pair just because I'm not confident that the lenses can withstand being used for a lot longer than that.</div>
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... like I could use some sleep.</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-81353767882616345122016-11-11T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-11T08:00:05.029+08:00For When My Skin is Not at Its Best<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Typing this entry up because my skin <i>is</i> feeling like crap.</div>
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I had laksa yesterday night and it was so delicious. The gravy was perfect β just what I liked! But one of the key ingredients to make the perfect laksa is belacan. Belacan is like that one ingredient that you can put in any dishes (especially sambal base) and they will turn out good. Did I mention that on Wednesday my mom made asam pedas and she put belacan in it and it was so good I felt sad after I was done with my meal because it was <i>that</i> good?</div>
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Belacan is actually a shrimp paste (found out about it like, 5 minutes ago) and I also have seafood allergy so serves me right for consuming food that I cannot eat, right? Who am I to think that I can have the luxury of enjoying seafood and belacan, right? Am I right?</div>
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Anyway, back to the topic. You know how we gals have that one week out of the month when our skin feels and looks like crap especially during period? I hate that time because my makeup looks terrible and the acne scars on my face that has actually lighten looks bright red all of a sudden. For me personally, A week before and during my period are my favourite because my skin looks and feels so good but when I'm nearing the ovulation day (my fertile period is between day 13-19 and today is my day 19), my skin takes a hundred and eighty degree change and oh there you are 3485843 bumps and whiteheads. You're so unwelcome but okay.</div>
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As I lay down in my bed not quite relaxed because I'm itchy everywhere, thinking of the food I ate for the past two or three days and breaking down hysterically because it's taking its toll on me now and there's no other way to get through it other than to be patience and sing Westlife's Fool Again 'cause I'm really a fool.</div>
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After that emotional episode, I eat clean for as long as I could until my mom cooks something that I'm allergic to. Fruits are my best friend. I eat a lot of papaya and watermelon. But not too much of papaya though unless you want to go poo poo 5 times a day (yes it happened to me).</div>
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No matter how comfortable your bed is and how 'lovely' your pillows smell like (ehem stale saliva) after a few weeks of sleeping in it, you should always change your pillow cases once a week and bed sheet I'd say around twice a month. The oil on your hair will transfer to your pillow case and get to your face which can cause breakouts. <a href="https://www.futurederm.com/how-often-should-you-change-your-pillowcase/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read here to know more about pillowcase, detergent and fabric softener, and dust mites</a>.</div>
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Your bed sheet collects dust and dirt and when you came home from a long day outside and you immediately attack your bed ('cause why not?) without changing your clothes, taking a shower, or even washing your feet and all the dirt you collected from your day outside will transfer to your bedding. It's disgusting which is why I'm only using antibacterial body wash (okay if it were me I would have totally chosen LUX Magical Spell but my mom bought my shower gel 'cause she's my mom and who am I to defy her I'm scared). It's okay if I don't smell like lavender unicorn with English rose flower garden thingamajig as long as I'm not itchy all over.</div>
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If you drink 1.5L of water everyday, then drink more during your crappy skin episode. I've always wondered why everyone says that you have to drink enough water everyday if you want clear skin because water is just, water. H20. No other compound in it that can help me with getting clear skin but drinking plain water is important to detoxify your body hence removing all the toxins and gory and disgusting stuff in your body thus making your skin clear without breakouts. <a href="http://www.vegkitchen.com/nutrition/water-detoxifying/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read here to know more about water detoxifying</a>.</div>
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But make sure that you go pee pee at least 10 times a day when you drink, like, 3L of water. If you didn't go pee pee the whole day, please call your doctor because there might be something wrong with your kidney.</div>
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Do you know that scrubbing your face during breakouts will actually make your skin worse? If you have acne-prone skin, please don't ever scrub your face especially with that St. Ives Apricot Scrub because that stuff is very harsh for your skin. Scrubbing acne-prone skin will irritate and aggravate your already inflamed skin. <a href="https://www.verywell.com/should-i-use-a-scrub-for-my-acne-15525" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read here to know more about scrubbing acne-prone skin</a>.</div>
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I know how tempting it is to scrub your face when you have bumps all over but please don't ever do that, have some sympathy on your skin. I scrub my face once or twice a month and that is if I have to go somewhere that needs me to put on makeup so I want a smooth canvas for better makeup application.</div>
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A few days ago, I had one huge zit in between my brows so being me, I picked on it. I popped that puss-infested zit open and there was blood oozing out of it. It felt so good and disgusting at the same time. Then I washed my face using my facial cleanser, wiped my skin dry with fresh cloth and immediately put on <u>Innisfree Super Volcanic Pore Clay Mask</u> to close that wound up. The next day, there was no acne scar visible and I'm so happy and relieved. Phew. One less acne scar to treat! <a href="https://www.byvalenti.com/blog/beauty/facial-clay-masks-dos-and-the-donts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read here to know more about clay mask do's and don'ts</a>.</div>
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I have dry skin with oily T-zone so I use clay mask once or twice a week depending on the condition of my skin. I never have that mask on for more than 20 minutes because clay mask tends to dry you out and pull your excess sebum but the moisture can be replenished by toning and moisturising afterwards. Here's the skincare step that I swear by:</div>
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There you go, the 5 steps I do and don't do when my skin is not at its best. Another thing worth mentioning is to always have enough sleep but when you're in a long distance relationship with 8 hour time difference, 10 pm - 6 am sleep is just not possible for me.</div>
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I think those who blatantly say that blogging is easy have never done it once in their life. Sure, you can sign up for Blogger and use one of their Simple template and call it a day, but there is so much more to blogging than that. There's blood, sweat, tears, and pulling an all-nighter just to have a post published at 8 am the next day. Or maybe that's just me?</div>
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I don't know about you but whenever I'm about to hit that orange Publish button on Blogger, so many things are running through my head:</div>
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"<i>What if my readers don't like it?</i>"</div>
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I guess this depends on what type of blog you're running. If you're a personal blog who only blogs about your life and feelings, then you won't be having these thoughts that often but for my blog personally, I depend on interaction and engagement between me and readers so I can't avoid the anxiety that nobody comments on my posts especially when I work really hard on producing the contents. The feeling sucks. That 10 close up pictures and 20 paragraphs of text do not magically appear by themselves, okay?</div>
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For product reviews, demo, and tutorials, I spend around 3 to 4 hours sitting on a chair with a camera mounted on a tripod in front of me with the help of natural light from my bedroom window. Must. Finish. Shooting. Before. 5PM! What's ISO by the way?<br />
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This one in particular is probably fitted for <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/11/my-7-blogging-sins.html" target="_blank">my blogging sins</a> but I struggle with this every single day. I cannot stop comparing my blog with other blogs with bigger followers and views but they've probably been blogging for years and I only started blogging again back in February so I shouldn't be so hard on myself, right?</div>
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I'm so proud of my blog and to me that's more important than comparing stats but sometimes I just can't help it.</div>
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In case you're confused because you barely see any Malay words on my blog, I am so Malay. Malay af. So Malay if I could eat <i>tempoyak</i> and <i>sambal belacan</i> with <i>ikan kembung goreng</i> everyday, I would. I just prefer English more. I've always loved the language since I was a kid. I read Harry Potter book with both Malay and English versions on the same page side by side.<br />
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Subtle errors, I can deal with. Obvious errors like the use of is/are, has/have/had, with -ed, without -ed, and a bunch of other simple grammar errors that we should not be doing because we <u>have learned</u> them in school, <i>that</i> β I cannot stand. I don't correct people out of respect to them but how will you learn if nobody is correcting you, right?</div>
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I'm blunt. I write how I speak and I can be pretty offensive at times but I'm just keeping it real. I'm not going to sugarcoat things that I don't believe in because then that would be untrue. I know I've written stuff in the past that may or may not offend certain people especially in the <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/08/5-types-of-blog-posts-that-turn-me-off.html" target="_blank">5 posts that turn me off</a> that has gotten me my first ever hate comment (and hopefully the only one) but I'm still sticking to what I said and I have zero respect towards people leaving hate comments anonymously.</div>
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Quit being anonymous and say it directly to me. I don't care, I don't mind, and I won't be offended. I have had worse things being said to me and about me in the past so your "Erin I don't agree with you, you shouldn't be saying this" isn't going to hurt me.<br />
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I have just finished binge-watching Nora Elena again on Iflix and I just had to write this post.</div>
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I forgot how much I <u>loved</u> that drama and how much I loved Seth Tan. I do not condone the whole (trigger warning) <i>rape</i> situation and I do not wish to talk about it so that part is better left out. Seth Tan is a fictional character anyway and it's not like he did it in real life or whatever. Right?</div>
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Now we talk about the good part. The good husband part. Malay dramas are so cliche it actually hurt my brain trying to process the 'accidental' things (example: both lead characters hit each other's car and bickered/found out moms want them to marry. OH PLS!) that happen in each goddamn drama but in Nora Elena the only cliche plot I knew is Seth Tan knew Nora Elena when she bumped into him and takes a liking to her knowing that she is his staff's fiancΓ©e and later found out that she was the girl he (trigger warning) and loved 10 years ago and somehow within God's work, they are married! Life sure does work in mysterious ways in novels, doesn't it?</div>
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Although if I were Elena I do not mind marrying a guy who loves me more than I do him and is super hot and super rich and super protective. (I talk about Malay dramas being cliche while I'm the cliche-minded woman here) (Who could resist this type of guy?)</div>
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Am I the only one who can't write while listening to vocal music? I can only write high quality posts with instrumental music playing in background, preferably my <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/ereenazmir/playlist/6gcg9gmjiRrEYRU4HleP5e" target="_blank">instrumental playlist</a> on Spotify. Yes, I have playlists for <u>everything</u>, quit judging me. For Erin Talks, EXO - Don't Go is my favourite to listen to. Hands off! Sehun and Kai are mine. #bae</div>
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I love every piece in that playlist except <u>Yiruma - River Flows in You</u> because it reminds me of April and August last year when my boyfriend was on a flight back to the UK. I listened to that piece on repeat while tracking his flight on FlightAware and crying my bloody eyes out refreshing the page only to see the small plane icon moving away and away from KLIA and cried even more when he reached London. I hate that feeling. I hate British Airways.</div>
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As you may know, Glenn died. My KPOP baby (he's Korean) is dead! He was brutally killed by Negan, the main antagonist in the series. Negan is played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan who is one of my favourite actors. Gaaaaaah. I hate him for killing Glenn but I love him because he's a good actor. I love him in Grey's Anatomy (he was in the earlier seasons) and The Accidental Husband with Uma Thurman. If you haven't watched that movie yet, please go watch it. I'm a rom-com/chick flick sucker and I probably have watched 75% of famous rom-com/chick flick to date and they're as cliche as Malay dramas but my heart loves it.</div>
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And bee tee dubs, I am skipping season 7 because Glenn is dead. It's not going to be the same without him anymore.</div>
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I wanna talk about my giveaway next. The reason why I love giving away templates is because I think bloggers can benefit more with a template than any other stuff. I see so many of you complaining about free templates and honestly how many of you have used the Rosemary template by ThemeXpose in the past?</div>
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The thing with free templates is you can't do much with it and if you want to tweak it to your liking, you will have to purchase the supported version which is exactly the same like premade templates available on Etsy. And with the free version, there is no support which means you either fix it yourself or find some other templates that can do what you want. If you spend a lot of time on your blog (I probably spend every waking hour with my blog), I don't think forking out less than 50 ringgit for a simple and cute template with support from the seller is too much.</div>
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To date, I have spend around 260 ringgit for my own blog templates (not including giveaways) and to be honest although I spent that much money on intangible things, I don't feel like I'm wasting my money or anything. Blogging is my hobby and I should be willing to spend money on my hobby. Who knows if I might earn stable income from my blog, right?</div>
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And I feel less bad about spending money on my blog because my parents are so supportive of my hobby. My mom thinks my blog is beautiful and I know she tried her best to refrain herself from freaking out when I told her the price of my current template... And my dad supports me with whatever I decide to do with my life.</div>
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Regarding my latest <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/11/giveaway-win-template-of-your-choice.html" target="_blank">giveaway</a>, I actually messaged Fearne on Etsy and asked her if she would like to sponsor my template giveaway and the next day I got a reply from her and she agreed! Oh the things I do for my followers... #pleasegivemesomeloveokay.</div>
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Rafflecopter uses random.org too. The only difference is with the usual blog post entries, you only get one entry for your blog which means, if there are 100 different blogs participating, your chances of winning is 1/100. With Rafflecopter, 3 points means you get 3 entries equals to 3 blog post entries.</div>
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I went for a late lunch with my family (excluding my brother, he's at UNITEN hah PADAN MUKA) at IKEA Cheras yesterday. We initially planned to have lunch at TESCO but dad drove straight ahead to KL and internally I was screaming "goddamned it my outfit is not on point this is my TESCO outfit!". The last time my dad did this was in 2013 when we planned to eat at TESCO but went to Pavilion instead. I don't dress up for other people but my outfit wasn't on point with my standard hey-I'm-gorgeous-today-everything-is-on-fleek-including-my-brows look. I felt so underdressed.</div>
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I ship Neelofa and Fattah Amin so hard it hurts. Enough with the countless eye contact and attraction innuendos, just date already!</div>
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Don't forget to join my <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/11/giveaway-win-template-of-your-choice.html" target="_blank">giveaway</a> if you haven't already and I hope you all have an awesome week! Talk soon.</div>
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I have an exciting news to share with you! <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/FearneCreativeDesign" target="_blank">FearneCreativeDesign</a> agreed to team up with me and give out <b>two templates</b> of your choice for this template giveaway! <b>Two (2) winners</b> will be chosen and each one of them will pick<b> one template</b> that they like from <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/08/5-types-of-blog-posts-that-turn-me-off.html" target="_blank">FCD Etsy shop</a>. They have 17 templates to choose from and I'm sure you will find one that you like. Their templates come with free installation so if you're clueless about installing the templates, they can do it for you. All the details will be given once I've contacted the winners so we don't have to think about that now.</div>
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The rules to join this giveaway are very simple. You will have to:</div>
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2. visit <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/FearneCreativeDesign" target="_blank">FearneCreativeDesign</a> shop</div>
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And that's it! Super easy β fuss free! You can visit and comment on this post everyday for extra points!</div>
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Now, for the most exciting part! THE TEMPLATES! I have used two of their templates in the past and I have gotten a lot of compliments and I also helped some of you gals with purchasing the templates from FCD *winks* Their templates are responsive, simple, and minimalistic. I really like all of their templates so I hope you will join this giveaway!</div>
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Just click on the links below for theme page to know more about the templates and demo! Don't forget to fill out the giveaway form at the end of this post! Good luck everyone x</div>
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Clementine β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/289486265/sale-clementine-responsive-blogger" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://clementineedemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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Vendela β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/489306281/sale-vendela-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://vendelademo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/289491329/sale-victoire-responsive-blogger" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://victoiredemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a> β Victoire</h4>
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Monroe β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/294576795/sale-monroe-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://monroedemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/277474770/sale-esmee-o-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://esmeedemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a> β EsmΓ©e</h4>
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Kaia β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/475798754/sale-kaia-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://kaiademo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/456064686/sale-gigi-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://gigiidemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a> β Gigi</h4>
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Orianna β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/275977986/sale-orianna-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://oriannademo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/467882263/sale-lea-o-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://leaademo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a> β LΓ©a</h4>
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Harley β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/454568014/sale-harley-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://harleydemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/290185539/sale-ridley-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://ridleydemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a> β Ridley</h4>
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Gadot β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/294840827/sale-gadot-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://gadotdemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/384883074/sale-tulisa-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://tulisademo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a> β Tulisa</h4>
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Zuzana β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/275980742/sale-zuzana-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://zuzanademo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/275979920/sale-schumer-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://schumerdemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a> β Schumer</h4>
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Kell β <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/385226880/sale-kell-responsive-blogger-template" target="_blank">page</a> / <a href="http://kelldemo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">demo</a></h4>
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Hi everyone! Check back on this post a little after 12AM tonight for the announcement of the winner on the widget. To the two winners, congratulations in advanced! And to those who don't win, that's okay, you can always contact me if you still want to buy a template. Unfortunately, this will be the last giveaway for 2016 πͺ</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-72416466454366299892016-11-04T21:43:00.001+08:002016-11-04T21:43:23.524+08:00My Day in Numbered List (and exciting news!)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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2. Ooooooh. That must be Poslaju! Goes downstairs to get the mail WITHOUT brushing my teeth just because.</div>
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4. Swatched the powder while ooh aah-ing. Still haven't brushed my teeth.</div>
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5. *<i>Last niiiiiiight I lay in bed sooooo blueeeeeee.....</i>* WHO IS CALLING ME AT 12PM WHAT ISSUE DO YOU HAVE WITH ME????</div>
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6. Oh. It's Aida. Probably sending the lunchbox I ordered from her yesterday and also to get her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BMJYAvHjKrL/" target="_blank">Kendall Black Gold glasses</a> that she ordered from me which is gorgeous by the way.</div>
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8. I'M HUNGRY. But of course being a good mother she insisted (more like forced) us to take a shower first before lunch.</div>
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10. This <i>kuah asam</i> is so full of <i>belacan</i> I might get an allergy reaction later in the evening but good god it's so good.</div>
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11. Now, what do I do?</div>
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15. Checked my emails. I have six email accounts please bear with me. And no, Hermo, I don't care about your up to 70% off on #HMALLTIMEFAVOURITE. *dies a little*</div>
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16. Oooooh they replied! I'm so excited!</div>
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17. I'm so pumped I might just do work downstairs instead of binge watching Elementary on my bed.</div>
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18. Gotta play that <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/ereenazmir/playlist/3cVRHOCyPV73F3E9dgRVFI" target="_blank">Oldies playlist</a> on Spotify because girl needs to be in the mood.</div>
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19. This chair is uncomfortable. My spine needs to be in a horizontal position aka I need to lie down.</div>
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20. Girl needs some Barry Allen after doing work. Thank god for Draco Malfoy (I <u>refused</u> to call him Tom) β excellent British accent you have there, luv.</div>
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21. I NEED MY BED.</div>
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22. Goes to YouTube to find a video to Boyz II Men song I'm currently listening while doing this blog post but got stucked on KathleenLights' new beauty video instead. But here you go sorry for the delay:</div>
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23. Referring to point 16, I will be doing another template giveaway! Wait for the details tomorrow, November 5th at 8.30AM! (hint: two winners!)</div>
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24. That goddamned <i>belacan</i>.</div>
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25. So how's your day?</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-46454719113447740092016-11-04T08:00:00.000+08:002016-11-04T17:34:36.642+08:00Essence I Love Extreme Crazy Volume Mascara + Demo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello everyone. I have a feeling that November is going to be my lazy month unlike October where I managed to published 25 posts in 31 days! That's a huge success for me and my blog. I wasn't lazy last month but now I can feel every inch of my muscle not wanting me to write on my blog. I didn't know what to post so I'm using one of my drafts because I don't want my blog to be dead without new posts. At least one post every other day is okay for my lazy ass.</div>
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I got this <u>Essence I Love Extreme Crazy Volume Mascara</u> a few weeks ago along with a new moisturiser which I'm currently loving (so good!) from Watsons. I ordered them online with RM7 postage charge. I don't know about you guys but I hate paying for postage which is why you don't have to pay for postage for most of the items in my online shop! Go check it out here: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoperin.co/" target="_blank">@shoperin.co</a> (shameless pug right here)</div>
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My <a href="https://www.instagram.com/meeraazmir/" target="_blank">sister</a> insisted that I mention this mascara is hers so you guys, this mascara is my sister's. She bought it for <u>RM15.90</u> which as you all know, Essence is a very inexpensive drugstore brand. Mostly nothing over 30 ringgit!</div>
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Nothing special I can say about the wand, it's just your regular straight mascara wand that does a good job in separating lashes. Here I will show you the before and after:</div>
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I have a love-hate relationship with this mascara. I loved the effect it gave my lashes. As you can see, with only one coat you can get extreme and crazy lashes like the name suggested. It lengthens, it volumizes, it separates my lashes. Basically what you see in the picture is what you get.</div>
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There's a reason why I only put on one coat.</div>
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It flakes. It crumbles. You can see bits of mascara under my eye and the photo was only taken merely 5 minutes after application. I don't know if I got a bad batch or anything because everyone who tried it <u>loved</u> it. The bottom lash application is a pain in the arse because the formula is so clumpy so it's hard to get it evenly on the bottom lashes.</div>
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This mascara is <u>not waterproof</u> so you can't really expect it to last all day long especially when it starts to crumble as soon as you've applied it even in air-conditioned room.</div>
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If you don't like clumpy mascara at all, then this isn't the one for you. Try the Essence Lash Mania Reloaded instead. That one is a natural mascara that still gives you the length and volume you need without doing too much.</div>
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All in all, it might work better on you than on me so if you wanted to give this a try then go ahead because for RM15.90, you're not really breaking the bank if it didn't work out for you in the end.</div>
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There are a few things that I do not do for my blog which I probably really should (or what I do which I probably better of not doing) so let's go through the blogging sins I'm shamelessly guilty of.</div>
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I don't own white/marble backgrounds</h4>
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For some reason I don't have any crisp white surface in my house that I can use as background for my photos. I even thought about using white A4 paper for individual product photos but I've never gotten around to trying it. If you did see me with white background in my photos in the future, that's Tesco brand white A4 paper 70gsm.</div>
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I don't join any giveaways</h4>
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I'm just going to be blunt and tell you why I don't join any β I hate having to do entry posts just to enter giveaways. I know that in my first giveaway I had the participants done the same thing and I absolutely hated it so in my second giveaway, I used Rafflecopter form that was very easy to join β no entry posts needed. I know I probably won't win anyway so I've never been bothered to join.</div>
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I want people to follow my blog but I just don't like having the gadget on my blog. I did move the gadget into a Page which I linked in the dropdown on the navigation bar and I can't stand having that, too so I removed it. You can either follow my blog manually or follow me via <a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/erin-azmir-14846565" target="_blank">Bloglovin'</a> which is what I prefer more.</div>
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Just like followers gadget, I don't like having chat box on my blog. I know that it's easier for visitors to leave a message but then that's just.. that. A message. I know it because I do it too β I visit people's blogs and I leave a message saying "blogwalking" with a smiley and if there's any indication that the blog I'm visiting always do follow back, I follow their blogs and leave a longer message like "blogwalking and followed x" just to get them to follow me back. And then I'm left with a crowded dashboard full of posts that I don't personally read. I do appreciate visitors leaving messages and I will continue leaving messages on blogs I visit for the first time but I'm just not going to have that on my blog anymore.</div>
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I don't care about DA/Alexa rank/SEO/Google Analytics</h4>
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In my opinion and research I did, these are only important if you monetise your blog and you need all the help to get more page views and higher ranks. I don't know what domain authority does, Alexa rank is only important for brands to consider you for sponsorship and advertisements, SEO is to get your blog on the first page of google search, and google analytics is just too hard for me to understand and I ain't got no time for that..</div>
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I suck at taking flatlays</h4>
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One of the struggles I have with blogging is definitely taking pictures for my posts. I'm not artistic, I don't even have an ounce of art skills in me so I find photography really hard for me to learn especially flatlays. I don't have the appropriate props (or I just couldn't be bothered to scavenge around my house) and I don't have the patience.</div>
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The first thing I notice about a blog when I visit them is their blog design. The use of colours and fonts are really important to me in deciding whether I like a blog or not. Now, you definitely do not need to buy a premade template for this because I know <a href="http://www.eecashyaa.com/" target="_blank">Eeca Shyaa</a> made her own template and her design is beautiful! I hardcore judge a blog by their design and I don't like that I do that to every single blog I visit but I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this, right?</div>
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Hi everyone, how are you today?</div>
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I'm not really in the mood to blog (but I do read you guys' posts!) but I had to make this post just to chit chat and kinda give an update on what's been happening and all.</div>
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I'm currently just chilling in my room with my sister who has Ariana's Side to Side on repeat on her MacBook. Who could have known that that song is about sex? My thirteen year old sister has no clue and let's just hope she wouldn't be having any until she's 21. Definitely.</div>
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Anyway, I baked today and I made chocolate brownies with crushed almonds. It wasn't my first time baking that but I fall in love over and over again everytime I make that brownies courtesy of a recipe from <a href="http://www.azlitamasammanis.com/2015/08/chocolate-brownies-kedut.html" target="_blank">Azlita Masam Manis</a>. If you followed the recipe to the T, it would be too sweet for some people's liking so I suggest using 80gm of castor sugar instead of 100gm. Delicious!</div>
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What's brownies and cakes without coffee? Incomplete. I'm in dire need of a coffee grinder or a Keurig but this Nescafe Oh So Dreamy white coffee with brown sugar is my absolute favourite. I repurchased this pack of 15 countless times already and I really recommend it if you're a coffee drinker like me. I like my coffee strong so I always put less hot water in my coffee. Honestly, I don't get people who prefer light (almost tasteless!) coffee. I mean, what's the point of drinking coffee if it's not to give you a shock to the head with the strong aroma and taste?</div>
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On Saturday, I went out with my family to Mitsui Outlet Park for lunch. We had a delightful meal at DΓME CafΓ© and I ordered their lemongrass baked fish with rice (your home girl <u>dies</u> without rice) and iced mocha with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. I gained 5 pounds from that meal but it was so worth it.</div>
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I wanted to do some shopping because who could resist shopping it's like ingrained on my body and soul so my dad gave each of us a couple of hundreds but I ended up not buying anything. The <u>MAC Matte Lipstick in Stone</u> that has been in my wish list and RM23 cheaper than in MAC stores? Pass. But now I'm slowly regretting not getting it though...</div>
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On the way home, we stopped by Bangi Sentral, the worldly heaven for hijabis. My mom and I really wanted to check out Imaan Boutique and CalaQisya shawls as they were on craaaazy sale but unfortunately by the time we reached there, they were already closing. But I did get 3 Radiusite Instant Khayla hijabs for RM9 a piece! The original price was RM62 and to be honest it was my first time hearing about Instant Khayla but you could do no wrong with buying a nine ringgit scarf. I didn't get more because the 3 pieces I got were the only colours left. Now if I arrived just a little bit earlier in the day...</div>
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My giveaway ended last night at 12AM and thank you to everyone who joined! I have already chosen a winner and emailed her about the giveaway. As you can see on my sidebar, I have already inserted a Giveaway Winner blog list that will be up until December 31st. Congratulations to <a href="http://liyanajay.blogspot.my/" target="_blank">Liyana Jasmi</a> for winning the giveaway. The reason why she won is because she visited my blog everyday for the extra entries thus giving her higher chances of being chosen as the winner. It's the effort that counts, right? Are you interested if I do more template giveaways? Do let me know in the comment below.</div>
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Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-38749163501201119112016-10-31T00:00:00.000+08:002016-11-18T13:30:22.245+08:00[ENDED] Update on My Template Giveaway<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Hi everyone. Thank you to those who have joined my template giveaway and I wish you luck but unfortunately I am an impatient person and I couldn't wait another 3 weeks to announce the winner so I'm going to end this giveaway two weeks earlier than scheduled on:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm hosting this giveaway for only two weeks as oppose to a month which I stated on my <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/10/premade-template-giveaway-by.html" target="_blank">giveaway post</a> because I can't wait to see the winner using this template. It makes me happy when I see beautiful blogs and everyone who already joined are my blogger friends so forgive me for being too excited to see one of them with a new design. If I were Kylie Jenner I would give each one of my blogger friends an expensive template of their choice ah I'm obsessed!</div><br />
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</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm giving away the <a href="http://beautydesign-photography.blogspot.my/" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a> template by SandyTheme and if you think it's what you want for your blog, then do join the giveaway. The rules are very simple: just fill in the form and follow the instructions given.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I will email the winner on October 31st and please reply to me as soon as possible or I will choose another winner the next day. Good luck!</div><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I kept revisiting netkl.com contemplating to purchase the mySilver X package for self-hosted Wordpress. I even messaged the customer service asking them about my domain and if I can transfer my current domain to mySilver X so I don't have to pay for hosting and domain separately. Turns out I can.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I found a new gorgeous blog design that I like for Wordpress but I did browse through Etsy and found a few inexpensive ones just in case I became impulsive and decided to migrate immediately. I'm jealous of those who took the plunge and migrated their blogs because I feel like they can do so much more with their new platform while I'm stuck with this <i>goddamn </i>Blogger where trying to add a dropdown menu for Pages needed you to spend at least an hour to find a suitable tutorial that ended up not working so you have to use your experience of 8 years with Blogger codings to make it work. What. The hell. (It happened. Check out my About dropdown.)</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">But using Wordpress means you're responsible for everything including making sure that your server is online and your blog is still under bandwidth limit because God forbid your blog had to go offline because you've reached bandwidth before the end of the month. You will have to pay for extra GB of bandwidth and if you're not making money of your blog, then it's honestly not worth it unless if you don't mind to spend money on your blog without getting something in return.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">So here I am, in my bed, after a long and busy day outside, writing this post and trying to reason with myself that I don't need a shiny new template on a shiny new platform that may cost me almost half a thousand to set up.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I mean, Blogger is easy β Blogger is free and the templates are not as expensive as Wordpress's. Sure the features are limited but do I <i>really</i> need all of those features? Okay maybe I do but do I <i>desperately</i> need those features that if I don't have them I wouldn't be able to blog? Well, not really.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That's where my dilemma comes in. In between wanting to try something new and staying with what I'm already comfortable with.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For now, I'm choosing to fall in love again with what I already have. In this particular case, my Blogger blog and what it has succeeded in 8 months.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2cKhHOqRMWAjQiWBQUIJkycMwT9jaTvNQijQM6G6xTDqIoXiBb-Sbp4EevzqLxIiVoB8vNEKZiEo5SjF18aVZzFCALCdtNobr_uR1sWZRJjtmjNNf2M2vfmiYLn5CdaQevbEzLdUbPQ/s1600/blog-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 10px"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2cKhHOqRMWAjQiWBQUIJkycMwT9jaTvNQijQM6G6xTDqIoXiBb-Sbp4EevzqLxIiVoB8vNEKZiEo5SjF18aVZzFCALCdtNobr_uR1sWZRJjtmjNNf2M2vfmiYLn5CdaQevbEzLdUbPQ/s640/blog-2.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have a domain β there's nothing new with this. I created www.erinazmir.com on July 2015 for my Tumblr blog which I then moved to Blogger. I've always hated the dot blogspot dot com so I had to get my own domain no matter what.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've reached 56.000 pageviews and 300 followers β it's not much but I am an English blog based in a Malay-speaking country where English blogs are not being acknowledged all that much (I received more emails from overseas brands asking for collaboration than locals' β that's saying a lot) so I kind of knew beforehand that I won't be the next Cik Epal or Fatin Liyana or Maria Elena with husband and babies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">My template β is still relatively new. I've only been using it for a month and I haven't done anything major to it yet aside from changing body font and adjusting width of the post. I love tweaking templates but I spent a lot of money on this one so I kinda prefer it to look like the demo version no matter how much I want to incorporate Montserrat and Oswald and pink tab menu background on my blog.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lastly, my posts β I'm proud of what I have written. My era of posting tens rubbish posts everyday has ended years ago when doing blog tutorials would make your blog famous. Blogging community is already saturated as it is so there's no room for making obvious mistakes if you want your blog to succeed. No more coloured fonts. No more using script fonts for anything other than header. No more using blogskins β everyone else is using responsive templates be it the ones you can get for free or paid. Choosing responsive template is not even an option anymore, it's a must. You can get away with all this if you're a personal blog with no niche and you only post about your life, your family, your studies or if you're an established blogger with loyal readers but if you do have a niche or if you're only just starting out on blogging, then doing what I mentioned above won't get you far.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nowadays, design and content go hand in hand. You're attracting visitors to read your content with an aesthetically pleasing design and you're making them stay on your blog with engaging contents. Obviously you can do whatever you want with your blog and as long as you're satisfied, then why should you care about what anyone says, right?</div></div></div>Erin | herlittleplans.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498973555777550347noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738814931904554380.post-60401679475651299392016-10-27T16:14:00.001+08:002016-10-27T16:16:30.253+08:00COMING SOON β SHOPERIN.CO!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi everyone! I am so excited to announce that I am opening an online shop on Instagram β <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoperin.co/" target="_blank">@SHOPERIN.CO</a>!</h4>
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I will be selling affordable makeup brush sets that will not break your bank. 99% of brush sets are RM100 and below and I swear you will be in dilemma trying to pick one to buy! Everything is free postage for peninsular Malaysia and +RM5 for Sabah & Sarawak. Preorder items will be stated in the caption (#SHOPERINPREORDER) as those usually take longer time to arrive and some people are not keen on preorder items so need not worry! You can whatsapp me if you have questions about that.</div>
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I will also be selling makeup items that are hard to get in Malaysia. DON'T WORRY! I only sell <b>authentic makeup products</b> as I do not condone buying or selling fake makeup items as they're bad for your skin. I haven't uploaded any makeup items on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoperin.co/" target="_blank">@shoperin.co</a> but these are the products that I will be selling:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>LA GIRL</u> Pro Conceal/primer</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>MAKEUP REVOLUTION</u> - palettes/highlighter/blusher/eyebrow kit</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>REAL TECHNIQUES</u> Miracle Complexion Sponge</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>LA SPLASH</u> Velvet Matte Liquid Lipsticks</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>NYX</u> Soft Matte Lip Cream (always out of stock in Sephora!)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>FREEDOM MAKEUP</u> Pro Strobe Palette/Eye Palette</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>COTY</u> Air Spun Loose Powder</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>JEFFREE STAR</u> Liquid Lipsticks - Masochist/Celebrity Skin</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>RIMMEL</u> primer/stay matte powder/sculpting palette</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>ELF</u> primer/eye primer/setting powder/setting spray</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>ETUDE HOUSE</u> Play 101 Stick</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><u>COLOURPOP</u> Lippiestix (Brink/Cami)/Ultra Satin Lip (Magic Wand/Echo Park/Alyssa/November)</li>
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There are also sunglasses, makeup train case, and selfie ring light for your phones. I'm planning on bringing in affordable acrylic makeup organizer to the store. They can be super expensive so if I can find some good quality but affordable ones, that would be awesome!</div>
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I hope you can take a look at my shop and tell me what you think. I still have a lot of items to upload but if you're planning on buying any makeup or brushes above, just let me know by leaving a comment below and I can check if they're still available or not (most of them are ready stock!)!</div>
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoperin.co/" target="_blank">@SHOPERIN.CO</a></h2>
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It's time for me to do a review of the Garnier Skin Naturals Micellar Cleansing Water that I ordered from Hermo last week. I believe the Skin Naturals line comes in two types which are <u>Gentle</u> and <u>Oil Control</u> but I went with Gentle because my face basically produces no oils and this sensitive skin of mine needed something gentle or it can go crazy, trust me. Take it from someone who got breakouts from eating Samyang ramen.</div>
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The 400ml bottle retails at RM29.90 and the 125ml at RM14.90. I suggest you go with the 400ml because this is basically water and 15 ringgit for a 125ml of water is expensive. You will use a lot of this if you have on heavy makeup.</div>
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This All-in-1 cleanser is surprisingly powerful yet gentle to skin. It effectively removes makeup, cleanses skin and refreshes. A multi-purpose cleanser that contains Micellar technology. Like a magnet, micelles capture and lift away dirt, oil and makeup without harsh rubbing, leaving skin perfectly clean, hydrated and refreshed without over-drying.</blockquote>
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To be honest, I don't care what it claims to do as long as it removes my makeup one hundred percent without breaking me out or burning my skin. I always double cleanse after removing my makeup as using makeup remover alone isn't enough.</div>
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The makeup I have on is not that heavy but I do have foundation, eyeshadows, and mascara on. The makeup was only a few hours old before I removed it with this micellar water and most of the makeup hasn't rubbed off yet so you can see how it works with fresh makeup instead of 10-12 hour makeup that is probably gone by the end of the night.</div>
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It removes my makeup wonderfully! I always use a toner after washing my face with facial wash and there was no makeup residue on the cotton pad. It doesn't have any smell nor burn my skin so it's perfect for sensitive skin. I used this micellar water to remove my lipsticks for the <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/10/mac-lipsticks-swatches-demo_21.html" target="_blank">MAC Lipsticks Swatches + Demo</a> and it worked great and very gentle on my lips. It's very hydrating and does not dry out my skin.</div>
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I needed quite a lot of cotton pad to remove my makeup as using one or two pads weren't enough. During the removing process where I swiped the pad all over my face, it moved my foundation instead of picking it up on the pad. Imagine trying to wipe spilled oil on a table with wet cloth, the wet cloth isn't picking up the oil in one swipe and you have to wipe a few times before the oil is all picked up, that's how it was with this micellar water.</div>
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The other trick is leaving a cotton pad soaked with this micellar water on the eye for 10 seconds before removing it gently. It didn't remove all my makeup in one swipe like my <a href="http://www.erinazmir.com/2016/03/products-showdown-makeup-removers.html" target="_blank">Good Virtues Co. Purifying Makeup Remover</a> can. I still have to wipe my eyes a few times before everything was gone and I didn't even have eyeliner on and the mascara I was using isn't waterproof.</div>
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The micellar water will not leave you with a red face like my skin. My face is always red everytime I get out of shower and everytime I use makeup remover/toner/moisturizer before going back to its 'natural' colour so please don't mind that. All in all, it is a good makeup remover and I definitely recommend it especially if you have sensitive skin.</div>
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