Beginning  March 2008, this will be where you can get a glimpse into my daily life, thoughts, some sneak previews of work... la di da. The usual goes: Be polite when commenting, and please don't steal/misuse/abuse any images featured on this blog. Copyrighted intellectual property and all that.... ^__^

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Cheers!
Fae

Is it bad taste to match an all black dress + hosiery + boots with peachy taupe smoky eye (warm neutrals) and stupidly bling silver glitter (think discoball) nail polish?
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M.A.C. Liquidlast Eyeliner

Thinking of chucking my MAC Liquidlast Eyeliner. Annoys me that this supposed "non budge non smudge super clubbing eyeliner" still smudges, is tough to remove, has the consistency of tar and is doing one hell of a number on my poor eyeliner brush. ;__; It's practically new! My inner Asian housewife cringes at the thought of just chucking it but it's so shit that I wouldn't want to wish it on anyone else.

Am contemplating whether I should get that Estee Lauder eyeliner that koalapuff swears by in time for this week's workshop. >_< I can afford it, especially if it's going to be a holygrail item....... but still. Spendy Faye is spendy.

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I hate to say it, but I think my skin loves the workouts I've been doing. Been a good girl and doing my hamster routine every morning, and my skin is practically glowing. As much as I hate strenuous physical activity, I may have to keep this up just for the facial benefits alone. >_<

She gets you hooked on the Loli drug ... XD

Today was a super fun day of girlie insanity at sonia_leong 's, full of cake, non stop yapping and trying on her wardrobe of corsets and BURANDO loli things.

Sadly /shamefully /spendthriftly, after many years of never touching the loli/EGL/loligoth fashion scene, today I've made my first loli-related purchase from Sonia in the form of a gorgeous black Innocent World dress that fortunately does not make me look like an oversized meringue. Housemates fuuringo and wyldflowa were fellow victims of this spending/ fashion spree. Look forward to seeing me and fuuringo making our loli-esque debut at Leeds Thought Bubble! :D

Now after all that nonstop chattering about petticoats, corsets, hemlines, sashes, wa-loli, stockings, parasols and shoes......... I am very tired. It's tough being a woman. XD

 This is what happens when you don't plan your drawings in advance....



Deciding to add in some sort of background halfway through..... means painting around the character. 

1 loosely screwed on lotion bottle cap + butter fingers = what looks like a bukakke party all over my room + 1 very well moisturised carpet.

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 What started as a quick idea for a cute 60's inspired singer turned into something much more complex....

Spent the past hour or so noodling at this to relax from staring at vectors all day, still incomplete.


I've only just realised I don't know how to paint/ depict a girl of oriental descent. O_o Its hard!

Gladys Knight - The way we were.

Beautiful song, and coincidentally, has the same title as my RSOM winning comic entry. ^____^

London Expo was super fun this time, with me being awake and functioning as opposed to my May Expo zombie self. Tried cosplaying as Faith Connors from Mirror's Edge for the first time, and it was really cool walking around as not-myself. Plus getting people who recognised and like my costume was awesome. ^_______^ (pictured above: fuuringo , myself, koalapuff & pinkapplejam )

This Expo both my new books came out, so thank you to everyone out there who bought a copy of The Merchant of Venice & Talking to Strangers (also featuring Nana Li, Wing Y. Man, Chloe Citrine & Sonia Leong). I had a lot of fun drawing them, and I hope you enjoy them!

Some very surreal "oh-my-god-is-this-happening-to-me???" moments at Expo include:

• sitting behind the Signing table with fuuringo signing copies of our books like celebrities XD
• having people asking for my photo/ complimenting me on a Faith cosplay well done.
• being on a panel with bigger fish like Ben Templesmith, Jamie McKelvie + Kieron Gillen, Antony Johnston, Declan Shalvey, Al Ewing, Dan Boultwood (who were a very nice and fun bunch).

Goes without saying that hats must be taken off for Pud & emmav for working their asses off making sure the Comic Village went along like a well oiled machine of destruction awesome.

I really enjoyed Expo this round, and having a good time being with Fehed and all my Sweatdrop buddies (both during con hours and drunken-post-con mingling) just made it GREAT! 

ps: Fehed commented that the photo above looks like I'm about to get punched by fuuringo  , poked in the eye by koalapuff  , and happyslapped by pinkapplejam  . Photo with SFX below. XD 

Warning: Vain Makeup ramblings below.

Clinique Repairwear Anti Ageing Foundation SPF15
Went to Clinique counter to get my skin matched for their Repairwear Foundation that many rave about. The MA put in on along with some blush and gloss, let me look in the mirror................... and oh good gracious me, as wyldflowa would say: "Jesus wept."

It was a horrific cakey mess that made me instantly 10 years older. Even with the pore-minimising whatnot the MA put on me, it still emphasised whatever pores,fine lines & dry patches I had, and I look like I'd applied beige cement on with a trowel. I've seen it look awesome on sonia_leong  , so obviously this is a case of it just not being for me. The Repairwear gets a thumb down from me. :(


Guerlain  Parure Extreme:  Luminous Extreme Wear Foundation SPF25
Later at koalapuff  's, we were swapping notes on foundation and after hearing about the cakey mess of doom, she excitedly insisted on swabbing my now-cleaned face with her foundation. Wasn't expecting anything awesome (since IMO all foundation is foundation, no matter how expensive/branded it is).................

HOLY COW I may have just found my perfect foundation. ME! Miss-I-hate-feeling-gunk-on-my-face Vainpot. So far first impression is really really good. This is the first ever foundation that I actually like the look of on my face.  If it looks this good on my bare face, I can't imagine how awesome it would be on a properly moisturised and primed one. Plus, it beats the Clinique one on SPF powaaahhh!!!

Thankfully koalapuff  had a spare half-finished bottle lying around that she gave to me, so I'm spared the shelling out of many monies for this baby.  Can't wait to put it to the test of all-day-wear! Update of complete review to come in the future, fingers crossed that I've found my HG. ^o^

Pelmeni & Shee (or my faux poor-man shee) is SUCCESS! Many thanks to toothycat for introducing me to this amazing Russian work of art. ^______________^

I wanted so badly to take photos (to present to Sensei Mr toothycat for approval) but unfortunately fehed 's camera is on loan to his sister, and we were a little busy stuffing our faces with meat dumplings & vegetable broth topped with creme fraiche. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM....

Now that hunger + cooking mania has been appeased, the Pelmeni & Shee monster can go back so sleep so I can work in peace....

Best part is? I get to have it again tomorrow!!! ^o^