© AlexMaster

I never thought I’d be one to actually write any sort of “guide” when it comes to health and fitness. Heck, this time last year, I was still either sitting at the desk all day in front of the computer and not exercising or sitting on the couch all weekend watching TV and not exercising. I was one heck of a sloth. It doesn’t mean I’m still not a lazy bugger now. I can be, when it comes to certain things. But things have slowly but surely improved in the health and fitness department, so I thought I’d start a category of blog posts called “Tine’s Guide to Getting Off Your Bum“. Initially, I wanted to call it somewhere along the lines of “a lazy girl’s guide” but hey, I’m a firm believer in time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. 😛

By no means am I a health expert, nor am I judging anyone who dislikes exercising. Believe you me, I understand the feeling. I know the feeling. I revelled in the feeling. Heck, I’ve had it for the past 20 years! I’m still not a fan of most exercises; heck, if you asked me to do a few particular exercises, I’d rather go to the dentist. If you went out for a 5 to 10-minute walk, then yay, you’ve gotten off your bum! The key is getting off that bum and that’s what this series is about. It’s not going to be a weekly feature; I don’t know all that much yet and I’m still learning. But here’s what I’ll say: if this person here (I’m pointing to myself) can get off her bum after leading a very sedentary lifestyle for so long, you can do it too.

Okay I’m starting to sound like a cliche or one of those weight-losing shows on TV now. You know what I mean, so I’ll get on with it. 😛

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It’s been quite some time since I’ve used a foundation that comes in a jar. Never mind that it’s not a favourite type of packaging of mine; a lot of the jar foundations I’ve tested for the past few years have fallen short of my expectations. So far, the only jar foundation that I enjoyed using is the best full coverage foundation I’ve ever tried, which is the Revlon ColourStay Whipped Creme Makeup foundation.

On one of my trips to Priceline, I stumbled upon Bourjois’ Nude Sensation Blur Effect Foundation. It also comes in a jar. To be honest, as soon as I saw the jars, I was already disappointed because I’m just not a fan of that sort of packaging. But at that time, the Nude Sensation foundation was a new product so I decided to at least swatch the product to see what it was like. Upon first swatch … hmm, not bad, I thought. It had an introductory offer price at that time so I thought I’d get it and see how it goes. You know how Priceline (and other drugstores) are dangerous like that. 😛

Turns out, this happens to be another good foundation that has the misfortune of coming in a jar.

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© Masson

Have you noticed how more and more blogs these days are coming up with email newsletters? Why, when I first started blogging, the only email newsletters I’d see and subscribe to are from retailers! Yet now we have more email newsletters from bloggers than we do our favourite shops!

Believe it or not, what’s valuable to a blogger these days isn’t the amount of followers he/she has on social media. That’s what a lot of bloggers think are valuable, that the success of a blog is correlated to the amount of social media followers. You’ll be surprised to know that this isn’t true, at least, not for all niches. For fashion bloggers, yes. For any sort of niche that has stunning images as content, maybe. But for everyone else, that’s not where the goldmine is. What’s actually valuable to a blogger is not the social media follower figures. It’s email addresses.

Your email address.

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