Hey Everyone, As the year draws to a close, I don’t know why but I guess it’s looking back at the year that makes me super reflective at the moment. I’m thinking about all the lessons I’ve learnt this year and I want to pen them down before it’s just…
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Tangspiration: Words to Myself
Hey Everyone, I want to let you know that when you walk into a fearful situation, you are not walking as one, but as much more. You are walking in with all the experiences you’ve ever experienced, all the people you’ve ever met, all the hard work and effort you’ve…
Tangspiration: It’s been a while
Hey Everyone, I feel like it’s been a while since I connected with you on a more personal level, sharing my feelings and thoughts. Today, I thought I’d just spill my thoughts everywhere, see where this goes and give you basically a general update of how I feel about life…
Tangspiration: The Other Side of Fear
Hey Everyone, Life teaches you different things in stages and I’ve found that often, they’re a sum of our experiences and struggles. For me, I’ve been realising two things lately – what both “constant” and thinking positive really means. I know it’s silly but I live alone and for the longest time…
Tangspiration: #DearMe – A note to my younger self
Hey Everyone :) I saw this tag floating around and I wanted to do a video but then it’s night and late and I thought I’d write it down instead. If you don’t know what this tag is about, it’s basically a letter to your younger self. I’m going to…
Make-up Tutorial! Nude Lips & Plum Smokey Eyes ft. Brigitte!
Hey Everyone! Hello 2015! I just realised that this will be my first blog post of 2015. Woot! Today I thought I would try and do the classic smokey eyes and nude lips look. All celebs are sporting it on the red carpet and it’s just one of those never…
Tangspiration: How I feel about Losing the Weight
Hey Everyone, To this day, I have lost just about 10kg since I started my “weightloss journey” three months ago and I have to say that I’ve come to the conclusion that losing weight isn’t just about losing weight. It’s a life lesson – something that feels like climbing Mt.…
Tangspiration: How Important YOU Are
Hey Everyone, Do you know how important YOU are? Most of the time we always underestimate ourselves. I know I always do. I always doubt how much I mean to someone, doubt how much I can do and most of all, doubt what I can do. And I think this…
Tangspiration: Good Enough For Me
Hey Everyone, I had a friend who used to be crazy about a certain guy that she liked so much. She’d go the moon and back and do everything for this guy. He never really cared to be honest and sometimes he’d only want to see her at night. She’d worry constantly…
Tangspiration: Roads
Hey Everyone, Happy weekend. I’m still in my pj’s while typing this up and I wanted to let you know that I’m starting a new business. It’s been a long time coming and it seems that everything that I have as of now relates to it. That’s quite a major…
Tangspiration: They Just Don’t Get It.
Hey Everyone, Sometimes the closest people you know can tell you that you can’t do something. It might be a friend, a random stranger you met or even your parents. They might tell you you’re crazy, that whatever you’re doing is just a phase, look at you weird or just…
Tangspiration: Oh, the weight gain.
Hey Everyone, Let’s be honest, I’ve gained a lot of weight coming back from Uni. I was flipping through some pictures today and I was totally really honestly quite taken a back at myself. It wasn’t that I was self critical of myself but more that I was confused. Not…
Tangspiration: It’s Not My Time Yet
Hey Everyone, I’ve wanted things just like everyone else and I’ve tricked myself into thinking I wouldn’t be happy without it. Maybe it’s that $4,000 bag your friend is sporting, or that trip to the Bahamas or maybe it’s just as simple as getting a job promotion. Something that I’ve…
Tangspiration: We are who we are.
Hey Everyone, This is for everybody who feels like they’re on the edge about whether they should go ahead and do what they love or they should just conform. I’ve been exactly where you are. I just wanted to tell you to hold on to your dreams. Find something you…
Tangspiration: Get Excited for the Hard Times
Hey Everyone! I know it sounds crazy. How can you ever really get excited for the hard times in your life? What on earth would you get excited for. I know it sounds ridiculous but really – from the bottom of my heart – get..excited..for the..hard times. Throw a freakin’…
Tangspiration: Blind Faith
Hey Everyone, I think that one thing I’ve learnt not having a conventional 9 to 5 job is that sometimes – I gotta do what I do with my eyes closed. Not in the sense that I’m doing what I do fast and blindly, but more so about the fact…
Tangspiration: Made Different for a Reason
Hey Everyone, Nope, I’m not a size zero, not even a size four, or six, or you know. I don’t really go shopping for clothes that often and I like wearing the same outfits sometimes because I can’t be bothered. I have the same longchamp bag from college and I…
Tangspiration: Don’t Be so Hard on Yourself
Hey Everyone, I think a lesson I’ve learnt recently is that more often than not, we’re a little hard on ourselves. Maybe we didn’t get that grade we wanted, make the basketball team or get that recognition you thought you deserved at work. Maybe you’re 22 and you don’t exactly…
Tangspiration: Take Pain like an Eagle
Hey everyone, An eagle is an incredible animal. I never knew until a conversation struck a few months ago over dinner. No animal is braver than an eagle. As the years go by, an eagle’s feathers become weighted down with oil and dirt, which hinders their ability to fly and…
Tangspiration: For all the College Go-ers.
Hey Everyone! I’m feeling a little nostalgic tonight. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m lying here looking at old photos on facebook or that I don’t want to finish up my work. I don’t want to be a crying baby, but I miss Melbourne. I miss going to college. I…
Tangspiration: Step Out of It
Hey Everyone, Don’t snap out of it, step out of it. And maybe run. I was sitting at a cafe the other day and to be honest, I can’t help but hear into the conversations around me. Not that I intentionally do, it’s sound, it travels. One person talked about…
Tangspiration: I had NO idea.
Hey Everyone, It’s been a while since I’ve written a Tangspiration post. I guess it’s because I only write one of these when I get inspired to. I was sitting on the couch eating my lunch today when I started to reflect on what I’ve done in life (funny what…
Tangspiration: Your Life Has Already Started
Hey Everyone, I’m sure everyone has a dream. It could be a dream to open a corner bakery or become the President of the United States. Whatever it is, the only way we can achieve that dream is to walk. I see my friends wanting to do something but for some reason…
Tangspiration: The only reason why we’re scared, is cause we wanna be scared
Hey Everyone, The only reason why we’re scared, is cause we wanna be scared. It’s really our choice. Fear comes in many different forms. It can be as simple as that pounding feeling you feel when you’re about to climb up on stage and say something, could even be as…
Tangspiration: Why Exactly Makeup is NOT fake.
Hey Everyone, Today I thought I might write an opinion piece. I haven’t done one of these in a long time. Now, I’m going to warn you first that with opinion pieces, they’re unplanned and messy unlike most of my posts. There are no pictures, it’s just what I have…
Tangspiration: Eating Disorders -The Ugly Truth
Hey Everyone, A little note – this is a little long but necessary. Believe it or not, I dreamnt last night right before I woke up, a woman pulled me aside just as I was about to leave some class (trust me, I have weird dreams) and tried to ask me…
Tangspiration: True Giving
Hey Everyone, I reckon only a handful of us understand what giving is. A lot of people have read somewhere in some website or in the pages of some book that we should all give more than we receive. But let’s face it, do we really feel that way? After…
Tangspiration: Don’t let your influence go to waste
Hey Everyone, Sometimes I wonder how on earth I am so lucky to have what I have. To be able to have you right now reading what I’m typing late at night in my high school sweater and puppy printed pajama pants, to have you care what I think or…
Tangspiration: Love Someone Good Enough for YOU
Hey Everyone, Today I’m going to be talking about love. And I promise that it’s not going to be sappy like some 1PM Soap Opera but I hope that you’ll be able to take something away from it. Too many times I see girls going into relationships just to see…
Tangspiration: Do something that makes you feel uncomfortable
Hey Everyone, I remember sitting down with a really close friend and telling her how life was never made to be easy. She’s never really worked for anything in her life, she’s always been spoon-fed with a silver spoon and she was facing a tough turning point in her life…
Tangspiration: Happy Valentines Day
Hey Everyone! Happy Valentines Day! Now before you bring out the flaming torches and make smores out of that statement – Although albeit some of you may be crashing on the couch watching mythbusters and hating today for making you wallow in what they call “Single Awareness Day”, Valentines Day…
Tangspiration: Show your life who’s boss.
Hey Everyone, They say that your experiences in life are shaped by the way you see the world. A simple task like walking can feel difficult and tiring if you see it that way but come to think of it, all you’re really doing is lifting up your foot and…
Tangspiration: Just Keep Walking
Hey Everyone, I get asked this question a lot. How on earth do you find the time to do everything that you do? How do you do it? How do you find time? How do you find time to blog? The answer is this. Everything is as hard as it…
Tangspiration: Where were YOU three years ago?
Hey Everyone! Three years doesn’t sound like a very long time. But in three years, you could complete a university degree, you could have travelled the globe and back and most importantly, you could have changed into a very different person. Sometimes when we go through life, we forget about…
Happy 2012! My New Year Resolutions, Hopes & Wishes
Hey Everyone! Happy New Year! 2011 was a fast year for me and as much a rollercoaster as I could have ever imagined. For the blog, I was featured as the number one review blog internationally by everydaysale.co.uk, featured in Urban and The Straits Times as well as LianHe Wanbao.…
Tangspiration: Do you really want what you want?
Hey Everyone, I hope you’re doing well this Sunday morning. I have my favourite shirt on that my parents tell me that I over-wear way too much and my favourite jeans shorts. I’m ready to head to the library to check out a few cool books out to read over…
Tangspiration: How to Live in the Moment
Hey Everyone, I know, I know, I’m sprouting new segments on this blog like grass on a new batch of fertilizer. Apologies if necessary. So what exactly is Tangspiration? Unfortunately, it can’t be found on Urban Dictionary (yet) and admittedly, it’s a term that I made-up only a few seconds ago. It means…
Tangspiration: What is Inner Beauty? My Top 10 Characteristics of a Truly Beautiful Woman
Hey Everyone, Let’s be real. You could look like Miss Universe on the outside but if you’re like the wicked witch of the west on the inside, I don’t believe you can ever be truly beautiful. Whether it’s something simple like opening the door for the next person behind you…
Tangspiration: How and Why I Started Makeup, Blogging and YouTube
Hey Everyone, I always say you can go through life being afraid of the I don’t knows, but what is life if you only travel safe? When my mother asks me: “Roseanne, are you sure it’s going to work out? And my reply is always, “Mom, I have no idea, but I…