The Brow & Beauty Boutique - Brow designed By Sharon Wu

3 years ago, I did my first brow embroidery at Sophia Brow House, my beautician was Apple Sun back then, she did a great job for designing a brow shape that suit my face, click here for my previous entry details. 

As years pass, the colour of my brows fade with time, I was very busy with my work and study back then to get my brow fixed, so I have to maintain my brows with the help of eyebrow pencil once again. Very nice of Apple, she leave me a short message on my blog telling me that she had left Sophia Brow House some time back, if not, I would need to do my research again to find a new good brow designer.

Finally completed my final exams a few weeks back and have some free time to spare now. Without hesitation, drop a SMS to Apple to make an appointment with her at her new place, The Brow & Beauty Boutique . Sadly, her daughter, Tiffany, called back informing me that Apple is out of town and will not be back any time soon in the next 2 months. I was really disappointed to hear that, but Tiffany provide me with an alternative, she recommended another beautician to me, Sharon Wu. As usual, I will not rush into any quick decision making that will determine my “fate” for the next 2 years, chances of living with ugly looking brows. I did my research some research before my appointment date. 

Sharon Wu, the second leading eyebrow designer at The Brow &Beauty Boutique, with 18 years of rich experience in this industry. She was previously from Sophia Brow House as well, I went online look up on her work, her work are pretty awesome, so I decide to give it a shot.

Once I reach The Brow & Beauty Boutique, I was greet with warm welcome by the staffs and Sharon came over to attend to me shortly. To my surprise, this is what I saw in the shop, my write-up was display in the shop, hope my write-up on Apple's work have bring them a boost in sale.

Firstly, Sharon start the session by removing my brow drawing to have a better look at my previous embroidery, it was almost all gone. Then, Sharon shape my brows a little, ask about my preference on the brows shape, did some recommendation on my preference before she start to design my brows for me. I admitted that I was quite picky when come to my look, I request for quite a fair bit of amendment before I finally settle with one.

(Me with my nature brow, no drawing, just some shaping done by Sharon)

I was surprise that how much this industry has evolve in 3 years. Back then, I did a 3D embroidery, it was already consider a very delicate work, but now, they had already advance to 5D stage. Just a short description on the different between 2D, 3D and 4D work. 

(Photo Credit to The Brow & Beauty Boutique Facebook Page)

Since I already tried 3D before, I decide to go for 4D this time round as per recommended by Sharon, more stokes compared to the 3D, giving the brow a more nature look. One thing I like about their service is that they will only provide you with recommendation which suit you best, final decision is still up to you, they are not pushy for you to sign up any package or push you to go for a more expensive option, this is what I call business ethic. 

Before the session start, I informed Sharon that I have very low tolerance level for pain around my brows area, so I requested to be on the anesthetic cream for a slightly longer period of time as compared to many others. 

(On the anesthesia cream for 30 mins)

After 30 mins on anesthetic cream, time to get the session started. No doubt, the anesthetic cream was really powerful, throughout the whole session, no pain at all, no wonder Sharon told me that some of her customers actually dozed off during the session, she not kidding me after all. 

The embroidery session ended in around an hour time, now take a closer look at my brow after completion, look at the details, doesn't it look like real brow's hair? My brows look a bit dark and area around the brows was a little swollen as well now, but that is only for the initial stage, like usual, thing will get better after a week of healing.

I shall end my entry here and will follow up with a new post soon after my next touch-up session in a month time. Thank you Sharon for her patience and awesome work, I'm very happy the the brow shape she designed for me. 

If you are interested to get your brow fixed as well, please contact Sharon from The Brow & Beauty Boutique at the following to make an appointment with her. It is recommended for you to call before heading down to prevent disappointment, as her appointment slots can be rather full at time. 

(Sharon Wu's name card)

Let me end this entry with a photo taken together with Sharon, my brow designer, after my brow fixed. Shall update you guys on the final result in one month time ;)

*P/S: This is not a sponsorship post, I paid for my embroidery session, write-up is strictly based on my own personal review*

Hello Kitty Mooncake Collection 2012

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Dear all Hello Kitty's Fans, a good news for you on this festive season. Hello Kitty Mooncake are available on sale now, faster grab your before the stock run out.

Hello Kitty Mooncake Collection 2012 come in 2 different collection, snowskin & classic. It selling at $46 SGD per box, each box comes with a collection bag serial of your choice. Any purchase of 2 boxes & above will be entitle to a free delivery, so what are you waiting for?

While stock last, faster place your order now!!


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Imperial Shanghai Moon
Pandan Bliss
Crisp Chocade
Majestic Berries Nuts
Ultimate Brown Mix

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Snowskin Mooncake Collection:
Coco Diva
Snowie Deary
ChamPink Apple
Mango Cha-Cha
Italian Tiramisu
Jumbo Chempedah Icy Mooncake

Choice of Bag Collection Gift-Set 3 or 4

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Doraemon's Mooncake Collection 2012

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(promoting on behalf for my friend)

Despite that it is the 21st century now, since young we (Chinese) are taught the important of our “roots”, so till today, we still do celebrate many traditional Chinese festival. I believe all of you know that it is the “Hungry Ghost Festival” (aka 7th Month) now, before this festival even coming close to an end, people already preparing for the next upcoming festival, “Mid-Autumn Festival” (aka Mooncake festival or lantern festival).

I’m not going to touch on anything about how this festival come about, how “Houyi” & “Chang-er” gets into the picture, I “assume” most of you should already know about it (If not, please Google it), what I want to share is on MOONCAKE. I always got pretty excited over this festivals, not because “Mid-Autumn” meant anything special to me, if really wanna go in depth, I actually hate that festival. Okay, enough of all this unhappy thing that spoil the festive mood, let get straight to the point, is those goodies that symbolise the festival get me in the mood of joy. Imagine you only get to eat those goodies only once every year, who can resist that temptation?

In the past, I never like to eat mooncake, too much of lotus paste will make me feel sick & I seriously cannot accept the combination with salted egg yolk, to be exact, I only like the skin of the mooncake. But as I get older, I begin to shop for my own mooncake (gift to my boyfriend’s family), I was introduce to many fusion style mooncake that actual interest me a lot & I love them all. From the fruit favour to the ice cream filling, not forgetting about chocolate truffle were used to replace the traditional salted egg yolk.

I already decided to go for some fusion “Doraemon” mooncake this year. Doraemon mooncakes 2012 serial come in 2 different type of collection, “Classics” & “Snow Skin”, each type of collection come in 9 interesting favour of your choice. Not only that, each box of 4pieces mooncake come with a free SUPER CUTE Doraemon’s carrier, choice of 2 different design for each collection, how can I resist that!!!

Just a brief touch on for the price, both collection are selling at 45.00 SGD/box, there a free delivery for any order 2 boxes & more, if not, delivery will be charged at 5.00 SGD/location.

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Some photos attached for your viewing:

Classics Mooncake Collection:
White Lotus + 2 Yolk
White Lotus + 1 Yolk
Pure White Lotus
Matcha Lotus Red Bean 1 Yolk
Corn-Tachio 1 Yolk
Nanyang XO Jing-sa
Chocolate Lotus Almond Biscuits
Pandan Lotus Custard 1 Yolk
Bamboo Charcoal White Lotus Cranberry 1 Yolk

Classics Carrier Collection:
Collection 01 – Sweet Little Thing Handbag
Collection 02 – Charming Velvet Handbag


Snow Skin Mooncake Collection:
Honey Jackfruit
Tropical Pure Durian
Mango Tango
Tropical Queen of Mangosteen
Tiramisu
Passionne Apple
Snowberry
Black Humour
Beauty Melon

Snow Skin Carrier Collection:
Collection 03 – Sewing Zipper Super-Size Cooler Bag
Collection 04 – Sewing Sipper Doraemon Cooler Bag

Sophia Brow House - Creative Brows Embroidery

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I believe a lot of ladies out there will encounter the same problem like me. Wake up late for an appointment, rushing for time, yet I can't get a prefect brows after so many attempts. To save me from the embarrassment of funny looking brows, I had to snip my fringe away just to cover it.

Cutting my fringe away definitely is not a permanent solution to my problem, yet it is causing me even more inconvenient. I'm facing the issue of having my fringe poking into my eyes whenever it get longer, not only that, I can see an increase of acne appeared my forehead.

I'm so glad that I found a solution to the root cause for this issue, that is brow embroidery. Let me clarified this first, brows embroidery is NOT tattoo, tattooing involves injecting ink into your skin. The pigments will migrate deeper into your skin over time, therefore, the effect is permanent. The colour of tattoo will change over time, turning into awful looking greenish brows. I'm very sure that everyone knows what I trying to describe & seen many aunties or even some young ladies with such greenish brows on road.

Brow embroidery involves penetrating of colour into just the top layer of the skin. The beautician will customize your brows and the arch to suit your face shape, and add colour to your brows. Unlike tattooing, brow embroidery is not permanent, it will eventually fades away after about a year or two, depending on individual skin condition.

After much research, I found Sophia Brow House, my beautician is Apple, a lady with 20years of experience in beauty salon services that station at the Marine Parade branch. She a very nice lady that take the trouble to explain to me the different between brow embroidery & the newest generation of brow embroidery which is known as Creative brow embroidery. Creative brow embroidery done by adding colour to your brows using fine strokes giving you a very nature looking finishing which looked so much closest to our brow hair. No doubt, Creative brow embroidery is my choice after her detailed explanation.

♥As my brows just done with the touch-up today, the colour is still very dark, but you can clearly see the prefect strokes on my brows, after a week, it will be as nature looking as my brow's hair♥

She start off by drafting out the brow shape first, this is to determine the exact shape to be embroidered later. After drawing, Apple applied the anaesthetic cream to my brows area for at least 15minutes, that is to minimum the pain level to the lowest during the process.

♥Us with the anaesthetic cream on brow's area♥

Apple show me that the blade she used was a brand new piece, she actually removed it from the sealed packaging in front of me before the process. They only use brand new blade for every walk-in customers, so no worry for me on hygiene issue.

The process was a simple one, everything was completed close to an hour time. During the process, a little bleeding might occurred, like I say is due to individual skin condition. As it get closer to finishing, the anaesthetic effect start to go off, so you might feel a little pinching pain around the brow area, but don't worry, you can stop your beautician at time to apply more anaesthetic cream for you, but I'm very sure even without the additional cream, the pain is still bearable.

Of course I will share all the good stuff with people, the first person I would like to share with is my sister. She had her embroidery at Sophia Brow House too, both of us are really very happy will the brows embroidered by Apple. Thanks to Apple, she made our daily life so much more convenient, we can basically step out of or house without an make-up on our face.

Today we went for our first touch-up, first touch up is necessary after your very initial embroidery, this is to ensure that the colour is more lasting. In any event of a little "imperfection" after your first visit due to your "itchy hand", please be remembered, peeling off the skins while healing is totally not advisable, there a lot if incident that colour will drop off with the dead skin during peeling, it the same applied theory like tattooing.

♥The start of the process for me♥

♥Cat's turn♥

♥Letting the ink to "settle down" on the skin for awhile♥

♥Me with my prefect brows after touch-up♥

♥P/S: The colour will look more nature after a week♥

For people who are interested in Creative Brow Embroidery, do take my recommendation into your consideration, brows is very important to everyone, your brow's shape helps to determined a lot on your overall appearance, even though it not a permanent thing, but can you imagine that if any wrong decision you made, you going to live with your ugly brows for the next 2 years at least, I seriously cannot imagine how terrible that can be.

There a total of 3 branches under Sophia Brow House, address as following, if you are visiting Marine Parade branch, do tell them that you are recommended by Lynn, I'm sure you wouldn't regret your choice, just like me.

Marine Parade Branch
BLK 83 Marine Parade Central #01-590
Tel: 64408529

Toa Payoh Branch
Blk 520 Toa Payoh HDB HUB (MRT) Lor 6 #01-50
Tel: 62500983

Liang Seah Street Branch (Close to Bugis)
28A Liang Seah Street Singapore 189049
Tel: 63368802

♥TADAH!! I LOVE MY EYEBROWS♥