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*

fArttArtz Cafe @ Singapore Expo

I was browsing on Facebook news feed one day and I came to know about this café by the name of fArttArtz. The name sound so strange to me but I was attracted by the desserts photos in their Facebook page, told myself that I gonna visit this place real soon, moreover it located in the eastern part of Singapore, wasn't easy to find a good concept café located in the east. Let wait no more, here I am, one week later after I came to know about this place.

It hard to find a right companion that have the same strange habits like me, enjoy trying a varieties of new, attractive looking foods, most important of all, love taking nice foods photos. A lot of people think that I'm a freak, keep snapping photos of foods when it served & will get rather impatience about my bad habit when we head out for meals together. Luckily I have Elaine accompany today, we spend lot of time taking pictures of the food and café design, continuously snapping till we get the right angles of the output.

fArttArtz Café is located at 1 Expo Drive, #02-04, to be more detail, it at 2nd level of Max Atrium, Foyer 1. Do take note of their operating time so you won't make a waste trip there, from Monday to Thursday, their operating hours is from 8am to 6pm, from Friday to Sunday will be 8am to 8pm. In order to meet their operating hours, me & Elaine leave our office on the dot & rush over there today.

Let now take a look at the cafe layout:

It a very cosy place and nicely decorated with gardening tools to meets their theme, their signature desserts that served in pot. Today I was served by a young lady when I arrival, I would like to compliment their service, it was excellent. She clearly introduce me to their different types of desserts and keep insisting me to try on the samples of different favour so I can make the right choice for my dessert.

While waiting for Elaine to reach, ordered a Ice Hazelnut Latte. The straw used to serve the drink was so cute & it made from paper. It doesn't worked very well on me as I have a bad habit of biting straw. It took me like 2 hours to finish my drink, so the straw eventually become a little soft in texture, but it still functioning well as a straw still.

After Elaine reach we ordered our main for dinner first before we head for the dessert. Their main course selection was limited, initially I order a pepper chix pasta in a jar, but sadly it was sold out, so I went for something out of the norm instead, their chilled prawn pasta in the jar. It was nice, some different and special too, the prawns are very fresh.

Elaine head for a healthier choice, she go for salad as her dinner. She ordered a fusion salad with a honey melon hot tea. Their salad was served in a jar too, you have to add the dressing into the jar & shake the bottle to mixed it well before eating, isn't that interesting?

The potion of the main might seem small, but the content of it was rather filling! But that not an excuse for not ordering their desserts, actually the main motion for the both of us was to try their dessert, how can we give that a miss! This theory always work for me, "Never too full for dessert".

We order 3 different creations. First was their Matcha-misu that served in a flower pot.

Elaine choose a Bailey Chocolate Tart.

And lastly, my choice of Mango short tart.

Seriously the desserts not only taste good, each individual looked so pretty too. Really can't bear to eat it but we can't resist the temptation of sweet treats either. Took lots of picture of the pretty desserts before we tuck in.

Feeling so full still even hours after my meal. Highly recommend their desserts, really worth trying! Oh yah, not to forget about this, if you gonna eat till mad full like us today, do remember to bring more cash. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that their food is very expensive, I would say that it a reasonable price to pay for the ambience and the effort spent of doing up such pretty desserts. But the mode of payment at fArttArtz Cafe is cash only!