Two Thousand Things : May 2010

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Sex and The City Tour Giveaway! -CLOSED-

Calling All Fashionistas !
If you're a fashionista and a fan of Sex and The City then I have a fabulous news to share and a cool giveaway to host for you!

Follow in the footsteps of Carrie and the girls as they conquer New York City! In celebration of SATC2, On Location Tours is offering two fun-filled packages:

On Wednesday, May 26, Be first in line to see SATC2 on our Midnight Madness Package, which includes tour, dinner, a private midnight screening of SATC2, VIP admission to Marquee Nightclub, and a meet-and-greet with Willie Garson!

On Friday, May 28, Get a sex-filled day on the Opening Weekend Package that includes tour, dinner, a private screening of SATC2, and an after-party at Marquee Nightclub.

On Location Tours, Inc. is a bus tour company based in New York City, specializing in TV and movie location tours.
From the original New York TV and Movie Sites Tour (that now includes over 40 sites from TV shows and movies such as Friends, Ugly Betty, Ghostbusters, and Seinfeld), On Location Tours has expanded to include the famous Sex and the City Hotspots Tour, The Sopranos Sites Tour, a Central Park Movie Sites Walking Tour, and a new Gossip Girl Sites Tour.
The tours cater to public audiences, as well as student groups, senior groups, incentive outings, corporate excursions, and more. A different way to see the big apple, I must say.

Anyway, back to the SATC2 Tour, On Location tours has also launched Sex and the City girlfriend getaways and bachelorette packages that include the tour of Sex and the City Hotspots by limousine, dinner at a location used in the show, and entrance into one of the nightclubs where scenes from Sex and the City were filmed!

If you’re a fashionista like the lovely Carrie Bradshaw, look no further for details on the best department stores, boutiques, and designer shops in New York! Sometimes it seemed like the only thing Carrie did was shop, the tour will show you some of her favorite sources.
Remember Charlotte’s favorite shoe store, or the Manolos Carrie lost at her friend’s party?
Driving around Manhattan on the New York City Tours, the tour will point out the best boutiques and stores in NYC including Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik, Patricia Field, Lulu Guinness, Jaime Mascaro, Bergdorf Goodman, Tiffany & Co., Henri Bendel, Takashimaya, Fortunoff, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, Diane Von Furstenberg and more!

On this guided New York tour, follow in the footsteps of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda – you’ll drink where they drank, shop where they shopped, and gossip where they gossiped. The tour of Sex and the City Hotspots incorporates more than 40 locations from the movie and the TV show including the shop where Charlotte bought her "Rabbit,” the trendy Meatpacking District, and a stop to drink a cosmopolitan at the bar owned by Aidan.
It’s the perfect mix of shopping, drinking, and sightseeing in the hip neighborhoods of New York City. There are also locations from Sex and the City: The Movie interspersed in the tour.

Tour Highlights:

Shop at the store where Charlotte bought her “Rabbit”
Stop at “Scout,” the bar owned by Aidan
Enjoy cupcakes like Carrie and Miranda
Go on location to the art gallery in SoHo where Charlotte worked
Shop at the hottest boutiques & stores in Greenwich Village
Visit Buddakan, site of Carrie and Big’s wedding rehearsal dinner
See new locations from Sex and the City: the Movie

GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY!
One very lucky TTT readers will win one FREE Gift Certificate (for TWO tickets - so you can go with your bff) for Sex & the City Hotspots Tour (worth $84)!!
This gift certificate DOESN'T HAVE EXPIRATION DATE so if you don't live in New York then you can still keep it and use it during your next trip to NYC, whenever that is. Talk about investment ;) Since it never expires, who knows? maybe someday you will go to NY city!

Please pay attention to The RULES before you enter.

RULES :

(To be eligible for this giveaway contest you MUST do the MANDATORY below. You only need 1 Mandatory entry to enter, but you could also have Additional entries to maximize your chances, please remember to leave each entry in a separate comment box or it won't be counted)

To ENTER (MANDATORY) : Tell me in a comment on this post, which Sex and The City character's wardrobe is your most favorite and why? Example: Carrie's enviable shoes collection, Samantha's sexy outifts. (1 entry)

For Additional entry :

Be a Follower of Two Thousand Things via Google Friend Connect - must be a visible follower. (2 entries, write a separate comment box for each entry)

Subscribe to my email subscriptions so you won't miss out on future posts and giveaways! (find link in bottom right sidebar). (2 entries)

And then tweet about something you learned from Breeze Comfort website. (1 entry)

Blog about this giveaway with a link back here and a link to Breeze Comfort website, leave the URL of your post in a NEW separate comment box. (2 entries)

Follow Two Thousand Things via these options: RSS / BlogLovin / Twitter then in a NEW separate comment write your id. If you're already a follower then just tell me your id/name and which subscription are you using. Don't forget to write in separate comment box for each of your subscriptions. You can find all subscription links at the right side bar. (1 entry for each subscription)

Tweet about this giveaway and give me the link to your tweet. (1 entry)

Be a Follower or subscribe by email to my Review&Giveaway blog Tigerlily's Book. If you're already a Follower or already subscribed by email please leave a comment telling me your id/email (must be a visible follower). (1 entry for each)

Grab my badge and post it in your blog's side bar (find my badge at the bottom of the left side bar, just copy the html provided and paste it in your blog), don't forget to give me the link. (3 entries)

Vote for me in the L'oreal Star Blogger Campaign. Click the button below to go the voting page. This polling website is in Indonesian language though but if you can't read Indonesian and you still want to vote then all you have to do is go to the page and find the "connect with facebook" button on the left sidebar, you can then sign in with your Facebook account. Then you can look for my post or look for my name "Yuri Kristianti" and vote. Thanks! (3 entries)

NOTE : Remember to include your email in the comment box so I can reach you if you win.
Your entries will be visible after my approval so All entries that does not apply with the rules will not be counted and I will not published the entry!

This giveaway will end on June 14, 2010 at 24:00 pm.
Apologize to my international readers, this time the giveaway is open for US ONLY!
Winner will be announced here on June 11, 2010.

I will use random.org to pick the winning number. If the winner does not respond within 48hrs then I will have to choose another winner and will announce it again in my blog. Good luck to everyone! ^__^

This giveaway is also featured on FreeGrechen.

DISCLAIMER:

I did not receive any form of payment for this article.
The sponsor is the one who is fully responsible for sending the giveaway prize to the winners therefore I will not be held responsible for prizes that are not sent by the sponsors or for any lost shipment of the prize.

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Bath and Body

I now pronounced these L'oreal hair treatment: my Super Dynamic Duo

I'm very honored to be able to collaborate with L'oreal Indonesia for their new campaign: "World Class Hair Care is in Our Hands". This campaign is to prove that being beautiful doesn't have to be pricey. We all know that "quality means price". L'oreal is now trying to change that by providing good quality products (we already know how L'oreal products are among the best of the best) with a much affordable price! Hear Hear!

L'oreal Paris hair care have several different products that are accustomed to your hair's type and needs. You can check their website here (Indonesian version) to see which shampoo & treatments are the most suitable for your hair.
My hair is oily and flat, sometimes I experienced hair loss or dandruff too because of the excess oil in my head. So for my hair type L'oreal sent me their L'oreal Elseve Nutri-Gloss Light series.

These full-sized 400ml pink bottled shampoo and conditioner are fully packed with Nutri-Gloss Light which according to the website is made from pearl protein and lime essence to make oily hair looks shiny and smooth.

I have been using this shampoo and conditioner for about a week now and I LOVE the result! I love how my hair turns from flat-and-no-volume-hair to bouncy-smooth-and-healthy-looking-hair. Now that's a big progress!

Before I use this line, I've been using another shampoo and conditioner from another brand but once I started using L'oreal Elseve I noticed the difference instantly.
What I noticed most is there's no more flatness! I even styled my hair with a curl iron to see how it turned out. Usually, curling my hair with a curl iron would only last a short hour, my hair would go down flat again and there goes my wavy hair. But when I curl my hair right after washing it with these L'oreal Elseve Nutri-Gloss Light series I found that the wavy hair stays a lot longer than usual and because of it's anti-flatness my hair looks thick and bouncy instead!

Just look at these pics, I'm not lying ;p ..

My hair never looks so full with volume like this before!
Usually it stays flat and straight like a limp straw.

I also love the smell of the shampoo and conditioner. It just smells wonderful and the scent lasts long too on my hair. The Caring Shampoo makes my hair feels light and keep away oil for much longer. I also love the Shine Conditioner. I never liked using conditioner before, because the texture always feels sticky to my hair and it feels greasy and it also feels like it leaves residue on my hair. But not with this Shine Conditioner! This one doesn't do any of those things I mentioned. This one is not sticky, not greasy and did not leave residue. And the effect it has on my hair is just wonderful. My hair feels so much softer and shinier (like in the pic above). And it gives me less static too, which I love! :D

So there goes my review. With only IDR 19.900 (suggested price) for 180ml sized bottle, you can have a great hair treatment that would make your hair wanna thank you too :)
L'oreal Elseve Nutri-Gloss Light is perfect for oily, dull hair. Especially if you have flat hair, the advertisement says that it would give you 85% more shine and volume. And I say that's a fact! Because that's exactly what they gave to my hair, no more flat dull oily hair now thanks to L'oreal !!

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Beauty Stuffs

Event: FashioneseDaily blogger gathering with Jamal Hammadi

Jamal Hammadi

Last Sunday I was invited by Fashionese Daily (biggest Indonesian online fashion community) to attend a special gathering with Jamal Hammadi, the famous celebrity hair stylist. The blogger-gathering-slash-special-private-event was held at The Edge cafe which was located on the rooftop of Kemang icon hotel.

The place was beautiful, the food was great and the atmosphere was very cozy. I met some new blogger friends there as well as Fashionese Daily owners / moderators. Thank you Hanzky, Affi and Vanya for inviting me to the event!

Hanzky & Affi from Fashionese Daily with Jamal

Jamal Hammadi is famous for --> creating sensuous and glamorous hairstyles for celebrities, fashion editorial and international haute couture houses alike. His characteristic work has been featured on the covers of British Vogue, British Elle, Vanity Fair, Italian Glamour, InStyle, The Face, Spin, Nylon and Flaunt.

His celebrity clients include Heather Graham, Linda Evangelista, Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado, Lindsay Lohan, Naomi Watts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Franco, Sharon Stone, Maya Rudolph, Evan Mendez, and Drew Barrymore.

Additionally, Jamal has styled the tresses of countless super beauties on the New York and Paris runways for Chanel, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, and John Galliano. Wow, is he like, awesome or what?!

I was quite nervous to meet him but also very excited! I even flat-ironed my hair neatly that day because i thought my hair should at least look neat if i'm meeting a hollywood celebrity hair stylist ^o^ I'm wearing my pretty peasant blouse from C2 Outfitters (one of my fave blouse!), Marks & Spencer's red skirt, white skirt from Metro and white studded Yongki sandals to the event:

detail of the blouse:

I really enjoyed the event. Jamal talked about hair styles and treatments. Here's some of Jamal's healthy shine tips:
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Start with a great cut, take care of the ends of your hair for healthy shine.
A clean scalp ensures healthy hair. Be gentle when drying your hair after cleaning, the more you rough it up the more cuticles you will damage.
Vitamin E is vital for luscious locks. It’s found in foods such as avocados, berries and nuts.
Rinse your hair with cold water after washing to seal the cuticles and lock in moisture and shine.
Use a good bristle brush rather than a comb to prevent breakage.
Make sure you pump your iron intake. Iron will give hair a fantastic shine. Eat lots of good proteins and vegetables.

Jamal also suggest to use big round brush instead of small brush if you have short hair to make it smoother. And if you have oily hair then opt for mousse instead of gel in terms of styling your hair. Okay, I'm gonna keep this one in mind.

At the event, Jamal styled one of Indonesia's famous top model Aline's hair:

Sorry, my pic is a bit blurry but Aline's hair style turns out real chic!

And he also did a cut to one of the guest, Nia, right there on the spot! Oh how lucky she is, she just got a $500 hair cut!!

We also get to asked a lot of questions. I asked what would he suggest for hair color that best suits women with dark hair and tan skin (a lot of Indonesian women has dark/black hair and darker skin tone), and he said that it's best to go two or three shades lighter than your original color, you don't wanna go too light too soon.

It's also very interesting to learn that Jamal also has his own hair care products called Hammadi Beauty with a tag line "tested on actresses, not animals". And it's organic too! Thumbs up!

Jamal is currently working with sunsilk on a line using urang aring as one of the ingredient. Urang aring can also be found in Indonesia, it's actually pretty common here. Our ancestors already used it to give shine to their black hair.

All in all, it was a great afternoon well spent! I get to meet other Indonesian fashion & beauty bloggers, got some tips and tricks on hair styles and treatments from the hair expert himself, and I got to go home with a goody bag too! Oh how I love goody bags!

Each of us received a set of Static-free Ionic hair brush and comb from Jaguar that comes complete with a traveling case, and a 4gb Transcend USB / Flash Drive.

Jamal Hammadi, PR ladies, and FDers / Fashion - Beauty bloggers

Many thanks to Jamal Hammadi and Fashionese Daily for this lovely event!

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My Dolli top from Mode-5

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Fashion

Breeze Comfort review & Giveaway

I received another package to review and this one is from Breeze Comfort. I actually looking forward for this review because I love technology-infused wearable items. So when I read about this high-tech Bra I got curious to try it and can't wait to share it with you my lovely readers.

Breeze Comfort is a company based in Hong Kong which sell Bras with Patented Perforated Pad technology. You see, traditional padded bras are typically made from man made materials that prevent the evaporation of perspiration which result in the accumulation of moisture in the breast cup area ( a real discomfort!).

But worry no more, because Breeze Comfort has found a revolutionary invention in bra pad technology called Ventipad^TM. The Ventipad is a special pad that has perforations throughout the padding, which allows the passage of air and moisture in the area around the chest, this makes the bra breathable and therefore more comfortable to wear. Take a look at below:

(the picture of the inside of Comfort Breeze bras taken with extreme lighting)

You can see from above picture that the patented ventilation inside the bra enables increased air circulation to occur which allows for perspiration to evaporate more quickly. Here is more detail picture of what the perforated bra looks like in real life:

This is the Bra I received. I chose the Basic Perforated push up bra in Nude color. I of course will not give you the full photo of the bra because then you'll know my size (;p) so I only took a picture of a corner of the bra to show you the breathable ventilation pad (as above).

My review: after wearing the bra for quite some time, i personally think this bra is well worth the try. I do feel a difference between this bra and my other ordinary/traditional bras. This one really does it's job in reducing heat and moisture in the chest area so no more over-heated bra that sometimes get wet and icky when we perspire too much under the hot sun. This bra is really breathable and I didn't get any discomfort at all when wearing it. The perforated pad is doing it's job very nicely.

I also love that they offer push-up and padded bra as well as different kinds of sports bras on their website. I can see it's benefits when using this bra while doing sports. The patented perforated pad would work really well for sports activity by keeping it dry and cool during work out.

(The picture above is a removable Ventipad^TM insert in Breeze Comfort sports bra)

The perforated pad is inside the bra so it does not show at all from the front.

GOOD NEWS!
Comfort Breeze is starting to ship each sports bra (except the tankini) with 2 sets of exchangeable bra pads: a softer one for low impact activities such as yoga and pilates, and a stiffer one for medium/high impact activities. So, it's like getting 2 sports bras for the price of 1 !!

GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY!
Breeze Comfort has kindly offer a prize for one of my lucky readers. The winner will get a Free Bra of their choice from Breeze Comfort!

Please pay attention to The RULES before you enter.

RULES :

To ENTER (MANDATORY) : You must visit Breeze Comfort, take a look around at the store and then come back here and tell me in a comment on this post, which bra would you like to try. (1 entry)

For Additional entry :

Be a Follower of Two Thousand Things via Google Friend Connect - must be a visible follower. (2 entries, write a separate comment box for each entry)

Subscribe to my email subscriptions so you won't miss out on future posts and giveaways! (find link in bottom right sidebar). (2 entries)

Join Breeze Comfort Facebook Fan page and tell me your FaceBook id. (1 entry)

And then post about something you learned from Breeze Comfort website on the Breeze Comfort FB wall. (1 entry)

Follow Breeze Comfort on Twitter and tell me your Id. (1 entry)

And then tweet about something you learned from Breeze Comfort website. (1 entry)

Blog about this giveaway with a link back here and a link to Breeze Comfort website, leave the URL of your post in a NEW separate comment box. (2 entries)

Follow Two Thousand Things via these options: RSS / BlogLovin / Twitter then in a NEW separate comment write your id. If you're already a follower then just tell me your id/name and which subscription are you using. Don't forget to write in separate comment box for each of your subscriptions. You can find all subscription links at the right side bar. (1 entry for each subscription)

Tweet about this giveaway and give me the link to your tweet. (1 entry)

Be a Follower or subscribe by email to my Review&Giveaway blog Tigerlily's Book. If you're already a Follower or already subscribed by email please leave a comment telling me your id/email (must be a visible follower). (1 entry for each)

Grab my badge and post it in your blog's side bar (find my badge at the bottom of the left side bar, just copy the html provided and paste it in your blog), don't forget to give me the link. (3 entries)

This giveaway will end on May 26, 2010 at 24:00 pm.
I'm sorry my international readers, this time the giveaway is open for US ONLY!
Winner will be announced here on May 27, 2010.

DISCLAIMER:

I did not receive any form of payment for this review and this is written based on my own honest opinion. The only compensation I received is the free product(s) provided by Breeze Comfort for review purposes only, and this compensation DOES NOT influence my opinion at all which I expressed in this post.
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The sponsor is the one who is fully responsible for sending the giveaway prize to the winners therefore I will not be held responsible for prizes that are not sent by the sponsors or for any lost shipment of the prize.

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Celebs Style

Emma Pillsbury wardrobe

What TV series is your favorite? Do you like GLEE? Who is your favorite TV fashion character? Do you like Emma Pillsbury from GLEE? Well, I do! Actually her style is one of the first things I noticed since I saw first episodes of Glee series. Since then, I got hooked on her style. I always wonder what she's gonna wear in the next episode.

Emma has a classic chic style with a lot of cardigans, skirts and brooches. No pants for Emma. Always ladylike. Feminine and pretty. Oh how I love her.

I recently just found out that there are quite a lot of Emma fans out there, especially in polyvore. I love making up Emma's wardrobes on polyvore. Here's what I think Emma would wear:

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And here's what I found from polyvore that would surely get into Emma's wardrobe too. I love love love this collection. If I were a teacher, I would definitely gonna dress like Emma ^__^

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Well, do you like Emma's style too? Which one of the above do you like? Or who is your favorite fashion character from Glee? Psstt..beside Emma I also love Kurt's fashion style ;) I think I might be putting up another post on Kurt's trendy style someday..
Actually I LOVE Kurt a lot! I like his character. Me and hubby are a fan of his voice too!! We love to hear Kurt Hummel sing, he has that awesome voice, you know! :D

Do you know that when Chris Colfer first auditioned for Glee he was originally auditioning for Artie (the one in the wheelchair) but then the casting crew thought that he did not fit to Artie's character and he was rejected for Artie....BUT because the casting director love Chris's personal character so much he actually MADE UP a new character just for Chris. And that character is KURT!!

Anyway, me and hubby have been playing with the new Glee Iphone App, it's where you could sing Glee's songs using autotune. I like playing with it but there are only 3 or 4 songs that you can play for free, and you have to pay for more songs. But still, it's quite entertaining, that autotune ;)