Montreal - the wedding day

Today is not a busy touristic day. We had a marvelous breakfast in a bakery around our hotel called [Au Pain Doré]: crunchy croissant and creamy chocolate eclair, there is nothing like French pastry! I'm now here in our hotel room waiting to get dressed and go to Barbi&Mark's wedding. I'm super excited, I've packed my make-up and tissues, as it's impossible for me not to cry in someone's wedding after Fê and I got married.

Talking about the wedding, I wanted to get a nice makeup, but didn't know anywhere around here. Afraid of getting an owl's look - that happened once before when they went too dark on the eye shadow - and spending a huge amount of money, I follow a friend's advice: go to M.A.C and ask for a makeup. They were all busy and couldn't help me, but the girl from Dior was super sweet, sympathetic with my "I'm from NYC" speech and did it there, under the condition that I would buy something later.

The makeup looks really nice, matching my dress and my style. And I did end up buying the lipstick she used on me! That is a great marketing campaign in the end! Photos to come in the future. (update: there it is!)

Aussie Ladies Night

It is always nice to give a break to your routine and do something different. Last Tuesday I met some friends for a girls night out. It all started at a place called [Beauty Bar], where they offer good martinis and bad manicure for $10. I wasn't lucky and my nails looked like a 5-years old job, but we were there just for the fun of it.


Later on, we walked - taking a quick detour where one girl got the happiest shopping moment of her days in NYC - to a Thai restaurant, [SEA]. It was the best Thai I've ever had! We shared different dishes among us, each one picked one, so I can only remember I ordered a tofu fried rice, but we had some great dumplings, chicken, a seafood plate and noodles.


Before hitting the dance floor, we went to a [Karaoke]! The place had a great selection of anything you could imagine: from classic Karaoke songs to whatever is being played on the radio! We got our private room so no one was smashed by our American Idol moment.

Last, some dancing was involved, and that was the end of the night for me. Girls went out for another round of drinks, but I had to make my way home.

Cutículas amigas

Tá aí um grande motivo para deixar as cutículas em paz. Eu estou livre da dependência há quase 2 anos (não por força de vontade própria, mas sem muita opção por aqui). A abstinência é uma fase sofrida, mas sou a prova de que vale a pena. Minhas unhas finalmente pararam de descamar e estão com uma carinha bem saudável. Também vale ressaltar a descoberta da alergia a esmalte, depois de anos caindo na conversa dos fortalecedores, óleo de cravo e de casco de cavalo.