Hello gorgeous! It's pretty intense nowadays, I'm gonna share an important information today. All of you who loves to read my posts, must be curious (or maybe some of you also want to write?) on how to create a good beauty article. As for me, a newbie in beauty blogging, still exploring and learning here and there, trying to improve my skill and creating as fun as I can on everything I write here. It's not an easy journey, but I'm doing my best to pursue my passion and dreams. So here I am, about to share the secret to a good (and approved) beauty article.

Actually this is the thing I got through #Ngopcan Beautiesquad, having fun with the community and of course the speaker kak @imgriss. She's super humble and kind, shared a lot of information to us. Wanna know more? Let's read this whole article tho!

The most likely thing to happen is "stuck on ideas", right? Sometimes we feel like we've got no idea in mind about next topic to write. It happens, to me, to you, and to senior or professional writer. If you know @beautyjournal, an online platform by Sociolla, they write 10 articles per day. Can you imagine how creative they should be, to create that much?The most important point on finding ideas is, find out about what's in trend. We can explore youtube, instagram, or even twitter. These sources are great, as lots of people using these social medias. Another source where we can generate creative ideas is from our circles, find out what they're talking about. Classmates, office mattes, or even family. This can bring us fresh ideas to start writing. For example, at the office my friends are talking about their favorite local lipcream. Then it makes me wondering, should I write about 5 recommended local lip cream?

There's also another great tools to generate ideas, it's google trends. But if you use this tools, it won't be specific (since it's free), but at least we can get ideas about what's on trend these days. We can set the location and period as well, so it will be a lot of help to us. Every single writer have their own way, so you can choose which way you like the most. But the best way is, to write it whenever we get ideas. It can be on gadget, notebook, or everywhere else. This ideas will help us for sure when we're stuck on ideas. 

Each type of articles needs different treatments, and as a writer you should try to cover important aspects of each articles you're writing. 

- Review , we can talk about packaging, claim, ingredients, how to use, opinion, price, and where to buy. For example, we want to highlight about the packaging. This looks simple but maybe some people have no idea about that because they never tried the product. As simple as buying a setting spray, when we spray it onto our face sometimes it blows too hard. This needs to be delivered to readers.

- product recommendation, we need to highlight (as simple as possible) about what's the good sides of the product, what makes differences from other product, make the reason as detail and as reasonable as you can. 

- tips, try to create a practical tips which can help readers. If the tips is not applicable (too hard to do) it will lower the engagement. For example : you can use xxx or yyy if you don't have it)

- interview, this is important, seriously. Who knows when you get to join a launching event, you can also interview the brand manager or people behind the scene for the article. Before doing such an interview, we have to prepare big theme, which angle we'd like, and explore the questions. Make the questions as unique as possible.

- tutorial, or every type of article needs to be completed with good pictures. This helps readers to be interested in reading your writings. 

The point is, your article should help the readers to : 

- learn something

- do something

- feel something

Aspects / Articles structure :

1. Intro : be creative, highlight about fear/desire/problem

2. Content : explanations, make it systematic

3. Closure : conclusion, feedback request or something that makes readers want to leave comments (call to action). Be objective and leave judgmental. 

info about standard words count on beauty articles :

- short news - min. 300 words

- tutorial, tips, beauty news - min. 500 to 700 words

- review and interview - min. 800-1200 words

So how's your article? Ready to write a good beauty article and share the goodness to others? Happy writing, I'm waiting for your newest articles!

Special thanks to kak @imgriss from Beauty Journal for this sharing, and also @beautiesquad for making this sharing possible through online platform! Can't wait to see you girls again in the very near future! 

Hello gorgeous, how was your day? Hope the day as pink as your lipstick! Well now, I'm gonna share another product review #series , the most favorite part on my blog. As you girls already know, there's a lot of Indonesian brand producing lip cream. As for this one, Candy Color is a local brand lipcream from Bandung, Indonesia, which was launched on October 2017. 

Candy Color has four pink-based neutral colors, which is safe for all skintones. The colors are: Gummy Bear (soft pink), Peanut (beige pink), Marshmallow (bright warm pink), Hello (brown pink). 

Hello gorgeous! Still in the holiday vibes, let me say Happy Chinese New Year to all of you who celebrate it. As for me, it was super fun and exciting to celebrate the day! Family gathering is one of y favorite part, where I can even meet those who live abroad (and of course we only meet once a year, or more if there's someone getting married lol). Yeah, this is how my family live. We live in different province and countries, but still do our best to maintain the connection.

Sometimes I feel like missing them and want to meet up, thanks to the genius who built internet and all sort of technological stuff, we can now at least do a virtual meet up. Not only my real family related by blood, all my best friends and kind people around me, are also considered as my family. One of them, papi @Joonbond is my family too, together with @bloggermafia. They kindly sent me a surprise CNY box (seriously, they didn't even say anything and voila the box popped out in my house! Well, it came through delivery man ok.) But yeah, let's see what's inside the box!

Hello gorgeous, welcome back here! Welcoming new year, I'm gonna share another new year post #Chinesemodeon haha what I get from student exchange is, "never forget your root". Not going to talk about Chinese new year post, but I'm gonna talk about our first anniversary with KBBV (@kbbvindo) and of course my new year wishes!

Well, if you haven't heard about KBBV or atomcarbonblogger, it is a beauty blogger and vlogger from Indonesia. It's been a year since the very first day of this community, time surely flies so fast. I still remember how our old days (not that old tho) hihi but yeah, come to think of those days, feels like we're growing rapidly. Really, me myself feels the learning process from each members in this community. Regardless of how old and how long we've been in this industry, well, I believe we can still learn from everyone and anytime, agree? 

This community and the committee themselves also very kind, and passionate about beauty. They shared a lot of things using their heart, each and everyday. There's always be a new stuff to learn everyday. They prepared a lot of surprises to us members, not only educate but also treat us! A lot of innovation comes from them , to my life. When I'm confused with all those stuff of instagram algorithm, they prepared IG pod so that all we content creator can support each another. Of course, without forgetting our main duty as bloggers, they create a section to also support each other in our blogposts. It's not that easy to be a good content creator and blogger. But believe me, all these years, the main point I get from every single person who taught me, is , work honestly with all your heart. This works on me, so this should also work on you too!

It was all great job done last year, above average and my expectation as a member and newbie in beauty blogging. You guys let me learn and grow through so much opportunities. So I'm wishing all the best to this community, thanks for letting me learn a lot of new things for the past year and hopefully we can grow together this year and for the next years! (p.s : also thanks for the new camera from latest blog competition ;p)

Welcoming new year, there must be a resolution, right? So here I am to share my 2018 resolution :D

1. GRADUATE!

As you already know, I've been joining the special scholarship program held by a public bank which takes 2.5 years to graduate from the program, and have to continue with our thesis. So this year I'm doing my thesis, and hopefully (it's a must) I can graduate at the end of the year! AMEN. A wise man once told me, a best gift you can give to your parents is graduate, and then enjoy your life. Get yourself a spouse, and give your parents grandchild. Live happily ever after. I do believe in what he says, so please pray for me to make it happen!

2. Have my husband-soon-to-be

Well, everyone around me has been asking around to me about this. Where's your boyfriend? Do you have a boyfriend? And all sort of other question. Here's the secret I want to share. I believe, a relationship is between two people. It's not something to tell the world about (at least in my opinion), you can just enjoy the relationship. Actually, I have someone close to me. But again, blessings from mom and family plays an important role in my life. As long as they haven't give their blessings.. Well I still have to reconsider about it. So yeah, please pray for my jodoh! Whoever it will be, hopefully we'll face a smooth road.

3. Share more on my blog

This is not easy, I know. While maintaining my office work, balancing with personal life and blogging.. But I'll definitely try my best to write a good article and post it so you can read my work. and please do support me. Leave on comment about how you'd like my posts this year!

4. Give more

It's not always about some specific stuff. What I want here is, to give all I have to others in need. From educating people to give materials, something useful for their lives. I have received a lot of love and blessings last year, and I want others to feel how good it is to get blessings and love! I believe you'd like it too, so don't forget to pass what you have to others in need. People not always ask for help, but if you can help. them, why not?

So that's all about my 2018 resolutions, I guess. Thanks for reading, and please do show some love and support to me. I'll always support you too! I love it when we can support one another. 

Hello gorgeous, what's up! It's been so long since my last post, sorry about that, because I'm trying to finish my thesis on time. So here I am, sending loves and greetings to you, since it's about chinese new year already! 

Well, time surely flies super fast. Feels like I just had my first blogpost not too long ago, and next week we're having Chinese New Year Celebration! Chinese new year or also known as Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is an important Chinese festival at the turn of traditional Chinese calendar. It usually runs from evening preceding the first day to the lantern festival on the 15th day of first month. 

Many of you must have celebrated this tradition for years, and yet, don't know the story behind this (it's okay girls, I've been through it too) so here I am to tell you about the mythology. According to legends, the beginning of this Spring festival was a mythical beast called Nian. Nian would eat villagers, especially children. One year, the villagers went hide from the beast. Then an old man came before the villagers went into hide, and told the villagers that he will stay the night and get revenge on Nian. They all thought the man was insane. But then in the morning, they all went back to their home and yet nothing was destroyed. The villagers thought the man was a deity. Then after that, they understood that Nian was afraid of red color and loud noises. So when new year about to come, all the villagers would wear red clothes, hang red lanterns, and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. From then on, Nian never came again. 

Based on the story, what comes first to my mind was : red. Make a look with mostly red color. But then, isn't it will be too simple and ordinary? Everyone wears red on Chinese New Year Celebration anyway, and me too. Why don't we create something different? Then again, I decided to do something outside the box. I decided to create an oranged- based look. Are you girls curious about this one? Read till the end, how I created this pretty and adorable look! PS: you can also wear this make up look to CNY party and meet your colleagues ;p