Beauty & Lifestyle Talk – NIVEA Extra white & Firm Q10 deodorent

[Sponsored post]

Underarm care has always been an important issue for me since young. I was born with more hair on my body so since I was in secondary school, being the conscious and very vain me, I resorted to shaving the underarms and unfortunately, plucking too. As I was growing up, I had tried waxing (which was painful) and finally found IPL, though I did not start the treatment until I started working because of the costs. Even then, after years of shaving and plucking, the skin at my underarm darkened and started to sag.

I started using anti-perspirant and deodorant ever since I experienced the first female body odour (of a stranger in the bus on my journey to TP) and vowed never to smell like that in my life. I have been changing brands until 4-5 years ago, I tried NIVEA and stopped switching brands (only switched range).

NIVEA (more than a 100 years of history) 

NIVEA, a German, trusted and credible brand, is one that focuses on skin care for face, body and underarms. NIVEA also believes in caring for the skin and that having healthy skin equates to having beautiful skin.

With the deodorant as the biggest category of the brand, NIVEA has been the number one deodorant in Singapore and expectedly, the whitening range is the best seller in the past 4 years. NIVEA is the first brand to launch the invisible range that leaves no stain on your clothes and has whitening variants to target darkened skin.



NIVEA Extra white & Firm Q10 deodorant launch






“Get fairer and firmer underarms with all day freshness.
 Now, you won’t be caught off-guard in any situations.” 








I was privileged to be able to attend the new product launch which was held at Food for thought on 31st January 2015, together with many other female bloggers. The venue was brightly and beautifully decorated in blue and white!

We were cleared of some common underarm myths and more information of this new NIVEA Extra white & firm Q10 deodorant. For the first time, this deodorant has a firming ingredient present in skincare: co-enzyme Q10 to help firm up saggy skin! Also, this new NIVEA deodorant contains licorice extract, which is a whitening ingredient (solves darkened skin). It also functions as an all-day anti-perspiration action to protect from sweat and odour and has long lasting protection (48 hours) against sagginess and darkening.

Mongchin and I were then invited to share about our usual underarm care routine and some underarm horror stories.

Shandy must have said something hilarious!

More photos while waiting for our food to be served!

With the gorgeous Valerie, Sheila and Mongchin!

WE ARE GETTING BRAVE!

NIVEA Extra white & Firm Q10 deodorant (50ml) is retailing at $4.90 and available at Watsons, Guardian, Super/hypermarkets and major retailer stores. Its not expensive to smell and feel good after all so no excuse right? :D

For more information, you may head to the facebook page as well: https://www.facebook.com/NIVEA.sg

Health & Fitness - Arms Training

I usually do not train my arms on its own, I couple my arms training with deadlifts and sometimes I skip doing arms and ended up doing abs, or I'd go very easy on the arms training. Truth is, you are actually working on your arms during other body part trainings, particularly your biceps as they are needed in most workouts. Having said that, I know many ladies out there are very concerned about getting rid of their "bye-bye" arms and had requests to advise on the arms training that we do so here goes, some of the arms workouts that we do.

We need to work on both biceps and triceps so there will be no imbalance of strength on either muscle group. It doesn't really matter which you start with, as long you try your best to cover both muscles during your arms training, it should suffice.

I will usually start with triceps as my triceps are weaker. What Jason is doing in the video: Triceps rope pushdown.

Dumbbell overhead Triceps extensions (P.S: Apologies, I do not have a video or photo of us doing the other triceps workouts).

You can also try dips as well as bench dips.

Dips

Bench dips

Next to biceps, bicep curls and hammer curls, that simple!

Dumbbell bicep curls

Dumbbell Hammer curls

Hammer curls using Tricep bar/Hammer curl bar

Take your pick, and enjoy the videos! So sorry but I could not upsize the videos. We had the honour to attend Julien Fournie for Love, Bonito show last Saturday at FIDE Fashion Week. Thank you so much Love, Bonito for the invitation! It was such an amazing experience as we had never attended any fashion event, let alone fashion show. The Julien Fournie for Love, Bonito show marks the end of FIDE Fashion Week and was a perfect finale!

My outfit for the night

Have a great week ahead everyone!!