Up, Close and Personal with Dr. Julian from CINDERELLA

Beautiful, charming and the belle of the ball, that was every little girl's dream. We yearn and look in envy at other people, wishing to have the lips of Angelina Jolie, the face of Emma Watson and the legs of Blake Lively. With highly skilled specialist and top-notch technology, the culture of plastic surgery is booming all over the world. A little bit of tweaking on the nose, some restructuring on the jaw and a slice under the eye, anyone can have a baby doll face with doe eyes.

During the weekend I had the opportunity to get up, close and personal with the CEO of one of the best plastic surgery clinics in Koreal, Cinderella Plastic Surgery and Dental Clinic.

Yes, not only they do plastic surgery but they're also dental clinic. Their services include the latest Invisalign 'braces' and also One Day Cavity Clinic where they treat cavities using high-tech CEREC system to reduce the treatment time. I like!!!! only cuz I get to avoid scaling XD;;

CINDERELLA Plastic Surgery & Dental Clinic is a professional medical group which specializes in 3D Star PlastyTM. As an official plastic surgery clinic for a chamber of KBS TV star and MBC TV star, Miss World University, Korea Actor/Actress Union, Seoul Art Technical College and MTM Actor/Vocal Academy, CINDERELLA’s has been the leading plastic surgery for Korean celebrities to come and give high praise. And also newspapers such as Sports Seoul, Joong Daily, Donga Daily Newspaper and Korea Telecom awarded CINDERELLA’s as the best plastic surgery. In 2011, they've also received grand prizes in both fields of best medical group and social contribution.

As mentioned earlier, I had the opportunity to meed Dr. Julian along with a few other girls for a private interview session.

DAT FACE!!!! Dr Julian aka Jung Jong-Pil

Gosh he looks so young if I don't count the grey hair OAO;;; 

Public perception towards cosmetic surgery has been very positive and could get better which is why CINDERELLA is looking to have a partnership to establish a branch here in Malaysia :D Cosmetic surgery is now seen as a worthwhile investment rather than a sign of vanity. To many Korean women, cosmetic surgery is seen not only seen as self care but serves as a sign of status in the Korean society where first impressions are everything. 

Plastic Surgery is almost seen as a natural thing to do in Korea. Roughly 7 out of 10 women in Korea in their 20's to 30's have done plastic surgery. Most popular would be surgery to make the eyes rounder and nose sharper. CINDERELLA provides 24/7 care to each patient after surgery. There would be 24 hours round the clock supervision for post op care. 

According to Dr. Julian, most of their surgeries are pretty painless O.O as they do a thorough examination of the patient before going for plastic surgery. Recovery rate is also much faster to what I recalled reading a few years ago. Now a surgery for bigger eyes only takes about a week to recover whereas a whole face reconstruction only takes 2-4 weeks for recovery o.o. 

Some goodies from CINDERELLA :D including skincare products <3 The snail cream sample packet looks so cute~ I tak sanggup to tear it!!! ;_;

A photo of the girls together with Dr Julian :D

Psssst... he admitted he injects botox into his face :D No wonder he looks so young~ Looking forward to see a CINDERELLA clinic here soon. I've browsed through the website and the facilities look awesome! Though I'm still cringing at the thought of doing plastic surgery myself, I'm looking to get rid of the deep smile/frown lines on my face in the future x_X

CINDERELLA Plastic Surgery and Dental Clinic is only available in Korea but you can browse through their global site just to check out the services and facilities they provide :D Again, thank you to Tammy from Plusizekitten.com and Chyi Ming from Beauty Expo for providing me this opportunity!

Website: CINDERELLA Plastic Surgery and Dental Clinic

Malaysia Hair Makeup Nail Competition 2012

The Malaysia Hair Makeup Nail Competition 2012 is organized by the APHCA Malaysia, Interexpo (M) Sdn Bhd, Malaysian Practitioner Association of Cosmetology, and in affiliation with APHCA Hair & Makeup International Competition. The competition is established to support the development of future creative stylists, makeup artist and nail technicians.

This year, the competition was held at the Beauty Expo on 29th Sept 2012 for the Junior/Student category of Retro Hair Makeup Nail category. In this category, contestants will have to showcase their skill by creating a true retro look on a female model. The look will have to be based on 1920's to 1960's theme.

Here's some of the photos taken from the event. Some of them I've done compilations since there are a few shots. Sorry it's a very bad looking collage ;_; all were done by paint *sigh* Sucks when you have a slow netbook and no photoshop ><

Contestant 1 Loving the jewels on her train~

Contestant 2

Contestant 5

Contestant 8, looking like the gijinka version of Minnie Mouse XD

Contestant 13. Loved how she walked down the runway and go 'SEE MAH BLING!'

Contestant 14. She radiates with the villain aura :D 

Contestant 17. I find her the cutest XD

The judges for this competition consist of well respected locals and international industry leaders who judged based on technique, creativity, individuality of style, execution and presentation of each concept. Winners for the competition took home cash prizes and sponsored hampers.

Congrats to the winners!

Beauty Expo 2012

Now in its 12 year and going from strength to strength with outstanding participation from experts of the industry, the Beauty12 Expo was held from 28th Sept to 1st October in Kuala Lumpur. Founded in 2001, Beauty Expo was the first professional beauty trade exhibition to be held in Malaysia. Covering a top-notch selection of beauty, business, education, trends and industrial competitions over the pas 11 years, this exhibition has transcended to the most important networking platform for leaders from Beauty, Hair and Nail Industry in the Southeast Asia. Beauty12 Expo Covers 10,000 square metres of space, representing 500 exhibits from 23 countries.

Every year the expo brings in exhibitors from the entire spectrum from the beauty industry. This year, the exhibit zones are divided into 5 areas namely:

1. Beauty Salon Spa & Wellness
2. Hair Products & Equipment
3. Nail Products & Tools
4. Packaging, Contract Manufacturing & Private Labeling
5. Makeup & Education.

The exhibition was opened to public on a weekday with an entry fee of RM15. Believe me girls, this is one of the most worth exhibitions to go to stock up on your beauty items. I normally go to these expo's to stock up on makeup, brushes and also masks :D. Even makeup cases are cheap hehehe, I got my makeup box from the expo a few years back for about RM60 *_*V. Not only that, the expo is a good chance for you to go and see what's new in the market, keep yourself updated with the latest trends :D

The expo features a variety of seminars and competitions covering all beauty aspects. I was there to cover the Kimarie Hairdressing & Academy of Makeup show. Many thanks to Tammy for that!

The show was part of the opening act for the Malaysia Hair Makeup Nail Competition.

I loved how this shot was taken with the projector showing the explosion behind lol

Next come the whites (gods I suddenly feel racist lol)

TADAA~!

Beautiful show put together! =) I really regret not having a better camera to snap better pictures x_X. The runway was quite far *sobs* The competition shall be posted in the next entry but just to share with you some photos I took of the expo.

Set of trimming scissors going for RM60! As much as I know cosplayers are a TaoBao addict but I think getting good quality salon grade scissors (plus skill I suppose) is good.  

Naturactor foundation only going for RM8! Holy that's cheap! But I've already gotten mine from Japan :D

Sol, a makeup brand from Korea. Really love their packaging! They've just launched their range of masks but sadly they're not available in Malaysia.

Interesting, color changing lipsticks depending on the blood circulation of the lip area

Booths from Singapore carrying makeup tools

EYELASHES! LOADS OF THEM HOMG!!!! >A< 

Beautifully displayed!!! Will be reviewing their lashes and eyeliner soon hehe :D

Cinderella's booth where I got the chance to meet the CEO, Dr Chung Jong-Pil,  more about that in the next 1-2 entries :D

Tons of booths selling masks and ampoules

Magicboo, a must visit booth for beauty supplies :D

My haul from the expo

Didn't buy much this time since the Eclat D'or masks were way beyond my budget! They test the mask on half of my face and I loved the result! >.<. Total in that picture itself is already RM138 *sobs*

Next up will be blogging about the Hair Makeup and Nail Competition and also Up, Close and Personal with Cinderella's CEO, Dr. Chung Jong-Pil! :D