How To Make Lingerie Work For You - especially for plus size!

What is lingerie? 

A shopping death sentence? 

A piece of fabric that incites sexy time?

 A way to effectively lift and separate?

 Let's talk about this fashionable and naughty undergarments!

Lingerie is one those things that a lot of people like the idea of but don't really know how and where to get especially for plus size! The stress of finding something that you like, that fits and is priced well can be overwhelming, but once you find those pieces, lingerie totally has the ability to revamp your confidence, attitude and approach to sexuality. Use these tips for streamlining the lingerie process and see what great looks you can find!

Start with getting fitted for your bras:

Remember when you got fitted 5 years ago and they told you that you were a 36D? At the time, you totally were, but that doesn't mean you are still the same size today. Don't rely on antiquated sizing information and seriously you need to get re-fitted every year especially you have big top!

Your breasts can easily change sizes over a season due to diet, medication, exercise or stress changes etc, meaning you could easily be down or up a few sizes and not even realize it. The worst thing is wearing the wrong size bra which will ultimately cause your clothes to lay incorrectly and not provide your back with the proper support!! So start your lingerie quest here, by figuring out what size you truly are. You can always to a store and be sized or do it at home with this handy guide.

Knowing this size can help you beyond just bra purchasing, as many pieces of lingerie are sized according to bra sizes like baby dolls, corsets and camisoles.

But realistically, what is going to look good? 

Because at the end of the day, you can know your size, but that doesn't mean a garment in the corresponding size will look good. In spirit of making your search easier, I've detailed out a few go-to looks that are guaranteed to make you fabulous, whether you're a size 2 or 24.

Two piece selections will always be the easiest way to go, because you can ensure that both pieces fit well. This is especially helpful if you tend be have a huge disparity between your bust and your waist.

Create a memorable look by nixing the typical bra for a balconette style or a sexy sheer underwire. Pair it with some sultry panties in your favorite style, whether it be boyshorts, a thong or cheekies.

Consider topping the look off with a garter and thigh highs. Garners are generally sized in straight forward XS-XXL sizing. However, fit can vary across brands and styles, so be sure to try on your garter before buying it. A garter that is either too tight or too big will not be comfortable or do its job. Thigh highs typically come in standard and plus sizing options, so fit should be no concern here.

If you like the bottom options, but want something a little more special than a bra, consider getting a pair of pasties. Pasties are decorative nipple covers that have a sticky backside. It's essentially like wearing reusable sexy bandaids on your nips. If you're looking for something fun, Adam and Eve does offer a range of sexy lingerie that comes with various sizes!

No there's no reason you can't move beyond the two-piece look. Plus size girls can absolutely look sexy in body stockings, corsets and baby dolls, too.

Red Intense Babydoll

Baby dolls are empire-waist style tank tops that are usually adorned with my favourite material lace and sheer fabric. These are great options because the fabric below the bra cups flows away, meaning there is no tight fabric to worry about. It just presents your girls on a beautiful platter while giving you a glowing ethereal look. Pair one of these with a pair of panties.

Body stockings are full mesh body suits that are guaranteed to make a lasting impression. These come sized in standard and plus sizing options. The stretchy mesh can accommodate any size and fits to your shape in a flattering way. Pair this with some high heels and get ready to dominate!

Finally corsets, one of the oldest styles of lingerie! Nothing will make you feel sexier than a corset. It cinches in your waist, lifts your bust and highlights your curves. While they are confidence boosting, the actual corset shopping can be difficult because they are typically sized very differently. You can find some that correspond with your bust size or simple S-M-L options, but most are done through waist sizes. So you'll have to measure your waist and then subtract 2 inches from that number to determine your corset size. Be sure to know that going into it, otherwise you could be stuck trying on a lot of corsets and be confused as to why they aren't fitting. Once found, pair one of these bad boys with jeans for the day and panties for the night!

So what is your favourite lingerie look? 

Mine favourite lingerie style would be baby dolls with ace & how chiffon material, love how it felt on my skin!

Review : New Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion + with improved moisturizing effect and skin barrier strength!

I believe most of us here heard or use Clinique before at some point in our life! 

I am not sure if I mentioned this before that Clinique is the first brand I bought when I first got my paycheck. I got myself Clinique 3 step set and my personal favourite at that time was Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion ( DDML) because the texture was nice and it does somehow keep my skin moist!

Who can forget their advertisement of 3 Steps for Great Skin at RM 1.62/day, such an affordable price for a counter brand! 

In case you don't know, Clinique is a dermatologist developed brand where dermatologist Norman Orentreich MD worked with US Vogue editor Carol Phillips and Evelyn Lauder (daughter-in-law of Estée) back in 1968 to develop a brand that brought dermatological thinking to cosmetics. Clinique is founded on the philosophy that great skin can be created with a simple 3 steps routine; i.e Cleanse, Exfoliate and Moisture.

 

After 45 years, today Clinique finally decided to came out with a NEW formula for one of the best seller moisturizer that will now double the moisturization levels for comfortably hydrated skin all day without an extra drop of oil and promise an increase of 54% improvement in skin’s barrier strength in 8 weeks

With the same design bottle, this new formulated lotion is now named as Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion + (spot that plus sign!) promises to give better moisturizing effect and strengthen the skin barrier so that less moisture escape from our skin!

In order to help strengthen the skin’s barrier giving it more resilience against environmental stresses, Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion + formula contains of a blend of sunflower seed cake, barley extract and cucumber extract! It also incorporates 3 NEW moisturizing ingredients such as Hyaluronic acid, Glycerin and Urea that not only give better moisturizing effect but allow our skin to retain that extra moisture so that your skin remain hydrated throughout the day.

 

This Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion + is recommended for people with with Very Dry and Dry Combination skin skin types.

Janet Pardo, the Senior Vice President, Global Product Development, Clinique said that in Clinique Allergy Tested would meant each formula is tested on 600 people twelve times for a total of 7,200 applications. If a single one of those 600 shows an allergic reaction, the formula is rejected. With such a stringent test by Clinique, we are rest assured when you use Clinique products.

I love how they still remain their texture where it is very lightweight & absorb immediately when I applied on my skin.

 

Review of Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion + :

 

I have been using this Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion + for some time and I do really like how it felt on my skin! It works well for me, making my skin soft and “toing-toing” after a long day under the sun or air conditioned room. Although the texture is really lightweight, I do not need to apply a lot on my skin as a little amount of 20 cent coin size is sufficient to keep my skin hydrated all day long. I love waking up with my my skin feeling soft and supple and make up seems to stay longer when my skin is properly moisturized! So I guess I would be back using this moisturizer for a while and give a miss to all my brightening/anti-aging/whitening products for a moment :D

I do think the new formula is dramatically different from the old one because the hydration lasting power is longer and it makes my skin feels really supple and nice throughout the day!

 

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion + is priced at RM68 for 50ml and RM145 for 125ml. Available in all Clinique counters nationwide starting July.

For more information, www.clinique.com.my and www.facebook.com/cliniquemalaysia

Day 3 : My Indian Jones kinda of adventure in Beng Mealea, Siam Reap, Cambodia

I am going to blog about my Cambodia 3rd day where we are going to Beng Mealea . And according to Tripadvisor's comments, we gotta be ready to be like Indian Jones to visit this ruined temple because this temple is in original condition and there is almost no restoration work at all.

Breakfast before departing for our long journey!

Hotel Food : The pork noodle soup is very tasty . And I do like the taste of Cambodian pork, seems to me more sweet and chewy!

Bacon was really good too, even though this is a hotel food! I extra ordered this for USD 2!

Speaking of Beng Mealea, it is a temple in the Angkor Wat style located 40 km east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia, on the ancient royal highway to Preah Khan Kompong Svay. We took a tuk tuk there and lucky for us it was a cloudy day!

I would suggest next time anyone who plan to go there, try to get an air-condition car/van because it is a long journey on red soil road about 1.5hour-2hour from Siam Reap town. So you must wear a surgical mask & not to wear white shirt if you intend to take the tuk tuk!

Along the way we saw cows carrying carts, just like how we usually see in movie !

It's dry season when we visited there, so we can see both sides of our road don't have much plantation and grass almost dyinng. And I can't help to wonder what are the cows eating ?

From Siam Reap town to Beng Mealea, we passed by small villages where the kids run around playing without their shoes during school hours . So I think these kids are poor and can'f afford to go to school. And they got kinda excited when they saw us passing by and waves to us, and of course we waves back happily like Miss Universe.

Moat surrounding the Beng Mealea temple ! There are so many lotus flower! What a beautiful sight!

This is the entrance to the Beng Mealea. We walked around 10 mins before we actually reached the Beng Mealea temple. Beng Mealea is actually older than Angkor Wat and was originally going to be the main temple until the king changed the site.

I forgot to mention that this Beng Mealea temple is not included in our 3 days Angkor Wat pass and we need to pay USD5 for an entrance fee at a ticket booth located about half a mile from the temple itself.

Beng Mealea temple is situated in the middle of the jungle and when we saw the entrance we are shocked because it is ruined and we could not enter from there. As I mentioned earlier, this temple is left to ruin from and hence this is an original condition.

A little background about Beng Mealea on Wikipedia :

Beng Mealea was built as a Hindu temple, but there are some carvings depicting buddhist motifs. Its primary material is sandstone and it is largely unrestored, with trees and thick brush thriving amidst its towers and courtyards and many of its stones lying in great heaps.

The history of the temple is unknown and it can be dated only by its architectural style, identical to Angkor Wat, so scholars assumed it was built during the reign of king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century. Smaller in size than Angkor Wat, the king's main monument, Beng Mealea nonetheless ranks among the Khmer empire's larger temples: the gallery which forms the outer enclosure of the temple is 181 m by 152 m.It was the center of a town, surrounded by a moat 1025 m by 875 m large and 45 m wide.

TThis ia an alternative route is located on the right built for the tourist to visit the temple

I read from wikipedia that we shouldfollow the wooden bridge to visit the whole temple for safely reason.

Note : There is a temple on the left of the picture.

Remember just now I mentioned there is a temple on the left in my previous picture? I am going in!

Somehow I was adventurous that day after seeing some people coming out from another alternative road. So I told my friends, let's try this and see..

This is the entrance of the temple. And this is what we gonna do, CLIMB IN and SEE!

Oklah, we did have a security guy there who suddenly appeared and followed us around..

Ellis , Tia and me

Inside the temple,all the walls fell off and basically we need to climb on these sandstone to go around the temple. It was very adventurous, felt like Indian Jones going for treasure hunt! It is not easy and DANGEROUS!

Let's our adventure in exploring Beng Mealea begins!

One of the main reason why the walls fell off is because of the overgrown trees which was not taken care off. I was told by the guide it is because Beng Mealea located too far from the city and not easily accessible hence it became abandon.

Guide telling us history of this place and best spot for pictures.




Looking through the window,there are some craving on stone which are still in good condition.

Guide told us this is a good spot for picture and of course I climbed out to take a picture on the branch that looked like a swing!

I felt like a jungle princess here! Sitting on a swing ~

Guide waited for me, because I was busy taking pictures and he told me careful because just recently someone dropped their camera on the hole between the stones!

Do you see the trees growing up there ?


Yes the trees is living on the roofs and walls are being grasped by tree roots and branches!

So much climbing to do!

You guys must be thinking so happily posing there ah, actually it was quite dangerous because one mistake I might fall down!

This is an important carving where it shows the Churning of the Sea of Milk and Vishnu being borne by the bird god Garuda and the story of Amrita (water of immortality)

Each cravings has a story behind or represent something.

It is amazing to see how people at 12th century can actually carve such a beautiful & complex piece without much tools!

The view of the ruin temple from the top.

There are cravings on the walls too.

I was trying hard to figure what is it. At first I thought some kind of fish head or something, but later guide told us it is lotus and in fact the name of Beng Mealea comes from lotus in Khmer (Cambodian language). Beng Mealea (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបឹងមាលា, its name means "lotus pond"^[1]) . Hence this explains why the moat surrounding the temple was full of lilies !

Last but not least, a picture with the super GIANT tree & root! Do you see the big root on the left! And I am really glad that I visited this temple because it is very adventurous and interesting!

p/s: At the end of the tour, we paid USD5 to the guard at our own will for his service :)

I would suggest to people who are coming Cambodia to visit this Beng Mealea Temple IF you have the time, because this temple is quite far from the city and need like more than half day including travelling time. And the good thing is it is not overcrowded and you can take your time visiting this place at your pace. It is interesting & adventurous to climb in myself to see how this temple built in the middle of the jungle and became ruin because of the overgrown trees and how the people in 12th century managed to build all this without any high tech machinery!

Hope you guys find my post useful for your coming Cambodia's trip!


Click HERE to read more about my Siam Reap,Cambodia trip!