After the whole Circuit Breaker my body was aching for a massage. So i got a Fave voucher for E.Zone, for a full body massage at Tampines MRT. Booking for an appointment was easy but once I reached the outlet, they wanted me to wait for... 20 minutes as the room was not ready. 

The walls were thin and you can literally hear water pipes running in the treatment room so I would say if you want to fall asleep during your massage, it is impossible here. The masseur was dressed in her own clothes and she wasn't really putting in effort for the massage. 

On the bright side, they didn't really try to hard sell because I wanted to leave the place asap. Overall, I would say you are really paying for what you will get. I didn't expect much as I just needed a massage and there was one in Tampines. If you are particular about your massages, I won't recommend this place. 

If you are interested, you can get the voucher here. 

I had a great time at The Orchid Skin's boutique at Jewel Airport! Annabel attended to me and she was really patient and I had a great time learning more about the products. Generally, the products are all/mostly water based. Thus it is not sticky/greasy after application. Orchid extract is also infused in most of their products (as per their name), which acts as a natural anti-oxidant that moisturizes, soothes and conditions our skin.

I received the very popular Moisture TOK TOK Hand Cream, Crystal Aqua Sleeping Pack and Apple Soft Peeling Gel bundle pack.


Moisture Tok Tok Hand Cream ($7.50)



Unlike the normal hand creams, this hand cream is water-based gel and it turns into hydrating water droplets upon application! I'm not really a fan of hand creams (tho i receive a lot of hand creams as gifts) as I don't like it when my hands turn super oily and sticky.... Not ideal when you wanna work and your whole keyboard will be sticky as well... ew. So for this hand cream, your hands will not be sticky/oily after application. yay.

Crystal Aqua Sleeping Pack  ($21.50)



I think this is the best one yet, it is a water-based sleeping mask. It is absolutely not sticky at all - so no more sticky feeling when you apply your sleeping mask and you feel your pillow absorbing the mask more than your face. When I woke up, my face was smooth, moisturized and refreshed. Unlike some other mask which I applied and my face was still sticky the day after. :(

Apple Soft Peeling Gel ($13.50)



I looooove peeling masks! Feels so good removing all the dead skin on my face but do note that it is not recommended to use peeling mask/gels everyday. Use it every other day or every 3 days. With apple extract in this gel, it helps to remove dead cells with natural AHA formula to provide a clean and vitalised skin. It may also be used on other parts of your body!

The Orchid Skin has kindly extended a 15% discount for any online purchase. Not limited and valid until August 31, 2019!



Simply head onto their website: www.theorchidskin.com.sg and key in to the discount code <JOEY15> or https://www.theorchidskin.com.sg/discount/JOEY15 to enjoy the discount.
Happy shopping!

The products were sponsored by The Orchid Skin. For more information, visit here.

Back to another nail salon from Fave, Kimiyo-G. I bought the Gel Manicure with Return Soak-Off + Classic Pedicure for 1 Person (2 Sessions) link here which was super cheap at like $38? And because my previous fave coupon was 'cancelled' as the salon went MIA, I got credits refunded so I only paid $10.50 for the coupon.

They have quite a number of outlets that you are able to redeem the session, I went to Eastpoint mall at Simei. I booked the session but I still had to wait a little when I was there, I waited for about like half an hour more but I was ok with waiting. The selection was quite standard, and by standard is like the selection you can get from HDL lol. However, I would say the service is quite good and there was wifi provided.

They weren't that pushy with their packages and no hard selling. As there was 2 sessions, I went to Changi Airport outlet for my second session at 9.30pm. The appointment was quite hard to book, most of the outlets were full when I wanted to do my nails. And you also had to book another a session just for soak off as well, which i thought was kinda stupid. But it is was ok, and I actually preferred this salon out of the many that I went for my nails!

Choose this package as it was the cheapest i could find online.

The driver came and pick us up on time but there wasn’t a text/WA the day before even though i provided my number.

Pick up time was long and took around an hour to reach the pier. Waited for more people to come and was wondering do we really need to reach so early?

Split the mass group of people in two groups and had a small briefing and selling. They are promoting their snorkeling shoes because they will take away your slippers before you board. *Do just keep your slippers yourself, so that you can wear it on the islands* My feet hurts more from stepping on the beaches than sea urchins. (there isn’t that much Sea Urchins, less 10m underwater)

They will take a photo of your group before you board the boat, for insurance they said. But you’ll see them selling you at 200baht each photo when you’re back.

The boat was filled with too much people in my opinion, with almost no walking space in between. And the ride was bumpy, do pop a sea sick pill that they offer before boarding or you will vomit. The ride was 40-50mins to the first stop (which was just to take photos at Maya Bay) and the next two stops were also just staying in the boat and take photos (The cave and monkey beach).

Then we head to Phi Phi Don for lunch, which was quite salty but it was ok. And we had 1-1.5hours here, which i hoped i got my slippers where I can explore the island even more. But it was too hot to walk around we settled for a thai ice milk tea at a cafe instead.




Boarded the boat and travelled for another 40mins, stopped some where for snorkeling, which wasn’t that great. (You’ll probably only see 3 types of fishes + sea urchins) It was around 30mins of snorkeling before we stopped at a nearby island for an hour. Once again, wished that I had my slippers. There’s food stalls around so you can get some BBQ seafood and drinks. Or you can just sit in the water and have a school of fishes swimming around you.




Travelled another 5 mins back to Phuket and our transfers back to Patong (another 1-1.5hours of travelling).

The guide was interesting (thanks minnie) and they serve you water + a shared bottle of coke on the boat. And some fruits when you’re done snorkeling. But the transfers were long and the boat was really packed. The experience could have been better if they had decrease the number of pax in the speedboat by a little.