Guide: Warts Removal Treatment

To be perfectly honest, i've been debating with myself whether or not to write this post, because i simply do NOT want to show you guys my healing face (which looks like i have dark brown freckles all over :)) ) but then i've worked out a solution so, bear with my drawings please :)

It's been a long time since my mom and i have talked about purging the warts on my face -- i'm not saying my skin's perfectly spotless except for those warts but they do add to the ever 'shing, your face looks so dirty' problem. so now that it's holy week and i don't need to be out so much, we've decided to give cauterizing those babies away a try.

I ended up going to Let's Face It at SM Cubao (link here) for it because 1) it seemed cheaper and 2) looks legit and credible enough. Yeah, we've been looking at the other places in cubao where i could get my warts removed (from alimall, shopwise, gateway, farmers and back again to be exact) but i ended up there because you want to go where people go to for these things, right? I've always seen that store with a lot of people sitting in their waiting area so that just means people trust this place :) that and we actually gave the store a phone call first before heading out, asking loads of questions, all of which were answered with a friendly tone.

quick rundown of prices:

Warts Treatment, for every 25 pieces -- 435
Healing Cream/Medicine -- 180

do know that in let's face it, you have to sign a waiver of consent before getting the procedure done. i know some people won't read that but if it's your face you're going to get the treatment done, i do urge you to read it. it's just short (with 5 bullet points) so do read it before signing. it contained like a list of side effects that you can't hold them liable for (they'll try their best of course not to make it happen), and  other stuff like asking if you haven't taken this weird sounding medicine for the past few months. just read it :P

when the girl who was supposed to get the warts off inspected my face, she told me i should go for a facial first because, yes, my face was dirty (pimples, blackheads galore) which was worth 600+ (facial and a mask) but i declined it saying i didn't have enough money to cover everything. THAT and i had 75 warts to purge when i originally though i only had 30 :| so i skipped the facial (yes, you can do that and say it out loud as well) and got to the warts treatment.

first, she put topical anesthesia on my warts and covered them up with scotch tape

and then she left me saying i had to wait for 30 minutes for the anesthesia to kick in. so i was lying there for a a little more than 30 minutes trying to busy myself with texting and bbming people while periodically looking at the couple just beside me on the left because they had really funky green looking masks on their faces and i was wondering if it was something like mint and choco chip iceceream (because it really did look like that).

the girl came back after what seemed to be the longest time i've ever had to shut up and lie down (i was really tempted to sit instead of lie down but i didn't want other people to think i was weird), bring with her the wart zapping thing.

basically, the machine looked like a pen with a metal nub in the end and she would touch my warts with it, burning my warts into oblivion. yeah, i could smell it and i could see the smoke rising up from my face in thin streams and all the while i was thinking 'ohmygod, what's happening to my face now'. truthfully, it didn't hurt a lot, but there were a few warts that REALLY hurt because the anesthesia didn't take effect on them. so yes, if you're planning on getting those warts off, make sure to say that you want that wart fully covered with topical anesthesia because it WILL hurt like hell if it doesn't. the rest just felt like pin pricks that you wouldn't notice at all :)

in the end, i found my face looking like i had chicken pox -- tiny red spots all over which were a bit swollen still on the edges.

i was instructed not to wash my face and neck (i had warts on my neck too) for the next three days and that i should apply the healing cream every morning and night with cotton buds. no washing cause since it's still basically fresh wounds on your face, albeit tiny ones, i might run the risk of getting infected and stuff and have them scar permanently on your face. 

the only time i felt my face hurt and sting was when i got home already, which was around an hour later :) so the next few paragraphs would be me recounting my experience. know that it may or may not happen to you (possibility!) but this is what i've observed so far

DAY 1

it wasn't swelling and it didn't hurt anymore, and it was now forming fresh scabs. some of them though oozed out a bit of yellow pus though so i was a bit disappointed -- i followed everything they told me what to do and what not to do but the inevitable still happened :( in the end, i just patted them dry with tissue since i still couldn't wash them. 

DAY 2 

scabs are now complete and now i have brown freckled face :)) no more pus coming out either :) my face felt caked with the medicine though so i cleared up the in between spaces with water and cotton buds so i wouldn't really touch them. 

i'm now in day 3 and i still have brown spots all over my face

no scabs have fallen off yet, sad to say, but i'm hoping! that and i'm really itching to wash my hair :| can't wait for tomorrow to do that~ i plan to have a facial and a diamond peel the moment all the scabs are gone, and i'm timing it just before i start going to my OJT. hey, i need to look pretty~

i hope you found this guide to be useful :) i'll update as soon as something happens to my face and the end result :D if you're planning on getting the same treatment done, my only advice to you bis to actually call the place you're getting it from and ask them loads of questions about the whole procedure. that way, they can prepare you for what to expect and how to care for your face during the three days you can't wash it ;) 

good luck!~

Review: Bang's Tony and Jackey, Araneta Cubao

definitely summer ready!

for some time, i've been mulling around the idea of getting a haircut because having long, thick hair may look gorgeous but for me, it was a hassle to maintain. yes, chock it up to laziness (on some days i wouldn't wash my hair with shampoo -- i would just rinse with water :|) and time constraints in the morning. i just waited for kuya popo and ate lia's wedding (congrats :D it was super fun and they were both lovely and gorgeous and happy) to be finished before chopping of a huge amount of hair.

i've been eying the newly opened Bang's Tony & Jackey beauty salon at araneta cubao (it's in shopwise, the side faceing SM) for the longest time, even when they still had that huge tarpaulin saying they were going to open soon, but like i said, i was waiting till the wedding was done (i think long hair is really nice to style with) and it was just only now that i finally went inside to get my hair fixed.

one thing i like about the salon is that it looked absolutely clean. there weren't really a lot of people so i got served real quickly and i was ushered to the hair washing station to get my hair all squeaky clean. i didn't catch the name of the girl who was shamppoo-ing my hair but she was really nice and she answered most of my brother's and my questions (what's inside that bottle? what is that thing? do men get their hair shampoo-ed too?). she also did some kind of massage thing to my head which felt nice.

after that, she ushered me to a seat and brought out two hair dryers. Ms. Ann (the stylist) appeared and both of them dried my hair off. I think Ms. Ann's really pretty and she didn't get annoyed at me when i asked her to repeat the question she said (cause i didn't understand). Her assistant acted like a sort of translator too and we spent a couple of minutes debating what kind of haircut i'd have. in the end, i settled for anything as long as it wasn't going to have that fly-away kind of effect.

Ms. Ann got to work just as quickly and i was impressed at how she cut my hair. laugh if you want but i'd like to describe her with the words 'quick and graceful' :)) yes, her movements were quick but she knew what she was doing. i really didn't keep track of the time (i was really absorbed into watching how much hair i was losing and how short hair would suit me since it's been a long time i've had short hair), but when she was done, she asked me how it looked. i eventually asked her to cut my bangs a bit shorter just for a change :)

when she was done, her assistant showed up with two hair straighteners and they both straightened my hair. after that. Ms. Ann put a bit of sweet-smelling hair serum on my hair and asked me "Maganda ba?" and yeah, i think it was. my mom told me later that Ms. Ann told her that i should brush my hair inwards all the time so my hair would look like how it is now.

I really like how the staff are so accommodating and nice and they were really thankful when i handed them a tip (it was the first time someone bowed to me in thanks, okay?) and i also like how they're efficient at things -- they would do things in pairs to get the job done quickly (i'm sure, the other girl also had two people attending to her hair as well). i also like how the staff were really professional about their work -- i really don't want to be forced to talk or engage in a conversation while getting my hair done (i'm awkward like that and i like paying attention to what's happening with my hair) so i was grateful to be given my space. respect~

I'd want to come back again next time to try out something else (they have a promo right now for hair perming or straightening but that's just till the 31st) but in the mean time, i'll just stick with how my hair looks like -- yeah, i'm just so ready for summer with my short hair :D

The haircut costs around 500 (for the guys, it's 300). For more info, you can check out their website: here.

Reiew: NoteSync

Wow, it's been a while since i've last updated but really, i have like a ton of things that i want to write about. yeah, i have a myriad of pictures of products and screenshots but i just don't have the time to write :)) well anyway, for today, i'll be talking about NoteSync and why you should try it out ;)

A bit of a background story first: the only reason i tried looking for a to-do listing thing is because mico suggested we had one that would sync with each other. so you might tell me 'oh that's easy' but it wasn't -- i'm using ubuntu while he's on windows 8 so there are really a limited number of apps that could cater to both. add to the fact that it should be synced together, so my options were narrowed down further (i couldn't pay) until i found Notesync.

Notesync employs the power of GoogleDocs -- basically what it does is it makes it easy to make lists or notes about something, then it gets synced and saved in your GoogleDocs account which is pretty smart :) 

they're all here!

So i just simply made a GoogleDocs account that i'd be sharing with mico (so we share one account), both of us downloaded the software in our own respective computers (me on ubuntu and him on his laptop with windows), logged in with the same account and presto -- instant shared to-do list :) 

the only settings you'll see on this beauty

i like how simple it is to make lists/take notes and when i hit the sync buttons, it only takes seconds (depends on how much you put anyway). It also syncs automatically every few minutes so whenever mico added something else, i'd see it. there's no notification on this one though, so if you'll ever try this out for working on projects, do tell your partner that you added something or else he might not notice. 

another good thing about it is that it's also on android. personally, i don't own an android anything but i think nowadays people get a big kick with things that connect both your desktop and your phone so you have all your things wherever you go :) 

downloading Notesync for ubuntu wasn't complicated at all either -- although it's on Adobe Air (which we know has been cut from updates since... well, for a really long time now), you can still use it on the last update and then follow the instructions here to stop Adobe Air's automatic update so Notesync won't crash on you ("What is the best way to get NoteSync working on Linux?"). 

there's nothing really at all fancy here, but the beauty of this lies on it's simplicity, ease of use, accessibility and let's not forget just how clean the interface looks :) 

you can minimize it to make it into a small green bar that won't get in the way of your work ;)

I use NoteSync to basically just list down all the things i want to do and mico reads them and adds more stuff. I also add in the lists of things i should read, movies we should watch, etc. anything basically :) So if you want to try something else than your old to-do list app, if you're fine without it having any alarms or  reminders and you just want to keep things simple or not forget anything, then this should be in your list. (don't forget that it's cross-platform! :D)

For more details, head on to http://www.notesync.com/ and read on~ (oh and watch the video too -- it's pretty helpful!)

Haul: Human Heart Nature

i absolutely love and adore HHN products :) it's been such a long time since i bought anything from them, but here's the latest haul :D

• Healthy Lotion in Vanilla Delight 
• Premium Deodorant in Powder Fresh
• Human <3 Nature Soap
• Perfect Coverage Mineral Foundation in Toffee

reviews galore soon :D