Dueba Dreamy.I Brown Lenses

Hey bunnies! Have you ever looked at people with blue, green or grey eyes and felt a pang of envy towards them?
Well I certainly have. And it's annoying that as an Asian Chinese, our eye colour does not vary. So all our eyes are the same dark brownish colour (which has no hint of brown usually).

*Sigh*

Asian eyes. The first curse was that it's genetically small, and now the second is that it's just plain boring.

But people have been going to great lengths just to change the colour of their irises, with now even existing a surgical procedure to change the colour of your iris permanently.

It's really not worth though, considering the pain you'd have to undergo and the many risks that can happen, including being blinded for life o.o

So, as a safer alternative people have been turning to circle lenses!

Lately, I have just been very into coloured circle lenses. My favourite colour is grey and I have always admired people with grey eyes..

So sexy I kenot.

But recently, I decided to try these brown contact lenses because of how amazing it looked on the model.

It looked dreamy just like what it's name claims.

The lens came in little tubes like these.

Dueba Dreamy.I Brown Circle Lenses.

Diameter: 14.5mm.

Power Available: 0.00 to 10.00

Life Span: 1 year

Base Curve: 8.6

Price: Affordable - RM 30 

Bought it from here

I am abit anal about colour lens not being the same shade of colour, so I didn't like the fact that the one on my right looked darker than the left.

 Sorry for the bad quality and my skin's uneven tone..

I've been having many breakouts on my eye brows lately.

But here's a picture so that you'll be able to compare and determine the enlargement these lens give.

Enlargement

For me, the enlargement is good enough because of how short my eyes are.

In fact, I would rather it be just 14.2mm because I think I would look like an alien without makeup. So if you have puny/short eyes like mine, you'd probably need to wear makeup for this lens to look natural on you.

Vision 

Ok I found that not all circle lenses suit different people. I was wearing one from Freshkon before this and the lens blocked out 1/3 of my vision, which was really annoying. Apparently some people have this problem when I tried Googling for a solution. However, these lenses were great with vision and everything was crystal clear, no blurriness.

Comfort

I wore this from 5.30 am in the morning till 2.30 pm. So it was a total of 9 hours, and one side was even accidentally flipped and I didn't realise it until 1 hour later when I started to wonder why one side felt so dry. Initially, I thought it was just perhaps the air conditioner blowing on my eyes, so I didn't take the lenses out to flip it around. I continued wearing it till 2.30 pm when I reached home.

Only then, I took it out to examine it and realised that it had been worn inside-out after all! So imagine how comfortable it is, to the point I'm able to wear it inside-out for 9 hours lol (I'm crazy I know, don't try this at home). The second day, I wore it properly and it lasted for up to 11 hours, but with abit of dryness throughout the day.

Colour & Design 

The colour is great, but would have been greater if both sides came in the same shade. I like the design because it was really simple, yet able to make a noticeable impact on my eyes, considering that my eyes are so dark it's almost black. The colour looks natural, and I know many people will love the black rim around the lenses, as it frames your pupils making it seem larger.

Conclusion

These lens are not that natural looking after all compared to the picture they provided. I guess her eyes are super huge, which is why it makes the lens seem not too big but just nice for her. For some reason, these lenses would only look super pretty with fake eyelashes and eye makeup, giving that dolly-eyed effect.  Personally, I just think it doesn't look natural without makeup because it makes you look like an alien instead of a doll.

Without flash.

With flash.

                                                                   

I wanted to upload a video to show the lenses in motion but it was giving me too much trouble and for some reason it wouldn't play properly.

Plus it was only for few seconds lol. 

So I guess GIFs are the way to go!

HAHAHA

I'M. SO. UGLY.

Oh and I got these circle lenses for only RM 25 because of their Raya Promo, which is still happening now if I'm not mistaken.

Hope you guys liked this review :)

And I'm off and away!

The Great Gatsby - A Review

Alright I just really wanted to get this off my chest. And you should remember that this is only MY opinion. If you have any other opinions, well that's yours. So I really wanted to watch this movie ever since I heard it was coming out because I have studied parts of this novel before in my high school. I did not read the entire book I admit, but I read enough to know that it's an early 90s movie.

True enough, I checked Wiki and the whole story was set in the summer of 1922. What I don't get is why this movie kept playing weird songs which are not even close to the era. I did not have to be a musical genius to tell that the songs are friggin from the wrong era.

And then I found out why I felt that way, most of the songs played in the movie were by JayZ.

Come one. You wanna use rap music in the early 90s then don't choose somebody who only started writing rap music in the late 90s, and early 20s which people like us from twentieth century know.

Plus, I did a little research and rap music was only born in the 1970s.

Seriously, do you think that those people who were rich and living in aristocracy around that era would listen to anything 'street' like? NO of course not. Even Jazz was not accepted among the upper class then. To even begin with, rap did not exist in the 1920s at all!

And worse of all, some people who have not even watched the film came up to me and asked me not to  simply judge if I did not know how to enjoy a movie.

Geez, if all critics enjoyed every single movie produced, I think they would have already gone bankrupt. In fact I don't even think the word 'critic' would have existed!

Back to the movie, the visual effects in The Great Gatsby can be easily seen as 'trying too hard' in my opinion. When I watched the first half of the movie, I realised that hey, the way this show was directed was very familiar. The bright wild colours, the sudden bursts of energy.Then I realised where I've seen these similar visually colourful concepts before.

It was Moulin Rouge.

And yes, indeed both Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby were by the same director - Baz Luhrmann.

I have to admit I loved Moulin Rouge so much more compared to The Great Gatsby. It somehow seemed more original, and it was truly a visual feast.

Yes, some of the scenes were beautiful in The Great Gatsby. Like this part where the curtains flowed  through the room and everything was captured with such grace in the camera.

However, alot of the scenes in The Great Gatsby were not developed well enough to touch the audience's mind and heart. For instance, it was the passion between Daisy and Gatsby throughout the movie which was completely a mess. Daisy just seemed scared everytime she was with Gatsby. It was as though she did everything for Gatsby out of fear, not love.

Most of the cast were alright I guess. Leonardo diCaprio was full of emotion and I felt he did a fair share on his part. He was cool and charming when he had to be, and scary and intimidating when he was supposed to be (he loses his temper in one part). Daisy was played by Carey Mulligan, and her acting seemed pretty flat to me. As I said, she looked scared most of the times. LOL. I mean if that was how she was supposed to be then... okaaaay, whatever pleases you. But cmon girl, that was the man you are supposedly to be in love with, and have been separated through war. On top of that, the man you're now married to does not even give a shit about you, so can you just look like you've never known love in your life before and make this look like the best thing that's ever happened to you (while it lasts) so that the audience can at least relate to both of you??

Ok I'm mad at Daisy/Carey Mulligan.

Tobey Maguire played the role Nick Carraway, and he did a pretty good job. He as well had emotion and emotion is important alright. His facial expressions showed what was going on in his mind and his narration was expressive enough to help audiences relate to what he was feeling. And yes in the end I did feel disgust on the society they were living in, like how Nick Carraway was disgusted by it. That was the only message in my opinion that was delivered well.

There are a lot of mixed reviews for this movie, like IMDB rated it a 7.5/10 while Rotten Tomatoes deemed it rotten at 49%, where the average rating was 5.8/10.

So if you are a big fan of the book or have been waiting for this movie to come out since forever, don't let my review bring your spirits down. Go ahead watch it, and then form your own opinion. 

There ain't no right or wrong :)