At the Beauty & Grooming Workshop

Networking is important. It gets you job calls out of the blue. Like last last Friday, when I was asked by the owner of S2 Slimming, Stella, to speak on behalf of her brand at Amber Chia and Dato Anna Lim's Beauty and Grooming Workshop on Saturday. 


Friday. Saturday. No next. 


I was given less than 24 hours to prepare, and due to my already prearranged schedule I only started my research at midnight and slept at 3am and spoke the next day at noon and 3pm. 


It went well. At least, I think it did. Stella hugged me after. And the rest of the speakers came to speak to me after. I'm beginning to realise that Malaysians are a sucker for talent. Not saying I have any *cough*. 


I told my friend William who hooked me up with the job after, that I was glad for the job. Not just for the money, but most importantly because I had fun. And realised I had forgotten how I love public speaking. 

Slimming is also the last thing anyone would think to ask me to talk about, as I'm not exactly a size zero. You can guess the fun my friends all made of me once they found out. 
On top of that, I was a person who totally did not believe in slimming centres. I thought of all of them as con jobs, and one of my personal goals in life was to convince people that they were wasting their money by even *thinking* of joining one. 


But Stella surprised me with the facts of S2. 
She believes in going 'Back to Basics'. In going natural. 
S2 doesn't use latest technology machines that create immediate effects but don't last. 
They release the toxins and excess fat from your body by using traditional massaging methods. 


As part of my talk, I spoke of how my sister-in-law, who's a Malay, uses traditional Malay massages to restore her figure after every pregnancy. 
The masssages are brutal, and hurt. Really hurt. After which, cloths are wrapped tightly around the body for an entire month. 
But at the end of that suffering, your body turns into a "what you've given birth before?!?" state. Daphne Iking uses this technique apparently, and look at how hot her bod is. 

Stella doesn't use this Malay technique of massaging though. What she did do was learn massaging techniques across the globe, and brought back her knowledge to create her own S2 slimming massage method. 
And... her treatments have effects that actually last.


Have I convinced you yet? Heck, I convinced myself so much, I signed up for it. *grin*

Check out their website www.s2slimming.com.my for more information. 

Coming back to the talk, other than my teeny tiny segment, the main speakers included Kee Hua Chee and Benjamin Toong, who strutted in 5" heels for all the girls to see.

Kee Hua Chee in his usual strange getup. He has like, 3 or 4 of these suits, in different colours. The guy on the shirt and pants is supposed to be him. 

Close up on his jewellery and self-portrait bag.

And check out Benjamin doing his strut with Amber.

I thought the course was pretty interesting in that they got in people from the Malaysian entertainment industry itself such as Ben Ibrahim, Daphne Iking, beauty queens Levi Li and Dato Anna herself, Kee Hua Chee etc to speak at the conference. 

If you're interested to attend and learn a little more on beauty and grooming, check out www.beautyfashionstudio.info/

I know I've been talking about Amber Chia non-stop for the past few blogposts. I promise you this is the last. It just so happens she launched her academy only two days after her beauty and grooming workshop. Hence the onslaught of info. 

The next few posts I'll talk a little more about makeup related information. Till then!