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FABLife Singapore had it's opening launch last week and I was invited to their flagship store at South Bank for the open house and was introduced to their signature products. FABLife stands for Fashion, Arts and Beauty, the three core areas that FABLife focuses in.

FABLife values simplicity, hence their products are made with natural ingredients and scientifically-backed. Their products nourishes our bodies inside and out by providing the essential nutrients that we lack in. At the Open House, we are introduced to the two award winning signature products by Venna, Indox and Rice Spa.

Venna Indox (from Fablife facebok page)

Venna Rice Spa (FABLife fb page)

JJ introduced us the Venna Indox, a natural fruit-veggie enzyme supplement to help in detoxing the body and digestion. Venna Indox contains enyzmes that helps in promoting a healthy digestive tract by supporting efficient nutrient absorption and boosting metabolism in maintaining regular body functions.

JJ explaining the importance of having a healthy gastrointestinal tract

Some of the benefits of Venna Indox are:


The Venna Indox contains ten major ingredients:

- Apple fiber
- Oat & wheat fiber
- Raspberry
- Plumberry
- Multienzyme
- Aloe Vera
- Green Tea
- Wheatgrass
- Galactooligosaccharide
- Mixed Fruits Powder

To put Venna Indox to the test, JJ did a demonstration by pouring some starch in a container, representing all the food/carbohydrates that we consume on a daily basis such as rice, bread, fried food. The starch is gooey and slime-like texture. If too much starch is consumed, it may be stuck in our intestines, causing difficulty in digestion.

Gooey, sticky solid starch that we consume in our food daily

JJ poured some Indox in the container and mixed it with the starch. Within a few stirs, the gooey starch turned into liquid. With the starch turning into liquid, it clears our intestines from any blockage in the digestive tract, hence aiding in digestion in the body.

The starch mixed with Indox (right) became watery for easy digestion and absorption

We were given a satchet of Indox to try

One satchet of the Indox should be mixed with 200ml of plain water and stirred well. It can be consumed 1-2 satchets daily.

Next, Alice introduced the Venna Rice Spa. a rice enzyme powder that aids in combating acne, reducing wrinkles and promotes cell regeneration. Alice showed us a picture of her skin having breakout six months ago.

As Alice never had any outbreak of inflammation and acne, an outbreak was out of the normality for her. With the help of the Venna Rice Spa, she was able to soothe and improve her skin condition back to it's original condition in 7 days.

Alice outbreak six months ago and her skin condition now

JJ(left) and Alice(right)

Some of the benefits of using Venna Rice Spa are:




The Venna Rice Spa consists of the following ingredients:
- Rice Enzyme Powder
- Oatmeat Extract
- Multigrain
- Aloe Vera
- Tomato Extract
- Seaweed Extract
- Tea Tree Oil
- Peppermint Essential Oil
- Polyphenols
- Enzyme

We were given a satchet to try it out on our hands. One satchet of the rice scrub was mixed with 12ml of water and stirred until a smooth paste. The rice paste was rubbed in circular motion on our hands and left for 10-20mins before rinsing off with water.

rubbing the rice scrub in circular motion at the desired spot

Rice scrub will harden after awhile, sprinkle some water and rub in circular motion again before rinsing off after 5-10minutes

After washing off the rice scrub, skin is lighter and smoother

After one usage, the skin tone of my hand was lightened by a little and the skin feels smooth and moist.

The Venna Rice Spa is ideal for people with acne and sensitive skin, shiny oily skin, sunburn dry skin, stretch marks and scars. Venna Rice Spa does not contain any talc, artificial coloring, raw animal materials, mineral oil or artifical fragrant. I can't wait to try it out on the scars on my legs to see how it goes!

We were given 7 satchets of Venna Rice Spa and 10 satchets of Venna Indox to try after the demostration.

The goodie bag that was given to us

Inside the goodie bag

Venna Rice Spa and Venna Indox

Thank you FABLife SG for the invite to the grand opening and I will try out the products and review them after finishing the products!

Photobooth by Cheese effects at the event!

Check out their FABLife social media handles for more information about the products!

Instagram: @fablife_style
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fablifestylealwaysaspire/
Website: https://www.fablife.style/

FABLife SG
883 North Bridge Road, #13-02 SouthBank
Singapore 198785
11am-7pm
+6596379627

It's the time of the year again for another fresh edition of Manhunt Singapore! I have had the opportunity to attend the Manhunt Singapore 2018 Press Conference held at SCAPE Gallery Theatre to meet the finalists of this year's competition.

This year, there are 31 contestants consisting of 14 Manhunt finalists, 9 Senior Manhunt finalists and 8 Manhunt Opens finalists. There will be competing in 3 categories: Junior Category, Senior Category and the newly introduced Opens Category.

Beam Artistes, the main organiser for Manhunt Singapore 2018, had unveiled this year's theme as 'Changing Perceptions, Changing Lives'. It's a little different from the past Manhunt Singapore themes as it embraces the essence of diversity. This can be evidently seen from the new Opens Category which includes foreigners residing in Singapore to join in the Manhunt Competition. Be expected to be blown away by their unique stories by the contestants, ranging from their different ethnic background, personal struggles and their motivation to join this year's competition.

The emcees for the afternoon was Celebrity DJ and Beam Artiste Wallance Ang and Manuela Bruntraeger, Miss Singapore Universe 2017.

Emcees Wallance Ang and Manuela Bruntraeger

First up, the 14 Manhunt finalists competing in the Junior Category were being introduced.

JUNIOR CATEGORY

Contestant 1: Travis Hoi, 22
An avid traveller and soon to be NSF, Travis Hoi is an eccentric, quirky individual who places great importance in doing things with a heart and sincerity. He believes in staying true to himself that makes him stands out from the rest.


Contestant 2: Chew En Wei, 22
A competitive martial artist who has brought glory to our home country by bagging a bronze medal in the South East Asian Jujitsu Games 2016.


Contestant 3: Nicholas Jacob Bong, 24
The multi-talented actor, dancer and fashion designer Nicholas joined the competition with the hopes of using this platform to change the perspectives of men in the fashion industry, and that men are very much as capable as women to make fashionable clothings too.


Contestant 4: Liam Kuek Yu Jing, 19
An aspired actor, Liam wishes to win Manhunt Singapore and to be signed as a Beam Artiste. Obsesed as a kid, Liam realises his passion in sports and changed his physique by training and eating healthily.


Contestant 5: Damien Tan, 20
A pro vegetarian, Damien hopes to stop animal cruelty. Damien actively promotes the message to the crowd that every single little life is worth saving and we can do our part to save animals from being mistreated and abused. Damien is also a singer and loves outdoor activities such as basketball and dragon boating.


Contestant 6: Nick Langton, 21
The whiskey loving, confident Nick hopes to help others break past their mental barrier to achieve the best physique version of themselves. He believes in helping others up with his strong mindset. With his open mindset, he is excited to embark on this manhunt journey to meet new people and do things he has never done before.


Contestant 7: Hugo Ong, 21
The tallest finalist standing at 193cm, Hugo loves to travel and is going to complete his first ever Everest Base camp trek in April this year. Hugo is open to meeting new people from all walks of life from his travelling adventures.


Contestant 8: Lee Zheng Hui, 22
Zheng Hui is one of the twins back in his family. His motivation to join manhunt is to be differentiate himself from his twin. Zheng Hui wishes to use this oppportunity in manhunt as a driving factor to up his fitness game and impress his relatives next chinese new year.


Contestant 9: Zane Lee, 27
Zane had experienced an earthquake in Nepal while on a trekking camp that led him to embrace the YOLO attitude. Zane has achieved new heights in his career and losing 20kg in 3 months, Zane challenges himself to join manhunt to further challenge and improve himself.


Contestant 10: Ronald Yek Zhen Hon, 21
A freelance personal trainer, Ronald chose his passion over continuation of his university studies and has led him to make a good living for himself.


Contestant 11: Thomas Li, 28
A passionate watersport lover, Thomas is a certified kayaking instructor and reguarly hosts PA Water Venture Community events for kayaking and dragon boat. A banker by the day, he hopes to help people to build their wealth with his services.


Contestant 12: Eddy Rudzaniel, 25
Eddy holds the subsidary title of Mr. Maven in the 2016 RMIT Pageant. Eddy is also one of the few who had the honour of holding the pace stick during his National Service. With the help of modelling and photoshoots, Eddy has build up his self-confidence and wishes to continue grow by meeting new people and gaining new experiences.


Contestant 14: Nicholas Eugenius Lim, 27
Nicholas grew up in a Peranakan Family and owns his own cupcake store on Instagram @mummysboysg. Nicholas has a medical condition Haemophilia and hopes to use this platform of Manhunt to raise awareness on this medical condition to raise funds to find a cure for the condition. He also wants to make his mother proud as she has sacrificed a lot for him due to his medical condition.

Senior Category Men


Contestant S1: Angus Tang, 30
Angus turned his life around from being retained in Secondary 3 to commissioning as a NSF navy officer. However, life was not a bed of roses and he was retrenched two years ago. Angus turned his life around by venturing into the media industry and has been doing well since.


Contestant S2: Bernard Chiew, 31
An entrepreneur with many titles to his belt such as winner of Temasek Poly School of Design pageant and finalist of Sasuke Singapore 2012. Bernard believes in kindness and smiles as it goes a long way to make someone's day.


Contestant S3: Rudy Lim, 38
Rudy is the Head of FinTech at a local bank is passionate working with entrepeuners and startups that have interesting ideas and innovations that would change the world.


Conestant S4: Kavin Gursev, 43
A family oriented logistics manager, Kavin has a huge love for soccer, often playing centre or goalkeeper. Kavin shares his love for soccer by training his kids in soccers during his free time and cooks for his kids during weekends.


Contestant S5: Teo Tze Kwang, 41
The only bald, 'One Punch Man' looking man in the competition, Tze Kwang works as a curriculum developer in the education sector and has developed national syallabuses for humanities subjects and textbook writings. Tze Kwang wants to be an advocate for health as he believes it is not worth sacrificing health over work in the long run.


Contestant S6: Brian Lee, 34
Brian is the 2nd Artillery Officer in Singapore to have attended and graduated from SAF Ranger course. Brian is gifted in the arts scene as he excels in Arts and Crafts back in school as well as being able to play the piano.


Contestant S7: Nasri Mashoor, 31
Even though Nasri was not able to further his studies, Nasri is now a certified personal trainer with 10 years of experience and owns his very own gym. He hopes to attract people with the same mindset ad idelogies to his gym to help them achieve their goals.


Contestant S8: Adam Toh, 38
Adam leads a very active lifestyle playing sports and enjoyed adrenalined pumped activitiy such as drifting in motorsports car. However, Adam suffered ACL surgery as well as failure in business which caused him to go into depression. Adam did not let it get to him and rise above those obstacles by focusing and readjusted his life.


Contestant S9: Dexter Bouw, 35
Dexter was a fat kid in school who needed to attend TAF Club to slim down. Dexter has gone from being fat, eating very restricted calorie intake to finding a balance of going to the gym and eating everything in moderation.

Last but not least,
OPENS CATEGORY

Contestant 01: Kerry Tran, 24, Vietnam


Contestant 02: Luke Newton, 30, Australia


Contestant 03: Richard Englisch, 26, Austria


Contestant 04: Konrad Haedicke, 33, Germany


Contestant 05: Jason Paul, 27, India



Contestant 07: Vladimir Castillo, 29, Philippines


Contestant 08: Laurence Olivier, 33, Philippines

It is a tradition that the Miss Singapore Universe to pick a contestant to sit on him and have him do as many push ups as possible in a minute. Being the most beefy guy, Nick Langton was chosen and tasked to do the push ups.
 Wallace asking Miss Manuela for her choice of contestant.

 Nick kneeling down, preparing to carry Miss Manuela on his back
 Performing the pushups
Nick was able to complete 35 pushups in a minute with Miss Manuela on top of him even though he only aimed to do 30!

A group shot was taken before the guys prepare for their talent showcase
 Groupshot of the contestants of Manhunt Singapore 2018


Group photo with the National Director of Singapore, Samuel Seow
TALENT SHOWCASE
Some of the contestants had prepared a performance item and showcased their talent to us.

First up, Nicholas Bong danced for us to the song of Dancing To Papi Todrick Hall






Kerry Tan sang Make You Feel My Love for us!


Enwei performing live Jujitsu showcase



 Brian who sang a classical, touching Chinese Pop song, Ting Hai


 Konrad performing live Callisthenics




Jason Paul singing on his guitar


 Damien who sang Price Tag!


 The winner of the Manhunt Singapore 2017, Simon Shen was invited to give a speech to grace this occasion as well offering advice as a past winner. Simon had mentioned how he remembered he was covered in sweat due to his nerves even though he was in an aircon room. It was not easy standing infront of an audience and Simon hopes that even though the ultimate goal was to win the title, the contestants should enjoy the journey of Manhunt Singapore and the opportunities it brings about.
 Simon Shen, Manhunt Singapore 2017 giving his speech





SWIMWEAR SHOWCASE

The contestants dawned in their swimwear kindly sponsored by RAW Singapore!

JUNIOR CATEGORY
Junior category contestants in their swimwear

 Travis Ho
 En Wei
 Nicholas Bong
 Liam Kuek
 Damien Tan

 Nick Langton
 Hugo Ong

 Zheng Hui
 Zane Lee

 Ronald Yek
 Thomas Li
 Eddy

 Nicholas Eugenius Lim

SENIOR CATEGORY 
 Angus Tang
 Bernard Chiew
 Rudy Lim
 Kavin
 Tze Kwang
 Brian Lee
 Nasri Mashnoor
 Adam Toh
 Dexter

OPENS CATEGORY


 Kerry Tran
 Luke Newton
 Richard


 Konrad
 Jason Paul
 Vladimir
Laurence

These are all the 31 finalist who will be competing in Manhunt Singapore 2018. It is still pretty early on in the competition and I cannot tell who will win the competition this year. Each and every single invididual is very different and I must say I am always very amazed at how everyone has such a beautiful story to tell. From a father of six, to having medical conditions,being bullied due to being obesed as well as day time businessmen all come together to go through this pageant together. No matter what the personal objectives of each individual wants to achieve out of it, I believe it is a beautiful thing to bring people from different backgrounds together.


Follow them on their Manhunt journey on their Manhunt Singapore's social media platforms.
Their Pre-Judging will be on soon so be sure to look out for it!

Facebook: Manhunt Singapore
https://www.facebook.com/manhuntsingapore/

Instagram: @manhuntsingapore