I KNOW
I'm supposed to write a blog post last week, however it's exam week and "exams" is a legitimate excuse to why I haven't updated this blog in 2 weeks. I just broke my blog resolution
Without further ado, let me discuss today's topic.
Online Shopping *dun dun duuunn (insert dramatic music)
I bet all of my readers have done online shopping, because the readers are me, and I have done online shopping. Sob.
Anyway, since last year I do most of my shopping online. At least 4 package are sent to my home every month. People who reside in my house must've think I'm a shop-a-holic. There are reasons, oompa loompas. Reason why I choose to shop online more than offline.
Advantages:
- Cheaper: most of the products online are cheaper than the ones offline. We're talking about the same products here. Por ejemplo, I've had my eye on NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream ever since I bought their butter lipstick offline. It costs IDR 120k in the department store. So, I did my research and found that most of online sellers sell it cheaper, some even sell it less than 100k.
Do you know how annoying it is when you're at the mall and see a pretty skirt and when you see the price tag you're like "k, bye.". By shopping online, it's more manageable. Go to your favourite website, filter it so you can see it by the lowest price. Once you scroll and see the price is above your budget, stop scrolling as it gets more expensive.
- Simpler: by shopping online you can save your energy by not walking through the entire mall searching for that one special thing. All you need is click click click and it will be delivered to your front door.
- Get you products that are not available in Indonesia: most of my lipsticks aren't available in Indonesian stores. Internet got them for me.
Disadvantages:
- Sometimes you can't control yourself: shopping online can become an addiction because it's cheaper and easier to get. Sometimes you buy things you don't need because you want to, k what the hell am I talking about. Most of the times you buy things you don't actually need because it's on sale or cheaper. Buying things online has its own hypes and if you can't control yourself you end up spending too much money.
- It's not as expected: I don't think I've had experience like this, if I did, it's really rare. However, with online shopping you can't see, touch, nor feel the actual product. What you have in mind might be different from reality and it sucks to be disappointed.
- Fake: as in the products are not original, or the products aren't even there to begin with!
So my advice is make sure the online shop is legitimate before you buy anything. Tips on buying things on Instagram is see their tagged photos. If they don't have any, chances are no one ever buy their products because there are no products! At least see their testimonials, although it might be fake. Never buy from an online shop you're not 100% sure.
You have to control yourself. There are so many things you want with their prices so low, if you don't have the self control, you'll end up buying everything. Think twice before purchasing something. If it's something you desperately want, then go for it. Or you can divide your money wisely. Once your spent all your shopping money, you need to stop, don't ever use money intended for something else.
Here are some of my favourite online shops:
Clothing:
- zalora.co.id
- berrybenka.com
Make up:
- IG: makeuppucino
- kutekmurah.net / IG: indobeautystores
I wanted to put lazada, but my 2 latest purchases were very unsatisfying (I had to chat the customer service 3 days in a row, imagine I had to explain things over and over again because my they took like 5 freaking days to verified my payment!)
Anyway, thanks for reading this. Hope it's helpful in some ways.
Have a good day!
<3 p="">
I'm supposed to write a blog post last week, however it's exam week and "exams" is a legitimate excuse to why I haven't updated this blog in 2 weeks. I just broke my blog resolution
Without further ado, let me discuss today's topic.
Online Shopping *dun dun duuunn (insert dramatic music)
I bet all of my readers have done online shopping, because the readers are me, and I have done online shopping. Sob.
Anyway, since last year I do most of my shopping online. At least 4 package are sent to my home every month. People who reside in my house must've think I'm a shop-a-holic. There are reasons, oompa loompas. Reason why I choose to shop online more than offline.
Advantages:
- Cheaper: most of the products online are cheaper than the ones offline. We're talking about the same products here. Por ejemplo, I've had my eye on NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream ever since I bought their butter lipstick offline. It costs IDR 120k in the department store. So, I did my research and found that most of online sellers sell it cheaper, some even sell it less than 100k.
Do you know how annoying it is when you're at the mall and see a pretty skirt and when you see the price tag you're like "k, bye.". By shopping online, it's more manageable. Go to your favourite website, filter it so you can see it by the lowest price. Once you scroll and see the price is above your budget, stop scrolling as it gets more expensive.
- Simpler: by shopping online you can save your energy by not walking through the entire mall searching for that one special thing. All you need is click click click and it will be delivered to your front door.
- Get you products that are not available in Indonesia: most of my lipsticks aren't available in Indonesian stores. Internet got them for me.
Disadvantages:
- Sometimes you can't control yourself: shopping online can become an addiction because it's cheaper and easier to get. Sometimes you buy things you don't need because you want to, k what the hell am I talking about. Most of the times you buy things you don't actually need because it's on sale or cheaper. Buying things online has its own hypes and if you can't control yourself you end up spending too much money.
- It's not as expected: I don't think I've had experience like this, if I did, it's really rare. However, with online shopping you can't see, touch, nor feel the actual product. What you have in mind might be different from reality and it sucks to be disappointed.
- Fake: as in the products are not original, or the products aren't even there to begin with!
So my advice is make sure the online shop is legitimate before you buy anything. Tips on buying things on Instagram is see their tagged photos. If they don't have any, chances are no one ever buy their products because there are no products! At least see their testimonials, although it might be fake. Never buy from an online shop you're not 100% sure.
You have to control yourself. There are so many things you want with their prices so low, if you don't have the self control, you'll end up buying everything. Think twice before purchasing something. If it's something you desperately want, then go for it. Or you can divide your money wisely. Once your spent all your shopping money, you need to stop, don't ever use money intended for something else.
Here are some of my favourite online shops:
Clothing:
- zalora.co.id
- berrybenka.com
Make up:
- IG: makeuppucino
- kutekmurah.net / IG: indobeautystores
I wanted to put lazada, but my 2 latest purchases were very unsatisfying (I had to chat the customer service 3 days in a row, imagine I had to explain things over and over again because my they took like 5 freaking days to verified my payment!)
Anyway, thanks for reading this. Hope it's helpful in some ways.
Have a good day!
<3 p="">
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