I’m so happy I’ve FINALLY gotten around to writing this post! This is really exciting. Sometime in February, I organised a mini project. I call it “Jade’s Pay It Forward Project – Beauty Edition!” and today I’m pleased to report that the project was a tremendous success! :) 

How often do we do good deeds or express gratitude to those around us? It is so easy to complain about life and all the negative things that’s happened to us, so easy to while our time away mindlessly, so easy to take everything for granted. Why not take some time to do something more constructive and create happiness? :)

I’m think most of us would be familiar with the term “Pay It Forward” (I shall refer to it as “PIF” in this post from now). Basically, the principle behind PIF is to do something good for someone, and have him/her pay the deed forward by doing something good for someone else. Ideally, the chain of good deeds should continue and spread to many, many others.

Since I am a beauty blogger (OK, so I blog about fashion, lifestyle and health too…) I thought it would be interesting to have a mini PIF project based on beauty. What I’ll do is send out one or two beauty products each to a group of girls, who will each in turn send out one beauty product to one other person (or more, if they like!). When I first thought of doing this, I didn’t even know if anyone would be keen to participate. I posted my idea on Facebook, and was so pleasantly surprised when my friends indicated their interest in this project! Of course, for the purpose of this project, it is not a requirement for their respective recipients to pay the deed forward, but it would be nice if they did that.

As this is my maiden attempt at organising such a project, I thought I would start small by only involving a cosy group of girls. Let me introduce you to these wonderful girls! They are Carol “Carrot”, Debbie “Winddyy”, Jia Ying, Joy, Kendra, Nia and Jacqueline (who’s actually Joy’s recipient, paying it forward)! They have been incredibly supportive of this project and needless to say, I am eternally grateful for their presence. 

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