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RBKD: An interview with MediaCorp image stylist, Xu Ying Ying who won Best Costume & Image Design for Joys of Life in Star Awards 2013. One of the questions asked was the challenges on creating the look for Joys of Life and she finds it easy to style as artistes themselves look good. Special mention for Rui En on successful dressing as “It doesn’t really matter what you put her in. She seems to be able to carry off most things”.

Categorised in 8 DAYS, EN, Joys of Life 花样人间, Star Awards, Star Awards 2013.

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Girl of Steel

A self-professed feminist and skincare fanatic, Rui En reveals how it isn’t about trying to have it all, but finding happiness and contentment that really matters.

For years, Rui En has been caricatured as the entertainment industry’s “Ice Queen” simply for having opinions that somehow find their way into the media. But the days of being outsider are over. Having been voted Top 10 Most Popular Artists at the Star Awards for nine consecutive years, the Mediacorp actress further cemented her superstar status when she was signed on as the face of L’Oreal’s Youth Code last year, as well as spokesperson for L’Oreal Paris Cosmetics.

The fame game

It has been just under a decade since she landed her first leading role, but now, she has completely shed that persona of being a standoffish actor with an attitude. In fact, now that Fann Wong is more focused on mummy duties, she is widely considered the TV station’s top star.

Under pressure

These days, her schedule is particularly gruelling. With the emotionally demanding nature of her job, there must be a lot of pressure being the multi-hypenate entertainer that she is. Having admitted to being a homebody and taking long drives as a way of unwinding from work in the past, the svelte star also enjoys regular workouts to relax.

Glamazon or laidback gal

While she claims to be perfectly comfortable being caught in T-shirts, shorts and slippers when she’s off-duty, Rui En has been consistently scoring with local fashion police when it comes to her sartorical choices.

Year after year, her red carpet outings during events like Star Awards showcase her chameleon-like ability to pull off a smorgasbord of styles, looking perennially chic whether in an androgynous pantsuit or floor-sweeping gown.

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Categorised in Guardian, Health & Beauty, L’Oréal Paris, Star Awards.

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Nominate Rui En now for Star Awards 2015!

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Favourite Female Character – Qiu Xueqing

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– Nomination ends 23 October 2014, 2359.

RBKD will only be voting for one category – Favourite Female Character.

Categorised in Against The Tide 逆潮, Star Awards 2015.

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By Tammi Tan

RBKD: Rui En is mentioned as one of the entertainers who can sing and act well.

Source: Xinmsn

Categorised in 共和國, EN, Music, NDP 2005, Rui ∑n vol. 01, Singapore Day 2009, Star Awards, xinmsn.

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By Yip Wai Yee

With Singaporean TV dramas being increasingly broadcast in the region, home-grown stars are gaining popularity abroad.

At the Star Awards in April, a new award category was introduced to reflect the growing regional appeal of Singapore stars – the Most Popular Regional Artiste Award, which celebrates the stars who are the most popular in several territories.

Actress Jeanette Aw nabbed the award for Cambodia, Rui En won for Indonesia and Malaysia, while Yvonne Lim took the award for being most popular in China.

Source: Asiaone, The Straits Times

Categorised in asiaone.com, EN, Star Awards, Star Awards 20, The Straits Times.

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By Eugene Quek

INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: I pick the beauty brains of the fabulously forthright Singapore actress and new L’Oréal Paris face Rui En, who spills the tea on everything from her ‘auntie’ aspirations and the secret behind a camera-ready complexion to her shall we say, disposition for drag queen diva-dom

“Let’s be real, we’re all drag queens in this business.”

Bam, right off the bat, just like that. This chat is shaping up to be a good one.

Let’s pull back a sec and set the scene for that rip-roaring zinger of a pull quote, shall we. Singapore small screen princess Rui En is holding court at celeb haunt Hairloom Salon, flanked by a flurrying scrum of face painters and stylists; it’s bustle and bedlam everywhere.

Meanwhile, the subject of this story is swathed in a slinky satin halterneck for the occasion, looking regal as hell and cool as a cucumber in the sultry Saturday sun.

And as for yours truly? I’m seriously sweating bullets at meeting my girl crush in the flesh, but more on that later.

If you’re late to the party, here’s a brisk little dossier on the woman of the hour: 33-years-old at time of writing; multiple Best Actress champ at the annual Singapore Star Awards; reigning Queen Regent of Caldecott Hill (given Fann Wong’s burgeoning bun in the oven); and one truly fabulous “drag queen” in the making.

Ah yes, let’s circle back to the cold opening. Rui En’s risque rejoinder comes in response to my rather sly remark on the sooty eyes and sexy scarlet smackers she’s rocking at four in the afternoon – all very lady of the night, if you will, but you’ve got to hand it to the good-natured lass for being able to laugh at herself.

Which brings us very nicely indeed to the whys and wherefores of my crush on the woman. You have her admirable chutzpah, for one – incredibly rare in this age of micro-managed stardom. You also have to factor in the nostalgia. Rui En’s someone most of us early millennials grew up ogling on the boob tube; indeed, she’s pretty much the only local post-Fann actress I have any affinity for, really.

Then there’s the skin situation. Having inspected her mug up close for a good half-hour, I’m happy to report that Rui En’s complexion is well-nigh flawless. Having a mien that’s molded from porcelain comes in very handy indeed when you’re the first Singaporean face for L’Oréal Paris’ Youth Code range of rejuvenating elixirs.

Obligatory sponsors’ plug: Use Youth Code Boosting Serum and look like Rui En! (All jesting aside, the product’s an exquisite entry-level anti-ager that’s great to have on your vanity table.)

Oh, and Rui En has a super stylin’ sense sense of fashion. Noticing my splashy fish-embossed Spring 2014 sweater (not worn with the runway’s white eyeliner, more’s the pity), the actress looks me in the eye and smiles: “You’re big on Kenzo, I see.”

See what I mean when I say she’s the ultimate girl crush? Read on for more beauty bits and bytes from the Best Actress Ever:

1. The camera makes you 10 pounds heavier and 10 facial blotter sheets oilier.

ere’s a nifty selfie-taking tip. Rui En says most filmographers she’s worked with are leery of the dewy K-Beauty finish: “The lens really emphasises everything, so skin that’s perfectly matte in real life will appear as having a sheen on screen.”

Of course, that’s small change when weighed against the apocryphal 10 pounds the camera adds to one’s frame: “I’ve grown used to the aunties, bless them, who always tell me I’m not as fat as I appear on the tellie. Part of the job, I guess!”

In any case, Rui En appears to enjoy getting wet for laughs: “My complexion’s usually a little more ‘wet’ than what most TV people are used to from other artistes, but that’s just the way I like it.”

Rui En credits her longtime partner-in-crime and face painter Sam for shoving her onto the K-Beauty bandwagon: “Thanks to him, I’m quite comfortable with highlighting fluids and illuminating pens; besides, when your face is too matte, it can read as flat and two-dimensional.” Future directors, now you know who to blame for your leading lady’s gorgeous glow!

2. About that “drag queen” business …

No, Rui En is most emphatically not using the epithet in a derogatory way.

Some context is in order. When quizzed on her favourite type of look when swishing down the Star Awards red carpet, this is what the starlet had to say, and I quote verbatim: “Falsies, liner, the whole works. We’re all drag queens in this business.”

Well, colour me surprised. I didn’t know gents like say, George Young were secret burlesque performers, but whatever you say, Rui En.

3. You have L’Oréal Paris foundie to thank for Rui En’s acting accolades. Sort of, maybe.

Get this, for all of her relative youth and socially reticent schtick, Rui En’s a bona fide thespian, a really big fish in a tiny red pond.

To wit: She’s swiped three consecutive biggies from 2011 through 2013 (two Best Actress trophies at the Star Awards and Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Asian Television Awards 2012) and says beauty plays a plum role in prompting her to get into the psyche of a character: “Most people perceive makeup as just a cosmetic prop, but if I were playing say, a go-getting professional, I’ll ask for a really lovely sheer base, something like L’Oréal Paris True Match, for instance, to help me look and feel polished for the part.”

Oh, and Rui En’s one of those touchy-feely types for whom scents mean more than the sum total of its molecules, in a manner of speaking. Let her explain: “Once filming has ended, I find myself unable to use the same perfume from the role again. Once it’s done, it’s done. I want to leave it behind.”

(Somewhat interesting aside: I’ve noticed that creative individuals tend to have the same sort of visceral emotional reaction to scents – just ask Amy Adams, who very politely but pointedly declined to reveal the smells which could conceivably make her weep.)

4. She’s really looking forward to becoming an auntie … and swears she’ll never go under the knife, ever. No kidding.

When asked for her personal style heroine, Rui En says she’s all about the cigarette pants, tailored tuxedos and defiant sense of ease about the First Lady of Cinema: “I’d love to be like Katharine Hepburn in the future – she allowed herself to age with dignity on screen; one might even refer to Kate in her later days as an ‘auntie’ in local-speak, you know.”

Rui En transitioning from bright-eyed ingenue to red-hot star and full-blown national treasure? You best believe it.

Now, while we’re on the topic, I’ll note that catty industry commentators have long murmured about the provenance of Rui En’s eggshell-smooth forehead, but the actress (she’s only 33, for mascara’s sake!) insists she’s a proponent of “natural” beauty.

Indeed, Rui En makes a pretty impassioned and eloquent case against the entertainment industry’s fetishisation of youth. In her own words: “I really, really hate ageism and the pervasive notion in the regional celeb scene that being young and thin are the only barometers of beauty.”

“So no, I don’t think I’ll ever go down that route [of plastic surgery], simply because it’s a neverending cycle. So you might start with a little lipo here and then you’ll start seeing other bits of yourself you’ll want to fix, and then the next … I don’t want to tumble down that rabbithole.”

Now, saying that they have no qualms with aesthetic augmentations has almost become a stock answer for celebs – the more cynical among us might read it as a fallback plan in case they’re ever caught having work done in future – but I can only speak for myself when I say that I do take her at (non-Botoxed) face value.

5. Rui En fans, here’s how to pay lip service to your idol, so to speak.

Favourite shade and brand of lipstick?

Rabid Rui En supporters, drumroll please – she absolutely adores L’Oréal Paris Color Riche Moist Matte in P502 Cherry Crush, although she’ll have you know that she’s still very much an eye girl. “I’m more of an eye person, really; most of my fans will know that my signature look involves lots of liner.”

And she does indeed have a fascinatingly fanatical fanbase, the most fervent of which must surely be the “official” one. RBKD, short for “Ruì Bù Kě Dāng”, is a registered fan club with its punny monicker playing on a popular Chinese proverb to mean – and no groans, now – “Rui En is unstoppable”. I’m counting on your page clicks, RBKD guys and girls!

Wrapping up now. When I compliment Rui En on her choice of lipstick, she smiles and hands it over like a queen bestowing a spare jewel to her jester. That half-used L’Oréal lippie is still squirrelled away in my weekender. Guys, you know what to do. The tube goes to the highest bidder!

Source: Her World

Categorised in EN, Her World, L’Oréal Paris, RBKD, Star Awards, Star Awards 2011, Star Awards 2012, Star Awards 2013.

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日期: 20/05/2014 | 新闻来源: 联合早报 | 记者：王一鸣

造型师：梁莉蓉

介绍梁莉蓉，只需一个本地艺人名字-瑞恩。瑞恩这三年来在“红星大奖”上的造型，全由梁莉蓉设计。“红星大奖20”瑞恩所穿的Romona Keveza烈焰红裙艳惊全场，几乎被所有时尚记者评为“最佳造型”，和梁莉蓉的对话正是从那条红裙开始。

“背负着很大压力，最后一刻才决定让她穿那条裙子，”梁莉蓉此刻说来仍心有余悸，这似是她每次帮瑞恩打理“红星大奖”造型时都必须体验的心情，“有几件备选的衣服，Romona Keveza不是最初之选，好看是好看，却太大太难穿，考虑到要登上电梯进场，被电梯夹缝夹到怎么办？不小心踩到裙角跌倒怎么办？”

原价1万2000元的这条红裙是从店里借来的，为怕踩坏，还花了几百元保险。“幸亏没踩着，哈哈！几个时尚大厂牌空运来只此一件的衣服请瑞恩穿，要是适合，不会薄厂商的美意，要是不适合，勉强穿上，对艺人和品牌的形象都是伤害，这些是我得顾及到。”

以瑞恩的走红程度，国际品牌加身无可厚非，事实上每年“红星大奖”她都穿名牌。梁莉蓉澄清名牌并非首选，若可以也想挑选本地品牌。“瑞恩是很支持本地设计师的，我也不崇洋媚外，新加坡品牌看了一圈，观察到本地设计师在成衣设计上出色，但大型场合礼服的选择范围不广，种类不多，欠缺‘奥斯卡’式光芒，所以我转向品种款式多的国际品牌。”

感激知遇之恩

28岁的梁莉蓉从事造型师才四年多，经化妆师友人介绍结识瑞恩并获大胆启用，梁莉蓉感激知遇之恩。

Source: Zaobao

Categorised in CH, Fashion, Romona Keveza, Star Awards, Star Awards 20, Zaobao.

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RBKD: There is 1 group shot of Rui En with the management of Star Awards 20′s sponsor – London Chocolate Roll, at the post-party. Same picture as the one in i-weekly.

Categorised in 8 DAYS, EN, Star Awards, Star Awards 20.

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RBKD:

There is 1 group shot of Rui En with the management of Star Awards 20’s sponsor – London Chocolate Roll, at the post-party.

Cover story is on Felicia Chin and expectedly Rui En’s name was mentioned. Felicia was asked to choose her preferred style for each of the 5 pairs of celebrities singled out and for the pairing of Jeanette Aw versus Rui En, she chose Rui En for her change in style and her ability to carry off both androgynous look and glamour style over the years.

Categorised in 七公主 7 Princesses, CH, I-Weekly, Star Awards, Star Awards 20.

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