I am rewriting some of most loved classic Xmas stories, from an observer's point of view, something I tried back in high school. I find it very much fun, I do hope you like it.
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson
There was this little girl, sitting so still outside the windows. I was just wondering why she was sitting there so early in the morning. I got to sleep in this morning because daddy said I could open my presents last night, so there was no need to be up early. The girl looked familiar. I saw her looking over the fence to my school yard a few times. She seemed sad. I wanted to come up and ask her why she peeped at us, but when I came too close, she ran away. I wanted to ask her to play with us.
I ran and called for dad. He ran outside, tried to wake her up, but then couldn't. I didn't know why. I saw a lot of burnt matches around her. I didn't know why. I saw dad and aunt's tears. Again, I didn't know why.
That night I asked what happened, dad brushed hair off my face and told me to sit down. This was her story: she was very poor, her dad couldn't take a very good care of her, and she had to sell matches to help put food on the table. Last night, she couldn't sell any so she worried that her dad might get angry so she wandered about. Then she saw us through the window, she stopped. She got really cold so she lighted up her matches one by one by one. The warmth the matches brought her was something she did not expect. She got to talk to her grandparents, and her mom. They said they came to pick her up, to live in a pretty house on the hill, overlook an evergreen field and in Xmas she could make snow angels, so she came with them.
That was why she was smiling when I found her. She was somewhere warm and beautiful. Definitely, she would have friends to play with up there. I wonder if she'd ever come back.
Further reading can be found at this website
http://osr.org/christmas/20-famous-christmas-stories/
Thank you for reading this article.
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year
May your Xmas warm, loving and joyful
^__^
Friday 20 December 2013
Saturday 14 December 2013
Foundation Sponges
Let’s talk SPONGES
Hello, hello
Today I want to talk about SPONGES. I know that there are so
many sponges reviews, videos and blogs, so i want to put in my share of
redundancy. LOL
Anyway, my sponge collection includes: Beauty Blender,
ModelsOwn makeup blending sponges, Real Technique Miracle Sponge, 3 different
types of Ebay Sponge, generic wedge sponge, Innisfree BB roller, and a
foundation vibrator hahahah
From Left to Right:
An Ebay BB dupe_1, Beauty Blender and Real Techniques Sponge
From Left to Right:
An Ebay BB dupe_2, ModelOwns Sponge, Ebay BB Dupe_3
From Top to Bottom: Wet/ Dry Sponge
1.
Beauty Blender: If you don’t have one and you
love wearing liquid/cream foundation, GET ONE, it’s worth it. Use it wet use it
dry, it’s up to you J
This is the website you should
get it from as more than twice a year this store goes 40% off storewide, and
they ship worldwide.
http://www.cherryculture.com/
2.
Ebay BB dupes: to be honest they are not bad,
one doesn’t expand as much as you would want it to but all these sponges are
very decent for foundation application, it takes slightly longer to apply but
results are comparable. They are soft and squishy and I actually love them for
powder application(Use them dry)
3.
ModelOwns Sponge: DON’T EVER BUY IT, it’s so
hard, doesn’t expand with water, just incredibly annoying to use...I haven’t
tried this with dry products but honestly I don’t want to.
4.
Real techniques Sponge: Absolute treasure. This
is so much cheaper than the beauty blender, works exactly the same. I love
using this one dry rather than wet as the sponge is not too flimsy and
application is easier. Works amazingly with liquid/cream/powder products when
used dry.
Buy it from IHERB
https://www.iherb.com/
Discount Code: RMD692
5.
BB Roller, BB Vibrator: these work quite ok in
smoothing out foundation but they tend to take up fair a bit of products, and
no ease of use because they take forever. The BB roller is not too bad but it
won’t be used for awhile for me.
6.
Generic wedge sponge: get them. They are useful
for many things including nail art.
So HOW DO I WASH THESE SPONGE
If you have access to DAISO (Japanese Hot Dollar Shop), get
the puff and sponge detergent. If not use your cheapest facial cleanser you
have. You will need a snubby silicone oven mitt from a hot dollar shop (an 8
times cheaper brush cleaning glove from Sigma). Wet the sponge lightly, put the
detergent on, and work it back and forth on the oven mitt. I tend to wash my
sponge everyday to keep it clean.
Wednesday 25 September 2013
Blog lists and E-tailer for All your makeup and beauty cravings ^__^
Japanese Beauty
2.
Korean Beauty
3.
Western Beauty
4.
Blogs that reinforces common senses
5.
Hair blog
6.
E-tailers
I like Ebay <3 <3 <3
Sasa is ok for certain things
I’m trying out Rakuten
I steer away from G-market, too complicated
and the worst part is you don’t pay for what you buy, more than likely you
would have to pay extra, and have those extra converted to store credit and you
may be unlikely to buy again.
Coloured contacts: kpop2.com
NYX products: Cherryculture.com
Professional makeup products:
camerareadycosmetics.com
Brushes: Sigmabeauty.com or coastalscents.com
(best places for brushes and reasonable
price)
Some other brush brands: crown brush,
designermakeuptools, royal&langnickle brush
Other brands: beautybay and asos offer free
shipping and they go on sale quite often
7. Youtube channels for Asian beauty /Makeup/Nail
Art
BeautyQQ(Cantonese)
ibuybeauty
Pro Makeup Artist Saem Mool Jung
Pony's Makeup(Korean)
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLQ_lTDcNOj7VzNeW0kZ17w
Xteeener
From Head to Toe
Michelle Phan
Goss Makeup Artists
SASA
Sasakiasahi
Pixiwoo
Kandee Johnson
Kristianathe Makeup Channel
Cutepolish
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