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hey there ^^

All right, as most people know, asians have p0ker straight and usually very short eyelashes. The greatest invention for us is mascara ^^! But….if you’re like me and dont deal with makeup unless forced lol, how do you solve this problem? weeelll, besides and eyelash curler, there is a way to make them longer ^^. It takes time though….. so are you ready to know ^^!?

you cut them! take small scissors and becareful!!! but just cut off the tips of them. (…) about 1 month time, they grow back LONGER than what they originally were.

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photo { Nathan Appel }

Is fashion art? Really, the more interesting question is “Has art become fashion?” So far that is still the ugly unaskable. Fine art makes a critical stink about being compared to fashion because it knows how close that gets to admitting what really controls its revolutions—the market.

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artwork { Anna Gaskell, Anagram, 2003 }

Dual Function Design, November 10, 2008
By B. Govern “Bee-Dot-Govern”

This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that’s when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to ‘howl at the moon’ from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called meth. I told them no, because they didn’t have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn’t settle for the first thing that comes to him.

I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.

Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the ‘guns’), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.

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The “smart memory bras” have heat-sensitive foam that pushes up boobs as sexual attraction causes body temperature to rise.

As the body cools the foam relaxes and the bust appears normal again.

Inventors at the Slovenia-based Lisca lingerie firm discovered the saucy side-effect by accident, while developing underwear that adapted to changing weather.

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The bank might be calling about the mortgage. The lights might get cut. The car may break down on the way to the salon. But as the old joke goes, black women will keep a hair appointment, no matter what. (…)

For many black women, a trip to the salon is more than just pampering. A missed appointment can add hours to a black woman’s week—pulling through tangles and wrestling with blow-dryers and flatirons. More than the tiresome manual labor, missing a regular spot means missing the black salon experience: the enclave of warmth, comfort and fellowship guided gently by a stylist, who serves triple duty as BFF, therapist and family member all rolled into one.

Now the recession is forcing more and more women to skip their regular trip to the salon, putting the sacred contract between customer and stylist in peril. (…)

Through good times and bad, the black salon has been an institution that has endured because of its special role in our community. “[Hairstyling] allows African-American women to help fashion an identity. … Like the church, it’s a cultured institution,” said Lanita Jacobs-Huey.

In some African cultures, only relatives were considered trustworthy enough to work on a person’s hair. In the Mende tribe, offering to braid someone’s hair was a means of asking for her friendship.

{ The Roots | Continue reading | More: What’s the most reliable economic indicator? Try the black women’s hair index. }

Elaine: This woman has never, not once, ever, as long as I have known her, worn a bra.

George: Ah, that is disgusting–

Jerry: That is just shameless, I don’t know, There’s no–

George: The woman’s a pig, what’s wrong with her–

Jerry: It’s wrong, it’s rude, and it’s–

George: It’s disgusting–

{ The Caddy, Seinfeld, Episode 122 | Continue reading }

photo { Richard Avedon, Contessa Christina Paolozzi, New York, 1961 }

American Apparel is fighting Woody Allen’s $10 million lawsuit accusing it of damaging his reputation by arguing that the company can’t ruin what the film director already spoiled himself.

The 73-year-old Allen started the fight against American Apparel Inc. when he sued the company last year for using his image on the company’s billboards in Hollywood and New York and on a Web site. Allen said he had not authorized the displays.

Allen testified at a December deposition that he considered the company’s advertising to be “sleazy” and “infantile.”

Now American Apparel plans to make Allen’s relationship to actress Mia Farrow and her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn the focus of a trial scheduled to begin in federal court in Manhattan on May 18, according to the company’s lawyer, Stuart Slotnick.

Mia Farrow starred in several of Woody Allen’s movies during a relationship with the director that ended in 1992 when she discovered he was having an affair with her oldest adopted daughter, then 22. Allen married Soon-Yi Previn in 1997. (…)

Lawyers for American Apparel have complained that Allen has refused to turn over much of the information they have demanded to prepare for trial.

Among their demands were documents concerning any endorsement requests that were withdrawn after the sex scandal with Farrow and Previn became public.

The documents defined sex scandal as “your relationship with Soon-Yi Previn including the discovery … (of) nude pictures you took of Soon-Yi Previn.”

The lawyers also requested documents concerning Allen’s public image and reputation, including his contention during his deposition that he was a “special kind of entity” or a “special taste.”

Allen’s attorneys said the request for documents related to the sex scandal and custody battle were “vexatious, oppressive, harassing” and not relevant.

{ WCBS | Continue reading | Previously }

You may think tattoos look cool now, but they’ll be hell to get rid of (and it’ll cost you thousands). (…)

In recent years the advent of surgical lasers has led many private clinics to advertise ‘instant’ tattoo removal.

The lasers break down the dots of ink in the deeper layers of the skin and convert them into particles small enough to be carried off and disposed of by the immune system. But it is a drawn-out, laborious and risky process.

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photos { Steven Meisel, Vogue patterns | more }

They (don’t ask me who) used to say that bad economic times and the length of women’s skirts correlated. As the market dropped towards the floor, so did the hems of skirts and dresses. (…)

I suspect this notion was launched by the experience of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Sweet Young Things and wannabes during the Roaring Twenties wore knee-length skirts. By 1935 hems dropped to a few inches above the ankle: call it the lower calf area. And in the early 1940s hems were back to the lower edge of the knee.

So far, so good for the theory.

But the high skirts of the 20s were a complete break from centuries where women’s dresses and skirts ended somewhere between the ankle and the floor. Not much room for correlation with this Golden Age or that Panic.

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Versace, the renowned fashion house, is to create the world’s first refrigerated beach so that hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days.

The beach will be next to the the new Palazzo Versace hotel which is being built in Dubai where summer temperatures average 40C/104F and can reach 50C/122F.

The beach will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface.

The swimming pool will be refrigerated and there are also proposals to install giant blowers to waft a gentle breeze over the beach.

{ Times | Continue reading }

related { Abandoned luxury cars in Dubai }

When Marc Jacobs found himself in a meeting on a recent Monday morning to brainstorm about Louis Vuitton’s next fashion advertising campaign, inspiration struck. “I just blurted out, ‘I think we should do Madonna,’” said the designer, Vuitton’s creative director, mentioning he’d attended a concert by the pop icon the night before in Paris. “I was totally just blown away by it, and moved by her performance, by what she had to say, and her energy.” (…)

The result is six atmospheric pictures of a smoldering Madonna by Steven Meisel that will break in a range of fashion magazines in February.

{ WWD | Continue reading }