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July 14, 2010

Korean Customs in Celebrating New Year

Filed under: Automotive, Beauty, Business, Computer, Design, Fashion, Make Up, Marketing — bernardy @ 1:18 PM

Korean New Year is typically a family-oriented holiday. The three-day holiday is used by many to return to their home towns to visit their parents and other relatives where they perform the ancestral ritual known as charye (차례). Many Koreans dress up in colorful hanbok. Tteokguk (떡국) (soup with rice cakes) is commonly served.

Many Koreans greet the New Year (both Western and lunar) by visiting East coast locations such as Gangneung and Donghae in Gangwon province, where they are most likely to see the first rays of the New Year’s sun.

Sebae

Sebae is a traditionally observed activity on Seollal, and is filial-piety-orientated. Children wish their parents a happy new year by performing one deep traditional bow (rites with more than one bow involved are usually for the dead) and the words saehae bok manhi badeuseyo (Hangul: 새해 복 많이 받으세요) which translates to please receive many blessings in the new year. Parents typically reward this gesture by giving their children new year’s money (usually in the form of crisp paper money) and offering words of wisdom, or deokdam. Historically, parents gave out rice cakes (ddeok) and fruit to their children instead.

Folk games

Many traditional games are associated with the Korean New Year. The traditional family board game Yutnori (윷놀이) is still a popular pastime. Traditionally men and boys would fly kites and play jegi chagi (제기차기), a game where a light object is wrapped in paper or cloth, and then kicked in a Footbag like manner. Korean women and girls would have traditionally played neolttwigi (널뛰기), a game of jumping on a seesaw (시소), while children spun paengi (팽이).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_New_Year

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June 23, 2010

The Zinc Violet

Filed under: Automotive, Beauty, Business, Computer, Design, Fashion, Make Up, Marketing — Tags: online florist, Sending Flowers — bernardy @ 3:14 PM

The zinc violet (Viola lutea subsp. Calaminaria) is a subspecies of the violet family (Violaceae). The plant is native to Kelmis (La Calamine) in the Belgian province of Liège. The plant has adapted to an excess of zinc, from an old dump (slag heap) of a former mining company.

The striking yellow violet also occurs along the gully, in Epen, where the present (2003) have just reached the Dutch border. The zinc in the area along the Geul from zinc mines between 1860 and the beginning of the twentieth century in Belgium exploited. In the old mine site are still zinc slag. The zinc is partly transported as dust blown away, so the environment was ripe for zinc and zinc enduring loving species, partly because the river Hohn, during its course also has raised zinc levels and flows in the gully.

Also along the river, the zinc violet Vesdre even localities. It is found also in Germany at Aachen for. There is also a locality in eastern Westphalia, where a variety with blue flowers appear. But that’s also the whole range. The violet is nowhere else in the world who need to adapt found.

The zinc violet is legally protected in the Netherlands and is on the Dutch Red List of plants as very rare and very much reduced.

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinkviooltje

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June 25, 2009

7 Steps to Great Makeup

Filed under: Make Up — Tags: Fresh Make Up, Hair Color, Makeup Tips — admin @ 10:45 PM

7 Steps to Great Makeup :

1. Avoid wearing too much

Makeup is meant to enhance features not bring negative attention to you. That’s what wearing too much makeup will do; it will bring you unwanted attention. Don’t wear too much of anything such as:

i) Eyeliner: dark, thick eyeliner will make you look overdone and will ruin the rest of your makeup.

ii) Mascara: too much mascara looks fake and will flake. It looks especially bad if worn with thick eyeliner or dark blue eye eye shadow.

iii) Foundation: Make sure your foundation is the same color as your skin. Foundation is meant to protect and give the face a smooth look. The magic word is blend.

iv) Powder:The same holds true for powder - not too much. Also, be sure to blend your makeup so there are no obvious lines

2. Lips

Apply lip liner to completely cover the lips, add color and your lipstick will stay on much longer. Make sure your lip liner doesn’t show. Also, your lip color should match your skin tone; wear cool colors if you have cool coloring and warm colors if you have warm coloring. If you want to make your lips look smaller, keep your liner on the inside of your lips. However, if you decide to make your lips look larger, going outside the natural outline of you lips is a mistake. This can look quite messy and unnatural.

3. Appropriate makeup
Wear makeup that is appropriate for the occasion. If you are going to the beach you shouldn’t wear the same or as much makeup as you would if you were going dancing. Also, when you are in daylight your makeup should be a lighter than when you are out for the evening.

4. Too little or no makeup

Some women don’t wear makeup because they are not sure how to use it and are afraid of being overdone. If you are unsure, start will light colours in your shade. Start slowly and add one product at a time. Maybe start with foundation, add mascara, blush or lipstick. If you are not used to wearing makeup, using a lot a first may be a little too much for you, so start slowly. The bottom line is a little is better than none. If you are still unsure seek professional advice.

5. Overall look

When your makeup is completed it should look natural. That means avoiding colours that clash. If you have dark skin and hair you will look better in darker shades; light colours will make you look washed out. If your hair and skin tone are light, light colours will look better on you. Dark makeup will make you look older and harsh. If you have oily skin, first use oil control moisturizer and foundation. Then be sure to wear loose powder, keeping pressed powder with you for touch ups.

6. Hair color

Your hair color should also be in harmony with your skin. If you have dark hair and you want to add color, keep it close to the same shade. If you have light hair, use light colors. As you age your skin will lighten, so should your hair color. One last thing about hair color - if you do color you hair be sure you keep it up, don’t let your roots show.

7. One last thing

Keep makeup looking fresh all day by doing regular touch ups. Don’t let your makeup fade or crease. Smile!!!

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