People are aware of life when they are aware of death

Yey! So this will be my first beauty review here on MyOpera. Usually I just post reviews on food, books, and movies.

So Missha finally has a branch here in the Philippines. When I first found out about it, I immediately asked my friends to come and visit it with me. It felt like I was in a candy store! So many things, cute cases, colors! OMG! My friend bought a white eyeliner and I first bought some BB cream samples in 21 and 23. After a week I bought one Missha BB cream in 23 and one Missha Super Aqua Peeling Gel (I had to buy it!)


So far, Missha Perfect Cover BB cream is my third BB cream that I have tried. And it's the best so far.


PROS:

• It comes with a neat pump.
• You don't have to use a lot. Just one pump is enough to cover the whole face.
• It has a light feeling once applied and doesn't feel too cakey.
• At first it looked like it didn't match my skin tone but after 10 mins (it oxidizes) it blended well with my skin
• It lasts way longer than any liquid foundation! And I didn't even use any BB boomer yet! After 10 hours of partying, it still has awesome coverage! But it did fade a bit since I have very oily skin.
• Nice matte finish... Kept my face oil free for around 4 hours (that's a big improvement).
• NO need to use other foundations
• Covers up 85% of my acne scars, and the blackheads on my nose.
• After using it 5 times already, you could actually see some of my acne scars fading
• It has SPF!!!!
• Does not crease over time
• Doesn't have that funky smell. It has this nice baby powder smell. I also don't like products that uses a lot of parfum
• So far no break-outs.

CONS:

• too pricey. It costs way more than Missha in Korea.
• not enough of color shades for different skintones. 23 is the darkest available, but it blends well anyway after a few minutes.
• hard to remove! I don't go to sleep with make-up on. Simple facial cleansers will work but will not get all of the product off your face. I had to wash and clean my face 3x when I use it.
• Does not fully cover the bags under my eyes. I still had to use a little concealer when I'm stressed.
• You'll realize that you wasted money ($$$$$) buying all those foundations when this works just fine. hahaha
• Maybe not for people who have very very dark (black) skintones. But I heard in other countries they offer one for very dark skintones....was it 16?

Summary: I definitely recommend this to my friends. The best BB cream I've tried! I'll be throwing out my Maybellines, Ever Bilenas, Body shop foundations and keep this one.








Missha peeling gel was okay. When I first tried it I was shocked to see my dirty skin peel off ASAP. It didn't even hurt! Apply, rub, rinse! No redness or whatsoever. You'll even notice how whiter and brighter your skin will be immediately after the first application!



In the next pic, I didn't peel much since my hand was already clean and I just peeled it the day before.




I was thankful that Missha finally opened here. Hahaha! I can finally try the products a lot of people have been raving about. I'm planning to get maybe the BB boomer next, or the white eyeliner my friend also bought.


This pic was taken around 5 hours after my application of the BB cream. After seeing this pic, it also made me realize I need a lip tint that will last just as long as the BB cream LOL.


Well, that's it for now. Will probably be making more beauty reviews soon. And also maybe some tutorials

I think it is sooo cliche that people make resolutions in the new year. People don't need to change just because it's new year. If you really want to change or have a new start, you can do it at any time of the year. It doesn't have to be the start of some freakin' year then you'll get discouraged if you didn't pull through after the first weeks or missed a day.

Not that I'm saying there's nothing wrong with it. But if you feel you need to change something, do something, or be someone else... You don't have to wait for the start of a new year. DO IT NOW. Heck you can even do it on December 30. Don't wait for another two days. That will show how determined you are.

As for me, I make new year goals. It's like my mission or making some sense in my life. Having some purpose atleast. Giving some more edge in my everydays. Every start of the year, I go visit my goals and see if I accomplished them or go check if I need new goals. Some of you might remember my old list of goals.

2009 Goals

- Finish reading more than 20 novels
- Pass the nursing battery exam Remain studying at Trinity University of Asia as a nursing student (meaning I have to maintain a GPA of 2 flat or higher with no violations or sanctions)
- Finish more that 20 anime series
- Read more than 500 manga chapters
- Post atleast once a week here on my blog
- Expand my knowledge about Photoshopping (though I only know a little)
- Finish my AniManga blog (coming soon)
- Save money to get my iPod and former (because it's not old I'll use former) laptop fixed
- Laugh more and cry less.

I didn't get to post weekly at this blog after some time in July 2009. I got busy since I got accepted and passed the exam. No improvement on my photoshop skills either. Too busy. As for my animanga blog, I haven't even started yet!!! My 2009 was a happy one indeed, but still had too much drama and most of the time, I just laughed for the face of it.

Although this was not posted, here are my 2010 goals:

- Expand my knowledge on Photoshop
- Earn some cash
- Start my AniManga Blog
- Finish my piano lessons
- Save money to get a new music player
- Improve my make-up skills
- Watch 20 or more Anime series
- Read more than 500 manga chapters
- Lose 5 kilos on my body weight

My photoshop skills are still on a standstill. I earned some money from my online shop, but I closed it down since it was too time consuming, and I didn't have enough time. I started my piano lessons around end of 2009, but I didn't get to finish it. My make-up skills have improved and I've set up a blog for some product reviews. I lost 5 kilos by the start of the year, only to gain 15 kilos by the end of the year (Conversion 1kg=2.2pounds)

Okay, for my 2011 goals!!!

• Lose 20 kilograms! I've gained so much wait especially this holiday season! I'm currently looking for a gym that's near and that's open for 24 hours a day so I can go there in early dawn to work out. I'm planning to go back on playing tennis as well.
• Eat not more than 1000 calories each day. But can eat not more than 2000 calories at one day only each week. This to help me lose some weight, also after discovering I have a certain food allergy (alpha-galactose) and food intolerance, my food choices will be limited.
• Complete my anime, manga, and drama download and streaming sites database.
• Sleep by 10pm everyday, and make sure to drink 2 liters of water everyday
• Expand my knowledge on photoshop. (Nope! I'm not giving up on this one!)
• Actually do my daily beauty regimen. I always miss a day or two or even a week during the past year.
• Watch NOT less than 40 anime series
• Read NOT less than 500 manga chapters
• Finish my piano lessons
• Buy a violin and start my violin lessons
• Do not spend more than 200 Philippine Pesos (around $2) every week. Some of my new year goals require monetary funding. My allowance is around 1000 Philippine Pesos (around $20) a week.
• When having conversations, speak either in full straight English or full straight Tagalog. Don't mix the language.
• Learn to read, write, and speak Japanese.
• Laugh more, Cry less!

Hahahah! Good Luck to me and my new goals! I hope my 2011 will be a fruitful year!

here's another game...

Today, I just read a very horrific news. A couple's dog, Sammy (6 years old), was brutally killed by their son because he felt he was feeling replaced. This unforgivable man's name is Christopher Poston, 25 years of age.



Sammy was said to be a loving and caring dog. Christopher's mother was stunned over his actions especially since it was Christopher himself that saved Sammy after finding the dog in a trash bag.

Christopher's family said he has been arrested 18 times since turning 16. In 2003 and 2009 the family even sought protection orders against him. He was given a five year deferred sentence in 2009 for pointing a gun during a road rage incident. Now his parent said they want their son put in jail for good.



Someone who can do this to an animal could very well do this to a person. Also, this dude is 25 years old and your getting jealous over a dog towards your parents?! Psychotic much? Another sickening part of this story was that Christopher's mom said that she never wants to see him again. There are reasons why this psycho did this, neurotic or not. I feel disgusted over the turn of events. I mean, sure, I can hate this guy who killed a dog... I still think he had gone too far, but his parents should be more understanding than that. They should try to find out what's wrong and what to do to help their kid. Probably Christopher did this because they were having a family problem in the first place.

I read comments about this incident and one said, "This is what it would take to disown my own child. I pray someone does the same to him!". That is certainly not going to help.

It seems I'm confusing you, maybe. Am I siding with the psychotic-dog-jealous-family-love-deprived Christopher or with the innocent-caring-poor Sammy?

I feel bad... no, that's an understatement... I am devastated that Sammy has to pay for the consequences of this situation. I mostly blame the parents here, and yes, the bad Christopher as well.

I do pray that there will come a time that these animals will not come to any more further harm due to human interventions. They say we have lost humanity, well I think it's not humanity.. being human is wrong itself. We made the term 'humanity' overrated. To make us believe being humans is not wrong. Well, enough of that. I've lost track of the main story.

I seriously just had to post and share this! BWAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!



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HAPPY NEW YEAR MY BELOVED OPERA MINIONS!!!! BWAHAHAHA

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How was your new year?

Last June, the first term of my second year in college started. But due to some family issues and problems, I ended up ironing my own uniform (yes.. we still wear a uniform in our university).

I can iron, but it taked my a bit longer than the usual ironing time.



Our iron is the hot metal kind, not the steam one. So I woke up 30 minutes than the usual wake up time since I know I have to iron my uniform. I took a bath first then wore my undies. I was only wearing my undergarments while I was ironing since the one that I'm suppose to be wearing is not yet prepared and has tons of creases.

I was done with the blouse and was almost finished with the skirt when I accidentally grazed my thigh with the side of the iron. I didn't feel anything but a small sharp pain. After 15 seconds, OH GOD.. it hurted like hell. That is sooo going to leave a mark.

I checked on in and it was almost a second degree burn.

The burn is found on my right thigh near the inguinal region so the skin is thin on that area that's why it hurts. The size of it is about 2 and a half inches long.



I'm worried about the scar, it seems like after it dries up, it would be very visible. After 2 days I took another picture of it.



What is left as of now is an ugly scar and I'm searching on whether Rosehip oil really works as a scar remover. I don't like the place where my scar is located... probably an eyesore for my 'future' husband.[/ALIGN]

Okay, I got this idea from an online forum and it was really funny yet soo true. Cheers Moo Eh?

Trix
Here you have a starving rabbit. Spoiled children who happen to have a thing for cereal and yogurt point and laugh as the rabbit desperately tries to get some food. The rabbit has obviously tried and failed at receiving some by asking in the past, so the rabbit must use his intellect to survive, but as fate would have it, he always fails. It's a wonder that after all these years this adorable bunny is still alive, but through all of this, the children refuse to share.

What does this teach us? Sharing is wrong. Especially sharing with cute woodland creatures.





Lucky Charms
Now here you have a man with a height impairment. The children choose to take advantage of this man's misfortune by attempting to steal this man's cereal which he treasures ever so dearly. This man also seems to have an Irish accent. Obviously singled out due to the combination of his diversity and disability, this man is relentlessly chased by the children. Unable to get a moment of peace, and constantly on the run, the man is forever doomed to being unable to enjoy his delicious treasure.

Now this commercial in particular uses a lot of subliminal advertising. Children are taught that people who are different from them are to be hunted down and mugged. Height, sex, ethnicity, and the like are all brought into play. They even go as far as to make the children after his one true prized possession. Truly the man has interesting tastes in hobbies, but that's no reason to make a mockery of him. The commercial doesn't portray the man losing his handkerchief of something of little value to him, but the children purposefully go after the man's very livelihood. I for one am disgusted.

Around this year, I have seriously offended (I think I did and he/she said so) a MyOpera member by telling him/her that he/she has a Loli complex. I apologized for that and explained that Lolicon has several meanings. While browsing the world wide web, I found a case where supposedly 'an attraction to young girls/characters' goes horribly sick and wrong.

Tsutomu Miyazaki was born on August 21, 1962 and premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were permanently gnarled and fused directly to the wrists, necessitating him to move his entire forearm in order to rotate the hand. Tsutomu Miyazaki was also known as the "OTAKU MURDERER".

He did not blindly murder Otakus (a term in Japan referring to nerds, usually anime and manga fans). He was an Otaku, and murdered people and not just any people.

Between 1988 and 1989, Miyazaki mutilated and killed four girls, ages four to seven; he then sexually molested their corpses. He drank the blood of one victim and ate her hand.

During the day, Miyazaki was a mild-mannered employee. In his own time, he selected children to kill randomly. He terrorized the families of his victims, sending them letters recalling in graphic detail what he had done to their children. To the family of victim Erika Nanba, Miyazaki sent a morbid postcard assembled using words cut out of magazines, spelling out: "Erika. Cold. Cough. Throat. Rest. Death."

He allowed the corpse of his first victim, Mari Konno, to decompose in the hills near his home, then chopped off the hands and feet, which he kept in his closet, and which were recovered upon his arrest. He charred the remaining bones in his furnace, ground them into powder, and sent them to her family in a box, along with several of her teeth, photos of her clothes, and a postcard reading: "Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove."

Police found that the families of the victims had something else in common: they had all been bothered by strange phone calls. The phone would ring, but when answered, the person on the other end (presumably Miyazaki) would say nothing; if they didn't pick it up, the phone would sometimes ring for 20 minutes.

When he was arrested and trialed, they found Mr. Miyazaki to have "dissociative identity disorder" (multiple personalities) or extreme schizophrenia.

Following his son's arrest, Miyazaki's father, who had refused to pay for his legal defense, committed suicide in 1994.

1. Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people whether they are employed or not.

2. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.

3. Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.

4. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override communications system of any invading alien society.

5. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

6. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

7. If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.

8. Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.

9. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

10. During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

11. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.

12. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

13. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

14. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off even while scuba diving.

15. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

16. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.

17. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

18. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will whine when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

19. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

20. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.

21. Word processors never display a cursor on screen, but will always say: "Enter Password Now".

22. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments. Tires will squeal on any surface, at any speed.

23. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

24. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

25. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.

26. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.