Update!

Life is full of surprise either good or bad.
It never goes to the way I would like to go.

A random facebook status says that
"Past is experience, Present is experiment and Future is expectation.
Use your experience in your experiments to achieve your expectations."

It is so true.

""I am so okay.""
Nothing changes me, I am still who I am.

I smoke.
whatever you think, yes now I do.

Perfect Make-ups

Do you have any perfect cosmetics for you?
I mean "Is there really something that stays really long and perfect?".
For me, "not really"

Because I am afraid to start study at the moment, but not really having something to do, I am going to review some my make-ups so far.

*Totally for girls! or maybe some boys?

glimpsing my make-ups box! :P

1. Face

# Giorgio Armani - Fluid master primer ★★☆☆☆
# Banila co. - Make-Up primer (don't remember the name) ★★★☆☆
: Maybe because 'Banila co.'s primer was my very first primer, so I felt it was better than G.A. It was also MUCH cheaper :D

# Giorgio Armani - Light master Make-up primer ★★★☆☆
: It is okay.

# Skinfood - Lemon make-up Base (Is it Konglish? I don't know .. Anyway,) ★★★★☆
# Beauty credit - Foundation ★★★★☆
: Maybe it's too Korean? but when I used these, I did not use foundation. :P both of them were really cheap and great.

# Giorgio Armani - Luminous Silk Foundation ★★★★☆
# Banila co. - foundation ★★★★☆
# Faceshop - foundation ★☆☆☆☆
# Clinique - foundation ★★★☆☆
: Banilla co. is the still best regarding of price - cheap and great, and I used the same product more than 2 times! Giorgio Armani's is also really great and I am still using it. Faceshop was SHIT, and Clinique was okay - it was my very first foundation from my cousin.

# Faceshop - compact make-up ★☆☆☆☆
# Shiseido - finish powder ★★★☆☆
# Lancome - powder ★★☆☆☆
# Chanel - Poudre Universelle Compacte ★★★☆☆
# Manhattan - Soft compact powder (9. Teint Chocolate)★★★★☆
# Astor - Anti Shine. Mattitude powder ★★★☆☆
: Faceshop? Forget about it!! Shiseido was just okay - at that time, I did not use it that much. lancome was it was just okay, but too bright/white for me. chanel, I am still using it, is also just alright a little better than lancome. Manhattan I bought it last month, and it was the best compact powder I've ever used so far. Astor is just also very good, but Manhattan is still better.

2. eye liner

(1) pencil type eye liner
# Misha(black) ★☆☆☆☆
# banila co.(pearl black) ★★★☆☆
# Giorgio Armani (purple and green)★★★☆☆
# MAC (khaki)★★★★☆
# Laneige (black)★★★☆☆
# Bourjois (green) ★★☆☆☆
# Etude House (greay and brown)★★★★☆
# Manhattan (dark blue) ★★★☆☆
# Rimmel (brown) ★★★★★ : actually it is an eyebrow pencil
: Misha? dirt cheap and shit. banila co. was okay, I bought the same product also more than 2 times I think. Giorgio Armani is good. I bought purple twice, and have green, but I don't like green that much. MAC was one of the best so far. I think I bought 3 times. it was just almost perfect. Laneige, I use it for smokey eyes, it is okay - my friend recommended it for not being panda eye, but.........
Bourjois... I bought it several years ago, and still have it. pearl green - I don't like it that much. Etude house is great, it was also almost perfect really.
: Because of my ASIAN EYES, everything made me panda eyes at last. Now I have special things to prevent though :P

(2) gel type eye liner
# banila co. (dark blue and purple) ★★★★☆
: What can I say? almost 99% perfect! my mum took dark blue(navy) from me because it was really good!

(3) liquid type eye liner
# Shiseido ★★★☆☆
# MAC (black) ★★★★☆
# Giorgio Armani (greay) ★★★★☆
# Laneige ★★★★★
: I love all kind of liquid type. They are so good, no panda eyes, easy to do. but not for smokey eyes :)

3. mascara
# Faceshop (black) ★☆☆☆☆ : SHIT
# Lancome
- Hypnose (black) ★★☆☆☆ : PANDA
- Hypnose Onyx (brown & greish black) ★★★★★ : very good colour, long & volume
- Virtuose (black) ★★★☆☆ : good volume but PANDA
- Virtuose Black Carat (brown & royal gold - top coat) ★★★☆☆ : good for party
- Oscillation
black ★★★☆☆ : a little panda
grey ★★★★☆ : volume is not strong
# Giorgio Armani
- Maestro (black) ★★★★★ : PERFECT
- Grey sparkling top coat ★★★☆☆ : good for party also
# Bourjois - Yes to Volume, No to Clumps (purple) ★★★★★ : Perfect mascara as well
# Bodyshop - volume mascara (brown) ★★★★☆ : a tiny little clumps but fine
# Shu Uemura (green) ★★★★☆ : except colour, mascara it self is really okay
# Laura Mercier (blue) ★★★★☆ : very nice, but too dry. not heavy and good
# Maybelline
- Unstoppable (black) ★★★☆☆ : long lash, maybe? volum? FORGET!
- Volum Express (brown) ★★★★☆ : not bad, fine
# L'oreal - Double Extension (black) ★★★★☆ : a little heavy but perfect long&volume
# Givenchy
- phenomen' eyes (black) ★★★☆☆ : perfect volume! one of the best volum but Panda
- Lash Pearls ★★★★☆ : so adorable
# Etude House - Waterproof mascara (black) ★★★☆☆ : not bad, just fine.

: Bodyshop and Bourjois - used (I think 2 times) it's good. Bourjois and Armani are my best mascara ever! lancome is.. not really, but hypnose onyx, I love it. I don't think I can find them anymore, but if I can, then I'd definitely buy them again.
Givenchy was amazing for volume, but soon found some black powdered things under my eyes. L'oreal was pretty much - almost perfect, but it was so heavy and strong, so that my lashes looked like a little bit spider's legs.

*Etude House's Masccara fixer (base/top coat) is the BEST

4. Cheek
# Benefit
- Dandelion ★★★★☆
- Georgia ★★☆☆☆ - colour is not for me
# Etude House - dual ★★★☆☆ - don't like creamy type
# Giorgio Armani - Sienna Minerals Palette (can I put it here?) ★★★★☆

5. Highlighter
# Banila co. ★★★☆☆
# Microfil loose powder (pink light powder) ★★★★☆

6. Concealer
# Shiseido (liquid)★☆☆☆☆
# Bodyshop (stick) ★★★☆☆
# Giorgio Armani (liquid) ★★★★☆

7. Lips
# banila co. - kiss me not (orangish) ★★★☆☆
# Estee Lauder - Pure Color : Mandarin Pop ★★★☆☆ / Crystal Coral ★★★☆☆
# Giorgio Armani
- Armani Silk : No.14 ★★★★☆ / No.85 ★★☆☆☆
- Shine Lipstick : No.45 ★★★★★
- Lip Wax : No.4 (not sure!!!) ★★★★☆
- Lip Shimmer : No.56 ★★★★☆
# Victoria's Secret - Lip Gloss (blue/mint) ★★★☆☆
# Yve Saint Laurent - Lip Twins No.9 ★★★☆☆
# Lancome
- Juicy Tube Peach ★★★★☆
- Lip Gloss 338 ★★★★★
# Manhattan
- X-treme last & shine : No.95N ★★☆☆☆ / No.33N ★★★★☆
- Perfect creamy & care No.57D ★★★☆☆
# Rival de Loop No.50 (pink) ★☆☆☆☆
# Calvin Klein
- Creme lipstick No.125 delightful ★★★★☆
- Sheer lipstick No.208 illusion delicious truth ★★★☆☆
# p2 - absolute color lipstick No.092 hot campari ★★★★☆
# Clinique - colour surge butter shine lipstick No.411 Rosalita ★★★☆☆

8. Shadow and Eyebrow
: I hardly do eyeshadow, so no mark, just list of it.
Eyebrow is, so far everything was perfect, so also just list.

*Shadow
# Giorgio Armani - Maestro No.8(pink),12(purple) and 14(green)
# MAC - Eye shadow Suite - Sweet Liason (Ivory and dark brown)
# Bodyshop - Shimmer cubes Palette 07 (ruby, dusted silver, argyle pink and rich bronze)
# Etude House - Orgol Light Eyes No.02 golden yellow (gold, white and pink)

*Eyebrow
# MAC - coquette satin (was using brown shadow as eyebrow)
# VOV - brown and khaki (pencil)
# Rimmel - professional eyebrow pencil (brown) : also using as eyeliner pencil

*Eye base
# MAC - Cream colour base (Luna _ Frost)

FYI,
Most of them I bought in Korea before coming to Germany, of course.
e.g. Laneige, skinfood, faceshop, misha, Etude House, Beauty credit or banila co. - only in Korea or some Asian countries.

In general, banila co. and Giorgio Armani are the best cosmetic brands for me.

Also, good thing about living in Germany is .. (regarding make-ups)
1. not really stressed to do make-ups
2. cheap products are also in very good quality

So,
I miss some cheap Korean cosmetic brands now (like skinfood, banila co. or Etude house), but I will miss these european drugstore make-ups when I go back :)

Do you love ART?

I love to go to gallery or museum a lot.
If there's ART, no matter what I try really hard to go.

I used to go to museum a lot more than gallery(this including art museum) when I was little. However, somehow I became a really art-interested person more than history and museum things.
- I think probably affected by my mum.

Anyway, when I went to Speyer with friends, I saw an interesting poster about an exhibition in Karlsruhe.
100 Jahre Malerei; von Picasso bis Warhol - "Just What is it..."

Modern art/Pop art is not my cup of tee, but I was so thirsty for exhibition, so I easily decided to go.



Before writing a short(?) review of some arts, I am going to briefly tell you what I love about galleries.
To be honest, I only slightly know about art. I've read several books about art and art history like that, but my "good working memory" can not remember everything.

So, then 'why do I like it although I barely get what artists really want to say through their works?'

What I do when I appreciate arts is,
I make up my own story based on my own impression/feeling from them.
especially with modern arts,
once I tried to understand the artist, so I was thinking thinking and thinking.
But I did not get anything at all.
When I just tried understanding what I felt, it was much easier and more interesting.

It is not about 'think' or 'know', it is all about what I "FEEL".
Then I can train my self what/how I feel.
It is about INSTINCT.

Also, I like the smell of Gallery. I like the smell of paintings.
It reminds me of an art studio that I had gone to learn 'painting' when I was young.
I was not talented, but I enjoyed it!
I still have my work = sketchbook at home in Korea!
Maybe When I'm back at home, I'll try uploading some of them.

Again, back to the main topic.
Here are some short brief note that I wrote in the gallery.
(BTW,it was ZKM in Karlsruhe)


Sol Lewitt : Cubes with hidden cubes
* this type of work, I have no idea. There is no way to make up a story as well. But what I like about this is, I like the shadow of cubes. It is different from what I did. I mean, I of course know depending on the light (where it is from) the shape/way of shadow will be different, but ... I don't know how to explain, but I felt interesting.



Roy Lichitenstein : Perfect Painting
* For him, maybe it was perfect, but me. When I looked at this, I was trying to find a perfect angle from all the lines crossed. I couldn't.
For me, the perfect angle is 90 degree. There's no 90 in this painting, so it was not perfect for me, but I liked it.



Richard Serra : Black Widow (for Nancy Holt)
* It reminded me of one Japanese commercial about Children's Foundation.
It was about a school kid's painting in class. Teacher asked the whole class to draw something/anything they come up with. A kid started to fill the paper all black and another paper, and another and another. Teachers, parents and doctors really worried about him, and he even got in the hospital. at some point, a nurse found something from his black papers, and also teacher found a puzzle from his desk in the class room, and they came up with something. They puzzled his papers, and found that he was not just filling the papers black, but he was painting a huge black whale.

This work was not like that, but the whole canvas filled with black.. I just remembered that cm.
Here it is,




Hans Arp : Chapeau-Nombril
*Sorry for the artist, but I didn't hesitate to think about "ㅎㅎㅎ"
ㅎㅎㅎ: 'ㅎ'is one of Korean alphabet. 'ㅎㅎㅎ' is embodied the sound of laughing like hahaha


*do not remember the artist and the name of this work.
I did not like it, and also didn't unerstand, AND didn't make any story.
for me it was like
sausage, cheese adn egg.

Well, yeah
I loved this exhibition unexpectedly a lot.
Also, I found that they have some exhibition which is still going-on (I think they have a certain place only for that, like normal exhibition which is not a temporal special one) about media art by one of the most famous Korean media artist Nam-Jun Paik. So, I will (for sure) go there again!!!

LOVE ZKM!

Status

I want to DANCE!

Just updated before writing long one

I dyed my hair a few weeks ago.
It was hard process that I did not expect.

I did 3 trials, and finally all my black hair gone. (not exactly 'all' though)

Because I have got real Asian black and thick hair, and Hair-Colouring-products here are for European hair which is thinner and brighter, so it did not work properly to me.

I even had to buy 'blonde'.


1. Dark blond. I thought it was bright enough to change my hair. Result?
still black.
2. gold blond. Finally a little dark brownish hair. I liked it.
3. Golden ash blond. Puha. one of real blond colour. Finally I did not see any black hair from me. YEAH!!!!!!

So, the result is...


3 blond colours + asian black hair = redish brown hair!

Status

ill
tired
missing
disappointed

and

annoyed