☆ Merry Xmas ! ! ! みなさん メリークリスマス! ! ! ☆

MERRY XMAS EVERYONE ! ! ! みなさん メリークリスマス ! ! !

Xmas coords!

Hellow guys! And happy Xmas everyone! I don't have so much time and actually it's a late post but better late than never, isn't it? I'm a little short in time right now (cuz it's my dad's birthday) but I'll not leave u guys with nothing but this greetings. This post is dedicated to christmas from my grandma's birthland! Here it goes!

✧ クリスマスデート・ (kurisumasu dēto - Christmas Date)! ✧

Japan is a country mostly Buddhist , as many of you know already, so why to celebrate a Christian date as Christmas? Well the answer is simple: Christmas isn't only an important date for Christianism but it became also a symbol of captalism and consumption.

The japanese answer for that? Making Christmas not only a consumption date, but also something very similar to ocidental Valentine's Day. It's quite different of what we know as White Day (バレンタイン デー), happens in 14th February and it's when women presents mans with chocolates, since Christmas there is the time reserved exclusivly for couples. Not only a date to present another but spend a really quality time togheter like dinners and love hotels (rabuho - ラブホ).

Christmas Theme Rabuho

✧ イルミネーション ・ (iruminēshon – Christmas illumination)! ✧

That's, in my personal opinion, the most beautiful (and less weird) habit of japanese people in Christmas. They usually make a very good effort to make their cities even nicer in this time of year. All the trees, streets, towers, buildings cover with shinny little lamps and all sort of colors. Just give the city a fantasy and dreamy look that I really apreciate. Here're some exemples:

Tokyo Tower

Christmas Eve is widely considered to be a night for romance in Japan, and what could be more romantic than going out and seeing the beautiful Christmas lights of the city?

✧ クリスマスケーキ ・ (kurisumasu kēki – Christmas cake)! ✧

As another different japanese habit in Christmas is the hight consumtion of what they consider a flavor proper for this holiday is a Christmas Cake (クリスマスケーキ). The most typical kind of Japanese Christmas cake is a shortcake with whipped cream and strawberries. Even in places like KFC you can find then, all adorned with Christmas themes and little Santas.

Regular Strawberry Whipped Cream Cake. Looks so yummy!

ロールケーキ (rōru kēki – Roll Cake) is also popular!

✧ KFC Chicken and Japanese Christmas ✧

Another interesting moment in Japanese Christmas is also the tradition of a food we can consider (and americans much more than anothers) very usual: eating KFC Chicken Bucket. But japanese people are really crazy about this idea. Some of them even order their chicken bucket months earlier as a kind of special Christmas dinner meal. People line up in front of KFC stores for hours just to have thenselves their buckets. Here're some exemples:

Who wouldn't like to line up for hours in front a KFC in Christmas Eve, right?

Another KFC orders in Japan. All looks sooo tasty!

And if you still are interested in this amazing coulture please come and check these sites:

NOTE: all this informations are not mine but I made a research and here are the links. And most of this pictures I took from tumblr.

Culture Japan

Puni Puni Japan

Japan Monthly Web Megazine

Go Japan Go

Japão em Foco 

(for my dear brazilian fellows!)

みなさん メリークリスマス ! ! !

じゃあ、またね!  
(*･ｘ･)ノ~~~ばいば～い♪

✩ Dear Santa Wishlist / Girl's Life: Sakurina's Gyaru Movie ✩

Back from my long hiatus time! And glad to say that I finally reached my vacation time and achived fourth semester. Yay me!

Então estou de volta de meu tempo longe do blog! E estou grata em dizer que finalmente estou de férias e consegui chegar ao quarto semestre. Parabéns para mim!




So, just a quick and very consumist post today about all the dreamy things I would list in my Santa's little list for this Christmas time. Here we go!

Vou fazer um rápido e consumista post sobre todas as coisas sonhadoras que constariam na minha listinha para o Papai Noel. Aqui vamos nós!

1. Too Faced Chocolate Bar Palette  2. White Fur Boots (don't know the brand but they're very popular in Shibuya)         3. Ageha False Lashes  4. Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette

5. Pink [and cute!] 3DS XL   6. GLAVIL by tutuHA Black Lace Tank Top  
7. Boggini&Co. Pink Furry Gold Handbag

Just finishing I would like to introduce you guys to a gyaru movie starring Sakurina (Sakurai Rina): Girl's Life. Sincerilly it's a quick and borring movie and the act is really not a strong point of the model. But It worth it for those who really enjoy the style, like big hairstyles and cute outfits. Here in Sincerely Dolly blog you can find a movie review. Feel free to watch and judge yourselves. Here's a movie trailer and the full version with english subbs. Enjoy!

Só para terminar eu gostaria de apresentar vocês a um filme gyaru estrelando Sakurina: Girl's Life. Sinceramente eu achei o filme curto e chato e a atuação realmente não é um ponto forte da modelo. Mas pode valer a pena para aquelas que realmente curtem o estilo, penteados gigantes e visuais fofos. Aqui no blog da Sincerely Dolly vocês encontram um review do filme. Sintam-se livres para assistir e julgarem por vocês mesmos. Aqui está um trailer e a versão completa com legendas em inglês do Girl's Life. Curtam!

GIRL'S LIFE FULL W/ ENG SUBS    

NOTE: Not the movie or the trailer are mine and in description there are the proper references for those who want to download the movie and verify the autor's job.

じゃあ、またね!  
(*･ｘ･)ノ~~~ばいば～い♪

✰ Shingeki no Kyoujin 【進撃の巨人】✰

One world: A-M-A-Z-I-N-G ! ! !

Seriously guys this is the BEST anime I ever seen in my hole life! (maybe not the best one but one of my top list for sure!). I've just started another long sleepless night when suddenly I heard a song, I think it was The Reluctant Hero in an AMV from this amazing anime and thought to myself "Why not watching it? I'll not sleep anyway". It ended with me at 5:30 a.m. tottaly wake and glued to my notebook's screem screaming dirty worlds each time an amazing and shocking scene took place (witch is almost every single second of this anime). I was stunned.

Sinceramente pessoal esse anime é o MELHOR anime que eu já vi! (talvez não o melhor mas com certeza um dos tops da minha lista de preferidos com certeza!). Eu tinha começado mais uma jornada de uma longa noite insone quando me deparei com uma música, acho que era a The Reluctant Hero em um AMV desse anime maravilhoso e pensei comigo mesma "Por que não? Não vou dormir de qualquer forma". Acabou que fiquei acordada até as 5:30 da manhã totalmente alerta e com os olhos grudados na tela do meu computador gritando palavrões a cada cena inacreditável e chocante que surgia (resumindo fiz isso durante cada segundo de cada episódio). Eu fiquei embasbacada!

進撃の巨人 by 村瀬

Summary:

The humanity is on extinsion and their predators (the titans), creatures in human form without any humanity althought who feeds from human flesh, and they're mowing down each human they can put their mouths on. But in this caos comes a time of peace when humans built a 50m tall walls that keeps them from the titans, but make thenselves prisioners.

A humanidade está oficialmente em extinsão e seus predadores, os titãs (criaturas de forma humana porém sem nenhum tipo de raciocínio humano e devoradoras de carne),  estão dizimando todo e qualquer um em quem eles possam colocar as bocas. Mas, em meio ao caos vem um tempo de paz quando os humanos decidem construir muralhas de 50m capazes de conter os ataques e mantê-los a salvo dos titãs que porém os mantém prisioneiros.

Mikasa Ackerman original lineart (more here)

The history beggins with the main character Eren Jeager (エレン・イェーガー)  and his friends Mikasa Ackerman (ミカサ・アッカーマン) and Armin Arlert (アルミン・アルレルト) who lives in a town located on the south edge of Wall Maria (Shiganshina District) but the town is attacked by and enormous titan never seen (the colossal titan) and a short time later the armored titan breached in wall Maria's ground. 20% of humanity is destroyed and the three friends decide to join armor forces and Eren swear to destroy all titans.

A história começa com o personagem principal Eren Jeager e seus amigos Mikasa Ackerman e Armin Arlert que vivem em uma cidade localizada nos limites do muro Maria. Mas a cidade é atacada por um gigantesco titã (o titã colossal) e, um breve tempo depois, o titã de armadura derruba os portões e penetra o muro Maria causando assim uma perda de 20% da humanidade. Os três amigos então decidem dar inicio a uma arriscada jornada para entrar no exercito e Eren jura destruir todos os titãs.

piece of the manga wich the anime originally came from

So if you guys loves bloody and very good history developed mangas/animes I totally recomends this one. I'm already addicted to it and have any shame on saying this out loud! For more information about Shingeki no Kyojin go for Shingeki no Kyojin Wikia.

Se vocês gostam de animes/mangas sangrentos e com ótimo enredo então eu recomendo totalmente esse! Eu já estou viciada e não tenho nenhuma vergonha em admitir isso em voz alta. Para mais informações vá para Shingeki no Kyojin Project.

Some beautiful cosplay I found on internet (Left: Reika  / Right: Mon  )

Three Dimensional Maneuver Gear

And Jesus How I want this!

じゃあ、またね!  
(*･ｘ･)ノ~~~ばいば～い♪

☆ O'slee Honey Sugar Mask Review ☆

Hey guys!

I'm very sorry about my lately desappearence but I'm experiecing a hard core time at my college (falling at that crazy end of semester) and really didn't have any spare time for blogging here. So I promise this time I'll bring you some good stuff in my first reviewing after this long (and not planed) hiatus.

❣ O'SLEE HONEY SUGAR MASK ❣

So I was there, browsing randonly on my ginormous beauty vlogs list, when suddenly one of them cought my attention. It was a simple review video about this freaking cute (and awesome) product I bring to you guys today. It's my brand new (and now favorite) scrubing mask! The O'slee cute Honey Sugar Mask!

O'slee is a famous chinese brand that I keep close to my heart. It's cheap, cute and very very good!

The Honey Sugar Mask comes in a beautiful packing on a form of a little white glass bottle, with a plastic lid. It comes with a little spoon to help to get the product, and a yellow sponge to help in its cleansing.

♢INGREDIENTS♢

Sucrose, Squalane, Caprylic/Capric Glycerides, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Extract, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Isononyl Isononanoate, Hydrogenated Grapeseed Oil, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, C12-18 Alkyl Glucoside, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Lithium Magnesium Silicate, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract, Tocopherol, Honey Extract, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance, Bisabolol, Allantoin, Hyaluronic Acid.

♢USERS GUIDE♢

On dry skin...

Apply a little quantity of the product on your skin and gently (very gently) massage in a circular way durring 1-5 minutes. Then you wash it (with cold or warm whater but I don't recomend in hot because, after scrubbing the skin tends to feel very sensible). I personaly recomend that you clean your skin before applying this scrubbing mask, since it's better scrubbing a clean skin to prevents any mean dirt to remain.

On wet skin...

Apply a little quantity of the product on skin (this time a little more than you use on dry skin) and gently massage in a circular way durring 1-5 minutes again (if your skin turns to be sensible I strongly recomend only 1 minute of scrubbing). The difference between this and the dry skin process is that the scrubbing will melt on skin with the humidity, acting like a mosturizing. You'll let the mask stays for 5-10 minutes and then you wash it away. I also like to make this process using my beloved Clarissonic Mia 2 durring my bath.

I like to use it durring bath time with my Clarissonic Mia2 and really recomend it for oily skins like mine

♢PRODUCT REVIEW♢

 

This review is PERSONAL and I bought and make it for myself only!

 ♢WHAT IS IT?♢

 It's a two-in-one scrubbing/brightening mask. It also claimes to brightes skin up and remove the dead skin cells with its rough sand touch without hurting the skin. And how it works? It uses high speed dispersing technology to transform natural brown sugar into fine powder to remove dead skin cells. Also claims to:

• Soften and remove cuticles and dirts gently
• Skin lightening and whitening. Skin becomes rejuvenate after used.
• Natural honey and melted brown sugar deeply nourish your skin.
• Deep cleansing and remove blackheads.
• After deep cleansing and removing cuticles, pores becomes invisible.
• With cleansed moisturized skin, oil secretion will be reduced.

 

 ♢WHAT I LIKE♢

Firstly the cute as hell glass jar of it, the great packing and the perfect sealing it comes with. I also like it texture, despite it looks like too rough and greasy. It really do what it promises brightenin, smoothing and cleaning my skin. The after touch is much more soft and tender and I am using for just two weeks now (1 time a week). It's definetly my favorite oil control product so far!

♢WHAT I DON'T LIKE♢

It's strong, too sweet smell. It looks like to attach to the skin and I really don't like it. It feels really rough on dry skin (mainly for those with sensitive skin). My pores didn't tight up as I was expecting, but it's okay since I have anoter product exclusively for this mean.

 OVERALL: ❤✦❤✦❤

Product: ✦✦✦✦✦    It's amazing and wonderful product, very lasting and made with all natural ingredients. Its an all-in-one mask with brightening, smoothing, peeling and pore reduction function. It's already my favorite oil control product and it certanly has  a quick and almost immediate result.

Packing: ✦✦✦✦✦    Certanly the cutest and mainly part of this product. It's made of real glass, completely well sealed and comes with a proper mask stick and even a sponge!

Price: ✦✦✦✦✦    The price is certanly amazing since It's a quite new product and it's O'slee (what makes very difficult to find it anywhere). I found it on SASA website at about US$ 12.70. The seller is amazing! Very comunicative, helpful. And the shipping is very quick and well done. I highly recommend you guys to take a look on this store. It's amazing for those who love asian makeup and cosmetics.

じゃあ、またね! 
(*･ｘ･)ノ~~~ばいば～い♪