Makeup World Ultimate Palette

Makeup World is a newly launch Filipino beauty brand. Its goal is to provide products that are good quality and at the same time affordable. 

Recently, I bought one of their palettes which is the Ultimate palette. It consists of 16 lipsticks, 16, eye-shadows, 4 blushes, 4 color corrector, 4 concealers, 1 highlight, 1 bronzer/contour, 1 face powder, and 1 eyebrow kit. The palettes can be removed from the main case and you can customize your own palette with their mini case. 

(mini case)

Here are the swatches:

1. Lipstick

It has a satin finish and not quite pigmented though its buildable by adding 2-3 layers. I love all the colors you can wear everything even if your skin is tan like mine. Perfect for Filipina skin.

Nude colors, perfect for an everyday makeup.

Violets, perfect for an edgy look.

Pinks, perfect for any event.

Reds, perfect for date night.

2. Eyeshadow

I love the pigmentation especially those glitter ones, you don't need to use water to get the shimmer. Though, some of the lighter shades are not pigmented. 

Smoky Palette

Nude Palette

 3. Blushes

I love all of the shades. ♥

Peach - Pink

Peach w/ shimmer - Brown

4. Color Corrector

5. Concealer

6. Powder - Bronzer/Contour -  Highlighter

7. Eyebrow Kit

Its pigmented even though I did not apply the wax.

I love all the palettes! This is perfect if you are just starting with makeup because it has almost all of the things you needed as a beginner, like me. At first I was hesitant to buy this palette since I'm just a student with low budget but then I realized if I bought all the palettes one by one it will cost me more. So hurry up and grab it for only Php 1,965.00 you can have it all! Super sulit to mga beshie!

I am going to make a full face makeup using this palette, stay tuned. :D 

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT SPONSORED!!!

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A New Beginning

Hello Everyone!!! 

Its been a long time since I last posted here and I am very overwhelm with the number of views I got from some of my previous posts. I've decided to go back to blogging again but this time its for my interest and not for some English subject. :D I hope you keep on reading my posts and please don't forget to follow me to get my latest updates. :)))

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15 - Anime Reviews

1. Pandora Hearts

A very beautiful anime that has been discontinued. Thousands of people has signed the petition for season 2 but its a big NO. No season 2. It consists of 25 episode. I highly recommend you guys to read the manga. The anime is just a 20% (my estimation) of the manga. Some of the villains are not the real villains and some of the so called heroes are not the real heroes. It is a very twisted manga it makes you feel confuse and every chapter is surprising. I REALLY love this anime & manga.

2. Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April)

If you want some drama/romance you really have to watch this. It is about a boy who is a prodigy in playing piano but was traumatized by the death of his mother and he can no longer play the piano but he met this girl who changes his life who brought him back. The girl plays violin. Watch and find out what is the LIE in April. Prepare for feels.

3. Anohana

I swear this anime has brought me to tears. It is about a group of childhood friends. Their friendship was ruined. One event will change their lives and will bring them back together. This will make you value friendship even more. 

4. Nisekoi

 The anime is too good that I have to read the manga because its too confusing. I am still trying to find out who's gonna be his fake love or should i say the one. I hope its Chitoge!!!

5. Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo

The story is about high school students living in a dorm. And there's this innocent girl. She has no feelings and she forgets everything like wearing panties (actually she's an idiot but i do like her). This is a very very funny and kilig anime. It shows the real meaning of friendship and how to survive high school life i guess.

6. Akame ga Kill! (Red-Eye Kill!)

This is a very intense action anime. They are considered as criminals in their country but they are the real heroes. It makes me sad when someone dies from the squad. This is a brutal anime but I actually love it in the sense that it is exciting.

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10 - Edith L. Tiempo

Edith L. Tiempo was born on April 22, 1919 in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. She is a poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic. Edith is one of the finest Filipino writers who writes her works in English language. Her works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight. Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "The Little Marmoset" and "Bonsai". As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine literature in English. Together with her late husband, Edilberto K. Tiempo, she founded and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the country's best writers.

Published works:

A. Novels

• A Blade of Fern (1978)
• His Native Coast (1979)
• The Alien Corn (1992)
• One, Tilting Leaves (1995)
• The Builder (2004)
• The Jumong (2006)
• Short Story Collections
• Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964)

B. Poetry

• The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966)
• The Charmer's Box (1993)
• Beyond, Extensions (1993)
• Marginal Annotations and Other Poems (2001)
• Bibliophile

C. Others

• Six Poetry Formats and the Transforming Image: A Monograph on Free Verse (2008)
• A Native Clearing: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English Since the '50s to the Present: Edith L. Tiempo to Cirilo F. Bautista (1993)
• A Passionate Patience: Ten Filipino Poets on the Writing of their Poems (1995)
• An Edith Tiempo Reader (1999)
• Six Filipino Poets (1955)
• Six Uses of Fictional Symbols (2004)
• Marginal Annotations and Other Poems (2001)

Bonsai

Edit L. Tiempo

All that I love

I fold over once

And once again

And keep in a box

Or a slit in a hollow post

Or in my shoe.

All that I love?

Why, yes, but for the moment-

And for all time, both.

Something that folds and keeps easy,

Son's note or Dad's one gaudy tie,

A roto picture of a queen,

A blue Indian shawl, even

A money bill.

It's utter sublimation,

A feat, this heart's control

Moment to moment

To scale all love down

To a cupped hand's size

Till seashells are broken pieces

From God's own bright teeth,

And life and love are real

Things you can run and

Breathless hand over

To the merest child.

My Interpretation for the Bonsai Poem:

Bonsai is a special type of plant wherein you have to limit its growth by constantly cutting or trimming. Just like love when it is too much you have to control it because too much will not do any good. Bonsai plants will not live forever, in the long run it will die or fade away. Just like love it doesn’t always last forever and as time passes it will fade away or it diminishes. 

It seems like the writer keeps all her loved ones in her heart, like she hold them really tight and takes good care of them. For me it seems like she’s holding them too tight up to the point that she doesn’t even let them do what they want. She began the second stanza with a question it seems like she’s trying to defend herself for keeping all her love in her own hands and taking good care of them like the things she has mentioned. In the third stanza it seems like she’s shrinking or making her love less or more like she’s controlling her love for her loved ones. In the fourth stanza it seems like the love she has taken good care of has been broken. I think she believes that you cannot control love. You shouldn’t hold someone so tight and you should give them space and freedom because if you hold them too tight there will be a tendency it will break just like what happened to the seashell, shattered in to pieces. And it will hurt you so much.

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6 - Parasyte Live Action

WARNING: SPOILER!!!

Is eradicating human existence the only thing we can do to save the Earth? 

What if this happens in real life? SCARY! I think it would be the end of human existence.

I was just planning to watch the movie after I saw the trailer and then I heard that we will be going to make a review for this movie. My original plan was to watch the anime first and then the live action but due to time constraints I wasn't able to watch the anime. 

I am a fan of this kind of movies and I love this one. It gave me chills while watching. 

So the movie began with a questions about humanity and its existence. 

The parasyte looked like a sperm cell. Hahaha!

That picture was the scene before the title was introduced. I did not expect that scene because I have no idea what parasyte is. It made me jump a bit out of my seat.

I find Migi cute as in really cute and in my opinion I think his lips is a bit similar to Jynx from pokemon. I LOVE MIGI HE'S SO ADORABLE AND I WANT A STUFF TOY OF HIM!

I find the three other parasyte mysterious and scary especially the woman. I think she is capable of doing anything and also I believe she's going to solve the problem between the human and parasyte.

The part where his mother turned into a parasyte is sad because earlier he had a fight with his mother. It's hard to believe that your mother is now your enemy and you have to kill your own mother. 

I though he was going to die and that there is another protagonist.

Shinichi and Satomi are both adorable. At first sight of Shinichi I thought he doesn't look handsome but as I watch the movie I find him handsome and for Satomi she is really pretty and lovely.

There were a lot of scenes that gives thrill and excitement to the viewers and I won't elaborate it anymore because I don't want to spoil the whole movie. I can't wait to watch the second part of the movie.

"If the number of humans could be reduced by half... possible number of forest burnt by half? If the amount of a human being than a hundred, could existing waste become one in a hundred, too?" 

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5 - Turn Left Turn Right

Ugh! This movie is a definition of what's meant to be will always find a way. 

It's a story of two people finding a way to see each other again. 

They were few inches away from each other and yet they never met. They live in the same street and the same compound but they actually never see each other. Like seriously? Why? hahaha. And also they've been through the same places everyday. It's like so close and yet so far. They have faced too many obstacles in order to see each other. It's a cliche that they have exchanged numbers but they got smudge by the rain just like what happened before, they have the chance but they lost it. They have tried calling and guessing each others number but they can't get it right. And then there were two people who tried separating them but in the end the two people who tried separating them ends up together. The moment they are about to give up that's the time they were given a chance to finally call and see each other.

And thanks to the earthquake they finally meet again...

WELL IF IT'S DESTINED TO HAPPEN IT WILL HAPPEN!

There were a lot of ALMOST in this movie. Like when you thought they are going to finally see each other but in the end they don't. The girl lives in the apartment at the left side of the street while the boy lives in the apartment at the right side of the street. As the title says Turn Left Turn Right when the other one goes to the left side the other goes to the right side that's why they haven't seen each other even if they were neighbors.

Maybe it's destiny that brings them together but the problem is they don't notice it.

CATCHY LINES:

"Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still."

"Life’s full of coincidences, even two parallel lines might some day meet."

"Life is full of surprises. The kite you’re flying might suddenly sail away"

This one is my favorite line:

"If two people meet and they both fall in love, that's destiny for sure. If neither loves the other, even if they meet millions of times, it's still not destiny. If one's in love and the other isn't, and the one who's in love grabs on and won't let go while the other just wants to run away, not only is it not destiny... It's pain."

THE COPY OF THE POEM FROM THE MOVIE:

Love at First Sight

Wislawa Szymborska

Both are convinced
that a sudden surge of emotion bound them together.
Beautiful is such a certainty,
but uncertainty is more beautiful.

Because they didn't know each other earlier, they suppose that
nothing was happening between them.
What of the streets, stairways and corridors
where they could have passed each other long ago?

I'd like to ask them
whether they remember-- perhaps in a revolving door
ever being face to face?
an "excuse me" in a crowd
or a voice "wrong number" in the receiver.
But I know their answer:
no, they don't remember.

They'd be greatly astonished
to learn that for a long time
chance had been playing with them.

Not yet wholly ready
to transform into fate for them
it approached them, then backed off,
stood in their way
and, suppressing a giggle,
jumped to the side.

There were signs, signals:
but what of it if they were illegible.
Perhaps three years ago,
or last Tuesday
did a certain leaflet fly
from shoulder to shoulder?
There was something lost and picked up.
Who knows but what it was a ball
in the bushes of childhood.

There were doorknobs and bells
on which earlier
touch piled on touch.
Bags beside each other in the luggage room.
Perhaps they had the same dream on a certain night,
suddenly erased after waking.

Every beginning
is but a continuation,
and the book of events
is never more than half open.

-translated by Walter Whipple 

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3 - Heneral Luna

I first heard about Heneral Luna at APC. I was able to attend the previewing at the auditorium. When I saw the preview the first thing that came in to my mind is the quality of the movie. After seeing the preview I told my friends that we should watch the movie because I thought it will be a good movie.

I wasn't able to watch the movie at the date of showing and the following week. I just watched the movie last Saturday dated September 26 because I heard the movie would be pulled out 3 days later so I immediately called my friends to accompany me to watch the movie. 

The movie is awesome! It offers you different genres like comedy, action, suspense, mystery, etc. This is the first time I have watched a historical action movie that is funny. Most of historical movies are serious. The movie made me laugh and mad at the same time, like a crazy woman. And I would want to congratulate the actors for portraying the characters very well. 

The movie showed what kind of person is Heneral Luna. That he is also a human that has flaws and commits mistake. Luna almost gave up but thanks to his comrades for giving him strength to push through. It shows that heroes aren't perfect.

I got really mad at Aguinaldo and Buencamino because they are the traitors. They are the one's that killed Heneral Luna, for me, based on their illogical reasoning. As you can see Buencamino was there when Luna was killed and he didn't even do anything to stop them. He's also one of those idiots who gave Aguinaldo a false information. And as for Aguinaldo I don't believe his reasons, I think it's a lie. I think during that time Luna was the only hope of the army and the country. I blame all those bullshits (sorry for the word but they deserve that) who killed Luna for the reason that we are under Americans. Actually my friend got teary eyed at the part where Heneral Luna was mercilessly killed by those bullshits.

I guess the director of the movie did the great job in sending a message and giving a knowledge to all Filipinos. I am really looking forward to the next movie and I hope the movie would be awesome like this or even more awesome. If you haven't watch the movie please do watch it at cinema and for students they have a 50% discount. We must support Filipino movies like this.

Our heroes offered their life to the country and we must not waste their efforts. 

BAYAN O SARILI?

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