Kamis, 31 Mei 2012
Finalmente: Volume sem resíduos...
A nova mascara para cílios da Maybelline (uma das minhas marcas favoritas de rímel), acaba de lançar a ONE BY ONE... Que promete: cílios muito mais volumosos, sedutores e definidos um a um. Seu diferencial além da formula é o aplicador multicerdas ou seja 3 cerdas por cílio que captura e define um a um.
Não vejo a hora de comprovar essas promessas.
Rabu, 30 Mei 2012
Esmaltes que duram 15 dias...
Se você também faz parte do time que sempre sonhou em fazer as unhas e ter a garantia de que o esmalte escolhido durasse por duas semanas sem ficar arranhado, descascado ou opaco...
Seus problemas acabaram, estou falando do esmalte em gel, novidade no sempre agitado universo das unhas.
Atenção: o produto não tem nenhuma semelhança com a unha em gel, aquela postiça moderna que substituiu a versão porcelana. Aparantemente similar a um esmalte comum e usado diretamente sobre a unha natural, o que muda aqui é a fórmula e a aplicação: as camadas de base e de cor ficam cinco minutos cada, por mão, secando na luz UV. "O processo demora cerca de 45 minutos, mais que a manicure tradicional, mas as unhas permanecem perfeitas por 15 dias", garante Angélica Canuto, manicure do salão Visage Coiffeur, no Rio. Ela está usando os esmaltes em gel da americana Fing´rs há um mês e conta que as clientes têm aprovado a novidade - são dez cores, mas apenas cinco estão disponíveis no salão. Lá fora, fazem sucesso, o Shellac, da CND, e o Gel Color, da OPI - esse último desembarca nos salões brasileiros agora em junho, com 30 cores para escolher. Uhuuuuuu...
Visage Coiffeur: R- Fonte da Saudade, 116, Lagoa, RJ, (21)2266-2084.
OPI: SAC 0800 772 5500
Selasa, 29 Mei 2012
Garden of Gold
It was Sir Walter Raleigh who got me started on the garden of gold (I am always chasing Sir Walter and his moonbow). His 1595 voyage to South America in hopes of finding El Dorado and regaining the favor of Elizabeth I, his ‘Cynthia’, was disastrous: he found no gold, his eldest son Wat was killed, and upon his return he was accused of fraud in overstating the voyage’s prospects, a charge that eventually led to his execution. He knew it might happen; knew that he was in danger as soon as he stepped onto English shores and so composed as masterful a document of spin as any political party ever used to torque a bad election result.
In his account of the ‘Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden city of Manoa (which the Spaniards call El Dorado) etc. performed in the year 1595”, Raleigh attempted to divert attention away from his failure by describing lots of things that he had heard about, but not actually seen, including this description:
In his account of the ‘Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden city of Manoa (which the Spaniards call El Dorado) etc. performed in the year 1595”, Raleigh attempted to divert attention away from his failure by describing lots of things that he had heard about, but not actually seen, including this description:
“Yea, and they say, the Incas had a garden of pleasure in an island near Puna, where they went to recreate themselves, when they would take the air of the sea, which had all kinds of garden-herbs, flowers, and trees of gold and silver; an invention and magnificence till then never seen.”
Like Eldorado itself, it is a myth grown large in the retelling, but one that is nonetheless based in fact.
There WAS a Garden of Gold.
At Coricancha, the sacred precinct of the Incan capital Cuzco, grew a supremely artificial and precious garden that honored not a decorative landscape tradition but a productive one: the cultivation of maize.
“They had also a garden, the clods of which were made of pieces of fine gold; and it was artificially sown with golden maize, the stalks, as well as the leaves and cobs, being of that metal.”
The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru, Pedro de Cieza de León, 1532-1550
The only eyewitness account to survive is that of Pizarro, who is also the only one to speak of how the Garden of Gold was used, in a ritual 'growing' of the golden food:
"Away from the room where the Sun was wont to sleep they made a small field, which was much like a large one, where at the proper season they sowed maize. They sprinkled it by hand with water brought on purpose for the Sun. And at the time when they celebrated their festivals, which was three times a year, that is when they sowed the crops, when they harvested them, and when they made orejones; they filled this garden with cornstalks made of gold having their ears and leaves very much like natural maize all made of very fine gold which they had kept in order to place them here at these times."
Maize was clearly the garden's patron saint, its centrality is apparent in all the accounts. But they differ as to the other features of the garden: de Leon describes twenty golden sheep and lambs, along with figures of shepherds to keep watch, while Garcillasso de la Vega (c. 1600) recounts a complete landscape of flower, fowl, and creeping things:
The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru, Pedro de Cieza de León, 1532-1550
The only eyewitness account to survive is that of Pizarro, who is also the only one to speak of how the Garden of Gold was used, in a ritual 'growing' of the golden food:
"Away from the room where the Sun was wont to sleep they made a small field, which was much like a large one, where at the proper season they sowed maize. They sprinkled it by hand with water brought on purpose for the Sun. And at the time when they celebrated their festivals, which was three times a year, that is when they sowed the crops, when they harvested them, and when they made orejones; they filled this garden with cornstalks made of gold having their ears and leaves very much like natural maize all made of very fine gold which they had kept in order to place them here at these times."
Maize was clearly the garden's patron saint, its centrality is apparent in all the accounts. But they differ as to the other features of the garden: de Leon describes twenty golden sheep and lambs, along with figures of shepherds to keep watch, while Garcillasso de la Vega (c. 1600) recounts a complete landscape of flower, fowl, and creeping things:
“That garden, which now supplies the convent with vegetables, was in the time of the Incas a garden of gold and silver, such as they also had in the royal palaces. It contained many herbs and flowers of different kinds, many small plants, many large trees, many large and small animals both wild and domestic, and creeping things, such as serpents, lizards, and toads, as well as shells, butterflies, and birds. Each of these things was placed in its natural position. There was also a large field of maize, the grain they call quinua, pulses, and fruit trees with their fruit; all made of gold and silver.”
And the enclosing garden wall was covered with a band of gold all around its perimeter, to reflect the sun. de la Vega's mention of the convent is telling; it is likely around the time of its establishment (c. 1571) that the garden disappeared into the yawning, insatiable maws of the Spanish galleons.
So in fact, the garden of gold was already gone by the time Raleigh penned his apologia. As with all great troves, there are of course rumors that it was buried, that it was hidden, that it might still be found. But for now only a few stalks of maize remain.
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Incan gold and silver stalk of maize from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Senin, 28 Mei 2012
Traga na mala de: Londres, Paris ou NY...
Selecionamos três produtos que vale super a pena você trazer na mala na sua próxima viagem.
Blush Dome - Shu Uemura
Que os produtos com textura cremosa andam em alta, nos já sabemos!!!
A novidade do momento é o blush Dome, da Shu Uemura, é uma ótima pedida para aderir ao visual corado com praticidade. O formato permite que ele seja aplicado diretamente na bochecha, seja dando leves batidinhas (para um efeito mais suave), seja fazendo movimentos circulares (resultado mais intenso). A textura cremosa e acetinada garante acabamento fresh e boa durabilidade.
Por (24 euros) na 176 Boulevard Saint-Germain Paris 7.
Vbeauté - IT Kit
Julie Macklowe, uma ex-executiva do mercado financeiro, decidiu criar a Vbeauté depois de ter sua nécessaire apreendida no aeroporto. O objetivo é oferecer uma linha concisa e eficaz (desenvolvida na Suíça) de cuidados para a pele - e a grande sacada é o It Kit (US$ 165), um estojo chique e customizável que comporta cinco miniaturas.
À venda na Bergdor Goodman, em NY ou pelo site http://www.vbeaute.com/
Skin Illuminator - St. Tropez.
Esse iluminador deu o que falar no último Oscar. Emma Stone apostou no tom rosado para dar um up nos braços e no ombro, enquanto Gwyneth Paltrow usou o dourado no alto da maçã do rosto e no colo, em busca de um toque de luz.
À venda na Boots, em Londres, e nas Sephoras americanas.
Sabtu, 26 Mei 2012
Jumat, 25 Mei 2012
Olheira Camuflada!
Em busca de um bom corretivo para o efeito Photoshop nas teimosas olheiras e manchinhas???
Vou indicar um produto Mara... O novo Velvet (R$ 68), da CONTÉM 1G, oferece alta cobertura, mas não craquela graças á fórmula cremosa com ativos hidratantes.
SAC 0800 775 1300
Kamis, 24 Mei 2012
Cinema--> Apenas uma Noite...
O final de semana se aproxima e nesse clima de inverno um dos programas mais gostosos de se fazer é ver um bom filme, seja no cinema ou em casa com amigos! Minha dica dessa semana é um filme que promete, com ótimo casting e incríveis locações de Nova York e recheado de grandes emoções. Tomem Nota:
Apenas uma Noite:
Sexo, mentiras e belas imagens de Downtown Manhattan são alguns dos ingredientes da promissora estreia na direção da roteirista americana de descendência iraniana Massy Tadjedin. Com o filme Apenas uma Noite, que estrei no Brasil no dia 25, a novata também mostra ter bom faro para casting, reunindo um quarteto para lá de sexy em sua trama sobre como a infidelidade se infiltra em um casamento que dá seus primeiros sinais de erosão. A inglesa Keira Knightley e o ator australiano Sam Worthington interpretam um casal com bons empregos e vida confórtavel em Nova York. Uma briga surge num momento crucial para o relacionamento dos dois. Enquanto Worthington embarca para uma viagem de negócios á Filadélfia com uma colega de trabalho que faz de tudo para levá-lo para cama (interpretada pela irresitível Eva Mendes) "ai enfraquece a fidelidade", Keira esbarra em um antigo namorado (o ator e ceneasta francês Guillaume Canet, mardo de Marion Cotillard), que está visitando Nova York. Velhas emoções são despertadas por esse encontro, lógico. As tentações do casal são mostradas por Tadjedin num inventivo pingue-pongue de imagens entre as duas cidades. O visual elegante do filme não para aí. A cineasta escolhe a dedo grande locações de Downtown (aconchegantes restaurantes em TriBeca, o club privé SoHo House e um espaçoso loft, onde o casal mora, que parece produzido por uma revista de decoração), que a colocam no clube de fetichistas eméritos de Nova York, ao lado de Woody Allen e Martin Scorsese. Casamentos vêm e vão, mas Manhattan continua linda e sedutora.
Já sei... já sei... acabei me entusiasmando e falei de mais! Para saber o desenrolar dessa história so amanhã nos cinemas. Bjos :)
Rabu, 23 Mei 2012
Two Phillip Phillips?
Every now and then I succumb to a reality show, rarely American Idol. But this one was different.
When I heard on the radio belly laughs about a contestant named Phillips Phillips I chuckled to myself, "there is actually someone else that named their child that?!" Some one else? Yes, my brother in law is a Phillip Phillips.......born in 1966, get it? Phillips 66 gas, remember that?
When I heard on the radio belly laughs about a contestant named Phillips Phillips I chuckled to myself, "there is actually someone else that named their child that?!" Some one else? Yes, my brother in law is a Phillip Phillips.......born in 1966, get it? Phillips 66 gas, remember that?
Then a phone call, from Phillip, "he is our second cousin!" Apparently their Grandfathers were brothers but the family split over a sister tragically murdered. Why they split, no one remembers. But I should have known, who else but the Phillips clan from southwest Georgia would do that! So, tonight I watched, and cheered this young man onwards, he won!
Enjoy
Debra
Christian Montgomery & João Bordom--> Convidam
Sexta está chegando e uma festa super aguardada também---> THE GODFATHER PARTY.
Dress Code:
The Godfather (anos 50) ou Black Tie.
Local:
Leopoldo Itaim - R: Tabapuã, 1353.
Line UP:
-Pedro Sabie
-Luiz Carvalho
-Binho Tutundjian e Marco Gargiulo.
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