I like to try nice products.

The other day, since my budget has gotten tighter than ever imagined, I went to the FaceShop to purchase my favorite sunscreen;  Natural Sun Eco: Ice Air Puff Sun. I got side-tracked. Though, I despise the aluminum package of the Natural Sun Eco: Ice Air Puff Sun has SPF50+ with burst of COLD Liquid Nitrogen, cruelty free, and made with Sunflower sprouts. I feel cans of any sort should be reserved for bomb shelter supply (to make a pipe bomb in war time later). We have enough metal clanging around the planet above ground to wake any remote life forms over a trillion light years away. Then again I also eliminated all forks & knives from my kitchen due to livid talks from some with PTS around me about dinnertime terrorist attacks and having nothing to fight with except utensils. I had one lone big blue plastic knife for veggies.  

USA ingredient requirements for products usually are posted in order of highest percentage% to lowest percentage%.

Good looking feet in Hawaii & Asia are sometimes more important than the sandals we wear. I was sold on a 25% off set of FaceShop Peeling products that included Smile Foot Peeling (smells like an old Seventeen magazine), Body Peeling mist (nice scent), and White Jewel Peeling Face Peel (smells like a generic mall perfume counter area) that came in @$29 + 4%tax= $32.

The Body Peeling Mist grabbed me because it is like a 1/2 dry shower. Its gentle, though I found difficult to get off some parts of me. It clings to oily spots and fine hairs and clumps as a result. I definitely wouldn't want to drink coffee before using it. You are supposed to use it on DRY skin, advised before showering. Then, the shower is used to rinse the nicely fragranced (not too strong) product from the body. It does leave the skin drier than I prefer, and a bit matte finish.

It's definitely different than my product since it does exfoliate, yet has a similar concept of dry shower. I like being more moisturized and not having to use additional lotion. And, I also prefer Organic.

FACESHOP: WHITE JEWEL PEELING review

Good things about the White Jewel Peeling:

• Does react/clump with the extra oils that are under skin
• EMF deflecting Tourmaline & Amethyst particles (great for tropical sun)
• Leaves matte finish
• Gentle

Needs improvement about the White Jewel Peeling:

• Pearl powder isn't a vegan ingredient.
• Methylparaben & Polyparaben
• Fragrance is irritating & strong - OK if u can live at a mall perfume counter

 

Right now, I just finished using the White Jewel Peeling 1st time and even though It's 15min past my eyes are on fire from the parabens and fragrance (really strong mall smelling fragrance). I knew better. But, I thought I'd try it. The salesperson suggested I could use this peel on my body or hands to keep it away from my respiratory system. (it came in the pack) I think I'll pass it on or return it?

------------------------------------------Side note: 

I'm chemically sensitive so product usage lasts @ 1day to 3 mos. before bad reaction. I return the stuff or pass it on if possible. I do make my own stuff for myself...but I like to explore the products on the market like any other well groomed person.

Recent Movie Review...

Mad Money- super movie for women of all ages to watch. Feel good crime movie of women improving their lives by ripping off the National Treasury of worthless paper that
is taken out of circulation.
National Treasure- Tried to watch it... got a phone call
seemed like an interesting puzzle table tale with a nice gold city carved in the ending. Somehow it was like deja vu and other treasure seeking movies I've seen.
Rambo- This time it was completely realistic. Really.
Untraceable- Grotesque and somewhat like X-files without the sound effects, similar story line with a rampant murderer.
Atonement- Beautiful movie and story (minus the war images). Tasteful & well done.
Cloverfield- Just short of being better than seeing the filming of a nuclear bomb dropped on Manhattan. This was a downer with killer effects.
Meet the Spartans- Nice compliment to seeing the intense Rambo flick. Light, airy with attractive people and blurred crotch shots. Somebody had fun making this one...and politically even-handed with Ellen DeGeneres and G.W. Bush characters going to the Pit of Death.
There will be blood- Long arse, down to earth, oil prospecting, dirty/clean business story of success. A good make out session, plotting time, just kick back and go...though no waves of hysteria.

Rambo & Untraceable- Please don't support Violence

Over the weekend I caught up on movies with the wretchedly disgusting Untraceable only paralelled by the recent release of Rambo in grotesque violence. Though even after being invited to and attending a talk given by a Burmese monk on Burma at Cornell University (approximately the same time when Japanese reporter Kenji Nagai was killed); - at least Rambo is somewhat progressive in communicating how brutal Burma can be. see an example of real-life footage on Kenji Nagai Though, my Japanese upbringing still tells me that I should not support violence. It is still a hyper politically charged issue to financially support violence in any way. It's not a matter of "turning-away" so much as it is a matter of cutting of financial support that sustains that environment.
Boycotts are normal in the consumer world. In the political & financial world of global commerce the same type of "boycott" action is taking by cutting funding to those terse and ill regions. There is still more that can be done; - none of which is a humane approach to solving the problem. Like rat poison;- people are affected by everything they come in contact with. Weather it kills the enemy or weakens them;- everything is fair in war. Cutting funding to the plight is the best action in entirety. I can also speak from personal experience on that here in the U.S. however- it is an entirely different and seperate matter from attending a talk on Burma. During the talk provided by the Burmese monk, I was thankful that my exposure to Asian languages helped me understand the talk more than what the translator presented to us in English. Somehow all those nuances are lost and people get the "soundbite"version of what is going on without the descript storytelling impacting them at the time of the talk. Then you couple that with some photos after a 2 hr. session and you have one long-arse version of a Cnn report. I'll clean up this article in a bit.

Google Earth images...

My Quick Review of Google Earth...

I just paroozed the planet. And, I discovered that there are mountainous areas that Google Earth does not have building info or high resolution imagery. Those places include; areas of Northern Japan where my Obasan & family lives. The input data did not have prefecture information on several locations. Also, the Ithaca, NY area was quite blurry. Though, Ithaca is where the clouds go to die.

I was impressed to see the University of Montana; but couldn't quite make out the Milltown Dam though, I saw the Marker for BFI where my group did our landfill recyclables study (see photo)and I spoke at my 1st official press conference at 21 years old. And... the M! I was not totally suprised, but happy to see the M again! Much Thanks Google Earth team!!!!

You can download your Google Earth 4.0 for Beta here