Within this palette are my favorite colors. They're wonderful for softer shimmers and mattes that mix into multi-color ensembles, in my opinion. I like to wear a single color by myself because the shadows are of such wonderful quality and pigmentation. This is a fantastic palette to add to your purple collection! It can be used to create any look. The colors are vibrant and blend beautifully! In addition, the shadows last all day. With ONE stroke, you may create a creamy, rich, buttery, and dreamy color.
2. Nude light from HudaBeauty
Beautiful, pigmented and blends easily. The shadows blend together seamlessly. So much pigment, little to
no fallout and the colors are swatches are a little bit light for the mattes, however they are buildable.
The glitters show up a lot. I like to apply the mattes with a brush and the shimmers with my fingers.
Personally I am a big fan of shimmer so I mainly build up the shimmers by themselves for a glittery look.
I highly recommend this product and will be repurchasing.
3. Modern Renaissance by Anastasia Beverly Hills
The eyeshadows have a variety of colors that I find very rustic and pleasing to put on the eye. My favorite is
realgar. I have been using this palette for a long while and to me it is one of the holy grails of eyeshadow
palettes. The eyeshadows blend with ease and are very creamy. I highly recommend this luxurious
and pigmented palette. Especially for those who like to recreate vintage or retro looks
Neoliberal Capitalism of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
One of Nintendo’s long-running video game franchise Animal Crossing, invites players to start a life now on a deserted island. Like all pre-existing Animal Crossing games it is inhabited by cuddly anthropomorphic animals who are citizens to your Island. Players buy a house, work to pay ceaseless debt, trade, and have endless customizable freedom. It is a life simulator with a rural, charming aesthetic allowing the players to create their own perfect getaway.
Tom Nook and Economy
One of the most important characters is Tom Nook. He is the head of Nook Incorporated. He provides individuals with the opportunity to build a house without interest, deadlines or assessment. This is one of the basic principles that Nook has consistently operated throughout previous games, alongside occupancy ownership, and free markets. Because he owns and sells houses one might make the mistake of mislabeling him a landlord. Tom Nook provides every person in the Island with free housing. He does not charge rent or interest. If the player does not pay off the 0% interest loan Tom Nook does not evict them. He does not make any profit off his real estate ventures by leasing nor gain excess capital seen through the renovations done for public works. One might be convinced Tom Nook to be a socialist as he distributes real property in town to the citizens in more or less equal shares. However, this theory is debunked considering the lack of authority he has to levy taxes, pass or enforce laws, or perform any other functions of a central government.
It can be speculated or seen that Tom Nook operates on a basic libertarian form of market socialism called mutualism. Mutualists do not advocate state control over the means of production. Instead, individuals are self-employed workers and co-operatives exchanging goods and services in a market without interest, rent, profit, landlords or capitalists. This allows each person to possess a means of production, either individually or collectively, with trade representing equivalent amounts of labor in the free market.
Essentially Tom Nook is able to create a functioning society rid of a strong central government. Through mutualism Nook, uses deserted fruitful islands to construct and develop new communities that operate from the importance of altruism, potlatch performativity and liberality. Nook provides a communal island with objects outside being public property. He is receptive to public works allowing them to be openly funded by the community. Along with having ceremonial events for the grand opening of them.
The game’s virtual economy is through natural resources viewed as a commodity. The player gathers natural resources to exchange for a currency called Bells. Currency is localized in all Animal Crossing games and distributed by Tom Nook’s shop called “Nook’s Cranny”. This is called company scrip. Money that can be exchanged for goods only at company owned businesses. This allows the business to determine the value of products from general compensation. This system was outlawed in the Fair Labor Standard Acts of 1938. By paying employees in scrip instead of legal tender, individuals have no money to purchase goods outside of their company. However this logic can also be refuted by acknowledging that the currency does grow on trees and having bells be found where light emerges in the ground. If the player decides to replant the money in the ground, this causes a money tree to emerge.
New Horizons introduces Nook Miles tickets, a new currency to parallel the traditional currency of Bells. It works as a loyalty program. Nook Miles are automatically issued upon completing productive labour for instance, chopping wood, catching fish, planting seedlings, pulling weeds, or crafting DIY recipes from raw materials providing the ability to redeem Nook Miles for goods and services.
Virtual laborious gameplay
With no comprehensive storyline narrative or any clear end to the virtual game, being productive is the measure of progress. What fundamentally drives the game forward is the player spending bells to develop their property or even the island itself. Each time the player’s housing debt is paid off there is an opportunity afterwards to expand or remodel one’s house. With temptation to store more items and have more storage space. It is easy for the player to agree to expand their homes. Thus perpetuating a system of ceaseless, never-ending debt. Animal Crossing illustrates mundane performative labor as a means of producing material property and capital ideals. It is a vicious cycle of accomplishing menial tasks to slave away for profit.
One example can be constructing DIY furniture to display in their house, island or to simply sell or give away. In order to construct furniture players need to have a workbench along with the recipe for the materials. Players are limited to what they can make depending on what kind of materials they need to provide for the making of the object. Through pure manual labor of extracting resources, a player can be rewarded with the outcome of productivity of having a new item. A player can then sell their item to Nook’s Cranny, if it is a hot item of the day, for double the usual price. This can be done to pay off house loans or for the pursuit of material gain. The narrative of a player often settles into a cycle that mirrors real-life capitalist ideals. Investing time and in-game currency towards the advancement of the island mimics the labor, debt and need for supply, one feels in their daily lives.
Animal Crossing is a game that’s pure objective is to have a peaceful experience of building a community with friendly animal villagers. Having the game loop on repetitive tasks, social interactions, unlocking new features to further your customizing pleasures, it relies on us to track our progression through our debt to Tom Nook. Who also seems to be our economical system and capitalist who essentially produces our communal spaces and experiences.
Ian Bogost hits the nail on the hammer about the epitome of non-victory driven games, essentially saying “Animal Crossing can be seen as a critique of contemporary consumer culture that attempts to persuade the player to understand both the intoxication of material acquisition and the subtle pleasures of abstention.”
As we grow older our skin routine changes and hopefully expands. As we find new products to look forward to and recommended by the latest fads and trends, we tend to explore these products. I find myself trying to use the best products for my skin when it comes to my regime. This is why I am going to review the current cleanser, toner and moisturizer that I use.
What first brought me to buy this product was the rave about the Tatcha line. This product was recommended to me as a life saver and that it worked wonders as a skincare product. Out of curiosity I decided to buy it at Sephora. Little by little, I was noticed and complimented on how smaller my pores look and how it brightened my skin. This cleanser has helped me by making my pores definitely smaller. I enjoy the consistency and how you can feel the cleanser exfoliate your skin cells. Even if you have sensitive skin I believe that this caters to being a soft scrub. Although it is a bit pricey it sure does deliver with its beads of exfoliation.
Effectiveness - 5/5
KOPARI Coconut Rose Toner
What really drew me to this product was the beautiful packaging and what it was called. Regardless of being a coconut rose Toner, this product has worked greatly in removing oil and dirt clots on the surface of my skin. Just a spritz and I could really see the effectiveness this product has on a cotton ball. I highly recommend this product because it is sulfate-free, vegan and paraben free. It is suggested to fit all skin types.
Effectiveness - 5/5
The Dewy Skin Cream
This moisturizer that I have been using hydrates and has as beautiful consistency that spreads out evenly onto your skin as if it glides. All it takes is a little dab and it manages to pack a lot of moisture onto your skin. It is light and easy to absorb for those with sensitive skin like mine. It did not break me out which is a plus. To me this one is worth every penny because it manages to lightly hydrate my skin to the perfect amount.
Effectiveness - 5/5
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
♥ 3 Korean Dramas Recommendations ♥
As someone who has been watching Korean dramas avidly for a little less than a decade, I decided to rally up all my favorite series. Korean dramas tap into a cliche that we all love watching and debating. Whether it is a stereotypical high school romance or a business model romance, dramas give us clarity and a certainty about our modern day living. How it is not always a clear path to a happy ending.
With that being said, these are my favorite top 3 recommended korean dramas to keep you in the light with new perspectives and new ideas that inform us about the trials and tribulations of being human.
1. Romance is a Bonus Book
Not all marriages work out. This is what happens to our main protagonist who is hurled by the whirlwinds of a divorcee. Romance is a Bonus Book is set within the Gyeroo Publishing company. Kang Dani, the main female character, is a divorced and single mother who strives to re-enter the workforce. Her long time friend Cha Eun-ho is a successful author and chief editor at the book publishing company. Through their friendship we see a blooming and budding romance through our two main characters within the publishing workplace environment full of lovely book references and poems.
2. Love Alarm
Love Alarm is a take on modern technology on how love can be found through this application called Love Alarm. This app allows users to find out the truth on who has their heart set on them within a 10-meter radius. This story follows our protagonist Kim Jojo who copes through her school year with the use of this newfound app and a love triangle that ensues.
3. Crash Landing On You
This is as far as we can see a Netflix original get political, as our protagonist lands into North Korea Territory. After a paragliding accident a South Korean heiress ends up in North Korea, where she meets an army colonel who agrees to help her hide. Through the adventure of trying to escape and adjust into a new country, Yoon Se-ri eventually finds her way in falling in love with the captain in the Korean’s Peoples Army.
