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Video of who is believed to be Singapore’s most beautiful lady.

Singapore Most Beautiful Women

Well, erm… To each his own I guess.

Recent polls have shown that a fifth of the americans cannot locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is? Watch Miss Teen South Carolina answers and fumbles. I think she’s really nervous and it wasn’t easy to come out with an answer that would appease the Americans.

Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question

US Americans? Is that what they call themselves in US? I believe our education. (more…)

The media is constantly misguiding the public with photoshopped women. In the video below, you see how a girl is prepared for a billboard photoshoot and has a picture taken. Photoshop manipulation then comes in and she appears on the billboard. It’s amazing how much she changed.

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I have another post with images of photoshop alterations of women too.

QB stands for Quick Beauty I think. It’s one of those 10-minute haircut ideas from Japan, it kinda spreaded to Singapore. It trims my hair for 10 minutes and I pay 10 bucks. It’s quite affordable and fast if you’re busy like me. [Everytime I had to rush to camp because I suck at keeping track of time.]

(I never understood QB House choice’s of souvenirs.)

And everytime after the 10 minute cut, they’ll give me a souvenir. Is that supposed to represent their sense of humor or something? Because I don’t quite get it actually. It seemingly imply that their 10 minute haircut may hurt me somehow so they’re giving me band aids to stop the blood or something.

(QB House gives me band aids.)

Also similar to QB House is EC House which means Express Cut if I’m not wrong. I heard that QB House Singapore is some sort of franchise store, there really is QB House is Tokyo. And the person who owns the franchise changed the name to Express Cut and that pissed the Japanese counterparts. Well, the problem was never really resolved. Both just became rivals offering similar services. QB House is probably the original one with the 10-minute cut for 10 bucks idea, but they might not have service-marked it. Today, both companies are still in Singapore but there are more EC House than QB House. They both cut hair quite well so you can give either of them a try.

I like their concept as it’s very clean, no-nonsense service. They cut and trim, then vacuum your hair. Both keep their stores neat and tiny by sweeping it regular. For hygiene purposes, new combs are used for every customer and you get that comb as a souvenir at the end of the 10-minute cut.

(14-year-old Lynn undergoes digital alterations to suit the beaty ideals of the media world.)

More hair. More captivating eyes. Smaller waist line. Fuller breast. Smoothen blemishes.

Client: Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
Title: Retouch

The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, smaller stomachs or fuller lips.

We wanted to show how easy it is to change someone’s appearance in this campaign.

Watch how it’s done! So don’t trust the beauty advertisement so much - trust Photoshop more.

I’ve heard of all sorts of strange remedies to solving problems on skin. One of the stranger ones that I got to admit having to do that often is to press down a mosquito bite with my fingernails horizontally and vertically so that it looks like a screw. I see people doing that to McDonald’s coke too. When you buy drinks from McDonald’s, you get this disposable cup with a plastic cap. Then, on the plastic cap, they have words like ‘Coke’, ‘Root’ or ‘Other’. Supposedly, the staff of McDonald’s would press the ‘buttons’ down to label the drink as coke so that the consumer don’t have to open and check one by one if he or she buys like 6 meals and each comes with a different drink. But the McDonald’s staff didn’t do that. So we helped them to do that on our drinks. We press down the ‘button’ and dent it as such that it looks like a screw.

I wonder who started that trend.

Anyway, here is one remedy you should never ever ever think of trying, Reuters reports.

Old Pimple Remedy: Using Spot to Cure Spots

Take two puppies, cut off their heads and collect the blood, reads the 17th century instructions — not for some voodoo rite but to cure pimples among the middle class.
Weird health and beauty recipes have been around for a long time. Now two old manuscripts, found at a British stately home and coming up for auction, suggest some truly odd cures for everyday ailments.

The 300-year-old cookery, medical and household recipe books, lavishly illustrated and with elaborate script, give advice on almost everything, from treating burns to getting rid of freckles, said manuscript specialist Luke Batterham.

“These books are a very direct insight into what people were interested in in the late 17th century,” Batterham told Reuters. “People seem to go a very long way for beauty, now and then.”

One recipe advises to take “2 Puppies before they can see, chopp of their heads & hang them up by the heels to bleed,” then mix with white wine to rid the patient of unsightly pimples.

Scalds and burns, another says, are best treated with a mixture of sheep’s dung and fresh goose grease, while four-day-old lemon juice rubbed on the face is guaranteed to eradicate unwanted freckles.

The two books are expected to fetch a total or more than 2,000 pounds ($3,844) when they go for auction at Bonhams in London on March 15.

Source: Reuters

Those poor dogs, how many have been killed for this? Please don’t do that to dogs, on a side note, you can eat more pork if you don’t like animals.

Following Italian researcher Piero Lorenzoni claims that he can tell a woman’s personality from the size and shape of her breasts, I yet have another breast story to share. I don’t know what’s with the news these days.

Thais promote breast-enhancement exercise

Concern over “miracle” creams [story attached below], and a recent bare-breast promotion of one product, has prompted the Health Ministry to campaign for breast-enhancement through exercise, the national news agency said Sunday.

The products were spotlighted last week after police charged three models and the makers of a “15-minute breast-enhancement cream” with indecent exposure after a bare-all demonstration.

She (Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan) said that the “best way to enhance one’s breasts is to engage in suitable forms of exercise,” adding that her ministry would campaign for women to engage in such exercise to counter the popularity of the breast-enhancement products.

Source: Seattlepi.com

Apparently, the Thai government is concerned over the breast enhancement products, you know - products that can miraculous increase a women’s bust size. The Thailand government has plans to unveil a campaign that actually teaches women how to enhance their breasts from a series of exercise. (more…)