Some Kind of Review Of Makeup Or Whatever

HELLO.

... I don't know why I always begin my blog with a greeting in caps...

I decided, that I.. would do a makeup review. :o
This isn't really something I normally do but that's because I've never really had any make up that I felt was really worth telling any one about - good or bad.
BUT, luckily for... me?... you?... for Rimmel? - I have found something that I think is definitely worth talking about!
Which is this!

That's right, Rimmel BB Cream. - If you don't know BB means Beauty Balm and cream means.. well.. cream. Duh.
Anyway, I not long ago purchased Rimmel's Stay Matte Foundation which I also love. I have the matching pressed powder. While I was at the shops I also saw this BB Cream. Now, if you watch a whole bunch of Beauty Guru kind of people on YouTube like I do (I actually think I have a problem...), you'll know that there's a whole lot of hype recently or.. for a long time there has been.. about BB Cream. If you don't know, well now you do.

Anyway, BB Creams where originally invented-  if I remember correctly - by a German man. However, they first became popular in many parts of Asia and amongst Asian brands. A lot of people say they prefer the Asian brand BB Creams to the western brands. - Unfortunately I can't really compare them as this is the only BB Cream I have ever tried, I picked it up because I was curious about trying a BB Cream and my current foundation (Rimmel Stay Matte that I mentioned earlier) has no SPF in it so I was planning to wear it underneath.

For those of you who aren't really familiar with what a BB cream is, basically it's supposed to be like foundation but better for your skin. Often people will use it instead of foundation when they don't really feel like wearing makeup or underneath their foundation in place of primer or for extra coverage or whatever.

So, from many reviews I've watched most people prefer Asian BB Creams over western ones because the texture is nicer and not runny and it has much better coverage, whereas (from what I've heard) a lot of western BB creams are more like a tinted moisturiser, providing very light coverage.

Well, I'd like to think from that description of what is classified as a good BB Cream, I've found one! :D
First of all, Rimmel claims that instead of using their BB cream as a base for makeup that it's so good it can replace your old makeup.
I'll be honest, I don't really pay attention to a whole lot of what most packaging on make up says, so while I wasn't sceptical I wasn't drawn in by the description either, honestly I was just curious. I didn't really have any expectations at all when I bought it. Basically, I like Rimmel's stuff so I thought "Why not try their BB Cream before I try anyone else's?"

On the bottle it says that the BB Cream is a "9 in 1 skin perfecting super makeup" - like seriously, I took that right of the bottle just now - It claims to prime, moisturise, minimise pores, conceal, cover, smooth, mattify, brighten and help protect your skin.

Those are some pretty big claims for one little BB Cream.
However, I'd be lying if I said I didn't fall in love with this stuff the instant I put it on.
The consistency is sort of like... a mousse I guess? That's the best way I can describe it.
It is SUPER easy to apply, it takes me about a quarter of the amount of time as my foundation does, because the texture is so nice and easy to spread and blend and it's not as runny as my foundation.

I'd say it has about equal coverage to my foundation? I wouldn't say that it covers everything but I need quite a high coverage make up anyway as I have a few acne scars and my skin occasionally breaks out and stuff and what not.

Having said that though, when I wear it, I don't really feel the need to put on concealer every time, even if the coverage isn't 100% perfect. It works especially well under my eyes, I often wear concealer to cover a little bit of darkness that I can get under my eyes and lighten it up a bit but this cream pretty much does that for me. If you have pretty clear skin I'd say that this would have perfect coverage for you. - It's probably a medium coverage if I had to class it in that way.

I also, don't feel the need to wear any moisturiser with it at all. It seems to do for my skin what my moisturiser does, and it has sunscreen in it so, yay! - But seriously, as far as saying it's a primer and moisturiser in a BB Cream, I would agree there. I don't feel any need to wear anything else underneath it. Which is nice for me cause sometimes I am so lazy about applying moisturiser before my foundation.. and waiting for it to setttt so your makeup doesn't slide all over your faaaace. Guh.

I can't really speak for the minimising pores claim because I've never really had a problem with large pores or anything on my skin. So someone else will have to figure that one out.

I'd say mattify and brighten is a fair claim. I do use Rimmel Stay Matte pressed poweder to set it though, because I like a really matte finish to my make up, so I can't say I've ever just worn the BB Cream alone without a matte finish powder. However, It looks almost equally as matte under my powder as my Stay Matte liquid foundation. It's not quite as matte but that foundation is a very matte finish so... that's okay, I can forgive them for that.

I wouldn't say I have any extremely dark spots on my skin.. like, in the way of uneven complexion but I'd still say that the cream does a good job of evening out my complexion, especially around my cheeks, sometimes it gets a bit weird round there.. haha.

There's no claim for how long it's supposed to last but I wear it about... 6-8 hours during the day? I'd say.. ish. It lasts pretty well, I haven't noticed the need to reapply or that it looks unfresh or anything. I wouldn't say it looks exactly like it did when I just applied it but I definitely don't feel like I get to the end of the day and it's all gone or anything. :)

I think those are all the claims I can really go into detail about.. like, protect my skin? Well.. it has sunscreen so I'd hope so... lolol.

Oh, one more thing!
One problem some people might have with this BB Cream is that, like most BB Creams it only comes in a limited about of shades. I picked it up in "Light"(because I'm a ghost :D) and that is a perfect match for me.
I think the only others are "Medium" and "Dark". So, as usual with most BB Creams, there isn't a lot of shade options. :(

All in all however, I am extremely impressed with this BB Cream~ Yay~!
I hope you enjoyed this review, I certainly enjoyed writing it!
Hopefully, I'll find some more exciting make up to tell you about! - Unless you find make up reviews boring, then I'll just write these kind of entries for me! :'(

Anyway!
I have a few ideas for blogs that I'll write soon. A few ideas especially about my trip to Japan I took at the beginning of the year! - The only reason I haven't posted anything about it yet is cause there's so much I don't even know where to start!

Thanks for reading! Seeyoubai~ <3 nbsp="" p="">

Today's Class Shall Be About Oil Spills

GREETINGS! 

... caps.


So I totally changed my blog theme! Yay! - I thought it needed a bit of brightening up.
It's just a theme I made on the blogger theme making thingy cause I couldn't find one I actually liked on any website.
Anyway.. Hello!
As anyone who read my previous post will know that I am now studying Sustainability Management at university! Yay!
Well, in my Environmental Management class last week, we learnt about oil spills and why they're bad for the environment.
I know what you're thinking "Duh, of course they're bad for the environment " Oh yeah, smarty pants? Well do you know why? "Because oil is bad" is not an acceptable answer.
Well, I didn't know why either until I did this class so now, I'm going to tell you why! (Also, it helps me study.)

Now, the properties of oil it self are what make it so incredibly horrifyingly bad. Before I did this subject I knew that oil was bad but after learning about it in detail I now know just how bad. 

So, the properties of oil. 

source: eoearth.org

Oil is extremely flammable. Which most people obviously would be aware of. And this should make oil spills easy to clean up right? Let's burn it off, Yay! WRONG, SIR. The problem is, when burned, oil releases toxic chemicals which would be just as detrimental if not more to the environment. So if an oil spill was to catch on fire somehow that would be very bad. 

Oil is hydrophobic. This means that it does not dissolve in water, at all. That's one of the reasons why you can do that cool thing with cooking oil where you poor it into a glass of water and it just sits on top. Plus, I'm sure you've seen an oil spill before the oil is literally spread out on top of the water.
This is advantages in one way, as it makes it pretty easy to just scoop back up... if you can stop it from spreading all over the place. 

Oil spreads very readily. So once it's spilt it can be extremely hard to contain. Which is why people need to act quickly in order to stop it from taking up the whole damn ocean. That's often why even when an oil spill is quite new you'll find that the oil has already spread a considerable distance.

As if oil wasn't already annoying enough it is also both adhesive (meaning, it sticks to other objects) and cohesive (it sticks to itself). Can you see why it's so annoying? This is why it's so incredibly difficult to clean off of animals who've been effected by oil spills.This is also why oil causes such a problem to animals and to the whole ecology of the ocean environment. 

source: boston.com/bigpicture

You see, being cohesive, the oil does not let things penetrate the service it is spreading across. For example, if the oil is spreading across the ocean, oxygen cannot get through to the water underneath and carbon dioxide can't get out. A similar effect occurs on the skin of animals when they are covered in oil. Their skin is literally unable to breath. 

So anyway, we have this oil spreading across the ocean just being a douche. Because air (and sunlight) cannot penetrate the ocean's surface basically everything in the ocean starts dying. Obviously it's a little bit more complicated than just everything instantly dying but basically there is a snowball effect on the environment; Fish begin dying because there's no oxygen for them to breath, then those decaying fish get eaten by algae who don't need as much oxygen to survive, those algae start to multiply and suddenly they're taking up more oxygen than the fish originally needed to breath, then those algae are eaten by other algae who need less oxygen to breath and - do you see where I'm going with this? Basically, it becomes like the environment is aging prematurely. Instead of this happening over years on a small scale it happens over a very short space of time on a large scale. It can take years for the environment to recover after being affected by an oil spill.

So now you know why oil is such a pain in the ass for the environment and everyone involved in cleaning up an oil spill. =D
Hopefully you found it as interesting as I did! 

This actually didn't take as long to write as I thought it would... I was worried this would become some long entry about oil spills and you'd all get bored and what not but it didn't so yay! - Unless you're already bored in which case I don't want to be your friend anymore. 

A Post About Journalism That Ended Up Being About Different Journalism Things To What I Was Going to Write About

Greetings, my readers! If I even have any... when was the last time I updated this blog? I don't even know.
I always think about doing it, I really enjoy writing but I have so many ideas of things to write about that when I actually try I can't choose one thing and so I just give up all together. It's a little embarrassing actually... 

HOWEVER, I am writing an entry now. Yay!

So, this year, I started uni as a mature age student, which I'm glad I did because I feel like I'm much more mature now than when I was in year 12 and that having time off education has let me think about what it is I really want to do. What is that you may ask? Well, the title of this post probably leads you to believe that it's a Journalist, however not technically. I am studying, Sustainability Management. Anyone who's read my post about Carbon Tax probably won't be surprised. So yes, I am studying a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Sustainability Managment.
But, this year I am actually doing a Journalism class! GASP.
Because, yasee, I have always enjoyed writing and I have been interested in doing Journalism. So I thought, I have a spare unit, why not fill it up with a Journalism class? If I like it, maybe I can minor in it or co-major in it or something. Yay!
I still haven't decided what I want to do on that level but then again it's only the second week.

SO, what is this blog entry actually about? WELL. Since I started my Journalism course, I have become even more interested in the media and their doings (or wrong doings as I will later discuss) than I previously was. 
As part of my class my lecturer suggested we watch the ABC's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, for anyone who may not know) Media Watch, which is on Monday nights at 9:20pm. (They also have their own ABC website where you can watch the episodes which is what I have just finished doing.) Now in case you haven't heard of Media Watch, which I hadn't until now, basically it's a show that points out mistakes and false accusations the media has made. (From TV to papers to online news). As my lecturer said it "holds the media accountable" for their actions.

In our last Journalism lecture the discussion was basically about the duties that Journalists have to the public that stems from their position of power as both a representative of the general public and the person with access to all the sources and knowledge. Basically we were discussing the ethics of Journalism. 
Well, after watching Media Watch I've gone from disliking a few news media outlets to quite a few more.

I 'spose a lot of people already think that most journalists are slimey or sketchy kinds of people who are only interested in a good story, regardless of how true it is. But since I was young I've felt like the definition of a Journalist should be someone who is a dedicated to presenting facts and providing the general public with the truth in an honest and professional way. Often Journalist were people I looked up to.
However, lately I feel like when I read a lot of news stories there is some kind of bias behind it or something is missing I guess. I look through the paper and I wouldn't even consider half the stories in their to be real news. (Then again, I'm not their only audience so I guess that's not for me to decide)
And then there's those current affairs shows like Today Tonight and A Current Affair where every day is a slow news day.
I find it amazing that people as a whole settle for so many crappy news outlets. DOES NOBODY CARE ABOUT THE NEWS ANYMORE?
Due to lack of readers The Age has turned into a tabloid paper. *shudder* They're trying to get more readers by compacting their paper. I sincerely hope they don't reduce the quality of their news as well. The Age used to be my favourite paper and now I'm not sure what I think. I definitely wouldn't consider myself a fan of the new layout but I also love The Age and I don't want to stop supporting it. But people just don't want big news papers any more. Their attention span isn't long enough or something? I don't know.

It feels like to me that in this age of pretty much instant publishing and social media that so many news publishers are too concerned with being the first to the story rather than actually having a story that's correct. But surely more people are less concerned about how fast they get the story and more concerned about the facts within it?
Obviously their are some exceptions I mean, nobody wants a breaking news story about a hurricane in their home town the day after it's already happened. That's just retarded.
But being first to the finish line in a swimming race is no good if... - I didn't completely think this metaphor through... I was going for sharks and.. being eaten or something? NEVERMIND. The point is that there's no point getting your story out first if you give the wrong story or leave out integral facts anyway.

What frustrates me more than publishers with unreliable news or pretend news is that people seem to just take it all as gospel. "Hm, that seems ridiculously melodramatic. But oh well, must be true!" Really everyone? But I suppose that comes back to what I said earlier that people rely on journalists to bring them truthful, honest, factual news. So really, I think it's everyone involved's fault. Certain journalists for scraping up whatever random crap and serving it as news and certain people for accepting the terrible crap as news without question. Everyone needs to raise their standards.

In many ways I want to give news publishers the benefit of the doubt. I like to think of journalists as intelligent individuals. Maybe all their mistakes are honest mistakes. (Except you, Today Tonight and A Current Affair. You should be ashamed of yourselves.) I mean, hopefully it's just a matter of them finding a balance between fast publication and fact checking. I'm sure most news publishers find it excessively embarrassing when they find out a story they published was incorrect, I know I would.
I wouldn't just disregard a news publisher as a bad source of reliable news if they make one mistake. Everyone makes mistakes.
But some mistakes I've seen on Media Watch or discussed generally around the Internet (such as on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook etc.) could have easily been avoided with one simple phone call or email or any single act of minor investigation. Instead of not checking anything before deciding a story must be true because it would make such good news.

You know, this isn't originally what I was going to talk about. I was just going to briefly mention Media Watch and how interesting it is and then go on to talk about how Journalism is changing and the discussion we had in our lecture about who these days could actually be considered a Journalist. But, I kind of got stuck on this one topic... and paragraphs later realised this is probably enough as a single topic for this blog entry. So I suppose that my next post can be about who Journalists are. - Unless I think of something more interesting to write about.
Also, I feel like I was switching a lot between talking about the publishing of news as text and the presentation of news on TV. So just to clarify when I say "publishing" I mean both video and text.

That's the end of my rant about news and what have you so you can leave now if you haven't already.