Review: Smashbox Makeup in Sephora Kuwait

SMASHBOX is one of my FAVE brands! I have the cream eyeliner set and love it so much. It has shades of black, purple, blue, green, bronze, silver, grey and different degrees of brown (light and dark). I think it is useful because it has a multipurpose use like it can be used as an eyeliner or a base for eyeshadow to create a smokey eyes effect. Although there is a brush with it, it's still not that great, which is why I'm looking for the Arched brush in Sephora.The pallete is showen below.It's small and great for travel.

 

I have to say that everytime I go to Sephora to find the Arched brush, they don't have it. 

It's useful because it helps you apply the eyeliner even on the inner corner of the eyes, without having to stick your hands so close to your eyes.

Sephora, which is the only place I know that sells Smashbox in Kuwait, I must admit, unfortunitly, the place doesn't have amazing staff and sometimes their customer service can be really terrible. I don't know why. Their sales representatives are always chatting with each other and too lazy to work..or they can be very pushy.If you don't know already that there is a Sephora card which everytime you spend 10kd they sign it. After the 4th purchaise you get 10% off the next thing you buy.

Anyways, today I went on their site to see their new products, I discovered they, not only have videos showing you how their products are used, but also you can chat live to any of their makeup artists.

This is great because you get to ask questions on how to use thier products and how to get different looks using the makeup. I also asked about their other product called Eye Illusions:

 

She let me know that there is a new verison of it. If you haven't heard of this before, it is like an eye shadow that is applied to any eye shadow or liner and it changes the colour, depending on which illusion you use. There are three, the blue, pink and I think beige.

This is how my conversation with the person went:
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Chat InformationWelcome to smashbox cosmetics LIVE CHAT. A Studio Makeup Artist will be with you shortly. At the end of this chat session, you will be able to request to have a transcript of your chat sent to you via email by completing our exit survey. _________________________________________
Hello. Thank you for your interest in smashbox cosmetics. My name is Mer. How can I help you today?
SweetD: Hello
SweetD: I have questions about ur cream eye liner palette and how it can be used
Mer: sure, how can I help you?
SweetD: how can I use it? does it have a multipurpose
Mer: These versatile liner palettes are perfect for creating a sexy, smoky eye. Apply a CREAM EYE LINER (try LAVA) all over lid up to crease using DEFINER BRUSH #15, then blend a dark powder shadow (try EYE SHADOW TRIO in SHUTTERSPEED) on top to seal the color and give a soft, diffused effect.
SweetD: how about an everyday look? and which brush should we use to apply the liner?
Mer: For an everyday look you could use a neutral shade like DEEP BRONZE or the METALLIC BRONZE along with EYE LIGHTS in BEAM. I prefer using ARCED LINER BRUSH #21 when using the product as liner and DEFINER BRUSH# 15 for a smudged look.
SweetD: yeah that seems right. Could we use it with the Quad (i forgot the name) that changes the shade of eyeshadows?
Mer: EYE ILLUSIONS? Yes, you can definitely use that product with CREAM EYE LINER.
Mer: May I help you with anything else today?
SweetD: yes
SweetD: Yes..is this product only sold in our local Sephora Kuwait?
Mer: I'm sorry I don't have a list of stores where this product is available.
Mer: EYE ILLUSIONS is now only available in a trio.
Mer: http://www.smashbox.com/EYE-SHADOW-TRIO
Mer: http://www.smashbox.com/EYE-ILLUSION-NEW
Mer: sorry wrong link.
SweetD: okay thank you very much
SweetD: how long does to arrive internationally? (if we were to order online?
Mer: Thank you have a nice day.
Mer: Usually about 2 weeks.
Mer: http://www.smashbox.com/Shipping-Costs-and-Delivery-Schedule
SweetD: thank you for your help
Mer: Thank you have a nice day
Chat InformationChat session has been terminated by the site operator.
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 I hope you find this information helpful and if you haven't tried Smashbox..I advice you to!

Zain, Wataniya or Viva

 Which company do YOU prefer?

From my own experiance Wataniya has the best service. Lately Zain's services started to suck and Viva...well it's Viva what do you expect! Bad service all the way!

Top 5 Ways to Get Married in Kuwait.

 1. Accept the marriage proposal of first man that "knocks on your door", which everyone thinks is a perfect match for you.
 

2. Find a man who will fall in love with you and preferbly has never dated anyone before you. This way he will not be able to compare you to anyone else. Thus you will have full control.. Remeber don't give up too much to the man, once you do, he will get used to you and will never think of you as a prize.

3. Meeting a divorced man who has done it before, so the second time won't be such a big deal.

4. Get to know a unhappyily married man and make his world shine! This one's the lowest form but finding this man and making him happy might eventually make you happy :D.

5. Or don't! Refuse to get married and be looked down on by society and people. What the heck we only live once is it worth giving up the freedom? (this one of course doesn't count).

I think these are the only ways people get married in Kuwait. Unless there are new options :D

Eva Longoria Beauty

Eva Longoria

Full name: Eva Jacqueline Longoria Parker
Born: Texas on March 15,1975
Job: Model, actress and top sexiest women in world. Eva had worked in lot of television series like Beverly Hills, 90210, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, Desperate Housewives, The Talent Agency, The Dead Will Tell. Longoria Parker own a 3.6 million house in Los Angeles.

Now she's SEXY!

Nail Art

Fruit Manicure Anyone?

Sleepless in Kuwait

I'm practically stuck to my laptop and everytime I try lie down, I start thinking and worrying, then my sleep "flies away"...Ramadan has turned my day into night and my night into day!

I discovered that when you send emails to people abroad (I mean companies and official places) they actually reply...I've been living in the Arab world for so long that I forgot that there is a functioning world out there! I'm so used to being given bad service and being ignored!

*P.S: I really like this book cover :D and my eyes look like this :

Except they are brown and a bit less red :S I should sleep...

Review : BTemplates & Template Designer

After searching through btemplates, I have come to the conclusion that using the latest feature in Blogger to edit the template is much better, easier and more convenient.

When I was trying out the ones I got from the site, I didn't like the outcome since you don't have that much freedom to fix colours and sizes of text. Well maybe you can but I'm guessing it is a great hassle and probably takes great effort. Personally, I don't like complicated templates and I don't want to go back to looking through the "HTML code" to figure out where everything is.

Now with the Template Designer, which you can already find under the design tab of you blog, is a great new tool. You can see your changes as you make them! So if you decide to change something you just do, then if you don't like it, just undo it. I'm not lazy honestly it's just that I like to keep things simple and fast. I'm usualy hesitant about using new features because I like familiar functions, however, I am glad I started using the Template Designer. I have to also mention that I'm a very indecisive person, so it took me a VERY long time to pick this template.

Now the questions is where do we get more templates because the ones on offer from this site are limiting.

I hope you like the black template and I know there's a very big difference between this one and my last bright one. I love colours though but I had to make a change. The reason behind this is that I will be entering a new stage in my life, so I think it is time to try something new.

If you have any Q's don't hesitate to ask, although I think it's very straight forward, which is why I LOVE blogger.

Blogger Templates

Don't mind me! If you happen to stumble upon my blog and see the template changing it's because I'm trying a couple out :D

Thanks for visiting!

Update: 

What do you think of the template?

All The Wrinkled Ladies

ENJOY!

Kuwait & Mac & Bloggers

Why does everyone have to post about Mac products or events?

Diaspora*: "You're Only Open Source Social Network"

The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network.

The Diaspora* team from NYU includes Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy. These young computer science programmers are hoping to build an open-source, distributed social network as an alternative to other social networks like Facebook, apparently after the issue concerning privacy. They decided to try raise $10,000 which they did successfully with the help of Kickstarter.

What does "diaspora" mean?

A diaspora (in Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering [of seeds]") is the movement or migration of a group of people, such as those sharing a national and/or ethnic identity, away from an established or ancestral homeland.

The word diaspora usually refers to the scattering of race, people or nationality like the Jewish, Lebanese or African American diaspora. Here it's referring to just as "scattering" I think as an "open source". I might be wrong though.

So what is Diaspora* the site?

Enter your Diaspora “seed,” a personal web server that stores all of your information and shares it with your friends. Diaspora knows how to securely share (using GPG) your pictures, videos, and more. When you have a Diaspora seed of your own, you own your social graph, you have access to your information however you want, whenever you want, and you have full control of your online identity. Once we have built a solid foundation, we will make Diaspora easy to extend to facilitate any type of communication, and the possibilities will be endless

What is the Diaspora* project about?

"We believe that privacy and connectedness do not have to be mutually exclusive. With Diaspora, we are reclaiming our data, securing our social connections, and making it easy to share on your own terms. We think we can replace today's centralized social web with a more secure and convenient decentralized network. Diaspora* will be easy to use, and it will be centered on you instead of a faceless hub."

Why they needed money?
 
"We have a plan, a bunch of ideas and the programming chops to build Diaspora. What we need is the time it takes to iron out a powerful, secure, and elegant piece of software. Daniel, Ilya, Raphael, and Maxwell are all ready to trade our internships and summer jobs for three months totally focused on building Diaspora. We want to write code all the time, everyday. Once we have made our first solid iteration, we are going to release our code as free software so everyone can make Diaspora even better. $10,000 buys the software for everyone who wants to use it, forever. We think it can change the way people communicate and empower individuals to permanently take control of their online identities.
After we open source our source code, we hope to also provide a paid turnkey hosted service in the vein of Wordpress.com to make it easy for people who want to use Diaspora, but don’t want to deal with the fuss of setting it up.* We will make it easy to export your data and configuration, so if you decide you want to graduate and host your seed yourself, you are free to do so at anytime.
Our goal is for everyone to have full control over their data and to empower people in to become responsible, secure, and social Internet dwellers. We believe offering this service will be helpful to non-technical users who are also worried about their data and privacy online."

Their Promise.

"We promise to you that Diaspora will be aGPL software which will released at the end of the summer."

Diaspora* Technical Specifications

    * Full-fledged communications between Seeds (Diaspora instances)
    * Complete PGP encryption
    * External Service Scraping of most major services (reclaim your data)
    * Version 1 of Diaspora's API with documentation
    * Public GitHub repository of all Diaspora code.

What is a Decentralized Social Network?

So what is Diaspora anyway? Instead of being a singular portal like Facebook, Diaspora is a distributed network where separate computers connect to each other directly, without going through a central server of some sort.

Once set up, the network could aggregate your information - including your Facebook profile, if you wanted. It could also import things like tweets, RSS feeds, photos, etc., similar to how the social aggregator FriendFeed does. A planned plugin framework could extend these possibilities even further.

Your computer, called a "seed" in the Diaspora setup, could even integrate the connected services in new ways. For example, a photo uploaded to Flickr could automatically be turned into a Twitter post using the caption and link.

When you "friend" another user, you're actually "friending" that seed, technically speaking. There's not a centralized server managing those friend connections as there is with Facebook - it's just two computers talking to each other. Friends can then share their information, content, media and anything else with each other, privately using GPG encryption.

Diaspora*, the Turn-Key Solution

Because not everyone will be technically capable of (or interested in) setting up their computer to function as a "seed," there are plans to offer a paid turn-key service too, similar to Wordpress.com, the blogging platform. Wordpress itself is software you can install and configure on your own server, if you're inclined to do so, but if you're less technically-savvy, you can opt to quickly start a blog via Wordpress.com instead. Diaspora would function in a similar way.

If a lot this sounds reminiscent of Opera's Unite project, the Web browser maker's overly-hyped plan to "reinvent of the Web," it should. In Opera Unite, users can share documents, photos, music, videos and run websites and chat rooms by directly linking two computers together.

However, in Unite's setup, there are Opera-run proxy servers involved, which led to issues - especially when those servers went down. Diaspora wouldn't have that problem.
Mainstream Success?

Still, the concepts behind Diaspora, while the sort of thing tech geeks will eat up, may be harder to grasp for the everyday Facebook user who is still trying to figure out how post a link or video to their Wall. Distributed, decentralized, open-source what?

If Diaspora is realized, it will be up to technology advocates to position the turn-key service in a way that will make it sound simple and appealing to precisely those sorts of mainstream users if it is to ever succeed. Taking shots at Facebook's privacy issues may be a good course (Take back control with Diaspora!).

I got most of the information from the links below. Take a look and read. It is very interesting to read people's comments and thoughts on Diaspora.

When will Diaspora* be released?

The team also meantioned that it will be out maybe on the 15th of September which is just 2 weeks away! 

I got most of the information from the links below. Take a look and read. It is very interesting to read people's comments and thoughts on Diaspora.

1. Techcrunch

2. Read Write Web 

3. Pinoy tutorial

4. Jaxov

5. Kickstarter 

6. Crunch Base

And of course their official site is  Diaspora*

Another interesting video that I found is:

I think the coolest thing I learned from this video is about the Quit Facebook Day site. It's amazing I didn't think people would be feeling so much hatred towards it. Also, check out All Facebook site. :)

I hope all this helps and that you found all this interesting ;) 

I really like the idea of it especially as they will help people control their information, seeing as many problems happend with Facebook. I think if they achieve this I'm definitely on board! ;)

What do you guys think about this? Would you join it and support them? Do you think it is a good idea and will it ever take over Facebook?

Shoojy & Fatoom's Zain Advert 2010

I had to add this...Now this doesn't surprise me!! :P

Paris Hilton & SHOOJY!

GO SHOOOOOOJY!!! :*****

Ya 7ath-ha Paris!

Blogger Stats! FINALLY!!

FINALLY!! Blogspot has added and shows the stats for the blogs yeayyyyyyyyyyy :D
It must be new..or is it only new to me :D

Update: Oh just checked! This is new and was added on 30th of AUGUST!! I've been waiting for this day forever! Now I don't have to change my blog to wordpress or anything else just yet :D yeayyyyyyyyyyy :D

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Arab-Facebook

10

I can't believe today's the last day for this month! Wooow time is flying...

10 more days of Ramadan!

Small Print

I have been requested to post about Small Print!

I think this is a great way to cherish finger prints of your children and is a great gift for your loved ones :D 

Ala'a Siksek & Mofeida Murad

Tel: +965 65581566

Email: alaa@smallp.com

Website: www.smallp.com

***If anyone else wants me to post anything feel free to email me too. I would be more than happy to include anything and everything***

Ramadan Rants!

I don't know why people keep complaining about the Ramadan TV Shows and making fun..Chill..If you don't like it DON'T WATCH IT! It's meant to be entertaining and not causing this much trouble...Being a director and working in the theatre and writing my own scripts and watching my actors go through one rehearsal after the other I have come to appreaciate these things...especially because of the stress and pressure and thats  a performance for one day..Do you know how many people are behind these shows? Do you realise that it takes TIME and EFFORT? Give them a break and stop nagging and making fun...I know sometimes the plot seems to not make sense but it's TV...since when does anything have to make sense with the world we live in? If you think you can do a better job...go ahead...prove what you try to prove with your words...otherwise be greatful that these people spend hours of their time preparing these shows for us to watch it back and relax on our lazy asses..Am I wrong to say all this??? Sometimes I feel people are so arrogant and just love to complain about others thinking they are much better..

I have to mention that this years shows are great! I really feel that next year Kuwait's series will be even better..well I hope!

The acting is improving...the plots are getting more interesting...the make up is becoming more realistic...the sets are different...the music is amazing...the characters are so LOVEABLE! Need more to say?

PART 3 - The Top Worst Feelings in the World

UPDATE: 


Since I have very good caramentators who have kindly helped me with the list I will add their lists :D Thanks Tiesto and Faroo7a ;)


Tiesto:


103) someone takes a good parking space when your waiting 45mins for one.

104) Going to work in a panic and realising its a friday.

105) waking up late for work and early in weekends.

106) someone eats your cheese cake, that you wanted to save for another time.

107) Lending people money and expecting them to pay you back.

108) catching a fish and when realing it you notice it was a large stone cought in a back.

109) finding your car skratched from the side after leaving the shopping mall.

110) going home after leaving the dewania!

111) high latency when playing online due to family members doing important work (like youtubing, facebooking and this!)


Faroo7a:

112) buying something and find out the next day it was on sale.

113) Copy cats

114) working hard at work and getting no recognition or appreciation

115) people constantly telling you that ur kid doesn't look like you! Ok I get it, no need to keep saying it.

116) working so hard in making a special dish for your husband and he comes home tired and stressed and tells u he' s lost his appetite

117) Making someone feel so special by remembering their birthday and thinking of the perfect gift for them, but they totally forget yours and don't even send u a birthday MSG!

118) buying expensive makeup from vavavoom and finding out u missed out on the free gift from the ditzy sales woman!

119) introducing friends to each other and then they meet up with each other without me and leave me out

120) friends who use u coz ur good to them but when u need them they ignore u

121) crying baby that won't shut up

122) applying for jobs everywhere and not getting a good offer

I have one more I just thought of:


123) Getting tongue getting burned from drinking a hot drink :P

Yeayyyyyyyyy

21

:D See two days already passed ;)