February 23, 2014

『discussion』Is it a new hype to become vegan/ vegetarian?

What annoys me lately is the strange popularity with being/ becoming vegan/ vegetarian. I find it extremely annoying, that people act like they are something special, only because they decided to live a vegan/ vegetarian life, two days ago. I mean, sure it is a nice thing to eat no animals and not even products by them, like eggs or milk, but they still do not have to act the way most of them do (or at least it feels like it is getting popular to act this way).

It also feels like it is getting more and more popular to become vegan/ vegetarian. Sometimes I think I missed something… Someone please tell me what is going on!

Since I am a vegetarian myself I can not say anything against it, but it annoys me so much that people start to act as if being vegan/ vegetarian means they are a better person. I do not believe that!
It makes one a different person, but not a better one.

Sure everyone has to decide for themselves if they want to become a vegan/ vegetarian, but they should not try to persuade others to become the same. I do not like that at all. Especially when they are only something like two month in it. I am a vegetarian for almost ten years now and I never tried to persuade someone of it. I mean what is the reason to do so? Everyone can have their own opinion on that. The same as everyone can live a life they want. No one should be forced into something, e.g. my sister would die without meat, like I would die without chocolate. That is why we just accepted the decision of the other one.

When the family comes together to have a meal, everyone always gets their special wishes for it. Me the one without meat, my mother without cheese, and so on… sometimes we have four different variations of the same dish. You can see that it perfectly works being vegan/ vegetarian without persuading others too live the same way.

I do not want to say you should stay away from a vegan/ vegetarian lifestyle, I only wonder why it is so popular at the time being. Even book stores are packed with a lot of vegan and vegetarian cookbooks. While I think it is good to finally have more of them in book stores, I also think of it as just being a part of a new big hype.

Some of you might say I should be glad about it, but I just think it is wrong to want to be a part of something only because it is popular or someone else want you to. You should always be able to decide for yourself.

So do not stay away from it, but think properly about it, before deciding something like this.

I am myself a big fan of vegan food and even cookies and cakes, but I know I would miss certain things if I would (suddenly) become vegan. I now, there is vegan chocolate out there, but nothing is better than Milka and Kinder chocolate… and I love camembert, mozzarella and yoghurt so much, that I decided on a vegetarian life instead of a life completely free of these things.


  • What do you think about all of this?
  • Do you believe that this is just a big hype or something different?
  • Are you on the vegan or vegetarian side of life or not?
  • Do you think it is only kinda popular, because of the new hype to live a healthier life?


Please tell me your opinion on this or if you think I'm kinda overreacting. I just want to know if others think about that too. It is just, that since I entered school again, a lot of people are vegan/ vegetarian and always act like they are "oh so special and better" and a few years ago I was like the only one out there and still did not try to persuade people to live the same way as me. I just try to understand the whole matter…

February 17, 2014

『preview』 essence trend edition "cookies & cream"

The preview for essence trend edition for the month of April is out now. It's called "Cookies & Cream" and has a colour-scheme all in nude. That means everything will be in brown, light beige and light pink with a hint of apricot and taupe.



First are the eyeshadows, which are available in three different colours.  
  • 01 so ho, donut!
  • 02 macaron, c'est bon!
  • 03 last night a cookie saved my life
Price: 2,79€



Next up are tow different jumbo eye pencils.
  • 01 macaron, c'est bon!
  • 02 be my cookie monster
Price: 1,99€




This trend edition also includes two different colours of lipgloss.
  • 01 macaron, c'est bon!
  • 02 be my cookie monster
Price: 1,99€



As always a nice blush is included.
  • 01 cakepop, that's top!
Price: 2,99€




The most hyped product of the "Me and my Ice Cream" trend edition is back! Shimmer Pearls!!!
  • 01 one sweet day
Price: 3,29€



One thing which never has to be missed are the nail polishes, which will come in four different colours and will include a sheet of cute and sweet stickers.
  • 01 cakepop, that's top!
  • 02, yummy, yummy!
  • 03 last night a cookie saved my life
  • 04 macaron, c'est bon!
Price: 1,99€




A mini nail file will also be included in this trend edition.
  • 01 keep calm and have a cupcake
Price: 0,99€





And a new hand balm will come too.

  • 01 keep calm and have a cupcake
Price: 1,99€




February 09, 2014

『personal』 LOVE is in the AIR

Today is going to be a special and kinda embarrassing post. ^///^ I'm going to talk about the Anime/ Manga characters I had or still have a crush on. It's just unbelievable that I can still get all super fangirly about some of them. But who cares? ヽ(u__u)ノ 
I'm going from "least favourite" or better "I can't remember why" to "I'm still totally in LOVE"

>>Let's get started!!!!<<


Lorenor Zorro

While I'm not that much of a One Piece fan anymore I used to watch it everyday. It never was my favourite, but when RTL II still showed animes, I used to watch it and I saw a lot of the episodes. 
Nowadays I can't really remember anything of it and I now that the anime and the manga is still ongoing. 


Zorro was always my favourite character of the anime. Not only the awesome green hair and his three ear piercings on his left ear, but also the fact that he was the only one who could fight with three swords at once.

I always wished I could do that too. XD He was just sooo endlessly cool back then.

 

While he was one of the more clumsy, rude and cocky characters, he also was one of the funniest and in some of his big scenes one of the most lovable characters. 


I always thought that somewhere beneath all this self-centeredness was a big heart beating and when it was time to show it, he saved or fought for his friends and he proofed me right.





Nobu Terashima

Here comes a character from my most favourite manga of all times, NANA. Nobu, the guitarist of Blast, is one of the characters I always thought who got created too nice. He just has a heart which is too big and too good for his own sake. 

I loved him from the first time he appeared to the second the manga abruptly was paused.
He's always there to help his friends, to give them a good time and to cheer them up.


When he fell in love with Hachi he was the cutest thing ever in a manga. He just cared so much about her and not only her but all of the rest too.


My love grew with every bit of his appearances in the manga and my heart got broken when Hachi broke his heart. I was so angry with her…
But Nobu still was this super cute and caring person.




Yosuke Fuma/ Vento 

Wedding Peach is up to date one of my most favourite animes ever. I always loved it so much. I think it's mostly the magical girl factor.

While everyone was head over heels for Kazuya  Yanagiba/ Angel Kiiro/ Limone my heart beat for Yosuke. X///D

Let's just ignore the fact that he was the keeper in the school's soccer team.
He might have been a little bit arrogant too, but I never thought that he was as annoying as Kazuya was. He also had the better character change in whole. 

While Kazuya always knew who he is and that he's fighting with the Love Angels, Yosuke always thought he's a normal human being. 


How wrong he was. ;__; Even when he acted childish and annoying at times, he was the cutest in this series. He also was the one who captured Momoko's heart even before she realized it herself. While both of them grew and realized what was going on, they were even cuter.
Funny, cute and a lovable character, who had to fight himself.


When he turned out to be the prince of the devils, it nearly broke my heart. </3 And I was sooo glad that I was proofed right that he still had a good heart. Even when he had to fight the evil in himself.


You could totally see his struggles with himself and not wanting to be the evil. 
Forever happy for the Happy End!!! ♥♥♥




Rin Okumura

From here on it got really hard to decide who is going to be next. Ao no Exorcist/ Blue Exorcist is such a big love of mine nowadays, I can't even believe it myself. I always thought I would never love a manga/ anime this much again.

Rin is one of the most lovable characters in this whole series. Even when he is rude, kinda ignorant, self-destructive and aggressive in the beginning he grows so much throughout the series. 

 

We know right from the beginning that he's the son of Satan, the enemy and king of the devils. We get to know how he was born and how he lived.

He thinks of himself as something dangerous and useless.


But he is the absolute opposite of this. He fight's for his friends, even when they get afraid of him, he aims to become a better living being and fights for peace. 
He just has such a big heart that you never would guess he could be evil in the slightest. That makes him so special and lovable.




Haruka Tennou/ Sailor Uranus

All time favourite number one anime and manga. XD" Well, yeah it's Sailor Moon and while I never even thought about loving Haruka when I was young, I love her even more now.


I think I just never got how deep the actual character design of all the characters is, but when I read the re-published editions of the manga I totally fell for Haruka. I never even thought she could top the perfectness of Rei and Michiru. 


But the girl who's in love with fast cars and motorbikes, who wears a male's school uniform, has a sword as talisman and represents herself as some kind of super strong person, is one of the most perfect persons ever in this series.

I fell so hard for her love for her princess and for her will to fight everything evil to protect everyone from it.
   

Even perfect Haruka has her moments of self doubts and griefs over everything, but she never gives up and always rediscovers her strength again. ♥♥♥





 Zuko

Just decided to count Avatar - The Last Airbender as an anime. XP 



Now we have Prince Zuko, the prince of the Fire Nation who got banned by his father. He just has such a tragic story and at first he is all angry and bitter. Even when his (awesome) uncle Iroh tries to help him through it, he stays bitter, angry and self-destructive. 


I always liked him and he had all my sympathy, even when he was the enemy at first, even when he tried to capture Aang and to get his lost pride and respect back.  
But since, everyone who watched this series knows why he was banned, we know that he never was evil and that he always had his heart in the right position.


He even proved it when he turned into the Blue Spirit and rescued Aang from the Fire Nation. He said he only rescued him to capture him again, but who even believed that? (⊙_☉)?


Actually I think, that this was the start of his transformation into an absolute good person. Later on he got really confused about his feelings and he never knew where he fits in.


When he finally joined Team Avatar he was so self doubted that he wasn't able to properly bend his fire powers anymore. He first had to learn how to control it without anger.
He also learned how to fight with friends and not against them, how to say things right and how to listen to the right persons. 

He finally grew to a person who could love without judging and who could see himself as something special. 
Finally he was that person he always aimed for and got respected after all. He also became the Fire Lord and brought peace to the Fire Nation.

Zuzu (I had to write it XD""") is just one of the characters which developed so much and who never was really evil. He just never knew how to express himself and he always only wanted to be loved. ♥♥♥




 Vegeta


Finally we are at the end, which means my most favourite of them all. Yep it's Vegeta, who had guessed that? XD Everyone who knows me should know how much I LOVE Vegeta. 

Besides Dragonball is (with Sailor Moon) my all time favourite manga/ anime of all times. It was my first manga ever and I saw every episodes several times.




When the Prince of the Saiyajins had his first appereance he was this super self-centered, angry and jealous person. But when you looked past all his arrogance you could see, even back then, that he was just lost. He lost his home, his planet, saw his family die or getting enslaved. 
To survive he decided to follow Freezer's orders and to ally with him. 


When he died the first time in the anime, I was the only one who cried over his death. My heart just broke so much over him dying. When he told Son Goku to go save the earth, because he can't help him and he is better and stronger as himself, I cried even more. Imagine how difficult this must have been for him, to admit his own "weakness". He cried and told him to revenge their families and free the world of Freezer. I think this was his first real change. Even when it doesn't sound like that in the anime. 
My poor little heart just got broken watching this scene. <///3 


Luckily there are the Dragonballs in this anime and Vegeta was alive after that again. XD And yep with this all my love grew and grew even more for this little, self-centered prince. 



When he got turned into Majin Vegeta my heart broke again. I couldn't believe what they were doing to him. I mean every time we could see something nice and caring in him they tried to make him evil again. But luckily Vegeta had a big enough heart to overcome this and finally started fighting for real this time.
I cried so much when I realized that he is going to sacrifice himself to save the earth and his family. It was the first time he hugged Trunks. This just showed how much he cares for his family and friends. (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥`)

Or the other scene were Son Goku begged him to take the Potara Earring, so they could fusion into another, stronger fighter, at first he wasn't willing to do it but finally when he realized that they don't have a chance he decided to do it. Right before it he was so angry with Son Goku and not because he's the stronger one, but because Son Goku never told him how strong he is. This is just so cute, how angry Vegeta get's over something like this. ✖‿✖
He has his heart in the right position and he even values his friendship with Goku so much that he get's angry with him.

Sure he has his pride and he would never take the word love in his mouth, but he knows how to love and how to fight for it. 
He is one of the characters who had the most development and had to learn about self-awareness to overcome his hate for everything beautiful and peaceful. 

That's why I love him the most!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥