And the winner is....

Im stuck at home, ill. On halloween, no doubt about it sucks. So i thought i'd make someone elses day by announcing the winner to my contest.

Drumroll please....


So the winner is Sarah!! congrats girlie, will be sending u an email soon!

Sorry for those who didnt win, however keep passing on my blog and follow because as soon as i get to 100 followers BIG giveaway!!

xx

Short Layered Hairstyles for Round Faces Girls

Short Layered Hairstyles for Round Faces Girls

Short Layered Hairstyles for Girls 2009

You can start looking at short hairstyles. The layered hairstyles is back this season and plenty of girls are jumping on the short layered hairstyles bandwagon. Looks great on layered haircuts, to make it ultra stylish have a short layered hair with the last couple of inches razor haircut, leaving you with wispy ends.

Medium short layered hairstyles for girls

Short layered hairstyles are often styled in a messy manner. Layers are usually longest in front of the ears and on top of the head, so that they can be combed to arrange side bangs. To short layered hair styles, use a small amount of styling hair wax and work through dry hair, using your fingers to sculpt small flips or curls to your liking.

2009 Short Sedu Hairstyles for Women Pictures

To maintain a particular hairstyle you need some extra effort and time everyday. Using of treatments on hairs such as perming, straightening and coloring often damage the hairs. To under control the damage, a machine is needed for styling the hairs from time to time. One such machine is sedu machine which has thongs for various kinds of hairstyles.

This sedu machine helps in maintaining various kinds of hairstyles according to your wish.The hairstyle that has been in the spot light is sedu hairstyle. Take a look at these incredible sedu hairstyles seen on many actors such as Jennifer’s loops and Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Britany Spears and many other stars who are sporting short sedu hairstyle for winter 2009-2010.

2009 Short Sedu Hairstyles for Women Pictures

2009 fall Short Sedu Haircuts for Women Pictures
Winter 2009 Sedu Short Hairstyles for Women Pictures
2009 Winter Short Sedu Hairstyles for Girls Photos

Giveaway!

This fabulous giveaway is sponsored by the lovely Chickdowntown , they stock the most amazing clothes and accessories and they do cheap international shipping!!

Im giving away a Rachel Leigh Wide Dark Wood Pyramid Bangle, worth $35. I had a choice of a lot of items but this really screamed out at me, its simple, pretty classic and goes with practically everything! I also swear ive seen something similar on Serena or Vanessa on gossip girl,

How cute, would it be worn like this.
If you sadly dont win, dont worry the owner of the company has her own twitter with constant giveaways!Check out her Twitter , you'll often get a sneak preview of their photo shoots too. I have to say along with Rachel Leigh's line, i simply adore BB Dakota, they also sell " what comes around goes around" which is hugely popular with celebrities.

Right onto the serious stuff.

1. Its open to EVERYONE!!, international winners, if you do win it's up to pay the duties.

2. How you win!,

• Leave me a comment, suggesting what you would wear with it
• Then check out www.chickdowntown.com and pick what other brand you thinks amazing and tell me!
• Make sure you put your email address in the comment too
  
• Let me know if your an international or U.S citizen.

3. The giveaway ends on Friday the 30th of October.


Good Luck!!!

What Why When Where How??

What Why When Where How??

What's on the the top of the mind of most people ??

Check it out below (courtesy Google)

Short Pixie Cut Hairstyles for Women 2009 Winter

Short pixie hair like Alyssa Milano's hair style brings a lot of attention to the eyes. It particularly suits women with narrow faces, pretty neck and smooth skin. Introducing some soft wave perms on the top and crown area spikes up the hair and create texture and volume.

Short Pixie Cut Hairstyles for Women 2009 Winter

Alyssa Milanno brown short haircuts

Celebrity short pixie hairstyles for women

Suprise! and Wales

Celebrity Short Blonde Haircuts for Women

The sheer vivacity and carefree appeal of blonde hair makes it one of the most sought-after colors in the world. At the same time, however, it is also among the rarest natural shades, but individuals interested in sunny locks can easily find the shade for them.

Celebrity Short Blonde Haircuts for Women

When most people see blonde short haircuts pictures, they only see the same styles over and over. Blonde short hairstyles can be many things, however, including fun, flirty, professional, casual, and cute. By looking at different styles, you can see the range of possibilities and choose the best blonde haircuts for you.

Celebrity Short Blonde Hairstyles for Women

Blonde short haircuts are perfect for women and men who want to control their hair with an easy. An easy blonde short hairstyles gets an arty update with strategically placed color and volume - up top, where the lightened-up full-bodied effect is sire to be noticed. there are a wide variety of fun short styles to choose from for you.

Mexican Wave

Well, you must have seen the Mexican Wave at sporting events - be it cricket matches, football matches or the Olympics!!

It has been 28 years since the Mexican Wave - A wave effect formed when crowds in stadium rise up and down from their seats in succession - made its origin.

The first appearance of the wave was a section by section cheer at a Major League Baseball game that was led by professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson in Oakland, California on October 15, 1981, in an American League Championship Series game between the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees.

Catch some action here

Finland - Broadband Internet a Legal Right

Internet - since its inception in the 1960's - has made a substantial progress in terms of penetration.

Approx 1.6 billion people across the world have access to the net. In absolute terms, this is a huge number. But in relative terms, only 24% of the world population has access to the internet.

Catch the stats here

In Finland - a country in northern Europe with a population of 5.3 million - around 96% of its people have access to the internet. 

With such a good start, Finland has gone a step ahead and has made Broadband Internet a Legal Right. It is the first nation to enact such a law!!

The law mandates telecommunications companies will be obliged to provide all Finnish residents with broadband lines that can run at speeds of at least 1 megabit per second!!

Hope that broadband access to the internet becomes a reality for people across most of the countries!!

Olympics to Rio

A few days back - the Olympics committee decided that Rio De Janeiro, Brazil will be hosting the 2016 Olympics!!

Rio faced stiff competition from Madrid(Spain), Chicago(USA) and Tokyo(Japan) - but finally managed to win the bid, becoming the first city in Latin America to host the Games!!

Take a look at the citities which have hosted the Olympics over the past 113 years.

Rio will be the 24th city which will be hosting the Olympics and we all hope that 7 years down the line, they manage to put a fantastic show!!

BBC News Countdown

If you have seen the BBC news channel , you certainly must not have missed this!!

And i'm talking about the NEWS countdown theme. I like the music in this theme a lot!!

And needless to say, within a short span of 60 seconds - it takes you on a trip across the world - right from Wall Street in NY, the White House in Washington, the monastaries in Tibet, the battlegrounds of Afganistan and Iraq, Red Square of Moscow, across India, Hollywood, Africa, China, Australia, South America et all!!

Catch some of the versions below

Battle for Waziristan

Waziristan is a small part of the North West Frontier Province in Western Pakistan!!

And if this article from Dawn News is to be believed, Pakistan is planning to launch a major war on the Taliban militants in the coming days!! 

Army officials say that it may last upto 4 weeks - but if history is to be considered, it may extend for a much longer time.

 

Only God knows where is Pakistan is heading :(

Silly Thoughts

This is before!!
And this is after!!

And I'm thinking about boiling eggs!!

Staying away from home, eggs have recently being an integral part of my diet.

Recently while cooking egg curry, a silly thought shot across my mind - do we have a machine which can remove the egg shell?

Well, a quick search online - and the answer is Yes!!

Someone somewhere has filed a patent for an Egg Breaking machine and an Egg Breaker device!!

Well, these machines might be useful for mass operations. But for removing the shells of a couple of eggs, I will still have to rely on my hands!!

Fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe

1989 - It is a landmark year in the history of Central and Eastern Europe!!

Almost 20 years back - in 1989 - Central & Eastern Europe broke away from the shackles of Communism!!

This is how CEE looked way back in 1989.

And this how it looks now!!

A complete change on the face of the world map!!

Catch this excellent article - with nice graphic content - from the BBC - which charts the fall of Communism in CEE.

And this article from the US Department of State gives a nice gist of the events between 1989-1991 which triggered this massive change!!

Hrvatski

Being in Zagreb, Croatia for the last few weeks, I have been listening to and reading a bit of Croatian (or Hrvatski) - This was necessary to travel around the city!!

The language is almost similar to English - with only a few words different!! Its the national language of a few countries - Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina among them.

Learn the basics of Hrvatski here!! This site is quite useful!!

And a brief snapshot of some of the Croatian alphabets and tips for pronouncing them!!

Adriatic Sea

Looking for Croatia on the world map, it was a pleasant surprise to know that it was bordered by the Adriatic Sea!! 

Now, I had never heard of Adriatic Sea... neither did they teach us about her in the geography classes!!

Probably, thats because the Adriatic Sea is considered as an extension of the Mediterranean Sea!! It surrounded by Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania!!

The word Adria probably derives from the Illyrian word adur meaning "water" or "sea"!!

As it is with all seas, its extremely beautiful!!

Visiting the beautiful beaches of the Adriatic Sea is considered as a good holiday by many Italians and Croats!!

So im off, yup to wales till friday for a geography trip, so sorry if i dont update till next week as i will be catching up with work and school!

I've decided im going to get a long bob, woo! i love my shorter hair so much i cant wait till i get it done! Next week sometime, so look out for that.

xx Loving songs by tiesto!

Croatia - Neckties and Ball-point Pens

Well, I wear a necktie at least 2 days a week - at work!! But never in the last 5 years did I wonder when and where did these neckties originate!!

Being in Zagreb now, came across an interesting piece of Croatian history.

Croatia is the birth place of the Necktie (Cravat in Hrvatski) !! Now that was a real surprise!!

Catch a small excerpt from Wiki

The necktie traces back to the time of Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) when Croatian mercenaries from the Military Frontier in French service, wearing their traditional small, knotted neckerchiefs, aroused the interest of the Parisians. Due to the slight difference between the Croatian word for Croats, Hrvati, and the French word, Croates, the garment gained the name "Cravat". The new article of clothing started a fashion craze in Europe where both men and women wore pieces of fabric around their necks. In the late seventeenth century, the men wore lace cravats that took a large amount of time and effort to arrange. These cravats were often tied in place by cravat strings, arranged neatly and tied in a bow.

And the ball point pen was also invented by Slavoljub Penkala in Zagreb back in 1906.

Makes me wonder - how these 2 small things have changed the way we work!!

Barcodes

Well, Google is a website which I visit almost daily.

On 6th October, 2009 - I was in for a surprise - the Google website logo was unreadable!!

Or shall I say - machine readable!!

Google was celebrating the 57th anniversary of Barcode!!

And for the last many years, bar-codes have become an integral part of our lives!! 

Most commonly and universally, they are used for checking out goods at supermarkets. 

They make the process simple - reading the commodity being sold, the cost etc etc. This automation helps the quicken up the selling process and also helps in maintaining upto date inventory!!

 

The name of my blog - in the long and thin lines - would look like this.!! 

Check out the free bar code generator below - its interesting!!

by Barcodes Inc

Being Busy

An interesting picture from the recently concluded London Fashion Week!!

( Picture courtesy - BBC © )

People are so busy back stage preparing for the super-models for a cat walk!! And the news article said that almost 6 people are dedicated towards preparation for a single model!!

Just shows the kind of hard work that goes into the glorious world of fashion!!

60 Years of China

On 1st of October 2009, China celebrated it's 60th Anniversary of nationhood. 60 years back, the iconic Chinese leader - Mao Zedong - founded the People's Republic of China!!

China is one of the biggest country in the world in terms of area. Approx. 1.3 billion people call China their Home - thats almost 19% of the world population!!Needless to say, the celebrations of such an event were really big.

Catch some interesting pictures as China prepared for the celebrations!!

This one - The National Grand Theater in Central Beijing - caught my eye!!

And a bird's eye view of the actual celebration on 1st October, 2009!!

do i disappoint u? is that why u unfollow?

xx

TGIF!

I cant believe its friday already!! Life's like a whirlwind at the moment.

I finally got my haircut and highlighted, its a bit of a shock as its darker now ( no more blonde bits) and is waay shorter..

Excuse the lack of makeup, its after a full day of school with no touchups! and ignore the silly face haha


Crazy thing is that my hairdresser thinks i should get a long bob!! and im seriously considering it??

My friends all think i should but gaah it seems so short at the mo

First Wives

Well, all of us have heard of this quote.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman!!

And this picture conveys the very essence of it!! The men are grabbing all the attention while the wives are quietly staying backstage!!

While Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America, Michelle Obama is a lawyer. She played a key role in Obama's presidential campaign in 2008!!

Nicholas Sarkozy is the president of France, while his wife Carla Bruni is a ex-supermodel. She has played a key role in enhancing the Sarkozy's public image in his presidency!!

Well, in the next pictures - the first wives take center stage!!

Candy Spa

Candy Spa review!- apologies
The lovely Jane over at candy-spa.com, a couple of weeks ago asked if i wanted to be a product tester of any new products before they released and i give her my thoughts on each product! I then review on here the products i loved and tell her what products i didnt like.

Here are the products that i loved

LoveSpell Lotion
Jane sent me a sample of a new scent of her lotion range she's bringing out! Oh my gosh, it smells amazing! Just like sherbet but its not overly sweet and has an underlying slight musky sophisticated scent similar to dolce and gabbana " the one". I adore this product not just for its scent but its SO moisturising and light and sinks into the skin really quickly.


Cherrybomb Soap
Smells amazing too, like cherry bakewell tart ( thats Almond and cherry to you, americans!), and looks incredibly pretty sitting in your bathroom. Shame my silly camera could capture how pink and pretty it looks!



Keylime scrub
Out of all the products i recieved, this by far is my favourite and im not even a huge fan of lime! Jane sent me a sample size of this too, it smells just like lime wine gums or lime pastilles! The scrub consists of small sugar crystals which gently exfoliate. Afterwards it leaves a moisturing oil on your body until you wash it off. I tend to use it every couple of days and it leaves my skin looking amazing!

Strawberry Coconut Kiss o Licious lipbalm
Not yet on the website but OMG this is amazing. I use it everyday, i carry it everywhere with me ! Its a great lipbalm, and ive tended to wear it for school with a little foundation, mascara and im good to go! It smells of almond, strawberries and a hint of coconut!


Soaktini's are amazing! Unforntunatly my camera died as i was taking a picture! They are more than just your average bathbomb as they have frosting! Yes like a cupcake, but instead it has a shea butter which while your soaking in the bath moisturises you! http://www.candy-spa.com/catalog.php?category=200

Lipbalms - http://www.candy-spa.com/catalog.php?category=234
Body Lotions/moisturisers - http://www.candy-spa.com/catalog.php?category=190
Soaps -http://www.candy-spa.com/catalog.php?category=268