CuTe iTeMs

gIvInG fLoWeR

2009-11-16T20:09:00.000-08:00

When a guy gave flowers to a girl the happiness that girl couldn’t explain. I too am a girl but I couldn’t also explain the happiness we felt every time we received one. But lately, during especially occasions only guys gave flowers maybe but I’m not sure they might be practical now a day.

species of butterflies

2009-11-11T19:47:00.001-08:00

Here in the Philippines when someone you love passed away, we believe that they incarnate into butterflies. Every now and then, every night there is a brown butterfly here in our home. We just think that it must be someone who is dear to our heart that passed away who visit and take a glance on us.

sMaLL CaTs

2009-10-30T20:10:00.000-07:00

bRiDeS HaIr

2009-10-27T01:28:00.000-07:00

Bridal Hairstyles

Bridal hairstyles have to be the best looking hairstyles at a wedding because she is the focus of attention. It is the day of her life that she has been looking forward to since she was little and she has to make it the most memorable occasion. There are so many other worries but bridal hairstyles are at the forefront with the major ones. Bridal hairstyles not only have to match the person but also compliment the dress, the veil, the shoes, the wedding colors, and the special ambience of the wedding itself. There are numerous bridal hairstyles, classic and new, that are fit for each person. Bridal hairstyles can be any style from updos to flowing down. For updos bridal hair styles, there are diverse, decorative ways to put your hair up. It is optimum to opt for one that matches everything you are wearing. For those who choose flowing bridal hairstyles, having hair at its shiniest and softest through consistent hair care and salon visits will help you looking exquisite.

3 AMAZING Wedding Hairstyle Ideas wedding hairstyle

Updo Hairstyle for Weddings The third wedding hairstyle idea present here is your basic, but really gorgeously done updo. A lot of women prefer updos because these hairstyles provide a unique appearance that no one attending the wedding can outshine. A great updo can make the bride gleam with radiance. This updo has a distinctive tie in the back and the hair is brushed back to form a prime place to add a tiara to top of the look.

Long Wedding Hairstyle The second wedding hairstyle here is for hair that is a several inches longer in length. The hairstyle is center parted with wavy locks that fall gently past the shoulders. Instead of a veil, a floral tiara is used to add a touch to the overall style where a veil could take away from the overall view. There are multiple ways to go with flowing wedding hairstyles or down dos. Check out the wedding hairstyle pictures gallery for more ideas.

Medium wedding hairstyle Medium Bridal Hairstyle This wedding hairstyle is a choice for medium length hair. The bangs have a small sweep and the tresses are just allowed to naturally flow down with some touch. The ends are lightly curled out producing a complimentary style with the veil. A nice wedding hairstyle idea for woman with medium length hair.

--different hairstyle you can choose from. SOURCE

Adorable Halloween Costumes

2009-10-23T01:11:00.000-07:00

For Babies Style Buzz Halloween serves three main purposes:

1. Giving women the opportunity to dress in disgusting and degrading costumes

2. CANDY! and

3. Allowing parents to dress their kids up in embarrassing costumes before they're old enough to complain.

Sanrio Puroland

2009-10-20T21:43:00.000-07:00

Sanriopuroland-outside-summer2007
Main entrance to Sanrio Puroland

Use:                   Indoor theme park
Total floor space:     45,900m
Opening date:          December 7, 1990

Sanrio Puroland ( Sanrio Purorando this is how to pronounce it in japanese) is an indoor theme park located in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan that attracts over 1.5 million visitors per year.

Opened on December 7, 1990, the theme park is run by the Sanrio company, and hosts various musicals, restaurants, attractions, and theme rides using popular characters such as Hello Kitty, Pochacco, Keroppi, and many more. While many of these attractions are only in Japanese, Puroland attracts many visitors from overseas as well as Japan because of the worldwide popularity of these characters. Puroland also has an extensive gift shop featuring Sanrio characters. Tourists visiting in the summer will be able to see fireworks on a daily basis.

The theme park lost money its first three years, owing to operational foul-ups and a temporary lull in Hello Kitty's popularity. Despite these setbacks, the park has become one of Japan's most popular attractions.

Nearby train stations are the Odakyu Tama Center Station (Odakyu Tama Line), Keio Tama Center Station on the Keio Sagamihara Line, and Tama City Monorail's Tama Center Station. Puroland


Sanrio Puroland Sanriopuroland-outside-summer2007
Main entrance to Sanrio Puroland
Use:     Indoor theme park
Total floor space:     45,900㎡
Opening date:     December 7, 1990

Sanrio Puroland ( Sanrio Purorando) is an indoor theme park located in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan that attracts over 1.5 million visitors per year.

Opened on December 7, 1990, the theme park is run by the Sanrio company, and hosts various musicals, restaurants, attractions, and theme rides using popular characters such as Hello Kitty, Pochacco, Keroppi, and many more. While many of these attractions are only in Japanese, Puroland attracts many visitors from overseas as well as Japan because of the worldwide popularity of these characters. Puroland also has an extensive gift shop featuring Sanrio characters. Tourists visiting in the summer will be able to see fireworks on a daily basis.

The theme park lost money its first three years, owing to operational foul-ups and a temporary lull in Hello Kitty's popularity. Despite these setbacks, the park has become one of Japan's most popular attractions.

Nearby train stations are the Odakyu Tama Center Station (Odakyu Tama Line), Keio Tama Center Station on the Keio Sagamihara Line, and Tama City Monorail's Tama Center Station.

Cuteness in Japanese culture

2009-10-20T21:06:00.000-07:00

Since the 1970s, cuteness, in Japanese kawaii , has become a prominent aspect of Japanese popular culture, entertainment, clothing, food, toys, personal appearance, behavior, and mannerisms.Foreign observers often find this cuteness intriguing, revolting or even childish because the Japanese employ it in a vast array of situations and demographics where, in other cultures, it would be considered incongruously juvenile or frivolous (for example, in government publications, public service warnings, office environments, military advertisements, and commercial airliners, among many others). History The rise of cuteness in Japanese culture emerged in the 1970s as part of a new style of writing. Many teenage girls began to write laterally using mechanical pencils. These pencils produced very fine lines, as opposed to traditional Japanese writing that varied in thickness and was vertical. Also, the girls would write in big, round characters and they added little pictures to their writing, such as hearts, stars, smiley faces, and letters of the Latin alphabet. These pictures would be inserted randomly and made the writing very hard to read. As a result, this writing style caused a lot of controversy and was banned in many schools. During the 1980s, however, this cute new writing was adopted by magazines and comics and was put onto packaging and advertising. From 1984-86, Yamane Kazuma studied the development of cute handwriting, which he called Anomalous Female Teenage Handwriting, in depth. Although it was commonly thought that the writing style was something that teenagers had picked up from comics, he found that teenagers had come up with the style themselves, as part of an underground movement. Later, cute handwriting became associated with acting childish and using infantile slang words. Because of this growing trend, companies, such as Sanrio, came out with merchandise like Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty was an immediate success and the obsession with cute continued to progress in other areas as well. The 1980s also saw the rise of cute idols, such as Seiko Matsuda, who is largely credited with popularizing the trend. Women began to emulate Seiko Matsuda and her cute fashion style and mannerisms, which emphasized the helplessness and innocence of young girls.[3] No longer limited to teenagers, however, the spread of making things as cute as possible, even common household items, was embraced by people of all ages. Now there are airplanes painted with Pikachu on the side, and each of Japan’s 47 prefectures, the Tokyo police, and the government television station all have their own cute mascots. Currently, Sanrio’s line of more than 50 characters takes in more than $1 billion a year and remains the most successful company to capitalize on the cute trend. Prevalence An All Nippon Airways Boeing 747 with Pokémon drawn on it Cute elements can be found almost everywhere in Japan, from big business to corner markets and national government, ward, and town offices. Many companies, large and small, use cute mascots to present their wares and services to the public. For example: * Pikachu, a character from Pokémon, adorns the side of three All Nippon Airways passenger jets. * Asahi Bank used Miffy (Nijntje), a character from a Dutch series of children's picture books, on some of its ATM and credit cards. * Monkichi, a cute monkey character, can be found on the packaging for a line of condoms * All 47 prefectures have cute mascot characters * The Japan Post "Yū-Pack" mascot is a stylized mailbox. * The Japan Post also uses other cute mascot characters, for example, on stamps. * Some police forces in Japan have their own moe mascots, which sometimes adorn the front of kōban (police boxes). * Sanrio Cute can be also used to describe a specific fashion sense of an individual, and generally includes clothing that appears to be made for young children, outside of the size, or clothing that accentuates the cuteness of the individual wearing the clothing. Ruffles and pastel colors are commonly (but not always) featured, and accessories often include toys or bags featuring anime characters. The fashionableness of cuteness has recently been challenged by the more Western-oriented ero kawaii image of sexiness. Perception in Japan As a cultural phenomenon, cuteness is increasingly accepted in Japan as a part of Japanese culture and national identity. Tomoyuki Sugiyama, author of "Cool Japan", believes that "cuteness" is rooted in Japan's harmony-loving culture, and Nobuyoshi Kurita, a sociology professor at Musashi University in Tokyo, has stated that "cute" is a "magic term" that encompasses everything that's acceptable and desirable in Japan. On the other hand, those skeptical of cuteness consider it a sign of an infantile mentality.In particular, Hiroto Murasawa, professor of beauty and culture at Osaka Shoin Women’s University asserts that cuteness is "a mentality that breeds non-assertion ... Individuals who choose to stand out get beaten down." Linguistics The Japanese word kawaii has a narrower definition than the English word cute. When applied to pop culture, cute will suffice; however kawaii refers primarily to the affection of a parent toward a child coupled with the protectiveness for the innocent and weak. Thus a pop cartoon character is considered kawaii because it exemplifies the innocence of a child and evokes general protective, caring instincts in the viewer. Other translations of kawaii can include adorable, precious, lovable or innocent.According to sociologist Sharon Kinsella, "Kawaii is a derivation of a term whose principle meaning was shy or embarrassed and secondary meanings were pathetic, vulnerable, darling, loveable and small. In fact the modern sense of the word kawaii still has some nuances of pitiful whilst the term kawaisô derived directly from kawaii means pathetic, poor, and pitiable in a generally negative if not pleasing sense." Influence on other cultures Cute merchandise and products are especially popular in some parts of East Asia, such as China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. In some asian and western cultures, the Japanese word for cute kawaii has joined a number of other Japanese words borrowed by overseas Japanophiles, sometimes in the wrong context. While the usage is almost entirely limited to the otaku subculture, it has been used by American singer Gwen Stefani, who gave kawaii a brief mention in her Hollaback Girl music video, Gwen also released a line of fragrances inspired by this love of kawaii dubbed harajuku lovers An interesting example of the 'cuteness' notion influencing nearby Asian societies is the logo particular to the Republic of Korea's Army. This logo is located at the demilitarized zone lookout, within the ROK territory south of the partition. This Korean Army logo exemplifies a significant disparity between East-Asian socities that actively identify with 'cute' images and communication, whereas most other societies would view these images as frivolous in this setting.

----Kawaii is the japanese word for cute. Japanese are kind enough to tell to every girl that they are Kawaii in short cute. Especially when your wearing dresses or shoes that are not usual to see in the department stores. SOURCE.

Sassy magazine

2009-10-20T20:41:00.000-07:00

Sassy magazine is a defunct cult fave teen magazine. It was founded in March 1988 by an Australian feminist, Sandra Yates, CEO of Matilda Publications, who based it on the teen magazine Dolly, which is still in publication in Australia.

 Editorial Staff

Sassy's founding editor was Jane Pratt, and it had a half Australian, half American staff. Its original main writers were referred to by Pratt as "Sex" (Karen Catchpole), "Drugs" (Catherine Gysin), and "Rock 'n Roll" (Christina Kelly)[1] because of the topics they covered. The fashion department was headed by Mary Clarke and Andrea Lee Linett, and one of their discoveries was Chloë Sevigny, whom they spotted on the street and hired as an intern. The Australian half of the staff covered the art & design (Neil McCutcheon) and beauty departments.

Publishers

Sassy was originally published in March 1988 in the United States by Matilda Publications with a circulation of 250,000. It was acquired by Lang Communications in October 1989, at which point its circulation was 450,000.[2] Petersen Publishing officially took over with the February – March 1995 issue [3], and its editorial offices were moved to Los Angeles from Manhattan. It then stopped publishing as its own title in 1996, when editorial sections (and staff) of Sassy were absorbed into another magazine published by Petersen called `TEEN [4] beginning with the January 1997 issue.[5]

Dirt Magazine

In 1992 Sassy spun off a short-lived title for teen boys called Dirt: Son of Sassy, which was edited by Andy Jenkins, Mark Lewman and music video director Spike Jonze (collectively known as "the Master Cluster"). It published seven sporadic issues until 1994.

Chia Pet

Sassy's in-house band was named after the Chia Pet, with various members from the editorial staff, including Jane Pratt on violin, Christina Kelly on vocals, her then-husband Robert Weeks on guitar, her then-sister-in-law (and Sassy writer) Jessica Vitkus Weeks on bass guitar, Mary Ann Marshall (also a Sassy scribe) on drums. Karen Catchpole also lent co-lead vocals to some songs.

--when i heard the word sassy the first thing that comes into my mind is the korean movie that i watched but in australia the first thing that comes up to teenagers mind is the Sassy magazine. SOURCE