My Beauty Diary 2 Step Sheet Masks

     Hey my lovely girlies~ Recently I been using the 2 Step My Beauty Diary sheet masks.  In my opinions, they are better than the regular My Beauty Diary Masks because it has a package of gel for you to apply after the mask session and better result.

   The one i been using more often would be the   Mountain Cherry Blossom. This mask provides extreme whitening and brightening effect.  omg, it made my skin looked more smoooooth, firm, and white o: The masks are all from Taiwan, and I been using this brand for quite a while now.  I really love This Mountain Cherry Blossom mask so much :3 The mask also comes with a little package of April Cherry Blossom Creamy Gel which you apply it on your face after the mask.  You do not need to apply any other moisturizer or other stuff after the gel.  In a box, it comes with 8 sheets unlike the regular masks that comes with 10 sheets because it is a 2-in-1 kind of thing. I would recommend this mask to those My Beauty Diary Mask lovers.  If you never tried this brand, you should! It really makes a difference in my opinion :]  -Lainie <3

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Drama Review: Heartstrings

I was drama searching once again through a drama website. I usually don't want any drama unless there is something interesting in the plot of I know an actor/actress. Reason why I was intrigued to watch was because of You're Beautiful. (Main character ends up with someone I did not like out of three possible) In this drama, the couple that I shipped for "You're Beautiful" are the leads.(Park Shin Hye and Jung Yonghwa) Expectation: OVER 9000!!! Realization after watching:

"Whaatt? Ew? Why did I do that to myself?" The plot looked really good and I thought they they were going to make a lot of song remixes. ...They only played like two/three songs that incorporated traditional and modern styles. I am not sure why but this drama interesting to me in the part. Maybe the ending just sucked panda butt. OKOK SPOILER ALERT: The two were involved in a HUGE fight but after 10 mins, they were back together again and the drama ends with them serenading to each other. Maybe I was expecting too much in this drama but you would feel the same if you were rooting for Go Mi Nam and Shin Woo.
I don't recommend it. 

Score: ★☆☆☆☆ 

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I'm going to find a drama to cheer me up now. 

-.- Emily

INFINITE - Destiny Review

Cause you're my destiny!!

Infinite has made another comeback with "Destiny". The song and music video was released a week ago, and has reached over 1.5 million views (almost surpassing 2 million). For a change, they filmed the entire video in USA, Universal Studios. There were some controversies about their teaser video, but I'll delve into that later.

The music video has a lot of computer generated effects, and let me emphasize a lot. Although, I am a huge Inspirit, I do think they went overboard just a teensy bit. Teensy. Although I wouldn't blame Woollim. It's tough competition out there these days, and just having your pretty idol boy's won't work.

Other than the effects, everything was perfect! The filming angle, the choreography of the dance, their solo shots, their exceptional acting, etc. They used the filming area to it's limit and edited the video nicely.

Now, for the music. The intro was nice and soft; not too prominent as it takes away the focus of the song. Then, it leads to the leader, Sunggyu's beautiful strong voice. There was no out-of-place auto-tuning in the song (Infinite doesn't do that psh). In the chorus, the "huuuhuu" part was really captivating. I was strangely attached to that one part... It calms me...

Anyways, the ranging vocals from Sungjong's girly high notes to Hoya's deep and sexy rap fused perfectly within the song. The song in general is perfect, but the lyrics are .... not the best ones you would use for a hallyu star. It seems like Infinite's song writer is using Infinite to sing his feelings for a girl that left him. Similar to Infinite's previous song, The Chaser, the lyrics are about a girl who left them and they want her back (very cliche). It seems as if Infinite are becoming stalkers, begging the girl not to leave them. Who would leave seven perfectly handsome men?

This time around, the company was very considerate of our fan's pleads and allowed almost the same amount of screen time/singing lines to each member! That's right, the ignored member Sungyeol got more than a word/line! /fist pump

Back to the video teaser. There were controversies about Infinite being disrespectful about Asiana's airplane crash (you can google that up). In their teaser, there were scenes of broken airplane bits. Now, that is not possible at all because they finished filming wayyy before the plane crash occurred. Notice that the released music video is titled, Ver. B. Most likely, Ver. A contained scenes of the broken airplane and Woollim decided to respect the victims and their families, so they released a different version. (Super considerate!!)

Go check out Ver. B here:

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B.A.P. - Hurricane

Some background information before I start reviewing. Hurricane is the title song from their upcoming album. The first title song is Coffee Shop. They have also provided a MV for this song. Coffee shop and Hurricane are totally different in music, mood, style, tone, and MV wise! So go check it out!

Overall, the feeling was admirable and the mood depicted them as superior idols, hallyu idols. It sounds like a song that would be played at a club. This is yet another song in the Kpop industry where love is not indicated or sung about! Yayyy. This song's lyrics are about their fame, or how they are rising to success as rookies. They had solo concerts overseas; that's a large feat even for some artist who has already debut for a long time already. 

This song reminds me of "Zero" in their One Shot album. That song talked about how idols struggle and rise to the top from nothing at all. That's B.A.P.. They didn't gain fame because of their seniors, unlike other big company's rookie groups do. 

Like hurricanes, B.A.P. is about to take on the world, accepting any challenges driven at them. They won't stop until they reach the top, or until they literally "set the roof on fire" (or as Himchan sings, set the looof on fiyah). 

Honestly, the first time I played this song, I wasn't really into all the big lights from Las Vegas and the sound of this song. However, the second time, I got hooked.... (To Daehyun's voice) This just shows that B.AP. will take on any genre, but re-create it so their fans and new ones will find it interesting. 

Some scenes in the MV that I would like to point out and make a reference to... 

Himchan driving in the car represents the limitless places one can visit, and take over, in this place. 

The big lights in Las Vegas show their fame. Think of it this way: an empty concert with no fans, everything is dark and dull. If the stadium is full of fans and light sticks, there will be lights directed at the stars (B.A.P.). The lights can be the concert lighting, the fans' eyes glowing in the audience, their camera light, etc. 

This MV was simple, but has a big impact, like coffee shop. Although it mostly displayed them lip-syncing to the song and them going cray cray in a limo with a pole in the middle (????!), the song was very amiable. 

Oh and another irrelevant, but relevant thing... Zelo better not have kept his noodle hair. Omg when it showed scenes with him with that hair style I freaked. 

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