New palette...Who dis?

Y'all I'm late for the bandwagon again.

First ColourPop and now Juvia's Place!

I first saw The Nubian palette when one of my favorite YouTubers was using it in a make-up tutorial. When I saw the finish eye look I was in awe. And then I hopped on the website and ordered it! When I got on the website I realized how late I was for the bandwagon. They already had a Nubian 2 and a new palette called The Masquerade coming out August fifth. 

If you are wondering where I am going to be August fifth, I will be ordering this palette, watching Suicide Squad, and waiting for my mom to get here from Korea.

Y'all when I say I squealed a little bit when I got it in the mail I am not playing. I was so excited. I'm a newbie when it comes to make-up. I never really had quality eye shadow or any make-up of quality truthfully. So, this eye-shadow palette is like sticking my big toe in the pool of make-up. My goal is to practice, get better at it, and to be "slayed to the gods" as they say.

Let's take a second to appreciate how beautiful the cover of The Nubian palette is. 

Here is a well overdue DIY crop-top tutorial! 

Y'all know I love me some crop-tops.

 1 inch Elastic

Scissors

Pins

Measuring Tape

The Korean Folk Village was one of the last trips I went on before I left Korea.

Although, it was interesting to learn the way Koreans used to live it truly wasn't that interesting to photograph. 

Instead, I went to the sculpture park that was apart of the Korean Folk Village and found inspiration in the different pieces. All of them were so beautiful and was quite a contrast from the nature surrounding it.

Leaving Korea was bitter sweet, I had to leave my mom and the small group of friends I had made while I was there. But, when I got off the 12 hour long flight and realized I was back in America it was a strange sense of relief.

Not that I felt unsafe or scared in Korea it was just a relief to be around familiar, American things. 

Despite, America having so many problems, there will always be no place like home. 

Now that I've been here for a few months, rekindling relationships with family and friends, 

getting re-used to the familiar things. It's time for a new experience and adventure. 

And that adventure is college!

Some of you may know what college I'm going to and what I'm going to major in but there will be an in depth as to why I chose that college and that major in a future blog post so stay tuned!!!

(p.s.  My Korea adventures are far from over!)

The best way to describe this temple would be absolutely magical and extremely breathtaking.

The temples and sculptures were so beautiful.

It had a lasting affect on my family and I.

The experience open our minds to the beauty of Buddhism and some of its traditions.

We learned the proper way to enter and leave the temples, the proper way to bow to the Buddhas and how Buddhists pray and give thanks.

But, the ambiance of the whole entire place caused me to have this sense of calmness and oneness with my surroundings. And to be in the moment. The feeling of peace was everywhere. 

I hope that I was able to translate the beauty of the temple in these pictures!

Although my intention for this post was to write about the beauty of this temple, instead I write with a heavy heart regarding the killing of  minorities by the police. 

I cannot say that this is not to be expected despite this being 2016 because this has been a series of events. The all of a sudden large public outcry is to be expected because of the cell phone camera and social media, things spread like wild fire and now the proof that police brutality has been going is tangible. 

But, now emotions and tensions are high over Alton Sterling and Philando Castile deaths and people are forced, yet again, to have a serious talk about race. With that conversation came ignorance and its scary. Social media allows people of all types to come out of the woodwork and express their opinions and that they did. 

I see people saying that they deserved to die and that all lives matter and blue lives matter and black lives don't matter and other white supremacist things. But, then I see the opposition also responding with hate. I see people saying that those cops deserved to die in Dallas and that they applaud Micah Johnson for killing them 

To put it bluntly, I think all these people crazy as hell and that all they are doing is spreading hate.

Then I see people who say they are tired of this "race war" but yet, do not supply a solution. Not only that but they do not understand that there is no race war, all we truly want is equality, and for those responsible to be held accountable legally. 

I do want to go in to about what I think about all those different types of people in depth but that'll be a couple of pages long.

So, instead I am going to give my ideas on how to incite change, although, I do not have a lot of readers hopefully this will get you guys thinking.

As for the steps of creating new laws so that equality can be ensured I haven't thought much about it besides bringing justice to the murdered not because I don't want to but because people can't even take the first step in admitting that there is a problem or the second step in to having a conversation about race.

But, those are my 2 cents and I am going to do my part and I hope you do yours.

BTW if you use "everyone," "all," or "everybody" when stating an opinion or making any other statement on social media you automatically lose credibility.