feb 2014
DISFUNKSHION MAGAZINE
just AVRIL page 70
JULLIAN ROSE REED
mtv’s awkward diva
CHINA MCCLAIN grown up star
HAVANA BROWN
rockin’ dj
LAURA MARANO disney star
Photo Sets Lime Light
Freedom Child
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Escape to the land of milk & honey
Paradise Lost
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Enlighten My Soul page 54
Rural Siren page 60
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Fallen Away page 86
Live the Ride page 90
Wild Heart page 36
Table of Cont Articles
Are you too busy to enjoy life?
Time Never Passes:
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How a passion became a livelihood page 34
The Fear of Getting Hurt: Cheater vs Cheated page 22
She Means Life: Why Women are more powerful when they stick together page 23
Porn or Prude? page 32
The List: What should you really be looking for in a man? page 50
Stop watching and start living: Don’t be fooled by the crafted realities of social media page 66
The Price of Love Dating someone for their money? Then let’s redefine prostitution page 67
Featured
Grown Up Stars
Rockin’ DJ
China McClain page 94
Havana Brown page 46
MTV’s Awkward Diva
Disney Star
Jillian Rose Reed page 40
Laura Marano page 12
Avril Lavigne page 70
tents
Phenominal Women Women of television page 26
That’s me page 52
Bloggers to know page 68
Beauty
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By: Carina Noveloso A big debate in all things beauty is whether to buy department store or drug store products. As a beauty editor and freelance makeup artist and hairstylist, here are some of my recommendations from my experiences with trying out different beauty products on myself as well as on others. Although when it comes down to it, each person is different and finding the right products for yourself may require some trial and error on your part to see what works best for your skin, but hopefully you find some of my tips helpful.
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Foundation Of all cosmetic products, I would say that foundation is the most trial-anderror related product. Since it goes straight onto and all over your skin, it can really affect the clarity of your skin and cause very different reactions among different people and different skin types. If you can find a drugstore foundation that works for you, great! You will save a considerable amount of money and it is more easily accessible. Overall, my top recommended foundation is the Makeup Forever HD Foundation. It provides buildable coverage and looks delightful on all skin types I’ve used it on. Bonus: It looks flawless in person and on camera, which is becoming increasingly important with all of the high definition cameras going off around us daily. A drugstore foundation fave is Revlon Colorstay Foundation. It provides good coverage and long wear.
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Powder
Eyeliner
For any person, a drugstore brand powder will work perfectly well. L’Oreal True Match powder tops my list of drugstore powder favorites. The line offers a wide range of shades for all skin tones, which is extremely crucial in selecting skin products. It also mattifies shine and provides good coverage on top of foundation. But if you want to get down to nittygritty details, higher-end powders tend to be finer milled and create an overall smoother look. If you are willing to shell out two to three times the amount of money, MAC Select Sheer Pressed Powder or NARS Powder Foundation won’t disappoint you. When applying these powders, I’ve literally seen my skin transform before my own eyes.
While I have seen a considerable difference in pigmentation and wear ability between department and drugstore eyeliners, in my opinion, most women are well off with drugstore liners. L’Oreal, Maybelline, and Revlon all have pencil, liquid and gel liners that wear for a good amount of time and provide good color payoff. Of course, higher-end brands like MAC, Makeup Forever, Bobbi Brown, and Urban Decay provide some longer wear and richer shades, but for at least half the price, drugstore liners work perfectly well for everyday.
Blush In my experience, the main difference between drugstore and department store blushes is color pay off. Most blushes, no matter how much you pay will tend to wear off naturally, but department store blushes do have more vibrant colors. NARS blushes are some of the most pigmented around and barely require a touch from your brush to the powder to get a good amount of color onto your face. MAC also has a wide range of colors to fit whichever look you like to go for. HD Microfinish blush offers a nice wash of color. For longer lasting cheek color, stains like TARTE Cheek Stain provide more long-lasting shades. Otherwise, L’Oreal blushes go on well and NYX blushes are drugstore beauty favorites.
Eye Shadow If I had to recommend one type of product to splurge on, it would be eye shadows. Of all products, the greatest difference in quality that I’ve seen between drugstore and department store is in eye shadows. Department store eye shadows are longer lasting, more blendable, and more pigmented. Some favorites include MAC eye shadows, Urban Decay, NARS, and Makeup Forever.
Mascara Opposite of my eye shadow recommendation, mascara is the one product that I strongly encourage to keep on purchasing at the drugstore. Some of my personal favorites include Maybelline Falsies, Covergirl Lash Blast, and L’Oreal Telescopic. All of these mascaras work just as well, if not better than most department store mascaras I’ve used.
Lipstick & Lipgloss While some of my favorite lip products include MAC lipsticks and lip glasses, honestly, drugstore lip products are more than good enough quality. For a product that will wear off so easily, no matter how high the quality you get, saving a few bucks here is a smart choice. In fact, one of my favorite lipglosses to use on both clients and myself is by ELF Cosmetics and it costs only one dollar per tube!
Brushes If you are trying to save money, brushes by companies like NYX and Coastal Scents, will work for anybody looking to do everyday makeup. Perfecting the technique is more important than shelling out cash on expensive tools that you don’t know how to use. Personally, my favorite brushes come from MAC, not just because they are MAC, but because they really do work the best for me. But a good alternative is Sigma. Sigma beauty provides good quality dupes to MAC brushes that fall into a more affordable category than MAC brushes do. For someone looking to do everyday makeup on themselves, drugstore brushes or Sigma, NYX and Coastal Scents brushes will help you apply your makeup beautifully but won’t totally break the bank.
Featured
JUST
AVRI ed
Since she first entered the music world in 2002, people have tried to define Canadian songbird Avril Lavigne. Is she punk? Is she pop? Is she an actress? What is she? And while everyone else is scratching their head looking for an answer, Avril is just being Avril.
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"I'm my own person and having to speak about myself that way is weird; they like to put labels on people in the beginning, but I thought it was the strangest thing ever," Lavigne said. "We're all human beings, but people constantly as me 'who are you? How do you define yourself?' I never knew how to answer that, I was always like 'I'm a singer and a songwriter.' "
Lavigne's career started at age fifteen, and she quickly learned about the industry. "I had to learn to be a buisness person, to work hard and to be a leader," she said. "People will always try to change you - which is never fun. So you need to be very strong, aggressive, and put in the time and the effort because it requires a lot of dedication." And Lavigne practices what she preaches: She has six number-one singles worldwide and is the 11th best-selling U.S. female recording artist of the decade. Although she's had more famous songs, "I'm With You" remains one of her favorites. "No matter what happens, yearing your song on the radio is the most amazing feeling ever," Lavigne said. For her latest album, Avril Lavigne, "the singer" tried something different in the studio. "Normally I totally know what I'm doing when I go into the studio, but this time I had no idea," she said. Lavigne's new album includes collaborations with artists she's never worked with before. "It's diverse," she mentioned. "There are reaw emotional songs, pop songs, and rock songs. 'Hello Kitty' has a bit of an electronic feel and 'Bad Girl' is kind of sexy and provocative. The record is different." Lavigne has a lot to say abou tlife, relationships, and the state of music. "I wish rock and roll wasn't so dead these days. I never hear rock music, and that blows." Another thing she misses are CDs. "I miss people going out and buying CDs. I loved having physical CDs and carrying them around." She is also passionate about philanthropic work with her organization, The Avril Lavigne Foundation. "I do a lot of work with Make-A-Wish Foundation and I knew I wanted to do more of this so I started my own foundation focusing on working with [children] with disibilities or serious illnesses." Her foundation literally rocks: It resepcts the needs of kids, creates opportunities to follow their dreams, offers guidence so they realize they have options in life, and gives them the encouragement they need. With a new marriage and a new album, Lavigne is constantly busy but still tries to make time for her. "I'm always looking for more girl time. I love decorating, coooking, and all that domestic stuff." Whether it is downtime, organizing events for her Foundation, going to karaoke with friends, or recording in the studio, Avril Lavigne will always be "just Avril."
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PORNORPRUD Ever increasingly, women are finding themselves competing with the sex industry, primarily pornography. The porn world has perfected the art of fantasy sex—where women don’t say “no” and they are eager to act out any male fetish he desires. Movies, TV shows, and music tell us this is the norm by portraying pornography as simply a “guy thing.” How’s a normal, non-surgically enhanced girl to compete? We are told to get used to it and get into it: watching porn with our partner will spice up our love life instead of getting mad at our guy for going to strip clubs, we should go too! There is even such a thing as “Feminist Porn” now, which boasts being “organic, fair trade porn” through a commitment to gender equality, social justice, and diversity amongst its actors. So is a competition with the sex industry what makes us “progressive” and “modern” sexual women now, as we are more often being led to believe? If this is progress and sexual empower-
ment, then why does it feel al to like we’re walking backward? As our beloved Ryan Gosling so eloquently encourages us in the movie, Crazy Stupid Love, “The war between sexes is over, and we [the men] won. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
Refueling the flame or burning the house down? There are a number of “experts” who encourage the introduction of pornography into a relationship as a way to refuel sexual intimacy. They claim that if a couple lacks the spark it once had, then introducing erotica is a good way to get it back. And many couples have, indeed, made the personal decision to take this advice. Ironically though, the prevalence of pornography has made it virtually impossible to be “introduced” into a relationship, as it is often already a preexisting habit of one or both partners individually. Erotica in some form or another has been around, literally, forever. But only with the help of the Internet over the last two decades has it seen the exponential growth we are experiencing today. Despite what the “experts” may say about the benefits of porn, only time will really be able to tell what the long-term effects of such rapid and overwhelming exposure will be on the future of relationships, especially with the average age of exposure getting younger. The future does not look bright though. As shared in my previous article, “Internet pornography sales top $4.9 billion annually. With 4.2 million sites (12% of the total websites on the internet), 420 million pornographic pages, 68 million daily pornographic search engine requests, and at least 260 new pornography sites going online daily,” we have defiantly moved far beyond the days of finding a few Playboys in our brother’s closet. Whether we choose to accept it or not, pornography is something that almost every single relationship will have to deal with at some point or another.
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By Meaghan Koski
Her Stories Hannah, 61, experienced this when she discovered her husband of over 30 years had been hiding a pornography addiction for most of their marriage. Feeling hurt and confused by the discovery of years of secrets and lies, the insecurity of being compared to the women in her husband’s fantasy world eventually began to take its toll. “Because of the images online, showing women who enjoy everything, [my husband] wanted me to enjoy everything. When I shared with him I did not, he called me names, and it worked. I did not want to be a prude. We watched porn together a few times, and it only messed our minds up more. It made him thing that I was open to his ideas [for our sex life]. It just filled our minds with other people instead of each other. I believe the result of viewing porn is a selfish, controlling man. Porn teaches him that sex is all about him and a woman has no feelings. He learns that a woman enjoys everything and she doesn’t talk back. It isn’t about a relationship where there is friendship. It is all about sex. I believe [porn] is a secret killer of relationships, and it almost distorted us.” Family therapist, Isaiah Moreno refers to this as the “process of desensitization.” Essentially, the fantasy world of pornography can create a distorted sense of reality of what sexuality is actually supposed to look like. Unfortunately, “real” sex often will not relate to the fantasy and it could lead to manifest in other ways such as “extra marital affairs, soliciting prostitutes, or strip clubs” according to Moreno. Kelly, 32, experienced this uniquely from both sides. As a wife she saw the impact the sex industry had on her marriage, and as a former exotic dancer, she saw the effect it had on her and the individuals within it. When asked if she found pornography to be a beneficial element to intimate relationships, she shared, “I think that viewing porn together [in a relationship] is unnecessary. I have tried that before and it did not enhance anything. I feel that porn leads to unre-