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DECEMBER 2016
PHOTOS. Flora Kim
FEEL LIKE YOUR ROOM NEEDS A LITTLE MORE DECOR?! by Hyo Yeon Kim
If you feel like redecorating a cozy room without using your wallet, this article is just for you. There are a few ways to decorate your room with small products that can be found at home, so that you will no longer have to go through the frustrating tasks, such as painting on walls, and shopping for furniture. It is always a good choice to start from gathering as many small products as possible around your room. If your room is very messy, you should probably start by running the vacuum to remove dirt first and then wipe your room clean with a mop. After your room is clean enough, you will be surprised by just how much your room can feel bigger, and how much more space you can work with.
Afterwards, scan through the items that you have found in your room and plan what can be used as decorations. You also should decide its new layout, which can include examples like rearranging furniture or changing the theme of your room. It may sound like a challenge but rearranging furniture is a simple method to completely transform your room and give it a fresh feeling. However, before you begin the task of transforming your room, you should first choose a theme. Are you after a Modern bedroom or a Vintage bedroom? Are you looking for a colorful room or a simple room? Do you prefer warmer shades or cooler shades in your room?
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If you want to create a serene and vintage feeling in your bedroom, it is best to have a chalky cream wall, a neutral brown bed frame, and headboard, with woody brown pillows and bedding with floral prints. It is very important to stick to neutral and simple colors so that they won’t compete with each other. If you like to make your room ‘pop’, then you can choose certain furniture to be in a bright color, which contrasts the main color scheme of your room.
The best choice to create a simple change, yet provide a huge impact to the feeling of your room, is lighting. It can change how a small or big a bedroom feels. Soft light coming from different directions, can come up with warmer colors into your room and brighten your dark spaces. Also, baskets are extremely attractive decorating tools that can add tons of needed small products in a room. You may keep reading materials, in order to save space, by stacking them in baskets that are within arm’s reach of your bed.
However, in every small bedroom, you will realize that there is a wasted space, especially in the side and corners of the room. You may take advantage of the wasted space by placing bookshelf, plastic bins and bedroom drawers, which can serve as decoration in places like under your bed.
Everything in your room, from bags and books, should have their own space in your room. This creates a more organised and spacious feeling to your room, and will allow you to rest, study or sleep with better comfort. After having successfully applying space-saving solutions to your living spaces, you may find yourself becoming addicted in small room decorating.
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How to put your thoughts onto the paper BY FLORA KIM
If you want to be a creative thinker, then you should never miss an opportunity to express your ideas. Have you ever been in art class where the teacher tells you to create your own piece and you see everyone around you drawing their own pieces, but you are the one who has no idea what to draw. But, don’t worry too much, because this article will teach you how to be a creative thinker!
If you want to be a creative thinker, then you must immediately capture your ideas and put them into the notes. If you are not a big fan of words like me, I will give you some tips on how to work with the ideas you have captured and express them through art. I will mostly prefer to use pen and paper, also creating unique art with paints, which gives strong emotional effects.
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FLORA'S TOP TIPS FIND INSPIRATION It is very important to begin with capturing ideas before we move on to next steps. When you keep holding everything in your head, it’s very hard to show a clear picture. So, you should take some pictures before you create art. For example, Memorable vacation with your family or friends. Screenshot something inspirational. Memories that stand out. Observing people or landscape around you. Writing paragraphs won’t be easy to show your thoughts clearly into the diary and will take time, so it is better to take some photographs, expressing exactly how you feel. When you are done with it, you will start to see the quality of ideas you have created, and your confidence will grow and hopefully you will be encouraged to think in creative ways.
FIND THE MEDIUM FOR YOU Although we are surrounded with technology that we can also use for art, such as art graphic tablet, I find that I can work better on paper. The process of creating by hand makes me think deeper on how I want to influence people. You will have different medias to work on, like watercolour paint, acrylic paint or pencils. For other people who usually use computer, get a paper and pen to sketch some different drafts.
DOODLE WORK ON PERSONAL PROJECTS. One big piece can be done by fluid acrylics, which are the paints that can be spread over the places easily without applying with brush. They are the best paints to use for watercolour effects but stronger and heavier feeling. People who are not expertise of paints and even art, this will be a great opportunity to learn fluid acrylic technique through this progress. It is very unique and fun way to create colourful designs. All you need are some acrylic paints and water. 1) If you want to make a dripping technique, I would like to recommend using more water than acrylic paint for collaboration. To keep in mind about diluting acrylic paint with water is that if you pour too much of water, the paint will unlikely stick to the surface and the colour itself will lose.
2) Pour the paints onto the board blended and move the board to the edge and turn back. As you repeat moving the board until it gets everything covered, you will likely see the paints stretching and spreading to other spaces. You might also tend to lose quite a bit of paints, but that doesn’t matter. Once, if the white gap isn’t showing, then you are done. 3)Let it dry and you have your masterpiece. This is a fun activity to create colours and learn new techniques to give some unique effects, and the best part about it is that everyone can do it even kids.
Before you create an actual big picture into a paper, it’s better to take 10 minutes to draw anything you want or just scribble it. Doodling with different colours pen may be a good way to allow your mind to function well, and sometimes curious designs appeal unexpectedly. If you are done with some small arts and feel confident, then you may want to start in a canva.
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Makeup Tips for Beginners Flora Kim Lipstick! Foundation! Eyeliner! These are the some of the essentials for makeup artist to perfect our bland faces. You may have tried to draw on a piece of paper, but have you ever tried to paint an actual face? You would know that this is not an easy task. After all, applying a perfect eyeliner to your both eyes is a difficult progress. Imagine how hard it will be to apply a perfect cat-eyeliner to someone else. Before, the artists try their makeup products in actual faces, they try on a piece of paper. Using makeup products on a paper with a big person’s face will be better for artists or even beginners to practice and will apply a new category of art, which calls ‘fashion illustration’. Begin with drawing an outline of person’s face on a white piece of paper to help you guide to next steps. You should include eyes, nose, mouth, and ears with a black permanent marker for a realistic appearance. Even though your art is not perfect, do not worry, you can download any face images in online. If you are done with the outline or print out a copy of an online face, then you can apply the makeup onto the paper. It is better to start with powder-based product onto the face with fingers. It should be lighter for the next steps later, so lightly rub with your fingertip over the whole face of the chart. After then, lay down a second tone, which will make it darker than the first base. You should begin from the outer corner and blend the base color gently without any sharp marks.
The next step is the darkest makeup shade section. You should gently put the layer with makeup brush from the inner corner of the eye and again use your fingertip to smudge the color as you go to the outer corner of the eye, which gives realistic looks and natural looks. Do it for both of eyes, but if you want to make a unique face makeup, try some different colors, like yellow or bright red. Famous makeup artists often use different colors of eyeshadow for a big event, for instance, fashion show, to attract the audience. While you put darker color shade onto the paper, the eye outlines might have disappeared a bit. Apply the outline of the eyes with eyeliner, making the line thicker in the outer corner only. For all humans including men, we all need eyelashes, so make sure that you draw few eyelashes slightly curved. As you move on to next step, you need to find a soft pastel color for the blush. Use a clean blush makeup brush from the color that matches with skin base tone and places it on the face cheeks in a circular motion. For a reminder, you should not put a lot of blush on the face. It is very tricky section of the makeup, so you should be patient when you put blush on the model’s face. For the second the last tip is lipstick. If you want to emphasise your lip, choose pure red lips gloss to put on the lip section. But if you want to make it more complicated, then you must put a light pink for your base of your lip. After the base, take a darker color of lipstick right above the lower lip and bottom the upper lip. Use your finger to gently blend the colors, which will look more natural and will give a shiny lip. I hope my tutorial is helpful to you all. Also, for the real last step, you might want to decorate your own sketch with glitters or diamond all over the paper that you have created with makeup products. This will give glittering effect and make it look shiny and fancy.
CHILD IMMIGRANT S DREAMS FADE AWAY UNDER TRUMP
It is a surprise to hear that there are US citizens who believe that all undocumented immigrants from all parts of the world, including Asia and Africa, should be expelled. On Sept. 5, 2017, Donald Trump surprisingly announced to end President Obama’s Dreamer Program, known as DACA. The Dream Act has given young immigrants hope, and these “Dreamers” have the chance to come out of hiding and to live and study in the U.S. With DACA, the law protects nearly 11 million young immigrants and helps them secure their futures. However, 73% of people who voted for President Donald Trump, meaning that they disagree with having these young Dreamers stay in their country, including 78% of the total American voters who support Dreamers to allow them to stay in America with no legal worries.
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Also, after his announcement, Former Colorado congressman, Tom Tancredo said, “The bill should be renamed the NIGHTMARE Act because it will increase the number of people who come to the United States illegally.” Today young immigrants are scared and confused, as the President and those who support the destruction of DACA continue to describe them as “rapists” and “criminals”. These young people moved to the U.S. along with their families and they have big stories to tell. Stories that Americans would learn about the diverse culture in countries across the world, and their personal success and struggles. These people all grew up watching same movies, play the same sports or games and love their friends and family like we do. Moreover, they are too hope to live the American dream: going to college, spending time with family, and finding success.
There are many people who now live very real lives in America that are struggling in the destruction of DACA. They now live day by day, without a sense of security for what their future would be held. Alejandra Gonzalez is an immigrant who has dreamed to become a teacher, but under the current political situation, she is unable to find work due to her lack of citizenship, although how she has experienced or skilled that she may be. She tells, “There are Dreamers that have become lawyers, doctors, police officers and small business owners thanks to DACA and their career choices benefits the country as a whole.” Instead of the steady life she has hoped in America, she now lives in fear and depression as she may be deported back to her home country any day.
However, many have not forgotten the great works of Obama and still held hopes and faiths in the American people to help unfortunate immigrants. Cindy Nava, for example, is an immigrant from Mexico shares her thoughts, “DACA has changed my life and I will always be grateful to President Obama for taking the first step to uplift our immigrant communities through his efforts to support us regardless of the criticism he received.” The lives of millions Dreamers will have been overturned for the worse after the huge destruction of DACA. However, we can change this. We can end this now. Immigrants are what makes America so multicultural and diverse. People should not be separated from their families and expel from their homes. If you believe that all humans deserve a chance, PLEASE support DREAMERS.
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