Clinique Fresh Faces Tour and I

Hello mah darlings,

I do sincerely apologize for not blogging for what!? Over a month now?? Life happens however. I have been going to online school at Kaplan Academy of California and let me say, that is one highly demanding school. I am taking seven classes when everyone else is doing around four or five. However, all in all, I am I am thankful to my school because if it were not for highly dreaded school testing to meet Cali requirements, something superbly exciting would not have happened on Wednesday; you will get to read about that below, but for now, let's talk some more about how...

...Life happens... I have started work as an assistant to a new designer who wants to get her stuff out there. All started simply with me doing her website because she liked my blog, but life happens and now I am her assistant. I work for Charlotte Epee who is the founder and designer of CharlottesAngels. She has very pretty jewelry, dresses, shirts, and more coming! In fact, I am wearing one of her necklaces now. I would also link her website but we are in between hosting services right now. The team is getting bigger and bigger, we are searching for models, photographers, and all that jazz and it all makes me realize I have a REAL job that I absolutely love.

Sooooo, Wednesday: I was in Westwood Village or somewhere near Beverly Hills doing CAHSEE testing. When I went into the main waiting area where my mother was using their WiFi (of course) while waiting for me, she told me that there is something she found for me to do and that I will like and be interested in it, but she will still force me to do it, because it's something that I would regret not doing. Therefore I went to the bathroom, came back out, she showed me the Clinique Fresh Faces 09 Tour flier telling about the makeover, getting my photo taken, and how the stupendous Eva Chen - Beauty and Health Editor of Teen Vogue - would be there. So I GASPED! ! ! Enormously.

So I got in the line, mother did the release form and all, and decided to be the best support and mother ever! She wasn't in the line with me, but outside of the rope, so she went to watch other people getting their makeup done. Soon after some people went over to her, and my mother being charismatic and proud of her lovely daughter, started bragging about me. She started talking about how I thoroughly love Teen Vogue, and how I have been subscribing for years, also talked about how I want to be on the other side of the camera (photographer) and just the stuff good 'ole mothers brag about. She yelled my name, I looked over, smiled and waved, at the same time wondering, "Oh, gosh, what is she doing, hi people."

She came back over and told me what had just happened, I didn't realize her mother instincts to brag about me, and I sort of had the tone of "dear mother, but no!" when talking with her.

Soooo big GASP: I spotted Ms. Chen and noticed her walking in my direction, my heart pumping I crossed my fingers for her to walk towards me, and what happened? She walked straight to me, introduced herself, and I told her I love her page -the one in Teen Vogue, duh!- and we talked. It was just incredible talking with her, and she was also just the nicest person ever! She recommended a school in New York to me, and it was also a really encouraging conversation, whether she knew it or not. Mother said I was completely professional but on the inside my heart was fluttering and jumping, pumping and dancing.

I chose the more dramatic look, got my makeup done by a Clinique expert, but sadly the parking meter was about to run out of time and mother had already refilled it twice, so I just got my photo snapped by a photographer without my horrendous testing hairdo getting prettied up by a stylist who would have made me fall asleep while letting her fingers dance in my hair, but life happens...

So my day went from mediocre due to testing to spectacularly the best day ever!

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This Article That Makes Absolutely No Sense!

As usual, I read my Teen Vogue as soon as possible, which just happened to be on my way home. I was eager to read the articles especially on life and health and those sort of things. Teen Vogue usually has great articles, except for the exception of some that don't quite catch my attention. Then there are those that are just plain ridiculous, they don't come often; when they do, the stupidity of the article is like a bullet train going down a cliff or something that it fell of from.

This time I was reading a bullet train that only went down the cliff because the conductors didn't know what to do. The article was, unrealistic--like the comparing of a 300,000 cattle farm to a city, that's unrealistic thinking!--and just didn't add up... Sad enough to say however that this was found inside a Teen Vogue magazine.

The article, "Food For Thought" by Andrea Kasprzak, was supposed to be talking about healthy eating become an obsessive thing, which I don't think it accomplished. It dabbled into many different things including anorexia, bulimia/ binge eating and something new called orthorexia which isn't a real disease! A few others as well, but were not clear on, the article had no clear thing on what it was talking about. Therefore, already in my book a bad article.

Let me start with this quote-

" Orthorexia, a new term used to describe a fixation on healthy eating, is an

issue on the rise with teenage girls. Unlike clinically recognized eating

disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, orthorexics are concerned about

the purity of food rather than simply striving for thinness."

Karen Stickler, Psy.D. "Food For Thought"

written by Andrea Kasprzak

So pretty much saying that if you care about what's put into your mouth, you have orthorexia; I guess my mum, Mishael, and I are all orthorexics. I think it's ridiculous saying someone has an eating disorder, recognized or not, just because they care what goes into their mouth! My mum, I would say a few years ago, put the family on an organic diet. It's a lot safer, and I would rather go in life without all of the fatigue and other problems that highly processed foods come with. Like high fructose corn syrup, yeah they have those new commercials saying it's safe, have you noticed how more and more people are going organic... (I guess that's the reason for the commercials)? Which means no high fructose corn syrup, which means no money for all those big food companies so they think, Hmmm, what is a lie we can come up with so people will keep eating our foods so the food companies will keep buying our HFCS, so I can continue to pay for my lavish lifestyle? Ohhhh! I have an idea, we will tell another lie about the truth, because everyone below us is too stupid to really know.

High fructose corn syrup is like eating a horrible insect poisoner, really, it is that bad. You just don't notice until later in your life when it starts collecting in your insides, you start getting more and more sick, and you develop soft spots around those areas that used to be your great ones, and you can't rid them. Since we went organic, I have not felt so tired anymore, and I am able to control my weight better, if I do eat right and not too much. High fructose corn syrup is to be blamed for a lot of your blood clots, artery clots, and many more clots and sicknesses that you get when eating highly processes foods.

It doesn't even need to be highly processed, it can just have high fructose corn syrup or high glucose corn syrup, both are so dangerous, that when you eat, them they build up in your stomach, arteries, and all the other places you can think of.

Yes, we still go out to eat and have fun, but we look where we eat and make sure that it's safe for the most part. We do sometimes get non-organic things to eat, but we always still look at the ingredients; oops, there we go again acting like normal orthorexics. Momentary pause, that word-orthorexia/orthorexics, doesn't even even exist because mum's mac is saying that it's spelled wrong. Ha! We make sure it doesn't have anything to do with HFCS, HGCS, any dextrine, dextrose, or anything that pretty much rhymes with gross or sounds gross.

"HFCS delivers a double danger to sugar." -Bill Samba, BS, MBA, "The Double Danger of High Fructose Corn Syrup"

You should read the article "The Double Danger of High Fructose Corn Syrup" to get a lot of good facts, these facts will show you what you are missing when you abandon all these nasty additives and other sorts. I scanned through it a bit, and well, I figured out what fun things I am missing when I started eating organic.

On to the the Teen Vogue article, another quote that makes absolutely no sense-

"When a person refuses to eat anything perceived as unhealthy, it is a

problem." - Tara Gidus, R.d., an Orlando, Florida-based National

Spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.

This in my opinion makes no sense at all, I mean what??? So when you eat unhealthy that's healthy? Right. The article also notes something of teenagers, mostly girls, becoming obsessed with eating organic. I am NOT completely sure if it implies that this is unhealthy, or an 'okay' thing. Then it jumps to another thing of completely avoiding certain food groups. This article does not stay on track of whatever hazardous eating method it's talking about; when it all comes down, the writer pins it on eating healthy and makes them take the blame.

"There's nothing wrong with eating junk food once in awhile," -Susan S.

Bartell, Psy.D.., a psychologist specializing in girls, and author of Dr. Susan's Girls-Only Weight

Loss Guide (Parent Positive Press).

Here's the deal people, walk into any Central Market, Whole Foods, Sprouts, or anything that has healthy foods and find you can get healthy "junk food." I once ate brownies at my friend's house, and I look on the bag and it has a Central Market logo and is USDA Organic qualified, and it tasted way better; I didn't have this nasty, gaunky feeling in my throat afterwards.

My mum was saying no wonder that America has one of the, if not the, highest obesity rates in the world; everyone is out blaming the people who want to eat better and making them feel bad and guilty and saying they are the ones who need the help. Tsk Tsk America!

Then in the very last sentence, it tells you that eating healthy is good, as long as you don't take it too far. Last I checked, if you were really eating healthy, then there technically wouldn't be a thing like taking it too far. The whole article, doesn't make any sense, and they are the professional writers.

DISCLAIMER- I am an not a real writer, nor a journalist; I am uneducated in anything health related. I am not a food or a health expert. I am just blogging.