Ulyana Sergeenko Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2013

Immediate Depression Treatment!

If you ever experience extreme depression or sadness for no apparent reason, please remember these things!

1. Not one person’s problems are any less valid than another’s. Your feelings are always valid, because while someone may have a harder life than you, for /you/, what you’re going through /is/ hard. Your feelings and emotions are always valid, no matter what anyone says.

2. Depression is a chemical imbalance in your brain which only medications can fix and then sometimes they don’t work. Mine didn’t. And when you get depressed you don’t have to have a reason for being depressed. You just are. And it’s crippling.

3. Do whatever makes you happy and comfortable, which may include any but is not limited to the following:

If you have a certain snack you just love, eat a small snack, but nothing too heavy.

Have something warm to drink like hot chocolate or a soothing cup of tea. Try to avoid caffeine.

Cover yourself in blankets and snuggle with your favorite stuffed animal(s).

Watch funny videos or just things that make you happy on Youtube. I just watched B1A4’s video for Baby Goodnight and I was smiling from ear to ear the whole time. Their happiness makes me happy.

Do whatever you can to just be comfortable.

4. If people are stressing you out, lock your door, despite any consequences. Just block them out, put on headphones and don’t listen to anyone if you can manage. Only go to people who can help you get through your depression, do not make contact with people who are causing your depression and stress to worsen. You need to help yourself sometimes, and not worry about other people.

5. I’ll repeat. Do what’s going to make /you/ happy or comfortable.

Remember, no matter what anyone else says when you’re in that spot, you are first priority. Take care of /you/ before you worry about anything or anyone else.

If you need a friend who will listen and/or help, I am always here to help you, I will always be available to talk. My inbox is /always/ open.

Hopefully this brings a smile on a sobering day :( Hang in there American friends!

My body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me.

Audre Lorde - from “Recreation” featured in The Black Unicorn: Poems (via watchoutforintellect)

Found Object Sculptures by Peter McFarlane

Peter McFarlane is a conceptually based sculptor and installation artist who received a BFA from York University in 1982. He has exhibited widely in both commercial and public galleries over the last two decades and his work is in many private collections.

To me, waste is just lack of imagination. This belief carries beyond the boundaries of my art production and permeates most aspects of my life. Most of my home and studio, and much of everything in them, is recycled. 

I’ve always had an epic imagination along with a driving desire to make things. Thus, used objects have pared my options down to a workable, manageable level. No object is beyond artistic merit, meaning and metaphor. So why throw it out? 

The materials of my work are connected intrinsically to my ideas, be they tailored beyond recognition or left as found. Each piece I make resurrects an object as an idea specific to the material and the meaning inherent in its use. The history of the object from the manufacture to the dumpster embellishes its contexts and the possibilities I have to manipulate them. I have often made a connection with the objects that I’ve used in my everyday life or work experience: that which I know.

Peter lives and works on Salt Spring. You can visit Peter’s Saatchi Art profile for more. 

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☼ Cheap and must-have beauty products that you need to get and different ways to use them

♥ Castor Oil

The best way to achieve that bold eyebrow look is to apply castor oil on your eyebrows few times a week, it works very well and it works as well on eyelashes. You can also use it on your roots to reduce hair loss and to get more volume in your hair. I highly recommend it!

♥ Tea Tree Oil

Tea Tree Oil is very useful to reduce acne and shiness. You can directly apply it on your imperfections or mix it in a face scrub or in a face mask.

Face scrub : 1 spoon of sugar + 1 spoon of olive oil + 1 spoon of honey + few drops of tea tree oil

Face mask : 1 spoon of olive oil + 1 spoon of honey + few drops of tea tree oil

It can also be used to whiten your teeth, by putting one drop of tea tree oil on your toothbrush.

The Body shop has an entire tea tree oil line that I personally loooove.

♥ Coconut oil

It’s the best way to moisturize your skin and your hair. It can be applied on the ends to reduce split ends or to the roots for hair growth ( the best is to mix it with castor oil ).

I also use it as a shaving oil and it leaves my skin so smooth and shiny.

Coconut oil can also be used as a makeup remover, lip balm, foot cream, shoe cream / cleaner, and cooking oil ( very healthy ).

♥ Rose oil from Chili

It’s different from rose water, because it is used to get ridd of stretch marks and scars and to reduce wrinkles.

You can find it here ( it’s a french website but it ships worldwide ).

♥ Rosewater

It’s a supermodel beauty must-have used to moisturize and refresh your skin at anytime of the day. It prevents wrinkles and minimize your pores!

Phoebe Atkey

Based in Bournemouth Phoebe is a young, self-taught artist with a particular passion for architecture and cityscapes and more recently, botanical illustration. Phoebe works primarily with pen and coloured pencil. Her work has been seen in various publications and she is often commissioned for her individual style and ability to depict a variety of subject matter.

I am doing the best I can and that is enough.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKGomMxgFdO/

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