Hey everyone! I have another Chinese New Year manicure for you :)

crappy winter daylight

I didn't win the other nail art contest (well, tough competition. Some had the incredible advantage of owning konad plates... kidding), but I like creative contests, so I'll try my luck in my private jet's make-up contest. If you understand German, go check out her blog. I've been a reader for about a year now and haven't regretted that ever since.

So, enough with the praise. Back to business: The task is to create a make-up or nail design with your Chinese horoscope sign. My sign is the bull/cow/buffalo, so I kinda cut a cow into pieces and painted it on my nails.* You can win five nail polishes from the OPI Hongkong collection.

picture taken with flash

Here's what I used:

• P2 Base + Care Coat (yeah, I know, I use that every time, but as I like to say: never change a winning team)
• P2 147 perfectly (I thought it was a light brown. I forgot that my skintone is a tad bit darker than the average European's, so this turns out to be the perfect nude polish for me)
• French tips: Chifure Nail Enamel (red with gold glitter, Japanese brand), Catrice Spiced Bronze (bronze, great for my skintone)
• cow pieces: Essence 22 fatal 
• Essence Quick Dry Drops (I like those - cheap and easy to handle)
• Manhattan Pro Shine Quick Dry topcoat

*No animal was harmed or killed in the process.

Dieses Mal ein Artikel von einer Userin der Online-Ausgabe von Neon, der Jugend-Gazette. Asiatinnen-Fetisch und Yellow Fever, ick hör dir trapsen:

Asian girlz wanted.

Woran merkt man, dass ein Blog

• winzig klein ist, 
• die werberelevante Zielgruppe verfehlt, (und überhaupt jede Zielgruppe)
• sein Design unbedingt bearbeiten müsste,
• mehr Fotos zeigen müsste?

Man merkt es daran, dass der besagte Blog noch nicht mit Blogger-Awards zugespammt überhäuft wurde. Derzeit geistert folgender Award durch meinen Feed:


Bisher hat diesen Award eigentlich so gut wie jeder von mir abonnierte deutschsprachige Blog bekommen. Bis auf kleinere Ausnahmen. *hust*


Dabei kann ich mir kaum einen vielseitigeren Blogger als mich vorstellen.*



*Das war Ironie. Ironie-Sternchen to the rescue!

by icassop on ipod touch

by icassop on ipod touch

A reader of my blog sent me a very interesting link regarding ethnicity and relationships. Actually he sent me statistics of a dating website called okcupid. Thanks Fox!

"Your race affects whether people write you back"

So... this article tries to figure out the ratio between first attempt messages and recipients' reply rate combined with the ethnicity and sex factor. Turns out that racism is alive and kicking...

On the same blog you can find an article which I find about as interesting as the other one, to say the least. You can find it here:

"The REAL 'Stuff white people like'"

They collected data of more than half a million users on the dating website okcupid regarding ethnicity, sex and self description/personal interests. You will be able to see what white guys dig or Indian girls like etc.
You get the idea.

Enjoy!

On a side note: I would love to comment on those finds and try to figure out some explanations. However, I assume people would start throwing stones at me... Oh well, I guess I'll take the risk in another article.

For the time being: Enjoy!