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Simple Routines To Get Rid Of Blackhead And Get Clear Skin FAST!

I honestly didn't have a routine for myself, I have been trying out things and never seen any big improvement. I definitely had blackhead problem and  didn't know what the heck to do. It wasn't until these couple of months that I have actually been noticing differences on my skin, with the products selected I have been using.

I am now going to reveal my skin cleaning routine and introduce the products that I am using... :)


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 STEP 1. REMOVE ALL MAKEUP

Shu uemura - fresh pore clarifying gentle cleansing oil

This is the best makeup remover that I have ever used. First we take around 2 pumps of cleansing oil onto the palms of dry hands, then gently smooth over dry face. Remember to wet face to emulsify it before rinsing with water. As it may get a be messy, I personally prefer using it right before shower.
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How does Advert Produces False Consciousness ?




Analysing advertisements in contemporary society has been a popular subject in different academic fields like marketing, cultural studies, art, philosophy and sociology for a long time. Apparently advert is something to encourage potential customers to buy a special product, yet they do not only serve this purpose, they contains discourses, manipulations and imply different ideologies, such as commodity feminism, fetishism, promotional culture, post-modernism, etc. In this article, I will be focusing on the discourses and commodity feminism approaches in advertisement.

The advert I have chosen is an advert of L’Oréal Paris Age Perfect Extraordinary Facial Oil (fig. 1) published in 2014 on magazines and online. The article will put the spotlight on how the advert promote commodity feminism in terms of their facial expressions, gazes, body gestures, absence of male and texts; and then will continue to breakdown how discourse operates in the ad by studying the shooting angles, colours, voice of authorities, choice of words, the messages behind and the power relationship between viewers and creators. By the end, there will be reasons given out on why discourse offers the most useful way of analysing advertising.

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My first photomontage work!



This photomontage is made up of over 10 images from various sources, from photography to printed images on magazine. They are placed together to form a sequence of images and going to be explored in ideological approach, to critique the two major ideologies:
Gender Stereotype and Beauty Standard Discourse reproduced in adverts.

            Notion of staging images in combination to create particular effects or to construct narratives is called montage. According to Jay and Dimenderg(1994), the bourgeois conception of photomontage means that the artiest and craftsman are replaced by the engineer. Pieces of photographs are pasted together the way parts of machines are joined together with screws. At the same time, montage is a work of art that offers completely new opportunities with regard to content. By putting individual images together, their connotative meaning changes at the same time. Barthes (1977) developed the idea of denotation and connotation, by reading the montage with these two elements and the signs; this enables the print to influence readers on a new ideological level.

            Photomontage is mainly practicable in two forms, political propaganda and commercial advertising. The first one is the Dadaist, began from a point of view incontestable for them: that the painting of the way period, post-futurist expressionism, ect, member of Club Dada usually held more or less left-wing political views, it was a kind of cultural criticism. This photomontage, although it is not a political criticism but is about culture, therefore the way and approach to analysis will be similar to that of Dadaist.  
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