Like any other jewellry, the cat’s eye mineral is odinary
semiprecious stone widely used as a charm that is also believed to protect the owner
from the evil eye, first of all, and from many other troubles in the everyday life.
The gem is thought to apply its capacities and features individually. The cat’s
eye is the gem of the crystal family of the brown, green or yellow-green color.
Bedroom is the most intimate and closed room in your apartment.
Hence it’s twice as much important to make it comfortable and cozy place to
have a rest and to share precious moments with the dear ones. And the lights
can help a lot, creating suitable atmosphere, and tuning for sweet dreams when
one wants to relax and recharge, or inflaming passion and love by seductive and
sensual environment.
Naomi Campbell along with Cindy Crawford and Claudia
Schiffer have been the most legendary and professional models of the previous
century. And they are still professionals in the modeling sphere. Naomi appears
to be one of the extravagant, brilliant and scandalous models as compared to
angel-like Claudia Schiffer.
Modern person is hard to take by surprise: Bold designer solutions, shocking imagination tendencies in fashion, mad fantasies of modern art trendsetters... We have become accustomed to it all and take each new event in the world of design as a part of natural process. However, among those splashes of creativity pictured on glossy covers and liquid-crystal screens, one can reveal numerous examples of ideas inspired by the past.
They are graphic elements of folk ornaments, communist epoch
symbols, shapes and colors popular long time ago... But each of these
ideas only can be brought into life if propper materials are available.
Long forgotten ancient technologies can successfully compete with
modern ones. Gold leaf is a material which has been priceless to
designers of all times and epochs.
It is difficult to say who
and when got the idea of fine gold fabric, mesmerizing by its luster
and beauty. It is only known that gold leaf became extremely popular in
the XV century. At that time it was used for decoration of tsar's
palaces and church domes, and it added elegant luxury to interior
design. Gold leaf holds its place in the creation of decor
masterpieces. By that time gold had become the standard of elegance and
style, the sign of good taste and prosperity. The noble radiance of
gold leaf has acquired extraordinary popularity today. The areas of
gold leaf application are only limited by designers' fantasy.
Traditionally, finest sheets of gold are widely used in architecture.
Domes, sculptures and architectural details get covered with them. Gold
leaf can decorate furniture, different objects of interior, and dishes.
Gilding gives a second life to an old obsolete wooden chair and a
grandmother's favorite box. A photoframe or a shabby leather-bound book
can be covered with a sparkling gold layer too. One of the latest
achievements of gold leaf technique is putting different images
directly onto the finest surface of precious fabric. A picture like
that can become an elegant addition to the interior, or a pretty
valuable gift.
Technology of the gold leaf production has
remained virtually unchanged for centuries. It is a long, by no means
simple work - to beat a massive bar of gold into a weightless gold
cobweb. The thickness of gold sheets can vary. For external objects
thicker sheets are used while gilding of furniture, picture frames,
wooden elegant boxes take thinner gold leaf. The size of gold sheets is
always the same. They are sandwiched between sheets of paper to protect
them and packed into books. Then gold leaf is handed to designers and
decorators. Gilding is a complex, labor-consuming process. First, the
surface intended for gilding is thoroughly sand-papered. Then, special
glue of animal origin is applied on the perfectly smooth surface. And
only after that gold leaf is applied. Special tools, like a gilder's
brush, are used to rub the surface until gold layer becomes completely
streak free. The luster of objects, gilded in such manner, remains for
decades in propper care, delighting with its splendid beauty. But not
only furniture and small interior objects can be decorated with gold
leaf. The present tendencies in fashion encourage gilding of all kinds
of surfaces. Designers refine their collections, decorating clothing
with gold leaf. Make-up designers frequently use this precious metal
for make-up. Body artists also get involved applying the finest sheets
of genuine gold to their works. And a lot of manicure professionals
create their masterpieces with this exquisite material, which can
hardly lose its appeal. More and more masters of art discover unique
features of gold leaf and add some noble light splashes to their
creations.
Stiletto is an item that is worshiped both by men and women.
Women wearing stiletto are stylishly high, elegant and get an absolutely imperial
bearing. But those that learned to walk on stilettos effortlessly get extra
points for a seductive and full of charm gait, demonstrating the grace of body.
Unfortunately, not every woman can afford to get on the top of the fine
stiletto, due to different reasons.no woman without a pair of stilettoes!
Hedi Slimane has become a figure acknowledged as the legendary
as far as the first collections of this designer from France were launched for
the wide public. He is believed to be the somewhat weird but genius. He exists
in the extended boundaries of the world of art where he is a professional since
he studied it whereas the world of design is a weird topic for him, at least he
would appear to be non-professional if not his taste and style.
Teoxane Laboratories (Switzerland)
have developed Teosyal - an entirely new series of anti-ageing products, for non-surgical
treating wrinkles, skin depressions and correcting facial contour defects as
well as for revitalizing skin. The base of Teosyal is three monophasic
hyaluronic acid of non-animal origin, which is highly biocompatible and
provides immediate and long-lasting results.
Recently
more and more young people, wearing strange pink and black clothes and flamboyant
haircuts, appear called Emo. Who are they and what that want to do and express? Emo is a music tren actually that was created from peculiar mixture of punk and hard metal, spiced with new
special elements of vocal. The music and songs are extremely emotional,
with unwrap manifestations of bright, and often spontaneous positive, and
deeply negative feelings.
