Asian cosmetics

Warning! This blog entry may be uninteresting to male readers. But I promise that this will be the only one of this kind. Although I say Asian cosmetics, I refer only to Japanese and Korean ones. Firstly because I don’t know any comparable make-up companies from China or other Asian countries, and secondly – usually when make-up people talk about Asian cosmetics, they do mean...

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A little trip around Kanazawa

A little earlier, only two weeks ago, my friend’s Japanese family invited me out on a little day trip around Kanazawa. Nothing grand, just a few museums (most of which either prohibited photography or were difficult to caption in a photo), but it was still nice to have some fresh air, see some pretty things and also (literally) taste Japan. This building was the main...

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A day trip to the past

Over three weeks ago now my Japanese family took me for a day trip to Takayama city (高山) and to a village called Shirakawago (白川郷), both in Gifu prefecture (岐阜県). It definitely felt like a day trip to the past, more specifically to Edo period (1608-1868) – were it not for the swarms of tourists, of course. Takayama was ruled directly by the shogun who usually lived...

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