Ciao dolcezze!Halloween sta arrivando e anche i prodotti ispirati a questo evento sono un pò ovunque.Probabilmente alcuni di questi articoli non saranno più così facili da trovare (vi indicherò dove sono disponibili) e, molto probabilmente, non tutte impazziscono per lenti colorate o smalti fosforescenti, ma ci sono prodotti che vale la pena prendere in considerazione e che possono essere usati in altre occasioni. —Hello sunshines!!!Halloween is near and beauty products inspired by this day are everywhere!Probably some products aren’t so easy to find (I’ll help you finding them) and, probably, a big part of you doesn’t love so much crazy coloured lenses or fosforescent nail polishes, but I think there…
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How to & Tips: Peplo, a reenactment Greek dress or an easy party costume
If you don’t know how to get dressed for a costume party, you can use a plain bedsheet and become a classical Greek woman or a glowy goddess with your own DIY peplos (here with a makeup look by yours truly). I found this do-it-yourself idea while leafing an old monthly magazine dedicated to the ancient Greek world (a Focus History special issue). Despite the title of this insert (“The chiton in 4 moves”), this DIY dress looks like a peplos like those worn by Greek women up to 500 b.C., with a flap of fabric on the upper part of the body that was called “apoptygma“. Your bedsheet, about one-third, should…
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Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
Have you ever seen that “The Cosby Show” episode when Claire participates in a pumpkin exhibition and, returned home, Cliff takes the pumpkin to the garden to “kill” it?A couple of days ago we “killed” a pumpkin, an enormous pumpkin!With the pumpkin you can do a myriad of things: desserts, soups, dumplings (gnocchi), Halloween lanterns …Waiting to cook it, we have frozen it and we had lots of seeds to use.I’ve read on the net that pumpkin seeds have many good properties (antioxidant and antiparasitic) and active ingredients (selenium, vitamin E and F), so I decided to toast them and eat them.The biggest problem was finding the exact cooking method,…
