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Beauty on a Budget

Nowadays, with oceans of hyped-up beauty products and treatments available, marketers trill that there are no more plain girls, only lazy girls. Some of them might as well mean "only poor girls", as they then proceed to shill $200 thigh creams and $50 eyeliners, because "they make all the difference!" What's a girl on a budget to do--sacrifice her life's savings to the beauty industry?

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From Movie Reviews

Haeundae (2009)

In disaster movies, the struggle is never fair. The villain is an unstoppable, inexorable force of nature, which you cannot hope to fight and can barely hope to survive. In the Korean blockbluster Haeundae, it is a mega-tsunami, a series of 100-meter waves roaring towards a Korean tourist haven at 500 miles an hour. Warning time: 10 minutes.

From Movie Reviews

Old Partner

The art of the movie review is in giving just enough away. It is easy to give away too little, and even easier to give away too much. No such worries, however, apply to Old Partner. This is a documentary impossible to spoil.

From Articles & Stories

Interview with Jennifer 8. Lee, Author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

Since its publication in March 2008, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles has been #26 on the New York Times Best Seller List and featured on numerous media outlets, such as The Colbert Report, CNN, and Newsweek. Asian Loop was lucky to get the opportunity to sit down with the author, Jennifer 8. Lee, to talk about her book.

From Articles & Stories

The Straight Story on Asian Hair

Hair--Martin Luther called it women's richest ornament, Hubert de Givenchy said the styling of it tipped off whether or not a women truly knew herself. Here's one Korean-American hairdresser's view on the proper care and feeding of Asian hair.




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