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Camo Shorts For Summer?

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I know majority of us are enjoying the summer season, However, there’s still yet some peeps who aren’t that much fond of the hot season, summer. That’s why they prefer to live in to quite cold places or yet in to isolated one. But we cant blame them because nowadays the hit of the sun is really intense where you can get your skin’s burnt as you dont wear any sun block with you as you go outside. But you know what? clothing has a big role as well in the season or to our current weather. Because as you wear an proper clothing and you can style it as you want it and looking hip to it too, you can probably enjoy the summer.

Today, let me tell you on what is the most consider or must wear piece for men’s fashion, which is the camo shorts. Yes! actually camo made of pieces are the ones in trend last year 2013 with all the season collections. Because it can brings this nice looking appeals as you wears them, plus, it can help you too to have this nicely looking body ( as you wears the camo pieces) because of the illusion prints of it. And yet, most of the peeps today, 2014, are still pleased with the awesomeness of the camo prints that is why they’re keep on wearing it till now.

And for men, I may suggest the camo shorts for this summer 2014. Because look, it is indeed great and you can pair it off in any of the top you’d wanted like on what are you seeing at the top photo. Alright, that will be all for now and I hope you’ll keep on checking me here for more fashion updates and news. Have a great day!a

Awesome Timepieces by Peter Cuderman

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When Peter Cuderman set out on his quest to find a luxury watch, he never expected to be so taken back by the whole experience. After being frustrated, he decided to do something about it. The young B-school graduate left his cushy desk job in J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank and opened the doors to his business venture. He created Washington Mount Vernon, an American company that produces top quality watches. The inspiration for the company was from a watch discovered in the late 1800’s from the Washington Watch Company. Using a contemporary approach and inspiration from the Washington Watch Company, the first line, The 1776, was produced with a classic and timeless touch.
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An automatic watch; the timepiece comes with an ETA 2892 movement engraved beautifully with the company seal and the all seeing eye, bearing each owner’s serial number. The hour and hand minutes are small scale modeled hands of the Washington Memorial. While the watch presents a simplistic look, each hour and the WASHINGTON name are raised with a 1.5 mm height and .25 mm thick polished index.

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The package wouldn’t be complete without a box. The full sized treasure chest replica is a special reminder of the olden days of watchmaking. One of the company’s short term goals are to bring production from Switzerland to the United States. Each watch also comes with a certificate of authenticity, sealed in a wax envelope.

Washington Mount Vernon launched their Kickstarter campaign on May 2 and will be up and running for 43 days. You can pre-order a Washington 1776 for $575, roughly $700 of their suggested retail price. Go check out their campaign and support! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/washington/the-1776-premium-automatic-timepiece-watch

SISTAR – LOVING U (male version)

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In general, people rather my readers sees this site, istarblog.com, is into entertainment and fashion at the same time now. Because I wanted to widen the site readerships and built the right kind of theme in it which took so long for me to distinguished though. But now, I am already pretty sure that entertainment and fashion are the ones great to put up here, that’s why I rebranded it to this niche few months back and still am working on it and putting some entertainment kind of posts are the ones I enjoyed to do about now here.

That’s why then, let me share with your this youtube video that I’ve found a minutes ago while I was checking it for the further or for might topic should I put in to this site and luckily this video entitled ” SISTAR – LOVING U (male version)” which one amused me because the song itself is indeed catchy and the arrangement of the sounds is perfectly put in together and the videos added too made the whole song quite entertaining and great to watch as well.

I intended actually to blog about some entertainment news but suddenly I more fond with kpop songs and musics. It’s perfectly fine, than to these news hang in the internet today. I think, I simply liked the unusual topics as part of an update of this site, istarblog.com, but occasionally I am also putting up some entertainment news as part of my site’s archives and of course for me to have a great of readership. Okay, I think I need to finish this post out and get back with my errands and finish all of it before the sun will goes down.

 

Charity and Fashion

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Fashion designers are often admired for their creativity and talent while models are idolized for their beauty and elegance. Some people might think that these individuals have no substance beneath their stylish personas but the truth is many of them are advocates of charitable causes and use their popularity and influence to help those who are in need. Ralph Lauren’s charities are the Pink Pony Fund and The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention. Burberry’s Angela Ahrendts’ The Burberry Foundation helps youths all over the world succeed in their school, work, and creative life. Chan Luu on the other hand, created the Ethical Fashion International which helps provide jobs to the people of Kenya and Haiti. Another charitable fashion designer is Donatella Versace whose Starlight Children’s Foundation helps improve the lives of needy children. Kenneth Cole’s charity Awearness – The Kenneth Cole Foundation helps raise awareness of various social issues. They are only but a few of those charity-minded individuals in the fashion world.

Fashionable Trends For Men This 2014

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Nowadays, being fashionable does not only apply to women but to men as well. There are many actors, singers, athletes, and other celebrities that guys look up to when it comes to dressing up. A metrosexual or a man who is meticulous about his appearance specifically the clothes he wears and spends a significant amount of money shopping, is becoming more common. Chances are he knows the latest fashion trends and follows them religiously. Looking at fashion magazines and watching fashion shows, one would know what designers have in store for men and therefore will be able to choose the clothes to consider wearing.

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Bomber jackets are in fashion no matter what the color is but neon colored ones are perfect for summer. Another trend that not many men might like but is totally in fashion is the printed shirt, suit, and tank top, specifically those with tropical floral prints. Sorts of online shop has several floral shirts available at affordable prices. The tie dye is not just for hippies or artsy men but is probably the coolest print to pull off this season. For men who like wearing suits, stiff power suits are out. The new tailoring emphasizes fluid lines, softer fabrics, longer jackets, and looser pants.

Bermuda shorts also swept runways this season. Some even wear it with cowboy boots. But this trend is something that takes a little getting used to. As for shoes, bright trainers are very cool. Also making a comeback are brogue shoes, a low-heeled shoe or boot traditionally characterised by multiple piece, strong leather uppers with decorative perforations or broguing and indentions along the pieces’ visible edges. Guys can shop for some stylish brogue shoes from Zalora available in different designs and colors. Last but not the least, the color of the season is blue. It does not matter what shade it is, as long as it is blue.

Great Pictures Only With the Fotor Online Photo Editor

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Amateur and professional photographers and people who take pictures for fun definitely know of and use several photo or image editing softwares. Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom are usually the preferred software but using them for minor editing is not practical since you would have to spend money. They have a free trial version but you can only use that for a limited period of time. So instead of using Adobe, it is better to just search the internet for free solutions especially if it is just minor editing that is required.

Fotor is a free online photo editing website which enables the user to edit his pictures, make customized photo cards for different special occasions; create cool and creative Collage (photo collages which includes template, montage, funky, photo stitching, and shape collages); and transforms images into a lifelike HDR (High Dynamic Range) image. Established in May, 2012, its goal is to bring a dominant and efficient yet easy to use professional level tool that everyone can utilize. It makes use of cloud computing to give a suite of high quality image processing tools that has a wide range of features. Users will be surprised at how sophisticated the software is. This commitment is kept in mind with every new product and version release.

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Fotor’s photo editor can resize and crop photos, adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness, adjust the lighting curve, rotate, adjust the tone, colors, and straighten a twisted shot. You can likewise make your pictures more presentable and beautiful by adding photo frames and Efeitos para Fotos (effects), text, and clip art. They also have a one-of-a-kind color splash, mosaic, and tilt shift tools. For women who always want to look their best in pictures, Fotor also has a beauty retouching feature where blemishes and wrinkles are removed, skin is smoothened, blush is added, teeth is whitened, and red eye is eliminated. This Photo Editor is truly innovative and amazing!

It works across multiple platforms like iPhone, Windows, Mac, Windows 8, Android, and IOS so it is a handy tool to have. You can save your work in JPG and PNG formats when you are finished and share your images to your social networking sites like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and Twitter. If you are using the desktop version, you can also share your images straight from your desktop to your social sites.

uBEAT – Should Have Treated You Better

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With all the sites I’ve got. This site, Istarblog.com, is the one I most liked and near to my hearth.lol Because the site talks about entertainment, lifestyle, personal matter and fashion at the same time. In short, it is well rounded site that means too. It can probably suits in any blog categories that can brings a bunch of opportunities on my way online. That’s why I cant really let this site go though there’s really a times ( hard times) of thinking off to let the domain expired and forget about it at all. But all of the sudden fate wont allow it to happen..haha That’s why I am still here blogging whatsoever I’d like to tackle whether it is related to kpop to my personal product reviews, doesnt matter.. as long my readers reads it and got still the inspiration to do this so.. lol Okay! enough for being emo..ahah and Let’s talk about the new subgroup kpop that I recently found over YouTube which the uBEAT.

uBEAT is actually from the kpop group U-Kiss, Yes! their were an subgroup. And I know most of you knew the group already so please bear with me then as I tells any inappropriate info about them because this was actually my first time to heard about them as I found their video ” uBEAT – Should Have Treated You Better”  over youtube which is really worth to share that’s why I included them up here. Other than that, nothing else where I know. hahah Sorry! but will try to post up more about  them soon as I got this time then to dig up youtube for some of their live performances. So – meantime, just check their video on top for you to see on how great these guys are..

New Balance 2014 “Summer Solution” Collection

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As the first day of the month comes, I see to it that I can update most of my sites for the archives matter but most of the time I fail to do so due with some stuff that I needed to do offline also for some related works here in online. But moreover, my blogs got updated at least once or twice a month which I think isn’t that bad right.. haha Yeah! that’s how lazy I am today not unlike before where I usually blogging almost everyday just to build up my blog readerships especially on this site, Istarblog.com.

Anyway, let me then share to you these new in shoes designs of the brand “New Balance” Which called ” New Balance 2014 “Summer Solution” Collection” You can see all the new kicks up to the photo. And I think, new balance shoes are the one most practical to have because their type of shoes are can be wear off in any different styling. Yes! you heard it right, you can wear new balance shoes with your casual wears as well on your light formal wears. It can either fits well on your daily wears and of course most probably on your sports wears. Yeah! that’s how awesome these new balance shoes are, it’s better yet to invest a shoes from them than to the other brand of shoes out there, for my opinion..

Regarding on the availability of these shoes here. Sorry to say that.. I haven’t got any further details yet in hand as of now. But sure thing! I’ll update you all once I got to know the details for it. I suggesting you as well to often check new balance main website for you to update yourself on what’s new in them today. Okay that will be all for now. Thank you so much!

The Popularity of Online Shopping

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Online shopping is becoming more and more popular in the US, this is according to a goodonlineshoppingsites.net infographic. Apparently the best shopping deals can be found online, this is according to an estimated 80% of American shoppers. Different methods are used by shoppers, as evidenced by National Retail Federation’s survey that 5-7% of adult Americans use their mobile phone to differentiate prices while shopping. Shopping on tablets is also on the rise since it was reported that in Feb. 2013, 5 billion minutes were spent shopping. It was also discovered that an average of $274 was spent in the first quarter of 2013 by a typical desktop user shopping online. No wonder that an estimated 289 billion US Dollars in revenue was recorded in 2012 brought about by online shopping.

I recommend these 2 online shops where I usually shop my clothes and other necessity things in the house. ZaloraPH is the great online shop that sells apparels for both Bettys and dudes. Also, LazadaPH is a must check too, as you are more into home decors and appliances.

Boys to Men, or Men to Boys? —Skincare Tips for Looking Young, Fresh, and Healthy

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It’s easy to jump out of the shower, throw on some clothes and head quickly out of the door. For many guys, this is the standard “getting ready” routine. However, this rushed regimen can wreak havoc on your body’s largest organ: your skin. Just like your hair needs a regular cut and your nails need periodic trimming, your skin needs some attention, too. Here are some tips for keeping your skin looking fresh and healthy:

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Daily Cleanse

Skip the bar of soap and hot water mix, and instead cleanse your face with a good quality facial scrub every morning. A lot of guys just try to keep it simple, hence the bar of soap, but the combined effect of hot water and soap can dry out your skin, which only serves to increase the wrinkles and age you. Not good!

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Use a Daily Moisturizer

Once your face is nice and clean, apply a daily moisturizer. Ideally, pick one with sun protection factor (SPF) so that not only do you moisturize your skin well but you’ll also protect it from the harsh rays of the sun. Moisturizing every day will help you feel fresher and look younger, and give you softer skin. There are many moisturizers for men out there on the market, so test a few and you’ll quickly see which one is right for you.

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Invest in a Quality Razor

Shaving, a daily event for many men, can leave your skin tight, dry, and, if you’re not using the right equipment, irritated. With the right tools, however, you can lessen the effect. Invest in a good quality razor and you won’t be disappointed. Choose one that suits the condition of your skin and beard, be it sensitive or extremely coarse, and avoid cheap, drugstore razors at all costs. Splash some warm water on your face — maybe even squeeze in a quick facial scrub too — to open up those pores, then apply a moisturizing shaving gel before you get started.

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Drink Water

You’ve heard it so many times before but it really is true. Drinking a healthy amount of water will keep your body, and your skin, well hydrated and looking its best. Winter weather and temperatures go in particularly hard on the skin, as spending more time in the heated, indoor air can cause your skin to lose moisture. Dehydrated skin can look wrinkly and dry, so make sure you find time for those eight glasses of water a day.

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Eat Right

Finally, a healthy diet can also help improve the quality of your skin. Make sure your diet includes the recommended five fruits and vegetables each day. Fruits and veggies are high in antioxidants that will help protect your skin from damage. Carrots, sweet potatoes, kale, spinach and foods high in vitamin C — namely kiwis, blueberries, and papaya—are especially high in these powerful antioxidants so pack them into your meals whenever possible. Then watch how your skin thanks you later on!

 

With the right products and approach you can whip your skin into a fitter, healthier-looking protective layer in no time at all. You’ll look good but feel great! It all starts with a face scrub!

 

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