Naked and Articulate

I'm Christina, the artist behind Sihaya Designs Jewelry & Sihaya and Company. Dancer, pink hair enthusiast, and lover of shiny things.

[sihayadesigns]

Long time, no see!

Truth be told, I got too busy for this blog and kind of abandoned it. I had been going to Reddit Indie Makeup And More for all my makeup chatter needs, but I’m taking a break from that venue for a while. I’m still reading, and commenting occasionally, but as a shop owner, I’m not sure it’s the best place for me to be regularly participating anymore, and that’s a shame. I’m waiting on some mod clarification regarding a few things that would make me rethink that stance, but overall I think a little bit of a break would do me good.

I also sometimes post looks on my Instagram, though lately that’s been a lot of nail stuff!

I do have some IMGUR posts from the last, uh, year and a half that would have been posted here were I maintaining it properly. For your perusal:

Spoutwood Makeup! – May 2, 2016 Hello Waffle Order & Swatches – May 29, 2016 Fyrinnae July Order – July 29, 2016 I Made My Own Highlighting Palette – March 3, 2017 Corvus Cosmetics Pressed Shadow Swatches – March 27, 2017 Notoriously Morbid Lip Swatches – November 9, 2017 What’s In My Makeup Kit? – January 12, 2018 Fyrinnae Swatches and First Impressions – January 22, 2018

With regards to my last post, Sihaya & Company has grown a whole lot since its launch! We are currently pre-ordering our eleventh box, the gemstone-themed This Glittering World!

Pre-orders run until the end of February, or until 50 boxes are sold. We are also pre-ordering two candle collections, The Gemstone Collection, pt 1, and the third iteration of our Spring Collection.

Oh, and we are also carrying the Arcana Perfumes Valentine’s collection, an exclusive scent, and four Arcana Classics. We hope to expand our brand collaborations over 2018, and I hope there will be more to announce by Summer!

I don’t know if I’ll be posting back here anytime soon, but I do have some things I could share. I would like to swatch my single-pan palettes for folks that would find that useful, and also because I have been incredibly impressed with everything I’ve bought from Sydney Grace Cosmetics. I guess we’ll see if I can shake some time loose later this month! 🙂

Hey everybody! Long time, no see! Truth be told, I got too busy for this blog and kind of abandoned it.

[deliciousghosts-unofficial]

I Have No Plot But I Know Which Groceries These Characters Would Buy: A Tale of Misplaced Priorities

[mariatallchief]

Artists of the Royal Swedish Ballet rehearsing Alexander Ekman’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream (x)

[pinkcubi]

Mermaid who couldn’t care less about other opinions ~ 

[fagraklett]

Chinese emperor Ai of Han, fell in love with a minor official, a man named Dong Xian, and bestowed upon him great political power and a magnificent palace. Legend has it that one day while the two men were sleeping in the same bed, the emperor was roused from his sleep by pressing business. Dong Xian had fallen asleep across the emperor’s robe, but rather than awaken his peaceful lover, the Emperor cut his robe free at the sleeve. Thus “the passion of the cut sleeve” became a euphemism for same-sex love in China. — R.G.L.

[jeremyyyallan]

get you a dude who will fuck up his own clothing for you

[pilgrim-soulinyou]

NO OKAY THIS IS REALLY COOL SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN KIDS. Ancient China was super chill about homosexuality okay. Like we have gay emperors and feudal lords, lesbian princesses who were girlfriends with their serving maids, gay ass poets who wrote lots of poems about that one courtesan who played the guzheng so well. In fact homosexuality was so okay that in Shiji, which is basically the Bible of Ancient Chinese history, there is an entire section dedicated to the gay lovers of emperors. What’s the best part? All the laws and criticism about homosexuality in Ancient China were all about shit like prostitution and rape. These laws were  outlawing homosexual stuff were all very specific. For example, there were laws banning male prostitution, but no laws against homosexuality. These laws were passed to stop the spread of prostitution and laws targeting prostitution in general were pretty common in Chinese history. There were also really strict laws about male rape. Rape was punishable by death, regardless of the gender of the victim. Rape a girl, you die. Rape a guy, you die. Have sex with a minor, you die regardless of whether it was consensual. The lightest sentence you could get was slavery where you were bound to the army. Also scholars wrote essays criticising the boyfriends of emperors, saying that they distracted the emperor from work blah blah blah but THEY ALSO DID THE SAME FOR THE CONCUBINES. That’s right - the issue wasn’t homosexuality but rather the hormones of the emperor. They didn’t care about the gender of the emperor’s favourite lover but rather the fact that the emperor was too horny to get shit done. “But WAIT, Modern China is a hardass about homosexuality!!!! How do you explain that!” Yes. That. That’s because of the late Qing years where Western influences entered the country and brought their gross ass homophobic attitudes with them. And the Qing government was so anxious to seem modern and be seen as equals to their Western counterparts. So they adopted Western ways and discarded their previous attitudes about homosexuality. Hence you have Modern China. So the next time someone tries to tell you that being LGBT is wrong because it goes against traditional Chinese values, tell them to go fuck themselves with 3000 years of Chinese queerness. 

[daysofstorm]

Here are all the illustrations of historical gay couples by Ryan Grant https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/artist-spotlight/2012/08/11/ryan-grant-longs-history-gay-love#slide-0

[shapeshifting-cryptid]

This is one of the best things I have ever read.

[thorodinson]

Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie in ‘Thor: Ragnarok’

[goddessvicky]

IF I HADN’T BEEN INTO GIRLS BEFORE NOW… 

*Leia, from across the galaxy* SHE’S BISEXUAL!

[octobergryphon]

I love how entirely feminine and phallic this is.

[unicornlordart-deactivated20190]

No one swaps genders like Gaston!

[weirdsociology-deactivated20181]

… I didn’t know how into this I am until just now.

[deanwinchestier-archive-deactiv]

no man will ever be as attractive as aragorn during his first appearance on lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring (2001)

[garrulus]

i nominate aragorn opening those giant doors in lord of the rings: the two towers (2002)

[mintkitten07]

Can I also nominate Aragorn raising his sword and running towards orcs with masses of ghosts behind him in Lord of the Rings: The return of the king (2003)?

[katsdisturbed]

I wanted visuals.

[drmanhattan]

adjusted statement: no man will ever be as attractive as aragorn.

[tunditur-unda]

[skygualker]

looks like prince william is officiating the finnpoe wedding

[deserthearts]

santa saw you reading all that gay porn

[allieelly]

#so does he want a rec or

[leiaham]

[princess-wasidrol]

There is green inside you, desert child.

[prospects]

[exit-ariel-deactivated20170607]

Fun Fact: Apparently Oscar Wilde was 6’3”, which in the 1870s would have been the equivalent of like 6’7”-6’9” tall. He was so ridiculously huge and awkward that one of his friends described him as looking like a “great white caterpillar.” That is all.

[theflowofink]

When his lover’s father ( one of the founding father’s of boxing as a sport) showed up to kick his ass, Oscar stood up, pulled a gun and said something like  “I don’t know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight.” 

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

The more I find out about Oscar Wilde the more delighted I am.

[yolandart]

Philip Jackson. 1944.

Winner of National Peace Sculpture Competition, Manchester City Council, 1987. Elected Fellow Royal Society of British Sculptors.

[the-knights-who-say-book]

#I do not trust them#they mean no harm but their morality is alien to us#they are the gentry of another world and consider us a mere curiosity#sculpture#a skinnier world probably#with better hats (via @aethersea)

[leftboob-enthusiast]

Okay so I bought a dress today (along with a pair of dark blue velvet pants they are great)

and it looks pretty normal, right?

WRONG

GREETINGS I HAVE COME TO LAY A CURSE UPON YOUR VILLAGE AND KISS ALL YOUR WOMEN

[dakterrible]

Lesbian Trickster Goddess

[leftboob-enthusiast]

Excuse me, that’s BISEXUAL Trickster Goddess, thank you very much

[logicaloveranalyst]

Represent

[constellations-and-energy]

Reblog the Bisexual Trickster Goddess for a bountiful harvest and encourage representation of Bisexual people 

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

CTFU at the accuracy of this.

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

Shittt, see a girl three years younger than her brother and she’ll be responsible for more of the household labor than him.

[the-pundertaker-deactivated2020]

There should really be a ‘nevermind’ option on Netflix. Sometimes I start a movie or a series and ten minutes or an episode in, I decide I don’t like it. I don’t want to see it in my ‘continue watching’ category, and I certainly don’t want to see ‘because you watched this thing’ either. I made a mistake. Please stop reminding me.