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Cranes (origami)

So today, being my birthday, my best friend gave me a hamper with all the food/drinks I like from Chinatown. She got me Hi-Chews (strawberry, apple and grape flavour), Ramune, Ramune sweets, Shin ramyun, 3/4 flavours of Hello Panda biscuit/sweets, Thai energy drinks, Jasmine tea, a matching tea pot & cup & spoon & soy sauce dish & bowl and Hello Kitty stickers in the cutest box ever. She wrote "happy birthday Christine" in Japanese, using the correct alphabets. It was so cute :). If you don't know some of the items I just listed, I definitely advise looking them up and trying them, despite how unhealthy it all is. I'll promote everything in moderation.

Anyway, so during a free period, this guy drank a whole bottle of sainsbury's own brand brown sauce for £10, it was disgusting but my respect goes out to that guy. After that, I sat in Maths Help with my Chinese friend and I learnt how to make cranes. I know it's a pretty asian thing to do, but I think it's a necessary skill for a half asian. It's also a good pass-time. I advise learning how to do this, there are loaads of videos on YouTube and other video sites, google it.

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Fake tan

Why is it that in the UK, all the fake tan is orange based? I tried out Dove gradual tan for fair-normal skin and although it didn't change the colour of my skin much, it somehow added a tint of orange/brown. I can't tell whether it's just all fake tan that is orange or is it just for people with white skin?

I'm not a fan of fake tan to be honest, it is what it says: fake. However, lots of my friends use it so I was wondering if you could get a yellow based one.

For asians or half asians, I'd definitely advise using a gradual tan to avoid risk and preferably one that isn't for dark skin just in case (unless you have really dark skin). If it turns your skin a bizarre colour, definitely change brands. I heard that palmers does a good gradual tan, and the dove one isn't too bad.

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The beginning of an era

So this is the first post on my half-half blog. I regularly browse the internet to find things out or get advice on things (products, fashion etc) and over time, I realised that I hardly ever found anything on half ‘oriental’ and half Caucasian’s.

For example, when I was looking for suggestions of good foundations for half asian and half white skin, I could only find information on asian skin, or half asian and half hispanic. Little things like this have started to annoy me so I hope that I can share my information with you.

Moreover, there are hardly any surveys done on half asian’s generally, like the average height or like scientific research. I guess this is because multiculturalism is a relatively new concept and scientists are not necessarily interested in such a field.

I hope you can support my blog in some way by messaging me suggestions or things you wanna hear about, or ask me questions via the ‘question box’.

NB when I say asian, I’m referring to orientals. However, in the US, it’s apparently considered offensive to call someone oriental so I’ll try to use the term asian as much as possible. Sorry for any offense caused to those asians who are not oriental.