Mini Target Haul!!!

Mini Target Haul!!

Merona brand nautical-stripe Sweater $12.48 (Clearance)

Room Essentials pink stool/compartment $9.98 (Clearance)

Target Brand white mirror $5.19 (Clearance)

I also bought a pair of undergarments for $5.00, but no way I'm showing a picture of that!

So that's it and hope you liked it.
Want to see these in a video?
They will be in a haul video at the end of February in my next monthly collective haul!!

Until then, stay tuned!~ http://youtube.com/amyrosesavage

Sleep Stages, Lucid Dreams and Dream Journals

DREAM STAGES

There are two types of sleep and there are five stages.

NREM: Non-rapid eye movement (or quiet sleep) 

If you ever had a deep sleep where you didn't dream, you were probably having NREM sleep.

and

REM: Rapid Eye Movement (active or paradoxical sleep)

REM sleep is the stage in which dreams happen and usually begins 90

minutes after we fall asleep. Our brain activity will increase, but our muscles go into a paralyzed state.

Stage 1: light sleep (lasts about 5-10 minutes)

In stage 1 the brain produces a lot of slow brain waves (Theta Waves)

Stage 2: (lasts about 20 minutes)

The brain starts to produce rapid brain waves (Sleep Spindles)

Heart rate slows and temperature decreases.

Stage 3: Transition to Deep Sleep

The brain waves start to slow, producing Delta brain waves.

Stage 4: Delta sleep (lasts about 30 minutes)

At the end of this stage is when sleepwalking or bed wetting are most likely to happen.

After this stage, stages 3 and 2 are repeated before moving on to stage 5.

Stage 5: REM sleep and dreams

This is when our respiration increase, brain wave activity becomes more active causing dreams,

and our muscles start to relaxed and become (almost) paralyzed.

These stages will repeat in cycles throughout the night.

LUCID DREAMS

"What is a lucid dream?" you may ask. No, it is not something sexual, although I admit that's what I thought too when I first heard the term "Lucid Dreaming". A lucid dream is a dream in which a person is aware that they are dreaming and can even have a certain amount of control over their experiences in said dream, although far too often most people quickly wake up when realizing this. It is probably because all of the excitement caused your heart rate and brain waves to speed up.

DREAM JOURNALING

A person has up to 5-10 dreams during one period of sleep.

When you start writing down all of your dreams, everything and anything you can remember, even if it was just a short dream that only fills one sentence, write it down. You will begin to remember more and more of your dreams this way, and that's when you will be able to start lucid dreaming. People forget up to 90% of their dreams 30 minutes after waking up, so write them down immediately after waking.

HOW TO LUCID DREAM

During a dream, you will usually see or do something that you usually do in real life, that is why you should start doing reality checks during the day or whenever you're awake. You will be able to see that you are dreaming. Plus it's also a really good thing to do before you do something really embarrassing in public just because you think you are dreaming. To perform a reality check try some of these things:

• Jump up & down. In a dream the laws of gravity may not apply and you might float down instead of simply performing a normal jump.
• Check your watch or clock, look away, and check it again. Is it the same? And before you say "No, the minute changed." I thought of that. See? I'm prepared! If the time changes an unreasonable or illogical amount, you are most likely dreaming.
• Count your fingers. If you suddenly grow an extra finger yet you have never been part of a freak experiment, you are probably dreaming.
•        Read some words or letters, look away, and when you look back see if they have changed.         
• If you feel like you are about to wake up, try rubbing your hands together or spinning or even doing both at the same time.

Do these when you are awake and you will most likely also do them when you are asleep.

Recognize dream patterns, research dream meanings, you can even buy a dream meaning index or a journal specifically made for dreams (it might have an index attached to it). They sell one at Sweet XO.

Here are a few techniques you can research to help you:

"MILD" or Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming

 "WILD" or Wake Initiated Lucid Dreaming

"WBTB" or Wake Back to Bed Technique

The following website will talk about the above techniques

http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

Random Fact: Everyone in your dreams are people you have seen at one time in your life.

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Hair Growth Tip of the Day!

Hair Growth Tip of the Day:
Use an extremely good quality of shampoo & conditioner.

My personal favourites are the following:

Shiseido by Tsubaki Damage Care Shampoo, Conditioner, and Treatment:
This one left my hair feeling the best; feeling amazing.
The set rounded off to about $36.

Head and Shoulders 2-in-1 Silky Smooth:
I love this one, it's so convenient since it's a 2-in-1 and it leaves my
hair smelling and feeling so nice! 
One large bottle rounds off to about $7.

Organix Shampoos and Conditioner:
I personally used Awapuhi Ginger Shampoo and Macadamia Nut Oil Conditioner.
While these were nice, they were not as good as the other 2 previously mentioned, but they did smell great.
Each bottle is about $5 each, so together 2 bottles are about $10.

4 Tips on Writing Your Modeling Bio or Portfolio

1. Introduction. Your name, what kind of modeling your interested in, and what kind of compensation, such as paid work or TFP ("Time for print" or "Trade for Publication" but it all

means the same, you both work free in exchange for images)

2. Experience. This should be like a brief resume. Write how long you have been modeling and even some of the work you have participated in (Modeling/Acting/Promo).

Example 1: 

Year - Name of project - Your role - Where - Director/Photographer

Example 2: 

2013 - Barbie Christmas Play - Barbie - Sunset Studio - Sara McKinley

Example 3:

2014 - Green Shoot - Model - NYC studio - Jack Daniels

3. If you do not do nude, lingerie, or implied nude shoots, please include that in your bio.

For example, my bio says at the end "I do not do nude, implied nude, lingerie, fetish, boudoir or burlesque."

4. Contact details. Include your website (not an e-mail or phone number)

you can even add the link to your twitter or Facebook Fan Page.

Want to check out my bio for further ideas?

http://modelmayhem.com/amyrosanova

Submission Sunday! Your Art Here!

I wanted to announce that I will be starting Submission Sundays this weekend! You can submit things such as questions, stories, poetry, artwork, photography, music, videos, your blogs/websites or anything else as long as it belongs to you & is appropriate (No third party, NSFW, or adult content please) and I will post a few of them every Sunday!!

Can't wait to see your submissions!!

Source: Tumblr

18 Inspirational and Insightful Book and Author Quotes

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”  ~Jim Rohn

"Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself... know what you want. "  ~Ingrid Magnussen, White Oleander

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed." ~Edgar Allen Poe

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.” 

~Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” 
~Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.”  ~Criss Jami

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”  ~Elbert Hubbard

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”  ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”  ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 
~Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”  ~Marilyn Monroe

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” 
~Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”  ~Bil Keane

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” 
~Thomas A. Edison

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” 
~Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”  ~Winston Churchill

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” 
~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”  ~Maya Angelou

~How to have a lovely day~

I found theses pictures on tumblr (I don't have a tumblr) and I thought they were so cute.

                                                

Sources: Unknown

~I do not own the pictures, I merely wanted to share them with you all.~

YouTube, Modeling, Instagram, and Photographer Shout Out!

Oh, where to start?

For starters, I just wanted to update my loyal followers on what I have been up to this past month.

So as some of you may remember, I announced earlier this month that I was taking a short break from modeling and Youtube-ing, which didn't last long of course, I took a week or two off from Youtube, and decided to ease back into it with just posting some of my instagram videos. If you'd like to follow me on instagram, knock yourself out ;D http://instagram.com/veganamyrose I've been posting here and there, but editing is a long process, so I won't be making detailed videos quite as often as I used to (for now). OOTDs aren't very long or need much editing, so I can keep up with that.

Another great thing that happened this month, is that I have been posting on my blog a lot more frequently! (yay!) Which I'm sure will make a lot of blog fanatics happy, also since I know some people prefer reading a post over watching a video.

Also, I went to a shoot yesterday. I hadn't gone to one in about a month, so getting back into it! Need to keep myself experienced, can't fall out of practice! It was a Doll-themed shoot. I'll post a pic... now!

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Fairy Gothmother!
Photography by Allen Freeman

You can follow Allen's photography blog here: http://masterphotographyblog.com

Ah, what the heck, have another!

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Photography by Jay Boivin

I've been doing more & more darker themed photos. I find that I really like it. It's my inner goth kid, I guess. I told my friend that I think I must have been goth in another life. I dunno, I just love things that have that certain je ne sais quoi. Sad, dark, gothic, foreboding themes. Love it.

I was so tired when I got home, I was at the shoot from 3 to 6:30. Didn't get home until 7 pm, but that's okay cause it wasn't very far from my city anyways.

Here's a close-up of my makeup that I took when I got home (without lipstick.)

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I was so happy to wash & exfoliate my face afterwards!!

Well, it's late here, past midnight, so until next time, make that camera your b*tch!

~Amy~

Inspiration: Misunderstandings and Offences

"Reading my words and trying to find something wrong with what I said..
I can't find it.. Why can't I find it? I know it's there..."

Is that you? It's a possibility that you've lost touch with your life and aren't even sure anymore if what you say

or do is right, or if it's offensive. I am always over-analyzing what I say or do. Do you? Some things aren't even meant to be offensive and are just misunderstood. Misunderstandings happen because of cultural differences, your religion, the way you were raised, your family, location, even the way you speak. They may not get a certain phrase from your country/state/province/city, cause they grew up elsewhere. Just take it easy, try to always say positive things, and before you say something, try to see if it might be considered offensive by your friends.

And if you do accidentally offend someone, ask them why it offended them and explain what you really meant.

As always, be kind to one another.

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Updated Playlist & Features

I have been updating the template of my blog here & there recently, and I realized that a lot of people don't like the "Auto-Play" feature of my music playlist (even I can admit that I don't like it to auto-play, because sometimes I too like peace and quiet.. I almost spelled peach instead of peace.. oops!) So I was able to fix the "Auto-Play" feature, so the visitors can decide whether or not to press play. and Voila! It no longer plays automatically! I also updated the playlist a bit. Almost all of the original playlist songs are there, only I removed 2 songs and added 2 different songs.

If you liked any of the old songs & wanted to know what they were, the old playlist consisted of:

Sydney by Palisades

The Hardest Part by Secrets

Bloody Tears by Castlevania Music

Lights by Ellie Goulding

More than Words/Heaven covered by Julliance Hough and Diego Boneta (Rock of Ages Movie)

Heart Attack by Demi Lovato

Anything Could Happen by Ellie Goulding (removed)

Makeshift Chemistry by Crown the Empire

Love, Sex, Riot by Issues (removed)

The 2 new songs are:

Melodies by Secrets

Stingray Affliction by Issues

~New Playlist~

Note:

The 2 songs at the end may be a little heavy for people who aren't used

to post-hardcore or metal-core kind of music. So please avoid them if you

don't like that kind of music. But these songs actually some of the bands' more

melodic music. They just have some growls (screaming) going on here & there.

4 Popular Items that Sell at a Yard Sale

1. Books.

Especially paperbacks. You can buy them in bulk for a very inexpensive amount at libraries, discount stores and thrift shops, Salvation Army, Good Will. Libraries usually have a day where you can fill a bag or two with books for a few dollars. If bought new they can be a pretty penny, meaning a little expensive, which is why they will be a hot commodity at a yard sale. Good genres include mystery, romance, history, children's early readers, comics, and movie books.

2. Furniture.

Things like couches, mirrors, picture frames, candles and candle holders will sell nicely.

3. Movies.

Movies can sell pretty well, dependent upon how well they look and charging a fair price (aka, dirt cheap). Having a lot of movies stacked together can be both good and bad. It's good because it shows the whole variety of what people can choose from, but it also makes browsing the movies a little difficult since the customers have to sort through them to see what's available. They could go for about $1 - $5, depending on how old, new, VHS, or DVD, etc.

4. Sets.

Sets of glasses, tumblers and cups, dinner plates, and unused silverware can be a great bargain, since no one really wants to buy 1 plate at a yard sale, or an expensive set at a store. So this will be consider a steal.

This or That Tag: Makeup & Nail Edition Questions

Looking for an idea for your next video?

I just recently did this one, and although it's not

really long, it's a space filler & sometimes short videos

are best. So go ahead and steal these questions from me

& check out MY This or That: Makeup & Nails Edition video below!!

I TAG YOU ALL TO DO IT, TOO!!

The Questions:

Makeup: 
Blush or Bronzer 
Lip Gloss or Lipstick 
Eyeliner or Mascara 
Foundation or Concealer 
Neutral or Color Eyeshadow 
Pressed or Loose Eyeshadows 
Brushes or Sponges 

Nails: 
OPI or China Glaze 
Long or Short 
Acrylic or Natural 
Brights or Darks 
Flower or No Flower

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Kitty-Cat Mascara!!

I got my kitty-cat Mascara in the mail (yesterday).

I bought it on everbuying.com

The brand: Sweet Cat : Max Volume Mascara.

I'm a little afraid to use it because it's just too cute!

It will be in my January 2014 Video Haul (at the end of the month!)

Stay Tuned!

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MY SODA HISTORY: Can I be the next "Diet Dr. Pepper Girl"? Or, actually, the first..

I love Diet Dr. Pepper. 'Nuff said. 

When did I start drinking it? 

CLASSIFIED IMFORMATION!!

Actually, it's unknown information.. I do know that it was the year 2012. When everyone was

spouting off about how the world was going to end.. so I said "YOLO" and decided to try it.

JUST KIDDING. I hate that saying. YOLO REALLY means:

You

Oughta

Look

Out

Well, this blog post is really going to be more of a free-style one.

I usually do blog posts that are "choreographed" but in a word sense...

if you get my meaning. To be more specific, I usually have a theme or a

subject. The subject of this IS Diet Dr. Pepper.. but this post is all over

the place.. Hence the "free-style" status.. um, yeah.

So here's my soda history:

as a kid, I only drank light sodas.

Then I tried Root Beer. gross.

Then I tried Dr. Pepper. LOVE.

Then Coca-cola. I drank that for a few years.

Stopped drinking soda for a few years.

Drank some, thought it was nasty.

Started drinking Coke Zero in 2011.

I also drank a bunch of Diet Shasta,

like Diet Shasta Cola, Diet Orange, Diet Black Cherry, or Diet Lemon-Lime Shastas.

Tried Diet Coke for the first time in mid 2011.

I usually thought people went from Diet Coke to Coke Zero,

but I did it the other way around. I stopped drinking those

because I read somewhere that it wasn't "vegan friendly".

So in 2012, I COMPLETELY cut off the Coke brand.

Then I started Drinking Shasta's Diet spin-off of Dr. Pepper.

It was glorious!!! *angels singing* *~haaaaaaaaa~*

And then I started drinking Diet Dr. Pepper around 2012/2013.

Then around late December 2013 (Last month)

I drank a little Diet Cherry Coke. So, yes, I went

a full year without drinking the Coke brand, and although

it's not my fave, I'll drink it as a last resort, and I highly

doubt it has "fish jelly" or whatever something in it.

Although they say the filters... never mind.

So yeah, full-blown soda history. woah.

I still want to be a Diet Dr. Pepper Girl!!

CHOOSE ME!!

I'd be fierce.. >.>

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*Updated as of 15 November 2015*