The all seeing eye

I have just draw something and I am in love with it!

I used: 

• 3B graphite pencil NOTE IT (not that good...);
• color pencil CARAN D'ACHE (aquarelle) and STAEDTLER (aquarelle also);
• a brush (I don't know the correct name of it) with water inside (in the image of the right);
• and balls of cotton (because of the shadows).

It took me 2h05 to finish and I'm really happy with the result:

Tell me what you think and ideas for another draw, leave a comment below :)

DIY: 5 TYPES OF SHAMPOO

So, I heard a scientist (or someone like that) saying that the normal, the shampoo that we all buy in store, makes hair more oily and that is quite a problem to because my hair is that type of hair that in the end of the day (if I washed it in the morning) can already be oily, and that pisses me off so much, so if the normal shampoo makes it worse (because it have components that just wash all your natural oils that make you hair look cleaner,  and make it produce them in much more quantity making your hair as oil as shit) why not try a natural shampoo, a homemade shampoo, that isn't a detergent? I start to investigate some recipes (that, to be honest, I'll only try next year -when I'll be at the college - but I found interesting) that I'll show to you right below.

1. Growth 
2. Shiny
3. For oily hair
4. Volume 
5. Lightening

1. I don't really have this problem because my hair grows really fast (sometimes too faster...) but I know there is some people, even my friends that have this problem and want to get over it so... why not to try something new?

To do this shampoo you need:

• Organic Nettle Shampoo (500ml)
• 1-2 Table Spoons Panthenol Solution
• Stinging Nettle Extract (25ml)
• 2-3 Vials Vitamin B Complex
• Castor Oil (50ml)

Mix everything.

OR

• Soap Nuts/ Reetha (100 grams)
• Shikakai Powder (1-2 teaspoons)

Soak soap beans in water and leave them overnight then pour the contents of your bowl into a blender, add Shikakai powder and blend until smooth.

2. We all dream about that perfect shiny hair, that amazing, apparently well carry hair, and the normal shampoos don't always work as they promise so.. it need a little of work but why not try this one?

To do this shampoo you need:

• Distilled Water (1/4 cup)
• Castile Soap, Liquid (1/4 cup)
• Dried Rosemary (2 tablespoons)
• Almond Oil (2 tablespoons)
• Lemon Essential Oil (1/2 Teaspoon)

You have to make a rosemary infusion by boiling distilled water pouring it over dried Rosemary leaves and steeping it until half cooled. Strain then use this liquid as a base in which you’ll add the rest of the ingredients.

3. You have various options to this one, I will try them all (every that I find) and in a future post give you my opinion, because I really need this one so much.

Aloe Vera

You need:

• lemon juice
• aloe vera gel
• liquid castile soap

Mix liquid castile soap with two tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice and a teaspoon of aloe vera gel.

Avocado

You need:

• 1 Ripe Avocado (Peeled, Pitted and Pureed)
• Baking Soda (2 tsps)
• Distilled Water (1/4 cup, preferably warm)

Blend the ingredients well until you get a smooth paste.

4. I have that typical straight hair, I can't do anything with it, any wave leaves my hair in minutes and it just have no volume, basically, so I really will try this one.

To do this shampoo you need:

• baking soda
• water
• cornstarch

Mix a tablespoon of baking soda with a cup of water, add cornstarch until it reaches thickness that you want and use on your hair instead of your normal shampoo, and enjoy your new voluminous hair (maybe..)

5. This is not really a shampoo, this is more like tips to that persons that like light hair and already have a lightish hair, mine is like a light brown hair with some gold glances so I really want to try this two:

Salt:

Mix salt with water.

Just mix 1 part salt with about 5 parts water and rinse your hair. Allow to sit in hair for at least 15 minutes (you can enjoy reading a good book while you're waiting) and then rinse clean.

Lemon:

I already knew about the lightening proprieties of lemon so this old school tip probably works really well.

just mix cup of water with about 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and apply it to your hair. Then just sit in the sunlight until your hair dries. 

There are lots of tips, I choose this two because they are really easy and seems to work.

If you have any advice to me, please fell free to let me know, leaving a comment below :)

Dracula: A pretty nice resume of the book

• The story of Dracula happens in 6 months
• It happens between Transylvania (Romania), Whitby and London
• The main characters are: Dracula (of course), Jonathan and Mina Harker, Lucy, Arthur, Doc. Van Helsing, Renfield, Doc. John Seward and Quincey Morris
• The book is wrote with letters and diaries that the personages write to each others.

Jonathan goes to Transylvania because of Mr. Hawkins asks him to, to help count Dracula buying a place in London. Is the count's castle, where Jonathan stays, there were something strange, as himself suspected. His suspicions were confirmed when he noticed that he were a prisoner locked in a vampire's home, alone, where plus him and the count only were living there three others vampire girls that jut didn't eat him all because of the count, who stopped them. 

One day, in a mix of insane courage and despair Jonathan decides to climb the steep wall of the outside of the castle, and go down to count bedroom, what he was successfully done and, even there haven't find anything that could help him escape (like a key) he found the count crypt full of soil in boxes where inside the vampire slept.

The despaired man tries to write a letter to his lovely Mina and another to Mr. Hawkin, something in which he haven't success once that Dracula found out and get them away, however the monster asks Jonathan to write 3 other letters to announce his come back to UK and preparing that way the man's disappearance.

Dr. John Seward, a psychiatric that lives in his hospital,  talks about his mentally sick man, Renfield, who appreciates taking the life of animals, specifically eating them.

Mina goes see her friend Lucy in Whitby, where one night arrives to the port a ship led by a dead man and a dead crew. A big animal (that looked like a dog) came out of this ship that, will know to be Dracula. The last moments of the crew are described on the logbook of the captain. 

Lucy is a sleepwalker and in one of her attacks she goes to the cemetery (the favorite place of the two friends) and there the vampire bites her, what makes her get sick.

Jonathan writes to Mina explaining that he is sick (but safe) in a hospital. Mina goes from Whitby to Hull to see her fiancee that is recovering from a shock that experienced in Transylvania, there the two persons get married.

Arthur asks to John see Lucy because she stills sick. John don't understands the reason of girl's sickness and calls an old teacher, professor Van Helsing that came from Amsterdam to study Lucy's case.

Lucy gets worse, lost so much blood that Arthur, John and Van Helsing have to give her their blood. She need to be watched while sleeping so that Dracula don't suck more blood from her. In a certain night, because of a certain oversight, that didn't happened and (as Lucy write in a letter) her mother dies, and also herself, even with Quincey's blood, dies, what makes her become a vampire.

In the regional newspaper are published few news about a "white lady" that catches children to suck their blood. This lady appears to be LUCY!

Jonathan sees Dracula younger than ever in a street in London and starts to be in shock again, because in means that he is being "eating well".

Mina finally reads the diary that Jonathan wrote in Transylvania and that gave her in the hospital;  Van Helsing says to them both that everything that is written there is the pure truth what make Jonathan relax a bit because now he knows that his brain haven cheated him.

Van Helsing, to prove that Lucy isn't completely dead goes with John to her grave and opens it, but she isn't there. However in the next morning she is back there and even prettier than in the night of her death. The 4 men goes to there once night more and Arthur gains courage to kill once and for all his beloved girland give her the peace that she deserves, driving a stake through her heart.

Jonathan and Mina rewrite and organize all the information that they have about the vampire in John's hospital that is neighbor of Carfax, the house of Dracula.

The 5 men goes to Carfax to sterilize the boxes where the count hides himself during the day (when he is vulnerable) and they found that the boxes aren't all there.  

Renfield dies after let Dracula in the hospital to bite Mina and get his revenge, given also to her his blood so they both get connected. 

They find and destroy all the boxes except one that is in a ship ready to leave with Dracula, they almost can kill him in Picadilly, but the crafty monster can escape. They find that when they hypnotize Mina she can get into count's brain and found out that he is leaving to Varna, however the opposite also happens and Dracula finds the planes of the friends and changes his, making (with their powers) the ship goes to Galatz running away from them. However they don't give up and go after him and can finally kill him, freeing the world from a huge evil even with the death of Lucy and Quincey.

This story is really amazing to read because of the intelligence of the way that it's written, that was really something that I enjoy when was reading because is like you are in the head of the personage that writes that part of the book, feeling their feelings, thinking their thoughts, experience the story as they're experiencing.

AMAZING! 

• The best movie to watch about this book is "Bram Stoker's Dracula", it is the most faithful to the book.

If you want to advise me some other book so I can read it and resume it, just leave a comment below. :)

10 different places to travel

I'm 17, from Portugal and I really dream about explore all world and enjoy the most beautiful places on earth, here I'll post my personal top 25 and give some information about them:

• Australia

This huge island were the 1st to get away of Pangaea which means that their animals and plants are different from all in the world, so this place are an amazing place to stay a few time because of their variety of environment and species unique in world.

• Iceland

Iceland island is a volcanic island covered by ice what gives to tourists the most spectacular views of the hole world, is the northerner country of the world which make the country a sub-polar place with really cold temperatures. The main island is located in the Atlantic rift; in the island we can see that rift out of the see. Even when the temperatures are really low, there are places in it where the water are in amazing 38ºC.

• Japan

Japan is also a volcanic island and is located in the middle of 3 borders convergence which make it one of the more unstable places in the world, and the most prepared to an earthquake event. It is also a wonderful place with a Asiatic beauty and delicate of the nature.

• Peru (Machu Picchu)

Machu Picchu were in past times a great city that belonged to Incas people and that the Spanish discoverers totally destroyed. The ruins of this ancient city that is called "the Inca's lost city" and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. What is incredible about the city is that is placed at 2,430 m high in the mountain above Sacred Valley.

• Maldives

Maldives archipelago is the typical tropical archipelago with islands with really light and soft sand and transparent blue warm water, with a faun and flora extraordinary and exuberant. This is the destination of lots of honey moons because of the calm that this place gives to those who have the chance to go there. To me, what most attract me is the cute houses that "float" over the water and where (in my imagination at least) you can wake up and just... jump to the hot water of the sea.

• Yellowstone

The Yellowstone national park is located in the state of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. There are wonderful views given by the huge super-volcano  that exists there because of a hotspot hidden under the lithosphere and which warms all the water in the park and create geysers and the so well known hot springs.

• New York City 

New York is the city of the cities, the city that never sleeps and were you can do anything that you can imagine, basically, there is a great place to experience a amazing mix of cultures and persons. The big apple have their so characteristic skyscrapers but can also have huge green parks (like central park - the most known) interacting. Go to this city and see how new yorker live might be a life experience.

• Chicago

The city of jazz, near to the great lakes are a really amazing place. When I think in Chicago I imagine lots of art and street artists, amazing music in bars and restaurants and a place with is great to live. This city in Michigan is the 3rd most populous city of US with around 10 million people (just the same number of people living in my hole country..) living in it metropolitan area.

• Canada

Canada is the 2nd largest country of Earth (just smaller than Russia) and have a great landscapes, like huge mountains covered by snow, glaciers, lakes, cities, and really beautiful different places. Canada have also the biggest coastline of the world and almost 32.000 lakes with extremely beautiful landscapes.

• Hawaii

I have to say that I start to appreciate the beauty of Hawaii watching Hawaii five-0...

This archipelago is also formed (just similarly to Yellowstone) by a hotspot in the middle of Pacific Ocean. The beauty of (most of all) the flora of the islands make anyone lose them mind, the rich flora (and faun) of the island are proportionate by the really warm climate typical from the tropics. There is nothing on Hawaii that isn't wonderfully beautiful... beaches, forests, volcanoes...

This list was supposed to have 25 different destinations, however I start to see that it wold be an extremely huge post so I reduced this to the "top 10" (I guess). It was really hard to me because places like Sweden, Norway, LA, Las Vegas, Galapagos, Italy, France, England, Scotland, Indonesia, Alaska, Dubai...

So... that's it, if you think that I (or the world) should see some other destination or if you want a post just about an specific place just leave a comment below.

How to delete a month of posts on tumblr without select one by one

So, I just found something really interesting and useful (at least for me) about tumblr posts and I decided to share.

Have you ever looked to your posts from long ago and think "where the hell had I in my head when I published this", this happened to me few times when I looked back to 2012, when I started tumblr, but there is a way of delete it easily (kind of).

You just have to go to your posts (by dashboard) and click in "mass post editor" once you've done it will appear a page similar to this one, where you can select the posts one by one and delete or edit tags or ad tags BUT don't despair!

  

If you have tons and tons of posts and it is just humanely impossible to delete all one by one you can copy this: javascript:var count=0; $('.brick').each(function() { count++; if(count<100) { $(this).addClass('highlighted'); }; }); delete_selected_posts();

And past in the search bar (IT WORKS ON CHROME!) But attention! You have to rewrite "javascript:" because it is automatically deleted.

Than just click enter and will appear a message asking if you are sure if you want to delete, and like you can see, easily all the first 100 post are selected and ready to delete.

Something that can save my reputation, finally! 

(That is not so usefull because I think that you have to do this every time you delete 100) But if you want to "save" one or other post Just click in "cancel" in the message and deselect the image/s and than delete the others.

So this is an easy way to delete tons of humiliating posts from you "childhood", the worst thing is always have to write javascript... but we can handle with it and is always better than click to select 100 posts.

If you want to know anything else just leave a comment below :)