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Female Face Shaving – A Growing Trend among Japanese Women Looking for Perfectly Smooth Skin

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 04:29 AM PST

Japanese women are blessed with beautiful skin, which is mainly attributed to their fresh diet and great genes. While those might be legit reasons, it turns out they also have a little known beauty secret – shaving their faces! The trend was pioneered by beauty salons in Japan, and many women now believe that it is the real reason for younger-looking skin.

While men generally shave the areas of the face with the thickest hair growth, Japanese women get rid of their facial fuzz all over. This supposedly creates a silky smooth, porcelain texture that's highly desirable among the Japanese. The beauty treatment has become so popular that almost all salons offer a shave as a part of their regular services. Some women do it once every season along with a common facial, others once a month, and there are even those who shave at home every day with their own blades. Some prefer to shave their entire bodies, and some go as far as shaving off their eyebrows because they feel that real hair is an unrefined feature of the face.

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Student Turns Her Exam Notes into a Unique Recreation of Van Gogh’s Starry Night

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 02:21 AM PST

Anthropology sophomore Van Truong recently combined art and biology in an effort to ace her final exam in December. While most of her college mates used lists and flashcards to memorize stuff, Van used a whiteboard to write out all her notes in the form of 'Starry Night', Van Gogh’s famous masterpiece.

"I knew I had to study for this exam, and I knew I'd be writing on this whiteboard for hours," she said. "So I thought, 'Wouldn't it be funny if I did it in a form where people didn't know how to feel about it?'"

So when she got to Smathers Library on the University of Florida's Gainesville campus, she started to write down all her notes with the words forming a replica of Van Gogh's iconic painting. Three hours later, the masterpiece was complete.

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Chinese Woman Who Has Adopted 39 Handicapped Children Gets Punished by Government

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 02:04 AM PST

Kindness is not always rewarded, as proven by Chinese officials who are punishing a 65-year-old woman for taking in abandoned children with physical and mental disabilities.

Kong Zhenian, from the rural village of Jiu Jiu in northern China's Shanxi Province, has been caring for physically and mentally-challenged children for the past 40 years. "I found the first one on the side of the road," she said. "She had just been left there and I felt so sorry for her I just had to do something." So she took the child into her care and hasn't stopped helping children since then.

"I have now raised 39 children," she added. "All of them are regarded as having problems, either physically or mentally. But in fact, many of them were simply suffering from neglect. It costs a lot of money to care for them but we have managed.”

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