The first trick is to pick two to four shades that suit your tone warm, cool or neutral. Warmer colors have red tints while cooler have blue or purple bases. Lucky neutral ladies can wear anything their little hearts desire without the risk of looking off.

Once, youve chosen your warm, cool or neutral palette you then must conquer the application part. First apply the lightest shadow (preferably a dab of white or a similar hue) to the corner of the eye. This instantly brightens and widens them. Next apply the second lightest to the entirety of the lid. If it is really soft color you can even apply it up to the brow bone but we suggest just outside the crease and then a bit under the brow arch to further amplify those peepers. Next, work the deepest color into the crease. These makes eyes look deep-set and more intense. Finally, if you have chosen a four color palette, take the darkest shade and work it into the outer corner of the eye, sort of in the shape of a triangle. If you have only chosen two colors do the lightest in the all over sweep and the darker of the duo into the crease for simple, subtle approach.

Setting it with a powder (a mineral powder is best and lets skin breathe in summer months) well ensure that your powder wont crease or fade as fast. After you have done this step, apply a liner if you would like and wing it out for a mod, wide eyed, Twiggy look. Mastering liquid liner that stays put is best for this approach.

If you want to smolder take the deepest or second deepest shade and smudge into the bottom lash line. You can rim the entirety of the eye for a very sexy look. A trick of the trade when rimming with liner is to lift up the top lid and apply underneath the upper lash line which makes the top lashes appear very thick and full. It is easy to poke the eye so use caution when doing this. And always keep in mind that practice makes perfect so practice before that big night out to achieve the look youd like.

Cover Girl makes it easy and has warm, cool and neutral tones spelled out on their packaging. They also product two to four colored palettes with the same generalized instructions given here. Now go at it and smolder away!

Joel Smith www.flickurpic.com

Joel Smith writes on the side when he is not webmastering http://www.flickurpic.com

Chicken Madras is a dish that can be found in Indian restaurants all over the world and for many people it is among their choice of top chicken curry recipes. Chicken Madras comes from southern India and the curry is quite hot owing to a fairly large amount of chilli in the recipe although it can be reduced if necessary if it is too hot for your taste.

Below is a version of the Chicken Madras curry I've been preparing for a few years, which is based on that which appears in Pat Chapman's book Indian Restaurant Cookbook. The main difference is in the spice mix, which adds a larger number of spices into the initial spice mix and does away with the addition of garam massala towards the end. Another difference is that this recipe doesn't call for tomato paste to be added, which to my mind makes the sauce taste too much of tomato, and the lemon is added much earlier to be absorbed by the chicken.

Ingredients:

2 chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces
vegetable oil
1 onion sliced into thin strips
1 tin tomatoes
juice of 1/2 lemon

Spices:
4 dry red chillis
1/2 teaspoon black pepper corns
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon paprika
teaspoon cumin seeds
teaspoon fenugreek seeds
teaspoon turmeric
2 cardomoms
pinch cinnamon
4 cloves
pinch coriander power
pinch ginger powder
pinch mustard seeds

Method:
1. Fry the chicken in about 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil to colour and remove from the frying pan.

2. Add the onion until golden then add the spices. Mix the spices and blitz before adding to the pan and fry for about 5 minutes, adding a little water if necessary.

3. Add the chicken and pour the lemon juice over. Stir well.

4. Chop the tomatoes and stir into the mix. Cook at medium heat for about 10 minutes.

5. Cook in a a medium oven for 45 minutes and serve with basmati rice.

Find out more about cooking chicken curry recipes and information about Indian food from Mark Hazard.

Director Junya Sakino has tapped Steven Man to play the lead role in his dramatic tale, "Orizuru", an original screenplay scheduled to commence production early November, 2005. This will be Sakinos second project through DiVerse Pictures.

Produced by Lendi Slover, this historical drama finds its setting in the last stages of WWII, between 1941-1945. An American diplomat, Gregory Jackson (Steven Man), arrives on an intelligence mission to Hiroshima, Japan. Tensions between the two countries are at an all-time high, yet despite the hostile political climate and cultural taboos, a beautiful, young interpreter for the Japanese government falls into Jacksons world. Their secret affair leads to a child; all too soon, however, utopia is shattered when Jackson unexpectedly and seemingly without reason is recalled to the US, alone. Communication is virtually non-existent, but four months later on December 7th, 1941 they get much worse and the reason for his sudden departure becomes all to clear: Pearl Harbor.

Jackson does everything in his power to expedite the arrival of his soon to be wife and newborn son to the US, however, Chizuko (Atsko Hirayanagi) is dealing with her own demons: she has been disowned by her powerful family. Her secret relationship and unwedded pregnancy to a foreigner disgraced her family and in losing face, she has been thrown to the streets to live a life of servitude. It is now Jackson from whom she keeps the truth.

Over the next months, Jackson fights for any means of contact, but the gauntlet of war has been thrown down and it is then that he learns of a far greater problem, the "Manhattan Project".

On July 25, 1945 President Truman noted in his personal diary that he ordered the atom bomb to be used on Hiroshima. He said he believed he was targeting "military objectives" and "not women and children".

Truth and fiction weave such a fine braid in this heart-wrenching story, Sakino calls upon audience to find their own answers to war.

Literally translated to English, Orizuru (??) means the Japanese origami crane that is made from the art of folding paper. The Orizuru has become a symbol of peace in part from the legend that says anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their dream come true and in part because of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was two years old when nuclear bomb that dropped on Hiroshima, miraculously she survived but was exposed to significant amounts of radiation. By the time she was twelve in 1955 she was dying of leukemia. Believing in the power of the Orizuru, she wrote a haiku (a Japanese poem) "I shall write peace upon your wings, and you shall fly around the world so that children will no longer have to die this way" and passionately started to fold 1,000 cranes so that she could live. She folded 644 before she died. The community folded the remaining number and she was buried with a wreath of 1,000 cranes. To celebrate her strength and humanity, Hiroshima erected a statue of Sadako in Hiroshima Peace Park: a young girl standing with her hands outstretched and a giant paper crane (Orizuru) flying from her fingertips. Every year the statue is adorned with thousands of wreaths of a thousand origami cranes.

Junya Sakino arrived to the United States five years ago from Hiroshima, Japan with the focus of making a film that would impact generations to come. On this path, he has had great support and success working on films including Casshern and Rings, produced by Dreamworks and directing the award winning film, The Jazz Addict. In his role as a graduate student director, by way of California State University, both his films, Vanity Mirror and The Spiral Ring are award nominees.

Steven Man is making a significant impact as a leading man having entered the acting field through the independent film community and is garnering critical acclaim with all his projects. Currently he can be seen in the film noir, "Sweet Deadly Dreams", which is touring the festival circuit, "Savage Island" (widely available) which have collectively garnered almost a dozen "Best Picture Awards"! Next? the dark drama, "Edge of Nowhere". Pick up a copy of "The Cut" magazine this December to catch a feature story on Steven or come to Tulsa, OK "Script to Screen Film Festival" where he is nominated for Best Actor and "Sweet Deadly Dreams" is nominated for Best Picture!

On the eve of August 5th, 1945 Gregory Jackson, broken, stares out the window of his Washington home, it is now 8:15am in Hiroshima.

Is war really the answer?

For more information on the film, "Orizuru", Director, Junya Sakino and actor Steven Man, please contact Crown Media International, email: CrownMediaInt@gmail.com, (310) 600-0575.

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