Share your experience, if any: how long you could do without a face cream, and at what age did you decide to apply it. At the same time, do you think the skin is worse / better or on a par with those who use creams for a long time and constantly?
Why am I asking? Yes, I don't have this cream. For hands only. Yes, I wash my face with water. No soap. And I don't use tonics.
So I want to know the opinion and experience of the same as me. Happy New Year everyone!
Anonymous
Hi all. I have always been amazed at spoiled teenagers who quarrel with their parents because of an iPhone in that color, but this story happened to me: This year my husband and I had a lot of expenses: buying a house, furniture, renovating a kitchen, having a baby ... in general, I didn’t count on a New Year’s gift, although I stuttered several times that I wanted a new iPhone 11 pro. Well, yesterday I found the same phone under the Christmas tree, but ... in gold color, and I really wanted Midnight Green, fashionable this season. In theory, it can be changed to green, but I'm afraid to offend my husband and seem ungrateful. What should I do?
110Anonymous
I decided to write here, because it is very annoying, but I don’t know what to do and how to react. Many thanks in advance for your advice.
I have an 11 year old daughter and my colleague has a 13 year old daughter. She could not get pregnant from her husband for a very long time, got divorced and gave birth to a random man who sometimes helps them. I gave birth in marriage, then my husband left for another.
A colleague talks about her daughter all the time in superlatives. That she knows English perfectly and speaks with a British accent, even the English teacher is amazed at her innate abilities. She has been dancing since the age of five and she is always put to dance the first parties or solos in a dance circle. She swims like a little mermaid, holding her breath for six minutes. She rides like a real rider. All the boys in the class run after her in herds, the girls line up to sit at the same desk with her. And, well, what a beauty is by itself. The photo does not show that we, envious aunts, do not jinx her.
And so my sister transferred her son to the class where this girl studies. After a while, we accidentally talked about her, and it turned out that this girl is very shy, stutters with excitement when teachers or classmates talk to her. She is tall and plump, she has very thick legs and a long, slightly equine face with a heavy lower jaw, she is terribly clumsy, waddling. She doesn’t go to the pool at all with the class, she is allergic to bleach. He studies so-so, because of timidity he often does not answer, even if he knows the topic, and those teachers who do not spare her often give C's. In general, she studies between 3 and 4. None of the boys runs after her, but on the contrary, they tease and laugh at her. And the girls do not want to take her into their company, they snort. She sits alone, she never participates in any class activities, she always resorts to the latest in physical education.
And now, when at work my colleague begins to tell stories about her daughter, I always want to somehow respond, but I don’t know how. If only she would just tell, otherwise she always speaks as if in defiance of the others. Someone says “mine is completely out of hand, doesn’t do homework, walks, can’t be dragged home,” she immediately: “and my smart girl does all her homework as soon as she comes from school, then she studies English on Skype for two hours, then cooks for my when she arrives, she vacuums, embroiders with satin stitch, then at her leisure she sews aprons, potholders and hems curtains. "Or I tell that I got two Bs in a quarter, and she immediately says that her daughter is an excellent student from the first grade, and some teachers even "Sixes are put in her diary with delight. And so it always is. I would like to somehow let her know that I am aware of how things really are with her daughter, but I don't want it to look like I'm out of envy I do it.
What would you do?
104tatyana konyukhova
Happy New Year forum members! Interested in the opinion of those who gave birth in the Lyubertsy maternity hospital. What are the pros and cons. Are the pluses (or minuses) of paid childbirth in this RD obvious. I understand that reviews can be very subjective. Therefore, if it’s not difficult, what specifically liked and what didn’t. All health, kindness and love!
82Actually what is the problem. As far as I know, in such cases, some kind of payment is due. Insurance or something like that. How to get it? What is required for this? It is clear that the leadership can resist, it is their own fault, they say, and all that. Is there any chance to achieve something?
81With the help of beautiful candles, you can create a romantic atmosphere or simply decorate the interior. The modern market presents many options for candles of different sizes, colors and aromas. But why spend money on something that you can easily do at home? After all, almost everyone has ordinary paraffin candles.
Today we will tell you how to turn an ordinary candle into a work of art. This is a very exciting activity, and there is something magical in it. You can safely involve children and other family members to create a colorful miracle.
Multicolored candles
You will need
- paraffin candle
- paper cups
- glass cup
- colored wax crayons
- wick
- a small piece of glass or metal
- favorite essential oils
Working process
Prepare the wick. Usually it is sold with a ready-made base, but if you don’t want to buy, then do it yourself. Place a small piece of paraffin in a paper cup and melt in the microwave (if you don't have a microwave, just hold the paraffin in a water bath). Make a small hole in a piece of glass or metal and pull the wick through it. Place the resulting structure in a glass beaker and fill it with prepared paraffin. 
Cut the crayons of the desired color into small pieces. 
Place paraffin wax and chopped crayons in paper cups. Melt everything in the microwave. Thoroughly mix the contents of the glasses until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Add essential oil. Pour the mass of the desired color into a glass with a wick. You can tilt the container to get the desired shape. 
Wait until the first color hardens, and pour the mass of the other color. Do this with each color until you get a full-sized candle. You can make each layer with a different flavor. 
If you add essential oils to the mixture, before the New Year holidays, try making candles with the smell of Christmas trees and tangerines. You can also decorate a glass cup with coffee beans, shells or beads, most importantly - not plastic ones.
In this way you can make a variety of candles. The whole process will take quite a bit of time, and the result will please you and your loved ones very much. 
Modern artists use the most unusual techniques and strange objects to paint pictures. Today you will not surprise anyone with pictures from, and even. Instead of paints, artists use,.
Wax pencils are no exception. It turns out that you can make them not only, but also create masterpieces. The article will consider several techniques for creating paintings from ordinary drawing objects.
Method number 1 "Chips". To create a picture, prepare wax pencils of different colors.
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Remove the paper wrapper from them.
There are two ways to make pencil shavings. With a sharpener. She removes a thin layer of colored wax from the pencils.
Or you can grate pencils. You will get a smaller crumb. Both sizes of fine wax are needed to create a painting. So the patterns will turn out to be more diverse.
Prepare the canvas for the painting. In order for the drawing to have saturated colors, it is better to use fabric. Colors will look washed out on paper. Sprinkle crumbs from pencils on the fabric. It can be stripes or other shapes.
Cover with parchment paper, which housewives use for baking.
Heat the iron well and iron the paper. At high temperatures, the wax will begin to melt.
When you have treated the entire surface, slowly peel off the paper. Do not make sudden movements, otherwise the drawing will be smeared.
Leave the wax to dry. Optionally, you can decorate the sides of the canvas.
Method number 2 "Paintings using a hair dryer." A hair dryer will help melt the wax from the pencils. With this option for creating paintings, you do not need to remove the wrapper from the pencils and grind. Glue them to the canvas.
Lift it up so that the pencils are on top of the base.
Turn on the hair dryer and blow hot air onto the wax. Gradually it will melt and flow down.
When using this technique, original paintings are obtained.
Drawings from wax pencils can be anything. If you arrange the colored wax in the shape of a heart, then the inside of the canvas will be clean.
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Or stick a paper stencil onto the material before melting the wax.
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Then remove it after working with a hair dryer. Additionally, paint an empty space or decorate with sparkles.
With this option for creating paintings, a pattern is obtained in the form of stripes. You can make bright spots on the canvas in another way. Cut the pencils into small pieces. Attach them to the canvas.
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Heat up the wax with a hair dryer. If you slowly rotate the hair dryer around the pencil, you will get a round shape.
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Choose colors and their placement depending on the desired composition.
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Method number 3 "Glue gun". Often in needlework, a glue gun is used to connect parts of the decor. It can be used to paint pictures with colored wax. This device has a heating device in its design. It is he who can melt the wax pencils.
Instead of glue sticks, prepare pencils. If necessary, then cut off excess wax. Insert the pencils into the glue gun, and plug the device into the socket.
When the wax begins to melt, bring the device to the canvas and press the lever. The wax will drip onto the paper, creating intricate patterns.
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Collect the rest of the colored wax together and make colored crayons out of them for children's creativity.
It's easy to create art with wax crayons. You can make such an original masterpiece with your own hands if you use these techniques.
Since the invention by cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith in 1903, crayons have become almost an integral part of children's lives. Remember your childhood and your children's albums, dotted with colorful scribbles of inept lines and strokes. Drawing with colored pencils, perhaps, has not bypassed a single person on Earth, because drawing lessons begin in kindergarten and continue in the elementary grades of the school with pencils, along with watercolors.
No other commercial product can match the versatility of a pencil. Most importantly, wax crayons are completely non-toxic, made from natural materials, environmentally friendly and available in over 120 colors. In fact, with their help, you can get a lot more colors and shades by mixing them directly on paper during the drawing process.
Pencils and crayons undoubtedly play an important role in developing a craving for creativity in a child. As for the market for these products, here we see several different types of pencils: ordinary classic, glow in the dark (luminescent), flavored, glitter and water-soluble. But, despite the variety, they all have the same basic ingredients: paraffin wax and pigments that determine their specific color.
Manufacturing methods
First we need to make paper tubes. They will serve not only as a form for our home-made drawing supplies, but also protect your hands from stained dyes later.
Tubes are very easy to make. You just need to wind several layers of any paper on a round blank of a suitable diameter, gluing the layers with PVA glue so that they are dense enough. How many layers will have to be wound depends on the density of the paper itself. As a result, you should get approximately the same tubes as in the illustration.
There are only two methods for making homemade drawing supplies themselves.
First method, similar to an industrial method, available, however, for do-it-yourself reproduction at home.
First, melt paraffin or stearin from candle cinders (beeswax is also suitable). In the melted paraffin, add the usual food coloring and about one tablespoon of boiling water. All this must be thoroughly mixed until the color of the mixture is uniform and poured into molds, that is, into those same paper tubes.
In industrial conditions, special hardeners and pressing are used to give the pencils the necessary hardness, but we can do without it.
Second method, an equally affordable way to make do-it-yourself crayons is to use ordinary soap instead of paraffin.
You will need half a glass of soap flakes, again food coloring and boiling water. Soap flakes must first be dissolved in hot water. There should not be much water, but just enough so that the mixture has the consistency of a paste. If you pour water and the mixture is not thick enough, you will have to evaporate it.
After dissolving the soap flakes completely until the paste is even, add food coloring to it, and mix it all until the color is uniform. When doing this, make sure that there are no air bubbles in the paste, otherwise the crayons will be brittle. And in the end, pour into your paper tubes and leave them to dry for a day.
It is also easy to make new wax pencils from broken or scribbled ones. Just melt them down and pour them into molds.
If later you wrap the pencils in colored paper or an original wrapper, then they may well become the most original handmade gift.
By the way, one of the most interesting facts about colored pencils is that the average child uses about 700 pencils from their first attempts at drawing up to their decade.
Encaustic is drawing with wax crayons melted on the surface of a hot iron. Such a simple device will help create amazing paintings, master interesting needlework.
What is encaustic?
This art involves the creation of paintings using molten wax of various colors. Such works are still found in the excavations of ancient Greece. Early Christian paintings still retain their bright colors.
All you need to work is:
- paper;
- iron;
- wax pencil.
Wax painting: necessary equipment and materials for encaustics
Anything can be depicted. If you are an aspiring artist, then you will be able to do abstract paintings. If you have experience in creating canvases, then you can depict clear landscapes.
The main material that is required in the work is artistic wax with colored pigments. It is sold in specialized art stores. If it is not possible to purchase such wax, then use crayons for drawing and wax pencils. They can be purchased at the stationery store.
You will also need:
- glossy thick cardboard;
- soft cloth for polishing;
- lining on the desktop so that it remains clean during work.
If this is not possible, then use an ordinary household iron, but it should be small in size, have a sole without holes and a temperature controller.
You will need toilet paper and napkins or a rag, with these materials you need to clean the sole of the iron in order to change the color of the wax to a new one.
If you have a hair dryer that can adjust the temperature, then you can use it. Then use wax pencils as materials.
If encaustics becomes your permanent hobby or even a source of income, then you will need to buy a special heating rod called causaria. It will help to depict small details and ornate patterns.
Encaustic for beginners
For those who have just decided to master this interesting technique, it will be useful to find out what techniques you can use when working, these are:
- smoothing;
- edge work;
- impression;
- nose work.
When the material acquires such a consistency, it will be necessary to run the iron over the surface of the paper, but without pressing hard on it so as not to burn it. A trace of the desired shape should remain on the sheet.
Working with an edge allows you to create various stripes. This technique is used to draw grass, flowers. First you need to proceed in the same way as in the case when you applied the impression in the smoothing technique. Now put an iron on this pattern with an edge to get a strip of the desired length. Remove excess wax with a soft cloth.
In order to make veins in the drawing using the encaustic technique, you need to apply paint to the paper base, and then put the sole of the iron on it for a few seconds. At the same time, it should lie like a glove, they should not fidget.
To create fine details of the picture, you need to dip the tip of the iron in melted wax, and then attach it to the canvas in the right place.
Encaustic - master class with photo
Now that you have learned the basics of this art, it's time to move on to a practical lesson. It will be easy for beginners.
Take:
- wax pencils;
- white sheet of thick cardboard;
- glue;
- hair dryer with adjustable temperature.
Pencils should be the same size, if any of them are longer, cut them from the side opposite the rod to equalize with others.
Spread the upper part of the sheet with glue, attach the wax blanks here tightly to each other with the tip down. When the glue dries, bring the hair dryer to the tips of the wax pencils, turning it on at the strongest power. In this case, the workpieces will begin to melt, and the wax will gradually flow down.
If you need strict vertical lines, then hold the sheet of cardboard in the usual position. If you want to achieve interesting special effects, then rotate it from side to side.
If you are satisfied with the result, then put the work on a horizontal surface and wait for your masterpiece to harden.
Such an art object will decorate your home or become an unusual gift for the New Year or another holiday.
The next master class will allow you to create a beautiful abstract painting.
To implement the plan, you will need:
- thick paper;
- a small iron without holes on the sole;
- wax pencils;
- paper that can cover the work surface.
Now bring the iron to the paper sheet and start moving it horizontally in one direction and the other. Try to keep the colored stripes as little as possible to intersect each other and mix with each other.
As you understand, the principle of smoothing was applied. Now you need to use the print method. To do this, press the iron against the surface to leave uneven prints on it. You can make a few more prints on each to achieve an interesting effect.
Wait for the encaustic painting to cool slightly and after about a minute polish its surface with a soft cloth.
An inexperienced audience is unlikely to understand what you made this work of, beautiful and very effective. After you practice on simple patterns, you can move on to more complex ones.
Encaustic - a master class for experienced
If you have all the necessary tools, then the work should not seem too difficult even for craftsmen with little experience. Here's what you'll need:
- hob;
- iron;
- paper;
- foam rubber;
- the cloth.
To draw a landscape, take a blue wax crayon or pencil and start shading it at the top of the sheet. Since the cardboard base will be heated, this will not be difficult to do.
Mountains are drawn next. To do this, put a brown chalk on the sole of the iron, turn the tool over, heat it.
Then place the flat iron on the surface of the sheet, depict the peaks and the mountain system, using some encaustic techniques.
If you need to shade the paint, use a piece of cloth or a sponge for this. To make mountains surrounded by greenery, depict it with a chalk of this color. Draw other elements of the picture, after which you can frame it.
Wax painting technique on paper
Encaustic technique allows you to get very beautiful landscapes. You will be convinced of this now. See what wonderful paintings the craftswomen create.
For work you will need:
- an iron for encaustics or a regular travel iron of a small size without holes;
- glossy cardboard, thick photo paper for printers on which photographs are printed is suitable;
- colored crayons;
- napkins;
- soft cloth.
When they become soft, you can use them, but without waiting until the wax begins to flow down from the surface of the iron.
Apply melted wax to glossy cardboard, swipe from left to right. At the same time, make a small semicircle with an iron.
Carefully, so as not to burn yourself, wipe off the wax from the surface of the iron with napkins and put crayons of a different color here. When they are melted, place the iron on the right side of the sheet and swipe to the left, then in the opposite direction and again to the left.
Now you need to remove this wax from the iron with a napkin and melt brown on it. Make the so-called otlips with the prepared solution. In this case, you need to apply the iron to the paper and quickly lift it. They do this several times.
It remains to mark the small details. For this, the methods listed above are used. Run the edge and then the tip of the iron over the drawing to depict a bush.
Look how beautiful it turned out. Since the picture is made with wax paints, it will sparkle charmingly.
The encaustic technique is also good because you can come up with a plot for a picture right on the go. By making several movements with the iron, placing the wax in a random order, you may find that you have painted something that was not intended before.
The craftswoman from the next master class depicted the bird in this way on her masterpiece. But first things first.
First she took:
- heat-resistant glossy cardboard;
- German and Russian wax crayons;
- iron;
- towel;
- napkin.
Now you need to put white and blue crayons on a warm iron, start drawing with them.
Turn a sheet of cardboard and cover it with wax using an iron on the other side. Now you need to draw clouds with the edges of the iron.
If necessary, occasionally wipe the sole of your instrument with a tissue. But if you use the same colors, then you don't have to.
Looking closer, the craftswoman saw that a bird appeared on the canvas, however, a little strange. It was decided to finish her feathers with the tip of an iron.
You can make adjustments using a toothpick or a pointed wooden skewer. With it, you remove the excess, draw something, clean something.
Now you need to make prints to depict grass, bushes. To do this, put green and brown chalk on the iron, apply them to the desired part of the picture.
Tree crowns are depicted as follows. Put a little brown or green wax on the tip of the iron and draw this detail of the picture with this part of the tool.
Using the impression technique, draw leaves on the trunk and branches, and apply adjustments with a skewer.
The heroine did not like the first bird, so she painted a tree crown in this place. But then I decided to draw a white seagull. To do this, scratch the outline of the bird with the tip of a wooden stick. Dip it in melted wax and paint on the details.
It remains to polish the masterpiece with a soft napkin and you can hang a picture or give it as a gift for any holiday.
How to draw with an iron - technique for beginners
The next master class will allow you to create a picture in red and yellow tones with dark patches.
Even those who think they can't draw can draw it. To do this, they only need:
- A5 glossy cardboard;
- wax children's crayons;
- iron without holes on the sole with a thermostat, which is designed for dry ironing.
The temperature of the iron should be as low as possible, so set the thermostat to the wool or silk ironing position. Arrange the crayons on the sole of this tool so that the yellow is at the bottom, the orange is below it, the red is even lower, then comes the dark pink and burgundy.
Paint the bright sky with this colored rainbow using the smoothing technique. To do this, simply move the iron over the surface of the paper as if you were ironing from right to left and vice versa.
Wipe off excess wax on the warm surface of the iron with a napkin and place crayons of a different color here. Which can be seen in the next photo.
You also need to iron the sheet horizontally with back and forth movements. This way you will make the main background.
To draw with an iron further, you need to dissolve the black chalk on its tip. Use this part of the working surface of the iron, making an impression on paper with its tip.
Next, using this technique, make prints at the bottom of the sheet and create fabulous vegetation.
To wax further, use the sides of the iron. Place it on edge against the applied background to make vertical lines, such as grass.
After you have made an impression with black wax, you will have a certain pattern left on the tip of the iron. Do not wipe off this coating, make prints further, you will get an effective result.
Such an encaustic is also suitable for beginners, as it does not require special skills.
Now draw with the tip of the iron, for this you need to pick up a little wax with the nose of the iron and drive it in the drawing, creating black flowers and leaves here.
See how to wax birds. To do this, put a dot on the desired part of the picture with the tip of the iron. Then with ribs draw two wings for each bird.
The final chord is polishing the image with a soft cloth. It will turn out radiant and brilliant.
When you practice on such works, you will be able to create masterpieces with smaller features in this technique.
To reproduce such an apricot blossom or sakura branch, take:
- black cardboard;
- white marker;
- wax crayons;
- iron;
- soft cloth.
Hold the iron in your right hand and take a green crayon in your left. Place the tip against the iron so that the wax melts slightly.
If you are better with your left hand, then hold the tool and crayon in the way that is convenient for you.
Start filling one half of the sheet first, moving the iron up and down. Do not tear it off the cardboard so that you get a continuous layer. Now fill in the second half of the sheet in the same way.
Take a pink chalk, melt it on the tip of an iron and start recreating a pink petal.
In the same way, complete all the elements of the flower. Those petals that are closer to the viewer need to be filled in last to create volume.
Apply brown paint to the tip of the iron and make a twig. Form stamens from yellow and brown.
To make the flower look more realistic, you need to lightly scratch with a special tool from the core to the beginning of the petals. To do this, you can use a pointed wooden stick.
With the same tool, you can scratch the wax where it is not needed to make the contours of the petals and flowers more even.
If the elements of the picture are already frozen, you can put the canvas on a heating surface so that the wax softens slightly and removes excess or draw veins on the sheets. After the final polishing of the painting with a soft cloth, you can proudly admire the result of the work.
Yes, if you try, then the iron will become a tool of a talented artist.
The presented works are more capable of adults, and even warm irons should not be given to small children for work. Therefore, get acquainted with the variety of this technique, which kids are happy to do.
Encaustic technique for children
Invite the children to do encaustic in the style of pointillism. The following master class will help you master this needlework yourself and teach it to children.
On a piece of paper, you need to draw with a simple pencil the outlines of the future masterpiece. For example, this is a rooster.
So that you can draw it, we suggest attaching a sheet of paper to the template presented and simply redrawing it.
Since encaustics still involves heating the wax, so be with your child during class. Place the candle in a suitable container, light it. Have the child hold the crayon over the candle flame until a drop forms. After that, it must be quickly transferred to a certain area of the picture.
The work requires patience, accuracy, but the result will be amazing. Such a three-dimensional picture will become the pride of parents for their child.
If the children are very young, then you do not need to show them the method of creating a picture with a burning candle, but rather teach them how to create masterpieces using the pointillism technique using the cold method that is safe for them.
Winter drawings will come in handy now. To make them, give the children:
- sheets of black cardboard;
- cotton buds;
- paints.
Adults or older children can use white wax crayons and heat them up to create works, thus mastering the art of encaustics.
To consolidate the material studied, watch the video that will help beginners and older children to master drawing with hot wax even better.
If you have already practiced enough, then try to create a picturesque landscape with the author of the following video.
