One Direction

HI there! J

As my first freepost I´m gonna tell you something about the irish-british boyband “ One Direction“. I think only a few will know whom I´m talking about because they are not very famous in Austria (unfortunately). I like the boy band so much because I associate their songs with my year in Ireland.

First there are some facts about them : 

 

So as you have seen it´s a group of five boys. Four british guys and one irish guy ( the blonde one) called Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan. They all auditioned as solo candidates at the X-Factor in 2010. During the "bootcamp" their were formed to a boy band. Altough they "only" came third they have signed a  £2 million record contract. And then in 2011 they got more and more famous in the UK and America.

At the end I´ll show you my favourite song  "One Thing" :

 

Hope you like it and maybe there´s another fan for 1D in Austria ;)

(their most famous song is called "What Makes You Beautiful" if someone is interested in more songs )

 

Quiz

Hi there! 

My mum found a tricky question quiz in a magazine these days and then we had a little family competition :) I love it when we all sit together and try to find the right answers and sometimes even when the answer is clear we can´t figure it because we all think way too complicated.

And then I remembered that I also did a quiz with my Irish family,so I was looking for it. Unfortunately I couldn´t find exactly the same ( it was a hard one and I wanted to demand you),but maybe I´ll find it soon. In the meantime I have to other ones you can try when you want :)

http://www.qfeast.com/scored/quiz/505/Intelligence-Test-Tricky-Questions

 

 

have fun! 

Cosmetics

Yesterday I was waiting for my brother at the dentist and while I was waiting I was reading a magazine.In there was an article about cosmetics and how old some of it are.Three of them were especially interesting.

Have you known,for example,that mascara is 100 years old or why "Nivea" is called "Nivea"? - No? Then go on :)

 

 

Nivea appeared on the market 1911 the first time. Oscar Troplowitz deduced the name from the latin adjective niveus ( noun nix,nivis = Schnee) because of the colour as you probably could guess. The picture above shows how the first nivea 'can' looked like.

 

The first mascara was invented by the chemist T.L.Williams for about 100 years. He actually did it for his sister,but it was such a success that he incorporated the company "Maybelline". The name is the composition of his sister´s name (Maybel) and "vaseline" which was a component of the mascara. I think the story behind is nice so I´ll tell you it. Maybel was in love with a man who was in love with someone else. She did her best to get the man-so she put petroleum jelly on her lashes and eyebrows to enhance them. Her brother decided to help her and added carbon dust to her mixture which darkened her lashes and brows better. In the end Maybel got her man and T.L.William his company.

 

Oil Of Olaz was produced by the chemist Graham Wulff. His wife suffered from the creams at that time. So both developed a new cream which had a new texture and the typical pink colour and the smell.Together with his friend Jack Lowe incorporated Graham Wulff a company to produce and put it on the market. Nowadays Olaz is a well-known brand.