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How to Make a Nail Color Chart: The Painting Surface, Recording Colors, and Organizing Labels
This article explains preparing nail color swatches, checking the material and the painting surface, distinguishing drying from curing, reco...
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What If Stick Foundation Goes On Too Thick? Reviewing the Area, Tools, and Layering
How to review stick foundation that stays thick. Check the product's instructions, blend one cheek at a time, and learn how much to use on s...
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How to Pair a Patterned Bag With Clothes: Choosing Base Color, Pattern, and Visible Surfaces
Steps for choosing plain clothes starting from a patterned bag. Compare blending with the base color and using one color of the pattern, and...
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Beret Looking Flat? How to Adjust the Opening, the Fullness and Your Bangs
Tips for when a beret looks flat. Treat the position of the opening and the fullness of the crown separately, then compare the look comforta...
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Sunscreen and Insect Repellent: What Order to Use, Reapplying, Around the Face and Pre-Outing Checks
An explanation of the order for using sunscreen together with skin insect repellent. For adults, it organizes where each can be used, drynes...
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How to Choose a Scrunchie: Fabric Width, Texture and How the Knot Looks
How to fasten a scrunchie and compare fabric width and texture. It covers choosing one to suit your hair and neckline, shaping the gathers,...
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How to Use a Tray for Nail Parts: Checking the Bottom, Dividing Out Small Amounts and the Corner for Pouring Back
From preparing a tray for nail parts to dividing out a small amount and returning it to the original container. Check the shape of the botto...
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Sensoji's Kanbun Engi Emaki Handscroll to Be Shown in Person: Special Viewing of the Garden and Ema-do From October 30
A special viewing at Sensoji (Taito-ku, Tokyo) from Friday, October 30 to Tuesday, November 3 (holiday), 2026 will add an in-person display...
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How to Choose Cotton Swabs for Makeup: Round, Pointed, and Flat Tips, and Checks for Carrying Them
How to choose makeup cotton swabs by shape, dry or wet, and packaging. Covers how to tell round, pointed, and flat tips apart, where to take...
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How to Match Colored Hair Clips with Your Clothes: Choosing by Hair, Gloss, and the Visible Surface
The order for matching a colored hair clip with your clothes. Covers the surface visible against your hair, gloss and translucency, picking...
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Before Opening a Watch Clasp: Checking the Button, Folding Plates, and Putting On and Taking Off
Steps for checking the release button and the movement of the plates before opening a watch's folding clasp. Also covers how to tell this ap...
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"Memento Mori in NYC" Opens November 5: Full Program Announced, Including a Mizuhiki Workshop
"Memento Mori in NYC" will be held at RESOBOX in New York on Thursday, November 5 and Friday, November 6, 2026. The full program has been an...
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How to Store Facial Bar Soap: Draining Dish, Water Drainage, and Checks After Travel
How to choose a dish for your facial bar soap after use, care for its drain holes, pick a place to keep it, and return it from a travel case...
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Before Choosing a Kanzashi | Checking Its Use for Gathering or Decorating, and Its Shaft
A guide to a kanzashi's use, shaft shape, and hairstyle preparation. It explains how to choose, looking beyond one or two prongs to where to...
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How to Apply Nail Line Tape | Checking Its Use, Length, and How the Ends Fit
An explanation of the use and compatible materials of nail line tape that is applied and left on, how to decide its length, and how the ends...
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Before Putting In a Foundation Refill | Checking Compatible Cases, Parts, and Securing
Before swapping a foundation refill into a case, check the compatible products, the difference between a powder inner pan and a container wi...
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Cosmos in Two Gardens at Kobe Nunobiki Herb Gardens at 30% Bloom; Autumn Event Runs Through December 6
The cosmos at Kobe Nunobiki Herb Gardens / Ropeway (Kobe) differ in variety and best viewing period by garden. In the October 18 announcemen...
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When a Colored Belt Stands Out from Your Clothes: Matching the Band, Hardware, and Visible Amount
How to match a colored belt with clothes, sorted into the band color, the glint of the buckle, and how much shows from your clothes. It expl...
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How to Roll Up Trouser Hems: Fold Width, Seams, and Checking Both Legs
A guide to the basic outward fold for trouser hems, from inspecting the inside to matching both legs. It explains how to tell the width of t...
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How to Use a Non-Foaming Gel Face Wash: Checking the Amount, Wetting, and Rinsing
A walkthrough of no-lather gel face wash, from reading the label to finishing up. It covers the instructions on wetting your hands and face,...