Experience With Target's Ship To Store - Not Good

If you are shopping online for a product that you really really like, you cannot wait to receive the product right?  And because the store offers free shipping to store, that's a very big plus right?  Who doesn't like free shipping?

I order items online ahead of time because I know that sometimes you cannot trust the items to be delivered and/or ready for pick up five or 7 days after the items' have shipped.  But I think this one is quite unacceptable.  As you can see, I ordered two items from a store.  Both of them are swimwear and to be shipped to the same store I selected.  One swimwear arrived at the store in six days after the order was placed.

The second swimwear is still in transit as of today, yet the estimated delivery to store is 14 March 2016.  Today is the 19th.  How come?  I called the store to double check with them.  They told me the same thing, the item is still in transit.  To some these items are not quite important.  But I am going on a vacation with my loved ones and I ordered these pieces for them expecting that they will arrive within a week or so.  What's disappointing is, it's been two weeks and one of the swimwear is still pending.  I ordered both VERY ahead of time.

One pending item as of 19 March 2016.

Easy Tutorial on How to Apply Kiss True Volume Lashes #KissLashes #Review #JingleVoxBox

Have you ever tried using false eyelashes?  It has been trending nowadays and the beauty enthusiasts have been posting video tutorials and photos of the look they created all over the Internet. Well, I am not a beauty enthusiast.  I am just a simple person who's interested in these things.  But I have been thinking of trying them.  Gladly I was given the chance to try these fabulous KISS Lashes complimentary from Influenster for testing and review purposes.  They came together with other awesome products in the JingleVoxBox I received during the Holidays.

Products in my #JingleVoxBox. 

So it took me 45 minutes to about an hour applying the Kiss True Volume Lashes.  Hey, I am a first-timer.  How about you?  Have you tried them?  Let me know how it went.  

Anyway, if you want to learn how to apply false eyelashes, always read the instruction in the back of lashes and the adhesive products to avoid any kind of trouble.  Make sure your hands are clean before applying false eyelashes.

You will need:

Kiss True Volume Lashes

It comes with a Kiss Strip Lash Adhesize, too.

Eyelash curler and tweezers.

Here's how to do it:

1.  Wash and dry your hands.

2.  Curl your eyelashes.

3.  Brush Kiss adhesive on the Kiss Lashes band. Wait for the adhesive to become a bit clear before application.

4.  Use the tweezers to set the Kiss Lashes on your lash line. Apply gentle pressure to let the false eyelashes to stick and dry.

There.  I have my Kiss Lashes on now. 

Honestly, I feel pretty.  Haha.  Kiss True Volume Lashes are made with 100% real hair. The strands are sturdy and won't break easily unless you tug them very hard.  Now that I know how to apply false eyelashes, I will be using these often.

Eventually, the false eyelashes will come off by itself after about eight hours.  Our eye  
movements-blinking in particular, can do that.  Removing the false eyelashes is not very difficult. Just slowly and gently peel them off from the inner part outward.  You can either use your fingers or tweezers. Be sure you wash your hands first before doing all of these. Be careful you don't hurt your eyes.

I Won an Ebay Gift Card

eBay Gift Card

I won!  Yes, I just wrote some guides and how to's for eBay thru Influenster and here's what I received. A $25 eBay gift card that I can use whenever I want to shop on eBay.  It's really fun doing reviews and surveys on Influenster.  You can be selected to try new products, too.  All you need to do is connect your social media and be active in reviewing products you love.

If you are interested, you can join by signing up here, and follow Influenster on Twitter and Facebook.


*I received this item for free from Influenster.

Glass Reactor Is Used in Chemical Processes ¨C Dissolution and Stirring

Glass reactor is device used in chemical and pharmaceutical industry to realize chemical process like dissolution. Dissolution is the process by which a solute forms a solution in a solvent and it is commonly utilized by humans. Solute is the dissolved substance in a solution and solution is a homogeneous mixture composed of only on phase in chemistry. One very simple example in daily life: making a saline water solution by dissolving table salt in water and the salt is the solute and the water the solvent. 

Over the years, dissolution is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to optimize quality formulation and control quality. For different compounds, dissolution will be different, for example: for ionic compounds, dissolution takes place when the ionic lattice breaks up and the separate ions are then solvated; solid compounds experience dissolution as a breakdown of their crystal lattice due to their polarity or non-polarity, mix with the solvent; the solubility of polymers depends on the chemical bonds present in the backbone chain and their compatibility with those of the solvent, compounds in a fluid state may dissolve in another liquid depending on the compatibility of the chemical and physical bonds in the substance with those of the solvent, and compounds in the gaseous state will dissolve in liquids dependent on the interaction of their bonds with the liquid solvent. At the same time, the rate of dissolution quantifies the speed of the dissolution process and the rate depends on followings: presence of inhibitors, interfacial surface area, presence of mixing, degree of undersaturation, temperature and nature of the solvent and solute. 

Glass reactors also can be used to realize another chemical process ¨C stirring which is a complex homogenization operations involving hydrodynamic, thermal, chemical and mechanical phenomena. Homogenization is any of several processes used to make a mixture of two mutually non-soluble liquids the same throughout and it is the process of converting two immiscible liquids into an emulsion. One of the oldest applications of homogenization is in milk processing ( when you see milk labeled as ¡®cream on top¡¯, it means that milk has not been homogenized), and now it play a key role in many fields like chemical industry which converts raw materials like oil, natural gas, water and minerals into more than 70,000 different products. By the way, sulfuric acid is now widely used in chemical field; nevertheless, it is a surprise of many people (including myself) it was unexpectedly one of the first chemicals to be produced in large amounts through industrial process that made the glass reactors. As a highly corrosive strong mineral acid, sulfuric acid is a pungent-ethereal, colorless to slightly yellow viscous liquid which is soluble in water at all concentration; it is used in domestic acidic drain cleaner and various cleaning agents. 

In addition to be used in the chemical process like stirring and dissolution, glass reactors also can be used in the process extraction and mixing. And chemical industry can provide a lot of products like soaps, cosmetics, detergents, just to name a few.